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Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning
Nikolai Yakovenko: the Singularity is not here

Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2025 67:00


  On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib catches up with Nikolai Yakovenko about the state of AI at the end of 2024. Yakovenko is a former professional poker player,and research scientist at Google, Twitter and Nvidia. With a decade in computer science, Yakovenko has been at the forefront of the large-language-model revolution that has given rise to multi-billion dollar companies like OpenAI, Anthropic and Perplexity and hundreds of smaller startups. Currently, he is the CEO of DeepNewz, an AI-driven news startup that leverages OpenAI's latest model. Full disclosure: Razib actively uses and recommends the service and is an advisor to the company.  Razib and Yakovenko first review what makes the last few years special, the rise of large-language-models on top of neural network architecture of transformers. Yakovenkoi discusses how far they've come since OpenAI released ChatGPT to the public in the fall of 2022, and how people have been using the underlying technology to develop applications atop it. Despite predictions of mass unemployment, Razib points out that two years later America is at full employment, and only niche fields like translation have been impacted. In contrast, Yakovenko points out that most software developers use artificial intelligence in some form to aid in their daily engineering work, noting the possibility that the AI revolution is integrating itself seamlessly as a utility for preexistent jobs. They also discuss the fact that though AI is a booming field, only one brand-name company has so far emerged in the industry, OpenAI. Though they agree that the current hype cycle is now abating, it is clear that the major investments in the field like data centers will continue from major players as AI-driven applications like self-driving cars become more and more mainstream.

Mainstreet Halifax \x96 CBC Radio
Canada's guideline on managing opioid use updated to expand first like treatments

Mainstreet Halifax \x96 CBC Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2024 11:19


The guideline is published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The lead author on this updated is Igor Yakovenko. He is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and the Department of Psychiatry at Dalhousie University, where he studies addictive behaviours. Mainstreet's Alex Guye. To hear more about the update and what changes were made to its recommendations, Alex Guye gave professor Yakovenko a call. Here's part of their conversation.

Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning
Nikolai Yakovenko: the stillborn promise of the LLM age

Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2024 76:49


On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Nikolai Yakovenko, a returning guest to the podcast, about his new AI startup, DeepNewz, and the state of the LLM-driven AI landscape circa the summer of 2024, where we are in relation to earlier expectations and where we might be in the next decade. Yakovenko is an AI researcher who has worked at Google, Twitter and Nvidia, and is now a serial entrepreneur. He is also a competitive poker player. He currently lives in Miami, Florida, though he travels frequently to America's numerous “ideaopolises,” from San Francisco, Austin, Boston to New York City. Razib and Yakovenko discuss the reality that in the middle of 2024 here they are again, chatting about the world on a podcast, a scenario not everyone anticipated in the heady days of December 2022/January 2023 when the more overheated visiony tech  imaginations swirled with expectations that the advent of artificial general intelligence, the “machine god,” was imminent. Though OpenAI's GPT 3/3.5 was a leap ahead of GPT 2, GPT 4/4o has been a less spectacular advance. One of the major unforeseen aspects of the LLM-based framework in AI has been the returns to scale in terms of training data, but the last year and a half have not seen any great quantum jumps. The paradigm-shifting revolution that was promised has not arrived. Though AI has increased productivity on the margins, and certain artistic professions and translators have been decimated, overall, it is still a technology with more promise than realized outcomes. Yakovenko points out that AI-driven music creation produces serviceable outputs, but not great masterpieces. To test this, Razib used Suno to create a song “Nikolai's Dream” within 5 minutesmid-conversation. Though mildly catchy, Suno's lyrical styling elicited more amusement than awe. Yakovenko notes the importance of the LMSYS Chatbot Arena Leaderboard to get a sense of the performance of the various LLM projects. Using the feedback of participants, it produced an updated ranking of chatbot performance. The top ten models are from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and a Chinese vendor. Yakovenko notes the compression, with a very tight distribution of scores at the top. It turns out that OpenAI is not running away from their competition contra  its brand visibility likely being two orders of magnitude greater than Anthropic's. This brings to the fore the reality that these AI technologies have been viewed as both scientific research projects and potential business and consumer products. Finally, Yakovenko and Razib talk about DeepNewz. While most LLM-based chatbots tend to exclude very recent data and events, Yakovenko had the idea of creating DeepNewz to aggregate and assemble the breaking news in various categories like science and sports. Instead of a top-down query of news in various categories, the idea behind DeepNewz is to both cater to your preferences in terms of what you might find interesting, but also to surface stories that you might not know you might be interested in, adding more value. Related: David McKay: AI and the end of the world as we know it and Nick Cassimatis: fear not AI, this too shall pass.  

The Gwart Show
Was The Rollup Roadmap A Mistake? With Anatoly Yakovenko

The Gwart Show

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2024 87:31


Gwart interviews Solana Phone CEO Anatoly Yakovenko to talk Eth, monolithic architecture and more. Subscribe to our newsletter: https://blockspace.media/

Lightspeed
Anatoly Yakovenko: A Deep Dive Into Solana 2.0

Lightspeed

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2024 80:23


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! - - 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 - - Access Protocol is the best way to discover premium content from crypto's top publishers and independent creators. Access Protocol has reinvented content monetization, meaning you can access this premium content without endless ads or hard-to-cancel subscriptions.  Access Protocol is crypto-native, built on Solana, and already has 225K users reading content, receiving NFTs and interacting with creators! Use this link to check out Access Protocol today:https://bit.ly/AccessProtocol_Lightspeed - - Join us at DAS (Digital Asset Summit) in London this March! DAS is the #1 institutional conference in crypto, hosted by Blockworks. Use the link below to learn more, and use LIGHTSPEED10 to get 10% off your ticket! Sign up now because the price goes up every month. See you there! Learn more + get your ticket here: https://blockworks.co/event/digital-asset-summit-2024-london/home - - Follow Anatoly: https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko Follow Mert: https://twitter.com/0xMert_ Follow Garrett: https://twitter.com/GarrettHarper_ Follow Lightspeed: https://twitter.com/Lightspeedpodhq Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/43o3Syk Subscribe on Apple: https://apple.co/3OhiXgV Subscribe on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3OkF7PD Get top market insights and the latest in crypto news. Subscribe to Blockworks Daily Newsletter: https://blockworks.co/newsletter/ - - Resources Anatoly on Lightspeed https://spoti.fi/4bacqhA - -  Disclaimers: Lightspeed was kickstarted by a grant from the Solana Foundation. Nothing said on Lightspeed is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Mert, Garrett and our guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed.

Chain Reaction
Solana Mobile is just getting started (w/ Anatoly Yakovenko)

Chain Reaction

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 25, 2024 27:47


For this week's episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder of Solana Labs, the technology company that aims to help grow the ecosystem for the layer-1 blockchain Solana.The conversation focused on Solana Mobile and its flagship web3 Android smartphone, Saga, which sold out in mid-December, as well as its new phone, Chapter 2 – which was announced last week. Within its first 30 hours Chapter 2 had over 30,000 preorders – signaling a lot of demand for the next generation Android-based phone. At the time of recording, Anatoly shared there were over 40,000 preorders.Anatoly and Jacquelyn discussed the long road to selling out Saga, how important rewards and developers are and the nitty gritty details for Chapter 2. They also dove into the company's strategy and long-term mission of going up against Google and Apple app stores and how long it may take for Solana Mobile to breakeven.If you need a refresher on Solana Mobile's Saga phone, we've got you covered:Buying frenzy for Solana Mobile's second phone drives preorders sky-highRing ring, Solana's web3-focused Saga phone is callingSolana's web3 phone is an ‘opportunity' against Google and Apple, co-founder says(0:00) Solana mobile background information(1:51) Launching Solana Mobile(6:17) Benefits of building on the DApp sotre(8:14) Saga phone and developer revenue(12:46) Reward models for adoption(15:07) Launching Chapter 2(23:28) Solana's Mobile Strategy(24:35) Crypto and digital self custody25:52) What's next for Solana Mobile   Chain Reaction comes out every Thursday at 12:00 p.m. ET, so be sure to subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your favorite pod platform to keep up with the action.

Empire
Solana 2024: Fee Markets, SVM Economics, and Saga Phone | Anatoly Yakovenko & Ben Sparango

Empire

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2024 93:32


In today's episode Jason and Santi are joined by Solana Labs founder and CEO Anatoly Yakovenko and Ben Sparango, the Head of Strategic Business Development. The duo has returned to discuss Solana's progress beyond the FTX fallout. They dive into Solana's priorities around scaling, fees, and alignment incentives between builders and validators. Anatoly elaborates on the network effects of open-sourcing core technology like the SVM, while Ben highlights mobile adoption and NFTs as driving new crypto demand. They debate the trajectory for permissionless finance to run mainstream markets on Solana, and whether the Saga phone can make a dent in Apple and Google's distribution monopolies. We hope you enjoy! - - Follow Anatoly: https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko Follow Jason: https://twitter.com/JasonYanowitz Follow Santiago: https://twitter.com/santiagoroel Follow Empire: https://twitter.com/theempirepod Subscribe on YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/4fdhhb2j Subscribe on Apple: https://tinyurl.com/mv4frfv7 Subscribe on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/wbaypprw Get top market insights and the latest in crypto news. Subscribe to Blockworks Daily Newsletter: https://blockworks.co/newsletter/ - - Arbitrum is a game-changer for daily Ethereum's users and developers, offering top applications and lower fees. As the leading scaling solution with 600+ apps, explore Arbitrum's Portal to find your perfect fit. Interact with the home of DeFi, a flourishing NFT and creator ecosystem, and a rapidly growing Web3 gaming hub – Arbitrum has it all.  Get started at: portal.arbitrum.io  - - Harpie is the most advanced on-chain security solution for monitoring and protecting your crypto wallet from theft in real time. Harpie detects, blocks, and recovers compromised assets from malicious transactions before they execute, and is the only security tool to also protect users from off-chain signature attacks like the recent Ledger Connect Kit exploit. Secure your wallet for free at harpie.io. - - Join us at DAS (Digital Asset Summit) in London this March! DAS is the #1 institutional conference in crypto, hosted by Blockworks. Use the link below to learn more, and use EMPIRE10 to get 10% off your ticket! Sign up now because the price goes up every month. See you there! Learn more + get your ticket here: https://blockworks.co/event/digital-asset-summit-2024-london/home - - Timestamps (02:00) The Solana Recovery Post SBF (10:30) Priorities for Solana Development (22:14) The Next Gen L1 Case for Builders (24:56) Economics of the SVM (34:17) State of Solana Fee Market (48:18) Inflation & Staking Dynamics (51:17) DAS 2024 (52:32) Arbitrum Ad (53:18) Harpie Ad (54:32) Open Source & Security Approach (01:02:02) Governance & Alignment (01:12:25) The Value of Permisionless Systems (01:19:04) Saga Mobile Strategy & Potential (01:25:14) Remaining Moonshot Ideas - - Disclaimer: Nothing said on Empire is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Santiago, Jason, and our guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed.

Late Confirmation by CoinDesk
UNCHAINED: Anatoly Yakovenko on Solana's Astounding Recovery and Its Future Plans

Late Confirmation by CoinDesk

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2023 58:36


Things looked bleak for Solana after the collapse of FTX. Anatoly Yakovenko explains how the blockchain rebounded so successfully that SOL became the best-performing top crypto in 2023. Solana's native token SOL has been one of the best-performing cryptos of the year, up more than 500% so far, but you wouldn't have guessed that would be the case given how closely tied the blockchain was to FTX, which held huge amounts of SOL and was a big supporter of the platform. The blockchain also experienced numerous outages in 2022. But Anatoly Yakovenko, Solana's co-founder, says the discipline imposed by FTX's collapse, as well as improvements to the technology, have made Solana stronger. On this episode of Unchained, Yakovenko talks about the impact of FTX's collapse, his early impressions of Sam Bankman-Fried, the SEC's designation of SOL as a security, how entrepreneurs are leaving the U.S. because of the regulatory risk, SOL's share of the stablecoin market, and why he thinks it's inevitable that finance will eventually run on something like Solana. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Stitcher, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform.Show highlights | How the Solana ecosystem weathered the FTX crisisHow FTX's collapse was like ripping off a band-aid for SolanaAnatoly's initial impression of SBF as a “super genius”Why, despite SOL's strong 2023 performance, the Solana ecosystem hasn't experienced a corresponding growth in active developersWhat factors Anatoly believes contribute to the relatively low number of daily active wallet addresses in SolanaHow Solana addressed and rectified the outage issues that were so frequent in previous yearsWhy Anatoly draws a parallel between Ethereum and Windows 95, and Solana and Windows 2000Why he's not worried about Jump Crypto building a client for the blockchainThe ongoing debate within Solana on open-source versus closed-source culture, and the potential for future shiftsHow the Solana Foundation is handling the SEC's classification of SOL as a securityWhether there's a trend of developers and founders relocating from the United States in search of a more supportive ecosystemWhy Solana holds a low market share of stablecoins across various blockchains, and the implications of this trendWhy Anatoly considers trading volume a more critical metric than Total Value Locked (TVL) in assessing blockchain successHow Web3 gaming has been flourishing on SolanaWhy Anatoly is confident that DeFi will find its rightful place on the Solana networkThe future plans for the Saga phone after its market challengesWhat Anatoly thinks is the number one focus for Solana for the near termThank you to our sponsors! LayerZero | Popcorn Network | Arbitrum FoundationGuest | Anatoly Yakovenko, Co-founder of Solana LabsPrevious appearance on Unchained: Will Solana Be the Execution Layer and Ethereum the Settlement Layer?Previous appearance on The Chopping Block: Anatoly Yakovenko on Why Solana Is Building the SAGALinks | Unchained: Solana Saga review Decrypt: Mad Lads NFTs Hit All-Time High as Backpack Taps FTX Lawyer for Exchange Launch Op-ed by Anatoly on Fortune: Solana co-founder: 'To keep the next great American founder in America, Congress must regulate crypto. But first lawmakers should learn how it works'-Unchained Podcast is Produced by Laura Shin Media, LLC. Distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Michele Musso and Executive Producer is Jared Schwartz. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Unchained
Anatoly Yakovenko on Solana's Astounding Recovery and Its Future Plans - Ep. 578

Unchained

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2023 61:18


Solana's native token SOL has been one of the best-performing cryptos of the year, up more than 500% so far, but you wouldn't have guessed that would be the case given how closely tied the blockchain was to FTX, which held huge amounts of SOL and was a big supporter of the platform. The blockchain also experienced numerous outages in 2022. But Anatoly Yakovenko, Solana's co-founder, says the discipline imposed by FTX's collapse, as well as improvements to the technology, have made Solana stronger.  On this episode of Unchained, Yakovenko talks about the impact of FTX's collapse, his early impressions of Sam Bankman-Fried, the SEC's designation of SOL as a security, how entrepreneurs are leaving the U.S. because of the regulatory risk, SOL's share of the stablecoin market, and why he thinks it's inevitable that finance will eventually run on something like Solana.  Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Stitcher, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform. Show highlights: How the Solana ecosystem weathered the FTX crisis How FTX's collapse was like ripping off a band-aid for Solana Anatoly's initial impression of SBF as a “super genius” Why, despite SOL's strong 2023 performance, the Solana ecosystem hasn't experienced a corresponding growth in active developers What factors Anatoly believes contribute to the relatively low number of daily active wallet addresses in Solana How Solana addressed and rectified the outage issues that were so frequent in previous years Why Anatoly draws a parallel between Ethereum and Windows 95, and Solana and Windows 2000 Why he's not worried about Jump Crypto building a client for the blockchain The ongoing debate within Solana on open-source versus closed-source culture, and the potential for future shifts How the Solana Foundation is handling the SEC's classification of SOL as a security Whether there's a trend of developers and founders relocating from the United States in search of a more supportive ecosystem Why Solana holds a low market share of stablecoins across various blockchains, and the implications of this trend Why Anatoly considers trading volume a more critical metric than Total Value Locked (TVL) in assessing blockchain success How Web3 gaming has been flourishing on Solana Why Anatoly is confident that DeFi will find its rightful place on the Solana network The future plans for the Saga phone after its market challenges What Anatoly thinks is the number one focus for Solana for the near term Thank you to our sponsors! LayerZero Popcorn Network Arbitrum Foundation Guest: Anatoly Yakovenko, Co-founder of Solana Labs Previous appearance on Unchained: Will Solana Be the Execution Layer and Ethereum the Settlement Layer? Previous appearance on Unchained: Can Solana Seize Marketshare From Ethereum With Serum? Previous appearance on The Chopping Block: Anatoly Yakovenko on Why Solana Is Building the SAGA Links Unchained: Solana Saga review  Decrypt: Mad Lads NFTs Hit All-Time High as Backpack Taps FTX Lawyer for Exchange Launch  Op-ed by Anatoly on Fortune: Solana co-founder: 'To keep the next great American founder in America, Congress must regulate crypto. But first lawmakers should learn how it works' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Unchained
Anatoly Yakovenko on Solana's Astounding Recovery and Its Future Plans - Ep. 578

Unchained

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2023 61:18


Unchained is running its annual survey to better serve you. Please answer our annual survey here. Solana's native token SOL has been one of the best-performing cryptos of the year, up more than 500% so far, but you wouldn't have guessed that would be the case given how closely tied the blockchain was to FTX, which held huge amounts of SOL and was a big supporter of the platform. The blockchain also experienced numerous outages in 2022. But Anatoly Yakovenko, Solana's co-founder, says the discipline imposed by FTX's collapse, as well as improvements to the technology, have made Solana stronger.  On this episode of Unchained, Yakovenko talks about the impact of FTX's collapse, his early impressions of Sam Bankman-Fried, the SEC's designation of SOL as a security, how entrepreneurs are leaving the U.S. because of the regulatory risk, SOL's share of the stablecoin market, and why he thinks it's inevitable that finance will eventually run on something like Solana.  Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Stitcher, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform. Show highlights: How the Solana ecosystem weathered the FTX crisis How FTX's collapse was like ripping off a band-aid for Solana Anatoly's initial impression of SBF as a “super genius” Why, despite SOL's strong 2023 performance, the Solana ecosystem hasn't experienced a corresponding growth in active developers What factors Anatoly believes contribute to the relatively low number of daily active wallet addresses in Solana How Solana addressed and rectified the outage issues that were so frequent in previous years Why Anatoly draws a parallel between Ethereum and Windows 95, and Solana and Windows 2000 Why he's not worried about Jump Crypto building a client for the blockchain The ongoing debate within Solana on open-source versus closed-source culture, and the potential for future shifts How the Solana Foundation is handling the SEC's classification of SOL as a security Whether there's a trend of developers and founders relocating from the United States in search of a more supportive ecosystem Why Solana holds a low market share of stablecoins across various blockchains, and the implications of this trend Why Anatoly considers trading volume a more critical metric than Total Value Locked (TVL) in assessing blockchain success How Web3 gaming has been flourishing on Solana Why Anatoly is confident that DeFi will find its rightful place on the Solana network The future plans for the Saga phone after its market challenges What Anatoly thinks is the number one focus for Solana for the near term Thank you to our sponsors! LayerZero Popcorn Network Arbitrum Foundation Guest: Anatoly Yakovenko, Co-founder of Solana Labs Previous appearance on Unchained: Will Solana Be the Execution Layer and Ethereum the Settlement Layer? Previous appearance on Unchained: Can Solana Seize Marketshare From Ethereum With Serum? Previous appearance on The Chopping Block: Anatoly Yakovenko on Why Solana Is Building the SAGA Links Unchained: Solana Saga review  Decrypt: Mad Lads NFTs Hit All-Time High as Backpack Taps FTX Lawyer for Exchange Launch  Op-ed by Anatoly on Fortune: Solana co-founder: 'To keep the next great American founder in America, Congress must regulate crypto. But first lawmakers should learn how it works' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning
Nikolai Yakovenko: OpenAI in chaos, the future of artificial intelligence and effective accelerationism

Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2023 83:57


Today, Razib interviews Nikolai Yakovenko, already a three-time guest on his podcasts (A Twitter engineer on machine learning and his former company's prospects, GPT-3 and the rise of the thinking machines and AI and Biology). An artificial intelligence researcher based in Miami who has worked at Google and Nvidia, Yakovenko is the founder of DeepNews where he currently works. Razib and Yakovenko talk about the economic, technological and socio-political implications of the leadership turmoil at OpenAI, the $86 billion dollar company that has supercharged the field of artificial intelligence with their product, ChatGPT. Yakovenko digs deep into the nuts and bolts of how artificial intelligence works today, from transformers to GPUs and different compute needs of training vs. inference. They also discuss the importance of shipping products at a tech company, in contrast to simply publishing papers as the measure of productivity in academic basic science research for example, and how on this count OpenAI succeeded where Google has not. Razib asks Yakovenko if OpenAI might now fall behind Google, whose corporate risk-aversion had squandered it an early lead in technology like transformers. Now that OpenAI is seized by such organizational chaos as to stop development, Google may have time to catch up. Yakovenko also talks about the likelihood of artificial intelligence becoming a corporate oligopoly due to the field's colossal compute needs. Finally, Razib and Yakovenko address the cleavages that arose at OpenAI due to the board's adherence to effective altruism, while leadership and employees instead charted a shift toward effective accelerationism.

Tech Path Podcast
Solana Firedancer Launches! | MASSIVE Breakpoint Updates + RECAP

Tech Path Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2023 21:14


Firedancer aims to overhaul each component of Solana's existing architecture. If Firedancer is successfully implemented, it could offer several benefits. These include advancing the DeFi sector by reducing latency and enabling high-throughput Web2 applications to function on-chain. Meanwhile, Solana also announced integrations with Amazon AWS and Google Cloud services.00:00 intro00:17 Firedancer Launches Testnet01:57 Solana Speed Improvements03:15 Firedancer Speed Test04:28 Release Timeline05:44 Decentralization07:08 Carbon Footprint09:14 ESG Funds 10:15 Compressed NFTs11:43 Amazon & Google13:27 Tokenized Assets15:33 Visa x Solana17:06 Solana Paybands17:55 Visa Doomed?20:07 $SOL Price & Sentiment20:50 outro#Crypto #breakpoint2023 #solana ~SSolana Firedancer Launches!

Tech Path Podcast
Solana Payments Updates! Taylor Swift Incoming? | Breakpoint Day 2 Recap

Tech Path Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2023 20:21


On this episode, we're recapping the latest updates and reveals from Solana Breakpoint 2023 event around the category of retail & enterprise merchant payments & loyalty. Are we about to see mega mainstream adoption?~This episode is sponsored by Tangem~Tangem ➜ https://bit.ly/TangemPBNUse Code: "PBN" for Additional Discounts!00:00 intro00:22 Sponsor: Tangem Wallet01:11 Shopify Solana Lies02:33 Shopify Alternative03:15 Venta Playband Payments03:43 Merchant Payment Solutions05:39 Metaplex Fees06:49 Enterprise Onboarding07:14 intel Events Partnership08:54 SocialFi Exploding11:28 NFT Ticketing Launches!13:59 Food Ordering & Loyalty15:36 Ticketmaster Killer16:14 We Need Taylor Swift17:12 Taylor Swift AMC Concert18:09 Taylor is Pro-Web318:43 Solana Revenue19:25 Adoption Curve19:53 outro#Solana #Crypto #taylorswift ~Solana Payments Updates!

Empire
Solana's End Game with Anatoly Yakovenko | 1000x

Empire

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2023 58:32


Follow 1000x On Spotify: https://spoti.fi/45htDli Follow 1000x On Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3Kz0Bpw Follow 1000x On YouTube: https://bit.ly/3DNc5C6 -- In today's episode of 1000x Jonah and Avi welcome Anatoly Yakovenko to the show for a discussion on Solana's end game. After a tweet from Jonah questioning the future of Solana, we thought why not invite Anatoly himself to the show to explain Solana's ultimate vision. We deep dive into finding crypto's perfect use case, disrupting legacy financial rails, the challenges of building through a bear market & crypto's killer use case. To hear all this & more, you'll have to tune in! -- Follow Anatoly: https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko Follow Avi: https://twitter.com/AviFelman Follow Jonah: https://twitter.com/jvb_xyz Follow 1000x: https://twitter.com/1000xPod Get top market insights and the latest in crypto news. Subscribe to Blockworks Daily Newsletter: https://blockworks.co/newsletter/ -- Timestamps (0:00) Introduction (3:23) Solana's Ultimate Vision (7:57) Value Within A PoS Chain (10:25) Running A Solana Validator (13:03) Firedancer: Boosting Solana's Scalability (17:21) TVL & Volume On Solana (21:56) Crypto's Perfect Use Case (25:10) Stablecoins (31:05) The Future Of Solana (38:01) The Waves Of Adoption In Crypto (43:54) Building Community In Solana (48:06) Solana's Perfect Product Market Fit (54:47) What Solana Has Learnt From Ethereum -- Disclaimer: Nothing said on 1000x is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Avi, Jonah and our guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed.

Vidas cruzadas
Margaryta Yakovenko

Vidas cruzadas

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2023 50:14


Margaryta Yakovenko (Tokmak, Ucrania, 1992) es periodista y escritora. Vive en España desde los siete años. Ha sido redactora y editora en PlayGround y actualmente trabaja en El País. Publicó el cuento «No queda tanto» en la antología Cuadernos de Medusa, de la editorial Amor de Madre. En su novela Desencajada (Caballo de Troya, 2020) habla del desarraigo, la familia, la soledad y el amor.

House of Strauss
HoS: Nikolai Yakovenko

House of Strauss

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2023 76:22


Nikolai Yakovenko is a man of many hats (pro poker, jiu-jitsu, computer engineering, archery, baseball analytics), but the main reason we're talking to him is because he founded an AI-generated competing newspaper. Are machines set to take over for journalists? We get into this and so much more, including whether Michael Lewis deserves critcism. Topics include but aren't limited to…Explaining the AI newspaper (4:00)* What is DeepNews?Can an AI Successfully Write my Last Article? (6:50)* Can a machine ape my idiosyncrasies? * Can the AI be a contrarian?Nikolai: “I got into a bit of horse archery” (12:00)* Are Mongol skills having a moment??Could an AI be like hit song maker Max Martin? (24:00)* Can machines succeed in art?Can an AI Unlock Human Creativity? (37:00)* How the machine can help us find inspiration by taking over boring tasks?Could DeepNews avoid the New York Times' Gaza rocket mistake? (42:00)* If AI is aggregating off the Internet, how does it avoid its errors?Does Michael Lewis deserve to be in hot water over his portrayal of Sam Bankman-Fried? (48:00)* What Michael Lewis might be focusing on that led him astray This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.houseofstrauss.com/subscribe

Lightspeed
Anatoly Yakovenko: What's Next for Solana? | Permissionless II

Lightspeed

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2023 38:00


Anatoly joins Mert to discuss his 5-year vision for Solana. In this discussion, we cover Solana's changing narrative, Firedancer's performance, Solana's shrinking hardware requirements, why Anatoly wants people to fork the SVM, the key to crypto adoption and why multiple slot leaders will be a huge upgrade for Solana! This was a discussion from last week's Permissionless II conference. - - Timestamps (00:00) Introduction (03:19) Solana's Momentum and Big Announcements (07:49) Value Capture and Local Fee Markets (15:18) QUIC and Stake-Weighted QoS (17:23) Firedancer's Performance & Solana's Hardware Requirements (25:06) Jito Promo (31:04) Solana's Most Exciting Applications (32:07) What Can Solana Learn from Ethereum? (34:38) Why Solana Wants Multiple Leaders per Slot - - This episode is brought to you by Jito. Jito is the easiest way to earn MEV rewards on Solana with liquid staking. Stake your SOL with Jito to start earning high yield powered by MEV and access instant liquidity through Jito's liquid staking token JitoSOL so that you can use your staked assets across Solana DeFi. Visit jito.network to get started today! - - Follow Anatoly: https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko Follow Mert: https://twitter.com/0xMert_ Follow Garrett: https://twitter.com/GarrettHarper_ Follow Lightspeed: https://twitter.com/Lightspeedpodhq Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/43o3Syk Subscribe on Apple: https://apple.co/3OhiXgV Subscribe on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3OkF7PD Get top market insights and the latest in crypto news. Subscribe to Blockworks Daily Newsletter: https://blockworks.co/newsletter/ - - Resources Jito jito.network Permissionless https://blockworks.co/event/permissionless-2023 - -  Disclaimers: Lightspeed was kickstarted by a grant from the Solana Foundation. Nothing said on Lightspeed is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Mert, Garrett and our guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed.

Logan Jastremski Podcast
Solana 2.0 - The return to greatness with Anatoly Yakovenko | EP #100

Logan Jastremski Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2023 80:00


Anatoly Yakovenko is the Founder of Solana. Anatoly's Twitter: @aeyakovenko Solana's Twitter: https://twitter.com/solana Solana's Website: https://solana.com Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: ⁠https://frictionless.fund/⁠ ___ Timecodes: 0:00 - Intro 2:55 - All to All Consensus 6:30 - Synchronizing the World's Information 15:30 - Finance is a regressive tax 17:01 - Sharding & L2s do not solve All to All Consensus 20:30 - Amortizing cost between nodes 25:50 - Raw data costs 31:00 - Consensus Design of Solana vs. Others 34:30 - Channel Capacity 44:00 - Node Count and Decentralization 49:20 - Network optimizations 55:25 - Sharding & L2s will never be cheaper than Solana 1:02:15 - Single Threaded VM problems 1:04:45 - Modular vs. Integrated Blockchains 1:08:25 - Infinity scaling is not required 1:12:30 - Asynchronous Execution on Solana 1:18:30 - Closing Thoughts

The Defiant
Exploring The State Of Solana With Anatoly Yakovenko

The Defiant

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2023 49:23


This week, we were joined by Anatoly Yakovenko, founder and CEO of Solana. Weekly Recap is your one-stop show for the most compelling news of the week, brought to you by the writers at The Defiant. This series delves deeper into our reports, revealing further insights and perspectives that help you make sense of the latest developments. Every Friday, we go live on our YouTube channel, offering a unique mix of analysis and commentary. Stay informed and ahead of the curve by tuning into our weekly broadcasts. Don't forget to visit our YouTube channel for a regular dose of content that keeps you in the loop!

Empire
Solana's Ultimate Vision | Anatoly Yakovenko

Empire

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2023 75:38


Anatoly joins us to discuss why Solana is uniquely designed to utilize ever-increasing bandwidth and compute. We cover Solana's core thesis, how blockchains benefit from hardware improvements, the fundamental flaws of L2s, Anatoly's favorite applications, decentralization and more! Anatoly is a legend, you don't want to miss this one! - - Follow Anatoly: https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko Follow Mert: https://twitter.com/0xMert_ Follow Garrett: https://twitter.com/GarrettHarper_ Follow Lightspeed: https://twitter.com/Lightspeedpodhq Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/43o3Syk Subscribe on Apple: https://apple.co/3OhiXgV Subscribe on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3OkF7PD Get top market insights and the latest in crypto news. Subscribe to Blockworks Daily Newsletter: https://blockworks.co/newsletter/ - - Use code EMPIRE30 to get 30% off Permissionless 2023 in Austin: https://blockworks.co/event/permissionless-2023 - - Timestamps: (00:00) Solana's Core Thesis (10:40) The Scaling Bottleneck (13:58) Do All Blockchains Equally Benefit From Hardware Improvements? (17:57) Pros and Cons of Parallel Execution (21:12) The Realities of Decentralization (24:43) Solana's Design Moat (28:10) Permissionless ad (29:37) The Fundamental Tradeoffs of L2s (44:12) How Should Solana Approach Business Development? (48:12) The Role of Solana Labs and the Solana Foundation (49:47) The Compressed NFT Opportunity (53:31) We Need to Fix DAO Governance (55:14) Anatoly's Metric of Success for Solana (57:58) Why Anatoly Hasn't Left Crypto (01:00:03) Why an Average Joe Would Use Solana (01:01:39) Rapid Fire    - - Resources Endgame: Proof of Governance by Jon Charbonneau https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toPd1vgHjVE&t=0s - - Disclaimer: Nothing said on Empire is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Santiago, Jason, and our guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed.

Lightspeed
Solana's Ultimate Vision | Anatoly Yakovenko

Lightspeed

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2023 76:14


Anatoly joins us to discuss why Solana is uniquely designed to utilize ever-increasing bandwidth and compute. We cover Solana's core thesis, how blockchains benefit from hardware improvements, the fundamental flaws of L2s, Anatoly's favorite applications, decentralization and more! Anatoly is a legend, you don't want to miss this one! - - Timestamps (00:00) Introduction (01:47) Solana's Core Thesis (10:29) The Scaling Bottleneck (13:43) Do All Blockchains Equally Benefit From Hardware Improvements? (17:47) Pros and Cons of Parallel Execution (20:56) The Realities of Decentralization (24:32) Solana's Design Moat (27:57) Jito Mid Roll (29:01) Permissionless Plug (30:01) The Fundamental Tradeoffs of L2s (44:43) How Should Solana Approach Business Development? (48:33) The Role of Solana Labs and the Solana Foundation (50:18) The Compressed NFT Opportunity (53:54) We Need to Fix DAO Governance (55:40) Anatoly's Metric of Success for Solana (58:21) Why Anatoly Hasn't Left Crypto (01:00:12) Why an Average Joe Would Use Solana (01:01:58) Rapid Fire - - This episode is brought to you by Jito. Jito is the easiest way to earn MEV rewards on Solana with liquid staking. Stake your SOL with Jito to start earning high yield powered by MEV and access instant liquidity through Jito's liquid staking token JitoSOL so that you can use your staked assets across Solana DeFi. Visit jito.network to get started today! - - Follow Anatoly: https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko Follow Mert: https://twitter.com/0xMert_ Follow Garrett: https://twitter.com/GarrettHarper_ Follow Lightspeed: https://twitter.com/Lightspeedpodhq Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/43o3Syk Subscribe on Apple: https://apple.co/3OhiXgV Subscribe on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3OkF7PD Get top market insights and the latest in crypto news. Subscribe to Blockworks Daily Newsletter: https://blockworks.co/newsletter/ - - Use code LIGHTSPEED30 to get 30% off Permissionless 2023 in Austin: https://blockworks.co/event/permissionless-2023 - - Resources Jito jito.network Endgame: Proof of Governance - Jon Charbonneau https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toPd1vgHjVE - -  Disclaimers: Lightspeed was kickstarted by a grant from the Solana Foundation. Nothing said on Lightspeed is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Mert, Garrett and our guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed.

Tech Path Podcast
1157. Firedancer Could 100x Solana & Kill Centralized Exchanges

Tech Path Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2023 27:59


A new validator client could soon improve the state of Solana going forward. Firedancer, an independent validator client, built by Jump, could make things better, at least on the DeFi front. The data suggests that Firedancer can enhance DeFi maturity by reducing latency times, thereby bringing decentralized exchanges closer to parity with centralized exchanges.~This episode is sponsored by Chart Prime~Elevate your Trading Game with Chartprime 30% discount Link ➜ https://bit.ly/3lZvR7M

Raoul Pal: Real Vision
From Compressed NFTs to the Saga Phone, Solana is Ready for Web3 w/ Anatoly Yakovenko

Raoul Pal: Real Vision

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2023 55:39


From drastically reducing the price of NFT collections to launching their hardware phone, Saga, Solana has been moving fast and furious. Solana's co-founder, Anatoly Yakovenko, joins Raoul Pal to dig into the recent developments and why the future of Solana is “open-source.” Anatoly and Raoul also discuss the migration of various Layer-1s moving onto Solana and what the future holds for the ecosystem — both in terms of its blockchain and hardware aspirations. Recorded on May 1, 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Real Vision Crypto
From Compressed NFTs to the Saga Phone, Solana is Ready for Web3 w/ Anatoly Yakovenko

Real Vision Crypto

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2023 55:40


From drastically reducing the price of NFT collections to launching their hardware phone, Saga, Solana has been moving fast and furious. Solana's co-founder, Anatoly Yakovenko, joins Raoul Pal to dig into the recent developments and why the future of Solana is “open-source.” Anatoly and Raoul also discuss the migration of various Layer-1s moving onto Solana and what the future holds for the ecosystem — both in terms of its blockchain and hardware aspirations. Recorded on May 1, 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

La Montaña Rusa Radio Jazz
La Montaña Rusa 22.2023. Brad Mehldau. Igor Yakovenko. Graham Collier. Mostly Other People Do The Killing. Lluis Vidal & David Xirgu. Ralph Alessi.

La Montaña Rusa Radio Jazz

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2023


Abrimos nuevo episodio de La Montaña Rusa con el nuevo álbum de Brad Mehldau, Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays The Beatles, publicado este 2023. Después descubriremos la música del pianista Igor Yakovenko, del que escucharemos The Music Machine, publicado en 2021 para Fancy Music. Nuestro Clásico de la Semana fue el prestigioso contrabajista y compositor británico Graham Collier, del que recientemente se ha publicado este concierto de 1969 en Estocolmo, Down Another Road @ Stockholm Jazz Days ’69. Seguir leyendo La Montaña Rusa 22.2023. Brad Mehldau. Igor Yakovenko. Graham Collier. Mostly Other People Do The Killing. Lluis Vidal & David Xirgu. Ralph Alessi. en La Montaña Rusa Radio Jazz.

The Lucky Trader Podcast: NFT Interviews, Exclusives, & Info
Lucky Trader Podcast: Nikolai Yakovenko on 3AC Grails

The Lucky Trader Podcast: NFT Interviews, Exclusives, & Info

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2023 50:37


In this special conversation, Tyler is joined by machine learning modeler and DeepNFTValue founder Nikolai Yakovenko to talk 3AC Grails. The duo react to the surprising auction results at Sotheby's, walk through Niko's early predictions, and the difference in modeling art vs PFPs. Then they look ahead to the Golden Goose auction along with other upcoming 3AC Grails, talk through some highlights, and chat through if the market is too excited with the results.

Logan Jastremski Podcast
Anatoly Yakovenko & Raj Gokal | Solana Founders state of the Ecosystem | Logan Jastremski Podcast #40

Logan Jastremski Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2023 64:01


Anatoly Yakovenko's Twitter: @aeyakovenko Raj Gokal's Twitter: @rajgokal Solana's Twitter: @Solana Solana's Website: https://solana.com/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/ Timecodes: 0:00 - Reflection from the past years 9:15 - Solana being pushed to limits 26:50 - Misconceptions around Solana 32:00 - Solana's Narrative 39:15 - Solana's view on Partners 42:40 - Understanding Solana's tech 44:40 - FTX Fallout 53:10 - Firedancer (Solana second client) 1:01:00 - Things to look forward to in 2023 ----------------------- This Podcast was sponsored by Squads. https://squads.so/ Squads Protocol: the multisig standard you were looking for on Solana Securely manage your treasury, program upgrades and tokens with your Squad. 01 Multi-signature - A multisig requires multiple digital signatures in order to approve transactions. This is opposed to individual web3 wallets, which only require one signature. 02 Security - Multisigs spread the attack vector necessary for your assets to be compromised. By requiring confirmations from multiple private keys, a single point of failure is eliminated. 03 Collective Ownership - Multisigs allow teams to own and manage their on-chain assets together. You get to choose who is on your multisig. 04 Self-Custody - Your on-chain assets are always in your team's control. By securing them in a multisig, you forego the risk of centralized entities losing your funds.

Logan Jastremski Podcast
Anatoly Yakovenko | Co-Founder of Solana Labs | Logan Jastremski Podcast #22

Logan Jastremski Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2023 60:58


Anatoly Yakovenko 's Twitter: @aeyakovenko Solana's Twitter: @Solana Solana's Website: https://solana.com/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/

The GenRAIT podcast
Nikolai Yakovenko: AI and Biology

The GenRAIT podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2023 49:16


On this episode of the GenRAIT Podcast Razib talks to Nikolai Yakovenko, CEO of DeepNFTValue, about artificial intelligence, OpenAI, Google and Microsoft, and what the intersection of AI and biology might do for us in the future.

Raoul Pal: Real Vision
From Compressed NFTs to the Saga Phone, Solana is Ready for Web3 w/ Anatoly Yakovenko

Raoul Pal: Real Vision

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2023 55:39


From drastically reducing the price of NFT collections to launching their hardware phone, Saga, Solana has been moving fast and furious. Solana's co-founder, Anatoly Yakovenko, joins Raoul Pal to dig into the recent developments and why the future of Solana is “open-source.” Anatoly and Raoul also discuss the migration of various Layer-1s moving onto Solana and what the future holds for the ecosystem — both in terms of its blockchain and hardware aspirations. Recorded on May 1, 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Real Vision Crypto
From Compressed NFTs to the Saga Phone, Solana is Ready for Web3 w/ Anatoly Yakovenko

Real Vision Crypto

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2023 55:55


From drastically reducing the price of NFT collections to launching their hardware phone, Saga, Solana has been moving fast and furious. Solana's co-founder, Anatoly Yakovenko, joins Raoul Pal to dig into the recent developments and why the future of Solana is “open-source.” Anatoly and Raoul also discuss the migration of various Layer-1s moving onto Solana and what the future holds for the ecosystem — both in terms of its blockchain and hardware aspirations. Recorded on May 1, 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Wolf Of All Streets
Why Is Solana So Popular? | Anatoly Yakovenko

The Wolf Of All Streets

Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2023 55:43


Get ready for an eye-opening interview with Anatoly Yakovenko, the founder of Solana. In this video, Anatoly talks about Saga, Solana's innovative new phone. He shares how big companies are hesitant about digital ownership, but Solana's web3 app store is leading the way. Discover why Solana is outshining Ethereum, and how memes play a role in mass adoption. The interview covers a range of topics, from AI to Saga adoption, stablecoins to CBDCs, and the multichain world, ending with an intriguing discussion on Bitcoin and religion. Don't miss out on this fascinating conversation! Follow Anatoly Yakovenko: Twitter: https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anatoly-yakovenko/ ►►THE DAILY CLOSE BRAND NEW NEWSLETTER! INSTITUTIONAL GRADE INDICATORS AND DATA DELIVERED DIRECTLY TO YOUR INBOX, EVERY DAY AT THE DAILY CLOSE. TRADE LIKE THE BIG BOYS.

Philip Shepherd and Andrei Yakovenko talk #DeepFitness on #ConversationsLIVE

"Conversations LIVE!" with Cyrus Webb

Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2023 27:00


Join host Cyrus Webb for Conversations LIVE with Philip Shepherd and Andrei Yakovenko to discuss their new book DEEP FITNESS. 

0xResearch
The Solana Bet | Anatoly Yakovenko

0xResearch

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2023 78:16


Anatoly Yakovenko joins us to discuss why Solana is building the most optimized, minimally-extractive L1. We start with Anatoly's updated view of Solana's value proposition, mobile focus and the significance of xNFTs. Anatoly then explains Firedancer's insane performance, Solana's localized fee markets and parallel execution, where L2s fail to scale, MEV on Solana, security assurances and more! You won't want to miss Anatoly's user-focused philosophy and clear explanations; he's a legend. And as usual, we start the episode with our analyst bullpen to discuss MEV Blocker, the ETH burn and MEV conspiracy theory, the MadLads xNFT mint, and Curve USD. - - Timestamps: (00:00) Introduction (01:09) Hot Seat/Cool Throne (23:31) Interview Start: Solana's Saga Phone  (29:23) “Lightning Ad” (30:04) Helium's Migration to Solana (32:50) Solana's Vision (34:19) Firedancer's Insane Performance  (38:16) Localized Fee Markets and Parallel Execution (49:32) Is SOL Money? (51:57) SVM L2s: Eclipse and Nitro (53:07) Solana's Hardware Requirements (55:34) Security Guarantees: L2s vs Solana  (59:35) Low Transaction Fees (1:01:38) MEV on Solana (1:08:11) Multi-VM Support (1:10:27) Building Consumer Apps (1:13:54) The Scaling Race: Solana vs Ethereum - - Follow Anatoly: https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko Follow Sam: https://twitter.com/swmartin19 Follow Dan: https://twitter.com/smyyguy Follow Pibblez: https://twitter.com/0xpibblez Follow Purplepill: https://twitter.com/purplepill3m Follow Blockworks Research: https://twitter.com/blockworksres Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3foDS38 Subscribe on Apple: https://apple.co/3SNhUEt Subscribe on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3NlP1hA Get top market insights and the latest in crypto news. Subscribe to Blockworks Daily Newsletter: https://blockworks.co/newsletter/ - - Resources: 0xbabe address (Curve deployer address) https://etherscan.io/address/0xbabe61887f1de2713c6f97e567623453d3c79f67 Curve Cap Substack https://curve.substack.com/ WenLlama https://twitter.com/WenLlama Solana https://solana.com/ https://twitter.com/solana Firedancer https://jumpcrypto.com/firedancer/ - - Check out Blockworks Research today! Research, data, governance, tokenomics, and models – now, all in one place Blockworks Research: https://www.blockworksresearch.com/ Free Daily Newsletter: https://blockworks.co/newsletter - - Disclaimer: Nothing said on 0xResearch is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Dan, Sam, and our guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed.

Hableemos
3x06 Hableemos de 'Desencajada' con Margaryta Yakovenko

Hableemos

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2023 30:42


'Desencajada' no es una historia más sobre migraciones ni una gran reflexión sobre la búsqueda de la identidad. Es una obra que te rompe, descoloca y crea en tu cabeza preguntas tan interesantes como las que Mario, Lera y Valentín, estudiantes del IES Mediterráneo, le plantean a Margaryta Yakovenko, su autora y finalista del Premio Mandarache 2023. Radio Mandarache es una red de podcast en el marco de los Premios Mandarache y Hache impulsados por la Concejalía de Juventud del Ayuntamiento de Cartagena, con el principal apoyo de la Dirección General del Libro y Fomento de la Lectura del Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte.

Tell Me Your Story
Philip Shepherd And Andrei Yakovenko - Deep Fitness

Tell Me Your Story

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2023 68:04


https://www.deepfitness.life/ Philip Shepherd Founder of The Embodied Present Process™ Philip Shepherd isrecognized as a leader in the global embodiment movement. He is the creator ofThe Embodied Present Process™ (TEPP), which he developed over 40 years ofteaching embodiment practices and shares worldwide in both workshops andFacilitators Trainings. TEPP uniquely combines the two resources necessary forembodiment: effective practices, and a deep understanding of our culture'sblind spots, which tend to keep us in our heads. TEPP is based on Philip's twobooks—Radical Wholeness and New Self, New World—whicharticulate the causes, perils, and challenges of our culture's disembodiment.Philip's personal journey to embodiment includes cycling alone as a teenagerthrough Europe, the Middle East, Iran, India, and Japan; studying classicalJapanese Noh Theater; co-founding an interdisciplinary theater company inCanada; writing two internationally produced plays and a televisiondocumentary; and playing lead roles on stages in London, New York, Chicago, andToronto. He shares workshops and runs year-long Facilitators Trainings with hisco-director and wife Allyson Woodrooffe, and lives with her in a car-freeisland community in a house they designed and built. AndreiYakovenko Founder of New Element Training Originally from Ukraine, Andrei Yakovenko left for Israel at theage of 20 with less than $5 in his pocket. Three years later he decided, alongwith his fiancée, to permanently move to Canada. Determined to succeed, hegot a Bachelor of Science degree from the Universityof Toronto, went to graduate school atMcMaster University, and then built a successfulcareer as a partner in a geophysics business. Years later, Andrei came acrossthe book Body by Science, which introduced him to the scientific principle ofhigh-intensity strength training (HIT). After putting the training principlesinto practice with a group of friends, Andrei saw profound physical changes,and began learning as much as he could about high-­intensity strength trainingand its unmatched health benefits. He discovered how proper exercise, and inparticular HIT, had the power to transform lives, including his own. Andreidecided to leave his highly paid career in geophysics and set up New ElementTraining, a group of premier, high-intensity strength-training studios in Toronto, Canada.NET features the largest selection of MedX equipment in Canada andspecializes in the time-efficient method of Mindful Strength Training toFailure. Whatif there were something you could do for just half an hour, once or twice aweek, that had the power to transform your well-being? We aren't promising amagic diet or a ‘secret' pill. This ‘something' is a practice that has beendeveloped in accord with the most up-to-date science, and is verified byfindings that have come to light only in the last 15 years, say Philip Shepherdand Andrei Yakovenko, the authors of Deep Fitness: The Mindful, Science-BasedStrength-Training Method to Transform Your Well-Being in Just 30 Minutes aWeek. Here's what science has found. We all know what muscle does: it moves usaround. And that was the whole story until recently, when researchersdiscovered myokines – messenger molecules created only by muscle when it works.Myokines promote longevity, bone mineral density, mental sharpness,cardiovascular health, everything. And the stronger a muscle is, the moremyokines it produces. Here's the problem.

Chain Reaction
Anatoly Yakovenko: Solana's Endgame In the Midst of Competitive L1 and L2s

Chain Reaction

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2023 72:35


In this episode, Delphi Co-Founder and VC Tommy hosts Anatoly Yakovenko, Co-founder of Solana, for an in-depth and energetic episode centered around the core thesis for Solana in the face of other L1 and L2 ecosystems. Disclosures: This podcast is strictly informational and educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any tokens or securities or to make any financial decisions. Do not trade or invest in any project, tokens, or securities based upon this podcast episode. The host and members at Delphi Ventures may personally own tokens or art that are mentioned on the podcast. Our current show features paid sponsorships which may be featured at the start, middle, and/or the end of the episode. These sponsorships are for informational purposes only and are not a solicitation to use any product, service or token. Delphi's transparency page can be viewed here.

Web3 Breakdowns
Nikolai Yakovenko: Algorithms We Live By - [Web3 Breakdowns, EP.57]

Web3 Breakdowns

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2023 62:32


This is Eric Golden and my guest today is Nikolai Yakovenko. Nikolai is the founder and CEO of DeepNFTValue, which uses machine learning to price blue chip crypto assets like CryptoPunks and Bored Apes. He has spent his career working on deep learning at some of the most notable firms in the world, including Google, Nvidia, Twitter, and Point72. Our conversation starts with AI's potential and Twitter's mishaps and then turns to Nikolai's investment experience and why he most recently decided to build a business that prices NFTs. Please enjoy my conversation with Nikolai Yakovenko.   For the full show notes, transcript, and links to the best content to learn more, check out the episode page here.   -----   This episode is brought to you by OKX. You may have seen OKX on McLaren's Formula 1 race car or Manchester City's football kit. But what is OKX? OKX has over 730 spot trading pairs, 280 derivatives markets, and 1000 options markets. It processes 400,000 requests per second with 99.95% uptime. That's why over 20 million traders and institutions choose OKX when they want to trade. Visit okx.com to learn more.   -----   Web3 Breakdowns is a property of Colossus, LLC. For more episodes of Web3 Breakdowns, visit joincolossus.com/episodes.   Stay up to date on all our podcasts by signing up to Colossus Weekly, our quick dive every Sunday highlighting the top business and investing concepts from our podcasts and the best of what we read that week. Sign up here.   Follow us on Twitter: @Web3Breakdowns | @ericgoldenx | @patrick_oshag  Show Notes [00:02:23] - [First question] - His impressions of recent innovations by ChatGPT [00:03:51] - A rundown of the technical breakthroughs that led to today's most cutting-edge AI [00:06:08] - The types of questions he asks to test and evaluate new AI like ChatGPT [00:08:13] - Questions or requests that would stump ChatGPT [00:09:02] - Intuitive human tasks that would deeply confuse chat-based AI [00:11:42] - Impressive R&D spend at OpenAI to optimize machine learning [00:13:27] - The prospect of ChatGPT as competition for major search engines in the future [00:15:27] - How his time at Google and Twitter informed his understanding of algorithms  [00:17:20] - How social media algorithms work and how users reverse engineer them [00:22:44] - His take on the amount of people it takes to run tech companies like Twitter [00:26:39] - How protocols like Twitter Spaces factor into the modern tech ecosystem [00:28:23] - His transition from big tech to Wall Street and how the two career paths intersect [00:30:35] - How proximity to the investing side of the tech industry boosted his finance skills [00:32:16] - The degree to which AI tech shows promise for universal applications [00:34:01] - How his affinity for poker led him to crypto and NFTs [00:35:55] - What inspired his jump to creating an NFT-based startup [00:38:23] - The comparative value of powerful machine learning models versus the data itself [00:40:03] - How he thinks about different NFT value models and their tradeoffs [00:42:14] - The criteria that tend to make a given NFT more valuable than other similar ones [00:43:48] - How his model for NFTs valuations actually works [00:47:44] - Feedback he gets from users about his model [00:48:55] - High valuations associated with both minimalistic and cluttered NFT visuals [00:49:38] - The NFT liquidation auctions of FTX and Three Arrows [00:51:09] - The proportion of NFT profits from instant buying versus bidding [00:52:08] - How NFT traders make use of the model through the DeepNFTValue open API [00:53:59] - The future of their profitability given that their goal is widespread distribution [00:55:38] - The potential for lending and levering in future NFT markets [01:00:24] - What he's most excited to build over the next six months and six years

PaperPlayer biorxiv neuroscience
Artificial physics engine for real-time inverse dynamics of arm and hand movement

PaperPlayer biorxiv neuroscience

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2023


Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.02.07.527431v1?rss=1 Authors: Manukian, M., Bahdasariants, S., Yakovenko, S. Abstract: Simulating human body dynamics requires detailed and accurate mathematical models. When solved inversely, these models provide a comprehensive description of force generation that evaluates subject morphology and can be applied to control real-time assistive technology, for example, orthosis or muscle/nerve stimulation. Yet, model complexity hinders the speed of its computations and may require approximations as a mitigation strategy. Here, we use machine learning algorithms to provide a method for accurate physics simulations and subject-specific parameterization. Several types of artificial neural networks (ANNs) with varied architecture were tasked to generate the inverse dynamic transformation of realistic arm and hand movement (23 degrees of freedom). Using a physical model to generate the training and testing sets for the limb workspace, we developed the ANN transformations with low torque errors (less than 0.1 Nm). Multiple ANN implementations using kinematic sequences solved accurately and robustly the high-dimensional kinematic Jacobian and inverse dynamics of arm and hand. These results provide further support for the use of ANN architectures that use temporal trajectories of time-delayed values to make accurate predictions of limb dynamics. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

Bankless
157 - Will Solana Make It with Anatoly Yakovenko

Bankless

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2023 84:39


✨ DEBRIEF | Unpacking the episode: https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/debrief-anatoly-solana  ------ ✨ COLLECTIBLES | Collect this episode: https://collectibles.bankless.com/mint  ------ In today's episode, we have the creator of Solana and the Co-founder of Solana Labs, Anatoly Yakovenko. We brought on Anatoly to ask: is Solana going to make it? Price is down. A major public backer…SBF is down for the count…will Solana make it? Will it survive the bear market? Anatoly shares his thoughts. In addition, he also shares the full Solana story, back to its earliest inflection points all the way to the current state of Solana today. ------

Coinbase: Around The Block
Building for the Future with Solana's Anatoly Yakovenko

Coinbase: Around The Block

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2023 48:38


Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and Solana Co-Founder Anatoly Yakovenko discuss all things Solana: how it all started, the core differentiators of the Solana blockchain (and how it compares to Ethereum), the evolution and state of  its developer ecosystem, and the web3 phone that the Solana team is  shipping this year.

PaperPlayer biorxiv neuroscience
Intralimb locomotor coordination in rats walking on asymmetric pegway

PaperPlayer biorxiv neuroscience

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2023


Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.01.27.525960v1?rss=1 Authors: Hanna, K. E., Salido, E. M., Lal, N., Tuntevski, K., Yakovenko, S. Abstract: Complex movements such as walking or reaching are generated by a sequence of muscle actions. How these coordinated actions subserve complex movements and their recovery after disruption remains unknown. The use of high throughput recording-stimulation systems with microelectrode access to structures along the neuraxis may complement the neurological models in rodents. To this purpose, we have trained rats to perform the precise foot placement locomotor task that allows us to assess skilled locomotor movements. Animals were pretrained on the peg walkway task, which was configured to impose either symmetric or asymmetric (with overstepping) locomotor stepping at preferred stride length. Selected forelimb muscles were implanted with intramuscular differential electrodes. After a week of recovery, we collected electromyography from the implanted muscles and ground reaction forces from the array of force sensors embedded into walkway pegs. The temporal relationship between muscle bursts was measured for each intralimb set of muscles (n=13) in symmetric and asymmetric stepping. The sequence corresponded to the progression of muscle actions responsible for limb lift, flexion and transport, overground clearance, and preparation for ground contact. The stereotyped spatiotemporal sequence of muscle activity was persistent and mirroring across the asymmetric tasks. These patterns are similar to those observed in cats during locomotion with and without obstacles and reaching movements. These findings support the hypothesis that the profiles of muscle activations are qualitatively similar across quadrupeds during precise locomotor tasks. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

The Prevailing Narrative with Matt Bilinsky
Episode 44: Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT with Machine Learning Engineer Nikolai Yakovenko; Woke Institutional Capture with Aaron Sibarium

The Prevailing Narrative with Matt Bilinsky

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2023 98:52


4:00 - The ChatGPT app rocked the tech world just before the holidays, providing us a glimpse into the commercial capabilities of Artificial Intelligence. Former Twitter engineer and machine learning expert Nikolai Yakovenko joins us to break down this technology and its anticipated impact on our lives. 47:16 - Aaron Sibarium has been documenting the Woke takeover over critical institutions ranging from medicine and education to corporate American and finance...and even law. How the Culture Wars are impacting more than just "culture".  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning
Nikolai Yakovenko: GPT-3 and the rise of the thinking machines

Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 29, 2022 62:32


As 2022 draws to a close, the chat AI based on GPT-3 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3) has been taking the internet by storm, with millions of users beginning to ask it questions. Is humanity on the way to birthing a true artificial general intelligence (AGI)? I asked GPT-3 that particular question, and this was the answer: It is difficult to say for certain whether or not humanity is on the way to creating a true artificial general intelligence, as there is no clear consensus on what exactly a true AGI would be or what it would be capable of. However, it is clear that significant progress has been made in the field of artificial intelligence, and many experts believe that it is only a matter of time before we see AGI-level capabilities in machines. That being said, it is also important to note that the development of AGI is a highly complex and uncertain field, and it is impossible to predict exactly when, or even if, it will be achieved. Whether GPT-3 is truly intelligent, it's clearly just the beginning. At least according to this week's returning guest on Unsupervised Learning, Nikolai Yakovenko of Deep NFT Value, a machine-learning engineer who just last month took time to discuss what was going on at his old employer, Twitter. Yakovenko is not entirely surprised by GPT-3's abilities, though he admits progress is faster than expected. He tells Razib that there are more advanced versions of GPT-3, and Americans must brace themselves for a new technological revolution. He believes Westerners, in particular, due to their religious and metaphysical frame are unprepared for the changes that AI may produce in our society. Yakovenko rejects the most dystopian and negative predictions of hostile AI and singularity and argues that the Japanese are a model of a culture that is more sanguine about the emergence of human-like machine intelligence. Razib and Yakovenko also discuss the utility of AI-generated art and how it might replace or complement human artists.

Mint | Where Crypto Meets Creators
Shorts | Anatoly Yakovenko: How Should Creators Leverage Onchain Data

Mint | Where Crypto Meets Creators

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2022 4:59


Anatoly Yakovenko, Co-founder of Solana, joined Season 6 and shared how creators should leverage onchain data to further build and monetize their communities.Full EpisodeSeason 6 Episode 2About Mint ShortsEnjoy the best moments from the podcast in bite-size segments.---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Empire
Can Solana Move Past SBF? | Anatoly Yakovenko, Ben Sparango

Empire

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2022 93:51


In this episode of Empire, Anatoly Yakovenko and Ben Sparango join us to discuss Solana's future in the aftermath of FTX. SBF and FTX were core investors and contributors to the Solana ecosystem. How did Solana get so intertwined with FTX? How bad was Solana damaged as a result? How will Solana recover? These are just a few of the questions we explore. We then dive into Solana's roadmap and discuss Solana's new local fee market, network outages, decentralization worries, monolithic chains vs rollups, the Solana mobile stack and more. This is the go-to podcast for all Solana fans and skeptics! - - Timestamps: (00:00) Introduction (01:18) How Did Solana Get So Intertwined With FTX? (11:20) How Important Was SBF To Solana's Growth? (17:36) Fallout From Reliance On FTX (20:05) Did You See This Coming? (25:07) What Exchanges Got Wrong & Alameda's 10% SOL Stake (29:58) FTX Impact On Solana Apps & Developers (33:30) Where Does Solana Go From Here? (42:13) Solana's Fee Markets & Decentralization Questions (46:16) Solving Solana's Network Outages (57:38) Monolithic Blockchains, Layer 2s & New Learnings (1:07:10) Economic Sustainability (1:10:30) Avalanche vs Cosmos, Who's Solana's Main Competitor? (1:14:59) The Importance Of Business Development (1:19:18) Google Partnership & The Solana Phone - - Follow Anatoly: https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko Follow Ben: https://twitter.com/bennybitcoins Follow Jason: https://twitter.com/JasonYanowitz Follow Santi: https://twitter.com/santiagoroel Follow Empire: https://twitter.com/theempirepod Subscribe on YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/4fdhhb2j Subscribe on Apple: https://tinyurl.com/mv4frfv7 Subscribe on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/wbaypprw Get top market insights and the latest in crypto news. Subscribe to Blockworks Daily Newsletter: https://blockworks.co/newsletter/ -- Circle's USDC has quickly become one of the most trusted and widely used stablecoins because of its composability, stability and reserve transparency. As a seamless, trusted digital currency, USDC is a zero-to-one opportunity for the global financial system. Check out their Transparency Hub at http://empirepodcast.link/circle that outlines everything from links to USDC weekly reserve reports, monthly attestations, and blog posts written by their executive team highlighting how and why USDC was built the way it is. - - Resources Break Solana website https://break.solana.com/ Chris Burniske's thread on Solana https://twitter.com/cburniske/status/1590455521307660290 Anatoly and Dankrad debate https://bit.ly/3Umky4T Solana events webpage https://solana.com/events Solana Twitter account https://twitter.com/solana The Solana Podcast https://bit.ly/3FgMAdS - - Disclaimer: Nothing said on Empire is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Santiago, Jason, and our guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed.

Mint | Where Crypto Meets Creators
Shorts | Anatoly Yakovenko: Where Should Creators Be Focusing Their Energy In the Bear Market?

Mint | Where Crypto Meets Creators

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2022 3:16


Anatoly Yakovenko, Co-founder of Solana, shares his opinion on where creators should be deploying their time and energy in the bear market.Full EpisodeSeason 6 Episode 2About Mint ShortsEnjoy the best moments from the podcast in bite-size segments.---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning
Nikolai Yakovenko: a Twitter engineer on machine learning and his former company's prospects

Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2022 78:09


When Jack Dorsey stepped down as Twitter CEO last year, I wondered what we could expect from the new leader, Parag Agrawal. Luckily, I knew Nikolai Yakovenko, who worked at Twitter on deep neural networks in the mid-teens. Yakovenko told me Agrawal was not a rock-the-boat kind of guy, and perhaps that's why Dorsey tapped him to head Twitter after some tumultuous years. Now that Twitter and its leadership is in the news again, due to Elon Musk's status as “chief twit,” I wanted to talk to Yakovenko about his time at Twitter, discuss the application's upsides and downsides, and get his take on what we can expect going forward. Yakovenko is now the CEO of Deep NFT Value, and has extensive experience in crypto, machine learning and deep learning. We discussed the nitty-gritty of how Twitter's algorithm works to prioritize and deprioritize certain types of content, what precisely deep neural networks are, and how they are relevant to what Twitter does. More generally, we discussed why machine learning has become so important in the technology space over the last decade, and why a company like Twitter has become heavily invested in the field. Finally, Yakovenko talks about the general prospects of Twitter going forward under the new Musk regime. Note: the archive of podcasts (2 weeks delayed) now also resides on YouTube as well as Apple, Stitcher and Spotify (though my “monologues” will not be posted in full ungated).

Chain Reaction
Speeding up crypto (w/ Anatoly Yakovenko)

Chain Reaction

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2022 22:27


For this week's Tuesday episode where we chat with a web3 expert, we're playing a recording of our discussion live on stage with Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder of the Solana blockchain, at TechCrunch Disrupt. We chatted with Yakovenko about:Solana's plans to launch a web3-focused smartphone and whether it can take on tech giants Apple and Google in mobileThe lack of women in the web3 space and what blockchain leaders could (and should) be doing to fix thatWhether Yakovenko is more afraid of competition from new layer-one upstarts or incumbent market leaders such as EthereumIf you enjoyed this interview, you'll have a chance to hear us talk with some of the biggest names in crypto at our event in Miami on November 17th. You can use the promo code, REACT, for 15% off a General Admission ticket to hear from speakers including FTX's Amy Wu and Binance's Changpeng Zhao.Chain Reaction comes out every Tuesday and Thursday at 12:00 p.m. PT, so be sure to subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your favorite pod platform to keep up with the action.

Mint | Where Crypto Meets Creators
Shorts | Anatoly Yakovenko: Things That Can Only Be Built On Solana

Mint | Where Crypto Meets Creators

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2022 4:10


Anatoly Yakovenko, Co-founder of Solana, shares a few applications that can only be built on the Solana blockchain.Full EpisodeSeason 6 Episode 2About Mint ShortsEnjoy the best moments from the podcast in bite-size segments.---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

Searching for Mana with Lloyd Wahed
Blockchain will become like a public good | Solana CEO, Anatoly Yakovenko

Searching for Mana with Lloyd Wahed

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2022 59:41


Joining Lloyd this week is Solana Founder and CEO Anatoly Yakovenko, in this fascinating, candid and eye-opening episode. Solana really needs no introduction. One of the most prominent and popular blockchain platforms, particularly amongst developers, Solana is able to run over 6,000 transactions per second and 30 million app transactions per day. For context, that's more than all other blockchains combined! Diving into the rise of Solana, as well as speaking honestly on the struggles along the way, Anatoly sheds amazing light into his founding journey, and the future of a platform at the forefront of the web3 charge. From launching their new phone, to seeking to emulate the likes of Linux across web2, the sky truly is the limit with regard to where Solana can go. A superb podcast, Anatoly's self-belief and belief in the potential of blockchain is incredible. [ 0:00 - 7:23 ] The power, potential and scale of Solana[ 7:24 - 15:54 ] NFTs, Solana outages and redundancy[ 15:55 - 20:39 ] Serum, SBF and increasing decentralisation[ 20:40 - 27:22 ] Quick-fire Mana round[ 27:23 - 33:28 ] Anatoly's background, Qualcomm and encouragement from his wife[ 33:29 - 39:38 ] Water Hockey, Anatoly's Eureka moment and founding Solana[ 39:39 - 44:44 ] The future of Social Media[ 44:45 - 51:16 ] Solana's Mobile Phone - Saga[ 51:16 - 59:13 ] Venture Capital and the future of Solana

Y in the Valley
Anatoly Yakovenko, Co-Founder, Solana and Matt Hill, Chief Environmental Evangelist, One Tree Planted

Y in the Valley

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2022 30:30


It's September. And like every previous year in recent memory, California is on fire. Again. Evolving problems, though, call for evolved solutions. Enter FIREWATCH— a first-of-its-kind NFT project designed to fund fire prevention in California. Buying one of the pop-art NFTs in this collection of California landscapes delivers 100% of proceeds to forest conservation efforts through the project's official non-profit partner, One Tree Planted. YML created this NFT experience by building on Solana, an eco-friendly blockchain, ensuring every transaction is carbon-offset. Ashish focuses this episode on FIREWATCH, alongside a pair of guests — Anatoly Yakovenko, Co-Founder of Solana, as well as Matt Hill, Chief Environmental Evangelist at One Tree Planted. Together they unpack the FIREWATCH origin story, the promise of Web3, what the future holds for crypto, and how crucial it is blockchains dramatically decrease their environmental footprint. But they don't stop there. Matt shares the secrets to One Tree Planted's massive growth, what it takes to limit the severity of wildfires, and his best tips on building a nonprofit from the ground up. Show Notes 2:25: Welcome to One Tree Planted and Solana 5:15: One Tree Planted's explosive growth 6:52: Proof of stake and an energy-efficient blockchain  9:10: The future of crypto  18:20: The promise of Web3 19:44: Tackling wildfire today 24:28: Launching a nonprofit 26:22 The wrap-out

The Wolf Of All Streets
The Future Of Solana | Anatoly Yakovenko

The Wolf Of All Streets

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2022 51:56


I finally had the opportunity to sit down with Anatoly Yakovenko, founder of Solana. We talked about everything: the centralization of Solana, how Solana competes with other layer 1 blockchains, and why it is crucial to cut operational costs to boost adoption. We talked about security issues and how the upcoming release of the first Solana phone, Saga, solves them. We further discussed how Anatoly's background in the Soviet Union led to his deep interest and passion for decentralized systems and Bitcoin. This is a well-rounded conversation with one of the leading minds of crypto. Anatoly Yakovenko: https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko ►► Get 20% off on your ticket to W3BX. Use my code: WOLF20. Register here: http://web3expo.live/  ►► JOIN THE FREE WOLF DEN NEWSLETTER https://www.getrevue.co/profile/TheWolfDen  GET UP TO A $8,000 BONUS IN USDT AND TRADE ALL SPOT PAIRS ON BITGET FOR ZERO FEES! ►► https://thewolfofallstreets.info/bitget    TRADE ON THE WORLD'S BEST DEX, BULLISH: ►► https://thewolfofallstreets.info/bullish/youtube  Follow Scott Melker: Twitter: https://twitter.com/scottmelker  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wolfofallstreets   Web: https://www.thewolfofallstreets.io  Spotify: https://spoti.fi/30N5FDe  Apple podcast: https://apple.co/3FASB2c  #Solana #AnatolyYakovenko #Crypto The views and opinions expressed here are solely my own and should in no way be interpreted as financial advice. This video was created for entertainment. Every investment and trading move involves risk. You should conduct your own research when making a decision. I am not a financial advisor.  Nothing contained in this video constitutes or shall be construed as an offering of financial instruments or as investment advice or recommendations of an investment strategy or whether or not to "Buy," "Sell," or "Hold" an investment.

Mint | Where Crypto Meets Creators
Shorts | Anatoly Yakovenko: Why aren't Apple and Google taking web3 seriously?

Mint | Where Crypto Meets Creators

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2022 2:14


Anatoly Yakovenko, Co-founder of Solana, explains why Apple and Google, the top dogs in web2 haven't joined the web3 wave yet.Full episodeSeason 6 Episode 2About Mint ShortsEnjoy the best moments from the podcast in bite-size segments.---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

The Hotspot - Helium Network & Blockchain Podcast
28. HIP 70 Deep Dive (w/ Amir Haleem & Anatoly Yakovenko)

The Hotspot - Helium Network & Blockchain Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2022 88:43


A discussion with founders and foundation members of Solana and Helium about HIP 70, the radical proposal to scale the Helium network. I moderate the panel and ask the community's most burning questions about what will change.This is the most honest and compelling talk about HIP 70 yet, going deep into the root causes of why the Nova team thinks this proposal needs to happen.00:00:00 Start00:01:15 Intro & community recap00:03:44 HIP 70 brief explanation00:05:46 The road to HIP 7000:12:52 Helium community skepticism about updates00:16:35 Advantages of switching to a new L100:21:14 Difficulty of building L100:23:29 Importance of laser focus00:26:41 Is Helium forfeiting its sovereignty?00:30:33 Exploding community dev engagement00:34:14 How long HIP 70 will take00:42:17 How oracles affect decentralization00:46:46 Validators unstaking timeline00:57:04 IOT genesis snapshot timeline00:58:00 IOT token launch timeline00:58:54 Could HIP 70 be compromised?01:00:16 Pros/cons of community governance01:01:43 Why Solana, if it's unstable?01:10:57 Better hotspot remote diagnostics?01:14:23 How does veHNT work?01:17:09 Impact on IOT/LoRaWAN routers?01:21:51 Broken data packet accounting01:22:50 Detailed breakdown of the L1 choice?01:26:00 Closing thoughtsCheck out the latest TL;DR on HIP 70 by Frank Mong: https://blog.helium.com/tl-dr-on-hip-70-hnt-ecosystem-would-expand-on-solana-abb123501765And don't forget to join the #hip-70-scaling-the-helium-network channel on Helium's Discord server at https://discord.gg/heliumMore episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/thehotspotHosted by Arman Dezfuli-ArjomandiResources:Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaanFollow Amir: https://twitter.com/amirhaleemFollow Anatoly: https://twitter.com/aeyakovenkoFollow Austin: https://twitter.com/Austin_FederaFollow Abhay: https://twitter.com/abhayFollow Joey: https://twitter.com/jhillerFollow Helium: https://twitter.com/heliumFollow Nova Labs: https://twitter.com/novalabs_Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade

The Hotspot - Helium Network & Blockchain Podcast
27. Helium + Solana And Network Scaling: HIP 70 (w/ Amir Haleem, Anatoly Yakovenko, Core Devs)

The Hotspot - Helium Network & Blockchain Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2022 98:00


HIP 70 is a game changer for the scalability of the Helium Network. This episode is the ultimate educational resource about HIP 70, with commentary from both Helium founder Amir Haleem and Solana founder Anatoly Yakovenko, as well as the Nova Labs core dev team.Learn more about the HIP on the Helium Foundation's blog: https://medium.com/helium-foundation/hip-70-helium-core-team-proposes-to-migrate-to-solana-e7ea23a042e7And don't forget to join the #hip-70-scaling-the-helium-network channel on Helium's Discord server at https://discord.gg/heliumMore episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/thehotspotHosted by Arman Dezfuli-ArjomandiResources:Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaanFollow Amir: https://twitter.com/amirhaleemFollow Anatoly: https://twitter.com/aeyakovenkoFollow Helium: https://twitter.com/heliumFollow Nova Labs: https://twitter.com/novalabs_Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade

Stan Prokopenko Podcast
3: DeFi and NFTs on Solana with Anatoly Yakovenko

Stan Prokopenko Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2022 56:18


My guest for this episode is Anatoly Yakovenko. He is a computer engineer with two decades of experience, mostly at Qualcomm, working on high-performance operating systems and chips. Most recently he used that experience to build a high performance blockchain, called Solana. Known for its speed and energy efficiency, Solana is one of the fastest growing ecosystems in blockchain. He's a very interesting guy. Super excited to have him here. "Everything is finance." - Anatoly Yakovenko Show notes for this episode: https://stanprokopenko.com/2022/08/3-defi-and-nfts-on-solana-with-anatoly-yakovenko/ Follow Anatoly: https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko Follow Stan: https://twitter.com/StanProkopenko

Na miły book
#71 Przemieszczenie, Margaryta Yakovenko

Na miły book

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2022 27:33


Horyzont. Miejsce styku dwóch bezkresnych płaszczyzn. Dla jednych widok kontemplacyjny, równowaga, bycie w odpowiednim miejscu i czasie. Dla bohaterki "Przemieszczenia" to uzależnienie. Symbol tułaczki, migracji, ciągłych wyjazdów i złudnych powrotów. Bo czy można wrócić do miejsca, które się opuściło? Tłum. Agata Ostrowska. Wydawnictwo ArtRage

Mint | Where Crypto Meets Creators
Shorts | Anatoly Yakovenko: How Creators Should Use On-Chain Data To Build Communities

Mint | Where Crypto Meets Creators

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2022 3:31


Anatoly Yakovenko, Co-founder of Solana, shares how he thinks about on-chain data from the point of view of a creator.Full episodeSeason 6 Episode 2About Mint ShortsEnjoy the best moments from the podcast in bite-size segments.---------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletterhttps://levychain.substack.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Adam Levy on social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/levychainInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/levychainLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/levy-adamWebsite:https://adamlevy.io

DeFi Decoded
DeFi Decoded - Building Your Way Through the Bear Market, with Solana Co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko

DeFi Decoded

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2022 42:20


Solana (SOL) typified the explosive growth of crypto and blockchain in 2021. A new blockchain protocol with a novel and ingenious design, Solana was able to attract thousands of developers and millions of users to an application ecosystem that started with DeFi but diversified into NFTs, Gamefi and beyond. At its peak, Solana was worth $90 billion USD. And while crypto prices have cooled, the thesis for Web3 remains intact and the future of Web3 on Solana looks bright.   On this week's episode, Anatoly explains how Solana's birth in the bear market of 2018-2019 helps explain its success today. He talks about how a relentless focus on developers has set the protocol up for success. He also tells us how despite the dip in prices, developer activity has been higher recently than during the bull market. Finally we talk about how Solana's smart phone might be the key to unlocking a crypto-native app store and bringing hundreds of millions of people into Web3.   This episode ended up running 45 minutes and we could have gone much longer. Strongly encourage you to check it out! 

Pounding The Table
Exclusive Interview w/ Solana Co-Founder Anatoly Yakovenko ($SOL)

Pounding The Table

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2022 51:17


@AviNMash and @AnthonyOhayon are joined by Anatoly Yakovenko (Co-Founder of Solana Block Chain) to dive into the future of Solana and share some misconceptions around their upcoming Solana Phone. Shout out to our Sponsors at StockTwits.com - Our favorite place to discuss the markets and hear what people are saying about their favorite ticker symbols

CoinDesk Reports
OPINIONATED: Does the World Need a Web3 Phone? Featuring Anatoly Yakovenko

CoinDesk Reports

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2022 29:42


Crypto needs to optimize for mobile. Anatoly Yakovenko believes the way to accomplish this is not by developing better Web3 apps for mobile phones, but to rethink the mobile phone from the ground up with a complete operating system that optimizes crypto applications for mobile.Yakovenko joins “Opinionated” with hosts Ben Schiller and Danny Nelson to discuss Solana Lab's newest endeavor: building a mobile phone geared towards Web3 use cases. Yakovenko's experience with mobile phone development dates back to his time at Qualcomm, where he worked on operating systems.Solana's mobile experiment might just determine whether the grand vision of crypto's use in everyday life is attainable. But is a crypto-native phone something the world needs?This show is produced and edited by Eleanor Pahl with additional production support and announcements by Michele Musso. Our theme song is by Elision.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Opinionated
Does the World Need a Web3 Phone? Featuring Anatoly Yakovenko

Opinionated

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2022 29:42


Crypto needs to optimize for mobile. Anatoly Yakovenko believes the way to accomplish this is not by developing better Web3 apps for mobile phones, but to rethink the mobile phone from the ground up with a complete operating system that optimizes crypto applications for mobile.Yakovenko joins “Opinionated” with hosts Ben Schiller and Danny Nelson to discuss Solana Lab's newest endeavor: building a mobile phone geared towards Web3 use cases. Yakovenko's experience with mobile phone development dates back to his time at Qualcomm, where he worked on operating systems.Solana's mobile experiment might just determine whether the grand vision of crypto's use in everyday life is attainable. But is a crypto-native phone something the world needs?This show is produced and edited by Eleanor Pahl with additional production support and announcements by Michele Musso. Our theme song is by Elision.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Unchained
The Chopping Block: Anatoly Yakovenko on Why Solana Is Building the SAGA Phone - Ep. 373

Unchained

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2022 62:29


Welcome to The Chopping Block! Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news in the digital asset industry. In this episode, Anatoly Yakovenko, Tsar of Solana, joins the show to discuss the use cases of Solana, whether it's actually a blockchain, how Solana scales, and much more!    Show topics: What Anatoly thinks of Andre Conje's opinion that Solana is not a blockchain Why Solana has had so many instances of downtime Whether Solana is the NASDAQ of blockchains What Solana changed its approach to fee markets and how it is different from other blockchains Why Anatoly is bearish on generic Layer2s How to prevent a mempool to blow up Whether Anatoly is pro app-chains Why Anatoly would have had Solana build a fee model from the start What proof of history is and what its problems are  How vertical scaling and horizontal scaling differ What the use cases of Solana are  Why Solana decided to build the SAGA phone How a web3 phone enables new ways of innovation Why Solana doesn't see Avalanche or BSC or other EVM chains as competitors but Mysten and Aptos Why the execution environment is where all innovation happens Why Tarun thinks rollups on Solana is a good idea Whether EVM could work on Solana and why Anatoly cares less about EVM on Solana than Solidity What Anatoly's biggest lessons from building Solana are Why Haseeb admires Anatoly and what the similarities are between him and Vitalik What Anatoly advises people who are building in crypto       Hosts Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital https://twitter.com/hosseeb Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly Capital https://twitter.com/tomhschmidt Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures https://twitter.com/tarunchitra  Robert Leshner, founder of Compound  https://twitter.com/rleshner    Guest: Anatoly Yakovenko Twitter: https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko   Episode Links   Solana Serum: https://www.projectserum.com/ Some of the Solana outages and consequences:  September 2021: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2021/09/14/solana-validators-ready-potential-restart-amid-blockchain-outage/ January 2022: https://www.theblock.co/post/131278/traders-are-complaining-about-solanas-performance-raising-questions-about-its-status-as-a-wall-street-darling  May 2022: https://www.theblock.co/linked/144639/solana-restarted-after-seven-hour-outage-caused-by-surge-of-transactions  Solana's blockchain clock 30 minutes behind: https://www.theblock.co/post/149112/solanas-blockchain-clock-loses-track-of-time-now-running-30-minutes-behind  June 2022: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2022/06/02/solana-halted-by-bug-linked-to-certain-cold-storage-transactions/ Popularity of NFTs on Solana: https://www.theblock.co/post/153214/magic-eden-raises-series-b-funding-solana-nft-unicorn Solana phone https://solana.com/news/saga-reveal https://dune.com/queries/952048/1656567 https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/06/23/solana-labs-is-building-a-web3-mobile-phone/  Fee market: https://www.reddit.com/r/solana/comments/u3p8xc/eli3_solana_fee_market/ Aptos/Mysten:  https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/07/11/web-3-startup-mysten-labs-aiming-for-2b-valuation-in-latest-funding-report/ https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/05/31/paypal-ventures-invested-in-team-reviving-diem-blockchain/ Paper on Proof of History: https://www.shoup.net/papers/poh.pdf Previous Coverage: Why Solana's Frequent Downtime Doesn't Bother Kyle Samani- Ep. 362: https://unchainedpodcast.com/the-chopping-block-why-solanas-frequent-downtime-doesnt-bother-kyle-samani-ep-362/ Did Andre Cronje Pull an Epic Crypto Rug Pull?: https://unchainedpodcast.com/the-chopping-block-did-andre-cronje-pull-an-epic-crypto-rug-pull/ Will Solana Be the Execution Layer and Ethereum the Settlement Layer? https://unchainedpodcast.com/will-solana-be-the-execution-layer-and-ethereum-the-settlement-layer/  Neon Labs: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/11/09/neon-labs-raises-40m-to-bring-evm-functionality-to-solana/

Unchained
The Chopping Block: Anatoly Yakovenko on Why Solana Is Building the SAGA Phone - Ep. 373

Unchained

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2022 62:29


Welcome to The Chopping Block! Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news in the digital asset industry. In this episode, Anatoly Yakovenko, Tsar of Solana, joins the show to discuss the use cases of Solana, whether it's actually a blockchain, how Solana scales, and much more!    Show topics: What Anatoly thinks of Andre Cronje's opinion that Solana is not a blockchain Why Solana has had so many instances of downtime Whether Solana is the NASDAQ of blockchains Why Solana changed its approach to fee markets and how it is different from other blockchains Why Anatoly is bearish on generic Layer2s How to prevent a mempool to blow up Whether Anatoly is pro app-chains Why Anatoly would have had Solana build a fee model from the start What proof of history is and what its problems are  How vertical scaling and horizontal scaling differ What the use cases of Solana are  Why Solana decided to build the SAGA phone How a web3 phone enables new ways of innovation Why Solana doesn't see Avalanche or BSC or other EVM chains as competitors but Mysten and Aptos Why the execution environment is where all innovation happens Why Tarun thinks rollups on Solana is a good idea Whether EVM could work on Solana and why Anatoly cares less about EVM on Solana than Solidity What Anatoly's biggest lessons from building Solana are Why Haseeb admires Anatoly and what the similarities are between him and Vitalik What Anatoly advises people who are building in crypto       Hosts Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital https://twitter.com/hosseeb Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly Capital https://twitter.com/tomhschmidt Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures https://twitter.com/tarunchitra  Robert Leshner, founder of Compound  https://twitter.com/rleshner    Guest: Anatoly Yakovenko Twitter: https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko   Episode Links   Solana Serum: https://www.projectserum.com/ Some of the Solana outages and consequences:  September 2021: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2021/09/14/solana-validators-ready-potential-restart-amid-blockchain-outage/ January 2022: https://www.theblock.co/post/131278/traders-are-complaining-about-solanas-performance-raising-questions-about-its-status-as-a-wall-street-darling  May 2022: https://www.theblock.co/linked/144639/solana-restarted-after-seven-hour-outage-caused-by-surge-of-transactions  Solana's blockchain clock 30 minutes behind: https://www.theblock.co/post/149112/solanas-blockchain-clock-loses-track-of-time-now-running-30-minutes-behind  June 2022: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2022/06/02/solana-halted-by-bug-linked-to-certain-cold-storage-transactions/ Popularity of NFTs on Solana: https://www.theblock.co/post/153214/magic-eden-raises-series-b-funding-solana-nft-unicorn Solana phone https://solana.com/news/saga-reveal https://dune.com/queries/952048/1656567 https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/06/23/solana-labs-is-building-a-web3-mobile-phone/  Fee market: https://www.reddit.com/r/solana/comments/u3p8xc/eli3_solana_fee_market/ Aptos/Mysten:  https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/07/11/web-3-startup-mysten-labs-aiming-for-2b-valuation-in-latest-funding-report/ https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/05/31/paypal-ventures-invested-in-team-reviving-diem-blockchain/ Paper on Proof of History: https://www.shoup.net/papers/poh.pdf Previous Coverage: Why Solana's Frequent Downtime Doesn't Bother Kyle Samani- Ep. 362: https://unchainedpodcast.com/the-chopping-block-why-solanas-frequent-downtime-doesnt-bother-kyle-samani-ep-362/ Did Andre Cronje Pull an Epic Crypto Rug Pull?: https://unchainedpodcast.com/the-chopping-block-did-andre-cronje-pull-an-epic-crypto-rug-pull/ Will Solana Be the Execution Layer and Ethereum the Settlement Layer? https://unchainedpodcast.com/will-solana-be-the-execution-layer-and-ethereum-the-settlement-layer/  Neon Labs: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/11/09/neon-labs-raises-40m-to-bring-evm-functionality-to-solana/

The Scoop
The Solana phone is the leap that Google and Apple won't take, says Anatoly Yakovenko

The Scoop

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2022 40:54


Many Web3 platforms require users to connect their crypto wallets before engaging with the platform in any meaningful way. Consequently, the Web3 experience on mobile devices is tedious at best, given current devices are not designed with such functionalities in mind. Solana Mobile — a subsidiary of the development team behind Solana — hopes to address the difficulties that surround the Web3 mobile user experience with its new Android phone called ‘Saga,' which is slated for release in early 2023.  Last week, Solana Labs co-founder and CEO Anatoly Yakovenko announced the new mobile device, which will run a ‘Solana Mobile Stack' (SMS) operating system and will feature a marketplace for decentralized Web3 applications. In this episode of The Scoop, Anatoly Yakovenko said he believes Saga's early success will be linked to its ability to significantly enhance the mobile crypto user experience: “The theory is that crypto users might be crazy enough to switch from iOS to Android because of crypto. It might be so important to have that experience, that they're willing to change their habits.” If Solana Mobile is successfully able to prove there is consumer demand for crypto-forward mobile products, Yakovenko believes it will inspire major tech companies to integrate crypto infrastructure into their own mobile devices moving forward: “You need Google and Apple to do it, but they're not going to do it until there is proven demand that people need it — and so somebody has to kind of make that leap…” Episode 60 of Season 4 of The Scoop was recorded live at The Block headquarters in New York with The Block's Frank Chaparro and Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder and CEO of Solana Labs. Listen below, and subscribe to The Scoop on Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher or wherever you listen to podcasts. Email feedback and revision requests to podcast@theblockcrypto.com. This episode is brought to you by our sponsors Chainalysis & IWC Schauffhausen About Chainalysis Chainalysis is the leading blockchain data platform. We provide data, software, services, and research to government agencies, exchanges, financial institutions, and insurance and cybersecurity companies in over 60 countries. Backed by Accel, Addition, Benchmark, Coatue, Paradigm, Ribbit, and other leading firms in venture capital, Chainalysis builds trust in blockchains to promote more financial freedom with less risk. For more information, visit www.chainalysis.com. About IWC Schaffhausen IWC Schaffhausen is a Swiss luxury watch manufacturer based in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. Known for its unique engineering approach to watchmaking, IWC combines the best of human craftsmanship and creativity with cutting-edge technology and processes. With collections like the Portugieser and the Pilot's Watches, the brand covers the whole spectrum from elegant timepieces to sports watches. For more information, visit IWC.com

The Zeitgeist
Anatoly Yakovenko - Solana Labs Co-Founder, Ep. 1

The Zeitgeist

Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2022 26:39


Anatoly Yakovenko (Solana Labs Co-Founder) joins The Zeitgeist to discuss the current state of Solana and the ways in which the team is working to improve protocol performance.  SHOW NOTES00:39 - Origin Story01:59 - How his role evolved at Solana03:42 - New initiatives at Solana04:59 - NFTs06:37 - How to improve performance12:31 - What is Solana's North Star?15:48 - Growth and Nakamoto coefficient19:47 - Developer ecosystem23:31 - Craziest idea built on Solana24:35 -  Builders he admiresREFERENCESSaberMango MarketsOrcaAnchorFULL TRANSCRIPTBrian Friel (00:00):Hey everyone, and welcome to Zeitgeist, the show where we interview the founders, developers and designers who are pushing the Web 3.0 Space forward. I'm Brian Friel, Developer Relations at Phantom, and I'm super excited to have on the show today, none other than the man, the myth, the legend himself, Anatoly Yakovenko. Anatoly, how's it going?Anatoly Yakovenko (00:22):Hey, it's going well, thank you for having me.Brian Friel (00:25):Thanks for being on the show. You know, I think most folks know your story if they're very familiar with the Solana space. You are the founder of Solana. We do have some people who are listening to this show who are more familiar with the Ethereum world. Would you mind giving a quick moment to walk us through your background and how you got started with Solana?Anatoly Yakovenko (00:40):Yeah. So I'm an engineer by trade. I spent most of my career at Qualcomm, and I was there from super early days working on these like flip phones, if anybody remembers those. I was a Core Kernel engineer on Brew, which was, I think one, one of the first mobile operating systems with an App Store. Really the first, I think mobile platform where developers build anything, and this was pre-iOS, pre-Android.Anatoly Yakovenko (01:05):I was there for like almost 14 years. My last project was like building optimizations for augmented reality. And then around 2017, this big boom and crypto happened. I think the first really big Bitcoin price movements happened during that year. And it was obvious that Bitcoin was too slow for the kind of stuff that the narratives that people were talking about at the time, such as like global payments and things like that. That's what really got me interested in the space because I saw an opportunity to apply all the things that I learned at Qualcomm, from optimizations and wireless protocols and everything else to crypto.Brian Friel (01:46):So in the early days, if you take a look at the Git commit history on Solana, the protocol, you were a pretty heavy code contributor. How has your role evolved since starting the project? And what would you say is like your main focus today?Anatoly Yakovenko (02:00):Yeah, those early days were hard because I had to raise money and kind of be the CEO, which is effectively sales, but also I'm a really strong IC and losing one IC, it sucks, right for like a small startup? So I was coding and sometimes like 2:00, 3:00 in the morning, I would just be awake, still building stuff and burning the candle on both ends.Anatoly Yakovenko (02:27):As the network got stood up around like 2020, once we started growing the team, when we got a bit of traction in 2020, it's just my initial contributions were not as impactful as ... I'm now like one out of 20 contributors instead of like one out of 10. And that amount of like effort that I can put in ended up being not as important as me doing everything else that I can do as like the CEO of Labs.Brian Friel (02:53):So you guys obviously had a very explosive summer, 2021. NFT trading on Solana, I'm not sure if you would've predicted that your global state machine would be the perfect mechanism for trading JPEGs on the internet.Anatoly Yakovenko (03:06):No. Yeah, that's been wild.Brian Friel (03:10):I would say it's funny because a lot of people initially wrote off Solana because it wasn't EDM compatible. There was a myriad of reasons why it wouldn't take off. It seems like today you guys have the opposite problem where there's so much demand, everyone wants to use it.Brian Friel (03:25):I know you have a couple initiatives in the works now, some of that being quick, some stake weight, and then there's a fee prioritization mechanism coming in. How are those initiatives going generally? And do you foresee this as being a big step for the network or is this a really an iterative phase where you guys are going to continue to scale in various projects?Anatoly Yakovenko (03:43):Yeah, we designed this network. I mean, initially the slide deck literally said blockchain and NASDAQ speed and there was this big vision of something like serum running on it and being the price discovery for all of the world's stuff that needs trading. And that was like the first use case that we actually had any success with.Anatoly Yakovenko (04:01):The folks from FTX, that incubated serum, they looked at the network and they were like, "Okay, this is designed for the kind of exchange that we know how to build and trade. So why don't we see what happens?" And when NFT started taking off, it didn't make sense to me. But I could tell that a lot of people, like humans were interested in them instead of trading. A large number of people were interested in them. And that's a really important thing, like product market fit can be measured in many different ways. If you're speaking trading it could be volumes or TVL, but it's really, really important to really connect it to a person.Anatoly Yakovenko (04:39):And the more people you have in any of these effectively web based networks, people want to call it Web 3.0 or Web 2.0, or whatever, it's still the web. The more people you have using it, I think the more value you're actually creating for the world and that's really, really important. So Metaplex was incubated in Solana and it just allowed people to launch NFT projects.Anatoly Yakovenko (04:59):And we saw that at that time and now Ethereum gas fees were really so expensive that it was effectively impossible for any small artist to pony up like hundreds of thousands of dollars to go deploy like 10,000 NFT project and mint them and like have their users pay these ridiculous gas fees.Anatoly Yakovenko (05:20):So a lot of people just started messing around on Solana and they started getting traction and like making more money than normal artists creators make in a year in a single NFT mint. And that really changed like everything, for them and for us. So that's been just awesome to watch. Because NFTs have value, that has led to a different kind of traffic than we anticipated where there's now bots that spend a lot of money on egress, like a hundred gigabit worth of egress to try to snag a NFT mint.Anatoly Yakovenko (05:55):And the network can handle that most of the time. But sometimes it can't. So now we've been working on – if you've been following Solana, I'm sure you've heard like there's outages or congestion. Basically what happens is you have a known event, financial event, like an NFT mint or an IDO, but most of the time it's an NFT mint. And bots start sending so much traffic before this event to try to basically maximize their probability of them getting all the NFTs or most of them by stuffing all the leaders with packets and that prevents other packets from landing.Anatoly Yakovenko (06:31):And sometimes like the last one, it may uncover some unknown memory issue, where the memory and the validator starts growing and they start shutting down. And therefore, when more than a third of them run out of memory, you end up losing a quorum and therefore consensus halts. So it's effectively the greatest bug bounty free, like DDOS testing, not the best kind of DDOS testing that money can buy.Anatoly Yakovenko (06:58):It's really, really hard to even get a hundred gigabit worth of traffic like at Google. Your typical network that you deploy at Google for your private network inside their servers does not go to a hundred gigabit, it goes to one gigabit. So the kind of things that you see in the wild is really, really, even hard to simulate.Brian Friel (07:15):Yeah. You're testing and prod essentially.Anatoly Yakovenko (07:17):Right. And that's always the case. We have like a big testing effort and team and like a massive test net that's even bigger than the main net to try to simulate all these corner cases. Everything that you do in the lab gets really tested for real when you ship to prod.Anatoly Yakovenko (07:37):So the major change that we need to do is actually prevent them from sending that many packets. And there's a bunch of ways to do that. TCP has been the classic solution, but it has a lot of problems with latency and managing connections.Brian Friel (07:50):Right. And you guys use UDP Today.Anatoly Yakovenko (07:52):We use UDP Today, which is what traders prefer. So all the exchanges, like when you get high connectivity from CME or an ISE, you get UDP. And you can manage it for most of the time, but at some points like at a hundred gigabit, you basically have to like decide, "Okay, we're going to spend 10,000 bucks, a validator and put these appliances in there that can drop maybe close to like a terabit worth of traffic really, really quickly and filter packets. Or we build a software solution."Anatoly Yakovenko (08:24):In theory, QUIC can be as fast as UDP. In practice, that implementation and testing it, rolling it out, takes time. So over the last release, the 1.10 release, our engineers, plus the folks from like Blockdaemon [inaudible 00:08:40] one have been working on rolling out the quick implementation. And it looks like finally, like 1.10 is going to roll out to main net.Anatoly Yakovenko (08:47):I think the slow release is going to, roll out is going to start this week, but you need like, you really need three pieces. So this is kind of a complicated problem. So if you have QUIC, you can limit how many packets any IP address can send, but bots can, then we were going to get a million IPs and they'll all send a couple transactions per second each because they really want those NFTs.Brian Friel (09:08):Yeah. And then you're playing Whack Em' All with the IP addresses.Anatoly Yakovenko (09:11):Right. So the second fix, that's also 1.10, but I would say it's not as perfect as I would like it, but mostly there, is being able to limit the amount of traffic; people send an aggregate by stake weight. So if you're not staked, you get the least amount of bandwidth. But if you are staked, then you have let's say 0.5% of the stake, you're guaranteed that all the other stake are on stake notes, can't star view. So you can at least send half of a percent of bandwidth at any time. So that's the second part.Anatoly Yakovenko (09:45):And then the third part is that as information moves from, let's say, RPC nodes or other nodes, and like propagates to the leader, including like these intermediate hops, we need to make sure that it's prioritized not by first and first out, because then again, that will also lead to bots just trying to be the first packet in any given event, but by fee.Anatoly Yakovenko (10:10):Right? So this is where we need to add fee markets, which is something that will force bots to spend money instead of packets. And it's a bit more complicated to add fee markets in Solana. If you've ever programmed in Solana, you'll quickly realize that it's really different from Ethereum. And the main difference is that – you have one giant state machine like you do in Ethereum, so there's no charting on state, but each transaction has to specify what state it's going to read and what state it's going to write. Which means that you don't have this global fee for a block. You technically kind of end up having fees for state.Anatoly Yakovenko (10:45):So you have a single NFT mint with a single account, like a state account that represents that NFT market. And everybody wants to trade on it. So the fees accessing that particular state need to go up because you can only schedule so many transactions to access that thing. But that doesn't mean that the block is full. You can actually start adding more events into the block that don't touch that part of the state.Brian Friel (11:11):And you can touch other parts of the state in parallel and at a lower fee.Anatoly Yakovenko (11:15):Exactly. So it's kind of like, think of it as a bunch of buckets, and you want to fill the highest contented bucket with the highest paying transactions, but then you also want to fill the other buckets. So it's this multi-headed queue problem. There's no perfect solution for it. So it's, every solution is a heuristic. Which makes it both kind of complicated and easy, that you're never going to be perfect. So you can ship stuff. You can't ship things, but because it's heuristic, there's always like corner cases and you got to be careful about if any of them can be exploited between all of these hops.Anatoly Yakovenko (11:52):Partial solution to that is also rolling out. But I think given how complex all these three pieces are, we need like, we'll probably need the 1.11 release to stabilize everything.Brian Friel (12:02):That makes sense.Anatoly Yakovenko (12:03):I'm glad that at least like these 0.XX versions of this stuff is out and like finally is actually rolling out.Brian Friel (12:09):This kind of highlights what I always found Solana to be refreshing, especially compared to older blockchains. You know, you mentioned Bitcoin when you were first in back in the day is that, you guys have taken this very practical approach to “how do we scale?”, and have these iterative solutions. Do you have like a defining lighthouse that kind of guides this development cycle? Is it about being like the fastest and the cheapest chain or what is your priorities here?Anatoly Yakovenko (12:32):So there's this fundamental idea like that goes back to the roots, blockchain and NASDAQ speed. Imagine like all of these computers around the world, they all hold state. And that state is synchronized within a certain amount of time. And that time in theory can be as low as halfway around the world, like about 120 milliseconds.Anatoly Yakovenko (12:52):So this is the one giant piece of state that represents every price in the world. And it's a point of reference for price discovery. And in theory, even if you have something like NASDAQ or CME that trade at like sub one microsecond, because news still has to travel around the world. You have some event that happens in Singapore. It's got to go through the same fiber cables as everything else. That news wire is going to travel at the same speed as a state, as a transaction in Solana.Anatoly Yakovenko (13:21):So by the time you see it on your Bloomberg terminal and CME, you'll actually see the price reflected in both markets. And that means that like this set of nodes run by volunteers with open source software can be competitive at the most important core part of finance with like NASDAQ with CME.Anatoly Yakovenko (13:41):So that's really the goal. Can we get it to that level where it's propagating information around the world, synchronizing it at the speed of light? So that's the north star. So ...Brian Friel (13:51):And I love that. That's great.Anatoly Yakovenko (13:53):It's hard. It's a hard problem, but it's, I think there's clear reason that this thing is really useful to the world if it exists and even in the state, it exists now, it's extremely useful because I think this idea of open cheap price discovery is really important for DeFi and Web 3.0. You look at something like NFTs. I think under the hood NFTs are DeFi, you have a smart contract that decides who gets what based on royalty, secondary trading and all these other things.Anatoly Yakovenko (14:24):And it's a different business model for making money on the web. It's one that doesn't involve the Ad Exchange, a centralized Ad Exchange that Google runs. It doesn't have any intermediaries. It's between the creators and the community that they're serving. So I think it's, as early as it is, and I'm looking at these things and thinking these are like early bulletin boards, I can see that I think in 10, 15 years, the way that people make money on the web is going to be 99%, no intermediaries like through these kinds of networks and applications and almost none on through like the advertisement channels.Brian Friel (15:02):Yeah. That makes sense.Anatoly Yakovenko (15:03):That to me, I think is like huge. If this like transforms the web, that's awesome.Brian Friel (15:09):Yeah, totally. Changes human behavior, fundamentally. So you spoke a lot about the human side of these people who are using the network, but there is a human side also to the people who are running the nodes that secure this network here. And there's a common misconception out there that Solana is this big and fast chain, but there's a few nodes that's powering this network.Brian Friel (15:30):You've spoken a lot about this term, the Nakamoto Coefficient, which is essentially the number of nodes that would have to collude to make the blockchain stop working in some capacity. How has this Nakamoto Coefficient been evolving since Solana's launch? And is there anything that you guys are doing at labs that are catalyzing this kind of growth in this Nakamoto Coefficient?Anatoly Yakovenko (15:49):Yeah. We started with like the Nakamoto Coefficient around like six or seven in those early days. And now it's 24 and that may sound like a small number, but when you look at Bitcoin, it takes about six mining pools to get to 51%, an Ethereum, I think three or maybe four, something like that mining pools, ETH2 stake distribution is even worse. It's like Lido, might be Lido plus one exchange, Kraken or Binance might cross it.Anatoly Yakovenko (16:17):And it's both important and not as important as people think. So the core part of where security comes from these networks is actually in the sheer number of nodes, because fundamentally like when high level catastrophic event happens, a bunch of machines get corrupted. As long as one of them can recover the data, that data contains cryptographic signatures from everyone else in the network. They can validate that that data's correct, and the network can recover.Anatoly Yakovenko (16:47):So you only need one out of many. And this is true about every BFD system, even Bitcoin, if all the Bitcoin ledgers are destroyed, doesn't matter how much cash power was securing it, Bitcoin is gone. So what's important is the number of copies of the Bitcoin ledger, and the same thing with ETH2 – it's a bit more complicated with ETH2 because they do the sub sampling thing, but effectively you need enough of the ETH2 validators to survive. So you can recover a full copy of the state.Anatoly Yakovenko (17:17):So that number is really, really what matters. And when you talk about the state concentration, Nakamoto Coefficient, that has impact on real time censorship. So if, for example, like Kraken and Lido decided to start dropping transactions, they could right now, you know, given the state distribution on ETH2, but the community can basically fork them all out. They can effectively tell them, because you're misbehaving.Brian Friel (17:45):You're breaking the social contract.Anatoly Yakovenko (17:47):Yeah, you're breaking the social contract. You can actually be kicked out. And that's, I think, kind of that action of last resort, it's what really protects these networks. But given that you still want the Nakamoto Coefficient as large as possible, because I think, in the long term, especially for trading systems, you might not see this direct censorship. If the purpose of blockchain is to be these open marketplaces and the top three crypto exchanges can decide the order of events in the global open marketplace, there's probably perverse incentives there for them to not make this network the best marketplace in the world, because it's eating their lunch.Brian Friel (18:28):Yeah. We've reinvented payment for order flow here.Anatoly Yakovenko (18:31):Right. And that's really hard to enforce and may not even be intentional. Right? You may have somebody, some product manager at Coinbase that doesn't know what they're doing, that simply says, "Hey, I made these performance improvements to how we run nodes, and now our customers are earning more money." It may even not be like totally malicious. This is where I think that Nakamoto Coefficient actually matters in the long term.Anatoly Yakovenko (18:59):So Solana and Avalanche probably have the two highest, I forget what Avalanche is at, but basically it's much, much better than eight or three or four, whatever we see on Bitcoin and Ethereum these days.Brian Friel (19:10):So switching gears just real quick, we talked a lot about the network, but from an end user and from a validate perspective, one final piece of this is the developers who are actually building the applications. So the programs that run on this. You know, I mentioned earlier that Solana was kind of written off by a lot of people, especially in the ETH community, that there was no EDM-compatible, like native bridge over there, Chase Barker, lovingly calls, everyone who develops on Solana “Glass Eaters”. Has this kind of developer ecosystem that I view as very genuine to Solana, has this surprised you guys, do you foresee this continuing to grow separate from Ethereum? Are they going to merge, at some point remain specialized?Anatoly Yakovenko (19:48):It surprised me how quickly it happened. So me as an engineer, I don't like Solidity because it's not a well designed language. And the EVM is not a well designed virtual machine. And I have spent like a career working on virtual machines. So I get like an allergic reaction looking at its insides, and like, this is worse than like the first versions of Java, of the JVM.Brian Friel (20:14):Yeah. Hard to be inspired.Anatoly Yakovenko (20:16):So I kind of knew like when we made a bet on Rust, that was intentional and we didn't have enough funds to pursue like supporting VM, which I think we would've, if we did, and that probably saved us, because we had to pick like, what is actually core and important to Solana, and like, if we had to pick the one thing that we were building, it had to be differentiated from like, it had to actually showcase the most important thing about the network and that's performance. And you really, really can't write high performance code in Solidity or EVM.Anatoly Yakovenko (20:49):And Rust was just a, kind of a natural fit because it is a modern systems language with a lot of tools to build high performance software. So that was a bet that we made. And I knew that there's enough engineers out there that are like me that are naturally curious. They want to build a new stack. Oftentimes, like in my career, I would switch stacks every two years simply because I just got bored of the tools I was using.Anatoly Yakovenko (21:15):But I didn't realize, I didn't expect how quickly that would happen. And like how passionate people like became about it. Even though our initial version of the SDK was really, really bare bones. This is where this idea of eating glass came out of is that like, in those days you had to write everything by hand, all this deserialization calls by hand. There was like, the binary format was like unsafeCast. So you would do a cast of the data structure directly. There was no ideal and-Brian Friel (21:46):Wow. How far we've come with Armani and Anchor.Anatoly Yakovenko (21:49):Armani basically was like, "This is terrible. I'm either going to, like, I'm either going to quit or like, I need to fix it."Brian Friel (21:58):Or I'm going to put the whole ecosystem on my back, which he essentially did.Anatoly Yakovenko (22:01):Yeah. Yep. So he took on that role and I knew there was going to be one of those engineers eventually. This ... because I would've been that person, like, five years back in my career, I would've like, "F this. This is like terrible. I know how to fix it. So I'm just going to spend a week building the tools," but it was really, it would've been really, really hard for us to do it internally because it's easier to build those tools when you're building the product that's using them and not when you're like trying to supply them. I don't know if that makes sense.Brian Friel (22:33):You might be too close to it being, working on the protocol and not-Anatoly Yakovenko (22:35):Exactly.Brian Friel (22:36):... not like a consumer.Anatoly Yakovenko (22:37):So when you're like building the product, like an application, you know exactly what your needs are and you know what to prioritize and when I'm building the operating system, I'm just trying to be hypothetical. Well, the hypothetical application where the hypothetical engineer needs this and the requirements are just never right. Like it they're always wrong, basically.Anatoly Yakovenko (22:57):So, this is why I think it was really – the reason Anchor is successful is because Armani was building a product and he like, kind of knew exactly what he needed. And I think when looking at Anchor, I would've made totally different choices if I was building it. And I don't think it would've been as good in the end.Brian Friel (23:14):Oh, okay. I was going to say, has Armani heard that? But that's a nice compliment to throw in there at the end. Well, so wrapping up here a little bit, two last questions for you. One that we want to know here at Phantom is, what is the craziest idea or project that you've heard about that could be built on Solana?Anatoly Yakovenko (23:32):Serum, I mean is still definitely crazy to me, it's like a central limit order book that Jump is market making on, on a decentralized blockchain. That's pretty wild. I think there's a ton of games and payments and all this other stuff that's coming out.Anatoly Yakovenko (23:46):I think one of the wilder ones – there was the SolDate thing at one of the hackathons, which was a dating app. It didn't go anywhere. But people were like thinking outside of the box, which I thought was ...Brian Friel (24:00):Oh man.Anatoly Yakovenko (24:03):The games, I think like Aurory is like finally shipping, like workable parts of the game. I think that is really cool. And obviously like Star Atlas is such a huge ambitious project, that like, it's pretty wild to think that somebody's going to build from the ground up purely funded by NFT sales, like a AAA game, like at the level of EVE Online. So that, those are really, really ambitious.Brian Friel (24:30):And then our closing question here, who is a builder that you admire in the Solana ecosystem?Anatoly Yakovenko (24:35):So Armani obviously, but I want to like give a shout out to somebody else. I think, the Saber and the Mango guys. So Ian and Max and Daffy, I think have been just as important in like building a lot of tooling and onboarding devs, and you know, they're just awesome folks that are like constantly building things. So it's really cool to see them continuously shipping products. Even like when DeFi's up or DeFi's down, like when you look at the broader market, they're still building things and shipping things and that's kind of the most important thing.Brian Friel (25:10):Yeah. And that's Ian and Dylan from Saber, which is an automated market maker for stable pairs, and Mango Markets is a perps trading platform, a central limit order book in Solana.Anatoly Yakovenko (25:20):There's so many like the Orca team. When we first talked to them, they're like, "We want to build a really usable DEX for humans." And that was their whole vision. And you look at their daily active user numbers, it like shot up, I think more than Uniswap now.Brian Friel (25:38):Yeah. Oh, it's insane. Yeah. They're on a crazy growth trajectory now. I think that speaks to their UX. I will say just that one last note on the Saber brothers, there was a fable story of how they were sleeping in the Solana office at one point just shipping code. And I came in there and I saw for myself the mattresses in the meeting rooms there. I think we've all grown up since then.Anatoly Yakovenko (26:01):Yeah. A little bit.Brian Friel (26:01):That might be a thing of the past, but a little bit of lore for Solana development history there.Anatoly Yakovenko (26:05):Yeah.Brian Friel (26:06):That's great.Anatoly Yakovenko (26:08):When you're in that part of the office, you can still smell their spirit.Brian Friel (26:14):I love it. And it's totally, this is a really great discussion. Thanks so much for coming on the podcast. Everyone, very appreciative of what you built here at Solana.Anatoly Yakovenko (26:23):For sure.Brian Friel (26:23):So thank you for what you do.Anatoly Yakovenko (26:25):For sure. Thank you so much. Take care.

Crypto Mercados y Pymes
😲👉 🚨 bitcoin va a morir🚨| solana | apecoin | shiba inu | defi | suiza

Crypto Mercados y Pymes

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2022 19:36


#bitcoin #btc #ethereum #eth #crypto #shib #shiba #solana #cardano #cryptonews #matic #polygon #metaverse #nfts #nft #ADA #terraluna #HarmonyONE #defi #apecoin El cofundador de Solana (SOL), Anatoly Yakovenko, dice que el activo digital líder Bitcoin (BTC) finalmente verá a todos sus usuarios migrar a otras plataformas a menos que cambie a un mecanismo de prueba de participación. En una nueva entrevista con la presentadora de CNBC, Kate Rooney, la fundadora de la plataforma de contrato inteligente dice que los sistemas de minería de prueba de trabajo serán estériles en el futuro, incluido el principal activo criptográfico por capitalización de mercado si no hace el cambio. “Creo que eventualmente la mayoría de las redes que la gente usa serán de prueba de participación. Esta es probablemente la cosa más controvertida que me harás decir: apuesto a que si [Bitcoin] no cambia a la prueba de participación, nadie lo va a usar". Yakovenko dice que la logística de ingeniería y la eficiencia energética son los factores más importantes en juego cuando se trata de predecir qué tipo de sistemas preferirán los futuros usuarios de blockchain. “Creo que porque es simplemente más eficiente construir un sistema de prueba de participación, así que desde una perspectiva de ingeniería, proporciona el mismo nivel de seguridad pero usa mucha menos energía, así que ¿por qué no?” Yakovenko continúa diciendo que BTC está más sintonizado para ser una reserva de valor en lugar de una red de capa 1 en la que se puede desarrollar, y no está seguro de si incluso eso puede mantenerse en el futuro. “Creo que la filosofía y los objetivos de Bitcoin tienen que ver con la reserva de valor, y eso requiere quizás la implementación más simple que pueda construir. Tal vez eso funcione por ahora, pero veremos qué sucede en 10 años”.

Real Vision Crypto
"Proof of History" -- Rethinking Consensus on the Blockchain

Real Vision Crypto

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2022 13:52


Anatoly Yakovenko, CEO and co-founder of Solana, joins Eric Kryski, CEO and co-founder of Bidali, to expound upon the inner workings of Solana, an Ethereum competitor solving for speed and scalability. Yakovenko shares the unexpected journey of how the Solana team came to be and the non-trivial task of developing an entirely new consensus algorithm to differentiate it from typical Proof of Stake chains at the time. Yakovenko and the team pioneered "Proof of History", which involves cryptographic timestamps to accompany each transaction and can be verified internally by the Solana network. This method is combined with Proof of Stake to boost efficiency as well as security. Filmed on August 9, 2021.

The Money Movement
Ep 53 | Global Crypto Adoption on Solana with Anatoly Yakovenko of Solana

The Money Movement

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2022 41:29


In 2017, Anatoly Yakovenko solved the problem of keeping time between distrustful computers, he had a sudden epiphany that led him to use this experience in scaling distributed networks to create Solana. Not long afterwards, Solana goes live with a capacity of 250,000 transactions per second on a public testnet with 50 nodes. Three years later, Solana has processed over 40 billion transactions at approximately $0.00025 per transaction, unlocking a host of new possibilities for everyday applications for blockchain technology. In this episode of The Money Movement, Jeremy is joined by Anatoly Yakovenko, Co-Founder at Solana, a Circle blockchain partner.

The Money Movement
Ep 53 | Global Crypto Adoption on Solana with Anatoly Yakovenko of Solana

The Money Movement

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2022 41:29


In 2017, Anatoly Yakovenko solved the problem of keeping time between distrustful computers, he had a sudden epiphany that led him to use this experience in scaling distributed networks to create Solana. Not long afterwards, Solana goes live with a capacity of 250,000 transactions per second on a public testnet with 50 nodes. Three years later, Solana has processed over 40 billion transactions at approximately $0.00025 per transaction, unlocking a host of new possibilities for everyday applications for blockchain technology. In this episode of The Money Movement, Jeremy is joined by Anatoly Yakovenko, Co-Founder at Solana, a Circle blockchain partner. They cover:

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2022 11:50


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POD OF JAKE
#87 - ANATOLY YAKOVENKO

POD OF JAKE

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2021 44:33


Anatoly is the co-founder and CEO of Solana Labs, the organization behind Solana. Solana aims to be the fastest and most scalable decentralized blockchain in the world. Anatoly previously spent more than a decade at Qualcomm after graduating from The University of Illinois in 2003. Follow him on Twitter @aeyakovenko and learn more about Solana at solana.com. [2:18] - Anatoly's story and how he came to see the opportunity to build Solana [6:51] - Carrying Qualcomm's culture over to Solana [9:46] - Leveraging incremental software improvements to create the fastest blockchain [14:25] - Anatoly's solution to the "clock problem" in a distributed network [17:52] - Why Solana might not exist if not for the obscure sport of underwater hockey [19:21] - Building through a bear market and why focus matters more than funds [22:41] - The toughest trade-offs of maintaining a singular focus on Solana's performance [25:58] - The importance of censorship resistance and information symmetry [31:52] - The engineering mindset of building something useful [32:47] - What excites Anatoly about the super connected world Solana seeks to enable [36:45] - Advice for aspiring young founders on starting companies and biking uphill [41:10] - Anatoly's hope for a decentralized future --- Support the show by checking out my sponsors: Join Levels and get personalized insights to learn about your metabolic health. Go to https://levels.link/jake. --- https://homeofjake.com

Epicenter - Learn about Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies

Solana has pursued the vision of a single, fast and scalable blockchain from the start. Today, it has become one of the fastest growing ecosystems in crypto with hundreds of projects spanning DeFi, NFTs, Web3, and more.Last week 2,000 attendees descended on Lisbon for the first-ever Solana conference, Breakpoint. We caught up with Co-founder and CEO Anatoly Yakovenko at the event for a chat about the Solana journey and some of the most important questions they are facing today around decentralization, scalability, governance, and MEV.Topics covered in this episode:Solana's origin story and thesisThe current state of SolanaWhat censorship resistance is and why it mattersSolana's bottlenecks and remaining scaling challengesAnatoly's views on governanceSolana and Miner Extractable Value (MEV)Rollups as an Ethereum scaling solutionMarket and adoption cycleEpisode links:Episode 312 with AnatolyBreakpointSolana on TwitterAnatoly on TwitterSponsors:CowSwap: CowSwap is a Meta-Dex Aggregator built by Gnosis. It taps into all on-chain liquidity - including other dex aggregators such as Paraswap, 1inch and Matcha - offering the best prices on all trades. It provides some UX perks (no gas costs for failed transactions!) and protects traders against MEV. - https://epicenter.rocks/cowswapThis episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/418

40+ Fitness Podcast
How to optimize strength gains in less time with Philip Shepherd and Andrei Yakovenko

40+ Fitness Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2021 67:48


When you're time-strapped and looking to get stronger, adding reps and sets and even weight might not be the best approach. In their book, Deep Fitness, Philip Shepherd and Andrei Yakovenko show us how time under load (time under tension) is a better way to add volume and get stronger. You can find the full show notes for this episode at 40plusfitnesspodcast.com/512.

Empire
Solana founder unravels the Layer 1 Wars | Anatoly Yakovenko

Empire

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2021 48:10


In this episode of Empire, Jason is joined by Blockworks co-founder Mike Ippolito & Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko. Anatoly has spent over 20 years as an engineer working for companies such as Qualcomm & Dropbox whilst contributing to open source software development. After the recent success of Solana, we invited Anatoly onto Empire to discuss how Solana was founded, the current layer 1 wars, the growth of crypto vs the internet, DeFi, DEXs vs CEXs and so much more! -- Avalanche: Thank you to Avalanche for sponsoring Empire. Avalanche is one of the best and fastest growing smart-contract platforms in the industry. Learn more about them at https://www.avax.network/ -- ParaSwap: If you want to make a swap at the best price across the DeFi market, check out paraswap.io. ParaSwap's state-of-the-art algorithm beats the market price across all major DEXs and brings you the most optimized swaps with the best prices, and lowest slippage. --- Empire is brought to you by Blockworks, a financial media brand delivering breaking news and premium insights about digital assets to millions of investors. For more content like Empire, visit http://blockworks.co/podcasts Follow me on Twitter @JasonYanowitz and let me know what you thought of the show!

Next With Novo
EP 26 - Anatoly Yakovenko | Building the Fastest Blockchain

Next With Novo

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2021 32:16


This week I'm welcoming Anatoly Yakovenko to Next with Novo. Toly is the founder and CEO of Solana, an open-source, decentralized blockchain. Initially released in 2019, Solana has grown to become the world's first web-scale blockchain. Taking me back to the beginning, Toly explains his core innovation: Proof of History, which moves everything forward in both speed and capacity. Nowadays, there's a large tradeoff between speed and security. Toly explains where Solana fits into this problem, and the promising opportunities to make hardware even faster. With rivalries growing, Toly hopes that blockchains remain diverse, maintaining a healthy level of competition and accelerating progress. Follow Anatoly on Twitter @aeyakovenko For more on Solana, check out Solana.com Make sure to subscribe to my YouTube and Apple Podcasts channels so you don't miss out on future episodes, and follow me: Twitter: https://twitter.com/novogratz YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/mikenovo/ Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3sdPneD Next with Novo is the go-to resource for what's new and what's next. In this series, Mike Novogratz, influential investor, Wall Street Veteran, and CEO at Galaxy Digital, invites viewers to learn with him from the brightest minds behind disruptive businesses, prolific social movements, and technologies powering permissionless innovation. This podcast was recorded on September 30, 2021. The Next with Novo podcast is for informational purposes only. Nothing in this podcast constitutes an offer to buy or sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy or sell, any securities. The information in the podcast does not constitute investment, legal, or tax advice. The host is an affiliate of Galaxy Digital (host and Galaxy Digital together, the “Parties”), and the podcast represents the opinions of the host and/or guest and not necessarily that of Galaxy Digital. The Parties do not make any representation or warranty, express or implied, as to the accuracy or completeness of any of the information therein. Each of the Parties expressly disclaims any and all liability relating to or resulting from the use of this information. Certain information in the podcast may have been obtained from published and non-published sources and has not been independently verified. The Parties may buy, sell or hold investments in some of the companies, digital assets or protocols discussed in this podcast. Except where otherwise indicated, the information in this video is based on matters as they exist as of the date of preparation and will not be updated.

This Week in Startups - Video
Solana Founder Anatoly Yakovenko on scaling the blockchain to warp speed | E1302

This Week in Startups - Video

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2021 58:53


Anatoly from Solana joins Jason to discuss how they've managed to build the fastest blockchain (0:54). Solana's "proof of history" innovation allows for over 50,000 transactions a second, we get into Solana's value prop (25:51), use cases (40:14), developer ecosystem and more!

This Week in Startups
Solana Founder Anatoly Yakovenko on scaling the blockchain to warp speed | E1302

This Week in Startups

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2021 58:53


Anatoly from Solana joins Jason to discuss how they've managed to build the fastest blockchain (0:54). Solana's "proof of history" innovation allows for over 50,000 transactions a second, we get into Solana's value prop (25:51), use cases (40:14), developer ecosystem and more!

The Scoop
Anatoly Yakovenko unpacks Solana's meteoric rise, NFT snafus, and memes

The Scoop

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2021 45:34


It has been a wild summer for blockchain project Solana.  From the meteoric rise in the price of its native token to technical problems facing NFTs launched on the blockchain, the project has entered the forefront. On this episode of The Scoop, Anatoly Yakovenko Founder & CEO of Solana Labs joins host Frank Chaparro for a deep dive into Solana, which some believe can compete with Ethereum despite being less decentralized.  As for price specifically, Yakovenko admitted it doesn't always make sense.  "This is just mind-boggling that if the price of Solana doesn't make any sense, then I have no clue why Ethereum has anything in terms of its value," he said, adding: "I don't pay attention to the price so much because I have no control over it and I'm an engineer. So, like, if I can change it, then it's just like one of these variables." Solana Labs completed a $314.2 million fundraise back in June 2021 (that amount raised is a play on the number Pi). Investors included Andreessen Horowitz, Polychain Capital, FTX via Alameda Research and CoinShares. But as of yet, Yakovenko said much of their capital raise has not been deployed. It is also known for powering Serum, the decentralized exchange launched by Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX. Solana recently launched its Metaplex NFT marketplace, which Yakovenko acknowledged experienced server issues. Still, DeFi still comes to the top of Yakovenko's mind as a core use case. “I've really felt that finance was a place where blockchain makes sense," he said. In Yakovenko's view, users could even one day use their own hardware to tap into the network in order to access financial market data as quickly as professional trading firms with access to exchange data. "The network guarantees as close as possible to an impossible problem, which is that information propagates equally to everybody at the same speed," he said. Episode 55 of Season 3 of The Scoop was recorded remotely with The Block's Frank Chaparro and Anatoly Yakovenko, Founder & CEO @ Solana Labs. Listen below, and subscribe to The Scoop on Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher or wherever you listen to podcasts. Email feedback and revision requests to podcast@theblockcrypto.com. This episode is brought to you by our sponsors Bakkt, Kraken, and Exodus Bakkt® unlocks the $1.2+ trillion of digital assets that is currently held in cryptocurrencies, rewards and loyalty points, gaming assets and merchant stored value. We began in 2018 with the vision to bring trust and transparency to digital assets. Through the Bakkt Warehouse and Bakkt Bitcoin Futures and Options contracts, we serve institutional clients in an end-to-end regulated market with true price transparency. For consumers, Bakkt aggregates digital assets to enable instant liquidity and to empower users to trade, transfer and pay however they want. Visit Bakkt.com for more information About Kraken Whether you're an experienced crypto trader or just starting out, Kraken has the tools to help you achieve financial freedom. With 50+ cryptocurrencies to choose from, industry-leading security and a wide variety of features to suit any investing strategy, Kraken puts the power in your hands to buy, sell and trade digital assets. Visit Kraken.com to get started today. About Exodus Exodus is leading the world out of traditional finance by building beautiful and user-friendly crypto products. Forget having to learn the nuances of different cryptocurrencies. Exodus is designed for everyone and hides the complex details behind a beautiful and intuitive interface.   Buy and sell one cryptocurrency for another from the comfort of your wallet, in seconds. Funds remain under your full control.   Secure, manage, stake, and exchange all of your favorite cryptocurrencies from one wallet. No account registration is required. Download Exodus at Exodus.com or directly from Google Play and the iOS App Store and you're ready to go.

The Decrypt Daily: Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency  News Podcast
Sept 3: Anatoly Yakovenko Creator of Solana #SOL

The Decrypt Daily: Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2021 22:32


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SALT Talks
Anatoly Yakovenko: Building Better Blockchains | SALT Talks #252

SALT Talks

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2021 46:29


Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that made Project Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.—————————————————————— Registration for SALT New York is now open! Join us September 13-15, 2021 and sign up at https://register.salt.org/event/411f76d9-c215-4719-9bc4-8dfac6cfacdd/summaryWatch this video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SALTTube/videosFor podcast transcripts and show notes, visit https://www.salt.org/Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. Developed, created and produced by SALT Venture Group, LLC.

Saffron Academy Podcast
Episode 6: Anatoly Yakovenko (Solana Labs)

Saffron Academy Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2021 39:17


Dingo interviews Solana Labs CEO/Founder Anatoly Yakovenko. We talk about his previous experience working at Dropbox and Qualcomm and what lead him to develop Solana Labs. From there it's a deep dive on all things Solana - why it's catching on, Proof-of-History, the inflection point of mass crypto adoption, censorship resistance, NFTs, Ultima Online (?), and more! You can find out more about Solana ($SOL) at their website below: https://solana.com/ Don't forget to follow Anatoly and Solana for updates on upcoming hackathons: https://twitter.com/solana https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko   Saffron Socials Web3 app: https://saffron.finance Telegram: https://t.me/saffronfinance Discord: https://discord.gg/pDXpXKY Twitter: https://twitter.com/saffronfinance_

Acquired
Special: Solana (with CEO Anatoly Yakovenko)

Acquired

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2021 74:44


We sit down with the hottest new protocol layer in crypto today: Solana, and its cofounder Anatoly Yakovenko, who is the CEO of Solana Labs. If you listened to our Ethereum episode or follow crypto even at a cursory level, you've likely heard of Solana and its ability to scale transactions thousands of times higher than Ethereum. And, unlike other so-called "ETH killers", Solana is doing so in production today with large and real applications. We dive into the project's history coming out of the 2017-18 crypto winter, how it works and what's ahead now that they've recently raised $314m (yes that is Pi $million) from a16z and Polychain Capital, with their native SOL tokens currently trading at a market cap around $10B (!). If you love Acquired and want more, join our LP Community for access to over 50 LP-only episodes, monthly Zoom calls, and live access for big events like our Book Clubs. We can't wait to see you there. Join here at: https://acquired.fm/lp/ Sponsors: Thanks to SoftBank Latin America for being our presenting sponsor for this special episode. SoftBank has truly been the first and best large capital allocator in the Latin American startup ecosystem, and we are very excited to work with and learn from them over the rest of 2021. If you are an entrepreneur, employee, other investor or simply someone who's interested in learning about the best young companies in LatAm right now, get in touch with them at: https://bit.ly/acquiredsoftbanklatam and tell them that you heard about them on Acquired. Shu's Twitter (which we highly recommend following!): https://twitter.com/snyatta Paulo's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulo-passoni-67195/ Thank you as well to Modern Treasury and to Fundrise. You can learn more about them at: https://bit.ly/acquiredmoderntreasury (and you can find our reverse interview with them at https://www.moderntreasury.com/acquired ) https://bit.ly/acquiredfundrise Topics covered: Anatoly's background as a wireless engineer at Qualcomm, and how it led to a fundamental discovery of how to improve crypto system scalability Solana's role in the crypto protocol ecosystem and why there's a need for it (and why it can and will exist) alongside Ethereum versus "killing" it Starting Solana during the 2017-18 crypto winter, and how it forced them to focus just on building and shipping versus raising and posturing Bootstrapping adoption with the mining community (Solana's "true believers") and the early and ardent support they provided Where Solana falls on the Vitalik "Scalability - Security - Decentralization" trilemma, and why Solana's superpower of maintaining composability is so attractive Links: Solana: https://solana.com Solana on Twitter: https://twitter.com/solana Solana Hackathon submissions: https://airtable.com/shriNT26cAZeDJagn/tbl5fZ4E1BBbVAttW FTX: https://ftx.us Audius: https://audius.co Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

The Blockchain Debate Podcast
Motion: Security is about maximizing the minimum set of colluding miners (Anatoly Yakovenko vs. Dankrad Feist)

The Blockchain Debate Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2021 86:22 Transcription Available


Guests:Anatoly Yakovenko (twitter.com/aeyakovenko)Dankrad Feist (twitter.com/dankrad)Host:Richard Yan (twitter.com/gentso09)Today's motion is “Security is about maximizing the minimum set of colluding miners.”This is a mouthful. The minimum set of colluding miners is the smallest cartel of dishonest block producers you need to attack a network. Maximizing that set is about increasing the size of such a successful cartel, essentially making it harder for block producers to collude. Note this debate statement leaves out full nodes. And that's the essence of this debate: Are they important in securing the network?So, to get more context on this, take a look at a recent blogpost by Vitalik Buterin on limits to blockchain scalability. This article instigated the sparring between our guests on Twitter, and led to today's debate. In his article, Vitalik argued that the ability for consensus nodes to collude and do bad things should be held in check by full nodes. And therefore, there's a strong need for regular users to be able to run full nodes. Today's debate is essentially an examination of the validity of that statement. Is security about maximizing the minimum set of colluding miners (aka increasing the smallest number of consensus nodes required to censor or collude), or should we also worry about making sure to onboard more full nodes?The two debaters today are from Solana and ETH 2, respectively. When it comes to ensuring security of the network, they disagree on how important it is to make it easy to run full nodes.The debate took a major detour. The two debaters were very passionate about their respective projects and went down the rabbit hole several times pointing out potential weaknesses they see in each other's designs. I decided to keep all of that in, because one way or another, those discussions found their way back to the topic at hand.If you're into crypto and like to hear two sides of the story, be sure to also check out our previous episodes. We've featured some of the best known thinkers in the crypto space.If you would like to debate or want to nominate someone, please DM me at @blockdebate on Twitter.Please note that nothing in our podcast should be construed as financial advice.Source of select items discussed in the debate (and supplemental material):Multicoin article on Solana's decentralization: https://multicoin.capital/2021/05/25/technical-scalability-creates-social-scalability/Solana's dashboard for validators and full nodes: https://solanabeach.io/Dankrad Feist article on full nodes: https://dankradfeist.de/ethereum/2021/05/20/what-everyone-gets-wrong-about-51percent-attacks.htmlVitalik Buterin's article on the limits of blockchain scaling: https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/05/23/scaling.htmlGuest bios:Anatoly is founder and CEO of Solana, a layer-1 public blockchain built for scalability without sacrificing decentralization or security, and in particular, without sharding. He was previously a software engineer at Dropbox, Mesosphere and Qualcomm.Dankrad Feist is a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, working on ETH 2.0. He was previously an engineer for Palantir, and co-founded a healthcare startup named Cara Care.

StrictlyVC Download
Solana Founder Anatoly Yakovenko on Crypto's Need for Speed

StrictlyVC Download

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2021 23:02


Connie & Alex review this wee's top tech stories and then talk to Anatoly Yakovenko, founder of Solana, a blockchain platform followed by top crypto investors that Yakovenko claims is bounded only by the speed of light.Music: 1. "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3918-inspired)2. "Dream Catcher" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4650-dream-catcher)3. "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5759-blippy-trance)4. "Pamgaea" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4193-pamgaea)5. "EDM Detection Mode" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3687-edm-detection-mode)License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

The FTX Podcast - Builders and Innovators in the Cryptocurrency Industry
The FTX Podcast #64 - Anatoly Yakovenko on Solana and Building an Ecosystem

The FTX Podcast - Builders and Innovators in the Cryptocurrency Industry

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2021 52:00


An episode which gives a first hand account of the inception of Solana and the concept of Proof of History as a fundamental blockchain innovation. Explore how Anatoly views scaling Solana and building an ecosystem of builders, users and evangelists. 

The Blockchain Debate Podcast
Motion: Today's blockchains can't increase TPS without taking a hit on decentralization, II (Evan Shapiro vs. Anatoly Yakovenko)

The Blockchain Debate Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2020 46:24 Transcription Available


Guests:Evan Shapiro (@evanashapiro)Anatoly Yakovenko (@aeyakovenko)Host:Richard Yan (@gentso09)Today's motion is “Today's blockchains can't increase TPS without taking a hit on decentralization.”This is a follow-up debate, or you can think of it as a re-match. Previously Emre from O(1) Labs also debated Anatoly from Solana on this very topic on the show. So make sure to check that out if you're interested.Here are some of the topics we covered:* the inherent shortcoming of proof-of-stake in guaranteeing the canonical chain for a new full node* why some chains have been designed to disallow rollback beyond certain point* How Evan thinks faster synching process for new full nodes will allow further decentralization* Why Anatoly thinks trustless synching doesn't solve the Byzantine Generals ProblemIf you're into crypto and like to hear two sides of the story, be sure to also check out our previous episodes. We've featured some of the best known thinkers in the crypto space.If you would like to debate or want to nominate someone, please DM me at @blockdebate on Twitter.Please note that nothing in our podcast should be construed as financial advice.Source of select items discussed in the debate (and supplemental material):Solana: https://solana.com/Coda: https://www.codaprotocol.com/Weak subjectivity explained: https://academy.binance.com/glossary/weak-subjectivityLong range attacks: https://blog.positive.com/rewriting-history-a-brief-introduction-to-long-range-attacks-54e473acdba9Coda article on mental model of Scalability-per-unit-of-Decentralization: https://codaprotocol.com/blog/solving-the-scalability-trilemmaByzantine general's problem: https://medium.com/coinmonks/a-note-from-anthony-if-you-havent-already-please-read-the-article-gaining-clarity-on-key-787989107969Debater bios:Evan is CEO of O(1) labs which operates Mina protocol, previously known as Coda protocol. He used to be an engineer at Mozilla and Personal Robotics Lab at Carnegie Mellon University.Anatoly is founder and CEO of Solana, a layer-1 public blockchain built for scalability without sacrificing decentralization or security, and in particular, without sharding. He was previously a software engineer at Dropbox, Mesosphere and Qualcomm.

PaperPlayer biorxiv neuroscience
Solving musculoskeletal biomechanics with machine learning

PaperPlayer biorxiv neuroscience

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2020


Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.08.24.263962v1?rss=1 Authors: Smirnov, Y., Smirnov, D., Popov, A., Yakovenko, S. Abstract: Deep learning is a relatively new computational technique for the description of the musculoskeletal dynamics. The experimental relationships of muscle geometry in different postures are the high-dimensional spatial transformations that can be approximated by relatively simple functions, which opens the opportunity for machine learning applications. In this study, we challenged general machine learning algorithms with the problem of approximating the posture-dependent moment arm and muscle length relationships of the human arm and hand muscles. We used two types of algorithms, light gradient boosting machine (LGB) and fully connected artificial neural network (ANN) solving the wrapping kinematics of 33 muscles spanning up to six degrees of freedom (DOF) each for the arm and hand model with 18 DOFs. The input-output training and testing datasets were generated by our previous phenomenological model based on the autogenerated polynomial structures (Sobinov et al., 2019). Both models achieved a similar level of errors: ANN model errors were 0.08{+/-}0.05% for muscle lengths and 0.53{+/-}0.29% for moment arms, and LGB model made similar errors--0.18{+/-}0.06% and 0.13{+/-}0.07%, respectively. LGB model reached the training goal with only 10^3 samples, while ANN required 10^6 samples; however, LGB models were about 39 slower than ANN models in the evaluation. The sufficient performance of developed models demonstrates the future applicability of machine learning for musculoskeletal transformations in a variety of applications, such as in advanced powered prosthetics. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info

The FTX Podcast - Builders and Innovators in the Cryptocurrency Industry
The FTX Podcast - Anatoly Yakovenko Creator of Solana

The FTX Podcast - Builders and Innovators in the Cryptocurrency Industry

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2020 51:34


Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led the development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. Notwithstanding the man loves to surf and for someone as intelligent as he is, he's remarkably easy to speak with.

The Blockchain Debate Podcast
Motion: Today's blockchains can't increase TPS without taking a hit on decentralization (Emre Tekişalp vs. Anatoly Yakovenko, cohost: Uri Klarman)

The Blockchain Debate Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2020 76:38 Transcription Available


Guests:Emre Tekişalp (@etekis)Anatoly Yakovenko (@aeyakovenko)Hosts:Richard Yan (@gentso09)Uri Klarman (@uriklarman, special co-host)Today's motion is “Today's blockchains can't increase TPS without taking a hit on decentralization.”Today's guests are from two different public blockchains Coda and Solana. The CEO of Bloxroute came on as special co-host. So Coda came to this topic from the angle that, adding full nodes will further decentralize the network but slow down performance. And Solana started by asserting that only the voting nodes mattered because they alone would provide the censorship resistance, which is the key to decentralization.As usual, the debate then evolved, and covered a lot more ground. We got into things like weak subjectivity and Moore's Law, and at the end meandered into the topic of nation-state attacks.If you're into crypto and like to hear two sides of the story, be sure to also check out our previous episodes. We've featured some of the best known thinkers in the crypto space.If you would like to debate or want to nominate someone, please DM me at @blockdebate on Twitter.Please note that nothing in our podcast should be construed as financial advice.Source of select items discussed in the debate:Solana: https://solana.com/Coda: https://www.codaprotocol.com/Bloxroute: https://bloxroute.com/Weak subjectivity explained: https://academy.binance.com/glossary/weak-subjectivityCoda article on mental model of Scalability-per-unit-of-Decentralization: https://codaprotocol.com/blog/solving-the-scalability-trilemma

The Blockchain Debate Podcast
Motion: Scalability is impossible without sharding and layer-2 solutions (Georgios Konstantopoulos vs. Anatoly Yakovenko, cohost: Tarun Chitra)

The Blockchain Debate Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2020 102:57 Transcription Available


Guests:Georgios Konstantopoulos (@gakonst)Anatoly Yakovenko (@aeyakovenko)Hosts:Richard Yan (@gentso09)Tarun Chitra (@tarunchitra, special co-host)Today's motion is “Scalability is impossible without sharding and layer-2 solutions.”Today's discussion is highly technical in nature and I'm glad to have Tarun as my co-pilot. Between the two debaters, one is building a public chain that insists on achieving scaling without sharding, and the other is an independent consultant with extensive experience with various chains, including many layer-2 solutions.My co-host Tarun's summary at the end was quite apt - it's easy to pull a carriage with one horse, but can you pull a carriage with 1024 chickens? The debate seems to partially come down to how powerful the machines can get to sustain the ever-growing network activities without resorting to quote unquote, fancy techniques like sharding and layer-2 solutions.If you're into crypto and like to hear two sides of the story, be sure to also check out our previous episodes. We've featured some of the best known thinkers in the crypto space.If you would like to debate or want to nominate someone, please DM me at @blockdebate on Twitter.Please note that nothing in our podcast should be construed as financial advice.Source of select items discussed in the debate:Solana: https://solana.com/Georgios: https://www.gakonst.com/The Gauntlet: https://gauntlet.network/

PaperPlayer biorxiv neuroscience
Functional and Structural Moment Arm Validation for Musculoskeletal Models: A Study of the Human Forearm and Hand

PaperPlayer biorxiv neuroscience

Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2020


Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.05.29.124644v1?rss=1 Authors: Boots, M. T., Hardesty, R., Sobinov, A., Gritsenko, V., Collinger, J. L., Fisher, L. E., Gaunt, R., Yakovenko, S. Abstract: The development of realistic musculoskeletal models is a fundamental goal for the theoretical progress in sensorimotor control and its engineering applications, e.g., in the biomimetic control of artificial limbs. Yet, accurate models require extensive experimental measures to validate structural and functional parameters describing muscle state over the full physiological range of motion. However, available experimental measurements of, for example, muscle moment arms are sparse and often disparate. Validation of these models is not trivial because of the highly complex anatomy and behavior of human limbs. In this study, we developed a method to validate and scale kinematic muscle parameters using posture-dependent moment arm profiles, isometric force measurements, and a computational detection of assembly errors. We used a previously published model with 18 degrees of freedom (DOFs) and 32 musculotendon actuators with force generated from a Hill-type muscle model. The muscle path from origin to insertion with wrapping geometry was used to model the muscle lengths and moment arms. We simulated moment arm profiles across the full physiological range of motion and compared them to an assembled dataset of published and merged experimental profiles. The muscle paths were adjusted using custom metrics based on root-mean-square and correlation coefficient of the difference between simulated and experimental values. Since the available measurements were sparse and the examination of high-dimensional muscles is challenging, we developed analyses to identify common failures, i.e., moment arm functional flipping due to the sign reversal in simulated moments and the imbalance of force generation between antagonistic groups in postural extremes. The validated model was used to evaluate the expected errors in torque generation with the assumption of constant instead of the posture-dependent moment arms at the wrist flexion-extension DOF, which is the critical joint in our model with the largest number of crossing muscles. We found that there was a reduction of joint torques by about 35% in the extreme quartiles of the wrist DOF. The use of realistic musculoskeletal models is essential for the reconstruction of hand dynamics. These models may improve the understanding of muscle actions and help in the design and control of artificial limbs in future applications. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info

Distributed Media: the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Podcast Network
Anatoly Yakovenko - Solana ($SOL), Coinlist Auction, Why Sharding is Wrong, Staker Price Guarantee, 5G's Future

Distributed Media: the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Podcast Network

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2020 65:14


The team sits down w/ Anatoly Yakovenko, CEO and Co-Founder of Solana, to talk the future of web-scale protocols, the recent Coinlist auction/Binance listing, why sharding isn't the answer long-term, 5G towers, and why he believes Reddit might champion token economies in the near term. Anatoly Yakovenko https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko Solana https://solana.com/ https://twitter.com/solana Anything in particular that you'd like to hear form us in the next episode of Layer 1? Let us know in the comments! Sutler Ventures - https://sutlerventures.com/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/layer1pod Twitter - @SutlerVentures Telegram - @SutlerVentures ___________________________________________ All the songs, images, and graphics used in this video belong to their respective owners, Sutler Ventures nor this channel claim any right over them.