NEW Solana Sessions dives into Harmonic’s plan to bring Nasdaq onchain Its cofounder Ben ⌛ explains how it’s creating an open, competitive marketplace on Solana with plans to scale to 1M TPS Timestamps 00:00 – Intro: Solana’s progress & how Temporal fits in 01:03 – Creating an “onchain Nasdaq”... for Solana 02:15 – Ben’s background: from math & CS student to interning at Citadel 03:19 – What drew him from traditional finance to crypto 04:11 – First impressions of Solana’s speed and performance 05:25 – Why Ben left HFT firms to build in decentralized finance 06:20 – Problems with centralized markets and the appeal of DeFi transparency 07:04 – How Solana achieved real efficiency and low fees 08:50 – Understanding more about Harmonic 10:15 – Why sequencing and inclusion latency matter for DeFi apps 11:35 – Standardizing Solana’s transaction rules with ACE (Application Controlled Execution) 13:13 – Why open sequencing helps apps like DEXs and liquidators 14:04 – Bringing predictability and competition to Solana’s block production 15:32 – How multiple builders competing improves network throughput 16:51 – The goal: Solana reaching 10 to 100x throughput with stability 18:06 – Long-term potential can be 1 million TPS and sustainable decentralization 19:22 – How open sequencing improves inclusion, latency and efficiency 20:57 – Building trust between validators, builders, and applications 22:13 – Preventing toxic block-building practices 23:46 – Why transparency and fairness increase validator revenue 25:04 – What “success” looks like for Solana developers and apps 26:33 – Why Solana’s user and institutional adoption is accelerating 28:10 – The role of liquidity providers and market competition 29:12 – Institutional capital, DeFi adoption & network maturity 31:04 – Advice from Ben: ignore short-term noise, keep building 32:33 – Closing thoughts & future of open blockchain design Watch on X:show more

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