Key ideas from Ben Coverston

• "The cheapest place to buy Solana is on Solana" - Ben, with retail getting tighter spreads than centralized exchanges
• Harmonic aims to eliminate rate limits entirely within months, offering unlimited transaction throughput to prevent monopolization
• "If everyone on the network is scheduling things the same way, yet they all have the ability to independently schedule transactions, there's kind of some red flags going off" - Ben on forced uniformity
• MCP could add inherent latency overhead due to multiple proposers coordinating globally, with "speed of light being too slow"
• Solana spreads are already at single-digit basis points, sometimes sub-single-digit, across 8-9 different schedulers
• "DeFi will not move toward TradFi" - Ben advocates for building DeFi-native systems rather than importing traditional finance structures
• Censorship resistance is the primary benefit that could make MCP worthwhile, outweighing its negative effects
• Winter Mute and other institutional market makers are already successfully operating on Solana's current market structure