The Chopping Block: Anatoly Yakovenko on Why Solana Is Building the SAGA Phone - Ep. 373

Published: July 14, 2022, 7:30 a.m.

b"Welcome to The Chopping Block! Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news in the digital asset industry. In this episode, Anatoly Yakovenko, Tsar of Solana, joins the show to discuss the use cases of Solana, whether it\\u2019s actually a blockchain, how Solana scales, and much more!\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nShow topics:\\n\\nWhat Anatoly thinks of Andre Cronje's opinion that Solana is not a blockchain\\n\\nWhy Solana has had so many instances of downtime\\n\\nWhether Solana is the NASDAQ of blockchains\\n\\nWhy Solana changed its approach to fee markets and how it is different from other blockchains\\n\\nWhy Anatoly is bearish on generic Layer2s\\n\\nHow to prevent a mempool to blow up\\n\\nWhether Anatoly is pro app-chains\\n\\nWhy Anatoly would have had Solana build a fee model from the start\\n\\nWhat proof of history is and what its problems are\\xa0\\n\\nHow vertical scaling and horizontal scaling differ\\n\\nWhat the use cases of Solana are\\xa0\\n\\nWhy Solana decided to build the SAGA phone\\n\\nHow a web3 phone enables new ways of innovation\\n\\nWhy Solana doesn\\u2019t see Avalanche or BSC or other EVM chains as competitors but Mysten and Aptos\\n\\nWhy the execution environment is where all innovation happens\\n\\nWhy Tarun thinks rollups on Solana is a good idea\\n\\nWhether EVM could work on Solana and why Anatoly cares less about EVM on Solana than Solidity\\n\\nWhat Anatoly\\u2019s biggest lessons from building Solana are\\n\\nWhy Haseeb admires Anatoly and what the similarities are between him and Vitalik\\n\\nWhat Anatoly advises people who are building in crypto\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nHosts\\n\\nHaseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital\\n\\nhttps://twitter.com/hosseeb\\n\\nTom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly Capital\\n\\nhttps://twitter.com/tomhschmidt\\n\\nTarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures\\n\\n\\nhttps://twitter.com/tarunchitra\\xa0\\n\\nRobert Leshner, founder of Compound\\xa0\\n\\n\\nhttps://twitter.com/rleshner\\xa0\\n\\n\\xa0\\nGuest: Anatoly Yakovenko\\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko\\n\\n\\xa0\\nEpisode Links\\n\\xa0\\nSolana\\n\\nSerum: https://www.projectserum.com/\\n\\n\\nSome of the Solana outages and consequences:\\xa0\\n\\nSeptember 2021: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2021/09/14/solana-validators-ready-potential-restart-amid-blockchain-outage/\\n\\n\\nJanuary 2022: https://www.theblock.co/post/131278/traders-are-complaining-about-solanas-performance-raising-questions-about-its-status-as-a-wall-street-darling\\xa0\\n\\nMay 2022: https://www.theblock.co/linked/144639/solana-restarted-after-seven-hour-outage-caused-by-surge-of-transactions\\xa0\\n\\nSolana\\u2019s blockchain clock 30 minutes behind: https://www.theblock.co/post/149112/solanas-blockchain-clock-loses-track-of-time-now-running-30-minutes-behind\\xa0\\n\\nJune 2022: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2022/06/02/solana-halted-by-bug-linked-to-certain-cold-storage-transactions/\\n\\n\\nPopularity of NFTs on Solana: https://www.theblock.co/post/153214/magic-eden-raises-series-b-funding-solana-nft-unicorn\\n\\n\\nSolana phone\\n\\nhttps://solana.com/news/saga-reveal\\n\\nhttps://dune.com/queries/952048/1656567\\n\\n\\n https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/06/23/solana-labs-is-building-a-web3-mobile-phone/\\xa0\\n\\nFee market: https://www.reddit.com/r/solana/comments/u3p8xc/eli3_solana_fee_market/\\n\\n\\nAptos/Mysten:\\xa0\\n\\n https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/07/11/web-3-startup-mysten-labs-aiming-for-2b-valuation-in-latest-funding-report/\\n\\n https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/05/31/paypal-ventures-invested-in-team-reviving-diem-blockchain/\\n\\nPaper on Proof of History: https://www.shoup.net/papers/poh.pdf\\n\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"