On twitter, the creators of Polygon (MATIC) and Avalanche (AVAX) discussed layer-2 scaling technologies, gas fees, blockchain uptime, gas-lightning and of insecurity.
The origin of the conflict
As more and more users enter the Web 3 space, scaling has become one of the most interesting conversations. Forget layer 1 and layer 2. The latest conflict is between subnet and supernet.
It all started when Polygon announced Supernet to accelerate the adoption of Layer 2 as well as blockchain technology.
The new feature aims to address challenges such as the complexity of seeding a set of decentralized and reliable validators with well-designed coordination mechanisms, the technical complexity of blockchain networks, in addition to security issues going from a architecture to another, etc. For the development and adoption of Supernets, Polygon has committed $100 million in funds.
Avalanche, meanwhile, is working on its sharding-inspired “subnet” feature and aims to significantly scale application-specific blockchains. In this regard, the Layer 2 ecosystem has committed $290 million to AVAX to encourage this initiative.
The beginning of the fight on twitter
Mr. Nailwal, co-founder and COO of Polygon (MATIC), took to Twitter to discuss Avalanche subnets as a way to increase the performance of the blockchain mainnet.
First, he pointed out that the recent release of Polygon’s Supernets mechanism has caused insecurity among Avalanche leaders and managers and makes them ” scared “.
At the same time, Mr. Nailwal pointed out that Avalanche’s mainnet (AVAX) itself operates as a “complete failure”: transactions are charged with high fees while the progress of the system is too slow.
As such, Avalanche (AVAX) introduced subnetting as a way to solve scalability bottlenecks, but, in effect, these subnets function as a second layer architecture or side chains. Ethereum-based Layer 2 protocols and their communities have already been doing this “ for years ,” the Polygon co-founder added.
An end to the dispute without a winner
Finally, he said it looks like the crypto community has been fooled by “ yet another Ethereum killer . »
Professor Emin Gün Sirer quickly responded to his opponent. The inventor of Avalanche (AVAX) pointed out that Sandeep Nailwal should instead focus on building a blockchain that doesn’t “roll back” every day.
When his Twitter follower accused the Avalanche (AVAX) community of ” doing nothing but making fun of Polygon “, Professor Gün Sirer replied that he had no intention of surrendering: ” Nah, I’m going to do more. Innovate, or we’ll laugh at you . »
While many people condemned his behavior online, the Avalanche executive simply said he would do it again.
The conflicts between the blockchains are therefore very real, it is however quite rare to see executives of these large projects send this type of reproach publicly on twitter. These conflicts are rarely good for the image of these blockchains, and it is better to let technology and time show the best projects.
