2026 will not be the year of a clear victory for Ethereum over Solana, but rather the year the market will define partial dominance at Layer 1. While it is speculated that Ethereum will consolidate its leadership thanks to its structural upgrades to Pectra and Fusaka, while Solana capitalizes on its technical rebound and retail traction, the real limit for both is not technological, but macroeconomic: the persistent dominance of Bitcoin and the concentration of institutional flows.
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