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Open markets can make finance more transparent, competitive, and efficient. Paul Frambot 🦋, cofounder and CEO of Morpho 🦋, on what it means to build lending and borrowing onchain. 0:00 Intro 0:36 What Morpho actually does 5:26 Why Wall Street is paying attention now 6:46 Who’s adopting onchain finance... show more

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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

Issuing a stablecoin used to take nine figures and a legal army. Turns out that wasn't great for builders. Denelle Dixon and Ben Milne of brale on block by block 👇 00:00 - Intro to Brale 03:28 - Ben’s Background & Dwolla Journey 05:01 - Brale’s Four-Year Journey 07:27 - Institutional Confidence & Trust 12:30 - What Brale Does 15:16 - The Permissionless Premium 18:57 - Compliance & Open Infrastructure 25:30 - Multi-Chain Bank Connectivity API 32:22 - Supporting Multiple Stablecoins 34:55 - Why Stellar 36:50 - The Future of Onchain Finance 43:41 - Personal Mission & Impact 45:21 - Closing Thoughts

Issuing a stablecoin used to take nine figures and a legal army. Turns out that wasn't great for builders. Denelle Dixon and Ben Milne of brale on block by block 👇 00:00 - Intro to Brale 03:28 - Ben’s Background & Dwolla Journey 05:01 - Brale’s Four-Year Journey 07:27 - Institutional Confidence & Trust 12:30 - What Brale Does 15:16 - The Permissionless Premium 18:57 - Compliance & Open Infrastructure 25:30 - Multi-Chain Bank Connectivity API 32:22 - Supporting Multiple Stablecoins 34:55 - Why Stellar 36:50 - The Future of Onchain Finance 43:41 - Personal Mission & Impact 45:21 - Closing Thoughts

Stellar

39,279 views • 6 months ago