Solana is capable of processing tens of thousands of smart contracts at once. What does that mean? It means that developers can build applications with super low transaction fees and low latency without compromising composability since it's all on one single chain with a global state. For listeners who have been living under a rock, Solana is a global state machine and the world's most performant blockchain. Speaking of the new, we are so excited to announce our presenting sponsor for all of these special episodes, the Solana Foundation.īen: I know. We had a wide-ranging conversation with Brendan that you'll hear today that bridges this old world and the new in some really fun ways. Brendan was the Chief Architect of Netscape and eventually became the CEO of Mozilla, the makers of Firefox.ĭavid: You're saying 50 million MAUs is nice, but Brendan wants this to go a lot higher.īen: It's crypto nice, but it's not browser nice.īen: Yes, but it is rapidly growing. He holds the credential of inventing JavaScript, a source of much joy and also much pain for many of you out there. However, Brendan is no new kid on the block. It is arguably the single largest blockchain-based app with over 50 million monthly users. Our guest today is Brendan Eich, CEO of the Brave browser, an application right at the heart of the rapidly emerging Web3 world. Today's episode is a mashup between one of the newest things on the internet and the oldest things on the internet. I'm Ben Gilbert and I'm the Co-founder and Managing Director of Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs and our Venture Fund, PSL Ventures.ĭavid: I'm David Rosenthal and I am an angel investor based in San Francisco.īen: We are your hosts.
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