We will cover why I got fascinated by Solana in the very first place, and this one is called Decentralized NASDAQ.
I heard something in February 2021 that triggered me to dig into Solana, and by March 2021, I had a position.
This will be a story about the merging of TradFi with blockchain, which is why we are in SOL. We will uncover exactly why that is.
The vision for Solana is a big part of what had me obsessed in the beginning.
Toly had a "coffee and a beer-induced vision" of what a blockchain could be. He believed that his team could crack many of the problems around decentralization. Solana was originally founded to build a blockchain that is so fast and cheap that you could put a working central limit order book on top of it.
Then, Solana Mainnet launched in March 2020, and we have been here for five years. Despite everything we have gone through and everything we have achieved, it has become increasingly clear that there is a long way to go.
All the pieces are in place to pull off that actual vision.
This is a complex little chart that you have got to look at for a while, and I will not dwell too much on it.
However, if you go back to Toly's fabled two coffees in a beer epiphany, Nasdaq on Solana was the North Star for Solana. Once I heard Nasdaq on a blockchain, that got my juices flowing. To create a blockchain fast enough to support a decentralized trading platform, unmanipulable, yet faster, and cheaper than the NASDAQ, and current blockchains were not optimized for that.
They now want to
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