When it comes to smart contracts there are two competing technologies. The original EVM smart contracts enjoy wide support and adoption, while WebAssembly is an emerging standard that promises higher performance and has great support in the Polkadot space. In this article, we analyze and compare both technologies. — At Pendulum we strive to provide the best experience for our ecosystem developers. In this comparison, we will focus on performance. Higher performance means more transactions per second, i.e., higher scalability. Most smart contracts are rather simple and only require a few computational resources. However, as more advanced DeFi applications…