Scale or Die: SOON Track Room

​🌌 Scale or Die: SOON Track Room

​Powered by SOON | Solana Accelerate: Scale or Die Side Stage

​Event Details

​📅 May 19, 2025, 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM ET
📍 Location – 225 Liberty St, NYC (This is a ticketed event - Same venue as Scale or Die; SOON Track Room is next to main stage within Solana Accelerate)

Event Purpose

• ​Foster alignment, collaboration, and innovation among developers building on or exploring extending Solana.

• ​Demonstrate how the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) is evolving into a multichain execution layer.

• ​Highlight critical infrastructure topics: fraud proofs, decoupled vs. forked execution, and cross-chain composability.

​What to Expect

​SOON Track Room is SOON’s builder-first hangout at Solana Accelerate.

• ​Get an inside look at SOON’s product, vision, and roadmap, and how it’s extending Solana both horizontally and vertically across chains.

• ​Explore how SOON and its partners are scaling beyond Solana, bringing high-performance execution to ecosystems.

• ​Expect high-signal, dev-first content: interactive, practical, and rooted in real product stories.

​Agenda

• ​12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
  Doors Open

• ​12:30 PM – 12:50 PM
  Blockworks Interview: Anza & SOON
  Interviewer: Jack Kubinec, Journalist at Blockworks
  Interviewees: Max Resnik, Lead Economist at Anza, Joanna Zeng, Co-founder & CEO of SOON

• ​1:00 PM – 1:40 PM
  Ecosystem Partner Spotlights
  (5-min each Lightning demos from projects live on SOON Mainnet, svmBNB & soonBase)

  • ​OKX Wallet

  • ​IQ6900

  • ​Nara.AI

  • ​PolyQuest

  • ​Idolly

  • ​CoindPay

  • ​SendArcade

  • ​Puffy

• ​1:45 PM – 2:05 PM
  Dev Workshop: Deploy on SOON in 20 Minutes
  A hands-on session to build with SOON Stack — no consensus code required

• ​2:10 PM – 2:25 PM
  Break

• ​2:30 PM – 2:50 PM
  Panel 1: Native ZK Fraud Proof on SVM Rollup
  Panel moderated by Solomon Ponomarev at Solana Foundation, featuring Matt Sorg, VP of Tech at Solana Foundation, and Jacob Everly, Head of Product at RiscZero

• ​2:55 PM – 3:15 PM
  Panel 2: Bringing Real-World Assets On-Chain
  Panel moderated by Andy Cavanaugh, Co-founder of The Rollup, featuring Alex Pack, Managing Partner of Hack VC, Liam Digregorio, Research Partner at Anagram, and Naman Kapasi, Investor from Big Brain VC

• ​3:20 PM – 3:40 PM
  Panel 3: Cross-Chain Infra & Interoperable Execution
  Panel moderated by Dougie DeLuca, Managing Partner at Figment Capital, featuring James Chi, Co-founder of Camp Network, Yorke Rhodes, Protocol Engineer at Hyperlane, and Matt Murray, DevRel Engineer at EigenLayer

• ​3:45 PM – 4:05 PM
  Panel 4: Future Proofing Solana: Various Growth Opportunities
  Panel moderated by Joanna Zeng, Co-founder & CEO of SOON, featuring Jiani Chen Growth at Solana Foundation, Alex Kehaya CEO of ABK Labs, and Z, Co-Founder of Drift Protocol

• ​3:45 PM – 4:30 PM
  Community AMA & Red Pill Fortunes
  Builder-led open mic, feedback session, and future-surfacing
  Win SOON hats. Unlock prophetic alpha.

• ​4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
  Happy Hours

​How to Attend

​This is SOON Track Room next to main stage at Solana Accelerate.

Attendance is limited to Solana Accelerate "Scale or Die" pass holders, please RSVP to secure your space, first come first serve!

Apply to Scale or Die for your Accelerate Pass

​About SOON

​SOON is the first true SVM rollup, delivering high performance to every blockchain, starting with Ethereum, BNB and Base. SOON’s mission is to accelerate SVM adoption, bring costs down by 10x, and unlock use cases across ecosystems to extend Solana-level performance everywhere.