About the episode
Kevin chats with Tristan, core contributor to the Zeta platform. Zeta is an under-collateralized DeFi options platform built on the Solana blockchain. The project is also the Grand Prize Winner of the Solana Season Hackathon.
About our guest

Tristan
Tristan is a core contributor at @ZetaMarkets. He is an ex-ML scientist and mechatronic engineer.
Links from the episode
Telegram Group Scam Alert! | Zeta Markets, Twitter
What Are Options? A Guide for Beginners | NerdWallet
Understanding Options | Zeta Markets
What Do Mechatronics Engineers Do? | Jake Vorhees
8 Steps to Build a Blockchain Solution | Entrepreneur
Self-Supervised Learning: The Plan to Make Deep Learning Data-Efficient | TechTalks
The Quiet Master of Cryptocurrency — Nick Szabo | The Tim Ferriss Show #244
Announcing Winners of the Solana Season Hackathon | Solana
Build Crypto Apps That Scale | Solana
Project Serum: A Pioneering On-Chain Dex Building Infrastructure on Solana | Solana
Journey to Zeta’s Alpha. Going into the Solana Season Hackathon… by Zeta ζ, Medium
Black-Scholes Model | Investopedia
Sharding, Explained | Cointelegraph
Ethereum’s Internet of Blockchains | Polygon (Formerly Matic Network)
Alchemix Patches ‘Reverse Rug’ Exploit, Address $6.5 Million Shortfall | Cointelegraph
Alchemix – DeFi Loans That Repay Themselves with Scoopy Trooples | Modern Finance 16
Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange | FTX
Commission-free Stock Trading & Investing App | Robinhood
An Avenue for the Evolution of DeFi | Raydium
Decentralized, Cross-Margin Trading | Mango Markets
The Derivatives Liquidity Protocol | Synthetix
Show notes
What is Zeta Markets, and why should you make sure it’s on your radar?[00:28]
A very simple primer on how options work.[00:55]
How does Zeta Markets interact with Serum’s orderbook infrastructure?[11:36]
What can people expect from Zeta Markets when it launches for the public?[16:15]
What’s the max someone can leverage with Zeta Markets, and how fast are transactions?[18:15]
How has the Zeta Markets team been building community support?[27:28]
How does Zeta Markets make money?[29:24]
How might non-Solana native currencies operate in the Zeta Markets ecosystem?[33:27]
Other Solana Hackathon projects that captured Tristan’s attention.[39:05]
Tristan’s thoughts on DAOs and how a DAO transition would play out for Zeta Markets. [40:39][40:39]
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