Can Solana Seize Marketshare From Ethereum With Serum? - Ep.193

Published: Oct. 6, 2020, 8 a.m.

Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of FTX and Alameda Research,\xa0 and Anatoly Yakovenko,\xa0 the co-founder and CEO of Solana Labs, discuss the Project Serum ecosystem that they are building on the Solana blockchain, and the unique approach to scaling the Solana blockchain is taking.\n In this episode, they talk about:\n their backgrounds, and how they became involved in crypto\n why Solana takes a different approach to scaling and how it is implemented\n why they think a relatively lower number of nodes is sufficient to protect from attacks or collusion\n what the vision for Solana is, who they see using it, and how Serum fits into that vision\n why they think there haven\u2019t been more crypto projects migrating to Solana yet\n Solana\u2019s proof-of-history algorithm and how it works\n how Solana plans to attract DeFi developers\n why Serum was made interoperable with Ethereum\n the types of traders they are hoping to attract with Serum, and what their experience will be like on the platform\n why Project Serum is an ecosystem and not just an order book exchange\n how high-frequency trading firm Jump Trading came to adopt Serum\n how Serum will manage trading tokens from different chains\n the purpose of Serum\u2019s two tokens, SRM and MSRM\n and what\u2019s in store for Project Serum in the future\n \xa0\n Thank you to our sponsors!\xa0\n Crypto.Com: https://www.crypto.com\n Gods Unchained: https://playgu.co/unchainedpod\n \xa0\n Episode links:\xa0\n Anatoly Yakovenko: https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko\n Solana: Solana.com\n Sam Bankman-Fried: https://twitter.com/SBF_Alameda\n Project Serum: https://www.projectserum.com\n Project Serum on Twitter: https://twitter.com/projectserum\n \xa0\n Solana CoinList auction in March: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/59952/blockchain-project-solana-raises-1-76m-from-its-launch-auction-on-coinlist\n \xa0\n Solana network stats: https://explorer.solana.com\n \xa0\n The Block Research on Solana: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/genesis/76615/solana-blockchain-overview\n \xa0\n Proof of history:\xa0\n https://medium.com/solana-labs/proof-of-history-a-clock-for-blockchain-cf47a61a9274\n \xa0\n Serum: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/daily/72924/ftx-dex-serum-solana-blockchain\n \xa0\n Tether: https://medium.com/solana-labs/tether-to-bring-usdt-to-the-solana-network-77864184b20\n Jump Capital: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/76826/veteran-market-maker-jump-trading-forays-into-defi-to-provide-liquidity-for-ftxs-solana-based-dex\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices