Blockchain Innovation, DApps, and Forks: Hope or Hype?

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Bitcoin Garden: Blockchain Innovation, DApps, and Forks: Hope or Hype?
https://bitcoingarden.org/blockchain-innovation-dapps-and-forks-hope-or-hype/

Much of the recent buzz in the crypto world has surrounded the potential of decentralized apps (DApps) and real-world use cases outside of the current narrow focus of payments. Commentators envisage a world where online and offline actions can be facilitated with a new level of trust and automation with the addition of a blockchain layer to the economy. They envisage a situation where new business use-cases drive startups to constantly fork and improve on existing blockchains, or build new applications on the existing infrastructure.

While this sounds exciting, the turbulent world of crypto has had shown mixed progress in this regard. An example of both the promise and pitfalls of the current crypto ecosystem was the release of the CryptoKitties app on the Ethereum blockchain. While it became very popular, it burdened the Ethereum ecosystem heavily, and more importantly has not been followed by other DApp releases as popular since. Aside from DApps, the multitude of forks of existing platforms has seen mixed results in terms of genuine innovation.

Here we will take a look at examples from the main platforms in this corner of the cryptosphere to see if we’re actually getting closer to a blockchain-leveraged innovation ecosystem, or if it’s mostly just hype....