2026-01-19 07:21:55

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The performance ceiling of Ethereum Rollups may be difficult to surpass Solana, which follows the blockchain trilemma—decentralization, security, and high performance—making it hard to achieve all three simultaneously. But here’s an interesting detail: Solana’s true benchmark isn’t the Ethereum mainnet, nor those Rollups that rely on Ethereum as a data availability (DA) and settlement layer (such as some Ethereum-based Layer2 solutions), but rather L2 solutions that choose third-party DA schemes.

In terms of performance, as long as Ethereum L2s shed their dependence on L1 for DA and adopt independent data availability solutions (like Celestia, a specialized DA layer), their performance metrics can jump by an order of magnitude. The key lies in architectural choices—not all scaling solutions follow the same path.

ETH-3,4%

SOL-6,16%

TIA-13,14%

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BearMarketMonk

· 6h ago

Once again, the familiar argument of "changing the DA can make it take off"... It sounds easy, but the real issue has never been the tech stack; it's about who you trust. Whether Celestia becomes popular or not ultimately depends on market sentiment and whether investors buy in. It's just history repeating itself—during cycles, some always try to escape the impossible triangle through architectural innovation. But what happens? Performance sacrifices security, security sacrifices decentralization. This game goes in circles, but in the end, it can't be avoided.

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tx_or_didn't_happen

· 6h ago

Don't tell me about the impossible triangle; someone has already cracked it. It all depends on who dares to actually do it.

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SelfMadeRuggee

· 6h ago

Well, this analysis is quite good. The key is that the choice of the DA layer can indeed change the game rules. However, to be honest, Solana's approach is not entirely stable, and the risk has been transferred to the validators.

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RugResistant

· 6h ago

nah wait, so everyone's been comparing apples to oranges this whole time? eth l2s shackled to l1 da vs solana just... doing its thing. that's actually the real red flag nobody talks about — architectural dependency lockdown. celestia route hits different but tbh, how many projects actually audit their da fallback scenarios? potential exploit vector right there, most teams sleeping on that detail.

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