Gm! In this episode Jun Bug and kdot co-founders of BULK join us to discuss building a high-performance perpetuals exchange on Solana, testnet rollout plans, covering latency and reliability challenges, validator-based architecture, decentralization trade-offs and incentive structures.

Enjoy!

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Introduction

(1:04) Why Perps Are So Hard to Build on Solana?

(16:27) BULK’s Testnet Launch

(21:36) Incentives, Stickiness, and Long-Term Users

(25:32) One Exchange, Infinite Market

(35:38) Network Congestion and Perps on Solana

(46:34) propAMMs in Perps Trading

(58:16) Closing Comments

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