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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”

Helium Foundation CEO Abhay Kumar details the Helium Mobile platform as an example of a crypto-based product with mass market appeal

Mike Dudas is excited to see parallel processing on Ethereum, but “a lot has to happen before we’re going to see that”

Blockchain is a “natural fit” in games based on open economies and user-generated content, says Wyatt

Mumtaz insists Visa’s recent expansion of stablecoin settlements to Solana is good for all of crypto

The recent news bridges the gap ‘from fundamentals to perceived value,’ says Hubble protocol’s Marius Ciubotariu

The Web3 game is different because “everything is monetizable”

While the general partner at Castle Island Ventures prefers to use USDC, he understands why people choose Tether

The reason NFTS are different from fungibles, Huang says, is they’re “inherently emotional”

The successful launch of layer-2 chains like Base has “increasingly validated” the modular blockchain thesis, Celestia’s Nick White says

A centralized sequencer “makes a lot of sense” for many rollup applications

Asynchronous solutions create information asymmetry and break composability, Yakovenko says

Lead engineer Heaney says it’s all about making it as easy as possible to get to Drift

Despite all the ups and downs, the co-founder says the risks are worth it

The trader and influencer says casual apps like NFTs and Web3 gaming are the most effective avenues for adoption

A number of teams are working to enable zero-knowledge DeFi, but they’re all dealing with the same basic logic problem

The company uses Solana’s compressed NFT technology, making the creation of digital assets cheap enough to distribute to a vast audience

Minting millions of low-cost NFTs enables more digital asset use cases, Tensor co-founders say

“As squabbling as they are, they’re going to be the mammals that inherit the earth after the meteor hits the dinosaurs.”

The purpose of point systems is to bootstrap activity, but it’s also important to consider the long-term effects of such an incentive structure

Solana’s core network has seen “a ton of really incredible improvements” that will enable a “rebirth,” Armani Ferrante says

The platform can be used to send and receive money for investments, payments and subscriptions

Veteran VC Amy Wu from Lightspeed Venture Partners will lead a team of eight at the new fund

The initiative will help advance and develop new decentralized models for gaming as well as the tools developers need to build, Solana Ventures told Blockworks.