The following is a guest post by Marc Boiron, CEO at Polygon Labs.
In a world of fake news, misinformation and declining faith in traditional institutions, blockchain should bridge the divide by bringing something incredibly powerful and utterly unique to the table: trustlessness. Or, at least, it should.
Unfortunately, blockchain has always suffered from its own divisions, which have prevented the decentralization revolution from fulfilling its potential. In 2024, things began to change. We saw incredible technical progress to unite the fractured blockchain ecosystem. This year, we’ll finally see decentralization start to deliver its promises of bridging the divide.
The inevitability of fragmented ecosystems
If crypto, DeFi and web3 had emerged fully-formed and with a unified, interoperable set of standards, you’d be rightly suspicious. A truly decentralized ecosystem – one that’s not monopolized by a single entity – will be fragmented by its very nature.
But decentr
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