Category Archives: Solana Podcasts

EPISODE SUMMARY 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[Read more…]

EPISODE SUMMARY In this episode, Zaki discusses the slow adoption of complex VDFs, Anatoly lays out his theory that we are in a simulation, and both speakers take a deep dive into layer 1 architecture. Zaki briefly covers why he decided to leave Tendremint and all the exciting projects he is currently working on. DISCLAIMER[Read more…]

EPISODE SUMMARY Chewing glass is what Solana developers do. Introducing the fourth episode in a new series on the Solana Podcast, Chewing Glass. Chase Barker (Developer Relations Lead at Solana Labs) talks shop with the most interesting builders in the Solana ecosystem. It’s for devs, by devs. Today’s guest is Italo Casas, the creator of[Read more…]

EPISODE SUMMARY 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 -[Read more…]

EPISODE NOTES 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[Read more…]

EPISODE SUMMARY Chewing glass is what Solana developers do. Introducing the third episode in a new series on the Solana Podcast, Chewing Glass. Chase Barker (Developer Relations Lead at Solana Labs) talks shop with the most interesting builders in the Solana ecosystem. It’s for devs, by devs. Today’s guest is Brian Friel, a Solana dev[Read more…]

EPISODE SUMMARY 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[Read more…]

EPISODE SUMMARY 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[Read more…]

EPISODE SUMMARY Chewing glass is what Solana developers do. Introducing the second episode in a new series on the Solana Podcast, Chewing Glass. Chase Barker (Developer Relations Lead at Solana Labs) talks shop with the most interesting builders in the Solana ecosystem. It’s for devs, by devs. Today’s guest is pencilflip, a Solana dev who[Read more…]

EPISODE SUMMARY 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. Learn more at solanapay.com 00:39 -[Read more…]