Weird situation where app devs building on Ethereum are making way more money than they ever had by just casually playing in Solana trenches (me included).

Seeing the excitement first hand just makes you want to build there, especially with products like Yapster launching on Solana.

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For speculative apps like Yapster that require active users & high volume, solana seems to be the place right now.

Ofc that can change again (I’d actually bet on this) as it did a few times before with ecosystems/apps starting a new meta, a new incentive campaign, or simply a breakout product.

I do think many devs on Ethereum & Base also picked not super fiancialized or speculative (Arbitrum) use cases which don’t bring the activity onchain. 

Casually minting NFTs, doing yield trading, using a privacy app are prob all use cases that make sense to build on Ethereum l2s today but would also benefit from generally more people in the same ecosystem. (Until gas wars make the xp bad again) 

Hence, hope to see some more speculative use cases and activity on l2s to help builders reach more users (& it’s also fair to make a win outside your fav ecosystem)

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lol. A little more trading/investing would be good enough. The shitcoin trading below 10m isn’t interesting. Need som more risk capital to have more frequently breakout success stories - that activity draws more activity.

What you’re saying is that Base needs more crime?