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Mar 19, 2024 • 1h 5min

The AggLayer Thesis | Marc Boiron & Brendan Farmer

Discover the evolution of Polygon with insights on building the AggLayer, client diversity, and prioritizing ZK tech. Explore the AggLayer's network effects, end state for crypto, and data availability sampling. Learn about Access Protocol, seamless bridging in the blockchain industry, and the future of Polygon in the crypto space.
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Mar 14, 2024 • 1h 11min

The Jito Impact: Is Jito Saving Solana? | Jon Charbonneau

Exploring the impact of Jito on Solana, MEV issues, Ethereum's Denkoon upgrade, data availability, Layer 3 solutions, meme coins, and Solana's fee market. Discussing Monad's EVM compatibility, blockchain scalability, and the state of crypto in 2024. Delving into rollups, Solana's value accrual, and the challenges of scaling in the crypto space.
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Mar 12, 2024 • 1h 2min

Crypto Needs More Product, Investing In Great Founders | Craig Burel

A discussion with Craig Burel on his journey into crypto, investing in Solana, building consumer products, backing great founders, investing in SOL vs applications. Topics include crypto gaming, token incentives, finding product-market fit, and the convergence of traditional finance and DeFi.
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Mar 7, 2024 • 1h 7min

The Return Of Meme Coin Mania | Mert Mumtaz, Dan Smith

The podcast explores the return of meme coin mania, compares DeFi and meme coin usage, dives into Solana's transaction fee structure, discusses blockchain scaling with Ethereum's EIP-4844 upgrade, and analyzes data availability. It also touches on the impact of meme coins on the blockchain ecosystem, MEV on Solana, and navigating Solana transaction fees.
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Mar 5, 2024 • 54min

DRiP: Crypto's Largest Application, Built On Solana | Vibhu Norby

Vibhu Norby CEO of DRiP talks about building a popular crypto app. They discuss growth, business model, active users, UX in crypto, and advice for founders. DRiP is on Solana, reinventing content monetization with no ads. The podcast explores challenges in the crypto space, user experience, app development, user behavior analysis, and empowering creators on Solana.
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Feb 29, 2024 • 1h 6min

Who Are The Real Users In Crypto? | Mert Mumtaz, Dan Smith

This podcast discusses the need for more applications in Solana, defining active users in crypto, Ethereum's roadmap, and the rollup thesis. Explore the Colosseum hackathon, DRiP app, consensus on Solana, and bridging solutions. Delve into Monad's EVM compatibility and scalability goals.
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Feb 27, 2024 • 54min

Solving Crypto's Oracle Problem | Chris Hermida & Mitch Gildenberg

Chris Hermida & Mitch Gildenberg discuss scaling crypto's oracle infrastructure, lessons from the Mango exploit, Access Protocol's content platform, Monad's EVM compatibility, challenges in asset pricing for lending markets, securing Oracle data, permissioned oracles, and true randomness in on-chain applications.
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Feb 22, 2024 • 52min

Sports Betting Built On Solana | Nigel Eccles & Varun Sudhakar

Nigel Eccles & Varun Sudhakar discuss bringing sports betting to crypto on Solana, Monaco protocol benefits, shared liquidity, market dynamics, revenue model, competitive fees, user-friendly interface, strategic choice of Solana for transaction speed and efficiency
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Feb 21, 2024 • 1h 7min

Solving Crypto's Scaling Trilemma | Arbitrum

Experts Steven Goldfeder and Rachel Bousfield discuss Ethereum scaling, the origins of Arbitrum, and the trade-offs between decentralization, security, and scalability in crypto's scaling trilemma. They explore solutions like roll-ups, off-chain transactions, and balancing decentralization with scalability in Ethereum.
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Feb 15, 2024 • 56min

How Pyth Propogates Financial Data At The Speed of Light | Mike Cahill

Mike Cahill, core contributor to Pyth, discusses the value of financial market data, the role of oracles in crypto, Pyth's SVM appchain, permissionless integrations, quality control for publishers, Pyth's airdrop and governance, liveness concerns, economics and trust minimization, the RWA opportunity, and the evaluation of crypto's ecosystems.

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