# Biggest philosophical differences between Solana + SVM and Ethereum + EVM

Source: https://x.com/jessepollak/status/1875674062711878109
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Biggest-philosophical-differences-between-Solana-SVM-and-Ethereum-EVM?index=0x677d4a1a2ea29b0e9362d87ad2c19a130095013c9f2f11e9aa636cd2ec73237094adc98d
Submitted by macbudkowski.eth on 2025-01-07 UTC, 1 upvote, 0 comments

## Summary

The biggest philosophical difference between Solana with SVM and Ethereum with EVM is their differing views on what can be built onchain with smart contracts. Solana's current perspective is that only about six contracts are worth writing, so those are enshrined and reused, with less focus on verification, open source, and extension. The Solana mission is described as a decentralized Nasdaq focused on capital markets, while the EVM mindset holds that there are roughly infinite contracts to build, leading to open-source, verified, extensible code and a mission to build a global economy that includes capital markets and much more.

## Article

AFAICT one of the biggest philosophical differences between @solana + SVM and @ethereum + EVM is our perspectives on what we can and will build onchain with smart contracts

in solana land, the current perspective is that there are "only ~6 contracts worth writing". so those are enshrined and reused, with less focus on contract verifications, open source, extension, and expansion. the mission is to build a decentralized nasdaq, with the functions of capital markets being the focus.

in EVM land, the mindset is that we are just scratching the surface of the world computer and there are ~infinite contracts to be build. this leads to everything being open source, verified, and built to be extended, forked, and expanded. the mission is to build a global economy, with every component of the economy included (incl. both capital markets, and much more).

will be interesting to see how these philosophies evolve over the years ahead. tons of opportunity for both.