Solana Breakpoint 2021
2021-11-08..2021-11-10
Lisbon, Portugal
[Solana Breakpoint 2021, Solana Breakpoint 2022, Solana Breakpoint 2023]
who it's for
solana developers, protocol engineers, validators and node operators, wallet and mobile engineers, decentralized finance engineers, nft and metaverse creators, infrastructure and cloud architects, ecosystem fund and investor teams
topics
nft fan-funding and metaverse models; validator infrastructure and staking economics; e vm compatibility via NEON proxy; on-chain central limit order books (Serum); automated market makers and Typescript SDKs; cross-chain bridges and Wormhole integrations; wallet custody: MPC and social recovery; decentralized wireless access with Helium LoRa; oracle integration and subsecond price feeds; stake pools and derivative staking tokens; transaction size limits and parallel execution; developer tooling: Anchor and indexer workstreams
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The 'Prosumer' Economy and NFTs: Getting to the Next Level in Entertainment | Soo-man Lee | 16m |
Launches virtual K‑pop group aespa (Nov 2020) with debut "Black Mamba" hitting 100 million views faster than prior K‑pop MVs and follow‑ups topping Korean… | ||
| State Layer: Validators and Infrastructure | Dan Albert | 30m |
Solana reports 78% of SOL staked, roughly 396M SOL across ~380,000 stake accounts and $99B claimed locked, secured by 1,158 validators in 197 data centers… | ||
| Computation Layer: The Tricky Question of EVM Compatibility | Marina Guryeva, Ian Macalinao, Dominic Tsang | 21m |
NEON builds NEON EVM as a Rust smart contract plus a proxy translating Ethereum txns into Solana txns so existing Solidity dapps deploy unchanged; Uniswap v2… | ||
| Protocol Layer: DeFi and Beyond | William Barnes, Grace Kwan, Edward Zuo, Dominic Tsang | 23m |
Serum provides the first fully onchain central limit order book on Solana, aiming to consolidate liquidity across dApps and adding permission markets so custom… | ||
| Transfer Layer: Scalability and Cross Chain Bridges | Hendrik Hofstadt, Bryan Pellegrino, Alex Smirnov, Andriy Velykyy, Austin Federa | 20m |
Panelists report concrete progress: 1.2 billion bridged to Solana and multi-chain support growing from seven toward twelve, using protocols like Wormhole… | ||
| User Control Layer: Gateways to Public Blockchains | Filip Dragoslavic, Brandon Millman, Maria Phillips, Ali Yahya | 26m |
Panelists report concrete traction and engineering choices: one wallet claims 20% of Solana circulating supply staked through its apps, another hits 1 million… | ||
| App Layer: Web3 Bazaars | Sumit Ghosh, Chingari Holdin, William Mougayar, Roneil Rumburg, BEN SPARANGO | 20m |
Three apps describe concrete migrations and results: Audius moves large parts of its stack to Solana to handle 450k+ tx/day and reports 14x user growth after… | ||
| Silicon Skin in the Game: Staking from Retail to the Enterprise | Daniel Hwang, Ella Kuze, Konstantin Richter, Gleb Dudka | 21m |
Validators report that 79% of SOL is staked, operators run 70 data centers across 10 clouds and offer institutional-grade tools like a multi-protocol staking… | ||
| Fireside chat | Sergey Nazarov | 21m |
Chainlink claims it secures roughly $50–70+ billion of value and already delivers subsecond price feeds into Solana testnets, with about 700+ oracle networks… | ||
| Total Addressable Market: Solana Growth Hotspots Around the World | Dyma Budorin, David Gan, Lior Messika, Maggie Wu, Marcus Maute | 47m |
Solana shows specific traction: validators are running on hydro power for institutional custody and BridgTower launches Solana nodes; hackathons draw ~3,000… | ||
| Special Presentation | Alexis Ohanian, Raj Gokal | 32m |
Announcement of a $100 million investment (up from $50M) from a venture fund 776 to back social apps built on Solana, with the claim that monolithic global… | ||
| Building Decentralized Internet Access with Crypto | Chris Bruce | 15m |
Helium claims the largest decentralized wireless network, built in two years with 300,000 hotspots across 20,000 cities and 142 countries, using proof of… | ||
| After ATH: Where Crypto-Native Investors Think We're Going Next | Julien Bouteloup, Arthur Cheong, Santiago R Santos, Darren Lau | 31m |
Panelists argue DeFi fundamentals keep growing even while prices lag, citing Aave $30B TVL and user traction like Phantom 1M weekly active users, and predict… | ||
| WAGMI: Ask Regional Ecosystem Funds Anything | Bill Cherman, Arthur Kuan, John Park, Mark Shim, BEN SPARANGO | 31m |
Regional funds report concrete wins: Korean exchanges adding SPL support on exchanges drives mass onboarding; hackathons convert Solidity devs to Rust with… | ||
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