Blockchain Infrastructure

In this episode of When Shift Happens , I sit down with Zen and Soju to discuss how a 20-person team built Solana’s most advanced liquidity engine, why “Internet Capital Markets” are the next frontier, and what it really takes to launch culture-shaping tokens without losing the plot. Meteora didn’t begin as today’s sleek “liquidity layer”. Its roots trace back to Mercurial, a 2021-era Solana project that launched during the FTX boom. Zen, a product-first operator with a knack

In this episode of When Shift Happens , I sit down with Paolo Ardoino to discuss how Tether became one of the most profitable businesses per employee in history, why stablecoins matter most to people outside the West, and what it means to build a “stable company” in an unstable world. Ardoino, CEO of Tether and CTO of Bitfinex, is matter-of-fact about the numbers. Tether earned $13.7 billion last year and expects similar performance this year. Some of that windfall reflects m

In this episode of When Shift Happens , I sit down with Paul Faecks, the founder and CEO of Plasma, to discuss the trillion-dollar...

In this episode of When Shift Happens , I sit down with Lily Liu, President of the Solana Foundation, to discuss why Bitcoin and Solana...

In this episode of When Shift Happens , I sit down with Emin Gün Sirer to discuss his journey from Turkish immigrant to Cornell professor...

In this episode of When Shift Happens , I sit down with Sergey Nazarov, co-founder and CEO of Chainlink, to discuss why crypto has...

In this episode of When Shift Happens, I sit down with Sam Blackshear, Co-founder and CTO of Mysten Labs, to discuss the creation of the...

Evan Cheng sat down with me on the 125th episode of When Shift Happens  to unpack a bold ambition: fixing the broken foundation of the...

Gavin Wood, the co-founder of Ethereum and founder of Polkadot, sat down with me on the 124th episode of When Shift Happens  to unpack...

In the latest episode of When Shift Happens , Kevin Follonier sat down with Steven Goldfeder, co-founder and CEO of Offchain Labs, to...

In the wake of an industry-wide crash and the collapse of FTX, many expected Solana to vanish quietly into the crypto graveyard. Instead,...