Latest Solana Podcast Episodes
Why Does Mexico Want to Tokenize Its Treasuries? w/ David Taylor (Etherfuse)
Validated - April 23, 2024 09:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this episode, Austin talks with David Taylor (Etherfuse) about tokenizing Mexican bonds and equities. By bringing these assets onchain, Etherfuse is drastically reducing global barriers to entry in emerging markets. David discusses the Mexican government's enthusiastic response to their partn...
The Long-Term Vision for the DA Layer w/ Connor O'Hara (Celestia)
Validated - April 16, 2024 09:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this episode, Austin chats with Connor O'Hara (Celestia) about the scope of DA projects like Celestia. After a reflective discussion on a wide range of topics from the early days of Bitcoin to tradeoffs of proof-of-stake networks, Connor gets at the heart of how data availability works, how i...
The Restaking Thesis w/ Sreeram Kannan (Eigen Labs)
Validated - April 09, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this episode, Austin chats with Sreeram Kannan (Eigen Labs) about EigenLayer's vision for restaking. Sreeram argues that restaking is merely a way of making proof-of-stake networks more programmable, addressing the economic and architectural considerations required to make the restaking thesi...
Level Up. Go Crankless. w/ Jarry Xiao (Phoenix)
Validated - April 02, 2024 09:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this episode, Austin chats with Jarry Xiao from Ellipsis Labs about Phoenix, the fastest on-chain orderbook on Solana. They explore Phoenix's innovative design, which enables settlement without the need for asynchronous cranks, setting it apart from previous order books on Solana. The convers...
Rethinking Solana's Validator Client Paradigm w/ Ahmad Abbasi (Syndica)
Validated - March 26, 2024 09:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this episode, Austin talks with Ahmad Abbasi (Syndica) about Sig, a new Solana validator client built in Zig. Unlike other Solana validator clients, Sig is optimized for reads as opposed to writes. Ahmad unpacks the seemingly herculean task of writing a new validator client from scratch and w...
What Solana Unlocks for GameFi's Backend w/ Albert Chen (Genopets)
Validated - March 12, 2024 09:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWeb3 gaming is one of the oldest proposed use cases for blockchain. In this episode, Austin chats with Albert Chen (Genopets) about the state of web3 games on Solana and beyond. They dive into Genopets, exploring its gameplay, its web3 integration, and the philosophy guiding its backend design. ...
The Enterprise Self-Custody Problem w/ Connor and Nicolas from Cordial Systems
Validated - February 27, 2024 10:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this episode, Austin talks with Nicolas and Conor from Cordial Systems, an enterprise custody solution initially developed for Jump Crypto. They discuss how to build a self-custody solution that serves crypto-native businesses without compromising the security standards of traditional systems...
How DRiP Is Able to Give Away Millions of Free NFTs
Validated - February 13, 2024 08:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this episode, Austin chats with Vibhu Norby, CEO of DRiP, a platform that has distributed millions of digital collectibles to its community ... for free. Among other topics, Vibhu discusses the unlikely emergence of the company's vision and how the innovation of compression helped that vision...
A Cross-Chain DePIN Conversation w/ Alex Rawitz (DIMO)
Validated - January 30, 2024 10:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this episode, Austin chats with Alex Rawitz, co-founder of DIMO, a DePIN project built on Polygon which allows users to collect and monetize their car's data. Instead of pitting one blockchain against another, Austin and Alex have an optimistic, open-minded discussion about the DePIN space in...
The Case for Onchain Options Trading w/ Lev & Serge from DeVol Network
Validated - January 16, 2024 10:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this episode, Austin chats with Lev Gelfer and Serge Levin from DeVol Network, a low-cost, fully onchain option trading platform. Serge and Lev dive deep into complex trades and the advantages of bringing options to blockchain, but at a higher level, this episode is an exploration of exactly ...
Why Payment Processing Companies Need to Start Thinking About Blockchain w/ Nabil Manji (Worldpay)
Validated - January 02, 2024 10:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this episode, Austin chats with Nabil Manji of Worldpay, one of the largest payment processing companies in the world. In a recent collaboration with Worldpay, Visa expanded its USDC settlement to the Solana blockchain. Austin and Nabil chat about the current landscape of card payments and wh...
Is Bitcoin Still Relevant in a Smart Contract World? w/ Matt Luongo (Thesis)
Validated - December 12, 2023 10:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this episode, Austin chats with Matt Luongo (Thesis) about the role of decentralized custodial solutions for Bitcoin such as Threshold's tBTC. Beyond the technical details of how tBTC works and what its holders can do, the conversation often digresses into Bitcoiner views of the world in the ...
An Open-Source Toolset for Token Infrastructure w/ Tommy Johnson
Validated - November 21, 2023 15:16 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this episode, Tommy Johnson discusses Armada, a collaborative project between PsyFi and HXRO that provides an open-source toolkit for launching tokens from inception to full decentralization. He and Austin reflect on the historical pain points of token launches, the evolution of tokenomics ov...
How Justin Bons Reconsidered His Thesis About Solana
Validated - November 07, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn the early days of Solana, Justin Bons (Cyber Capital) was one of the network's biggest public critics. However, in the last several months, Justin has had a change of heart. In this episode, Justin opens up about both his disillusionment with the Ethereum L2 roadmap and why no longer sees Sol...
Live from Breakpoint: Conversation w/ Rune Christensen (MakerDAO)
Validated - November 04, 2023 19:57 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this episode live from BP 2023, Austin sits down with Rune Christensen to discuss MakerDAO's Endgame plan. Rune outlines how the concept of subDAOs will fix the current problems faced by DAOs, why SVM architecture is best suited to carry out his Endgame vision, the toxicity of tribalism, and ...
Crypto's Killer App Is Already Here: Stablecoins w/ Dante Disparte (Circle)
Validated - October 24, 2023 09:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this episode, Austin is joined by Amira Valliani (Solana Foundation) to chat with Dante Disparte (Circle) about stablecoin adoption, regulation, and more. Dante envisions a promising future for stablecoins as he explores fundamental questions about their ultimate objectives and distinct appli...
The Toly Episode
Validated - October 10, 2023 09:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this episode, Austin has a freeform conversation with Anatoly Yakovenko about the state of Solana. Beyond the cliches of the past, present, and future of the network, Austin and Toly explore higher level ideas such as design philosophy, hardware limitations, balancing new features with networ...
What Decentralized Credit Means for Emerging Markets w/ Thomas Bohner
Validated - October 03, 2023 07:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsPrivate credit in emerging markets like Latin America generally lacks modern infrastructure. According to Thomas Bohner (Credix), blockchain is the perfect technology to bring these markets into the future. With a company like Credix, investors and borrowers are able to leverage smart contracts...
How Pyth Is Changing the Oracle Game w/ Jayant Krishnamurthy
Validated - September 19, 2023 09:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsOracles are an essential part of how real-world data gets integrated into DeFi smart contracts, but historically, that process has been fraught with challenges. In this episode, Jayant Krishnamurthy (Duoro Labs) explains how Pyth is addressing these challenges and redefining how a blockchain ora...
Why Multisigs are Becoming the Default Security Paradigm
Validated - September 05, 2023 09:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsMultisigs, short for "multiple signatures," are wallets that require multiple private keys to authorize transactions. In the wake of 2022's many collapses, multisigs have increasingly become the default security paradigm in both the Solana ecosystem and the crypto space more broadly. In this epi...
Blockchain and AI: An Artist's POV with Lance Weiler
Validated - August 22, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsTechnology has defined the form and function of storytelling since the beginning of time. In this episode, storyteller, artist, and professor Lance Weiler offers an optimistic perspective on how blockchain, AI, and other frontier technologies will affect storytellers across mediums. Rather than ...
How Compression is Changing the Way We Think of NFTs
Validated - August 02, 2023 09:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn today's episode, Austin moderates a panel discussion about compression with Jon Wong (Solana Foundation), Noah Prince (Helium Foundation), and Ilmoi (Tensor). Compression is a way of storing data on Solana that reduces costs by orders of magnitude. For now, its most common use case is compres...
Can Block Explorers Work Like Traditional Search Engines?
Validated - July 25, 2023 09:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsTransparency is one of the key features of blockchain, and block explorers play an important role in that transparency. However, navigating explorers on Solana can have a high learning curve, even for crypto natives. This is due to Solana’s abstract data structures, a feature that makes indexing...
What It Takes to Make a AAA Game On-Chain with Michael Wagner
Validated - July 18, 2023 09:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsAs of 2023, the gaming industry is worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Why disrupt something that's working so well by introducing blockchain into the equation? In this episode, Michael Wagner (ATMTA/Star Atlas) makes the case for blockchain games. Star Atlas, the flagship game that Michael a...
From Anchor to Mad Lads and Beyond with Armani Ferrante
Validated - July 11, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWith Anchor, Backpack, and Mad Lads under his belt, Armani Ferrante is one of Solana's most senior and prolific developers. In this episode, Armani reflects on the values and design philosophies that first attracted him to the Solana ecosystem and where he thinks the ecosystem is headed. He also...
Bringing Real World Assets on Chain
Validated - July 05, 2023 09:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsRWAs (Real World Assets) are assets that exist in the real world that are tokenized on chain. The RWA market comprises things like equity, fine art, loans, and more, all of which globally account for trillions of dollars in value. In this episode, Trevor Bacon discusses Parcl's unique approach t...
Is Banking 3.0 Becoming a Reality?
Validated - June 27, 2023 09:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIf web3 had an intuitive Venmo-like app for sending and receiving crypto, could that expedite mass adoption? Aleksei Zakharov (Ottr) seems to think so. Aleksei describes how blockchain-based products such as Ottr can give users the experience of a modern bank, all without the bank. Banking 3.0, ...
The Future of Blockchain Privacy Tools
Validated - June 20, 2023 09:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIf blockchain is going to scale to billions of users with use cases like payroll and and savings, privacy is a prerequisite for adoption. But if privacy preserving technology is vulnerable to the law - think OFAC's sanction of Tornado Cash - how will adoption at that scale ever be possible? In t...
Does Web3 Need Its Own Section 230?
Validated - June 13, 2023 09:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWhen Congress passed Section 230 in 1996, it created the legal preconditions for the growth of the modern internet. Today, web3 faces legislative uncertainty in the US, harkening back to the state of the internet before Section 230. In this episode, Chris Grieco (Rain, ex-DOJ) and Lauren Culbert...
Can DePIN Build a Better Map Than Google?
Validated - June 06, 2023 09:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsTraditionally, maps have been built by centralized entities like governments and tech companies. But in this episode, Ariel Seidman discusses the potential of Hivemapper, a decentralized mapping protocol, to completely disrupt the space. When it comes to building a global map, Hivemapper claims ...
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