Tengji Zhang

Illia (NEAR)

• NFTs don't work well with bridging

Solana

• Smart contract platform without  sharding or Layer 2s


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

Solana is LA. It’s big and sprawling and cheap. It is less decentralized. But some applications like games and NFTs do not need very high level of decentralization.

NEAR is San Francisco — built for web3 techies who believe sharding is the only way forward towards scalability in the long-term.

Anatoly (Solana)

• "I would argue Bitcoin would not  survive that"

“If you look at a typical company, the founders and investors own 80-90%,” he goes on. “All of the employees own the other 10-20%. It doesn't make sense. It's not who is producing most of the value. We wanted to flip that model on its head. With the DAO, the community controls 80% of the tokens; the founders and strategic partners control 20%.”