RIP Testnet Frankendancer ๐ชฆ
5,000 slots into Solana testnet epoch 1042, Alpenglow activates and Frankendancer support comes to an end.
It helped pave the way. Now the torch passes to @jump_firedancer . ๐ฅ๐
End of an era. The next chapter begins.
E183: @jupiterexchange COO - Why Solana Is The Everything Chain and Why Get Rich Slow Is The Real Alpha
@kashdhanda is the COO of Jupiter, the biggest trading and DeFi platform on @Solana. He got his start on the founding team at Superteam, then spent the last year and a half building Jupiter into what he calls the on-chain finance super app. We get into why he keeps half his own portfolio in yield-bearing stablecoins, why meme coins are just video games with no staying power, and why he thinks the fat protocol thesis got it backwards.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
2:10 Crypto's Middleman Problem
3:20 What TradFi Actually Knows About Crypto
4:46 Crypto's Place Inside TradFi
6:19 Early Tech, Late Investment?
7:59 Who Is Kash Dhanda?
9:26 Kash's Role At Superteam
11:42 Why Kevin Went All-In On $SOL in 2023 & $ZEC in 2025
13:02 Infinite Capitalism, Explained
16:07 Sponsors: @variational_io & @Bitwise
17:00 Which Assets Win When Liquidity Is Scarce
19:15 Kash On Memecoins
21:27 Why Keep 10% For Gambling
22:58 The Hidden Cost Of Infinite Capitalism
24:15 Getting Rich In Crypto Without Luck
26:18 Timing Beats Holding
27:25 The Only Way To Compound Wealth
31:14 The Case For All-In Stablecoins
32:59 Protocols Kash Actually Trusts
34:12 Kash's Stablecoin Allocation
37:07 How To Know You're Wrong
40:10 Sponsors @KASTxyz
40:58 Yield's TAM Is About To Explode
43:21 Is Solana Back From The Dead?
45:32 Where SOL's $1B Liquidity Really Goes
47:09 Solana's Biggest Weakness
48:44 Building Products Without Breaking Solana
51:01 Solana's 2026 Thesis
52:23 Is SOL Future-Proof?
54:07 What Jupiter Actually Is
54:34 How Jupiter Stops You From Getting Rekt
56:13 Why @ethena Powers JUPUSD
57:19 Why Jupiter Needs Its Own Stablecoin
1:00:05 How $JUP Generates Yield
1:01:08 The Super App Race: Who Wins?
1:03:20 Jupiter Spend, Explained
1:04:58 Sponsors @JupiterExchange & @ethena
1:05:42 Why Jupiter Spend Wins
1:07:39 GUM Explained Simply
1:10:20 What Else GUM Unlocks
1:12:30 Does Solana's Success Lift Jupiter?
1:14:45 Why $JUP Flopped Last Cycle
1:17:21 Jupiter's Comeback Plan
1:19:23 Is $JUP A Buy?
1:20:38 Hyperliquid vs Jupiter & GUM
1:21:38 Why Everyone's Talking About Hyperliquid
1:23:28 The Biggest Takeaway
1:24:15 Closing Thoughts
This is Thomas.
Thomas is building @MatoFinance - a system that combines continuous trading and batch auctions into continuous clearing auctions.
Open. Transparent. Permissionless. On @Solana. For @colosseum.
Be like Thomas | @thgehr .
The Alpenglow Community Cluster has only been live for a few hours and thereโs already a block explorer for it ๐
Huge shoutout to @validblocks for moving so fast and supporting the cluster this early ๐
Explore it here:
https://t.co/b3tJyhFL8K
Grab some popcorn ๐ฟ for the next testnet epochs 533/4, tune to https://t.co/0NrMcPhPmm and check out the next batch of stress tests on the network conducted by the #Monad Foundation.
Focuses on sustaining high execution load and observing system behavior.
Did you know you can monitor a Monad Mainnet or Testnet validator through Monad-IO?
1. Visit https://t.co/0NrMcPhPmm
2. Select the validator from the dropdown.
3. Hit 'Alert me ... '
@socialforging
Technology stole your privacy, and with it your freedom. Yannik Schrade has a plan to get it back.
(0:00) Why Is Privacy So Important?
(4:13) Is Schrade Prepared to Suffer for His Cause?
(10:38) Why Doesn't Our Current System Protect Our Privacy?
(14:16) Are We Being Surveilled?
(26:19) Is the iPhone Safer Than Android?
(31:25) Is It Truly Possible to Communicate Privately?
(35:20) Is Signal a CIA Operation?
(47:54) Is the Current State of the Art Cryptography Secure?
(53:02) How Did Schrade Build This Technology?
(56:42) Is It Possible to Move Money Privately?
(1:03:20) The Arrest of Roman Storm
(1:14:48) Are Cash Transactions Private?
(1:18:37) Is Schrade Concerned for His Safety?
(1:23:02) How Will This Technology Impact Our Lives?
(1:28:54) Will Any Big Hardware Manufacturers Sell Truly Secure Devices?
(1:35:17) Are All Our Text Messages Being Monitored?
(1:39:58) Is Your Phone Listening to You?
(1:44:50) Where Can People Learn More About Schrade's Work?
"The great disappointment of the last ten years for me is that crypto transactions don't seem to be as private or beyond government control as I thought it would be." - Tucker Carlson
The missing piece for crypto is privacy.
Queen, David Bowie & Annie Lennox performing "Under Pressure" at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, 1992.
Freddie and Bowie gave us one of the greatest songs ever.
Legends are never forgotten.