Comparing Solana’s runtime architecture with the EVM, lessons from writing deep dives

I’ve spent the last few months publishing technical deep dives into the EVM, covering how transactions execute, how calldata is decoded, and how the EVM handles gas and storage under the hood, proxies and many more..

Recently, I started to explain Solana’s runtime to tech how its account model and parallel transaction execution differ from Ethereum’s single-threaded approach.

The contrast between Solana’s design and Ethereum’s EVM really highlights how execution environments can be optimized for different trade-offs: determinism, parallelism, and validator performance.

If there’s interest, I can summarize some key architectural differences and what Ethereum devs might learn from Solana’s runtime model.