Ethereum co-founder asks about preferred crypto by 2035 other than ETH – Here’s what people want

The co-founder of Bitcoin competitor Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, in a Twitter poll asked the Ethereum (ETH) community which crypto they would prefer for their transactions and savings in 2035, excluding ETH. Buterin asked people to choose between Bitcoin, USD Coin, Solana and Cardano in the first tweet on Friday which received more than 6 lakh votes. “Survey for the Ethereum community. You wake up in 2035, and 80% of all transactions + savings in the world are in a currency other than ETH. Which would you prefer it to be?" the tweet said. 42 percent of the votes went in favor of Cardano, while Bitcoin received 38 percent of the votes. 13 percent of the votes went to Solana and only 6.5 percent to USD Coin.

Tron, Binance Coin, Chinese Yuan and NEO were the options in Buterin's second question which received more than 3.58 lakh votes. More than 51 percent preferred Tron followed by 22.8 percent for Binance Coin, 21.8 percent for NEO, and 4.1 percent for CNY. However, none of the meme coins, including popular ones like Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, Dogelon Mars, Samoyedcoin, etc., were an option in the survey. This perhaps led to a reaction from Dogecoin co-founder Billy Markus, who suggested that Doge "of course" be the coin of choice.

ETH is currently the second largest cryptocurrency with a market capitalization of almost $400 billion after Bitcoin and is a dominant platform for non-fungible tokens, decentralized finance, etc. The importance of ETH in smart contracts is overwhelming, but there are other currencies. also known as 'Ethereum killers', competing to be cheaper and faster than ETH, particularly for artists.

Cardano, BNB, Polkadot, Solana, Avalanche, are some of those reported to enable faster transactions at lower costs. With the average ETH gas fee (transaction fees users must pay to miners in order for their transaction to be included in the block) at over $46 for ERC-20 transfers, Ethereum transactions are now over 20x higher than most other popular blockchains, according to CoinMarketCap.