Massa is the Decentralized and Scaled Blockchain.
Massa was never meant to be a clone of Ethereum.
It was designed as a new kind of blockchain, with real parallel execution, autonomous smart contracts, and a clean, scalable architecture. The foundation is already here through ASC, the Autonomous Smart Contract system. This is the core innovation of Massa, and it is where the real value lies.
The recent discussion on github to add EVM compatibility does not align with this original direction. It introduces legacy architecture, unnecessary complexity, and strategic risk.
The Ethereum Virtual Machine ( EVM) is a system from 2015. It is single-threaded. It lacks native support for parallelism, autonomous behavior, or scheduled on-chain execution. Solidity was not designed for speed or scalability. Bringing this system into Massa would mean limiting a protocol that was built to go far beyond it.
EVM is not an upgrade. It is a bottleneck.
Contracts written in Solidity will not be able to run in parallel. They will not support self-wakeup. They will not use the core benefits of Massa’s design. They will behave like they do on any other chain that supports EVM. There are already too many of such chains. Massa was not supposed to be one more in that list.
Introducing EVM creates technical and ecosystem fragmentation.
It will mean two separate smart contract environments. ASC and Solidity.Two types of addresses. Two kinds of tokens. Two toolkits. Two incompatible developer experiences. This will lead to confusion for users, and split focus for developers. Instead of one unified and well-supported system, Massa will become a hybrid. It will try to serve two completely different models at once, and neither will be fully optimized.
This also has a cost in development time and resources.
Supporting EVM requires maintaining a full virtual machine environment, JSON-RPC layers, Solidity tools, compatibility with Ethereum-style explorers, and new audit workflows. While that is being built, ASC remains unfinished. Event logs are still missing. ABI interfaces are not standardized. The ASC SDK is incomplete. There are still no major dApps showing the power of ASC. The explorer does not display contract storage or state clearly. These are the things that should be the highest priority. They are the foundation of Massa’s identity.
The biggest concern is that EVM will pull attention away from ASC. If most of the developer community moves to Solidity because it is familiar, ASC will become a second-class system. The core innovation will be ignored in favor of copying what already exists on many other chains.
There is a better path. The Massa team should focus entirely on completing and promoting ASC. That means adding event logging and ABI support. Releasing a full SDK with command-line tools, frontend integrations, and contract templates. Publishing working examples of ASC applications, including AMMs, staking, governance, DAOs, and NFT contracts. Improving explorer tools to show full contract storage, calls, and event logs. Hosting developer grants and bootcamps focused on ASC-based projects.
Other chains have already proven that focus leads to success. Solana did not adopt EVM. Sui did not adopt EVM. They built one system, perfected it, and now lead their ecosystems. They created performance and identity by trusting their own architecture. Massa should do the same.
EVM support will not make Massa more powerful. It will make it ordinary. It will hide the very features that made the protocol valuable in the first place. If the goal is to be just another chain running Solidity, that goal has already been achieved by many others.
But if the goal is to build the future of scalable, autonomous smart contracts, then ASC is already the answer. It only needs to be completed, documented, supported, and shown to the world.
The original design of Massa was strong. It still is. The team should trust that design and finish what they started.
EVM compatibility may turn Massa into ( just another Ethereum Clone)
Let Massa BE Massa
