# What was the rationale around not being EVM-Compatible?

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**Created:** [August 3, 2021, 12:07pm UTC](https://forum.algorand.co/t/what-was-the-rationale-around-not-being-evm-compatible/3932 "2021-08-03T12:07:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![innomon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.algorand.co/innomon/32/880_2.png) [@innomon](https://forum.algorand.co/u/innomon)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2021, 1:18pm UTC](https://forum.algorand.co/t/what-was-the-rationale-around-not-being-evm-compatible/3932/7 "2021-08-08T13:18:35Z")

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Algorand and Ethereum have different communities and usecase focus. ALGO in my opinion will never reach the ETH highs. I exited ethereum mainnet, soon after shelling out $30 gas fees for a $100 worth of DeFi transaction. I therefore hope ALGO will never be expensive as ETH.

Thankfully, “to the moon” crypto enthusiasts have not been able to pull a SHIBA INU on ALGO yet!  
I Hope the pump & dump speculators focus on other coins, and not freeze the Algorand usecases.

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