Stephen Hess
Co-founder and CEO at Metaplex · Team at Solana
Stephen Hess is the co-founder and CEO of Metaplex. Previously, he was Head of Product at Solana. Stephen graduated from Stanford University in the United States.
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Tokenize EVERYTHING ON SOLANA
New Solana Summer School lecture with @spacemandev on Solana x AI. Dev drops in to teach about decentralized networks for AI, machine payments, and sovereign applications. Full video below👇
your stock trades 5 days a week and just sits there. on solana it trades 24/7, earns yield, backs loans and much more. most people don't know what they can do. fixing that. built using @tokens.
Honestly no reason for any other DeFi chains to exist at this point. Just Solana it
ICYMI: @Solana now processes approximately 97% of tokenized-equity volume across chains. Data: @Blockworks
okay Patty I’ll bite what has she been building the past 5 years on Solana that she can’t afford flight/hotel for a trip to London
Important update for validator operators. Solana mainnet validators can now register a BLS pubkey, a prerequisite for Alpenglow. This week, a second feature gate, the Validator Admission Ticket (SIMD-0357), goes live. Once VAT activates, validators without a BLS pubkey stop participating in cons
2nd consecutive day of inflows into the Bitwise Solana Staking ETF $BSOL BSOL has taken over $1.1 billion of inflows in <1 year. Capital markets are coming onchain. Onward —
solana is the best positioned chain to benefit from the incoming onchain renaissance incredible things are happening on solana
guy who muted the word "solana" on twitter [because its all people talk about] and just tweets how solana is dead daily for 6 straight years