This week on Crypto Twitter: Ethereum vs. Solana Rivalry Heats Up

After weeks of euphoria, her stunning return to Solana's ecosystem—a grown-up. SOLSolana NFTsSolana meme coinsAnd even the missing Solana SmartphoneThis week, momentum began to cool, prompting heated exchanges between blockchain advocates and arch-rival Ethereum.

On Thursday, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin He is sad of The dying Web3 vision It initially spurred a lot of crypto development, blaming the stalled growth on high gas bills.

https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1740515567621345689

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko added his voice to the conversation by dismissing Ethereum as a “cockroach settlement layer.”

https://twitter.com/3orovik/status/1740809173921591525

Tensions have increased in recent weeks as the fortunes of key Solana winners have plummeted, particularly in 2016. Unstoppable once Dog-themed meme coin BONK.

https://twitter.com/CryptoGodJohn/status/1740482766075310106

And just over time, native tokens of Ethereum layer-2 networks such as Optimum and Arbitrum have increased by over 30% and 16% respectively.

https://twitter.com/ASAgemsALGO/status/1738344863429480591

Before long, the animosity between Ethereum elites and defensive Solana advocates came to define nearly all Twitter conversations.

https://twitter.com/SwopLabs/status/1740387311593103604

Even seemingly unrelated news items entered the fray. At the beginning of the week when he heard the news of Donald Trump Download started With millions of dollars worth of ETH struggling NFT projects, Twitter users were quick to see the news as a kind of referendum on the never-ending Ethereum / Solana fracas.

https://twitter.com/Prestmaux/status/1740468091044196680

Edited by Ryan Ozawa.