Staking Insider by Staking Rewards28 Mar 2022

Fantom $FTM CEO on Andre Cronje, removing EVM, ETH2.0, sFTM and their roadmap | Staking Mondays

Today we have with us Michael Kong - CEO/CIO of Fantom Foundation.

Fantom is an alternative Layer 1 EVM blockchain, and one of the first to launch liquid staking on a protocol level.

We spoke about:

Native Liquid Staking

Andre Cronje leaving Crypto

EVM and L2 Competition

The grand vision for Fantom

Lightening Round Q's:

What was your first investment outside of BTC and ETH?

What do you think is currently the most underrated crypto project?

Which project most inspired the launch of Fantom?

Who is your personal crypto hero?

How much of your portfolio is staked?

What is an activity you do to relax from the wild crypto markets?

Long-form Questions:

Fantom is one of the first protocols to natively deploy liquid staking with sFTM? What was the design rationale behind that? What are advantages or disadvantages compared to non-native liquid staking?

After launching the Liquid Staking what have you noticed in terms of user behavior? What's the biggest takeaway for you post-launch?

What are the best sFTM use cases so far and where do you see that going?

What is the incentive for developers to build on Fantom today? (Compared to other chains)

How will the Ethereum Merge impact Fantom?

Have you thought about getting rid of EVM?

What are the disadvantages of moving away from EVM?

How do you see the competition between alternative Layer 1 chains, and other native scaling solutions like Starkware, Arbitrum, etc on Ethereum?

Have you thought about integrating with an interchain world like Cosmos?

How does Andre Cronje leaving impact Fantom?

How decentralized is Fantom? In terms of development?

What are the next big things on the roadmap for Fantom?

Where do you want to see Fantom in 5 years, and what does a world look like in which Fantom is ultra successful? What’s the grand vision?

What is the best opportunity to earn alpha in the Fantom ecosystem?

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