On September 19th, BlockBeats reporters reported live from the TOKEN2049 main conference. Kyle Samani, co-founder and managing partner of Multicoin Capital, spoke at a roundtable discussion titled "Why SOL Will Flip ETH" on the first day of the event. He stated:

“DeFi is the most important thing happening on blockchains today. You see it on Ethereum, you see it on Solana, you see it on Aptos, you see it everywhere. And people on Ethereum will tell you DeFi doesn’t matter. Okay, if Ethereum is not going to optimize for DeFi, that’s fine. Can you tell us what Ethereum is going to optimize for? DeFi has never been able to do that because they don’t know themselves.”