1/ Making the right infrastructure choice is a key architectural decision for every founder building in crypto and we dove deep during @a16zcrypto CSX Infrastructure Week.

A few of this week's highlights CSX highlights:
- Fireside chat w/ @toly 
- Infrastructure expo
- Strategy discussion w/ @cdixon.eth 

And more. ⤵️

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Solana is a blockchain built for mass adoption ◎ Fast, composable, green, and globally distributed. 

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2/ We kicked off the morning with an inspiring conversation between @alive and @toly. 

Toly pulled no punches in recounting the many challenges and near death experiences that he and the @solana team navigated along the way. 

Here’s one of the many lessons that really resonated

“One of the core jobs of the CEO is to eat all of the stress in the company so that the rest of the employees don’t have to.”

3/ At the Infrastructure Expo in the afternoon, @a16zcrypto CSX founders had the opportunity to talk directly to the teams designing and building the next generation of Web3 infra. 

The Flow team summed it up well:

Great energy at the @a16z Crypto Startup Accelerator.

Excited to meet builders who are thinking beyond the now and are ready to shape what’s next.

Flow’s focus on real users and consumer apps continues to resonate.

More to come. https://t.co/WzNZr9ODsx

Flow 🔜 Token2049

4/ On Wednesday, @cdixon.eth delivered a masterclass on the past, present and future of Web3. Chris has a unique ability to synthesize complex, disparate data and trends into a cohesive framework for understanding the future. 

One of the  many gems he shared in this conversation:

“We’re clearly on a path to broader adoption of stablecoins. Imagine the kinds of applications that can be built and use cases that will be unlocked when developers have easy access to cheap, fast and digitally native payments.”

The industry is mature enough that we can categorize tokens based on their legal, economic, and technical properties. It shouldn't be surprising that not all tokens have the same legal status or long term economic prospects!

https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/defining-tokens/

5/ Coming up in Week 4,  @eddy will be tackling one of the most eagerly anticipated CSX topics: Tokencraft.

Let’s do this!

5/ Coming up in Week 4,  @eddy will be tackling one of the most eagerly anticipated CSX topics: Tokencraft.

Let’s do this!

https://warpcast.com/eddy/0x45aab92b

3/ At the Infrastructure Expo in the afternoon, @a16zcrypto CSX founders had the opportunity to talk directly to the teams designing and building the next generation of Web3 infra. 

The Flow team summed it up well:

https://x.com/flow_blockchain/status/1915443137104990640

Stress. It’s what’s for dinner. Kinda like eating grape nuts cereal.