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example could be in the form of software libraries that allow people to connect to applications are an active area of development ethers.js for EVM based platf
by yieldcrv 3y ago
example could be in the form of software libraries that allow people to connect to applications are an active area of development
ethers.js for EVM based platforms and you can find competitors for that here https://www.alchemy.com/alternatives/ethers-js https://www.alchemy.com/alternatives/ethers-js
they all have deficiencies and there are active pull requests and things to improve in all of them
an additional part of the stack would be the node software itself, how do you run a client that connects to any particular blockchain. the node software is all pretty pathetic and there is often a project in a programming language of choice, as well as for each blockchain
additionally there are improvement proposals on each blockchain, and many times each DAO (projects on a blockchain). think about the blockchain networks as states and each improvement proposal is a referendum. while a DAO would be like any corporation or trust or non profit within that state, having its own community board altering things
you can propose an improvement proposal in any, or get involved in a certain one
You can find them by using the acronym, current bitcoin improvement proposals are called BIPs, ethereum’s EIP, solana SIP… at one project level you have Helium which is very active and uses HIP and so on
basically you have a bifurcation of the population here: there is a group of people that see something wrong with blockchains and dismiss it for that reason, while there is another group that see something wrong with blockchains and go to improve it. most of the confidence in blockchains comes from its ratification process and ability to change. one long necessary and outstanding change gets ratified and opens up a new market, a new sector for the crypto concept to touch, then irrational exuberance comes, then it fades, an additional ratification finishes, the same thing occurs from people too excited about it. Ultimately each advance adds to the resilience and more people find the development and proposals as a meaningful way to contribute.