Regarding Solana co-founder Anatoly, he said, 'There are only 6 important (underlying) smart contracts.' Base protocol head Jesse Pollak stated, 'In my opinion, one of the biggest philosophical differences between Solana+SVM and Ethereum+EVM is our view on what can and will be built on-chain using smart contracts.'
In the Solana space, the current view is that 'only about 6 contracts are worth writing.' Therefore, these contracts are fixed and reused, with less focus on contract verification, open-source, scalability, and expansion. Our mission is to build a decentralized Nasdaq, focusing on the functionalities of capital markets.
In the EVM space, the current mindset is that we have only scratched the surface of the world computer, and there are about infinite contracts to build. This leads to everything being open-source, verified, and scalable, forkable, and expandable after being built. Our mission is to establish a global economy, including every component of the economy (including both capital markets, etc.).
It will be interesting to observe how these philosophies evolve in the coming years. Both have a wealth of opportunities.
Earlier today, in response to the viewpoint raised by Ethereum community members that 'L2 is the most sustainable block sale business,' Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko commented, 'It seems logical, but it is also wrong. Multiple L2s are meaningless. If a single L2 can handle parallel execution, then it can exhaust all blobspace and run every use case. More importantly, there are no infinitely useful smart contracts, let alone execution environments.'
There are only 6 (or so) important (underlying) smart contracts. Developer optionality is infinite, which is not necessary at all. In fact, any developer optionality that increases business risk is negative, such as the erc20 interface. Each additional sorter, L2 multi-signature, governance system, VM customization, etc., increases business risk?
Then, he added in the comments, 'In all chains, what people are using and doing today are tokens, NFTs, and AMMs. Then possibly joint curves/loans/oracles/CLOBS/perps. I have not yet seen this change become a definitive driving factor for PMF.'