CTO you are one of the most important people in this space, explaining the nuts and bolts. The light bulb moment in this video explains what goes on behind the scenes to make all this work. Forever grateful.
It is the narrative about institutional adoption of ETH that is interesting. I get all the technical data points to SOL but a lot of smart people consistently say the multi trillion $ money funds / markets are most likely to choose ETH. This is the issue I would love CTO to discuss.
noone cares about utility. or are you actually using some utilities from any crypto currency? yeah yeah dont lie to me, we all know that noone is actually using it. we are just buying and holding or trading. thats it
i would not calm them meme coins that sounds very innocent most of those coins are scam coins theres a guy who created 17000 coins on solana and rugpulled them all cashing in 800k so yeah that tells you enough what is solana used for primarily
At some point ETH will get a brutal comback. Like so many other things in this space, you dont need fundamentals to pump hard. Most people talk about selling ETH which means we are close to a bottom.
I agree with you. However, this is my first cycle, and I can’t bring myself to swap or trade eth tokens unless listed on coinbase. Who the f spends 200.00 to sell their bag? I can’t even imagine having to do this.
I doubt Blackrock and other asset managers will use Solana to manage their trillions in assets. Solana and ETH have in my opinion a different use case.
I am a big fan of CTO & James at IA but I do not understand why they do not discuss the narrative that big financial institutions understandably care more about security than speed. Hence ETH not SOL. This is the big question I would love to see discussed.
Sorry but you take the incorrect chart. You are comparing SOL with BTC and that is the reason the chart is flat in 2024, both make a great grow. If you compare the chart of ETH with SOL then you will see that the chart is not flat, its totally in favour of SOL.
I was delighted to turn $100 into $150 on some ETH alt coin back in 2021. I didn't realize that swapping it to USDT would cost me $30 and then rolling the remaining $120 into another alt left me with $90. The blockchains fees took all my gains and then some.
He is. It's so much fun to think that something like sol could win over eth. Utter contempt, hilarious. Some people here actually believe it too. Unbelievable. It just goes to show that crypto attracts some of the brightest and dimmest people.
CTO! Love the content sir! I've been a long time listener. However, I'd like to push back on a few points you make in this one. Would you be willing to hop on a podcast with us to discuss?
I'm not complaining AT ALL that the SOL/BTC chart is flat for a few months considering how bullish bitcoin is right now. Every other ALT/BTC chart has been down only for years, that's outperforming the market in my book.
You brighten my day with huge smiles CTO. Never stop. PS Your humor brings me around to listen to explanations of technology that I don’t even understand. I would love to see a consumer education video made by you describing the evolution Of Blockchain technologies, the problems they intended to solve, and their place in the future.
Solana and Etherium is like watching two disabled kids go at it and cringing at the fact that they are fighting in the first place. Their technology isn’t that far different but greed is done differently. Etherium charts are look dismal and solana only got a bump for the Trump meme coin which is fading. If you have any sense about you selling both is the right answer and doing your research into something worth while will save your portfolio.
Edutainment at its highest!!! The HIGH’S the LOWS, this was rollercoaster storytelling!! I was actually getting a bit an anxious with all the phone calls and thought of the military on its way!!!😅😂 It did give me a great idea of what’s going on! I always appreciate your videos!👍👍👍
Great video CTO! Very insightful - my bias against Solana isn't absolved but I might begrudgingly pick some (more) up. I haven't been a fan of the developer experience on Solana, eth smart contract features make a lot more sense to me. Solana seems perfect if you don't need your token to do anything special. Like Meme coins for example.
There are no cycles or seasons in Crypto, it's a dumb theory that everyone started treating as fact based on a few coincidences. Now it's treated as prophecy. We all know what drove each leg up in the price of BTC over the last 18 months. First was the ETF rumours, then massive launch, then Trump etc. It had nothing to do with the halving but still, in 4 years time, people will be expecting "The cycle" to play out again.
No mention on sustainability for a Solana node, its inflation and the size of its history, making a free explorer almost impossible in the long run. A monolithic approach is not feasible, like asking all corporations to be in the same intranet.
That is the funniest phone discussion i ever heard !! I have a feeling you really bought new underwear at Orlando airport... you could not have made that up!
100% agree with your Solana thesis! Thank you for all your valuable insights. With most Ai bots saying Solana to $420 ish in 2025 and Sol being incredibaly undervalued are they missing something? Is this cycle going into 2026? Or is this the year/cycle for BTC adoption worldwide and next cycle everything else needs to have it figured out or go away?hmmm…
For those of us investing in crypto using their 401K, what do you think about the arbitrage opportunity in the ETF ETHT? This 2x exposure to ETH looks to be $3 under value given historical ETH prices.
@CTOLARSSON hi 🙂 yes I have done but didn't find anything conclusive. Over the years you've often use derivatives of the phrase "you got it wrong" on thumbnails and video titles which comes across as brash, rash and from a elevated position. One isn't wrong to buy and hold both sol and Eth in a good ratio. You used the term "you bought wrong" in a sense that relates to the past, present and future, but in actual fact the phrase only relates to the past up to the present moment, what will happen next is somthing to be seen 💚
CTO, one of the largest uses for Blockchain in its payments, retail and corporate. Which of these 3 will deliver an exceptional solution and is there evidence to support your opinion?
I think Solana is a good chain, but I believe it’s highly overvalued as there’s what? 20,000 meme coins running on it and that’s pretty much it. Jupiter is an outstanding Dex, but Jupiter isn’t Solana. I think too many people think Solana is highly adopted because of the amount of transactions it handles, but let’s be 100% honest CTO, we all know 50% or more of those transactions that are counted are internal. Nonetheless Solana is absolutely used, but has no real adoption. This is why it’s over valued. And no real institution as of yet has any real interest in using Solana.
aren’t solana transaction volumes calculated differently? comparison to regular chains is not an apple to apple comparison. just watch the “SOL is a scam” videos, debunking those numbers and explaining how they manipulate them. I’d be great if you would have addressed those SOL concerns now being well known
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I wonder if the broader audience, the investors, users, and developers who are looking in to what chain to build on shares your analysis that instability, downtime and complaints are a sign of something good. For them, it's not good. And that limits growth, adoption, and long-term trust in the system. There is an alternative universe where Solana does what it does today, and does it better, while also being more decentralised. No complaints, just a smooth sailing Ethereum killer. But that's not what you describe. I'm less optimistic for Solana after this (very insightful and interesting) video.
Solano is for shit coins and roulette. Has no real world use cases. ETH has real use cases, Solano bull will be over once this casino meme coin bull is over. It has no other uses. ETH is far superior when it comes to real world use cases.
Vitalik needs to go!!!! He is a developer (brilliant ). BUT NOT A LEADER, strategist or business manager. He’s a developer! Period! And holding ETH back! While he’s taking selfies in gorilla suits or bunny ears… SOL blew by them at hyper speed!! ETH is the #2 blockchain that is only valued at less than 3% of the #1 chain!!! WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU!? ETH IS DEAD and went nowhere fast!
CTO you are one of the most important people in this space, explaining the nuts and bolts. The light bulb moment in this video explains what goes on behind the scenes to make all this work. Forever grateful.
I agree -- CTO's opinions have more weight in this space than most to me because it's always grounded in solid logic.
The phone conversation cracked me up 😂
Eth has more utility and institutional adoptions. Sol just have mostly memes right now.
It is the narrative about institutional adoption of ETH that is interesting. I get all the technical data points to SOL but a lot of smart people consistently say the multi trillion $ money funds / markets are most likely to choose ETH. This is the issue I would love CTO to discuss.
If you’re gonna trade a meme or ai agent. Solana all day.
RWA- and Gaming.. later 2s- Eth
noone cares about utility. or are you actually using some utilities from any crypto currency? yeah yeah dont lie to me, we all know that noone is actually using it. we are just buying and holding or trading. thats it
i would not calm them meme coins that sounds very innocent most of those coins are scam coins theres a guy who created 17000 coins on solana and rugpulled them all cashing in 800k so yeah that tells you enough what is solana used for primarily
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This kept me glued to my chair.... great vid CT.
thanks mate, fun to do this video for me too
How come CTO is not using an Ericsson for all those calls?
At some point ETH will get a brutal comback. Like so many other things in this space, you dont need fundamentals to pump hard. Most people talk about selling ETH which means we are close to a bottom.
I agree with you. However, this is my first cycle, and I can’t bring myself to swap or trade eth tokens unless listed on coinbase. Who the f spends 200.00 to sell their bag? I can’t even imagine having to do this.
no it wont. its dead. face the reality
@@justthings4044
Thats what they said about bitcoin not too long ago lol
I doubt Blackrock and other asset managers will use Solana to manage their trillions in assets. Solana and ETH have in my opinion a different use case.
I am a big fan of CTO & James at IA but I do not understand why they do not discuss the narrative that big financial institutions understandably care more about security than speed. Hence ETH not SOL. This is the big question I would love to see discussed.
@ i am only a fan of CTO and Ben Cowen. James makes some valid points but I dont appreciate an “I am always right” attitude, simply not my style.
"will Vitalik come back harder" 🤣🤣🤣
will he? 😆
LMAO!!
That’s what she said 😂
Viagara is key.
Are we talking about the same guy? 😅🤣
Thank you so much... you made me smile, it was greatly needed!
I'm so glad!
Super insightful! Great sense of humor, Big love to you CTO! Thank you!
Super job - very informative, as always: full of new information and also accurate insights and perspectives! Thanks again CTO!
Sorry but you take the incorrect chart. You are comparing SOL with BTC and that is the reason the chart is flat in 2024, both make a great grow. If you compare the chart of ETH with SOL then you will see that the chart is not flat, its totally in favour of SOL.
You need to compare everything to bitcoin, if you’re not making gains against bitcoin, then the point is you should’ve just bought bitcoin.
Your best video to date, flipping love it!!
Wow, thanks!
With solanas " centralization" why wouldn't an eth layer 2 take over that has the same fees and speed
Awesome insights. Thanks!
This is the first time I’ve watched your channel after watching you for months on DCA!
Totally Subscribed!
Awesome! Welcome aboard!
CTO this is bloody hillarious, congratulations. Building a tower outside the bosses office particularly tickled me!
haha thanks! 😆
This video was so much fun to watch, awesome job CTO 💪
Sol hands downs. 👍 Had to use ETH last bullrun and never again! 🤣
I was delighted to turn $100 into $150 on some ETH alt coin back in 2021. I didn't realize that swapping it to USDT would cost me $30 and then rolling the remaining $120 into another alt left me with $90. The blockchains fees took all my gains and then some.
@@MrRickytukYea not gone lie... Messed up when still a noob think my highest was 100-120$.🤣
You don't know what you are talking about.
I have both and this video is just what I needed today. The humor mixed with serious technicals is the right mix
Brilliant content as always but the delivery was just first class 😂
Glad you enjoyed it 😆
Love your work! Thank you❤❤
thanks for watching Chris!
Can't wait to get your course later this year!
Great video!
Thanks!
Thanks CTO
Idk why it took me so long to come to your channel; I’ve been watching you on DCA Live since it started. Great video and I just Subscribed.
Great video, thanks CTO
CTO, you are hilarious. Great video.
He is. It's so much fun to think that something like sol could win over eth. Utter contempt, hilarious.
Some people here actually believe it too. Unbelievable. It just goes to show that crypto attracts some of the brightest and dimmest people.
Glad you enjoyed!
CTO! Love the content sir! I've been a long time listener. However, I'd like to push back on a few points you make in this one. Would you be willing to hop on a podcast with us to discuss?
Thank you
I'm not complaining AT ALL that the SOL/BTC chart is flat for a few months considering how bullish bitcoin is right now. Every other ALT/BTC chart has been down only for years, that's outperforming the market in my book.
Excellent content as always,trailblazers occasionally get bloodied but they march on
You brighten my day with huge smiles CTO. Never stop.
PS
Your humor brings me around to listen to explanations of technology that I don’t even understand. I would love to see a consumer education video made by you describing the evolution Of Blockchain technologies, the problems they intended to solve, and their place in the future.
Nice work Mr Larsson 🎉
👍 thanks mate
Very good analysis 👌🏽👌🏽
Appreciate it!
Solana and Etherium is like watching two disabled kids go at it and cringing at the fact that they are fighting in the first place. Their technology isn’t that far different but greed is done differently. Etherium charts are look dismal and solana only got a bump for the Trump meme coin which is fading. If you have any sense about you selling both is the right answer and doing your research into something worth while will save your portfolio.
Pulsechain
Great vid. Love hearing your insights
I appreciate that!
Appreciate the story of your CTO times.
Edutainment at its highest!!!
The HIGH’S the LOWS, this was rollercoaster storytelling!!
I was actually getting a bit an anxious with all the phone calls and thought of the military on its way!!!😅😂
It did give me a great idea of what’s going on! I always appreciate your videos!👍👍👍
haha glad u like the skit!
Solana 🎉🎉🎉🎉
I found you on james channel
Love the information CTO 👌
Super cool video! Love the history lesson and cool story about your past. Fun and true…
Huge value
Fantastic!
Will tokenized assets like bonds be on eth or sol? ETH likely. SOL will be retail most likely. Both will win.
Well, said. Great way to simplify the history❤
Glad you liked it!
Great video CTO! Very insightful - my bias against Solana isn't absolved but I might begrudgingly pick some (more) up.
I haven't been a fan of the developer experience on Solana, eth smart contract features make a lot more sense to me. Solana seems perfect if you don't need your token to do anything special. Like Meme coins for example.
Well said!
Wonderful country behind you! Really amazing! Is it in the Mediterranean area?
Solana is ready for it's outbreak 🚀
or outages. haha.
It's already up like 300% over the past 18 months...
Outbreak? ...oh god no! I don't want it to trigger another pandemic! 🤧😷🤒 😂
@@Leo79-pc7dp haha, let's go SOL!!
Its being surpressed by Binance 😢
Great explanation...again, thanks!
Glad you liked it!
Quality content here! Thanks CTO!
Much appreciated!
Network outages, pre-allocation, scalability issues and more. This is why Kaspa beats both ETH and SOL.
MEV bots. I wonder how much volume they create? They amplify trading volume of useless tokens that are all ultimately worthless
CTO the man. Thank you Sir!
There's gonna be no altseason if Eth doesn't wake up from it's slumber
The movie industry will die if blockbuster doesn't get more sales
There are no cycles or seasons in Crypto, it's a dumb theory that everyone started treating as fact based on a few coincidences. Now it's treated as prophecy. We all know what drove each leg up in the price of BTC over the last 18 months. First was the ETF rumours, then massive launch, then Trump etc. It had nothing to do with the halving but still, in 4 years time, people will be expecting "The cycle" to play out again.
Solana has a higher Dex only because of shit coins. ETH has real use cases on it. Once the casino bull is over Solana will be dead.
no altcoin season if FED rate not cut to 0%
Litecoin leading this time
Hai CTO, I love this clip very much.... maybe one of your best ones. I also like you guys on DCA. Thank you for your efforts and sharing your skills!
Glad you enjoyed it!
No mention on sustainability for a Solana node, its inflation and the size of its history, making a free explorer almost impossible in the long run. A monolithic approach is not feasible, like asking all corporations to be in the same intranet.
That is the funniest phone discussion i ever heard !! I have a feeling you really bought new underwear at Orlando airport... you could not have made that up!
Great video! Thanks 🎉
Thank you too!
This has to be one of your most magical posts. Thank you.
Wow, thank you!
I agree with your points but I'm puzzled as to why the Trump team is buying ETH hand over fist and not SOL. Any idea?
Because he believes in Ethereum, and projects based on ethereum. He knows Solana is for meme coins, thats why he chose them for his meme coins.
ETH will always be number one for the next couple years.
Buy holding Both Sol and ETH won’t hurt you.
So why not hold both!
im sorry. i tried to get an answer to who will be king in 2025 but from ur video i couldnt figure out ur response to ur title ..
Just get SOL
This informational video is the reason I am subscribed to you. Thank you for the great post!
Missleading metrics for Solana.
Everyone knows that they have more than 50% of failed transactions
I don't understand how ETH still has high gas fees after all these years.
What do you think of SUI. Will it kill Solana ?
It won't. Good nonetheless.
No
Nothing‘s going to kill anything, Ethereum, Solana, SUI, near, Cardano, etc, none of them are going anywhere. They will all be here.
great video but it would be good if u said what u think is most likely as far as price action in 2025 it would not have to be financial advice
Thank you CTO! The best info in the crypto space bar none ❤
I appreciate that!
So what is your opinion on Sonic right now. The user experience and smoothness is insane tbh
what about sol's inflation rate?
I think it’s about 5% currently, and they are dumping a boatload of coins on the market this quarter
100% agree with your Solana thesis! Thank you for all your valuable insights. With most Ai bots saying Solana to $420 ish in 2025 and Sol being incredibaly undervalued are they missing something? Is this cycle going into 2026? Or is this the year/cycle for BTC adoption worldwide and next cycle everything else needs to have it figured out or go away?hmmm…
Great video. One of your best! But wen moon?
Awesome!
Is sui comming after sol ?
For those of us investing in crypto using their 401K, what do you think about the arbitrage opportunity in the ETF ETHT? This 2x exposure to ETH looks to be $3 under value given historical ETH prices.
Who bought wrong? and what did they buy wrong?
watch the video to find out. cheers
@CTOLARSSON hi 🙂 yes I have done but didn't find anything conclusive.
Over the years you've often use derivatives of the phrase "you got it wrong" on thumbnails and video titles which comes across as brash, rash and from a elevated position. One isn't wrong to buy and hold both sol and Eth in a good ratio. You used the term "you bought wrong" in a sense that relates to the past, present and future, but in actual fact the phrase only relates to the past up to the present moment, what will happen next is somthing to be seen 💚
CTO, one of the largest uses for Blockchain in its payments, retail and corporate. Which of these 3 will deliver an exceptional solution and is there evidence to support your opinion?
ETH will always be number one for the next couple years.
Buy holding Both Sol and ETH won’t hurt you.
So why not hold both!
Thanks for the interesting insights (including your anecdotes :-)).
I actually think that was one of your best videos so far!
Kadena bror?
Your best video yet!
Glad you think so!
Your Meme Pics gave me all the answers I needed.🤣
thanks a lot... I finally understand.
Glad it helped!
Thanks Cto
CT should I dump my eth and put it into BTC? Not financial advice!
Too late. They will both probably provide the same ROI to the peak later this year.
why is xrp not on your list?
I would consider XRP in a different category.
@@Maynardd what cat would that be?
@@adamm2716 Solana, Ethereum, Cardano, Sui, Near, etc are all layer one platforms. XRP is not considered to be in that category.
There is already token thats fast and will take over. Its called Sonic, previously known as Fantom.
I think Solana is a good chain, but I believe it’s highly overvalued as there’s what? 20,000 meme coins running on it and that’s pretty much it. Jupiter is an outstanding Dex, but Jupiter isn’t Solana. I think too many people think Solana is highly adopted because of the amount of transactions it handles, but let’s be 100% honest CTO, we all know 50% or more of those transactions that are counted are internal. Nonetheless Solana is absolutely used, but has no real adoption. This is why it’s over valued. And no real institution as of yet has any real interest in using Solana.
aren’t solana transaction volumes calculated differently? comparison to regular chains is not an apple to apple comparison. just watch the “SOL is a scam” videos, debunking those numbers and explaining how they manipulate them. I’d be great if you would have addressed those SOL concerns now being well known
I wonder if the broader audience, the investors, users, and developers who are looking in to what chain to build on shares your analysis that instability, downtime and complaints are a sign of something good. For them, it's not good. And that limits growth, adoption, and long-term trust in the system.
There is an alternative universe where Solana does what it does today, and does it better, while also being more decentralised. No complaints, just a smooth sailing Ethereum killer. But that's not what you describe. I'm less optimistic for Solana after this (very insightful and interesting) video.
yeah but SOL is just spammed by bots and meme TXNS lol.
Can you cover Sui?
added to my to do list!
Solano is for shit coins and roulette. Has no real world use cases. ETH has real use cases, Solano bull will be over once this casino meme coin bull is over. It has no other uses. ETH is far superior when it comes to real world use cases.
Sui vs sol?
good suggestion! added to my to do list
Excellent video. Except for the fact that I feel I need to sell my ethereum L2 coins now.
Isn't Thorchain's daily volume also ever increasingly insane? Good spot to buy $rune post-fud?
Going bust in the final leg of a bull market means they probably wont recover this cycle. Maybe a good option to buy in the bear of 2026?
Permissionless is most important…decentralized is a preservation of permissionless
Yeah we figured that out three calls go obviously what took you so long lol love it
Very insightful - the voice of experience.
Vitalik needs to go!!!! He is a developer (brilliant ). BUT NOT A LEADER, strategist or business manager. He’s a developer! Period! And holding ETH back! While he’s taking selfies in gorilla suits or bunny ears… SOL blew by them at hyper speed!! ETH is the #2 blockchain that is only valued at less than 3% of the #1 chain!!! WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU!? ETH IS DEAD and went nowhere fast!
great video