“The spread of civilization may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.” — Nikola Tesla

One hundred and forty years ago, Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla waged a decade-long battle that would later be inscribed into the pages of history as the “War of the Currents.”

Edison played dirty when promoting his direct current, spreading constant FUD regarding Tesla’s alternating current and going as far as electrocuting an elephant in order to spread fear and doubt about Tesla’s invention. The Serbian-American inventor ultimately won, as alternating current gained mass adoption due to its superior technical characteristics.

One can’t help but draw an analogy between this and what’s been going on in the blockchain industry for a while now — an all-out conflict between Ethereum and other projects attempting to replace it as the dominant smart contract platform.

While spreading fear, uncertainty, and doubt and boasting about solving Ethereum scalability problems may help their competitors damage Ethereum in the short run, I believe that superior technology always prevails. I’ve already written about this in one of my previous articles.

It’s a tale as old as the dawn of the blockchain era: to achieve scalability, you must sacrifice decentralization and security. But if you do, then sorry — you are no longer to be trusted.

That’s the whole point of this new venture undertaken by a tiny percentage of our species — to create a trustless system. Replacing my bank that runs their data on a single server with a tiny number of plutocrats that can wipe out my assets at a whim is not an optimal solution—or one that I (or anyone else) would opt-in for.

The Smart Contract War will rage on for a while — and the Enjin team picked a side a long, long time ago.

Our reasoning is simple: in much the same way AC is superior to DC, Ethereum is superior to everything else. The colossal number of Ethereum projects, developers, and miners is a symptom of its technological and philosophical superiority.

The technology is better — numbers reflect it.

We are strong believers in the ETH ecosystem.

Decentralization and security cannot be sacrificed — they are the last line of defense and are at the very core of what blockchain technology is.

We’re ready, we’re determined (albeit sleep-deprived), we’re badass — and we’re armed to the teeth with everything from an ultra-secure Ethereum & ERC-20 wallet to a pioneering scaling solution.

We’ve also launched a blockchain-powered ICBM in the form of our Blockchain SDK for Unity.

Now, let me tell you all about our plan to help Ethereum win the Smart Contract War.