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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The information contained in or provided from or through this podcast is not intended to be and does not constitute financial advice, investment advice, trading advice, or any other advice.

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Solana Podcasts

Chris Osborn - Founder & CEO, Dialect Ep #64

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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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 for any particular purpose.

The information contained in or provided from or through this podcast is not intended to be and does not constitute financial advice, investment advice, trading advice, or any other advice.

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.

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

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
The information on this video 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 for any particular purpose.
 
The information contained in or provided from or through this video is not intended to be and does not constitute financial advice, investment advice, trading advice, or any other advice.
 
The information on this video 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 video without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional broker or financial advisor.

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
The information on this video 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 for any particular purpose.
 
The information contained in or provided from or through this video is not intended to be and does not constitute financial advice, investment advice, trading advice, or any other advice.
 
The information on this video 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 video without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional broker or financial advisor.

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
The information on this video 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 for any particular purpose.
 
The information contained in or provided from or through this video is not intended to be and does not constitute financial advice, investment advice, trading advice, or any other advice.
 
The information on this video 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 video without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional broker or financial advisor.

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.