Validated
by Austin Federa
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About this podcast
When it comes to blockchain, the thing people talk about most — the price — is actually the least interesting part. Crypto conversations are too often about who’s up and who’s down, what to buy and what to sell, and today’s drama on Twitter. Most conversations about crypto miss how it’s going to change ... everything.
On VALIDATED, we’ll be talking to the people who are rethinking the internet — and our world. No hype cycles. No financial advice. Just conversations on the biggest ideas shaping the future of the internet.
Web3 is complicated, but never boring.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 179 episodes
- Building the Bitcoin Equivalent for AI Inference Compute with David and Daniil Liberman (Gonka) · 45 min · Episode 91In this episode, Austin chats with David and Daniil Liberman of Gonka about the case for using crypto to build a permissionless, meritocratic AI compute network focused on…
- What are Intents Actually Solving? with Declan Hannon (Aurora Labs) · 30 min · Episode 90In this episode, Austin chats with Declan from Aurora Labs about building on NEAR’s Intents architecture. Declan explains why intents go beyond “a better bridge UI" and how…
- OUT OF SCOPE Ep. 2: Anything But Crypto with David Hoffman · 45 minIn this episode, Austin and Tori join David Hoffman (Bankless) to talk about "anything but crypto." Their conversation spans longevity and mind-uploading, the challenges of…
- OUT OF SCOPE, Ep. 1: Hot Takes Roundtable with Tori Pastore (Soup) and Austin Campbell (Zero Knowledge) · 1 h 12 min · Episode 89And now for something (almost) completely different. Welcome to Out of Scope, a new sub-series where Austin and Tori Pastore (aka Birb Bernake) riff with guests on hot takes…
- Why Crypto Fails without Privacy with Mert Mumtaz (Helius) · 44 minIn this episode, Austin chats with Mert about why privacy is becoming essential for crypto and on-chain finance. They discuss how ZK-based privacy works via shielded pools…
- Why Privacy Tech Is Having Its Moment with Seth for Privacy (Cake Wallet) · 43 min · Episode 88In this episode, Austin chats with Seth (Cake Wallet) about why privacy is gaining traction after years of being niche, tracing Seth’s entry through Monero and other…
- Solana Mobile's Vision Beyond Seeker with Emmett Hollyer (Solana Mobile) · 45 minIn this episode, Austin chats with Emmett Hollyer about the evolution and future of Solana Mobile. They reflect on how the successes and missteps of the Saga phone informed the…
- Crypto's Market Making Arms Race with Rahul Jain (Ellipsis Labs) · 42 minIn this episode, Austin chats with Rahul Jain (Head of Trading at Ellipsis Labs) to explore the evolution of market making in crypto. Rahul discusses what gives crypto market…
- The Constellation Debate Part 2, with Brennan Watt (Anza) · 1 h 12 minIn this episode, Austin sits down with Brennan to unpack Constellation, Solana’s latest market structure proposal, and what it could mean for the network’s future. The…
- The Constellation Debate, Part 1 with Ben Coverston (Temporal) · 1 h 26 minIn this first part in a series of debates on Constellation (Anza's MCP proposal), Austin chats with Ben from Temporal. The conversation focuses on Ben’s measured critical…
- MegaETH Mainnet and the Real-Time ZK Endgame w/ Lei Yang · 52 min · Episode 87In this episode, we sit down with the team behind MegaETH to discuss the launch of their mainnet and the vision for a new generation of high-performance Layer 2 blockchains. We…
- How Shelby Makes Decentralized Storage Faster and Cheaper w/ Pranav Raval · 37 min · Episode 86In this episode, Austin chats with Pranav Raval (Aptos Labs) about Shelby, a new decentralized storage protocol designed to address the performance and cost limitations of…
- How Wyoming Built the First State-Issued Stablecoin w/ Anthony Apollo · 56 min · Episode 85In this episode, Austin talks with Anthony, Executive Director of Wyoming’s Stable Token Commission, about how Wyoming became the first U.S. state to issue its own…
- Inversion's Vision for Real-World Crypto w/ Santiago Roel Santos · 52 minIn this episode, Austin chats with Santiago Roel Santos, founder of Inversion, discussing why crypto has struggled to reach mainstream adoption and what it will take to change…
- Maple's Model for Institutional Lending w/ Sid Powell · 45 minIn this episode, Austin chats with Sid Powell, co-founder and CEO of Maple Finance, to explore how institutional credit is moving on-chain. Sid breaks down how Maple has…
- Kevin Bowers on the True Costs of Scaling Crypto · 1 h 19 minIn this episode, Kevin Bowers returns to explain Jump's expansion from trading to core infrastructure, centered on what he calls the "great inversion": the real bottleneck in…
- How Marinade Went from Hackathon OG's to Wall Street w/ Michael Repetny · 44 minIn this episode, Austin chats with Michael Repetny, a core contributor to Marinade. They discuss the history and technical details of Marinade, its role in the Solana ecosystem…
- Prop AMMs, MEV, and the Realities of Solana's Roadmap w/ Connor (Temporal) and Brennan Watt (Anza) · 34 min · Episode 84In this episode, Connor (Temporal) and Brennan (Anza) offer a unique perspective on Solana's evolution, contrasting practical building with core protocol development. The…
- Reinventing Onchain Order Books on Solana w/ Tristan Frezza (Bullet) · 43 minIn this episode, Austin chats with Tristan (Bullet) to discuss the significant evolution of decentralized finance (DeFi), particularly focusing on the re-emergence of Central…
- An Investor's Evolving Thesis of a Maturing Market w/ Jon Charbonneau (DBA) · 49 minDBA co-founder John Charbonneau discusses his journey from TradFi to crypto, detailing his evolution from an Ethereum maximalist to a multi-chain pragmatist. He argues that as…
