Kuleen Nimkar Solana

Kuleen Nimkar is the head of growth at the Solana Foundation. We discuss the latest and greatest with Solana.

Get to know Kuleen:

  • Metaverse theme – World of Warcraft
  • Favorite food – Hainanese chicken rice
  • Favorite musician/artist – Black Keys
  • Favorite movie – The Matrix, American Fiction
  • Favorite book – Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
  • Hobby – Reading and writing

Topics:

  • Solana’s growth in adoption
  • Solana Blockchain Links – Blinks
  • Solana Phone
  • DePin projects on Solana
  • Hedge fund Brevan Howard’s WebN Group and financial services giant Nomura’s Laser Digital tokenizing on Solana
  • Memecoins on Solana – good or bad?
  • Is Solana Centralized and has the downtime issues problem been resolved?

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Timestamps

02:09 Kuleen’s background

05:19 Solana overview

06:25 Targeted Use Cases

07:49 Solana’s growth

10:02 Solana Blinks

18:05 Solana Phone

26:02 DePin on Solana

31:07 Tokenization on Solana

40:40 Solana downtime issues

43:49 Is Solana Centralized?

47:06 Memecoins on Solana

54:30 Roadmap

01:01:44 Wrap up questions


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