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That’s a broken assumption.

Solana doesn’t scale because it’s cheap. It scales because it executes differently. SPL tokens must too.

Tokens that think standard compliance alone wins end up gas-efficient but context inefficient dead liquidity, poor composability, low adoption.

The shift is clear: SPL is not a port — it’s a performance-native standard.

That narrative is dead—value now accrues to NFTs that embed real protocol functions.

Early NFT efforts failed because they assumed: • rarity alone creates value • secondary markets drive ecosystem growth • visual appeal equals user retention

None of that holds in sustainable builds.

Leading NFT services now integrate governance, real-world bridges, and utility-first tokenomics.