Ethereum and Solana Defend Clash Amid Falling Chances
According to Decrypt, the momentum of the Solana ecosystem's recent comeback began to cool this week, leading to intensified exchanges between blockchain advocates and defenders of its dominant rival Ethereum. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin blamed high gas fees for stalling progress, while Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko described Ethereum as a 'cockroach settlement layer'. The dwindling fortunes of major Solana winners of recent weeks, such as dog-themed meme coin BONK, have also caused tensions to rise further. Meanwhile, native tokens of Ethereum layer-2 networks such as Optimism and Arbitrum have seen significant increases, likely due to lower gas fees. The feud between Ethereum maximalists and defensive Solana advocates has come to define much of the Twitter discourse surrounding the two blockchains.
