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Lightspeed is a podcast for those interested in how crypto can solve real problems and create products users love. It's a callback to the garage days of Silicon Valley, where builders pushed the limits of hardware and software to build world-changing products. We interview the projects and founders that will make this same impact today.
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From Memecoins to Markets: Solana’s Next Trade
This episode of Lightspeed Podcast features a rare five-person roundtable with host Danny alongside Carlos and Sam from the research team, and Joe and Toma from the advisory team — the full Lightspeed…
Flash Trade Is Reinventing Perps on Solana | Anas Khader
Blockworks Acquires Messari
Mike and his co-host announce Blockworks' acquisition of Messari, marking a significant consolidation in crypto data infrastructure. Both companies have spent nearly a decade building complementary ap…
Solving Sol Value Accrual
This episode features the usual Lightspeed hosts with Carlos from Blockworks Research, Thomas from advisory, and Ian Unsworth from Kairos Research discussing market developments and technical proposal…
US Crypto Perps Arrive, Solana Rethinks Fees
Danny hosts Carlos and Kunal from the Blockworks research team to discuss recent regulatory developments and market trends. Carlos serves as the team's derivatives expert while Kunal specializes in on…
Jupiter’s Push Beyond Crypto Trading | Kash Dhanda
Cash Danda from Jupiter joins Danny, Carlos from Blockworks Research, and Joe from Blockworks Advisory to discuss Jupiter's evolution into a DeFi super app. The conversation covers Jupiter's recent US…
Inside JTX: Jito’s New Trading Platform | Lucas Bruder
Lucas from Jito discusses the launch of JTX, a new trading platform targeting pro-retail traders on Solana. The conversation covers JTX's positioning as a comprehensive trading solution that abstracts…
Agentic Finance for Everyday Users | Chris
Chris, founder of Loyal, joins the Lightspeed Podcast to discuss building automated finance solutions on Solana. His team recently raised funding through MetaDAO's platform and is developing smart acc…
Inside Jito’s New Solana Plugin Strategy | Eric & Hayden
This episode features a roundtable discussion with Sam and Carlos from Blockworks Research, alongside Eric and Hayden from Jito Labs. Hayden previously worked at Blockworks before joining Jito approxi…
Inside Upshift: Building the Future of Onchain Vaults | Aya Kantorovich
Aya Kantorovich, co-CEO of Upshift, discusses the evolution from founding team member at FalconX to building multi-chain vault infrastructure. Upshift provides vault services to wallets, exchanges, an…
LPing Is Trading: Rethinking DeFi Strategies | Dann & Miir
This episode features Mir, head of growth at Meteora, and Dan, head of product at Meteora, discussing their liquidity infrastructure platform on Solana. The conversation covers Meteora's evolution fro…
Tokenizing Private Markets: Inside the Rise of PreStocks | Xavier Ekkel
Xavier, founder of Pre-Stocks, joins the Lightspeed Podcast with Carlos from Blockworks research to discuss tokenizing private companies on-chain. Pre-Stocks operates a platform that makes highly dema…
The KelpDAO Hack and DeFi’s Stress Test | Ian Unsworth
This episode features Danny, host of the Lightspeed Podcast, and Ian from Kairos Research, a firm that operates validators and conducts blockchain research across multiple networks. The conversation c…
How Institutions Are Moving Onchain | Catherine Gu
Catherine Gu, Head of Product at Solana Foundation, joins the Lightspeed Podcast to discuss institutional blockchain adoption and Solana's infrastructure development. Catherine brings extensive experi…
Titan's Solution to Onchain Pricing | defipancakes
This episode features BlockWorks co-founder Michael Apolito with Carlos from BlockWorks Research and DeFi Pancakes, co-founder and CTO at Titan Exchange. The conversation covers the recent $200+ milli…
The Institutional Shift Driving Crypto Forward
This episode features Dan and Carlos from Blockworks, recorded live at the Franklin Templeton studios during DAS NYC 2026. The conversation explores the institutional adoption of blockchain technology…
The Future of DeFi Trading: Routers, Perps, and MCP | Eugene Chen
This episode features Eugene, CEO of Ellipsis Labs (known as Xerox ShitTrader on Twitter), discussing the evolution of market structure on Solana and the development of Phoenix perps. Eugene and his c…
Designing the Future of Payments Systems | Konstantin Richter & Tom Zschach
Tom Schock, Chief Innovation Officer at Swift, and Constantine, CEO and founder of BlockDaemon, discuss the future of institutional payments and digital asset infrastructure. Schock leads Swift's digi…
Making Privacy the Default | Kru & Cal
This episode features Crew and Cal, co-founders of Umbra, a privacy-focused protocol building on Solana. Crew comes from a design background in the Solana ecosystem, while Cal is a university develope…
The Future of Digital Assets | Regulation, Value Accrual, and Token Design
This episode features Danny from Blockworks hosting Carlos from the research team and Noah from Thea for their first Lightspeed Podcast appearance together. The conversation centers on recent SEC guid…
Harmonic Fires Back in Solana’s Block Building Wars | Ben Coverston
Ben, CEO of Harmonic, joins the show to discuss block building competition on Solana. Ben has a background in quantitative trading, having interned at Akuna Capital and Citadel Securities before movin…
MetaDAO's Permissionless Launchpad
This episode features host Danny with returning guests Carlos and Toma from Blockworks Research, plus first-time guest Joe, a recent Blockworks Advisory member. The team discusses market volatility am…
Crypto’s Rebirth Moment | Tushar, Shayon and Spencer
This episode features three partners from Multicoin Capital: Cheyenne, Tushar, and Spencer, discussing their updated investment philosophy and market outlook. Multicoin Capital is a crypto-focused ven…
Tokenized Equities, Kamino RWAs and zachXBT Investigation
Danny hosts Carlos from Blockworks research team and Toma, a new member of the Blockworks advisory team focusing on Solana ecosystem analysis and content creation. The conversation covers Solana's mon…
Introducing: Inflection Point | The Crypto-TradFi Convergence
This inaugural episode of Inflection Point features Mark Arjun (Blockworks senior research analyst), David Lawant (head of research at Anchorage Digital), Matt Hogan (Chief Investment Officer at Bitwi…
Solana’s Institutional Moment | Nick Ducoff
This episode features Nick Tukoff, Head of Institutional Growth at the Solana Foundation, discussing the evolution of institutional adoption on Solana and the broader real-world asset tokenization lan…
0xResearch: Jito BAM and Solana Market Structure | Lucas Bruder
This episode features Lucas Buffalo from Jito discussing Solana's evolving block building landscape with Carlos and Sam from BlockWorks Research. Lucas leads Jito's development of BAM (Block Auction M…
Solana’s Block Building Battle: Jito BAM vs. Harmonic
Danny hosts Carlos from Blockworks research and Sam Schubert, making his first appearance on a Blockworks podcast. Both will be presenting at the upcoming Digital Asset Summit in New York (March 24-26…
Solana’s Policy Push: Crypto’s New Regulatory Era | Kristin Smith
Kristen Smith, President of the Solana Policy Institute and former first employee of the Blockchain Association, discusses the dramatic shift in crypto policy under the Trump administration. Smith, wh…
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