Solana vs. EVM application ecosystem, advantages & and weaknesses:

Today, Solana remains the best place to build apps that revolve around long-tail asset volatility and it has the most sophisticated builders when it comes to building such products as many of the builders cut their teeth in the trenches themselves via direct hand-to-hand combat. There is no doubt about this.

That said, outside of long-tail asset volatility as a design space, the consumer application founders building in the EVM ecosystem, spanning social, creator, gaming, art, identity, and predictions, are IMO years ahead in their level of understanding, sophistication, and ability to take on-chain products to a broader audience beyond crypto.

EVM builders have one major advantage on their side, and it's that they've collectively failed way more and earned hard-earned insight on how to win and execute. Trial by fire. Massive global-level PMF at scale, only to have that disappear, and to pivot and fight for relevance once again. The Solana ecosystem massively underestimates this strength.

On the other hand, the SVM application ecosystem remains unburdened by failure at scale and is equipped with a fresh perspective, which is needed to run through the invisible assumptions that have been formed around what works and what doesn't.