September's Solana Ecosystem Call ft. Raj Gokal, presented by Kash Dhanda

The agenda of the call was; wins, over/underrated with Raj, definetly not financial advice, shipping szn, caption contest, work to earn, reading recs, chomp quiz, closing poap.

Win #1 was that Liquid Staking will now open on Centralised Exchanges (CEXs) such as @binance, @bitgetglobal and @Bybit_Official.
Win #2 was for the demo of tokenised assets on Solana, presented at the Global Fintech Fest

There was More tokenisation on Solana, with Real World Asset (RWA) projects @dVINLabs, @elmnts_ and @MetaWealth highlighted

Win #3 was $USDE now being live on Solana. Shoutouts to the teams at @ethena_labs / Layer Zero.

PayFi continues to be strong on Solana with @sphere_labs ,@SlingMoney, and @Decaf_so.

Over 360 Blockchain Links (blinks) are now live on Solana.

There were more DePIN wins. With a $4.1bn DePIN market cap, is Solana the home for DePIN? Which projects are you most bullish on?

Another win for @MagicEden, have you downloaded their wallet on Android or IOS?

Is Solana the home of the best creators?

More wins (literally), with prediction markets now being live on @DriftProtocol.

Porto, a self custody wallet by @Anchorage  now supports Solana. Allowing institutions to stake and trade, safely.
There were over 1 million active wallets during the Sonic Testnet @SonicSVM.
Ore v2 is live, without bringing us down @OREsupply.

Over 7,000 registrations for Radar @ColosseumOrg. Check out the side prizes worth $250K http://earn.superteam.fun/hackathon/radar

Overrated / Underrated with @rajgokal 
ZK compressions – underrated
Celebritiy coins – overrated
L2s on Solana - overrated
@SolanaFndn  – underrated
Founder mode – overrated
Leg day - underrated

August saw over 1,000 people meet for Super Tokyo, congrats to the @SuperteamJapan.

Upcoming events include:
New York City Incubator, January to April 2025
Founders Villa Dubai, October 6th to 26th 2025
Port of Miami co-working space is now open
IslandDao Thailand, September & October 2025

Oh, and @SolanaConf Breakpoint in Singapore (23rd to 29th September). Then, after Breakpoint Bali @after_bp

Some mixed results in August: TVL at ~$4.7bn (-12% MoM), and a similar drop in staking accounts to 1.12M (-13% MoM). However, active wallets did increase (+8.35% MoM).

Work to earn with @SuperteamEarn - http://earn.superteam.com $12K bounty for updating the Solana developer lessons. $5K to build Solana payments for Relay DePIN deployers. Full Stack developer, Job @ Grass - http://jobs.solana.com

Educational reccomendations by @kashdhanda:
Backpack learn - https://learn.backpack.exchange 
On the meme of market caps & unlocks by Cobie - https://cobie.substack.com/p/on-the-meme-
Crypto mega thesis by multicoin capital - https://multicoin.capital/2019/04/24/multicoin-investment-thesis/ How we raised $20m for our start up by the Braintrust founders - https://usebraintrust.com/blog/how-we-ra

Register for the next Solana Ecosystem Call here - https://ecosystemcall.com Organise your IRL watch party here - https://app.getriver.io/superteam 

Many thanks,