As the blockchain ecosystem expands, Solana aims to stay ahead of increasing demand through technical innovation and proactive problem-solving. Solana’s ability to handle more transactions than all other blockchains combined demonstrates its live operational capabilities. However, with growth comes the inevitable need to continually enhance infrastructure.
In a recent exclusive interview with BeInCrypto, Matt Sorg, the Vice President of Technology at Solana Foundation, discussed a range of topics — from Solana’s technical challenges and its efforts to tackle transaction congestion to maintaining decentralization and network security.
What makes Solana an attractive ecosystem for startups and developers?
Solana is representative of an ecosystem with which to collaborate with your application. Both of those things are pretty attractive for a startup.
You do not have to carve out a whole new ecosystem and make sure there are wallets and on- or off-ramps and USDC and USDT. You don’t have to worry about that. That is all there for you on Solana.
So, it’s really important for a startup to focus on its core competency. You’re not having to reinvent the wheel.
Developing on Solana really kickstarts people from that, and they don’t have to think about it. I think that’s part of the reason why the Solana applications have been relatively successful. The applications can concentrate on the unique thing they’re delivering to the world, not the infrastructure.
What do you see as the key technical challenges developers face when trying to enter the Solana ecosystem?
First off, it’s kind of like the same thing with focus. I think there are so many chains and infrastructure out there.
There’s this joke that there are more chains than apps, which I think is actually kind of true right now. There’s just an enormous amount of different chains and L2s and whatever pops up. So, I think that lack of clarity can make it hard for a founder to know where to shift to.
Solana is like a very low-friction, high-performance chain, but everybody promises that. The thing that we have is that we show it live. It’s not just like a promise of that.
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Author: Lynn Wang
