honest question: what makes Solana more attractive than BSC or MATIC?

We’re seeing that EVM-compatibility is one of the factors that makes a blockchain competitive because of developer ease-of-use: see Avalanche, Harmony, etc that use EVM-compatibility as a selling point.

Solana is quite a centralized system, with a large up-front cost to become a node, and few nodes worldwide. It is fast and it is cheap to run at scale. But it’s also very VC-backed, with much of the volume locked behind VC wallets, owner wallets, company wallets, etc.

Compare solana to BSC, MATIC. Centralized in their own ways (esp. BSC) but EVM compatible, and I can use the same wallet I use everywhere to transact on these chains. Familiar for both a user and a developer. As cheap to use as Solana most times.

I cannot at all see why Solana is becoming pumped how it is…

(also, rust is not fun to code on)