As far as I can tell Ethereum is for building things (at least ephemeral things) and Solana is for gambling. Gambling is already a huge and verified popular pastime.

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Reality usually is a little more nuanced than that. Ethereum is the quasi-standard computing engine of web3 projects, but it’s not supposed to be the jack of all trades, and other chains will fill up that void.