Austin Federa, Co-Founder of DoubleZero and former Head of Strategy at the Solana Foundation, joined us to discuss how the company is building a new internet layer to improve blockchain and crypto performance.
Get to know Austin:
- Favorite food – Pho
- Favorite musician/artist – Snarky Puppy
- Favorite movie – The Hunt for Red October
- Favorite book – Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky | When
- Hobby – When We Cease to Understand the World Book by Benjamín Labatut
Topics:
- Improving blockchain performance starting with Solana
- Internet and Blockchain Tech stack
- Future of Blockchain adoption
- Wall Street tokenization
Links:
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Timestamps
02:56 Austin’s background
05:10 Blockchain scaling
06:40 Moving from Solana to DoubleZero
09:24 Support other blockchains
11:27 Blockchain layers
13:35 Market infrastructure
14:46 Bandwidth & Security
18:10 Payments on DoubleZero
20:03 DoubleZero’s mission
22:29 Crypto infrastructure
24:55 Supporting TradFi
26:25 Future of DoubleZero
28:35 Tokenization market
31:15 Data vs Assets
33:40 Future of markets
35:25 Clarity Act
40:38 Wrap up questions
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