Maybe it’s that the holidays are just around the corner, but I’ve been thinking a lot about family lately. No, not my fiat-space family with whom I will eat many, many green, tree-shaped, sugar cookies next week. Nor is it my crypto family, without whom I’d be a floundering fish left dry on the docks of this web3 revolution. Rather, I’ve been thinking about the big family of blockchains that all rely on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), the key component of the blockchain tech stack that transforms the ecosystems of Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Avalanche, and dozens of others from a simple decentralized ledger, like Bitcoin, into virtual computers running the decentralized applications which are powering the next generation of the internet.