DaD Talks: The Architecture Wars | How to evaluate different blockchains
Tue Sep 16 2025
This special deep dive steps away from weekly price action to unpack The Great Architecture Wars shaping crypto’s next decade: We compare Solana’s “all-in-one” parallel, high-throughput design with Ethereum’s modular rollup stack and explain why these choices drive billion-euro decisions from Robinhood’s tokenized stocks on an ETH L2 to xStocks launching natively on Solana.
Our hosts walk through the real trade-offs:
a) Performance vs. Security: Unified throughput and local fee markets vs. security inheritance and upgrade agility.
b) Sequencers & Decentralization: The promise and pitfalls of L2s (Starknet’s multi-sequencer “Grinta” outage, OP/ARB halts), censorship risk, and reliability for institutional use.
c) Fragmentation & Composability: Why liquidity splinters across L2s and how “based rollups” (e.g., Taiko) route ordering to Ethereum validators for synchronous cross-rollup DeFi.
d) Developer & Investor Implications: Rust/parallelism on Solana vs. rollup diversity on Ethereum; what institutions actually ask for (uptime, composability, auditability).
e) Where Each Wins: Real-time apps/trading on monolithic rails; regulated DeFi/settlement on modular security; why multi-chain strategies and reputation-based infra matter.
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Hosted by Chris and Marine from MC² Finance. We are bridging regulated finance and digital assets. We build compliant infrastructure for trading tokenised strategies which are listed on exchanges, accessible globally. Our goal is to become the largest DeFi ETF provider, without holding any assets.
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This special deep dive steps away from weekly price action to unpack The Great Architecture Wars shaping crypto’s next decade: We compare Solana’s “all-in-one” parallel, high-throughput design with Ethereum’s modular rollup stack and explain why these choices drive billion-euro decisions from Robinhood’s tokenized stocks on an ETH L2 to xStocks launching natively on Solana. Our hosts walk through the real trade-offs: a) Performance vs. Security: Unified throughput and local fee markets vs. security inheritance and upgrade agility. b) Sequencers & Decentralization: The promise and pitfalls of L2s (Starknet’s multi-sequencer “Grinta” outage, OP/ARB halts), censorship risk, and reliability for institutional use. c) Fragmentation & Composability: Why liquidity splinters across L2s and how “based rollups” (e.g., Taiko) route ordering to Ethereum validators for synchronous cross-rollup DeFi. d) Developer & Investor Implications: Rust/parallelism on Solana vs. rollup diversity on Ethereum; what institutions actually ask for (uptime, composability, auditability). e) Where Each Wins: Real-time apps/trading on monolithic rails; regulated DeFi/settlement on modular security; why multi-chain strategies and reputation-based infra matter. ~~~ Hosted by Chris and Marine from MC² Finance. We are bridging regulated finance and digital assets. We build compliant infrastructure for trading tokenised strategies which are listed on exchanges, accessible globally. Our goal is to become the largest DeFi ETF provider, without holding any assets. Find us on: Twitter | Linkedin | Telegram | Youtube | Discord | Tiktok