What Happened to Dapps?

Kosala Hemachandra is the founder of MEW, an open-source, client-side interface for generating ethereum wallets and interacting with the ethereum blockchain.

Developers could program a truly decentralized application on the Ethereum blockchain using smart contracts - a simple program that would automatically execute an action as soon as a specific criterion was fulfilled.

We cannot ignore that in recent years, the Ethereum community has expanded beyond the technically-proficient to include the crypto-curious too.

Many developers who helped to build, launch and maintain the Ethereum blockchain left, taking their bright minds, vision and drive with them.

The wider Ethereum community did not self-regulate, nor help to safeguard users either.

How can we ensure that the Ethereum community grows together, instead of apart?

The case for Ethereum's survival begins with its core developers working toward a common cause.

With Ethereum, developers are compelled to work together instead, finding solutions based on compromise and collaboration.

Unlike Bitcoin's anonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, Ethereum's co-founders actively engage with the ecosystem, bringing together a sense of camaraderie through events like the annual conference for Ethereum's developers, DevCon, which held its fourth edition this year in Prague.

While setting aside time for a slow build may seem like a luxury that the Ethereum community cannot afford, it is what will set it apart in the years to come.