The Cove

Today I have a conversation with Uddhav from the Friktion team about building a DeFi portfolio manager on Solana! Friktion has onboarded 96 million in TVL and is now the 3rd largest options protocol in all of DeFi by TVL. And it took them just 3 weeks to do it. Find out how they've built so effectively and what's coming next in this deep dive. 

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🔗 https://app.friktion.fi/

🐦 @friktion_labs

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Not financial or tax advice. This podcast is purely educational and is not intended as investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. Speak to an accountant and always do your own resear

Today I’m chatting with Barrett from Cypher. Barrett and his team are building expiratory futures on Solana, looking to bring pre IPO and IDO tokens to the space so that we can trade the token before its live. I met Barrett at Breakpoint and it was such a pleasure to chat with him then and it was blast to hear from him again this time. If you’re a bit intimidated by DeFi don’t worry, we lay the financial foundation for you to understand Cypher.

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🔗 https://cypher.trade/

🐦 @cypher_protocol

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Not financial or tax advice. This podcast is purely educational and is not intended as investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. Speak to an accountant and always do your own research.

Today I’m chatting with Sam and Shimon from Ratio Finance who are on a mission to de-risk DeFi. We chat about how Ratio’s risk ratings will protect DeFi users, the challenge of gradually decentralizing governance, their experience building on Solana and what the teams rollout looks like in the next months. Both Sam and Shimon share a lazer focus and hunger that characterizes builders on Solana and our interview left me very eager to take Ratio Protocol for a test run. Enjoy!

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🔗 https://ratio.finance/

🐦 @RatioFinance

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Not financial or tax advice. This podcast is purely educational and is not intended as investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. Speak to an accountant and always do your own research.

Today I interview Ben from Jupiter. Jupiter is the first fully fledged DEX Aggregator on Solana. Jupiter has been live on Solana for about a month and recently did 78 million in swap value in just 24 hours. I chat with Ben about how Jupiter started, where the team wants to take the product, what features are around the corner, the benefits and challenges of building on Solana and much more. 

Note: Apologies for the audio in the beginning, not using normal equipment for introduction. 

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🔗 https://jup.ag/

🐦 @JupiterExchange

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Not financial or tax advice. This podcast is purely educational and is not intended as investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. Speak to an accountant and always do your own research.

Today's episode is an interview with the team behind shatteredmarble, a fine art NFT project on Solana. We have a wide ranging chat about the artistic side of NFT art, how the pieces were created, the unique possibilities for showing NFT art and what the team is working on next.

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📱IF YOU'D LIKE TO SPONSOR SOLANA COVE, REACH OUT twitter.com/@SolanaCove

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🔗 www.shatteredmarble.com

🐦 @shatteredmarble

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Not financial or tax advice. This podcast is purely educational and is not intended as investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. Speak to an accountant and always do your own research.

In this episode I chatted with Defi Governor, whose an Architect on “The Tower” NFT project. The Tower team have lofty ambitions for what “The Tower” can be, a stepping stone for millions entering the crypto world, a meta community and an engaging, accessible consumer product. Defi Governor has clearly spent a lot of time thinking about NFT’s and governance and it was a pleasure to pick his brain. I hope you enjoy this conversation.

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📱IF YOU'D LIKE TO SPONSOR SOLANA COVE, REACH OUT twitter.com/@SolanaCove

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🔗https://towerdao.com/

🐦@TowerDao

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Not financial or tax advice. This podcast is purely educational and is not intended as investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. Speak to an accountant and always do your own research.

Today I had the pleasure of chatting with Ori from Orca. Orca is the friendliest AMM on Solana and so much more. In this conversation we dive into how she got into crypto, how Orca got started and the team formed and then we chat about some big news she came on the show to share. Stick around and listen all the way through as Ori drops tons of news about what the Orca team has been up to and it’s safe to say they have been crazy busy.

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📱IF YOU'D LIKE TO SPONSOR SOLANA COVE, REACH OUT twitter.com/@SolanaCove

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🔗https://www.orca.so

🐦@orca_so

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Not financial or tax advice. This podcast is purely educational and is not intended as investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. Speak to an accountant and always do your own research.

Today we have a relaxed chat with Mike from Kaiju Cards. We chat about the how Mike got involved in Crypto, the Kaiju Card drops, whats coming next, the promise of NFTs, the challenges and benefits of building on a young and ambitious chain like Solana, why Solana is the perfect home for Kaiju and much more.

Mike is all in on Kaiju and it was a really pleasure to chat with him and hear the passion him and the team have on delivering a great end product. Enjoy!

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📱IF YOU'D LIKE TO SPONSOR SOLANA COVE, REACH OUT twitter.com/@SolanaCove

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🐦@KaijuCards

I got the chance to chat with Dylan Macalinao co-founder of Saber. We cover how Saber started, what’s coming down the pipeline, how to prioritize and stay focused on what’s important, comparing building in high performance startups vs DeFi, what would Dylan build if he had more time, what grade would Dylan give to Solana currently and much more!

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📱IF YOU'D LIKE TO SPONSOR SOLANA COVE, REACH OUT twitter.com/@SolanaCove

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🐦@Saber_HQ

🐦@DylanMacalinao

Today I’m chatting with Vito from SolSea. We talk about his journey into crypto, how Solsea was created, what’s coming with their launch, the pressure him and the team feel to move at a breakneck pace, the potential he sees for NFTs, how the game will change with AR, the struggle between entertainment and quality content and culture and much much more. It's a great chat and I hope you enjoy!

📱IF YOU'D LIKE TO SPONSOR SOLANA COVE, REACH OUT twitter.com/@SolanaCove

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🐦@SolSeaNFT