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The Latest Development – EXO Tech Podcast
Mike sits down with Austin Fedora (formerly Solana Foundation) — co-founder of DoubleZero — to dive deep into one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects in crypto.
From leaving Solana to become the man with the plan to build a high-performance, permissionless fiber network designed to make blockchains (starting with Solana) dramatically faster than the public internet — Austin is unlocking real high-frequency trading performance for DeFi and beyond.
Topics covered:
- Why the public internet can’t support 1M TPS blockchains
- Lessons from high-frequency trading & traditional finance networks
- How DoubleZero uses dedicated fiber + multicast to beat internet latency
- The future of validator economics and block production
- Why ...
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