Spry

If you really want it, here goes… Since we started building, it was hard to get the foundation to even respond, let alone show interest in supporting Only when we started getting meaningful traction, did conversations start happening. During those conversations, we were told we don’t actually drive value back to Solana We were raising seed during the time, to which 5 out of 48 companies said no; 3 of those were Solana ventures, colosseum and Lily’s fund. During this same time… a multiple 8 figure grant was given to a competitor in Phoenix The caviat here, is there you personally did help us a lot with validating references and supporting both in DMs and amplifying from the main account, which I am grateful for. Since your move up… it feels like folks inside the foundation have been told to pull back on support for us, but that matters less as if we need to rely on this, we will never win anyway Fast forward to today, where it is made clear that we are baked into Solana validators and every dollar we earn, 12.5 cents goes to Solana validators. We cannot change this without validators themselves agreeing a proposal that would change the share (won’t happen) We are told we provide no economic value to Solana, but in DMs from foundation employees… essentially told we are nothing without you and “we can be forgotten in an hour” For a team that is perhaps the most exciting thing launching on Solana this year, we are publicly disrespected and folks are told we are not Solana aligned From a less personal perspective, the foundation seems extremely disjointed in messaging; with many employees having conflicting views about certain goals and new releases There has been an element of desperation around perps which has kind of thrown off the wider mission (atleast from the comms I read from Solana) There is an inherent disconnect towards reality and it feels like Solana is currently having its Ethereum moment, denying reality while execution slowly leaves the chain. We are now at the point of disrespecting founders for their product having skill issues rather than the chain currently can’t support their needs One founder of the chain won’t stop talking about Iran and the other is nowhere to be seen. We have no MCP design but are told it is going to solve all of Solana’s problems and no one internally can seem to agree on anything I personally, have given up trying to support an ecosystem that is actively paying for me to lose. Solana will do what’s best for them, and we will do what’s best for us

Thank you Jeff 💚

how tf are they accepting this bet