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Many major companies continue to lock in on Ethereum, the second-largest digital asset, despite the ongoing volatile action of the altcoin’s price. One of the methods currently adopted by these comp

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It's simple: the chains designed, built, and tuned for applications will shine brightly. Next year's top application chains will be meticulously assembled based on primitives and first principles.
The recent surge of developers, users, institutions, and capital entering the chain space is different from before: they possess specific cultures (understood as the definition of user experience), and they value these cultures more than abstract ideals like decentralization and censorship resistance. In practice, this sometimes aligns with our existing infrastructure, and sometimes it doesn't.
For crypto abstractions like Blackbird or Farcaster, which are aimed at non-experts, aspects of user experience—particularly those that, even three years ago, were considered heretical decentralization decisions—such as colocated nodes and single sequencers—are especially important.