Logan is an Investor, Writer, and Podcast Host. Investing: https://www.frictionless.fund Thoughts: https://frictionlesscapital.substack.com Twitter: @LoganJastremski
Chris Heaney is the Lead Engineer of Drift Protocol which brings on-chain, cross-margined perpetual futures to Solana.Drift Protocol's Twitter: @DriftProtocolChris Heaney's Twitter: @crispheaneyDrift's Website: https://www.drift.trade/Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/
Nick White is the COO of Celestia Labs. In this podcast we talk about Debunking the Celestia FUD.Celestia is a modular consensus and data network, built to enable anyone to easily deploy their own blockchain with minimal overhead and the first modular blockchain network.Nick White - COO of Celestia LabsNick's Twitter: @nickwh8teCelestia's Website: https://celestia.org/Logan Jastremski - Co-Founder at Frictionless Capital:Logan's Twitter: @LoganJastremskiFrictionless Capital: https://www.frictionless.fund/
Cindy Leow is the Co-Founder of Drift. Drift Protocol is the largest open-sourced perpetual futures exchange built on Solana, the fastest L1 blockchain. Cindy Leow's Twitter: https://x.com/cindyleowtt Drift's Twitter: https://x.com/DriftProtocol Drifts Website: https://www.drift.trade/ Logan Jastremski - Co-Founder at Frictionless Capital Logan's Twitter: https://x.com/LoganJastremski Frictionless Capital: https://www.frictionless.fund/
Rune Christensen is the Founder of Sky. Sky enables users to get rewarded for non-custodial saving. Rune's Twitter: https://x.com/RuneKek Sky's Twitter: https://x.com/SkyEcosystem Sky's Website: https://sky.money/ Logan Jastremski - Co-Founder at Frictionless Capital Logan's Twitter: https://x.com/LoganJastremski Frictionless Capital: https://www.frictionless.fund/
Alireza Ghods is the Founder of Natix - a global mapping network of smart cameras. Alireza Ghods Twitter: https://x.com/AlirezaGhods2 Natix's Twitter: https://x.com/NATIXNetwork Natix's Website: https://www.natix.network/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/
Alex Gluchowski is the CEO and Co-Founder of Matter Labs building ZkSync. ZKsync is an ever expanding verifiable blockchain network, secured by math. Alex Gluchowskis Twitter: https://x.com/_pgauthier Ledger's Twitter: https://x.com/zksync Ledger's Website: https://zksync.io/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/
Pascal Gauthier is the CEO of Ledger. Crypto security made easy. Ledger is the easiest and safest way to secure crypto, digital assets, and your peace of mind. Pascal's Twitter: https://x.com/_pgauthier Ledger's Twitter: https://www.ledger.com/ Ledger's Website: https://x.com/Ledger Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/
Jason Choi is the Co-Founder of Tangent: Evergreen prop investors for crypto founders. Jason Choi's Twitter: https://x.com/mrjasonchoi Tangent's Twitter: https://x.com/Tangent_xyz Tangent's Website: https://www.tangent.ventures/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/
Avery Ching is the CTO of Aptos Labs and the one of the Co-Founders of Aptos. Avery's Twitter: https://x.com/AveryChing Aptos's Twitter: https://x.com/Aptos Aptos's Website: https://aptosfoundation.org/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/
Meltem Demirors is the Founder of Crucible Capital. Meltem's Twitter: https://x.com/Melt_Dem Crucible Capital's Twitter: https://x.com/cruciblevc Crucible Capital's Website: https://www.cruciblecap.xyz/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/
Anatoly Yakovenko is the Founder of Solana. Anatoly's Twitter: @aeyakovenko Solana's Twitter: https://x.com/solana Solana's Website: https://solana.com Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/
Santiago R Santos is one of the top angel investors within Crypto and one of the industries best thinkers. Santiago's Twitter: https://x.com/santiagoroel Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/ ___ Timecodes: 0:00 - Intro 1:30 - Thinking clearly 7:30 - Santiago's investing journey 12:50 - Managing emotions 16:15 - Playing infinite games 27:30 - ParaFi 32:30 - Know what game you're playing 41:00 - Underwriting & process 55:00 - Better products, not crypto products 59:00 - Changing your mind 1:08:00 - Accepting criticism 1:14:00 - Solana & MegaETH 1:22:30 - DePIN and DeFI 1:44:00 - The next decade of innovation
Lei Yang is the CTO of MegaETH Labs. MegaETH is real-time Ethereum, streaming transactions at lightning speed: sub-millisecond latency and over 100000 transactions per second. Lei Yang's Twitter: https://x.com/shayonsengupta MegaETH's Twitter: https://x.com/megaeth_labs MegaETH's Website: https://megaeth.systems/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/
Shayon Sengupta is a Investment Partner at Multicoin Capital. A thesis driven investors that make long-term, high-conviction investments in category defining crypto companies and protocols across public and private markets. Shayon Sengupta's Twitter: https://x.com/shayonsengupta Multicoin's Website: https://multicoin.capital/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/
Felipe Montealegre is the Co-Founder of Theia Capital. Theia invests in companies building the Internet Financial System, a global financial system based on cryptography that anybody can access from a phone or laptop, Felipe Montealegre's Twitter: https://x.com/TheiaResearch Theia's Website: https://www.theiablockchain.com/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/
Ryan Watkins is the Co-Founder of Syncracy Capital: A thesis-driven hedge fund making high conviction, concentrated investments in the secular winners of the crypto economy. Ryan Watkins's Twitter: https://x.com/RyanWatkins_ Syncracy's Twitter: https://x.com/SyncracyCapital Syncracy's Website: https://www.syncracy.io/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/
Jake Brukhman is the the Founder and CEO of CoinFund. CoinFund is where web3 capable meets web3 capital: cryptonative technologists who invest in the future before it's a trend. Jake Brukhman's Twitter: https://x.com/jbrukh CoinFund's Twitter: https://x.com/coinfund_io CoinFund's Website: https://coinfund.io/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/
Quinn Thompson is the CIO of Lekker Capital a Digital Asset and Macro Hedge Fund. Quinn's Twitter: https://x.com/qthomp Lekker Capital's Twitter: https://x.com/Lekker_Cap Lekker Capital's Website: https://quinnthompson.substack.com/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/
Alonso de Gortari is the Chief Economist at Mysten Labs. At Mysten Labs, they're building critical infrastructure to enable a more decentralized internet Alonso de Gortari's Twitter: https://x.com/alonsodegortari Mysten Labs's Twitter: https://x.com/Mysten_Labs Mysten Labs's Website: https://mystenlabs.com/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/
Zano Sherwani is the CTO at Jito. Jito Labs is a leading Solana MEV Infrastructure Company. We build high-performance systems to maximize the performance of the Solana blockchain. Zano's Twitter: https://x.com/segfaultdoctor Jito's Twitter: https://x.com/jito_sol Jito's Website: https://www.jito.network/staking/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/
Drake Evans is the CTO at Agora. The dollar belongs in the world's hands. Billions of people across the globe can now enjoy a more secure, inclusive financial system—built on the world's most widely recognized currency, the US dollar. Drake's Twitter: https://x.com/DrakeEvansV1 Agora's Twitter: https://x.com/agoradollar Agora's Website: https://www.agora.finance/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/
Salvador Gala is the Managing Partner at Escape Velocity Salvador's Twitter: https://x.com/DAnconia_Crypto Escape Velocity's Twitter: https://x.com/EV3ventures Escape Velocity's Website: https://ev3.xyz/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/
Andrena's believes the Internet is for everyone. Neil Chatterjee's Twitter: https://x.com/neilc_dawn Andrena's Twitter: https://x.com/andrena_wifi Andrena's Website: https://andrena.com/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/
The GEODNET mission is to gather dense real-time geospatial data using a highly reliable web3.0 RTK (Real-Time Kinematics) Network powered by blockchain. Mike Horton's Twitter: https://x.com/mikeahorton Geodnet's Twitter: https://x.com/GEODNET_ Geodnet's Website: https://www.geodnet.com/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/
IO.net is building The Internet of GPUs. This is a conversation with the new CEO Tory Green. Tory Green's Twitter: https://x.com/MTorygreen IO.net's Twitter: https://x.com/ionet IO.net's Website: https://io.net/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/
Sei V2 takes the proven advantages of Sei and makes it accessible to a global base of EVM developers. This allows Sei to get the best of Solana and Ethereum - a hyper optimized execution layer that benefits from the tooling and mindshare around the EVM. Jay Jog's Twitter: @jayendra_jog Sei Network's Twitter: @SeiNetwork Sei Network's Website: https://www.seinetwork.io/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/
Eric Chen is the Founder of Injective - The blockchain built for finance. Eric Chen's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ericinjective Injective's Twitter: https://twitter.com/injective Injective's Website: https://injective.com/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/
Matty Taylor is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Colosseum - the world's most competitive online hackathons, where elite crypto builders launch startups on Solana. Matty Taylor's Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattytay Colosseum's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ColosseumOrg Colosseum's Website: https://www.colosseum.org/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/ ___
Anurag Arjun is the Co-founder Avail. Anurag's Twitter: https://twitter.com/anuragarjun Avail's Twitter: https://twitter.com/AvailProject Avail's Website: https://www.availproject.org/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/
Rob Solomon is the Co-founder DIMO. Rob's Twitter: https://twitter.com/robmsolomon DIMO's Twitter: https://twitter.com/DIMO_Network DIMO's Website: https://dimo.zone/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/ ___
Ben Fisch is the Co-founder & CEO of Espresso Systems. Ben's Twitter: / benafisch Espresso Systems's Twitter: / espressosys Espresso Systems's Website: https://www.espressosys.com/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/ ___
Robinson Burkey is the Co-Founder of Wormhole Foundation. Robinson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/RobinsonBurkey Wormhole's Twitter: https://twitter.com/wormholefdn Wormhole's Website: https://wormhole.foundation/ Logan Jastremski - Co-Founder at Frictionless Capital: - Logan's Twitter: @LoganJastremski - Frictionless Capital: https://www.frictionless.fund/
Brendan Farmer is the Technical Co-Founder of Polygon. Polygon is Enabling an infinitely scalable web of sovereign blockchains that feels like a single chain. Powered by ZK tech. Brendan's Twitter: https://twitter.com/_bfarmer Polygon's Twitter: https://twitter.com/0xPolygon Polygon's Website: https://polygon.technology/ Logan Jastremski - Co-Founder at Frictionless Capital: - Logan's Twitter: @LoganJastremski - Frictionless Capital: https://www.frictionless.fund/
Dan Albert is the Executive Director of Solana Foundation. The Solana Foundation is a non-profit foundation based in Zug, Switzerland, dedicated to the decentralization, adoption, and security of the Solana ecosystem. Dan's Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanPaul000 Solana Foundation's Twitter: https://twitter.com/SolanaFndn Foundation's Website: https://solana.org/ Logan Jastremski - Co-Founder at Frictionless Capital: - Logan's Twitter: @LoganJastremski - Frictionless Capital: https://www.frictionless.fund/
Alex is the Founder of Econia Labs. Econia: the high-performance on-chain order book for the Aptos blockchain. Built for equitable, global market access and engineered for composability, Econia provides trading infrastructure for Aptos DeFi. Econia Labs's Twitter: https://twitter.com/EconiaLabs Econia Labs's Website: https://www.econialabs.com/ Logan Jastremski - Co-Founder at Frictionless Capital: - Logan's Twitter: @LoganJastremski - Frictionless Capital: https://www.frictionless.fund/
Andrej Radonjic is the Founder of Grass Network. Grass is the easiest way to get paid for your unused internet. Andrej's Twitter: https://twitter.com/0xdrej Grass's Twitter: https://twitter.com/getgrass_io Grass's Website: https://www.getgrass.io/ Logan Jastremski - Co-Founder at Frictionless Capital: - Logan's Twitter: @LoganJastremski - Frictionless Capital: https://www.frictionless.fund/
Rabeel & Ahmad are the co-founders of Bluefin an On-Chain Trading Decentralized perpetuals platform with up to 20x leverage. Rabeel's Twitter: https://twitter.com/rabeelj_ Ahmad's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ahmadjawaid_ Bluefin's Twitter: https://twitter.com/bluefinapp Bluefin's Website:https://bluefin.io/ Logan Jastremski - Co-Founder at Frictionless Capital: - Logan's Twitter: @LoganJastremski - Frictionless Capital: https://www.frictionless.fund/
Tekin Salimi is the founder of dao5, a $125 million experimental cryptocurrency venture fund that will convert into a decentralized autonomous organization. Tekin Salimi- Founder of dao5 Tekin's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tekinsalimi dao5's Twitter: https://twitter.com/daofive dao5's Website: https://dao5.com/ Logan Jastremski - Co-Founder at Frictionless Capital: - Logan's Twitter: @LoganJastremski - Frictionless Capital: https://www.frictionless.fund/
Dan Hughes is the Founder of Radix Dan's Twitter: https://twitter.com/fuserleer Radix's Twitter: https://twitter.com/radixdlt Radix's Website: https://www.radixdlt.com/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/ ___
Dominic Williams is the Chief Scientist of the DFINITY project Step into the era of blockchain as a limitless smart contract cloud that hosts everything on-chain: data, content, computations, and user experiences. Forget legacy IT and build tamperproof and unstoppable Web3 social media, gaming, virtual reality, decentralized finance, and enterprise infrastructure. Join the movement and realize the game-changing Internet Computer paradigm of full stack decentralization and seamless multi-chain today. Dominic Williams - Chief Scientist - Dominic's Twitter: https://twitter.com/dominic_w - Internet Computer's Website: https://internetcomputer.org/ Logan Jastremski - Co-Founder at Frictionless Capital: - Logan's Twitter: @LoganJastremski - Frictionless Capital: https://www.frictionless.fund/
Nick White is the COO of Celestia Labs. In this podcast we talk about the end game of Solana and Celestia. Celestia is a modular consensus and data network, built to enable anyone to easily deploy their own blockchain with minimal overhead and the first modular blockchain network. Nick White - COO of Celestia Labs - Nick's Twitter: @nickwh8te - Celestia's Website: https://celestia.org/ Logan Jastremski - Co-Founder at Frictionless Capital: - Logan's Twitter: @LoganJastremski - Frictionless Capital: https://www.frictionless.fund/
Nicholas Mussallem is the Head of Product at AvaLabs building AvaCloud Nicholas's Twitter: https://twitter.com/_nMoose AvaCloud's Twitter: https://twitter.com/AvaCloud Avacloud's Website: https: https://avacloud.io/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/
Jayant Krishnamurthy is the Co-founder and CTO of Douro Labs (Pyth) Jayant's Twitter: https://twitter.com/jayantkrish Pyth's Twitter: https://twitter.com/PythNetwork Pyth's Website: https://pyth.network/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/ ___
Meow is the Founder of Jupiter Meow's Twitter: https://twitter.com/weremeow Jupiter's Twitter: https://twitter.com/JupiterExchange Jupiter's Website: https://jup.ag/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/ ___
Avery Ching is the CTO of Aptos Labs and the one of the Co-Founders of Aptos. Avery's Twitter: / averyching Aptos's Twitter: / aptos_network Aptos's Website: https://aptosfoundation.org/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/ ___
Sam Blackshear is the CTO of Mysten Labs and the one of the Co-Founders of Sui. Sam's Twitter: https://twitter.com/b1ackd0g Mysten's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Mysten_Labs Mysten's Website: https://mystenlabs.com/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/ ___
Paul Bohm is the Founder of Teleport The Download Link: https://app.teleport.xyz/rider/refer/... Paul's Twitter: https://twitter.com/paulbohm Teleport's Twitter: https://twitter.com/TeleportXYZ Teleport's Website: https://www.teleport.xyz/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/ ___ Timecodes: 0:00 - Intro 4:20 - The Meme of decentralized Uber & Why it is possible now 14:15 - The coordination problem and bootstrapping supply and demand 22:30 - Why early blockchains were not sufficient 30:00 - Breaking the Economics of Ridesharing 38:45 - Teleport breaking the Ridesharing monopolies 48:55 - Go to Market and going live! 56:45 - How to drive for Teleport? 58:50 - What does the future of Ridesharing look like? 1:02:00 - Why Solana?
Ben Fielding and Harry Grieve are the Co-Founders of Gensyn - The Gensyn network is the Machine Learning Compute Protocol that unites all of the world's compute into a global supercluster, accessible by anyone at any time Ben Fielding Twitter: https://twitter.com/fenbielding Harry Grieve Twitter: https://twitter.com/_grieve Gensyn's Website: https://twitter.com/gensynai Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/ ___ Timecodes: 0:00 - Intro 1:10 - Founders Background 10:20 - Gensyn's Vision 15:20 - AI is the next industrial revolution 21:20 - Machine Learning and Training Compute 32:00 - Real World Limitations of Decentralized Compute 39:30 - Where does Compute come from? 50:50 - Decentralized Cost vs. Traditional Compute Clusters 55:15 - Owning your own AI 1:01:00 - Verification problem
Kyle Samani is the Founder of Multicoin Capital Kyles Twitter: https://twitter.com/KyleSamani Multicoin's Website: https://multicoin.capital/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/ ___ Timecodes: 0:00 - Intro 1:40 - Reflection on the bear market 7:00 - Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN) 14:00 - Render Network & Decentralized Compute 23:50 - Filecoin 27:15 - Supply & Demand within DePIN 29:30 - Integrated vs. Modular Design 38:30 - Pushing forward to Mainstream Adoption 41:30 - Money Crypto to Technology Crypto 47:30 - Overton Window Shifting 51:45 - First Principles Thinking 55:30 - Advice to Investors and Founders
Emin Gün Sirer is the Founder of Avalanche Protocol Emin's Twitter: https://twitter.com/el33th4xor Avalanche's Twitter: https://twitter.com/avalabsofficial Avalanche's Website: https://www.avax.network/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/ ___ Timecodes: 0:00 - Intro 1:45 - Token 2049 & The Asia Market 4:00 - The industry of false promises 7:45 - Communities that Deliver 13:20 - L2s failures 17:40 - Avalanche Consensus vs. Other Protocols 24:45 - Technical Deep Dive 28:50 - All 2 All Communication, Consensus, and Finality 34:15 - Channel Capacity with Leaderless Designs 38:45 - Flexible Design & Parallel Processing VMs 43:00 - The blockchain end state 46:00 - Most misunderstood aspect of Avalanche 51:00 - Biggest surprises since launching