Chewing glass is what Solana developers do. Introducing the fifth episode in a new series on the Solana Podcast, Chewing Glass. Chase Barker (Developer Relations Lead at Solana Labs) talks shop with the most interesting builders in the Solana ecosystem. It’s for devs, by devs.
Today's guest is Cronos, an on-chain task scheduler that allows users to schedule instructions and winner of the recent Riptide Hackathon.
00:38 - Introductions
01:25 - How they started
02:48 - How they met
04:26 - Who else is in Austin
05:09 - Cronos backstory
07:34 - How they started building tasks
09:11 - TLDR: what is Cronos?
13:33 - Winning the Riptide Hackathon
15:40 - How cronos came to life
18:12 - Building on solana and familiarity with other languages
20:16 - Learning curve with rust
22:50 - Nick’s learning curve
25:04 - Advice on learning curve
27:08 - What's missing in Solana
29:20 - Advice to new developers on Solana
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Chase (00:38):
Hey everybody. And welcome to Chewing Glass, the show where we talk to developers building in the Solana ecosystem. Today, we have Nick and Elias from Cronos, the recent winners of the Riptide Hackathon. Welcome guys. How's it going?
Elias (00:50):
It's going well.
Nick (00:51):
Yeah, great to be here.
Chase (00:52):
So let's start with you, Nick. What's your history? How'd you get into this whole thing?
Nick (00:56):
My background is basically, I worked on the payments team at Uber for about four years or so, helping build out the payroll system there. And so, was working on a lot of international banking integrations and just became very aware how broken the current legacy payment system is. Can't really even tell you the number of times I got woken up at 4:00 AM because some system failed somewhere and had to email a CSV file to some banker to push money through the system, it happens all the time.
Nick (01:28):
And so I heard about Solana and I had a light bulb moment really, where I realized that this thing is cheaper and faster and easier to use than any existing payment rails that I know about and so, I got quite excited about the potential for disruption there and this was all pre Solana Pay stuff. So, yeah, we dove in during the Ignition Hackathon.
Chase (01:52):
Oh, you did? Cool.
Nick (01:53):
Yeah.
Chase (01:53):
Yeah, I didn't realize that. I was actually, when you were talking, I was thinking in my head, I was like payments? I was like, wow, didn't even build anything on Solana Pay. So you guys were already rolling a little bit before that, so that's cool. Yeah. So Elias, how about you?
Elias (02:06):
I'm pretty fresh as far as experience in industry. I did have an internship in college as a data scientist in Argentina for a bit. I then transitioned into front-end development t