Highly visible in France thanks to ultra-aggressive marketing, the Elrond project has still not delivered everything it promised in 2020. The Romanian blockchain company is hoping to bounce back by focusing on metaverses.

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In the crypto ecosystem, there's one question that puts a blockchain project under the microscope: what are its strengths? 💡

When specialists are asked about the "strong points" of the Elrond project, the answer is often the same: "They're very good at marketing", "They have a great community", "The token has taken off well"... In short, the comments are dithyrambic.

But on the substance, things are a little more complicated. "It's yet another blockchain trying to compete with Ethereum by presenting itself as more scalable and simpler to use," explains one expert.

"They were the first to use sharding (a technique that increases the number of transactions per second, editor's note), but that is their only argument and the comparison with Ethereum is not really to their advantage," adds Stanislas Barthélémi, blockchain consultant at KPMG.

Grégory Raymond

Gregory Raymond is a French journalist specializing in economics and cryptocurrencies, currently head of research at The Big Whale.

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Raphaël Bloch

Raphaël Bloch is co-founder and CEO of The Big Whale, a news platform focused on cryptocurrencies. A former journalist at Reuters, Les Echos, and L’Express, he is a graduate of emlyon and the CFJ.

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