Solana: From On-Chain Nasdaq to the Pump Fun Craze - Anatoly Yakovenko

Solana needs no introduction. Ever since its inception, it pushed throughput scaling on a single chain, without the need of sharding or rollups. Despite its ups and downs that culminated at the bottom of the bear market after the FTX crash, it managed to not only survive, but build a vibrant community around crypto's (arguably) most prominent PMF (thus far).

Join us for a fascinating discussion and learn about Anatoly's take on controversial topics such as MEV, concurrent block leaders (the equivalent of Ethereum's PBS proposal), L2 rollups, Solana economics, how to tackle potential exploits and more.

Topics covered in this episode:

• How the original Solana vision turned out
• What makes blockchains valuable
• MEV & program writable accounts
• Concurrent block proposers
• Current bottlenecks for scaling Solana
• Mainnet vs. L2 rollups
• Firedancer upgrade
• Halting the network vs. rollbacks
• Solana’s scaling roadmap
• DoubleZero
• Worst hacks on Solana
• UI exploits, Bybit hack and smart contract security
• Solana economics and the SIMD-0228 proposal
• Future improvements
• Use cases for blockchains
• Solana mobile

Episode links:

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• Solana on X
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This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain & Martin Köppelmann.