crypto is full of speculation
solana scales crypto
so, solana scales speculation
it's easy to fixate on the negative aspects of this ("hurr durr memecoins"), but there are important positives
we're seeing these play out right now, and they're happening so fast that they're hard to notice:
i) unparalleled performance and battle-proofing
ii) extremely rapid iteration on market structure and defi competition leading to better and better trading
everyone already knows about solana's performance but I suspect they're not aware how fast solana is improving upon itself
in the past few weeks alone:
- solana has increased blockspace 20% (with plans to double it)
- TPS has been up and to the right for months (with reverted txns going down and successful txns going up)
- frankendancer and doublezero have been gaining adoption rapidly
- we hit 104k TPS *burst* on *mainnet*
- median fee volatility has remained remarkably consistent (meaning users and apps get better UX and economics)
coming soon:
- finality getting 80x faster to just 100-150ms
- jito's bam enabling app controlled sequencing and private pre-execution txns
- helius shreds and new archival system speeding up reads across the network
- ptoken
there is simply nothing that comes even close to this right now
but we already know that solana = speed + scale, so I posit that ii) is the real underdog here and it is not something people have awaken to yet
Solana DeFi is getting better, extremely fast
look at the chart below — the volumes for SOL-Stables went from being dominated by 3 DEXes to ruthless competition between 9 of them
you can now get better pricing *onchain* than an actual CEX, spreads are literally less than half a bp
read that again ^
you have prop AMMs rising up and market making getting much more competitive; same with tg bots, trading interfaces, launchpads, searchers, and even routers
you have teams IPO'ing on the NASDAQ and receiving stables on Solana
teams are surpassing trillions in volumes, ATHs in TVL, and continue to lead all apps in crypto in revenues
where is Coinbase expanding to after adding support for their own chain for their new trading focus? Solana, the reason is obvious
and this is not to mention the countless teams who've started expanding to Solana or are silently starting their startups on Solana after seeing what's possible with teams like pump, bonk, axiom — or the upcoming DATs and institutional partnerships
all of this, going into Solana Breakpoint, where teams start sprinting faster and faster, partnerships ramp up, and attention spikes
if you want to have a sizeable impact on the future of global trading and internet markets, come join us on Solana