Solana Foundation Ep #59

<p>In this episode, Dan Albert (Executive Director), Lily Liu (President) and Mable Jiang (Board Member) discuss the role of the Solana Foundation in advancing the Solana protocol and ecosystem with support and initiatives around the world. Austin Federa (Head of Communications, Solana Labs) guest hosts.</p><p> </p><p>0:43 - Intros / Roles</p><p>3:13 - The appeal of working at the foundation level</p><p>07:48 - Establishing scope for the foundation</p><p>12:42 - What’s working in the ecosystem?</p><p>20:01 - From the ecosystem to the foundation</p><p>21:21 - Growing Solana in new markets</p><p>33:50 - Shared Ownership of the network</p><p>36:21 - Predictions for 2022 in crypto and web 3.0</p><p> </p><p>Austin Federa (00:10):</p><p>Welcome to the Solana podcast. I'm Austin Federa filling in as guest host today. We spend a lot of time on the show talking to founders and builders in the space, people building on the Solana blockchain or otherwise involved in the Solana ecosystem. But today we're actually going to be talking about a different component, which is the Solana Foundation. Today with us, we have Dan who's the executive director of the Solana Foundation. We have Lily, who's the president of the Solana Foundation and Mabel, who's one of the board members of the Solana Foundation. Welcome to the Solana podcast, guys.</p><p>Lily (00:39):</p><p>Thanks for having us.</p><p>Dan (00:40):</p><p>Great to be here.</p><p>Mabel (00:41):</p><p>Thank you.</p><p>Austin Federa (00:42):</p><p>All right, Dan, let's start out with you. Tell me a little bit about what the Solana Foundation's role is in the ecosystem.</p><p>Dan (00:49):</p><p>Sure. The foundation is really here to help foster the growth of the Solana network and really the Solana ecosystem kind of in broad strokes at the highest level, what can we do to make sure that the Solana network continues to grow in the most kind of sustainable and decentralized manner as possible? And how can we provide resources and help the community grow to onboard the next or the