VIDEO - Nicolas Consigny (Ethereum Foundation): "No other Layer 1 will be able to catch up with Ethereum".

29.07.2024
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Buoyed by its community and several major innovations, Ethereum seems more than ever to have closed the gap with its main challengers. According to Nicolas Consigny of the Ethereum Foundation, there are cultural and technological reasons for this.

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Every week, The Big Whale publishes a "Season" on a protocol or ecosystem. For this new Season, we've decided to take a look at one of the biggest protocols since it's Ethereum!!

Launched just over ten years ago, Ethereum is now the leading programmable layer 1, far ahead of its main competitors like Solana.

To understand this dynamic, we interviewed Nicolas Consigny, who is one of the heads of the Ethereum Foundation. For the Frenchman, Ethereum's success is due to elements that are notably "cultural" and "technological".

He also considers that Ethereum will no longer be able to be caught up by the competition. "Ethereum is too far ahead today," he explains, citing the example of players in traditional finance such as BlackRock who are increasingly using Ethereum.

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Louis Tellier

Louis Tellier is Lead Institutional Research at Blockstories, where he focuses on developing the institutional offering for digital assets. He joined Blockstories in April 2025. Blockstories was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in Berlin, with presence in France and Switzerland.

Prior to joining Blockstories, Tellier worked as a crypto journalist at The Big Whale from August 2023 to January 2025, covering crypto and blockchain topics. Before that, he was a journalist at L'AGEFI from May 2022 to July 2023, specialising in cryptocurrencies. Earlier in his career, he worked as a web and video journalist at BFM Business and as a video journalist at Le Figaro. He also taught journalism at IICP in Paris for three and a half years, with a focus on web video journalism. Tellier is a graduate of Sciences Po Grenoble and the University of Lille.

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