Solana
Cheapest
Fastest (100ms finality with next update)
Most user friendly chain i have ever used, normi friendly (just look at fantom wallet and jupiter dex)
Has most liquidity out of any chain
Has most devs
Its insanity arb is still used, its day and night
Does nobody understand the term ‘native’ here like.
No these whipper snappers are worrying about block chains
We will get to Native when the team has sorted out what’s on there plate right now.
uhuh. any moment now. you know that IOTA worked for 8 years on fast+feeless transactions and never got it working without a centralized coordinator and then just switched to SUI, right? Meanwhile this project has promised it for 10y but doesn’t even have a credible design outlined. In 2y though, native will make blockchain obsolete .. just cross the fingers
Bal bla bla bla is all I’m seeing there
Here’s a detailed comparison between Solana and EOS EVM (Vaulta) across key dimensions:
Performance & Speed
- Solana: Monolithic architecture (PoH + PoS) achieving ~400 ms block times. Real-world throughput around 400–3,300 TPS, though noted theoretical max is 50–65k TPS (apollorevolution.solanacompass.com).
- EOS EVM: Lightweight EVM roll-up on EOS (Vaulta) with extremely fast finality (~0.5–1 sec) and demonstrated benchmarks of 800+ swaps per second, outperforming Solana in testing (EOS Network).
Transaction Costs
- Solana: Very low fees—around $0.00025 per transaction (Mirror).
- EOS EVM: Gas cost is under $0.01 due to EOS-model pricing, plus a nominal ~0.01 EOS bridge fee. Overall still far cheaper than Ethereum L1 (docs.eosnetwork.com).
Decentralization & Security
- Solana: Around 1,400 validators across ~37 countries; Nakamoto coefficient ~19. Concerns remain over outages and validator concentration (Reddit).
- EOS EVM: DPoS model with only 21 active block producers—faster but more centralized (BestDapps).
Ecosystem & Tooling
- Solana: Rich ecosystem for DeFi, NFTs, gaming; supports Rust/C; broad developer adoption (cryptoppers.com).
- EOS EVM: Full Solidity/EVM compatibility (MetaMask, Hardhat, etc.), designed to attract Ethereum devs (EOS Network). However, ecosystem remains early-stage.
Resilience & Reliability
- Solana: High performance but prone to occasional network outages (BestDapps).
- EOS EVM: No major outages reported; EOS mainnet is renowned for long-term uptime .
Summary Table
Criterion | Solana | EOS EVM (Vaulta) |
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Speed | ~400 ms blocks, 400–3,300 TPS | ~0.5–1 s finality, ~800+ swaps/sec |
Fees | ≈ $0.00025 per tx | < $0.01 gas, + 0.01 EOS bridge |
Decentralization | ~1,400 validators, ~19 Nakamoto coefficient | 21 block producers (DPoS) |
Ecosystem | Mature (Rust, DeFi, GameFi, NFTs) | Growing (EVM, Ethereum tooling) |
Reliability | Fast but occasional outages | Stable, reliable mainnet |
Which is Better?
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Choose Solana if you want:
- Maximum throughput
- Ultra-low fees
- A mature, high-availability ecosystem
- You’re okay with its partial centralization
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Choose EOS EVM if you want:
- Fast EVM-based execution (with typical Ethereum tooling)
- Inexpensive transactions and bridging infrastructure
- A stable, uptime-tested network
- Less decentralization in consensus
In a Nutshell:
Solana leads on sheer speed + low cost, with a mature ecosystem—but suffers occasional instability and moderate centralization.
EOS EVM excels at fast, cheap EVM execution, high stability, and Ethereum compatibility—but has a more centralized consensus and smaller ecosystem.
If you’d like a tailored recommendation based on your project (DeFi, gaming, NFTs, speed vs security needs), just let me know—I’m happy to dive in!
Here’s an enhanced overview of Solana’s major outages and network instability since launch, drawing from technical reports and community analyses:
Record of Key Solana Outages
- Dec 2020 – ~6 hours:
Block propagation failure due to validator duplication in the Turbine module (Medium). - 14 Sept 2021 – ~17 hours:
DDoS-style bot spam during Grape Protocol’s IDO caused memory overflow and consensus stall (Medium, Solana). - Jan 6–12, 2022 – ~59 hours (degraded performance/outage + Jan 22):
Massive duplicate transactions overwhelmed the network, causing a multi-day stall (Reddit, The Crypto Times). - 30 Apr–1 May 2022 – ~7–8 hours:
NFT minting bots crashed network consensus (Medium). - 1 Jun 2022 – ~4.5 hours:
Consensus breakdown due to a bug in durable nonce transactions (Medium). - 30 Sept–1 Oct 2022 – ~6–8.5 hours:
Fork-failure triggered by bug in fork-choice logic and duplicate blocks (Medium). - 25 Feb 2023 – ~19 hours:
Large block causing Turbine deduplication failure, requiring restart (Gate.com). - 6 Feb 2024 – ~5 hours:
Infinite JIT cache recompile loop crashed validators (Medium, Medium).
Summary Table
Date | Duration | Cause |
---|---|---|
Dec 2020 | ~6 h | Turbine block-propagation bug |
14 Sept 2021 | ~17 h | Bot-induced memory overflow |
Jan 6–22 2022 | 59 h total | Duplicate tx & DDoS led to consensus stalls |
Apr 30–May 1 2022 | 7–8 h | NFT mint bot spam |
1 Jun 2022 | ~4.5 h | Durable nonce bug → consensus failure |
30 Sept–1 Oct 2022 | ~6–8.5 h | Fork bug & duplicate block issues |
25 Feb 2023 | ~19 h | Large block overload → restart |
6 Feb 2024 | ~5 h | JIT cache infinite loop |
Additional Insights
- Outages were often caused by DDoS-style bot attacks, protocol bugs in fork-choice or common features like nonce or JIT, and block propagation failures (Solana, Medium, Reddit, The Chainsaw, The Crypto Times, Medium, Solana).
- Despite these, Solana achieved ≈99.94% uptime from Mar 2023 to Feb 2024; outages have become less frequent (Reddit).
- None of these incidents resulted in loss of user funds (only service disruptions) .
Contextual Takeaway
- Strengths: Exceptional speed and throughput when operational.
- Weaknesses: Vulnerable to spam and protocol-level bugs.
- Improvements: Post-2022, Solana has been strengthening rate-limiting, block filters, and cache stability.
If you’d like, I can provide a visual timeline, a deeper analysis of one incident, or compare this to outages on other networks like Base or Binance Smart Chain.
Add Fuel Networks FVM to the list, there is a Solidity to SWAY lang contract converter somewhere on Fuel’s Github site, its the fastest EVM out there… Celestia uses it.., as FVM is modular and portable to other blockchains, likely a candidate for interacting wit hthe native token and what ever dist. ledger tech we settle on for that.. micro blockchain or otherwise FVM and SWAY Lang use massively parallel UTXO to achieve their speed advantage and SWAY allows for execution of multiple operations per block,
Fuel Network is now in testnet move running FVM, so they are now doing their own thing…
I wrote about when it first came out.. 21 Nov 2023