In the latest episode of the current rivalry between blockchain protocols, solarium (SOL), often hailed as the ethereum (eth) killer, has once again issued a scathing critique against its competitor.
Anatoly Yakovenkoco-founder of Solana, took to the social network X (formerly known as Twitter) to voice his complaints and criticisms about ethereum.
Solana fires against ethereum
in a mail In his statement on Sunday, Yakovenko expressed his discontent and claimed that ethereum is not a harbinger of a genuine revolution, but rather a “spectacle of bourgeois agitation.”
According to Yakovenko, while ethereum Although it may captivate the “petty bourgeoisie” with its “digital carnival,” it subtly perpetuates forms of “oppression.”
The Solana co-founder maintains that the essence of oppression remains unchanged, and that the working masses remain subject to the relentless boot of power, albeit in a different style. Yakovenko stated:
In the grand theater of economic transformation, ethereum is presented not as a harbinger of genuine revolution, but simply as a novel spectacle of bourgeois agitation. As the petite bourgeoisie revels in this digital carnival, the face of oppression is subtly transformed, but its essence remains inviolable, forever pressing the face of the working masses with a boot, albeit of a different style, but no less ruthless and implacable.
Furthermore, Yakovenko paints a picture of a sacred quest for a stateless digital domain, where communications and transactions flow freely among the proletariat, freed from the control of capitalist intermediaries and state surveillance.
According to this vision, the cost of state creation should be inconsequential, similar to the air we breathe. Only then, Yakovenko maintains, can a truly decentralized and stateless digital realm emerge, dispelling the shadows of the “bourgeois digital tyranny” that, in his view, ethereum represents.
Clash of Blockchain Rivals
It is worth noting that this is not the first time Yakovenko has criticized ethereum. At the end of July 2023, Yakovenko accused Members of the ethereum community spreading false rumors about Solana Labs.
Among these rumors was the claim that Solana Labs had reached its maximum transactions per second (tps) capacity. Yakovenko dismissed this idea as comical and reaffirmed that Solana Labs has hundreds of millions of tps and “extensive” computing resources. Yakovenko said affirmed:
It is disappointing that members inside and outside the ethereum community spread many false rumors about Solana Labs. One of them is that Solana Labs has run out of tps. This is comical, but it has forced me to address it for some team members who now know that we have hundreds of millions of tps and many more compute units. I love competition and I love collaboration even more. Let’s focus on the facts and see how things develop in a few years 
The continued criticism of Solana’s co-founder highlights the intense competence and divergent philosophies between blockchain protocols. While ethereum has established itself as a leading smart contract platform, Solana aims to offer a scalable, high-performance alternative.
The clash of ideas and visions between these protocols underscores the broader debate surrounding the future of block chain technology and its potential to reshape economic and social structures.
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