Tengji Zhang

TradFi companies are trying to package together financial instruments other TradFi companies feel comfortable buying so that they don't have to hold crypto due to various regulatory complications.

Solana

• Smart contract platform without  sharding or Layer 2s


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

Anatoly (Solana)

• "I would argue Bitcoin would not  survive that"

Towards the end of my tour at Cabin, Jonathan leaves me with two sayings that Cabin’s core contributors (like him and Rafa) are trying to distribute among the community: “The DAO provides” and “Manifest your role.” He also leaves me with a sticker of their logo.

Gives a brilliant and very cynical description of the Ponzi nature of yield farming in DeFi. Shed some light on how it is no so different from startups nowadays that keeps raising more money despite net negative return, as long as they have a grand narrative with a big promised profit at the end.

On-chain identity matter because current professional identities are uninformative and rely on trust instead of verification.

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