Determine what part of the stack you want to be on
Most projects are smart contracts, so thats Solidity and browser frontends like React
whereas in the Solana ecosystem both the node software and the smart contracts are written in Rust
amongst smart contracts there are about a dozen sectors:
Lending
Staking
Insurance
Options
Futures
AMMs
Optimizers
All the way over to NFTs
Within NFTs there are about 5 distinct sectors too, with the most action and capital occurring in the NFT collections space, followed by NFT marketplaces
and then after all that there are Web 2.0 style SaaS companies that provide services to web 3 customers for subscription fees. thats probably the most boring because they cant juice your compensation with tokens or publicly traded shares.
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Determine what part of the stack you want to be on
Most projects are smart contracts, so thats Solidity and browser frontends like React
whereas in the Solana ecosystem both the node software and the smart contracts are written in Rust
amongst smart contracts there are about a dozen sectors:
Lending
Staking
Insurance
Options
Futures
AMMs
Optimizers
All the way over to NFTs
Within NFTs there are about 5 distinct sectors too, with the most action and capital occurring in the NFT collections space, followed by NFT marketplaces
and then after all that there are Web 2.0 style SaaS companies that provide services to web 3 customers for subscription fees. thats probably the most boring because they cant juice your compensation with tokens or publicly traded shares.
so pick your sector first.