Ethereum 2.0 and EOS Crossing Swords Over Scalability Supremacy

When the EOS network launched in 2018, it looked to be one of the biggest contenders to Ethereum - not just in terms of providing a scalable development platform for decentralized apps, or DApps, but also in terms of a well-funded project with great support, and one that could rival Ethereum as the second-ranked cryptocurrency.

Facilitating over 700,000 transactions in 24 hours, EOS can currently handle around 20 times the volume of Ethereum.

How will the new and improved version of Ethereum measure up to EOS?Scalability: The name of the gameEthereum's ongoing challenges with scalability have been one of the most pressing drivers for the 2.0 implementation.

In contrast to Ethereum, EOS was designed from the start with scalability in mind, and is achieved by enabling parallel transaction processing while keeping the number of block producers small, speeding up throughput.

There's every chance that Ethereum 2.0 could contend with EOS by the time its implementation is finalized.

The respective teams behind EOS and Ethereum development are a fairly good reflection of how each platform operates.

The promise of vastly improved throughput from Ethereum 2.0 does make it a more serious contender for EOS in the scalability stakes.

A more centralized design of EOS arguably gives the platform an agility edge over Ethereum.

There's every possibility that EOS could pull off a scalability or interoperability upgrade before Ethereum 2.0 is fully implemented.

As Hakak of LiquidApps put it: "Each chain serves a purpose, and brings its own functionalities and its own advantages to the table. We aren't far from a point where dApps would combine Ethereum and EOS technology without the end-user being exposed to the backend."