Some people know me as the Sherpa of Superteam, a global network of communities dedicated to onboarding talent to Solana.

Some people know me as the host of the Ecosystem Call, a monthly event where the Solana community gets together to celebrate its wins and hear alpha on what’s coming up next.

And some people know me as the guy with the big eyebrows who yells about staking your SOL.

https://reddit.com/link/189xjjb/video/monzgcyg844c1/player

No matter how you know me, I’m here to take any and all questions you have about what’s going on in the Solana Ecosystem. Feel free to ask about:

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  • Solana projects / sectors and what you should check out
  • Simple explanations of technical topics
  • How Superteam works and what we do
  • Getting grants from Superteam
  • How to do well at hackathons
  • Storytelling / business development / community design advice
  • Hot takes and hotter gossip about crypto generally
  • Anything else your heart desires

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And if you’re a Solana founder and want feedback about your project, post it below and I’ll give it a try!

PS - come to the last Ecosystem Call of the Year on Dec 7th (Thursday). We’ll have Mert from Helius, Armani from Backpack, Meow from Jupiter, Max from Mango, and Nom from BONK on the call to drop some alpha.

  • 0xMagellan@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    1. What are the latest technical innovations in the Solana ecosystem that you’re most excited about? Firedancer, Token2022, Private Solana Programs, something else entirely?

    2. What area do you see the most opportunity for the ecosystem to grow and/or improve in 2024? This could be in a specific use case, product type, or other more philosophical or ideological way - totally open to your interpretation.

    • kash_dhanda@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      What are the latest technical innovations in the Solana ecosystem that you’re most excited about? Firedancer, Token2022, Private Solana Programs, something else entirely?

      Excited about all of these actually!

      But I still think priority fee markets is underappreciated. It’s incredible to see massive mints or days of heavy traction for e.g. DeFi, Pyth airdrops, etc not increasing gas fees or slowing down the network.

      Every chain should have Fee Markets to save their users. Solana already does, and it’s awesome.

      Token2022 I’ll be more excited about once they rename it (I like SuperToken but obviously I’m biased)

    • kash_dhanda@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      What area do you see the most opportunity for the ecosystem to grow and/or improve in 2024? This could be in a specific use case, product type, or other more philosophical or ideological way - totally open to your interpretation.

      Not in order:

      1. Talent Onboarding: how do we get Solana to become the chain-of-choice for high-caliber founders? Right now, most of the academic inflows come to Ethereum or other ecosystems, and Solana just doesn’t have the mindshare we need among top tier founders-to-be. This is particularly true in emerging markets.
      2. Product Thinking: We now have the on/off ramps, the wallets, the mobile experiences, etc for products to actually break through. I want to see more teams devoting resources to marketing, to UX testing, etc than to engineering (please dont’ kill me if you’re a dev). I’d love to see Dean’s List get 10x bigger and help 10x more projects refine their products.
      3. Thought Leadership. Related to point #1. We’re actively working on this at Superteam, so stay tuned, but broadly how do we get high quality thinkers to spend more time thinkign and publishing about Solana. This includes both technical gibberish and non-technical gibberish. For example, I’d love to see a steady output of quality writing about DeFi that is uniquely enabled by Solana, or by consumer apps that take advantage of Solana’s speed, etc.