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RECAP: FACE OFF - COSMOS VS POLKADOT
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RECAP: FACE OFF - COSMOS VS POLKADOT

FaceOff: $DOT vs $ATOM! Ultimate Layer Zero Showdown🔝

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Jul 19, 2023
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NUGGETS OF ALPHA

  • Compared to higher traffic L1s and L2s, L0s are hard to justify investing in relative to their competitors

  • DOT wins by almost 9x in decentralization over ATOM

  • ATOM wins on the technology front by a significant margin as it is 10x faster

  • ATOM wins by over 3x in daily transactions performed by the chain

  • ATOM wins by almost ~2x in daily active addresses

  • ATOM is 2 to 3 times more active by daily active user development on average

  • ATOM wins by over 2x in daily transactions / daily active user

  • ATOM is 2.5x cheaper than DOT on average per transaction

  • ATOM receives higher daily transaction fees despite charging less than half per transaction

  • The transaction fees are unsustainable, and both chains need more going forward

  • DOT has 22% more weekly active developers than ATOM

  • DOT has double the developer contributions compared to ATOM

  • ATOM wins both by market cap and fully diluted market cap

  • ATOM wins by market cap and fully diluted market cap per daily transaction fees

  • DOT is almost 85x larger than ATOM in DEX volume

  • The ATOM ecosystem has a 12.7x larger stablecoin market cap than DOT

  • ATOM’s price has done 3x better over the last 900 days

  • ATOM wins both by market cap and fully diluted market cap

  • The winner of these two L0s goes to Cosmos (ATOM)


Face Off Series Playlist

Our Face Off Series is produced on Wednesdays, and we take votes from the IA Patreon community to decide who will compete. Today's lesson is the toughest Face Off we have done to date, as it is a showdown between two top-tier layer zeros. Brace yourself for an epic clash as they battle it out!

This is the Face Off between two major Layer 0s - Polkadot (DOT) and Cosmos (ATOM). In full disclosure, I do not own a position in either of these two tokens.


This slide captures a quick lay of the land for this lesson. Our focus today will be on the Layer 0 chains.


ATOM and DOT are Layer 0s / Modular but differ in their approach.

Cosmos, as it stands today, is closer to a Layer 1 but plans to adopt more of a Layer 0 architecture. Cosmos is designed to

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