Updating Branding on Polkadot.js Signer

If you follow the incentive to maximally accrue value to DOT you can see the inevitable direction of travel as the Polkadot brand eats the ecosystem.

This is a good thing (in some ways) but also creates a fair amount of (predictable) collateral damage.

A Polkadot branded signer (aka a better Polkadotjs per this post) that does everything a bit better but with the brand / ecosystem firepower of Parity is another inevitable development that will play to this pattern.

Two choices:

  1. Talisman, Subwallet and the others either lose talent to Parity as their offerings are made obsolete.
  2. Figure out some alternative that offers meaningful resistance to this future.

Understanding the primary economic gravity is the key to seeing where things head across pretty much all dimensions of the project.

See Polkadot App for onboarding which will suck the air out of the room for existing wallets and the way system chains naturally expand into the territory of the parachain incumbents.

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