Ben Chow, the co-founder of Jupiter, talks with key crypto folks in the Solana ecosystem, from founder to investor, builder to community, or marketer. He deep dives into the important topics, problems, and stories in Solana.
Solana is the fastest blockchain in the world with the fastest-growing ecosystem in crypto, with thousands of projects spanning DeFi, NFTs, GameFi, Web3, and more.
Jupiter is the key swap aggregator and infrastructure on Solana. Jupiter is one of the most popular DeFi protocols on Solana. Exploring Solana with Jupiter takes you behind-the-scenes in Solana to find the answers and perspectives you're most curious about.
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In this episode of Exploring Solana with Jupiter, let’s learn about Kamino Finance, a new product built by Hubble. Kamino is a concentrated liquidity pool vault management consisting of quant algorithms that will manage the liquidity and the rebalance to optimize the price, fees earned and for pool growth of the tokens deposited on Kamino.
We also discussed how this product will be an optimised liquidity layer to improve the capital efficiency of trading on Solana.
Join Ben Chow and check this episode out if you are interested in taking your A game to the next level. Press play and if you liked this episode, don’t forget to subscribe and show your support to Exploring Solana with Jupiter by rating us 5 stars.
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In this episode of Exploring Solana with Jupiter, we caught up with Michael from Star Atlas. They are a metaverse game that combines Triple-A game and blockchain mechanics. They have two tokens: their governance token POLIS, and their in-game transactional currency, Atlas. We talk about their humble beginnings, the two events that they held in the summer: COPA and 426 Live, and Star Atlas also answers some questions from their listeners.
Together with your host, Ben Chow, check this episode out. If you liked this episode, don’t forget to subscribe and show your support to Exploring Solana with Jupiter by rating us 5 stars.
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In this episode of Exploring Solana with Jupiter, let’s learn about Web3 Communities with the cofounders of Fox Famous Federation and Hubble Stablecoin. They talk about how they maximized their communities in Stablecoin and Jupiter. They also discussed the new tools and utilities they developed in their respective companies in order to cater to the Web3 Community. Together with your host, Ben Chow, check this episode out if you are interested in taking your A game to the next level. Press play and if you liked this episode, don’t forget to subscribe and show your support to Exploring Solana with Jupiter by rating us 5 stars.
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In this episode of Exploring Solana with Jupiter, let’s learn about Genopets with Co-founder, CTO and CEO Albert Chen. He talks about how he created the world’s first move-to-earn NFT game that has been gaining attention in the crypto world due to its engaging online activities. Together with your host, Ben Chow, check this episode out if you are interested in taking your A game to the next level. Press play and if you liked this episode, don’t forget to subscribe and show your support to Exploring Solana with Jupiter by rating us 5 stars.
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OpenSea - the world’s first and largest digital marketplace for crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens (NFTs)
EVM - also known as Ethereum Virtual Machine, a Turing-complete virtual machine that enables execution of code exactly as intended
Aqua Farm - most immersive Adventure RPG Play-to-Earn game being built on Polygon Network
Liquidity Bootstrapping Pool - most immersive Adventure RPG Play-to-Earn game being built on Polygon Network
GENE - ultra-realistic P2E game in the genre of Life simulator, based on the laws of Genetics and blockchain technologies
Ki - a blockchain platform based on the Cosmos Ecosystem (ATOM), which aims to provide traditional and crypto investors with a convenient investment and trading platform that will significantly expand their opportunities and provide easy interaction with the crypto industry for traditional investors
Holaplex - the only truly open-sourced, decentralized & community-governed NFT platform on
SFT - also known as semi-fungible token, can change state from being fungible like a bitcoin to non-fungible like any NFT
Metaplex - the fastest & most affordable NFT ecosystem for marketplaces, games, arts & collectibles
Episode timeline:
[0:07] Introducing Albert
[4:51] Activities online of Genopets
[8:49] Difference between KI and GENE
[11:07] Albert on wearing multiple hats
[19:57] The growth of Jupiter
[26:02] Difficulties in creating on-chain gaming
[41:24] Gaming products can’t really have an MVP
[51:59] “The way you use our app should be almost the same as you use any other app”
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In this episode of Exploring Solana with Jupiter, let’s learn about HedgeLabs with product and business developer Haoqian Zheng and how they accommodate leveraging with the lowest collateral in the market . Together with your host, Ben Chow, check this episode out if you are interested in taking your A game to the next level. If you liked this episode, don’t forget to subscribe and show your support to Exploring Solana with Jupiter by rating us 5 stars.
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[00:43] Learn more about HedgeLabs
[3:01] First experiences with cryptocurrency
[7:00] Standout things they’re proud of
[19:45] Making Logic even better
[22:40] Why there’s a minimum deposit
[32:24] Preparing for the worst in DeFi
[34:44] How they handle or recover things
[35:59] Thought process in integrating Jupiter
[39:18] What to build next
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Podcast: http://podcast.jup.ag/
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In this episode of Exploring Solana with Jupiter, Muneeb and his team share about the humble beginnings and growth of Xenon, a cryptocurrency and operates on the Ethereum platform. Together with your host, Ben Chow, let’s learn more about the main advantages of having a centralized margin account, how they started it and why they utilized Jupiter for this innovative cryptocurrency. If you liked this episode, don’t forget to subscribe and show your support by rating us 5 stars.
Episode timeline:
[0:13] How Xenon started
[5:20] Main advantages of having universal margin
[10:09] Creating an infrastructure solution
[18:05] “Solving real problems is not cyclical.”
[25:13] Will you use NFTs as collateral for margin trading
[30:57] What’s next on the roadmap?
[40:19] Guidelines for newbies to learn margin trading
[48:29] Utilizing bare market
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Podcast: http://podcast.jup.ag/
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In this episode of Exploring Solana with Jupiter, Brandon Millman and his team share about the humble beginnings and growth of Phantom, a digital wallet reimagined for DeFi. Together with your host, Ben Chow, let’s learn more about creating long term visions in headstarting your crypto journey today. If you liked this episode, don’t forget to subscribe and show your support by rating us 5 stars.
Episode timeline:
[0:34] Meet the Phantom team
[2:31] “Only in crypto” fun moments!
[5:27] What exactly is Phantom?
[06:43] Technical Issues that Phantom tries to resolve
[9:21] Humble beginnings of Phantom
[11:36] Phantom and Solana partnership
[15:42] Learnings and insights during the development process of Phantom
[18:26] Simplicity is key.
[20:08] What sets Phantom apart?
[22:58] Removal of the auto-approved feature
[24:49] Exciting things ahead for Phantom users
[33:51] Giveaways and surprises!
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In this episode of Exploring Solana with Jupiter, Hello Moon shares about the pros and cons of NFT, Cryptocurrency, and DeFi. Together with your host, Ben Chow, let’s learn more about creating long term visions in head starting your crypto journey today.
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[06:23] The best thing about NFTs
[08:09] What is the importance of floor prices?
[11:31] NFT Trends to look out for
[16:22] Community in Crypto
[19:17] Always have a long term vision
[20:19] New indicators on DeFi
[24:22] What exactly is watch trading?
[34:18] Checking out the Dijan Coin Flip
[41:26] What’s new in DeFi?
[51:44] There is no recipe to instant success
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Podcast: podcast.jup.ag
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In this episode of Exploring Solana with Jupiter, Harry Zhang talks about the Project Galaxy and how it makes the whole content economy fairer for content creators. Together with your host, Ben Chow, listen and learn how Web3 technology and the infrastructure with blockchain finally find a way to build this permissionless, open, and collaborative network to store the users’ data.
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[0:00-0:39] Intro
[1:26-3:24] Introducing the guest and Project Galaxy
[3:36-6:30] Importance of Credential Data
[7:13-9:52] People being driven on the project
[10:18-13:08] Aspect of Delivery to People
[14:53-17:48 ] Credential programs
[18:09-19:48] Different types of users
[22:00-23:56] On large user bases
[24:20-26:13] Deeper structure offers
[26:20-29:17] Issues encountered
[29:00-32:21] Learning about Solana via campaign
[33:00-34:30] GAL tokens
[34:30-40:53] Public data
[43:37-43:52] Outro
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In this episode of Exploring Solana with Jupiter, Dean Pappas talks about the origin and growth of Grape, a toolset for building token-based membership communities in Solana. Together with your host, Ben Chow, listen and learn how Dean and their Grape community continuously evolve through social mining as humanity/contribution-proofing, resolving problems in decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), and building transparency with Open-Source Protocol. If you like this episode, don’t forget to subscribe and show your support to Exploring Solana with Jupiter by rating us 5 stars.
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[0:00-1:58] Intro
[1:59-4:05] Dean introduces Grape
[4:06-6:28] Building the Community
[6:29-13:34] Social Mining as Proof of Social Work, Contribution, and Humanity
[13:35-21:25] Discovering and Resolving Problems in DAOs
[21:26-28:23] Transparency in Open-Source Protocol
[28:24-33:53] On Managing Tokens for Interest
[33:54-36:15] Attacks and Defense in DAOs
[36:16-39:55] Meritocracy in the Ecosystem
[39:56-41:59] Promotion of Athens DAO
[42:00-42:48] Outro
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In this episode of Exploring Solana with Jupiter, we have guests from Crema Finance Network as we talk about liquidity and liquidity mining in the crypto world.
Together with your host, Ben Chow, let’s talk about liquidity protocol. If you liked this episode, don’t forget to subscribe and show your support to Exploring Solana with Jupiter by rating us 5 stars.
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[00:01:48] - Introduction
[00:05:00] - The growing market and its issues
[00:15:50] - About CLMM farming
[00:15:50] - CLMM efficiency
[00:34:00] - CLMM vs AMM
[00:54:00] - Adapting the token economics
[00:58:00] - The right ‘base’ of supporters
[01:07:00] - Short term, long term plans
[01:09:00] - High quality project teams
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Website : jup.ag/
Podcast: podcast.jup.ag
Twitter : twitter.com/JupiterExchange
Discord : discord.gg/jup
Docs : docs.jup.ag/
In this episode of Exploring Solana with Jupiter, we have guests from Vybe Network and Solscan as we talk about onchain data. Together with your host, Ben Chow, let’s talk about one of the key and important infrastructures for any Web3 ecosystem. If you liked this episode, don’t forget to subscribe and show your support to Exploring Solana with Jupiter by rating us 5 stars.
Episode timeline:
[01:25] - introduction of Solcan
[02:34] - Introduction Vybe Network
[03:47] - What got you started in analytics?
[06:17] - Why is data important for Web3
[07:51] - What’s the number one problem you're solving in Solana
[08:11] - Solscan response
[10:15] - Vybe response
[13:23] - What could people do if you can have more real time data?
[13:46] - Vybe response
[14:04] - Solscan response
[16:17] - What are the past challenges you had to overcome to get to where you are now?
[16:28] - Vybe response
[17:10] - Solscan response
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Podcast: podcast.jup.ag
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In this episode of Exploring Solana with Jupiter, Yawn Rong talks about the humble beginnings of StepN, a Web3 lifestyle app that combines SocialFi and GameFi in one. Together with your host, Ben Chow, check out how Yawn and his team started from avid dreamers to successful crypto developers to help you stay inspired with your crypto journey! If you liked this episode, don’t forget to subscribe and show your support to Exploring Solana with Jupiter by rating us 5 stars.
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[1:23-3:40] The birth of the StepN idea
[3:50-5:11] GameFi vs Game like
[5:28-7:36] Were people immediately interested in StepN?
[9:49-14:51] The challenges of GameFi development
[17:52-21:42] On project sustenance and longevity
[21:44-23:11] The origin of the two token system
[23:23- 26:52] Balance
[37:09-41:01] Anti-cheating mechanics of StepN
[47:29-48:57] The strategy? Failure is not an option.
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In this episode of Exploring Solana with Jupiter, Chris McCann gives us an idea of the what’s and how's of the Solana Ecosystem before it became what we know of it today. Together with your host, Ben Chow, let’s unravel the past, the present, and the future of Solana as well as learn some tips and techniques used by famous crypto core developers for the success of their crypto journey. If you liked this episode, don’t forget to subscribe and show your support by rating us 5 stars.
Episode timeline:
[04:23] Introduction of guest - Chris McCann
[06:08] What got Chris into crypto?
[12:22] On Chris’ convictions about investing and crypto
[14:59] How did the team dynamics of Raj and Anatoli develop?
[19:24] The technical choices the team had to make
[23:33] Focus, focus, focus.
[30:39] The biggest challenges of the Solana ecosystem in the past
[35:59] What should be considered from an investment standpoint?
[41:55] The changes at present
[47:13] Other guidelines in making investment decisions
[52:17] Is the team ready for this?
[55:24] Be true to yourself.
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In this episode we talk to Dylan Macalinao of Saber and Tribeca DAO.
From his journey into crytocurrency, how Tribeca DAO works, to the effects of Jupiter becoming a DAO.
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[00:36] - Introduction of the guest, Dylan Macalinao
[02:00] - Dylan’s journey in cryptocurrency
[09:49] - How Tribeca DAO works
[17:44] - What are Saber wars?
[25:01] - Ad break
[33:05] - Will we want Jupiter to become a DAO?
[43:33] - Are there some mechanics that are less like warlike?
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Website : jup.ag/
Podcast: podcast.jup.ag
Twitter : twitter.com/JupiterExchange
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Docs : docs.jup.ag/
In this episode, we talk to Chase Barker, Austin Federa, and Matty Taylor of Solana Labs.
From Gamified incentives, to the Solana cookbook -- we talk about what's scalable, what's next in Solana, and catalysts in the crypto space.
Episode timeline:
[01:41] - Introduction of Chase
[02:51] - Introduction of Austin
[04:10] - Introduction of Matty
[10:55] - Gamified incentives
[25:41] - Solana cookbook
[30:33] - EVM
[43:43] - “Solana becomes easier”
[52:17] - Outro
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1) Austin Federa
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2) Matty Taylor
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3) Chase Barker
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Website : jup.ag/
Podcast: podcast.jup.ag
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In this episode we talk to Joe McCann, one of the top crypto traders in the space, with over 22 years of trading experience.
We talk about his genesis into Solana, the learning curve in cryptocurrency, and the evolution and what's next in Solana
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[00:34] - Joe greets the listeners
[04:15] - Starting Node.js Community
[10:57] - Web3
[21:57] - Things you need to do as a developer
[26:03] - Video games
[42:01] - “There's an alternative where you don't give up any of that”
[53:42] - Kevin Rose on NFTs
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Website : jup.ag/
Podcast: podcast.jup.ag
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Discord : discord.gg/jup
Docs : docs.jup.ag/
Ben Chow, the co-founder of Jupiter, talks with key crypto folks in the Solana ecosystem, from founder to investor, builder to community, or marketer. He deep dives into the important topics, problems, and stories in Solana.
Solana is the fastest blockchain in the world with the fastest-growing ecosystem in crypto, with thousands of projects spanning DeFi, NFTs, GameFi, Web3, and more.
Jupiter is the key swap aggregator and infrastructure on Solana. With almost $10B in trade volume and representing ~2% of Solana's daily transactions, Jupiter is one of the most popular DeFi protocols on Solana. Exploring Solana with Jupiter takes you behind-the-scenes in Solana to find the answers and perspectives you're most curious about.
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