There are so many blockchains. And that’s totally OK, says Catalyst’s Chang
First, there was Bitcoin. Many iterations later, along came Ethereum. Soon, a few more sophisticated solutions joined, like Cosmos and Solana. And more recently, high-performance blockchains like Aptos and Sui have joined the fray. It’s an ongoing accumulation of years of one-upping, building yet another protocol to edge out competitors. Add in all the rollups and app chains on top of the layer-1 pile and things start to look pretty crowded. But is that a bad thing? “I think the world is just going to have lots of chains ,” says Jim Chang on a recent episode of the On the Other Side podcast (Spotify / Apple). The founder of Catalyst, a cross-chain liquidity layer that allows for “borderless blockchain ,” feels pretty confident that the ever-growing list of new protocols will only get longer over time. And that’s perfectly OK. “Everyone’s trying to find this over-encompassing thing,” which is impossible, he says. “You might as well just capitulate and try to aggregate all of th...