Mert Mumtaz
Mert Mumtaz is the co-founder and CEO of Helius, the leading infrastructure provider for Solana developers, offering RPC services, APIs, indexing, and the Orb explorer that much of the Solana ecosystem depends on. Before founding Helius, he was one of the earliest engineers at Coinbase's Canadian office, following earlier roles at Shutterstock and BlackBerry. He is one of the most prominent public advocates for Solana, known for blending technical argument with humor for a large following on X, and he played a visible role in Solana's first binding onchain governance vote to accelerate SOL's inflation reduction. More recently he has become a vocal champion of onchain privacy, promoting Zcash and pushing to build ZK privacy layers for Solana.
26 talks by Mert Mumtaz
- Is 'Bitcoin DeFi' Finally Taking Off, Except With Zcash and NEAR?
- 'Like a Peanut Butter Allergy': Why Institutions Need Onchain Privacy
- Zcash vs. NEAR: Two Very Different Privacy Bets
- Mert Mumtaz & Dev: Private Money Is The Final Frontier (Massive Upside)
- 🚨LIVE: Winter Is OVER. BTC, ETH, ZEC Ripping! Mert & zkDragon, TechDollar CEO & Will McEvoy Join
- Why Multiple Chains Are Racing to Solve Crypto's Privacy Problem. Which Will Win?
- Saylor's Lesson, Zcash's Crash & AI Coming for Crypto - The Chopping Block
- 🚨LIVE: BTC In Trouble?! ZCash Bug From CLAUDE?! EMERGENCY SHOW with Mert, Josh & Haseeb
- Mert Mumtaz & Illia Polosukhin: What Happened to Zcash (Full Explanation)
- Why Zcash Is Crypto’s Privacy Bet
- 🟢 LIVE SPECIAL: Charles Hoskinson & Mert Call In On Today's Show
- Mert vs The Maxis: Who Owns Crypto’s ‘Pure’ Ethos Now? – The Chopping Block
- Privacy Is Back: Naval + Mert Ignite Zcash’s Wild Run - The Chopping Block
- Stablecoins Are Popping Up Everywhere. What’s the End Game?
- The Crypto Endgame
- Lightspeed Cross-Post: Can Ethereum Scale The L1? | Weekly Roundup
- Is Crypto Losing the Builder Mindshare War?
- Ethereum's Existential Crisis
- Are Institutions Buying SOL Right Now? With Mert & Armani
- Episode 350 - ZK in Solana with Mert Mumtaz
- 2024 Was Solana's Best Year Yet. Can It Sustain the Momentum in 2025?
- Mert Mumtaz on Pudgy Penguins, Solana's Vision, and The Blockchain Endgame
- SVM’s Rise to Power & Network Extensions - The Chopping Block
- Crypto’s Identity Crisis: Defining the Meta of This Cycle