Lightspeed

The DeFi-Native Prime Broker | MacBrennan Peet

Solana’s Block Building Battle: Jito BAM vs. Harmonic

Solana’s Policy Push: Crypto’s New Regulatory Era | Kristin Smith

Solana’s Changing Market Microstructure

Building the Next-Gen Perps Engine on Solana | Tristan Frizza

Crypto Stress Test: Fees, Volatility, and Chain Performance

Building the Onchain Super App | Xiao-Xiao J. Zhu

Are the Trenches Finally Back?

Listing Assets Everywhere Onchain | Saeed Badreg

The discussion centers on Sunrise and Wormhole's efforts to facilitate the listing and trading of non-native assets on Solana, addressing historical challenges like liquidity fragmentation in bridging solutions. Saeed Badreg, CEO of Wormhole Labs, emphasizes a shift towards projects prioritizing multi-chain strategies ...

Bringing State of the Art Perps to Solana | Jun Bug & kdot

How SOAR is Solving Tokens | Tom Curry

Blockchains Beyond the Public Internet | Austin Federa

DoubleZero's co-founder, Austin Federa, discusses how the company addresses the limitations of the public internet for blockchain technology. He highlights DoubleZero's private fiber network, which allows blockchains to exceed public internet speed, improving transaction processing and block capacity. A key advantage i...

Do Buybacks Make Sense? | Lucas Bruder

Where To Allocate In 2026 | Matty Taylor

Colosseum co-founder Matty Taylor discusses Colosseum's model, which includes online hackathons, a venture fund, and an accelerator program. A key difference from standard accelerators like YC is Colosseum's selection process, which involves observing teams during an engineering sprint to assess their real-world perfor...

What's Next For Solana In 2026?

The discussion centers on Solana's ecosystem, analyzing ETF flows, the rise of DATCOs, and the dynamics of payment for order flow (PFOF). Despite negative price action, Solana ETFs have seen positive flows, diverging from BTC and ETH trends. The conversation highlights a misalignment between user and app incentives reg...

What's Next For Crypto In 2026 | Kairos Research

The discussion centers on the Solana validator landscape, exploring the roles of various client software like JITO BAM, Firedancer, and Harmonic, and the impact of incentives on validator operations. Kairos Research's Ian Unsworth shares insights on running validators across multiple networks, including Solana, Fogo, B...

How To Fix Crypto's Token Dilemma

In this episode of Lightspeed, the hosts, along with Dan Smith and Carlos from the research team, delve into the evolving landscape of AMMs and DEXs on Solana, highlighting the shift towards prop AMMs for short-tail assets and traditional AMMs for long-tail assets. They discuss the winning strategies for both types, em...

How Kamino Became Solana's Largest Lending Protocol | Marius Ciubotariu

Solana's Biggest Opportunity In 2026 | Dan Smith

The podcast explores Solana's potential evolution into an "on-chain everything exchange," akin to Binance, by focusing on the rise of prop AMMs and their impact on trading infrastructure. It highlights how prop AMMs address Solana's challenges by enabling efficient quoting and flow segmentation, leading to increased sp...

How Hylo Is Accelerating Solana DeFi In 2026 | Plish