The Zeitgeist

Brian Friel sits down with Famous Foxes Federation Co-founder DraxxTS to hear how he built one of the most admired NFT projects on Solana. Show Notes: 01:19 - Origin Story / Background         06:41 - What is Famous Fox?               08:15 - The importance of the community   10:01 - The Team                          13:08 - Top utilities available to users   17:47 - How Famous Fox approaches coll...

Brian Friel sits down with Solend founder Rooter to hear how he built the largest lending protocol on Solana. Show Notes 00:41 -  Origin of PFP                     01:27 - Origin Story                      03:26 - When did they settle on Solana?   04:36 - The Journey of Solend             08:19 - Dealing with the Whale and Governance Proposals 14:23 - Time Frame from whale discovery to governance...

TJ Littlejohn (mtnPay CEO) joins The Zeitgeist to discuss how mtnPay is enabling real-world crypto adoption by innovating on the payment user experience. Show Notes 00:42 - Background                         01:53 - Story behind MtnPay               03:42 - Other participants at MtnDAO           05:53 - From white paper to actually building 08:56 - Congressman interaction           10:22 - What is...

Steven Laver (Solana Mobile Engineering Lead) joins The Zeitgeist to discuss how Solana Mobile Stack and the Saga phone will enable the user experiences and rich ecosystem that we need for the future of Web3. Show Notes 00:05 - Intro 00:45 - Background 01:27 - Before Solana 02:24 - Why mobile and SMS? 04:12 - What is SMS ? 06:15 - Seed Vault 08:39 - ARM TrustZone 10:06 - Security with Seed Vault 1...

Grace 'Ori' Kwan (Orca Co-Founder) joins The Zeitgeist to discuss design at Orca and how she approaches building for the Web3 ecosystem.  Show Notes 00:05 - Intro 00:39 - Ori’s background / working at IDEO 04:20 - Human centered design in Crypto 06:03 - The design process at Orca 07:37 - Sourcing for UX research 09:11 - The culture at Orca 10:28 - Qualitative vs quantitative feedback 11:55 - Orca’...

Sidney Zhang (Magic Eden CTO) joins The Zeitgeist to discuss his personal story to crypto and how Magic Eden scaled their way into becoming the top Solana NFT marketplace. Show Notes 00:42 - Intro / Background 08:46 - What prompted creating Magic Eden on Solana 11:53 - Picking up rust and working in solana 13:57 - Magic Eden: From underdog to behemoth 16:52 - Building at Magic Eden 20:35 - Enginee...

Ben Chow (Jupiter Exchange Co-Founder) joins The Zeitgeist to discuss Jupiter's role in the Solana ecosystem powering swap infrastructure. Show Notes 0:44 - Intro / Background 05:04 - How does Jupiter work? 08:44 - Jupiter integration in Phantom 13:26 - Keeping up with the new liquidity innovations 15:47 - What's the process of Jupiter Integration 21:18 - Who is using Jupiter? 24:44 - The Growing...

Anatoly Yakovenko (Solana Labs Co-Founder) joins The Zeitgeist to discuss the current state of Solana and the ways in which the team is working to improve protocol performance.   SHOW NOTES 00:39 - Origin Story 01:59 - How his role evolved at Solana 03:42 - New initiatives at Solana 04:59 - NFTs 06:37 - How to improve performance 12:31 - What is Solana's North Star? 15:48 - Growth and Nakamoto coe...