
About this episode
Gm! In today’s episode, we’re joined by defipancakes, Co-Founder and CTO of Titan, to discuss a major social engineering exploit affecting Drift, broader DeFi security practices, and the Solana ecosystem’s response. We also explore Titan’s new Dart routing product, market structure trends, stablecoin and tokenized asset activity, and evolving competition in onchain trading and perps.
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Introduction
(2:12) Drift Hack Fallout
(4:28) Lessons From the Drift Hack
(10:27) Titan Launches Dart
(17:02) Conditional Liquidity Debate
(22:09) Stablecoin and New Asset Flow
(30:38) Onchain Routing’s Future
(36:23) Solana Foundation’s Role
(41:25) Phoenix vs. Bulk Perps
(50:34) Closing Comments
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