Founder of DFINITY: 95% of blockchains are trash

DFINITY President Dominic Williams in an interview The Block criticized the investment decisions of users of the crypto industry and called 95% of blockchains “junk.”

“We've gotten to the point where people are actually investing in snake oil. Like, “I'm going to invest in the project with the best snake oil because their marketing is better.” There is a lot of confusion today and people are buying into these narratives,” he said.

According to Williams, this is the industry's “biggest problem today.”

“Honestly, [в индустрии] a lot of rubbish. 95% of blockchains are just crap and they are just selling snake oil. It's not about technology anymore. It’s often about who can spin the best narrative and make it sound most convincing,” he explained.

Williams noted the usefulness of the Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and Avalanche blockchains, but questioned the audience's understanding of their limitations in terms of creating a scalable internet that operates efficiently in time and cost.

The founder of DFINITY called the Internet Computer Protocol “the only third generation network.” It is he who can create a new on-chain era of online interactions, Williams emphasized.

Some popular blockchains are good for processing transactions, he said, but they are unlikely to form the basis of an entirely new decentralized internet that mainstream users will adopt en masse.

“Blockchain is a kind of computing platform. It could be similar to either a traditional blockchain that computes sequentially, like Ethereum or Solana, or a third-generation blockchain that can scale and compute more efficiently, allowing the creation of Web3 platforms such as on-chain social networks,” said the President of DFINITY.

Previously, Colosseum co-founder and former head of growth at the Solana Foundation, Matty Taylor, predicted Solana's leadership in the number of consumer decentralized applications.

Source: Cryptocurrency

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