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A discussion with Craig Burel on his journey into crypto, investing in Solana, building consumer products, backing great founders, investing in SOL vs applications. Topics include crypto gaming, token incentives, finding product-market fit, and the convergence of traditional finance and DeFi.

The podcast explores the return of meme coin mania, compares DeFi and meme coin usage, dives into Solana's transaction fee structure, discusses blockchain scaling with Ethereum's EIP-4844 upgrade, and analyzes data availability. It also touches on the impact of meme coins on the blockchain ecosystem, MEV on Solana, and navigating Solana transaction fees.

Vibhu Norby CEO of DRiP talks about building a popular crypto app. They discuss growth, business model, active users, UX in crypto, and advice for founders. DRiP is on Solana, reinventing content monetization with no ads. The podcast explores challenges in the crypto space, user experience, app development, user behavior analysis, and empowering creators on Solana.

This podcast discusses the need for more applications in Solana, defining active users in crypto, Ethereum's roadmap, and the rollup thesis. Explore the Colosseum hackathon, DRiP app, consensus on Solana, and bridging solutions. Delve into Monad's EVM compatibility and scalability goals.

Chris Hermida & Mitch Gildenberg discuss scaling crypto's oracle infrastructure, lessons from the Mango exploit, Access Protocol's content platform, Monad's EVM compatibility, challenges in asset pricing for lending markets, securing Oracle data, permissioned oracles, and true randomness in on-chain applications.

Nigel Eccles & Varun Sudhakar discuss bringing sports betting to crypto on Solana, Monaco protocol benefits, shared liquidity, market dynamics, revenue model, competitive fees, user-friendly interface, strategic choice of Solana for transaction speed and efficiency

Experts Steven Goldfeder and Rachel Bousfield discuss Ethereum scaling, the origins of Arbitrum, and the trade-offs between decentralization, security, and scalability in crypto's scaling trilemma. They explore solutions like roll-ups, off-chain transactions, and balancing decentralization with scalability in Ethereum.

Mike Cahill, core contributor to Pyth, discusses the value of financial market data, the role of oracles in crypto, Pyth's SVM appchain, permissionless integrations, quality control for publishers, Pyth's airdrop and governance, liveness concerns, economics and trust minimization, the RWA opportunity, and the evaluation of crypto's ecosystems.

Illia Polosukhin, an AI expert turned crypto innovator, discusses NEAR's journey from AI to crypto, scaling via dynamic shards, chain abstraction and the blockchain operating system, NEAR's missing narrative, network value accrual, and crypto's biggest problem.

Crypto app developer Dan Romero discusses how Warpcast, a crypto-enabled social app built on top of the Farcaster protocol, could become the first mainstream app for crypto. They explore the business model, the technical process flow, the significance of 'Frames' as a developer unlock, and the go-to-market strategy. They also discuss the off-chain and on-chain components of Farcaster, the importance of starting small and narrow, and the frustration with influencers in the crypto space.