Anatoly Reflects on Solana In 2023 & 2024
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🗓️ 26 December 2023
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode, we have the creator of Solana and the Co-founder of Solana Labs, Anatoly Yakovenko. We brought on Anatoly to reflect on Solana in 2023 and its future in the New Year and beyond.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
5:49 FTX’s Effect on Solana
8:03 Solana Lindy?
9:55 Local Fee Markets
17:51 Solana’s Governance
24:58 Important Solana Questions
28:44 Firedancer vs. Jump
37:36 Latency Games
40:20 Are More Users Scary?
43:50 Hyper-Optimism
48:52 What Scares Anatoly
54:59 $BONK & Solana Phone
1:07:58 Breakout Consumer Apps
1:12:37 Solana Economics
1:18:30 ETH vs. SOL
1:34:50 Solana Alignment
1:36:49 Solana Misrepresentation
1:37:53 Closing & Disclaimers
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RESOURCES
Anatoly
https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Bankless nation welcome to a conversation with Anatole Yachavenko. |
| 0:07.0 | Recently, Salana seems to have turned a page in its evolution with the Jido Air Drop putting 200 million dollars in the hands of |
| 0:15.8 | over 10,000 different addresses seems to have really reawakened a part of Solana as |
| 0:21.7 | new addresses and new TVL have come online and new conversations are being had in |
| 0:26.8 | Solana, mainly conversations around Solana governance and Solana economics. |
| 0:32.4 | And so this has captured the attention of many across the crypto industry |
| 0:36.0 | and including my own. |
| 0:37.0 | And so I decided just to throw Anatole a Riverside link |
| 0:40.0 | where we record podcast here at Bankless |
| 0:42.0 | and ask them to come on and just chat about things. |
| 0:45.2 | This was a pretty unscripted conversation. |
| 0:47.0 | Usually we have pretty thorough, robust agendas for 95% of all Bankless podcast, but this is not one of them. |
| 0:54.6 | This is just David and Anatoly vibing on podcast together. |
| 0:58.0 | Talking about Salana, talking about Ethereum, talking about tribal stuff, but not with a tribal tone. |
| 1:02.1 | So I hope you enjoy that. |
| 1:03.2 | Before getting to the conversation with Anatole Yakavenko, first a moment to talk about some of these |
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