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OUT OF SCOPE, Ep. 1: Hot Takes Roundtable with Tori Pastore (Soup) and Austin Campbell (Zero Knowledge)

2

Why Crypto Fails without Privacy with Mert Mumtaz (Helius)

3

Why Privacy Tech Is Having Its Moment with Seth for Privacy (Cake Wallet)

4

Solana Mobile's Vision Beyond Seeker with Emmett Hollyer (Solana Mobile)

5

Crypto's Market Making Arms Race with Rahul Jain (Ellipsis Labs)

6

The Constellation Debate Part 2, with Brennan Watt (Anza)

7

The Constellation Debate, Part 1 with Ben Coverston (Temporal)

8

MegaETH Mainnet and the Real-Time ZK Endgame w/ Lei Yang

9

How Shelby Makes Decentralized Storage Faster and Cheaper w/ Pranav Raval

10

How Wyoming Built the First State-Issued Stablecoin w/ Anthony Apollo

11

Inversion's Vision for Real-World Crypto w/ Santiago Roel Santos

12

Maple's Model for Institutional Lending w/ Sid Powell

13

Kevin Bowers on the True Costs of Scaling Crypto

14

How Marinade Went from Hackathon OG's to Wall Street w/ Michael Repetny

15

Prop AMMs, MEV, and the Realities of Solana's Roadmap w/ Connor (Temporal) and Brennan Watt (Anza)

16

Reinventing Onchain Order Books on Solana w/ Tristan Frezza (Bullet)

17

An Investor's Evolving Thesis of a Maturing Market w/ Jon Charbonneau (DBA)

18

What Makes Jupiter the Most Web 2 Team in Web3 (in a Good Way) w/ Kash Dhanda

19

A Decade on the Frontlines of Crypto Policy w/ Peter Van Valkenburgh

20

Self-Custody. No Seed Phrase. w/ Ouriel Ohayon (Zengo)

21

A Hardware-Accelerated Sidechain for Scaling Solana w/ Chaofan Shou (Solayer)

22

Engineering Agave for Solana's Next Chapter w/ Brennan Watt (Anza)

23

How MegaETH's Node Specialization Enables Real-Time Applications w/ Lei Yang (MegaLabs)

24

The Aptos Roadmap w/ Avery Ching (Aptos Labs)

25

Is Social Trading Crypto's Next Big Thing? w/ Ilja Moisejevs and Richard Wu

26

Increase Bandwidth, Reduce Latency w/ Mateo Ward and Andrew McConnell (Malbec Labs)

27

Will Stablecoins and PayFi Replace Traditional Banking? w/ Anna Yuan (Perena)

28

Let's Make Solana Cypherpunk w/ Yannik Schrade (Arcium)

29

The Placeholder Playbook w/ Chris Burniske and Joel Monegro

30

WTF RPC? w/ Brian Long (Triton One)

31

Blinks and Actions w/ Jon Wong (Solana Foundation) and Chris Osborn (Dialect)

32

Turning BTC into a Programable Asset on Solana w/ Justin Wang (Zeus Network)

33

How Zeta Markets’ L2 Makes a DEX Feel Like a CEX w/ Tristan Frizza

34

How Gameshift's API Is Simplifying web3 Game Development w/ Davis Hart (Solana Labs)

35

A Blockchain Dev's Guide to Leaving Cities w/ Austin Adams (Anagram)

36

What Futarchy Looks Like in Practice w/ Kollan House (MetaDAO)

37

Bringing Blockchain to Music Streaming w/ Ray Jacobson (Audius)

38

The CBDC Debate (Part 2) w/ Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL)

39

The CBDC Debate (Part 1) - Congressman Tom Emmer (R-MN)

40

The Pro-Crypto 2024 Election w/ Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN)

41

The Infinite-LST Future w/ FP Lee (Sanctum)

42

A Crypto Native's History of Markets w/ Tarun Chitra (Gauntlet)

43

Firedancer w/ Kevin Bowers

44

How Metaplex Core Moves Beyond NFT Standards w/ Stephen Hess (Metaplex Studios)

45

Building web3 Login Your Grandma Can Use w/ Itai Turbahn (Dynamic)

46

Parallelizing the EVM on Solana w/ Andrey Falaleyev (Neon)

47

Does DEX Liquidity Need a Defense Layer? w/ Nitesh Nath (DFlow)

48

What's Behind the Move Movement? w/ Rushi Manche (Movement Labs)

49

Why Does Mexico Want to Tokenize Its Treasuries? w/ David Taylor (Etherfuse)

50

The Long-Term Vision for the DA Layer w/ Connor O'Hara (Celestia)

51

The Restaking Thesis w/ Sreeram Kannan (Eigen Labs)

52

Level Up. Go Crankless. w/ Jarry Xiao (Phoenix)

53

Rethinking Solana's Validator Client Paradigm w/ Ahmad Abbasi (Syndica)

54

What Solana Unlocks for GameFi's Backend w/ Albert Chen (Genopets)

55

The Enterprise Self-Custody Problem w/ Connor and Nicolas from Cordial Systems

56

How DRiP Is Able to Give Away Millions of Free NFTs

57

A Cross-Chain DePIN Conversation w/ Alex Rawitz (DIMO)

58

The Case for Onchain Options Trading w/ Lev & Serge from DeVol Network

59

Why Payment Processing Companies Need to Start Thinking About Blockchain w/ Nabil Manji (Worldpay)

60

Is Bitcoin Still Relevant in a Smart Contract World? w/ Matt Luongo (Thesis)

61

An Open-Source Toolset for Token Infrastructure w/ Tommy Johnson

62

How Justin Bons Reconsidered His Thesis About Solana

63

Live from Breakpoint: Conversation w/ Rune Christensen (MakerDAO)

64

Crypto's Killer App Is Already Here: Stablecoins w/ Dante Disparte (Circle)

65

The Toly Episode

66

What Decentralized Credit Means for Emerging Markets w/ Thomas Bohner

67

How Pyth Is Changing the Oracle Game w/ Jayant Krishnamurthy

68

Why Multisigs are Becoming the Default Security Paradigm

69

Blockchain and AI: An Artist's POV with Lance Weiler

70

How Compression is Changing the Way We Think of NFTs

71

Can Block Explorers Work Like Traditional Search Engines?

72

What It Takes to Make a AAA Game On-Chain with Michael Wagner

73

From Anchor to Mad Lads and Beyond with Armani Ferrante

74

Bringing Real World Assets on Chain

75

Is Banking 3.0 Becoming a Reality?

76

The Future of Blockchain Privacy Tools

77

Does Web3 Need Its Own Section 230?

78

Can DePIN Build a Better Map Than Google?

79

Rethinking High Performance Computing with Kevin F****** Bowers

80

The Philosophy of Ethereum According to Bankless' David Hoffman

81

So How Does DeFi Work, Anyway?

82

Designing Crypto for Actual Humans

83

Live Show: When to Work with web2 | The Pro-CBDC Case | Crypto Twitter vs. the Hill

84

Two Ex-OFAC Lawyers Walk into a Bar ... and Discuss the Warren-Marshall Bill

85

Why Crypto Needs a Mobile Revolution

86

Not Your Keys, Not Your Crypto: The Importance of Self-Custody with Charles Guillimet, CTO of Ledger

87

What Does It Mean for an NFT Community to Get Acquired?

88

How a Web 2 CMO is Navigating web3 Strategy

89

Does the Internet Really Need Blockchain-Based AI?

90

What the Hell Is Going on in Crypto Venture Investing? with Ben & David from Acquired

91

Build Block Better: It's Infrastructure Week

92

How web3 Is Disrupting the Web 2 Venture Playbook with Li Jin

93

Are Zero-Knowledge Proofs All They're Hyped Up to Be?

94

Meet a web3 Musician Who Makes Money

95

Crypto-Powered Physical Infrastructure with Sami Kassab

96

A Decentralized Collective Memory with Sam Williams

97

How Crypto Journalism Actually Happens with Danny Nelson

98

What Keeps a Crypto OG Hopeful? with Ryan Selkis

99

Introducing Validated (Trailer)

100

Highlights from Breakpoint 2022 - Ep 77

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NFTs for All - Ep 76

102

Are Wallets Entering the 'Browser Wars' Era? - Ep 75

103

The Case for Tokenized Carbon - Ep 74

104

Can Blockchain Fix Carbon Markets? - Ep #73

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Greenpeace and Greener Crypto - Ep #72

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

107

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

108

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

109

Strata Protocol & Metaplex Ep #68

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Brett Harrison - President, FTX.US Ep #67

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Crypto & National Security Ep #66

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Kanav Kariya - President, Jump Crypto Ep #65

113

Chris Osborn - Founder & CEO, Dialect Ep #64

114

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

115

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

116

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

117

ukraine.sol Ep #60

118

Solana Foundation Ep #59

119

Payments Ep #58

120

Stake Pools Ep #57

121

Gateways to Public Blockchains Ep #56

122

Scalability and Cross-Chain Bridges Ep #55

123

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

124

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

125

Alexis Ohanian - Founder, Seven Seven Six Ep #52

126

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

127

Larry Cermak - VP Research, The Block Ep #50

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Packy McCormick - Founder of Not Boring Ep #49

129

Jonathan Schemoul - Founder of Aleph.im Ep #48

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

131

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

132

George Harrap - Co-founder of Step Finance Ep #45

133

Kevin Rose - Partner at True Ventures Ep #44

134

Jason Choi - General Partner at Spartan Capital Ep #43

135

Dan Gunsberg - Co-Founder of Hxro Ep #41

136

AlphaRay - Founder of Raydium Ep #40

137

Santiago Santos - Partner at ParaFi Capital Ep #39

138

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

139

Dankrad Feist - Researcher at Ethereum Foundation Ep #37

140

Roneil Rumburg - CEO and Co-Founder of Audius Ep #36

141

Paolo Ardoino - CTO of Bitfinex & CTO Tether Ep #35

142

Eli-Shaoul Khedouri - CEO of Intuition Machines & Advisor to HUMAN Protocol Ep #34

143

Sergey Nazarov - Co-Founder of Chainlink Ep #33

144

Michael Shaulov - CEO & Co-founder of Fireblocks Ep #32

145

RAC - Grammy Award Winning Recording Artist Ep #31

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A Deep Dive Into DeFi With FTX, Aave, Balancer, Curve, Gauntlet, and Solana Ep #30

147

Aaron Henshaw - Founder & CTO of Bison Trails Ep #29

148

Balaji Srinivasan - Angel Investor/Entrepreneur, Formerly the CTO of Coinbase and General Partner at a16z Ep #28

149

Clint Ehrlich - CEO of KRNC / NSF Funded Computer Scientist Ep #27

150

Kain Warwick - Synthetix Founder Ep #26

151

Justin Drake - Ethereum 2.0 Researcher Ep #25

152

Sam Bankman-Fried - CEO of FTX, Co-founder of Serum Ep #24

153

Dieter Shirley - CTO of Dapper Labs, Lead Architect of Flow Ep #23

154

Rodolfo Gonzalez - Partner at Foundation Capital Ep #22

155

Tarun Chitra - Founder of Gauntlet Ep #21

156

Zaki Manian - Co-founder of iqlusion Ep #20

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Viktor Radchenko - Founder of Trust Wallet Ep #19

158

Kyle Samani - Managing Partner at Multicoin Capital Ep #18

159

Amir Haleem - CEO of Helium Ep #17

160

Coinlist Auction & Staker Price Guarantee ft. Coinlist President Andy Bromberg

161

Vinny Lingham - CEO of Civic / General Partner at Multicoin Capital Ep #16

162

Jill Carlson - Partner at Slow Ventures / Co-Founder Of The Open Money Initiative Ep #15

163

Meher Roy & Reisen - Co-Founders of Chorus One Ep #14

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Sunny Aggarwal - Core Developer at Tendermint / Cosmos. Founder of Sikka Tech & Blockchain at Berkley Ep #13

165

Brendan Eich - Co-founder / CEO Brave Software and Attention Token. Co-founder Mozilla & Firefox. Created JavaScript Ep #12

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Evan Shapiro - CEO and Co-founder of o1 Labs, building Coda Protocol Ep #11

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Emin Gün Sirer - Cornell Professor & Founder of AVA Labs Ep #10

168

Jack O'Holleran - SKALE CEO and Co-Founder (Live Podcast Recording) Ep #9

169

Brad Kam - Unstoppable Domains Founder Ep #8

170

Alexander Skidanov - NEAR Protocol Founder & CEO Ep #7

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Andy Bromberg - Coinlist Co-founder & President Ep #6

172

Fundamentals of Blockchain Law with Ryón Nixon Ep #5

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How To Get Involved in Decentralized Open Source with Dominic Tsang Ep #4

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Tour de SOL Primer with Eric Williams Ep #3

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How Solana Works with Anatoly Yakovenko Ep #2

176

Solana Overview with Greg Fitzgerald Ep #1