The Lightning Network may just be as antifragile as Bitcoin itself. FrederickMunawa writes in this week’s Crypto Long & Short newsletter.
to have 8,000 monthly active developer teams and 19,000 decentralized applications running on its mainnet and testnet . These numbers dwarf the 100 or so apps in the Lightning ecosystem.
Based on these metrics, one might erroneously conclude that Ethereum and Polygon are healthier ecosystems than Bitcoin and Lightning. However, a closer look reveals that a direct comparison may not be possible. First, the Bitcoin blockchain was designed to make bitcoin its primary product. In fact, the Bitcoin and Lightning ecosystems are almost exclusively focused on money and payments. Ethereum, on the other hand, was primarily designed to facilitate dapp creation. Therefore, it only makes sense to have more developers building apps on Ethereum than on Bitcoin.
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