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$MEGA has listed on @Solana via Sunrise. Through Sunrise, MEGA is natively available from day one, tradable against any Solana-native asset. If you hold MEGA outside Solana, you can move it onto Solana, and back, through Sunrise.

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

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