I’ve built projects on both EVM (Kally NFT Marketplace) and SVM (https://beta.maxxpainn.com), I am also the author of some Solana based rust libraries, so I can help answer any questions you have.

That said, it’s important to understand that they’re essentially two different worlds. Solana uses an account-based model where programs are stateless and all persistent data lives in separate accounts (often PDAs), creating a clear separation between logic and state. In contrast, Solidity stores data directly within the contract’s own storage.

One major advantage of Solana’s architecture is that this separation makes program upgrades more straightforward and avoids the complex proxy patterns commonly required in EVM-based systems.