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View submission: Scaling Reddit’s Community Points with Arbitrum
StarkWare is brilliant, but their solutions are not ready for prime time just yet (for Reddit). It seems like Reddit wants composability and developers building apps on their chain.
1. New cryptographic primitives add risk. Arbitrum uses proven infrastructure.
2. StarkNet is live on testnet, but they don't have a composable solution just yet. (Very soon!)
3. Currently, StarkEx requires you to code in Cairo. (Nethermind is working on a EVM > Cairo compiler.)
As you can see, it's very much a time-to-market thing. By next year, StarkNet (and zkSync 2.0 and Hermez) will likely be the superior solution for Reddit, though I wouldn't be surprised if Offchain Labs are building their own zk rollup solution.
Comment by carlslarson at 22/07/2021 at 18:11 UTC
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It sounds like this will be a separate rollup to the Arbitrum rollup most of DeFi will migrate to so composability with other DeFi-on-Arbitrum may require bridging (?). But it definitely makes dev tooling easier and I think the prospect of an ecosystem of Community Points dapps is really exciting.
Comment by Slawman34 at 23/07/2021 at 02:58 UTC
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Are these all competitors or do they compliment each other? Isn’t it resource and time intensive for projects to keep having to accommodate the next big thing every 3-6 months? I admit I fundamentally don’t understand how this tech works or impacts Ethereum, it’s a bit beyond my feeble mind. If you have an explanation written for a child somewhere I’d love to read it. Thanks!