Everything you need to know about Solana | Santiago Santos & Konstantin Lomashuk
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🗓️ 2 September 2021
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Solana is emerging as a competitive Layer 1 platform, promising scalability and a growing ecosystem. Join community thought leaders Santiago Santos and Konstantin Lomashuck as we assess the Solana Value Proposition.
How important is decentralization? Why build on Solana? Can different L1's coexist? Does it seek to compete with mainnet Ethereum or Layer 2 scaling solutions?
We've been hearing a lot about Solana lately. It's time to dive in.
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Topics Covered:
0:00 Intro
8:00 Santiago and Konstantin
10:05 Why Bullish on Solana?
16:31 Solana is Optimizing
24:05 Decentralization
34:56 Running a Node
55:57 Skeptical ETH Maxi Hat
1:04:40 Initial Sale
1:12:32 Valuing SOL
1:19:08 Developer Activity
1:24:11 Can We Be Friends?
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Resources
Santiago on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/santiagoroel?s=20
Konstantin on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/Lomashuk?s=20
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Banclist Nation, we are excited to bring you another Banclist panel. |
| 0:12.0 | This one is all about Salana, Salana, a layer one blockchain. |
| 0:16.9 | Some have people have called it an ETH killer, maybe an ETH competitor, maybe it's an ETH |
| 0:21.6 | companion. |
| 0:22.6 | Dave and I realized we wanted to learn a bit more about Salana and the ecosystem and to |
| 0:27.2 | have a panel where we could have a fairly neutral conversation about Salana to dig in deeper. |
| 0:34.8 | So that's what we're doing today. |
| 0:36.2 | We brought two fantastic guests that I think can represent a bull case for Salana perspective |
| 0:42.6 | in a kind of a credibly neutral way. |
| 0:45.7 | So no these two guests are very passionate about DeFi, no they care about values that the |
| 0:51.6 | Banclist Nation cares about. |
| 0:53.4 | That's why we wanted to bring them both on. |
| 0:55.7 | David, do you want to tease who the guests are and then maybe we can give a quick tease |
| 0:59.2 | of what this panel is going to cover and our position is going into this panel? |
| 1:02.9 | Yeah, sure. |
| 1:03.9 | So we brought on Santiago Santos, who is a big Ethereum bull and is also bullish on Salana. |
| 1:10.0 | And so for somebody that I resonate with, their bullishness on Ethereum, I would like to |
| 1:14.6 | know why, what are the rationales behind the bullishness on Salana. |
| 1:18.8 | And so we're bringing on Santiago just for that angle. |
| 1:22.0 | And then we also have Constantine Luma Shuk, who has worked many different projects around |
| 1:27.5 | the world, around the crypto ecosystem, part of the LIDO team, part has experienced with |
| 1:34.0 | validating systems, proof of sake systems, blockchain systems. |
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