Transitioning from Solana to a New Venture: Exploring DoubleZero

Speaker 2
I'm your host, Jack Kubinek, alongside Mert Mumtaz. And we're very excited today to be joined by new co-founder of 00, Austin Federa. Austin, thanks for coming on the pod. Hey,
Speaker 1
thanks for having me.
Speaker 2
So this is really a meeting of giants here because not only are you starting a new internet or whatever, but you're also the host of the Validated Podcast, which I was doing some digging and it looks like you're taking that from the Solana Foundation where you are wrapping things up to double zero. So I'm curious what the negotiations were to get you to be able to keep the pod. Yeah,
Speaker 1
they were gracious enough to let me take it with me in moving on from the Solana Foundation. But, you know, I've spent the last four years working on the Solana project. And one of the big things for, you know, going on and doing a next step and a next thing was to do something that was not competitive with Solana. I think there's a lot of folks who have either left foundations and they go and they work for a different foundation or they end up competing with them in some way. And I think for me, like the, the ambition of this industry is still so small, um, that I would rather work on something that is sort of a base layer booster for all fast networks, as opposed to something that is, you know, competing with Solana or just working on Solana itself.
Speaker 2
Okay. That makes sense. And so Fear Not listeners validated is still coming out with you do really good kind of technical episodes. I saw you just did one with Perenna. So I want to get into double zero. I think that's what a lot of listeners will be interested in. Really excited to get you on the show so soon after you kind of announced it. It's a really interesting project.

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