Hybrid system chains make Polkadot permissionless

[sourabhniyogi]

@Alex

Short term allowing contracts on AssetHub is the most useful solution. Centralizing assets and contracts will no doubt provide the most value and lowest switching costs for Ethereum builders. It is most likely that this is the move that will give us the most traction in the short time. We should not be afraid of success (“AssetHub gets congested”).

But only if there is already a worth while ecosystem anyone would even care. We can’t expect them to go to a third party chain first. That is completely backwards. We have to put our horses behind a first party solution first (system chain) so that anybody even cares enough to look for third party scaling solutions. I firmly believe that the best candidate for a first party solution is a system chain. And more specifically AssetHub. We should not fragment the ecosystem more than we have to.

@Alex I put together this RFC #66 – but since @burdges says Contracts Update: Solidity on PolkaVM supersedes this RFC and polkavm contracts should definitely work, there might even be consensus on this. However, I think its best if you + @Cyrill put an RFC together to crystalize it your way this month?

What is the hold up if not?