Yakovenko (or Gokal, for that matter) may not have dropped a huge announcement about where the Solana ecosystem is going next, but one growing crypto subculture stood out more than most: gaming.

I sat down at Breakpoint with some of the biggest names in gaming—including Faraway co-founder Alex Paley and Lightspeed’s Amy Wu—and the sentiment was that the relationship between crypto and gaming is set to burst out on the scene in the future. 

While that may be true, the gaming industry has already found a home on the Solana network. In recent weeks, FTX, Solana Ventures, and Lightspeed pledged $100 million to support Solana crypto gaming projects. One of those is Faraway, a game studio that has also raised nearly $30 million for Solana-powered browser games. 

The viral Axie Infinity game has shown that NFT gaming can thrive as an industry—and even provide a potential source of income for some gamers.

On a Decrypt live roundtable chat on Friday, Amy Wu said she felt Breakpoint "was the first time a lot of people felt that there was a path for the Solana ecosystem to surpass the Ethereum one."

It'll be fascinating to see where the Solana ecosystem sits at this time next year.