# kaal:claim:3606663-037

**Claim.** Read together with the network capacity failure that CryptoKitties caused on Ethereum in December 2017, the expected DeFi growth rates imply that the Ethereum network will continue to experience network shortages and throughput problems unless its infrastructure is upgraded to handle the expected transaction volume.

**Type.** predictive  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- Ethereum network without infrastructure upgrades
- DeFi growth continuing at estimated rates
- author cautions that correlation is not causation

**Source quote.**

> the expected growth rate illustrated in Figures [__] and [__] could mean that the Ethereum network will continue to experience network shortages and throughput issues unless the Ethereum infrastructure is upgraded to deal with the expected volume of transactions.

**From.** Kaal, *Digital Asset Market Evolution* (2020), d) DeFi Infrastructure Case Study, page 75

**Cite as.** Kaal, Digital Asset Market Evolution (2020). SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3606663

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**Failure mode.** network congestion under projected DeFi volume  (family: scalability-and-throughput-limit)

**Topics.** defi

**Keywords.** ethereum, throughput, cryptokitties, defi, scalability

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