Tengji Zhang

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.

Solana

• Smart contract platform without  sharding or Layer 2s


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

Stable coin can have advantage over fiat money in the long term, especially in use cases like international transfer.

Avalanche is Chicago: trying to be the next Wall Street, but newer, cheaper, more aggressive. It specializes in finance and trading. 

Proof of Humanity: Prove unique identity associated with each individual is necessary to protect against sybil attack.

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.

Areas of on-chain identity landscape: Ownership, Aggregators, Governance Participation, Bounties, Data Rails, Proof of Humanity, Endorsement, Profiles