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E165: @backpack - Your broker holds your stocks. Backpack lets you use them
Armani Ferrante is the co-founder and CEO of Backpack, a regulated global crypto exchange built from the rubble of the FTX collapse. He spent years building the foundational infrastructure of Solana - wallets, DEXs, developer frameworks - before FTX wiped out 90% of Backpack's balance sheet. So he decided not to quit.
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:32 Please Subscribe
1:56 Michel Foucault & The Panopticon Metaphor
5:25 Armani’s Philosophical View on Crypto
7:50 Who Is Armani Ferrante?
8:39 Partnerships: @JupiterExchange @KASTxyz
9:19 Armani’s Chip On The Shoulder
10:43 Getting Hired Twice At Alameda Research
13:46 Being Able To Work On Early Solana Projects
14:43 Leaving Alameda to Build Backpack
18:26 FTX Fomo?
23:32 Partnerships: @ethena @sumsub
24:34 How Armani & Backpack Got Affected By The FTX Collapse
32:37 The Solana Ecosystem Today
36:25 The MadLad Story
42:03 How Important Was The MadLad For Backpack?
43:40 What Crypto Should Be
49:36 Crypto Inflection Point
51:59 Partnerships: @Trezor @Bitwise @SuiNetwork
52:55 Explain Backpack To Your Uber Driver
57:36 Crypto Is A Test Bed
1:04:15 Why You Might Not Own the Stocks You think you Own
1:06:41 Unified Margin Accounts
1:15:20 Why Armani Moved to Tokyo
1:17:18 Why Backpack is best Positioned to Win in Japan
1:18:43 How to Bootstrap a Regulated Exchange
1:21:53 Closing Thoughts
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