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Rome Protocol is trending on X today: “Move Solidity contracts to Solana without changing a single line,” “MetaMask and Phantom share the same state,” “Atomically call Jupiter and Kamino in one transaction”—sounds pretty sexy.

But after I looked into who was driving the buzz, I couldn’t help laughing a little.

An account with 270,000 posts that shares “crypto farming tutorials” replied twice in the project’s comments, opening with “Strong point!” and “Strong pitch!”—with 11 and 34 views, respectively. Another airdrop account with 68,000 followers put it more plainly: Martius testnet is live, takes five minutes to get started, a chance to earn rewards before the TGE, $9 million raised, led by Portal Ventures, with participation from Hack VC, Bankless Ventures, and HashKey.

So who’s pushing this “unified liquidity” narrative right now? People waiting for an airdrop.

I’m not denying there may be something to the technology itself. And with Alpenglow coming to Solana, 150-millisecond finality really is an upgrade. But for “no more fragmented liquidity” to hold true, there has to be actual money in the pools. It’s still on testnet, where there isn’t a cent of real liquidity. All this talk of “sharing the same pool” is just arrows on a PowerPoint slide.

It’s your choice to grind the testnet, and you can volunteer to farm interactions if you want. Just don’t mistake templated praise in the comments for user demand. That $9 million in VC funding ultimately needs an exit—and the burden will fall on “early participants.”

After mainnet launches, I’ll be watching just three things: actual TVL, the share of addresses coming from the EVM side, and how many people stick around once points stop. Until then, it’s all just a story.

#Solana #RomeProtocol

🏛️ Ethereum contracts running directly on Solana? Rome Protocol has been all over the timeline these past couple of days

I’ve been seeing Rome Protocol pop up a lot on my feed lately, so I looked into what it actually does.

In a nutshell: it runs a full EVM as a program on Solana.

🔹 Developers can keep writing Solidity and using the familiar Ethereum tools
🔹 EVM contracts can directly call Solana native programs like Jupiter and Kamino within the same transaction. If any step fails, the whole transaction is rolled back
🔹 EVM wallets like MetaMask and Solana wallets like Phantom access the same state and liquidity pools, with no cross-chain bridge or need to wrap and unwrap assets
🔹 According to the team, it has been audited and is live on mainnet, with gas paid in USDC

One example mentioned by the community: a lending protocol could use a single transaction to take collateral and swap it on a DEX—all in one go.

My take:
The “EVM or Solana” debate has gone around in circles, with developers on one side and liquidity on the other. One less bridge means one less potential attack vector, and I’m on board with that direction.

But let’s keep a level head:
A lot of recent posts about it use strikingly similar phrasing, and hype doesn’t equal real usage. What I’d rather see is whether, a few months from now, any substantial Solidity apps have actually moved over—and whether trading volume is sustained. Also, running the EVM in someone else’s execution environment means compatibility and performance limits still need to be tested in practice.

If you’re a developer, would “no need to learn Rust” convince you to deploy your app on Solana? Or do you think this is just another layer of complexity? Let’s talk in the comments 👇

#Solana #EVM #RomeProtocol #Ethereum