Breakpoint 2022: The Acropolis | Day 1
2022-11-04..2022-11-07
Lisbon, Portugal
who it's for
web3 developers, wallet engineers, blockchain infrastructure engineers, nft product managers, validator operators, marketplace operators, compliance and policy teams, hardware wallet engineers
topics
compressed NFTs and SPL account compression; concurrent Merkle tree designs; Backpack shared wallet and XNFTs; mobile crypto hardware and seed Vault (Saga); Solana validator performance optimizations; FPGA and network offload for validators; Solana Pay for physical retail; NFT launchpad and royalty enforcement; RPC history proofs and Metaplex Read API; marketplace integrations with Phantom and Exodus; crypto regulation impacts (MiCA, US stablecoin law)
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome to | Austin Federa | 12m |
Opening remarks set logistics and concrete highlights: attendance rises from 2,100 last year to 3,600+ this year, four venues (Laboratory, Acropolis, Forum… | ||
| What's in Store? Lessons in Retail From | Vibhu Norby | 20m |
Built real-world Solana storefronts: a 1,500 ft² New York Solana Store and a Miami Solana Embassy that act as lounge, nightclub, coffee shop and onboarding hub… | ||
| Updates From | Steven lver | 34m |
Announces a flagship crypto-first Android phone, Saga, with Qualcomm chipset, 12 GB RAM and 6.67" OLED, pre-orders open now and general ordering early next… | ||
| Addressing Crypto's Climate Problem | Dave Ford | 11m |
Tells how an ocean-plastics campaign that took 165 executives into the Atlantic leads to concrete outcomes: a $15 million reverse logistics hub in Ghana… | ||
| Soon™️ | Jack Lu | 12m |
Magic Eden says it becomes the leading Solana NFT marketplace by launching a Launchpad, integrating natively with wallets like Phantom and Exodus, and… | ||
| Breakpoint 2022: Backpack WAO | Armani Ferrante, Tristan Yver | 24m |
Backpack is an open-source shared wallet that provides a production grade Chrome extension, a protocol agnostic 1.0 wallet API, and an in‑wallet app store… | ||
| on | Joe Pace, Josh Fried | 16m |
A6 builds a physical GT 2011 running shoe called the UI collection (light and dark) and sells it globally using Solana Pay with USDC-only purchases, delivering… | ||
| Unpacking Instagram's Push Into Web3 | Ty Swarts | 04m |
Instagram adds support for Solana and shows a built product: a new digital Collectibles section on the profile grid with a shimmer treatment and direct on‑post… | ||
| Hold Me Closer, Firedancer: Kevin Bowers on Jump's New Validator Client | Kevin Bowers | 26m |
A new Solana validator implementation is under development as a modular “FrankenDancer” called Frank that stitches optimized components into the existing… | ||
| How Compression Will Decimate Network Costs | Austin Adams, Canaan Linder, Rodri Fernandez, Vidor Gencel, Ash Pampati | 24m |
Compression cuts mint costs by tens to thousands of times: 10,000 NFTs drop from ~120 SOL to ~3 SOL (≈40x), a million from ~12,000 SOL to ~5 SOL, and a billion… | ||
| What's Next for Crypto Policy? | Carole House, Marina Markezic, Miller Whitehouse-Levine, Neeraj Agrawal, Amira Valliani | 45m |
Explains why a pending US bill would try to fold DeFi into traditional custody rules and why that is technically unworkable, arguing DC CPA would treat a DEX… | ||
| nothing matches | ||