Bitcoin Cash (BCH) vs Solana (SOL)

Bitcoin Cash is a Proof of Work (PoW) blockchain that was born on August 1, 2017, following a hard fork from Bitcoin due to a disagreement within the Bitcoin community. While the majority of the community chose to adopt the SegWit proposal, a dissenting faction decided to split the blockchain (hard fork) and implement their own improvement, namely an increase in block size from 1 MB to 8 MB, following the original vision of Satoshi Nakamoto.

Solana is a distributed and programmable layer 1 blockchain, part of the trend of "Ethereum Killers," which are competitors of Ethereum looking to replace it. Solana's unique design (notably through the Proof of History consensus) allows it to be optimized for scalability, with an exceptional (and theoretical) execution capacity of 60,000 transactions per second and extremely low fees. SOL is the native cryptocurrency of the Solana network, used to pay transaction fees, reward validators, and contribute to the governance of the project.