Austin Federa is the Co-Founder of DoubleZero, a dedicated high-performance network for modern distributed systems, and President of the DoubleZero Foundation.
Prior to co-founding DoubleZero in 2024, Austin served as Head of Strategy at the Solana Foundation where he was responsible for setting the direction of the Foundation and working with projects and developers building across the Solana ecosystem. Previously, Austin worked on marketing and product at Bison Trails, and was Director of Marketing at Republic and Republic Crypto, a private investing platform.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- The future of Solana
- Token 2049 & Dubai
- Solana’s emergency patch
- We are living in the best time, and we’re on a good track
- How AI will impact our lives
- The founding story of Double Zero
- Increase bandwidth and reduce latency
- Testnet transactions are always quicker than mainnet
- Manufacturing
- Scaling to 500,000 TPS
- Why validators are so important
- Data routing is a huge problem for high-performance networks
DoubleZero
Website: doublezero.xyz
X: @doublezero
Discord: discord.gg/doublezero
Austin Federa
X: @Austin_Federa
LinkedIn: Austin Federa
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