From Ethereum Email Experiments to Building Parasol: Neon Labs CEO Ivan on Scaling Solana the Right Way
In a wide ranging conversation on The Blockopedia podcast, Neon Labs CEO Ivan sat down with The Blockopedia’s Co-founder Mohammad Ahmad Khan to walk through a decade of building across Ethereum, Polygon and Solana, and to explain why his newest project, Parasol, might be the missing piece for sophisticated DeFi on Solana.Few people in Web3 have watched as many ecosystems evolve from the inside as Ivan has. Long before he became CEO of Neon Labs, he was an engineer who stumbled into crypto almost by accident. In 2015, after discovering Ethereum through its ICO, his team built an email platform on top of it called Lemon Email. It launched in 2017, right as ether's price exploded, leaving them with what he jokingly calls the world's most expensive email product. It wasn't a financial succ...