Regarding Solana co-founder Anatoly’s claim that “there are only 6 important (underlying) smart contracts”, Base protocol leader Jesse Pollak said: “In my opinion, one of the biggest philosophical differences between Solana+SVM and Ethereum+EVM is our view on what can and will be built on the chain using smart contracts.
In the Solana space, the current view is that ‘only about 6 contracts are worth writing’. Therefore, these contracts are fixed and reused, with less attention paid to contract verification, open source, expansion and expansion. Our mission is to build a decentralized Nasdaq, focusing on the function of the capital market.
In the EVM space, the current mindset is that we have only touched the surface of the world computer, and there are about unlimited contracts to be built. This results in everything being open source, verified, and built to be scalable, forked and expanded. Our mission is to build a global economy that includes every component of the economy (including two capital markets, etc.).
It will be interesting to watch how these philosophies evolve in the next few years. There are a lot of opportunities for both.”
Earlier today, in response to the views of Ethereum community members that “L2 is the most sustainable block sale business”, Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko commented: "It seems logical, but it is also wrong. Multiple L2s are meaningless. If a single L2 can handle parallel execution, then it can use up all the blobspace and run every use case. More importantly, there are no infinitely useful smart contracts, let alone execution environments.
There are only 6 (or so) important (underlying) smart contracts. Developer optionality is unlimited, which is not necessary at all. In fact, any developer optionality that increases business risk is negative, such as the erc20 interface. Every additional sorter, L2 multi-signature, governance system, VM customization, etc., increases business risk?"
Then, he added a reply in the comment area: "Of all chains, what people use and do today are tokens, NFTs, and amms. Then it may be joint curves/lending/oracles/clobs/perps. I haven't seen this change become a decisive driver of pmf."