Mar 23
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In this episode, we sit down with Karan Parsnani, lead dev at ORO — the protocol bringing yield-generating tokenized gold on-chain on Solana. Karan walks us through how ORO's smart contracts handle everything from escrow-based order books to weekend market closures, how their physical gold reserves are leased out to generate real yield distributed weekly to holders, and the Grail API that lets partners build products like gold DCA, gifting, and cashback on top of the protocol. --- ⏱️ Timestamps: 0:20 – Intro 1:03 – Karan's journey: ZebPay, Polygon & social trading on Solana 2:29 – How he joined ORO by DMing the founder on Twitter 2:52 – What is ORO & why tokenized gold? 3:37 – Physical reserves, monthly audits & gold redemption 5:12 – Smart contract design: escrow, whitelisting & business hours 7:02 – KYC, regulation & comparison to USDC's freezing powers 8:32 – How ORO generates real yield on physical gold 9:54 – The Grail API: building products on top of gold 12:47 – Team structure & dev cycle (6-person team, 3 engineers) 14:14 – Building a crypto-abstracted mobile app for web2 users 15:56 – How ORO hires: technical round, product round & reference checks 18:42 – Fighting arbitrage bots on the protocol 20:00 – Pyth oracle pricing & fallback mechanisms 21:32 – Outro --- Karan: https://x.com/LilFatFrank ORO: https://x.com/orogoldapp Kirat: https://x.com/kirat_tw Superteam India: https://x.com/SuperteamIN --- Earn your first crypto: https://earn.superteam.fun Subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss an episode of OnlyDevs! #OnlyDevs #Solana #ORO #TokenizedGold #RWA #DeFi #GoldOnChain #Crypto #Web3 #SuperteamIndia🔗 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀: Website → https://app.100xdevs.com GitHub → https://github.com/code100x Twitter → https://x.com/100xDevs LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/100xdevs Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/100xdevsofficial/ Discord → https://discord.com/invite/WAaXacK9bh Telegram → https://t.me/kirat_internal_group Whatsapp → https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va98SYeHrDZhfxCT6s0a