Solana is Launching a Phone? | Co-Founders Anatoly & Raj
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🗓️ 13 July 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Solana just released a flagship Android phone for web3 called Saga. And it really begs the question: does a blockchain need to have its own phone? Well, we brought on Co-Founders Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal to make the case.
Let us know what you think about this release in the comments below or on Twitter @BanklessHQ - bullish or bearish Saga and why?
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
6:15 Bear Market Vibe Check
10:03 Solana’s Bear Market Agenda
14:28 Why Web3 Needs a Phone?
17:30 Solana Mobile Phone Explained
25:52 The Solana Mobile Thesis
30:50 Mobile Hardware Features
33:45 Mobile Wallet Adapter
36:15 Solana dApp Store
41:40 Is Solana Mobile a Distraction?
47:00 Jason Keats & Osom
50:45 Describing the Solana Mobile Device
51:32 Competitors
54:40 Costs to Launch a Phone
56:32 Solana Centralization Critique
1:03:50 Solana Scalability
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Resources:
Anatoly Yakovenko
https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko
Raj Gokal
https://twitter.com/rajgokal
Solana
https://solana.com/
Solana Mobile
https://twitter.com/solanamobile
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Banclistation, welcome to another episode of State of the Nation where we do a deep dive |
| 0:14.4 | on a specific topic, relevant in crypto. |
| 0:17.6 | Hey guys, are you ready for the Web 3 phone wars? |
| 0:21.6 | Because I think that is just kicking off. |
| 0:23.5 | David, that is our subject today. |
| 0:26.0 | First roll up, we had a take on the Solana phone. |
| 0:30.6 | I feel like David, we didn't exactly nail that take, all right? |
| 0:34.3 | We didn't get a complete take there and we want to rectify that today. |
| 0:38.4 | We want to do a deep dive with the more nuanced take on what Solana is launching. |
| 0:43.3 | So we have Anatoly and Raj, the co-founders of Solana to tell us more about the Solana |
| 0:48.3 | phone. |
| 0:49.3 | David, what are we going to cover today? |
| 0:51.1 | So there's interestingly in the last two weeks, three phone announcements all happened. |
| 0:56.2 | Solana is definitely the biggest phone announcement with the most amount of just effort and energy |
| 1:01.0 | put behind it. |
| 1:02.0 | So of course, we've got to bring this Solana team onto it to talk about it. |
| 1:05.4 | But overall, the thing that we were missing when we were talked about it on the weekly |
| 1:08.6 | roll up, Brian, is obviously we used crypto on our computers. |
| 1:14.8 | Your phone is also a computer, but what does a phone first ecosystem really unlock the |
| 1:20.4 | Web3 crypto world? |
| 1:21.6 | What does that really bring? |
| 1:22.6 | And that is a question that I don't think we knew what the answer was on the weekly roll |
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