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Tommy and Taylor are the founders of PsyOptions, a DAO developing the leading options primitives on Solana.   00:09 - Introduction and Origin Story 04:04 - What are the challenges / improvements in Solana? 11:49 - Integration of Serum v3 14:32 - ​​Adoption of PsyOptions 17:19 - Architecting the system 22:11 - Liquidity mining vs. options trading 26:27 - Background in trading options 28:05 - DeFi v...

Larry Cermak joined The Block as one of the first employees with the mission to provide professionals with accurate information about crypto. He now leads a 30-person research team that delivers insights to institutional customers. 00:09 - Intro 00:20 - Larry Cermak’s origin story / His work at The Block 08:25 - The fundamentals of Bitcoin 16:03 - The value of SushiSwap 19:35 - Investing based on...

Packy McCormick is the author of the tech/web3 newsletter Not Boring and runs Not Boring Capital. 00:09 - Intro 01:34 - What are people building in the world of crypto / What does ‘Not Boring’ invest in 09:36 - Ownership in Crypto 16:00 - Conversation around Play-to-earn 19:06 - The regulatory aspect 22:14- How does Anatoly balance his time 23:54 - Thoughts on DAOs 29:33 - Network Effect and defen...

Jonathan "Moshe" Schemoul is the founder of aleph.im, a cross-chain p2p storage, computing network and first decentralized indexing provider for Solana. 00:36 – Intro & how did Jonathan Schemoul got in crypto 02:09 – What is Aleph and how does it work? 06:48 – Is Aleph database a blockchain? 09:20 – Understanding core nodes and Aleph’s economics 11:22 – How does Aleph interact with DNS? 15:29 – Ho...

Jeff "Jiho" Zirlin is the Co-Founder of Axie Infinity, an NFT-based play-to-earn online video game.   00:23 – How it started through CryptoKitties? 02:41 – What is Axie Infinity? 04:13 – Game design and constant iteration 05:52 – What is a blockchain game? A mix of social network, gaming and the start of a new economy 13:15 – Why is crypto important to Axie? 17:24 – Building and relying on your co...

Yutaro Mori & Grace Kwan are the Co-Founders of Orca, a user-friendly cryptocurrency exchange built on Solana.   01:15 – About Orca and its vision 09:48 – What’s the future of DeFi? 20:48 – A little bit about Orca’s roadmap 25:50 – What does Orca’s team look like? 32:11 – The internet hasn’t changed much, people grew into it. How will crypto grow more present in our life? 36:22 – Solana and zero k...

George Harrap is the co-founder of Step Finance, a platform for Solana DeFi users to track their portfolio performance. Before Step, George was the CEO of Bitspark.   00:29 About George Harrap and mining 05:03 From Bitcoin to DeFi, how can crypto solve currency issues in the world 18:27 STEP Finance’s vision for the next five years 21:20 Censorship resistance and layer 1s 27:11 Hackathon: what wou...

Kevin Rose is a partner at True and a serial entrepreneur best known for founding Digg and Revision3. Most recently, he founded Oak, a guided meditation app, and Zero, an app for tracking intermittent fasting.   00:08 – Introduction of Kevin Rose, Modern Finance and the story of Reddit vs. DIGG 06:04 – From DOS to Windows, where are we in the evolution of crypto 07:50 – Crypto is here to stay. Cou...

Jason Choi is a General Partner at Spartan Capital, one of Asia’s first crypto funds. As Spartan Capital’s first employee, Jason helped scale the fund from $9M to $200M within 3 years, and supported the launch of Spartan’s $50M DeFi-only venture fund to back world-class teams shaping the future of finance.   00:23 – Getting into crypto and about Spartan Capital 04:33 – How does Spartan Capital inv...

We are excited to have Dan Gunsberg, Co-Founder of Hxro, sitting down with us for Episode 41. During this discussion, Dan talks about his history in traditional finance, how this experience guided him to building out Hxro, the importance of community, and the powerful disruptions he believes are going to happen over the next few years.   00:25 – Dan’s crypto story and what’s Hxro? 05:38 – Centrali...

In this episode, AlphaRay discusses the origin of Raydium, working with Solana and FTX, fusion Pools, the importance of communities, and the future of decentralized governance.   00:25 - The story behind Alpha and Raydium 10:26 - What are Fusion Pools? 15:07 - Teaming up with FTX/Serum and being among the first to build on the Solana blockchain 19:29 - Solana communities 25:52 - Thoughts on future...

Anatoly and Santiago sit down to cover the stages of crypto, the major benefits of decentralized finance, on-chain transparency, the future of decentralized collaboration, and plenty more. ☀️   00:31: Who is Santiago Santos, and why crypto?   09:07: At what stage are we in crypto? Are finance applications the equivalent of the internet in the 90s?   14:32: DeFi benefits: crypto lending, automatic...

Michael Wagner and Anatoly Yakovenko sit down to talk all things Star Atlas. Star Atlas is a grand strategy game of space exploration, territorial conquest, and political domination being built on Solana.   00:48: Who is Michael Wagner and What is Star Atlas?   18:34: ATLAS and POLIS: Development of game economy   23:12: Developer ecosystem   25:40: Roadmap   34:19: Metaverse and VR   38:11: Decen...

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Audius is a music streaming and sharing platform that puts the power back into the hands of content creators. In this episode, Roneil talks about the creation of Audius, the need for empowering artists, how blockchain technology and cryptocurrency can completely disrupt the music industry, and more.   DISCLAIMER The information on this podcast is provided for educational, informational, and entert...

For this exciting and technical episode we welcome, Eli-Shaoul Khedouri, CEO of Intuition Machines and designer of HUMAN Protocol. HUMAN Protocol specializes in providing the infrastructure for launching decentralized work pools that allow humans to contribute to data labeling and training ML/AI algorithms. hCaptcha is a user of the HUMAN Protocol and currently covers over 14% of the internet.   I...

For this exciting and technical episode we welcome, Eli-Shaoul Khedouri, CEO of Intuition Machines and designer of HUMAN Protocol. HUMAN Protocol specializes in providing the infrastructure for launching decentralized work pools that allow humans to contribute to data labeling and training ML/AI algorithms. hCaptcha is a user of the HUMAN Protocol and currently covers over 14% of the internet.   I...

In this episode, Sergey talks about how he originally got into crypto, the origin story of Chainlink, the critical importance of smart contracts in growing the blockchain ecosystem, and more. Tune in for this very special episode with the Co-Founder of Chainlink, Sergey Nazarov.   DISCLAIMER The information on this podcast is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only...

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André Allen Anjos, better known by his stage name RAC, is a Portland-based Portuguese-American musician and record producer. RAC has created more than 200 remixes in the rock, electronica, and dance music genres for various musical artists, with his work featured in ads from Citigroup and Hulu, among others.   DISCLAIMER The information on this podcast is provided for educational, informational, a...

This is a special episode of The Solana Podcast - we took a recent panel for the Solana Wormhole Hackathon and converted into audio format for you! Enjoy this deep dive into all things DeFi with industry leaders.   Sam Bankman-Fried Sam Bankman-Fried is the CEO of crypto derivatives exchange FTX and Alameda Research. He majored in Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and graduated...

In this episode, Aaron takes a deep dive into all things Bison Trails. For anyone curious about how Bison Trails operates, what it's like operating a Solana Validator, or is curious into the various business models of node operators, this podcast is for you.   DISCLAIMER The information on this podcast is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, without any express...

This is a special episode of The Solana Podcast. Things take a different route - Balaji and Anatoly cover Covid-19, the current state of the world, smart contracts and the future of decentralization, computation diligence, blockchain-based elections, Yale Law being replaced by code, math vs. science, Snow Crash, and location-independent work.   DISCLAIMER The information on this podcast is provide...

KRNC is a new blockchain protocol. Like Bitcoin, it uses cryptography to create a form of scarce "digital gold." The difference is what that digital gold is used for.   DISCLAIMER The information on this podcast is provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only, without any express or implied warranty of any kind, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, or fitness...

With over 924 million in value locked, Synthetix is a popular platform for derivatives trading in decentralized finance (DeFi). Kain Warwick and Anatoly discuss the early days of DeFi along with the pros and cons of the plethora of products hitting the decentralized finance market. This episode is for anyone looking to get a better understanding of how decentralized finance works-  Kain and Anatol...