How did solana overcome the small block mind virus?

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Bridge from/to any of the supported chains…

Runes.

Soon the Kuzco army will be 100,000 strong

We are still early.

Shared state with consensus at the speed of light

🎉 It's time to upgrade! 🎉

Head over to kuzco.xyz/download to download Kuzco v0.0.2.

Release notes:
- Windows Desktop Support
- AMD GPU Support
- Improved CLI stability (no more crashing)
- Benchmarking (see how well your worker is performing)
- Entirely new hosting…

Don’t fade Armani Ferrante (hiring)

1. What a speech from Solana Legend 龍 🎒!

'We were ready to ride this to zero, we were ready to say goodbye.'

boolish on the Solana community 🔥

BREAKING: $1.46 TRILLION AUM INVESTMENT FIRM Franklin Templeton DIGITAL ASSETS ARM Franklin Templeton Digital Assets SAYS THAT ONCE Firedancer 🔥💃🏻 IS IMPLEMENTED, Solana'S TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES ARE EXPECTED TO BE SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER THAN THE CURRENT DESIGN - ACKNOWLEDGES THAT SCALABILITY MATTERS

Awesome to see Frictionless Capital’s genesis research piece on data propagation cited by Franklin Templeton Digital Assets

The Next Generation of Blockchain Performance: Beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum

Have huge respect for the Franklin Templeton team.

1/ GameShift x Google Cloud 🎮☁️

Solana Labs has partnered with Google Cloud to bring #GameShift to their customers and accelerate the integration of digital game assets and user-generated content into Web2 games, opening new opportunities for studios of all sizes. 🧵👇

Stablecoins and exchanges continue to be the most profitable businesses in crypto by far

Tether is making $1b a month

This is almost as much as $META

People used to go to the opera or theatre

Then they watched 30min TV shows

Then they watched 10 min YouTube videos

Now they watch 10-15 second TikToks and IG Reels

The fast dopamine culture is undeniable, and memecoins are the fastest vs HODLing and NFTs

The private deal landscape is becoming bifurcated into 2 main camps:

1) Hyped category projects raising at large FDV with plans to TGE in Q2 or Q3. Many of these founders are rushing to build a business around the token in the areas of RWA, DePIN, or Restaking.

2) More long…

I went to an institutional fund dinner where each person had to present a trade or chart they were excited about and it went

18-19 about Bitcoin or Ethereum
1-2 about Solana

Anecdotal, but still feels early 🤷‍♂️

Solana is not consensus amongst managers

Narrative violation

If the 2 best things to look forward to for $ETH are the ETF narrative and mean reversion after underperformance this is truly a sorry state of affairs

After flipping Ethereum dex volumes and most recently MEV revenue, the path forward for Solana is clear