
Solfate Podcast · 2024-01-02 · 56 min
A conversation with Siong, the co-founder of Jupiter swap. ️ Click here to mint this episode as an NFT on Solana - solfate.link/mint42 Full show notes: solfate.com/podcast/42 Follow the @SolfatePod show on Twitter for updates. Thanks for listening frens :) Notes from the show The conversation covers the background and journey of the Jupiter swap aggregator, a popular protocol in the Solana ecosystem. It starts with the early days of Solana with the launch of Mercurial finance and eventually Jupiter. Our discussion also highlights the scaling and optimization of Jupiter's infrastructure, its user base, and revenue model. Finally, we explores the timing of Jupiter's token airdrop and the market excitement surrounding it. In this conversation, Siong, co-founder of Jupiter, discusses the growth and revenue of the business, the token launch and community involvement, the goal of the JUP token, engaging the community with tokens, scaling challenges and user growth, and the power of governance tokens. Takeaways Jupiter started as a project to bring volume back to Mercurial but evolved into a dominant protocol in the Solana ecosystem.
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