1/ This is a complete trap, but I'll play. First, I need to unpack why I build on ETH;

For Defi composability to work, it needs exactly that, composability, multiple systems, protocols, and assets. https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119/status/1294298473806942208
2/ Everything starts with assets. There must be something that people are willing to engage with.

Buy/Sell/Hedge/Borrow/Collateral. Thanks to the ICO phase, ETH is incredibly rich in assets, and most of these assets still live on ETH today, even other L1 chains are still on ETH
3/ Protocols, thanks to the existence of so many assets, we saw the creation of so many protocols, EtherDelta showed us what could be done, now you have Bancor, Uniswap, Balancer, Curve, Maker, Aave, Compound, DyDx, Fulcrum, and this is not close to a complete list.
4/ Tooling, this one is less of a moat, but I cannot express how important ecosystem tools like remix, etherscan, truffle, zapper, zerion, and many more are, again, not close to a complete list. The ease of this tooling have made the assets and protocols so easy to deploy.
5/ Just think about it, where outside of ETH does defi exist? It's not about the L1, its about the assets, protocols, and tooling. My tweet from 6 Feb; https://twitter.com/AndreCronjeTech/status/1225535338292137989
6/ So, to conclude, I think it is highly unlikely to see defi outside of ETH, and highly unlikely that another L1 will capture this market segment. Rollups and other L2 solutions have a much higher chance of expanding defi.
7/ But, to answer the question directly, everyone that has followed me knows I have a soft spot for @FantomFDN, I have loved the research we have co-authored, and it was an absolute pleasure to help build out the mainnet and I continue to guide and watch it grow.
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