An economic argument as to why the Kusama ecosystem will move inevitably towards greater independence from Polkadot - economically, culturally and technically.
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To access the treasury, more and more projects are shifting to ‘common good’ strategies where DOT is the primary fee token.
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Teams without traction on Kusama are moving to Polkadot in the hope of getting traction.
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Kusama and Polkadot parachains are diversifying, rather than standardising.
Kusama token holders will naturally move towards a focus on using KSM as a fee token / core to a parachain / product’s economic system.
This clearly positions the relative strategies of KSM and DOT holders as independent cultures that will progressively separate.