According to online reports, Justin Drake, a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, said that Solana's golden age is coming to an end and will not pose a threat to Ethereum. Despite Solana's strong momentum, Drake said Ethereum is focused on long-term gains. "Solana is at its peak right now, but I think this will be the end of Solana's golden era because all of Solana's competitive advantages in terms of latency and throughput will disappear because fundamental architectural differences make it not scalable," he said. Currently, Ethereum developers rely heavily on Layer 2 to provide faster and lower transaction fees. Drake said: "I think tier 1 is competing with Bitcoin and tier 2 is competing with Solana. Therefore, competing with Solana is not even part of Layer 1 responsibility, we should compete on safety and health. So if Solana has any competition, then it needs to come from the application and layer 2."