# DeFi Ignas interviews Proximity's co-founder Kendall Cole. Here's Kendall's answer to "why NEAR in an age of Ethereum & L2s?" > The beauty of this question is that, post the launch of BOS, it’s the wrong question. The better question is “which part of our application should use NEAR?” > [...] L2 project teams are now using NEAR to decentralize their frontend, run onchain and hybrid orderbooks, and even add social functionality to their dApps. It is no longer an either/or proposition. > dApp developers should ask themselves, “is frontend decentralization necessary for my dApp?”, “do I need high throughput?” and “is my target audience net new to crypto apps?”. > If the answer to one or several of those questions is “yes”, come take a look at NEAR! --- Read the full interview [here](https://www.ignasdefi.com/p/the-endgame-for-near-protocol-an) Check out DeFi Ignas' [original tweet](https://twitter.com/defiignas/status/1689611808431345664)