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Bangerz, a pseudonymous X creator who works at a Solana NFT startup, shows how cringe can be a winning social strategy

Plus, Andrew Tate has announced he wants to crash Solana

“Code” will be one of the first Solana-based projects to open source its code using the MIT license

We can’t all have impeccable taste in music — some of us need to spend the next 2 weeks diversifying our listening experience

“Please stop looking at TVL as a useful metric if you’re at all a serious investor,” Jain insists

As is often the case, the roast begins with laughs — but quickly turns to hard truths

Innovative blockchain activity is moving to “things that really hit the end user,” Monegro says

The crux of the matter is the definition of scaling, Charbonneau explains

Blockchain competitors are “building their own little empires,” Fiskante says

The EVM will not retain 95% market dominance, Mumtaz says. “That’s just never happened”

Garcia-Martinez says Spindl uses blockchains to present a “view of the world the marketer cares about”

High volume and high speed — two desirable characteristics that rarely find themselves in the same room as blockchain technology

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”

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