Lightspeed
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“Code” will be one of the first Solana-based projects to open source its code using the MIT license
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We can’t all have impeccable taste in music — some of us need to spend the next 2 weeks diversifying our listening experience
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“Please stop looking at TVL as a useful metric if you’re at all a serious investor,” Jain insists
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As is often the case, the roast begins with laughs — but quickly turns to hard truths
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Innovative blockchain activity is moving to “things that really hit the end user,” Monegro says
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The EVM will not retain 95% market dominance, Mumtaz says. “That’s just never happened”
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Garcia-Martinez says Spindl uses blockchains to present a “view of the world the marketer cares about”
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High volume and high speed — two desirable characteristics that rarely find themselves in the same room as blockchain technology
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Andreessen-Horowitz GP Simpson says that the backgrounds of Bastion’s co-founders “are exactly what’s needed to really be able to tackle this problem”
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The industry has not yet been able to get a “meaningful percentage” of new participants to “use crypto tech to engage with crypto”
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Helium Foundation CEO Abhay Kumar details the Helium Mobile platform as an example of a crypto-based product with mass market appeal
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Mike Dudas is excited to see parallel processing on Ethereum, but “a lot has to happen before we’re going to see that”
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Blockchain is a “natural fit” in games based on open economies and user-generated content, says Wyatt
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Mumtaz insists Visa’s recent expansion of stablecoin settlements to Solana is good for all of crypto
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The recent news bridges the gap ‘from fundamentals to perceived value,’ says Hubble protocol’s Marius Ciubotariu
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While the general partner at Castle Island Ventures prefers to use USDC, he understands why people choose Tether
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The reason NFTS are different from fungibles, Huang says, is they’re “inherently emotional”
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The successful launch of layer-2 chains like Base has “increasingly validated” the modular blockchain thesis, Celestia’s Nick White says
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Asynchronous solutions create information asymmetry and break composability, Yakovenko says
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