Reading replies to the comparison one thing really distinguishes ETH from ATOM: Ethereum has very strong community and believers and this matters the most in this memetic industry. The worst is apathy: when one criticizes an asset and no one cares. Ethereum is not here. The main counter-arguments mentioned in the comments: - ETH dominates DeFi TVL, RWAs, L2 capital. ATOM never had that scale. - ETH is gas, collateral, staking, treasury, ETF asset. ATOM was just staking + governance. - BlackRock, Robinhood, Wall Street back ETH. Cosmos never escaped crypto native ppl. - L2s exist because of demand overflow, and L1 still gets value back through blobs and security. - ETH has Lindy and the largest dev mindshare. All fair points about Ethereum as a platform. Taxing L2s, increasing txs to the L1 would flip ETH narrative quickly. Tbh I still hold some ETH and want it to succeed. The future dominated by corpo slop chains isn't what excites me.