Ella is Product Manager at Solana Foundation.

Solana Foundation is a technology company working to help advance the Solana ecosystem. The Solana blockchain is a new architecture for a high-performance blockchain. Up to 710,000 transactions per second on a 1-gigabit network without data partitioning.

Solana is the fastest blockchain in the world and the fastest growing ecosystem in crypto, with thousands of projects spanning DeFi, NFTs, Web3 and more.

During this episode, Ben sits down with Ella to discuss what Solana Labs does differently to other businesses in this space, crypto, and the incredible Hacker Houses that Solana hosts.

Articles and further reading from things mentioned on the recording:

Solana whitepaper: https://solana.com/solana-whitepaper.pdf

Proof of History: https://medium.com/solana-labs/proof-of-history-a-clock-for-blockchain-cf47a61a9274 and https://medium.com/solana-labs/proof-of-history-explained-by-a-water-clock-e682183417b8#:~:text=A%20Proof%20of%20History%20(PoH,thousands%20of%20transactions%20per%20second

Energy report: https://solana.com/news/solana-energy-usage-report-november-2021

Solana Pay: https://solana.com/news/solana-pay-transaction-requests-bring-on-chain-interactivity-to-the-off-chain-world

Hacker houses: https://solana.com/events

Ecosystem jobs: https://jobs.solana.com/jobs

Bitcoin whitepaper: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Buildspace: https://buildspace.so/learn-solana

Cookbook: https://solanacookbook.com/#contributing

Ella's Twitter: https://twitter.com/kuzekuze3