Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin confirmed sympathy for competitor Solana (SOL) in a Dec. 30 tweet. He stated that “smart people” inform him that Solana has “an earnest smart developer community,” and steered that the opportunists who had been concerned with the venture up to now have been “washed out.”
Buterin additionally expressed hope that the Solana group “gets its fair chance to thrive.”
Some sensible individuals inform me there may be an earnest sensible developer group in Solana, and now that the terrible opportunistic cash individuals have been washed out, the chain has a shiny future.
Hard for me to inform from exterior, however I hope the group gets its truthful probability to thrive
— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) December 29, 2022
The worth of SOL has fallen by over 90% since its peak, partially due to the coin’s affiliation with the failed FTX change. But Solana builders have argued that FTX’s collapse didn’t hurt the community itself.
Vitalik’s reward for Solana impressed many within the crypto Twitter group. Ari Paul of BlockTower Capital produced a tweet thread that argued extra crypto firms ought to comply with Vitalik’s lead, as he defined, “This is how someone behaves who is happy to ‘compete’ on merit, and thinks in positive sum terms. One fun test you can give anyone on almost anything (service providers, fund managers, devs, whatever)[…]Ask them about the competition in positive form.”
Not everybody was pleased with Buterin’s assertion although. Former poker professional Mike McDonald noticed the assertion as “virtue signaling.”
I usually love Vitalik however this simply looks like an infantilizing advantage sign to me. Like does he suppose Solana devs have not heard of Ethereum?
— Mike McDonald (@MikeMcDonald89) December 29, 2022
Some critics additionally thought the timing of Buterin’s tweet was suspect. Would he have praised Solana if it was nonetheless doing nicely?
This is like lebron enjoying some random excessive schooler 1v1 after which saying a few good issues when Lebron wins 11-0 and the child blows out his ACL.
— Kyle Decentral (@KyleLogiks) December 30, 2022
Solana was as soon as dubbed an “Ethereum killer”, partially due to its excessive scalability. But it has additionally been criticized by some for being too centralized and unstable.
