Zak Cole, a core contributor to Canto, joins Bankless to answer: "What's good with Canto?" ------ 📣 MetaMask Learn  https://bankless.cc/metamaskshow  ------  JOIN BANKLESS PREMIUM:  https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/subscribe  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS:  KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://bankless.cc/kraken  UNISWAP | ON-CHAIN MARKETPLACE https://bankless.cc/uniswap  ️ ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum   EARNIFI | CLAIM YOUR UNCLAIMED AIRDROPS https://bankless.cc/earnifi   ------ Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 7:30 Canto Brings It 9:40 What is Canto? 12:40 Nationalizing Apps 16:00 CSR and Market Forces 20:10 Funding Open Source 22:45 Infrastructure 26:00 Native Apps 29:55 The Stablecoin 33:40 The History of Canto 37:30 Launching on Cosmos 42:10 Botched Ads 44:25 Friction Points 48:00 Founder Culture 54:00 RIP Anon 58:00 Community 1:01:30 Future of Canto 1:03:30 Get Involved 1:04:30 Chatting ------ Resources: Zak on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0xzak  Canto: https://canto.io/  Variant Blog Post: https://variant.fund/articles/canto-a-layer-1-incentive-experiment/  ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures 

✨ DEBRIEF | Unpacking the episode: https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/debrief-anatoly-solana  ------ ✨ COLLECTIBLES | Collect this episode: https://collectibles.bankless.com/mint  ------ In today’s episode, we have the creator of Solana and the Co-founder of Solana Labs, Anatoly Yakovenko. We brought on Anatoly to ask: is Solana going to make it? Price is down. A major public backer…SBF is down for the count…will Solana make it? Will it survive the bear market? Anatoly shares his thoughts. In addition, he also shares the full Solana story, back to its earliest inflection points all the way to the current state of Solana today. ------ 📣 MetaMask Learn https://bankless.cc/metamaskshow  ------ 🚀 JOIN BANKLESS PREMIUM: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/subscribe  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://bankless.cc/kraken  🦄UNISWAP | ON-CHAIN MARKETPLACE https://bankless.cc/uniswap  ⚖️ ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum  🚁 EARNIFI | CLAIM YOUR UNCLAIMED AIRDROPS https://bankless.cc/earnifi  ------ Topics Covered 0:00 Intro 7:58 2022 & 2023 10:05 Solana Origins 14:40 Passage of Time as Data 25:30 Bandwidth Trade-offs 29:29 SOL as Money? 32:04 Security 36:24 Continuing the Solana Story 44:10 Early Day Solana Vibes 48:20 Solana Growth Acceleration 51:31 2021 Solana Price 53:12 The Crypto VC Narrative 54:37 Solana Haters 59:55 FTX & SBF 1:07:16 Solana Critique 1:09:35 Cultural Debt 1:14:46 The State of the Solana Community 1:19:37 The Future of Solana 1:24:36 Solana VM 1:26:39 Will Solana Make It? 1:31:15 Final Solana Questions Closing & Disclaimers ------ Resources: Anatoly https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko  Firedancer https://jumpcrypto.com/firedancer/  ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures