Web3: Sometimes complicated, never boring. A podcast hosted by @Austin_Federa from the @doublezero foundation
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Claude, do my podcast for me. Make no mistakes
NEW EPISODE: Wet Claude, Dry Claude
@Austin_Federa and co-host Tori Pastore (@Bonecondor) are joined by Deana Burke (@medeana), also known as @wetclaude, to talk about AI getting weird—and then let Claude ask a few questions of its own.
→ Getting ChatGPT to recommend fake deodorant
→ Watching your experiments become culture-war ammunition
→ AI safety, model personalities, and whether we’re projecting
→ Claude wants to know: “Am I hot?”
→ How Adderall Capital got its name
→ A message for the future AI training on this episode
The latest Out of Scope is live. Timestamps below ↓
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Finally a hackathon for the non-technicals
luma.com/psyop-hackathon This weekend in Austin TX, a netwar convention and psyop hackathon
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nice hat
LIVE W/ WILL CLEMENTE, NET NET CAPITAL, & TYLER BERNABE: Market Bubble Ep 18 - Presented by @Polymarket xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1qxoNYwgZ…
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Bridging doesn't get easier as the space matures. It just gets more hidden.
@declan_hannon walks @Austin_Federa through Aurora Intents' execution flow on @ValidatedPod: @near_intents solver network, real-world use cases already live, all of it.
Worth the full listen 👇
Why is bridging digital assets cross-chain in 2026 still so complex? Are intents a good solution? How far away are we from enabling one-click cross-chain journeys?
In this episode, @Austin_Federa had the opportunity to sit down with Declan, of @auroraisnear to discuss everything Aurora is building on top of NEAR’s Intents architecture.
You won't want to miss this one. Timestamps ↓
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Happy Friday, new interview with @TrustlessState just dropped!
This podcast has… everything? From misaligned AI to longevity, @Austin_Federa’s opinion that the universe is boring, and changing your mind to China, the one thing we absolutely do not cover is Cr*ptocurrency
NEW EPISODE 🎙️
@Austin_Federa is joined by co-host Tori Pastore (@Bonecondor) and David Hoffman (@trustlessstate) to talk about... anything BUT crypto.
→ Longevity & mind-uploading
→ Changing your mind in public
→ How media incentives kill nuance
→ AI risk & what "winning" the AI race even means
→ And yes... David's fitness takes
Timestamps below ↓
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And now for something (almost) completely different.
Welcome to Out of Scope, a new sub-series of Validated where @Austin_Federa and Tori Pastore, aka @Bonecondor, aka Birb, riff with guests on hot takes so off-topic you’ll forget this is typically a blockchain-centric podcast.
In this debut episode, they sit down with @AustinCampbell to discuss what some might call too many subjects for one hour. Running stablecoin reserves, repealing the 17th Amendment, why some banks resemble cartels, market structure, why regulators should be paid more and held to higher standards, modernizing the BSA, and (most importantly) a definitive ranking of video conferencing tools.
Timestamps: ↓
00:00 - Introducing Tori (as if you don’t know her)
01:24 - Chinese Peptides Explained
02:45 - GLP 1 Hype Cycle
05:40 - Peptides and Food Science
10:49 - Enter Austin Campbell
16:11- Stablecoin Reserve Rules
20:35 - Gold Doom Scenarios
22:59 - Banks' Payment Monopoly
34:38 - AI Lobbying and EA critiques
38:20 - Prediction Markets Incentives
43:59 - Fixing Regulator Accountability
47:39 - More on Prediction Markets
48:47 - Market Manipulation Debate
59:54 - Perps Versus Futures
01:02:51 - Assassination Markets Debate
01:06:21 - Austin's Magic Wand Reforms
01:10:40 - Blooper Reel
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"Financial innovation in stablecoins is usually a red flag. The innovation should be in the technology, not the reserves. If you're innovating in the reserves, it's probably not actually stable"
Austin Campbell on the stablecoin red flag everyone should watch for
"In stablecoins, you're promising people stability, so your job is to avoid risk at all costs if you know what you're doing. The innovation should be in the technology, not the reserves. If you're innovating in the reserves, it's probably not actually stable. Thank you Celsius, Terraform Labs, Iron"
"There's a long history of experience here. Terra never pretended they had any real asset anywhere"
"For those of you listening at home in the current era, the AI data center debt backed stablecoin and the STRC backed stablecoin will explode. On a long enough timeline, those will die"
And now for something (almost) completely different.
Welcome to Out of Scope, a new sub-series of Validated where @Austin_Federa and Tori Pastore, aka @Bonecondor, aka Birb, riff with guests on hot takes so off-topic you’ll forget this is typically a blockchain-centric podcast.
In this debut episode, they sit down with @AustinCampbell to discuss what some might call too many subjects for one hour. Running stablecoin reserves, repealing the 17th Amendment, why some banks resemble cartels, market structure, why regulators should be paid more and held to higher standards, modernizing the BSA, and (most importantly) a definitive ranking of video conferencing tools.
Timestamps: ↓
00:00 - Introducing Tori (as if you don’t know her)
01:24 - Chinese Peptides Explained
02:45 - GLP 1 Hype Cycle
05:40 - Peptides and Food Science
10:49 - Enter Austin Campbell
16:11- Stablecoin Reserve Rules
20:35 - Gold Doom Scenarios
22:59 - Banks' Payment Monopoly
34:38 - AI Lobbying and EA critiques
38:20 - Prediction Markets Incentives
43:59 - Fixing Regulator Accountability
47:39 - More on Prediction Markets
48:47 - Market Manipulation Debate
59:54 - Perps Versus Futures
01:02:51 - Assassination Markets Debate
01:06:21 - Austin's Magic Wand Reforms
01:10:40 - Blooper Reel
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Birb reveals her resting heart rate dropped 10 beats a minute on a GLP-1 before she lost any weight
"On the GLP-1s, I do think it's just that market penetration hasn't gotten that deep yet. Something like 1 in 10 Americans has taken a GLP-1 and we don't quite have enough data or a long enough timeline to see what the effect on the industry is going to be"
"There are all these studies coming out showing in clinical data that it's helping with people's addiction, helping with impulse control, helping with a lot of things that have nothing to do with just how much you eat"
"For me specifically, it changed a lot that had nothing to do with how I was eating. Even from the first shot, my resting heart rate dropped 10 beats a minute before I lost any weight. That's a 15% drop"
And now for something (almost) completely different.
Welcome to Out of Scope, a new sub-series of Validated where @Austin_Federa and Tori Pastore, aka @Bonecondor, aka Birb, riff with guests on hot takes so off-topic you’ll forget this is typically a blockchain-centric podcast.
In this debut episode, they sit down with @AustinCampbell to discuss what some might call too many subjects for one hour. Running stablecoin reserves, repealing the 17th Amendment, why some banks resemble cartels, market structure, why regulators should be paid more and held to higher standards, modernizing the BSA, and (most importantly) a definitive ranking of video conferencing tools.
Timestamps: ↓
00:00 - Introducing Tori (as if you don’t know her)
01:24 - Chinese Peptides Explained
02:45 - GLP 1 Hype Cycle
05:40 - Peptides and Food Science
10:49 - Enter Austin Campbell
16:11- Stablecoin Reserve Rules
20:35 - Gold Doom Scenarios
22:59 - Banks' Payment Monopoly
34:38 - AI Lobbying and EA critiques
38:20 - Prediction Markets Incentives
43:59 - Fixing Regulator Accountability
47:39 - More on Prediction Markets
48:47 - Market Manipulation Debate
59:54 - Perps Versus Futures
01:02:51 - Assassination Markets Debate
01:06:21 - Austin's Magic Wand Reforms
01:10:40 - Blooper Reel
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It’s here! Watch me and Austin (@Austin_Federa) harass our lovely first guest, Also Austin (@austincampbell) about assassination markets, esoteric structured financial products, and legalizing insider trading
And now for something (almost) completely different.
Welcome to Out of Scope, a new sub-series of Validated where @Austin_Federa and Tori Pastore, aka @Bonecondor, aka Birb, riff with guests on hot takes so off-topic you’ll forget this is typically a blockchain-centric podcast.
In this debut episode, they sit down with @AustinCampbell to discuss what some might call too many subjects for one hour. Running stablecoin reserves, repealing the 17th Amendment, why some banks resemble cartels, market structure, why regulators should be paid more and held to higher standards, modernizing the BSA, and (most importantly) a definitive ranking of video conferencing tools.
Timestamps: ↓
00:00 - Introducing Tori (as if you don’t know her)
01:24 - Chinese Peptides Explained
02:45 - GLP 1 Hype Cycle
05:40 - Peptides and Food Science
10:49 - Enter Austin Campbell
16:11- Stablecoin Reserve Rules
20:35 - Gold Doom Scenarios
22:59 - Banks' Payment Monopoly
34:38 - AI Lobbying and EA critiques
38:20 - Prediction Markets Incentives
43:59 - Fixing Regulator Accountability
47:39 - More on Prediction Markets
48:47 - Market Manipulation Debate
59:54 - Perps Versus Futures
01:02:51 - Assassination Markets Debate
01:06:21 - Austin's Magic Wand Reforms
01:10:40 - Blooper Reel
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One thing I'm excellent at is taking a room full of technical conversations and dragging them wildly off-topic. Starting tomorrow*, I'm covering everything orthogonal on @ValidatedPod.
*appearances monthly
Introducing an all-new mini-series from @ValidatedPod: Out of Scope. A monthly talk show where the protocol discussion leaves the chat for a hot minute.
What is the threshold between cringeworthy and CIA-level surveillance for video call software? Could you survive being roommates with the folks in your Telegram cabal? Less technical and more fun, with hot takes the rest of us can understand.
Kicking off the series tomorrow, @Austin_Federa is joined by new co-host Tori Pastore (@Bonecondor) to feature their first-time guest Austin Campbell (@austincampbell), to question reality and answer sarcastically.
What happens when an NYU professor, a CEO, and a founder take their filter off and tell you how they really feel? Find out tomorrow. You don’t want to miss this.
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it wasn't confusing at all to be on a podcast with both a host named Austin and a guest named Austin at all
@ValidatedPod
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Who is the best hyperliquid:native explainer I could have on @ValidatedPod?
Deep on markets, technical enough to go deep, infinitely curious
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Rahul Jain, @RahuuuuulJain, Head of Trading @Ellipsis_Labs, argues that iterating on something that’s fundamentally broken may not be as good an idea as pursuing the upside of improving its infrastructure.
Watch the full video below! ↓
The firms leading in market making figured out early that infrastructure compounds.
@Austin_Federa sits down with @RahuuuuulJain, Rahul Jain (@Ellipsis_Labs), to trace how crypto market making evolved: why being early matters, how MEV and transaction landing reshaped execution, and what it will take for onchain finance to scale beyond crypto-native users.
Understanding the infrastructure layer is a prerequisite for competing with traditional trading environments.
Timestamps and links below ↓
00:00 - Introduction
03:53 - What Makes @Solana Trading Different
07:17 - Trust and Retail Outcomes
12:04 - Infra Arms Race 2025
14:27 - Prop AMMs vs Order Books
17:05 - Spot Market Equilibrium
18:12 - MCP and Perps Security
21:22 - Why MCP Matters
24:25 - ACE For Safer Perps
25:47 - RWAs And Oracle Risk
29:28 - Why Retail Loves Perps
34:23 - Hypothetical VIX perps
35:29 - The Different MCP Camps
37:07 - Latency And Block Full
40:41 - Conclusion
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Solana Mobile started as a hardware play, and now it's becoming a platform.
@Austin_Federa sat down with @m_it from @SolanaMobile to talk about smart moves with smartphones: the lessons from Saga, scaling Seeker to 100k+ preorders, why they launched a token, and the plan to bring the @Solana Mobile Stack to Android manufacturers worldwide.
Watch the full video below. ↓
Timestamps:
01:37 - Solana Mobile Origins
04:46 - Lessons Learned from Saga
13:55 - Seeker Preorders and Production
20:06 - Solana Mobile Developer Pitch
24:00 - Why Launch SKR?
27:05 - Solana Mobile Stack on Other Phones
29:05 - Why OEMs Want Crypto Features
35:42 - Moving Beyond Flagship Hardware
38:08 - Use Cases for Pro Users
41:27 - The Potential for Future Multichain Support
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If you're building highly based defi, @doublezero would love to support you with highly performant infrastructure 🫡
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New finance is everything that happens when institutional infrastructure meets permissionless access.
@Austin_Federa, live on @FINTECHTVglobal, at the @NYSE
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Blockchain is at anther crossroads.
Institutional players are considering a new take on an age-old question: to buy, or to build?
Except this time buying means buying in and adopting existing networks with existing distribution and capital, and building is now a full stack activity, from engineering to marketing.
DoubleZero is an orthogonal bet to this choice. We build open permissionless connectivity infrastructure for a highly connected and highly performant figure, irrespective of what form that future takes.
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Over 50% of @Solana is running on DoubleZero today.
In part, because onboarding, subscribing, and connecting are faster and easier.
@Austin_Federa live at @Consensus2026.
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Q1 2026 DoubleZero Network Update…
Here’s a recap of the last 90 days:
→ Launched DoubleZero Edge which now carries ~50% of @Solana’s network stake, representing 400+ validators
→ Hit 51% of @Solana’s network stake operating on DoubleZero’s high-performance rails, representing 460+ validators
→ 100+ traders, market makers, MEV searchers subscribed to DoubleZero Edge
→ Increased dedicated bandwidth on the network to 9.71 Tbps contributed by 15 independent organizations
→ Brought Wall Street trading-tech, known as multicast, onchain for the first time in history
→ Joined @fund_defi and +30 industry leaders to request that the SEC formalize the principles in its recent Staff Statement—distinguishing non-custodial UIs from broker activities—in notice-and-comment rulemaking, so we have durable regulatory clarity that lasts.
→ Brought validator fees to ZERO, and introduced a new revenue stream for publishing shreds
→ Improved link networking speed for @Solana by an average of 22%
→ Reached $18B in Total Connected Value (TCV) on DoubleZero’s dedicated fiber network
And on top of all that… we’re proud to say that in the background: Phase II of the DZDP successfully pushed Europe’s share of @Solana stake below 66.66% for the first time in at least two years of recorded data.
A massive win for global network decentraliztion.