Does anyone know of another altcoin that can come close in speed, security, and decentralization in a speed test? Would they be willing to participate in a public bakeoff of any sort?
There are a lot of scalability focused project in the market right now, but not sure about their speed. I think Elrond Network, Matic, Zilliqa, is a few of them. Not to mention EOS and so on.
Zilliqa is probably the most mature in terms of development, their mainnet is alive, while EOS, as you might know, is too centralized.