Pirates Parley

Pirates Parley

Every week, Steve (aka Happy Pirate) sits down with the builders, founders, and OGs shaping the Solana ecosystem. From DeFi protocols and DEX aggregators to wallets, oracles, and infrastructure — Pirates Parley dives deep into what it takes to build on-chain solutions on Solana.

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Solana streaming explained: how Deshred delivers transactions before execution

Solana streaming explained: how Deshred delivers transactions before execution

Rafael from Triton One works on streaming and Geyser optimisations. He started on Solana in 2021, built a light client called Velos, and got pulled into Triton after a Twitter exchange with Wilfred. He breaks down how Solana data gets delivered to clients, why the network streams shreds instead of account state, and where the SVM fits in replay.

How Colosseum turned Solana hackathons into a $250K venture pipeline

How Colosseum turned Solana hackathons into a $250K venture pipeline

Matty Taylor and Clay Robbins, co-founders of Colosseum, join Pirates Parley to break down how they spun out Solana's hackathon program into an independent venture platform -- right when everyone thought Solana was dead.They cover:- Why 85% of VC-backed Solana startups trace back to hackathons- How the accelerator works (8 weeks, $250K, SF office, demo day)- Their new AI-powered Copilot tool for idea refinement- Why Frontier dropped all predefined categories- The rise of non-technical "vibe-coded" founders- Gaming on-chain: why it hasn't worked yet and what might change- Post-quantum crypto submissions and timing risk- Finding co-founders through the Colosseum platform

Why financial systems shouldn't run on public internet

Why financial systems shouldn't run on public internet

TradFi runs on private, dedicated networks and has always done so — firms like Jump, DRW, and Citadel run their own fibre. Double Zero brings that infrastructure to blockchain, plus multicast — hardware-accelerated packet replication that doesn't exist on the public internet.

Migrating an entire blockchain to Solana in 6 months: Helium

Migrating an entire blockchain to Solana in 6 months: Helium

Noah explains how Helium migrated an entire wireless network from its own chain onto Solana. The technical challenges, the Merkle tree architecture that made it possible, and the incentive design that got nearly a million hotspots deployed by regular people.

Why AI agents need crypto: the next use case for on-chain assets

Why AI agents need crypto: the next use case for on-chain assets

Stephen explains how Metaplex went from being known as the NFT protocol to a framework for building apps on Solana — from NFTs to memecoins to DeFi to on-chain agents.

How exchange data became a monopoly and how oracles fix it

How exchange data became a monopoly and how oracles fix it

Marc Tillmann from Pyth Network explains how trading firms already own their execution data and can legally resell it. By aggregating real trade fills, Pyth creates synthetic price feeds that don't depend on exchange-licensed data - challenging a $10B/year exchange data monopoly.We cover PythNet's architecture as a Solana fork, the pull vs push oracle model, Pyth Lazer pricing, latency infrastructure, Double Zero integration, and oracle integrity staking.

Building cross-chain bridging: from aggregation to intent-based solving

Building cross-chain bridging: from aggregation to intent-based solving

LiFi aggregates every major bridge and DEX into one API. Junebox explains the shift from pure aggregation to intent-based solving with KYB liquidity, building for AI agents that need to move assets across chains, and scaling from 75 to 121 people in under a year.

What happens when you aggregate the aggregators in real time

What happens when you aggregate the aggregators in real time

Defipancakes from Titan Exchange explains how they built a meta-aggregator on top of existing aggregators and why same-slot comparison changes execution quality.

From 6 bare-metal servers to enterprise grade Solana RPC

From 6 bare-metal servers to enterprise grade Solana RPC

Brian Long has been around since before Solana even had a testnet. He was one of two dozen validators in a Discord, stress-testing software until it fell over. Then he and two friends offered to run Solana's RPC on six bare-metal servers - and that became Triton One. He shares wild stories from the early days (validators finding bugs and stealing each other's testnet tokens), explains why Triton open-sourced Yellowstone, and talks about where Solana needs to go for institutional adoption.

Making Solana's entire 400TB transaction history searchable

Making Solana's entire 400TB transaction history searchable

Solana's full transaction ledger is about 400TB and growing. Once data ages past a few epochs, it's hard to get. Miles explains the archival problem and a new approach to making every Solana transaction from genesis searchable and verifiable. We go deep on Old Faithful, Clickhouse indexing at scale, and the compute behind searching 4.5 trillion address interactions.

15 years in crypto: from Bitcoin remittances to tokenising RWA on Solana

15 years in crypto: from Bitcoin remittances to tokenising RWA on Solana

George has been in crypto for 15 years. From inventing crypto remittances in Hong Kong, to the Bitcoin block size debate, to building Step Finance when Solana had barely three DeFi projects, to surviving FTX and acquiring a company to tokenise real-world assets. Along the way he also built Solana Floor as a media arm, grew Solana All-Stars to 10K attendees a month, and launched Crossroads as a major Solana conference.

Anchor, Pinocchio, and the state of Solana open source

Anchor, Pinocchio, and the state of Solana open source

Leo from Blueshift breaks down the Anchor vs Pinocchio decision for Solana program development. When each framework makes sense, what the tradeoffs are, and what Pinocchio means for on-chain throughput and cost. Plus the token standards landscape, client diversity with Firedancer, and the open source culture on Solana.

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