How DoubleZero Built a Faster Internet for Crypto and Helped All DePIN - Ep. 914

Unchained

Laura Shin

Tech News, Business News, News

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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DoubleZero just launched its mainnet-beta, offering a new type of high-performance fiber network for blockchains, live across 5 continents and already adopted by 20%+ of Solana stake. Co-founder Austin Federa joins Unchained to walk through: How DoubleZero creates a dedicated internet for crypto Who contributes fiber and why they earn the 2Z token What the SEC’s no-action letter means for crypto and DePIN specifically And what this could unlock for L2s, onchain trading, and more Thank you to our sponsors! ⁠Binance⁠ Token2049 Guest: Austin Federa, Co-founder of DoubleZero Timestamps: 🎬 0:00 Introduction and ads: Token2049 and Binance 🌐 0:59 What’s wrong with the public internet—and why crypto needs its own ⚡ 5:28 How DoubleZero is building a dedicated network for blockchains 🌍 7:54 How the physical world gets integrated into the blockchain economy ⏱️ 10:49 Why traders demand more determinism in transaction times 🛠️ 13:09 How anyone can become a contributor to the DoubleZero network 🚫 14:32 Why Ethereum might not be the right fit for this product 💰 16:06 What role the 2Z token plays in the ecosystem 🔥 23:12 Why Jump’s token allocation sparked controversy ⚖️ 27:40 What the SEC’s no-action letter really means for DePIN 🏆 32:59 If DoubleZero succeeds, who will come out on top? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:12.0	Today's guest is Austin Federa, co-founder of double zero.
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0:57.0	Welcome, Austin.
0:58.0	Hey, thanks for having me.
1:00.0	So congrats today, your main up beta is launching.
1:04.0	And I think double zero is different from other types of crypto projects.
1:08.0	You know, those obviously tend to be more about software. And as far as I understand,
1:12.3	the problem you're working on is that you believe that bandwidth and latency, not compute, are the
1:17.5	main bottlenecks for blockchains. So flesh that out. What problem is it that you're trying to
1:22.7	solve with double zero? And if you could give us an example of how that plays out
1:27.6	with an example transaction, that would be great.
1:29.8	Yeah, certainly.
1:30.7	So when I got into crypto was sort of end of 2017, beginning of 2018.
1:35.0	And back then, software was 100% the limiting factor in blockchain scale and power.
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