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Blockchains need to become interoperable in order for the industry to truly flourish and several innovations will accelerate the ecosystem towards it, say executives. The future of blockchain will be an interoperable one — with the death of “chain tribalism,” the proliferation of “hundreds of chains” along with an end to cross-chain bridge hacks, according to executives at Korea Blockchain Week. Backing up the claims are several products slated for release before the end of the year that could see blockchain interoperability efforts move away from current solutions which execs say don’t make sense and are a “honeypot” for hackers. Vance Spencer, the co-founder of the crypto-focused venture firm Framework Ventures told Cointelegraph at KBW that he thinks with many solutions on the horizon including Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) — it soon won’t matter what blockchain a project uses. He said most startups begin on layer-2 solutions such as Optimism or Arbitrum ...

Author: Maverick Editor: Colin Wu As the ETH POS merger date is getting closer and closer, the discussion about ETHPOW never stops. A faction represented by Chandler Guo believes that a new ETHW should be forked, and that the new ETHW will have a higher market value than ETC, reaching 1/3 to 1/10 of ETH’s market value. There are also some big miners such as BITMAIN who are willing to fund the migration to ETC, with its mining pool AntPool investing $10 million to support the ETC ecosystem. And the main stream CEXs have not yet formed a unified opinion on any potential ETHW fork, and are mostly following a wait-and-see strategy to evaluate whether to support ETHW. But it doesn’t seem to matter to retail investors, after all, wealth is the first benefit, and there is room for speculation when there is heat. (This article is for information sharing only and does not constitute any investment advice or endorsement) Under the discussion of Ethereum merger and fork, the old chain Ethereum Cl...