In today's episode Jason and Santi are joined by Logan Jastremski, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Frictionless Capital. He shares his thesis on why high-throughput blockchains are essential for crypto to reach mainstream adoption. We dive deep into the technical limitations of existing chains, and how innovations like parallelization and higher bandwidth unlock entirely new applications and business models not possible before. Stay tuned for a deep dive into deterministic and optimistic parallelization, performant validator nodes, and much more!

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Timestamps:

(01:35) The Logan Jastremski Thesis

(08:47) Parallelization Adoption & Usecases

(15:53) Blockchains at Scale

(30:24) Limitations of Data Propagation

(37:38) Edge Cases of Performant Blockchain Thesis

(42:26) Wormole Ad

(43:52) Paypal Ad

(44:51) Frictionless Portfolio Decisions

(48:36) Solana Criticisms

(59:07) Biggest Problem Solana Faces Today

(01:04:10) Applications Unlocked by High Performance

(01:13:36) Investing in Private Teams vs L1 Tokens

(01:16:55) Thesis Invalidation

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Disclaimer: Nothing said on Empire is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Santiago, Jason, and our guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed.