Max Kaplan
@maxekaplan
CTO at @solstrategies_ | Founded & Sold @orangefincrypto | former @krakenfx | Opinions are my own
We are extremely close to "decentralized NASDAQ" on @solana. The tech has improved significantly. Now it's time to bring the assets. @solstrategies_ is the first company to list it's shares on chain!
DeFi Pioneer’s Superstate To Bring Public Equities To Solana go.forbes.com/c/8aiN
Running a Solana validator is no easy task — try getting even 100 SOL staked outside of a stake pool, and you’ll realize how hard it is. Meanwhile, some are managing to spin up more nodes while having >20K SOL staked on theirs.
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NEW Rightcurve episode is LIVE on the Jito YouTube channel! 📺️ Featuring @maxekaplan CTO at @solstrategies_ Discussing "Solana's HFT Problem" 🔗 to full episode below ⬇️
It's a good day for big blocks! SOL Strategies validator is now regularly building close to 60m CU blocks on Mainnet fd.solstrategies.io/?slot=355104748
In the Privy vs MWA debate, inception has been achieved internally.
MWA is the glue that binds dapps and wallets. If dapps include it, their users can hit "connect" or "sign" and bring up a wallet bottom sheet (a la Apple Pay) and users don't need to leave current state. In app browsers are bad and embedded wallets are bad too.
I’m excited to share that I’m joining the the Board of Directors of @solstrategies_ Following today’s appointments, our new Board is majority-independent - a key milestone on our path to the NASDAQ. I’ll serve alongside our new Chairman, Luis Berruga, and my fellow new…
1/4 🧵Major leadership evolution at @solstrategies_ today! Welcoming our new Chairman @LuisBerruga (Global X ETFs veteran), independent director @JmCalderon (former NBA player & business leader), and CSO @michaelh_laine to our Board 🚀
You are not bullish enough on BAM 💥
EXCLUSIVE: Jito has unveiled a block assembly marketplace, which aims to limit negative MEV, make Solana suitable for perps, and let apps share revenue with tokenholders blockworks.co/news/jito-upgr…
team effort -> rising tide -> all boats. thanks to all of our partners who are working with us on BAM 🤝
Beyond excited to be a launch partner here with @jito_sol ! BAM is likely the #1 thing I am most excited about for Solana's future. Trading on Solana is about to get even better 🚀
Liquid Internet Markets has arrived! We are thrilled and honored to be an early launch partner as a validator 🤝
Introducing BAM: The Block Assembly Marketplace that revolutionizes how Solana processes transactions. Private. Transparent. Verifiable. This is how Solana wins ⬇️
Beyond excited to be a launch partner here with @jito_sol ! BAM is likely the #1 thing I am most excited about for Solana's future. Trading on Solana is about to get even better 🚀
6/ Huge thanks to all the launch partners! Validators ⤵️ • Triton One @triton_one • SOL Strategies @solstrategies_ • Figment @Figment_io • Helius @heliuslabs Plugins ⤵️ • Drift @DriftProtocol • Pyth @PythNetwork • DFlow @DFlowProtocol
These guys/gal are the best. They very well could have kept this tool private to keep an edge over us much less funded mere mortals but they just made it open source for us all 🔥 Sol Strategies QUIC based validator switchover tool. A quick read over and I see some tasty…
Thanks for the push github.com/SOL-Strategies…
🚀 “Solana is crushing it” — and the numbers agree. @AshBennington @maxekaplan @LeahWald @solstrategies_ Every key metric is up: users, volume, transactions… and they’re scaling fast.
This was an awesome episode on @RealVision ! @AshBennington is a fantastic host, really appreciate you having us!
watch on RV Pro: app.realvision.com/video/a-solana…
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