Protocol over platform
The right protocol gives you platform fungibility for five years—maybe fifty.
Platforms churn. Protocols endure longer when they encode the contract for data, control, or interchange. Betting only on a vendor surface is betting the vendor’s roadmap is your strategy.
Open protocols level the field: platforms converge toward commodity on the shared layer and compete on innovation above it. That cycle repeats.
Choose the protocol first when fungibility matters. Build platform product on top—knowing you can change the substrate without rewriting the business contract.
