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The multi-chain future will force the two current crypto market leaders – Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) – to give up some of their positions on new networks and blockchains, so Messari Analysts.
During a discussion at Messari’s Mainnet 2021 event Monday with fellow analyst Wilson Withiam and Messari CEO Ryan Selkis, Ryan Watkins said that the current multi-chain environment “offers so many opportunities to be productive with your capital” that the Question really is how? Bitcoin can remain relevant in the future.
And while both the company’s CEO and analysts seem confident that the future is multi-chain, Watkins hasn’t completely rejected Bitcoin.
“People in Bitcoin tend to be macro-focused, while Ethereum (ETH) and other asset investors are more growth-oriented,” argued Watkins.
However, he also added that both assets will continue to exist and be relevant, while at the same time arguing that Bitcoin is not the only crypto-asset in existence with a store of value and that it could very well be overtaken by any other crypto-asset in the world Future.
Up to that point, Wilson Withiam, another analyst at Messari, agreed, saying that “store of value plus utility will be more than store of value”. He added that it is hard for him to see any other asset not outperform Bitcoin’s market cap when it has more utility.
In another comment on the multi-chain future, Withiam said that the various blockchain platforms currently in use are “building a whole economy” that includes much more than just Ethereum.
“There’s still a lot of speculation,” Withiam admitted, adding that “real value” will emerge in the end from many of these projects, especially those in the DeFi (DeFi) space.
Meanwhile, in another panel discussion at the same event, Do Kwon, founder of the Smart Contract Protocol Terra (LUNA), shared the sentiment towards the idea of a multi-chain future and said that it is a “bad idea to stake out all applications”. into a global computer, ”just as it is a bad idea to have everyone in the world in the same city.
Emerging Layer 1 protocols such as Avalanche (AVAX) and Solana (SOL) have “a living ecosystem” that enables “great products to be built”, said the Terra founder, suggesting:
“Basically, it might just make sense to have a multi-chain future, regardless of what kind of use cases are built on a blockchain.”
Bitcoin and Ethereum as a percentage of total market capitalization:
Source: coinmarketcap.com
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