Category Archives: Solana Podcasts

EPISODE SUMMARY Chewing glass is what Solana developers do. Introducing 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 PaulX, a Solana developer who invented the Solana Escrow[Read more…]

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[Read more…]

EPISODE SUMMARY 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[Read more…]

EPISODE SUMMARY 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 -[Read more…]

EPISODE SUMMARY 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[Read more…]

EPISODE SUMMARY 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 -[Read more…]

EPISODE SUMMARY 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[Read more…]

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[Read more…]

EPISODE SUMMARY 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-[Read more…]

EPISODE SUMMARY 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[Read more…]