Solana goals to develop 100x by means of small enterprise, infrastructure partnerships

Solana co-founder Roj Gokal stated in a Might 29 interview with TechCrunch that his firm goals to develop 10 to 100 occasions, primarily by means of small enterprise and infrastructure partnerships.

Solana has a small enterprise focus

Gokal stated within the interview:

“[Solana wants partners] that may transfer, push releases and experiments and measure each week slightly than somebody actually huge that has a longtime view of what they’re on the lookout for.”

He criticized bigger corporations for his or her willingness to maneuver on to new issues if the outcomes of the partnership weren’t profitable.

He highlighted one partnership with the San Francisco-based cafe chain Boba Guys, which started to discover a loyalty program constructed on Solana in April. Gokal stated that the cafe chain might use non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and different tokens to drive gross sales.

Gokal additionally stated that Solana seeks out unbiased builders. He stated that the corporate invests in hackathons, the latest of which attracted 800 submissions, and creates “hacker homes,” which have attracted over 17,000 devs.

Solana additionally focuses on infrastructure

Gokal stated that Solana is pursuing infrastructure partnerships as nicely. The venture additionally partnered with Google Cloud in November, permitting customers to deploy Solana nodes and permitting Google Cloud to function a Solana validator.

He additionally steered that Solana was fascinated with a partnership with Stripe. He famous that Stripe launched a fiat-to-cryptocurrency onramp in December 2022 and stated that almost all of Stripe’s supported apps have been based mostly on Solana.

Gokal additionally emphasised throughout the interview that Solana goals to turn into the “Apple” of crypto. Along with specializing in UX and efficiency in a fashion just like the tech big, Solana is producing a smartphone referred to as Saga — which can as soon as once more present larger infrastructure for third-party tasks.

In a separate dialogue on Might 23, Solana Labs co-founder and CEO Anatoly Yakovenko stated that Solana is engaged on ChatGPT and AI options.

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