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Are DATs Bullish For Solana? | Carlos Gonzalez Campo
Duration: 00:56:20
August 26, 2025
- Insider trading in crypto is technically illegal, but it appears to be ubiquitous due to the lack of enforcement.
- The Salana Foundation is showing a greater interest in DATs, potentially due to their impact on asset prices and market demand.
- Salana's scaling solutions are evolving, with Anza gaining prominence and potentially impacting the future role of Fire Dancer.
The Future Of DeFi On Solana | Kash Dhanda & Samyak Jain
Duration: 00:57:12
August 22, 2025
- Jupiter Lend, a new borrow/lend product built collaboratively with Fluid, aims to simplify lending by automatically finding the highest yield for deposited assets across the entire protocol.
- Fluid's innovative technology, particularly its liquidation engine which is 100x better, enables Jupiter Lend to offer higher LTVs (loan-to-value ratios) and isolated risk pools, benefiting borrowers.
- Jupiter's strategic focus extends beyond DeFi, envisioning the platform as a comprehensive financial hub, with future expansions potentially including payments, insurance, and integration with traditional financial institutions.
SOL Needs More Than DAT | Anna Yuan
Duration: 00:55:11
August 19, 2025
- Salana DATs are lagging behind Bitcoin and Ethereum DATs due to a more nascent ecosystem, fewer Wall Street veterans involved, and initial ecosystem resistance to the "capitalistic" DAT construct.
- To succeed, Salana needs to embrace DATs as a tool to fund developers, grow DeFi, and access institutional capital through structures like a decentralized network of regional "Salana labs".
- For Salana's reputation to grow with Wall Street, the ecosystem should lean into it's current high performance user base, framing the success of coins as a confirmation that Salana is great for consumer applications versus a barrier for mainstream financial growth.
Solana's Breakout DeFi Lending Protocol | Mary Gooneratne
Duration: 00:58:37
August 15, 2025
- Loop Scale is distinguished by its order book-based modular lending protocol on Solana, offering greater scalability and capital efficiency compared to pool-based systems.
- The protocol experienced an oracle-related incident, leading to a temporary shutdown, but it has since recovered, regained community trust, and shifted toward ecosystem-focused growth.
- Loop Scale aims to foster new DeFi use cases by enabling innovative credit products like tokenized receivables financing and lending against RWA's (Real World Assets), ultimately increasing access to capital.
The Next Chapter For Phantom | Brandon Millman & Sam Rosenblum
Duration: 01:01:45
August 12, 2025
- Phantom is evolving from just a Solana wallet into a consumer finance platform, integrating features like perps trading via Hyperliquid and memecoin trading tools through the Soul Sniper acquisition.
- Usability remains Phantom's key differentiator in a competitive Solana DeFi landscape, aiming to make on-chain innovations accessible and safe for a mainstream audience.
- Phantom is aggressively pursuing growth through strategic acquisitions, focusing on companies with strong founder-company fit and a clear alignment with Phantom's roadmap.
The Solana Seeker Phone Is Here | Emmett Hollyer
Duration: 01:03:26
August 8, 2025
- Solana Mobile's new "Seeker" phone is designed to be more affordable and accessible than its predecessor, with a $500 price point and expanded market availability.
- The Seeker phone enhances security with the Seed Vault wallet, offering a seamless transaction signing experience with a double tap of the power button.
- Solana Mobile is focusing on growing its dApp ecosystem with zero fees and crypto-friendly policies, aiming to offer unique mobile-first experiences not available on traditional app stores.
The Internet Capital Markets Roadmap | Lucas Bruder, Max Resnick & Austin Federa
Duration: 01:02:36
August 5, 2025
- The Salana Internet Capital Markets (ICM) roadmap aims to provide more granular control to applications, particularly for financial applications, by opening up interfaces into the scheduler itself.
- A key element of Salana's strategy involves Block Assembly Marketplaces (BAM) and Application Controlled Execution (ACE), designed to give apps more control over transaction sequencing and ensure a more application friendly environment.
- A significant long-term goal is the implementation of Multiple Concurrent Leaders (MCL), which seeks to create a more decentralized and efficient market by allowing the system to ingest information from multiple geographic locations simultaneously, leading to tighter spreads and faster price discovery.
This Is How Solana Wins With Lucas Bruder
Duration: 01:01:12
August 1, 2025
- Solana's Mev landscape differs significantly from Ethereum due to the absence of a mempool, resulting in validators receiving transactions directly, making validators’ benevolence crucial.
- Unlike Ethereum, Solana experiences a high failure rate for arbitrage transactions (98%) due to cheap fees encouraging spamming, which Judo Labs addresses by creating a bundle primitive and short-lived mempool for a 200-millisecond auction.
- The conversation highlighted that lower latency chains are not always superior, emphasizing that trade-offs exist between latency, geographic centralization, and protocol design, with some advocating for prioritizing user experience over matching TradFi speeds.
The State Of Firedancer, Building Thru & How To 10x Performance | Liam Heeger
Duration: 00:47:07
July 25, 2025
- Unto is building Through, a new blockchain using a Risk 5 virtual machine to attract a wider range of developers with support for multiple programming languages.
- Through is designed as a leaderless blockchain that will avoid the leader monopolies found in Solana and Ethereum, allowing anyone to be a block producer and incorporating a market mechanism to incentivize validator performance and network alignment whereby validators can take money off the table and turn that into power on the network.
- Unto aims to solve the problem of observability in blockchains, something often overlooked, because without it developers cannot not do optimization and identify market dynamics.
The Truth Behind Crypto Market Makers | Matt Jobbé-Duval
Duration: 01:05:39
July 22, 2025
- Traditional market making strategies do not translate well to crypto due to its pronounced trends and volatility, incentivizing option-based deals that offer downside protection for market makers.
- A common but "toxic" market-making strategy involves selling locked tokens to raise capital for artificially inflating a token's price, often leading to dramatic price collapses when the lock-up period ends.
- Exchanges may have a conflict of interest when launching new tokens, as high volatility at launch can be very profitable for their trading volumes but frequently sets unsustainable high benchmarks that lead to long-term price decline.
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