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1

Inside JTX: Jito’s New Trading Platform | Lucas Bruder

2

Agentic Finance for Everyday Users | Chris

3

Inside Jito’s New Solana Plugin Strategy | Eric & Hayden

4

Inside Upshift: Building the Future of Onchain Vaults | Aya Kantorovich

5

Solana Was Too Late to Perps

6

LPing Is Trading: Rethinking DeFi Strategies | Dann & Miir

7

Tokenizing Private Markets: Inside the Rise of PreStocks | Xavier Ekkel

8

The KelpDAO Hack and DeFi’s Stress Test | Ian Unsworth

9

DoubleZero Edge: Democratizing the Speed Advantage | Austin Federa

10

How Institutions Are Moving Onchain | Catherine Gu

11

Titan's Solution to Onchain Pricing | defipancakes

12

The Institutional Shift Driving Crypto Forward

13

The Future of DeFi Trading: Routers, Perps, and MCP | Eugene Chen

14

Designing the Future of Payments Systems | Konstantin Richter & Tom Zschach

15

Investor Relations in the Onchain Era

16

Making Privacy the Default | Kru & Cal

17

The Future of Digital Assets | Regulation, Value Accrual, and Token Design

18

Harmonic Fires Back in Solana’s Block Building Wars | Ben Coverston

19

MetaDAO's Permissionless Launchpad

20

Crypto’s Rebirth Moment | Tushar, Shayon and Spencer

21

Tokenized Equities, Kamino RWAs and zachXBT Investigation

22

Introducing: Inflection Point | The Crypto-TradFi Convergence

23

Solana’s Institutional Moment | Nick Ducoff

24

0xResearch: Jito BAM and Solana Market Structure | Lucas Bruder

25

The DeFi-Native Prime Broker | MacBrennan Peet

26

Solana’s Block Building Battle: Jito BAM vs. Harmonic

27

Solana’s Policy Push: Crypto’s New Regulatory Era | Kristin Smith

28

Solana’s Changing Market Microstructure

29

Building the Next-Gen Perps Engine on Solana | Tristan Frizza

30

Crypto Stress Test: Fees, Volatility, and Chain Performance

31

Building the Onchain Super App | Xiao-Xiao J. Zhu

32

Are the Trenches Finally Back?

33

Listing Assets Everywhere Onchain | Saeed Badreg

34

Bringing State of the Art Perps to Solana | Jun Bug & kdot

35

How SOAR is Solving Tokens | Tom Curry

36

Blockchains Beyond the Public Internet | Austin Federa

37

Do Buybacks Make Sense? | Lucas Bruder

38

Where To Allocate In 2026 | Matty Taylor

39

What's Next For Solana In 2026?

40

What's Next For Crypto In 2026 | Kairos Research

41

How To Fix Crypto's Token Dilemma

42

How Kamino Became Solana's Largest Lending Protocol | Marius Ciubotariu

43

Solana's Biggest Opportunity In 2026 | Dan Smith

44

How Hylo Is Accelerating Solana DeFi In 2026 | Plish

45

Solana's Onchain Nasdaq Thesis | Carlos Gonzalez Campo

46

How MetaDAO Became Solana's Breakout Token Launchpad | Kollan House

47

Solana's Next Big Catalyst In 2026

48

How HumidiFi Became Solana's Largest Prop AMM

49

The Jito Endgame with Lucas Bruder

50

The End Game For MegaETH | Lei Yang & Namik Muduroglu

51

Live Weekly Roundup With Kevin Ricoy

52

Everything You Need To Know About Meteora's Token Launch | Soju & Zen

53

Solana Foundation: The Future of DePIN On Solana | Amira Valliani

54

The Future of Staking On Solana | Michael Repetný

55

Why This Early Solana Investor Is Still All In | Viktor Fischer

56

The Ultimate Solana Thesis With Michael Marcantonio

57

Privy CEO: Why Did Stripe Acquire Privy? | Henri Stern

58

Solana Gets Even Faster With Robin A. Nordnes

59

The State Of Solana, Frankendancer & Crypto's Bullish Catalyst's | Ian Unsworth

60

The Solana Bull Thesis & Pantera's DAT Strategy | Cosmo Jiang

61

The Future Of Onchain Capital Markets Is On Solana | Chris Chung

62

Collector Crypt: Onchain Capital Markets On Solana | Tuomas Holmberg

63

Sanctum Founder: Solana's Liquid Staking Future | FP Lee

64

SEC Commissioner: A New Era For Crypto In The U.S | Hester Peirce

65

Solana's Next Big Catalyst | Brandon Potts

66

Solana DeFi Summer Is Coming | Sang Kim

67

Are DATs Bullish For Solana? | Carlos Gonzalez Campo

68

Prop AMMs Are Solana's Biggest DeFi Innovation | Chris Hermida

69

The Future Of DeFi On Solana | Kash Dhanda & Samyak Jain

70

SOL Needs More Than DAT | Anna Yuan

71

Solana's Breakout DeFi Lending Protocol | Mary Gooneratne

72

The Next Chapter For Phantom | Brandon Millman & Sam Rosenblum

73

The Solana Seeker Phone Is Here | Emmett Hollyer

74

The Internet Capital Markets Roadmap | Lucas Bruder, Max Resnick & Austin Federa

75

This Is How Solana Wins With Lucas Bruder

76

The State Of Solana With Carlos Gonzalez Campo

77

The State Of Firedancer, Building Thru & How To 10x Performance | Liam Heeger

78

The Truth Behind Crypto Market Makers | Matt Jobbé-Duval

79

Breaking Down the PUMP Launch

80

Jump Crypto: The State Of Firedancer | Michael McGee

81

Is Pump Fun's Token Launch Bullish For Solana?

82

How Hivemapper Will Compete With Google Maps | Ariel Seidman

83

How To Improve Solana's Market Structure | Eugene Chen

84

a16z's Crypto Thesis With Ali Yahya

85

Macro Updates, Industry Narratives & Big Tech Coming For Crypto | Permissionless IV Recap

86

Crypto’s Path Forward In The Next 10 Years

87

Solana's Path To Decentralized Nasdaq | Max Resnick

88

The Rise Of Crypto's App Ecosystem Mike Dudas

89

Empire | Introducing The Token Transparency Framework

90

Solana ETFs Are Coming With Carlos Gonzalez Campo

91

Standard Chartered: The Bull Case For Solana | Geoff Kendrick

92

Crypto's Fastest Payments App, Only Possible On Solana | Ted Livingston

93

How Will Pump Fun's Token Impact Solana? | Weekly Roundup

94

Alpenglow: Solana's Largest Protocol Upgrade Ever | Brennan Watt, Anza

95

The Solana Incubator: Finding Crypto's Next Breakthrough App | Emon Motamedi

96

The State Of Solana DeFi With Kyle Samani & Chris Heaney

97

Crypto's Next DePIN Catalyst With David Rhodus, Pipe Network

98

The Microstrategy Of Solana Playbook With Dan Kang

99

The Solana Token Launchpad Coming for Venture Capital | Ryan Connor

100

1inch Co-Founder: Launching On Solana | Sergej Kunz

101

Can Ethereum Scale The L1? | Weekly Roundup

102

Ex Jane Street Veteran's Journey To Crypto | Thomas Uhm

103

Solana's DeFi Super App: The Jupiter End Game | Kash Dhanda

104

The Future Of Solana, DoubleZero & The Firedancer Impact | Austin Federa

105

Is Zora Crypto's Breakout SocialFi Moment? | Weekly Roundup

106

A New Era For Crypto In 2025 | Miller Whitehouse-Levine

107

Accelerating Solana's Startup Ecosystem | Matty Taylor

108

Launching Crypto's Largest Tokenized Fund On Solana | Michael Sonnenshein

109

2025 Is Solana's Biggest Year | Weekly Roundup

110

The State Of Solana With Carlos Gonzalez Campo

111

Are Meme Coins Really Dead? | Weekly Roundup

112

The Ultimate Jito Thesis | Shayon Sengupta

113

The Solana Playbook With Leah Wald

114

Will We See A Solana ETF In 2025? | Matthew Sigel

115

The Solana End Game With Anatoly Yakovenko & Kyle Samani

116

Why Privacy Matters For Solana | Yannik Schrade

117

Crypto Is At An Inflection Point | Ryan Connor

118

Why Solana’s Inflation Proposal Didn’t Pass | Weekly Roundup

119

Drift: The Solana DEX Powering Onchain Liquidity | Cindy Leow & Chris Heaney

120

How Baxus Is Bringing Whiskey Onchain | Tzvi Wiesel

121

A Solana Data Deep Dive With Carlos Gonzalez Campo

122

Why Solana Should Change Its Inflation Rate | Weekly Roundup

123

How Blackbird Is Unlocking Crypto's App Ecosystem | Ben Leventhal & Jesse Walden

124

The State Of Crypto & AI | Illia Polosukhin & Bowen Wang

125

A New Era For Crypto In The U.S | Rebecca Rettig

126

The Libra Impact On Solana | Weekly Roundup

127

An Update On The Solana Thesis | Santiago Santos

128

Why Crypto Wallets Are Broken | Armani Ferrante

129

Building Solana's Next Breakout App | Ilja Moisejevs & Richard Wu

130

Crypto's Biggest Opportunity In 2025 | Weekly Roundup

131

The Solana Thesis: Internet Capital Markets With Kyle Samani

132

The Pudgy Penguin Playbook With Luca Netz

133

Solana vs Ethereum Restaking | Lucas Bruder & Sreeram Kannan

134

Solana's All Time High Chain Activity | Weekly Roundup

135

The State Of Solana With Matthew Sigel

136

Why Solana Needs To Fix Its Inflation Rate | Tushar Jain

137

The Bull Case For Solana In 2025 | Ryan Watkins

138

Crypto’s Annoying MEV Problem | Weekly Roundup

139

Breaking Down The Hyperliquid Hype | Weekly Roundup

140

Maximizing Your Privacy With Zcash | Zooko & Sean

141

Solana's 2024 Year In Review | Weekly Roundup

142

The Rise Of AI Agents | Jeffy Yu & Yash Agarwal

143

What Solana Needs To Fix | Max Resnick

144

Ethereum's North Star Problem With Jon Charbonneau

145

Why More Teams Are Building On Solana | Weekly Roundup

146

Everything You Need To Know About DoubleZero | Austin Federa

147

Accelerating Crypto's Ultimate Vision With Jack Lu

148

The State Of Solana In 2024 With Raj Gokal

149

Solana Hits A New All Time High | Weekly Roundup

150

Launching Sky On Solana With Rune Christensen

151

What Can We Learn From Sui's Outage? | Weekly Roundup

152

Solana's Total Economic Value Keeps Reaching New Highs | Dan Smith

153

Why Solana & Ethereum Still Need To Compete | Weekly Roundup

154

Will We See A Solana ETF In 2025? | Eliezer Ndinga

155

Solana's Ultimate Vision | Anatoly Yakovenko

156

The Intersection Of Crypto & AI | Andrej Radonjic

157

The Bull Case For Solana | Joe McCann

158

Solana's On Chain Boom | Weekly Roundup

159

How Crypto Is Connecting Global Payment Networks | Daniel Lev

160

The Next Chapter Of Solana Mobile | Emmett Hollyer

161

Crypto's Best Shot At Mainstream Adoption | Live At Permissionless

162

The State Of Solana DeFi Today | Tristan Frizza & Jayant Krishnamurthy

163

Going All In On Solana | Leah Wald

164

Firedancer: Unlocking Solana's Scaling Roadmap | Weekly Roundup

165

Crypto's Killer Use Case Built On Solana | Arnold Lee

166

How DePIN Is Revolutionizing Social Coordination | Sean Carey

167

How Ephemeral Rollups Impact Solana Gaming | Andrea, MagicBlock

168

Can Seeker Unlock Solana’s True Potential? | Ian Unsworth

169

The State of Solana DeFi | MacBrennan, MarginFi

170

The Lack of Bold Bets in Crypto | Weekly Roundup

171

Unpacking Solana’s Total Economic Value | Dan Smith

172

Incubating Solana’s Next Unicorns | Emon Motamedi

173

Solana's Next Narrative | Weekly Roundup

174

Will Prediction Markets Survive? | Kyle & Nigel

175

Crypto’s Instant Payments Breakthrough | Ben Mills

176

Crypto Incentive Models Are Broken | Weekly Roundup

177

Will A Solana ETF Get Approved? | Matthew Sigel

178

How Ore Broke Solana | Hardhat Chad

179

Raydium’s Rise to the Top | 0xInfra

180

Solana Still Has a Ton of Problems | Weekly Roundup

181

Blinks Built On Solana | Chris Osborn & Jon Wong

182

Unlocking DeFi With Infinex | Kain Warwick

183

The Next Era Of Solana Scaling | Swen Schäferjohann

184

Time To Accelerate Crypto's App Ecosystem | Mike Dudas & Carl Vogel

185

How Solana Enables Crypto's Onchain Future | Tristan Frizza

186

The Future Of Solana In 2024 & Beyond | Zano Sherwani

187

SocialFi Is Crypto's Biggest Opportunity | Mert Mumtaz

188

Why Solana Will Eventually Flip Ethereum | Kyle Samani

189

Powering Solana's Onchain Economy | Garrett Harper & Stepan Simkin

190

The State Of Solana In 2024 | Austin Federa

191

The Modular Integration Spectrum | Keone & Zon

192

Crypto's Ultimate Vision: Who's Building On Solana? | Weekly Roundup

193

Why Businesses Are Building On Solana | Baxus, Tzvi Wiesel

194

How Phantom Became Solana's Largest Wallet | Brandon Millman & Donnie Dinch

195

Will An Ethereum ETF Get Approved? | Weekly Roundup

196

How Helium Is Leading Solana's DePin Future | Amir Haleem

197

Will Solana Surpass Ethereum In Economic Value? | Weekly Roundup

198

The Future Of Liquid Staking On Solana | FP Lee

199

Why Stripe Is Building On Solana | Weekly Roundup

200

Igniting Liquidity Cross Chain At The Speed Of Light | Alex Smirnov

201

The Path To 100,000 Subnets | Patrick O'Grady, Aaron Buchwald & Stephen Buttolph

202

2024: The End Of EVM Dominance | Rushi Manche

203

The Solana End Game | Anatoly Yakovenko & Lucas Bruder

204

Building Solana's Largest Perps DEX | Cindy Leow & Chris Heaney

205

How To Fix Solana | Mert Mumtaz, Dan Smith

206

Why Are Solana Transactions Dropping? | Mert Mumtaz, Dan Smith

207

The Base Endgame: Crypto's Largest Layer 2 | Jesse Pollak

208

Solana vs Ethereum Fee Markets | Mert Mumtaz, Dan Smith

209

Why DePIN Matters: Powering The Crypto Economy | Jon Victor

210

The Most Exciting Experiment In Crypto: Futarchy | Robin Hanson & Proph3t

211

The AggLayer Thesis | Marc Boiron & Brendan Farmer

212

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

213

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

214

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

215

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

216

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

217

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

218

Sports Betting Built On Solana | Nigel Eccles & Varun Sudhakar

219

Solving Crypto's Scaling Trilemma | Arbitrum

220

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

221

How NEAR Is Building Crypto's Interoperability Layer | Illia Polosukhin

222

Farcaster: How Warpcast Could Become Crypto's First Mainstream App | Dan Romero

223

Post JUP Clarity: Why Solana Needs to Double Down on Product | Mert Mumtaz, Garrett Harper

224

How Colosseum Will Accelerate Solana's App Ecosystem | Matty Taylor

225

How Firedancer Will Unlock Solana's Scaling Roadmap | Lucas Bruder, Liam Heeger

226

Anatoly Yakovenko: A Deep Dive Into Solana 2.0

227

Solana's Flywheel: Why It's Time to Reevaluate Your Solana Thesis | Santiago Santos

228

The Mind Behind Madden NFL's Hit Stick Explains Game Design | Ian Cummings (Photo Finish)

229

Why JUP Is Solana's Most Anticipated Airdrop | Mert Mumtaz, Garrett Harper

230

Solana Thesis: The Fastest Horse Rises From the Ashes | Ryan Watkins, Wilson Withiam

231

Why Crypto Matters: Generative Tech Meets New Capital Formation | Josh Rosenthal

232

Solana's Local Fee Markets Aren't Real | Eugene Chen

233

Kamino 2.0: Building Solana's Economic Hub | Marius Ciubotariu, Mark Hull

234

2024 Predictions: Two of Crypto's Top Traders | Ansem, Joe McCann

235

Sui's Move: A New Blockchain Programming Paradigm | Sam Blackshear, Evan Cheng

236

Cube: The Solana Aligned CEX | Bartosz Lipiński

237

The MarginFi vs Solend Debate: Lessons From mSOL's Depeg

238

Taproot Wizards: How to Solve Bitcoin's Branding Problem | Udi Wertheimer

239

Andre Cronje Unfiltered: The Founder of Yearn, Keeper Network and Fantom

240

A Guide to Solana's New Paradigm | Mert Mumtaz, Garrett Harper

241

Jupiter: The Aggregator Fueling Solana’s GDP | Meow

242

Size Matters: How Meteora Will Multiply Solana's TVL | Ben Chow

243

How Hivemapper Can Outcompete Google Maps | Ariel Seidman

244

Micropayments Are Crypto's Untapped Use Case | Ted Livingston (CEO of Code)

245

Airdrop Season: Can Solana Handle The Surging Demand? | Mert Mumtaz, Garrett Harper

246

Finding Solana's Next Killer App | Emon Motamedi (Solana Labs)

247

Teleport: Breaking Big Tech's Network Effect | Paul Bohm

248

The Solana Rally: What Everyone Overlooked | 0xResearch

249

Crypto’s Next Cycle: Solana’s Comeback vs Ethereum’s Head Start | Qiao Wang

250

The SOL Bull Case: VanEck | Matthew Sigel, Patrick Bush

251

Has Solana Earned The Hype? | Mert Mumtaz, Garrett Harper

252

Why Solana Needs Privacy For Mass Adoption | Elusiv, Light Protocol

253

Solana: The Global State Machine | Anatoly, Dan Albert, Amira Valliani, Noah Prince, Mert Mumtaz

254

What Metrics Matter for Internet Native Money? | Tushar Jain

255

Is Solana the Consumer Chain? | Kash Dhanda, Brandon Potts

256

Solana's Compounding Advantage | Joel Monegro

257

Solana vs Ethereum: Two Paths, One Endgame | Jon Charbonneau

258

The Rise of Crypto's Superapp | Fiskantes, Matti (Zee Prime Capital)

259

Solana's Path to Mass Adoption: Gradually, Then All At Once | Mert Mumtaz, Garrett Harper

260

How Onchain Attribution Will Catalyze Crypto's Growth | Antonio García Martínez (Spindl)

261

The dYdX Appchain Vision: One of Crypto's Boldest Bets | Antonio Juliano

262

Solving Crypto's Onboarding Problem | Arianna Simpson, Riyaz & Nass (Bastion's Founders)

263

Permissionless Frontends: The Rise of Crypto's Aggregators | Kain Warwick (Infinex)

264

How Helium Is Leading Crypto's DePIN Revolution | Abhay Kumar

265

How SVM Adoption Impacts the Solana Thesis | Joe McCann, Mike Dudas

266

Web3 Gaming: A False Hope or Crypto's Path to Mass Adoption? | Ryan Wyatt

267

Anatoly Yakovenko: What's Next for Solana? | Permissionless II

268

Legacy vs Next-Gen Chains: What Everyone Gets Wrong About Avalanche | Luigi DeMeo, Patrick O'Grady

269

Finding the Answer to Crypto's Biggest Problem | Ted Livingston, CEO of Code

270

Solana's Emergence as a Payments Hub | Roundup

271

Solana's Watershed Moment | Zeta Markets, Meteora, Hubble Protocol

272

Monad: The EVM at Full Throttle | Keone Hon, Kevin G

273

The Art of Building Products Users Love | Jeff Morris Jr.

274

The Next Chapter for Stablecoins | Nic Carter

275

Magic Eden: Is the 10K PFP Playbook Dead? | Zedd, Tiff and Rex

276

The Value of Modular Blockchains | Nick White, Neel Somani

277

Why Crypto Governance Sucks | Chase Chapman, David Phelps

278

Drift: Can This Solana DEX Compete With Binance? | Cindy Leow, Chris Heaney

279

Solana’s Ultimate Vision | Anatoly Yakovenko

280

Why Solana DeFi Is Crypto's Biggest Opportunity | Ansem

281

Ending the Modular vs Monolithic Debate | Kyle Samani

282

DRiP: Crypto's Best Shot at Mainstream Adoption | Vibhu Norby

283

Compressed NFTs: Solana's Secret to Mass Adoption | Tensor's Co-founders

284

Balaji Srinivasan: Crypto Networks, Sovereignty and Decentralization with Akshay BD

285

Solana Defi 2.0: The Comeback | Jarry Xiao, Lucas Bruder, MacBrennan Peet

286

What Crypto Wallets Get Wrong | Armani Ferrante