Episode Details

Were live at Solana Policy Institute's Washington x Wall Street Summit with Lily Liu, President of the Solana Foundation. In this conversation, we discuss the team's vision where Solana serves as the foundational infrastructure for global financial markets, why the world’s largest IPOs will eventually move onchain by 2027,  the "Netflix-style" distribution of assets that will disrupt legacy banking, and how the AI economy will require crypto-native payments.

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - Welcome Lily Liu To Crypto In America

0:15 - What ‘Crypto In America’ means To Lily

2:11 – Blockchain's true purpose of financial infrastructure 

4:52 – Institutions are pivoting from applications

8:18 – Scaling asset distribution to 5 billion people

11:09 – Plans for a major IPO on Solana by 2027

13:54 – Why traditional capital markets are limited

17:55 – The problem with traditional wire payments

23:00 – Why Solana chooses unified liquidity over app chains

26:00 - Outlook on US regulation 

28:00 - Building a generalist chain

30:20 – Why the AI machine economy needs crypto

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