Elastos governance and incentive flaws threaten ecosystem growth

I find it striking that after years of developing multiple products—such as Decentralized Identity, merge-mining, and the Essentials wallet—the Elastos blockchain ecosystem hasn’t produced a single killer app with real market impact. The core issue, in my view, is flawed incentive mechanics and ecosystem dynamics. For eight years, ecosystem project teams have been more focused on securing funding from the Elastos Foundation than on actively growing the market, expanding the community, or earning market recognition. Consequently, technically promising products remain shelved and largely ignored.

Even more perplexing is that when Han Feng tried to bring in external communities to broaden the ecosystem, the effort was met with skepticism or even accusations of deceit. This points to deep-rooted governance, engagement, and strategic-direction issues within Elastos. If the ecosystem continues to rely on the current DAO funding mechanism instead of proactively pursuing market viability, broad community expansion, and tangible user value, these projects will struggle to create a positive market feedback loop, and ecosystem growth will stay constrained.