Tokenized Identity: Permissioned vs Permissionless Assets on Solana with Austin Federa, Solana Foundation

In this episode of Tokenized Identity, Titus Capilnean, our VP of Go-To-Market, speaks with Austin Federa, Head of Strategy at Solana Foundation. They explore the world of permissioned and permissionless assets on Solana, when builders need to move the dial towards adding restrictions to comply with real-world regulations and how this can bring more web2 people and businesses into web3.

Austin spent his first four years building in the Solana ecosystem, first at Solana Labs and now at the Solana Foundation. What makes him tick? Seeing the community grow as more builders come on board and watching the amazing products getting built on the network, using features like Token Extensions that really can’t be built anywhere else, except on a fully native, permissionless, decentralized blockchain like Solana.

00:00 Welcome

01:57 What are you most excited about right now that’s happening in the Solana ecosystem?

06:10 What’s Firedancer and why is it important to the ecosystem?

09:25 Tell us about recent Solana hackathons

11:50 Deals with PayPal, Visa, Stripe and WorldPay, and what this means for Solana

14:20 How can Token Extensions and Transfer Hooks help builders?

25:50 How should builders navigate this space between fully permissionless assets and adding some permissions as needed to comply with real-world regulations and/or security risk?

30:29 What trends in consumer apps do you expect to see in 2025?

35:09 Wrapping up

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