Hello Solana community. I am a Tezos developer trying to have a broader perception of the blockchain market. I’m also the author of Citzen.app application and I am considering adding other blockchains to it. So, I would like to know your opinion. Thank you in advance, Luiz.
Not to say it’s perfect but the network can support a lot of validator nodes (near 2k right now) and there are a lot of them despite the higher hardware requirements. The Labs software is getting more efficient so the requirements will probably decrease along with those of the Firedancer client. Light clients are also in the works which will help with verifiability/decentralization further.
Throughput can comfortably handle activity at this stage in crypto adoption with quite a lot of breathing room and local fee markets will be crucial for blockchain UX going forward (see this post:). Other chains continue to have a lot of issues combating rising fees.
The solana community is also pretty strong at this point and there are a lot of subcommunities within the ecosystem to find a niche for oneself (core engineers, app layer devs, artists/nft, etc). Hackerhouses and hackathons are a big part of the dev experience and for the dev social layer.
Happy to answer more doubts/specific questions