Solana is being used for ultra-fast payments in retail, while Cardano is backing community projects like micro-loans and digital ID systems.
It’s not just hype — these platforms are solving real problems, and that’s making people take notice.
That's news to me. What retailers are accepting solana for payments?
Can you name any?The only thing I ever see solana being used for are memecoin and NFT pump and dumps.Many businesses already accept bitcoin for payments, so bitcoin already has this utility.And many platforms exist to provideMany retail businesses do in fact accept bitcoin
-backed loans for payment, so bitcoin already has this function.
And several platforms exist to provide bitcoin-backed loans (ie: Ledn, Unchained Capital).
So none of the use cases you provide are unique to altcoins.
Bitcoin has been doing these things for more than 10 years.