Compare Flow and Solana on TVL, fees, revenue and activity to understand how these projects stack up.
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Flow features a multi‑role architecture—collection, consensus, execution and verification nodes—that splits tasks for high throughput while keeping deterministic execution. Cadence, its resource‑oriented language, powers popular NFT projects like NBA Top Shot and Gaia marketplace. The 2024 ‘Spork’ upgrade introduced FCL walletless onboarding and bridged USDC from Ethereum to boost DeFi liquidity.
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.