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 on its own L1 
16:55 - Current disadvantages of Helium running on its own L1 
20:46 - Why the time is right for a Helium migration
24:28 - Why Solana is the best scaling solution for Helium
28:56 - Composability as parts of the Helium network move off chain
30:57 - Solana’s role in supporting amazing applications
32:12 - How a migration will help Helium reclaim its internal engineering power
34:36 - How the upcoming vote will impact Helium validators and hotspot operators
36:27 - How Helium’s migration will open up the Solana ecosystem to its community
37:36 - Recent developments in cellular networks
41:59 - How long will Helium’s migration onto Solana take, and what will it entail?


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Amir Haleem - CEO, Nova Labs & Founder, Helium Ep #71

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
17:07 - Crypto x Cars
19:02 - Do Apple or Google care about hardware and crypto?
21:08 - Innovation in hardware
21:56 - The saga phone
22:56 - The manufacturing process
26:29 - How to start building
27:56 - Working with start ups
29:15 - The innovation cycle in hardware
30:36 - Privacy features
32:42 - Working with non-crypto people
36:08 - Outro

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Jason Keats - Founder & Chief Hooligan, OSOM Ep #70

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 - Defaulting and the recapture of collateral 
13:21 - Maple's advantages against challenges lenders face in crypto 
16:45 - Why use Maple: Governance and growth 
19:27 - From Ethereum to Solana Integration                 
23:37 - Maple and Composability           
27:13- Partnerships and future initiatives 
29:56 - Bringing non-crypto folks into DeFi / Partnering with Circle 
32:33 - Views on Contraction              
34:59 - How Maple started and where it is going                   
39:04 - Monetary policies and how they affect Maple 

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Sid Powell - CEO & Co-Founder, Maple Finance Ep #69

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 tokens on Solana
08:47 - Changing mentalites around the function of tokens
10:48 - How is Metaplex's approach different
11:51 - Description of the flow using Strata
13:25 - Mechanisms of dynamic pricing
15:12 - Tools for dynamic pricing / Collusion
19:06 - Metaplex and additional tooling
21:54 - Optimizing Metaplex's architecture for the community
25:05 - Advantages and drawbacks with metaplex's architecture
29:44 - Metaplex and backward compatibility
32:39 - Pitch for using dynamic pricing

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Strata Protocol & Metaplex Ep #68

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 - The role of FTX.US’ president
01:24 - About FTX
02:55 - Nontraditional brand marketing
08:05 -  Educating people about Crypto
10:46 - Being at the forefront of regulation
14:52 - Collaborating with other players in crypto
19:03 - FTX's policy in exchange and crypto 
23:19 - FTX and NFTs
26:44 - CeFi / DeFi exchange and Cross-chains
31:36 - Building interconnectivity between centralized crypto exchanges
34:59 - Market hours in crypto?
36:33 - Process of evaluating a token
38:44 - Things he is hopeful for

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Brett Harrison - President, FTX.US Ep #67

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 - Why crypto resonates personally
09:54 - Use cases of Crypto in humanitarian applications
12:13 - Looking at the opportunity vs the risk
16:06 - Typical Day at Treasury
17:14 - What it takes to stop bad actors in Crypto
24:53 - BitFinex Hack and Large seizures
29:05 - Compliance and self-policing
31:13 - Advice to other people in regulation

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The information on this podcast is general in nature and is not specific to you, the user or anyone else. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented on this podcast without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional broker or financial advisor.

Crypto & National Security Ep #66

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 Jump
14:24 - Personal Journey at Jump 
16:43 - What's being built at Jump?
17:55 - Reasons to want to build
19:39 - What does Pyth offer?
22:22 - Criticism about conflict of interest
26:30 -  How Web 3.0 facilitates resource coordination
28:46 - Data contributors benefiting from onchain data 
31:01 - Token Plans for Pyth
31:46 - Message bridging
34:48 - Wormhole, stable coins and asset tokens
37:36 - Time synchronization for cross-chain dApps
39:14 - State storage on wormhole for dApps
40:21 - Is Wormhole layer 0? 
41:14 - Wrapped NFTs
44:13 - Jump's position towards NFTs
48:36 - Exciting things in the ecosystem
49:43 - Custom silicon / FPGAs
53:22 - A parallel execution model?


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Kanav Kariya - President, Jump Crypto Ep #65

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 Dialect?
22:31 - Using Solana Pay with Dialect
27:22 - In-game messaging
28:36 - Dialect's operations and current projects
31:03 - Exciting projects in web 3.0
34:53 - NFTs and Messaging

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Chris Osborn - Founder & CEO, Dialect Ep #64

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 experience
31:04 - Youth as an inspiration?
32:48 - SAMO
34:42 - Exciting Projects on Solana

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The information on this podcast is general in nature and is not specific to you, the user or anyone else. You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented on this podcast without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional broker or financial advisor.

Nigel Eccles - Co-Founder & CEO, Vault Laboratories Ep #63

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-source primitives vs. building 
20:15 - The front-end
24:22 - Mobile user experience
28:49 - Rapid Fire Questions: Anonymous Crypto teams
30:21 - Rapid Fire Questions: The Metaverse
31:18 - Rapid Fire Questions: Insurance in DeFi
34:40 - Rapid Fire Questions: Singapore 
36:12 - Rapid Fire Questions: Sleep
38:27 - Rapid Fire Questions: Solana

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Tristan Frizza - Co-Founder & CEO, Zeta Markets Ep #62

Ahmad & Danial Abbasi are the co-founders of Syndica, a Web 3.0 blockchain infrastructure company focused on the Solana ecosystem. Joe McCann () guest hosts.

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 data
18:29 - Their user base
20:03 - Plans on offering validator services?
22:05 - Best practices for building on Solana
24:49 - How should new developers approach web 3.0?
28:16 - Storage
33:03 - Interesting projects in the ecosystem
37:53 - Solana Hackathon
39:19 - What would you love to see built on Solana?

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Ahmad & Danial Abbasi - Co-Founders, Syndica Ep #61

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 
09:13 - Banking, a legacy system
10:04 - News on the ground
12:39 - What can people do to get involved DISCLAIMER
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ukraine.sol Ep #60

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.

0:43 - Intros / Roles
3:13 - The appeal of working at the foundation level
07:48 - Establishing scope for the foundation
12:42 - What’s working in the ecosystem?
20:01 - From the ecosystem to the foundation
21:21 - Growing Solana in new markets
33:50 - Shared Ownership of the network
36:21 - Predictions for 2022 in crypto and web 3.0 DISCLAIMER
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Solana Foundation Ep #59

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

00:45 - What is Circle?
03:35 -  The use case for stablecoins and the mechanisms to build them
09:34 - Solana Pay
13:42 - Integration of USDC and Stable Coins
18:45 - How could Solana Pay become mainstream? 
25:27 - The Solana Pay toolkit
27:39 - Can businesses operate without a bank account?
30:05 - Looking at Data Privacy in Solana Pay and Circle 
34:35 - Hopes for Solana hackathon outcomes DISCLAIMER
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Payments Ep #58

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 penetration across DeFi
14:58 - Governance in a liquid stake pool
18:23 - Automation vs. programmatic on-chain governance
20:44 - Factors in selecting validators
29:27 - Growing the validators set
32:21 - Stake pool token in DeFi
35:09 - Liquidity fragmented between too many pools
41:01 - Who controls the network? 
44:46 - Increasing decentralization

Stake Pools Ep #57

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 - Mobile vs. Desktop

Gateways to Public Blockchains Ep #56

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 -  Future of bridges
16:28 - Integration of bridges

Scalability and Cross-Chain Bridges Ep #55

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 search engine
14:46 - NFTs as entry point to the metaverse
16:35 - Mobile vs. Desktop
18:00 - Languages and smart contract development
20:40 - How to grow crypto to mass adoption
22:44 - Global Peer-to-Peer environment in Crypto

Brendan Eich - CEO & Co-Founder, Brave Software Ep #54

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 stuff done
34:55 - Will DAOs ever compete with big tech companies?
40:43 - What’s next for Mango Markets?

Daffy Durairaj - Co-Founder, Mango Markets Ep #53

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 Solana
22:48 - New types of governance and delegation
25:59 -  How crypto can change the way we see the world

Alexis Ohanian - Founder, Seven Seven Six Ep #52

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 vs. Traditional finance products
30:56 - Gaming as a market 
32:56 - Exciting things out of the hackathon
34:09 - Announcements for PsyOptions
37:53 - If Solana could change one thing?

Tommy & Taylor Johnson - Co-Founders, PsyOptions Ep #51

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 Memes
23:42 - Market Value for future gains in Crypto
26:12 - Will NFTs be backing internet money? 
28:44 - Thoughts on Algorithmic Stablecoins 
31:00 - Regulation in the US
34:47 - Decentralization and tokens in the context of regulation
39:45 - Volume of users / social networks

Larry Cermak - VP Research, The Block Ep #50

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 defensibility in Crypto
32:18 - Centralizing in Crypto
35:20 - Solana in relation to DeFi, the cultural and the metaverse side of things.
39:13 - The internet is Silicon Valley
41:12 - NFTs

Packy McCormick - Founder of Not Boring Ep #49

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 – How does Aleph get verification of certificates?  
21:44 – How does Aleph check integrity of computation? 
25:06 – What is Aleph’s vision? 
30:32 – Will Aleph always be project facing or will it one day be user facing? 
32:28 – What load can Aleph currently handle? 
39:00 – How do the economics work for people providing hardware and bandwidth?

Jonathan Schemoul - Founder of Aleph.im Ep #48

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 community  
20:47 – Is the future of gaming the metaverse and user-owned assets? 
22:22 – The feasibility of crossover between games with NFT ownership
27:35 – Where are Axies user from and what kind of players are they? 
30:45 – What's Axie's endgame? 
37:16 – Thoughts on competitors
41:18 – Generative art and creating an Axie

Jeff "Jiho" Zirlin - Co-Founder of Axie Infinity Ep #47

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 knowledge proof
40:02 – Orca’s next features planned for Q2 and Q3
43:46 – How does Orca plan on growing their worldwide community?

Yutaro Mori & Grace Kwan - Co-Founders of Orca Ep #46

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 would you like to see created? 
30:30 Thoughts on Rust and why it was the better choice for Solana
38:08 Why you can’t innovate in the traditional financial system

George Harrap - Partner at Step Finance Ep #45

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.

Kevin Rose - Partner at True Ventures Ep #44

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 invests?
11:47 – Next wave: building for current users vs future adopters?
19:47 – DeFi and the yield farming phenomenon
30:36 – From CeFi to DeFi for the mainstream adopters
43:33 – The NFT craze and where it could lead us
51:37 – Thoughts on the next wave? DAOs? Social Networking?

Jason Choi - General Partner at Spartan Capital Ep #43

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 – Centralized crypto exchanges vs legacy exchanges
15:07 – Community capitalism
24:11 – Community building around projects
35:23 – Closing thoughts and what’s next for Hxro

Dan Gunsberg - Co-Founder of Hxro Ep #41

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 governance features
29:57 - Closing thoughts, what’s next?

AlphaRay - Founder of Raydium Ep #40

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 investor profiles, transparency, and more 

31:43: Is decentralization the future of collaboration? 

38:45: Closing thoughts: porting vs. innovating. Stay open-minded.

Santiago Santos - Partner at ParaFi Capital Ep #39

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: Decentralization of Star Atlas

43:29: Future Concerns

Michael Wagner - CEO & Co-Founder of Star Atlas Ep #38

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.

RAC is an active member of the crypto community and a vocal advocate of Audius, a decentralized music streaming platform.

RAC - Grammy Award Winning Recording Artist : Live Recording of The Solana Podcast

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.