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Stepan is a co-founder of Squads Protocol, a multi-sig infrastructure provider on Solana. Before founding Squads, Step worked in corporate M&A law in London. We talked about his time as a lawyer and how that translates into thinking about crypto regulation, his experience leaving Russia when the war started, and the multi-sig environment on Solana. Stepan: https://twitter.com/SimkinStepan Squads: https://twitter.com/SquadsProtocol

Sam is the founder of Zebec Protocol, a payments streaming platform of Solana. Zebec allows a company to stream payments to employees or vendors on chain and let recipients accrue value in real time ("get paid every second"). This episode focused more on how everyday people can benefit from crypto. This opened the discussion to how we can onboard more users and which parts of crypto UX need the most improvement to make it more accessible. Sam: https://twitter.com/sam_thapaliya Zebec: https://twitter.com/Zebec_HQ

How does mining work? How Exxon, BP, and the likes might become the biggest miners in the world overnight And what should you know if you want to get into mining. We discuss this and much more on this episode of marginX with Dylan from Evergreen Miner. Dylan is a mining veteran who is now working on a mining device for Chia network. This episode is a great primer for those who understand mining at a high level but want to understand the businesses behind it. Dylan: https://twitter.com/dylanmrose Evergreen: https://twitter.com/evergreenminer

Swen is the founder of Light Protocol, a privacy solution built on Solana. We dove into how privacy has involved in crypto from use case specific L1s to application layer protocols like Tornado or Light. Follow Swen and Light here! Swen: https://twitter.com/swen_sjn Light Protocol: https://twitter.com/LightProtocol

Ayush Mennon is a co-founder of Katana, a structured product protocol built on Solana. Ayush is currently a student at Harvard and founded Katana at a Solana hackathon which the project eventually won. We discussed what it is like being a student working in web3, how that affects things like fundraising and general studies, and the structured product space in DeFi. Ayush - https://twitter.com/ayushmenon_ Katana - https://twitter.com/Katana_HQ

Kento is the founder of UXD Protocol, an algorithmic stablecoin built on Solana. UXD takes a long spot position and a short perpetual future position to create a delta neutral stablecoin. They argue this is the most capitally efficient way possible to construct a stablecoin. In this episode he went through one by one and gave his thoughts on other algo stables and how their architectures compare. Kento: https://twitter.com/KentoInami UXD: https://twitter.com/UXDProtocol

0xPemulis is the Head of Research at Sino Global Capital, a China based VC fund who made early bets in projects such as Serum, Solana, LayerZero, and more. In this episode we dove into how he got his job at Sino and how to think about getting a job in web3 in general. 0xPemulis Twitter: https://twitter.com/0xPemulis

IcedKnife is one of the largest NFT influencers on crypto twitter and frequently ranks number 1 in reach by sites like NFT inspect. We talked about his time playing COD as a member of Faze, dove deep into how he evaluates projects, and what he sees driving the success of leaders in the space today.

Tristan Frizza is the Founder and CEO of Zeta Markets, a decentralized options and futures market built on Solana. Tristan previously worked in ML but quickly pivoted to crypto seeing the rising opportunity to build derivatives on chain. We went deep on derivatives and structured products opportunities on chain, international hot spots for crypto, and how to manage workflow as a founder. Follow Tristan here: https://twitter.com/Tristan0x

Michelle Sun is a core contributor at Project Serum, a decentralized asset agnostic order book build on Solana. She was previously head of growth at Perpetual Protocol, a two time founder, and a member of Forbes 30 under 30.