Tech Session: Neon EVM

In this session hosted by The BLOKC, Daria, a core Developer Relations engineer at Neon EVM, shows how Ethereum developers can ship to Solana without rewriting their code. The talk pulls in familiar tooling such as Hardhat, Foundry, and Chainlist, along with Hyperlane for cross-chain messaging.

What the session covers

Neon EVM is a high-performance compatibility layer built on top of Solana that serves as a gateway for Ethereum developers. Daria demonstrates compiling and deploying Solidity contracts to Neon Devnet using standard EVM tooling like Foundry and Forge, with no changes to the codebase. The key piece is a proxy server layer that intercepts Ethereum RPC calls, translates EVM bytecode parameters into Solana-compatible parallel execution instructions, and routes them to the Neon EVM program running as a native contract on Solana. Because EVM state changes live inside Solana’s Program Derived Accounts (PDAs), every transaction stays readable on both Neon Scan and Solana explorers.

What you can build

Ethereum teams can scale existing Solidity dApps onto Solana’s low fees and parallel processing. The session highlights cross-chain messaging primitives, such as Hyperlane passing data from Ethereum Mainnet to Neon EVM, and cross-chain identity lookup contracts. It also covers moving liquidity with Neon Pass, a wrapper that converts native Solana assets to ERC-20 at near-zero cost.

What’s next

The roadmap includes cross-program invocation (CPI) blueprints so Solidity contracts can call native Solana Rust programs directly, plus ongoing optimization of the RPC execution loops to deliver broader, sub-second EVM throughput.