When I first started talking about @Solana a few years ago, the comments were mostly the same. "Ah, it's just another L1. It will never work. It goes down all the time." Funnily enough, some of the people who told me that were sitting in the room this week. Around 1500 people filled Sava Centar for Solana Summit Serbia. Investors, developers, founders. Some of them flew in, some of them built here. A few numbers I shared from the stage: this January Solana processed more than 150 million real user transactions. Firedancer has cleared 600,000 TPS in test environment. Out of 500 trillion dollars in global assets, 56 billion are already represented on Solana. And the part I'm most proud of: with @SuperteamBLKN we helped our founders raise more than 9 million dollars, and our community earn more than 2.5 million, across 10 countries. If you were there, you are early. Solana is to finance what @Netflix was to entertainment and @Amazon was to shopping.

Frontier Traders and @PhoenixTrade are bringing a live trading competition to @Solana Summit Serbia. 8 traders, real capital on Phoenix, three rounds: 8 go in, 4 advance, 2 make it to a 1v1 final on the main stage in the closing hour of the Summit. $5,000 prize pool, and the winner gets a seat at Breakpoint. Hosted by @simonmolitor. Day 2, Aug 27. Sava Centar, Belgrade.

6 months ago we started GameByts, a Steam-like platform with revenue share. Now we have over: 400 paying customers $150k in marketplace volume $13k in revenue All of this with $0 spent on paid promotion, purely through word of mouth from gamer to gamer. Gaming on @solana

.@Solana Summit Serbia has a $10,000 content bounty. 20 winners, $500 each, for the best content created at the summit: short edits, vox-pops, interviews, vlogs, threads, and more. Post anywhere, submit on @SuperteamEarn by Sep 10.

This summer @SuperteamBLKN is hosting the biggest Solana event the Balkans has ever seen, and we're coming. We equipped @voshy with a Yugo and a lot of napkins. Belgrade isn't ready 🚀

In 20 days we open the doors to @Solana Summit Serbia. → 3,500+ registered → 400+ companies & 15 people from @SolanaFndn → 75 speakers → 25+ side events, Monday to Friday → $50k+ Demo Day &. $5k Frontier Traders trading competition → 30 + community partners & 18 sponsors In this economy?!

What I think Solana's leadership has done really well vs. all of the other chains is support all founders and ideas, no matter how cringe the experiment may be. It enables founders to be weird and more expressive, similar to what Ethereum felt like in the early days. This leads to more experiments onchain and brings in net new ideas, because eventually one of those weird experiments can turn into a giant onchain game or an entirely new category. At the end of the day, you don't want to support some experiments and not others. It just alienates people. You want the maximum number of experiments happening because that creates a hotbed for new onchain ideas -> liquidity -> users

Vibhu reveals one of the craziest startups building on Solana: "JurassicFi is literally tokenizing dinosaur fossils" "The dinosaur fossil market is on fire. A T-Rex sold for $50M at auction last week" "A couple of weeks ago these guys raised $5.5M in two hours on Solana to collectively group buy fossils and put them in museums" "What's really cool is it's not just a museum piece. Those fractionalized shares can also be traded freely so you kind of have a liquid market for natural history" @JurassicFi @vibhu