Austin Federa, Co-Founder of DoubleZero | Why Solana Could Hit a Million TPS — But Not on Today’s Internet | Bitcoin.com News Podcast

Austin Federa, Co-Founder of DoubleZero and former Head of Strategy at Solana Foundation, joins Bitcoin.com News Lead David Sencil (@_dsencil) to discuss why the next leap in blockchain scalability won’t happen on today’s internet.

In this episode, Federa reveals how DoubleZero is building a dedicated physical fiber network for crypto — infrastructure capable of supporting millions of transactions per second (TPS) for networks like Solana. He explains how latency, congestion, and centralized choke points in the existing internet are limiting blockchain performance — and how DoubleZero’s low-latency mesh could unleash a new generation of on-chain applications from finance to gaming.

Federa also shares his journey from leading communications at Solana to co-founding DoubleZero, diving into lessons learned from Solana’s rapid growth and the broader challenge of scaling Web3 beyond today’s hardware and network bottlenecks.

• Why Solana’s scalability is limited by today’s internet
• How DoubleZero is building physical internet for crypto
• What a million-TPS blockchain actually enables
• Lessons from Solana’s rise and infrastructure challenges
• The path toward a decentralized physical layer for Web3

A must-listen for builders, network engineers, and crypto innovators exploring how infrastructure, latency, and hardware will determine the next era of blockchain scalability — and why the future of crypto might depend on rebuilding the internet itself.

🎙️ Host: David Sencil – Bitcoin.com News Podcast
💼 Guest: Austin Federa – Co-Founder of DoubleZero
🔗 Learn more: bitcoin.com | doublezero.network | @Austin_Federa | @_dsencil

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