Is Solana on track to follow Ethereum's Success Story? | GG Research | EP 18

Imran and Qiao enlist the expertise of Mohammed Fouda and Will Robinson for an in-depth exploration of Solana.

No BS crypto insight for founders.

Timestamps
(00:00) Intro
(01:11) Welcome to Good Game
(01:56) Will's introduction
(02:24) Mohamed’s introduction
(03:15) The Solana ecosystem and why layer 2s are bearish
(04:13) Solana’s greatest filter for bad VCs
(06:17) Solana catalysts
(09:26) The gaming side of Solana
(10:15) Solana games: Aurory
(11:32) Solana games: Star Atlas
(13:25) Solana vs Ethereum games
(14:50) What kind of a game can Solana support?
(18:55) Eclipse & Nitro: Can they do better than the Solana base chain?
(19:45) Mohamed’s perspective on Solana VMs and other layer 2s in the ecosystem
(20:31) How expensive would it be to fork Solana?
(21:04) Is the future going to be layer 2s for everyone?
(24:16) Will: Solana produces 800GB of data per day
(24:56) Mohamed: Dune Analytics managed to archive massive amounts of Solana data
(26:44) Don’t trust, verify!
(29:36) Monolithic chain vs. Modular chain
(36:20) Layer 2s on Solana will happen permissionlessly if needed
(37:06) Vitalik’s “Endgame” blogpost
(40:05) Does Solana have to be more censorable to scale long-term?
(40:35) How much would it cost to blow up Solana right now?
(40:54) Evidence that Solana is not dead
(42:20) Solana perceived as the chain for mainstream users
(47:11) Founders building on Sui prefer Move
(48:05) Chains that still have a fighting chance
(52:11) The Solana Phone
(55:37) What’s holding the crypto metaverse from taking off
(56:17) DeFi on Solana
(1:02:09) How Solana will behave in the next 12 months

Aurory: https://aurory.io/
Star Atlas: https://staratlas.com/
Solana Phone: https://solanamobile.com/
Vitalik's Endgame blog post: https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/12/06...

Mohamed Twitter: https://twitter.com/MohamedFFouda
Will Twitter: https://twitter.com/DangerWillRobin

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