Akshay BD

Solana fam: we've started planning for Breakpoint 2025. Breakpoint 2025 centers on two themes: Revenue and Returns. No vanity. We’re putting the mic in the hands of teams printing revenue or delivering alpha. Founders, investors and engineers helping them win. The trenches and…

2025 is the year that revenue entered the chat Apps built on Solana have cleared at least $100m in revenue every month since Oct '24, and $220m monthly on average in 2025 so far Join us in Abu Dhabi in December as we platform the real businesses being built here:…

measure global progress by asset accessibility: transaction speed, access to any asset no matter the size, and how fractional can be the purchase. if we can make these params extreme, we’re home. inspired by @akshaybd and @calilyliu chat with @balajis - thank you

Great fun exploring this dichotomy

As we think about tokenization of securities and new offerings, should the algorithms match supply and demand?

An under appreciated fact is that @DriftProtocol hit its latest ATH milestones with zero incentives in place.

Solana Ventures is not affiliated or involved with any equity line of credit agreements with any publicly listed companies or entities.

fun fact I did not attend a single conference or event during the first 1.5-2y of Helius did not even go to the first 2 breakpoints and sponsored nothing you can just not do things

The GENIUS Act reasserts American leadership over financial innovation. The US led the development of the Internet as an open set of standards that today is used by 5.5B people. We have the opportunity to do the same with blockchain, and digitally native finance. Excited to…

Solana is by several measures the fastest growing dev ecosystem in crypto, and they're now moving from the cloud to the land. This podcast with Akshay and Lily covers everything from micropayments to internet capital markets to Solana Economic Zones. For the full ep with…

Bitcoin is hitting all-time highs. And the Network State Podcast is back. All new season featuring: - Michael Saylor - Jason Calacanis - Vitalik - Jeremy Howard - Benedict Evans - Claire Lehmann - Coinbase Base - Lightspeed - and Solana Trailer and links to all episodes below.

privacy might be crypto’s last unclaimed 1000x. the zcash team has been grinding hard to ship product. i hope they get the credit they deserve in this cycle along with other long haul, privacy focussed projects

if you’re coming to breakpoint and Abu Dhabi. start looking at monthlong stays and book your flight soon Winter is the most crowded time to go anywhere in the Middle East, especially uae and prices are going soar in like one to two months I’m gonna be there all December if…

Your takeaway as a crypto founder from @pumpdotfun’s token launch is that you should never pay large sums of money to be listed on a CEX. Price discovery and capital formation has now moved onchain, forever.

LFG

Your freedom is worth more when others are free, too. Free yourself, then free others.

I am starting a new show where I talk to people I find most interesting in crypto, tech, and startups — about product, performance and philosophy focus will be on quality over quantity and increasing the signal:noise ratio in crypto x tech subscribe below

should’ve just called xstocks stonks

Great piece on Internet capital markets: what they are, why they matter, and where they’re going.