Gm! This week, we're joined by Anatoly Yakovenko Co-Founder of Solana Labs. We deep dive into Solana transaction fee's, how to remain competitive within crypto, SOL inflation, competing with Apple & Google, does Solana have a moat & so much more. Enjoy!

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(00:00) Introduction

(01:51) Solana's Transaction Front Running

(06:37) Solana Fee Markets

(10:18) Composability At Scale

(12:50) Competing With L2s

(19:43) Ledger Ad

(20:20) Synchronous Composability

(21:59) Validators

(27:06) Solana Inflation

(29:16) How Does Solana Compete?

(32:31) Execution Is A Moat

(35:36) Firedancer

(40:47) Solana Mobile

(45:25) Competing With Apple & Google

(47:04) L1 Business Models

(49:49) Solana Bandwidth

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