Sublime

tools developers and operators can implement today to ensure continued high performance

They are Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal, who were catapulted to crypto fame last year when their blockchain, Solana, became a stunning success, reaching a market cap of $33 billion and winning over investors like Andresseen Horowitz and Polychain Capital.

As its profile rose, so did the voices of critics, who argued that Solana wasn’t decentralized enough. Part of the problem was that to act as a “node” on the Solana blockchain—a computer that validates transactions—you need additional hardware, costing around $3500.

Translation: The founder of Solana was telling the founder of Ethereum that he had his back. For now at least, the forefathers remained united.

Audius, the web3 music streaming platform, builds on both Ethereum and Solana. It issues and manages the $AUDIO token on Ethereum, but it runs upvotes and likes, things that need high speed and low-cost to work as well as a Web2 counterpart, on Solana, powered by the same engine used by some of the most sophisticated finance professionals in the wo... See more

Solana

• Smart contract platform without  sharding or Layer 2s


• "Blockchain at NASDAQ speeds"  (actual original pitch deck tagline)