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Holiday Special 2022 · Acquired
- ▶ 46:56 Ben Gilbert With Solana.
Qualcomm · Acquired
- ▶ 2:45 Ben Gilbert Our huge thank you to the Solana Foundation for hosting us at Solana Breakpoint.
- ▶ 2:53 Ben Gilbert He was kind enough to invite us and, uh, and really fun to do it there, especially given Solana's tie to Qualcomm with Anatoly having worked there for over 10 years.
- ▶ 2:13:07 David Rosenthal Like, there's plenty of success, and, you know, Solana and Tully is, you know, part of the Qualcomm diaspora, so it's not like there's none, but not at the same scale, and I think that actually de facto shows there was process power.
- ▶ 2:25:37 Ben Gilbert Our huge thank you to Fundrise, Pilot, Brex, and the Solana Foundation for hosting us at Breakpoint this year.
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 9:43 Ben Gilbert Austin is at the Solana Foundation, very deep in the world of Web three and crypto, and gave us a great, great primer on the world of Web three today.
From NFL to Startup COO to Congressman Regulating Crypto (with Rep. Anthony Gonzalez) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:59:45 Ben Gilbert Our next episode is an interview in partnership with the Solana Foundation.
The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories · Acquired
- ▶ 1:42 David Rosenthal And before we jump in for one final time this season, a huge thank you to our presenting sponsor of all of our special episodes, the Solana Foundation.
- ▶ 1:54 David Rosenthal And Solana, as you all definitely know by now, is a global state machine and the world's most performant blockchain.
- ▶ 2:14 David Rosenthal And the reason that you can do that is that the Solana blockchain is literally a feat of engineering genius.
- ▶ 2:22 Ben Gilbert If only we could talk to people involved in the engineering genius behind Solana.
- ▶ 2:32 David Rosenthal I am talking to the co-founders of Solana itself, Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokul.
- ▶ 2:46 David Rosenthal Can you tell us what the Solana network was built to accomplish?
- ▶ 3:43 Anatoly Yakovenko The other thing about Solana is it's very, very energy efficient.
- ▶ 3:47 Anatoly Yakovenko So single Solana transaction is about like two or three Google searches.
- ▶ 4:22 David Rosenthal What's happened with Solana since?
- ▶ 5:00 David Rosenthal You started Solana in the middle of the last crypto winter.
- ▶ 6:16 David Rosenthal What's the best way to get in touch with y'all, and how can Solana help?
- ▶ 1:07:30 Ben Gilbert With that, our thank you to the Solana Foundation.
American Dynamism (with Katherine Boyle) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:59 David Rosenthal Now, before we dive in for our presenting sponsor for this special episode, we have, as always, the Solana Foundation.
- ▶ 2:07 David Rosenthal And Solana, as you all know by now, is a global state machine and the world's most performant blockchain.
- ▶ 2:14 David Rosenthal That means that developers can build applications on it with super, super low transaction fees compared to other Web three infrastructure and all with very low latency and without compromising
- ▶ 2:56 David Rosenthal Metaplex is a protocol and framework for building NFT applications, games, and experiences on the Solana protocol.
- ▶ 3:06 David Rosenthal Less than a year ago, there were no Solana NFTs, and now we have an exploding ecosystem of over, actually this morning, 1.9 million collectors that are holding a Solana NFT that uses
- ▶ 3:48 David Rosenthal We're known for a program called Candy Machine, which has been used to launch the major generative profile photo collections in the Solana ecosystem.
- ▶ 4:12 David Rosenthal One of the most exciting qualities of the Solana NFT ecosystem is that it's mostly made of independent artists, creators, garage band teams that are using the open source tools that Metaplex provides to launch new businesses and creative…
- ▶ 5:15 David Rosenthal For folks out there who are considering NFT projects, working on them, what are the big benefits to using Solana versus say Ethereum or another blockchain?
- ▶ 5:34 David Rosenthal So we do view the metaverse as a multi-chain world, but with Solana, you have just a fundamentally different economic structure that is radically changing what
- ▶ 5:56 David Rosenthal And the energy of the Solana community from day one has been, what can we bring to the table that's unique, that was only possible when those types of economics have been provided to the community.
- ▶ 6:40 David Rosenthal And of course, our thanks to Solana.
- ▶ 6:43 David Rosenthal If you are considering developing on Solana, head on over to
- ▶ 6:46 David Rosenthal Solana.com slash developers or click the link in the show notes.
- ▶ 1:21:33 Ben Gilbert With that, thank you to the Solana Foundation, to Mystery, and to Modern Treasury, and we'll see you next time.
Capital-Efficient Growth (with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan & Veeva CEO Peter Gassner) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:11 Ben Gilbert As many of you know, we are excited that these special episodes are brought to you by the Solana Foundation.
- ▶ 4:19 Ben Gilbert Now, Solana is a global state machine and the world's most performant blockchain.
- ▶ 4:37 Ben Gilbert Solana is capable of processing tens of thousands of smart contracts at once.
- ▶ 4:59 unnamed speaker So Genesis Go at its heart is an infrastructure project building primarily on the Solana blockchain.
- ▶ 5:05 unnamed speaker We've been bringing decentralized networks to a piece of the Solana network stack that's traditionally been very centralized.
- ▶ 5:29 unnamed speaker And what that's provided software developers on the Solana blockchain is
- ▶ 6:55 Ben Gilbert Our thanks to Solana.
- ▶ 6:56 Ben Gilbert If you are considering developing on Solana, head on over to solana.com slash developers or click the link in the show notes.
- ▶ 1:09:45 Ben Gilbert And with that, our huge thank you to the Solana Foundation, to our friends at Mystery, go check it out,
Arena Show Part II: Brooks Running (with CEO Jim Weber) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:09:51 Ben Gilbert Came is getting an NFT, a custom acquired proof of attendance NFT, thanks to Acquired's head of special projects, Sanny Kim and the Solana Foundation.
Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity · Acquired
- ▶ 13:06 Mario Gabriele Solana.
- ▶ 21:49 Ben Gilbert Google again, which was, I think, the best pick any of us made, except Solana.
Platforms and Power (with Hamilton Helmer and Chenyi Shi) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:32 Ben Gilbert These special episodes are sponsored by the Solana Foundation.
- ▶ 4:36 Ben Gilbert As you know, Solana is a global state machine and the world's most performant blockchain.
- ▶ 4:53 Ben Gilbert Today, we've got a little fun interview with Dan Albert, who is the executive director of the Solana Foundation.
- ▶ 5:01 Ben Gilbert Well, Dan, you guys are up to something really interesting in the Solana ecosystem with stake pools or liquid staking.
- ▶ 5:18 Dan Albert The goal of the Solana Foundation is to foster the growth of the Solana network and the Solana community as a whole.
- ▶ 5:18 Dan Albert The goal of the Solana Foundation is to foster the growth of the Solana network and the Solana community as a whole.
- ▶ 6:42 Dan Albert Many different node operators or validators on the Solana network.
- ▶ 6:46 Dan Albert So traditionally on Solana and on other proof of stake networks, when you stake an asset, it's subject to some lockup period or sometimes called the unbonding period where basically the asset is not liquid.
- ▶ 7:27 Dan Albert The Solana network currently has over 1500 validators operating on mainnet beta.
- ▶ 7:56 Dan Albert So we've got some community facing resources on the Solana Foundation website around stake pools.
- ▶ 8:01 Dan Albert So that's solana.foundation slash stake dash pools.
- ▶ 8:05 Dan Albert There's some information there about existing pools that have been launched and are being successfully managed by different teams in the Solana community.
- ▶ 8:25 Ben Gilbert Our thanks to Dan and Solana.
- ▶ 8:27 Ben Gilbert If you are considering developing on Solana, head on over to solana.com slash developers, or click the link in the show notes.
- ▶ 1:25:37 Ben Gilbert And our thanks to Solana Foundation, Modern Treasury,
Nvidia: The GPU Company (1993-2006) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:42:06 David Rosenthal If there's a team coming out of like Solana and FTX, or like, let's make up an imaginary example, making some new vision for a class of applications in web three, like they're going to get term sheets from everybody.
- ▶ 1:46:25 David Rosenthal Like the Solana, the early Solana team.
Super Pumped (with Brian Koppelman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:56 Ben Gilbert And before we dive in on our interview, for those of you who listened to our episode with Brendan Eich, you know that we are very excited that these special episodes are brought to you by the Solana Foundation,
- ▶ 3:17 Ben Gilbert Solana is a global state machine and the world's most performant blockchain.
- ▶ 3:36 Ben Gilbert But instead of actually talking to the folks at Solana Labs or the Solana Foundation, we want to use this time to talk to some of the folks building the protocols and decentralized applications on top.
- ▶ 3:46 Ben Gilbert Today, we want to feature a big pillar of the Solana ecosystem, the Phantom Wallet.
- ▶ 4:37 Ben Gilbert I know it's built on Solana.
- ▶ 5:13 Brandon Millman At the same time, the underlying Ethereum platform was becoming more and more expensive and less usable and approachable to the average consumer, so we decided we needed a faster and cheaper platform, and that platform ended up being…
- ▶ 5:37 Ben Gilbert Our thanks to Solana and Phantom.
- ▶ 5:39 Ben Gilbert If you are considering developing on Solana, head on over to solana.com slash developers or click the link in the show notes.
- ▶ 1:04:27 Ben Gilbert And our thank you to the Solana Foundation, Modern Treasury, and Mystery, and we will see you next time.
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:58 Ben Gilbert The Solana Foundation.
- ▶ 2:03 Ben Gilbert Well, for listeners who have been living under a rock, uh, Solana is a global state machine and the world's most performant blockchain.
- ▶ 2:26 Ben Gilbert Solana is capable of processing tens of thousands of smart contracts at once, and by proof of history, a distributed clock that unlocks low latency sub-second finality.
- ▶ 2:48 Ben Gilbert But we are going to talk in true decentralized fashion to some of the folks building the protocols and decentralized applications on top of Solana.
- ▶ 3:04 unnamed speaker Serum is a central limit order book based exchange on the Solana blockchain.
- ▶ 3:36 unnamed speaker It leverages Solana's parallel architecture to offer thousands of markets that operate concurrently, giving traders the low latency experience they're used to in traditional financial markets.
- ▶ 4:01 Ben Gilbert Longtime listeners will remember Serum coming up in the interview with Sam Bankman-Fried, and also our interview with Anatoly, where they discussed how the speed, efficiency, and low transaction costs wouldn't be possible without Solana's…
- ▶ 4:15 Ben Gilbert Our thanks to Solana and Serum.
- ▶ 4:18 Ben Gilbert If you are considering developing on Solana, head over to solana.com slash developers, or just click the link in the show notes.
- ▶ 4:55 Ben Gilbert Uh, we talked with some of Solana and FTX's earlier investors from Race Capital.
- ▶ 1:07:57 Brendan Eich Uh, there are EVM cross compiler and interpreter solutions on Solana and there's the C chain and other direct EVM compatibles on other chains.
- ▶ 1:10:01 Brendan Eich So our next generation ad system, which is aiming at Solana is called Themis.
- ▶ 1:10:29 Brendan Eich And we're trying to move on chain with that very soon with Solana, which is exciting, but we're still burdened by the regulations that require not only the, you know, anti-money laundering, but also the anti, uh, the Office of Foreign…
- ▶ 1:14:13 Brendan Eich We like Solana.
- ▶ 1:23:44 Brendan Eich And decentralized systems, even Solana, there's always a trade-off.
- ▶ 1:43:13 Ben Gilbert With that, our thanks to the Solana Foundation, Modern Treasury, and Mystery, and we will see you next time.
FTX with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:32:32 Ben Gilbert In fact, I think, if I'm, if I'm remembering right, I told you on the last episode that I recently used NordVPN, uh, you know, I've, I've, uh, I've actually used it a few times since, but it was especially important to use when I was on…
Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
- ▶ 1:43:36 Packy McCormick Uh, and then, you know, wrote a piece that we discussed on a previous acquired episode about Ethereum and then dove into Solana.
- ▶ 1:44:00 Packy McCormick So I think the thing about the Solana piece maybe that worked is that it's like, here's what this thing is.
- ▶ 1:44:11 Packy McCormick And if that happens, then Solana will probably be in a pretty good shape.
- ▶ 1:48:29 Packy McCormick There was one, there's somebody who DM me after I wrote the piece on Solana actually, that was like, man, I miss the old Paki when you would give us alpha and you'd be early on things like snap or whatever.
- ▶ 1:48:39 Packy McCormick And then of course, Solana, like three and a half X in the next two months.
- ▶ 2:46:32 Ben Gilbert Um, and, uh, so I was in Lisbon a couple weeks ago for the Solana Breakpoint conference and for Web Summit, and, uh, found myself in dire need of a VPN because I was like, I am pulling my laptop out at a cryptography event, uh, where…