Accelerating @solana in Australia 🇦🇺 as @superteamAU Lead | Founded @venta_xyz / @solanasummitORG | Prev @CommBank & once upon a time @Apple | Views=Own
“Only finance” feels like a strange thing to be disappointed about.
After a career in Tech, then banking. Bringing them together and that long term vision brought me here.
Creating the largest unified capital market means more people get a shot at building, learning and funding new frontiers we haven’t even thought of yet.
But remember it’s only finance!
Most founders do not need another 40-person group chat.
They need one person who will make the introduction, test the product or tell them honestly what is not working.
If you could fix one thing about using crypto for a normal person tomorrow, what would it be?
Not the biggest technical problem. The small annoying thing that makes people give up.
⚡️🥳 We’re thrilled to be named a finalist in the 2026 Australian Digital Economy Awards 'The DIGIs' for:
- Product & Service Innovation Award
- Startup/Scaleup of the Year
- The Blockies Award
The awards will bring together hundreds of leaders from across Australia’s digital economy at Doltone House, Sydney on Friday, 27 November 2026, followed by the official afterparty.
We’d love to see you there and celebrate together.
Tickets and information: https://t.co/eNnLmwjo3P
#DIGIs2026 #zapme
Todd McDonald, co-founder of @inside_r3, on the three reasons they chose Solana for the next version of Corda
“One is the technology. I personally love their approach to a single mainnet and scaling through a single mainnet. One pool of liquidity. Two is their strategy. Internet Capital Markets, that’s the north star. They’re focused on helping existing capital markets players understand, launch and be successful on Solana.”
“Three, the culture of the ecosystem. Both those building on it and the Solana Foundation. They’re viewing this as a long-term business they want to grow. What you really need in this space is long-term alignment with the partners you choose. That was the big thing for us.”
@Mcdtv@jacqmelinek@_TalkingTokens
I agree with this more than I agree with most UX takes.
Half the time the button is fine. The words around it make people feel like they are about to lose money.
Crypto doesn't have a UX problem. It has a words problem.
Sign transaction, slippage, etc etc etc
Nobody talks like that. Rewrite the words and half the UX problems disappear.
Tokenised fund on Solana? Look at Project Harmonia today.
Allfunds connects 3,300+ institutions and applications close 24 October. This is a real distribution opportunity.
https://t.co/eij4G196kn
Six seconds to around 150 milliseconds.
That is not one of those upgrades where you need to squint at the benchmark to see the difference.
Alpenglow is a very big day for Solana.
Next Summit is India on 2 November.
A room full of founders building on Solana in Mumbai. @SuperteamIN is putting this one together.
https://t.co/RyTTGzx80L
Meet @MarketCallsApp 🇦🇺
The market desk you can phone, from our Sydney member @lachlanx_.
Share any ticker or contract address and hear what it is, what the public info says, and what’s still unknown. Then keep asking, like a phone call.
Free on iPhone 👇
Small request to founders: when you ask for an intro, tell me who you need, or at least what kind of person, and why.
“Anyone I should meet?” makes my brain do the spinning wheel.
We are starting to think about the next run of guests for First Light.
Who is one founder or operator you would actually listen to for an hour?
Australian or global. Tag them.
One thing I noticed in Singapore was that nobody really cared where a team was from once the demo started.
A good product is a good product.
That is the standard Australian teams have to build for.