Steve believes that blockchains are ultimately platforms, and that those who benefit from them will not be immune to the desire for their own platforms. Historically, human evolution has always been characterized by social conflict and political maneuvers fueled by the urge to "control one's own domain," and I foresee this trend echoing within the blockchain ecosystem. Hence, I'm skeptical that the emerging rollup ecosystem around Ethereum will dominate the market entirely. Instead, I anticipate a scenario where diverse blockchains continuously arise and vie for supremacy.Given this perspective, I feel that my research should focus on projects striving to develop their blockchain systems, independent of Ethereum. My projection is that Ethereum's market dominance might decline to around 30% in the upcoming market cycle, and I'm ardently investigating to substantiate my view.
Articles
Injective: A Case Study on the Importance of Consistency and Sustainability in Blockchain
This covers the Injective Network, which has undergone consistent development and change in the market over the past four years.
Ethena: Growing a Synthetic Dollar into the billions
Let's take an in-depth look at the structure of Ethena's USDe, which claims to be an on-chain dollar asset, and the problems that USDe aims to solve.
Sui: Why Do We Need Another Layer 1?
Explore the origins of the Sui blockchain and its technologies in detail, and investigate how Sui differs from other blockchains
How Ondo Finance creates an institutional-level DeFi protocol
Introducing the most frequently mentioned RWA (Real World Asset) project, Ondo Finance, and find out how they are creating DeFi products aimed at institutions
Scout (December 2023): Rising Bitcoin Ecosystem and Korean Game Projects
This month, the spotlight is on the Bitcoin ecosystem and Korean gaming projects, attracting significant VC investments. Highlighting Promising Early Projects: From RWA applications to ZK payment solutions, uncovered through our internal research and monitoring.
Why did dYdX choose to launch its own chain instead of continuing with a Layer 2 solution?
Explore the lessons learned from how dYdX has changed its product over the past 5 years, focusing on its history.
Sei: How does it ensure peak performance even in the most challenging scenarios?
While TPS is often mentioned when measuring the performance of a network, in reality, the finality of a transaction is a truly important metric. Let's examine how Sei achieved the fastest finality in the world.
A Monster Combined With Narrative and Technology, Monad.
I introduce Monad, a monolithic blockchain created by the combination of EVM and the latest BFT
Which Blockchain SDK Should People Use and Why?
The future of blockchain will be multi-chain, and numerous SDK services are emerging regardless of L1, L2. Let's explore the SDKs in each ecosystem.
Let’s learn new Interchain features through Stride, the pioneer of interchain staking.
Stride aims to be a frontrunner in interchain staking liquidity by fully utilizing the new features of the Cosmos ecosystem, such as ICA, ICQ, and RS
Scout Article (October, 2023)
The Scout Article is a series by Four Pillars that aims to identify promising early-stage blockchain projects through active research and monitoring of emerging sectors.
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Sei, General Purpose L1 for Trading
Sei is a Layer 1 network that provides an optimized environment for trading through the Twin-Turbo Consensus, which allows for fast block time and efficient propagation, transaction parallelization, and its own oracle and order matching engine.
Sui's Strategy for Blockchain Mass Adoption
Exploring how Sui's zkLogin and Sponsored Transactions enhance the blockchain's UI/UX
Monolithic Blockchain Report (September, 2023)
This report covers the monolithic blockchain sector in September 2023
We Scout You
Introducing Scout Report, one of the main content lines of Four Pillars.
Monolithic Blockchain Report (October, 2023)
This report covers the Monolithic sector in October 2023
Monolithic Blockchain Report (August, 2023)
This report covers the monolithic blockchain sector in August 2023
Difference between Modular & Monolithic Frameworks, and Issues Related to Rollups
The difference between modular and monolithic blockchains is whether they divide up the task of processing transactions or do it all at once. Let’s go over advantages and disadvantages of each.
Time is money: introducing Hourglass
Hourglass is one of the bluechip protocols in the market right now, and it's a protocol that will help DeFi take the next step forward by allowing DeFi LP tokens to be time-locked, rewarding users who provide liquidity for a longer period of time and removing liquidity uncertainty from DeFi protocols.