At last week's Deconomy 2019 conference in Seoul, South Korea, Joseph Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum and founder of ConsenSys, gave a speech that explained the need for "a maximally decentralized base as the foundational settlement layer of the global economy," and why Ethereum's main competitors— Hyperledger Fabric, Corda, EOS, Polkadot, Cosmos, and DFINITY—are not viable options.