Validated
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Web3: Sometimes complicated, never boring. A podcast hosted by @Austin_Federa from the @doublezero foundation
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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
Validated26,809 просмотров • 1 месяц 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™️
Validated21,506 просмотров • 1 месяц 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 • 9 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 • 7 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 • 8 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 • 7 месяцев назад
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