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I spoke with Maple's Sid Powell (Sid Powell 🥞 ) and Paul Frambot 🦋 of Morpho about where institutional crypto lending is heading, why DAOs struggle to move fast, and what the DeFi mullet model really requires to work. Don’t miss it! Timestamps: 🏦 0:58 What makes Maple Finance...

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21,150 views • 8 months ago

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Laura Shin

23,852 views • 1 year ago

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:
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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 Podcast

23,219 views • 8 months ago

Figure just went public and wants to modernize Wall Street. I sat down with founder Mike Cagney 🇺🇸 to discuss how they are disrupting legacy finance infrastructure, where crypto is most disruptive to banks, how DeFi will gain mainstream adoption, what his thoughts on bitcoin are, and the current stablecoin landscape. $FIGR Figure Enjoy! YouTube: Spotify: Apple: TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Intro 1:17 - Taking Figure public and why it’s good for business 4:58 - Opportunities to improve financial infrastructure 17:32 - Why it’s the “golden moment" for DeFi 18:52 - Are regional banks in trouble? 20:51 - Launching a stable coin and GENIUS Act 25:45 - The regulatory shift and now having political support 29:48 - Partnerships and consolidation in the industry 38:33 - Figure is modernizing financial infrastructure 39:01 - Bitcoin backed loans and how it works 43:20 - Advice for entrepreneurs 45:14 - Figure's plan for the future
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Figure just went public and wants to modernize Wall Street. I sat down with founder Mike Cagney 🇺🇸 to discuss how they are disrupting legacy finance infrastructure, where crypto is most disruptive to banks, how DeFi will gain mainstream adoption, what his thoughts on bitcoin are, and the current stablecoin landscape. $FIGR Figure Enjoy! YouTube: Spotify: Apple: TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Intro 1:17 - Taking Figure public and why it’s good for business 4:58 - Opportunities to improve financial infrastructure 17:32 - Why it’s the “golden moment" for DeFi 18:52 - Are regional banks in trouble? 20:51 - Launching a stable coin and GENIUS Act 25:45 - The regulatory shift and now having political support 29:48 - Partnerships and consolidation in the industry 38:33 - Figure is modernizing financial infrastructure 39:01 - Bitcoin backed loans and how it works 43:20 - Advice for entrepreneurs 45:14 - Figure's plan for the future

Anthony Pompliano 🌪

40,754 views • 10 months ago

DROPS E35: Core DAO 🔶 - Bitcoin yield without giving up your Bitcoin Rich is one of the initial contributors to Core DAO, the leading Bitcoin scaling solution. He's also a long-time Zcash holder and early backer of Z Protocol , a new privacy chain built on Core's Satoshi Plus consensus. We talk Bitcoin yield, financial privacy, AI surveillance, and why the next big move in crypto might not be where most people are looking. We talk about: - How Core DAO lets you earn yield on Bitcoin by time-locking it - without ever giving up custody - Why borrowing against Bitcoin makes sense now - OG Bitcoiners rotating to Zcash - what "transition" actually means and whether it's bad for Bitcoin - Z Protocol as the DeFi layer for private money - Why AI has made financial surveillance trivial - and why that accelerates privacy adoption - How Agents are leaving full financial fingerprints - and why privacy needs to be default on at the chain level And much more... Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 2:05 - What does Rich Rines do? 3:00 - Financial Freedom 4:09 - Journey from Bitcoin to Zcash 6:40 - Zcash Philosophy 8:38 - Transition to Zcash 11:20 - Who is Rich Rines? 11:46 - Bitcoin as Pristine Collateral 14:28 - Criticisms of Borrowing Strategy 16:52 - Explaining CORE 18:58 - Bitcoin Yield Story 20:29 - Misconception regarding CORE 22:08 - Time Lock 23:34 - Risk of using CORE 24:37 - Strategies used by CORE 26:42 - What Bitcoin Holders Want? 28:46 - Bitcoin Yield 30:10 - CORE Alpha 32:44 - SatPay 34:19 - Power Grid Thesis 35:37 - Satoshi Plus 37:07 - What is Z? 38:12 - Benefits of long-term Zcash Holder 40:01 - Vertical Integration 43:12 - Privacy for Agents 44:41 - Faux Privacy 46:14 - Privacy vs Government 49:01 - Zcash’s Future 50:01 - Conclusion
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DROPS E35: Core DAO 🔶 - Bitcoin yield without giving up your Bitcoin Rich is one of the initial contributors to Core DAO, the leading Bitcoin scaling solution. He's also a long-time Zcash holder and early backer of Z Protocol , a new privacy chain built on Core's Satoshi Plus consensus. We talk Bitcoin yield, financial privacy, AI surveillance, and why the next big move in crypto might not be where most people are looking. We talk about: - How Core DAO lets you earn yield on Bitcoin by time-locking it - without ever giving up custody - Why borrowing against Bitcoin makes sense now - OG Bitcoiners rotating to Zcash - what "transition" actually means and whether it's bad for Bitcoin - Z Protocol as the DeFi layer for private money - Why AI has made financial surveillance trivial - and why that accelerates privacy adoption - How Agents are leaving full financial fingerprints - and why privacy needs to be default on at the chain level And much more... Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 2:05 - What does Rich Rines do? 3:00 - Financial Freedom 4:09 - Journey from Bitcoin to Zcash 6:40 - Zcash Philosophy 8:38 - Transition to Zcash 11:20 - Who is Rich Rines? 11:46 - Bitcoin as Pristine Collateral 14:28 - Criticisms of Borrowing Strategy 16:52 - Explaining CORE 18:58 - Bitcoin Yield Story 20:29 - Misconception regarding CORE 22:08 - Time Lock 23:34 - Risk of using CORE 24:37 - Strategies used by CORE 26:42 - What Bitcoin Holders Want? 28:46 - Bitcoin Yield 30:10 - CORE Alpha 32:44 - SatPay 34:19 - Power Grid Thesis 35:37 - Satoshi Plus 37:07 - What is Z? 38:12 - Benefits of long-term Zcash Holder 40:01 - Vertical Integration 43:12 - Privacy for Agents 44:41 - Faux Privacy 46:14 - Privacy vs Government 49:01 - Zcash’s Future 50:01 - Conclusion

MR SHIFT 🦁

104,521 views • 2 months ago

The competition was tough to win Robinhood’s business. In this episode, Offchain Labs CEO Steven Goldfeder explains: 🧠 Why Robinhood picked the Arbitrum stack (instead of Solana’s) 💸 How the choice turned gas fees into revenue for Robinhood 📈 What tokenized stocks mean for DeFi 🎨 Why better UX is crypto’s biggest unlock and more! Timestamps: 🎬 0:00 Intro 🚀 1:44 Why Robinhood chose Arbitrum and how much control they really have 🧑‍💻 6:38 How Arbitrum Stylus could power better UX for Robinhood and beyond 🌊 10:26 Why liquidity fragmentation is still a major unsolved problem 🧲 11:41 What makes MEV capture so attractive to big players like Robinhood 🏆 13:48 Why tokenized stocks might be the “big prize” on Arbitrum 🌐 16:12 What it means to be part of the Arbitrum ecosystem 📊 18:02 How tokenized equities could change investing and what the risks are 🏛️ 21:11 Why the Arbitrum DAO stands to gain from this partnership 🔧 22:17 How Steven thinks fragmentation can be fixed more easily than most believe 🌉 25:52 Where the crypto-TradFi convergence is headed next 💬 29:40 Why Steven defends Ethereum and calls out the critics of L2s Thank you to our sponsors! @AskFocal Ledn
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The competition was tough to win Robinhood’s business. In this episode, Offchain Labs CEO Steven Goldfeder explains: 🧠 Why Robinhood picked the Arbitrum stack (instead of Solana’s) 💸 How the choice turned gas fees into revenue for Robinhood 📈 What tokenized stocks mean for DeFi 🎨 Why better UX is crypto’s biggest unlock and more! Timestamps: 🎬 0:00 Intro 🚀 1:44 Why Robinhood chose Arbitrum and how much control they really have 🧑‍💻 6:38 How Arbitrum Stylus could power better UX for Robinhood and beyond 🌊 10:26 Why liquidity fragmentation is still a major unsolved problem 🧲 11:41 What makes MEV capture so attractive to big players like Robinhood 🏆 13:48 Why tokenized stocks might be the “big prize” on Arbitrum 🌐 16:12 What it means to be part of the Arbitrum ecosystem 📊 18:02 How tokenized equities could change investing and what the risks are 🏛️ 21:11 Why the Arbitrum DAO stands to gain from this partnership 🔧 22:17 How Steven thinks fragmentation can be fixed more easily than most believe 🌉 25:52 Where the crypto-TradFi convergence is headed next 💬 29:40 Why Steven defends Ethereum and calls out the critics of L2s Thank you to our sponsors! @AskFocal Ledn

Laura Shin

53,073 views • 1 year ago

DROPS E30: Flo | Bitpanda Web3 from Vision: Europe Finally Gets Its Own Blockchain! Bitpanda has 7.5 million users and 11 years of regulatory track record. Now they're building the blockchain specifically designed for European finance. Flo is the commercial lead for the whole thing - Web3, Vision Chain and the token. We talk about: - Why Vision Chain uses a Euro stablecoin for gas instead of ETH or its own token - Why Bitpanda built a blockchain specifically for European regulation - Why the best crypto products will eventually hide the crypto entirely - Why Bitpanda's wallet deliberately blocks Wallet Connect to protect Web2 users from getting rugged - The flywheel model targeting three audiences at once And much much more.... Vision Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 1:58 - First time in Studio 3:42 - Who is Flo and what is Bitpanda Web3? 5:08 - Difference between CeX and Broker 8:02 - Web2 investors vs Crypto natives 10:18 - Partnerships with various football clubs 15:05 - Bitpanda Web3 18:06 - Solving DeFi’s issues 20:22 - User behaviour 22:42 - What is a Vision Chain? 25:53 - Do we need a Layer-2? 26:58 - Europe’s own blockchain 29:29 - Bitpanda & Europe’ blockchain 31:30 - Working of Vision Chain 33:37 - DeFi Mullet philosophy 37:51 - Euro Stablecoin 41:25 - Crypto maxis vs Collaborative finance 44:10 - Vision - “Base of Europe" 45:39 - Favourite football club (except sponsors)
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DROPS E30: Flo | Bitpanda Web3 from Vision: Europe Finally Gets Its Own Blockchain! Bitpanda has 7.5 million users and 11 years of regulatory track record. Now they're building the blockchain specifically designed for European finance. Flo is the commercial lead for the whole thing - Web3, Vision Chain and the token. We talk about: - Why Vision Chain uses a Euro stablecoin for gas instead of ETH or its own token - Why Bitpanda built a blockchain specifically for European regulation - Why the best crypto products will eventually hide the crypto entirely - Why Bitpanda's wallet deliberately blocks Wallet Connect to protect Web2 users from getting rugged - The flywheel model targeting three audiences at once And much much more.... Vision Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 1:58 - First time in Studio 3:42 - Who is Flo and what is Bitpanda Web3? 5:08 - Difference between CeX and Broker 8:02 - Web2 investors vs Crypto natives 10:18 - Partnerships with various football clubs 15:05 - Bitpanda Web3 18:06 - Solving DeFi’s issues 20:22 - User behaviour 22:42 - What is a Vision Chain? 25:53 - Do we need a Layer-2? 26:58 - Europe’s own blockchain 29:29 - Bitpanda & Europe’ blockchain 31:30 - Working of Vision Chain 33:37 - DeFi Mullet philosophy 37:51 - Euro Stablecoin 41:25 - Crypto maxis vs Collaborative finance 44:10 - Vision - “Base of Europe" 45:39 - Favourite football club (except sponsors)

MR SHIFT 🦁

29,396 views • 4 months ago

DROPS E25: Shaaran 🛸 from Multipli.fi: Why Trillions Will Soon Move On-Chain! In this episode, Shaaran breaks down why stablecoins, tokenization, on-chain yield, and the US debt system are all converging into the biggest shift crypto has ever seen - and how Multipli is building the infrastructure to power it. We talk about: - How Shaaran went from 13-year-old Solidity hacker to building a million-user exchange - Why “stablecoins aren’t stable” and how the US debt system resembles a Ponzi - Why the US wants stablecoin adoption - and why yields can’t be passed - The coming tokenization wave: gold, oil, bank reserves, sovereign wealth, everything - The coming “global hunt for yield” as trillions move on-chain - How Multipli helps any asset (BTC, gold, RWA) - generate transparent, risk-adjusted yield And much more! Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 1:29 Welcome To Drops 2:10 Having A Crazy Week 2:42 Who Is Shaaran 4:06 How Shaaran Found Interest In Ethereum 5:04 Something To Help Build Trust 6:12 You Left And Came Back, Why? 7:28 Where Does The Fire In The Belly Come From 9:04 Why Is Blockchain Beautiful 10:19 Where The Fascination With Crypto Comes From 11:39 Stable Coins Losing 5% Per Year 11:57 What Is A Ponzi Scheme 12:45 Ponzi Scheme Connected With U.S Government 15:47 When Did This System Start 17:47 How Could A 5% Rate Jump To 10% 19:03 What If The Rates Go Down 20:52 Why Stable Coins Matter For The U.S 24:56 Why The Yield Bill Not Allowed To Be Passed 26:12 Trillions Of Dollars In Banks Tokenized, Why? 30:26 0% Yield On Tokenized Assets? 31:36 No Built In Yield Explained To Mom 33:27 What Happens To Yield Once Everything’s Tokenized 35:16 Explain Multipli To Your Mom 35:50 Why Take The Risk For 3–4% Yield 38:29 How Much Bitcoin Is In Your Protocol 39:12 Explain How Blackrock Cracked The Code On ETFs 40:42 Examples Of Multipli Producing Yield 44:15 What Does Overcollaterized Mean 45:02 Risk For Losing My Gold 45:58 One Thing To Remember
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DROPS E25: Shaaran 🛸 from Multipli.fi: Why Trillions Will Soon Move On-Chain! In this episode, Shaaran breaks down why stablecoins, tokenization, on-chain yield, and the US debt system are all converging into the biggest shift crypto has ever seen - and how Multipli is building the infrastructure to power it. We talk about: - How Shaaran went from 13-year-old Solidity hacker to building a million-user exchange - Why “stablecoins aren’t stable” and how the US debt system resembles a Ponzi - Why the US wants stablecoin adoption - and why yields can’t be passed - The coming tokenization wave: gold, oil, bank reserves, sovereign wealth, everything - The coming “global hunt for yield” as trillions move on-chain - How Multipli helps any asset (BTC, gold, RWA) - generate transparent, risk-adjusted yield And much more! Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 1:29 Welcome To Drops 2:10 Having A Crazy Week 2:42 Who Is Shaaran 4:06 How Shaaran Found Interest In Ethereum 5:04 Something To Help Build Trust 6:12 You Left And Came Back, Why? 7:28 Where Does The Fire In The Belly Come From 9:04 Why Is Blockchain Beautiful 10:19 Where The Fascination With Crypto Comes From 11:39 Stable Coins Losing 5% Per Year 11:57 What Is A Ponzi Scheme 12:45 Ponzi Scheme Connected With U.S Government 15:47 When Did This System Start 17:47 How Could A 5% Rate Jump To 10% 19:03 What If The Rates Go Down 20:52 Why Stable Coins Matter For The U.S 24:56 Why The Yield Bill Not Allowed To Be Passed 26:12 Trillions Of Dollars In Banks Tokenized, Why? 30:26 0% Yield On Tokenized Assets? 31:36 No Built In Yield Explained To Mom 33:27 What Happens To Yield Once Everything’s Tokenized 35:16 Explain Multipli To Your Mom 35:50 Why Take The Risk For 3–4% Yield 38:29 How Much Bitcoin Is In Your Protocol 39:12 Explain How Blackrock Cracked The Code On ETFs 40:42 Examples Of Multipli Producing Yield 44:15 What Does Overcollaterized Mean 45:02 Risk For Losing My Gold 45:58 One Thing To Remember

MR SHIFT 🦁

63,623 views • 7 months ago

DROPS E29: Ivo Grigorov, CEO at Real - The Trust Layer That Traditional Finance Has Been Waiting For From managing $1.2B in traditional finance to building an institutional-grade L1, Ivo is on a mission to bring real-world assets on-chain and rebuild trust between banks and crypto. We talk about: - Why trust is the missing link in tokenized real-world assets - How Real Finance is designing an L1 for banks and institutions - Turning a $100M guarantee scheme into smart contracts - Why crypto misunderstands sustainability and compounding - Bridging TradFi and Web3 with transparency, validators & on-chain metadata - Raising $29M and onboarding banks before mainnet launch And much more... Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 1:35 - Founder Life 2:37 - The Mission & Sacrifices 4:10 - Building globally before launch 5:00 - Background & Qualifications 6:23 - Childhood Experiences 09:58 - Co-founders & Partnership 12:55 - Credibility 15:16 - What Crypto misunderstood about TradFi? 19:39 - What TradFi misunderstood about Crypto? 24:26 - The Real Turning Point 26:46 - Credefi to Real Finance 32:00 - What’s RWA? 34:40 - What’s broken with RWAs? 36:58 - Real Finance in simple terms 38:09 - Institutional interest in Real Finance 41:28 - Success & Failures 41:58 - How Global Finance could change 43:02 - Crypto isn’t a slow process 45:35 - Conclusion
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DROPS E29: Ivo Grigorov, CEO at Real - The Trust Layer That Traditional Finance Has Been Waiting For From managing $1.2B in traditional finance to building an institutional-grade L1, Ivo is on a mission to bring real-world assets on-chain and rebuild trust between banks and crypto. We talk about: - Why trust is the missing link in tokenized real-world assets - How Real Finance is designing an L1 for banks and institutions - Turning a $100M guarantee scheme into smart contracts - Why crypto misunderstands sustainability and compounding - Bridging TradFi and Web3 with transparency, validators & on-chain metadata - Raising $29M and onboarding banks before mainnet launch And much more... Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 1:35 - Founder Life 2:37 - The Mission & Sacrifices 4:10 - Building globally before launch 5:00 - Background & Qualifications 6:23 - Childhood Experiences 09:58 - Co-founders & Partnership 12:55 - Credibility 15:16 - What Crypto misunderstood about TradFi? 19:39 - What TradFi misunderstood about Crypto? 24:26 - The Real Turning Point 26:46 - Credefi to Real Finance 32:00 - What’s RWA? 34:40 - What’s broken with RWAs? 36:58 - Real Finance in simple terms 38:09 - Institutional interest in Real Finance 41:28 - Success & Failures 41:58 - How Global Finance could change 43:02 - Crypto isn’t a slow process 45:35 - Conclusion

MR SHIFT 🦁

40,246 views • 5 months ago