Solana was and still being a huge competitor for Ethereum, with FTX colapse wich had manipulated SOL value, and had a huge stake into it, we saw it crash like a shitcoin, wich never was, despite the FTX bad management. Solana has atracted whales into their chain, with "POINTS" feature, requestiing people to deposit crypto, similiar to Base chain. Whales always control the markets, and everyone wanna be where the money is at.