Billion Moonshots Prashant Bagga

Solana Mobile launched a web3-focused Android mobile phone Saga, along with an open-source software toolkit, Solana Mobile Stack; and is looking to take on the phone and app ecosystem giants like Apple and Google.

We talked about the process of launching new hardware, working with the team behind Essential Phone, origin story of Solana Mobile, why the web3 ecosystem needs a web3 phone, and much more.



SPONSORS

Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/

Recast: https://recast.studio?fpr=prashant and use code BMS05 for 5% discount



GUEST LINKS

Twitter: https://twitter.com/creativedrewy

Website: https://solanamobile.com/



CONNECT

Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagg

Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots



OUTLINE

(00:00) - Working with the team behind Essential phone
(02:00) - Origin story of Solana Mobile
(05:06) - Impact of a web3 phone on the ecosystem
(10:45) - Manufacturing Process
(15:20) - Feature 1: Seed Vault
(18:55) - Feature 2: Wallet Adapter
(20:01) - Feature 3: Dapp Store
(27:27) - User Experience
(31:40) - Launch
(34:35) - Dapp Ideas



TOP EPISODES

87: Shane Mac, President of XMTP Labs

77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]

75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread

74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust

68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast

62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]



Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shane Mac, Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Kyla Scanlon, Adam Jackson, Tyler Denk, Anshul Rustaggi, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.

Michael founded Etherspot, offering account abstraction SDK to improve the web3 user experience. We talk about abstraction, wallet as a service, onboarding web2 developers to web3, leveraging AI, and much more.



SPONSORS

Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/

Recast: https://recast.studio?fpr=prashant and use code BMS05 for 5% discount



GUEST LINKS

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mm319

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelmessele/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/etherspot

Discord: https://discord.com/invite/GAkYj6m5Uh

Telegram: https://t.me/etherspot

Website: etherspot.io

Build: https://buidler.etherspot.io/



CONNECT

Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga

Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots



OUTLINE

(00:00) - What is account abstraction?

(08:07) - Wallet as a Service & Social Login

(33:40) - Onboarding web2 developers to web3

(35:51) - Leveraging AI



TOP EPISODES

87: Shane Mac, President of XMTP Labs

77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]

75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread

74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust

68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast

62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]



Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shane Mac, Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Kyla Scanlon, Adam Jackson, Tyler Denk, Anshul Rustaggi, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.

Wojtek is the Founder of Mazury.xyz - a web3 platform to earn, display, and use your web3 credentials to access exclusive job and career growth opportunities.

We talked about going from a broke college dropout to raising million dollars for Mazury, ideal user experience for freelancers, the downside of building in a bull market, web3 messaging, and much more.



SPONSORS

Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/

Recast: https://recast.studio?fpr=prashant and use code BMS05 for 5% discount



GUEST LINKS

Twitter: https://twitter.com/wojtekwtf

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wojtekwojtek/



CONNECT

Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga

Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots



OUTLINE

(00:00) - Broke college dropout to raising million dollars in crypto

(06:03) - Origin story of Mazury

(10:30) - Is it web3 LinkedIn?

(14:40) - Being a founder in this space

(23:15) - Ideal UX for freelancers & recruiters on Mazury

(34:38) - Downsides of building in a bull market

(40:12) - Mazury vs Braintrust

(44:11) - Mazury integrating XMTP





TOP EPISODES

87: Shane Mac, President of XMTP Labs

77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]

75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread

74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust

68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast

62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]



Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shane Mac, Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Kyla Scanlon, Adam Jackson, Tyler Denk, Anshul Rustaggi, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.

Christopher is the founder of meTokens - allowing individuals to issue their own personal tokens. Personal tokens can be used to pay builders & creators for their work or to gain special access to their inboxes and calendar.



We talk about the history of Personal Tokens, setting up a personal DAO, experiments in this space, token-gated experiences, future of Chris's token, and more. 



SPONSORS

Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/

Recast: https://recast.studio/ and use code BMS05 for 5% discount



GUEST LINKS

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CBobRobison

MeTokens: https://metokens.com



CONNECT 

Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga 

Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots



OUTLINE 

(00:00) - Origin story of meTokens 

(7:08) - Personal Tokens will lead to a better society 

(14:50) - Personal DAOs ?!?

(18:16) - Live Discord concerts

(19:54) - Experiments with Personal Tokens

(25:20) - Token-gated experiences

(27:32) - "Separation of Money and State" - E.C. Riegal 

(34:26) - Aligning incentives for issuer and holder

(43:15) - Payment with meTokens   

(48:05) - User Adoption

(51:34) - Future of $CBOB token

(53:26) - Revisiting Payment with meTokens





TOP EPISODES

87: Shane Mac, President of XMTP Labs

77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi] 

75: Kyla Scanlon, Founder of Bread

74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust

68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast 

62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]



Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shane Mac, Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Kyla Scanlon, Adam Jackson, Tyler Denk, Anshul Rustaggi, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.

Arman and Parker are the founders of Peaze - allowing you to use any dapp with just an email and credit card. A lot of cool things are being built in web3 - but most of the new users who come in are unable to use them. 



Users have to download a wallet, manage the private keys, on-ramp the correct crypto, swap it into the correct asset, bridge, transfer over from Coinbase, etc. Web3 user onboarding is a real problem. What if you could just sign in with your email. 



SPONSORS

Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/

Recast: https://recast.studio/ and use code BMS05 for 5% discount



GUEST LINKS

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArmanVaziri || https://twitter.com/Peaze

Medium: https://medium.com/@Peaze

LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/arman-vaziri/ || https://www.linkedin.com/company/76595591



CONNECT 

Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga 

Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots



OUTLINE 

(00:00) - Leaving big tech job for build in web3

(03:30) - Origin story of Peaze

(5:59) - How Peaze lowers the barrier to entry for dapps

(08:30) - What happens behind the scenes when a user signs-in with Google on Peaze?

(10:00) - How Peaze secures the private keys of a user?

(11:23) - Narrowing down on the user onboarding problem

(13:49) - Is Peaze Stripe for web3?

(17:25) - User education around web3 concepts

(21:10) - North Star Metric of Peaze

(24:19) - The one-click experience

(30:53) - Helping users become self-custodian

(32:35) - DeFi is the use case for crypto

'(35:12) - Market Adoption

(37:44) - The Peaze Logo

(38:40) - Raising $2m during a crypto downturn

(51:02) - Other Web3 Trends





TOP EPISODES

87: Shane Mac, President of XMTP Labs

77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi] 

75: Kyla Scanlon 

74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust

68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast 

62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]



Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shane Mac, Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Kyla Scanlon, Adam Jackson, Tyler Denk, Anshul Rustaggi, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.

Tristen Larsen is the founder and CEO of Blockem AI, an advanced anti-scam detection software for Ethereum wallets. 



We talked about how trust percentages are calculated, losing $20K in a crypto scam, origin story of Blockem, why web3 UX sucks, how their team flagged FTX wallets 2 months before the whole fiasco and much more. 



SPONSORS

XMTP: https://xmtp.org/

Dukaan: https://mydukaan.io/

Recast: https://recast.studio/ and use code BMS05 for 5% discount



GUEST LINKS

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Suited_ETH

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suited/

LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/tristen-larsen-%F0%9F%93%B2-1a953a114/



CONNECT 

Prashant Bagga: https://linktr.ee/prashantpbagga 

Billion Moonshots: https://linktr.ee/billionmoonshots



OUTLINE 

(00:00) - How is the Trust Percentage calculated?

(02:50) - Scams in Crypto

(4:24) - Losing $20,000 in a scam

(9:47) - Origin story of Blockem

(14:31) - Product Insights

(20:07) - Web3 UX sucks

(23:04) - What does the Trust Percentage mean?

(27:10) - Red flags in Smart Contracts

(31:39) - Ideal user experience of Blockem

(36:33) - Creative new scams in the industry

(39:00) - Flagged FTX 2 months before the whole fiasco !!

(42:54) - Story of coming up with the name

(47:11) - Remote culture

(52:31) - Reading 15 books per month



TOP EPISODES

87: Shane Mac, President of XMTP Labs

77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi] 

75: Kyla Scanlon 

74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust

68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast 

62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]



Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shane Mac, Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Kyla Scanlon, Adam Jackson, Tyler Denk, Anshul Rustaggi, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.