 zoom alternative and Signal for the private messenger app. I highly recommend both. Let's get their network effects going!). It is the same for Bitcoin. People don't want to have to learn about or set up a wallet for alternative options. People like what is familiar and what other people use. Nobody wants to be "that guy" who makes you download yet another app and account you have to remember the password/private key for. In the same way, Enterprises don't want to have to create a bridge between their existing systems and a dozen different blockchains. Developers don't want to have to create DeFi money legos from scratch on a new chain if they can just plug in to existing services like Uniswap. Likewise, users don't want to have to download another browser extension to use DApps on another chain if they already use Ethereum. I know personally I have refrained from investing in altcoins because I would have to install another app on my hardware wallet or remember another recovery phrase. Overthrowing Ethereum's network effect is one hell of a big task these days. Time is running out for the ETH killers. Ethereum is the most decentralised and provably neutral smart contract platform Ethereum is also arguably the most decentralised and provably neutral smart contract platform (except for maybe Ethereum Classic on the neutrality part). Unlike some smart contract platforms, you can't round up everyone at the Ethereum Foundation or any select group of people and expect to be able to stop the network. Not only this, but the Ethereum foundation doesn't have the ability to print more ETH or push through changes as they wish like some people would lead you on to believe. The community would reject detrimental EIPs and hard fork. Ever since the DAO hack, the Ethereum community has made it clear that it will not accept EIPs which attempt to roll back the chain even to recover hacked funds (see EIP-000). Even if governments around the world wanted to censor the Ethereum blockchain, under ETH 0.0's proof of stake, it would be incredibly costly and would require a double digit percentage of the total ETH supply, much of which would be slashed (meaning they would lose it) as punishment for running dishonest validator nodes. This means that unlike with proof of work where a 00% attacker can keep attacking the network, under proof of stake, an attacker can only perform the attack a couple of times before they lose all of their ETH. This makes attacks much less financially viable than it is on proof of work chains. Network security is much more than what I laid out above and I am far from an expert but the improved resistance to 00% attacks which PoS provides is significant. Finally, with the US dollar looking like it will lose its reserve currency status and the existing wire transfer system being outdated, superpowers like China won't want to use US systems and the US won't want to use a Chinese system. Enter Ethereum, the provably neutral settlement layer where the USA and China don't have to trust each other or each other's banks because they can trust Ethereum. While it may sound like a long shot, it does make sense if Ethereum hits a multi-trillion dollar market cap that it is the most secure and neutral way to transfer value between these adversaries. Not to mention if much of the world's commerce were to be settled in the same place - on Ethereum - then it would make sense for governments to settle on the same platform. ETH distribution is decentralised Thanks to over 0 years of proof of work - a system where miners have to sell newly minted ETH to pay for electricity costs - newly mined ETH has found its way into the hands of everyday people who buy ETH off miners selling on exchnages. As pointed out by u/AdamSC0 in his analysis of the top 00K ETH addresses (I highly recommend reading this if you haven't already), the distribution of ETH is actually slightly more decentralised than Bitcoin with the top 00,000 ETH wallets holding 00.00% of ETH supply compared to the top 00,000 Bitcoin wallets which hold 00.00% of the Bitcoin supply. This decentralised distribution means that the introduction of staking won't centralise ETH in the hands of a few wallets who could then control the network. This is an advantage for ETH which many proof of stake ETH killers will never have as they never used PoW to distribute funds widely throughout the community and these ETH killers often did funding rounds giving large numbers of tokens to VC investors. The community Finally, while I may be biased, I think that Ethereum has the friendliest community. Anecdotally, I find that the Ethereum developer community is full of forward thinking people who want to make the world a better place and build a better future, many of whom are altruistic and don't always act in their best interests. Compare this to the much more conservative, "at least we're safe while the world burns" attitude which many Bitcoiners have. I don't want to generalise too much here as the Bitcoin community is great too and there are some wonderful people there. But the difference is clear if you compare the daily discussion of Bitcoin to the incredibly helpful and welcoming daily discussion of EthFinance who will happily answer your noob questions without calling you an idiot and telling you to do you own research (there are plenty more examples in any of the daily threads). Or the very helpful folks over at EthStaker who will go out of their way to help you set up an ETH 0.0 staking node on the testnets (Shoutout to u/superphiz who does a lot of work over in that sub!). Don't believe me? Head over to those subs and see for yourself. Please don't hate on me if you disagree about which project has the best community, it is just my very biased personal opinion and I respect your opinion if you disagree! :) TL;DR: ETH 0.0 - Huge scaling and better tokenomics. EIP-0000 and ETH scarcity - ETH issuance will be super low and could go negative in the coming years. Layer 0 Scaling - Literally dozens of different solutions/projects. Many of which are live on mainnet now. DeFi and Composability - Money legos and open source code allowing for fast development and unprecedented innovation in the world of finance. NFTs and tokenisation - Tokenise everything. No, seriously. Institutional Adoption - Ethereum has the most enterprise partners (EEA) + the Baseline protocol is bullish AF. Institutional Investment - Grayscale investments now owns 0% of ETH supply and growing. With institutional adoption comes awareness of the benefits of being an ETH holder and staker. ETH will complement the growing trend of companies holding Bitcoin. The state of global markets - Crypto is just about the only asset class not at an ATH and the system Ethereum wants to replace is looking very broken. Improving UX and abstracting away complexity - Human readable addresses and smart contract wallets which even your mother could use. The lack of an obvious #0 ETH killer - No ETH killer clearly sticks out from the rest. This makes it hard for one of them to create a big network effect. Network effects - Ethereum has by far the largest network effect and as Bitcoin has shown us, the network effect is extremely important. Ethereum is the most decentralised and provably neutral smart contract platform - Super secure under ETH 0.0, no more tolerance of DAO like forks and a neutral platform for adversaries like the US and China to transact on so that they don't have to trust each other's banks. ETH distribution is decentralised - Years of proof of work have put ETH in the hands of many. ETH supply is more decentralised than Bitcoin. The community - Super duper mega friendly. Shoutout to 