Solana’s success since its 2020 launch is well-known. Its speed and scalability compared to Ethereum led to a peak TVL of $2.201B. Today, Solana ranks as the 6th most valuable blockchain, innovative dApps, and a growing NFT scene. Solana, a high-performance blockchain platform, presents a utopian vision: a blockchain infrastructure capable of handling large transaction volumes quickly and affordably, essentially offering composability. But is this vision too good to be true? In this essay, we...

Solana’s success since its 2020 launch is well-known. Its speed and scalability compared to Ethereum led to a peak TVL of $2.201B. Today, Solana ranks as the 6th most valuable blockchain, innovative dApps, and a growing NFT scene. Solana, a high-performance blockchain platform, presents a utopian vision: a blockchain infrastructure capable of handling large transaction volumes quickly and affordably, essentially offering composability. But is this vision too good to be true? In this essay, we...