Welcome to @toly, co-founder of Solana!  

He’s kindly agreed to do an AMA. Reply with your questions. :)

I am an operating systems nerd.  I got nerd sniped in the late 90s by the open source movement and linux.  It's just been super fun working one these hard systems problems for the last 20 years.

customer support @supercast

trying to sound smart /doingnumbers

It's the developers! Solana is an OS.  My parents should never care about what operating system they use, but they should love the applications built on top of it.  So our goal is to accelerate the devs as much as possible.

who is solana target customer?

did it  change from the beginning to now?

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

/quilibrium

Lack of interfaces between programs.  ABIv2 work is trying to fix it.

What is the largest architectural design choice in Solana you've made that you wish you could go back and revise?

ceo boost studios, core contributor of /boost

I wish solana builders always shipped open source first, and had a roadmap towards immutability

for eth folks, that every 2 years hardware can do 2x more, and that the technology they are using should do 2x more.

What's one thing Solana builders can learn from Ethereum builders and Ethereum builders can learn from Solana builders?

initial contributor at @interface | join /interface, /walkthewalk & /maps

What are your favourite 3-5 apps on Solana that you use regularly?

founding eng @deform, prev: @alchemyplatform

1. a bunch of consumers use a web3 app
2. no clue on share, but payments, then maybe something like depin/helium
3. I think last cycle was the transition from cypherpunks to hoodies, and this one will be hoodies to suits :)

What's your vision for the crypto/web3/blockchain industry over the next 7-10 years?

By 2030:
- definition of "success"?
- biggest use cases and rough market share of each use case / vertical?
- culture of the industry?

00s and 10s Moores law was in hyperdrive for mobile chips.  so it was really hard to keep up, felt like every year was a 2x improvement in hand held compute. It was technically very challenging and I had the opportunity to go really deep on design with awesome folks.  Surfing is good for software architecture :)

What is an under appreciated aspect of Qualcomm internal culture/tech?

stuff that reduces costs for consumers.  like helium.  find something that people overpay for and try to build a protocol around it to make a cheaper/faster version of that product.

what's the business model that you would like to see more of in crypto? (eg one that could be used by solana wallets)

I think @dwr.eth's vision is way bigger and wants to include every possible crypto user.

do you think farcaster is too eth-tribal? what is your favorite place for talking to solana devs?

cofounder /ethglobal, team /op-stack, /canada native 

liamhorne.com

oof, man.  so much technical debt.  I wish we could have shipped with asynchronous execution from the start.

Whats the biggest thing you’d change about Solana if you were to redesign it from scratch today?

VC analyst investing in HPC and Life Sciences

I write — http://pursuit.beehiiv.com

cs & english @harvard | 🇺🇸🇰🇷

find an app that would save them money.  don't pick the kernel, pitch the application

What should my elevator pitch to my parents be re: why they should learn about and use Solana?

The only problem is externality pricing.

Building https://negationgame.com

consumer hardware is really really really competitive.  Network effects require single player benefits to get going.

what was one of your most valuable failures? what did you learn from it?

CTO sonsofcrypto.com 👨‍💻
- buidling revolutionary #web3wallet 🪙 
- embodiment of #crypto ideals 
- yield #ETH

Host linktr.ee/web3trenchespodcast

stability, single code base.  Firedancer folks are building the second client. So it's all in progress, just wish it could be faster :)

What is the biggest challenge Solana is facing and how are you attacking it ?

Challenges that you @toly and your team are focused on?



i be on cloutedmind.twitter. rn doing stuff with /imf

Nothing is stopping devs from trying L2s, except that fees on the L1 are so low that a general purpose L2 is not likely to be commercially viable.  

There is a parato efficient system that is single giant atomic state machine that is synchronized at the speed of light. Thats what I want to build

do you see solana moving towards a more rollup/L2 based approach in the future

for any reasons including execution advantages or zkps etc

looking for AI tools good enough to generate js boilerplate and unit and integration tests for solana devs.

How are you thinking about AI in the context of Solana?

whats your vision for solana? where do you see it in the next 5/10/50 years?

Founder @drakula (iPhone: apple.co/3U6Cr9M or drakula.app), previously created $ALEX.

moving is really hard.  I think apps that maximize growth across crypto will support multiple chains.  I expect native solana teams to try to compete as well.

Hope I’m not too late!

Toly, please paint us an optimistic scenario for Solana app/dev ecosystem success. Do you get Farcaster & other EVM apps to move, or just get new ones to go viral? What scenario is the most likely?