Anatoly Yakovenko joins us for the most information-packed episode on Solana we've ever listened to. It's a masterclass exploration of Solana's architecture and roadmap. We discuss the Saga Chapter 2, fee market optimizations, Jito and MEV, validator profitability, Solana's end game, Firedancer and client diversity, token extensions and more!

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Timestamps

00:00 Introduction
01:01 Saga Chapter 2
10:00 Access Protocol Lab
11:01 DAS London Plug
11:58 Solana Fee Market Optimizations
20:41 Jito’s Role
22:42 Scheduler Upgrades (1.17 and 1.18)
25:17 Dynamic Write Lock Fees
29:55 Wen Slashing?
33:47 Solana Consensus and Formal Verification
36:41 The Value of Client Diversity: Liveness vs Safety
41:10 Are Solana Vote Transactions Just for Pumping TPS?
44:17 Solana’s End Game
47:59 Is Economic Security a Meme?
53:10 Validator Profitability and Inflation
58:32 Commoditized Data Layers and L2s
01:03:18 Firedancer Update
01:10:02 Solana’s New Token Extensions
01:13:46 Squads Protocol Feature Requests + Jacked Toly
01:18:18 Advice for Solana Founders

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Resources

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