Paradiam CTO stated that a new language is needed for burning Ethereum, to which Siu, the founder, responded: Solidity and EVM had issues back in 2018.

The Paradigm CTO questioned the status quo of Solidity and proposed switching to Vyper or Rust. Sui's founder responded that the problem was identified back in 2018, igniting the Ethereum community debate. (Synopsis: Ethereum OG sprayed "ETH is not saved": the foundation wants to admit the four major mistakes, and has mastered the world's largest computing power in 2021) (Background supplement: Base chain game Infected jumped to Solana: Open Ethereum EVM, no culture, no users are not suitable for game construction) Solidity, the basic development language of Ethereum, is experiencing a crisis of trust from core developers. Georgios Konstantopoulos, chief technical officer of Paradigm, recently posted an article on X questioning the development direction of Solidity, throwing out the issue of whether to "abandon Solidity and switch to a new language", which immediately ignited a fierce debate in the development community. How should we program Ethereum? Solidity is in a problematic state right now, IMO. Do we make Solidity good? Do we drop Solidity? If we drop Solidity, do we do Vyper or do we do a new lang? If we're doing a new language, should we instead do a RISCV runtime that works w Rust? — Georgios Konstantopoulos (@gakonst) April 3, 2025 Paradigm CTO challenge: Should Solidity continue? Georgios Konstantopoulos said on X that Solidity is "currently in a problematic state," and he proposed four possible paths: one is to make Solidity improve; The second is to turn to Vyper; the third is to reinvent a new language; The fourth is to go one step further and build a RISC-V runtime that supports Rust. Note: Vyper is a smart contract language on Ethereum that is syntactically similar to Python but more concise and strict than Solidity, and is mainly used in projects that require "high security and low complexity", such as Curve Finance. RISC-V is an open instruction set architecture (ISA), highly modular and scalable, often used in high-performance or embedded systems, and Rust is a system programming language developed by Mozilla, known as "high performance + memory safety", is the main language of Solana. This statement is particularly weighty because Paradigm has long invested in the Ethereum ecosystem and Solidity tool development, and Konstantopoulos's skepticism amounts to a reflection on past investments, and also symbolizes that developers' dissatisfaction with the existing technology stack has reached a tipping point. Sui founders fight back: Solidity issues have already surfaced The discussion drew responses from all sides of the community, most notably Sui co-founder Sam Blackshear's public response to Konstantopoulos. He said today that he has believed that both Solidity and EVM have fundamental problems since 2018, and questioned the motivation and timing of Paradigm's attack today. This conversation sheds light on a long-standing technical divide in the development community: Solidity is the dominant language, but it has always been controversial in terms of security, compilation stability, auditability, and so on. The community is divided into three camps Paradigm's CTO's question led the community to debate in three directions: Vyper: It is considered simple, secure, and easy to audit, and is a viable alternative to Solidity. Curve Finance officials also published in support of Vyper, pointing out that it can save a lot of work. Rust: Support for refactoring the Ethereum runtime to support Rust on the grounds that its performance and security benefits attract more development talent. Some developers point out that this will reshape the Ethereum developer ecosystem. Realist: It is believed that even if Solidity is flawed, it cannot be easily abandoned. Abandoning the impact on existing ecosystems and toolchains should prioritize restoration rather than rework. In addition, there are also voices advocating the combination of AI and decentralized governance models to make up for the technical gap in language design with institutional innovation. From the language controversy, see the transformation pressure of Ethereum Solidity's controversy is not only a technical issue, but also reflects that Ethereum is facing the next stage of transformation pressure. Paradigm CTO's question is a public questioning of the status quo and may also be a prelude to promoting ecological innovation. Whether it's strengthening Solidity, embracing Vyper, or rebooting the language infrastructure, the debate is a reminder that the technical core of Ethereum has reached a time when it must be examined again. Whether Solidity continues to be the development axis of Ethereum will affect the pace of development of upper-level applications and infrastructure. But the deeper question is how Ethereum continues to attract developers, lower barriers, and improve security and scalability. Language is only the appearance, and behind it is the game of overall development experience and technical governance. Paradigm's CTO speech may be just the beginning of this structural change. Related reports ETH Hangzhou participant survey: Ethereum is frustrated in middle age, and the price is hopeless in three years Dialogue with BRC-20 founder: Ethereum traitor retreats for 48 hours, rewriting the history of bitcoin ecology Vitalik landed in Taipei! Ethereum Foundation's mission, where to go next? Complete answer with EF's new executive director Wang Xiaowei (ETH Taipei direct hit) "Paradiam CTO needs a new language for Ethereum, Siu founder hits back: Solidity and EVM 2018 have problems" This article was first published in BlockTempo's "Dynamic Trend - The Most Influential Blockchain News Media".