Solana Breakpoint 2025 Wrap-up from Abu Dhabi

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1:27Bijan, we've wrapped Solana Breakpoint in Abu Dhabi. Three days packed with speakers, presentations, keynotes, fireside chats, you name it. A very busy three days for Real Vision. More than a dozen interviews. We are not going to list all of them because it's so easy to forget about one or two, but they were absolutely brilliant. So much amazing content. What have been some of your highlights? Oh my gosh, where do I even start? I mean, I talked to, we talked to so many people. We saw, you know, a bunch of keynote conversations on the stage, you know, the fireside chats, right? We got to see Raoul speak as well as just the energy.

2:09I think my highlight here is just the energy of being in person, talking to people that believe in this, you know, kind of new future as much as I do. And then, you know, I got to speak to, you know, people from the CEO of Phantom, Brandon Millman. You know, you spoke with Austin Federa. It's like, we've had just such great conversations. And it's just, I think for me, it's just really great to sit down with people in such influential positions that are shaping this industry and just hear how they think about it, you know? And I just so grateful for the opportunity to be here and just, you know, hang out and speak to all these people.

2:46Yeah, we've had people who are like actual rock stars at this conference, right? We've had people from the Solana Foundation, we've had Raj Gokal, Solana co-founder, absolutely amazing conversation. We had people who are building on Solana, people who are investing in Solana, making the case for the blockchain. I think there'll be something for everyone because we always say crypto is such a diverse space you have meme coins, NFTs the culture stuff on one hand you've got the investment part of the equation ETFs, DATs, all of that and you have people changing the world through building new infrastructure regulation, we've discussed it all I genuinely think we didn't miss a single topic that is of importance to the crypto space and to Solana specifically.

3:43So after those three days of all those fantastic conversations, has anything changed for you in terms of your perception of Solana? Yes and no. I mean, I've always believed in Solana. We talk about Solana a lot on our shows and I use Solana. So from that standpoint, I think I've always believed in it, but actually being here. And I think what's really been impressive to me and put it into perspective was you see all the on-chain metrics of Solana, you see all the developer activity, but we're just looking at that on a screen. But then actually seeing that in person, seeing all the builders here, seeing the pit cauliflower pit, Phantom's booth, Soul Flair's booth, and you talk to these people and see how excited they are to talk about what they're building in the future that they're bringing to Solana.

4:34I think this put that really into perspective to me that Solana is not just, you know, a chain for investors. It's a chain for builders and people that are going to be using crypto and this kind of new ecosystem every single day. And that's just been fantastic to see. Tell you what, it definitely doesn't feel like a bear market here. No. And the sentiment we kind of have been encountering for months on XX, especially, it's just so different to what it feels like here. The vibe is amazing. Thousands of people have come here to Abu Dhabi, I should have mentioned. And it's just so exciting to see.

5:12But now we've wrapped up. So what is the next big thing for us at Real Origin? I mean, listen, after being at this conference, right, and feeling all that energy, it's like it's so – I've said probably on every interview like how contagious the energy is because, like, I feel it. It's just like – it's just so cool. And it just makes me extremely excited for our crypto gathering that we have coming up because I just want to go to the next event now that I've been here because, again, like I said, the energy has been fantastic. And then now that we get, I can look forward to the crypto gathering and we get to spend time and, you know, meet our community members and get to talk with them and just have like a real vision centric crypto event is going to be just absolutely fantastic.

5:57Obviously, last year's was really fun. So I think this year we're just going to build off of last year. And I absolutely cannot wait for that. And I know Shannon, who is a main organizer of Crypto Gathering, who is also here at Breakpoint, has been taking a lot of notes to make sure the experience at Crypto Gathering is even better. So guys, please join us there. January 22nd through 25th, Miami Beach. You can get your tickets at realvision.com forward slash Crypto Gathering. It cannot come soon enough. We can't wait to see you there. It's been a brilliant, brilliant event here at Breakpoint. And we promise that we will do our best to make it just as good, if not even better.

6:36Although the bar is high, right? Yeah. I mean, there's over 6 ,000 people at this event, right? And they were saying this is the largest event in Solana Breakpoint Conference history, right? So their fifth event. And while ours won't be 6 ,000, we hope to grow to that. But I think that's also a good thing, too. I like the intimate events as well. It really gives you a chance to get to speak to people, get to know them, and they get to know what ticks with them and what they're excited about. So I'm just looking forward to that as well. I mean, this conference has been fantastic. How can you walk away from this conference and not be bullish about the future?

7:10Like, I know the price is down, but I can tell you that nobody here has been talking about price. Everyone's been talking about what they're building, what they're bringing, and the way this is going to change how we, like, our daily lives, essentially, whether that's interacting with finance, whether that's Solana mobile phone. Like it's just there's so much going on. It's almost hard to wrap your head around it. So like on the plane ride home and when I get back, I'm just going to be compressing and just kind of just replaying this event in my head. And it's going to be great. Love it. Thank you so much.

7:40And guys, see you at the Crypto Gathering.

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