In today’s episode, we have the creator of Solana and the Co-founder of Solana Labs, Anatoly Yakovenko. We brought on Anatoly to reflect on Solana in 2023 and its future in the New Year and beyond. 

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro 5:49 FTX’s Effect on Solana  8:03 Solana Lindy? 9:55 Local Fee Markets  17:51 Solana’s Governance   24:58 Important Solana Questions  28:44 Firedancer vs. Jump  37:36 Latency Games 40:20 Are More Users Scary? 43:50 Hyper-Optimism    48:52 What Scares Anatoly  54:59 $BONK & Solana Phone  1:07:58 Breakout Consumer Apps  1:12:37 Solana Economics  1:18:30 ETH vs. SOL 1:34:50 Solana Alignment   1:36:49 Solana Misrepresentation 1:37:53 Closing & Disclaimers 

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Anatoly https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko  

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