What’s up everybody, it's Thomas Bahamas and you are here for another episode of Solana Weekly!
We got another banger of a week from MT Gox moving Billions in Bitcoin and scaring the boomers to Caitlyn Jenner and Iggy Azalea dropping projects on Solana.
Prices:
Solana: 169.99
SolETH - .045
SolBTC.- .00251
SOL.D: 3.16 - Sol Dominance, what this 3x.
Bonk hitting a new ATH before BTC dumped and made us poor. BTC dumped because mt gox moved billions of dollars of BTC to a distribution wallet. Looks like boomers don't like that a sketchy exchange from Bitcoin's past is paying back a bunch of shadowy cyber punks. Who would of thought that?
Latest news:
LayerZero officially live on Solana - this brings a bridge of like 60+ other chains, so pretty huge overall. I know the Kanpai Panda’s are going to be using it so they can bring panda’s over or send them to Eth or whatever other chains they support.
PayPal PYUSD is Live on Solana! I think this is huge, easy on/off ramp with a company everyone already knows.
Iggy Azalea is a turbo Sol bull and is launching a coin, tweeting about it non stop, deep in spaces, and I'm not paying attention but a lot of people are. The coin is Mother and the timeline is wilding for it.
Caitlyn Jenner launched a coin or maybe didn't, but it's a shitshow and I'm staying away from all celeb coins.
Trump has doubled down on his pro crypto stance and has said that he will pardon the legend Ross Ulbicht who is spending multiple life sentences for opening Silk Road and opening up drug trade and providing the first use case for cryptocurrency.
Top themes I'm interested in:
Creators platforms: Drip Haus and Access Protocol come to mind. Both have platforms that you can distribute content directly to users and interact with them and reward.
Onboarding people: I actually think this gets solved with great apps people want to use. It's not that hard. I think Moonwalk has a massive potential to onboard people with it just being a really fun app that can't do anywhere else.
Wallet best practices - beginners through expert. The wallets are getting so good, but I think we still have a gap here.
The strength of shitposts, silly side of crypto.
Onchain trading and the state of it currently.
Jup's grand vision - bringing everything on chain.
Regulatory stuff - it's crazy to keep up with all the lessening of regulations.
Onramp/ offramp stuff.
What it would take to bring NFT's back.
Macro
AI - Toly recently put out that he's interested in doing an AI sprint on Solana. I know there has been some other AI protocols that have ties with Solana, but would be interested in seeing what exactly that means and where it could go.
Maybe have some sort of liquidity dashboard we could monitor and see what sector is the hottest and use that as a barometer for the next guest.
Solana Weekly #71 - Beyond The Memes