Transcription: Solana Ecosystem Call (March 2023)
Transcription: Solana Ecosystem Call (March 2023)
We brought the best and brightest builders on Solana together for another edition of the Ecosystem Call!
Event Date and Time: 02-March-2023, 2pm GMT
Recording:
Host: Kash Dhanda
Introduction
Kash Dhanda (00:09) - Excited for everything that's about to happen over the next however long this is going to take - hopefully 60 minutes or less is my promise. I want to start off yeah let's get some GMs in the chat yeah there we go. A little dollar sign kash - shoutout to Saumya and my GDP bros are out here love to see that as well.
Kash Dhanda (00:28) - Let's start off with a little primer for people that might be new here - Maybe it's your first time, you don't really know what this is about. This is the speech which I'll try to give every time from now on. So let me explain to you what the value of this call really is and why we're even here in the first place.
Kash Dhanda (00:46) - Let's start off like this - shit happens. I don't know if you noticed the network went down over the weekend, right? The price of the Solana token is not where it once was. Liquidity and TVL might be low. Market sentiment - not great. But there is one thing that shines through the shit and that is the people who keep building and that is what this call is all about - the community of builders that are Solana. people who decided to join here, it's 9 A.M on the East Coast. It's whatever time I know we have people here from Indonesia where it's like 11 pm or something like that. It's crazy, right? These are people who have decided they aren't scared of that kind of shit, right? If they were scared they'd be doomscrolling or looking for copium. Instead, you're here and that means something. The bull market is over, the tourists have left. We are what remains and this is a call by, for and about the real builders of Solana. Everything else is shit.
Kash Dhanda (01:43) - Can I get a little Amen in the chat? Can I get a little Amen from the builders here? shoutout to Alice from Clockwork as well. Great to see you. Yeah that is the point of this so we're gonna have some good vibes today, you know the energy is going to be high, we might play a little bit of music, there might be an airdrop or two – I don't know, we're gonna find out. But some good stuff is gonna happen.
Kash Dhanda (02:00) - Here is how it's gonna work. If it's your first time here, again this is a bit of an experimental format. It's the third time we're trying this out but hopefully it works pretty well. Number one rule of this - if you're watching this, get active in the chat. That is the whole reason that any of us are here honestly. It's way more fun in the chat than it is up on stage. Number two, ask questions, get answers. This is a little webinar so you can see there's a Q&A button on your Zoom somewhere, I don't know where it is on your screen. You can ask questions and all of the panelists will be able to see those and answer those either live, we might type answers back in but do ask questions so you can get those answers and then try to stay till the end that's where there's going to be some little surprises coming in.
Kash Dhanda (02:39) - So shoutout to everybody who's just joining us here I see people coming in. I saw our guy Irfan from Cubik and Superteam and Lamport and everywhere else. We got a bunch of people it's too many too many people in here. Let's start running it up.
Kash Dhanda (02:50) - Here's the agenda for today. We got some wins of the month, some good stuff has happened in the last four weeks we're gonna go over that. Then, we're going to talk about the state of Solana. Specifically, the network, we're gonna look at NFTs - our guy Nom from MonkeDAO is going to be telling us about the world of NFTs and ReFi as well - Regenerative Finance from our friends at GainForest.
Kash Dhanda (03:08) - Then we're going to have Special Guest: Matty Taylor from the Solana Foundation - the first Solana Foundation person to be on this call if I'm not mistaken so shoutout to Matty. Talking about Grizzlython, we got some project updates from some killer projects. We're gonna do a little POAP at the end. Just gonna be a good time, I can promise you that.
Kash Dhanda (03:23) - And, let me point this out right now - it's also a place that you can make a little bit of money. So, $50 bounty is up for grabs for the best recap thread of this community call. Write a Twitter thread, post it, tag Superteam, tag me in it and then we will probably announce the winner in the next two or three days. So you can get that up here as well. Alright yeah “Money” says Dean that's exactly right.
Wins of the Month
Kash Dhanda (03:46) - So let's get directly into the Wins of the Month. This is always the fun part here.
Kash Dhanda (03:51) - Let's start with Win number one. Seven thousand people are currently competing at Grizzlython. 7,000 registrations. Can I get a W in the chat for the 7,000 builders not afraid to keep on going. So this is very much a community effort obviously Matty deserves some of the credit here as the guy kind of behind it but everyone in the community who's bringing new people in - love to see it. That's right Ujjwal saying as our guy Chris likes to say “Developers! Developers! Developers!”
Kash Dhanda (04:19) - Speaking of which - Melbourne Hacker House. Can I get a little W2 for our Aussie friends down under? The Melbourne Hacker House has gone through, we got a week full of learning, building, and good vibes - Shoutout to Ellie and the rest of the Events team. If there's one thing Solana knows how to do, it is throw a party so if you have not been to a Hacker House yet you need to get to them - it's a great time.
Kash Dhanda (04:37) - Let's go to win number three and now this is a is a big one here - Nas, of Nas Daily Fame now Nas Academy, one of the biggest influencers in the world, has released a Solana-specific development course for free. 22,000 people have signed up for that course in the first week. Sorry, Akshay, my guy is correcting me now. It's 27,000 people. Can I get a W3 in the chat for Nas Daily just crushing over here and of course a shoutout to Akshay BD who also helped set up this deal and has been working hard behind the scenes on it. Love to see it. Plenty of developers. “W Akshay” is right says Matty and many others
Kash Dhanda (05:14) - “W3 W3” I love that. beeman with the 20 W3s - there we go.
Kash Dhanda (05:17) - Let's go to W4 - our friends in Superteam Mexico. A thousand builders came out and you know I wasn't it's a little bit self-congratulatory for Superteam members to thank other Superteam members but I'll tell you this as soon as I saw this photo - this is a little bear piñata that they beat up in front of all these new Solana devs which you have to love. So shoutout to all of our friends down in Superteam Mexico, the Etherfuse gang, Magio and the rest of them. Just tons of developers.
Kash Dhanda (05:45) - So that’s a lot of developers coming in across the world - in Mexico, in Australia, in pretty much everywhere else. What are all these developers going to do when they come? Well that's where Win number 5 comes in over here.
Kash Dhanda (05:55) - The Brave wallet has finally brought Solana dApp support to Android and iOS. Anyone who's got a mobile phone and is using Brave now has an easy way to start to use these tokens and interact because like you know otherwise it's a bit of a pain. That’s a W5 if you ask me so shoutout to the Brave team. Long time supporters of the ecosystem love to see that.
Kash Dhanda (06:16) - And then Win number six. All these new devs - a lot of them play games. The Solana SDK for Unity is now live which makes it super easy to build on Solana. I got a feeling that we're going to see a lot more. If you were at Breakpoint, you would have seen the entire Games Day where this entire space which was taken over by like 50 different games, it was crazy. I didn't know there was so much gaming on Solana and now there's gonna be even more. So shoutout to the Magic Block team for making that happen. That's a W if you ask me.
Kash Dhanda (06:43) - Let's go over next to - Now this one is very near and dear in my heart. This is a big one here. For anyone who's coming to Solana and does not have a multi-sig already, there's only one option and that option is Squads. They have gone fully immutable. Long-term milestone here. Dmitry from Squads and the co-founder’s in the chat dropping W's for himself as well he should because that is a big one I gotta tell you. Fully-audited, open-sourced, formally verified and immutable. This is just a technical achievement to match technical achievements. We're going to hear from Stepan a little bit later as well. As Walker is saying, “damn Squads now in a mutable primitive” that is crazy. Central infrastructure for the ecosystem.
Kash Dhanda (07:21) - Win number eight - All those developers I was talking about - you know what they might need? A little developer portal to start indexing things from Anchor and a bunch of other features here shoutout to our friends at SolanaFM who put this out there for free. So that's @0xFA2, we got Nicholas and the rest of the team. Can I get a little W, can I get W8 for SolanaFM just making life easier for developers all across the world right now? Love to see it. Go check this out: portal.solana.fm
Kash Dhanda (07:50) - Win number nine. I know it seems like we're gonna keep on going here because we probably will but we got Solana Mobile launching Minty Fresh. CM saying “Minty Fresh”. That's right, an app that allows anyone with a Saga to make an NFT. A lot of people to thank on this one, the Solana Mobile team doing big things right now - You better keep an eye on that I promise you that.
Kash Dhanda (08:09) - Let's go over next to Win number 10. If you were on this call last week or last month excuse me you would have seen our guy Jarry from Ellipsis Labs come up. Phoenix is now live. The first fully on-chain, atomically composable, non-custodial limit order book DEX. Crazy crazy and also can we get a little W for the art over here? Look at this phoenix rising that's just fantastic gotta say.
Kash Dhanda (08:34) - Also one of my favorite parts of working in crypto - shoutout to Jarry, also shoutout to 0xShitTrader who's also behind one of the most like important products in the Solana Ecosystem right now. “W for Shit Trader as well”, says Srijani.That's right.
Kash Dhanda (08:48) - Win number 11 - we're still going here folks. We're still going there’s only like five left to go. Solarplex has launched and already iterated if you have not checked out Solarplex yet, it is Product Hunt for Solana. “It's getting hot here” that's right Tony. It is going to allow anybody to get rewarded for finding projects, upvoting projects, bringing users to projects and a bunch of other things. If you care at all about new Solana projects, check out Solarplex. I think that's going to be an essential kind of discovery mechanism for the ecosystem so shoutout to viksit and the rest of the folks there.
Kash Dhanda (09:21) - We got win number 12. Oh and Tony is saying very importantly Underdog rewards coming soon so shoutout to Underdog and the folks there doing some very cool work on the reputation side.
Kash Dhanda (09:32) - Next up, win number 12. We got daily contributions on Hivemapper up four and a half X. This is crazy, I think. In just in general, this 500,000 unique kilometers have been added to the network. Hivemapper is a decentralized kind of mapping service that anybody can get involved with and it just shows like real world utility which I'd love to see. Let's actually create real things in the real world - That's a W12.
Kash Dhanda (09:53) - I can see Tony's got it as well. Tony, you're still texting Host and panelists, my guy. We got to get you on, we got to get you on the everyone. There you go, my dude, there you go.
Kash Dhanda (10:01) - Win number 13. I'll be honest this is a story I don't fully understand but I still think it's pretty cool which is The Catalina Whales have been signed by Def Jam of all people. Pretty cool, more than anything else I think it's just a way we're seeing Solana-specific IP going more and more mainstream, going bold, getting more people involved and aware of the ecosystem. “The Bears are crying”, says dogebot. “Whales are winners” - that's right.
Kash Dhanda (10:27) - And then we got Win number 14 - our friends over at marginfi have launched mrgnlend. They were on the Ecosystem Call last month talking about exactly this. Love to see new primitives being added. Can I get a little vault in the chat? Were there any people here who are part of the Black Box? This might be a little bit too too niche of an inside joke right now.
Kash Dhanda (10:46) - We got some VMs in the chat okay, some people are familiar they know what I'm talking about - that's good. Not a ton, but a few. So shoutout to marginfi - Edgar and the rest of the team they're just absolute chads crushing.
Kash Dhanda (10:57) - Win number 15 - I had heard a rumor that Solana DeFi was dead. I don't know where I heard that but Drift has clearly not gotten the memo because the Drift V2 just crossed a $ 100 million in volume and launched Spot directly on Drift which is crazy. So “Trust the volume”, says Tony, that's right. Love to see that.
Kash Dhanda (11:14) - And then finally, the one that I think everyone in this call better be excited about - The Madlist is live in Backpack. Can I get a WAO in the chat for just Armani, Tristan and the rest of the G.O.A.Ts over there? We got good art which is not always the case with top projects so love to see like some fantastic art. *chef's kiss* experience of just going through it and WAOs a plenty.
Kash Dhanda (11:37) - If you need a code still, I'm sure you can just ask in the chat and people will drop those. Make sure you don't miss this. Do not sleep on Madlist. Shoutout to those folks.
Kash Dhanda (11:45) - All right I think that's all the wins of the week - did we miss anything? Let me know in the chat. Are there any wins that we should have called out that we did not hear? Anything?
Kash Dhanda (11:57) - “Dual Finance is launching a token today”, says John Kramer. Okay so shoutout to Dual Finance that I did not know. “gumisfunn has launched” Akshat saying, yeah Paarug paid you to say that I know. “Dean's List” says Arsalan - We're gonna hear from Dean's List in just a little bit so that is for sure. Parcel and Underdog crushing it with a massive campaign, Solmates in case you missed it you should go check that out as well.
Kash Dhanda (12:17) - Plenty of wins. “Bonk perps are now on Drift as the only DEX” - wow. “Orca x Clockwork”. Too many, too many great things are happening over here which we love to see. So, shoutout to everybody who's doing good work and actually building through the bear here.
State of Solana
Kash Dhanda (12:53) - Let's talk about how the network is doing overall. So we're seeing about 370 million transactions a day - that includes voting and non-voting so it's a lot for sure either way. 6.32 million addresses in the last 30 days have been active. Of course, one person might have multiple addresses so this is not the same as like an actual monthly active user number but it's still indicative of kind of where we are. TPS at 5K right now which is crazy. Validators - Solana is still the most decentralized network, 2853.
Kash Dhanda (13:23) - Went a little bit down versus January, when we look at the non-voting transactions per day so the number of transactions per day and the daily active programs both dipped a little bit. As it goes, you don't expect it always to be perfect. I have a feeling with the Madlist stuff happening this month these numbers are all going to be pretty green come March.
Kash Dhanda (13:40) - Let's take a look though at some of the NFT stats before Nom tells us a little bit more here. Almost a million NFTs minted in the single month of February. 270,000 collections which is crazy. Now, volume down certainly January into February - I think there were probably fewer major announcements but we will see. But we have 2.4 million holders of a Solana NFT which is pretty crazy when you think about it.
Kash Dhanda (14:06) - Now, let me pass it over to Nom who's going to tell us a little bit more about the state of NFTs on Solana. Nom, please take it away!
Nom (14:12) - Perfect! Good morning everybody, thanks for having me. As always Kash appreciate it. I am Nom from the MonkeDAO. So the biggest things that I want to talk about just the State of NFTs and I think the biggest thing that we can really talk about is how everyone is starting to adapt to the permissioned NFT protocols that are coming out - most notably the ones being developed by Metaplex where we're trying to figure out whether people care more about where they can use their products or how much ownership they have specifically of their products. This is turning into a lot of conversations around what do we actually want to be using NFTs for and is developing an ideally a desire for a bunch of new models.
Nom (14:51) - In that same vein we're kind of seeing the death of minting in general in terms of the old 10K collections which are just minting out on certain launchpads and pre-sale off to certain groups and then you do a whitelist sale and everything around there. That's not working anymore and a lot of that is because there's not enough liquidity in the ecosystem that’s just worth a ton of new mints as well as the fact that people are just getting interested in new ideas. So you saw the Hyperglyphs that came out over the course of the last month which was an amazing hackathon project working on the idea of continuous generative auctions, You're looking at projects like Code Canvas that are trying to develop the idea of long-term generative interaction between artists and collectors and what this is also kind of turning into is the development of new groups that are consolidating the ownership and control of various NFT projects - we have a ton of projects right now that have strong communities but might be lacking the ideas or incentives to develop new tech or new things that interest people and right now there's a larger movement for whether these projects can be purchased to test out new things like The Raindrops Protocol that are coming out this is test collections or whether they're turning into this whole new IP syndicate that you're probably seeing. For anyone on Twitter over the last couple days I think the SMB one is going to be the biggest example of that but there are a few others going on at the same time.
Nom (16:16) - And so that way you know my own plug is MonkeDAO is continuing to work on its own collection, you're going to see a bunch of new information about how it's going to be rolling out in a proposal that's going out tomorrow in our town hall and we're looking forward to seeing all the new innovations coming up over the course of the next month. Thanks for having me, enjoy!
Kash Dhanda (16:38) - Nom, always a pleasure my guy. Can we get a little W for Nom to see it and everyone over at MonkeDAO just doing awesome work. “#TrustTheTail” - you're not going to want to sleep on that OMC that's coming out man I'm telling you that new collection is going to be fire and just representing, if you ask me personally some of the best that the NFT community has to offer. So, shoutout to him!
Kash Dhanda (16:56) - “Not gnome” - Nom excuse me yes I apologize it is Nom I appreciate the help.
Kash Dhanda (17:00) - Let's go next over to ReFi. So for people who don't know ReFi stands for “Regenerative Finance” and in my opinion it's going to be one of the burgeoning sectors on Solana specifically over the next 12 months, 18 months.This is going to be a big narrative I would be willing to bet. To that end, we've invited here Facundo from Gainforest, one of the most interesting and exciting projects I think on the ReFi space, there are many but that's one of them.
Kash Dhanda (17:26) - Can we please welcome him to the stage with a little tree emoji? Can people put a little tree emoji in here for Facundo and if you don't mind turning on your video as well please. You can take us through some stats here.
Facundo Cajén (17:36) - Hello everyone! Good to see you all in here. Well yeah thank you for like thank you for clarifying that ReFi means you know this transition from the generative finance into regenerative finance so moving away from this degen model and I think we can all do this actually by taking [inaudible] common goods such as nature, biodiversity and all of that because it is time to actually put a proper value on this because we have all seen the world - it sucks. As you were mentioning shit happens. It's not only on the ecosystem, it happens in real life as well this is not TNT you know the TV channel. Sorry for jokes but and we think this is happening because due to the lack of transparency that we see on all these sort of different projects where you can donate some money, you can offset your footprint but you don't really know where your money is going to, what sort of impact you have so it has become this black box and that's what we are working on this transparency dashboard where you have different data layers such as satellite imagery drone data and also allowing people on the ground to upload their own data.
Facundo Cajén (18:44) - And if we take a look yeah awesome “From degens to regen” - I was reading on the chat and if you do take a look at the global market of offsets particularly on the past year we've seen people spending as much as 270 billion dollars and yet the impact is here to be seen because when we when you take a look at the curves of greenhouse emissions it only keeps on going up it doesn't matter in Paris, it doesn't matter in Cairo, it keeps on going up.
Facundo Cajén (19:11) - Now one of the good, one of the amazing things actually to me about the Solana Community is not only you know the net zero approach the network itself is taking - to me it’s also the fact that if you do a transaction on Solana, it accounts for the same amount of energy as two Google searches or at present times even after merge it accounts for the same as 43 or 44 transactions on Ethereum. So this is amazing but it's now time to move from just carbon to real impacts that we can all see at a bigger level.
Facundo Cajén (19:47) - Now if you will kindly move to the next slide. Perfect. Just a couple weeks ago one very exciting project on Solana Community as well - Sunrise State they went live and I love the project! I gotta say like you can instead of just like staking on a different protocol, you stake your Solana and the shield earnings that you make they go to offsetting different projects around the world. So you know you can just be sleeping and helping make the world a better place.
Facundo Cajén (20:17) - Also, if you want to learn more about ReFi, follow @ReFiDAO on Twitter - they just launched these new common goods incubator and they have been doing amazing work for the past few years and I think John is here as well.
Facundo Cajén (20:36) - We also saw Open Forest raising 4 million dollars in the past weeks and at the same time just last week, a trifecta of different founders from different blockchains they announced they are going to be releasing a new fund of 100 million dollars just for ReFi so exciting times are coming to the space in general.
Facundo Cajén (20:57) - In early February we at Gainforest, we successfully tried out this pilot project in the Philippines where we tested out this measure-to-earn mechanism. I'm sure you all remember like just like how last year we got like play-to-earn - well this is like measure-to-earn.
Facundo Cajén (21:16) - So if you move on to the next slide you can all see a small video of the results we got from the pilot project in the Philippines where we went into the woods with a bunch of people from local communities, they got this phone up to take different measurements of the trees. Every one of them, they gotta sign an address on the blockchain and when they uploaded all the data they got payments being released to their account so you can properly follow all these on a transparency matter on the chain and now we hope that in the near future you will be able to tokenize this and sell the impact that you have made on your community has made. To me this is so exciting.
Facundo Cajén (21:59) - Thank you, Kash.
Kash Dhanda (21:59) - Me as well buddy, you are not alone in that. This is like the real world being positively affected by blockchain technology. Who would have guessed that was even possible, you know what I mean? Love, love to see this and I see Amira - shoutout to Amira from the Solana Foundation who put us in touch with Gainforest and Facundo. So shout to them. It's good for the world, it is good for Solana and there's gonna be a lot more moves happening there.
Kash Dhanda (22:21) - With that said, we're gonna bring on our special guest at this time he's going to talk to us a little bit about the hackathon I think many people on this call already know Matty but if you don't, he is the Head of Growth at the Solana Foundation. He's been working on these hackathons which are a flagship thing for Solana and have been for many years. Drop a little GM Matty in the chat as Matty comes on to tell us about the hackathon.
Matty Taylor (22:43) - Hey guys, can you hear me?
Kash Dhanda (22:45) - We can hear you. I don't know if we can see you yet - where's your video?
Matty Taylor (22:51) - How about now?
Kash Dhanda (22:52) - There we go, there we go.
Matty Taylor (22:54) - Hey, yeah thanks thanks for inviting me on. Excited to be here! Yeah I just wanted to kind of give some high level stats on what we're seeing with the Grizzlython hackathon so far.
Matty Taylor (23:05) - So yeah like Kash said over 7,000 participants, this is trending pretty well in comparison to like previous hackathons and that's encouraging given just the state of the market and everything so it's great to see builders come out in force. Top five countries - so we have India leading the pack, US, Vietnam, Germany, Turkey and a pretty pretty long tail of other countries I think one thing that's interesting here is that while India I think makes up about like um I think it's like around like 15 to 20% right now, the rest of it is sort of this long tail of other countries around the world which is awesome to see.
Matty Taylor (23:45) - One note on this though like the most important thing for us is not getting a ton of registrations we want to see actual project submissions at the end of the day that's what really matters and so yeah the project submission deadline is March 14th. We'll be opening up the submission form about seven days before so we'll be sure to let everyone know who's participating about that and then yeah obviously one thing that's a little bit different than about Solana hackathons than you know just a traditional hackathon is that we're really focused on teams who are willing to sort of like quit their full-time gig, pursue this full-time, raise seed funding after and I think we've seen a ton of teams who have won the hackathon do just that.
Matty Taylor (24:32) - So I think in total so far there's been about over 600 million in seed funding invested in Solana hackathon projects over the last couple years so yeah just if anyone's participating in that - Finish strong and yeah we can we can jump into questions or anything else at this point.
Kash Dhanda (24:53) - Let's do exactly that. Folks so if you have… Stepan from Squads saying “We didn't even win and still did okay” so yeah shoutout. Just the act of participating is useful to get some publicity, it also is a nice forcing function to get you building with other people. It's pretty great.
Kash Dhanda (25:09) - If you have some questions for Matty, please do put them in the Q&A thing, it's right next to the chat button so it should be pretty easy to find and we can get those answered up here for anyone who's building.
Kash Dhanda (25:19) - I got a few questions that already came in Matty so we can go through these while we wait. So the first one here I think there's still a little bit of confusion on this but even though it's been clear so let's just settle the score once and for all. Are winners of Sandstorm allowed to participate in Grizzlython?
Matty Taylor (25:36) - Yes, so all the participants and winners of Sandstorm can compete and win prizes in Grizzlython. The one note there is that you will just be judged on the work that you do from the start of Grizzlython to the end of Grizzlython. So we won't be looking at any of the code or anything of your submission part of Sandstorm, it will be a completely new submissio. We'll be looking at Githubs etc. to see kind of like the work that you've done during our competition
Kash Dhanda (26:07) - Makes sense, makes sense. So shoutout to Root and Cubik and a bunch of other projects - they can still compete with some new stuff but not rest on their laurels.
Kash Dhanda (26:16) - Next question here - Can an individual be part of two teams? This has come up a few times.
Matty Taylor (26:21) - No, so an individual cannot be part of two teams. One submission per participant or team. This kind of goes back to the point around like we're just really looking for people who are looking to do this full-time so I would choose an idea, stick with it, and pursue whatever you think has the best chance of being a viable business long term.
Kash Dhanda (26:44) - Makes sense. Then, kind of relatedly another question we get a lot - Can the same team submit more than one project?
Matty Taylor (26:50) - No. Again similar sentiment there - choose one, pursue that project as best you can. These things are really really competitive so if you're spreading yourself thin across a couple of project submissions, there's a lower chance that you're gonna win a prize and be competitive.
Kash Dhanda (27:08) - Makes sense. I think it's so useful for everyone to remember - it's a business competition at the end of the day, right?
Matty Taylor (27:14) - Yup.
Kash Dhanda (27:15) - We got a question here from Venkatesh in the audience - “What are the stuff you will expect for the hackathon like PowerPoints, videos, GitHub, etc.?”
Matty Taylor (27:23) - Yeah this will be in the submission form that will give more details about exactly what we're looking for but generally yes we're looking for just info about like why you chose your project idea, your GitHub, yeah either a PowerPoint or a video submission you can do either. Just a reminder there though - please keep it to like five to seven minutes. I think we've had teams in the past do like an hour-long presentation before on YouTube so please keep it concise so that it makes it easy for judges to review. But yeah we also just want to know who you are, like why you're best fit to pursue this idea - I think this is something you see a lot in like you know when VCs interview like seed stage startups is like why are you interested and you know best fit to pursue this problem and solve this solve this you know need in the market.
Kash Dhanda (28:18) - Makes sense. Founder-market fit over there or founder-problem fit maybe we might call it.
Kash Dhanda (28:22) - If you need a PowerPoint presentation, I got some good news for you. We at Superteam made one. We made a little template to make life easier for everybody. I think that's superteam.fun/hackathon or Srijani putting in a little video that we made as well.
Kash Dhanda (28:35) - Let's see other questions. Some of these questions I will not read in the Q&A also I appreciate people asking them.
Kash Dhanda (28:42) - Let's see. “What is your favorite team? Have you seen any exciting teams so far or what are any projects that you're particularly excited about?” That's Daniel.
Matty Taylor (28:50) - I'm not going to say anyone specifically but one thing that is important that helps us sort of evaluate projects is like starting a Twitter account right now to start like engaging with the community because honestly like we're not reviewing Githubs in real time, we're waiting till the very end. Having said that, we are interested to see how projects are sort of you know starting to engage with the community, form their communities around their project, get feedback on their products. So, you know I've probably seen over 100-200 projects so far that have created a Twitter account, have started to engage with the community and I think that's really important and something that the judges look for. So yeah, I highly encourage anyone to do that if you haven't done it already.
Kash Dhanda (29:38) - Fantastic! All right, I think for the sake of time we might start to wrap it up. Let's see. There’s a question - “Are improvement docs or research work on the current state of Solana also eligible for winning prizes?” I don't believe so, but is research eligible for prizes?
Matty Taylor (29:57) - So, they're eligible for prizes I would say but having said that again, “Can you build a business around this?” is a really important factor of what we look for in terms of you know choosing winners and so if you think you can do that like if you want to create sort of a developer company or a developer-based company that's like producing these research reports and selling it to you know to to customers, that’s something interesting but again yeah, we are looking for business viability as an important factor here.
Kash Dhanda (30:33) - Makes sense! Well, there are some more questions but I think unfortunately for the sake of time we're gonna have to start wrapping this up. Matty, any last advice for any of the builders watching this right now?
Matty Taylor (30:44) - No, just finish strong. Make sure that you spend at least some time on your presentation - that's really important, you know? Create a Twitter account, start engaging with the community, start getting feedback from the community on the products that you've built and yeah if you have any questions my DMs are open on Discord and Twitter and yeah excited to see what people build.
Kash Dhanda (31:07) - I’ll tell you, that's a brave man right there with DMs open on Discord and Twitter for the rest of the world to reach out.
Kash Dhanda (31:13) - All right, shoutout to Matty! We're getting some other quick tips here people can tag I think Tony, Alice - there's a few people in the chat who will happily look at your projects. Definitely get a multisig says Stepan - always be shilling and I think that is all.
Kash Dhanda (31:27) - Matty, thank you so much for coming out brother we will catch up with you real soon.
Matty Taylor (31:31) - Thanks everyone, bye!
Work to Earn
Kash Dhanda (31:33) - Alright, we're gonna keep the good times moving real quick. A new segment that we got here it's just gonna be like a minute or two long called “Work to Earn” where we share some like really exciting earning opportunities from across the Solana ecosystem.
Kash Dhanda (31:46) - “Work to Earn” obviously a little bit of a play on the play-to-earn and all those other kinds of, I don't want to call them fake but those other types of earning.
Kash Dhanda (32:45) - Alright, first up - $800 up for grabs for a bounty on an essay for developer portal so whether you're a dev or maybe you know a dev, maybe you know a college student who's looking to make some extra money, maybe you know somebody else entirely, maybe you know Stephen King and you want him to get involved in the Solana ecosystem - go work on this deep dive. You can actually go ahead and find this on Superteam Earn. That's the bounty, the first.
Kash Dhanda (33:09) - The next one is the grant. At Superteam, we just launched a new grants program called Surfing Glass sponsored by my personal company, Ekstasis and shoutout to the Solana Foundation. For Dev tooling, so from $1 to $5,000 grants are available for any tools or pieces of content or anything else that makes it easier to build on Solana. So if you're working on something like that for the hackathon or you have a side project idea. If there's something that you just wish existed and you need a reason to go build it well we'll give you some money to do that so you can check that out on earn.superteam.fun as well.
Kash Dhanda (33:42) - And then finally, this job goes crazy. I saw this here. Dialect is looking for a Head of Marketing and they are paying handsomely for it as well. Dialect, if you've been on the ecosystem call, you will know them. Killer team, killer product. New Head of Marketing to take their consumer product wide across the world.
Kash Dhanda (34:01) - Alice from Clockwork saying “Killer team” - Absolutely! Stepan thinking about doing it. Honestly if I didn't already have a job, I'd probably be applying it to this as well. Dialect super super cool so get involved over there.
Kash Dhanda (34:14) - Oh and Maurice maybe has somebody for Dialect as well so I think I don't know if any of the Dialect team is here in the chat right now but they will be around very soon.
Kash Dhanda (34:22) - Okay that's it for Kash flow, Kash Cow, Work to Earn whatever that is going to be called.
Alpha Drops
Kash Dhanda (34:26) - Let's go over to the Alpha Drops. This is where different projects are going to come up and tell us a little bit about what they shipped in the last few weeks. Remember, we're celebrating builders here. That's the real point of all this.
Kash Dhanda (34:38) - The first project I want to invite up is just one of the first buddies I made in crypto, I think one of the smartest people I've met in crypto, certainly one of the fastest shipping teams in all of crypto. Please get a little GM for Stepan in the chat here as we hear from Squads, the multi-sig standard you were looking for.
Stepan Simkin (34:59) - Hey, everybody. Can you hear me? Works well?
Kash Dhanda (35:01) - We can hear you and we can see you with the locks, the lovely locks flowing as usual, my guy.
Stepan Simkin (35:07) - Getting long, it’s getting long. Thanks for having me Kash. I am excited to be here.
Stepan Simkin (35:11) - Yeah, so [inaudible] Squads is the multi-sig standard for Solana. For about six months since August last year, we've been focusing on building out Squads V3 which is like this great iteration of the Squads protocol. The idea behind it was to make this foundational smart contract wallet infrastructure layer for the ecosystem so that it can be used as a multi-sig, it can also be you know leverage to build out the products on top like smart wallets and leveraging you know smart contract wallet level account abstraction to deliver like this very new smart wallet experiences that I think everybody's thinking about in terms of a better UX for wallets.
Stepan Simkin (35:52) - Now we are sort of shifting the focus from the protocol to the product and actually building out the platform for teams on Solana that are looking to manage you know treasury assets, developer assets and the idea of the kind is that it sort of becomes their companion tool throughout the lifetime of the project which they rely on to manage and like control these core assets together as a team and the protocol is obviously powering that that platform and we kind of discovered along the way that multi-sig isn't really a product, it's a feature, right? It's a feature that allows you to have more secure decentralized control of these assets um but really the platform that we're built out like focuses a lot on figuring out these very intuitive user flows or how you upgrade the program on Solana? How do you mint, burn, manage properties of a token? How do you manage a bunch of validators that you might have? And then obviously a lot of it is related to treasury management and doing sort of um you know sends to multiple addresses and managing payroll and other things.
Stepan Simkin (36:55) - So in terms of what we shipped in the last few weeks, I think the biggest one as you mentioned earlier was immutability for Squads V3. It's been a long road, we've had a long sort of bucket list of things we wanted to deliver for the protocol. It was, you know, multiple audits with reputable firms like Neodyme and Ottersec. It was formal verification with Ottersec which was sort of the first formally verified program on Solana and immutability was the sort of final frontier for at least for Squads V3 and we finally sort of reached that, it was a great moment for us internally and also the ecosystem really supported it
Stepan Simkin (37:30) - We're super excited that now this kind of whole package is is done and I think if there's one sort of action item I can leave you know people on the call is that you know now there's no more excuses from protocols on Solana not to use a multi-sig. So ask your favorite protocol - where is that authority with, right? Is it with a single key? Is it, you know, is it at least a cold wallet? But point them to a multi-sig solution that's available now, that's formally verified, that's immutable, that's open source, and is audited.
Stepan Simkin (38:05) - [inaudible] We also have a Grizzlython track - side track that we’re sponsoring - actually two sidetracks - one is for treasury management tools and the other one is for anything related to account abstraction we have sort of a separate program called “Roles” that allows you to sort of program different keys you add to the multi-sig and really yeah so if you do want to build out sort of smart wallets withyou know social recovery and like different user experiences that everybody's used to right now, it's a great foundation to do that.
Stepan Simkin (38:35) - And again you know we kind of did the work at least on the security side so you don't have to right like instead of you actually building out that layer you can tap into what we built and and use that and so yeah we have a bunch of projects that already are building something but yeah definitely if you're on the call and you're building something using Squads you know reach out to me directly or anyone from the team would love to sort of support you along the way as well.
Stepan Simkin (39:00) - And I think in terms of alpha for what's coming, we're right now working on so right now the platform actually covers,you know, there's a treasury management section, there's a developer section right which which covers you know [inaudible] it has a transaction builder which we just shipped a new version of as well that allows you to create these sort of custom transactions populated with our instructions just interact with any programs on Solana through your multi-sig.
Stepan Simkin (39:24) - And then, we're working right now on the Creator section of the app that basically will allow you to manage NFT collections you know [inaudible], transfer authorities in and out and like a lot of it is around like solving this issue of you know like if you have a 10K collection how can you know [inaudible] do you call the authority and and so we're solving all these problems right now and it's sort of one of the harder challenges we kind of left for the last.
Stepan Simkin (39:47) - So yeah if you're having an NFT collection and are struggling to you know to manage it right now and you know, you want more security and decentralized control over this very core asset that you have also make yourself known and potentially you can sort of participate in testing on some of the stuff.
Stepan Simkin (40:05) - Yeah, that's what we've been up to.
Kash Dhanda (40:09) - As always, it is a lot. The folks over there doing just crazy things at Squads keep an eye out on them. Thanks for coming through, Stepan always a pleasure to see you my guy.
Kash Dhanda (40:17) - “A late GM” love that late GM.
Kash Dhanda (40:21) - Okay, cool let's go next over to another person that I met way back in the day. Early in my my own crypto journey here. We have none other than the founder of GrapeDAO, founder of Dean's List, one of the main contributors to AthensDAO which was the first community organized hackathon if I'm not mistaken. So this man lives, breathes, sleeps Community. Drop a little GM for our friend Dean from Dean's List coming to the stage right now. Dean, what you got?
Dean (40:50) - Thank you for having me today Kash. I mean what a great presentation so far. It was awesome hearing from Squads, huge Squads user here also at Dean's List.
Dean (41:02) - So, Dean's List is a service DAO. “What is a service DAO?” We're hyper focused on providing a service all together so teamwork makes the dream work. We work all together to help provide feedback for different protocols in Solana and most recently one of the big wins for us that you know I'll be referring to later is we completed our summer camp review program in which we worked with 10 different hackathon winners.
Dean (41:31) - So what does it mean to be part of our service DAO? How do you get involved? Grab one of our tokens. Anybody with a token is a member. Come into our Discord and from that point you can work on any of our active feedback jobs. Right now we have backpack and we have Zignaly - something that people can work on and then you can also join our Grizzlython accelerator review.
Dean (41:53) - But, what we're trying to do is really explore these decentralized work world. You know I think SuperteamDAO has done a fantastic job carrying that torch and I've been inspired by what you guys have done. We actually have even contributed now on one of those work-to-earns with I think Samudai.
Kash Dhanda (42:11) - That’s right.
Dean (42:12) - So yeah right now as I said with the big wins we had was this program that we finished. We did reviews for Tensor, for CINI. there's a bunch of them I don't remember them all right now you know we've been reviewing so many projects I kind of forget them slowly.
Dean (42:32) - And you know, we use different decentralized programs to do all of this. We use Realms, we use something called Squads if you guys have heard of it before. We also use Strata which handles our token and we use Coinable, which is our front end for sales. So all this happens on-chain, right? Somebody buys something on coinable, it goes straight to our treasury on Realms, we do distributions through Squads - it's a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to using a lot of the Grizzlython applications too.
Dean (43:01) - For our Grizzlython accelerator, we started this new idea where instead of just giving feedback to existing protocols what if we helped new protocols going into the Grizzlython? So right now we're working with - it says on the slide five but it's actually six because today we had a new one join us. We've got Sunrise Stake which we mentioned before in ReFi, we've got Nodia, Krk.Finance, Shyft, Alchemy and drum roll… Get Triggr! Carlos joined us today.
Dean (43:33) - Yeah yeah we could not miss out on having a superstar like Carlos join our accelerator. We're really, really excited to start helping out give some last minute feedback before the last two weeks of the mad dash before the end of the hackathon.
Dean (43:49) - Now, a bit of alpha - Tomorrow we're dropping our community NFT. It's super restrictive but we'll slowly open it up there's only going to be 96 of them. So it's meant for a very small community and then we're going to be launching a new token.
Dean (44:06) - Now why launch a new token? I'll share an article later in the chat but you know long story short - it's important to have a very well thought-out distribution for these DAOs. For these service DAOs.
Dean (44:18) - And some alpha for everybody - everybody who's on this call, who receives the POAP will also get some of the new token allocation because really, Superteam is the perfect example of what we're trying to achieve as well, right? It's a community, everybody working together to make the dream of Solana even bigger.
Dean (44:39) - If you want to get involved, how you can help us - if you're somebody who's looking to you know work and if you're already giving feedback, why not get paid for it right? All these discords have those channels - come and join us. Get some money out of that.
Dean (44:53) - And then also if you have your own service and you want to get a support mechanism underneath it - marketing, administration, advice, mentorship - what have you. We're doing that with Soladex right now which is run by one of the BanditoDAO guys, Hanko.
Dean (45:08) - So yeah, come and join us. Have a lot of fun! Thanks for having me, Kash.
Kash Dhanda (45:13) - Cheers! shoutout to Dean. Can we get a little W in the chat? Dean just like Santa Claus just gifting airdrops all around here. Shoutout to Dean and Dean's List.
Kash Dhanda (45:23) - Everyone in this audience is very happy but I think all the rest of the presenters are also going to be very happy because now everyone will stay until the end.
Kash Dhanda (45:28) - And next want to bring up to the stage, Ottr Finance. I think we saw this product, I don't know, just a few weeks ago was the first time I really got a sense of it and just the UI, the UX is just it's so good. I know a bunch of people on the call are already friends with Ottr - let's get a little GM for Grace, Head of Growth over at Ottr.
Grace Ma (45:45) - Hi everyone!
Kash Dhanda (45:46) - Tell us all about it.
Grace Ma (45:47) - Okay, I'll try to fit it in two minutes. So Ottr - what we are building is a mobile wallet and we aim to replicate everything you can do with your bank but under the hood, everything is built on Solana of course and so this is what we call “Banking 3.0”
Grace Ma (46:04) - You know, anyone with a phone can save in USDC on-chain, you can pay anyone instantly and then you can also invest and stake crypto with zero percent fees and the staking is just direct staking with one click. Lastly, you know we care a lot about managing private keys for people so that we can onboard new users who are not familiar with DeFi or crypto so they don't have to manage their private keys but we do have state-of-the-art encryption and backup so that they don't have to worry about that.
Grace Ma (46:38) - Lastly, we are looking to release a debit card so that we can round out the payment experience so you know you can literally pay anyone including merchants using your on-chain balance and you know our goal basically is to realize this original dream of the blockchain which is decentralized payments without a middleman and ironically until Solana came around that was not really possible because of the, I guess, low TPS and high fees in all the other networks so definitely kudos to Solana.
Grace Ma (47:15) - And then, in terms of what we shipped - so we shipped the concept of “friends” so you can now find and invite from your contacts all your friends that makes paying them easier and then that also allows you to invite them to our app and it enables our referral program. We will just have to add a referral bonus sometime down the line for you to get paid for inviting people.
Grace Ma (47:41) - And then, we have support for more coins trading and then we also are releasing NFT support next week so that you can display your existing NFTs, set one as your Ottr profile pic - we're just hoping to provide something for everyone whether you are a web3 native with lots of NFTs or someone who is completely new to crypto and you know just looking for more access to USDC Banking.
Grace Ma (48:13) - In terms of our asks, we're always looking for more, like better improved on and off-ramps especially in the non-US market so if you know any providers who specialize in Europe, Asia, LatAm where they really localize and know the market wealth in terms of integrating with banks please DM us on Twitter, we'd love to get in touch with them. Our Twitter is @ottrfinance so definitely follow us so that you can stay on top for our referral program and our debit card release. Thank you, guys.
Kash Dhanda (48:48) - Thank you very much, Grace. Shoutout to Grace, shoutout to Ottr building for a world where stablecoins are the future, right? If anyone here has earned in crypto that is just the best way to earn - instant, low fees, etc. Ottr is built for that future.
Kash Dhanda (49:01) - I want to go next to Hello Moon. Hello Moon has been just like on a race towards global domination if we're being honest. Like every major web3 Solana project you know whether it’s Orca, Openbook, Magic Eden or anybody else is already using them so if you haven't heard of them yet you're going to hear a lot about them soon. The Ws are flowing in, we're not even… I haven't even asked. No one even asked - these are spontaneous Ws but drop a W in the chat for our guy Walker, co-founder of Hello Moon.
Kash Dhanda (49:28) - Walker, how's it going buddy?
Walker Guffey (49:30) - Hey, Kash! I'm good. Thanks for having us. I'm excited to talk to everybody on the call. So we very recently rolled out a super cool developer platform that covers sort of raw Solana data so think NFT Primitive, DeFi Primitives, etc. you know, ultra low latency, webhooks, APIs, etc. etc. but also then the aggregated data so think you know no latency floor prices which FRAKT recently integrated as you know as part of their oracle that governs their protocol.
Walker Guffey (50:08) - No latency token prices etc. We're working with a bunch of super cool hackathon competitors so people like Liquify, CandyPay, Little Bonkers which I believe just won the Superteam Mexico hackathon.
Kash Dhanda (50:22) - That’s right.
Walker Guffey (50:23) - Also working with uh with larger projects like Sharky, Monkey Baby Business, FRAKT - you know the names you mentioned you know etc. and a lot more coming out soon.
Walker Guffey (50:36) - In terms of things we shipped in the last month, I mean we shipped that whole product suite but in terms of things we're shipping today we're actually super excited to announce that starting in about an hour you're going to be able to pay for our dev platform using CandyPay. Yeah, so I think everybody knows and loves CandyPay and so you can now use CandyPay with Hello Moon.
Walker Guffey (51:04) - So anyway, we're gonna be putting out a lot more cool stuff soon and you know love the Superteam and everything you guys are doing so, excited to be here.
Kash Dhanda (51:13) - Appreciate it, buddy! Thanks for coming out. I see that Ws, the love for CandyPay is deep on this call that's for sure. shoutout to Vampo / Umang.
Kash Dhanda (51:22) - Next up, we're gonna go to our friends over at TipLink. TipLink - one of the coolest projects like just as an idea that I've seen in a little while. I think we first kind of met the team at Breakpoint but I had seen them even before. The idea is simple but incredibly innovative - you send crypto where the link is the wallet. Can we drop a little.. drop a little dollar sign in there for TipLink.
Kash Dhanda (51:44) - Ian, Co-founder of TipLink - what you got for us buddy?
Ian | ArbVision (51:47) - Hey there, can you hear me alright?
Kash Dhanda (51:49) - Loud and clear!
Ian | ArbVision (51:50) - Okay, awesome. So yes, my name is Ian, I’m the Co-founder and CEO of TipLink. I also go by @ArbVision on Twitter.
Ian | ArbVision (51:56) - So the idea with TipLink is you can send crypto or NFTs with just a link. Actually, this past week we announced our seed round co-led by Sequoia and Multicoin and really the best way to understand TipLink is with a little demo.
Ian | ArbVision (52:06) - So, the idea is like let's say I want to send my buddy Aashiq just a couple dollars of crypto. He's my co-founder. All I do is I go to TipLink, I connect my wallet, hit two dollars, hit create TipLink and this actually creates what we're calling like a “Link Wallet” that has two dollars on it. Then I can just copy it over and send it to Aashiq and now I just sent him two dollars of crypto. That's what it's like sending.
Ian | ArbVision (52:28) - Receiving - Let's just say I got a TipLink. I can just click on the link and if I have a crypto wallet, I could just withdraw it to any crypto wallet, let's say my Phantom wallet and just like that the money moved from my link to the wallet.
Ian | ArbVision (52:39) - Now the third example is a little bit more interesting. Let's say I've never touched crypto in my life before. All I have to do is connect my Google account and in under five seconds you basically just got a wallet set up and you're on board into crypto.
Ian | ArbVision (52:50) - And so now, you can send links to anyone on the planet and you don't have to worry about if they have a wallet set up or not, right? And the other thing that's cool is you can use it in the physical world - so you can just show people QR codes and if they scan it in the physical world then that's actually giving them crypto.
Ian | ArbVision (53:05) - And the thing that I would like to just share with the group is the thing that we just launched as well aside from just announcing our seed funding - our API. So, the API allows you to just generate infinite TipLinks send them out however you like and we think there's going to be like massive businesses built on top of this so if you're on this call and you're a developer and you're looking for something to hack on like being early to this thing and figuring out things, use case to hack on I think that's going to be a massive win for the people who do this early.
Ian | ArbVision (53:35) - And so, just a couple of ideas of things that you can do with the TipLink API - so you can basically blast out crypto or NFTs with a link over an email distro, in an application you can have a button at the end of it, even a web2 application where if you beat a game, you click a button and you get an NFT just because the link is a wallet. We've seen people do this where you just print out QR codes and give out people - you scan the QR code, get some USDC and we have Solana Pay as well so you can then immediately spend that USDC. So it's amazing seeing someone who's never touched crypto be able to get on board and start spending it within 30 seconds
Ian | ArbVision (54:07) - And then you can create some like let's say chatbot experiences where you message them on and you get back a link with crypto or NFTs and actually speaking of getting a chatbot set up we actually just before this tweeted out so if you go to @TipLinkOfficial and we have an implementation of this API out right now so all you do is you DM the message bot and it just responds to you with the link of a free NFT so you should give that a check that out.
Ian | ArbVision (54:33) - And if you're interested in using the API for anything, if you just want to brainstorm some ideas, hop into Discord we would love to chat with you.
Kash Dhanda (54:40) - Alright, that's a lot of love coming in over here. Greg also from the TipLink team just putting in a link to TipLink. Go check that out! A lot of fun things to be happening here.
Kash Dhanda (54:50) - I want to share our last Alpha Drop of the day and this is a real Alpha Drop so I believe this is being announced for the first time, here on this call.
Kash Dhanda (55:00) - The man I'm about to introduce has been again another just a long time buddy, founder of one of the most successful consumer startups already on Solana. Now, back with another project trying to solve massive pain points for any business or any merchant that might be out there that's figuring into the crypto finance world of the future. Drop a little GM for Dan, the Founder of Coinflow Labs in the chat please, ladies and gentlemen.
Kash Dhanda (55:24) - Dan, tell the people what you've been working on.
Dan | SirDigitalDan (55:28) - Thanks for that intro, I'll try following up with that energy but yeah and I'll make it quick because that's kind of like the name of the business. So yeah, Coinflow is working on two different things - one, we have a checkout product which allows consumers to buy crypto or sorry goods that are sold on the blockchain so you can think of that as NFTs, entering fantasy sports contest which was our last business, ReFi which is another great use case, centralized storage and all this type of stuff with the debit or credit card. So it's not only buying and [inaudible] the credit card, it's buying anything that you can from a smart contract credit/debit card ACH and abstracts everything away for the user and we do all the communication with a smart contract.
Dan | SirDigitalDan (56:06) - So, we are that middleware layer between traditional finance so you can think of that as payment service providers like Stripe, Banks, etc. communicating directly to smart contracts to get you goods and services.
Dan | SirDigitalDan (56:19) - On the other side, it's like that's the first part getting people in. The second part is when people want to realize the value from being in the crypto community and ecosystem is getting that out of their wallets to their bank accounts so we have a US off-ramp that is live. We offer same day ACH, regular ACH, and also the coolest is real-time payments so that runs 24*7*365 in the real-time payment network so you can go from a self-custodied wallet, crypto any token with liquidity to your US bank account at the speed of Solana so right about 30 seconds.
Dan | SirDigitalDan (56:51) - And yeah it's pretty awesome we've seen some people share some Alpha. Greg's on this call so I know he had like a tweet [inaudible] sharing it and we've worked with a lot of people on this call already but one thing that we just recently shipped and we have some [inaudible] partners - shoutout Squads and shoutout to Tahem from Mesha Club as well.
Dan | SirDigitalDan (57:07) - We are gonna be expanding this not only from consumers but also businesses so if you need to do payroll and you want to do that instantly, you forgot or you got a big bill that you forgot to pay you can and it's a Sunday night because you're a founder and get busy - you can go ahead and use one of our partners and do real-time payments so yeah check us out and then we are live and ready to onboard people we've been doing some white glove services but if you want to use this for payments either for getting some consumers onto your application and getting that conversion up or you want to do payouts for your customers or businesses on your platform shoot me a message we'd love to help you.
Dan | SirDigitalDan (57:42) - Sorry, it's early but trying to follow Kash's energy. Alright, thanks everyone.
Kash Dhanda (57:46) - Appreciate it, Dan. I think this is the first ever romance to start on an Ecosystem Call - Tony from Underdog might just be in love.
Kash Dhanda (57:55) - Killer product! I gotta tell you go use it if you've got a project that needs on-ramp/off ramp, this is the man to talk to.
Kash Dhanda (58:01) - We are five minutes past and I know people gotta go so I do want to keep this pretty quick here. At Superteam, we are building the talent layer for Solana. Bringing on developers, users, designers, everybody from around the world - Live in five markets including India, Turkey, Vietnam, Mexico, and Germany of course.
Kash Dhanda (58:21) - Just a quick little thing from our end, I wanted to share a big shoutout to the folks over at Coinable and to Ujjwal Gupta, Superteam member from India who set this up. There is now a Superteam Solana snapback that you can buy on coinablepay.com. Ujjwal just put the link in there.
Kash Dhanda (58:35) - We make no money from this. This is not a for-profit thing I believe all profits from the Solana snapbacks are staked directly with Solana validators to improve the decentralization of the network, so buy it. I'm a little biased I think it looks a little sexy that's just my opinion though. So go check that out, grab it and a big shoutout to Ujjwal, he sent me this like 30 minutes before the call started. He was like “Hey, I just did this!” permissionless contribution which we love to see.
Kash Dhanda (58:59) - “Does it ship to Indonesia?” Tony's asking. Yes, it does uh and it ships I think pretty much everywhere else as well.
Credits
Kash Dhanda (59:05) - And now, we will call this to a close. Thank you everybody for joining. This is the Solana Ecosystem Call, we do this the first Thursday of every month. Go sign up for the other ones - they're on the Luma invite as well.
Kash Dhanda (59:18) - I appreciate everybody for coming out, appreciate people for sticking around a little bit past schedule and appreciate all the speakers for coming as well and dropping some Alpha and making this a good time.
Kash Dhanda (59:28) - The last little piece of thanks goes to Srijani, who's on this call who helped tremendously with this deck, just the best, indispensable to Superteam as well as Yash, the best designer in all of Web3 so shoutout to them.
Kash Dhanda (59:40) - And shoutout to everybody else! Thanks for coming out folks - we will catch you on April 6th, I think is the next one.
Panelists
Facundo Cajén from Gainforest
DeanTheMachine from deanslist
Grace Ma from Ottr Finance
Walker Guffey from Hello Moon
Dan from Coinflow Labs
Links mentioned in the State of Solana section
Wins of the Month
7,000+ builders competing at Grizzlython (now 10,000+)