Layering usually just means building on an existing project. There is layering in almost every complex program. For example, the Internet was build on the TCP/IP stack. The TCP/IP stack depends heavily on programming and communication stacks laid in place in the earliest days of computer.

Terms like layers and encapsulation have a place. The humorous thing is the way that people fall for the terms in marketing. Marketers will spout out with terms like "web 3.0" or "layer 2" as if the terms actually meant anything.

Most of the buzz words used by marketers started out as legitimate concepts that helped people communication.

Of course marketers are in the business of making sales from spewing ink and they tend to erode the meaning of all terms that fall within their clutches.

Side Chains Often Undermine their Host

Your observation that side-chains often undermine their hosts.

When a group runs a con on HIVE-Engine, they will dump their alt-coins to get SWAP.HIVE. They will then dump their ill gained HIVE.

Quite frankly, I am not sure if HIVE-Engine has done more harm than good in the Hive-O-Sphere. Unfortunately, we have to live with the system that the whales created for us.

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