The Solana End Game | Anatoly Yakovenko & Lucas Bruder

This podcast episode explores the challenges facing the Solana ecosystem, including networking issues, economic challenges, and technical limitations. The speakers discuss the concept of stake-weighted quality of service (QoS) and its limitations. They also highlight the implementation of patches to improve network performance and address spam issues. The podcast delves into priority fees, the potential benefits and challenges of dynamic block size and async execution, and the advantages of replayable execution. The speakers discuss state management, restaking, and miner extractable value (MEV) on Solana. They conclude by discussing the future of Solana with the implementation of Firedancer and other improvements.