Another day, another platform (AVA)

While Polkadot got fair share of attention from Aragon community, there is new promising player in the town – AVAlanche

Check out their presentation on DEVCON 5

They aim for EVM support. Actually they aim to transfer Ethereum state to their network via “spoon” - friendly fork - just because they can.

Looks like Avachain has more and more options every day, despite the choice of sticking to EVM.

what is Avalanche doing to address scalability? why do you believe it will fare better than Ethereum in this regard?

Let the best team win. Or they all can win. Or they can unite efforts or whatever.
Demo is intriguing, promises are bold, testnet code is there.

That’s not really a convincing answer… they are so far behind it’s not even worth looking at right now imo. Good luck.

6 months later, and Avalanche (now AVAX) is having EVM-compatible chain with 10X gas limit and fast finality. And where is ETH2?

Higher gas limit does not make AVAX more scalable. It just means more resources required to run a node, which bends the arc of the network’s evolution toward centralization. All that said, if there is demand for using Aragon on AVAX then anyone can deploy Aragon infrastructure to the blockchain as has already been done for xDai and IDChain for example.

Re: ETH2, perhaps you saw this post from Vitalik Buterin recently:

Higher gas limit does not make AVAX more scalable

I dare to disagree (simply from perspective of VM operations per second).

anyone can deploy Aragon infrastructure to the blockchain

Obviously true, and it may happen auto-magcally by Athereum project - their plan is to copy Ethereum state on their chain - “friendly fork”.

I just wonder if Aragon community diverges from problem of DAO governance towards problem of Ethereum scaling.

Re: ETH2, perhaps you saw this post from Vitalik Buterin recently:

I did. There are hundreds of smart people doing all kinds of R&D - sure thing. Although “Ethereum 2” initiative is not going as smooth as expected by many (mainnet is still a PoW chain), and promises … do evolve, to say gently. Also “Ethereum 2” is in some sense a label for a set of concepts, some of which do manifest themselves through breakthrough results and some stay vague (remember Hypercube Routing?)

Not going to shill AVAX to much) Just wanted some awareness. If Eth2 crisis going to be deep, and if AVAX will continue to deliver - people would have to face this option anyways, if not - all the power to Ethereum crowd.