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Solana Weekly

Solana Weekly

The Forefront of Solana Builders and Trends 121 Episodes Oct 6, 2025

Solana Weekly is a podcast that covers all the happenings on the Solana blockchain, from NFTs to DeFi to rug pulls. It compiles information weekly to help listeners understand the big picture of the Solana ecosystem. The podcast is produced by The Forefront of Solana Builders and Trends and is available on Substack.

Episodes

Solana Weekly #120 - Long-Term Wealth Building with Solana: Gaius on The Vault, The Library, and Why Patience Wins
Solana Weekly #120 - Long-Term Wealth Building with Solana: Gaius on The Vault, The Library, and Why Patience Wins Oct 6, 2025 4113 Gaius, CEO of The Vault and founder of The Library, joins the show to discuss why long-term thinking beats trading in crypto. We dive into community validators, surviving the post-FTX downturn, why Solana's developer culture is its secret weapon, and the case for staking over speculation. Plus: token economics that actually reward holders, the maturation of the Solana ecosystem, and why ignoring t
Solana Weekly #119 - Discovering Opportunities on Solana: Oh Me on Building Kyzzen's Opportunity Platform
Solana Weekly #119 - Discovering Opportunities on Solana: Oh Me on Building Kyzzen's Opportunity Platform Sep 29, 2025 6523 Oh Me, founder of Kyzzen, joins Thomas to discuss his platform's evolution from NFT education to becoming Solana's premier opportunity aggregation platform. After three years of bootstrapping with zero funding and zero team turnover, Kyzzen is launching its first NFT collection: Kyzzen no Sekai, an AI-assisted anime art project offering holders exclusive access to advanced analytics tools.Oh Me sh
Solana Weekly #118 - KRTV on Saga Monkes and the Solana Lifestyle
Solana Weekly #118 - KRTV on Saga Monkes and the Solana Lifestyle Aug 5, 2025 5822 Solana Weekly with KRTV from Saga MonkesThis episode features host Thomas Bahamas interviewing KRTV, creator of the Saga Monkes NFT collection on Solana and advocate for both NFT's and Solana in general. They explore NFTs' resurgence, Solana's ecosystem advantages, meme coins vs. NFTs, DePIN challenges, the Saga phone's history, and Saga Monkes' origin.https://x.com/krtvdepthttps://x.com/sagamonke
Solana Weekly #117 - Finding Nirvana and a Store of Value
Solana Weekly #117 - Finding Nirvana and a Store of Value Jul 30, 2025 4846 Episode OverviewIn this episode of Solana Weekly, host Thomas interviews Sid from Nirvana Finance to explore their innovative approach to creating a crypto-native store of value on the Solana blockchain. The discussion dives into the challenges of value storage in crypto, the unique mechanics of the ANA token, and how Nirvana aims to provide stability and transparency in a volatile market. * Suppo
Solana Weekly #116 - Nansen CEO Alex Talks Crypto Cycles and OnChain Analytics
Solana Weekly #116 - Nansen CEO Alex Talks Crypto Cycles and OnChain Analytics Jul 22, 2025 2563 Join host Thomas Bahamas on Solana Weekly for an awesome chat with Alex Svanevik, CEO of Nansen which is the gold standard in crypto analytics. They explore tokenized assets blending TradFi and crypto, market cycles and "chain wars," Solana's edge in RWAs, regulatory ironies pushing retail into meme coins, and Nansen's evolution from DeFi tools to AI agents for real-time on-chain insights.Top 3 Ta
Solana Weekly #115 - Redstone Is Bringing Private Credit and T-Bills to Solana DeFi
Solana Weekly #115 - Redstone Is Bringing Private Credit and T-Bills to Solana DeFi Jul 11, 2025 3367 Marcin - Co-founder and GTM lead at Redstone, crypto veteran since 2017 with background in quantitative economics. Previously worked at Google Cloud before founding Redstone in 2020.The Oracle Infrastructure RevolutionRedstone's Modular Architecture Redstone built a fundamentally different oracle system designed for scalability from day one. Unlike traditional models that were difficult to scale a
Solana Weekly #114 - Greater Fools Tells the Solana Story by TBoh
Solana Weekly #114 - Greater Fools Tells the Solana Story by TBoh Jun 24, 2025 5584 Solana Weekly with Tboh - "The Greater Fools" Book DiscussionGuest BackgroundTboh (Scott) is a professional author and screenwriter with 30 years of experience in Los Angeles. He previously had a successful true crime book that debuted at #1 on Amazon, appeared on major media outlets (Howard Stern, SNL, NBC), and became a Jeopardy answer. For the past 10-15 years, he's been ghostwriting for others
Solana Weekly #113 - Digital Identity, Rewards, and Making Recommendations with Simon From SolanaID
Solana Weekly #113 - Digital Identity, Rewards, and Making Recommendations with Simon From SolanaID Jun 23, 2025 3686 Host Thomas sits down with Simon, founder of Solana ID, during Solana Accelerate in New York to discuss the future of digital identity on Solana. They explore how Solana ID is solving user acquisition challenges for dApps while giving users control over their digital reputation.GuestSimon - Founder of Solana ID Hosts the "Sol Brothers" podcastKey Topics DiscussedThe Digital Identity ProblemThe Cor
Solana Weekly #112 - Oro is Bringing Gold On Chain and into the 21st Century
Solana Weekly #112 - Oro is Bringing Gold On Chain and into the 21st Century May 28, 2025 2836 Gold has been money for 2,000 years but it’s never moved at 400 ms or earned 4 % APY. 🏎️Usman, co-founder of Oro, sits down with Thomas Bahamas to unveil how Oro tokenizes fully-audited bullion on Solana, pays 3-4 % real yield through the century-old “gold-leasing” market, and lets you redeem down to one gram in Dubai, London, the U.S.even for an engagement ring. We break down the macro tailwinds
Solana Weekly #111 - Everything You Need To Know About Solana Gaming With Jorge
Solana Weekly #111 - Everything You Need To Know About Solana Gaming With Jorge Apr 24, 2025 3026 1. Intro* Thomas welcomes listeners, positions episode as an “alpha drop” on gaming.* Introduces Jorge, a leading voice for Solana gaming and marketing strategist inside the Solana Foundation.2. Why Web3 gaming is finally real* AAA & indie teams have been building since 2021 fund-raise phase; quality titles simply take 3-6 years.* Solana now hosts every genre: AAA (Star Atlas), mid-core (Aurory, D
Solana Weekly #110 - AgriDex is Back With Omar
Solana Weekly #110 - AgriDex is Back With Omar Apr 16, 2025 4006 In this insightful follow-up interview, Omar from AgriDex returns to share the company's impressive progress since their last appearance. Omar details how AgriDex is revolutionizing global agricultural trade by providing instant, low-cost settlement through blockchain technology on Solana.The conversation covers AgriDex's successful token launch, their expansion initiatives across Africa, and thei
Solana Weekly #109 - Scaling To Infinity and Beyond Solana With Joshua From Solayer
Solana Weekly #109 - Scaling To Infinity and Beyond Solana With Joshua From Solayer Apr 3, 2025 3694 In this exciting episode of Solana Weekly, host Thomas Bahamas welcomes back Joshua from Solayer to discuss groundbreaking advancements in blockchain scalability through their latest innovation, InfiniSVM.Episode Highlights:📌 Introducing InfiniSVM – The First Hardware-Accelerated Blockchain* Joshua discusses the creation of a new blockchain category leveraging specialized hardware (similar to adva

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