On Unchained, two co-founders of Solana Labs, Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal, dive deeply into the Solana ecosystem, discussing everything from the price of SOL to the Solana network outage to the competition between Ethereum and Solana. Show highlights:
- why Raj thinks SOL’s market cap grew from $86 million to $68 billion in less than a year
- Anatoly’s and Raj’s background and how they found themselves working together to build Solana
- why Anatoly thinks Solana will be a general-purpose blockchain rather than specializing in gaming or high frequency trading
- Anatoly’s goal to make Solana the first billion-user blockchain
- why Raj thinks NFTs on Solana have been so popular
- why, in the opinion of Raj and Anatoly, Solana’s purpose has shifted away from high-frequency trading
- how NFTs could replace ads
- why “everything is DeFi”
- how Solana Labs plans to allocate the recent $314 million funding round it raised
- what lessons Anatoly learned from the 18-hour September network outage
- technically speaking, what happened to cause Solana’s network outage
- why Anatoly believes that outages, at this stage, aren’t necessarily a bad thing
- whether “trading mercenaries” dominated at Solana Breakpoint
- why developers are interested in building on Solana
- how Solana and Ethereum compare as execution and settlement layers
- why Raj doesn’t like framing competition between Solana and Ethereum as a fight
- how Anatoly views the competition between Ethereum and Solana
- whether the arrival of Neon Labs, which is bringing EVM to Solana, could lead to developers leaving Ethereum
- how NFTs and Phantom wallets are bringing in new users for Solana
- whether Raj and Anatoly would roll back Solana if something like Ethereum’s DAO hack were to occur
- why Solana has the competitive advantage in throughput, according to Anatoly
- what would happen if FTX cofounder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried gave up on Solana
- their predictions for Solana five years from now
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Episode Links:
Anatoly Yakovenko
https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko
Raj Gokal
https://twitter.com/rajgokal
Solana News
- Anatoly Yakovenko -- It ‘doesn’t really matter’ if the network goes down again
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https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/124887/solana-labs-ceo-it-doesnt-really-matter-if-the-network-goes-down-again
Neon Labs - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/123744/neon-labs-developer-of-ethereum-virtual-machine-on-solana-raises-40-million
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- Aave + SushiSwap going to Solanas through Neon Labs
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https://twitter.com/joselitommutuc/status/1462043806207938563
Solana + Brave integration https://decrypt.co/85538/privacy-browser-brave-expands-beyond-ethereum-solana
ATH at $260 https://decrypt.co/85457/solana-hits-all-time-high-of-260
Solana Breakpoint https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/11/15/solana-throws-a-three-day-party-for-itself/
https://www.cryptoglobe.com/latest/2021/11/solana-network-highlights-from-breakpoint-conference-paint-a-very-healthy-picture/
https://decrypt.co/85934/the-view-from-solana-week-in-lisbon
FTX US + Solana NFTs https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/120044/ftx-us-launches-marketplace-for-trading-solana-based-nfts
Solana Outage https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/117711/solana-blockchain-validators-restart-network-after-transaction-stoppage
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/117624/solana-experiences-transaction-stoppage-as-developers-report-intermittent-instability
Why the mainnet went down https://twitter.com/buffalu__/status/1437792673784549383
Potential ramifications https://twitter.com/CometShock/status/1437870278684590091
Anatoly Yakovenko Solana outage tweets - https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko/status/1437887482897518595
- https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko/status/1437784552324358155
- https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko/status/1438496595360862215
- https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko/status/1438465508412739588
https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko/with_replies
Solana $314M Fundraise https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/107749/solana-labs-raises-314-million-funding-a16z-polychain-capital
Solana Topics
- Raj thinks Ethereum cannot be killed
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- https://twitter.com/rajgokal/status/1458420316569489410
- NFT Growth
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https://twitter.com/masonnystrom/status/1455556328404013057
https://twitter.com/masonnystrom/status/1459157853848195079
Pplpleasr https://decrypt.co/85964/the-collectoooooor-pplpleasr-latest-nft-art-solana-ethereum
Investment in gaming https://decrypt.co/85966/cosmos-solana-ventures-join-725m-series-b-crypto-gaming-platform-forte
Alexis Ohanian investment https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/cryptocurrency/articles/why-reddit-co-founder-alexis-ohanian-will-invest-100-million-in-solana-social-media/
FTX + Solana https://decrypt.co/85302/ftx-solana-ventures-lightspeed-100m-crypto-gaming
Phantom wallet hits 1M+ users - https://decrypt.co/85563/phantom-wallet-preps-mobile-launch-reaching-million-users-solana
Solana Basics
- CoinMonk: https://medium.com/coinmonks/solana-more-update-for-sol-becb65024877
- Solana Labs: https://medium.com/solana-labs/proof-of-history-a-clock-for-blockchain-cf47a61a9274
- The Tie: https://research.thetie.io/solana-ecosystem/
- Binance.Research: https://research.binance.com/en/projects/solana
- Genesis Block: https://genesisblockhk.com/what-is-solana/
- Block Explorers: https://explorer.solana.com/supply + https://solanabeach.io/supply + https://solanalysis.com/
- Messari: https://messari.io/article/the-perpetual-sol-rise
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