Thinking out loud…

Ethereum had a few years head start on Solana

Why did Solana gain ground?

Faster & cheaper.

Solana has a few years head start on Base

Why would Base gain ground?

One potential answer: Farcaster.

Why else?

I don’t think solana won because faster + cheaper. There were myriad evm chains that were fast and cheap last cycle, bsc, ftm, avax etc. that all did quite well, bsc especially. Solana has the ‘luck’ of bottoming out so hard it made its strongest soldiers very rich and then you had a crazy wealth effect coupled with crazy diamond handers and a type of culture was born.

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Yeah good point. It wasn’t like a ghost chain by any means

And a whole lot of dev activity both pre sbf downfall and after.

This; 

I don’t think people understand the amount of companies that exist today thanks to angel checks from folks like Roger Ver etc 

Fast cheap programmable L1 it’s like ethereum and it’s cheaper without the “morality”