Chewing glass is what Solana developers do. Introducing 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 PaulX, a Solana developer who invented the Solana Escrow program (lovingly referred to as the "Solana Bible") and core contributor to Anchor.
00:40 - Intro / Origin Story
3:58 - How did Paul X find out about Solana?
7:43 - Motivation behind creating the escrow program
14:13 - Framework, using Anchor in Solana
21:08 - How can folks transition from web 2.0 to web 3.0
29:00 - Advice to other developers
00:39 - Intro
01:51 - pencilflip’s background
03:30 - Working at facebook vs. web 3.0
07:31 - How pencilflip got into crypto
08:52 - Views on NFTs
10:45 - Getting into Solana
15:29 - Experience working in lower level
17:56 - What was his method to learn Solana?
21:01 - What’s the hardest concept on Solana?
23:53 - How fast did he move from Rust to Anchor?
27:35 - Building on Solana
33:24 - Advice to people moving to Web 3.0
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chase (00:38):
Hey everybody, and welcome to Chewing Glass, the show where we talk to Solana developers who have been building in the Solana ecosystem. We talk about the good, the bad and the ugly. Today, we have our very first and very special guest, Paul X. Paul X is actually the creator of the escrow program. The Solana escrow program, this program actually saved a lot of lives over the months. Back of the day, all that existed was docs.solana.com and the Paul X escrow tutorial, sometimes referred to as the Solana bible. How's it going, Paul?
Paul X (01:15):
Yeah. Hi, thanks for having me. Yeah, I'm doing great.
chase (01:20):
Yeah, it's really great to have you. Just for context, Paul and I met probably about six months ago, or five months ago. When I first joined, I was writing a Getting Started blog post. I found out about the escrow tutorial. I wanted to talk to Paul to get some feedback and really just kind of get my bearings about me for what's going on in the Solana ecosystem. Also more recently, had a chance to catch up with him in Lisbon unexpectedly. That was pretty great. I guess we're just going to dive right in. I guess the first question I've got for you, Paul, is when did you get into blockchain?
Paul X (01:57):
First of all, I really enjoyed Lisbon as well, and seeing you there. Very cool. Just in general, the whole conference. It's really quite an experience, I think. I'm an undergrad in computer science, I'm in my second year right now. So, last year I was in my first and I felt like I wanted... I had been working for a year already, or actually two, I think, just part-time next to university, but regular full-stack engineering, but I got bored. I wanted to do something more challenging and I knew about crypto, so I thought that would be an interesting area to explore. So, that's what I did. I explored.
chase (02:52):
That's kin