State-sponsored Infrastructure
David discusses the consideration of state-sponsored infrastructure versus the free market within blockchain ecosystems, highlighting the Ethereum philosophy of minimizing protocol features and allowing the application layer to build solutions. He contrasts this with examples from Solana and raises questions about who should build certain functionalities and how to handle the influence of the free market.In this clip
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