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It seems like there are so many new blockchains out there these days, it's a full-time job to keep up with them. How many of them are novel, or are working on

It seems like there are so many new blockchains out there these days, it's a full-time job to keep up with them. How many of them are novel, or are working on solving some known blockchain problem? How many are straightforward re-implementations of existing chains? How many are targeting financial instruments, versus things like file storage? Is anyone maintaining a "tl;dr" summary for all of these chains?

tromp 5y ago
The most novel ones implement a new design from scratch; as listed here (click on Running Mainnet tab): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1geg5HHgDO-ht0u6CSTHplJudr9kSGQYAoJvaKnfRhI4 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1geg5HHgDO-ht0u6CSTHp...
vmception 5y ago
There is a cambrian explosion still occurring, but there are a few genealogies to keep up with and concepts to look for or to do yourself. There is the Bitcoin and UTXO ecosystem. These exist in silos of each other and everything else. There is the Cosmos/Tindermint ecosystem. These typically have some form of interoperability with each other. There is the EVM ecosystem. These have high degrees of interoperability and where the most development occurs. There are other niches that are mostly development dead ends, or possibly just completed. Won't name them as its not the point: All of the above rely on low to medium performance hardware and internet infrastructure, and base the idea of consensus relying on reaching most of the other nodes that also have poor infrastructure. Outside of that category there are a few that tweak the concept by raising the performance bar on all nodes. Solana simply has extremely high performance requirements. Radix follows that model while simply going multithreaded. People often re-launch blockchains that follow one of the above concepts, with the purpose of having a different distribution of the cryptocurrency associated with it. For example, many people don't like that Ethereum or Solana have a large group of holders from prior investment pre-launch. So someone would just launch another one without the pre-allocation, hoping their new one gains traction. Anyway, looking at just this sector does exclude many other potentially interesting ones. There isn't a good way to get a summary but fortunately lots of youtubers give summaries these days, so you can watch something once a week. The sad thing about that approach is that it is easy to tell what communities someone is in or influenced by, based on the crypto networks they talk about or have heard of.

tromp 5y ago

The most novel ones implement a new design from scratch; as listed here (click on Running Mainnet tab): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1geg5HHgDO-ht0u6CSTHplJudr9kSGQYAoJvaKnfRhI4 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1geg5HHgDO-ht0u6CSTHp...

vmception 5y ago

There is a cambrian explosion still occurring, but there are a few genealogies to keep up with and concepts to look for or to do yourself. There is the Bitcoin and UTXO ecosystem. These exist in silos of each other and everything else. There is the Cosmos/Tindermint ecosystem. These typically have some form of interoperability with each other. There is the EVM ecosystem. These have high degrees of interoperability and where the most development occurs. There are other niches that are mostly development dead ends, or possibly just completed. Won't name them as its not the point: All of the above rely on low to medium performance hardware and internet infrastructure, and base the idea of consensus relying on reaching most of the other nodes that also have poor infrastructure. Outside of that category there are a few that tweak the concept by raising the performance bar on all nodes. Solana simply has extremely high performance requirements. Radix follows that model while simply going multithreaded. People often re-launch blockchains that follow one of the above concepts, with the purpose of having a different distribution of the cryptocurrency associated with it. For example, many people don't like that Ethereum or Solana have a large group of holders from prior investment pre-launch. So someone would just launch another one without the pre-allocation, hoping their new one gains traction. Anyway, looking at just this sector does exclude many other potentially interesting ones. There isn't a good way to get a summary but fortunately lots of youtubers give summaries these days, so you can watch something once a week. The sad thing about that approach is that it is easy to tell what communities someone is in or influenced by, based on the crypto networks they talk about or have heard of.