This is the Solana Saga - it’s an Android phone produced by Solana’s mobile arm that costs $1000. Saga was first announced on June 23rd of last year. And less than a year later, they’ve already begun shipping. Quite an impressive delivery time in crypto terms, but this should be no surprise since the co-founder of Solana, Anatoly Yakovenko, has over a decade of experience working at Qualcomm. So he knows a thing or two about mobile products. Saga aims to become a crucial stepping stone in bringing web3 into our pockets. Users of the Solana chain can use the Saga to buy and sell NFTs, sign transactions, and self custody assets on the go through biometric solutions. I’ve been playing around with it for a week now, and it’s pretty neat stuff. So let's dive into why the SAGA could be a total game changer for web3 adoption, and whether or not it can survive a drop test. 0:00 Intro 1:13 Unboxing 1:26 Hardware 1:52 Technical Specs 2:45 Seed Vault 3:16 dApp Store 3:27 Saga Rewards 4:17 dApp test #1: Jupiter 4:33 dApp test #2: Minty Fresh 4:49 Drawbacks 6:16 Drop Test 6:59 Who's the Saga for? Intro track: MF DOOM Type Beat - "The Bomb_2" by 766N ✨ Check out our new website ✨ https://thedefiant.io/ ? Sign up to our newsletter ? https://thedefiant.io/go-premium#pricing?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=signup ? Find DeFi investment opportunities & educational primers here https://thedefiant.io/promo?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=alpha ✊ Follow The Defiant Twitter: https://twitter.com/defiantnews Discord: https://discord.gg/thedefiant Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedefiant.io/ Telegram: https://t.me/DefiantNews ? Contact our Newsroom editorial@thedefiant.io ? Sponsorships & Partnerships sponsors@thedefiant.io ? Follow The Defiant team on Twitter Camila Russo: https://twitter.com/CamiRusso Alp Gasimov: https://twitter.com/alpgasimov yyctrader: https://twitter.com/yyctrader1 Owen Fernau: https://twitter.com/ofernau Devin Sawyer: https://twitter.com/devinsawyer Samuel Haig: https://twitter.com/samuel_haig Diego Cabral: https://twitter.com/DiegoCabral__ Nick Duddy: https://twitter.com/nickduddy Pab: https://twitter.com/pprhsk Tegan Kline: https://twitter.com/theklineventure #TheDefiant​ #DeFi​ #Decentralized​ #Finance​ #Blockchain #Web3 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3x_GimSum4

In this week’s episode I interview Kayvon Tehranian, Founder & CEO of Foundation, a platform for minting, buying and selling non fungible tokens. We talked about how he got into crypto by way of Google, building iOS software, and skepticism with traditional finance after graduating in the middle of the 2008 financial crisis. He started his work in the space at Dharma, the web3 wallet. He viewed DeFi as an incredible invention birthed from Ethereum. But felt like Ethereum was something much bigger than another financial system. He started thinking about how to push this innovation into the hands of creators. And that’s how Foundation was created at the start of 2020, way before this recent mani around non-fungible tokens. We talked about why NFTs gained so much popularity and attention this year and how Kayvon thinks Covid has a lot to do with it. He thinks the pandemic forced a lot of people to reflect and pause and challenge the existing institutions and businesses that they were participating in, and realized many didn’t have online-native business models that allowed artists and creators t support themselves in this kind of setting. We also talked about the future of the internet –– Kayvon believes blockchains are adding property rights to the internet. He also thinks that instead of having to wait for old institutions to come online, new ones in the form of decentralized autonomous organizations, or DAOS, will be built. He foresees a future when a lot of people will start saying, ‘why aren't you asking me to connect my wallet? Why do I have to log in this other way, that I don't have control over what I'm doing?’ I also believe that future is not so far away. Follow The Defiant https://newsletter.thedefiant.io/ https://twitter.com/defiantnews https://thedefiant.io/ https://t.me/DefiantNews https://t.me/DefiantChat #TheDefiant​ #DeFi​ #Decentralized​ #Finance​ #Blockchain ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtxXWUkZF0Y