1. Promote 1:1 USD0++:USD0 after 4 years
2. Open borrowing markets with USD0++
3. Change 1:1 rate to 1:0.87 overnight
4. Liquidate all borrowers with USD0++ ?????
They are just "usually" actions to protect users from bad debt, what????
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The bull is not over; let the data speak 🧵
Solana is the reason why L2 rollups chaos started on Ethereum.
In the 2021 bull market, we witnessed L1 blockchains waging wars for the "Ethereum K*ller" title.
However, no one won this war. Founders realized, "If you can't beat them, join them."
The reason for this shift is Solana.
From the beginning to the end of 2022, most of the L1 blockchains lost more than 90% of their native coin value.
All blockchains were trying to solve the blockchain trilemma, claiming that they were faster and more secure than Ethereum.
However, no one really won that competition because it's difficult to compete with the giant.
Imagine you come from nothing and try to build a wallet to compete with @MetaMask. You might have better UX/UI, better features, and a better process.
But most people would still prefer MetaMask, just because they are used to it.
1. Solana was able to become the only non-EVM blockchain that users care about.
You can't say the same for any other non-EVM blockchains such as @NEARProtocol, @Cardano, @Algorand, or @kadena_io.
The landscape in 2021 looked like this:
Current TPS on these chains doesn't exceed 10 when we talk about real users.
Solana had some issues as well that everyone was talking about:
- Shutting down multiple times
- "Connections" with SBF and FTX
- @okx delisting USDC and USDT on Solana
- @DeGodsNFT bridging to Ethereum
- And many more
However, it was the only team that really cared about users, tech, and its future.
@toly and team members received all of this feedback and were able to fix all of the problems and basically just move on to overcome the difficulties.
Solana didn't win the war of L1s, it's just a different path that wasn't explored before, and it was explored thanks to @mert, @SuperteamDAO, and other core contributors.
2. Blockchains can't compete for liquidity in the L1 space, so they decide to rather "benefit" than "fight."
Why compete with Ethereum if you can directly benefit from it?
Deploying an L2 generally means benefiting from the Ethereum economy and at the same time owning your own.
It's easier to attract liquidity if you're a rollup because you're built on top of hundreds of millions of TVL on a native chain.
At the same time, creators have the ability to create their own native token to own their little economy within this big ecosystem.
Moreover, creating a rollup right now is easier than ever: you have multiple solutions such as @conduitxyz, @alt_layer, and of course @Optimism's OP Stack.
3. Liquidity fragmentation chaos on L2s, in reality, is social fragmentation.
Each L2 has its own focus:
- @Optimism is focused on scalability.
- @arbitrum is focused on DeFi.
- @base is focused on SocialFi.
- @MetisL2 is focused on DAOs.
Is it bad? Of course not!
Each rollup is unique and has a chance to have its own identity. But sometimes, those are the same people who talk loudly about liquidity fragmentation.
As noticed by @eawosikaa at the ethCC conference, people mainly attend side events, as they tend to find more like-minded people there.
However, I think it's important to not only represent yourself as a zksync maxi, for example, but also be open to other cultures, ideas, and thoughts.
We're playing in the same sandbox (Ethereum).
4. On Ethereum, people build rollups. On Solana, people build apps.
If I had to compare the current state of these two ecosystems, I would draw this picture:
Currently, there is no real competition between Ethereum and Solana because these blockchains simply serve different purposes.
Ethereum has become a big sandbox where kids (developers) build sandcastles (rollups).
More and more developers focus on bringing the same dapp to multiple rollups.
And I think there can be an issue because some developers are more focused on bringing liquidity to the app rather than building a really good app.
Solana is the same sandbox, but here, the sandcastles are apps, and currently, they are way more beautiful.
- There's no better experience for swapping than using @JupiterExchange.
- There's no better wallet experience than @phantom.
- There's even native liquidity provisioning for non-native assets like @CloneProtocol.
@jito was able to create the best liquid staking experience on Solana, including MEV rewards, which wasn't possible before.
But it's not that simple.
5. The current stage of Solana is similar to Ethereum's previous stage.
The reason why people started migrating to L2s and creating new ones is the limitations of the native chain.
Some of you remember 2021 when you had to pay a $200-$300 fee to do a swap.
Ethereum itself can't handle that much throughput, so a solution for additional throughput and lower fees was needed to make the network usable.
Solana is capable of handling the activity it has now, but there are limitations that lie in Solana's architecture:
- Block leaders get spammed by bots, so transactions fail.
- Failed transactions waste compute units and network bandwidth.
- The fee mechanism doesn't incentivize efficiency, and it's not incentive compatible.
To fix these problems, you don't really have to create an L2 on Solana.
In my opinion, it would be reasonable to create an L2 on Solana in two cases:
1. The network is not able to process lots of transactions, even after all adjustments. Or it is able, but the fees are high enough.
2. Create an app-chain to leverage Solana's liquidity while still being able to have a piece of your own economy within your chain.
Who knows, maybe we will have Solana L2 wars in the future like we currently do on Ethereum.
There's no winner here. In the end, collaboration almost always beats competition.
6/
Restaking ♾️
EL supports both native restaking and liquid restaking.
Out of the ~ $15B TVL:
> 68% of the assets are in native ETH
> 32% are in LST.
Whereas, EL has about 161K restakers, but only 67.6% (~$10.3B) of the assets are delegated to the 1.5K operators.
Few months ago if you decided to hold mSOL or bSOL instead of jitoSOL, you would have a missed a $10,000+ $JTO airdrop.
This is why you should prioritize using tokenless protocols for lending, staking, providing liquidity and trading NFTs.
✅ Why would you trade spot on Binance/Coinbase when @JupiterExchange does it better and announced many incoming airdrop rounds?
✅ Why would you trade perps on CEX when @DriftProtocol or @ZetaMarkets are hinting to reward early users?
✅ Why would you stake SOL in a random validator when you can deposit it in @Kamino_Finance to get points that will give you $KMNO tokens?
✅ Why would you provide SOL/USDC liquidity on Orca when you can do it on @MeteoraAG which will become #1 DEX and hinted an airdrop of 10% of the supply.
Easy choices but life-changing consequences.
However, most of these tokenless protocols are overfarmed and what matters the most is size, not being early anymore.
So I’ll do my best to share under the radar airdrops in the coming weeks. Airdrops no one has talked about yet.
Thanks for reading til there.
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