8/ Starting a few months ago, began going down the DeFi rabbit hole as he discusses in this thread
Conversation
9/ As they began exploring the various things they could build, they started to consider all the layer 1 chains
So they pinged the Solana team. We setup a call on the evening of July 16th US time, July 17th Honk Kong time
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10/ Sam, Anatoly, and I were on the call, along with Dom from Solana and Mark from FTX
The call was scheduled for 30 minutes. We went for 2.5 hours
Anatoly gave a demo using break.solana.com, showed the live network. Sam was impressed
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11/ After the tech / network review, we began to discuss what it is Sam wanted to build. As he realized just how fast Solana is, he began to ask some aggressive questions like
"Can I build an on-chain order book?"
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12/ From there, we had a long discussion about the nature of financial markets
NYSE / Nasdaq operate on nano-second time scale
Solana operates on milli-second time scale
Solana is 1,000,000x slower
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Interested in your view/company avalanche with solana, and other you might have like cosmos, polkadot ... Thanks.
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Novice question: But what does offer that does not? Would be intriguing to know why did not choose co-founded chain ?
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For one thing, it's live :)
But obviously excited to see how Avalanche ends up!
