CAIP-2 (Blockchain references)

This is why we chose not to use ethereum as a namespace but instead we chose eip155 to be the namespace

A chainId compatible with EIP-155 specification is independent of branding or nomenclature associated with Ethereum

We even discussed renaming to evm namespace but then it create ambiguity over what is considered an EVM chain

I can understand if you disagree with these points but these namespaces were chosen to provide the lowest friction point that chains could share in order to be identifiable without conflict

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