Introduction

Over the past 18 months, an explosion of on-chain activity and a significant increase in Ethereum gas fees triggered the meteoric rise of a number of layer-1 ecosystems and Ethereum layer-2 networks. These ecosystems have launched enormous incentive programs and growth funds as they compete to attract projects and users in order to achieve the necessary network effects to succeed.

The following table has been created to help understand which ecosystems are investing heavily in growth, and therefore, indicate which ecosystems could flourish over the next couple of years.

Fantom

Allocation: 370m FTM Launched: Aug 30 2021 Notes: Funds are distributed exclusively to builders. This is because the Fantom...