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Alt Layer Ones

Blockchains others than Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, that are not L2/3s.

Monad

L1 with EVM.

Questions

Which alt-chain property — throughput, finality, or developer tooling — most determines whether a chain captures durable ecosystem share versus temporary speculation?

  • At what transaction fee and speed threshold does an alt-chain become a genuine alternative to Ethereum for DeFi versus only for applications requiring high throughput?
  • How does the fragmentation of developer attention across L1 chains compare to the historical browser wars — and what collapses the space to 2-3 survivors?
  • Which chain-specific innovation — parallel execution, novel consensus, or hardware optimization — creates the most durable technical moat over a 5-year horizon?