Polkadot Chief Promises Freedom From Ethereum’s ‘Economic Enslavement’

Polkadot Chief Promises Freedom From Ethereum’s ‘Economic Enslavement’
The completion of the first Polkadot parachain auction was occasion for its creator, Gavin Wood, to herald a newfound freedom from the economic constraints of Ethereum smart contracts.Wood, a co-founder of Ethereum who helped develop the smart contract programming language Solidity, said Polkadot’s economic lease-holding model for parachains (literally, parallelized chains) is exactly why users don’t need to buy a platform token, or need to know anything about the framework’s overarching native token, DOT.It’s a model that stands in stark contrast to Ethereum and most of Ethereum’s competitors, according to Wood.“The users of applications that are built on Ethereum are…