Podcast Episodes

Anatoly Yakovenko: What's Next for Solana? | Permissionless II

Episode 20

Anatoly joins Mert to discuss his 5-year vision for Solana. In this discussion, we cover Solana's changing narrative, Firedancer's performance, Solana's shrinking hardware requirements, why Anatoly w…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Legacy vs Next-Gen: What Everyone Gets Wrong About Avalanche | Luigi DeMeo, Patrick O'Grady

Episode 19

Luigi DeMeo and Patrick O'Grady join us to discuss Avalanche's core thesis and roadmap. We cover Avalanche's cored design, why projects will leverage subnets, what's holding Avalanche back, legacy vs…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

A Wave Of Treasury Issuance Will Cause Bond Yields To Surge

(00:00) Introduction

(01:11) Fading A Recession In 2023, But Are The Tides Turning?

(10:55) Central Banks Have Capitulated On Their Inflation Fight

(19:04) Blockworks Research Ad

(19:51) Understanding Th…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Finding the Answer to Crypto's Biggest Problem | Ted Livingston, CEO of Code

Episode 18

Ted Livingston joins us to discuss how to build consumer crypto products that solve problems users actually care about. In 2009, Ted founded Kik, which grew to over 300M users and led the way for tod…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Solana's Emergence as a Payments Hub | Roundup

Episode 17

Could Solana's payments narrative create the schelling point that drives new adoption? Welcome to Lightspeed's first "Roundup" episode, where Mert and Garrett discuss the top stories of the week and …

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Solana's Watershed Moment | Zeta Markets, Meteora, Hubble Protocol

Tristan Frizza, Marius Ciubotariu and Ben Chow join us to debate if Solana has hit an inflection point that will usher in new users and use cases. We discuss the implications of Visa's Solana partner…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Monad: The EVM at Full Throttle | Keone Hon, Kevin G

Episode 15

Keone Hon and Kevin G join us to discuss how Monad is scaling the EVM. Every project in crypto right now is launching an L2 or marketing how their execution environment is better than the EVM. Monad …

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

The Art of Building Products Users Love | Jeff Morris Jr.

Episode 14

Jeff Morris Jr. joins us to discuss how crypto can build products users love. Jeff is a venture capitalist and product genius who previously led Tinder's Revenue team as Tinder went from $20M to $1.2…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

The Next Chapter for Stablecoins | Nic Carter

Episode 13

Nic Carter joins us to discuss how digitized dollars are crypto's killer use case. We explore predictions for stablecoins, what people get wrong about Tether, US regulation, why L1 networks over-inde…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

Magic Eden: Is the 10K PFP Playbook Dead? | Zedd, Tiff and Rex

Episode 12

Today we are joined by the team from Magic Eden to discuss the state of NFTs. We cover what went wrong with the 10K PFP collections, royalty fees and creator monetization, horizontal vs vertical mark…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago