It’s amazing to see a centralized mission executed through such a decentralized, dynamic federation.

gas fees on ethereum are offensive again. tried to approve a token earlier, $40 just for approval, then another $60 to actually execute the swap. $100 to move $300 worth of tokens. absolutely stupid. this is why people don't use mainnet anymore unless they're moving serious size.

meanwhile just did like 15 trades on @Injective over the past week, total fees maybe $5 across all of them. not even thinking about gas costs when placing orders because they're negligible. that psychological difference matters more than people realize. you trade differently when execution costs don't factor into every decision.

ethereum's roadmap is all about Layer 2s now which makes sense but also feels like admitting defeat on the original vision. we were supposed to have world computer running on mainnet. instead we have expensive settlement layer that most users never touch directly. not criticism exactly, just observation about how things evolved differently than planned.

L2s are fine but you're fragmenting liquidity across dozens of different networks. bridging is still annoying even with all the improvements. having everything on one fast L1 is cleaner architecturally even if it means different tradeoffs on decentralization metrics.

$INJ benefits from being the native token on a chain that actually processes transactions rather than just governance for an L2. not sure that distinction matters long term but there's something cleaner about L1 economics versus token models layered on top of ethereum.

cosmos ecosystem stuff mostly flew under my radar for years because ethereum dominance was so complete. watching IBC actually work for moving assets between chains is impressive though. not as seamless as everything being on one chain but better than ethereum bridge hell.

probably unpopular opinion but we spent too many years pretending ethereum gas fees weren't a problem. "just wait for sharding" or "L2s will fix it" while real users were getting priced out of using the network. alternative L1s that actually have low fees and fast execution solve the immediate problem even if they make different tradeoffs.

competition is good. ethereum having viable alternatives forces better solutions. nobody would be taking L2s seriously if other chains weren't eating ethereum's lunch on user experience. same thing happening in DeFi where platforms have to actually work well or users leave for better options. #Injective @Injective $INJ