Solana
includes Solana Foundation
7 statements across 4 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Dec 3, 2021 by Packy McCormick · said 94 times in 15 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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2022 87 mentions in 13 episodes 7 per episode
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2021 7 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
Everything said about Solana, oldest first
Dec 3, 2021 bullish
Feb 15, 2022 bullish
Brave is developing Themis, a zero-knowledge ad verification system on Solana
“So our next generation ad system, which is aiming at Solana is called Themis. It uses a black box accumulator in the browser to build up an authentic, cryptographically secure ad performance set of numbers that can then be put into a zero knowledge proof syste…”
Feb 15, 2022 bullish
Jun 20, 2022 bullish
Jun 20, 2022 positive
Yakovenko: A Solana transaction uses the energy of two Google searches
“The other thing about Solana is it's very, very energy efficient. So single Solana transaction is about like two or three Google searches. So if you think of it as using a web service, this is a network that, you know, takes as much energy as a regular web ser…”
Jun 20, 2022
Gokul: Solana reached mainnet on under $10M after ETH crash
“The first seed was a little over three million, and that was more or less enough. The next round was like 13, but a ton of it got wiped out, because most of it came in in ETH. And before we found a custodian and were able to sell any of it, a lot of that value…”