Lily Liu: Solana & The Future of DeFi | SALT Crypto 299
Lily Liu is the President of the Solana Foundation. She is an entrepreneur and investor focused on the cryptocurrency industry. She has a background as a CFO and operating executive in the US, China, and throughout emerging markets. Lily is the Co Founder of Anagram, and part of the founding team of Osmosis, and an advisor to Brave. Previously, Lily co-founded Earn.com which was acquired by Coinbase in 2018. She was also the CFO of the Chinaco Healthcare Corporation, where she built a 500-bed private hospital in China. Lily also worked at KKR in New York as well as McKinsey in New York and Beijing. Lily received a BA in Economics and International Relations from Stanford and studied East Asian Studies at Harvard.
Lily Liu details her childhood and influences that started her on a journey that led her to Bitcoin and crypto. She then discusses the role Ethereum played in pushing the space forward while also raising issues related to scalability and transaction volume. Liu details how Solana was developed to solve this central problem and offers a glimpse into the future of DeFi while noting there is still much yet developed in the crypto space.
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0:00 – Intro & Background
4:44 – Discovering Bitcoin and crypto
7:14 – Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana use cases
17:12 – Building & community on Solana
30:40 – Ethereum, the merge & Solana
36:20 – Improving Solana
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