Inside the Future of MEV on Solana: With Catscope’s Joel & Naomi

Episode notes

In this 69th episode of Colors of Web3 and Entrepreneurship, we sit down with Joel de Jesus & Naomi Honda to uncover the hidden world of Maximum Extractable Value (MEV) on Solana. MEV is generating hundreds of millions in fees monthly - yet remains elusive and inaccessible to most traders and validators. That’s where Catscope comes in. Naomi and Joel share their unconventional journey into the crypto world - Naomi from fashion and sociology, and Joel from Bitcoin mining - and how they joined forces to build the first decentralized MEV marketplace. You’ll learn about the technical and business challenges of building in the Solana ecosystem, their unique validator-trader model, and how their tooling aims to democratize high-frequency trading. ⌛ Timestamps: 00:00:00 Episode trailer 00:00:27 Intro: Joel De Jesus & Naomi Honda 00:06:15 Naomi’s entry into tech and Solana ecosystem 00:07:10 How Joel and Naomi met and launched Catscope 00:08:27 Pivoting Catscope after Radar hackathon 00:09:33 Hobbies of Joel & Naomi 00:12:05 What is Catscope?

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