Talking Tokens Podcast
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Award-nominated host @JacqMelinek interviews the most consequential leaders in onchain finance. Twice a week. Brought to you by @StrataMedia_
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Today's Solana Sessions is with Ben Reynolds, SVP and head of Big Business Banking at SoFi While at Solana Events Accelerate, we discuss launch of SoFiUSD on Solana, why stablecoin liquidity is less mature than people think, and SoFi's vision to become the stablecoin liquidity hub. Links below
Talking Tokens Podcast16,989 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
Today's pod is with Kevin Beardsley, the new head of institutional growth at Jito We talk about institutional adoption, how liquid staking tokens provide capital efficiency, why crypto companies will take territory from banks, and the industry’s branding problem that still persists. Links below
Talking Tokens Podcast11,517 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад
NEW Solana Sessions dives into Harmonic’s plan to bring Nasdaq onchain Its cofounder Ben ⌛ explains how it’s creating an open, competitive marketplace on Solana with plans to scale to 1M TPS Timestamps 00:00 – Intro: Solana’s progress & how Temporal fits in 01:03 – Creating an “onchain Nasdaq” for Solana 02:15 – Ben’s background: from math & CS student to interning at Citadel 03:19 – What drew him from traditional finance to crypto 04:11 – First impressions of Solana’s speed and performance 05:25 – Why Ben left HFT firms to build in decentralized finance 06:20 – Problems with centralized markets and the appeal of DeFi transparency 07:04 – How Solana achieved real efficiency and low fees 08:50 – Understanding more about Harmonic 10:15 – Why sequencing and inclusion latency matter for DeFi apps 11:35 – Standardizing Solana’s transaction rules with ACE (Application Controlled Execution) 13:13 – Why open sequencing helps apps like DEXs and liquidators 14:04 – Bringing predictability and competition to Solana’s block production 15:32 – How multiple builders competing improves network throughput 16:51 – The goal: Solana reaching 10 to 100x throughput with stability 18:06 – Long-term potential can be 1 million TPS and sustainable decentralization 19:22 – How open sequencing improves inclusion, latency and efficiency 20:57 – Building trust between validators, builders, and applications 22:13 – Preventing toxic block-building practices 23:46 – Why transparency and fairness increase validator revenue 25:04 – What “success” looks like for Solana developers and apps 26:33 – Why Solana’s user and institutional adoption is accelerating 28:10 – The role of liquidity providers and market competition 29:12 – Institutional capital, DeFi adoption & network maturity 31:04 – Advice from Ben: ignore short-term noise, keep building 32:33 – Closing thoughts & future of open blockchain design Watch on X:
Talking Tokens Podcast23,219 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад
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