Validated

0:00 - Intro 1:17 - Introduction to panelists 1:54 - How Solana’s infrastructure allows for scalability 4:45 - What creators are looking for in NFT platforms  5:53 - Glass.xyz and the future of video NFTs 7:25 - Overview of participants in the NFT space 8:30 - What does future growth of the NFT market look like? 10:12 - The impact of tech behemoths on the NFT space 15:31 - Solana’s low network cos...

0:00 Intro 0:50 Intro to panelists and overview of the browser wars  2:25 How do lessons from the browser wars apply to the wallet market?  3:12 Differences between browsers and wallets  6:00 The roles of wallets in the crypto ecosystem  10:50 Will there be one wallet to rule them all?  16:04 How the dominant mobile platforms will impact wallets 18:55 Lessons from Web 2 applicable to Web3 projects...

0:00 Overview of ReFi 3:13 Intro to Emma, Ethan, and Shine Capital 4:37 Why Shine sees ReFi as a sound business investment  7:10 Overview of how traditional carbon markets work 8:03 Breakdown of pricing in current carbon markets  12:09 Shine’s thesis on how increased demand will impact carbon credit prices 12:51 Where increased demand will come from 13:53 More on how increased demand will impact c...

0:00 Overview of Carbon Markets and Crypto 2:45 Intro to Brendan and Patch 4:02 Intro to Matthew and Cerulean 6:05 What is a carbon credit? 7:25 Who are carbon credits for? 9:00 Voluntary/compliance market recap 10:40 Innovation in the voluntary carbon market 12:00 Why are carbon credits so hard to acquire? 13:34 Inefficiencies in the current OTC markets 14:17 Examples of carbon credit projects 15...

0:09 - Episode overview 2:17 - Rolf Skar introduction and Greenpeace’s mission 4:39 - Daniel Hwang introduction 6:54 - Greenpeace’s history with energy-intensive crypto 8:24 - The Change the Code Coalition 12:32 - Why changing Bitcoin’s code might be feasible  15:49 - What changing the code would entail 19:27 - What self-interested incentives are needed in order to change the code   24:49 - How in...

Amir Haleem (CEO, Nova Labs & Founder, Helium) talks with Austin about the Helium story and the current proposal to move Helium to the Solana blockchain. 0:00 - Introduction 1:05 - Origins of the Helium network 5:24 - Early challenges for Helium 7:19 - Helium’s unique growth and economic models compared to other blockchains 11:35 - The geo-specificity of Helium’s rewards 14:18 - Why Helium started...

Anatoly welcomes Jason Keats (Founder & Chief Hooligan, OSOM) to the podcast to talk about his epic career building hardware, the Solana Saga phone and all things mobile and web3. Pre-order the Saga now at solanamobile.com   00:09 - Intro 00:25 - Background 03:27 - Working at Apple 08:07 - The Gem Phone 10:15 - Privacy at Essential 12:24 - Building for Mobile 15:52 - Hardware he wants to build 17:...

Sid Powell is the CEO & Co-Founder of Maple Finance. Maple is transforming capital markets through technology and count traditional finance and crypto-native firms as customers. Joe McCann guest hosts. 00:35 -  What is Maple?                     01:32 - How does Maple determine Credit worthiness? 02:55 - Expanding the addressable market   04:35 - Who uses Maple and how they get started 08:18 - Def...

Noah Prince (Co-Founder/ CEO, Strata Protocol) and Austin Adams (Lead Protocol Dev, Metaplex Studios) sit down with Austin Federa to discuss the integration of Strata's Dynamic Pricing Mint tool into the Metaplex Program Library. 00:51 - What is Strata? 02:12 - Challenges when launching a token 04:43 - Why is Strata more successful than competitors? 06:15 - Fundraise and the changing use cases of...

Brett Harrison is the President of FTX US, a US-regulated cryptocurrency exchange. Prior to joining FTX US, Brett was Head of Semi-Systematic Technology at Citadel Securities, where he managed technology for the firm’s Options, ETF, OTC, and ADR trading globally. He began and spent the majority of his career at Jane Street, where he led the firm’s algorithmic trading system development.   00:34 -...

Welcome to a special episode of the Solana Podcast focusing on Crypto & National Security featuring Ari Redbord (Head of Legal and Government Affairs, TRM Labs) and Sigal Mandelker (former Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence). Amira Valliani (Policy Lead, Solana Foundation) guest hosts. 00:09 -  Intros 02:11 - Origin Story 05:53 - Correspondent Banks 07:37 - Wh...

Kanav Kariya (President, Jump Crypto) joins the Solana Podcast to discuss his optimism for the future and the many areas in which Jump Crypto is innovating in the crypto and blockchain space. Austin Federa (Head of Communications, Solana Labs) guest hosts.   00:49 - What is Jump? 03:07 - The path to operationalizing crypto 06:00 - Optimism for Crypto 10:49 - Discovering and Building in Crypto with...

Chris Osborn is the Founder and CEO of Dialect, a smart messaging protocol that powers seamless, on-chain messaging experiences, starting with wallet-to-wallet chat and dapp notifications. Joe McCann guest hosts.   00:49 - Origin Story 02:06 - What is Dialect? 05:59 - What are the blockers in Web 3.0? 07:46 - Why Solana? 11:11 - Looked into other ecosystems? 13:52 - What is the process to use Dial...

Nigel Eccles is the co-founder and CEO of Vault Laboratories. VAULT is a new creator platform that uses the power of Web3 to unlock the next generation of fan experiences. Joe McCann guest hosts. 00:32 - Origin Story 04:48 - Vault 09:47 - Use case of Vault 14:38 - User experience in Web 3.0 18:01 - Why choose to build on Solana? 24:01 - BetDEX 25:51 - FanDuel vs BetDEX 27:41 - Regulation and user...

Tristan Frizza is the Co-Founder & CEO of Zeta Markets, an under-collateralized DeFi derivatives platform, powered by Solana and Serum. Matty Taylor (Head of Growth at Solana Labs) guest hosts. 00:26 - Origin Story 03:08 - Winning the Solana Hackathon 05:59 - What is Zeta? 08:49 - What's appealing about options? 11:17 - Why is Zeta more successful than other options projects? 16:44 - Using open-so...

Ahmad & Danial Abbasi are the co-founders of Syndica, a Web 3.0 blockchain infrastructure company focused on the Solana ecosystem. 00:35 - Background in Crypto 02:09 - Why Solana over other platforms? 04:10 - User Experience and Web 3.0 06:16 - What is Syndica? 08:54 - Syndica and Web 3.0 12:33 - Syndica’s focus on infrastructure 14:36 - Differentiating from other providers 16:55 - Syndica and the...

On a special episode of the Solana Podcast, Sergey Vasylchuk (CEO, Everstake) talks about Aid for Ukraine, a DAO created by Everstake and endorsed by the government of Ukraine and Anatoly Yakovenko to support Ukraine during the ongoing crisis — and how it came together on Nation. 00:38 -  Intro 02:51 - Origin of the initiative / How it works 06:25 - Ukrainian government receiving FIAT currency  09...

In this episode, Dan Albert (Executive Director), Lily Liu (President) and Mable Jiang (Board Member) discuss the role of the Solana Foundation in advancing the Solana protocol and ecosystem with support and initiatives around the world. Austin Federa (Head of Communications, Solana Labs) guest hosts.   0:43 - Intros / Roles 3:13 - The appeal of working at the foundation level 07:48 - Establishing...

In this special Payments episode of the Solana Podcast, Austin Federa guest hosts a conversation between Jeremy Allaire (CEO, Circle) and Sheraz Shere (Head of Payments, Solana Labs). They discuss merchant payments, stablecoins and Solana Pay: the newly released, open, and free-to-use payments framework built on Solana. 00:45 - What is Circle? 03:35 -  The use case for stablecoins and the mechanis...

Vasiliy Shapovalov (Tech Lead, Lido), F.P. (Co-Founder, Socean) and Ella Kuzmenko (Product Manager, Stake Pools & Delegation Program, Solana Foundation) chat with Anatoly about the complexity and game theory surrounding stake pools, decentralization and censorship resistance. 00:10 - Intro 01:38 - Collaterals, maximizing censorship resistance 07:40 - APYs and investors 09:31 - How to get penetrati...

Live from Breakpoint 2021, Ali Yahya (a16z) moderates a discussion about wallets, custody and the User Control Layer with Brandon Millman (Phantom), Filip Dragoslavic (Solrise) and Maria Phillips (Slope Finance).   00:10 - Intro 02:32 - Custodial vs. Non-custodial models for keys holding 07:11 - Education is key 11:37 - Building on top of user-controlled layers 16:48 - Unbundling Wallets 20:04 - M...

Live from Breakpoint 2021, Austin Federa (Solana Labs) moderates a discussion about the transfer layer and cross-chain bridges with Hendrik Hofstadt (Jump Crypto), Bryan Pellegrino (LayerZero), Alex Smirnov (deBridge) and Andriy Velykyy (Allbridge.io).   00:10 - Intro 02:50 - The importance of bridges not relying on Trust 04:28 - Moving wrapped assets 12:00 - Capital Efficiency of Bridges 14:02 -...

Live from Breakpoint 2021, Brendan Eich sits down with Anatoly Yakovenko to discuss integrating Solana into the Brave Browser, the huge potential for a decentralized search engine and NFTs as an entry point to the metaverse.   00:09 - Intro 00:54 - Integrating Solana in Brave 08:00 - Challenges with creating the browser 09:23 - How to scale crypto to the general public 11:57 - A Decentralized sear...

Daffy Durairaj is the co-founder of Mango Markets and is currently working full time as a developer in service of the Mango DAO. 00:28 - Origin Story 04:44 - Seeing the order book 10:20 - The idea behind creating Mango Markets 15:38 - Going from creating smart contracts to creating Mango 17:32 - How big is the DAO? 20:01 - The Launch 29:15 - VCs and the launch 32:43 - Decentralization and getting...

Live from Breakpoint 2021, Alexis Ohanian sits down with Raj Gokal to discuss web3 and the $100 million fund to support decentralized social media projects on Solana.   00:10 -  Intro 2:20 -  Announcement of Seven Seven Six and Solana Foundation collaboration 9:53 - GM, Twitter, #FreeRaj 14:31 - Discussing Web 3.0 and the future of decentralized social media 18:04 - User experience and building on...