Gm! This week we welcome Amir Haleem CEO of Nova Labs for a discussion on how Helium is building out DePin infrastructure to capture one of crypto's biggest opportunities. Enjoy!

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(00:00) Introduction

(04:19) The Helium Origin Story

(06:45) Permissionless III Ad

(07:47) Helium Mobile

(16:20) What Is The Helium Network & How Does It Work?

(22:41) How To Bootstrap A Network

(29:43) Who Is Using Helium Mobile?

(32:28) Why Build On Solana?

(36:51) SIM Swaps

(43:04) Onboarding To Helium Mobile

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Gm! This week we're back with another weekly roundup. We discuss will Solana flip Ethereum, L1 vs L2 value accrual, Van Eck's meme coin index & the SocialFi hype. Enjoy!

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(00:00) Introduction

(01:41) Solana Will Flip Ethereum: MEV & Fees

(12:56) Helium Mobile Ad

(14:00) How Profitable Is It To Run A Validator?

(18:59) Value Accrual: L1s vs L2s

(29:32) Solana's Node Count

(37:17) Permissionless III Ad

(38:19) VanEck's Bullish Meme Coins

(43:26) SocialFi

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Gm! This week we welcome FP Lee to the show for a discussion on the growth of liquid staking on Solana. We deep dive into launching LSTs, value accrual, solving liquidity issues & some of the products sanctum is building. Enjoy!

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(00:00) Introduction

(02:21) Infinity

(09:55) Permissionless III Ad

(10:57) Algorithmic Auto Rebalancing

(15:54) Launching LSTs

(21:51) Solving LST Liquidity

(34:01) Value Accrual

(35:51) Sanctum Wonderland

(39:46) LSTs: Winner Take All?

(45:01) Stake Weighted QoS

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Gm! This week we're back with another weekly roundup. After a crazy couple of weeks for Solana & crypto more broadly, we deep dive into Stripe's crypto announcement, Solana MEV, EigenLayer's token launch, Kamino + Drift Airdrops & more!

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(00:00) Introduction

(01:15) Stripe Is Bullish

(13:36) Helium Mobile Ad

(17:10) MEV On Solana

(28:34) Firedancer

(35:17) Permissionless III Ad

(43:49) Performance vs Decentralization

(46:30) Kamino & Drift Airdrops

(57:10) EigenLayer

(01:08:50) Crypto Needs More Apps

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Gm! This episode Alex Smirnov joins the show for a discussion on how deBridge is working to power the crypto economy with cross chain bridging & interoperability. Enjoy!

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(00:00) Introduction

(01:32) Bridging & Interoperability

(07:33) Permissionless III Ad

(08:36) Decentralization vs Performance

(14:20) The Intent Bridging Model

(27:59) Bridging Mechanics

(31:17) MEV

(35:32) Fee Compression

(39:56) Bringing Liquidity On Chain

(42:30) Bridging Risk

(48:23) Governance & Validators

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Gm! This week Patrick O'Grady, Aaron Buchwald & Stephen Buttolph join the show to discuss the path forward for the Avalanche ecosystem.

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(00:00) Introduction

(01:20) The Avalanche Architecture

(07:38) Helium Mobile Ad

(08:41) Reinventing Subnets: ACP-13 & ACP-77

(20:38) ACP-77 New Fee Mechanism

(35:58) Permissionless III Ad

(37:00) The HyperSDK Unlock

(43:56) Vryx 100k TPS Breakthrough

(54:51) C-Chain Functionality

(01:03:42) Future Of The EVM

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Gm! This week Rushi Manche of Movement Labs joins the show to discuss why 2023 was the year of DA & 2024 will be the year of the VM. Enjoy!

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(00:00) Introduction

(04:22) Moving Past The EVM

(06:22) VM Composability

(10:30) Helium Mobile Ad

(11:32) 2024: The Year Of The VM

(12:56) L1 vs L2 Trade-Offs

(16:13) General Purpose vs App Specific Chains

(21:38) Zk vs Optimistic Rollups

(23:42) App Fragmentation & Interoperability

(27:43) Shared Sequencers

(33:34) Do L2s Have Staying Power?

(37:37) VM Market Penetration: Attracting New Devs to Web3

(38:42) Solana Transactions Dropping Is Bullish

(45:12) Scaling Solutions To Watch In 2024

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Gm! This week we invite Anatoly Yakovenko & Lucas Bruder to the show for a discussion on the current state of Solana. We deep dive into the transaction problem as on chain volumes have exploded in recent months. Toly & Lucas explore the solutions that could help to increase chain performance & what's next for Solana. Enjoy!

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(00:00) Introduction

(01:54) Solana Chain Performance

(12:05) Helium Mobile

(13:08) The Criticism's Of Stake Weight QoS

(24:59) The QoS Patch Rollout

(27:31) Solana's TPS Problem

(31:40) The End State For Priority Fees

(35:00) Blocks Should Always Be Full

(43:45) The Solana End State

(52:33) Wen Dynamic Rent Fee?

(58:54) Solana Restaking

(01:05:07) MEV On Solana

(01:08:54) Firedancer

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Gm! This week Rushi Manche of Movement Labs joins the show to discuss why 2023 was the year of DA & 2024 will be the year of the VM. Enjoy!

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(00:00) Introduction

(04:22) Moving Past The EVM

(06:22) VM Composability

(10:30) Helium Mobile Ad

(11:32) 2024: The Year Of The VM

(12:56) L1 vs L2 Trade-Offs

(16:13) General Purpose vs App Specific Chains

(21:38) Zk vs Optimistic Rollups

(23:42) App Fragmentation & Interoperability

(27:43) Shared Sequencers

(33:34) Do L2s Have Staying Power?

(37:37) VM Market Penetration: Attracting New Devs to Web3

(38:42) Solana Transactions Dropping Is Bullish

(45:12) Scaling Solutions To Watch In 2024

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Gm! This week we invite Cindy & Chris from Drift to the show to discuss how they're building the largest perps DEX on Solana. Enjoy!

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