Solana co-founder Roj Gokal mentioned in a Might 29 interview with TechCrunch that his firm goals to develop 10 to 100 instances, primarily via small enterprise and infrastructure partnerships.
Solana has a small enterprise focus
Gokal mentioned within the interview:
“[Solana wants partners] that may transfer, push releases and experiments and measure each week moderately than somebody actually huge that has a longtime view of what they’re in search of.”
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 mentioned that the cafe chain may use non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and different tokens to drive gross sales.
Gokal additionally mentioned that Solana seeks out impartial builders. He mentioned that the corporate invests in hackathons, the newest of which attracted 800 submissions, and creates “hacker homes,” which have attracted over 17,000 devs.
Solana additionally focuses on infrastructure
Gokal mentioned that Solana is pursuing infrastructure partnerships as properly. The undertaking additionally partnered with Google Cloud in November, permitting customers to deploy Solana nodes and permitting Google Cloud to function a Solana validator.
He additionally advised that Solana was keen on a partnership with Stripe. He famous that Stripe launched a fiat-to-cryptocurrency onramp in December 2022 and mentioned that almost all of Stripe’s supported apps had been primarily based on Solana.
Gokal additionally emphasised in the course of the interview that Solana goals to turn out to be the “Apple” of crypto. Along with specializing in UX and efficiency in a way just like the tech big, Solana is producing a smartphone known as Saga — which can as soon as once more present higher infrastructure for third-party initiatives.
In a separate dialogue on Might 23, Solana Labs co-founder and CEO Anatoly Yakovenko mentioned that Solana is engaged on ChatGPT and AI options.
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