Ethereum OG: Five reasons why Solana cannot become the backbone of memory blockchain
- Author: Ethereum OG Ryan Berckmans Original article: "There'll be one global backbone - Ethereum" Compiled by Zombiet
Ethereum is the backbone of the new global financial system, carrying L2 and L1 applications. No other memory blockchain can match this position. Some people suggest that Solana can become a backbone, but Solana can never become the infrastructure of the global financial system. This article will explain five reasons.
Four years ago, Ethereum began to focus on becoming the backbone of the new global financial system, with a focus on supporting the needs of L2 and L1 applications. This strategy is gradually being recognized as the top L1 strategy, although it is still in its early stages, it can be seen that the strong stool of L2 is the most direct proof.
Although Solana has performed well in terms of meme and SOL prices recently, with the increasing trend of L2 eating up the market share of new public chains, Solana's leadership seems to be aware of this reality and proposes that Solana can transform into a "backbone" like Ethereum.
However, Solana is not inherently suitable as a backbone for L2 or global level L1 activities. I will explain in detail the reasons behind it.
Firstly, let's review the process of Solana's leadership gradually accepting the Ethereum L2 backbone strategy. Initially, Solana created a fast and low-cost 'single chain', which was in the era of 'monolithic' and confidently promoted this concept. But over time, they transformed this term into 'integrated'. In the middle of this year, Solana acknowledged that L2 is the right path, as their flagship app gradually begins building customized L2 application chains on Sol. In addition, an important member of the Solana community once published a radical post about Solana having to adopt L2, which sparked intense controversy in the community because the Solana leadership at the time had not yet publicly acknowledged the inevitability of L2.
Although the Solana leadership expressed their intention to support L2, they claimed that Solana's L2 is not L2, but rather a 'network extension'. This is a significant marketing shift, similar to Solana's recent launch of 'Real TPS', aimed at correcting the previous practice of including 80% of consensus burden in TPS data when reporting TPS. Solana's long-term reported TPS is 3000, but in reality it is around 750 TPS.
Why does Solana now support Ethereum's backbone strategy?
The reason is that the world is about to need thousands or even tens of thousands of new chains, and L2 has more advantages than Alt L1 (such as Coinbase, Kraken, Sony, EVE Online, etc. have all chosen L2), so becoming the backbone of L2 is undoubtedly the best strategy.
Can Solana become a backbone chain? The answer is negative, Solana does not meet this condition for the following reasons.
Five reasons why Solana cannot become a global backbone chain
1. Lack of true client diversity
Client diversity means that the memory blockchain is run in parallel by multiple independent programs, which helps prevent attacks and accidents. To become a global backbone chain, client diversity is crucial. Today, Solana has only one production client (agave rust), and the development of the second client (fireworks) is progressing slowly and has not yet reached the standard of being able to support 50% of the output share.
2. High bandwidth demand leads to centralization risk
Solana requires 10Gbps upload bandwidth, which in reality leads to centralization and increased risk. The purpose of global backbone is to minimize risks, and high bandwidth requirements severely limit its deployment flexibility.
3. Facing the risk of future interruptions
Solana has experienced multiple shutdowns in the past and lacks Ethereum's protocol level backup. For global backbones with trust assets exceeding $100 trillion, stability is crucial, and a shutdown would greatly weaken their applicability.
4. Economic centralization
About 98% of the initial supply of SOL is held internally, with only about 2% publicly sold. In contrast, Ethereum publicly sold 80% of its supply, and the PoW high inflation model widely dispersed ETH holdings over the course of seven years. This economic centralization makes it difficult for Solana to become a global backbone chain.
5. zk proof aggregation is applicable to L2 settlement
Zk proves that aggregation enables L1 backbone chains to support extremely high scalability without sacrificing decentralization. Solana focuses on expanding the L1 execution layer, but this contradicts the need for global backbone chains to maximize decentralization and trust neutrality.
For these reasons, Solana will never be able to become the backbone of the new global financial system.
In short, Ethereum's backbone strategy is the best L1 strategy, and Solana may attempt to transition towards this, but it will not succeed.
(责任编辑:基金专题)
-
密歇根州立法者提出涵盖比特币挖矿、CBDC及退休基金投资的全面加密货币法案
但罗江春坦言,和百度对接完全不用担心,而这份放心源自双方的相互信任。...[详细]
-
群脉SCRM新媒体解决方案 新媒体中的佼佼者——独树一帜的“一条” 一条 如上所述,“一条&rdq...[详细]
-
确实,互联网让知识来得那么容易,知之为知之很方便,很多人都以为知之等于学会,知之越多,学会越多,于是碎片化学习大行其道。...[详细]
-
当人类脱离了最基础的生存需求后,这种没有参照的虚脱感会给智慧生物带来无比的痛苦感,会使得思考本身成为自我认同的阻碍,感到焦虑不安没有方向。...[详细]
-
知乎的问答模式很犀利,护城河也很深。...[详细]
-
往远了说,大家也许还记得当年的百团大战,各种团购网站杀的天昏地暗,风口之后剩下的是什么?是我们连名字也想不起来创业者和团购网站。...[详细]
-
因为它的内容非常值得我去付费,无论是《雪枫音乐会》,还是《李翔商业内参》;衍生品变现能力也非常强,比如我们投资的一个公众号“军武次位面”,之前他们做了T恤,一天卖了小一万件...[详细]
-
小米还有一个特点,就是很少用BAT出身的高管。...[详细]
-
Pi 网络价格预测到 2040 年:Pi 币是一项好的长期投资吗?
具体筛选的标准是什么?是否有经过评论用户的同意?后续还会有哪些动作,为此,新榜专访网易云音乐,了解到这次刷屏营销背后的细节。...[详细]
-
“求同”、“求新”、“求美”、“求名”本是消费者正常消费心理,但是消费者这种心理反应如果很容易被营销...[详细]