Really good things do not need backward compatibility: The way out for blockchain is not EVM compatibility

In the history of computer development, what truly drives progress is never "compatibility".

Windows became mainstream not because it was compatible with DOS, but because it completely surpassed DOS;

When the iPhone first emerged, it unreservedly discarded the interaction logic of the button phone era—this is a paradigm shift.

However, today’s blockchain is trapped in a strange path dependency: as long as it is a new chain, it must be compatible with EVM.

The reason sounds reasonable: ecosystem, developers, toolchain...

But the fact is, EVM is essentially a low-performance single-threaded interpreter from 2014,

When it was created, it didn’t consider basic principles of modern computing architecture such as parallelism, resource isolation, and secure sandboxing at all.

What you see as “compatibility” is actually tying a modern engine to old-fashioned carriage wheels.

If a new chain is merely compatible with the defects of the old era, it will forever languish under the old narrative.

Rather than making a “faster Ethereum,” it is better to redefine “what true Web3 is.”

The new chain we need is not a “compatible plugin” tethered to ETH,

but a new paradigm with native concurrent scheduling, asynchronous execution, secure isolation, stateless operation, and high resource utilization.

It should be a platform that allows developers to “fall in love with writing contracts again” rather than a backup that involves “painful compromises during migration.”

True innovation never requires backward compatibility.

Because the essence of innovation is to break old frameworks and bring unprecedented capabilities and imagination.