Selecting the base layer is a significant decision for the success of dApps builders Focus area, available capital, and financial support (especially in crypto winter) are important considerations for the decision What chain should dApps builders choose? Read:

As we said, focus area, available capital, and financial support are the important factors in choosing the base layer Focus Area Capital Financial Support We will use them as a proxy in the assessment process

Capital (TVL) To generate revenue, chains with abundant capital are the best shot for dApps. More capital means more room for growth We choose TVL as the proxy of the capital of chains

In order of TVL $ETH: $25B $BNB: $3B $ARB: $2B $MATIC: $954M $OP: $892M $AVAX: $641M $SOL: $305M zkSync: $167M $KLAY: $124M $APT: $45M $NEAR: $36M StarkNet: $25M $SUI: $15M $TON: $12M $MNT: $4M

Financial Support The will and competence of the Foundations are also very important factors. Especially for the early stage projects, support such as ecosystem funds and grant matters It is difficult to get a numerical proxy, so think more individually

$ARB @arbitrum announces its 1st Grant Program. It just started, which means that there is no precedent Arbitrum is the broad and level playing field for innovative projects, so any innovation can be a good fit with $ARB twitter.com/arbitrum/status/16...

$OP @OptimismGov recently launched the $OP grant season 4, which has been very helpful to incentivize the growth Alongside the grant, @synthetix_io is the bedrock of @optimismFND through derivatives, so derivative projects requiring bootstrap would be a good fit with $OP twitter.com/OptimismGov/status...

zkSync @zksync is the ecosystem that just starts, which means that there are tons of opportunities for dApps. Once the governance token is launched, the pipeline for supporting dApps will be full of joy twitter.com/zksync/status/1625...

StarkNet @Starknet launched Early Adopter Grants (EAG), which is similar to the Grant system of @OptimismGov The discussion activity on the Governance forum around EAG is already vibrant twitter.com/Starknet/status/16...

Base @BuildOnBase announced support for builders through the Base Ecosystem Fund and the primary interest of Base is - Flatcoin - Onchain reputation - Onchain Limit Order Book - Safer DeFi twitter.com/BuildOnBase/status...

$MNT @0xMantle has $200M capital for the ecosystem fund. In terms of the budget of the Foundation, Mantle has the strongest capacity Its ecosystem has massive room for growth, which means that early-stage projects are suitable for building on @0xMantle twitter.com/0xMantle/status/16...

$TAIKO @taikoxyz announced a community grant program with a 0.2% allocation of $TAIKO supply Categories: - ZRU improvement - Social / Messaging - NFT bridge & Marketplace - Game - AI - Education Projects with good solutions to improve ZRU can be a good fit with Taiko twitter.com/taikoxyz/status/16...

$KLAY @klaytn_official launches KCF pilot, the transparent onchain governance grant system. It is following the success case of @OptimismGov for more sustainable growth klaytn.foundation/kcf-grant-pi...

$AVAX @avax launched $50M RWA tokenization fund, "Avalanche Vista". It is the most goal-specific fund across the board of mainnet, so RWA projects can benefit by launching their dApps on Avalanche twitter.com/avax/status/168384...

$BNB The largest growth plan of @BNBCHAIN is MVB program. It completed season 6 recently and the selected programs can get significant traction in the space twitter.com/BNBCHAIN/status/16...

$SOL @SolanaFndn launched a $10M grant program to bridge AI and blockchain specifically. Considering that its scope is relatively small compared to other chains, crypto projects integrating AI features can be massive benefit from @solana twitter.com/SolanaFndn/status/...

$NEAR @SweatEconomy is one of the success stories of @NEARProtocol. @NEARFoundation refines the grant process to get another Sweat moment of $NEAR ecosystem twitter.com/NEARFoundation/sta...

$APT @Aptos_Network recently announced The Registry, a new grant program, for across the board They accept applications from - Research - DeFi - Infra - Social - Wallet - Security - Analytics twitter.com/Aptos_Network/stat...

$SUI @SuiFoundation launched Developer Grant and accept applications from - Dev Tools - Finance - Gaming - Governance - Payments - Productivity twitter.com/SuiNetwork/status/...

$TON @ton_blockchain approved grant for 2Q23 such as @wagmi_11, a decentralized prediction market. They have strength in TG integration, so TG based projects which is similar to @TeamUnibot can be a good fit with $TON twitter.com/ton_blockchain/sta...

We hope our analysis to be helpful for base layer selection of dApp builders

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