Anatoly joins Mert to discuss his 5-year vision for Solana. In this discussion, we cover Solana's changing narrative, Firedancer's performance, Solana's shrinking hardware requirements, why Anatoly wants people to fork the SVM, the key to crypto adoption and why multiple slot leaders will be a huge upgrade for Solana! This was a discussion from last week's Permissionless II conference.

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Timestamps

(00:00) Introduction

(03:19) Solana’s Momentum and Big Announcements

(07:49) Value Capture and Local Fee Markets

(15:18) QUIC and Stake-Weighted QoS

(17:23) Firedancer’s Performance & Solana’s Hardware Requirements

(25:06) Jito Promo

(31:04) Solana’s Most Exciting Applications

(32:07) What Can Solana Learn from Ethereum?

(34:38) Why Solana Wants Multiple Leaders per Slot

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Resources

Jito

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Permissionless

https://blockworks.co/event/permissionless-2023

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