Garrett
@garrett
If you're a new hire at a crypto company or just onboarding to crypto, then you should do these things on Day 1 as a bare minimum to get a good understanding of what its like to do stuff onchain 1) get an ENS (or Base name) and map it 2) do a swap on Uniswap (ETH / USDC) 3) Lend something via Aave (or Moonwell on Base 4) onboard to multiple L2s and bridge funds between them using relay.link 5) buy/mint any NFT 6) play around with fun apps on L2 (link in next cast) 7)Do all of this on Solana too (apps will be different)
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Kieran Daniels
@kdaniels.eth
1-6 are brilliant
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Garrett
@garrett
7 gives you perspective :)
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Kieran Daniels
@kdaniels.eth
Once you lose a bunch of money on Solana because of a network outage, then you wont recommend it to new people. The UX is 100 times better, but its just a time bomb until decentralization matters.
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Garrett
@garrett
Fair. How long ago was that when you lost money due to a network outage? Decentralization is a spectrum and Solana is more decentralized than most people like to admit (or understand)
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Kieran Daniels
@kdaniels.eth
I've been in crypto since 2017 and I've never used Solana. It's not a blockchain its a database with centralized nodes. SQL would do a better job. At the end of the day: 1. a state actor can and will shut it down at will, DDOS 2. the nodes are actually controlled by a group chat of whales and the price of entry is so steep that it prevents node distribution, at anytime that group chat can shut down the chain for their benefit or because an authority told them to 3. decentralization is a spectrum, but Solana is not decentralized at all
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