Rust Layer 1 battle EVM, Solana and SUI converge, when will Polkadot keep up?

After the two Market Makers of the Move language, Aptos and Sui, built tall buildings respectively, the lack of ecology and the barrenness of construction led to people not understanding for a long time, why the Meta public chain born with a golden spoon has fallen to today, and can only rely on “selling coins” to maintain a luxurious life.

Solend on Solana is even more suddenly “settled” in the Sui public chain, which is famous for its “game chain”, but there is actually no game, the principle is very simple, because they are all a family, of course, they must support each other, after all, the real danger is not each other, but the giant named Ethereum.

SUI’s howl: It’s better to engage in games than Decentralized Finance

The joint vertical fight against Ethereum is the current heterogeneous Alt Layer 1 strategic offensive, targeting the Ethereum ecology, a large group of public chains called EVM have engaged in L1/L2/L3 like stacked bed frame houses, hoping to build high walls and accumulate grain, forming a three-dimensional roller-like defense to maintain their throne.

At this time, it was Solend on Solana that broke the game, and unexpectedly launched the Suilend lending product on Sui, there are two points that make people wonder, why the project on Solana does not choose to be compatible with EVM, but goes to the Sui (Move) ecosystem; secondly, Sui does not engage in games and starts to engage in Decentralized Finance?

To answer this question, look at the following two messages:

1. Lock-up position on Solana exceeded $1.5 billion
2. The SUI Lock-up Position volume exceeded $200 million

Blockchain Common Programming Language Relationship Image Source: Chainlink Blog

In addition, to give you additional knowledge, (not too rigorously) Move is a variant of Rust, Solana said, the kinship is similar to Qin and Zhao, everyone is Zhao, there is no reproductive isolation, and they can intermarry with each other, so:

1. Rust developers in the Solana ecosystem migrate to Move public chains such as Sui, and the cost is much smaller than that of EVM.
2. The Move public chain is actually an all-round paradigm, and it is also a high-performance L1 road.
3. Sui continues to release unlocked Tokens, there are 4 million $SUI to be unlocked on the 31st of this month, pulling up first can always reduce some losses;

This is roughly the current strategic offensive situation of the public chain (L2) battle, Solana is actually out of the same door, high-performance L1 melee Ethereum L2, temporarily did not hit Ethereum’s doorstep.

In the name of Move, do what Rust does

Shenchao issued an article yesterday, noting that parallel EVM will become the mainstream technology trend next year, and also cited Polygon’s former co-creation to prove it, I would like to point out that parallel is not a new concept, the computer field has been used for a long time, and it is not a new concept for Blockchain, at least Sui is the main parallel computing.

Simply understood, parallel is the diversion of traffic jams, whether it is widening the lane or building a viaduct, under the latest technology, fuel vehicles are replaced by electric intelligent vehicles, and comprehensive optimization of path planning is also a new idea.

The technical topic is up to now, but I just sigh that Sui is parallel, one step ahead, become a prophet, three steps ahead, and there will be no catastrophe, and the technological lead is indeed not as direct as pulling the plate.

When you think of Sui, you will think of the Starcoin public chain with the domestic + Move + PoW mechanism, which is an early pioneer in the development of public chains using Move outside Meta (Facebook), but it has not caught up with the soaring wave, and now it has become the tears of the times, @jolestar used to be a member of Starcoin, and I hope that Chinese people can make new achievements in the field of Move.

Move is actually a variant of Rust, now, Solana and Sui have begun to join the ecosystem, but Aptos, Polkadot and Cosmos have not yet caught up, if these public chains can jointly deal with the EVM ecology, they can expand Solana’s application space, and can also supplement the mainstream projects of the industry for latecomers, without crowding on Ethereum.

In the increasingly popular Alt L1 field, the first to come out of the circle was the original Ethereum killer Polkadot, followed by Cosmos, but the former was affected by the bizarre parachain auction, and the latter was praised by Luna-UST and then pulled down, but in terms of technical evolution, they formed the early development paradigm of Rust until Solana stabilized its position.

Looking back at the highlight of the early days of the Move language, most people can’t understand why a language can become synonymous with many public chains, in fact, Move itself is a keyword in Rust, not so much Sui’s CTO Sam Blackshear invented the Move language, but rather that he transformed Rust.

It is worth mentioning that Huawei is also a sponsor of the Rust Foundation, and the wonderful knowledge points are instantly linked, and the layout and exploration of Chinese in the field of Rust belong to an early morning and a late set.

Where did Polkadot go?

The great alliance of the Rust (Move) language is indeed indispensable to Polkadot, but in this wave, Polkadot did not perform well, perhaps because Gavin Wood became rich too early and lost the motivation to move forward with a load.

The question can be replaced by the question of why only the EVM forms the ecosystem and not Rust.

In the past, people would reflect on various reasons such as Rust being difficult to learn, the number of developers is small, the number of users and TVL is insufficient, and the project retention and user conversion rate are not high.

But with Solana’s rise to prominence, everything was different.

It turns out that there is no leading big brother, EVM has an absolute core and ballast stone, Ethereum’s excellence and excellence have created the industry’s second hard currency ETH, and then stabilized the developers of the EVM ecosystem, giving them patience through the cycle, after several bull and bear conversions, the rest of the ecology is either merged or surpassed, this is the true face of everything, want others to say you can, first you have to do it yourself.

Many of Solana’s projects are native, take DEX as an example, if you have used Raydium, you will definitely be amazed by its experience, 1000 U transactions, almost instantaneous, and the handling fee is about equal to zero, in the face of absolute cheapness and efficiency, all accusations against the computer room chain have disappeared, anyway, they are all PoS, why not choose a fast and cheap one?

So where did Polkadot go, maybe he was lost in the big house.

Epilogue

It seems to be talking about Sui, but it is actually an expression of the opportunity on Rust, which we have captured, much like Ethereum in the early days, where capital and miners helped it thrive, but eventually rose from the west to the east and fell into pure tools.

I hope that developers and capital can seize this wave of opportunities and Buidl will come out of the future!

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