Where the Real Network Effects Are

[rich]

@sota

For me, I think parachain teams including us are satisfied with just opening HRMP channels. As a result, what we are making right now is just to bring Parachain A’s token to Parachain B and vice versa. Unfortunately, that’s it! To make a strong network effect, we need to integrate other Parachains’ features into our own Parachain just like an Ethereum smart contract integrates other smart contracts.

Playing devil’s advocate, what if that alone was the killer feature of the technology?

Afterall, what you’re aiming for is uniquely possible within the domain of a general purpose smart contract chain, but is not optimised for Polkadot’s sharded design?

@shawntabrizi

This means, if we are trying to highlight scenarios where a user can quickly transfer some token to a dex, swap some token, then move it to a privacy layer to hide their trades, and then back to some final account, we will be so far behind Ethereum it is not even reasonable.