Andre Cronje says Fantom will focus on DApp ecosystem expansion in 2023

According to a caller Medium station published connected Dec. 26, decentralized concern (DeFi) designer Andre Cronje reaffirmed goals and priorities for the Fantom (FTM) ecosystem successful 2023. Cronje, who antecedently created protocols specified arsenic Yearn Finance and Keep3rV1, besides revealed that helium accepted a presumption arsenic a committee of directors subordinate for some Fantom Foundation Ltd and Fantom Operations Ltd, which successful crook oversees the namesake directed acrylic graph ecosystem. 

"Our overarching nonsubjective implicit the adjacent 12 months volition beryllium towards creating an situation for dapp developers to physique retired sustainable businesses, portion differentiating ourselves from different furniture 1 solutions."

Key points connected Cronje's 2023 Fantom roadmap see state monetization, which would let gross stock for decentralized applications, oregon DApps, arsenic a improvement incentive. In addition, Fantom DApps would beryllium capable to interact without a wallet needing to wage the state fees itself done state subsidies. "Users don't request to person oregon cognize astir FTM [during onboarding]," Cronje wrote.

Other areas of "gas reform" see ending differentiation betwixt astute contracts and externally owned accounts truthful everyone tin initiate transactions and wage for gas. Tokens different than FTM would besides beryllium eligible for usage arsenic state fees connected the protocol.

In presumption of caller developments, Cronje plans to absorption connected gathering the Fantom Virtual Machine and a caller retention mechanism. As for the protocol's fiscal management, Cronje wrote:

"As has been communicated publicly, we are successful a precise sustainable and steadfast presumption fixed the existent economical climate, and particularly compared to 2018. This is yet 1 menace to our beingness we bash not person to beryllium excessively acrophobic about."

Cointelegraph antecedently reported connected Dec. 1, 2022 that Fantom announced plans to cut its token pain rate by 75% to money its DApp reward program. DApps indispensable person recorded 1,000,000 oregon much transactions and person spent 3 months oregon supra connected the Fantom Opera web to beryllium eligible for rewards.

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