Validated
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Web3: Sometimes complicated, never boring. A podcast hosted by @Austin_Federa from the @doublezero foundation
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And now for something (almost) completely different. Welcome to Out of Scope, a new sub-series of Validated where Austin Federa | 🇺🇸 and Tori Pastore, aka Chairman Birb Bernanke, aka Birb, riff with guests on hot takes so off-topic you’ll forget this is typically a blockchain-centric podcast. In this debut episode, they sit down with Austin Campbell to discuss what some might call too many subjects for one hour. Running stablecoin reserves, repealing the 17th Amendment, why some banks resemble cartels, market structure, why regulators should be paid more and held to higher standards, modernizing the BSA, and (most importantly) a definitive ranking of video conferencing tools. Timestamps: ↓ 00:00 - Introducing Tori (as if you don’t know her) 01:24 - Chinese Peptides Explained 02:45 - GLP 1 Hype Cycle 05:40 - Peptides and Food Science 10:49 - Enter Austin Campbell 16:11- Stablecoin Reserve Rules 20:35 - Gold Doom Scenarios 22:59 - Banks' Payment Monopoly 34:38 - AI Lobbying and EA critiques 38:20 - Prediction Markets Incentives 43:59 - Fixing Regulator Accountability 47:39 - More on Prediction Markets 48:47 - Market Manipulation Debate 59:54 - Perps Versus Futures 01:02:51 - Assassination Markets Debate 01:06:21 - Austin's Magic Wand Reforms 01:10:40 - Blooper Reel
Validated13,701 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
The firms leading in market making figured out early that infrastructure compounds. Austin Federa | 🇺🇸 sits down with Rahul Jain, Rahul Jain (Ellipsis Labs), to trace how crypto market making evolved: why being early matters, how MEV and transaction landing reshaped execution, and what it will take for onchain finance to scale beyond crypto-native users. Understanding the infrastructure layer is a prerequisite for competing with traditional trading environments. Timestamps and links below ↓ 00:00 - Introduction 03:53 - What Makes Solana Trading Different 07:17 - Trust and Retail Outcomes 12:04 - Infra Arms Race 2025 14:27 - Prop AMMs vs Order Books 17:05 - Spot Market Equilibrium 18:12 - MCP and Perps Security 21:22 - Why MCP Matters 24:25 - ACE For Safer Perps 25:47 - RWAs And Oracle Risk 29:28 - Why Retail Loves Perps 34:23 - Hypothetical VIX perps 35:29 - The Different MCP Camps 37:07 - Latency And Block Full 40:41 - Conclusion
Validated27,660 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад
The infrastructure behind crypto market making is changing. How it develops determines whether onchain markets can operate at institutional scale. Tomorrow on Validated: Austin Federa | 🇺🇸 sits down with Rahul Jain, Rahul Jain, Head of Trading at Ellipsis Labs, to dig into the evolution of market making in crypto. They also discuss MEV, transaction landing, execution, prop AMMs, and what onchain finance needs to compete at scale with traditional trading environments. You’ll want to turn your notifications on for this one. dropping s00n™️
Validated21,887 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад
Wake up, new Validated just dropped 🔊 In this episode, Temporal and Anza breakdown Solana’s evolution and balancing real-world builder challenges with protocol development. From infra failures and MEV to transparency tools exposing attacks, they explore what’s breaking, what’s adapting, and the path forward for the blockchain with ideas like concurrent leaders and more compute power. Watch the full episode below ↓
Validated39,159 просмотров • 11 месяцев назад
New Validated just dropped featuring our most requested repeat guest: Kevin Bowers from Jump Crypto 🔥💃🏻 🦬 In this episode, Kevin returns to explain Jump's expansion from trading to core infrastructure, centered on what he calls the "great inversion": the real bottleneck in tech isn't compute, but data and I/O. Austin Federa | 🇺🇸 and Kevin also discuss: + Shelby, Jump’s new storage network + How Jump Crypto 🔥💃🏻firedancer has helped scale Solana + Why FPGAs are the key to “getting close to the wire” Watch now on X ↓
Validated29,203 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад
All new Validated episode is now live! In this episode, Austin Federa | 🇺🇸 chats with repe, a core contributor to Marinade 🛡️. They discuss the history and technical details of Marinade, its role in the @Solana ecosystem, and its approach to staking. Timestamps below ↓
Validated27,808 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад
Solana Mobile started as a hardware play, and now it's becoming a platform. Austin Federa | 🇺🇸 sat down with m-it.skr from Seeker | Solana Mobile to talk about smart moves with smartphones: the lessons from Saga, scaling Seeker to 100k+ preorders, why they launched a token, and the plan to bring the Solana Mobile Stack to Android manufacturers worldwide. Watch the full video below. ↓ Timestamps: 01:37 - Solana Mobile Origins 04:46 - Lessons Learned from Saga 13:55 - Seeker Preorders and Production 20:06 - Solana Mobile Developer Pitch 24:00 - Why Launch SKR? 27:05 - Solana Mobile Stack on Other Phones 29:05 - Why OEMs Want Crypto Features 35:42 - Moving Beyond Flagship Hardware 38:08 - Use Cases for Pro Users 41:27 - The Potential for Future Multichain Support
Validated10,812 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад
It’s infrastructure season across the blockchain space. This week on Validated, Lei Yang Σ:, cofounder and CTO of @megaeth_labs, joins Austin Federa | 🇺🇸 to dive into: - How MegaETH enables real-time blockchain applications - Specialization of nodes and optimizing for high-frequency transactions - Tackling technical challenges like network latency and state propagation Catch the full episode below ↓
Validated21,412 просмотров • 1 год назад
New Validated episode 🎙️ Austin Federa | 🇺🇸 sits down with Marcantonio, Head of DeFi at Galaxy, to talk about: - Why the future of global finance is onchain - Why Galaxy is betting big on Solana - Critical infrastructure projects like DoubleZero You'll want to take an hour to listen to this. Timestamps below ↓
Validated12,493 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад
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