Tengji Zhang

Networks are the wrong analogy for blockchains. Smart contract chains are more like cities.

NEAR is San Francisco — built for web3 techies who believe sharding is the only way forward towards scalability in the long-term.

Ethereum is New York City; it is a happening place with the biggest DeFi protocols, the most TVL, the hottest DAOs and NFTs, but it is expensive. You scale by "building up skyscrapers" using L2 chain or "building out satellite towns" using interoperability networks that serve as highway connecting them.