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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The new financial OS from Squads: building FinOps on stablecoin rails

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The new financial OS from Squads: building FinOps on stablecoin rails

The new financial OS from Squads: building FinOps on stablecoin rails

Phil Jacobson joins Pirates Parley to break down Altitude, the Squads team's new product, recorded 15 minutes after their fundraise announcement. Phil joined Squads full-time at the beginning of January. He spent just under two years as VP of operations at Tensor, was an angel investor in the company before that, and is now leading commercial work at Squads. They cover: - $18 million raise and what it will fund (team, product, growth) - Why Altitude is a financial operating system, not a bank - The functionality split between Squads (tokens and programs) and Altitude (financial operations) - Non-custodial multi-sig architecture and nested smart accounts - Default 2-of-4 user signers with account-level 3-of-5- Privy and Turnkey integrations for pass keys and multi-email backups - Altitude Rewards yield via Bridge, backed one-to-one by T-bills at BlackRock and Fidelity, T+1 withdrawal - ACH, Swift, SEPA, Wire and QuickBooks integration in a single stack

Realms team on the governance layer on Solana and the Sowellian prediction market

Realms team on the governance layer on Solana and the Sowellian prediction market

Dean, Taki and Chris from Realms join Pirates Parley to break down the governance layer of Solana: the Realms DAO platform, their new Sowellian prediction-market system, and IslandDAO V4 in Koh Samui this June.Realms is the DAO platform of Solana. It's the program behind Jito, Metaplex, Pyth, Marinade, Bonk and more. The team are self-described "governance nerds". Dean is the director at Realms. Taki works on on-chain coordination. Chris focuses on syndication and pooled capital, and caught a real governance attack the day before recording. They cover: What Realms actually does: DAO-controlled treasuries, program upgrade authority, and on-chain coordination on Solana The Sowellian mechanism, named after economist Thomas Sowell, where good decisions are rewarded and bad ones are penalised via prediction-market bets A live demo on beta.realms.today: a member bets ~$5 to $8 of their own capital, the DAO trades around $200 to $500, and the better takes 30% of the profit in 24 hours if they're right A governance attack Chris vetoed yesterday: a proposal disguised as a trade tried to transfer the whole treasury to a single address, stopped in real time using Realms' veto tooling Delegates: proxy voting on-chain, without the $10,000 to $25,000 lawyer fee you'd pay for proxy voting a stock in the US An audience question on running a Futarchy launchpad (MetaDAO) alongside a Realms DAO with a 4-of-6 multisig for upgrade authority Why all three went Bitcoin first, then Solana, mostly skipping EVM The Kelp DAO attack and Arbitrum freezing funds, and what it says about decentralisation's ethos IslandDAO history: V1 in a villa on Crete, V2 in the Solana villa in Thailand after Breakpoint Singapore, V3 back in Greece IslandDAO V4: Solana villa in Koh Samui, 3 June to 28 June. Early-bird until 1 May. Free VIP pass if you hold all 12 IslandDAO animal NFTs On-chain event tooling: check-ins, media upload via IslandGram, decentralised governance for food and activities, and NFC-based autographs that update NFT metadata on contact

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.

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