Kevin Sekniqi, COO and co-founder of high-performance blockchain Avalanche (AVAX), explains what makes a good blockchain
Avalanche Platform (AVAX) figurehead Kevin Sekniqi explains why simplicity is a virtue for every Web3 L1 and what the perfect global blockchain ecosystem looks like.
“Simplicity is king”
Mr. Sekniqi has taken to Twitter to share his views on the bottlenecks and prospects of blockchain infrastructure. According to him, every decentralized system should be as simple as possible.
The perfect distributed architecture should be “simple and boring”, because that’s the only way to reduce finality understood as a function of both throughput and latency. At the same time, this system would have to sacrifice decentralization.
Scaling techniques and architecture advances like zk-rollups or sharding are “cool” technologies, but they are not able to help the blockchains to achieve their essential goals.
As such, the perfect cross-network ecosystem for Mr. Sekniqi looks like the infrastructure of interconnected “boring” Layer 1 blockchains:
It’s the simple one: a bunch of non-complex L1s with decently secure bridges between them.
Will Ethereum (ETH) be better as Avalanche (AVAX) subnet?
He also shared the list of networks meeting his requirements: Ethereum, Avalanche, Solana, Cosmos and Luna.
By the way, Ethereum (ETH) developers should consider its reorganization to a subnet in Avalanche (AVAX) architecture, while Solana’s team needs to reform fee markets:
This take was immediately criticized by Ethereum (ETH) cheerleaders, who recalled that Ethereum’s number of validators is 234 times that of Avalanche (AVAX). Furthermore, they accused Mr. Sekniqi of “attention culture” and offered to turn Avalanche (AVAX) into an Ethereum rollup.
