Q. You've been in the trenches building since the very start with Solana. From a builder's perspective, what are some of the pain points you’ve experienced from it?

Mert: Boy. So, yeah, I started quite early with Solana, before NFTs like Degenerate Apes minted, or right around that time. I was working at Coinbase then, dealing with various chains, like Polygon, Ethereum, and even Bitcoin, while exploring others like Avalanche and Solana. On Solana, there was a lot of NFT influencer activity, often tweeting bizarre claims, such as the price of Solana influencing the value of NFTs and vice versa. I doubted the efficiency of this JPEG market. This was before any analytics tools existed; SolScan wasn't even there yet. So, I had to...