Base Layer Episode 258: Austin Federa, Solana Foundation on hardening the chain + the importance of Saga

Episode notes

Austin Federa joined me for a great conversation about what Solana learned over the past year to harden their infrastructure as they see surges in interest in their NFT & DeFi ecosystem, plus how their phone, the Saga, has been doing in the market to redefine how blockchains can not just be software, but hardware running digital asset codebase. More about Solana here:

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