Harmonic is Rebuilding Solana's Core With 1 Million TPS & An Onchain Nasdaq

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For this week’s Tuesday episode, I interviewed Ben Coverston, Founding Engineer at Temporal, a Solana-based R&D firm focused on blockchain performance, and cofounder of Harmonic.

This episode is a part of the Solana Sessions campaign that Token Relations and the Talking Tokens podcast are doing, diving into founders’ journeys and startups building on Solana. Check out the accompanying newsletter here.

The conversation dives into Harmonic, a new open block-building system designed to make Solana’s transaction sequencing more efficient, decentralized, and transparent. Ben discusses how the system creates a competitive marketplace for block builders, improves inclusion latency, and could help Solana reach 1 million transactions per second while maintaining decentralization.

We also talk about the lessons he learned from Solana’s early struggles, the evolution of validator coordination, and how Harmonic’s work brings the network closer to functioning like an “onchain Nasdaq.”

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Money and people moves

1. Tether eyes €1bn funding deal with AI robotics start-up Neura (Financial Times)

2. BitMine appoints new CEO, three board members, as its $11B Ether stack grows

3. Strategy Shares Dip Despite $835 Million Bitcoin Purchase—Its Largest in 4 Months (Decrypt)

Talking points for the road

Crypto-focused headlines or research that caught my eye…and should catch yours, too.

1. Crypto’s Riskiest Coins Plummet to Lows Not Seen Since Pandemic (Bloomberg)

2. DeFi Lender Aave to Roll Out Retail Crypto Yield App on Apple’s App Store (CoinDesk)

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