Public companies are quietly buying @solana : $900M+
Here's why this matters more than any price debate 🧵
1. They're not speculating
2. They're building infrastructure
3. They're preparing for what's next
Reminder: smart money moves while others talk🔺
This is quite cool
You can now swap between zcash and solana (and other chains) using near intents
encrypted money getting more usable by the day https://t.co/iGr2EVGHnl
The @colosseum team gathers in Silicon Valley after each hackathon to aggregate judge feedback, choose winners and select accelerator startups.
We stay together in a camper in the Google HQ parking lot, enabling us to also recruit web2 devs into the next hackathon.
Founder Mode
We’re entering the final hours of judging for @solana Radar Hackathon ⏰
And our co-founders @kwok_phil and @dom_kwok are getting ready to submit their favourites.
Shill your projects below👇
i’m judging @solana Radar hackathon.
and i’ll be giving my scores in 24 hrs.
but it’s v tight atm.
and one thing i’m trying to figure out is: what is each team’s edge?
so if ur building for the hackathon, comment it here: ‘what do u know about web3 that nobody else knows?’
we don't have a prize for it, but @marshmallow_xyz IMO had one of the best taglines of the Radar hackathon
...also as a new parent I'm committed to ensuring my offspring don't become the latter of said tagline
The best leading indicator for the success of a project is not token price, but team morale and excitement
Never bet against a team that will move mountains to win
At my Solana Breakpoint debate, I argued that every sufficiently large app will launch its own chain. Weeks later, @Uniswap announced @unichain, its own general purpose L2.
In this month's Pantera Blockchain Letter, I share some longer form thoughts on Unichain:
1) Governance…
What's been going on with Drift since Breakpoint?
- TVL at ATH
- Open Interest at ATH
- Volume + dSOL growing massively
- 50x leverage mode launching this week
- Moar memecoin perp listings coming
- Team cooking on new upgrades for liquidity
Huge acceleration
$dSOL domination is growing
Our LST is fully integrated into Drift as collateral + FUEL yield + deposit yield - this is the best expression of usage for the protocol
$dSOL domination is growing
Our LST is fully integrated into Drift as collateral + FUEL yield + deposit yield - this is the best expression of usage for the protocol https://t.co/d3GiXgOKxt
Historically, talent was far more distributed than opportunity.
But now, crypto enables us to run a global talent search via our online hackathon. Devs from 150+ countries joined Radar to compete for esteemed @solana prizes & startup funding through our online accelerator.
Up.
If a million people talk about NFTs, I'm one of them.
If ten people talk about NFTs, I'm one of them.
If only one person is talking about NFTs, that's me.
If no one talks about NFTs, that means I'm no longer on earth.
If a million people talk about NFTs, I'm one of them.
If ten people talk about NFTs, I'm one of them.
If only one person is talking about NFTs, that's me.
If no one talks about NFTs, that means I'm no longer on earth.
4 happy customers building on Solana in the past day alone coming from EVM land
if you're building on Solana, pls just get in touch with me or @heliuslabs — our team will do whatever it takes to help you succeed
1/ I sat down to read the @a16zcrypto State of Crypto report this weekend. I learned a lot! I’m mostly focused outside of the EVM world, so I always appreciate opportunities to learn about innovation happening elsewhere in the world of self custody.
That said: I noticed quite…
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