This is the first edition of Solana Sessions, a joint campaign by Token Relations and Talking Tokens.
In this conversation Armani Ferrante talks about his journey from Apple to Alameda to building multiple startups on Solana. He also dives into his experience operating during the FTX collapse, how that shaped him to operate Backpack’s business, what he’s doing to scale the exchange and more.
“A lot of us think that crypto will eat finance in the same way that software ate the entire world.” Ferrante said. “And that, you know, this whole conversation of DeFi versus CeFi is a momentary thing, and ultimately we'll just think of it all as finance and, and let's go build for that world.”