Through conversations with crypto’s brightest lights, Gwart embarks on a one-man crusade to find the real value of cryptocurrency. Once weekly episodes with guests.
Pseudonymous, Gwart is a crypto-Twitter troll and thinkboi seeking answers to non-existent problems in blockchains. Follow along for the most colorful conversations in crypto.
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Through conversations with crypto’s brightest lights, Gwart embarks on a one-man crusade to find the real value of cryptocurrency. Once weekly episodes with guests.
Pseudonymous, Gwart is a crypto-Twitter troll and thinkboi seeking answers to non-existent problems in blockchains. Follow along for the most colorful conversations in crypto.
Welcome back to The Gwart Show! Today, Benedict Brady, former quant trader and founder of Meridian joins us to talk about Solana's dark pool ecosystem, Jupiter's market dominance, the move from traditional AMMs to sophisticated trading infrastructure, MEV wars, and how his AI-powered trading assistant is changing crypto trading interfaces.
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
00:19 Benedict intro
02:32 Solana focused work
05:14 Solana market evolution
13:03 RFQ vs Dark AMM
15:24 Partial RFQ Fills
17:17 Dark AMMs in practice
19:58 Define "Dark"
23:46 Why Jupyter?
27:45 Dark AMM big unlock?
30:19 Deep thoughts...
32:14 Are Solana spreads tight?
36:02 Wintermute
37:19 Why the secrecy?
40:01 Hello MEV, my old friend
45:26 Gwart the Bitcoin Maxi (or not)
49:23 SOL vs ETH
52:44 App sequencing
55:33 Perp DEX is actually an L2
58:35 BAM
59:36 Permissionless building
1:04:29 Meridian
1:07:11 LLM trading
1:09:27 AI + Crypto killer apps
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The Gwart Show | Blockspace Media
Through conversations with crypto’s brightest lights, Gwart embarks on a one-man crusade to find the real value of cryptocurrency. Once weekly episodes with guests.
Pseudonymous, Gwart is a crypto-Twitter troll and thinkboi seeking answers to non-existent problems in blockchains. Follow along for the most colorful conversations in crypto.
