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#402: Jason Li, Co-founder of Solayer Labs, on Restaking, Scaling Solana, Tokenizing RWAs, and Hardware Scaling

Jan 6, 2025
36:30

Jason Li is the Co-founder of Solayer Labs, where he leads research and engineering. Solayer Labs is the company behind the pioneering restaking protocol Solayer, built natively on the Solana blockchain. The company has garnered support from prominent investors, including Polychain Capital, Hack VC, Binance Labs, and Big Brain Holdings.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- What is restaking?
- Restaking to Scale Solana
- Tokenization of Real-World Assets (RWA)
- Hardware Scaling: Pushing Blockchain Boundaries
- 1M TPS: Transforming Blockchain Throughput
- Launch of sUSD (T-bills-backed stablecoin)
- Launch of bnSOL (Binance Solana)
- Liquid staking tokens
- When will web3 completely feel like web2?
- Scaling web3
- Optimizing high-performance GPUs and specialized hardware

Solayer Labs
Website: app.solayer.org
X: @solayer_labs

Jason Li
X: @lxjhk
LinkedIn: Jason Li

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