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So many smart contract platforms have emerged over time, ramping up the competition for ETH. Some have claimed to be the "Ethereum Killer" (like EOS), only to fail altogether. While none have been compared to ETH in terms of decentralization and reliability, there are some projects which aim to base their development on an academic level. One of those projects is Cardano. With a focus on PoS and decentralization, it could become ETH's biggest contender in the future. Other projects like EOS and TRON may have already adopted PoS, but they're inherently centralized. Which is why, I strongly believe that Cardano could topple ETH in the not-so-distant future.

What are your thoughts? Will Cardano become Ethereum's biggest contender? If not, which smart contract platform do you think it will? Your input will be greatly appreciated. :)

EOS didn't fail, it's a successful blockchain technology on its own, Cardano isn't bad either but going against or Vs with ethereum is night and day, developers will continue to choose ethereum blockchain over Cardano for some reasons, this won't stop Cardano and others from becoming a success

I do think that ethereum is already one of the best, but like you metioned cardano might be a competition. Another competitor for Ethereum might be NEO, which is a chinese based platform.

I think Ethereum will not only maintain its position but it will sustain and solidify its position with eth 2.0 and upcoming improvements, eth network is already the king of the dApps, DeFi and smart contracts and i do not see any serious competition coming for ethereum for years.
You have rightly mentioned Cardano, i like it as well and holding this coin as well but it will take ages for cardano to be as big as ethereum meanwhile ethereum would have grown much bigger by that time.

Well, EOS did fail since its block producers have frozen accounts on the blockchain before. This shows us how extremely centralized it is, compared to other smart contract platforms in the crypto/Blockchain space. If EOS stays this way, it'll never be able to compete with Ethereum directly. I think that Cardano is Ethereum's biggest contender as it focuses on decentralization above all else. Better yet, the team is taking an academic approach to ensure the stability and reliability of the underlying blockchain network for the foreseeable future. Cardano's innovative PoS consensus algorithm, might compete head-to-head against Ethereum because of its level of decentralization. Other blockchains like TRON, EOS, and Tezos, are based on the DPoS consensus algorithm which is prone to extreme centralization.

Of course, Cardano's development has been rather slow ever since it came into inception back in 2016. But I believe this approach is better, in order to provide a blockchain network that's stable enough for mainstream use. Someday, Cardano will be able to reach the level of adoption of Ethereum as it become a tried-and-tested smart contract platform that could handle anything within its path. While other projects might become successful in the long run, they'll never become as comparable as Ethereum due to its first-mover advantage on the market. Just my thoughts ;D

Ethereum has got no competition as of yet and i think in its category Ethereum will dominate for many many years, it is not possible to stand a repute a build an empire of blockchain with smart contracts, tokenization, dApps, DeFis and much much more. Ethereum network is a whole blockchain architecture and infrastructure which other projects can only dream to build. My love and respect for Ethereum as a project is growing each passing day now.

Every smart contract platform is a contender, but it will go out on the community support and adoption by the community, Ethereum is well adopted almost all people in Crypto had an Eth or invested in token created using Ethereum smart contract, some people are not even aware of Cardano or Neo, they only know Ethereum and Ethereum wallet.

ethereum biggest contender is binance coin.. bnb has a big potential as well as those in the top 10 list.. but the thing about this ethereum even though there are a lot of coins out there it seems that eth is so popular..

How exactly you think they are in competition with each other? BNB was build to be a DEX while ETH is doing so much more then that.

I doubt it.

BNB is only an exchange based coin but Ethereum is not. Binance has tried everything to drag Ethereum down but has always failed miserably.

I still feel NEO can be a potential Ethereum killer, it is a Chinese backed project and is known as Chinese Ethereum but the development has not been up to track.

IMO Ethereum is so far ahead of all those "ethereum killers" that it's kinda pointless to guess which of them has the highest potential to replace Ethereum, because right now the chance of this happening is close to zero. It's just like asking "which coin will replace Bitcoin".

Ethereum has a huge ecosystem of smart contracts, even though they don't get used much in real world, there's still a lot of developers who experiment with them, I personally lurk in one such community and even participate sometimes.

Why should people throw everything they've built and learned with Ethereum and commit to a platform that is very crude and likely fundamentally flawed? Until "ethereum killers" are overall better than ETH, with no trade-offs, there won't be any flippening.

Though at the moment Binance is exchange while Ethereum is smart contract platform, Binance is lanching a new chain and you will be able to run smart contract on it and also compactible with Ethereum project, I can see in the future Binance try to force the projects on their exchange to move to their own chain. But I know there is still a huge room for growth when it comes to BNB tokens

If we will rate based on the ranking then BNB has a good chance because it also has a big community, trusted by people and they are using it on a daily basis, in fact a lot of good news about Binance this year already, so we can expect more in the future and their ranking will just rise.

ETH and BNB might have a different platform but we can't deny that as of the moment, these two are the hottest in the altcoins market, but in terms of performance in the past years particularly after the correction, BNB won the battle.

I don't think that those supposedly contender can even touch Ethereum though, there's a lot of hype on them like 3 years ago and so far we haven't seen any of them, closing the gap, Ethereum remains the top choice for projects and D-apps. Of course, names like BNB, Cardano, EOS, NEO, but still, Ethereum remains on top and the gold standard, in my opinion. Challengers need to prove something big to be in the discussions to replace Ethereum.

I agree into that Cardano point of view but it wont really be that easy to dethrone on where ETH is sitting on in terms of market rank or position.
Yeah, it might be better but we cant avoid the fact that ETH do able to root out to be the 2nd best coin being supported in the market right now.
They arent letting themselves to be outplaced by other projects thats why we do see continous developments on this one but in talks of strong
contender then i dont have any doubts with ADA.

Yeah, 2nd 'best coin', and the prime movers in altcoin market. Probably the same position as BTC is, it's on top and eventhough we have seen a lot of forks, the community remains strong and support the original coin. So I don't think that we can see any in the near future to test ETH at this point.

The developers are also very active and lest we forget ETH2.0 is on the horizon, although it has been delayed many times, still the community is looking to see how it will change the landscape.

I think Ethereum has the first mover advantage over smart contracts and token creation, and rightly so. It has the perk of being the network with the most participation and most miners. As a cryptocurrency that makes it have an advantage over competitors. Although, the node network isn't acting as a normal full node network. Ethereum has very few full nodes. They call them archival nodes and they host a few TBs. ETH is still number one by all measures, even market cap and daily volumes and is still strong in terms of technology. That's hard to topple.

This market can not say anything. I think BNB is the most potential coin to beat ETH in the future because, in the last few years, BNB is being chosen by more investors because holding BNB will give you many other investment opportunities. Of course, every investor will have different thoughts on this issue, but BNB is a coin that can surpass ETH someday.

Although many smart contract using ethereum I think not giving positive effect how to make ethereum have higher price and keep on the top, we miss last several years where ethereum reach to higher price and looks impossible return back for ethereum on the top price, always have trouble why ethereum never reach on higher price any more.

I agree, being the first mover has really an advantage and eventhough there are competition from behind, they have raised the bar that even they get closed, ETH will just go ahead specially with eth2.0.

No doubt that CARDANO is very solid project and could really be the ETH killer, but it lacks support and I would say that there's not enough hype that's why other projects or dapps creator still rely and trust ETH.

I have been in market since 2017 Ethereum has grow very fast in previous day but in market everytime a new contender comes with new promises. There may you can give some names but for me who can touch the price of Eth is BNB coin. In future time can come when bnb may take over Ethereum because BNB is world best exchange where millions of trader trading so Binance can put any type of idea to boost their coin.For me BNB is biggest contender for Ethereum.

I don't think Cardano would contend with Ethereum because both of them have different blockchains and different purposes of creation. Ethereum has been in the crypto space before Cardano so it has gained more adoption than Cardano,so there was no way it will topple Ethereum

EOS is not much different from TRON and so is Cardano. And Ethereum is itself the most decentralized smart contract platform and it's likely competitor could be a centralized ones as it would be able to solve any shortcoming Ethereum may have due to it's nature. And I firm believe Ethereum would remain a leader on it's category as no newer coin could claim the level of decentralization Ethereum has to offer.

I prefer XRP and BCH ;D
And now I'm focusing on CRO / Crypto.com. I really like the chart movement of this token on 1 week ago

Cardano has been my number one token to battle ethereum. currently, their activities on github has increased. they are currently working on their github profile. always coming up with updates. Cardano tops the chats with online activities on their github platform. the rest has been copying projects. EOS is an epic failure. developers are gradually leaving their platform.

I consider BNB (Binance chain) is the ETH's biggest contender right now. They have previously launched their smart contract into their chain and added some features like staking and they have schedule coin burn too. BNB is decreasing its supply while ETH supply keeps increasing because they didn't set a total supply. So I guess BNB has the potential to beat ETH in the future. In addition to that, CZ is keeping the crypto community better for everyone I guess it gains some trust too. Trust is very important like what bitcoin has.

You could build an altcoin as an eth contender that's faster, scales better plus other features, but what most of these projects lack is actual adoption. Eth has the community, developers. Im sure something will come along someday that will be a legit contender, but right now I don't see any ada,tron,eos wont dethrone eth

I know right? But even if Ethereum is ahead of its competitors, it's still un-scalable and not ready for massive adoption in the mainstream world. Of course, decentralization is what matters here. But combining decentralization + scalability, could prove to be a game changer in the crypto/Blockchain space. Cardano aims to achieve exactly that with its academic approach. By having a slow and steady development phase, it could become a battle-tested blockchain network just like Ethereum. Unlike TRON, EOS, or other DPoS blockchains, Cardano will make use of pure PoS in order to minimize the risk of centralization as much as possible.

Still, Cardano would need to gather a large number of developers in order to grow its ecosystem of dApps and tokens. So far, Ethereum is the winner as most dApps and tokens are available on it. It's largely because ETH is the most decentralized smart contract platform in the world today. Businesses and merchants will prefer scalability on top of decentralization, so they'd either choose Cardano or other contenders that are centralized. As long as ETH remains decentralized, it looks very unlikely that another coin will take its place on the market anytime soon. Time will tell us what lies ahead with the future of the smart contracts space. Just my opinion :)

I honestly believe that Ethereum is still the best token creation and smart contract platform but I welcome Cardano's challenge on Ethereum for being the number one token creation and smart contract platform, this will make Ethereum not to rest and continue to improve their platform
Ethereum has never been challenged before and with Cardano and other similar platforms coming up, Ethereum will improve his platform even more.

here I just see xrp which will be the closest competitor to etherum. technically, xrp has pretty good progress and the development of the team is quite optimal. but if you look at the price, xrp is still far behind. but with much longer time, xrp is likely to compete with etherum.

we can see the development later. as far as I can see, so many coins have great potential to become competitors from ethereum, even BNB. it's just that these potentials fade with time. Well, right now ADA has quite a potential development to become an ethereum competitor, but it is possible that the development of ETH 2.0 will make the distance even farther away.

I'm not that updated with Cardano but what I know is that they are implementing this "Shelly" mainnet but still there is no official date of launch of this yet.

As of now, many are still holding ETH as they are upgrading to ETH 2.0 where it will be officially a POS instead of a POW coin. Now with the biggest contender, I don't see anything that will come close to it in terms of DAPPS since it is still the best and many are still using the ETH Network.

In terms of scalability, ETH 2.0 is said to have 100,000 TPS. Cardano as of this moment has 1,000,000 TPS. EOS is around 1000+ TPS. Probably Cardano will be the closest if the Shelly will be implemented and at the same time the ETH 2.0 will be finished.

many coins are good enough but people still go for those bad coin and will call crypto a scam once they have failed to profit  . bnb and other good coins are compared to btc before so why not eth when eth  is lower than btc   .

yes it can fade if the dev of those coins got lazy because we see how people like to see a coin that is continue developing , that makes them continue investing .  eth 2.0 will make eth more standout and the competition can become more tougher this time  but i think other coins will try to make a good update too to keep the competition going

All smart contaract creation platform is competing with ethereum like initially EOS testnet launch and mainnet created lots of buzz . Then Tron by making lots of marketing strategy . Even before NEO was compared to Ethereum killer ( Chinese version of Ethereum) . Now cardano (ADA) . But i am strongly believing in Ethereum 2.0 once the mainnet launched nobdy can stop ethereum price . Every other smart contract creation platforms are good but ethereum will be the best .

I would say Tron and Eos both are quite valid opponents, if you are not considering USDT as a currency which I don't, that means the only thing that could pass ethereum right now is either eos or tron, however there is a potential that something new could go there as well.

I have always believed that dash could be higher because it is one of the best passive income coins however they are not allowing people to build a node that easily, which is why it is not loved. If tomorrow dash comes out and says that you can build a masternode a lot cheaper, let's say 1/10th of what it is right now, that could change a lot of stuff and in order to gain passive income people could move to dash as well. All of this however is just a prediction and I do not know which one could go above ethereum at all.

yes, currently there are many projects that are starting to develop their own platforms, especially those that are really real and with real usage including EOS, TRON, BNB, and maybe as you say about CARDANO. of course they will all continue to compete in the cryptoqurrency industry.

cardano is good,
but, in my opinion Binance coin can be the biggest contender of ethereum mate
because for now this BNB already run on its own chain and people can create their token there too

Ethereum is itself the biggest contendor of the project I mean they need to resolve all the outstanding issues like high transaction costs and slow transactions and they need to do it as soon as possible as time is running out. I know they are working on a lot of improvements but they should act swiftly to fulfill the market requirements.

Really tough for others to compete with ethereum. The popularity alone is hard to beat but who knows one of them will find the trick on how to gain popularity among crypto users. I am seeing BNB as their potential biggest contender because the exposure is very good. I somehow agree with coinswebid.

There are several projects that could unseat Ethereum, including Aeternity, Amoveo, Ardor, Ark, BOSCoin, BlockStack, Cardano, Chain, DFINITY, EOS, Genaro, Lisk, NEM, NEO, Qtum, RChain, RSK, Stellar, Stratis, Tezos, Waves, Zilliqa, and others.

you dont include a description for each of them on why those coins can be a contenter of eth but you just list them right off the bat  and whats worst is that most of them are not recognized by mine  .  i think most of them are just a simple sh8t coins  that does not anything to contribute on the crypto space  except on the few of course because i knew them  .  on the list there is waves  , this is the coin that been compare to eth on my early days on this forum but never saw that happening again .  now people like to compare eth now to some newer coins  .

Sincerely speaking, among all the listed coins in your opinion; none can actually withstand the strength of ethereum even though its still not scalable like others. The major contender in the cryptocurrency space which can stand against ethereum is the Binance coin. This coin has the strength to unseat the Queen of cryptocurrency(ethereum), with binance project team members this will be actualize in a very short time. In my opinion, the upcoming ethereum 2.0 upgrade will actually put ethereum into right perspectives and it scalability will be more robust than before.

I think Ethereum's biggest competitors are Binance and EOS. Even though Binance is not a smart contract platform, BInance has tremendous community strength, BNB marketcap might be able to overtake Ethereum later.

I would vouch for Binance all the way. I have been using their exchange and so far it hasn't disappoint me in any way. Sure ETH is somewhat being regarded as the 2nd best cryptocurrency but many coins will come and be a contender to the number 2 spot in the whole cryptocurrency world. Cardano might have what it takes to become 2nd to Bitcoin, but Binance has many features that are very useful and in time this would increase the value of the said coin.

Some of the listed coin from this could grow big in next few years and to beat ETH seems little impossible to me beacuse it requires a lot of big investors to buy such coins and the demand has to be more than ETH . For the next couple of years ETH may continue to lead the way .

I would like to believe if Cardano is inching or they are in the number 3 position but they on the 6th place they have a good chance though but we all know Ethereum is highly supported and they have a very huge community, it will take a lot of works and Ethereum is always up for the challenge

Yes, l agree with your view that Ethereum's biggest contender is BNB. Both of them are so great and have huge potential to be the best. As you above mentioned even though BNB has a tremendous community, but l think it is not enough to overcome ETH. It is just my prediction, more than that none can predict that, we will see what will happen.

I guess when it comes to top altcoins, there is no cryptocurrency that will be the biggest contender of ethereum but only will just follow the steps of it because I think there is a huge gap between ethereum and any other altcoin. Ethereum is such a useful coin where lots of people benefits from it and has a good potential while any other altcoins are good but not as good as ethereum.

Yes I do consider binance over other coins because binance coin also having use case as it use as a internal currency got the biggest exchange in crypto space it’s used for trading fees . Also it’s having its own blockchain or smart chain which provided to create multiple blockchsin based project . But we can’t simply ignore Cardano it may be the future of smart contract if ethereum 2.0 fails .

Featurewise Cardano may have an advantage right now but the ethereum platform is constantly upgrading. And the amount of community supporting the platform is so wide that they will see Eth be always on top. As of the moment, I feel Eth is safe there as the top smart contract platform.

We have no idea what's gonna happen in the future but I see Cardano as a good investment.

For cardano to succeed, it does not necessarily mean it will beat ETH but it can compete because both can grow altogether since crypto is a big market as the adoption increases overtime. Actually I'm done filling up my bags with Cardano since as of this time, it's still very much undervalued based on my own evaluation on the potential of the project.

The supply is high but it should not be a hindrance for it to grow as it's proven that even with high supply coin, it could still succeed like XRP for example.
I believe once the altcoin market returns, it would easily achieve at least $1, so I'm really optimistic with this project.

agree for Cardano, that it is a good competition, if we can call it that way, comparing current numbers regarding users and applications, both Tron and EOS seems to be out of touch, and sliding down, so would not call them real competition, would list Tezos and Zilliqa as ones that could increase their numbers to come close to competitors (EOS and Tron are only real competition at the moment) and BNB will have good support from main business for steady growth

ETH is simply too big at the moment, to have real competition, but that could change in the future, especially if things with ETH2.0 are going slow, as at the moment

I haven't heard about at least half of the projects listed above. And I don't have a good opinion regarding any of the projects in the remaining 50%. Some of the projects such as Stellar Lumen, Cardano and NEO showed a lot of promise in the earlier stages. But they were unable to maintain the momentum. So for the next 2-3 years at least, I don't think that there will be any major competition for ETH.

You're kidding right?

I agree with some of these platforms, but only because they are actual smart contract platforms that have been around for a while and have been growing in terms of DAPPS using them but sorry to say, some of them have been well on their way out and will never get the same kind of mainstream usage the way ETH does.

ETH you must remember is also a well accepted currency. Have you seen ANY of thse coins also used to pay for services? I know I've seen Stratis on ONE casino. Nothing else.

I think in the next 2-5 years there will be no platform that can compete with ETH because now ETH is the second mover after BTC for the up and down movements of cryptocurrency prices

All these Ethereum pretentders have tried but have failed to gain any significant market share, it was Tezos I thought would give ethereum ride for its money but have failed to gain significant momentum. IMO, I think Binance chain has the potential to be Ethereum biggest contender because of its competitive advantage

Ethereum's definite competitor in my opinion is Ripple, top 2 and 3 are always tight competitors, but now Ripple is still asleep, if this giant wakes up then I am sure XRP can be in the top 3 again

What about a Cpu PoW BlockDag Smart Contract platform with Full Homomorphic Encryption, is big enough like competitor?  

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Although many other altcoins want to compete with ETH, everything will be in vain, because the development of ETH and transaction volume is much faster than other altcoins, and for the next 5 years ETH is still superior.

Or even top 2, like it did in the past, XRP has been sitting in the number 2 spot for awhile before ETH reclaim its spot, but I don't think XRP is still that strong now to get back on top, it's just too centralized and I believe the coins that will lead in the market the real decentralized coins.

It is still very difficult to say which altcoin with its technologies and capabilities will be able to withstand Ethereum and perhaps there are no such altcoins at the moment, but most likely such altcoins should appear in the future, so I have such an opinion at the moment.

in the crypto world, altcoin might be able to overtake ETH, because everything is determined by supply and demand, but looking at the current development of ETH, it will be very difficult for other altcoins to compete with it.

Are you serious? ETH development is in tatters. There have been delays and postponements, for the past 2 years or so. Even the rollout of Ethereum 2.0 was postponed multiple times, and now the developers are saying that they will be unable to do the rollout in a single phase. The situation with ETH may be better when compared to some of the other alts, but it is still lagging behind Bitcoin. 

I think XRP has faster transactions than Ethereum and other than that XRP had lesser fees compared to Ethereum, it just that Ehteruem has a better blockchain techology to support multi transactions per second. But my opinions, any establish coins except for bitcoin could suprass or at least challenge ethereum in 2nd spot, it just a matter of time and opportunities for every one of them.

I would say that ethereum do not have a proper contender. I mean yes binance has a huge say in it and BNB will definitely go higher in the future because it has probably a million reasons to do that, but that doesn't mean it will take ethereums place. I would see it (removing usdt obviously) at third place above xrp soon, but that's it, it will be ripples biggest contender and not ethereums.

Ethereum is already in second place and already doing great yet it is not going to even slow down, it is working on new stuff to make it better and that means ethereum will not only go up, but it will probably go up a lot more than people expect, like to 500 dollar levels. Which is why I believe that ethereum doesn't really have any rivals right now, it will continue to be altcoin king for a long time.

BTC is the first decentralized monetary after BTC ETH is the king among altcoins in my mind. But more than that as you above mentioned every platform wants to compete and overcome ETH. But l think it is really hard to achieve this goal. ETH is smart contract platform and still on the first rank. No doubt it will keep standing on this rank.

To certain extent you are right about one thing, developers seems to favor the usage of ethereum blockchain more than others possibly because of the popularity as well other reasons but EOS blockchain isn't a fail project and it's working perfectly fine, it's actually The best for building gaming related Dapps as well tron network is a good alternative as some folks are actually saying its more scalable and has more throughput than eth currently. The thing is, all of these blockchians are really a game changer and each of them has the potential to thrive effectively in the market

Yes BNB would be big because of the simple fact that binance has easily amassed itself as the biggest exchange and hence the services they provide would always be more efficient with BNB but that said I think BNB would always be a top 10 no doubt although never breaking into the top 3 or top 4 as they are just too big to overcome.

I am personally a big fan of TRON and think it might grow the market cap to the next level in no time. But like mentioned in OP it is sort of centralized so it will have it's own limits. I mean no coin could possibly cross ETH but as we are talking contenders so I see tron having a solid chance.

It is possible that BNB or TRON will surpass ETH in the future if they continue to grow like at the moment. I am currently investing in these altcoins and hope the price will one day go up and bring more profits to investors.

In the future some other cryptocurrency may topple Ethereum from its no.2 position, but I am sure that it is not going to be BNB or TRON. Ethereum is a smart contract platform, and its scope is very wide. On the other hand, the scope is very limited for both BNB (exchange token) and TRON (file-sharing). And at least in the case of TRON, the development activity is not moving forward.

There will not be any altcoins that can compete with ETH, sometimes we see XRP surpass ETH because the price of ETH collapses too much. But that situation did not last long, ETH quickly rose and regained its No. 2 position

This is more than 100x times i have seen someone who has stated like you dude. A few years ago when tron and EOS has been getting alive as a new platforms and i have been seeing so many people were saying like this but it's not happening till this time. i could say that's impossible to happen.

As far as I can see it, I see Ethereum as another successful Cryptocurrency compare to Bitcoin. It made a name for itself and I think Ethereum will really be the closest thing to Bitcoin in my point of view. For Ethereum, there are really a lot of alternate Cryptocurrency that wants to overtake it but doing so made them realize that they still need some development in their own platforms. I just guess they need to focus on improving their own platforms instead of taking down other Cryptocurrencies.

Ethereum has gone through several phases and despite the several competitors in the aspect of smart contracts protocols, ethereum has maintained her place. There was a time we had NEO was the next big project as it was Chinese base and has a huge support of China big shorts. At the end of the day, nothing came out of the project.

Tron is doing great right now and with a CEO like Justin Sun expect a lot of surprise I vert bullish that Tron will land in the top 7, their platform are doing great and they are accumulating a lot of assets, Binance is great and these two coins with their CEO are going to battle in the top position, so better include these two coins in your portfolio they will surely deliver.

Binance and EOS may be superior than Ethereum in terms of scalability, but they're utterly centralized. In this sense, BNB and EOS cannot compete with Ethereum directly. It's like comparing apples vs oranges. Decentralization will ultimately prevail in the long run, since it's what makes Blockchain technology good. Despite the high fees (sometimes) and slow transaction throughput, Ethereum has been the #1 choice for dApps and tokens due to its inherently-decentralized design.

If we were to compare different smart contract platforms based on their decentralization, Cardano would prove to be a real contender against Ethereum. Whereas other alternatives rely on DPoS and other BFT algorithms for consensus, Cardano will be using pure PoS from the ground up. This allows it to obtain a greater level of decentralization than its competitors. With this in mind, Cardano might be able to become as good as Ethereum someday. If the team develops the platform as promised, ADA will become the second-most decentralized cryptocurrency after Ethereum in the smart contract space. The slow and steady development phase of the Cardano project allows it to be more stable than TRON or even EOS. Binance Chain, on the other hand, is currently more centralized than the aforementioned platforms, being completely out of question.

In the end, people will continue to use Ethereum because of its strong ecosystem of developers, dApps, and tokens. But there's room for growth for other competitors as they bring new and exciting features to the smart contract space. Ultimately, there will be only one winner, and that's Ethereum. Cardano will be taking "second place" in popularity and mainstream adoption, followed by TRON, EOS, and lastly, Binance Chain. Just my opinion :)

EOS is still active and it didn’t fail.. If you’re following up with it you will know that.. We can’t really predict which coin will overthrow Ethereum to be at the top in the future, you can’t really tell.. We don’t even know whether there are other projects that are being planned for the future. You can’t just wake up tomorrow and see another one that is much better than the ones there is already. One thing with this is that the first to come always tops the others all the time, others can only serve as alternatives and being used for a few projects.

I differ with the following:
1. There could be multiple winners when different coins will be addressing different solutions and innovating different features.
2. With respect to main stream adoption, I guess binance coin will beat everyone else as 50% discount on fees on binance exchange and all its sister concerns must be one real time application, they are already doing.

Apart from Cardano, I am seeing Elrond and Harmony contend with ETH most especially Elrond that can process 15,000TPS which is far ahead of ETH with a maximum of 15TPS until they are able to resolve the issue of scalability through ETH 2.0

ETH is currently the largest market in the cryptocurrency. It is not possible to throw it away so easily. ETH can be easily sold and purchased. It is almost heard that the ETH market may fall. But this is not true. Best wishes for ETH.

Though ETH is tough to beat right now based on the market cap if I have to bet on one coin that has the potential to surpass ETH then that's CARDANO (ADA) because their marketing game is really strong.

yes, Cardano is good enough to be an ethereum competitor. but I just hope it will happen to BNB. it will not happen anytime soon. I think it takes 5-7 years to see the development of BNB in ​​the market to become bigger.

In crypto space the people who believe on the platform and its solution also if you are able to predict future events  then you can gain big . Ethereum might have small volatility now . Crypto space is completely big volatile market . Instead of going with current trend if you really focus on ethereum 2.0 release then you never think to sell ethereum. I am not sure about NEO but ethereum will be the strong contender for near future . Once 2.0 release we cant predit the price it will sky rocket for sure.  

All ethereum contenders are all successful, EOS, Neo, Cardano and every other smart contract Blockchain projects are all doing fine, it's not a matter of who is at the top anymore, it's a matter features now, there are reasons why I would choose NEO over Ethereum, forget the fact that Ethereum is the second best

For the now, Ethereum has no equal when it comes to smart contract technology. Some project who migrated to Binance chain are coming back to Ethereum network due to a large number of users. Vet, ADA XLM TRON all these are good but still not a threat to Ethereum.

Yes, BNB could definitely be a competitor for ETH but for now, I think CARDANO has a good head start when compared with BNB but price wise I don't think neither BNB nor ADA can beat ETH.

so, altcoin candidates who could potentially replace the ETH are ADA and BNB for now. Well, I also agree with this. it's just that, I think that ETH will not be easily defeated in terms of function, or volume. although both coins are really very useful at the moment, but I've also seen some altcoins that have exceeded ETH, it's just that ETH always takes back that position.

It was XRP which replaced ETH in the number 2 spot, but last year IIRC, it was able to take the spot back and now it was holding strong despite it has not recovered it's good price yet. The market is pretty much unpredictable, so I like to believe that it's possible other altcoins would be able to replace ETH in its spot now, beside, ETH has slowly lose its hype, price has been a little stagnant after it was corrected.

There are many smart contract projects available and I don't think we should be putting them head to head to find out which will be better or which should be on top, it's left for developers who wants to use a smart contract Platform for their projects to choose, features can't be the same thing but that's left for devs to choose.

All presently available smart contract projects are all successful, none is left behind because the use case is good enough, they make things easier for new projects to build their projects, I like ethereum, neo, eos and almost all available smart contract platforms in crypto space and I don't mind having them all in my portfolio.

EOS has no excuse to fail it raised billions of dollars,,, used it to pay tens of thousands of dollars to whitehat hackers to find their flaws, so they better not fail!

I do agree there will not be one winner and no killers. Ethereum will always have its place for the next few years and it will have many friends sitting alongside it.

I've been following updates on Cardano Shelley conference (Cardano virtual summit) and also awaiting the Shelley hardfork towards the end of this month. I wouldn't conclude that it will outperform ETH blockchain, but it's likely. I've been an old believer in Cardano, but paused when the wait was too much for remarkable development, happy to see it happening this year. I bagged some ADA recently.

That's certainly true, mate. We may never know which cryptocurrency will eventually make it to the top. I've seen some cryptocurrencies come and go, as they're replaced by big players in the industry. If Ethereum fails to deliver as promised (scalability for smart contracts), then I guess its competitors will gain a huge advantage on the market. From what I can tell, both TRON and EOS have been growing in the number of dApps available on the Blockchain. ETH has first-mover advantage and the most ample variety of tokens on its blockchain network. But if companies and businesses start using scalable smart contract platforms more thoroughly, Ethereum could quickly lose market dominance. It'll be "survival of the fittest" as different smart contract platforms battle their way to victory.

As far as EOS goes, it's still alive and running since its inception back in 2018. However, it has "failed" in the sense that it's utterly centralized. We've seen how block producers have frozen accounts on the EOS blockchain before. This brings back traditional banking (Banking 2.0) on the Blockchain. Unless EOS decides to move towards complete decentralization, I don't see it going anywhere. The same goes for TRON, and other DPoS-based smart contract platforms on the crypto/Blockchain space. Only Cardano has a chance to become Ethereum's biggest contender, because it aims for decentralization more than anything else. The ADA cryptocurrency could rise in terms of market cap, becoming the third-largest cryptocurrency in the world after Ethereum. In this uncertain world of crypto, anything could happen in the future.



Maybe so. Each smart contract platform will serve unique use cases for the mainstream world. Some will be good for the business industry, while others will be good for everyday people. Binance Coin ultimately wins in the business sector, because of its unmatched speeds and extremely-low costs. This is because the same is centralized. On the other hand, Ethereum is a true winner in the mainstream world because of its true decentralization and censorship-resistance. Depending on each person's needs, will be the smart contract platform to use. The competition will become fierce as more smart contract platforms come into play. Ultimately, each smart contract platform will complement Ethereum by filling the gaps whenever it's necessary. If ETH becomes too bloated, there's ample space for other smart contract platforms to thrive in the crypto/Blockchain space. Just my thoughts ;D

that looks interesting to see that but erd needs to prove it. I remember credit and various blockchain platforms have been announcing more than 20k or even 100k TPS but those have become failed project without any achievements

BNB has soared in recent times and certainly one day BNB can beat ETH. Of course, there will still be a long time ahead but I believe anything is possible.

In addition to BNB, the coins such as EOS, ADA, NEO are potential competitors of ETH in the near future, so these are the investments that you should consider investing in the long term.

i agree with you that Cardano could win some from ethereum but i also believe that ethereum is almost to big to fail , so i think that it could live next to ethereum but i do not believe in any replacement for ethereum

I think that ETH will remain at the top among smart contract platforms. How many rivals he had and no one came close to him. ETH has already won a large audience and it will be very difficult to lure users to another platform. They would have managed to overtake eth if the team did not work on the coin, but they are constantly trying to improve it in contrast to other projects. So far, I don't see any rivals for ETH among the existing coins.

That's very optimistic of you. But I don't think BNB will become ETH's biggest contender because of its inherent centralization. You'd either sacrifice decentralization for performance or all the other way around. BNB sacrifices decentralization in order to have unparalleled scalability in the crypto/Blockchain space. Other competitors like EOS, TRON, and NEO are centralized just like BNB is, which greatly disqualifies them as direct competitors of ETH. The only smart contract platform that makes the difference is Cardano. After all, the project aims to become as decentralized and resilient as possible. With an academic approach to development and innovation, Cardano could become Ethereum's biggest contender in the future. Remember, "slow and steady wins the race". Cardano has been slow in development, but it has remained quite a stable cryptocurrency since its inception. This could make ADA comparable to ETH in the crypto/Blockchain space. While ETH will always be the "King of Smart Contracts", ADA could become the "Prince of Smart Contracts" as it rises all the way towards victory.

Ultimately, people will abandon centralized smart contract platforms in favor of decentralized ones for their own benefit. Only businesses and companies will patronize cryptocurrencies like TRON, EOS, NEO, and BNB because of their unmatched speeds and extremely low costs. With Blockchain interoperability, various smart contract platforms could work together in order to make the crypto world a better place. Stablecoins, and the world of De-Fi will make ETH bigger than what it is right now. Its competitors might never reach the level of popularity ETH has in the mainstream world. Just my thoughts ;D

If I'm more convinced of EOS to be Ethereum's rival than Cardano. Although EOS is not as popular as Ethereum in the smartcontract field. But many tokens generated by EOS have become successful. But this is not a benchmark, because I prefer EOS compared to ADA. So I think that EOS will be more successful than ADA in the smartcontract field. ;D

Although ethereum is the leader in dapps now , it is constantly coming under competition from new projects . The success of ETH depends on how scalable ETh 2.0 is going to be and how soon they implement it to ward odd the competition.

For me not even cardano can match on ethereum right now. We all knew that eth is the king of smart contract, even Binance chain that becomes hype has no match for the eth. Right now we can fill the defi and eth is the fuel to these projects. In my opinion, the market could somehow increase its cap as long as the progress on defi projects continue. Im not so sure any new project can even be contender maybe polkadot or avalanche. These two are the most top recent project that has good potential to break the ice.

Cardano is capable to replace Ethereum. But it's reputation is not that good at the moment. Early users faced a lot of difficulty in storing the ADA coins. A few years back, we had no option but to install the full wallet (Daedalus) if we want to store ADA. I understand that lite-wallets are now available for ADA, but this caused a lot of damage during the early days.

If you are viewing it like that then I have no problem with it but frankly speaking cardano still has a long way to go before it can be consider as the biggest
contender for Ethereum. They need to x14 first their marketcap before they can really beat Ethereum but everything is possible.

If cardano can make their way through in the future then I would be love seeing it as every currencies has a chance to be in the top like what happened to xrp that
it was able to replace eth last time.

Well I think for me one of the biggest threat and contender of ethereum coin would be the Ripple (XRP) which so happen that out-market ethereum in over a quarter last year. Ripple has a big potential to take the position of ethereum in the market which it did last time.

People are growing increasingly aware of Chinese products and boycotting them out of ethical concerns. Let's face it, China is shit crazy and neo-authoritarian (yes that's a thing).

ETH might be big but Azure (Microsoft), Amazon, IBM all have their own blockchain platforms that are growing in features by the day. And I literally mean that. Another big name is Hyperledger. From the legit crypto world the better names that pop up in my head are Corda and Quorum.

It's still going to take a while before anything steals Ethereum's crown though—if ever.

Actually Ethereum is the pace setter for smart contracts, but this doesn't mean in future there won't be any blockchain project better than Ethereum. I have so much confidence in ETH since the development so far has been nonstop, github activities proves that. For now, I'm yet to see a close match for ETH wrt smart contract, in as much as I'm a Cardano and Tron fan.

Exactly. So far, Ethereum is the most actively-developed smart contract platform in the world. Despite being slow and expensive at times, its large ecosystem of dApps and decentralized design, makes it the top choice among its competitors. Still, nothing lasts forever. If an Ethereum contender manages to become rock-solid in development and innovation, it might challenge ETH's place on the market. Most smart contract platforms have a greater level of centralization than Ethereum, making people think twice before choosing them on top of the original smart contract platform. I think Cardano is the only one that has a focus on decentralization just like Ethereum. It won't make use of DPoS for consensus, reducing the chances of becoming utterly centralized in the future (like it happened with both STEEM and TRON).

Cardano's innovative PoS algorithm could directly compete with the PoS version of Ethereum dubbed ETH 2.0. Charles Hoskinson worked with the Ethereum project before, so he has the necessary experience to make Cardano as good as Ethereum in the future. While I have to admit that development for ADA has been rather slow, it's has been doing great since its inception. This slow development phase could make Cardano secure and resilient unlike other competing smart contract platforms on the market. Neither EOS, TRON, or Tezos will be able to compete directly with Ethereum because of their utterly centralized structure. Which is why I strongly believe that Cardano is Ethereum's biggest contender in the crypto/Blockchain space. Unless another smart contract platform emerges with a focus on decentralization, Cardano will rise behind Ethereum in mainstream adoption and popularity in the not-so-distant future. Just my opinion :)

Ethereum's biggest contender? Itself.

The more Ethereum gets used, the harder it will be for Ethereum to keep getting used (due to network congestion and insane fees).
Scaling solutions should have been implemented already, not to be planned for 2021-2022.

EOS is now a day picking momentum and I see a lot of gaming projects are coming to EOS. This is really good move. Having said so, ETH is still the leader for dApps to have tokenization. The most important factor that makes ETH the leader, is its scalability and ease of use.

Couldn't agree more with you, mate. Ethereum must scale quickly in order to retain its place on the market. Otherwise, its competitors will become dominant in the crypto/Blockchain industry. While no other smart contract platform is comparable as Ethereum in terms of decentralization and censorship resistance, they're highly scalable giving them a slight advantage over ETH. If we were to compare various smart contract platforms on the market today, I'd say that Cardano resembles Ethereum in every way. It might become Ethereum's biggest contender in the future if it continues to deliver as promised. But first things first. If Ethereum wants to stay ahead of the game, it's going to need to upgrade ASAP instead of delaying network upgrades. If the team keeps delaying ETH 2.0, then people will look for other alternatives in the crypto/Blockchain industry.

All in all, time will tell us if Ethereum will live up to the challenge. The competition is getting fierce as new players enter the game. Since most people prefer convenience on top of decentralization, they'll choose competing smart contract platforms such as EOS, TRON, and Cardano. Only those that are fond about decentralization/censorship resistance will use it no matter what. Most businesses and companies alike will use the platform that has the lowest fees and fastest transaction confirmation times. If ETH remains as is, it'll have a hard time competing with other smart contract platforms on the market. Just my thoughts ;D

I don't think any coin can become the ethereum killer. You see now many DeFi projects has been created.
They are using ethereum blockchain often than others, the high gas fee is the proof.
There are many good altcoins in the market, but it is hard to become ETH's contender.

high gas price is a very big problem. even a large number of Defi projects will not be able to make people like the ETH blockchain. I think that soon Defi projects will be created on other blockchains

EOS is not a competitor. it is created for other purposes, but BNB can be a really serious threat to ETH because they develop faster and their blockchain is more convenient

I only believe in BNB which will be ETH's tough competitor, indeed ETH is a big brother to BNB, but as a younger brother who continues to progress, it is not impossible that his younger brother will be greater than his brother. Being a competitor is not just about price, but being able to be top ranking in the Crypto world.

I went into this thread with a raging jab pointing out bitcoin without getting first the context but this thread is actually talking about the underdogs. I agree, cardano is looking sharp. Ive been keeping my eye on cardano for quite a while and the entire time theyre just proving that they might be a contender for some reliable coins.

Ethereum is only having the first mover advantage, being the first smart contract platform that people on to create their Dapps. But looking into the tech space, you will observe that ethereum is having issues scaling. loads of Sidechains have also come out with a function to scale more than ethereum does. Now consider the move the Matic network scaling with 7.2k tps. Matic is even a bigger contender than any other on the ethereum scalabilty challenges.

Why are you saying that ethereum has no rival? While a fact has happened in the past, the value of ethereum has plummeted and most of the time, people have been thinking that ripple and some new altcoins will soon replace ethereum. Agree that ethereum retains its prowess but it is undeniable that this is still a sign, a sign that implies that ethereum is not always possible at number two, time and market always create different competitors for ethereum, it needs to get stronger and cannot be subjective with the opponents behind

BNB has a completely different purpose from ETH, so it can't compete with ETH either. But for the development of Binance and BNB, I believe that in the future, the 2nd place in coinmarketcap of ETH will be threatened.

For EOS they really need to improve on their output. Create user friendly wallet. TRON is a good competition to ETH. Recently, I started using TRON and it has been amazing. Transaction is fast , low fee and reliable.

There was a time when people thought EOS would compete with ETH, but after that EOS didn't have any updates that really stood out. And it has been surpassed by ETH and other altcoins in this market, for me TRX is a competitor of ETH at the moment.

Eth transaction fees nowadays is very sickening high, its time for other alternative to rise and shine. There are good potential blockchain than can overtake Ethereum if scaling issues will still persist for years it might slowly die.

The only big contenders will always immerge from the right team with the right project. Ethereum has a good project team work and it has stayed ontop of the altcoins industry for ages. Basically, I can't see any random existing projects which has the capacity to dethrone ethereun from it first position when discussing altcoins. If their should be any, the project will be a new one and not an existing project.

Bitcoin has been the king of all, but there's a new token around the world of cryptocurrency that's currently Worth more than Bitcoin( in terms of cost). At the time of writing this reply, One (1) YF1 cost about 1.25Bitcoin. Soon, there will be new emerging tokens and coins that will outgrown Ethereum and Bitcoin.

There's alot of better coins than ethereum itself like elrond. The only problem I see about ethereum is its crazy gas prices which driving some people away from using it. its becoming like bitcoin a coin that is only used for storage of money.

ETH's biggest issue is the high fees and slow transaction confirmation times. It's becoming a "Bitcoin 2.0". Developers have been delaying scalability upgrades each time, making people desperate. If the trend continues, ETH competitors will be one step ahead of it in terms of mainstream adoption. We already have scalable blockchain networks like TRON, EOS, and Tezos for smart contracts. People can migrate to those chains if they want faster transactions at a fraction of the cost. The one closest to ETH in its ecosystem of dApps is TRON. There are many dApps on the TRON blockchain which mimics those on the original smart contract platform. While TRON is utterly centralized, most people don't care as long as they get convenience above anything else.

In terms of decentralization, Cardano is Ethereum's biggest contender yet. The team is carefully developing the platform to be as secure, resilient, and decentralized as possible. A rock-solid ADA cryptocurrency could really challenge ETH's place on the market within the not-so-distant future. With many alternatives available out there in the crypto/Blockchain space, ETH's dominance might diminish over time. Let's hope that ETH thrives in the long run, remaining as the world's second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap in the foreseeable future. Just my opinion :)

many altcoins that can compete with Ethereum for the future and BNB, TRN, Ripple and others that I didn't mention,
With Ethereum's high transaction fees at the moment, there is a possibility that they will compete with Ethereum in the future, but I am not sure they can compete and can compete with ethereum,

And in the end, what are your thoughts? Can those projects compete with ETH or not? For me, only TRX and EOS can compete with ETH, but they will definitely take a long time to develop and overcome it.

I think eos cardano tron now can scarcely rival eth, i told you almost and can not replace eth comefor updates great eth, replace now eth stronger it even almost all the tissues altcoin use eth added eth is not only a but a trade exchange, only eos tron neo that could rival eth i think

If you look for Ethereum's competitors by capitalization, sales volume or price, then coinmarketcap clearly indicates the leading indicators of each of the rating cryptocurrencies, where Ethereum is in second place. But if we talk about functionality and technical characteristics, then ETH has no competitors at all, and in this regard, I believe that Ethereum is the leader in the cryptocurrency market. In addition, the position of the ETH platform will strengthen after the Ethereum 2.0 update.

I think every smart contract platform is a contender of ethereum but as of now i didn't see any one to defeat the ethereum because it is one of the most popular smart contract that almost all the people on this crypto space are using it. Almost all project old and new are using ethereum smart contract and it was the famous one and known by almost all people than the other which is not yet already known.

At this particular moment its really hard to tell which one's decisions will lead to better consequences in long term.
Its pretty clear both of those have the ability to create short term hype, but in long term hard and not fun decisions like creating eth2.0 for many years to become something bigger as project.

Exactly. For once, Ethereum was a true competitor of Bitcoin with its low fees and fast transaction settlement times. But after it became extremely popular, everything went down the drain. Now we're expecting developers to release "ETH 2.0" to the public to increase Ethereum's transaction capacity. The urge of having low fees and fast transaction confirmation times for smart contracts has led many developers to create alternative blockchain networks for the benefit of all. We now have various scalable smart contract platforms such as TRON and EOS which challenge Ethereum's place on the market. While the aforementioned blockchains are centralized, most people prefer convenience above anything else.

I believe that Ethereum's direct competitor is Cardano because it has an approach to decentralization unlike no other alternative on the market today. The Cardano development team is working hard to make a robust smart contract platform that it's as good as Ethereum (or even better). With the adoption of the "Ouroboros" PoS consensus algorithm, Cardano will be able to compete with ETH's PoS implementation dubbed "Ethereum 2.0". The ever-increasing popularity of "De-Fi" and stablecoins will make both blockchain networks' development quite an interesting one. Perhaps, there will be a fusion between various smart contract platforms (interoperability) in order to make crypto land a better place. Ultimately, what matters is utility instead of scalability. And so far, Ethereum is the most adopted smart contract platform in the world unrivaled by its competitors. Just my thoughts ;D