For several weeks, we’ve been cheering the welcome return of the Solana ecosystem. brushSolana NFTSolana meme coinEven the helpless Solana Smartphone—Momentum began to cool this week, intensifying exchanges between blockchain advocates and those of its dominant rival, Ethereum.
On Thursday, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin lament that much Dying Web3 Vision This originally sparked the development of many cryptocurrencies and was blamed for delaying progress due to the exorbitant gas fee costs.
https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1740515567621345689
Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko quickly added his voice to the discourse, dismissing Ethereum as a “cockroach settlement layer.”
https://twitter.com/3orovik/status/1740809173921591525
Tensions are likely to have been heightened by the declining fortunes of major Solana winners in recent weeks. I can’t stop once Dog-themed meme coin BONK.
https://twitter.com/CryptoGodJohn/status/1740482766075310106
And just in time, native tokens of the Ethereum layer 2 network such as Optimism and Arbitrum surged more than 30% and 16% respectively. This is probably due to the blockchain’s low gas fees.
https://twitter.com/ASAgemsALGO/status/1738344863429480591
Before long, the hostility between Ethereum maximalists and defensive Solana advocates came to define almost all of Twitter discourse.
https://twitter.com/SwopLabs/status/1740387311593103604
Even seemingly unrelated news events were drawn into the fray. When Donald Trump was in the news earlier this week started off-roading Twitter users, who have secured millions of dollars worth of ETH from struggling NFT projects, were quick to see the news as a kind of referendum on the never-ending Ethereum/Solana scam.
https://twitter.com/Priestmaux/status/1740468091044196680
Edited by Ryan Ozawa.
