I don’t think Neutron is competing with Solana, and I don’t think ecosystem adoption is primarily driven by development language. Working with entrepreneurs and developers has consistently shown that the primary considerations of teams choosing the right stack to build on are primarily driven by (by order of importance):
- Economics: What is the total market/opportunity size, how easy will it be to attract capital?
- Narrative: Will launching on one stack/ecosystem give the project an advantage in G2M/fundraising/marketing of the project?
- Network: Does the team have relationships with key partners in the ecosystem that could meaningfully support them?
- Technology: does the product/vision require a specific technical stack to be realized?
In reality, competent teams will simply learn to use a new stack if it enables them to deliver their vision or give themselves better chances of success. We’ve seen this with Duality, dYdX (coming into the eco) Vertex and other Terra protocol leaving for the EVM world, and countless other projects over the years.
Based on this, I think it is on the contrary extremely justified for the Hub to allocate resources to boosting the economic appeal of Neutron’s ecosystem and the AEZ as it is the most efficient way to improve the onboarding rate of the ecosystem and therefore the Hub’s upside.