Having been in the Solana DeFi world for longer than most, Tommy Johnson (founder of PsyOptions) is building on-chain options and aiding better tokenomics.

Stronger DeFi and better tokenomics (feat. Tommy Johnson, founder of PsyOptions)

Stepan, co-founder and CEO of Squads, joins to talk governance and explain why multi signature wallets are important.

Governance and Squads multi-sig protocol (feat. Stepan, co-founder of Squads)

Web3 Builders Alliance is a white glove blockchain developer school house. Dozens of projects built and numerous hackathon submissions. They ship!

What does it take to run a blockchain school? (feat. Jeff from Web3 Builders Alliance)

A conversation with the compiler engineer behind Solang, which allows EVM developers to write Solidity code and deploy it on the Solana blockchain.

Write Solidity on Solana with Solang (feat. Sean Young, Solana Labs)

The idea is simple: encourage people to build cool and interesting products using the unique tech that is Only Possible on Solana and get them paid for it.

Only Possible on Solana: Product ideas and hackathon (feat. Mert)

With their CEO/co-founder, we explore why and how StarAtlas uses the Solana blockchain to power several parts of the game and their complex economy.

Building StarAtlas: blockchain game and economy (with CEO Michael Wagner)

From compressed nfts, to soul-bound nfts, to MailChimp with web3. Grizzlython hackathon winners and founders of Underdog join.

What can you build with NFTs (feat. the founders of Underdog)

Solana program security auditor David (aka @thehasheddude), founder of MadShield, shares his mindset and process for finding exploits/bugs.

Solana program security audits and bounties with David from MadShield

The founders of marginfi join to talk about borrow and lending in DeFi. Including their roadmap and over collateralization of assets for user protections.

DeFi borrow and lending with marginfi's founders

A compare and contrast some of the differences between Solana and Ethereum. We are joined by two developers, Cami and Conner, who are well versed in the Ethereum ecosystem.

Solana vs Ethereum: a compare and contrast

At a high level, the gents talk about the recent lawsuit from the SEC against Coinbase. Nick talks about the Solana NYC workshop and hackerhouse.

Are crypto currencies securities? SEC lawsuit against Coinbase and Binance

Exploring crypto/blockchain key storage mechanisms that allow various services to enable user’s to own a private key via their email address.

Securely storing blockchain private keys with email (aka cloud wallets)

Design is hard. We are joined by a Creative Director and Designer with nearly 2 decades of experience named Phil (@fhlcreative).

What is product design for web3 and good UX for blockchain (feat. Phil)

Solana Foundation's Head of Solana Developer Ecosystem, Chase Barker, joins to joins to talk about developer education and leveling up devs on Solana.

Chase Barker: Head of Solana Developer Ecosystem at Solana Foundation

Armani Ferrante, creator of the Anchor framework and founder of Coral (the org behind MadLads, Backpack wallet, xNFTs, etc) shares thoughts on building.

Armani: building a blockchain company and community

Joe C, the creator of the new Solana developer framework called Nautilus explains the idea around it and how it helps developer to learn Solana easier.

Nautilus: the new Solana developer framework (feat. Joe C)

The founder of the wallet-to-wallet chat app Dialect, Chris Osborn, joins to talk about smart messaging and NFT chat stickers.

Smart messaging and NFT chat stickers in Dialect (feat. Chris Osborn, founder)

Solana content creator, SolAndy, explains what it is like to create Solana developer tutorials and his experience with the MadLads mint (via xNFT).

How to learn Solana development (feat. SolAndy)

An eventful week in the Solana ecosystem: MadLads was hit by DDOS, Saga phones officially launched, and helium completed their migration to Solana.

MadLads mint, Saga launch, and Helium migration

The Saga phone, from Solana Mobile, officially launches. Including discount codes via the NFTs of the Saga Cards.

Solana Mobile officially launched the Saga phone!

For this special episode, we are joined by Noah Prince. One of the Solana devs behind the massive effort of migrating Helium to Solana.

How the Helium network migrates to Solana (feat. Noah Prince)

Shek shares his reasoning for founding Wordcel, the Solana native blogging platform. And how that later evolved into the Gum protocol.

State compression, Gum protocol, and on-chain session (feat. Shek)

Mert stops in to share his thoughts on creating blockchain products, his spicy twitter lifestyle of fighting Solana FUD, and state compression.

How does State Compression work on Solana (feat. Mert from Helius)

A discussion on how USDC depegged, an explanation of light clients for Solana, and the Elusiv protocol for blockchain privacy.

USDC depeg, a Solana light client, and Elusiv for privacy

James and Nick are joined by the creators of the XRAY explorer, a human readable Solana explorer being built for the Solana Grizzlython Hackathon.

XRAY explorer: Grizzlython hackathon submission

James expresses his thoughts on the recent network outage, while Nick volunteers him to review Grizzlython hackathon submissions. Also: MadList?

an outage and a MadList

Big news! Nick just joined the DevRel team at Solana Foundation! James is going to finally get a hardware wallet and rethink how he handles wallet security

Nick joins DevRel at Solana Foundation!

Vibhu, the CEO and Founder of SolanaSpaces and DRiP.haus, explains why Solana Spaces is shutting down and shares his thoughts/reasoning about the closure.

chat with Vibhu about why SolanaSpaces is shutting down

HadeSwap acquired Solana Monkey Business. marginfi started collecting funds for their new on chain lending protocol, and a SolDev redesign? Crazy week

Solana Monkey Business, Solana Pay, and marginfi lending

Vibhu, founder of Solana Spaces and DRiP.haus stops in. The gents talk programable NFTs and mutability, or lack there of.

Vibhu stops in, we talk pNFTs and wallets

Nick finally got his Saga, and he is blown away. The gents talk specs and the pure beauty of the Saga phone, from hardware to software.

Mobile hardware wallets with Saga

James received his Saga developer test phone, and Nick’s is inbound, they discuss possibilities of a mobile first crypto experience.

James got his Saga phone

James and Nick both ordered their developer Saga phones, plus Nick baits James into a personal hackathon bet with the promise of a Solana Spaces NFT.

a lost episode and a personal hackathon for James?

Nick and James talk about how the US handles crypto taxes, which is less than good...so they spitball options as Nick struggles to order his Saga phone.

crypto taxes and a saga of struggle

In this very first episode, Nick and James introduce themselves. They give their backgrounds and how each of them started building and educating on Solana.

Solfate Podcast

Interviews with blockchain founders and builders on Solana.
From two developers in the Solana ecosystem.

Nick

James

Recent Episodes

Stronger DeFi and better tokenomics (feat. Tommy Johnson, founder of PsyOptions)

Governance and Squads multi-sig protocol (feat. Stepan, co-founder of Squads)

Solfate Podcast

Interviews with blockchain founders and builders on Solana.From two developers in the Solana ecosystem.

Nick

James

Recent Episodes

Stronger DeFi and better tokenomics (feat. Tommy Johnson, founder of PsyOptions)

Governance and Squads multi-sig protocol (feat. Stepan, co-founder of Squads)

Interviews with blockchain founders and builders on Solana.
From two developers in the Solana ecosystem.