Compare Ethereum and Solana on TVL, fees, revenue and activity to understand how these projects stack up.
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Ethereum is the leading smart‑contract platform, now running Proof‑of‑Stake after the 2022 ‘Merge’ and gearing up for full Danksharding. Proto‑danksharding (EIP‑4844) activated blob transactions in March 2024, slashing rollup data costs by > 90 %. The upcoming Pectra upgrade will pair Verkle trees with wallet abstraction (EIP‑4337) to simplify UX.
Solana combines Proof‑of‑History, Turbine block propagation and Gulf Stream forwarding to achieve throughput exceeding 50 000 TPS with 400 ms block times. The 2024 Firedancer client written in C++ reduced validator CPU requirements and added parallel pipeline execution. Solana Pay and the Saga phone SDK illustrate the project’s push toward consumer‑grade web3 applications.