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Validated — 173 episodes

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1

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

2

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

3

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

4

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

5

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

6

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

7

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

8

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

9

Maple's Model for Institutional Lending w/ Sid Powell

10

Kevin Bowers on the True Costs of Scaling Crypto

11

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

12

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

13

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

14

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

15

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

16

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

17

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

18

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

19

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

20

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

21

The Aptos Roadmap w/ Avery Ching (Aptos Labs)

22

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

23

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

24

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

25

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

26

The Placeholder Playbook w/ Chris Burniske and Joel Monegro

27

WTF RPC? w/ Brian Long (Triton One)

28

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

29

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

30

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

31

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

32

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

33

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

34

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

35

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

36

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

37

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

38

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

39

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

40

Firedancer w/ Kevin Bowers

41

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

42

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

43

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

44

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

45

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

46

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

47

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

48

The Restaking Thesis w/ Sreeram Kannan (Eigen Labs)

49

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

50

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

51

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

52

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

53

How DRiP Is Able to Give Away Millions of Free NFTs

54

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

55

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

56

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

57

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

58

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

59

How Justin Bons Reconsidered His Thesis About Solana

60

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

61

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

62

The Toly Episode

63

What Decentralized Credit Means for Emerging Markets w/ Thomas Bohner

64

How Pyth Is Changing the Oracle Game w/ Jayant Krishnamurthy

65

Why Multisigs are Becoming the Default Security Paradigm

66

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

67

How Compression is Changing the Way We Think of NFTs

68

Can Block Explorers Work Like Traditional Search Engines?

69

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

70

From Anchor to Mad Lads and Beyond with Armani Ferrante

71

Bringing Real World Assets on Chain

72

Is Banking 3.0 Becoming a Reality?

73

The Future of Blockchain Privacy Tools

74

Does Web3 Need Its Own Section 230?

75

Can DePIN Build a Better Map Than Google?

76

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

77

The Philosophy of Ethereum According to Bankless' David Hoffman

78

So How Does DeFi Work, Anyway?

79

Designing Crypto for Actual Humans

80

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

81

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

82

Why Crypto Needs a Mobile Revolution

83

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

84

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

85

How a Web 2 CMO is Navigating web3 Strategy

86

Does the Internet Really Need Blockchain-Based AI?

87

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

88

Build Block Better: It's Infrastructure Week

89

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

90

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

91

Meet a web3 Musician Who Makes Money

92

Crypto-Powered Physical Infrastructure with Sami Kassab

93

A Decentralized Collective Memory with Sam Williams

94

How Crypto Journalism Actually Happens with Danny Nelson

95

What Keeps a Crypto OG Hopeful? with Ryan Selkis

96

Introducing Validated (Trailer)

97

Highlights from Breakpoint 2022 - Ep 77

98

NFTs for All - Ep 76

99

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

100

The Case for Tokenized Carbon - Ep 74

101

Can Blockchain Fix Carbon Markets? - Ep #73

102

Greenpeace and Greener Crypto - Ep #72

103

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

104

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

105

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

106

Strata Protocol & Metaplex Ep #68

107

Brett Harrison - President, FTX.US Ep #67

108

Crypto & National Security Ep #66

109

Kanav Kariya - President, Jump Crypto Ep #65

110

Chris Osborn - Founder & CEO, Dialect Ep #64

111

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

112

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

113

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

114

ukraine.sol Ep #60

115

Solana Foundation Ep #59

116

Payments Ep #58

117

Stake Pools Ep #57

118

Gateways to Public Blockchains Ep #56

119

Scalability and Cross-Chain Bridges Ep #55

120

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

121

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

122

Alexis Ohanian - Founder, Seven Seven Six Ep #52

123

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

124

Larry Cermak - VP Research, The Block Ep #50

125

Packy McCormick - Founder of Not Boring Ep #49

126

Jonathan Schemoul - Founder of Aleph.im Ep #48

127

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

128

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

129

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

130

Kevin Rose - Partner at True Ventures Ep #44

131

Jason Choi - General Partner at Spartan Capital Ep #43

132

Dan Gunsberg - Co-Founder of Hxro Ep #41

133

AlphaRay - Founder of Raydium Ep #40

134

Santiago Santos - Partner at ParaFi Capital Ep #39

135

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

136

Dankrad Feist - Researcher at Ethereum Foundation Ep #37

137

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

138

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

139

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

140

Sergey Nazarov - Co-Founder of Chainlink Ep #33

141

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

142

RAC - Grammy Award Winning Recording Artist Ep #31

143

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

144

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

145

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

146

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

147

Kain Warwick - Synthetix Founder Ep #26

148

Justin Drake - Ethereum 2.0 Researcher Ep #25

149

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

150

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

151

Rodolfo Gonzalez - Partner at Foundation Capital Ep #22

152

Tarun Chitra - Founder of Gauntlet Ep #21

153

Zaki Manian - Co-founder of iqlusion Ep #20

154

Viktor Radchenko - Founder of Trust Wallet Ep #19

155

Kyle Samani - Managing Partner at Multicoin Capital Ep #18

156

Amir Haleem - CEO of Helium Ep #17

157

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

158

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

159

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

160

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

161

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

162

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

163

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

164

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

165

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

166

Brad Kam - Unstoppable Domains Founder Ep #8

167

Alexander Skidanov - NEAR Protocol Founder & CEO Ep #7

168

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

169

Fundamentals of Blockchain Law with Ryón Nixon Ep #5

170

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

171

Tour de SOL Primer with Eric Williams Ep #3

172

How Solana Works with Anatoly Yakovenko Ep #2

173

Solana Overview with Greg Fitzgerald Ep #1