January 17, 2026

How Solana achieved 2 years uptime after launching with $3M | Matt Sorg (Solana Foundation)

Solana launched mainnet with $2-3 million in spring 2018 when typical L1s raised $100 million plus. Matt Sorg, VP of Technology at Solana Foundation, reveals how they transformed from frequent network halts to approaching two years of continuous uptime through systematic engineering, multi-client architecture, and a technically savvy validator network that independently reviews every code release.

In this episode, Matt breaks down Solana's security infrastructure (four independent audit firms plus continuous fuzzing), the upcoming Alpenglow consensus mechanism enabling 40% validator failure tolerance, and why applications over-engineer financial security before finding product-market fit. He also discusses how AI-powered social engineering has replaced technical exploits as the dominant app-layer attack vector.

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Coinbase's Auditing Standards with Shashank Agrawal

Coinbase’s internal security process is designed so that it’s very rare for an external audit to reveal any high or critical issues. Shashank Agrawal, Head of Security at Base, breaks down their multi-round validation workflow, how it protects more than $7B in Base TVL, and why off-chain infrastructure receives the same scrutiny as smart contracts.

Jan 17, 2026

Validator sniping: How to harvest IP addresses to redirect MEV | Sebastian Bürgel (Gnosis)

This week, the VP of Technology at Gnosis, Sebastian Burgel, joins Jack Sanford to discuss network-layer security gaps, the early days of building on Ethereum, and more.

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Centrifuge's serial audits: 6 security reviews that reshaped RWA architecture | Jeroen Offerijns

In this episode, Jeroen walks through Centrifuge's controversial security methodology, their co-authorship of the ERC-7540 standard with competitor Maple Finance, and why they're building freely immutable infrastructure modeled on Maker's 6-year-old vat contract that has never needed an upgrade.

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