Let’s see if this works. @hey_wallet first 42069 retweets get 42069 $bonk

Is this history being made?

Solana Labs, a US corp, didn’t have any assets on ftx.com, so we still have tons of runway, and luckily still a small team.

Stop doing this.

F’ these anti-Semitic racist incels.

If the state is against ethereum then I am against the state

The ad was bad, and it’s still gnawing at my soul. I am ashamed I downplayed it instead of just calling it what it is - mean and punching down on a marginalized group. I am grateful for the ecosystem devs and artists that immediately called it what it is both publicly and privately. You are the only silver lining to this whole mess. I’ll do whatever I can to make sure solana foundation stays focused on its mission of decentralization and open source software development and out of culture wars.

Almost exactly 6 years ago I started the process to raise for what eventually became @solana. I talked to every connection I had, went to every startup and crypto meetup and tried to get in front of everyone that I possibly could. Even if they didn’t want to lead I would ask for a conditional angel check in case we got a lead. It took me over two months and hundreds of pitches to get to $500k worth of handshake angel checks. Most VCs thought that the alt L1 thesis was already played out.

1/ I said this on stage at Breakpoint just a few days ago – the builders on Solana are second to none, and the projects they're building can often only be built on Solana.

I am just pacing around the house and saying whoa over and over at this point

Purple?

US is 2T in the hole. The gov needs to cut 1T in spending and raise 1T in taxes. Tariffs are a consumption tax that favors domestic producers. It’s probably the least dumb way to close the deficit.

I want @solana to be so cheap that it saves @visa money to use it over its own in-house infra, and I want @solana to be so fast that it improves the user experience as well.

Solana was mostly built on top of a dishwasher.

better now then when its a billion users

solana is the best choice other L1s are a compromise. solana is the most decentralized, most secure, credibly neutral chain that reliably never spikes in fees. it's the most active smart contract chain. it has the majority of stablecoin and DeFi transactions. instead of leaking 98% revenue to L2s it's hyper optimized atomic state machine can secure all activity on the L1, without layers of multisigs. solana is the default for dapps with revenues. for these reasons, solana is obvious

If you are also taking other neutropics my guess is that you won’t notice anything. Gotta raw dog life. No alcohol or zyns

USA at WW2 our German generals > your German generals

Happy solana 0 block day to all those who celebrate! explorer.solana.com/block/0

Proof of heavy

Bitcoin is value Ethereum is settlement Solana is life

I want everything on solana to be a level above from any other ecosystem: * don’t launch a meme coin, launch a Network State * don’t hunt for tvl for numbers sake, launch insanely capital efficient markets * don’t launch another jpeg, launch characters, stories, art, network states

Congrats @dawninternet 🦾🦾🦾

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.@solana unicorns like @MagicEden @phantom @DeGodsNFT are going multichain. It’s bittersweet to watch. It would be awesome for them to 100% focus on @solana. But reality is that these projects want to conquer the world. But so does the @solana community!🧵

I am starting my own party. The After Party 😎😎😎

Thank you to all the folks that have reached out with support.

Memecoin are bad, but if they donate to a public good then they have paid a penance for the bad thing. I find this logic to be nihilistic. I’d rather see people that hodl a memecoin change their behavior and go do something good, like walk dogs at a dog shelter and encourage other hodlers to do the same. Personal behavior change towards something good is much more important than financialization of good.

.@solana launched over 3 years ago, during the worst crisis the world has seen in half a century. if you told me that in the 3 years @solana would be in the top 10 with all these amazing folks building products, I wouldn't have believed you. I am insanely lucky to be here with you

Solana is for everyone 🤙

Use solana

.@VitalikButerin is awesome, let him cook. every healthy ecosystem needs to iterate. change is good

Masterclass on how to handle a crisis.

Polymarket is now technically a hyperliquid L2

Blockchain is web without ad tech. After 30 years of the web, the only business model is ads or threatening your users with ads until they pay you a subscription.

About my dog, Ada. I held her in my arms two years ago, a day before my birthday, as she was put down because her throat cancer got so bad that she couldn’t breathe. We got her 10 years prior from a shelter. She was a jrt/pit bull mix, exemplifying the best of both breeds. Super smart, loyal, crazy high energy, and super food motivated. We taught her how to ride a scoreboard, but couldn’t get her to stop pushing her leash. She had a punctured ear when we got her because she fought of all the other dogs from the food bowl at the rescue as a 6 month old puppy. She was NOT FRIENDLY. All our friends knew to never make eye contact or pet her. She took it upon herself to guard us from all threats, real and perceived. Still miss her. RIP Ada, the countess of Lovelace

bear markets are the best time to launch. you get to build your community with a bunch of hard core glass eaters

Can your blockchain email you?

It takes 10 years to build a new OS or database or any complex general purpose platform. Nearly 4 years in

There are more solana seekers shipped than tps of all the ethereum L2s combined.

You should prepare for moving your crypto startup to the US. The lawyers will still carve a pound of flesh out of your startup, but once the rules are clear the upside is unbounded. US is the largest unified free market economy in the world.

.@solana isn't better then ethereum yet 1. stability 2. stability 3. stability 4. solana base fees are wrong 5. storage fees are wrong 6. Dev infra is not as good as foundry 7. cross program ABI needs a ton of improvement 8. need more then 1 client implementation fully rolled out 9+ stability, stability, stability...

All roads lead to solana.

dealing with congestion bugs sucks so much more than total liveness failure. the latter is one and done, bug is identified and patched and chain continues. the former has to go through the full release and test pipeline. shipping fast is impossible 😭😭😭

Communities are useless.

Feels like I’ve just been in a car crash

Death is the only way out of this hellscape

We are all super lucky that ethereum has amazing founders and a brilliant research community and devs that grind through really hard problems. Without all those folks contributing open source code and research @solana wouldn’t be here.

Don’t bring back last cycle “eth killer” bs. It’s lame. Pareto efficient technologies can have overlapping features and will compete, but that’s all ok. I don’t see a future where solana thrives and somehow eth dies. I am such a techno optimist that I am certain that eventually danksharding will have enough bandwidth for all of solana’s data.

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I can’t believe a 🐿️ decided the election. God bless America

I fell asleep listening to Nick Bostrom talking about existential risk (surreal coincidence). No one bothered to call me or even add me to whatever slack or discord channel was debugging the issue, not even for moral support. By the time I woke up, the network was up already.

Year is 2035, and 1 billion+ people are actively using blockchain and self custody. We all made it folks. That’s the future I am driving towards.

The goal with @solanamobile is to crack the App Store duopoly. Network effects are nearly impossible to overcome unless there's a significant single-player benefit that outweighs the switching costs. We hypothesized that a sufficient number of NFT power users might prioritize hot wallet security. These users are among the most lucrative on the internet. Although a small group, a target-rich environment full of NFT power users, could potentially be lucrative enough to encourage developers to create apps, especially in the absence of app fees. Once developers start releasing crypto-incentivized apps to all Saga users, it should kickstart the flywheel. Users interested in crypto incentives will adopt the phone, giving developers a concentrated distribution channel filled with users seeking those incentives, and all without any app fees. I think we might have just overcome the first hurdle. But there's still a tremendous amount of work to be done.

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We did 20m+ in sales with @Shopify @solana usdc, paid $0 fees. The credit card sales cost us over $600k in fees on about the same volume. That’s 3 full time engineers. 🤯🤯🤯

Everything in moderation, including moderation

Roman Storm shouldn’t be prosecuted as a money transmitter. The only function his software and servers provided is broadcasting cryptographically signed user messages without any modification. These messages could have been printed on a t-shirt. They were copied and broadcast by many other internet infrastructure providers like att switches. It makes absolutely zero sense for copying data and broadcasting verbatim to be illegal. If the data is illegal, then the originator is who is at fault, not the network service providers that copy and forward it.

🧵Crypto five years ago: "We are going to disrupt all of traditional finance and the very nature of money." Crypto today: "Nooo!!! You can’t take on the App Store duopoly; that’s impossible." It does feel impossible, doesn't it? It's astounding how large technology companies have become and how much their choices have become gatekeepers of what users and developers can and cannot do.

Coin it

Solana needs to pivot to what it’s been doing for the last 7 years. IBRL

Congrats Ethereum on the upgrade! I can’t imagine the stress every engineer feels when that activation block rolls over.

Startups die for one reason only, they run out of money. It’s that simple. Avoid running out of money and it will never die. Large term leases and obligations == debt. That awesome shiny office for $50/mo for 3 years is debt, that 3 year datacenter deal is debt. Be really really really paranoid about signing any long term contracts. If 20% of your spend is contractual, it can kill you. Large teams kill runways. Each person needs to be justified by profit or revenue. If you have 18 months of runway, 6-12 months you will need to raise or be profitable to survive. If in 6 months you aren’t profitable, you will need to cut by 33% to extend runway to 18. At month 9 that’s 50%. Leases, and contracts can’t be cut. So if 20% of your spend is contractual at month 6 you are cutting 50% of the team. At month 9, it’s 70%, or you are basically on your last shot on goal.

How it happened for me: I always have some side project. So I was constantly trying random ideas on my own time. I spent my entire career as an IC minimizing manager work and hyper focused on a single thing - os development and performance optimizations. Like over 10 years of staring at trace32 debugger windows. I got lucky not starting something that I wasn’t an expert in. Basically all the random ideas that I tried that were dumb saas ideas at best, I could build myself, but I wasn’t an outlier expert. Because none of these had anything to do with OS development my network didn’t have a dozen people that I could pull in to accelerate it. Eventually smart contract platforms had their moment and a ton of capital was funding new implementations. I had a ton of relevant expertise to the point that I was an outlier relative to the market + I could hire a killer team on day one to accelerate development + there was available capital for pre pmf startups.

Gonna speed run the 5 stages of grief and get back to building.

Alright @hey_wallet, let’s see if this works. Send 69420 $bonk to the first 420 retweets

Joe: “So, Mr. Trump, how did you solve the blockchain trilemma? It seemed impossible..” Trump: “Joe, let me tell you, it was actually very simple. You see, all these so-called experts, they had this crazy idea. They wanted to build layers—L1s, L2s, L3s… layers everywhere, Joe. I’m telling you, layers upon layers—all the way up to their ivory towers. These people were very smart, no doubt about it, but they were also very, very stupid. So many layers, so many complications—too many, Joe. You get lost in all the layers. It’s ridiculous.” Joe: “What did you do instead?” Trump: “I went straight to the real engineers, Joe. Not the theorists in the fancy offices. These were the guys doing the real work—the builders. You know what they told me? They said, ‘Mr. Trump, forget the layers. What we need is one big layer. The biggest layer. One layer to rule them all.’ And that’s what we built, Joe. No L2s, no L3s—just one magnificent layer. The biggest the world has ever seen. I’m telling you, it’s so big, no one can believe it.” Joe: “Wow, one layer?” Trump: “Yes, Joe. And it’s beautiful. It’s efficient. No unnecessary complexity, no middlemen adding confusion. It’s the best blockchain layer—fast, secure, scalable—we solved that so-called trilemma they said was impossible. And you know what the engineers told me after we built it?” Joe: “What did they say?” Trump: “They said, ‘Mr. Trump, nobody thought it could be done. The other guys—they were all too scared. But you did it.’ And they’re right. The experts said it couldn’t happen, but we made it happen. That’s what I do, Joe. I make things happen. And now, thanks to me, blockchain is better than it’s ever been—no more layers, just one big, magnificent system. They’re calling it the greatest innovation since… well, since anything.”

We don’t need to sell a billion @solanamobile devices. We just need to sell enough to force the duopoly to change their policies. It only takes one non faulty operator to change the equilibrium in a free market.

Ethereum is now officially a solana L2, since wrapped sol on eth needs censorship resistant guarantees to exit back to solana. 🪱🕳️

Congrats @SolportTom !!!

I am a Tensorian 🦾🦾🦾

19/20 things fail. its easy to be a critic

Network is secured by memes

Forgot how to cat

Breakpoint USA 2026?

How I feel when I quote tweet a new solana project

got my dvt device! it boots! so freaking close now!!!

My parents left the ussr with $50 per person when I was 11, worked every job they could, took out loans so I could go to uiuc, and blessed this nation every day for the opportunity and freedom it gave them. Happy birthday to the greatest nation on earth! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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wtf. I struggled to raise 2m bridge in 2019

4/ We launched in 2020 after markets crashed and the world went into lockdown – chewing glass is in our DNA, and we'll get through together.

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The mighty hammer of capitalism

In this tweet I will create a new smart contract L1. Everyone that likes should be initialized with 100 coins in state. Anyone can reply to add a transaction to the ledger. To call the transfer program reply with “transfer X to ‘username’”. Everyone processing the chain should update the state accordingly. Each transfer burns 0.001 coins from the sender. User defined smart contracts will be added later via a UASF

.@solana is the future state of unlimited interactivity – centered in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking – creating a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunities. Powered by AI, Solana will connect us all in ways we’re just beginning to imagine.

The life of an engineer is to always work on stuff thats broken, never on anything that already works.

✅The most award winning crypto phone of the year

Solana is computer

Solana is the fastest monetary system in the world.

if in 50 years I am using a blockchain and its not solana, I am gonna insta die of shame

There were no survivors

seekers are shipping!!! moving as fast as we can, but hold your horses

We all said this was going to be the most unforgettable breakpoint

The cost to run solana is cheaper then all the evm chains combined, and it handles more transactions then all the evm chains combined.

Does that mean that Russian offensive operations are foolish as well?

Housecoin will build more houses then CA democrats