Everyone built new cities. Rome built the roads. There's a thought I can't shake. For years, crypto's answer to everything was "build another city." Every new chain came with its own pool and its own users. Each one ended up an island. @RomeProtocol went the other way. It didn't build another city. It put a real EVM inside Solana. It's not next to Solana. It's inside it. The Rome EVM runs as one program on Solana mainnet. Your Solidity runs there, and every action lands as a Solana transaction. There are no new validators and no second world to trust. In plain English, that means two things. First, a Solidity contract can call a Solana program in one atomic move. Either everything goes through or nothing does. Second, a MetaMask user and a Phantom user can use the same contract and see the same state. What if a team wants its own chain? It gets its own gas token and keeps 100% of the fees. But that chain is still made of Solana transactions, so it adds to Solana instead of pulling away from it. That's what gets me. Most expansion in crypto splits liquidity. Rome's version adds to it. The old saying goes: all roads lead to Rome. I think they meant chains.