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🏛️ 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