And Solana Clash Over What Blockchain Resilience Really Means Ethereum

Vitalik and Solana's Yakovenko outline competing ideas about resilience, exposing deeper trade-offs between sovereignty, speed and economic design.

Ethereum and Solana are not only separated by questions of scalability, they are increasingly divided by competing visions of what blockchain networks must be built to withstand in the future.

Recent remarks from the co-founders of each network revealed two competing definitions of “resilience,” rooted in different assumptions about risk, infrastructure and the future shape of blockchain adoption.

In an X post revisiting Ethereum’s Trustless Manifesto, co-founder Vitalik Buterin framed resilience as protection against catastrophic failure, including political exclusion, infrastructure collapse, developer disappearance and financial confiscation.

Buterin argued that Ethereum was not designed to optimize efficiency or convenience, but to ensure that users remain sovereign even under hostile conditions.

“Resilience is the game where anyone, anywhere in the world, will be able to access the network and be a first-class participant,” Buterin wrote, adding, “Resilience is sovereignty.”

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko responded to Buterin’s X post, calling it a “cool vision” and providing a contrasting definition of resilience.

For Yakovenko, resilience comes from the ability to synchronize massive volumes of information globally at high throughput and low latency, without relying on trusted intermediaries. In his framing, reliability is inseparable from performance, not a philosophical trade-off against it.

“If it’s 10gbps and 100 1ms auctions, then that’s what we will deliver,” he added.

The exchange follows Buterin’s claims on Sunday that Ethereum has effectively solved the blockchain trilemma of decentralization, security and scalability through PeerDAS and zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machines (zkEVMs), as reported by Cointelegraph.

Source: CoinTelegraph