Solana Co-Founder Toly: Mobile Market Has Room for Growth, Firedancer Will Soon Be Mainnet Ready

At the Solana Breakpoint conference, Solana co-founder Toly shared his insights on the future of the platform. He stated that "there's a lot of room to enter the mobile market because the profit margins of Apple and Android app stores are too high."

He also addressed the vulnerability of smart contracts to hacks, a major concern within the crypto space. "The scariest thing about working in crypto is smart contract hacks, which can happen at the L1 infrastructure itself," he explained. "This is why the Solana validator client Firedancer is such a focus for us. We are very close to completing this project. Once Firedancer reaches a point where over 33% of the network runs Firedancer or two clients, in my opinion, it will no longer be a beta, and I will remove the relevant beta label."

When asked about his hopes for the Solana ecosystem, Toly encouraged developers to "build weird things, but more importantly, just build, don't worry about failing. This is a learning process."