Reducing developer friction is key to mass-scaling blockchain applications – Polygon Founder

Building a blockchain infrastructure that attracts developers is key to mass-scaling blockchain applications, Anurag Arjun, founder of Avail and co-founder of Polygon, told Cointelegraph in an exclusive interview on March 7.

“Reducing developer conflict is very important. If you look at the first mobile applications that were developed when the first infrastructure came out, those were very simple applications. It took years of experimentation to build something like Uber or Instagram.

Arjun added that there is a need to build developer-focused scaling solutions such as Layer-2 packages to advance blockchain-based decentralized applications (DApps). he said:

“The real utility [scaling solutions] If developers can quickly work with this infrastructure to create useful applications that run on the mainstream, for example, now again.

Average monthly active developers in 2023 fell 24% to 22,411 compared to 2022, according to a Jan. 17 report by Electric Capital. The firm attributed this decline to the number of new developers joining in 2022.

“While overall developers are down 24%, the most valuable segment of developers (those contributing high-level code over 2 years) continues to grow steadily.”

When asked about the future expansion of blockchain, Arjun said he expects to see hundreds of app-specific packages that integrate today's Web2 shopping experiences under a user-friendly app layer to simplify online shopping.

“When you press the buy button above [Amazon]opens a payment page, but the user doesn't know all the complexities behind the process,” says Arjun, adding that Web3 infrastructure needs to simplify the user experience in a similar way to attract more end users.

Arjun is the founder of Web3 data availability and consensus, which closed a $27 million seed funding round led by Founders Fund and Dragonfly.

The funds will be deployed to help accelerate Web3 integration by strengthening the development of the company's three core products: the “Avail Trinity:” the Data Access Layer, the Nexus Integration Layer, and the Integration Security Layer.

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