The EVM/Solidity is still widely adopted for several reasons:

1) Huge network effects - so much content and open source code online
2) Syntax is simple, similar enough to Javascript to pick up the basics
3) Dev tooling is amazing (shoutout Foundry/Hardhat)

There are reasons why…

MagicEden really is one of the most impressive teams in this space.

First major player to Ordinals, now one of the first major players to add Runes support. On top of already being the best Solana NFT marketplace.

The funniest part of the Zkasino drama is that the chain they released has no zk tech in it at all (nor does it use EigenDA).

It's an Arbitrum Nitro chain that took 2 minutes to deploy.

They put ZERO effort into scamming everyone lmao.

As runes go live in a couple hours, just remember that provenance alone will not make a project successful.

People often cite Punks as the prime example for provenance being important. Punks took off because they were a niche product in a subsector that no one cared about.

As…

only way to settle the ETH vs SOL debate is to have mert | helius.dev fight the Bankless guys next fight night