2024 Was Solana's Best Year Yet. Can It Sustain the Momentum in 2025? - Ep. 755
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I don't think that Base long term can compete with Solana. I'm gonna be honest. Why do people consider Base to be competitive with Solana right now? Well, because it's fast and cheap. Okay. Is it how scalable is that infrastructure? How decentralized is it? Well, most when when you bring that up with, with folks today, oftentimes the answer you'll get is, well, users don't care about decentralization. Everyone, welcome to Unchained,
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for having us. Hi,
Laura. Good to be here. If
you're watching the video, you might notice that I'm not on screen. I fell last week and hit my head, and I'm in the process of healing, which is the point where, you know, I have, like, a little mini black eye, and there's other horrifying things on my face. So I'm gonna spare you and myself, and not put myself on camera. Alright. So Lillian Merck, Solana has had a monster year in so many ways. Not only was it home to one of the biggest phenomena of the year, which is pub.fund and the meme coin craze, but that frenzy really showed what the blockchain can do in terms of transactions per second
you wanna go first, Lily? Go
for it, Mart. Okay.
How does it feel to basically go through this year? Well, I would say, personally, I feel very paranoid because it feels as if the higher you go up and the more success you have, the more pressure, the more people, the more things you need to do. And so it's exciting, it's fun, but also very paranoid that we don't get complacent and keep shipping while still steering a much bigger ship. And I try to tell us a toy all the time. I'll be like, you know, stop working on the phone and come ship some code. We need some work to do here and whatnot. And so I personally mostly feel paranoid, somewhat v
And just to clarify, when you said that you, Kelle and Atilla Yacobekko, to not work on the phone, for most of us, that means, like, we're literally just working on our little devices, but you mean on the Solana Seeker, which is the next version of the Solana saga. Correct.
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