A conversation with Brandon M, the CEO and co-founder of Phantom, and David Wu, Head of Growth at Phantom. ❤️🔥 Click here to mint this episode as an NFT on Solana - solfate.link/mint44 💪 Full show notes: solfate.com/podcast/44 Follow the @SolfatePod show on Twitter for updates. Thanks for listening frens :) Notes from the show In this conversation, the CEO and co-founder of Phantom Wallet, Brandon M, discusses the origin story, their approach to product decision-making, and the future of wall...
Jan 30, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 44
A conversation with GJ Flannery, the Head of Community at Flipside Crypto. ❤️🔥 Click here to mint this episode as an NFT on Solana - solfate.link/mint43 💪 Full show notes: solfate.com/podcast/43 Follow the @SolfatePod show on Twitter for updates. Thanks for listening frens :) Notes from the show In this conversation, GJ Flannery, the Head of Community at Flipside Crypto, discusses the onboarding process and documentation for Flipside's data analytics tool. He also explains how Flipside provid...
Jan 16, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 43
A conversation with Siong, the co-founder of Jupiter swap. ❤️🔥 Click here to mint this episode as an NFT on Solana - solfate.link/mint42 💪 Full show notes: solfate.com/podcast/42 Follow the @SolfatePod show on Twitter for updates. Thanks for listening frens :) Notes from the show The conversation covers the background and journey of the Jupiter swap aggregator, a popular protocol in the Solana ecosystem. It starts with the early days of Solana with the launch of Mercurial finance and eventual...
Jan 02, 2024•56 min•Ep. 42
A conversation with Armani Ferrante, the co-founder of Backpack Exchange and MadLads. Full show notes: solfate.com/podcast/41 Watch this episode on YouTube: youtu.be/aSSnPs0vcck Follow the @SolfatePod show on Twitter for updates. Thanks for listening frens :) Notes from the show Armani discusses the genesis of Backpack Exchange and the challenges of building an exchange. He highlights the importance of compliance and the operational aspects of running an exchange. Armani also shares the vision f...
Dec 19, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 41
A conversation with Matt Luongo, the founder of Thesis.co and Threshold Network (aka tBTC). Full show notes: solfate.com/podcast/40 Watch this episode on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=A05AtK7WX1I Follow the @SolfatePod show on Twitter for updates. Thanks for listening frens :) Notes from the show In this conversation, Matt Luongo discusses Threshold Network and tBTC, a cross-chain bridge for Bitcoin. He explains how Threshold Network combines the capabilities of Keep and NuCypher to enable thresh...
Dec 12, 2023•58 min•Ep. 40
A conversation with Vidor, the founder and CEO of Solflare Wallet Full show notes: solfate.com/podcast/39 Watch this episode on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=rNORX_o8-lE Follow the @SolfatePod show on Twitter for updates. Thanks for listening frens :) Notes from the show In this conversation, Vidor, the founder of Solflare, discusses building the wallet and how his past experience across multiple blockchain ecosystems build his strong confidence in Solana. He shares his background in software dev...
Dec 05, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 39
A conversation with Dimitris (aka Takisoul), contributing member of Dean's List DAO and AthensDAOx. Full show notes: solfate.com/podcast/38 Watch this episode on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=uuN2k-Njm4I Follow the @SolfatePod show on Twitter for updates. Thanks for listening frens :) Notes from the show Dean’s List is a services DAO, meaning their members offer various services to the broader Solana community including detailed product feedback and marketing services. Dimitris shares the overarc...
Nov 21, 2023•57 min•Ep. 38
A conversation with Brian Long, co-founder of Triton One. Full show notes: solfate.com/podcast/37 Watch this episode on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=oVhif85sv_I Follow the @SolfatePod show on Twitter for updates. Thanks for listening frens :) Notes from the show Brian has been in the Solana ecosystem since very early days. Pre-mainnet days. He and his company, Triton One, helped Solana Labs bring up mainnet in March 2020. Even to this day, Brian and Triton continue to be active contributors to t...
Nov 14, 2023•48 min•Ep. 37
Follow the @SolfatePod show on Twitter for updates. Thanks for listening frens :) Notes from the show The time has come, the annual BreakPoint Conference is finally here! Sadly, neither James nor Nick will be attending BreakPoint this year. But we will be watching the talks from home still and these are the talks we will be keeping a close eye on. Follow us around Nick follow on twitter: @nickfrosty follow on github: github.com/nickfrosty website: https://nick.af James follow on twitter: @jamesr...
Oct 31, 2023•6 min•Ep. 36
Follow the @SolfatePod show on Twitter for updates. Thanks for listening frens :) Notes from the show A conversation with Nicholas Chen, co-founder of SolanaFM. Alpha alert: Nicholas Chen shares a screencast of the new version of SolanaFM. One of the first around! Find the video on our YouTube channel here. SolanaFM is one of the most popular block explorers in the Solana ecosystem. They are well known for their “visual explorer” that allows even the least technical people clearly see how tokens...
Oct 17, 2023•54 min•Ep. 35
Follow the @SolfatePod show on Twitter for updates. Thanks for listening frens :) Notes from the show A conversation with Tommy Johnson, founder of PsyFi and PsyOptions. Tommy has been in the Solana ecosystem longer than most, having participated in one of the first global hackathons. From building one of the first options markets on Solana, to now launching their latest product: ArmadaFi. The goal of the ArmadaFi platform is to allow people to create better tokenomics by providing the tools tea...
Oct 03, 2023•53 min•Ep. 34
Follow the @SolfatePod show on Twitter for updates. Thanks for listening frens :) Notes from the show The Squads protocol is known throughout the Solana ecosystem. Co-founder and CEO of Squads, Stepan, joins to explain why multi signature wallets (aka “multi-sigs”) are so very important in the blockchain world. Stepan shares his background of working in traditional company governance and structure while he was working in mergers and acquisitions before diving full time into web3. Find Stepan and...
Sep 19, 2023•52 min•Ep. 33
Follow the @SolfatePod show on Twitter for updates. Thanks for listening frens :) Notes from the show The Web3 Builders Alliance (WBA for short) is a white glove developer school, focused on blockchain. The people focking ship. How? Because they are all about the people. Co-founder of the Web3 Builders Alliance, Jeff ( @japarjam ), shares his background of not only coming from outside the tech industry as a traditional educator, but also his experience with cancer. We talk about how the cadets i...
Sep 05, 2023•49 min•Ep. 32
Follow the @SolfatePod show on Twitter for updates. Thanks for listening frens :) Notes from the show The creator and lead developer of Solang, Sean Young , a compiler that allow developers to write Solana programs (aka smart contracts) in the Solidity programming language. This has been a multi year effort to allow existing Solidity developers, like all those existing in the Ethereum ecosystem, to use their existing language knowledge to write Solidity smart contracts on the Solana blockchain. ...
Aug 23, 2023•55 min•Ep. 31
Follow the @SolfatePod show on Twitter for updates. Thanks for listening frens :) Notes from the show As our first repeat guest, Mert joins to kick off the Only Possible On Solana hackathon that he is spearheading from within the Solana community. This community driven hackathon is being orchestrated by LamportDAO , an open discord community of builders in the Solana ecosystem. The idea is simple: encourage people to build cool and interesting products using the unique tech that is either Only P...
Aug 08, 2023•54 min•Ep. 30
Follow the @SolfatePod show on Twitter for updates. Thanks for listening frens :) Notes from the show While blockchain is still a new industry, the sub section of “blockchain gaming” is even newer and largely considered a very strong use case of blockchain technology. Michael Wagner , co-founder and CEO of Star Atlas joins to explain how Star Atlas is using the Solana blockchain within the game’s infrastructure and economy. Michael give his backstory of being a life long gamer and working in the...
Jul 25, 2023•54 min•Ep. 29
Follow the @SolfatePod show on Twitter for updates. Thanks for listening frens :) Notes from the show The hackathon winners and founders of Underdog, Kevin and Tony , join to talk about the NFT infrastructure landscape. Including compressed nfts and various interesting NFT use cases that do not include the typical pfp experience. We all discuss how Solana seemingly does a better job than other blockchains in utilizing NFTs for non-pfp use cases. Including web3 cookies, on-chain membership system...
Jul 18, 2023•46 min•Ep. 28
Follow the @SolfatePod show on Twitter for updates. Thanks for listening frens :) Notes from the show We are joined by David (aka thehasheddude ), the founder of MadShield (formerly SolShield) and infamous twitter personality on crypto-twitter. His primary focus is on security audits and bounties in the Solana ecosystem, and has audited the top tier projects from around the Solana ecosystem. David shares his mindset of how goes through performing a security audit, including some of the common bu...
Jul 11, 2023•48 min•Ep. 27
Follow the @SolfatePod show on Twitter for updates. Thanks for listening frens :) Notes from the show The founders of marginfi, Edgar and Mac , share how they got into crypto and why they decided to dive in full time into the DeFi ecosystem. They both explain how they adjust their building plans based on the macro conditions and their actual product usage. Tailoring their product roadmap to the types of users they are getting at the time, while still keeping a longer term vision in mind. Edgar e...
Jul 04, 2023•47 min•Ep. 26
Follow the @SolfatePod show on Twitter for updates. Thanks for listening frens :) Notes from the show In this special episode, we compare and contrast some of the differences between Solana and Ethereum. We are joined by two developers, Cami and Connor . Each have been around the blockchain sphere for years and both have more experience from outside the Solana ecosystem. We talk about the one of the recent issues on the Ethereum chain and why it was not considered a network outage. Including som...
Jun 28, 2023•57 min•Ep. 25
Follow the @SolfatePod show on Twitter for updates. Thanks for listening frens :) Notes from the show Nick and James talks about the recent Solana Bootcamp/workshop that the Solana Foundation’s DevRel team hosted in the NYC office. Plus the Solana NYC hackerhouse has just come to a close and it was amazing! Huge thanks to all the show listeners that met Nick at the NYC hackerhouse and said they were a fan or listener of the show! It’s things like this that motivate us to keep doing this show! In...
Jun 20, 2023•32 min•Ep. 24
Follow the @SolfatePod show on Twitter for updates. Thanks for listening frens :) Notes from the show James and Nick talk about the ideas of secure crypto/blockchain key storage mechanisms that allow various services (like MagicLink and TipLink) to enable user’s to own a private key via their email address. Enabling them to not need to remember a mnemonic! Also, like usual, Nick is building a new tool/product. Using Solana Pay… Disclaimer: James and his company work with the MagicLink company, a...
Jun 13, 2023•34 min•Ep. 23
Follow the @SolfatePod show on Twitter for updates. Thanks for listening frens :) Notes from the show Design is hard. We are joined by a Creative Director and Designer with nearly 2 decades of experience named Phil . We talk about the considerations of a product with good design, common pitfalls many developers fall into. Including the difference between web3 design and traditional design. Find Phil online Follow Phil on twitter - @fhlcreative Phil's website - fhlcreative.com Follow us around Ni...
Jun 06, 2023•54 min•Ep. 22
Follow the @SolfatePod show on Twitter for updates. Thanks for listening frens :) Notes from the show The Head of Developer Ecosystem at Solana Foundation, Chase Barker , joins to share thoughts on blockchain developers in the community. And his thoughts about what can be done to get more quality Solana developers. Chase shares his background on how he actually got his job within the Solana ecosystem. He shares how the idea of chewing glass has shifted from it nearly being a requirement to build...
May 30, 2023•41 min•Ep. 21
Follow the @SolfatePod show on Twitter for updates. Thanks for listening frens :) Notes from the show The true Solana legend, Armani Ferrante joins. We get a glimpse into the personality of Armani Ferrante, the creator of the Anchor Framework and founder of Coral, the organization behind xNFTs, MadLads, and the Backpack wallet. Armani shares his thoughts on leadership and his mindset about leading by example. Empowering others to get things done. He describes a mental framework of sorts about ho...
May 23, 2023•51 min•Ep. 20
Follow the @SolfatePod show on Twitter for updates. Thanks for listening frens :) Notes from the show Joe C from Solana Foundation DevRel joins to talk about the Nautilus framework , a new Solana developer framework (written in Rust) he has built in his free time. He describes the idea around this new developer framework that enables Solana developers to spend less time getting up to speed with deeply understanding the Solana development model, and get production ready code out the door. James t...
May 16, 2023•40 min•Ep. 19
Follow the @SolfatePod show on Twitter for updates. Thanks for listening frens :) Notes from the show In this episode, we are joined by Chris Osborn , founder of Dialect , the very well known wallet-to-wallet chat app on Solana. We talk about the Dialect team pioneering two interesting pieces of technology, each trying to accomplish a different goal: smart messages, and NFT chat stickers Smart messages allow links to have built in “calls to action” that a viewer can immediately take an action on...
May 08, 2023•46 min•Ep. 18
Follow the @SolfatePod show on Twitter for updates. Thanks for listening frens :) Notes from the show Solana content creator and educator, Andy (aka SolAndy), makes a guest appearance. Andy shares his background and how he first started creating content for the Solana ecosystem. (It was with bounties!) After not participating in the MadLad, Nick gave in an purchased a MadLad. Andy describe the experience of minting MadLabs through the xNFT directly in the Backpack wallet. As educators, James and...
May 01, 2023•40 min•Ep. 17
Announcement: We are looking for an editor/producer GM! The Solfate Podcast is looking for an editor/producer for the show. We would love to find someone from the Solana community. If you, or anyone you know is interested, please reach out to us on Twitter. Sharing our this tweet with your frens would also help: https://twitter.com/SolfatePod/status/1650249460637741057 Follow the @SolfatePod show on Twitter for updates. Thanks for listening frens :) Notes from the show MadLads mint was hit by a ...
Apr 24, 2023•17 min•Ep. 16
Follow the @SolfatePod show on Twitter for updates. Thanks for listening frens :) Notes from the show Twitter gave James’s profile viewers confetti for his birthday, even though it's not public information... The Saga phone officially launched!!! The Saga cards were revealed to be discounts based on the best poker card had you had. Plus, Nick and James catch up some. Links from the show Saga phones have officially launched DRIP season 2 has begun (using compressed NFTs!) The Solfate Podcast webs...
Apr 17, 2023•33 min•Ep. 15
