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The race for the ultimate crypto super app is heating up. Who will own the user experience?In this episode, we chat with Mert Mumtaz, CEO of Helius, and Armani Ferrante, CEO of Backpack. Armani takes us through his transition from Apple to Alameda Research, and how that journey led to building one of Solana's fastest-growing platforms.As markets deal with tariff tensions, institutional adoption is quietly gaining momentum. We dive into the "fat wallet thesis," the shifting role of Bitcoin in smart contract platforms, and how the finance-crypto merger creates opportunities.We also talk about Backpack's unique approach to balancing censorship resistance with compliance, which is one of the biggest challenges for crypto to go mainstream.Let's jump in.Join The Rollup Edge: https://members.therollup.coWebsite: https://therollup.co/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1P6ZeYd..Podcast: https://therollup.co/category/podcastFollow us on X: https://www.x.com/therollupcoFollow Rob on X: https://www.x.com/robbie_rollupFollow Andy on X: https://www.x.com/ayyyeandyJoin our TG group: https://t.me/+8ARkR_YZixE5YjBhThe Rollup Disclosures: https://therollup.co/the-rollup-discl

Helius PoNS Device brings new hope to stroke survivors by rewiring the brain with neuroplastic therapy and real-world recovery results. The post Unlocking Neuroplasticity: How the Helius PoNS Device Rewires the Brain After Stroke appeared first on Recovery After Stroke.

Welcome to your weekly UAS news update we have 4 stories for you; Ascent AeroSystems releases the Helius, Blue UAS and Framework Changes, a Big SkyeBrowse Update, and Skydio sends Tracking Mailers to Police Department.First up, Ascent Aerosystems has released the HELIUS!This is a 249, coaxial system that mimics the design of the much larger Spirit. According to Ascent's website, this is an all weather, NDAA Compliant, aircraft with features like 4G LTE connectivity, 4K gimbaled camera, 45 MPH top speed, and 30+ minute endurance! The HELIUS is available for preorder and is priced at $4,499.Preorder can be placed through either Ascent AeroSystems OR Robinson Helicopter Company dealers, with deliveries occurring in Q4 of this year.The Blue List has had some significant changes! Several drones and manufacturers have been removed and a few have been added. Removed drones include: The AgEagle Ebee, Ascent Aerosystems Spirit, Blue Halo IE-V2, HoveryTech Spectre, Inspired Flight IF1200A and IF800, Parrot Anafi UAS GOV and MIL, Vantage Viper, and the Wingtra One Gen II. These aircraft are no longer on the Blue UAS List, which is a bit concerning.It's unclear WHY these aircraft were removed, but raises some serious questions, such as: Do these aircraft have data security issues? What happens to all the departments who have been forced to purchase aircraft that are Blue UAS and have now been removed? We're not sure. On the other side, a few drones were added, the FlightWave Edge130, HoverFly Technologies Spectre (Possibly a rebrand of the Hovery Tech), and the Zone5 Paladin. Along with these, Pierce Aerospace B1 also was added to the Blue List, though the parts side rather than the aircraft side of the list.We'll keep you up to date if we see more! Next up, Skydio appears to have sent marketing materials with tracking ability to Police Departments. As reported by DroneXL, a Sergeant from a large California police department revealed that promotional materials from Skydio appeared to have embedded tracking and a 4/5G SIM card.This was found after the device was disassembled by the department's forensic analysis lab.The marketing material in question comes from a company called “MARC Media”, who confirmed that each device integrates a screen, pause and play buttons, navigation, and a “Call to action button”. The device has a 9 month battery life and tracks things like interactions, use of the call to action button, and even the location of the device.Skydio came under fire for this due to their stance as being the “secure alternative” and citing risks of “data collection” by other manufacturers. The Sergeant stated “In addition to [privacy and security] concerns I found it ethically concerning because Skydio has been a strong proponent of data security and data safety but then did the thing they accused other UAS manufacturers of doing,”Not a great look for Skydio. Last up, Skyebrowse has another big update! There are several things to talk about here, starting with Pocket AI.This is a function that turns an image into a 3D model using AI. It's free for everyone, so give it a try and potentially win a year of Skyebrowse Lite! Skyebrowse also released model merging and Workspace images. Model merging allows you to link other models to connect multiple scenes within a workspace, again, available for everyone! Workspace images function similarly, and allow public safety to attach photos to the 3D model so that anyone who sees the images can also see the photos. https://dronexl.co/2025/03/10/skydio-tracking-mailers-security-concerns/https://www.diu.mil/blue-uas/frameworkhttps://dronexl.co/2025/03/06/major-shakeup-blue-suas-list/#google_vignettehttps://ascentaerosystems.com/introducing-helius/

This week Anna and Tarun chat with Mert Mumtaz. Mert is the co-founder and CEO of Helius and is known for his contributions to the Solana ecosystem. They explore Mert's background, his entry into the space, and his experiences during the 2022 market downturn and subsequent recovery. The conversation covers Solana's positioning within the broader blockchain landscape and includes an overview of emerging ZK projects in the ecosystem. Related links: Zero-Knowledge Proofs: Its Applications on Solana Episode 135 - Look into Solana Solana projects mentioned: Backpack, Anza, Gido, Jupiter  ZK projects mentioned: Phantom, Elusiv, Light Protocol, Dark Protocol  Solana Token Extensions --------------- Applications for zkSummit13 are now open, spots are limited for this edition so apply soon (www.zksummit.com) if you want to join. --------------- **If you like what we do:** * Find all our links here! @ZeroKnowledge | Linktree * Subscribe to our podcast newsletter * Follow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefm * Join us on Telegram * Catch us on YouTube

In this episode of Decentralize with Cointelegraph, we dive into the whirlwind first week of Donald Trump's presidency and its sweeping impact on the cryptocurrency industry.Host Savannah Fortis, Cointelegraph's head of podcasts and EU reporter, is joined by US Senator Cynthia Lummis, David Kemmerer (co-founder and CEO of CoinLedger), and Mert (founder and CEO of Helius) to unpack the TRUMP memecoin craze, Solana's record-breaking activity and the regulatory shifts driven by the SEC's new Crypto Task Force and Trump's executive order.Whether you're a blockchain enthusiast or curious about how US politics shapes crypto, this episode provides key insights into the evolving landscape.[01:00] The rise of the TRUMP memecoin frenzy[02:15] Long-term impacts of political memecoins on crypto[04:25] Solana's response to record-breaking user activity[06:52] How memecoins promote broader digital asset adoption[08:54] Political backlash to Trump's memecoin initiatives[10:59] The SEC's new Crypto Task Force[12:27] Trump EO makes America the world crypto capital [13:12] What about a Bitcoin strategic reserve? [14:19] Senator Cynthia Lummis on why the US needs Bitcoin[16:37] A more crypto-friendly SEC could signal innovation[18:11] Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong weighs in on the Bitcoin reserveThis episode was hosted by Savannah Fortis @savannah_fortis and post-production by Elena Volkova (Hatch Up). Follow Cointelegraph on X @Cointelegraph. Check out Cointelegraph at cointelegraph.comIf you like what you heard, rate us and leave a review!The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast are its participants' alone and do not necessarily reflect or represent the views and opinions of Cointelegraph. This podcast (and any related content) is for entertainment purposes only and does not constitute financial advice, nor should it be taken as such. Everyone must do their own research and make their own decisions. The podcast's participants may or may not own any of the assets mentioned.

What is driving the growth of the Solana ecosystem? My interview with Mert Mumtaz, CEO of Helius.   Powered by Phoenix Group   The full interview is also available on my YouTube page and podcast channels:   YouTube: https://bit.ly/3VNMNgj  Spotify: https://spoti.fi/4g7fOvw Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/3B0OaRW

2024 has been a transformative year for Solana. With a surge in developer activity, bold innovations in DePIN, and its ambitions to become a “decentralized Nasdaq,” the ecosystem is making waves. But are these changes enough to differentiate it from competitors like Ethereum and L2 solutions such as Base? In this episode, Lily Liu, president of the Solana Foundation, and Mert Mumtaz, CEO of Helius, join Unchained to discuss how Solana is carving out its niche. They debate whether Base is a serious contender, why they're not concerned about the 2025 token unlocks, and how Solana's unique approach to MEV could shape its future. Plus, they tackle the ecosystem's broader challenges and why they believe Solana's vision will endure. Show highlights: Why Mert feels paranoid but also vindicated  Why Lily started working on Solana after being known as a hardcore bitcoiner How Mert's background in Coinbase led him to found Helius and become the voice of Solana online Whether Solana can become a place where unique innovations are built, rather than copying Ethereum Whether Solana can achieve its vision of a “decentralized Nasdaq” Why the ecosystem has attracted so many developers in 2024  Why Lily believes that Base is no competitor to Solana What network extensions actually mean, according to Mert How Mert responds to the criticisms around Solana's MEV Why Mert and Lily are not worried about the token unlocks of 2025 How the Solana mobile phone will compete with the giants Why DePIN showcases the real value of blockchain technology Visit our website for breaking news, analysis, op-eds, articles to learn about crypto, and much more: unchainedcrypto.com Thank you to our sponsors! Kelp DAO Robinhood & Arbitrum Polkadot Guests: Lily Liu, President of the Solana Foundation Mert Mumtaz, CEO of Helius Links Unchained:  Pudgy Penguins See NFT Floor Price Drop Almost 50% After PENGU Launch -  Pump.fun Becomes First Solana DApp to Top $100M in Monthly Revenue How Solana Beat Out Ethereum to Nab New Crypto Developers in 2024 Are Solana's 'Network Extensions' Just Like Ethereum's Layer 2s But by a Different Name? What Are DePINs in Crypto? A Beginner's Guide Timestamps:  00:00 Intro 02:34 Mert's mix of paranoia and vindication about Solana 07:08 Why Lily shifted from Bitcoin to working on Solana 09:43 Mert's journey from Coinbase to becoming Solana's online advocate 14:47 Can Solana foster unique innovations rather than mimic Ethereum? 19:47 Solana's vision of a “decentralized Nasdaq” vs. center of memecoin mania  27:54 What's driving Solana's surge in developer activity 30:26 Why Lily sees Base as no real competitor 33:04 The meaning and implications of network extensions 37:07 Mert's take on criticisms of Solana's MEV approach 42:11 Why they aren't worried about the 2025 token unlocks 44:26 Competing with tech giants through the Solana mobile phone 50:48 How DePIN highlights blockchain's true potential Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2024 has been a transformative year for Solana. With a surge in developer activity, bold innovations in DePIN, and its ambitions to become a “decentralized Nasdaq,” the ecosystem is making waves. But are these changes enough to differentiate it from competitors like Ethereum and L2 solutions such as Base? In this episode, Lily Liu, president of the Solana Foundation, and Mert Mumtaz, CEO of Helius, join Unchained to discuss how Solana is carving out its niche. They debate whether Base is a serious contender, why they're not concerned about the 2025 token unlocks, and how Solana's unique approach to MEV could shape its future. Plus, they tackle the ecosystem's broader challenges and why they believe Solana's vision will endure. Show highlights: Why Mert feels paranoid but also vindicated  Why Lily started working on Solana after being known as a hardcore bitcoiner How Mert's background in Coinbase led him to found Helius and become the voice of Solana online Whether Solana can become a place where unique innovations are built, rather than copying Ethereum Whether Solana can achieve its vision of a “decentralized Nasdaq” Why the ecosystem has attracted so many developers in 2024  Why Lily believes that Base is no competitor to Solana What network extensions actually mean, according to Mert How Mert responds to the criticisms around Solana's MEV Why Mert and Lily are not worried about the token unlocks of 2025 How the Solana mobile phone will compete with the giants Why DePIN showcases the real value of blockchain technology Visit our website for breaking news, analysis, op-eds, articles to learn about crypto, and much more: unchainedcrypto.com Thank you to our sponsors! Kelp DAO Robinhood & Arbitrum Polkadot Guests: Lily Liu, President of the Solana Foundation Mert Mumtaz, CEO of Helius Links Unchained:  Pudgy Penguins See NFT Floor Price Drop Almost 50% After PENGU Launch -  Pump.fun Becomes First Solana DApp to Top $100M in Monthly Revenue How Solana Beat Out Ethereum to Nab New Crypto Developers in 2024 Are Solana's 'Network Extensions' Just Like Ethereum's Layer 2s But by a Different Name? What Are DePINs in Crypto? A Beginner's Guide Timestamps:  00:00 Intro 02:34 Mert's mix of paranoia and vindication about Solana 07:08 Why Lily shifted from Bitcoin to working on Solana 09:43 Mert's journey from Coinbase to becoming Solana's online advocate 14:47 Can Solana foster unique innovations rather than mimic Ethereum? 19:47 Solana's vision of a “decentralized Nasdaq” vs. center of memecoin mania  27:54 What's driving Solana's surge in developer activity 30:26 Why Lily sees Base as no real competitor 33:04 The meaning and implications of network extensions 37:07 Mert's take on criticisms of Solana's MEV approach 42:11 Why they aren't worried about the 2025 token unlocks 44:26 Competing with tech giants through the Solana mobile phone 50:48 How DePIN highlights blockchain's true potential Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Coming to you from Chicago, IL – #ELEVATION is a monthly LIVE recorded mix series presented by local Producer & DJ Jeff Osimitz AKA ‘Jeff Ozmits'. The series showcases the latest and best in Progressive House, and Progressive Trance from all around the world.Hashtag: #GETELEVATEDTracklist:Kamilo Saclemente - Delusion (Jiminy Hop Extended Remix) [Univack]Ruben Karapetyan - Parisian Vibe (Extended Mix) [Clubsonica Records]Maze 28 - Great Attractor (Original Mix) [UV]ISMAIL.M, Redspace - Avenue (Original Mix) [RKP]Stan Kolev - The Silence (Original Mix) [Outta Limits]Coff, Helius, Marc Wiese - Calm Before The Storm (Motives Extended Remix) [Enormous Vision]Alison Goldfrapp - So Hard So Hot (Yotto Hot Dub) [Skint Recordings]Dosem, Hana - Ethernal Feat. HANA (Extended Mix) [Anjunadeep]Pete K - Meant To Be (Extended Mix) [Colorized]Dumday, Ondi - Perfect In My Mind (Jack Willard Extended Mix) [Immersed]Harry Diamond, Cristoph - Hold Me Close (Extended Mix) [Consequence of Society Recordings]☆ Get Connected With Jeff Ozmits ☆

Click the post for details on this episode! Welcome back to Open House! Randy Seidman here, with another two hours of the grooviest beats. Awesome shows this past month in Montreal, Philly and Chicago. Coming up this month I'm at Church in Denver Dec 20th and at Sound in Hollywood Dec 27th with Massano. To stay updated on my travels and tunes follow me @randyseidman and randyseidman.com. Fresh jams today in the first hour, followed by an exclusive session with the talented Chilean born Berlin based artist, Rafa Silva. You can grab all past episodes and track lists from openhousepodcast.com, Soundcloud, or wherever you like to download your favorite podcasts. For now, turn it up. Randy Seidman's WebsiteRandy Seidman's SoundCloudRandy Seidman's BeatportRandy Seidman's SpotifyRandy Seidman's FacebookRandy Seidman's Twitter Randy Seidman's Track List:01) Liam Garcia, Keef Luv - C D A (Dimi Mechero Remix) [Stripped Digital]02) Amanda Baron - Life (Original Mix) [Deep Tales]03) Nihil Young - Eye See (Extended Mix) [Songspire Records]04) Cherry (UA) - Selene (Original Mix) [Siona Records]05) Moonwalk, EarthLife - Sea Of Sand (Extended Mix) [Armada]06) No Hopes - Radioactive (Extended Mix) [Stress Out]07) Deep Inside (UA), Stephan Klauning - Samson (Extended Mix) [Yanara Records]08) Nihil Young, Artifex Mundi - What Do We Know (Original Mix) [Nomade Records]09) The Second I - City Lights (Original Mix) [recordJet]10) Rafael Cerato - Endless Climb (Original Mix) [Ritter Butzke Records]11) Ubbah, Brigado Crew - Time Moves On (Doctor Dru Remix) [Eleatics Records]12) Einmusik - Dune Suave (Original Mix) [Stil For Talent]13) Coff, Helius, Marc Wiese - Calm Before the Storm (Extended Mix) [Sirup Music] I hope you enjoyed the first hour, some of my top recent tunes. Up next is one of my favorite artists, the talented Chilean born Berlin based rising star, Rafa Silva. With acclaimed releases on labels such as Balance Music, Ritter Butzke, and Perspectives Digital, Rafa is carving his name in the ledgers of melodic house and techno. Today he's here just for you. For the next hour, Rafa Silva is in the mix. Rafa Silva's WebsiteRafa Silva's SoundCloudRafa Silva's InstagramRafa Silva's FacebookRafa Silva's YouTube Rafa Silva's Track List:01) Randy Seidman, Cari Golden - Don't Say (Original Mix) [Perspectives Digital] UNRELEASED02) Einmusik, Pretty Pink - Ayana (Original Mix) [DEEP WOODS]03) Rafa Silva - Signum (Original Mix) [Zehn Records]04) Rafa Silva - Desires (Extended Mix) [Perspectives Digital] UNRELEASED05) Hannes Bieger, Walead - Hawa (Extended Mix) [Elektrons]06) Rafa Silva - Tabula Rasa (Original Mix) [Perspectives Digital]07) Olympe - The Voice Of The Night (Woo York Extended Mix) [Just This]08) GENESI (ITA)- Slow Down (Extended Mix) [Siona Records]09) Oliver Koletzki - Finding Love (Temple Tears Remix) [Stil Vor Talent]10) Leo Wood x Nihil Young - Melt (Instrumental Mix) [Nomade] Randy Seidman · Open House 238 w/Randy Seidman + Rafa Silva [Dec. 2024]

Mert Mumtaz is the co-founder of Helius Labs, a leading Solana Infrastructure provider company backed by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund. Mert is one of the biggest personalities in the Solana ecosystem and one of the few voices who was hyper bullish and supporting Solana since the $8 SOL low in November 2022 after the FTX collapse. In this episode, Mert shares his unfiltered insights on why Solana is set for explosive growth, despite market doubts. We dive into how Helius is helping developers build faster and more efficiently on Solana, the $1 Trillion opportunity within the ecosystem, and why Mert believes Solana will hit over $1,000. In this conversation, we discuss: - Why Solana is the blockchain to watch. - The critical role Helius is playing in Solana's growth. - Why the collapse of FTX is actually a win for Solana. - The $1 Trillion billion opportunity most people miss. - Mert's mission to accelerate Solana's growth. - How Solana will reach $1,000. - How Mert turned Baldness into a superpower - Stoicism and risk taking - How losing his mum at a young age impacted Mert's hunger for life And much more! __________________________________ FOLLOW MERT & HELIUS • Twitter: https://x.com/0xMert_ • Twitter: https://x.com/heliuslabs • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mertmumtaz • Website: https://www.helius.dev/ FOLLOW KEVIN & WHEN SHIFT HAPPENS

Tracklisting: 01. Helsloot Ft. Jono McCleery - One Step (Original Mix)02. Soul Button & Deviu - Numinar (Original Mix) *03. Foals - Late Night (Alex Breitling Edit)04. Alex Breitling - Skyfall (Original Mix)05. SAFARIA - Time (Extended Mix)06. Camelphat & Zafrir - The Advocate feat Abagar Quartet (Original Mix)07. Dominik Gehringer - Dance With Me (Extended Mix)08. Arodes - Kidz (Extended Mix) **09. ID - Fall To You (Original Mix) 10. Passenger 10 - Falling (Extended Mix)11. Coff, Helius, Marc Wiese - Calm Before The Storm (Ønawa Remix)12. Huminal - Flow (Original Mix)Listeners Choice *Pure Discovery **

Your Unity #504 with Contagious Recorded Live in Adelaide, Australia 01/11/2024 01. Tagavaka - Sanctuary (Extended Mix) [Anjunadeep Explorations] 02. Trilucid - For Another Life (Anriu Extended Remix) [Ionica Audio] 03. Helsloot, Jono McCleery - One Step (Monkey Safari Extended Remix) [Get Physical Records] 04. dwelyr - Something About You (Extended Mix) [Colorize (Enhanced)] 05. Digital Department - Turgoyak (Extended Mix) [Colorize (Enhanced)] 06. MXV - Sleepwalkers City (Extended Mix) [Anjunadeep Explorations] Premium Pick 07. Jody Wisternoff, James Grant, PROFF & Takeshi Furukawa feat. Siobhan Wilson - Mui (Extended Mix) [Anjunadeep] 08. Luttrell - Life at Full Speed (Extended Mix) [Anjunadeep] 09. Braxton, Tailor - Everywhere (Extended Mix) [Anjunadeep] 10. PROFF, M.O.S. - Namtso (Original Mix) [Melody Of The Soul] 11. Coff, Helius, Marc Wiese - Calm Before the Storm (MaMan Remix Extended Mix) [Enormous Vision] 12. Marsh, ALLKNIGHT - Rabbit Hole (Extended Mix) [Anjunadeep] 13. Kyau & Albert - All In Good Time (DJ Version) [Euphonic] Spector Selector 14. Max Graham, Second Sine - Chance To Escape [YOMO Records] 15. Marsh, Volen Sentir - Ascension (Extended Mix) [Anjunadeep] 16. GVN, Tom Ferry, ALLKNIGHT - Who Ya Thinking About (Extended Mix) [Enhanced Progressive] 17. Sultan + Shepard - Looking For (Extended Mix) [This Never Happened] 18. Simon Doty, Maur - Beckoning (Extended) [AETERNA Records] 19. Estiva - Fine Day (BLR Afro Summer Extended Mix) [Colorized (Enhanced)] Prestigious Pick 20. Santiago Niño - Believe (Max Graham's Sidechain Remix) [Aurium Records] 2005 21. Avenue One - With You (Extended Mix) [Anjunabeats] 22. tyDi, Van Snyder & TOROK - Witch Doctor (Michael Grald Extended Remix) [Interplay Flow] 23. Just Her - Want Me, Need Me (Extended Mix) [Colorize (Enhanced)] 24. Super8 & Tab vs. Above & Beyond feat. Marty Longstaff - Gratitude for Irufushi (Mikey Foden Mashup) 25. Oliver Smith, Andrew Bayer - Be Kind Rewind (Extended Mix) [Anjunabeats]

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Welcome to The Chopping Block – where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, Tarun Chitra, and Robert Leshner chop it up about the latest in crypto. This week, the squad is joined by special guest Mert Mumtaz, co-founder of Helius. In this episode, the crew dives into the growing rivalry between SVM and EVM, the surge of VC investments in the Solana ecosystem, and the fierce debate over rollups. They also explore the rise and fall of memecoins, Solana's infrastructure evolution, and the future for high-performance blockchains. Tune in for a high-energy discussion on the cutting edge of crypto! Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Pandora, Castbox, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform. Show highlights

Welcome to The Chopping Block – where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, Tarun Chitra, and Robert Leshner chop it up about the latest in crypto. This week, the squad is joined by special guest Mert Mumtaz, co-founder of Helius. In this episode, the crew dives into the growing rivalry between SVM and EVM, the surge of VC investments in the Solana ecosystem, and the fierce debate over rollups. They also explore the rise and fall of memecoins, Solana's infrastructure evolution, and the future for high-performance blockchains. Tune in for a high-energy discussion on the cutting edge of crypto! Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Pandora, Castbox, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform. Show highlights

Welcome back to The Gwart Show! We we're down in Nashville recording some shows, but this week we have something a bit different with Mert, CEO of Helius and co-host of a BlockWorks podcast. So, it's a podcast with a podcaster today. We go through Solana's ecosystem, including MEV and architecture. Mert shares insights on Fire Dancer, state compression and Helius, while addressing criticisms and challenges. Timestamps 00:00 Start 00:50 Mert's background 01:16 ETHCC experience 03:26 ETHCC takeaways 08:16 Can't L2s just get along! 11:01 Is ETH following SOL? 15:40 Base sequencing 20:02 What's exciting now? 27:47 Apps now & future 32:38 Will Solana be NASDAQ on chain? 36:18 MEV on Solana 39:21 Is MEV inevitable? 46:02 Stake-weighted QoS (Quality-of-Service) 48:49 DDOSing RPCs 50:12 Is Stake-weighted QoS centralizing? 51:59 Will Solana become the Helius-chain? Follow our host: @gwartygwart Follow our guest on Twitter: @0xMert_

Joie de Vivre - Episode 491. 500 celebration info at jdv500episode@gmail.com 1)Oliver Koletzki, Malou, Tim Engelhardt & Sean Doron Remix - Is It Real (feat. Tim Engelhardt & Sean Doron Remix) (Original Mix) 2)Alex Breitling - Dreamcatcher (Extended Mix) 3)Corren Cavini - Stand Your Ground (Extended Mix) 4)Ilias Katelanos, Plecta - Truba (Original Mix) 5)Helius, MaMan (NL) - When I'm Lost (Extended Mix) 6)maXure - Why Are We Longing for More (Extended Mix) 7)Naws - Reminiscence (Extended Mix) 8)Jean Claude Ades, Re.you - Together (Original Mix) 9)Einmusik - Meia Lua (Original Mix) 10)Mariz - Together (RIKO & GUGGA Remix) Please support all artists. Mexico City - May 30, 2024

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Crypto Kingpins Show Muscle While Novogratz Predicts Lawsuits Dropped and Analysts Foresee Bitcoin Doubling This episode of Rare Bits covers the latest cryptocurrency news, from Ethereum reclaiming $3k and the heroic recovery of stolen NFT funds by researcher ZachXBT, to predictions of future Bitcoin price surges, regulatory changes, and mainstream adoption accelerations. We dive into Krafton and Circle's new NFT metaverse Overdare, the Blast ecosystem's first apparent rug pull, Mike Novogratz's lawsuit predictions, analyst Kevin Svenson's Bitcoin doubling forecast, CoinGecko's airdrop data, and major investments in EigenLayer and Helius. Cryptocurrencies demonstrate their resilience amidst chaos and uncertainty, as pioneers blaze new trails and the industry continues evolving through innovation, adoption, regulation, and speculation. Timing is key, like rain dancing. Stay tuned as we distill the noise into narrative.

A wave of optimism is sweeping through the crypto markets. On Friday, October 27, the multi-billion-dollar asset fund VanEck provided valuable insights into Solana's potential valuation for 2030. According to the asset fund manager, Solana is poised to reach $3,200 by the end of this decade. On this episode, we're diving into the latest Solana updates from its event Breakpoint 2023.00:00 intro00:14 VanEck Ridiculous Prediction01:32 Breakpoint 2023 Begins01:49 Raoul Pal on Solana02:51 Firedancer Coming03:59 Helius Streaming Payments04:23 Teleport Launches05:09 Solana Pay05:41 Playbands for Payments06:30 USDC on Solana08:17 USDC to Cash08:40 TipLink at Breakpoint09:36 Raoul Pal on NFTs11:15 Backpack xNFTs11:33 Phantom Camera Mint12:08 Claynosaurz12:52 NFT Ticketing13:29 Taylor Swift14:35 Jim Cramer One Year Later15:39 SOL Flipping XRP?16:15 outro#Solana #Crypto #Breakpoint2023~Solana To $3,000!?

This week on the podcast, Alex Kehaya welcomes Mert Mumtaz, Co-founder and CEO of Helius, the leading developer on Solana specializing in APIs, webhooks, and RPCs for building scalable and reliable Solana applications. They take a deep dive into open source development and how to navigate on-chain data using Helius' robust infrastructure efficiently.Alex and Mert analyze crypto's slow yet steady growth, the rise of NFTs, and how Solana and L2s are redefining the crypto infrastructure. Mert shares his insights into the challenges crypto faced in its early days. They also briefly explore the roles of AI, AR, and VR in the crypto game, emphasizing the need for more talented founders in the space to build products that meet the demands of the crypto market.

RehabWeek Exclusive interview the Kim Skinner Kim Skinner is the Director of Physical Therapy at Helius Medical Technologies where she is instrumental in the introduction of the PoNS rehabilitation program. Prior to this she was the Physical Therapy Director and Researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison working with sensory processing and neurological disorders. She holds a PhD in Physical Therapy and Health Sciences and maintains her license in physical therapy. We met up with Kim at RehabWeek and had a conversation about the company, the rehabilitation science of the PoNS device and where it is going in the future. Takeaways: Harnessing neuroplasticity in rehabilitation stimulation must be paired with an activity. Clinical interfaces need to intuitive and easy to use for the clinician. How is your brain today? Can we bring people to check their brain health like they check their smartphone? [0:00] Introduction and Jen French from Neurotech Reports kicks off the conversation RehabWeek exhibit floor at Helius Medical. [0:25] Kim Skinner introduces herself and Helius Medical and new PoNS device. She worked in the initial research for the device. [1:12] Description of the PoNS device components, how it works and the target indications and clinical application of mild to moderate brain injury with chronic balance deficits. They designed a 14-week rehabilitation program harnessing neuroplasticity. [4:10] Further discussion about application of the technology to other indications that have balance issues. Their initial focus is on the brain injury population, but more research needs to be done on how this can benefit other populations. [5:18] Discussion of the design of their clinical trials and some of the challenges associated with that both in the clinical and at home. They have a training template that can be individualized for each patient. [6:39] Skinner further describes the training protocols and when to stimulation to maximize outcomes couples with balance training and movement exercises to prime the brain. [8:26] The stimulating device goes onto the tongue rather than skin. How does that feel or taste? She also talks about the stimulation pattern and parameters as well as [9:53] Discussion of the 143 electrode array design and how they mapped the tongue to figure out the stimulating rate. [12:19] The visual substitution device was the predecessor of this device and how it evolved out of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. [13:16] Skinner talks about where the PoNS device is currently available with a prescription and how they are working on availability in the US, Europe and Australia. It is currently approved in Canada through the HeuroCanada clinics.

Tuesday, 29 August 2023   “Therefore, if Demetrius and his fellow craftsmen have a case against anyone, the courts are open and there are proconsuls. Let them bring charges against one another. Acts 19:38   The words read, “Therefore, if indeed Demetrius and those craftsmen with him have a matter with anyone, judicials are held, and there are proconsuls. Let them accuse one another” (CG).   The previous words of the recorder were directed to the mob that had seized Gaius and Aristarchus, having brought them to the theater. He now says, “Therefore, if indeed Demetrius.”   The recorder is in a position of authority, responsibility, and understanding concerning legal matters. He has carefully described the situation to the crowd. Having done so, he next places the responsibility for any legal issue right back where it belongs, meaning with Demetrius. It was he who began the ruckus in verse 19:25. At that time, he called together “those craftsmen with him.”   Demetrius may have initiated the matter, but he had called these others to stand with him and against Paul and his doctrine. The people now gathered had been led as blind sheep to the theater, not even knowing all the facts concerning the matter. The recorder has carefully replaced the entire situation on Demetrius and those with him, questioning if they “have a matter with anyone.”   Even more literally, it says, “have a word with anyone.” The word logos, or word, carries with it the idea of a cause, matter, word, speech, analogy, and more. It is a very broad word meaning “reasoning expressed by words” (HELPS Word Studies). In this case, Demetrius had expressed his reasoning for exciting the other craftsmen by words.   However, that had almost turned into a riot, a matter of Roman interest and legal prosecution. These people had no valid word against Paul or the disciples with him. Therefore, the recorder is returning the issue back to those who may have a case. If so, he notes that “judicials are held.”   It is a word found only once elsewhere in Acts 17:5, agoraios. It signifies “pertaining to the marketplace.” In Acts 17, it was used of the wicked market-loungers who set the crowd in an uproar. In this case, it is obviously a type of court setting. As it is a plural adjective, the closest word to describe it would be “judicials.” It would be the public setting where such grievances were to be brought forward.   Once such a case was brought forward to the judicials, the recorder notes that at that place, “there are proconsuls.” Of this, Charles Ellicott notes –   “Strictly speaking, there was only one proconsul in each province, and we must therefore assume either that here also the expression is colloquial, or that the assessors (consiliarii) of the proconsul were popularly so described, or that some peculiar combination of circumstances had led to there being two persons at this time at Ephesus clothed with proconsular authority. There are some grounds for adopting the last alternative. Junius Silanus, who was Proconsul of Asia when St. Paul arrived in Ephesus (A.D. 54), had been poisoned by Celer and Helius, the two procurators, at the instigation of Agrippina; and it seems probable that they for a time held a joint proconsular authority.”   Whatever the exact situation, it is obvious from the words of the recorder that the people knew and understood what he was saying. The matter was not in their hands, and they had no right to have it adjudicated in the manner that was currently being conducted. Therefore, it should be directed to the Roman authority that was set forth for it. With that, he concludes, saying, “Let them accuse one another.”   As in a modern court, an accusation was to be filed. From there, the matter would be handled by the court as each side presented its case or counterargument. Witnesses, if available, would be brought forward. The matter would be handled in the proper legal manner set forth by the Roman Empire.   Life application: In this verse, the clerk moved from the concrete to the abstract very smoothly, never mentioning Paul. Instead, he moved the complaint back to where it belonged, which was to Demetrius and his fellow craftsmen.   This showed everyone else that they had nothing to argue against. By using the abstract “anyone” it actually means there was nobody to charge Paul because the very person who was the supposed instigator has been shown in the previous verse to have not done anything meriting a complaint. From there, if legal action needed to be filed, it was to be with them.   We can learn from this type of thinking. If a complaint arises at work, in the church, in a public setting, or so forth, it is very easy for us to get caught up in the matter, not thinking it through. However, if we can remove ourselves from the rising excitement and think, “What would the authority propose concerning this?”, we may be able to quell the rash thinking before it gets out of control.   This assumes that the people are willing to listen. Such is quite often not the case. And even the legal authorities are often so corrupt that a logical presentation means little to them. However, we can at least remove ourselves from the matter and not get caught up in whatever negative arises from it.   Learn to think clearly by learning to think independently. The herd mentality will never come to satisfactory results because it is based on a lack of information and unbridled passions, and it is usually led by someone who already had failed to think through the matter clearly.   Lord God, too often, a herd mentality exists around us, even in the church. Numbers and might do not necessarily mean that what is being considered is correct. May our thoughts and actions be properly directed to You and by Your word. In this, we will not be misdirected in how we conduct our affairs. Amen.

Gezonde darmen en een goed gemoed gaan hand in hand. Depressie kan veranderingen in de samenstelling van bacteriën in de darmen veroorzaken, maar er zijn nu ook aanwijzingen dat het verband mogelijk de andere kant op werkt. Lara Billie Rense spreekt Robert Kraaij (https://www.erasmusmc.nl/en/research/researchers/kraaij-robert) en André Uitterlinde (https://www.erasmusmc.nl/en/research/researchers/uitterlinden-andre), beiden vanuit Erasmus MC betrokken bij een onderzoek gepubliceerd in Nature Communications. Hoe kwam deze studie tot stand en wat kunnen de gevolgen zijn voor de behandeling van of misschien wel het voorkomen van depressie?    In het onderzoek onder 1054 deelnemers aan het ERGO-onderzoek van het Erasmus MC en 3211 deelnemers van de HELIUS-studie van het Amsterdam UMC vonden de wetenschappers verbanden tussen 12 groepen darmbacteriën en depressieve gevoelens. Ze concluderen dat een microbioom met een lage diversiteit of een onder- of oververtegenwoordiging van een specifieke bacteriesoort verband houdt met depressieve symptomen.    Hoe die darmbacteriën precies invloed hebben op de gemoedstoestand moet verder onderzocht worden, maar Kraaij en Uitterlinde vermoeden dat stoffen die de bacteriën produceren, zoals serotonine en butyraat, een belangrijke rol spelen. Als er harder bewijs is voor die oorzakelijke verbanden kunnen in de toekomst die specifieke bacteriën geremd of juist gestimuleerd worden via voeding of probiotica in de behandeling en preventie van depressie.    Overzicht besproken bacteriegroepen:  RuminococcaceaeUCG005  RuminococcaceaeUCG002  RuminococcaceaeUCG003  Lachnoclostridium  Eggerthella  Hungatella  Coprococcus  LachnospiraceaeUCG001  Ruminococcusgauvreauiigroup  Eubacteriumventriosumgroup  Subdoligranulum  Sellimonas    Luister ook:    ‘Depressie mogelijk veroorzaakt door darmflora' (https://www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/null/7ac1d574-c669-4011-91d4-9809c5d40a12/2022-12-07-depressie-mogelijk-veroorzaakt-door-darmflora) - Interview Anja Lock in Villa VdB (NPO Radio 1 / MAX)    Podcast Focus wordt gemaakt op de NTR wetenschapsredactie door:   Host: Lara Billie Rense  Verslaggever: Sander Nieuwenhuijsen  Redactie: Maartje Braam, Ruben Rosen Jacobson  Techniek: Sander Nieuwenhuijsen, Maartje Braam  Eindredactie: Gerda Bosman     Vragen? Mail de redactie: wetenschap@ntr.nl (mailto:wetenschap@ntr.nl)   Wil je op de hoogte blijven van onze programma's? Abonneer je dan op de NTR Wetenschap Nieuwsbrief (https://ntr.dmd.omroep.nl/x/plugin/?pName=subscribe&MIDRID=S7Y1BwAA04&pLang=nl&Z=1317075972%20) 

In Episode 19 of Wellness for the Rest of Us, we speak with medical cannabis company CEO Carmen Doran about medical cannabis versus home grown cannabis for health and some of the reasons you might speak to your doctor as to whether medical cannabis is right for you.   Carmen is the CEO of Heliux Therapeutics, New Zealand's only fully certified medical cannabis flower producer.   Carmen has a background in Biomedical Engineering, a career in Pharmaceutical Operations, a Lean-Six-Sigma Black Belt and a number of real-life experiences all contribute to Carmen's hunger for pursuing excellence in areas impactful to the world around us.   Helius Therapeutics is a New Zealand based medical cannabis company with a purpose to unleash the potential of medicinal cannabis to improve quality of life for millions of people around the world. Helius is based in Auckland with a 8,800sqm EU-GMP and GACP certified facility and a strong focus on developing novel therapeutics that are safe and efficacious.   You can check them out at: https://www.helius.co.nz/ @Helius Therapeutics https://www.linkedin.com/in/carmendoran/

Our guest this week is Richard Wu, Co-Founder of Tensor, a Solana-based NFT marketplace tailored for professional traders. We explore the origins and journey of Tensor on Solana, and delve into the unique capabilities of their recently launched compressed NFT marketplace. Richard shares insights on the differences between traditional NFTs and Tensor's compressed NFTs, and discusses the innovative trading functionalities and community strategies in place at Tensor. We also touch on Tensor's rewards system, their upcoming NFT collection, and their strategic partnership with Metaplex. Show Notes:00:54 - Starting on Solana03:37 - From Solana to Tensor08:17 - Solana hackathons10:16 - Only possible on Solana        12:16 - Compressed NFTs and User Experience at Tensor15:06 - Insights on Compressed NFTs vs. NFTs17:08 - Tensor's trading functionalities20:47 - Tensor's strategy for the community                              23:03 - NFT collection24:35 - The point system25:29 - The Solana ecosystem / Being a leader in the NFT marketplace27:13 - Partnership with Metaplex28:33 - A builder he admires in the Solana ecosystem? Full Transcript:Brian Friel (00:00):Hey everyone and welcome to The Zeitgeist. The show where we highlight the founders, developers, and designers who are pushing the web 3.0 space forward. I'm Brian Friel, developer relations at Phantom. I'm super excited to introduce our guest, Richard Wu, the co-founder of Tensor. Tensor is the premier NFT marketplace for pro traders on Solana. Richard, welcome to the show. Richard Wu (00:28):Thanks for having me on, Brian. Great to be here. Brian Friel (00:31):I'm super excited to chat with you today. We got a lot to go into. Obviously you guys are extremely popular recently on Solana, but I think you guys have a really interesting story to tell. Going back to some of your earliest days, you and your co-founder, I remember you guys multiple times either placing highly or winning some of the Solana hackathons. Can you take us back to those early days of how you guys both got started on Solana? Richard Wu (00:54):Yeah, of course. Just to give some backstory maybe on myself and on Ilja, so I think not a lot of people know this, but we were both essentially strangers right before we started Tensor. And so we basically met through this co-founding matching portal online, YC Startup School. And that was sort of our first connection. We hadn't worked together before. We basically had no interactions outside of that. So one of the first things we did initially was we basically got on a call, exchanged a bunch of notes on what ideas he wanted to work on, what interests us. And for Ilja specifically, he had been building on Solana for quite some time. I was actually not familiar at all with Solana nor like crypto development in general. And so he sort of red pilled me into giving it a shot. And so our first project that we actually worked together was a hackathon project. That was sort of our NFT pricing oracle that at the time made a lot of sense. (01:51):So essentially what an NFT pricing oracle does is it provides price information about NFT collections so that other NFT protocols can actually consume these prices in order to do certain functions. So you can imagine a lending protocol that follows a pool based model would need some price to perform liquidations or for people to... I guess mainly for liquidations. (02:13):And NFT Perps, for example, is another type of protocol that would require pricing information on chain. And so that was initially the project that we worked on together. We submitted that to the Solana Riptide hackathon I believe, which I don't know if it was the second or third ever Solana hackathon, but we were pretty early on in the hackathon cycle. We just submitted our project to that hackathon because one, we wanted to win a bit of money so that we can bootstrap ourselves further in the process. And two, we just thought it would be fun to submit something. We ended up placing third in the DeFi category, which was pretty cool and the rest is sort of history. Brian Friel (02:53):That's awesome. And so you're famous on Twitter I would say, for being this David versus Goliath set up because you guys have gone from these two devs who just code all day submitting the hackathons to today Tensor is always up there with Magic Eden in people's minds as leading marketplaces, not just in Solana but say in NFTs across crypto. And a lot of people don't know that most of that is really built off the backs of everything that you and your co-founder have built. And starting back to those early days where you guys were just in hackathons chewing glass, so to speak, walk us through that journey. How did you guys go from that initial Solana Riptide hackathon project idea to getting the idea for Tensor, deciding this is something you actually want to build and then sticking it out and then getting product market fit like this? Richard Wu (03:37):I would say for us, the biggest strengths that we had as a two person team for the longest time was that we could really spend a lot of our time as founders talking to customers and understanding what their pain points are when it comes to NFT trading. So the initial idea of building an NFT trading product or platform was because Ilja and I, when we were building the NFT oracle, we were both trading NFTs on the side just to understand the market a bit more, try to understand why people are trading NFTs to begin with. And we had sort of this aha moment where I think at the time Okay Bears was minting and it was one of the hottest, if not the hottest, mint of 2022 on Solana. And we went on Magic Eden and we went on Hyperspace and we went on a bunch of other sites and we tried to buy Okay Bears, or at least I tried to buy Okay Bears, right after the mint and it was basically impossible for me to get a transaction through. (04:32):And I think the biggest issue then was these marketplaces weren't showing listing data fast enough and that was a huge issue for a lot of these new mints that happened after Okay Bears. There was Tripin Apes, which is also a really hot one. There was a slew of other really hyped collections that sort of faded into existence now. But it was just really difficult for me as a human trader, like NFT trader, to actually put any trades through. And that was sort of the inkling that motivated us to build something better. When we thought about our experience using trading platforms like Binance, like Buy Bit, Coinbase, we were very familiar with the idea of real time data and that speed matters a lot if you're trading in and out really quickly. That was the motivation to bring sort of the Coinbase, the centralized exchange experience, at least the speed, of it to NFT trading. Brian Friel (05:25):Yeah. For sure. And I've heard this from you guys before, but some of your thesis around why traders would want that because at the time, going back to those days when there was the Okay Bears hot mint, you mentioned Magic Eden being basically the only game in town to go and see these. I'd say the paradigm around NFT trading was very much you go to a site and you see a picture you like and you click buy and the model that Tensor and you guys have introduced and others like Blur have helped pioneer as well is very much spinning that on its head and making it, I'd say, less about, or maybe potentially less about, the characteristic [inaudible 00:05:59] much more around this pro trading like style interface. What were some of the insights that led you guys to believe  that that was something worth betting on? Because it was very much a contrarian take at the time. Richard Wu (06:09):Yep, absolutely. I think at the time when we were trying to fundraise, actually... This was actually during the whole FTX collapse and Solana going to 10 bucks, but a lot of the VCs that we talked to were questioning, "Why would you build a product that is already somewhat niche like NFTs and sort of the grand scheme of crypto for an even more niche group of users?" I think one thing that we saw and we knew just from our experience in sort of TradFi as well as trading fungible tokens was that we knew that with all things trading, it follows this sort of parallel dynamic where the top, let's say, 20% of traders account for 80% of volume for any given market. That's a rough approximation. So the 80/20 rule applies here where most traders are probably not trading in size, but the ones that do are few and far between, but they want something that's more advanced, that's more catered to their style of trading that many other traders might not care for. (07:11):We ourselves weren't exactly that for NFT trading, but we knew a lot of people in the ecosystem who did trade NFTs in the hundreds at a time. And the whole NFT sweeping thing is kind of obvious in hindsight now, but at the time there were very few marketplaces that actually had the sweep feature and we made that one of the first features to implement, was being able to bulk sweep, being able to bulk list, being able to bulk de-list. All of that obviously is table stakes now for any marketplace, but at the time we were the only aggregator/marketplace to do it. Brian Friel (07:44):So you mentioned the fundraising journey there a little bit. I want to hit on that just a little bit too because you guys recently announced that you closed your first round with placeholder leading as well as a large group of angels, many of which I would say are Solana power users and probably power users of Tensor as well. What was that whole process like for you guys? And going back to when we started this conversation about the hackathons, what helped prepare you for this fundraising journey and if you could depart any wisdom on folks who are now in upcoming Solana hackathons, what would you say to this next generation of builders who are going through that? Richard Wu (08:18):The thing that moved the needle for us was having a really good network of both personal connections in the space. We went through this accelerator called Alliance. I think they're called Alliance Dow. They might just go by Alliance now, but they're essentially a Dow that has almost like a YC accelerator for web 3.0 companies and they actually helped us one understand the fundraising ecosystem a bit more. They also provide a tremendous value when it comes to mentorship. But they helped us connect with a lot of investors. I think when it comes to raising in a bear market, even if you have a killer team and potentially a killer product, you can still be overlooked by a lot of VCs and at this point it's just a numbers game. Get in as many calls as you can, try to prioritize the VCs that are showing interest and the ones that actually care about the founding team versus just trying to make a quick buck by flipping your token. A lot of the investors that ultimately invested, including Placeholder, came through either personal connections like other builders in the space or through the Alliance network. Brian Friel (09:25):That's awesome. I know many folks who were part of that rounds. I know some Phantom team members were as well very excited to be supporting you guys through that. And at the time I'd say it still was a controversial take, even though I think Blur had, at that time, gotten a decent amount of traction on EVM. You guys I think had launched around the same time Blur launched, but it had taken a little while for that same model to permeate on Solana. I guess focusing on Solana, what made you guys specifically choose to double down on it? You mentioned that your co-founder, Ilja, red pilled you on Solana early on. I'm sure when you guys were talking to VCs, everyone has an opinion on where teams should be building, but you guys have really decided to stick it out, not only double down on Solana but continue to push new features like your compressed marketplace that are only possible on Solana. So can you talk a little bit about that decision? Richard Wu (10:17):I think you were spot on in that a lot of VCs, in fact 95% of VCs, basically told us on the first call or asked us, "Why are you still on Solana? What are your plans for moving cross chain? Why haven't you moved off of Solana yet?" And I think for us, we're pretty good at thinking for ourselves and thinking from first principles, but even then this was post FTX and we had doubts ourselves whether or not it was a good move for us to stay on Solana and not build on Ethereum or Polygon. Ordinos wasn't a thing at the time, but the next hot chain. (10:51):When it comes to staying on Solana today, I think we have almost like a very strong fundamental belief that there are things that you can do on Solana that you can't do elsewhere that have been untapped when it comes to NFTs. So you mentioned compressed NFTs. I think that is a huge potential for Solana to become the number one digital asset/NFT chain in all of crypto. Just the value prop of being able to mint a million NFTs for less than a hundred dollars and being able to airdrop that for essentially free, it's just like a hundred bucks. Most companies or startups probably spend that on some random AWS service. Being able to do that basically for free is something that is very difficult to find on any other chain and we think that has a potential to onboard the next million users to Solana and even to onboard companies that are a bit hesitant about paying for gas fees on Ethereum L1 or a bit hesitant about spending a lot of money creating NFTs on any given blockchain. I think this is the way to onboard all of those skeptics and all of those people who are hesitant. Brian Friel (11:57):Yeah, let's dig into that more. At the time we're recording this, it's June 6th, I think you guys just last week had announced the launch of your compressed NFT marketplace. It's the first one on Solana. How has that launch gone? Who are you guys working with? Where are these compressed NFTs coming from and if I'm a user showing up to Tensor, what is that whole experience? What can I expect? Richard Wu (12:17):So we're currently working with a number of key partners. The very first partner that we worked with was Dialect. For those who are not familiar, Dialect is this web 3.0 messaging app. They're primarily on mobile. They essentially integrate... I think of Telegram integrated with a wallet. And so they let you, for example, send solds to your contacts directly in the chat app. They also let you collect these stickers which are minted as compressed NFTs. And the interesting thing here that Dialect did with these stickers was that they essentially gave them out for free and to anyone including those who have nothing in their wallet. The great thing about compressed NFTs is they're so cheap that you can just airdrop them in mass to a ton of users and not have to think about the cost and the users themselves don't have to pay any gas to receive them. (13:04):Obviously you need to pay a bit of gas if you want to interact with... Let's say you want to send it to someone else or if you want to list it on the Tensor marketplace or if you want to do peer-to-peer sticker trading. But the big unlock here for Dialect was they were able to essentially give these out for free to all of their mobile app users and they can now trade them on Tensor and perhaps sell it for a bit of Soul and use that Soul to do other things. (13:27):Another partner we work with is Drip and they're doing something somewhat similar in that instead of stickers, they're actually doing art drops and they're working with a number of creators like Xeno, maybe not Xeno, but another artist called DJ Poet who creates these art pieces, essentially distributes them through Drip and anyone can come by and claim these art pieces for next to nothing. They just pay for transaction fees. And based on these two use cases, we think that these airdrops, these new ways of distributing essentially digital assets to users for essentially free will become more and more popular. And we may even see non NFT projects like platforms such as Dialect. Drip is technically a platform. Their specialty isn't in compressed NFTs, but that's a huge part of it. They'll start using compressed NFTs as a distribution mechanism and we want to essentially build the trading infrastructure around it and also any infrastructure required to make them successful. Brian Friel (14:26):Yeah. The point you hit there about it's almost like a user acquisition cost, but it just turns it on its head and it's so cheap and it's like if you think about subsidizing that to get a user's attention, I think it is something that is a unique unlock that right now it is only possible in Solana, I think is largely overlooked in the rest of the crypto community right now. It's really cool to see. Since this has gone live, how have you guys seen users interacting with this platform? I mean is it pretty much similar behavior to trading and sweeping regular NFTs? I think we're entering into the chewing glass territory of Solana where you guys are building new functionality that's kind of pushing the limits of this. But what are some of the insights you guys have seen from the early launch? Richard Wu (15:06):Yeah, it completely blew our expectations. I don't think we one, expected the sheer number of unique wallets or I guess in this case it's a proxy for users, the sheer number of users that actually want to trade these things. So I guess I'll give you some absolute numbers. So in the first four or five days, I think it's been four days since we launched officially, we saw over a hundred thousand sales that occurred within three, four collections. These are literally collections that launched not too long ago, so they're not like the D gods who already have a lot of hype and a massive user base. These are relatively new and upcoming projects that are experimenting with CNFTs such as Dialect, such as Drip. They're going to be massive in the future obviously, but they launched these CNFTs and we saw over a hundred thousand sales actually occur with over 7,000 unique wallets and I think we just crossed a thousand Solana volume. (16:04):Obviously there's a long way to go, but just based on these three or four collections that just started trading and how little time that has actually passed since we launched this blew our expectations. Brian Friel (16:15):Yeah. And the thousand Soul marker too is pretty wild when you consider that most of these were probably given out for free originally or very much close to free. Like Drip, you can just drop your wallet address, get these for free. Dialect, you said people are getting these stickers even on empty wallets, just being a very early user of the app. It's pretty wild that you guys are basically creating something from nothing here and I think the sheer volume of that probably speaks for itself. (16:42):Outside of compressed NFTs, let's talk a little bit more about some of Tenor's unique offerings. You guys cater to this pro style trader. You mentioned the 80/20 rule before that 80% of users might be more casual NFT buyers, but the 20% that are really dedicated are bringing the vast majority of volume to Solana. What are some of those advanced trading functionalities that you guys are proud of that you guys offer at Tensor? Richard Wu (17:08):A lot of people know us for our trading view chart if you're in pro mode and you can sort of see the live feed on the side and also an order book view, which is one of few platforms in Solana that offers all three of those. But I think that stuff is kind of table stakes for us now. I think what we're especially proud of and digging more into is sort of more features to enable someone to quickly, let's say, manage their NFTs and be able to list it instantly on Tensor and be able to de-list it instantly and essentially be able to do whatever you can think of as imaginable with their NFTs on Tensor without leaving the platform. To give you a concrete example, right now you can send 200 or 300 NFTs at once to another wallet through Tensor. So this bulk sending feature I don't think too many other marketplaces have yet, but we've essentially implemented that since I think day two or day three. (18:03):Obviously as you mentioned, bulk sweeping, bulk listing, bulk de-listing, those are all table stakes. I mean there's not really one specific feature that we have that no one else has besides maybe compressed NFTs, but I think we're just very focused on providing the best possible user experience and that comes with attention to detail. So it's making sure everything runs as fast as possible. There's next to no lag. Everything updates like responsively on the front end. So after you perform a listing or any transaction, the NFT instantly updates with the correct information. And that's hard to get right. It took us a lot of glass chewing to actually perfect. Every time you list a NFT, it shows up almost instantly with a new price on your front end. Brian Friel (18:48):Yeah, I see the tweets from you guys, all the data pipelines that you guys are building. So I know that's a lot of glass chewing, a lot of work to be done. And on that note of focusing on UX, making things easy to manage these NFTs, it's probably a good time to announce if we haven't already by the time this is live, that we'll be introducing a new feature called Instant Sell directly from Phantom and you'll be able to click on NFT and be able to instantly sell this NFT and Tensor will be one of the marketplaces that we'll be sourcing liquidity from. And in addition to that, we'll also be introducing list on Tensor directly from FAM as well. Super excited about those integrations to be working with you guys as well as supporting your guys' compressed NFT marketplace as well. Richard Wu (19:29):Yeah, I mean we're very excited for that feature because we know that a lot of our users are Phantom Wallet users and they've been asking us like, "Oh, when Tensor listing from Phantom?" And I think having both Instant Sell and Listing from directly and embedded into Phantom would be such a killer feature for all of our users. Brian Friel (19:49):Yeah, it's the next win. Ledger Mobile finally shifts so the community needs a new win to yell on Twitter but I'm excited to get this out. I think by the time this episode is live, all the listeners should be able to try it out. If you have Phantom on mobile, you can go directly in there, make your first listing, make your first instant sell all thanks to Tensor's AMMs. (20:07):I want to switch gears a little bit and talk about your guys' focus on community. So we might have hit on this early on in the conversation, during your fundraising process you had a huge interest from angels, many of which were power users of you guys. I'd say that you guys have a really strong unique community that's native to Solana that you guys are building for this 20% power user. Talk a little bit about some of the features that you guys have on the community side. I see a lot about rewards. I see a lot about boxes. Yeah, you guys build a lot of really awesome tech, but you guys are also doing a lot to reward your users directly. What's your guys' strategy there? Richard Wu (20:47):I think for us taking a step back. We sort of understand that our users are what makes us. While sure we can build a really cool product with a bunch of reliable data pipelines and we can build a really fast trading platform, without users we're nothing. And I think a lot of startups realize this sort of later on, and we understood this from day one, that users and distribution is what matters and we want to do right by our users at every given possible opportunity. I think for us, we're obviously making fees from our marketplace and we want to give that back in some ways to our users. So I'll give you a very concrete example of what we did recently. Mad Lads, obviously one of the biggest NFT mints of this year across all of crypto, they basically blew a lot of the Ethereum 24 hour volume and seven day volume charts out the window. (21:43):We actually did this massive giveaway/raffle where we essentially promised and committed to taking all of the marketplace fees that we took from any trading that happened on the Mad Lads collection for the next three months and basically gave it away back to the users in terms of buying back Mad Lads off the market and doing a raffle for anyone who trades Mad Lads on Tensor. And that's just one way that we want to show that we actually do care about the community and you guys are what makes Tensor great and the best way to do that is to essentially give back our fees in terms of these NFTs and these buybacks. I think going forward we want the users to be as much as a part of Tensor's journey as we are a part of Tenor's journey. Obviously that will take some time. Currently, we have the rewards and point system and that's a proxy for us to actually attribute who is the most loyal Tensor fan, who is the most loyal Tensor user. We can give you guys loop boxes, which converts into our NFT collection and other rewards in the future. Brian Friel (22:49):Talk a little bit more about that NFT collection. I've seen some rumors about it. The boxes are very cryptic. When I log in I see these mystery boxes, not much I can do yet with them, but there's talks of an upcoming NFT collection. What can you say about that? Richard Wu (23:03):So one of the best pixel artists I would say on Solana, Xeno... I think he goes by Xeno sometimes. We reached out to him pretty early on and we basically said, "Hey, you want to do a really cool pixel art PFP collection?" And we want to make that essentially the image of Tensor users. We call Tensor users Tensorians. I think what's unique about this NFT collection is that yes, it can be PFP-able. You can put it on your Twitter profile and it'll look nice because obviously Xeno is a great artist. He knows what he's doing. But two, I think we want to make the NFT collection a first class feature of Tensor. So much like how real time data, these bulk sweeping features are first class features of Tensor, we want to make the NFT collection a first class part of Tensor. So what that means is you may get benefits in the future for having a Tensorian NFT. We're still thinking of the right mechanics to introduce, but one of the things that we're committing to is making this NFT collection actually meaningful to Tensor users. Brian Friel (24:10):That's awesome. Well, I'd say you guys have done a really awesome job with the whole point system today. It's just even really fun, I'd say, to make trades and look in and see all the points updated in real time and leaderboards and everything. So I'm excited to see how the NFT collection ties into all that. I have a feeling it's all tied in together and there is a great plan at the works here. Do you guys have a high level ETA on when users might be able to expect more from that? Richard Wu (24:35):The biggest technical blocker for us for the next phase to happen was actually the compressed NFT marketplace. So that might give you a bit of a hint on what we're planning on doing. It may involve a couple of compressed NFTs. It may have something to do with these boxes. There's a lot planned for this NFT drop. It's not going to be a typical NFT drop. Brian Friel (24:54):Nice. Richard Wu (24:55):You don't just show up to Tenor and mint you an NFT. There's going to be a couple of new mechanics that we're going to be trying for the first time. Brian Friel (25:02):Exciting. A little bit of alpha drop there on the podcast. I love it. (25:06):So from where you guys sit today, just to kind of put everything in perspective, I mentioned this David versus Goliath story where it's two developers, hackathon projects, and you guys end up building the marketplace that caters to these pro users and takes over Solana by volume. How do you guys view your current position in the Solana ecosystem and what does it mean for you to be a leader in the NFT marketplace? Richard Wu (25:30):To be completely frank, I don't think we've necessarily won anything, won the market or become the number one marketplace definitively. We think that Magic Eden is... They're a great team. They've done a lot for the space. And I think ultimately we want to grow the entire Solana NFT space together. We don't want to essentially be the ones who takes all the pie and leaves nothing for anyone else. We want Magic Eden to succeed so that all of Solana can succeed. (26:02):So I think for us, while having the majority market share at any given point is nice, I think what we want to do is basically close a gap between Solana and all the other blockchains when it comes to NFT market share, which is sort of a loose term. I think compressed NFTs is one of the big bets that we're making, that this will be the reason why Solana NFTs are seen by others as competitive with Ethereum NFTs, even competitive with Ordinos because obviously Ordinos has attracted a lot of attention when it comes to NFTs. So we're going to keep innovating, build an ecosystem around CNFTs so that it's dead simple for a creator or project or platform to come in and create a bunch of CNFTs and actually get value out of it whether it's user acquisition, whether it's a new gaming mechanic that they want to experiment with, we want to make Solana and Solana CNFTs the destination for them to do that. Brian Friel (27:00):I love it. It's a great position to be in as a leader. I have to ask as well, I noticed you guys just today announced a new partnership with Metaplex, specifically around launchpads. Can you talk a little bit about that and how that helps grow Solana as well? Richard Wu (27:13):So I think the Metaplex partnership made a lot of sense for us because as we've seen with previous experiments, working on a launchpad is difficult and trying to own that all to ourselves is a monumental task, just beyond the technical parameters of building a launchpad and making sure everything runs smoothly, which we can eventually figure out. I think the Metaplex team, one thing that they have that very few teams have is that they're very great liaison between creators and sort of the rest of the ecosystem. They've essentially done quite a lot for the ecosystem, including building the NFT standard, building all the tooling around it, building Candy Machine that enabled this whole explosion of Solana NFTs to begin with. And they've done a lot when it comes to onboarding creators outside of the ecosystem. And we just felt that both of our teams had a lot of alignment here, that we both want to grow the pie together, and so it made sense to partner with them for their launchpad, for their primaries, and we can focus on the secondaries. Brian Friel (28:14):I love it. That's great. Well, we're excited to support both you guys. Big fans of Metaplex. Really excited for everything that's in store for you guys in the future, compressed NFTs as well. (28:23):Richard, this has been an awesome conversation and one closing question that we ask all our guests, and I'd love to get your take on this as well, is who is a builder that you admire in the Solana ecosystem? Richard Wu (28:34):The obvious answer is my co-founder. He taught me a ton. He basically fed me everything I needed to know about Solana. But outside of that, we really respect the guys at Helius a lot because when we were going through the CNFT glass eating, they were the first ones to respond to all of our dumb questions about how do CNFTs work? Why is this breaking? Why is this returning an error? They were one of the first ones to respond and they've been relentless at trying to build out essentially the infrastructure, like the RPC infrastructure for CNFTs. So they have a lot of our respect and we work closely with them. So yeah, they're one of the best builders. Yep. Yeah, he's been fighting for Solana to the ends on crypto Twitter, so a lot of respect for that. Brian Friel (29:20):Yeah, murder's a legend, and if you're on crypto Twitter, it's hard to miss him. We're lucky to have him not only as a staunch defender of Solana, but also as the guy who will answer your telegrams frantically at two in the morning when you're trying to eat glass and ship new features. Yeah, great answer. Well, Richard, this has been an awesome conversation. Where can folks go to learn more about Tensor? Richard Wu (29:41):The very first place would be our platform Tensor.Trade. That's where you can find the fastest NFT marketplace on Solana. If you want to check out some of our other stuff, we tend to do a couple of tweets every day, and big announcements happen on our Twitter. So that's twitter.com/tensor_hq. Brian Friel (30:00):Awesome. Well, Tensorians, you know where to go. Richard, thanks so much for coming on the show. It's Richard Wu, the co-founder of Tensor. Richard Wu (30:08):Appreciate the time.   

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As a poor kid, Geraud Staton became an entrepreneur out of necessity, initially selling Blow Pops to the rich kids at school. He's hustled and he's seen how to grow a business, and he wanted to give back. So he started Helius (now Echo) because he wanted to level the playing field when it came to minority and women owned businesses. According to Geraud, "There are too many knowledgeable business people in our community for anyone to not have the skills they need to survive as hard working entrepreneurs." ---Geraud Staton is the CEO of Echo, Coach, Actor and Painter.Hosted by Trevor Schmidt, Founder Shares is brought to you by Hutchison PLLC and is edited and produced by Earfluence.

Mert Mumtaz is the Co-founder and CEO at Helius. Helius is the ultimate developer platform for building on Solana. Effortlessly navigate on-chain data with our powerful APIs, webhooks, and RPCs. Mert Mumtaz's Twitter: @0xMert_ Helius Twitter: @heliuslabs Helius Website: https://helius.xyz/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: https://frictionless.fund/ ----------------------- This Podcast was sponsored by Squads. https://squads.so/ Squads Protocol: the multisig standard you were looking for on Solana Securely manage your treasury, program upgrades and tokens with your Squad. 01 Multi-signature - A multisig requires multiple digital signatures in order to approve transactions. This is opposed to individual web3 wallets, which only require one signature. 02 Security - Multisigs spread the attack vector necessary for your assets to be compromised. By requiring confirmations from multiple private keys, a single point of failure is eliminated. 03 Collective Ownership - Multisigs allow teams to own and manage their on-chain assets together. You get to choose who is on your multisig. 04 Self-Custody - Your on-chain assets are always in your team's control. By securing them in a multisig, you forego the risk of centralized entities losing your funds.

In our first-ever episode, we debunk the false narrative that Solana is dead and showcase its immense potential as one of the most scalable blockchains on the planet. We also discuss why one should even care about crypto in a future dominated by AI and other emerging technologies. Our guest for this episode is Mert, the founder and CEO of Helius.xyz, who provides us with an in-depth breakdown of Solana's architecture. We compare it to other approaches, including both Ethereum and non-EVM challengers like SUI, to understand how Solana's unique design contributes to its scalability. We also cover the Solana crypto ecosystem in broad strokes, discussing some of the most promising projects including Driphaus, Dialect, and Metaplex. These projects sit at the cutting-edge of what's possible with NFTs and are defining the playbook for what NFTs will look like over the next 10 years. While this episode may not be for the faint of heart, it's an excellent way to dive head-first into the various applications people are building in crypto today. Join us as we uncover the hidden gems in the world of Solana and discuss the key role crypto will play in shaping our future.

Our guest this week is Mert Mumtaz, Co-founder & CEO of Helius, a vertically integrated developer platform offering a suite of tools to help easily build products on Solana. Mert joins Brian Friel to clear up common misconceptions about Solana, shares the latest opportunities for developers, and dives deep into state compression, which reduces the amount of on-chain storage required to store NFTs, resulting in lower costs for creators and buyers by up to 100 times. State compression on Solana is already being leveraged by projects like Dialect, Drip.haus, and Helium to help scale their projects. Show Notes:01:10 - Origin Story and background05:08 - How he started on Solana07:45 - How Helius began11:27 - Misconceptions about Solana      18:01 - What is he most excited about on Solana23:03 - How is Helius working with DePin25:34 - Opportunities for Developers on Solana32:15 - A builder he admires          Full Transcript:Brian (00:06):Hey everyone and welcome to the Zeitgeist, the show where we highlight the founders, developers, and designers who are pushing the Web3 space forward. I'm Brian Friel, developer relations at Phantom, and I'm super excited to introduce my guest, the man who in Solana needs no introduction. Mert Montaz, the founder and CEO of Helius. Mert, welcome to the show. Mert (00:25):Thank you for having me, Brian. Brian (00:26):I've been looking forward to having a conversation with you here for a while. I don't know if you remember this, but way back in the day, I was getting my start on Solana by writing articles on Twitter, dev related articles, and you were one of the first people that took my article and said, hey, I'm an engineer at Coinbase. I can actually vouch that this is legitimate. And that actually got me in front of Chase Barker and everything. I don't know if you remember that interaction, but it's been a long time that I've seen you on Twitter. Mert (00:54):I do remember it. Brian (00:55):Thank you for that because that got me my stardom of three. Maybe that'd be an interesting place to start is I'd love to learn a little bit more about you. I know you were, previously before getting involved with Solana, you were at Coinbase. Can you share a little bit about your journey, what your background is and what led you to Solana? Mert (01:10):Yeah, absolutely. First of all, I do remember that interaction. I think it was a medium article about it was either voting or incremental counter, maybe a peanut butter sandwich or something. Brian (01:21):Yeah. It was like a simple app. Mert (01:22):Yeah, it was actually quite good. I was super impressed with it. I wish people kept producing those. I think we need more brine blog posts. Yeah. I guess maybe a brief intro of how I got started. I majored in math and communications engineering, communications engineering being satellites and signals and stuff like that. And I actually got to work at Blackberry as an intern. And so I got to see some pretty interesting engineering challenges at my earlier years about cloud infrastructure. I was on the team that ran the cloud for BBM, for example, which handled a lot of volume until it died, of course. Yeah, I mean after that I worked at the big banks in Canada, Canada's run by five big banks and I worked at three of those in some weird order where I did cybersecurity, I did payment systems, ATM withdrawals and stuff like that. (02:11):And I then joined a startup that got acquired, Shutterstock. It was about digital advertising and stuff like that. I'm sure some people are familiar with Shutterstock. And then I worked at Clear Bank on the treasury team where we were in charge of payment rails and stuff for funding entrepreneurs. And then we had this situation where we needed to send money to Australia and I needed to write the code that would handle doing that. And we met with a bunch of these vendors and stuff and it was all super complex for some reason that I didn't understand, you had to do these hops through various jurisdictions and stuff like that. And I was like, I mean you could probably just use USDC or something. And people just thought that was a scam. And at that point I was like, I wonder what the actual truth is here. (02:55):I did some digging and I was like, this is obviously not a scam, not even close. And in fact, it seems super interesting. I did a brief look into crypto in university where I thought I was maybe too academic and you need a PhD or something to do anything meaningful. Obviously quite wrong, but that was my first intro. And then a few weeks after that I was working at Coinbase. Actually it was interesting because I joined them slightly before they went public. And so they still kind of had the startup ethos and it was super fun working there and got to learn and build and talk with a bunch of really bright people. And that's obviously doing research on different blockchains. Obviously Coinbase is very EVM centric. Some times were good, some times we're bad. And somewhere in that line I found Solana and I just started digging around posting stuff, publishing stuff. And I really liked the approach that Solana had taken to be the pragmatic approach. I'm sure you hear this word a lot, but the practicality of the ecosystem as well as the ethos really resonated with me. (03:52):And the community was also pretty cool. You actually just mentioned Chase talking to you about something you posted. That was also my experience. Whenever I would posted something, Armani or Chase would hype me up and I was like, okay, that's pretty cool. And yeah, I mean it kind of just took off from there. Brian (04:07):Yeah. I love that framing of the pragmatic chain and you actually having that experience at a big bank just saying, why don't we just use USDC? It's settled in 400 milliseconds or whatever. And Solana really, I think, is the best example of that. That's pretty poetic that you found your way there. Mert (04:23):Mm-hmm. Brian (04:23):I remember a time though when you first were posting on Twitter, it was mostly around trying to help others understand what was happening on chain. And you mentioned Coinbase, very EVM centric. I think a lot of us who worked in crypto at the time, it was just EVMs the only game in town. And if you thought differently, that was just weird or a lot of people it didn't make sense. And I think my experience, one of the biggest barriers to getting people familiar with Solana was just wrapping their head around the mental model of just how stuff works on chain. It's just inherently different. Can you talk a little bit about that, how you got your start? What were you doing when you were writing these articles and helping others understand what was going on on chain? What did you have to build, what were you teaching yourself at that time? Mert (05:07):Yeah, that's a good point. Most people actually don't really know that unless they were early like you. At first what I would do, this was kind of during the peak kind of start of NFT season on Solana and basically a lot of influencer types or people who I don't think were very intellectually honest would post some sort of claim about, oh, the price of the NFT is going down because the price of Solana is going up. This is obvious and stuff like that. And I thought to myself, there's no way the markets are that efficient for JPEGs, right. There's other stuff there. If people were botting these NFTs and getting a high concentration on maybe dumping on retail and doing other sketchy stuff. And so I would just write scripts, goal length scripts or JavaScript scripts, whatever, and analyze the data. This is before any data analytics existed, really like Solana FM or I mean, Solana FM was there, but they did regular indexing, Solana floor and stuff. (06:09):Flip side, Nance, none of these actually covered Solana. I would just do it and then I would just write my findings in a Twitter thread with some charts and stuff. And I did that pretty regularly. I did it for a bunch of different stuff, including some upcoming projects in terms of gaming and where the potential is. And somewhere along the line after being armed with that knowledge of just doing it for a consistent amount of time, I came across a lot of people on crypto Twitter just really making unsubstantiated claims about Solana and its architecture and its scaling plan and all this stuff. And I guess I was in somewhat of a unique position where I was actually still at Coinbase at the time and somebody would post something and I had relatively okay knowledge of EVM, but also pretty good knowledge of Solana. (06:56):And so I'd usually be able to tell, okay, this is just not true what this person posted. Why is nobody correcting them? And it's because nobody actually just really knew both ecosystems that well. And sometimes in internal Coinbase chats, this would come up and people would be like, that is wrong. And I'd be like, yeah, that is wrong. Why aren't we doing something about this? And I kind of just started yelling at the people who were just lying or maybe spreading knowledge that was not grounded in truth, let's say. And I just never stopped doing that. And turns out crypto Twitter is full of these people, and so I never- Brian (07:29):Yeah. Your job's never done. Mert (07:30):Exactly. Brian (07:32):Is it fair to say that you arming yourself with this knowledge, you had to actually build the tools you needed just to understand what's going on-chain. Was this the start of Helius and essentially what you guys now offer? And maybe you can talk a little bit about that, how Helius began. Mert (07:45):Yeah, 100%. That's exactly right. The most common problem I ran across was when you're looking at on-chain data, the data is super cryptic, right. The instruction data is bortion coded or something. And unless you knew the schema of how it was encoded or maybe the idea which, especially in NFTs, in DeFi, it's not too bad, but especially in NFTs and other non-DeFi use cases, nobody has any idea what the on chain data looks like. And so I would have to hard code some weird methods, maybe parse logs, but also reverse engineer based on discriminators. Or I would even try to brute force it sometimes, which actually kind of worked. I would go on Magic Eden, and you would know this is before Magic Eden's programs were more readable. This is the first version. I would check the app layer. I would go to magiceden.io and I would see, okay, this NFT is listed for 20 SOL or something. (08:38):And then I would try a bunch of different decodings until I got that answer. And then I would do that with a bunch of different ones and I'd be like, okay, this is clearly the discriminator that I need to use. And so I would do that. I also did a bunch, go to the network tab, inspect source, and then dig through the entire minify JavaScript, unminify it, see the schema and try to use that schema when trying to decode the data and stuff. And I was like, this is bananas. This should not be done. And basically that's kind of where Helius came from and the first iteration of Helius was like, okay, we need to make on chain data read about Solana because it's particularly impossible. And then along the way, once we started doing that and talking to customers, it seemed like quite a few people were having other problems, especially around RPCs, which was surprising 'cause I thought RPCs were kind of okay, but after digging into it, it turns out that wasn't really the case. (09:28):And then you run into all sorts of other issues like streaming data on chain, at least in an inexpensive and reliable way. Solana has this problem with web sockets where you might lose data. Yeah, I mean just talking to customers just found a bunch of problems. And Helius is essentially now there to be this vertically integrated developer platform on Solana to essentially just help developers succeed on Solana. And we're not necessarily bound to Solana, but basically my philosophy on this is that I want crypto to succeed. I mean obviously we're all here because we're interested in crypto and believe in crypto's future. If you start from first principles there, I think given the options out there today, Solana's our essentially best shot at executing that vision. Obviously a lot of people disagree with that, but it's something I believe in. And so then my thought process, okay, how do we get more people to build on Solana so that we can have a better crypto future? Brian (10:19):No, I totally agree with that. I think that's been our ticket on Phantom as well, where it's like most of Phantom came from EVM folks and I think a lot of us independently kind of had this realization of we want crypto to succeed. Pragmatically thinking, what am I going to get my parents or my friend to use today? How are we realistically going to scale this thing in the next couple years? Solana also right now is the most pragmatic approach to doing that. I think before we jump in a little bit more to Helius in particular, what you guys offer and what you guys are up to, I kind want to take a moment just to talk maybe broadly about Solana because I think you are one of the most well known vocal defenders of Solana where there is a lot out there that's just blatantly wrong and you not only technically know how to rebut it, but you take the time and the energy to be out there and educating people. I want to know a little bit for where you sit at Helius, what you see right now, what would you say are some of the biggest misconceptions today about Solana that folks who maybe already know about crypto, maybe are already well versed in EVM, but maybe they just haven't gotten through to actually hear from somebody's boots on the ground. What would you tell them that they're misunderstanding about Solana? Mert (11:27):Maybe I'll take a more broad approach to answering this because it's kind of different segments, but in terms of maybe people from EVM, if you're already familiar with EVM and maybe you want to build on Solana and what are your kind of reservations, right. Some of the ones I've come across are, well, one, Rust is just hard to write. Solana has a diehard kind of fan base of Rust developers, but Rust is not easy. That is just a fact. Solidity, is somebody in high school could learn it easily, but Rust, I mean they'd be able to learn it, but I don't think it'd be easy. The concepts like lifetimes and for example, that stuff is not easy for somebody who wants to just prototype and maybe ship something. And so then you'll say, well, there's Anchor and stuff and Anchor is super helpful and probably my favorite tool on Solana, unless you know Rust, you're still going to be kind of flying blind and you know might need that to build your applications. (12:17):And if you're a determined developer, you'll get over that and then learn Rust anyways. But that friction alone is enough to deter a good amount of people is what I found. That's just one thing, and I know Foundation folks and Dev are working on this and there's some other teams, there's the Python seahorse stuff, there's a new type of Script One coming out. I think maybe there's even a Goaline One. It's also just a result of being early. Solana has really been around for two years, whereas EVM almost nine years now. It's hard to compare these things. That's one. And then two, and this is an interesting one, is developer optionality. As a developer, let's say at an entering focus from Coinbase, let's say you want to build a new product and  you're deciding between EVM and Solana. Well, the obvious kind of elephant in the room is, okay, if Solana has a problem, you are kind of done, right? (13:12):You don't have any other options. You can't port your code base over anywhere else. Whereas if you are the EVM developer and you build on Polygon, you can just use main net Eth, maybe you can, with some effort, use any of the other L2's or maybe another EVM for it, something like that. It's a much easier transition. It's less risky such that on a design doc that you want reviewed by product managers, most engineers are going to take the safe route there. Brian (13:37):It reminds me of that “no one gets fired for hiring IBM” phrase that they used to have back in the day, the safe route to get it approved by somebody. Yeah. Mert (13:45):100%. And it doesn't help that the Solana PR is so bad that everybody's even mistakenly saying, oh, Solana always goes down or Solana's all these different things. You add these up and then as an engineer, if you're at a big firm and you pick Solana, you have to religiously fight or justify your position. And most people just aren't going to do that even if they believe it. That's a big problem. One of the reasons why I think more SVM roll-ups that sell on other chains might be interesting here to give developers more optionality such that if you build on Solana, but Solana has something bad happen, but it's still settling on these other L1's or other data availabilities or whatever it might be. And then three, is of course, there are actual misconceptions about the reliability of the chain. (14:33):People think the chain has gone down 12 times or something, or multiple digits. It's actually gone down four times. People conflate performance degradation with outage. Performance degradation is just when you maybe have, you guys obviously notice at Phantom when you maybe aren't landing transactions on chain or maybe there's latency or something like that, that's the functional equivalent of fees getting higher on EVM. That's performance degradation. But an actual outage is actually relatively rare. In fact, the numbers, I think the last time I looked at them were 99.7% uptime, which isn't perfect, but it's also not bad. It's certainly not as bad as something that would go down every day or regularly. I mean there's a misconception there. Brian (15:15):Or reorgs in that matter too. Mert (15:16):Yeah, exactly. I mean we can kind of talk about that in maybe another part of this, but people don't realize that especially for an indexed company, maybe Coinbase where you're selling funds, those reorgs actually affect your architecture an insane amount because you need to add new systems to communicate, oh actually this block was not correct or something. Whereas on Solana, you don't really need to do that. I mean no block to my knowledge went back after being confirmed. Brian (15:40):Yeah. I was going to say I don't think there ever has been a... It's even, yeah, the optimistic confirmed, not even finalized as there's never been a reorg once it's been that. Yeah. Mert (15:49):Exactly. Some people think you need ridiculous hardware requirements to run these nodes and that's actually not true. You can run a node, depending on if you want an RPC node or a validator node for really anything from $200 to $800 a month. People think you need actual data centers to run it, which I don't know where people get that from. And then there's also light clients coming out now, right. I can talk all day about the misconceptions, but I think the first two are probably the most justified reasons from actual engineers that I've heard. Brian (16:20):Yeah. No, that's a really good take, I think, because one, there's the FUD, which I think is the back half of what you kind of just talked about, which I think that just comes with time and getting people to experiment with Solana and trying it firsthand and understanding there's no better teacher than that, otherwise you're fighting essentially Twitter algorithms. But I think that's a really nuanced take what you had to start, where you're saying the de-risking almost to get this buy-in because you know what it's like to work at these large companies and kind of proliferating Solana there. I also think what Jump is doing with Fired Answer is also just another benefit to that as well. Essentially just reducing the service area potential bugs that occur. Essentially if you have a bug in just one client implementation, adding a second one greatly reduces the chance it'll happen again. (17:09):Maybe one way we can take this is instead of fighting the FUD, because that could take all day, is from where you sit right now in Helius, say that you guys have a really interesting position in the space because one, you're super close to what's actually happening as Solana's roadmap evolves. I'd say part of being the pragmatic change is Solana's not afraid to push the boundaries, take risks, add new token programs, NFT compression, just constantly evolving at a fast pace. You guys are close to that and then you're also close to the developers who are coming into this space for the first time, like you said, the hobby weekend developer who's interested and they don't want to learn Rust and so they need some sort of abstraction layer to this coming in some sort of dead platform that's helping them in some way. What are you personally most excited about right now that's happening on Solana? Mert (18:02):Well, I mean Compression, I think, maybe is one that's gaining some steam in and an obvious one that I think most people are aware of at this point. But back when I was trying to show it, most people weren't aware. I think our job here is maybe done so now it can kind of take off, but Compression is super exciting because most people don't realize that Compression, actually, let me just explain what it is first. Data storage or state storage on Solana is quite costly. I don't know the exact cost, I guess I would need to look at that chart, but there's some articles on this and you can look at the Helius blog "shill" for seeing the comparisons for the numbers, but basically state storage on Solana is expensive and with Compression, essentially what you can do is instead of storing the data in state, you can store it on ledger. And that might sound a little abstract, but basically instead of needing it for consensus, you securely log it in transaction logs. (19:00):Basically it's what an engineer would call a stateless accumulator. I call them L2 because I like doing random marketing stuff, but Toly really doesn't like it. Do not call it an L2. Call it a stateless accumulator, which isn't very beginning friendly, but that is actually what it is. You just store a reference, it's a pointer by reference kind of thing. You store a reference to the data that's on the ledger on the state now instead of storing all the data on the state. And we do that via Merkel Trees, which I'm not going to go into here, but essentially you're able to get a few orders of magnitude and cost reductions. Now that's useful for digital assets and that's the first use case, NFT compression where you can mince thousands, millions, billions of NFTs. People will say like, oh, why do you need to mint a million NFTs, billion NFTs? (19:45):And it's like, that's not the point. The point is that we're not limited by technology anymore, whereas before we were, and we can maximize the design space and explore some things, right. You have Dialect doing sticker packs, Cross Mint using their APIs for all sorts of different cases, including loyalty programs, Helium migrating over to Solana for their hotspots using Compression, driphouse doing airdrops, Render potentially using it for their scene graphs, which is a super cool concepts, high map results even using them. And so it clearly has some use, but the cool thing about it is it's not actually limited to NFTs. Actually you can apply to any account, you can extend it to be fungible tokens and also just general account compression, which I think the guys at Gum are doing for some social graph formatives. It actually has quite a bit of potential there. (20:28):That's one of the big ones I'm excited about since my name is Compression Mert on Twitter right now. And then the Solana mobile, the Saga phone is awesome. I had a test unit and I've been an Android user my whole life after Blackberry Force and it's the best Android phone I've used and it's super snappy, very good build quality and it actually has changed my consumer behavior somewhat where actually, before I would explicitly shy away from mobile first or mobile crypto apps, I wouldn't use crypto at mobile at all. But now I'm like, okay, this is actually pretty cool. I can use leverage my secure seed vaults. We do need to work on that naming, but I can use that and have that confidence and that seamless integration. You have apps like Otter, Finance, Tip Link, Get Code or I guess just Code Wallet, which enables super fast kind of P2P payments, something like Venmo. And actually, I have used all of these to make payments to my family members and friends, so I'm super excited about that. (21:27):The thing I'm most excited about on Solana is this narrative of decentralized physical infrastructure or deepen taking off with not only do you have Helium now and High Mapper, you also have Render Now, Pollen Network, Genesis Go, Teleport and let's see who else we can get over. But I think this kind of intersection of P2P networks and using crypto to actually enable change in the physical world is super interesting and something that wasn't really possible before. Brian (21:56):That's super cool. I should say just for the listeners that we are recording this on April 13th, 2023, which is the official Saga launch day, so it's topical to bring that up. We're super excited about that too. I just think it's awesome that they're not afraid to push the boundaries on that. I mean for us at Phantom to not even have the ability to see a user seed phrase and it's just completely abstracted away at the hardware level, I think is awesome and a glimpse of where this is all heading. Let's talk a little bit about DePin too because I'm not as up to speed on that. I don't know if most of our users are. I think Helius migration is happening soon, TM, like this month in April. What are you guys seeing there? Is there any major changes to what you're doing on the infrastructure layer that's going to have to adapt for this? Do you foresee any major changes to end user behavior? (22:46):Part of what's interesting about Solana is the fee markets can adjust on a per piece of state level as opposed to if it was on Eth, you could see all of a sudden all your gas fees are increasing just like it would on a crazy NFT mint day. Can you talk a little bit about how you guys are working with this new DePin movement and what you guys are seeing? Mert (23:05):Helium particularly is interested in using Compression, or I mean they are using Compression to represent their hotspots and it would cost them just too much money to work with that kind of stuff on any other chain. And so Solana is what makes the most sense. And like you said, the independence of state, which causes individual account based fees as opposed to chain level fees, which doesn't make the UX horrible for one person here either. It's just you might have to pay extra. And so compression is something that they use the most, both High Mapper and Helium and also Render is, I believe, going to use it. They mentioned this in their GitHub migration paper. And so that's kind of the main driver, but also these teams generally have to subscribe to on chain events. And as a larger engineering firm or maybe independent of size, most people prefer getting data pushed to them instead of setting up some polling system to listen for events because there might be issues there. (24:02):They actually use our web hooks and then they kind of configure what events they want to listen to and then they kind of have this ease of mind where, okay, Helius will just stream me these events as they happen and I can just kind of plug, play and then forget. If anything happens, Helius will kind of let me know or maybe I'll get a page or something. The web hooks have actually been, it's interesting. When we first came to Solana, there was no web hook products on Solana and I'm not even sure if there was anything like that on Eth. It was just such an obvious thing and we built it and we shipped it and for example, Discord uses that for their integration into Solana. Their first actually Web3 integration, or actually I don't like the term Web3, their first crypto integration was with Solana and that was enabled with the Web hooks and we have some other big names using them now as well. (24:47):I don't think those are announced yet, but it's such a simple primitive, but just web hooks and listening to on chain data really helps some of these bigger firms who don't want to spend the time writing all this complex infrastructure code and they can just plug and play into some existing solution. Brian (25:02):Yeah. It's future-proofed, essentially. They can build once and they don't have to constantly be readjusting their implementation. Mert (25:08):Exactly. Brian (25:08):That's awesome. Turning this back to a developer who is maybe listening to this, familiar with EVM, looking at Solana, you guys do a lot, not just on the infrastructure side, but also on developer education, getting developers involved. We can talk about some of the specific initiatives there, but at a high level, what would you say are some of the biggest opportunities for a developer today who's looking at Solana? Where would you guide them to get started? Mert (25:35):Well, one thing I'll say is that Solana has maybe two main things that I would mention that might be interesting for folks coming over. One is that it's much earlier than the other ecosystems. And so there's a lot of low hanging fruit and underdeveloped tooling infrastructure, application layer stuff that exists in other chains in some form, but not on Solana. And so as a developer, let's just try to build something and you'll notice what's missing. You'll notice that the deployment workflows aren't great. You'll notice that maybe the monitoring isn't that great either, or maybe it's easy to shoot yourself in the foot with certain types of smart contractors and stuff. You'll notice a ton of problems and that's just your opportunity to make something cool and fix those maybe as open source, maybe as a public good, maybe as a company. And so there's a lot of potential there. (26:22):Another thing is that Solana's architecture is, and so this almost kind of contradicts the first point, but not really if you think about it. The architecture of Solana is so different, right. It's functional based where you have actually a lot of modularity within the layer. You have independent state and logic, you have different accounts, localized fee markets, and so it's much more modular than something like ETH where state and logic are coupled. And also obviously the scalability features of Solana are quite different than anything else. And what that means is there's a lot of things that you can actually build that's only possible on Solana. Brian (26:57):I love that catchphrase by the way, only possible on Solana TM. Mert (27:01):Yeah. I've been a big fan of that one, let's just say. And it's totally true, right. Order books, for example, you saw it with Serum, you're seeing it now with Phoenix. This is before Fire Dancer and before 200ms block times, which will happen. This is the slowest it will be, it's only going to get faster from here. And so there's a bunch of things that are only possible on Solana. And I would strongly encourage people to think from first principles as a developer, look around, see what problems there are. They don't have to be Solana specific, they can just be problems, right. I don't know, maybe it's too slow to send your dad money or maybe it's too hard to offramp crypto, I don't know, something like that. And then usually if you are trying to look for a solution there for that problem, Solana will be able to handle it much more comfortably than others. (27:47):And the other important thing is it'll actually scale, right. You want kind of elasticity as a developer such that if your app takes off, you don't want to have to now migrate to another stack or something. With Solana, it's honestly just plug into a cloud provider, just kind of scales with you. But also a third thing I'll actually mention, which this really should have been number one, but I would encourage you very, very strongly to produce content, especially developer related content. Build something, learn from it and then write about it, make a podcast, produce a video, produce a tutorial, just write content. And not only will that obviously help you connect with other people who are in the ecosystem and like-minded and building other cool stuff, but also when you write stuff and produce content, you have to know what you're talking about, otherwise you won't be able to write it, right. It'll make you connect the dots and it'll point out flaws in your thinking. Brian (28:44):Yeah. It's the fastest way to get the right answer on the internet is to publish something that's wrong. Mert (28:49):Exactly. And so I guess maybe to go along with that is just have a high tolerance for looking, I don't want to say stupid, but just have a high tolerance for being wrong. You're going to be wrong a lot, but that's not a bad thing unless you're building the infrastructure for handling, I don't know, some critical payments or something. But you're probably not going to be doing that. Brian (29:10):Yeah. It's like the pursuit of truth. If you're open to that and you're excited to get told what's right, I couldn't agree more that's 100% the best way to build. Mert (29:19):Yeah. Sometimes I'll post something that I think is correct, but it's not apparently actually correct because Toly will comment and he'll gently say something that's slightly unrelated, but it's like, oh, okay, I'm wrong, I guess. I will retract this. And so honestly, it's just a fun way to learn and you do enough cycles of that and you are going to be doing that to other people and that's how we grow. Brian (29:46):Yeah, I totally agree. I think this ties in with what you were saying earlier of Solana being the pragmatic chain. I think part of the benefit, there's a knock, we talked about it, about, hey, Solana's new, it's different and you're essentially fighting network effects at that point. But part of the benefit is you get to build your own genuine kernel of a developer ecosystem and start from first principles and start from new and not be afraid to change things new. And I think that's been pretty eye-opening, even just to me personally. As Phantom enters EVM, we're looking at everything that EVM has inherited over the years. Most obvious one being even just how injected wallets play with each other on EVM is so different than Solana because Solana took a very first principles approach and said, we're going to do this in a way that you have a wallet, you can use it anywhere, it's going to scale forever kind of thing. And it's been pretty eye-opening to see the differences there. (30:36):That would be my only other thing I'd add to you is if you are a dev and you want to make it high impact on, it's probably the best place for it because you can post publicly about why you're doing what you're doing and you'll get people who are interested in listening and will back you on the basis and the merits of your ideas is what I'd say. Mert (30:52):Yeah, absolutely. Me, Chase and other parts of the developer system will help you the best we can. Basically the Helius tagline is actually “Where Solana teams succeed” because our entire goal is to help you succeed. That's essentially why I wake up and that's what I spend my entire day doing. And the Phantom founders, for example, are great example of this, right. They came from EVM and they saw what was possible on Solana and they built the number one wallet in crypto and it had such good UX and such good design and stuff, and you guys absolutely dominated. And then now you're actually transcending the change, right. It's actually becoming a product, it's not just a chain's product, it's just a product that you can use to onboard people onto crypto. I really like that approach from starting from first principles like you guys. You saw Meta Mask and you're like, okay, well we're going to do it differently. And you did it much better in my view. And so I think that's just an example of what's possible. Brian (31:50):Thanks. Yeah, I mean we love hearing that, but obviously love everything that Solana's doing and Solana's always going to be home. There's a lot to do on Solana. I'm excited to roll up the sleeves this year and get started. I guess, Mert, and as we start to wrap this up, one question we always ask all our guests, I'd love to hear this from you. You mentioned a lot of people on this podcast, a lot of teams, but I'd love to know, is there a particular builder that you admire in the Solana ecosystem? Mert (32:17):Oh man. I mean, I do admire my co-founders, to be honest. I don't think they got that much credit because I'm kind of the loud one, but Nick and Liam are super, they're actually the driving force behind Helius and they do all of the engineering, and I do essentially nothing other than just larp on Twitter. Them for sure, but also, I'll give you my general approach on this, actually, maybe this is useful for someone, but my general approach to Twitter is whenever I see a founder on somebody's bio or something like that, or maybe a co-founder or something, I'll immediately follow them because those people are super inspiring to me. I pretty much follow all the founders on Solana at this point, I think. For example, the founder of Squat, Stephan Wright. I saw him, I was like, I'm going to follow this guy. (33:01):Turns out amazing dude, we're friends now. That's my general approach. I just respect all the founders in the ecosystem because they're taking big risks and they're trying to build cool stuff, and they're all trying to help the ecosystem. And so I have just huge respect for everyone there. Someones, I would probably point out specifically, would be obviously Armani and Tristan, huge respect for them. The founders of Gito, right, Sec, Fault and Buffaloo, I'll just say their pseudonym names. Co-founders of Squads, right, Margin, Drift, Zeta, for example. All the DeFi protocols. I'm probably just going to end up listing literally every single one. I would say if there's one particular one, it would be, I guess honestly just Toly, right. That's probably a cliche answer, but Toly just always keeps his composure under people just relentlessly slinging mud at his life's work essentially, and in a super unfair way. And he still gets up. And I mean, not only does he engage with the community, but he still builds cool stuff and there's so many different things. I have no idea how he does it, and I have a ton of respect for that. Brian (34:08):Well, I think that's the perfect answer. Having listed all the major founders in Solana, and then you go back to the guy who started it all, he sets the tone for the space and I think he makes it that drama free, practical, pragmatic, how do we build practical that's useful today. That's been my answer secretly too, that no one's asked me, but... Well, Mert, this has been awesome. Thanks so much for coming on. We'll have to do this again later once we've shipped all these crazy upgrades to Solana and check in again. But where can folks go to learn more about Helius? Mert (34:42):Yeah. Just helius.xyz. You can just go there or you can just @ me on Twitter. That's honestly how most people get in contact with me. Just tag me on Twitter on something and I'll respond. Brian (34:50):Awesome. Love it. Mert, the founder and CEO of Helius. Thanks so much for coming on. Mert (34:54):Thank you for having me.   

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Follow the @SolfatePod show on Twitter for updates. Thanks for listening frens :)Notes from the showWe are joined by the Mert, the vocal Solana supporter and founder of Helius.xyzAs a former Coinbase employee, we got Mert's take on the recent SEC action/notice. We talk about Mert's spicy twitter life and the role he plays in the Solana (and broader crypto ecosystem).Mert shares some of his thoughts on what blockchain products are good at doing, and maybe some things that are over-rated or over-hyped.And then compression: we talk about State Compression on Solana, and the perspective of handling the compression from the side of indexing providers and developer platforms.A “PS” Note from Mert: Grifter's exist throughout the world, not just in crypto.Show Mert some love in the internet:follow on twitter: @0xMert_Mert's company, Helius.xyzLinks from the showMert's tweet to seeGrizzlython project submissions are now liveFollow us aroundNickfollow on twitter: @nickfrostyfollow on github: github.com/nickfrostywebsite: https://nick.afJamesfollow on twitter: @jamesrp13follow on github: github.com/jamesrp13

I tried to record last week but I was at the beach and it sounded terrible. So we're bringing an episode with two weeks of alpha shrunk into one. Solana Price - Ranging, we are at $23.50, hit as high as $26, and dipped down to just under $20. SolEth - Sitting at .014, not bad. Toly on Bankless, gets a fair shake.SMB bought out by HGE and given to HadesDAO, in spite of MonkeDAO negotiations. Gotta dive into that. Overall it's good for holders, unbelievable opportunity for Hadeswap, kind of shitty for all the contributors to MD. Gambling! We talk Rollbit, SolCasino, and how this is hitting product market fit on Solana. I don't think it's going away. Altcoins: RLB, Bonk seeing some rise, Hades seeing a dip. Wallet Security - up it, Kevin Rose hacked for 2 mill +, we got tons of great solutions. NFT's on Bitcoin? That's right. Tooling on Solana - ZachXBT bashes it, hopefully Mert from Helius saves us. DeGod's Female Deriv - the Solana NFT lifecycle in a week. Pump, rug, de rug, pump. amazing. Regulation - Binance US and struggle with USD deposits, Kraken lawsuit for 30 mill in regards to staking. Decentralized staking becoming vastly more important/ appealing. Have to talk Lido protocol and how important they are. Balaji new podcast - legend, and his importance on the last cycle was massive. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thomasbahamas.substack.com

Follow the @SolfatePod show on Twitter for updates. Thanks for listening frens :)Notes from the showWelcome to the very first episode of the Solfate podcast, an audio commentary from two developers on building into the Solana ecosystem.In this very first episode, Nick and James introduce themselves. We give our backgrounds and how we each started building and educating on Solana.We also talk about the recent events of the Bonk token taking Solana by storm. Getting airdropped to loads of people (including us) and the impact that community driven projects really have on the Solana blockchain.We wrapped up the episode with talking about what we are each working on now and in the near future.Huge shout out to Jeffrey Ando (@ser_ando) for the amazing AI generated cover art!Full show notes available at https://solfate.com/podcast/1Links from the showSolana developer course written be James: soldev.app/coursethe tweet that got Nick working on SolanaMert (from Helius) announcing the Solana Sandstorm Hackathonofficial Bonk token's twitter account: @bonk_inuNick's article on deriving Solana addressesUpcoming Solana HackathonA public virtual Solana hackathon, code-named "Solana Sandstorm", is set to happen between January 10th - January 23rd (2023). More official details to follow near January 10th from Mert.The hackathon is loaded with sponsors from around the Solana ecosystem, including: Solana Foundation, Helius, Crossmint, Phantom, Switchboard, Dialect, and so many more. And yes, even Bonk!Follow us aroundNickfollow on twitter: @nickfrostyfollow on github: github.com/nickfrostywebsite: https://nick.afJamesfollow on twitter: @jamesrp13follow on github: github.com/jamesrp13

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Episode Eight: Gods, Spirits, and Ghosts "When we give thanks we offer it as well to our Elder Brother, the Sun. All over the world the sun is reveird sometimes as a God with different names such as Ra for the many, Sol for the Norse, Helius for the Greek, and Etshitewa'tsi:'a Entyekhenhnekha Karahkwa for the Mohawks... ...When we consider that different cultures around the world were not bound to One Almighty God, but rather than a series of entities tied to elements which were physical manifestations of the spirit of each one. It has been understood since the beginning of human-kind that everything has a spirit and should be observed and thanked for its power to help us continue our duties as stewards of the land..."

In this week's episode, Tracy and Mike interview Fay Horwitt and Brett Brenton with https://forwardcities.org/ (Forward Cities).  Show Highlights: Brett and Fay share the heart behind Forward Cities to address the inequities in our society, specifically within the context of Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Support, and how Forward Cities creates “equity for every entrepreneur” (02:15) Tracy asks the group about how Forward Cities helps communities progress towards a common goal and vision, in spite of the competing priorities and self-interests of individual groups and organizations. Forward Cities calls this “Sense-Making” (10:00) The group discusses how Forward Cities determines it's time to step away and allow the community to progress without them (22:00)  Mike summarizes the conversation to this point, and then Fay and Brett build upon the core points to this point through the lens of two short case studies (22.20) Brett and Fay share about their experiences in communities ranging from working with indiginous populations in New Mexico, to Baltimore, to a deeper dive into New Kensington and Kansas City (30:30) The gang discusses the metrics that Forward Cities uses, and how the processes that they utilize can translate to organizational leaders outside of ecosystem building (including the use of the Forward Cities “E3 Scorecard”) (38:00)   Brett and Fay share about the launch of the SBA Pilot program (48:45) Related Links: Do you want to learn more about Forward Cities? Visit them https://forwardcities.org/ (here)!  Learn more about how TEAMES & CO builds effective and empowered teams that deliver results athttps://teamesandco.com/teams/organizational-design ( https://teamesandco.com/teams/organizational-design) Follow TEAMES & CO onhttp://www.facebook.com/teamesandco ( Facebook) https://www.linkedin.com/company/teamesandco ( LinkedIn), Twitter (@teamesandco) and Instagram (https://instagram.com/teamesandco (@teamesandco)) Want to watch the podcasts on video visit TEAMES & CO onhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA2UUugYGYBvfCcEYOwjLwQ/videos ( YouTube).  TEAMES Global is live!!! We will be launching new courses throughout the summer to support leaders and organizations as they empower their teams, connect with customers and reach their goals!!! Follow TEAMES Global on https://www.facebook.com/teamesglobal (Facebook) and https://www.linkedin.com/company/teamesglobal (LinkedIn), and https://teamesglobal.teachable.com (sign up for a course today! ) Related Podcasts: In this podcast, we discuss the great work done by ecosystem builder Geraud Staton, the executive director of Helius. Check out the full podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-conversation-with-geraud-staton-reboot/id1530838871?i=1000536352645 (here)!  Views expressed by guests are their own and may not reflect the views of TEAMES & CO. Mention of particular products or services and participation of a guest does not imply an endorsement by TEAMES & CO. The information provided is for educational and entertainment purposes and should not be taken as professional advice. Our podcast is edited by Nodderly (http://www.nodderly.com/ (www.nodderly.com)). A huge thank you to their team for the great video, audio and editing support!

In this episode, we break down Odysseus' famous journey to Ithaca from Troy. Every scene in this story is famous, from the Lotus-Eaters to the Cyclopes. from the sorceress Circe to the House of Hades, and from the Sirens to the Flock of Helius. Join us as we look at all of these famous adventures and discuss what to admire in Odysseus and what you should definitely not admire!  Follow us on Twitter! @UlmtdOpinions

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In this week's episode, we had the pleasure of speaking with Geraud Staton, Executive Director of Helius. Geraud shares how Helius provides training and coaching for small businesses and necessity-driven entrepreneurs. They work closely with small business owners to help them earn and pay a fair living wage.The program starts with a 10-week business training program that ends with participants having a business plan and a working, 1-year strategic plan. Then, Helius students move on to a full one-year coaching program where they meet monthly with in-house coaches as well as a bevy of subject matter experts from the community who are all working with one goal in mind: to ensure our clients can create the strongest business possible, earning a fair living wage for employees and business owners alike!​ Show Highlights  Overview of Helius and how it supports necessity based entrepreneurs earn and pay a living wage (1:35) How Helius helps entrepreneurs build their teams, identifying their customers and how to deliver value to those customers are keys to that success (13:15) How the Helius tema invests in their team and how this helps deliver an exceptional customer experience (24:00) Helius Success Stories!!! (32:40) Related Links You can learn more about Helius https://www.heliusnc.org/ (https://www.heliusnc.org) or reach Geraud directly at Geraud@Heliusnc.org. Follow Helius on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/HeliusNC (https://www.facebook.com/HeliusNC), LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/theheliusfoundation/ (https://www.linkedin.com/company/theheliusfoundation/), and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/heliusnc/ (https://www.instagram.com/heliusnc/) Learn more about how TEAMES & CO builds effective and empowered start-up teams that deliver results at https://teamesandco.com/teams/start-ups Related Episodes: 7 Ways to Learn from Our First Year https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/building-teams-with-teames-co/id1530838871?i=1000494849095 Views expressed by guests are their own and may not reflect the views of Teames and Co. Mention of particular products or services and participation of a guest does not imply an endorsement by Teames and Co. The information provided is for educational and entertainment purposes and should not be taken as professional advice.

I interviewed Helius D'souza. We had a blast! He's considered the Anit-Aging specialist. He's also a Personal Trainer and Motivator. He talked about some of the unique aspects of his business and his upcoming books as well. ***Links*** Sponsor: https://TopFitnessStrategies.com/tips102 Other podcasts: https://TopFitnessStrategies.com/podcast Video podcasts: https://TopFitnessStrategies.com/youtube TFS Youtube: https://youtube.com/TopFitnessStrategies Home: https://TopFitnessStrategies.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrewpoletto/ Contact Helius: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/helius_fitnesstraining/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PersonalFitnessTrainerAntiAgeingSpecialist  

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What makes an entrepreneur? Can anyone be an entrepreneur? Those are the big questions that host Robbie Allen dives into with the help of his three guests in the premiere episode of For Starters

In this week's episode, we had the pleasure of speaking with Geraud Staton, Executive Director of Helius. Geraud shares how Helius provides training and coaching for small businesses and necessity-driven entrepreneurs. They work closely with small business owners to help them earn and pay a fair living wage.The program starts with a 10-week business training program that ends with participants having a business plan and a working, 1-year strategic plan. Then, Helius students move on to a full one-year coaching program where they meet monthly with in-house coaches as well as a bevy of subject matter experts from the community who are all working with one goal in mind: to ensure our clients can create the strongest business possible, earning a fair living wage for employees and business owners alike!​ Show Highlights  Overview of Helius and how it supports necessity based entrepreneurs earn and pay a living wage (1:35) How Helius helps entrepreneurs build their teams, identifying their customers and how to deliver value to those customers are keys to that success (13:15) How the Helius tema invests in their team and how this helps deliver an exceptional customer experience (24:00) Helius Success Stories!!! (32:40) Related Links You can learn more about Helius https://www.heliusnc.org (https://www.heliusnc.org) or reach Geraud directly at Geraud@Heliusnc.org. Follow Helius on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/HeliusNC (https://www.facebook.com/HeliusNC), LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/theheliusfoundation/ (https://www.linkedin.com/company/theheliusfoundation/), and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/heliusnc/ (https://www.instagram.com/heliusnc/) Learn more about how TEAMES & CO builds effective and empowered start-up teams that deliver results at https://teamesandco.com/teams/start-ups Related Episodes: 7 Ways to Learn from Our First Year https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/building-teams-with-teames-co/id1530838871?i=1000494849095 Views expressed by guests are their own and may not reflect the views of Teames and Co. Mention of particular products or services and participation of a guest does not imply an endorsement by Teames and Co. The information provided is for educational and entertainment purposes and should not be taken as professional advice.

HELIUS feat. BYAS - Building MAJOR K - Leave the Dark Behind COOPSMUSIC_ - Feelings JAY MORALES - Love 2021 JAY MORALES - Apollo JAY DEE - Music forever THEO SWAGTEN - Voice of Reason DJ SINCHRONIC - Rave the City RICK DYNO - Turn 12

HELIUS feat. BYAS - Building MAJOR K - Leave the Dark Behind COOPSMUSIC_ - Feelings JAY MORALES - Love 2021 JAY MORALES - Apollo JAY DEE - Music forever THEO SWAGTEN - Voice of Reason DJ SINCHRONIC - Rave the City RICK DYNO - Turn 12

Interview with Larry Long Jr.I AM SOMEBODY! Larry's mother would make him repeat this everyday, and if you know Larry, he lives this everyday.Because of he's fathers work, Larry moved around a lot but his parents instilled many valuable lessons, like determination, belief in self and hard work. In high school he was recruited to play baseball at the University of Maryland. Senior year he was named captain. After not making the pros, Larry tried opening up his own business. After a year he shut the doors, but Larry knows that to get the hits you also strike out. He went into IT work and moved to a couple of companies and is now the Director of Collegiate Sales at Teamworks. Larry also has a YouTube channel and has a live show "The Midweek Midday Motivational Minute."Larry lives life to the fullest and encourages others to do the same.  He motivates, leads, and encourages in his position, in his life and in his volunteer work as a board member of Helius.LinkedIn:Larry Long Jr | LinkedInYouTube:(21) Larry Long Jr - YouTubeEric Reyes: Host of Hey Coach! Podcastemail:  eric@heycoachreyes.comLinkedIn:Eric Reyes | LinkedInFacebook:(1) Hey Coach | FacebookInstagram :Eric Reyes (@reys6103) • Instagram photos and videosAthLife Foundation website:Home - The AthLife Foundation

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Multiple Sclerosis News Today's columnist, Jenn Powell, discusses Helius and their delivery of information to the FDA about the PoNS device. Multiple Sclerosis News Today's columnist, Jessie Ace discusses the 5 steps you can take to reduce the common blue feelings one can get at the start of the year. Warning, bad jokes inside! ===================================== Treatment for Relapsing MS Progression | MAYZENT® (siponimod) Read about MAYZENT, a once daily pill that can significantly slow down disability progression in people with relapsing MS. See full prescribing & safety info. https://www.mayzent.com/?utm_source=changeinrms&utm_medium=vanityurl&utm_campaign=novartis_mayzent_2020&utm_content=soundcloud ===================================== Are you interested in learning more about multiple sclerosis? If so, please visit: https://multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com/ ===================================== To join in on conversations regarding multiple sclerosis, please visit: https://multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com/forums/

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I am so excited to be here with Julia Wuench, leadership and career coach, whose mission it is to enhance personal fulfillment at work and in life. In our conversation, we dive into what it means to be a necessity-entrepreneur, and the work she does with Helius to help entrepreneurs. She also shares the unique definition shared by Helius for what it looks like to be successful, and how the concepts of shifting qualifications can also be applied to corporate, university, and other large organization settings. I so appreciate the modeling of the work that she does, and the use of her time, talent, and treasures to to create an example of what this could look like and how this can be achieved. Julia also wanted me to share with you that she has created an online course called Maximizing Your Potential at Work and in Life. And she has even created a discount for Uplifting Impact listeners! It is normally priced at $99, but use the code “UPLIFTINGIMPACT” and get $74 off, making it only $25. Topics in this episode The importance of cognitive diversity Looking at the shutting down of a business as success Julia’s personal motivation in helping entrepreneurs The catalytic effect of entrepreneurship What kind of capital do you have access to that others may not? Redefining the needs of an entrepreneur Demystifying the identification of what it looks like to be an entrepreneur, so that others feel empowered to claim it for themselves Connect Email: julia@theauthenticityguide.com For career and leadership coaching: https://www.theauthenticityguide.com/ To learn more about Helius: https://www.heliusnc.org/ To give to Helius: https://heliusnc.org/donate

A "Gli anni cantati" si parla del Beat e della Beat Generation, il fenomeno che, partito dall'America, interessò l'Europa e anche l'Italia, dando vita alla nascita dei complessi. Protagonisti della puntata sono John, Helius and Pepper, il misterioso gruppo vocale e strumentale che si propone alla ricerca del sound perduto. Il trio ci proporrà alcuni brani del cd "Lato Beat - Il beat italiano"

In this minisode, the Madames dive into the top secret world of Area 51. Stuck in 1955, our favorite S.H.I.E.L.D. agents split up to stop the Chronicoms from destroying the Zephyr in their continuing plot to colonize Earth as their new planet. Coulson & Simmons infiltrate the base, with Jemma impersonating the iconic co-founder of S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Peggy Carter. Together they interrogate the science team to snuff out any Chronicoms. Back on the Zephyr, Mack, Daisy, YoYo, & Deke interrogate Gerald Sharpe about the Helius project to figure out the Chronicoms’ plan. Agent Daniel Sousa throws a wrench into things, but the team is able to thwart the Chronicoms for the time being.  Join us as we explore bigotry & perceptions, fawn over female empowerment, & laugh ‘til we cry. It might get a little moist. Episode show notes Send us an email at themarvelousmadames@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter & Instagram

Multiple Sclerosis News Today columnist, Jenn Powell discusses the recent breakthrough device designation to the Helius PoNs Device by the FDA Are you interested in learning more about Multiple Sclerosis? If so, please visit https://multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com/

Quick Episode Summary :00 Sponsor highlight - ReCity :15 Intro! 1:00 Personal Checkin Jes is trying to sell her car while not getting taken advantage of. Rob is also in the market for a car and offers to help Jes buy a new car.  3:55 Rob and Jes Introduce Geraud 4:30 Is entrepreneurship just? Afrotech regional ranking for blacks in tech.  MDC stats on social mobility in Durham and Wake counties Monopoly study and how the system is rigged. 8:45 Necessity driven entrepreneurs What makes someone a necessity driven entrepreneur, and what makes them different from other entrepreneurs? How learned helplessness contributes to the hurdles entrepreneurs face. Changing from scarcity to abundance mindsets  12:20 Dr. Seligman's studies on learned helplessness 14:44 Sponsor Highlight - Coastal Credit Union 14:45 Finding hope in injustice Why do you have hope? 16:30 What does The Helius Foundation tangibly do? 10-week cohort model & training Monthly personal mentorship and business training 19:00 How can we show up? donate mentoring supporting Helius entrepreneurs  21:30 Episode debrief 26:00 Outro 26:30 Next episode preview Our Guest Geraud Staton - The Helius Foundation Thank you to DJ Pdogg and Producer Lo Key for our awesome music throughout the show!  Follow DJ Pdogg online: www.djpdogg.com Twitter Instagram Follow Producer Lo Key Instagram Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Jes Capitol Broadcasting Podcast Network Bryan Stevenson - Just Mercy MDC on social mobility in North Carolina Dr. Muktha Jost - Monopoly Study - When the rules are fair, but the game isn't. Dr. Martin Seligman - Learned Helplessness Our sponsors: ReCity Network Coastal Credit Union Our hosts: Jes Averhart, cofounder of Black Wallstreet Homecoming Rob Shields, executive director of the Recity Network. Our Producer: Michael Baylor

Quick Episode Summary :00 Sponsor highlight - ReCity :15 Intro! 1:00 Personal Checkin Jes is trying to sell her car while not getting taken advantage of. Rob is also in the market for a car and offers to help Jes buy a new car.  3:55 Rob and Jes Introduce Geraud 4:30 Is entrepreneurship just? Afrotech regional ranking for blacks in tech.  MDC stats on social mobility in Durham and Wake counties Monopoly study and how the system is rigged. 8:45 Necessity driven entrepreneurs What makes someone a necessity driven entrepreneur, and what makes them different from other entrepreneurs? How learned helplessness contributes to the hurdles entrepreneurs face. Changing from scarcity to abundance mindsets  12:20 Dr. Seligman's studies on learned helplessness 14:44 Sponsor Highlight - Coastal Credit Union 14:45 Finding hope in injustice Why do you have hope? 16:30 What does The Helius Foundation tangibly do? 10-week cohort model & training Monthly personal mentorship and business training 19:00 How can we show up? donate mentoring supporting Helius entrepreneurs  21:30 Episode debrief 26:00 Outro 26:30 Next episode preview Our Guest Geraud Staton - The Helius Foundation Thank you to DJ Pdogg and Producer Lo Key for our awesome music throughout the show!  Follow DJ Pdogg online: www.djpdogg.com Twitter Instagram Follow Producer Lo Key Instagram Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Jes Capitol Broadcasting Podcast Network Bryan Stevenson - Just Mercy MDC on social mobility in North Carolina Dr. Muktha Jost - Monopoly Study - When the rules are fair, but the game isn't. Dr. Martin Seligman - Learned Helplessness Our sponsors: ReCity Network Coastal Credit Union Our hosts: Jes Averhart, cofounder of Black Wallstreet Homecoming Rob Shields, executive director of the Recity Network. Our Producer: Michael Baylor

Is entrepreneurship just? Tune into our podcast to hear more about national and local entrepreneurship trends and how they impact necessity driven entrepreneurs. Listen now to hear Geraud Staton of the Helius Foundation speak to how entrepreneurs overcome adversity through their work. Quick Episode Summary :00 Sponsor highlight - ReCity :15 Intro! 1:00 Personal Checkin Jes is trying to sell her car while not getting taken advantage of. Rob is also in the market for a car and offers to help Jes buy a new car.  3:55 Rob and Jes Introduce Geraud 4:30 Is entrepreneurship just? Afrotech regional ranking for blacks in tech.  MDC stats on social mobility in Durham and Wake counties Monopoly study and how the system is rigged. 8:45 Necessity driven entrepreneurs What makes someone a necessity driven entrepreneur, and what makes them different from other entrepreneurs? How learned helplessness contributes to the hurdles entrepreneurs face. Changing from scarcity to abundance mindsets  12:20 Dr. Seligman's studies on learned helplessness 14:44 Sponsor Highlight - Coastal Credit Union 14:45 Finding hope in injustice Why do you have hope? 16:30 What does The Helius Foundation tangibly do? 10-week cohort model & training Monthly personal mentorship and business training 19:00 How can we show up? donate mentoring supporting Helius entrepreneurs  21:30 Episode debrief 26:00 Outro 26:30 Next episode preview Our Guest Geraud Staton - The Helius Foundation Thank you to DJ Pdogg and Producer Lo Key for our awesome music throughout the show!  Follow DJ Pdogg online: www.djpdogg.com Twitter Instagram Follow Producer Lo Key Instagram Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Jes Capitol Broadcasting Podcast Network Bryan Stevenson - Just Mercy MDC on social mobility in North Carolina Dr. Muktha Jost - Monopoly Study - When the rules are fair, but the game isn't. Dr. Martin Seligman - Learned Helplessness Our sponsors: ReCity Network Coastal Credit Union Our hosts: Jes Averhart, cofounder of Black Wallstreet Homecoming Rob Shields, executive director of the Recity Network. Our Producer: Michael Baylor

Helius Power is the evolution of out of home advertising (OOH). We help brands engage consumers at targeted locations using interactive cell phone charging stations. Our platform provides the Measurement, Attribution, Data, Conversions and Engagement that has been missing from the industry. Helius Power helps brands increase customer enrollment while reducing acquisition costs. Interactive charging […] The post “Convert Eyeballs To Conversations” with Joel Francois of Helius Power appeared first on Radio Entrepreneurs.

Geraud Staton is the executive director for The Helius Foundation, a Durham-based entrepreneurial consulting company specializing in small businesses and Necessity-Driven Entrepreneurs (NDEs). NDEs are individuals who are unable to find traditional, living-wage employment, including long-time veterans, single parents, people with criminal records or individuals from lower socio-economic backgrounds. Helius has created a means to arm and protect NDEs and provide all of the services that small business owners need to create sustainable businesses. Staton believes wholeheartedly in the mission of the organization and seeks to improve women and minority-owned businesses.

Phil Deschamps, President, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Helius Medical Technologies delivers an overview of brain function and brain stimulation.   Phil Deschamps has been on board with Helius Medical Technologies since 2013. Deschamps has amassed an impressive 28 years of continuous experience in the growing pharmaceutical and healthcare industry and has worked with major corporations such as Bristol Myers Squibb, GSW Worldwide, and MediMedia Health. Deschamps has overseen the strategic development of multiple companies and is a seasoned veteran and noted authority in the industry.   Deschamps discusses his work at Helius and the new, advanced portable neuromodulation stimulator they refer to as simply, PoNS. He provides a detailed overview of how external stimulation of the brain works, with an emphasis on neuroplasticity. Helius focuses on noninvasive platform technologies, with the intent to provide outstanding new treatment options for many patients by amplifying the human brain's innate ability to actually heal itself. PoNS is a medical device that looks very promising in various clinical trials. Deschamps speaks about their work with traumatic brain injuries, but he states that over time they hope to be cleared to provide solutions for many more medical areas such as MS, Parkinson's, stroke, cerebral palsy, etc.   The medical technology expert discusses rehabilitation in regard to brain function. He describes the exercises in physical therapy that help a patient recover, and how PoNS can enhance the physical therapy to provide permanent improvements. He delves into the design of their device and how it works, but he underscores that clinical trials are ongoing and with each new trial they continue to learn more about the benefits of this new technology. Scientifically, there is much to learn still, but researchers are working steadily to progress the tech to help many patients.   Deschamps talks about their clinically significant results and their review process with the FDA. Additionally, he provides information on the various groups that they have worked with in regard to physical therapy. He discusses placebo and blinding, and the other means they use to gather the most honest data they can in their clinical trials. He expounds further upon specific trials and discusses some of their surprises, as well as some of the expectations they went into the trials with, that were met. He states that they found some significant brain changes that have been very encouraging.    Down the road, Deschamps hopes to find even more advanced ways to help patients affected by neurological symptoms caused by trauma and disease.

Phillipe Deschamps of Helius Medical Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSDT), returns to Stock Day to discuss their PoNS technology and therapy platform, working with Health Canada, and possible timeline for receiving FDA results. # Canada # healthcare # Helius Medical Technologies Inc. # HSDT # medical # PONS # service # targeted therapy # tech # therapy # Treatment # US # Montreal

Insight - With a cannabis referendum on the horizon Teresa Cowie talks to NZ's businesses gearing up for a possible law change

Phillipe Deschamps of Helius Medical Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSDT), rejoins the show to talk about the PoNS therapy platform, using it to treat debilitating conditions, and creating partnerships for delivering treatments. # Canada, healthcare # Helius Medical Technologies Inc. # HSDT # medical # service # targeted therapy # tech # therapy # Treatment # US

And they're off! But before the race begins, how does one increase the odds of picking the right horse? If it was any other plant it wouldn’t be a big deal, but there are mounds of empirical evidence to suggest and to conclude that cannabis can be effective as medicine. Oil based synthetic textiles and big pharma don't benefit if cannabis and hemp fiber thrive - consider it just a matter of how business works rather than just a big conspiracy. Change is coming from the bottom up. A recent poll done in NZ suggests that up to 75% agree that medicinal cannabis should be treated the same as any other medicine - 35% said they would consider taking it for chronic pain. The fact that this tide is turning means there’s an opportunity if you’re an entrepreneur or an investor - there's also plenty of opportunity to get stung too, as evidenced by the recent failure of Medicann, founded in March 2018, now already in liquidation. Certainly, from an overseas perspective, if a player in this space is to make it and thrive, it appears as though there are likely going to be three phases to go through: 1- a bubble phase 2- a re-alignment phase and the 3 - a 'squeeze' phase (when margins tighten and cannabis firms need to refine to thrive). Cannasouth –  a company that aims to be the first medical cannabis company to list on the NZX in mid 2019. Finally, outside of crowdfunding, retail investors can share in some of the excitement to come. Cannasouth is not the first Cannabis company we’ve had on the show (check out episode 11 and 12 - Paul Manning from Helius) and likely won't be the last. Mark is the CEO and Nic is the COO – both have significant experience in business, the hemp industry and now with medical research around Cannabis. Nic and Mark have a strong desire to positively affect society, science and especially the environment. Overseas, Altria Group Inc., the U.S. maker of Marlboro cigarettes, recently made a $1.8 billion investment (45%) in a Canadian company Cronos Group based on a simple premise: Cannabis is growing faster than cigarettes. There are murmurings of soft drink manufacturers getting into this space also – the big players wait for the risk profile to fall before buying in, and if you want a piece of the action now the risk is high – estimated at over $1b per annum for medical cannabis along in NZ right now, there’s rewards for early movers. Are there opportunities for the NZ everyday investor? The trap for investors would be to back all the horses heading to the track – the art will be in determining who the potential winners will be before the race truly begins Thinking back to what previous guests like Lance Wiggs (episode 18), Daniel Kieser (episode 20) and Mike Taylor (episode 25) have all covered: The best advice when investing is to invest in what you’re interested in. Secondly, can you see that its going to become big? Think back to when the Iphone launched in 2007 – the stock price for Apple was about $15 in June 2007 and now it’s about $150 – If you know somethings going to be a game-changer, it's really that simple. So where are we at with the legalities of cannabis - after all, in order for investors to see a real return here, revenue needs to come in, and this can't happen until the full measure of daylight shines on this black market sector. The misuse of drugs act amendment bill aims to pave the way for medicinal cannabis in NZ and the time frame is now 12 months for regulations to be written (public and media pressure are responsible for this). For some it’s not happening fast enough but I personally think there’s wisdom in getting things right from the start. For cannabis companies like Cannasouth its all about execution and timing. Where to find Cannasouth: www.cannasouth.co.nz NZ Everyday Investor Podcast: https://www.facebook.com/NZ-Everyday-Investor-338969376637717/ https://NZEverydayInvestor.com We're keeping it real on NZ Everyday investor - we're not journalists and this isn't an interview - it's a discussion, hosted by someone who's genuinely into this sort of thing. If you like what we do, remember to subscribe to our show and share it with others - we'd really appreciate it! You know what else would be make us rather pleased with ourselves? Write a review on facebook too! Where to find Darcy Ungaro: Ungaro &Co (registered) financial advisers https://www.ungaro.co.nz Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UFinServ/?ref=bookmarks Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ungaro.co.nz/ Help support the mission of our show here - help us grow wealth in the lives of everyday Kiwis!

Mr. Mirovic has been active in M&A & private equity since 1994. He started his career in South-East Asia where he worked in a family office which originates, monitors, and controls the direct investment activities of a branch of one of the most internationally active Thai-Chinese families with interests ranging from real estate, trade and industrial manufacturing into consumer foods, banking & insurance and technology. Back in Europe he worked for a family office of one the premier Dutch private equity investors. During his tenure he became CFO of AND Publishers, a publicly listed software company that he successfully turned around from financial distress back into profitability. Since 2004 Mr. Mirovic is the founding partner of Helius Ventures, a privately held advisory and investment firm. In this function he has developed a deep insight into the dynamics that drive value at fast growing ventures and connecting them with multinational corporations. He has formed a tightly knit team of entrepreneurs with a passion for intellectual property development with a portfolio of capabilities that include artificial intelligence, data analytics & visualization, hard & software product design and business development. Helius has been active in new media, real estate, infrastructure, ICT, biotechnology and healthcare. KeenCorp is a brainchild of this team and Mr. Mirovic has been working on its formation since 2011. Mr. Mirovic received a BA in Business Administration from Nyenrode University and completed his studies in Japan at Waseda Busines School. He is a proud father of a boy and a girl and lives and works in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Contact information: vmirovic@keencorp.com Mobile : +31 6 415 05 486. https://www.linkedin.com/in/viktormirovic 

Paul Manning joins host Darcy Ungaro and 'pumpkin' to discuss how a business getting started in the shadows, is gearing up to shine...big time! The emerging Potconomy is going to be huge! From an investment opportunity, there's an increasing trend to invest in a way that’s in alignment with values and subject to your views on this product, investing in medical cannabis could soon be be factored into your portfolio. If you’re investing in a way aligned with a social good, and this could be one, you may soon find yourself in the company of a large crowd. When funding flows into an emerging market like this then watch out, the potconomy is about to explode! Helius therapeutics is a NZ company currently waiting for a licence to be approved to cultivate cannabis for research purposes. This $15m vertically integrated business is poised for great success, assuming the law changes of course! Paul Manning, one of the directors and co-founders of Helius Therapeutics, joined Darcy Ungaro on the ‘NZ Everyday Investor’ podcast recently to discuss how his business, and NZ could benefit tremendously, as this market matures. The best advice Paul gave on the show to investors was to ‘look for sunrise industries, not sunset ones’. Investing in tobacco, alcohol, oil, and weapons manufacturing could be considered sunset sectors. Cannabis will disrupt big pharma, potentially the same way that the electric vehicle movement is currently disrupting big oil. There are tremendous opportunities for Kiwi’s to enter this market - not just directly, but on the periphery too. Think of all the greenhouses, farms, and vineyards that now have another crop to diversify into. The global legal cannabis industry could be worth conservatively $63.5b globally by 2024 in USD. NZ is a little bit behind if I’m honest, but I think we’re catching up! Paul Manning is a New Zealand Young Entrepreneur of the Year and one of the country’s foremost leaders in the advertising and marketing sector. Starting out as an entrepreneur at 22, Paul went on to build New Zealand’s largest independent communications agency. He later sold the company to global giant, Ogilvy & Mather. He has spent 15 years consulting to local and central government and advising major brands across every sector, including healthcare, pharmacy and agriculture. Paul recently left his career running major communications agency, 99, to co-found the New Zealand-based bitotech startup, Helius Therapeutics – a company focused on the cultivation, research and manufacturing of medicinal cannabis products. Paul and the team have just raised $15m in series A capital, and are now leading this nascent industry in New Zealand. https://www.helius.co.nz/ Where to find Paul www.helius.co.nz Where to find Darcy Ungaro: Ungaro &Co (registered) financial advisers https://www.ungaro.co.nz Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UFinServ/?ref=bookmarks Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ungaro.co.nz/ NZ Everyday Investor Podcast: https://www.facebook.com/NZ-Everyday-Investor-338969376637717/ https://NZEverydayInvestor.com We're keeping it real on NZ Everyday investor - we're not journalists and this isn't an interview - it's a discussion. If you like what we do, remember to subscribe to our show and share it with others - we'd really appreciate it! You know what else would be really spliffy? Write a review on facebook too!

In this episode, I speak with author S. Alexander O'Keefe about his experiences working with his author branding team and cover designer.

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Helius Medical Technologies, Inc. CEO Phil Deschamps Discusses Development of a New Medical Device for Neurological symptoms. (OTCQB: HSDT)(TSX: HSM)