Max Resnick - Solana's Path to Decentralized Nasdaq - TOKEN2049 Dubai 2025
Join Max Resnick, the lead economist at Anza, in an insightful exploration of Solana's ambitious journey towards becoming a decentralized version of the NASDAQ, recorded during TOKEN2049 Dubai 2025. In this compelling talk, Resnick delves into Solana’s strategic roadmap aimed at revolutionizing blockchain-based finance by focusing on enhancing bandwidth, reducing latency, and reshaping market structures.
Resnick begins by debunking common myths around Solana’s inception and clarifies its overarching goal: not to compete with Ethereum but to disrupt traditional financial markets like NASDAQ. He highlights Solana’s current capacity of 12,000 transactions per second (TPS) in contrast to NASDAQ’s 70,000 TPS, unveiling plans to reach one million TPS through key technological advancements.
The presentation unpacks the activation of feature flags such as SIMD 207 and explores the introduction of Agave 2.2, which significantly enhances computational limits. Resnick further discusses Solana’s path to reducing block times, applying innovative concepts like pipelining and async execution to achieve unprecedented processing speeds.
Max Resnick also addresses the transformative potential of multiproposer models to circumvent blockchain inefficiencies, aiming to align transaction execution and cancelation priorities for optimal market performance. He underscores the importance of enabling tighter spreads, thereby offering competitive prices to achieve parity with NASDAQ.
Max Resnick’s analysis presents a detailed roadmap of Solana's future, combining technical prowess with strategic foresight to challenge the status quo of financial markets.
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