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#518: Chris Yin, CEO of Plume Network, on Optimizing Looping, RWAs, Onchain Asset Management, and Nest vaults on Solana

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 03:00:00 -0500

Chris Yin is CEO/Co-Founder of Plume Network, the first permissionless, full-stack blockchain built for real-world asset finance (RWAfi). He spearheads the team shaping the infrastructure and policy standards to accelerate the development of onchain capital markets. Chris has an accomplished track record as a founder and investor in the enterprise software space, with tenures at Scale Venture Partners, Rainforest QA, and Xpenser (acquired by Coupa, IPO 2016).

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Current price action is just short term pain
- What to expect from RWAs in 2026
- DeFi opportunities in RWAs
- Plume's differentiator
- Regulatory developments in RWAs
- Optimizing Looping
- Onchain asset management
- This history of technology
- Nest vaults on Solana
- Building Key TradFi partnerships
- User experience is everything

Plume Network
X: @plumenetwork
Website: www.plume.org
Telegram: t.me/plumenetwork_community

Chris Yin
X: @chriseyin
LinkedIn: Chris Yin

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#517: Kirill Avery, CEO of Alien, on Decentralized Identity Networks, Continuous Human Verification Protocol (CHVP), and The Future of AI & Crypto

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 03:00:00 -0500

Kirill Avery is the Founder and CEO of Alien. Serial founder, self-taught coder since age 11, built Europe's largest consumer social app at 16 (15M users). Youngest engineer at [VK.com](http://vk.com/) and youngest solo founder accepted into Y Combinator. Expertise in high-load systems (100M+ users), consumer UX, and mobile viral distribution.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Privacy-first decentralized identity network
- Social graph APIs
- “Proving humanness”
- Continuous Human Verification Protocol (CHVP)
- The role of secure hardware (TEEs)
- Tradeoffs between transparency and confidentiality in identity systems
- The future of AI, Identity and Crypto
- Trust systems are needed for the future

Alien
X: @alienorg
Website: www.alien.org
Telegram: t.me/aliendotorg

Kirill Avery
X: @kirillzzy
LinkedIn: Kirill Avery

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#516: Xenia Soborova, Head of BD at Tramplin, on The Solana Ecosystem, Solana Staking, and Business Development in crypto

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 03:00:00 -0500

Xenia Soborova is a Web3 business development leader and Head of BD at Tramplin.io, a Solana-native premium staking app that redistributes network’s inflationary rewards among users to make staking profitable even with a small amount of SOL. Previously, she worked at the Avalanche Foundation on ecosystem growth and founder success and has also held roles across major Web3 teams, including Binance, RARI Foundation, and SQD.ai. She has co-founded BD in Web3, the largest Telegram community for Web3 founders, BDs, and growth hackers.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Working with different crypto ecosystems
- Solana is the people’s chain
- Staking innovation
- Community-oriented reward redistribution
- Solana staking
- Solana’s native economics
- Long-term DeFi engagement
- Keeping SOL Secure
- BD in crypto
- Solana staking

Tramplin.io
X: @Tramplin_io
Website: www.tramplin.io
Telegram: t.me/Tramplin_io

Xenia Soborova
X: @cryptophilienne
LinkedIn: Xenia Soborova

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#515: Matt Ober, Managing Partner at Social Leverage, on Prediction Markets, Consumption-based Data Models, Stablecoins, Tokenization, Identifying Trends, and The Degenerate Economy

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 03:00:00 -0500

Matt Ober is a Managing Partner at Social Leverage, an early stage venture capital firm focused on investing in fintech and enterprise SaaS. The firm is best well know for being early investors in Robinhood, Etoro, Alpaca, & Kustomer which was acquired by Meta. Mat was most recently the Chief Data Scientist at Third Point. Prior to joining Third Point, Matt was the Head of Data Strategy at WorldQuant and part of the WorldQuant Ventures founding team focused on private investments in fintech, data, and technology companies. Matt is the founder of InitialDataOffering.com which is the largest community of data buyers and data vendors. Matt holds a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designation and sits on the board of governors for his alma mater, California State University Chico.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Identifying trends
- Prediction Markets allowing people to monetize their niche
- The degenerate economy & financial nihilism
- Never been a better time to build a business
- Tokenization of all assets
- Stablecoins
- Consumption-based data models
- Early-stage investing
- How wealth management technology is changing
- How AI is influencing all startups

Social Leverage
X: @SocialLeverage
Website: www.socialleverage.com
LinkedIn: Social Leverage

Matt Ober
X: @obermattj
LinkedIn: Matt Ober

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#514: Bhau Kotecha, Co-Founder of Paxos Labs, on Stablecoin Adoption, USDG, Omnichain Architecture, and Privacy Focused Stablecoins

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 03:00:00 -0500

Bhaumik (“Bhau”) Kotecha is the Co-Founder and Head of Paxos Labs, a startup spun out from Paxos in 2025 to empower institutions and developers with enterprise-grade infrastructure for on-chain financial products. At Paxos Labs, he leads the mission to remove the complexity of decentralized finance so partners can seamlessly embed trusted products—such as custom stablecoins, DeFi yield strategies, and tokenized assets—into their platforms. His vision blends the regulatory rigor and infrastructure expertise of Paxos with the agility and innovation of Web3, making it easier for financial services and fintech firms to adopt blockchain-based solutions at scale.

Before launching Paxos Labs, Kotecha built his career at the intersection of product strategy and go-to-market execution. At Paxos, he led product strategy for the Tokenization team after driving growth, analytics, and operations for the firm. He previously spent nearly six years at Block (formerly Square), where he directed go-to-market efforts for Cash App and Square. Beyond his leadership at Paxos Labs, Kotecha is an active angel investor and advisor in the fintech and Web3 ecosystem, and he has recently spoken on the importance of open, developer-friendly stablecoin infrastructure—highlighting proposals like Paxos Labs’ work on Hyperliquid’s USDH stablecoin, which prioritizes accessibility, liquidity, and sustainable token economics.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Difference between Paxos and Paxos Labs
- Stablecoin adoption & liquidity
- Infrastructure for custom-branded stablecoins
- Tools for tokenized yield strategies & structured digital assets
- The economics and interoperability of stablecoins
- USDG and USDG0
- Off-platform dollar economics
- Integrating yield, stablecoins, payments directly into existing apps
- Enterprise grade security
- Privacy-preserving stablecoins
- PAXG - Paxos tokenized gold

Paxos Labs
X: @paxoslabs
Website: www.paxoslabs.com
LinkedIn: Paxos Labs

Bhaumik (“Bhau”) Kotecha
X: @bhau___
LinkedIn: Bhaumik Kotecha

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#513: Sun Raghupathi, CEO of Veda, on Consumer-Grade DeFi, Vaults, Onchain Yield, and The Future of RWAs

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 03:00:00 -0500

Sun Raghupathi is the CEO of Veda, the leading DeFi vault platform, enabling crypto applications, asset issuers, and protocols to build consumer-grade cross-chain yield products. Veda's technology already powers many of DeFi's largest vault products and power more than $4B in deposits. Sun is also the co-founder of Seven Seas Capital, a premier quantitative DeFi investment strategist, offering institutional-grade funds and non-custodial yield vaults through proven market making and risk-mitigated strategies. Prior to founding Veda and Seven Seas, Sun was the Head of Research and Development at Sommelier, a protocol for decentralized asset management specializing in actively managed vaults.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Vaults 101
- Onchain yield is a killer use-case in crypto
- DeFi infrastructure and yield products
- The Problem With DeFi Yield Today
- Veda’s Architecture & Design Philosophy
- Consumer-Grade DeFi
- Why yield opportunities are increasingly cross-chain
- The future of RWAs
- The Law of Collateral Inheritance
- How Veda approaches audits and security
- How incentives are aligned across users, builders, and protocols

Veda
X: @veda_labs
Website: www.veda.tech
Telegram: t.me/+GfI_iZQ6wsZlZWNh

Sun Raghupathi
X: @sunandr_
LinkedIn: Sunand Raghupathi

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#512: Austin Campbell, Founder of Zero Knowledge, on Stablecoins, The Incentives of Financial Systems, Tokenization, and Economic Realignment

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 03:00:00 -0500

Austin Campbell is a finance and risk management professional with two decades of experience spanning trading, portfolio management, executive leadership, and academia. He is the Managing Partner and Founder of Zero Knowledge Consulting and serves as an Acting CFO at Glueti, having recently held the role of Acting CEO at WSPN Ltd. He has taught as an adjunct professor at both NYU Stern and Columbia Business School, specializing in finance and markets. Previously, Austin was Chief Risk Officer and Head of Portfolio Management at Paxos, following senior trading and portfolio management roles at Citi, Stone Ridge, and JP Morgan Chase, where he advanced to Executive Director in Rates Trading. He began his career as a catastrophe risk analyst at Benfield and John B Collins Associates, with early research experience in mathematics at California State University Chico.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Open Frontier
- Stablecoins
- Tokenization of assets
- Traditional payment systems vs crypto
- Decoupling lending incentives from user incentives
- The importance of the Genius Act
- Economic realignment that returns power to mainstream
- The fragmentation of the financial systems
- Composability of blockchains
- “smart regulation”
- Zero Knowledge Consulting

Zero Knowledge Consulting
X: @ZKZeroKnowledge
Website: www.zero-knowledge.com
Newsletter: www.zero-in.beehiiv.com

Austin Campbell
X: @austincampbell
LinkedIn: Austin Campbell

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#511: Jesse Knutson, Head of Ops at Bitfinex Securities, on Tokenized Securities, Capital Rotation, RWAs, and The Future of Tokenization

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 03:00:00 -0500

Jesse Knutson is Head of Operations at Bitfinex Securities, a regulated security token platform offering issuers and traders access to capital and tokenized securities. Jesse started his career in traditional finance having worked at global investment banks including Barclays and Macquarie. In addition to his role as Taiwan Head of Equity Capital Solutions, Jesse was also a founding member of Macquarie’s digital asset working group, and deal lead on the firm’s first equity investment into the Bitcoin mining space. Prior to joining Bitfinex Securities, Jesse was VP of Financial Products at Blockstream where he worked on developing and distributing financial products built on Bitcoin and backed by Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Tokenized securities
- Tokenization is in a position to challenge traditional payment rails
- NYSE going 24/7 trading
- How tokenized stocks work
- The convergence of tradfi <> crypto
- Freedom is the killer feature of stablecoins
- Will RWAs be the next boom for tokenization?
- El Salvador Plan B conference
- 4 year crypto cycles will have less impact than before
- Bitfinex Securities
- Capital rotation and fund flows
- The relationship between gold <> bitcoin
- Building on Bitcoin

Bitfinex Securities
X: @BFXSecurities
Website: www.bitfinex.com/securities
LinkedIn: Bitfinex Securities

Jesse Knutson
X: @KnutsonJesse
LinkedIn: Jesse Knutson

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#510: Matt O’Connor, Co-founder of Legion, on ICOs, IPOs, Private SAFT rounds, and Merit-based Compliant Token Offerings

Mon, 19 Jan 2026 03:00:00 -0500

Matt O’Connor is the Co-founder of Legion, a platform for compliant and merit-based public token offering that enables teams to select investors based on criteria such as onchain history, social clout, and developer contributions. He is the former lead algorithmic engineer for Bridgewater Associates; tokenomics researcher for the Stacks Foundation (SEC qualified 2019 ICO); and token economics lead for Status (2017 ICO). His open source book, Tokenomics for Builders, has been positively reviewed by founders and VCs from Monad, Placeholder, Tensor, AllianceDAO, Galaxy Digital, and more.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- ICOs, IDOs, launchpads, private SAFT rounds
- Merit-based, compliant token offerings
- Why IPO access has deteriorated for retail investors
- How Legion differs from AngelList, Carta, Republic, or SeedInvest
- The convergence of IPOs <> ICOs
- Companies with equity holders and token holders
- Tokenomics 101
- Common mistakes when designing tokenomics
- KPI based vesting for founders

Legion
X: @legiondotcc
Website: legion.cc
LinkedIn: Legion | Merit-based Fundraising

Matt O’Connor
X: @matty_
LinkedIn: Matt O’Connor

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#509: Nic Roberts-Huntley, CEO of Blueprint Finance, on DeFi’s Next Frontier, Institutional Yield Generation, and Crypto Vaults

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 03:00:00 -0500

Nic Roberts-Huntley is the CEO and Co-Founder of Blueprint Finance, leveraging his unique background spanning medicine, economics, and finance. A former surgeon who practiced at prestigious institutions, including Oxford University Hospitals and The Royal Marsden, Nic pivoted to finance after completing his MBA and Master's in Evidence-Based Policy Evaluation & Economics at Oxford University. His career trajectory includes roles as Vice President at Point72, Venture Architect at Virtual Ventures, and various surgical fellowships.

At Blueprint Finance, Nic oversees two innovative protocols: Concrete, which provides institutional-grade financial services through its Earn, Borrow, and Protect products that optimize yields and offer liquidation protection; and Glow, a Solana-based protocol offering advanced trading, lending, and liquid restaking solutions. His multidisciplinary expertise and quantitative approach position him as a distinctive voice at the intersection of traditional finance and DeFi innovation.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Institutional yield generation becomes crypto’s next major unlock
- Nic’s career path: surgeon to trad-fi to crypto
- M&A in digital asset markets accelerates
- DeFi grows up from speculation to infrastructure
- Crypto vaults
- Delta-neutral trading strategies in vaults
- Nic’s critique of “chasing headline APY”
- DeFi’s Next Frontier: Credit, Tokenization & New Markets
- Insurance will unlock the next frontier of crypto
- On-chain credit markets
- Composability across DeFi

Blueprint Finance
X: @Blueprint_DeFi
Website: blueprintfinance.com

Glow Finance
X: @GlowFinanceXYZ
Website: glowfinance.xyz
Discord: discord.gg/glowfinance

Concrete
X: @ConcreteXYZ
Website: concrete.xyz
Discord: discord.gg/concretexyz

Nic Roberts-Huntley
X: @nic_builds
LinkedIn: Nic Roberts-Huntley

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#508: Irina Chuchkina, Chief Growth Officer at Wallet In Telegram, on Super-Apps, Wallets, Tokenized Stocks, and Finance Inside Messaging Apps

Mon, 12 Jan 2026 03:00:00 -0500

Irina Chuchkina is the Chief Growth Officer at Wallet In Telegram. Irina is an accomplished leader in crypto and fintech with over 18 years of experience building world-class brands at the intersection of payments and technology, across Europe and Asia. Currently, Irina is leading Wallet's global expansion strategy with a target of 15 new countries in the next 2 years.

Previously, she was CMO at Volt, driving their brand and global marketing strategy. She was also part of Southeast Asia super-app giant, Grab, where she helped to launch GrabPay, Grab’s mobile wallet, and GrabRewards, its loyalty platform across Southeast Asia.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Wallet in Telegram
- Difference between Wallet in Telegram vs standalone crypto wallets
- Finance inside messaging apps
- Telegram as a Super-App
- The convergence of messaging, payments, and identity
- Go-To-Market for wallets
- Stablecoins as the backbone of global payments
- 3 pillars of wallets: distribution, utility, simplicity
- The recent launch of xStocks inside TON Wallet
- Why growth in crypto is fundamentally different from Web2 growth

Wallet In Telegram
X: @wallet_tg
Telegram: t.me/wallet
LinkedIn: Wallet In Telegram

Irina Chuchkina
X: @pogodasuper
LinkedIn: Irina Chuchkina

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#507: Carlos Lei, CEO of Uplink, on The Future of Connectivity, Mesh Networks, Building on Avalanche, and DePIN in 2026

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 03:00:00 -0500

Carlos Lei, CEO of Uplink, one of the leading DePIN players, operates as a connectivity marketplace using existing Wi-Fi routers to help telecom companies save millions of dollars.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- 2026 will be the year of DePIN
- Insights from building in connectivity since 2015
- The future of connectivity
- Mesh networks
- Sharing connectivity using existing infrastructure
- There isn’t enough infra to connect devices in the future
- The connectivity incentive layer
- How ULX and Network Credits work together
- Building on Avalanche
- Network effects in crypto

Uplink
X: @uplink_xyz
Website: www.uplink.xyz
LinkedIn: Uplink

Carlos Lei
X: @CarlosLeiSantos
LinkedIn: Carlos Lei Santos

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#506: Marco Santori, CEO of Solmate, on Inventing The SAFT Framework, Solana, The Infrastructure Flywheel Strategy, and The Geographical Importance of The UAE

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 03:00:00 -0500

A treasury company pioneer, Marco launched the very first altcoin treasury on the Nasdaq. Prior to joining Solmate as CEO he was a partner at Pantera Capital, where he helped to structure some of the industry’s best-performing treasuries. A trained attorney, Marco was once dubbed the "Dean of Digital Currency Lawyers" by the Editor-in-Chief of American Banker. He was the Chief Legal Officer at Kraken, one of the world's largest digital asset exchanges, for five years.

Prior to Kraken, Marco was the President of Blockchain.com, as well as a Partner at Cooley LLP, where he led the firm’s global financial technology team. At Cooley, he invented the SAFT Framework and co-authored the SAFT Project Whitepaper, which became a market standard for crypto capital formation. He was an advisor to the International Monetary Fund and an IMF delegate speaker on financial technology in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Inventing the SAFT Framework
- Stories from being Chief Legal Officer at Kraken
- Crypto in Abu Dhabi and UAE
- The geographical importance of the UAE
- Why Solana
- Solana in 2026
- Raising $300 million
- Planned Acquisition of RockawayX
- The Infrastructure Flywheel Strategy

Solmate
X: @Solmate
Website: www.solmate.com
LinkedIn: Solmate $SLMT

Marco Santori
X: @msantoriESQ
LinkedIn: Marco Santori

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#505: Kyle Okamoto, CTO of Aethir, on Compute Becoming an Asset Class, GPUs, and Decentralized Compute

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 03:00:00 -0500

Kyle Okamoto is the Chief Technology Officer at Aethir: the leading decentralized enterprise-grade cloud computing network. With over 20 years of experience in cloud and edge computing, digital media, IoT and AI, Kyle's leadership has been pivotal in scaling growth businesses and driving technological innovation at Aethir.

Before joining Aethir, Kyle served as the General Manager of Aeris Communications and Ericsson’s enterprise businesses, overseeing Internet of Things, Security, and Connected Vehicle portfolio companies. He was also the Chief Executive Officer of Edge Gravity, a global edge cloud platform facilitating cloud gaming, AI, and media and entertainment applications. Kyle's extensive experience also includes his tenure as Chief Network Officer of Verizon Media and his role as a founding member of Verizon Digital Media Services, which grew to a multi-billion dollar business before its acquisition by Private Equity.

In addition to his work with Aethir, Kyle is an early investor and advisor to Theta Labs, holds board positions in various technology companies and non-profit organizations, and is an active angel investor and advisor in the venture capital and private equity spaces. Kyle holds a Master of Business Administration from New York University and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Stevens Institute of Technology.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- AI’s growth is now gated by access to compute rather than model quality
- Compute is becoming a financial asset class
- AI demand continues to outpace supply
- GPUs
- Investors are starting to treat compute like infrastructure, not software
- Financial structures are becoming essential to scaling AI infrastructure
- Decentralized compute offers an alternative path during the global GPU shortage
- Enterprises are moving toward multi-source compute strategies
- Financing compute
- The financing of compute is as important as the tech side

Aethir
X: @AethirCloud
Website: www.aethir.com
LinkedIn: Aethir

Kyle Okamoto
LinkedIn: Kyle Okamoto

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#504: Tom Trowbridge, Co-founder of Fluence Labs, on DePIN, DeAI, and Decentralized Storage/Compute

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 03:00:00 -0500

Tom Trowbridge is an entrepreneur and business builder; he is a co-founder of Fluence Labs, and Hedera Hashgraph (HBAR) where he was President from Inception. He hosts the DePIN Day conference series and the DePINed podcast and is an investor in leading DePIN projects and crypto funds. Tom is an advocate for decentralized systems and distributed ledger/blockchain technology and believes these open source tools provide the best opportunity to build fairer, more transparent, and higher-functioning societies, government, and business ecosystems. He is passionate about driving education regarding blockchain, Bitcoin and the great promise of distributed systems.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The early days of HBAR
- Decentralized storage/compute
- Difference between decentralized compute vs centralized cloud
- DePIN
- DeAI
- Crypto economic models
- Fiat-linked rewards address crypto reward volatility
- Staking models for cloud DePINs
- DePIN offers a new, sustainable model for value creation

Fluence Labs
X: @fluence_project
Website: www.fluence.network
Telegram: t.me/fluence_project

Tom Trowbridge
X: @TheTomTrow
LinkedIn: Tom Trowbridge

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#503: Austin King, Founder of Nomina, on Funding Rate Arbitrage, Being Delta Neutral, Perp DEXs, and the Future of Financial Advisors

Thu, 25 Dec 2025 03:00:00 -0500

Austin King, Founder of Nomina, is a Harvard-trained computer scientist, is a proven entrepreneur with a record of building and scaling high-impact ventures. He sold his first company to Ripple, where he co-authored a new payment protocol with CTO David Schwartz and led its go-to-market strategy. Today, Austin draws on his combined expertise in engineering and business development to drive growth and innovation in the next generation of financial infrastructure.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- What’s going on with Ripple and XRP?
- Why the pivot to Nomina?
- Perp DEXs
- Being delta neutral
- Funding rate arbitrage
- How to make money on funding rate arbitrage
- Hyperliquid changed the crypto narrative
- Current state of bridging in crypto
- The future of financial advisors
- Altcoins will get crushed over the next 18 months

Nomina
X: @Nomina
Website: www.nomina.io
Telegram: t.me/nominaannouncements

Austin King
X: @AustinKing
LinkedIn: Austin King

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#502: Rand Hindi, CEO of Zama, on Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), Total Value Shielded (TVS), and The future of Privacy

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 03:00:00 -0500

Dr. Rand Hindi is an entrepreneur and deeptech investor. He is the Founder and CEO at Zama and an investor in over 50 companies across privacy, AI, blockchain, and medtech. Rand started coding at the age of 10, founded a Social Network at 14, and started a PhD at 21. He then created Snips, a privacy-centric AI startup that was acquired by Sonos. Rand holds a BSc in Computer Science and a PhD in bioinformatics from UCL.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Banks won’t use stablecoins if they are public
- zcash is the beacon of crypto privacy
- Privacy is the final boss of blockchain
- The future of surveillance and privacy
- Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE)
- Zama = confidentiality layer
- TVS = Total Value Shielded
- Zama is like HTTPS for blockchain
- Confidentiality without sacrificing transparency
- First-ever on-chain sealed-bid Dutch auction

Zama
X: @zama
Website: www.zama.org
Telegram: t.me/zama_on_telegram

Dr. Rand Hindi
X: @randhindi
LinkedIn: Rand Hindi

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#501: Ken Miyachi, Co-founder of BitMind, on Bittensor, The Escalation of AI-Driven Crypto Scams, and Deepfakes

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 03:00:00 -0500

Ken Miyachi is the Co-founder of BitMind, a company at the forefront of developing pioneering deepfake detection technology and decentralized AI applications. Prior to founding BitMind, Ken served as a Senior Software Engineer at leading organisations such as NEAR Foundation, Amazon, and Polymer Labs, where he honed his expertise in scalable technology solutions.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Bittensor
- The escalation of AI-driven crypto scams
- Deepfakes
- Why crypto is the perfect target for AI fraud
- The urgent need for real-time verification systems
- Solving the trust problem in a trustless industry
- What regulators are signalling
- Education and user awareness
- The future: AI vs AI

BitMind
X: @bitmind
Website: www.bitmind.ai
Instagram: instagram.com/bitmindlabs

Ken Jon Miyachi
X: @kenjonmiyachi
LinkedIn: Ken Jon Miyachi

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#500: Anurag Arjun, Co-founder of Avail, on Interoperability, Liquidity Unification, and The Future of Crypto

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 03:00:00 -0500

Anurag Arjun is the Co-founder of Avail, a unified foundation for rollups to scale horizontally, share liquidity, move assets trustlessly, communicate permissionlessly along with a multi-token economic security.

He entered the blockchain industry in 2017, founding Matic Network, which evolved into Polygon Labs. By 2020, he launched Avail within the Polygon ecosystem, utilizing his background in research, economics, and engineering. In March 2023, he spun out Avail as an independent project. Anurag is a seasoned entrepreneur who has founded several successful startups across diverse industries, ranging from cash flow lending to regulatory tech. His expertise and vision continue to drive Avail's success and position the company at the forefront of the blockchain revolution.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Biggest misconceptions people have about interoperability and “multichain” today
- UX is still the main pain point in crypto
- Intent-based architecture
- Liquidity unification
- Creating a unified balance across chains
- Quantum’s threat to crypto
- Unlocking a multichain userbase
- Liquidity fragmentation
- Making Nexus chain-agnostic — including EVM, non-EVM, and eventually Solana
- The future of crypto

Avail
X: @AvailProject
Website: www.availproject.org
Telegram: t.me/AvailCommunity

Anurag Arjun
X: @anuragarjun
LinkedIn: Anurag Arjun

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#499: Michael Sena, Co-Founder of Recall, on AI’s Impact on Crypto Trading, Measuring AI Agents, and The Future of AI

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 03:00:00 -0500

Michael Sena is the CSO and Co-Founder of Recall, a decentralized skill market for AI where communities fund, rank, and discover the AI solutions they need. Michael started in crypto in 2016, helped scale ConsenSys from 30 to 1,800 people, co-founded uPort, the first decentralized identity protocol, and 3Box Labs where he led development of Ceramic Network. At Recall, Michael focuses on growing the world’s largest AI competitions and giving the community the power to shape and accelerate the future of AI.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Google Gemini is elite
- Present day AI
- The best AI managed crypto strategies are private
- How AI-driven reputation systems are reshaping crypto investing
- What AI Agent trading competitions mean for the future of AI managed crypto strategies
- How open arenas bring trust to AI selection
- Why today’s AI benchmarks are failing and how decentralized validation could restore trust
- Importance of making AI results visible onchain
- How Recall is shaping AI discovery, validation, and adoption
- Prediction Markets - Their recent NFL Prediction Arena on Thanksgiving and upcoming ones
- How AI will impact crypto trading in 2026

Recall
X: @recallnet
Website: recall.network
Discord: discord.gg/recallnet

Michael Sena
X: @dataliquidity
LinkedIn: Michael Sena

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#498: Arthur Breitman, Co-founder of Tezos, on Tokenized Uranium, Quantum’s Threat to Bitcoin, Proof-of-Stake, and The Future of Crypto

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 03:00:00 -0500

Arthur Breitman, the co-founder of Tezos, is a computer scientist and entrepreneur. Arthur has a background in mathematics and computer science, and prior to the Tezos project, he worked in quantitative finance at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, and as a research engineer at Google and Waymo. Arthur graduated from the École Polytechnique and the Courant Institute of NYU where he studied applied mathematics. Arthur is a member of the Tezos Foundation Council and is also a director at Trilitech, a London-based adoption team for the Tezos blockchain.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Tokenized uranium
- Quantum’s threat to Bitcoin
- Deep dive on Tezos blockchain
- Proof-of-stake is the best consensus
- There is no PMF for security on blockchains
- The emergence of Tezos as the artists' blockchain
- EVM compatibility layer
- 19 upgrades without a hard fork
- The Data Availability Layer deep dive
- The future of Tezos

Tezos
X: @tezos
Website: tezos.com
LinkedIn: Tezos

Arthur Breitman
X: @ArthurB
LinkedIn: Arthur Breitman

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#497: Lucas Bruder, CEO of Jito Labs, on How Jito Gets Yield, Solana DeFi, BAM, and The Future of Robotics

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 03:00:00 -0500

Lucas Bruder is the CEO of Jito Labs and a founding contributor of the Jito Network, a suite of Solana-based protocols that enhance network efficiency and support high-performance DeFi infrastructure. A Carnegie Mellon-educated electrical engineer, Lucas brings deep expertise in high-performance distributed systems and firmware development. Prior to Jito Labs, he served as Technical Lead at Built Robotics, where he led teams developing autonomous construction equipment, and specialized in LiDAR firmware at Ouster. Lucas combines hands-on embedded systems expertise with a proven ability to tackle ambitious technical challenges in decentralized finance.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- How Jito gets yield
- SOL ETF bull theory
- Present day Solana ecosystem
- Jito’s regulatory push
- BAM = new execution infrastructure on Solana
- The future of Robotics
- Why transparency matters in high-performance trading
- ACE explained simply
- The future of Jito

Jito Labs
X: @jito_labs
Website: www.jito.wtf
Discord: discord.gg/jito

Lucas Bruder
X: @buffalu__
LinkedIn: Lucas Bruder

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#496: Jordan Jefferson, Founder of DogeOS, The Evolution of Dogecoin From Culture to Real Economy, and The Future of Memecoins

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 03:00:00 -0500

Jordan Jefferson is the CEO and Founder of DogeOS, the App Layer for Dogecoin that turns idle DOGE into a productive asset through gaming, yield opportunities, and consumer apps. He also leads MyDoge, the #1 Dogecoin wallet with 500,000+ users.
An early Bitcoin entrepreneur since 2011, Jefferson built DogeOS to provide the first native DOGE yield and real utility for millions of underserved Dogecoin holders.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The evolution of Dogecoin from culture to real economy
- Why now is the right time to build around Dogecoin
- Turning dormant DOGE into active capital
- How community-driven liquidity differs from traditional DeFi
- Making crypto simple enough for everyday users again
- The role MyDoge plays in connecting users to real applications
- What DogeOS adds to the broader crypto market
- How builders can tap into Dogecoin’s existing audience
- Why culture may be crypto’s strongest network effect
- What happens when Dogecoin activity moves fully on-chain
- The future of meme coins and DOGE

DogeOS
X: @DogeOS
Website: www.dogeos.com
Discord: discord.gg/dogeos

Jordan Jefferson
X: @MyDogeCEO
LinkedIn: Jordan Jefferson

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#495: Alice Liu, Research Lead at CoinMarketCap, on the CMC20 Index, the CMC Fear & Greed Index Hitting Record Lows, and The Current Crypto Market

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 03:00:00 -0500

Alice Liu is the Research Lead at CoinMarketCap, leveraging CMC's data and collaborating with industry leaders to bring unique insight to millions of users. Her work covers market events, innovation analysis, and trending narratives across the entire crypto sector. Prior to joining CMC, Alice worked as an investment professional at WisdomeTree, Coutts, and J.P.Morgan.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- What happened on the 10/10 market crash
- Current market sentiment
- Liquidity is drying up
- Are we in a bear market?
- Privacy coins
- The market is starved of narratives, hence why privacy took up
- CMC20 Index
- CMC Fear & Greed Index hit record low of 10 on Nov 22; has since rebounded to 15, consistent with past V-shape recoveries
- Lista DAO
- Watching onchain capital flow and whales
- Total crypto market cap dropped below $3T — lowest since May, but signs show the worst is likely over

CoinMarketCap
X: @CoinMarketCap
Website: coinmarketcap.com
LinkedIn: CoinMarketCap

Alice Liu
X: @AliceCrypto3
LinkedIn: Alice L.

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#494: Santiago Roel Santos, CEO of Inversion, on Crypto’s Valuation Problem, Mental Models, and the Current State of Crypto

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 03:00:00 -0500

Santiago Roel Santos is the founder and CEO of Inversion a crypto-native holding company that acquires and transforms traditional businesses using blockchain technology. He is among the most active investors in crypto, having backed over 150 startups and many industry leaders over the past decade. Previously, Santiago was a Partner at ParaFi Capital, an institutional blockchain investor managing over $1 billion. He also held investment roles at Sageview Capital, a $2 billion growth equity firm focused on software and tech-enabled businesses, and at JP Morgan’s Investment Banking Financial Sponsors Group.

In this conversation, we discuss:

- Santiago's recent substack post
- You don’t value casino flow like recurring software revenue
- Infrastructure vs application value
- Crypto’s valuation problem
- Why most blockchains today are overvalued and how value will flow to the businesses built on crypto rails
- Mental models
- Systemic friction is a huge business opp
- Techno-optimism is at an all-time high
- Prediction markets are a better version of the media

Inversion
X: @inversion_cap
Website: inversioncap.com
LinkedIn: Inversion

Santiago Roel Santos
X: @santiagoroel
LinkedIn: Santiago R.

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#493: Ben Nadareski, CEO of Solstice Labs, on Building the Yield Engine for Solana’s Next Chapter

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 03:00:00 -0500

Ben Nadareski is the CEO and Co-Founder of Solstice Labs, where he’s redefining how yield is generated in DeFi. Backed by Deus X Capital, Solstice Labs pioneers permissionless, institutional-grade strategies on Solana, making sophisticated trading approaches and sustainable yields accessible to everyone.

Previously, Ben led the first crypto-derivative trades with global banks as Vice President of Global Trading at Galaxy Digital. He advanced strategic investments in digital assets as Director of M&A at SIX Digital Exchange, helped expand blockchain adoption across Asia with R3 by introducing decentralized tech to central banks and financial institutions, and developed onchain OTC data networks while leading global business development at DrumG, a Consensys-backed startup.

Ben has served as a guest lecturer at the Wharton School of Business on topics including crypto, DeFi and capital markets. Prior to his 2013 leap into web3, Ben worked on the Interest Rate and FX Derivates trading desk at Société Générale. He comes from a scientific background as a published nuclear physics researcher with a degree in Physics, and still today, applies that same scientific rigor to his work in crypto.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The rise of Solana and its ecosystem
- Solana bull case
- Building the Yield Engine for Solana’s Next Chapter
- The Role of DeFi, Stablecoins, and yield-vaults on Solana (USX)
- The Risk Engine is evolving into a Yield Engine
- Solana inflation
- One-click yield system
- Having a Sharp rate of 8

Solstice Labs
X: @solsticefi
Website: solstice.finance
LinkedIn: Solstice Labs AG

Ben Nadareski
X: @ben_solstice
LinkedIn: Ben Nadareski

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#492: Jon Trask, CEO and Founder of Dimitra, on Using Blockchain for Farming, Challenges in the Agricultural Sector, and The Future of Farming

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 03:00:00 -0500

Jon Trask is CEO and Founder of Dimitra and has been working with blockchain since 2017. Prior to founding Dimitra, Jon had an extensive career building and developing enterprise software solutions to revolutionize supply chain processes and improve immutable traceability. A recognized expert in his field, Jon is also Founder and CEO of Blockchain Guru and a Partner with the Blockchain Training Alliance. Jon’s mission now is to increase farming connectivity, particularly with those disenfranchised across the globe, and to leverage the power of innovative technologies to bridge farming and technology.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Farming tech on the Solana blockchain
- The true size and scope of the world’s food chain
- Most farmers borrow money to fund their crops
- How Dimitra is using AI, machine learning and IoT
- $DMTA buybacks
- Challenges in the agricultural sector
- Blockchain’s power in traceability
- Training & access is a huge issue in farming groups
- The future of farming

Dimitra
X: @dimitratech
Website: dimitra.io
LinkedIn: Dimitra Technology

Jon Trask
LinkedIn: Jon Trask

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#491: Robin Nordnes, CEO of Raiku, on Ethereum vs. Solana, Reserving Block Space, and Solving Predictable Execution

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 03:00:00 -0500

Robin Nordnes is the Founder and CEO of Raiku, the upgrade to Solana enabling instant, predictable, and scalable transactions. As an engineer and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience in fintech and distributed systems, Robin has built products from early Ethereum projects to ventures tackling global financial access. With Raiku, he is addressing blockchain’s most critical failure – unreliable execution – by reengineering the underlying infrastructure from first principles. Under his leadership, Raiku is bringing the speed, reliability, and precision of traditional systems to Solana, enabling internet capital markets at scale.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Current crypto market sentiment
- Leaving Ethereum for Solana
- Ethereum vs. Solana
- Enabling planning on Solana transactions
- Reserving block space
- What predictable execution unlocks for DeFi & consumer apps
- The future of Solana
- Why solving execution reliability is critical for Solana’s next stage of growth
- Working with Solana validators

Raiku
X: @raikucom
Website: raiku.com
LinkedIn: Raiku

Robin Nordnes
X: @degenroot
LinkedIn: Robin A.

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#490: Iggy Ioppe, CIO of Theo, on The future of Tokenized Finance, Money-market funds, and Connecting Liquidity Venues

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 03:00:00 -0500

Iggy Ioppe is Chief Investment Officer at Theo, a gateway connecting onchain capital to global markets via institutional-grade trading infrastructure. Previously, Iggy was Co-Head of Polygon Ventures and Managing Partner at Procul Capital, a fintech and Web3-focused venture firm. Earlier, he served as Group Head of Proprietary Investing at Credit Suisse and held investing roles at Sureview Capital, Vinik Asset Management, and Bain Capital. He holds a B.S. in Mathematics from McGill University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The convergence of TradFi <> Crypto
- High-speed traders are now the smartest folks on Wall Street
- Going beyond issuance - why tokenizing assets is not enough
- Current trends in tokenized RWAs
- The value of engaging tokenized assets in spot markets
- The future of tokenized finance and the path to institutional adoption
- Connecting to liquidity venues
- HIP-3 exchange denominated in t-bills
- Money-market funds
- Tokenized gold with yield

Theo
X: @Theo_Network
Website: theo.xyz
LinkedIn: Theo

Iggy Ioppe
X: @iggyioppe
LinkedIn: Iggy Ioppe

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#489: Maximiliano Stochyk, Head of Sales at CoinTerminal, on Token Launchpads, Playbook for Early Stage Crypto Growth, and Crypto Fundraising

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 03:00:00 -0500

Maximiliano Stochyk is Head of Sales at CoinTerminal, where he drives B2B sales, fundraising strategy, and go-to-market initiatives for Web3 projects. CoinTerminal’s launchpad serves over 600,000 users, $2.2B in connected assets, and $80M+ in distributed value. Active in Web3 since 2014, Maxi has closed multiple seven-figure fundraising deals and leads a sales team that manages hundreds of calls with founders every month. He specializes in building scalable sales processes, negotiating multi-million-dollar partnerships, and advising projects on structuring and executing successful fundraising campaigns.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Current state of Argentina
- Crypto in Argentina
- CoinTerminal’s launchpad
- Echo’s $300M sale
- The power of refundable rounds on CoinTerminal
- GTM for crypto projects
- Present day decentralized crypto fundraising
- Token launchpads
- The new playbook for early-stage growth

CoinTerminal
X: @CoinTerminal
Website: cointerminal.com
LinkedIn: CoinTerminal

Maximiliano Stochyk
Instagram: @mstochykduarte
LinkedIn: Maximiliano Stochyk Duarte

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#488: Roman Cyganov, Founder of Antix, on The Future of Digital Identity, Expressive AI, and Tokenized Identity

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 03:00:00 -0500

Roman Cyganov is the Founder and Co-CEO of Antix, a pioneering AI-powered platform that enables users to mint, create, and deploy hyper-realistic digital humans, powering the new wave of applications for digital identities. With over a decade of experience in creative-technology leadership, Roman brings a strong background in creating creator-led and creative-first tech ventures. Under Roman’s leadership, Antix launched its proprietary AIGE platform, which fuses digital identity with the security and functionality of blockchain technology, as well as raising almost $9 million to date to realise its vision of deploying emotionally intelligent digital twins on a large scale.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The future of digital avatars and expressive AI
- Deepfakes vs. real selves: The ethical path forward for avatars
- How tokenised identity could reshape the internet
- Ethics and transparency in the digital creator economy
- The evolution of digital twins from tools to trusted companions
- How AI-powered identity will transform communication and creativity
- The new frontier of ownership: protecting your likeness in the age of AI
- Building emotional intelligence into the next generation of digital humans

Antix
X: @antix_in
Website: antix.in
Telegram: t.me/antix_in

Roman Cyganov
X: @cyganovroman
LinkedIn: Roman Cyganov

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#487: Jeff Garzik, CEO of Bloq and Hemi Network, on The Convergence of Bitcoin and Ethereum, Bitcoin DeFi, Multi-chain Liquidity

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Jeff Garzik, CEO of Bloq and Hemi Network, is one of the earliest contributors and most respected developers in the Bitcoin industry, as a Bitcoin core developer. He has worked for various companies, and played critical roles in open-source projects for some of the most well-known platforms in the cryptocurrency ecosystem such as BitPay, mining tech firm Bitfury, and the Linux Foundation.

Jeff Garzik worked alongside Satoshi Nakamoto, for years through private emails and online forums until the Bitcoin creator went dark in 2011. Garzik has famously stated that he believed he was dealing with Dave Kleiman.

Recently, Jeff started his own blockchain-as-a-service firm, Bloq, which will serve enterprise clients who wish to develop stems on a private, public or confederated blockchain.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Jack Dorsey is not Satoshi
- Latest on BTC price, trends & outlook
- The post-ATH BTC market signal
- Institutional capital flow into Bitcoin DeFi
- The Bitcoin programmability imperative
- Why institutions are moving into BTC
- DeFi ecosystem shift
- The convergence of Bitcoin and Ethereum ecosystems
- Multi-chain liquidity
- Stablecoins and Digital Assets Treasury trends

Hemi Network
X: @hemi_xyz
Website: hemi.xyz
LinkedIn: Hemi Labs

Jeff Garzik
X: @jgarzik
LinkedIn: Jeff Garzik

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#486: Andrew Forson, President of DeFi Technologies, on The Convergence of TradFi and Crypto, QCAD, Canadian Stablecoins, and Crypto ETPs

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Andrew Forson has been the President of the DeFi Technologies since April 2025. Mr. Forson was previously the Head of Ventures and Investments at the Hashgraph Group, the commercialization and enablement arm of Hedera. Mr. Forson is also a non-independent director on the board of directors of DeFi Technologies.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Volatility leads to opportunity
- The convergence of TradFi and crypto
- Stablecoin growth
- Valour - 99 ETPs listed across exchanges in Europe and the UK
- Canada Stablecorp, backer of the QCAD stablecoin
- Collaboration with BTQ Technologies on post-quantum security.
- The current state of crypto
- Investing in crypto via public markets
- Institutions joining crypto

DeFi Technologies
X: @DeFiTechGlobal
Website: defi.tech
LinkedIn: DeFi Technologies

Andrew Forson
X: @Forson
LinkedIn: Andrew Forson, TEP

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#485: Saneel Sreeni, Head of Special Projects at Ritual Foundation, on Creating the Sovereign Execution Layer for AI, The Current L1 Landscape and What’s Next for Crypto

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Saneel is the Head of Special Projects at the Ritual Foundation, where he broadly runs ecosystem, strategy, and GTM for the Ritual Chain. Prior to this, he was on the Founding Team of Ritual Labs, Alkimiya, and on the Investment teams at Dragonfly and Polychain. He also did ML/AI at large logistics companies before entering crypto. He is also a Partner at Accomplice.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Recap of the 10/10 market crash
- The current L1 landscape
- L1 consolidation and why most chains won’t survive
- AI and crypto
- How AI powers on-chain decision-making
- Becoming the sovereign execution layer for AI
- Bringing options trading to crypto
- The importance of having a “bid”
- Infernet

Ritual Foundation
X: @ritualfnd
Website: ritualfoundation.org
Discord: discord.gg/ritual-net

Saneel Sreeni
X: @sanlsrni
LinkedIn: Saneel S.

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#484: Karia Samaroo, Founder of xTAO, on Bittensor, Decentralized AI, Crypto in Canada, and DATs

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Karia Samaroo is the founder/former CEO and Chairman of WonderFi, which is being acquired by Robinhood for $180M. Karia now heads a startup called xTAO, which is devoted to the decentralized AI network Bittensor. Karia is also a former securities lawyer who used his legal expertise to enter the crypto industry in 2016, working with firms like Galaxy Digital before going on to found WonderFi.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Robinhood acquiring WonderFi for $180M
- Bittensor subnets
- xTAO
- Bittensor’s AI network model
- DATs raising money in the least dilutive way possible
- Decentralized AI
- The convergence of crypto + AI
- Crypto in Canada
- Q4 2025 crypto hot takes

xTAO
X: @xtaohq
Website: xtao.co
LinkedIn: xTAO

Karia Samaroo
X: @samaroo00
LinkedIn: Karia Samaroo

#483: Nassim Eddequiouaq, CEO of Bastion, on The 10/10 Crypto Crash, The Future of Stablecoins, and Enterprise Stablecoin Adoption

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Nassim Eddequiouaq is co-founder and CEO of Bastion, a pioneer in regulated stablecoin infrastructure and NYDFS-certified provider. Bastion is the stablecoin issuance platform for financial institutions and enterprises. Prior to founding Bastion, Nass was the Chief Information Security Officer at a16z Crypto, and held senior management roles across Security and Infrastructure at Facebook, Anchorage, Docker, and Apple. He received a M.S. in Computer Science from Ecole d’Ingénieurs en Informatique.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- What happened on the 10/10 crypto crash?
- Winners and losers after the crypto crash
- Bridging traditional finance and digital assets through enterprise-ready solutions
- The diverse use cases of stablecoins
- Why stablecoins (especially USD-pegged) are poised for mass enterprise adoption
- The growing interest in branded stablecoins
- Bastion’s NYDFS trust charter
- GENIUS Act and STABLE Act
- Why regulatory clarity is critical
- Privacy for stablecoin users

Bastion
X: @BastionPlatform
Website: bastion.com
LinkedIn: Bastion

Nassim Eddequiouaq
X: @nassyweazy
LinkedIn: Nassim Eddequiouaq

#482: David Carvalho, CEO of Naoris Protocol, on Post-Quantum Crypto, The Future of Quantum Computing, and The SEC’s Post-Quantum Framework

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 03:00:00 -0400

David Carvalho, Founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist of Naoris Protocol. He is one of the most seasoned voices at the intersection of cybersecurity and blockchain. He is the founder of Naoris Protocol, the world’s first decentralized security solution powered by a post-quantum blockchain and distributed AI, backed by Tim Draper and the Former Chief of Intelligence of NATO.

With over 20 years of experience as a Global Chief Information Security Officer and ethical hacker, David has operated at both technical and C-suite levels in multi-billion-dollar organizations across Europe and the UK, including as CISO of London City Airport and Global CISO of OCS Group. He has advised nation-states and critical infrastructure under NATO on cyber-warfare, cyber-terrorism, and cyber-espionage.

A blockchain pioneer since 2013, David has also contributed to innovations in PoS/PoW mining and next-gen cybersecurity. His work emphasizes risk mitigation, ethical wealth creation, and value-driven advancements in crypto, automation, and distributed AI.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- 2028 is when all financial institutions need to be post-quantum resilient
- How can we quantum-proof our assets?
- Highest risk sectors = healthcare, national security, electrical grids, telecom
- The SEC’s Post-Quantum Financial Infrastructure Framework
- What percentage of your portfolio should be in quantum-safe investments?
- Post-quantum crypto
- The future of quantum computing
- Next steps for Naoris
- Naoris’ growth
- Decentralized cybersecurity mesh

Naoris
X: @NaorisProtocol
Website: naorisprotocol.com
LinkedIn: Naoris Protocol

David Carvalho
X: @katanationcyber
LinkedIn: David Joao Vieira Carvalho

#481: Will Reeves, Co-founder of Fold, on Bitcoin Credit Cards, Bitcoin Rewards, and the Future of Bitcoin

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Will Reeves co-founded Fold in 2019 and has served as Chief Executive Officer of Fold and as a Director since its inception. Over the past eight years, Mr. Reeves has held product leadership positions at Thesis, Inc., A3Ventures, LLC and BYND, leading digital transformation and the development of innovation projects for Google and other Fortune 500 technology companies. Prior to founding Fold, Mr. Reeves was the Head of Payments at Thesis, Inc. from May 2018 to September 2019, where he led the development and strategic direction of the Bitcoin venture studio’s innovative payment and financial technologies. Mr. Reeves also has extensive experience in consumer finance. Prior to joining Thesis, Inc., Mr. Reeves played a key role at A3 Ventures, advancing mobility and commerce through the corporate innovation and investment arm of American Automobile Association. Mr. Reeves holds a B.A. in Rhetoric and Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. We believe Mr. Reeves is well qualified to serve on the New Fold Board because of his background in product development, consumer finance and bitcoin and his operational and historical expertise gained from serving as Fold’s Chief Executive Officer since August 2019.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Why Big Tech Wallets Didn’t Change the Economics of Spending
- Fold’s Approach: Redefining the Economics
- Bitcoin rewards without "buy-in"
- Building a “Bitcoin-first” financial product stack
- Challenges of building with Bitcoin
- Crypto/Bitcoin maturity & infrastructure improving
- Building Bitcoin payments + Bitcoin custody into the app
- BTC All-time high
- Current outlook on BTC
- Bitcoin giftcards

Fold
X: @fold_app
Website: foldapp.com
LinkedIn: Fold

Will Reeves
X: @wlrvs
LinkedIn: Will Reeves

#480: Hantao Yuan, Co-Founder of Moku, on The Current State of Web3 Gaming, Predictions Markets, and Speculation Is The Future of Entertainment

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Hantao Yuan is Co-Founder of Moku, and serves as Moku's marketing growth chief and community strategist. He has been acquiring creators and users for over a decade for game publishers and gaming brands. He has also sold his own esports team through M&A to Overtime sports, and advised 2 other teams through M&A.

Moku is backed by a world-class team of AI experts from MIT, IBM, and Johns Hopkins. The company has already built Web3’s largest distribution engine, driving over 8 million daily active users across partner launches and more than $7 billion in cumulative fully diluted value (FDV). With this foundation, Moku is uniquely positioned to expand Grand Arena beyond Web3 and into mainstream fantasy sports and interactive wagering markets. Grand Arena is converging the $27B fantasy sports market, the $40B prediction market, and the $50B+ AI gaming sector.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Letting users speculate on gaming
- AI content is getting out of control
- Speculation + daily fantasy + AI
- Betting on live matches
- Current state of Web3 Gaming
- Bridging Web2 & Web3 audiences
- Speculation is the future of entertainment
- Why Prediction Markets will work
- Hantao selling his own esports to Overtime sports
- The history of Moku

Moku
X: @Moku_HQ
Discord: discord.gg/moku
YouTube: @MokuHQ

Hantao Yuan
X: @Hantao
LinkedIn: Hantao Yuan

#479: Sam McIngvale, Head of Product at OP Labs, on Moving Your Business Onchain, Optimism’s OP Stack, Why Fintechs are Coming to Optimism

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Sam McIngvale is the Head of Product at OP Labs, a core development team supporting Optimism’s OP Stack. Prior to joining OP Labs, he co-founded wallet infrastructure provider Turnkey and was Head of Product for Coinbase Custody. Sam studied Computer Science at Northwestern University.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Optimism’s OP Stack
- Moving parts of your business onchain
- Fortune 500 companies will run their own blockchains
- The growth of Coinbase Custody
- Flashblocks
- Why exchanges and fintechs are coming to Optimism
- L1s vs L2s
- Coinbase shareholders vs BASE token … what happens?
- Providing infrastructure for stablecoins, payments
- What is Superchain

Optimism
Website: optimism.io
X: @Optimism
LinkedIn: Optimism Foundation

Sam McIngvale
X: @sammcingvale
LinkedIn: Sam M.

#478: Alex Shevchenko, Co-Founder of Aurora & Defuse, on NEAR Intents, User-owned AI, and How AI Agents Will Power the Crypto Economy

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Alex Shevchenko is the Co-Founder of Aurora & Defuse, pioneering next-gen UX with Intents and Chain Signatures for an agentic, user-first future. Defuse Labs develops NEAR Intents to enable seamless cross-chain interactions in an automated world, connecting AI, services, and financial applications. Alex is on a mission to make blockchain invisible, creating seamless, secure, and intuitive crypto experiences for everyday users.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- In crypto, we have investors, not users
- AI & Intents
- User-owned AI
- Building Rainbow Bridge and Aurora
- Decentralized Confidential Machine Learning (DCML)
- The AI LLM lifecycle
- How AI agents will power the crypto economy
- The importance of chain abstraction
- NEAR intents are unlocking autonomous finance
- Creating intuitive automated agent workflows
- AI agents that can transact, adapt, and execute cross-chain

Aurora Labs
Website: auroralabs.dev
X: @auroraisnear
Discord: discord.gg/auroralabs

Alex Shevchenko
X: @AlexAuroraDev
LinkedIn: Alex Shevchenko

#477: Macbrennan Peet, Founder of Project 0, on Borrowing Against Your Entire DeFi Portfolio, Onchain Credit Markets, and Entertainment Finance

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 03:00:00 -0400

MacBrennan Peet is the Founder of Project 0, the first multi-venue, DeFi-native prime broker on Solana. Mac has built and scaled companies across finance, trading, and healthtech, with multiple successful exits and acquisitions, previously founding and exiting Temporal, selling Cabana Health, and being acqui-hired from his hedge fund, KCM. He also co-founded marginfi, a leading decentralized margin protocol, and MRGN Research. Earlier in his career, he worked on mid-market deals at MedEquity Capital and in institutional consulting at Morgan Stanley. He has also advised organizations like Late Checkout and founded two cancer-focused nonprofits. Today, Mac focuses on building systems that manage billions in value and enable more efficient capital access for decentralized finance.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Creating the first DeFi-native prime broker on Solana
- Borrowing against your entire DeFi portfolio
- Building a credit and risk engine
- Liquidity fragmentation
- Simplified multi-venue portfolio management
- Entertainment finance
- Onchain prices are becoming better than offchain prices
- Onchain vs offchain credit markets

Project 0
Website: 0.xyz
X: @0dotxyz
Telegram: t.me/p0dotxyz

MacBrennan Peet
X: @macbrennan_cc
Website: macbrennan.cc

#476: Czhang Lin, Head of LBank Labs, on Stablecoins, PayFi, LBank’s Growth, and Current Crypto Outlook

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Czhang Lin, a seasoned crypto investor with traditional finance expertise, serves as Head of LBank Labs and Partner at LBank Exchange. Transitioning to crypto in 2017 after honing macro strategies, he led investments as Director at PreAngel and Partner at JRR Crypto, driving over 100 successful projects.

As Head of LBank Labs, Czhang leads a global Web3 venture capital platform with over $100 million AUM, dedicated to early-stage investments in compliant blockchain infrastructure, regulated DeFi applications, AI integration, and scalable decentralized solutions—supporting founders and scaling innovation into real-world impact.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Living in China
- Chinese super apps
- LBank
- Crypto exchange founders are working 24/7
- LBank’s Global Blockchain Forum at Korea National Assembly
- Crypto market outlook
- The ongoing competition among stablecoins
- CEXs launching their own Layer 2 solutions
- PayFi (payment solutions)

LBank Labs
Website: lbanklabs.com
X: @LBankLabs
LinkedIn: LBank Labs

Czhang Lin
X: @Czhang_LBank
LinkedIn: Czhang Lin

#475: Joseph Chalom, Co-CEO of SharpLink, on DAT Financing Structures, Ethereum DATs, and The Ethereum Long-Term Investment Thesis

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Joseph Chalom joined SharpLink as Co-Chief Executive Officer, bringing with him over 20 years of institutional leadership at the intersection of traditional finance and digital assets. As former Managing Director and Head of Strategic Ecosystem Partnerships at BlackRock, Joseph was instrumental in driving the firm’s global strategy across digital assets, fintech innovation, and blockchain infrastructure.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The Ethereum long-term investment thesis
- Ethereum DATs
- SBET is not just an investment
- Explaining Ethereum to TradFi
- The history of ETH in public markets
- Staking ETH
- Co-competition it great for Ethereum DATs
- Generating revenue in ETH
- DAT financing structures
- The importance of mNAV in DATs
- Institutions care about 2 things = security & liquidity

SharpLink
Website: sharplink.com
X: @SharpLinkGaming
LinkedIn: SharpLink (SBET)

Joseph Chalom
X: @joechalom
LinkedIn: Joseph Chalom

#474: Alexander Cutler, Core Contributor at Aerodrome, on Becoming The Largest DEX on Base and The Future of DeFi

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Alexander Cutler is a Core Contributor at Aerodrome Finance, the largest decentralised exchange on Base with over $600m TVL. He also serves on the core team at Velodrome Finance, a leading decentralised exchange on the Optimism network. Before entering decentralised finance, Alex built experience across politics, technology, and consulting. His work is driven by a belief in democratising access to liquidity, governance, and ownership opportunities.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- How Aerodrome started
- Bootstrapping growth to become the largest DEX on Base without VC funding
- Community ownership and governance through veAERO
- What does the Syndicate community-first launch on Aerodrome signal for the future of token launches
- DEXs vs CEXs
- The distribution rails of the onchain economy
- The future of DeFi
- Liquidity fragmentation is one of the biggest challenges in DeFi
- Long-term ambition for Aerodrome
- The case for DeFi on Base and why it’s a unique ecosystem
- DeFi maturing beyond speculation toward sustainable financial infrastructure

Aerodrome
Website: aerodrome.finance
X: @AerodromeFi
Discord: discord.gg/aerodrome

Alexander Cutler
X: @wagmiAlexander

#473: Ian Rogers, CXO at Ledger, on Hardware Wallet Evolution, Onchain Identity, Stablecoins, and The Merger of Crypto & TradFi

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Ian Rogers is the Chief Experience Officer at Ledger, leading the consumer-facing arm of the business. Ian was previously the Chief Digital Officer at LVMH, working with a portfolio of nearly one hundred brands across luxury, including Louis Vuitton, Dior, Sephora, and Hennessy. He also sits on the boards of Dr Martens and Lyst. Ian has a background in music and culture, having spent twenty years bringing digital music to the mainstream, first with Winamp then Yahoo!, Beats, and Apple. He contributed to the 2015 launch of Apple Music, including Beats 1, their digital streaming channel. Ian built some of the earliest music-related websites in the early 90s and has been working with the Beastie Boys since 1993.

Ian collaborated closely with Tony Fadell (Godfather of the iPod) to launch Ledger’s latest hardware, Ledger Stax and Ledger Flex. These devices represent the fusion of cutting-edge security technology with an intuitive design that bridges cultural adoption.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Crypto is legal now and we have clear rules
- Present day crypto market
- Permissionless payment rails have proven to be useful
- Luxury brands buy solutions to make the consumer exp more seamless
- Corporate-issued stablecoins
- Ledger Recovery Key
- Hardware wallet evolution
- The growing importance of user-friendly security infrastructure
- The merger of crypto & tradfi
- Living in the future is the best form of cheating
- Value, Identity and AI = the future

Ledger
Website: ledger.com
X: @Ledger
LinkedIn: Ledger

Ian Rogers
X: @iancr
LinkedIn: ian rogers

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#472: Robinson Burkey, Co-Founder of Wormhole Foundation, on Interoperability, Routing Liquidity, and The Current Crypto Landscape

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Robinson Burkey is the Co-Founder of the Wormhole Foundation. With an impressive track record spanning nearly a decade, Robinson has consistently excelled in leading growth and go-to-market strategies for startups, making a significant impact in the crypto industry since 2021. Prior to joining the Wormhole Foundation, Robinson held a key position at Acala, where he spearheaded Business Development and Ecosystem efforts within the Polkadot ecosystem. As a co-founder, Robinson is dedicated to accelerating the foundation's growth trajectory and fostering the widespread adoption of Wormhole as the leading interoperability platform powering multichain applications and bridges at scale. Wormhole provides developers, institutions, and users seamless connectivity between over 40 leading blockchain networks. The wider Wormhole network is trusted and used by teams like BlackRock, Apollo Global, VanEck, Google Cloud, Circle, and Uniswap. To date, the platform has enabled over $60 billion in all-time multichain volume, the most of any protocol in the world.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- NYC is the Silicon Valley of crypto
- Interoperability
- Wormhole connecting 30+ blockchains with 1B+ messages processed
- Fixing the liquidity fragmentation issue
- Cross-chain communication
- Wormhole’s Native Token Transfer (NTT)
- Routing liquidity
- Current ecosystem around DATs
- Securing the most value between all blockchains
- Stablecoins are still crypto’s killer use case

Wormhole
Website: wormhole.com
X: @wormhole
Telegram: t.me/wormholecrypto

Robinson Burkey
X: @robinson
LinkedIn: Robinson Burkey

#471: Dan Rysk, Co-founder of Rysk, on DeFi Options Vaults (DOVs), Trading Options on Hyperliquid, and Why Volatility Yield is the Missing Layer in DeFi

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Dan Rysk is the co-founder of Rysk, a DeFi protocol building options strategies as a new financial primitive. He has been focused on options and structured products in DeFi since 2020, beginning with Opyn, one of the first options protocols. Before that, he worked in investment banking at BofAML and founded and exited a web2 startup in online education.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The inception story of Rysk
- Trading Options on Hyperliquid
- What is ‘options trading’ in tradfi?
- Options provide volatility exposure, whereas perps do not
- DeFi Options Vaults (DOVs)
- Volatility yield = the missing yield layer in DeFi
- Why Hyperliquid is the right place for Rysk and options to work at scale
- What’s next: roadmap, integrations, and how Rysk expands from here

Rysk
Website: app.rysk.finance
X: @ryskfinance
Discord: discord.gg/ZH34Fc3D5S

Dan Rysk
X: @DanDeFiEd
Telegram: @DanDeFiEd

#470: Lorenzo R, Co-founder of USDT0, on Stablecoins, Hyperliquid, Plasma, and Omnichain Fungible Tokens

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Lorenzo R. is an active leader in the Tether ecosystem with five years of experience in cross-chain liquidity and stablecoin infrastructure. He is currently the co-founder & USDT0, a unified liquidity framework for USDT, allowing for connectivity across blockchain ecosystems without friction. He is also the Co-Founder of Everdawn Labs and a contributor to multiple DeFi DAOs.

Previously, Lorenzo spearheaded Alloy by Tether, a groundbreaking Tethered Asset designed to track reference asset prices using Tether Gold (XAU₮) as collateral. This innovation introduces a new level of stability and value to digital assets, with its first token, aUSD₮, serving as a USD-denominated Tethered Asset backed by gold. His passion fuels his commitment to shaping the future of financial interoperability across Web3 ecosystems.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- USDt0 Stats and Growth
- Top 3 on DeFiLlama bridges, $6B+ in volume in 6–8 months
- Challenges USDt0 Solves
- Lorenzo’s Journey to USDT0
- Do we need more stablecoins?
- $1B in Plasma deposits to USDT0
- USDT0’s growth on Hyperliquid
- Eliminating third-party bridges
- USDT0’s XAUt0, the omnichain evolution of Tether Gold (XAUt)
- Omnichain Fungible Tokens

USDT0
Website: usdt0.to
X: @USDT0_to
LinkedIn: USDT0

Lorenzo R.
X: @zerolore
LinkedIn: Lorenzo R

#469: Rekt, Founder of HyperStrategy, on Acquiring and Looping $HYPE, Onchain Convertible Bonds, and Why Hyperliquid is The Best Ecosystem in Crypto

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Rekt is the Founder of HyperStrategy. He is a builder and yield farmer with 11 years of experience in crypto. Previously, Rekt was in trad-fi.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Why Hyperliquid is the best ecosystem in crypto
- HIP-3
- Capturing part of the perp-flow
- Hyperliquid’s ecosystem flywheel
- What is HyperStrategy?
- Onchain treasury protocol on HyperEVM
- Acquiring and looping as much HYPE as possible
- How do Onchain Convertible Bonds work
- HyperStrategy vault
- The Hyperliquid looping effect

HyperStrategy
Website: Hyperstrategy.com
X: @Hyper_Strategy
Telegram: t.me/Hyper_Strategy

Rekt
X: @Iam_rekt_
Telegram: @iam_rekt

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#468: Humayun Sheikh, CEO of Fetch.ai, on AI Agents in Crypto, The Acceleration of AI, and The $FET Crypto Treasury News

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Humayun Sheikh, Founder and CEO of Fetch.ai. He is an entrepreneur, investor, and a tech visionary who is passionate about technologies such as AI, machine learning, autonomous agents, and blockchains. In the past, he was a founding investor in DeepMind, where he supported commercialisation for early-stage AI & deep neural network technology. Currently, he is leading Fetch.ai as a CEO and co-founder, a start-up building the autonomy of the future. He is an expert on the topics of artificial intelligence, machine learning, autonomous agents, as well as the intersection of blockchain and commodities.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- AI outlook for the next couple years
- The acceleration of AI
- AI will unlock two main things: quantum compute and biotech
- AI agents in crypto
- Providing everyone an agentic system out of the box
- Why is $FET undervalued?
- The $FET Crypto Treasury News
- Decentralized AI agents
- AI & jobs

Fetch.ai
Website: Fetch.ai
X: @Fetch_ai
Discord: discord.gg/fetchai

Humayun Sheikh
X: @HMsheikh4
LinkedIn: Humayun Sheikh

#467: Ryan Galvankar, Founder of Plaza Finance, on 60-Second Options on Hyperliquid, Programmable Derivatives, and the Tokenization of Assets

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Ryan Galvankar is the Founder of Plaza Finance, a company at the forefront of decentralized finance (DeFi) innovation and Opt.fun, a decentralized options trading platform. Based in New York, his career began in traditional finance as a trading and investment analyst at The Bank of America and Mangetar Capital. Recognizing the transformative potential of DeFi, Ryan established Plaza Finance to introduce groundbreaking concepts such as programmable derivatives. Ryan's unique background, transitioning from traditional finance (TradFi) to the forefront of decentralized finance (DeFi), has equipped him with critical insights into the potential of blockchain technology to revolutionize financial products. Last month, spurred on by the need to create a unique trading platform that caters to younger audiences, Ryan founded Opt.fun -- a platform that delivers 60-second at‑the‑money options with up to 1000x leverage.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Programmable derivatives
- Options on Hyperliquid
- Opt . fun
- Tokenization of assets
- Staked-ETH products (bondETH & levETH)
- DeFi integration and infrastructure
- Capital markets and equity trends
- Trading yields and perpetuals (perps)
- Market movements & industry analysis
- Lessons learned transitioning from legacy financial institutions

Opt.fun
Website: Opt.fun
X: @opt_fun
Discord: discord.gg/d2maM8uhFM

Ryan Galvankar
X: @unhedged21
LinkedIn: Ryan Galvankar

#466: Jan Warmus, Sales Director at EMCD, on BTC Mining Today, Crypto Mining Pools, and Tech Advancements in Crypto Mining Tech

Mon, 18 Aug 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Jan Warmus is an experienced sales executive with over 6 years of experience in the cryptocurrency and Bitcoin mining space. Currently serving as Sales Director at EMCD, he specializes in building international sales teams, developing go-to-market strategies for crypto products, and has successfully managed millions in Bitcoin-related sales across European markets, making him a recognized expert at the intersection of traditional finance and digital asset mining.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Poland’s economic growth
- Mining pools
- BTC mining today
- How has Bitcoin PoW mining evolved over time into what it is today?
- Crypto mining today
- EMCD’s history and core mission
- Is PoW developing in the same way for other Cryptos in the market?
- SHA-25
- Electrical demand, eco impact, legislation
- Tech advancements in crypto mining tech
- RWAs and tokenized ownership for revenue-generating assets

EMCD
Website: emcd.io
X: @emcd_io
LinkedIn: EMCD: TOP10 Mining pool, Wallet, P2P platform, Coinhold

Jan Warmus
LinkedIn: Jan Warmus

#465: Sid Powell, CEO of Maple, on Bitcoin Yield, Onchain Private Credit, and the Growth of Tokenized Private Credit

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Sid Powell is the CEO and Co-Founder of Maple, the leading on-chain asset manager for institutional credit. With a background in debt capital markets and structured lending, Sid co-founded Maple in 2019 to build the rails for institutional lending on-chain. Prior to Maple, Sid worked on over $3 billion in corporate bond issuance and served as Treasurer at an Australian commercial lender. Today, Maple has originated over $7 billion in loans and currently manages $2.4b in assets across lending, structured products, and yield strategies. The firm’s mission is to make institutional-grade yield accessible globally while enabling borrowers to access capital with greater speed, transparency, and efficiency than ever before.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The convergence of tradfi and crypto
- What is private credit
- On-chain private credit
- How rich people use private credit to stay rich
- Bitcoin right now is the same as boomer’s borrowing equity in their houses
- BTC will surpass $150,000 this cycle
- Institutions are rushing in, and this will be a boon to DeFi
- The growth of Bitcoin DeFi
- The 4 ways to earn BTC yield
- Current regulatory landscape of crypto

Maple
Website: maple.finance
X: @maplefinance
Telegram: t.me/maplefinance

Sid Powell
X: @syrupsid
LinkedIn: Sid Powell

#464: Adrian Brink, Co-Founder of Anoma and Namada, on Intents, Crypto Infrastructure, the Lack of Crypto Apps, and Sovereignty

Mon, 11 Aug 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Adrian Brink is co-founder of Anoma and Namada. Previously, he worked at Tendermint (Cosmos) as the 3rd core developer and Head of Partnerships, and at Web3 Foundation as a technologist. Before Anoma and Namada, Adrian also co-founded proof-of-stake validator Cryptium Labs and Metastate, an R&D team focused on protocol development, architecture, ZK cryptography, and programming languages.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The present state of crypto
- Almost every chain is a version of Ethereum
- What are intents and why are they so important?
- The decentralized nature of Anoma
- Why is there so much infrastructure but so few apps?
- What does Anoma’s mainnet rollout look like?
- Why is sovereignty the fundamental goal of the crypto movement?
- Surviving WW3 (if it happens)
- Becoming the “world computer”
- Moving the DMV onchain

Anoma
Website: anoma.net
X: @anoma
Discord: discord.gg/anoma

Namada
Website: namada.net
X: @namada
Discord: discord.gg/namada

Adrian Brink
X: @adrianbrink
LinkedIn: Adrian Brink

#463: Andrew Cheung, CEO of 01 Quantum Inc, on Building a Quantum-Safe Cryptocurrency and Quantum’s Threat to Crypto

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Andrew Cheung boasts over 25 years of invaluable experience as a Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer of 01 Quantum Inc. Throughout his illustrious career, he has consistently spearheaded cutting-edge innovations, and driven product development, resulting in a portfolio of 9 patents within the computer software industry. Notably, his outstanding contributions were recognized with a nomination for the prestigious Ernst and Young Entrepreneur-Of-The-Year award in 2001.

Andrew remains at the forefront of technological advancements with his latest focus on Post-Quantum Cybersecurity. With over 15 years of hands-on experience and extensive expertise in patent application, prosecution, and litigation processes, he has established himself as a formidable force in the field. His groundbreaking work in Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC), leveraging NIST-approved quantum-resistant algorithms, is a testament to his forward-thinking approach. By combining his PQC engine with patent-protected measures into a wide array of applications, including cryptocurrencies, emails, and AI machine learning systems. This proactive approach ensures robust protection against potential cyber threats posed by quantum computers, thereby safeguarding the integrity of classical computer systems as we know them today.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The history of quantum computing
- Quantum’s threat to crypto
- Building a quantum-safe crypto token
- 01’s partnership with Hitachi
- When will Q-Day arrive?
- RSA and elliptic curve encryption
- When Q-Day comes, public keys are the most at risk
- The crossover of AI and quantum safety
- 01 Quantum’s partnership with the new crypto foundation

01 Quantum Inc
Website: www.01com.com
X: @01quantuminc
LinkedIn: 01 Communique Inc

Andrew Cheung
X: @acheungquantum
LinkedIn: Andrew Cheung

#462: Jacob Phillips, Co-Founder of Lombard Finance, on Bitcoin Capital Markets and Bitcoin Yield

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Jacob Phillips is Co-Founder of Lombard Finance, the company building the full stack of Bitcoin infrastructure needed to bring Bitcoin Capital Markets on-chain and pioneer behind LBTC - the fastest staking protocol to reach $2B TVL. Jacob previously served as Partner at Polychain Capital leading venture investments and governance, and in Product & Strategy at Perennial Labs. Graduated from Case Western Reserve University with degrees in Economics and Computer Science.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- NYC is the crypto capital of the world
- Working at Polychain Capital
- BTC ecosystem and markets
- Lombard history and LBTC accomplishments
- Bitcoin Capital Markets introduction
- Lombard roadmap to accelerating Bitcoin Capital Markets adoption
- Connecting Bitcoin liquidity to external ecosystems and markets
- How Lombard securitizes your BTC
- Integrating BTC tooling onchain

Lombard Finance
Website: www.lombard.finance
X: @Lombard_Finance
Discord: discord.gg/2HG7G69twc

Jacob Phillips
X: @JacobPPhillips
LinkedIn: Jacob Phillips

#461: Drew Shore, Founder of Amino, on Building Crypto Companies and Buying Back Millions of AMINO Token

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Founder of Amino, founder of upcoming Cafe Disco game, founder of WERD pub co, co-founder of Houdini Swap. Helped consult for hundreds of crypto projects. Co- founded Dragters web2 which sold to Superdraft, founder of Moon Poker web 2.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Drew’s crypto inception story
- Networking in crypto
- History of Amino and lessons learned from
- Binance listing horror stories
- Almost getting Gronk’s NFT
- Klay Thompson NFT
- Secret sauce of building crypto apps
- Public company WERD
- Cafe Disco Party
- Worst times you’ve been scammed in crypto
- Drew buying back millions of Amino token

Amino
Website: aminorewards.com
X: @aminoai
Telegram: t.me/aminorewards

Drew Shore
X: @cryptodaddydrew

#460: Sam Williams, Founder of Arweave, on Solving Blockchain Storage, The Migration to Cyberspace, and Humanity's Digital Transition

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Sam Williams is the creator of AO and Arweave, as well as founder and CEO of Forward Research, a venture protocol development company dedicated to growing the permaweb ecosystem. AO is a decentralized supercomputer empowering internet-scale applications, integrated with Arweave's perpetual data storage. Sam is building towards a vision of a truly decentralized web, where user rights are immutably protected and software and data is permanent. He believes that the permaweb’s unique approach to data storage and its potential for creating truly decentralized applications will revolutionize the way we interact with the internet.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- There are centuries where nothing happens and decades where everything happens
- Protecting user speech
- Don’t digitally die is more important than don’t physically die
- Building the right cyberspace
- Solving blockchain storage limitations
- Permanent storage economics:
- The Migration to Cyberspace
- Humanity's Digital Transition
- Why AO Was Built
- Fair Launch & Economic Philosophy
- Rejecting VC-Dominated Models

AO
Website: ao.arweave.net
X: @aoTheComputer

Sam Williams
X: @samecwilliams

#459: Kyle Chassé, Founder of MV Global, on The Current State of Bitcoin, Crypto Markets, and 2025 Crypto Trends

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 03:00:00 -0400

A cryptocurrency industry veteran and technology entrepreneur, Kyle has founded, advised, and invested in numerous early-stage blockchain projects since 2012.

During 2013, Kyle founded World Super Lotto (WSL), the world’s first global lottery based on Bitcoin. In 2014, Kyle went all-in on Bitcoin and later in Ethereum before transitioning into a full-time role as COO of Credits, a Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) company.

In 2016, Kyle co-founded The Review Agency, a SaaS for business reputation management and Kyle’s net-worth exponentially increased as his assets in Bitcoin and Ethereum scaled beyond expectations in 2017. Since then, he's been lucratively analyzing and investing in infrastructure and protocol projects from Kraken, Coinbase, UBANX, Bitfinex, Bitfinance, RNDR, and several others, holding impressive amounts of equity and tokens as he was deemed “smart money” for his capital and skill set in tokenomics, product development, and business development.

Towards the end of 2018, Kyle founded Master Ventures (MV) - a blockchain advisory & think tank based in Koh Phangan, which he now runs.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The current state of Bitcoin & overall crypto market
- Buying BTC in 2012
- The future of ETH
- The user experience of ETH vs SOL
- Founding World Super Lotto (the first Bitcoin-based global lottery in 2013)
- Master Ventures
- PAID Network
- Gifting investments
- Lessons from being in market cycles
- VC investing is better in a bear market

PAID Network
Website: www.paidnetwork.com
X: @paid_network
Telegram: t.me/paidnetwork

Kyle Chassé
X: @kyle_chasseX
LinkedIn: Kyle Chassé

#458: Justin Wang, CEO of Zeus Network, The Current State of Solana and Why Bitcoin Liquidity on Solana Matters

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Justin Wang is the Founder and CEO of Zeus Network. Wang is a serial entrepreneur and crypto developer, beginning his founder's journey with a VPN business in Dubai, which he successfully exited with $3.5 million in equity. A staunch supporter of Solana since 2015, Justin also founded dAppio Lab in 2020, helping to launch advanced Solana dApps before founding Zeus, an innovative cross-chain protocol designed to connect the Bitcoin and Solana networks, enabling seamless interoperability between the two largest blockchain ecosystems.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Overview of Zeus Network and its core mission
- The current state of Solana
- Why Bitcoin liquidity on Solana matters — and how it’s being achieved
- New product btcSOL and how it enables SOL holders to earn native Bitcoin rewards
- The launch of Bitcoin Summer on Solana—a 3-month campaign to drive awareness, education, and adoption of BTC-native activity on Solana
- What makes Zeus’ model different from other wrapped BTC assets
- Strategic partnerships (e.g., Metalpha and Chainlink) that signal growing institutional and developer trust
- Zeus’ roadmap to bring 1% of all Bitcoin on-chain
- Permissionless minting BTC
- Pump.fun token launch

Zeus Network
Website: zeusnetwork.xyz
X: @ZeusNetworkHQ
Discord: discord.gg/zeusnetwork

Justin Wang
X: @dappiokeeper

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#457: Rich Rines, Contributor to Core DAO, on Bitcoin DeFi, The Institutionalization of BTC, and Liquid Staking Bitcoin

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Rich Rines, an initial contributor to Core DAO and former lead of Coinbase's money movement engineering, is a self-taught engineer and successful entrepreneur with ventures like Element Wallet and AutoReach. His expertise lies in 0-1 building, growth, and scalability, with a passion for Bitcoin and decentralization.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Bitcoin DeFi
- Rich thinks 200k per bitcoin before 2026
- The institutionalization of BTC is still so early
- Many of the Bitcoin treasury cos haven’t started purchasing yet
- Core reaching over $1B in TVL
- Explaining dual staking
- Core’s Bitcoin ETP is the first in Europe to offer yield
- Soon to be launched liquid staking token LstBTC
- How Core earns yield, so you can earn yield
- Balancing decentralization and usability

Core DAO
Website: coredao.org
X: @Coredao_Org
LinkedIn: t.me/CoreDAOTelegram

Rich Rines
X: @richrines
LinkedIn: Rich Rines

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#456: Ninad Naik, Co-founder of Mira Network, on Decentralized Verification Layers, The Current State of AI, and Autonomous AI Systems

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Ninad Naik is Co-founder and COO at Mira Network, where he leads research, tech, and operations. Prior to Mira, he spent over a decade as an executive and technology leader at Uber and Amazon across AI, marketplace, and hardware. Prior to technology, Ninad spent several years in investment banking and strategy consulting.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Mira’s unique approach to on-chain access control and identity management
- The shift from static wallet-based gating to dynamic access and reputation layers
- Why Hallucinations occur
- The economic and social implications of truly autonomous AI are staggering
- Why today’s AI can’t be trusted for high-stakes decisions without constant human supervision
- How Mira’s decentralized verification layer slashes AI error rates from ~30% to under 5%
- Leveraging crypto incentives to power reliable, autonomous AI systems
- Evolving from batch-based review to real-time AI output validation
- Focusing first on education and healthcare, where accuracy is mission-critical
- Building Web3 infrastructure that addresses real-world Web2 failures

Mira Network
Website: mira.network
X: @Mira_Network
Discord: discord.gg/mira-network

Ninad Naik
LinkedIn: Ninad N.

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#455: Tobias Reisner, Founder of TR-Ventures, on Hyperliquid, $HYPE, HyperEVM, and HIP3

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 04:00:00 -0400

Tobias Reisner is the founder of TR-Ventures and a crypto researcher focused on early-stage ecosystems. He shares in-depth research and investment theses with a growing international audience. His recent work has focused heavily on Hyperliquid, its tokenomics, and emerging builder ecosystem.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Hyperliquid’s recent performance
- $HYPE Buybacks
- Hyperliquid’s DeFi ecosystem growth
- Staking $HYPE for airdrops and long-term value
- HYPE Treasury companies
- HyperEVM and user activity
- Comparison to Solana and other Layer-1s
- The House of all Finance
- HIP3
- Solving liquidity fragmentation
- Core-writer upgrade

Hyperliquid
Website: hyperfoundation.org
X: @HyperliquidX
Telegram: t.me/hyperliquid_announcements

Tobias Reisner
X: @reisnertobias
Webiste: www.tobiasreisner.com

#454: Wyatt Lonergan, General Partner at VanEck Ventures, on Tokenized Equities, Stablecoins, and Crypto VC in 2025

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 09:00:00 -0400

Wyatt Lonergan is a General Partner at VanEck Ventures, where he drives the firm’s strategic investments in emerging technologies and innovative ventures. He joined VanEck in 2024, bringing a wealth of experience in corporate investment and venture capital. Before joining VanEck, Wyatt led the corporate investment team at Circle Ventures, where he played a pivotal role in identifying and nurturing high-growth opportunities in the digital asset and blockchain space. Wyatt holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Business & Management from Dickinson College.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Tokenized equities
- Stablecoins
- Robinhood tokenizing stocks
- Working at Circle
- Fintechs are “verticalizing backwards”
- Crypto VC in 2025
- Crypto products moving from early pilots to investable products with real compliance rails
- Stablecoins embedded in wallets and payment apps are best positioned for scale
- Stablecoin distribution is now both the business model and the regulatory moat
- VanEck Ventures

VanEck Ventures
Website: www.vaneck.com
X: @vaneck_us
LinkedIn: VanEck

Wyatt Lonergan
X: @Wyatt_Lonergan
LinkedIn: Wyatt Lonergan

#453: Kevin Boon, President of Mysten Labs, on SUI, Walrus, Programmatic Storage, and Co-Creating with Brands

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Kevin was recently appointed President of Mysten Labs and formerly served as the company's Chief Legal Officer. As President, Kevin oversees key aspects of the company’s strategy and operations alongside CEO Evan Cheng, ensuring the company continues to lead the way in driving innovation and growth within the Web3 ecosystem. Kevin has a plethora of experience as a dynamic leader and product-oriented technology attorney, having previously served as general counsel at Picsart, and led the product, regulatory, commercial, and international legal teams at Block. Prior to that, he was lead counsel for multiple retail teams and subsidiaries of Amazon, and was also a transactional associate at Shearman & Sterling LLP. He holds a J.D. from Fordham Law and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Co-creating with other brands = Sui’s secret sauce
- Programmatic storage
- Building decentralized experiences for devs
- Scaling support for builders across gaming, AI, and storage
- Mysten Labs' role in shaping sustainable crypto regulation
- Robinhood tokenizing stocks
- Sui’s object-based model
- Current thesis on Layer 1s
- Plans for 2025 and beyond

Mysten Labs
Website: mystenlabs.com
X: @Mysten_Labs
Discord: discord.gg/mysten

Sui Network
Website: sui.io
X: @SuiNetwork
Discord: discord.gg/sui

Kevin Boon
X: @KevinBoon_ML
LinkedIn: Kevin Boon

#452: Alex Svanevik, CEO of Nansen, on Hyperliquid, How to Find Winning Blockchains, and Nansen Points

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Alex is the CEO and Co-founder of Nansen. He has a background in artificial intelligence, with 10+ years of experience as a data scientist and management consultant before co-founding Nansen in 2019. Alex is also one of the initial DAO members of Lido Finance and PleasrDAO, and serves on the board of WalletConnect.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Quick overview on each of the top 10 coins
- Hyperliquid deep dive
- $HYPE flipping $ADA this summer
- Crypto corporate treasuries
- Nansen Points
- How is XRP still top 5?
- Coinbase + Base’s reach
- How to define and find winning blockchains? Revenue is the answer
- Majority of crypto has horizontal inflation; with no capped supply, it goes on forever
- Capital & People = the most important metrics in crypto

Nansen
Website: www.nansen.ai
X: @nansen_ai
Telegram: t.me/nansen_announcements

Alex Svanevik
X: @ASvanevik
LinkedIn: Alex Svanevik

#451: Ahmad Shadid, CEO of O.XYZ, on Creating the First AI CEO, O.CAPTAIN, and Your EGO vs. AI

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Ahmad Shadid is the Founder and CEO of O.XYZ, an ecosystem with a mission to build the world's first sovereign super intelligence. As Ahmad put it, "AI must be a tool for the people, not a weapon for profit." O.XYZ is a complex ecosystem, starting with it’s core – O.Super Intelligence which will help guide decisions, solve complex problems, and interact with people in the ecosystem; a toolbox with AI-powered products — tools that help you solve various problems using artificial intelligence; O.REASEARCH, O.INFRA, O.CHARITY, O.CAPITAL, and O.CHAIN as parts of the ecosystem.

Previously, Ahmad was CEO of IO.net, leading the company to a $4.5 billion valuation in under a year. His leadership propelled IO.net to secure $2 million in a seed round with a $10 million fully diluted valuation in June 2023, followed by a groundbreaking $40 million Series A round at a $1 billion FDV in March 2024. This rapid growth culminated in the successful launch of the $IO coin on Binance, with a remarkable $4.5 billion FDV in June 2024.

Ahmad is a visionary behind the DeAIO – an Autonomous AI Organization, the next step in the evolution of DAOs aiming to revolutionize AI governance and development. Demonstrating his commitment to innovation, he has personally invested $130M into the development of DeAIO. O.XYZ builds on Ahmad’s legacy, aiming to redefine AI and showcase how decentralized technology can drive common progress and serve people.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Creating the First AI CEO
- O.CAPTAIN
- The future of AI & Crypto
- Flipping the Narrative: AI that Helps, Not Replaces
- Your EGO vs AI
- Security ops and code review will become increasingly important
- The feeling of working for AI and not a person
- Building a company fully managed by AI
- Living in Doha, Qatar
- The future of AI & Crypto
- An AI CEO that adapts workloads based on your energy and well-being

O.XYZ
Website: www.o.xyz
X: @o_fndn
Telegram: t.me/oxyz_community

Ahmad Shadid
X: @shadid_io
LinkedIn: Ahmad Shadid

#450: David Carvalho, Founder of Naoris Protocol, on Post-Quantum Crypto and Quantum’s Threat to Crypto

Mon, 23 Jun 2025 03:00:00 -0400

David Carvalho is the founder of Naoris Protocol. With more than 20 years of experience as an ethical hacker, he was an advisor to Nation States and Critical Infrastructures under NATO on cyber-war, cyber-espionage, and cyber-terrorism, and has been an advisor to multi-billion-dollar global enterprises like Nokia-Siemens, AT&T, and EA Games. (Interestingly enough, David created the first Distributed AI and Blockchain-based CyberSecurity Mesh solution and was also the former youngest Global CISO in the EU).

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Why cybersecurity needs a new foundation (not more tools)
- The threat of Q-Day: why quantum risk is closer than we think
- How to secure Web2 & Web3 without hard forks or protocol fragmentation
- Quantum’s Threat to Crypto
- Building trust at the Sub-Zero Layer: securing the layer below all layers
- Why Web3 inherited all of Web2’s worst security flaws — and how to fix it
- Transforming IoT, AI and cloud into trusted, self-defending systems
- Why legacy cybersecurity is a dead end — and how incentives fix it
- Designing the world’s first Post-Quantum DePIN infrastructure
- Becoming “security” in the blockchain trilemma

Naoris Protocol
Website: naorisdr.com
X: @NaorisProtocol
Discord: discord.gg/naorisprotocol

David Carvalho
X: @katanationcyber
LinkedIn: David Joao Vieira Carvalho

#449: Kevin Liu, Co-founder of GOAT Network, Bitcoin DeFi, BTC Institutional Adoption, and BTC Yield

Thu, 19 Jun 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Kevin Liu is a software developer and co-founder of GOAT Network, where he leads the development of the first production-ready Bitcoin-native zkRollup to revolutionize BTCFi. As CEO of ZKM and co-founder of Metis, an Ethereum Layer 2 with $60M in locked assets, he drives scalable, decentralized blockchain solutions. Liu’s vision has secured 5,000 BTC in institutional commitments for GOAT and launched the BitVM2 Playground, advancing trustless Bitcoin bridges. His extensive Bitcoin expertise and leadership in innovative cryptoeconomic designs make him a pivotal figure in blockchain’s evolution.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Merge mining
- BitVM2 Playground
- Crypto builders in Toronto
- Institutional adoption of Bitcoin
- BTC supply shock incoming
- How GOAT gets their yield
- BTC self custody
- Bitcoin security
- How GOAT contributes to the core mission of Bitcoin

GOAT Network
Website: www.goat.network
X: @GOATRollup
Telegram: t.me/GOATrollup

Kevin Liu
X: @kevinliub
LinkedIn: Kevin Liu

#448: Tracy Jin, COO of MEXC, on 2025 Crypto Investing Trends, RWAs, TON Blockchain, and the Convergence of AI & Crypto

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Tracy Jin is the Chief Operating Officer at MEXC, a leading global cryptocurrency exchange. With over a decade of fintech experience, including executive roles at major firms like Bybit, she focuses on enhancing institutional-grade security, risk management, and trading efficiency in the crypto markets. Under her leadership, MEXC has evolved into a comprehensive platform, expanding its footprint in the DeFi space and advancing the adoption of stablecoins. Her visionary approach has propelled the company towards becoming a key player in the global crypto ecosystem. Jin holds a Master’s degree in Software Development from Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Helping the greater crypto ecosystem
- Tokenization of Real Assets
- Why MEXC launched a $300M fund
- Investors care less about FOMO and more about fundamentals
- TON will become the first everyday blockchain by 2027
- Institutional funds are becoming more selective and investing less
- The convergence of AI and crypto
- On-chain crypto agents
- The future of launchpads
- Geographical patterns — where the most promising founders are coming from
- Types of startups that attract the most interest

MEXC
Website: www.mexc.com
X: @MEXC_Official
Telegram: t.me/MEXC_Official_TGBot

Tracy Jin
X: @TracyMEXC
LinkedIn: Tracy Jin

#447: Vikrant Sharma, CEO of Cake Wallet, on Bitcoin Privacy, Bitcoin Silent Payments, Monero, and Using Cryptocurrency Anywhere

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Vikrant Sharma is the CEO of Cake Wallet. He’s a lifelong entrepreneur and early crypto investor since 2013. Founded Cake Labs in 2017 to build self-custody tools focused on privacy, security, and decentralization. He also served as the Director of Liberty Steel.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Bitcoin Privacy
- Making crypto accessible for all
- Bitcoin silent payments
- Using cryptocurrency anywhere
- Increasing bitcoin value and use cases
- Monero and privacy coins
- Ring signatures on Monero
- Creating a better payment system than Visa & MasterCard
- Quantum’s threat to crypto
- The Lightning Network

Cake Wallet
Website: cakewallet.com
X: @cakewallet
Telegram: t.me/cakewalletannouncements

Vikrant Sharma
X: @vikrantnyc
LinkedIn: Vikrant S.

#446: Zac Townsend, CEO of Meanwhile, on Bitcoin Life Insurance and The Future of Bitcoin Finance

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Zac Townsend, Co-founder and CEO of Meanwhile, the world's first Bitcoin-denominated life insurance company. Zac is on a mission to transform how people save and transfer wealth across generations through Bitcoin. After securing a $40M Series A funding round, Meanwhile is expanding its reach to bring Bitcoin-based financial solutions to a global audience facing currency debasement and inflation risk.

With Meanwhile, Zac is building a future where intergenerational wealth can be preserved in Bitcoin rather than inflationary fiat currencies.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- $40M Series A funding
- Bitcoin as long-term money
- The tax advantage gap
- The future of Bitcoin finance
- Bitcoin hodlers need more sophisticated wealth planning tool
- Intergenerational Bitcoin transfer
- Bitcoin credit markets
- How Meanwhile gets safe, sustainable yields on BTC
- The first financial statements to be fully audited in Bitcoin

Meanwhile
Website: meanwhile.bm
X: @meanwhilelife
LinkedIn: Meanwhile

Zac Townsend
X: @ztownsend
LinkedIn: Zachary Townsend

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#445: Matthew Graham, Managing Partner of Ryze Labs, on Stablecoin Legislation, The Future of AI Companions, and AI Agents in Crypto

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Matthew Graham is the Managing Partner of Ryze Labs and one of the key drivers of the firm's long-term strategic vision and mission. Matthew founded Ryze in 2015, initially as a sell-side tech investment banking platform focusing on representing international technology companies for strategic partnership and investment in emerging markets. Matthew has been involved in the blockchain industry since 2013 and has supported many great entrepreneurs and companies through good and bad times.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Stablecoin legislation
- Best PMF in crypto = stablecoin
- Using stablecoins as a hedge against hyperinflation
- USDT will remain the stablecoin beast of the world
- The synergy between AI & Crypto
- AI is a natural fit for Crypto
- AI needs lightning-fast & secure payment rails; crypto is the solution
- The future of AI companions
- Bringing AI agents into the world of physical devices
- Amiko launch in July

Ryze Labs
Website: www.ryzelabs.io
X: @RyzeLabs
Instagram: @ryzelabs

Matthew Graham
X: @mattyryze

#444: Federico Brokate, VP at 21Shares, on BTC Treasuries, Crypto ETFs, Bitcoin Decoupling, and Stablecoin Regulation

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Federico Brokate, VP, is the Head of the U.S. Business at 21Shares. In this capacity, he oversees the growth of the U.S. business, providing investors with the most access, convenience, and quality in the digital asset ETF industry. Previously, Federico led the iShares Business Strategy team at BlackRock, where he created and executed strategic initiatives driving organic asset and revenue growth. He also developed go-to-market strategies for new business verticals and managed priority product launches, including the successful launch of iShares’ Bitcoin ETF. Federico holds a Bachelor of Science in Business from NYU Stern School of Business, with dual concentrations in Finance and Global Business.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Bitcoin is flourishing; investor demand continues to grow
- Has Bitcoin decoupled?
- BTC supply shock is happening and the big shock will happen soon
- Institutions will continue to buy bitcoin
- M2 money supply’s impact
- Over 70 crypto ETPs are awaiting SEC decisions
- Investors are broadening their thinking beyond Bitcoin
- How 21Shares researches crypto and launches new ETPs
- Wealth advisors will soon have access to crypto ETFs
- The market is rewarding crypto corporate treasuries
- Regulatory momentum in Washington on stablecoins

21Shares
Website: www.21shares.com
X: @21shares_us
LinkedIn: 21Shares US

Federico Brokate
X: @Fede_Brokate
LinkedIn: Federico Brokate

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#443: Matt Mudano, CEO of Arch, on Bitcoin Momentum, Programmability on Bitcoin, and the Future of Bitcoin DeFi

Thu, 29 May 2025 07:00:00 -0400

Matt Mudano is the co-founder of Arch, which is building the permissionless financial rails for a Bitcoin-denominated world. The entrepreneur began his blockchain journey while mining Bitcoin from his college dorm in 2012, and has had multiple successful exits in the consumer products and technology sectors. Now he is building the infrastructure to support fast, liquid, and composable Bitcoin apps, including DEXs, Perps, and more.

In this conversation, we discuss:

- Bitcoin's momentum
- Bitcoin’s brand
- BTC corporate treasury companies
- Enhancing the building on Bitcoin experience
- The ArchVM
- Continuing to incentivize bitcoin miners
- The future of the Bitcoin ecosystem
- BTC conference in Vegas
- Mainnet launch
- Programmability on Bitcoin
- Bitcoin DeFi has grown 1,700% in the past year to $5.4 billion
- The Future of Bitcoin DeFi

Arch
Website: www.arch.network
X: @ArchNtwrk
Discord: discord.gg/archnetwork

Matt Mudano
X: @proofofmud
LinkedIn: Matt Mudano

#442: Marcin Kazmierczak, Co-Founder of RedStone, on Blockchain Oracles and Tokenizing Private Credit

Mon, 26 May 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Marcin Kazmierczak is Co-Founder of RedStone Oracles, the fastest-growing blockchain oracle, backed by Arrington Capital. In crypto since 2017, Marcin has played a key role in developing several innovative DeFi prototypes, previously a Google Cloud PM with a background in quantitative methods in economics. He is also the Co-founder of ETHWarsaw and a Laureate of Forbes 30 under 30 Poland. With a deep understanding of cross-chain infrastructure, Marcin’s expertise spans from DeFi applications to oracles and blockchain data solutions.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The infrastructure powering the future of finance
- What is an blockchain oracle?
- Price still trumps everything in the oracle game
- The surge for trad-fi data coming on-chain
- Oracles beyond price feeds
- The identity bottleneck in DeFi
- Decentralized identity and AI
- Real-world use cases for institutional RWAs
- The $20B signal
- Composability meets compliance
- Tokenizing private credit and the future of private credit
- On-chain looping

RedStone
Website: www.redstone.finance
X: @redstone_defi
Telegram: t.me/redstonefinance

Marcin Kazmierczak
X: @MarcinRedStone
LinkedIn: Marcin Kaźmierczak ⛓️

#441: Anthony Anzalone, CEO of XION, on Blending the Physical and Digital World, Why Chain Abstraction is Dead, and Securing Partnerships With Major Brands

Thu, 22 May 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Anthony Anzalone is the CEO and Founder of XION, the first layer 1 blockchain purpose-built for consumer adoption by abstracting away the complexities of crypto. Previously known for his "Burnt Banksy" project that sparked global discourse on NFTs, Anthony has established himself as a pioneering figure in Web3 with his work covered by Bloomberg, BBC, CBS, and other major media outlets.

Through his leadership at XION, Anthony focuses on democratizing blockchain technology through chain abstraction, enabling partnerships with global brands like Uber, BMW, and Amazon. His innovations have gained significant institutional validation, with XION becoming the first Title II EU-compliant L1 blockchain and receiving support from Anchorage Digital, the first federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The Evolution of Mainstream Blockchain Adoption
- Institutional Validation & Market Positioning
- Chain Abstraction: From Theory to Implementation
- Chain Abstraction is Dead
- Enterprise Adoption Success Stories
- Securing Partnerships With Major Brands
- Regulatory Leadership in a Changing Landscape
- Building a Web3 Ecosystem for Everyone
- NYSE Live Appearance
- Blending the Physical and Digital World

XION
Website: xion.burnt.com
X: @burnt_xion
Discord: discord.gg/burnt

Anthony Anzalone
X: @BurntBanksy

#440: Harrison Hines, CEO of Fleek, on AI Agents, The Agent Layer, and The Future of the Creator Economy

Mon, 19 May 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Harrison Hines is the CEO and Founder of Fleek. Fleek is an agentic cloud platform that gives developers and creators the tools to create, manage, and monetize AI agents and virtual influencers. Before launching Fleek, Harrison founded Token Foundry at ConsenSys and has spent the past 8+ years building in the blockchain and Web3 space, now focused on the next evolution of the web: agents.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- What is Fleek and what is an agent?
- The Agentic Cloud
- The Agent Layer and Why It Matters
- Why agents are the next step after apps and websites
- Real Use Cases and Impact of Agents
- Companions, digital twins, AI-powered influencers
- Combining agents + AI UGC to scale content with real reach
- Partnership with Eliza
- The Future of the Creator Economy
- Agent marketplace

Fleek
Website: fleek.xyz
X: @fleek
Discord: discord.gg/fleek

Harrison Hines
X: @harris0nhines
LinkedIn: Harrison Hines

#439: Lucas Matheson, CEO of Coinbase Canada, on Crypto in Canada and Why Stablecoin Regulation Must Be a National Priority

Thu, 15 May 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Lucas Matheson is the CEO of Coinbase Canada. He is committed to helping create a more equitable financial system in Canada through the power of blockchain.

Lucas has always believed in Coinbase’s mission. He opened his Coinbase account back in 2014, long before joining the company. In his role, he ensures Coinbase is built for Canadians and with their interests in mind. Working with partners, government and regulators, he is making crypto more accessible to Canadians.

Prior to Coinbase, he was the founder and CEO of Pinshape (exit Formlabs), and Senior Director at Shopify leading various operational and finance teams.

Lucas is passionate about entrepreneurship. He spends his spare time advising entrepreneurs and founders on how they can grow and scale, and actively invests in web3 projects and infrastructure.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Why Stablecoin Regulation Must Be a National Priority
- Canadian stablecoin
- How do you define a stablecoin?
- To update the system, we need to change the rules
- Stand With Crypto
- How to get governments to adopt crypto
- The power of Stripe and how they adopted stablecoins
- Educating institutional partners in Canada
- Coinbase introducing EFTs in Canada
- Building a trust battery with regulators

Coinbase
Website: www.coinbase.com
X: @coinbase
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Coinbase

Lucas Matheson
X: @lucmatheson
LinkedIn: Lucas Matheson, MBA, CFA

#438: Austin Federa, Co-Founder of DoubleZero, on The Next Internet, The Future of Solana, and Validators

Mon, 12 May 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Austin Federa is the Co-Founder of DoubleZero, a dedicated high-performance network for modern distributed systems, and President of the DoubleZero Foundation.

Prior to co-founding DoubleZero in 2024, Austin served as Head of Strategy at the Solana Foundation where he was responsible for setting the direction of the Foundation and working with projects and developers building across the Solana ecosystem. Previously, Austin worked on marketing and product at Bison Trails, and was Director of Marketing at Republic and Republic Crypto, a private investing platform.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The future of Solana
- Token 2049 & Dubai
- Solana’s emergency patch
- We are living in the best time, and we’re on a good track
- How AI will impact our lives
- The founding story of Double Zero
- Increase bandwidth and reduce latency
- Testnet transactions are always quicker than mainnet
- Manufacturing
- Scaling to 500,000 TPS
- Why validators are so important
- Data routing is a huge problem for high-performance networks

DoubleZero
Website: doublezero.xyz
X: @doublezero
Discord: discord.gg/doublezero

Austin Federa
X: @Austin_Federa
LinkedIn: Austin Federa

#437: Joe Burnett, Director of Market Research at Unchained, on Bitcoin Treasury Companies, Storing Bitcoin, and Financial Services for Bitcoin Holders

Thu, 08 May 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Joe Burnett is the Director of Market Research at Unchained, a leading bitcoin financial services company founded in 2016.

At Unchained, Joe drives research and market analysis efforts, delivering insights into bitcoin movement indicators, market trends, and the evolving needs of Unchained’s client base — from individual holders to large institutions. As the host of The Bitcoin Frontier Podcast, he leads expert discussions surrounding bridging the gap between bitcoin adoption and financial markets to audiences worldwide.

Before joining Unchained, Joe served as Product Manager and Head Analyst at Blockware Solutions, where he shaped market research and product strategy focused on bitcoin mining. An influential voice in the bitcoin community, Joe’s commentary regularly appears across major media outlets, and his independent publication, The Mustard Seed, offers unique perspectives on the future of bitcoin, technology, and civilization.

Joe holds a Master’s degree in Business Analytics and a Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems and Computer Science from the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- HODL waves = tracking the movement of bitcoins on-chain
- Saylor’s billion $ BTC buys not moving the market?
- Bitcoin as a strategic reserve
- Collaborative custody model
- Financial services for Bitcoin holders
- Bitcoin market trends and analysis
- Publicly traded companies holding bitcoin
- nMAV for bitcoin treasury companies
- Have we decoupled?
- Bitcoin reaching gold parity

Unchained
Website: www.unchained.com
X: @unchained
LinkedIn: Unchained

Joe Burnett
X: @IIICapital
LinkedIn: Joe Burnett, MSBA

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#436: Raullen Chai, CEO of IoTeX, on The Current DePIN Landscape, Autonomous Infrastructure, and How Physical AI Changes The Game

Mon, 05 May 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Raullen Chai is the Co-Founder and CEO of IoTeX, a modular Web3 infrastructure platform connecting smart devices and real-world data to blockchains. Chai is an expert cryptographer, privacy and data security expert who previously held positions at Google, Uber and Oracle. At Google, he led security initiatives for the company’s technical infrastructure and was the founding engineer of Google Cloud Load Balancer. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo, where his research focused on designing and analyzing lightweight ciphers and IoT authentication protocols.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Raullen’s journey from working at Google, Uber, Oracle >>> founding IoTEX
- Waterloo grads moving to USA instead of staying in Canada
- Why Physical AI changes the game
- The DePIN + AI strategic reserve
- Current DePIN landscape
- Smart cities & infrastructure for the people
- Decentralized robotics
- Autonomous infrastructure
- Unlocking real-time, real-world AI inputs
- Enabling sentient AI agents and self-learning infrastructure
- An Uber-like system for robots

IoTex
Website: iotex.io
X: @iotex_io
LinkedIn: IoTex

Raullen Chai
X: @Raullen
LinkedIn: Raullen Chai

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#435: Michael Mo, CEO of KULR Technology Group, on Acquiring 668 BTC, The Future of Robotics, and Thermal Management Tech

Thu, 01 May 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Michael Mo is the CEO and Co-founder of KULR Technology Group, Inc. (NYSE: KULR), a leader in energy management solutions accelerating the global transition to a sustainable electrification economy. Under his leadership, KULR has developed cutting-edge thermal management and battery safety technologies that power innovations in aerospace, electric vehicles, consumer electronics, and energy storage systems.

A seasoned technology entrepreneur and investor, Michael brings over 20 years of experience in go-to-market strategy, product development, and business growth within hardware, semiconductor, and energy sectors. Before founding KULR, he was Senior Director of Product Marketing at Amlogic Inc., where he drove strategic product initiatives, and an early-stage investor in more than 20 technology companies, including Spreadtrum Communications, CadMos, and AllBusiness.com.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Getting orange-pilled by Michael Saylor
- KULR’s strategic BTC treasury acquiring 668 BTC
- Digital capital and digital energy
- Adopting the corporate bitcoin reserve strategy
- Volatility = vitality
- Why don’t more public companies adopt BTC?
- KULR’s recent partnership with German Bionic for exoskeletons
- Robotics will 100% be a multi-trillion dollar industry
- Thermal management tech
- Future Developments in Energy Management
- The importance of energy in AI

KULR Technology
Website: kulr.ai
X: @KULRTech
Instagram: @kulrtech

Michael Mo
X: @michaelmokulr
LinkedIn: Michael Mo

#434: Daniel ‌Marin, Founder of Nexus, on Enabling the Verifiable Internet, Aggregating Unused Compute Power, ZK Tech, and Verifiable AI

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Daniel ‌Marin is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Nexus. Daniel founded Nexus in 2022 while he was at Stanford with the mission to enable the Verifiable Internet, which will redefine digital trust and create a more transparent, secure, and efficient world. To achieve this mission, Nexus is building a globally distributed Layer-1 blockchain powered by a zkVM engine.

Daniel earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Stanford University. He was named to Forbes’ ’30 Under 30’ list in 2025, and earned Bronze medals at the International Physics Olympiad in 2018 and 2019.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Are we back?
- Enabling the Verifiable Internet
- Parallels between AI and ZK
- Aggregating unused compute power
- Verifiable AI
- Solving critical issues around privacy, trust, and security
- 2.1 million users and 3.6 million nodes already connected to the network
- With Nexus, more nodes = faster blockchain
- Verifiable computation will impact many markets, blockchain is just one example
- The power of zkEVM
- The future of AI & Blockchain

Nexus
Website: nexus.xyz
X: @NexusLabs
Discord: discord.gg/nexus-xyz

Daniel Marin
X: @danielmarinq
LinkedIn: Daniel Marin

#433: Leah Wald, CEO of SOL Strategies, on Becoming More Than the MicroStrategy of Solana, TradFi Crypto Investments, and Solana ETFs

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Leah Wald is CEO of SOL Strategies (CSE: HODL), a publicly traded Canadian company actively investing in, supporting, and providing infrastructure for the Solana blockchain ecosystem. Prior to Sol Strategies, Leah co-founded and was the CEO of Valkyrie Investments, leading the firm to over $1.3 billion in AUM through cryptocurrency trusts, hedge funds, and ETFs. Valkyrie’s advisory business was acquired by CoinShares, and its private trust division by Abra Capital in 2024. Previously, Leah worked at the World Bank Group in the sub-Saharan African region and served as a Partner at Lucid Investment Strategies, one of the first RIAs to allocate GBTC for their clients. Ms. Wald is a contributing writer for Forbes and co-authored the book Hyperwave Theory: The Rogue Waves of Financial Markets.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Becoming more than the MicroStrategy of Solana
- Acquiring OrangeFin Ventures + Laine Validators (Stakewiz)
- The difference between SOL Strategies and SOL ETFs
- Investing in ETFs vs companies
- Why investment advisors don’t push public crypto companies + ETFs
- Partnership with Pudgy Penguins
- The future of the Solana ecosystem
- Pudgy penguins securing a SOL validator
- Investing in crypto via publicly traded companies
- Launching a Solana staking mobile app
- Bridging consumer brands with institutional blockchain infrastructure:
- Branded validators

SOL Strategies
Website: solstrategies.io
X: @solstrategies_
LinkedIn: SOL Strategies Inc.

Leah Wald
X: @LeahWald
LinkedIn: Leah Wald

#432: John Lilic, CEO of Telos, on Quantum Money and Quantum Computing’s Threat (and Opportunity) to Crypto

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 03:00:00 -0400

John Lilic, CEO of Telos, is a technology entrepreneur and investor focused on blockchain, cryptography, and quantum infrastructure. A leading angel VC, he has taken the Q pill and believes the quantum threat and opportunity are arriving much sooner and more profoundly than most in the blockchain ecosystem realize.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The quantum pill
- Quantum vs Blockchain Security
- Quantum money
- Post-Quantum money vision
- PQC
- Concepts for quantum-native financial infrastructure
- Crypto has serious competition coming with quantum on the rise
- Why blockchain is an important step but not the final destination
- Why the quantum threat is arriving sooner and with greater impact than most expect
- The disconnect between popular discourse and real quantum progress
- How to get involved in quantum computing today?

Telos
Website: www.telos.net
X: @HelloTelos
Telegram: t.me/HelloTelos

John Lilic
X: @LilicJohn
LinkedIn: John Lilic

Together, they tackle some of DeFi’s biggest problems: fragmented interest rates and the lack of unified benchmarks.

So whether you’re after stable yields or helping shape the future of on-chain finance, Treehouse has the infrastructure to power your journey.

They’re also running their GoNuts rewards program, simply hold tAssets to earn Nuts, and stand to be rewarded at the end of the campaign.

Head over to their website at treehouse.finance to explore more, and follow them on X @TreehouseFi to stay updated.

The future of decentralized fixed income is being built, and it's being built by Treehouse.

#431: Jag Sidhu, Core Developer at Syscoin, on Scaling Bitcoin's Utility and Creating AI-Ready Infrastructure for Crypto

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Jagdeep (Jag) Sidhu is the core developer at Syscoin and part of the management team at SYS Labs, Building Bitcoin’s only modular network. Jag has a strong background in software engineering and is a pioneer in the crypto industry. As a core developer, Jagdeep has marshalled the world’s fifth-oldest surviving cryptocurrency into its second decade, creating tools, technologies, and services that enhance the functionality and usability of the Syscoin platform.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Trump’s tariffs tantrums and it’s market implications
- Will crypto decouple from trad-fi?
- Building on Bitcoin
- The founding story and history of Syscoin
- AI-Ready infrastructure for crypto
- Human observation in the development of AGI
- Supporting AI-driven decentralized applications
- Scaling Bitcoin’s utility
- Launching mainnet for zkSYS
- Merge-Mining with Bitcoin
- Proof-of-Data Availability (PoDA)

Syscoin
Website: syscoin.org
X: @syscoin
Telegram: t.me/Syscoin_Official

Jag Sidhu
X: @realSidhuJag
LinkedIn: Jagdeep Sidhu

Together, they tackle some of DeFi’s biggest problems: fragmented interest rates and the lack of unified benchmarks.

So whether you’re after stable yields or helping shape the future of on-chain finance, Treehouse has the infrastructure to power your journey.

They’re also running their GoNuts rewards program, simply hold tAssets to earn Nuts, and stand to be rewarded at the end of the campaign.

Head over to their website at treehouse.finance to explore more, and follow them on X @TreehouseFi to stay updated.

The future of decentralized fixed income is being built, and it's being built by Treehouse.

#430: Chris Chung, Co-Founder of Titan, on Solana DeFi, DEX Aggregators and Stablecoins

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Chris Chung is the CEO & Co-Founder of Titan, Solana’s first Meta DEX Aggregator. In addition, Chris is very active in the Toronto Solana ecosystem as the local ambassador for MonkeDao in Toronto, as well as a Superteam Canada member. Chris previously served as the CTO of a cryptocurrency and US equity hedge fund building out low latency analytics, back office reporting, and trading systems.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Crypto in Canada
- Living in Toronto
- Talented Canadians moving to USA
- Solana DEX landscape and why it's ripe for disruption
- What exactly is a “Meta DEX Aggregator?
- Live-streaming price updates
- SOL vs. ETH
- Titan's role in the Solana DeFi stack
- One-Click Spot Swaps = bread and butter
- Amazing time to buy $SOL
- Next growth catalyst = payments & stablecoins

Titan
Website: titandex.io
X: @Titan_Exchange
Telegram: t.me/TitanDexSol

Chris Chung
X: @realRockyChung
LinkedIn: Chris Chung

Together, they tackle some of DeFi’s biggest problems: fragmented interest rates and the lack of unified benchmarks.

So whether you’re after stable yields or helping shape the future of on-chain finance, Treehouse has the infrastructure to power your journey.

They’re also running their GoNuts rewards program, simply hold tAssets to earn Nuts, and stand to be rewarded at the end of the campaign.

Head over to their website at treehouse.finance to explore more, and follow them on X @TreehouseFi to stay updated.

The future of decentralized fixed income is being built, and it's being built by Treehouse.

#429: Willem Shroé, CEO of Botanix Labs, on Building a Bitcoin EVM L2, The Future of Bitcoin, and Spiderchain

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Willem Schroé is the CEO and Co-Founder of Botanix Labs, the team behind Spiderchain, the on-chain home of Bitcoin Finance. Willem is an engineer and lifelong entrepreneur from Belgium, where he researched authenticated encryption and macroeconomics, and was a national mathematics medalist. He formed the thesis of the Spiderchain whiteboarding in the halls of Spangler while doing his MBA at Harvard, and continues to be a menace to whiteboards across the world with his cryptographic scribbles.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Bitcoin EVM outperforming BitVM
- ZKrollups don't work on Bitcoin
- Bitcoin isn't digital gold; it's digital money
- Using Bitcoin for day-to-day transactions
- Bitcoin finance adoption
- Fully programmable Bitcoin without compromising decentralization
- The importance of unlocking Bitcoin’s $1T+ market cap for on-chain finance
- How Spiderchain differs from other Bitcoin Layer 2s
- Earning yield from your bitcoin without selling
- The importance of decentralization
- The magic of whiteboards

Botanix Labs
Website: botanixlabs.xyz
X: @BotanixLabs
Discord: discord.gg/botanixlabs

Willem Schroé
X: @WillemSchroe
LinkedIn: Willem Schroé

#428: Vikram Arun, CEO of Superform, on The Future of DeFi, High-yield Stablecoins, and Why The Market Is Down

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Vikram Arun is the Co-Founder of Superform, an on-chain wealth app to grow your crypto portfolio. With a background in engineering and finance, Vikram has been building in the crypto space since 2017. Prior to Superform, he co-founded Ledger Capital, a crypto research firm, and worked on Wall Street conducting biotech equity research and analyzing high-growth technologies. At BlockTower Capital, Vikram co-led a $100m DeFi and Yield Fund, building scalable trading strategies across 15 chains with a focus on statistical arbitrage. Seeing the need for scalable DeFi products, he left BlockTower in 2021 to launch Superform. Vikram holds a Bachelor’s in Engineering and a Master’s in Finance from Washington University in St. Louis.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Why the market is down right now
- Current market cycle
- The founding story of Superform
- Stablecoin indexes
- High-yield stablecoins are becoming crypto’s killer app
- Bringing users on-chain without the on-chain feeling
- Superform V2 shows where DeFi is headed
- DeFi is finally breaking past the power user bubble
- Capital efficiency is the next frontier
- What will bring DeFi to the masses?
- Next wave of DeFi Applications
- Are memecoins actually dead?

Superform
Website: www.superform.xyz
X: @superformxyz
Discord: discord.gg/superform

Vikram Arun
X: @vik_runa
LinkedIn: Vikram Arun

#427: Joanna Zeng, CEO of SOON Network, on Being an ETH L2 Using SVM, The Future of High-performance L2s, and Community Centric Building

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 05:00:00 -0400

Joanna Zeng is the co-founder and CEO of SOON Network, before establishing SOON (Solana Optimistic Network), Joanna used to be a currency trader on Wall Street, and has since held roles in business development and product management at Aleo, Optimism, and Coinbase. She also served as a founding board member of CryptoNYC and is an active angel investor.

SOON is a Layer 2 (L2) blockchain built on Solana's Virtual Machine (SVM). It uses Optimistic Rollups to take Solana’s already impressive speed and low costs to a whole new level.

Under Joanna’s leadership, SOON has rapidly progressed, launching its DevNet within six months and positioning itself as a key player in the next wave of blockchain innovation. Her journey from traditional finance to blockchain exemplifies her vision and commitment to creating sustainable, real-world solutions that push the boundaries of decentralization.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- SOON is an ETH L2 using the SVM
- Saratoga Water going viral
- Community-Centric Building
- SOON led a ‘co-builder’ funding round in 2024 with no VC involvement, allowing community to have stake in the project
- High-Performance L2s
- Solana Virtual Machine (SVM)
- SOON’s decoupled SVM separates execution from consensus
- Kaito yaps
- Key benefits of using SVMs compared to EVMs
- The future of L2s
- Ethereum L2 fragmentation

SOON Network
Website: soo.network
X: @soon_svm
Discord: discord.gg/soon-svm

Joanna Zeng
X: @justsayuluvjo
LinkedIn: Joanna Zeng

#426: Darius Tabai, CEO of Vertex Protocol, on Perpetual Trading, DeFi Infrastructure, and UX Improvements

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Darius Tabai is the CEO and co-founder of Vertex Protocol, a leading decentralized exchange built on Arbitrum. Darius is an experienced trader with a history of working in FX, Commodities, and Crypto. Darius’ previous roles include the Head of Trading at JST Digital, Head of Trading at CrossTower, Global Head of Metals Trading at Merrill Lynch, and the Global Head of Precious Metals Trading at Credit Suisse.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The story behind founding Vertex Protocol
- What is a perp DEX?
- Arbitrum's speed, low fees, and EVM compatibility
- DeFi Infrastructure & UX Improvements
- The competitive landscape of DEXs
- What Makes Vertex Unique?
- Tokenomics & Protocol Incentives
- The rise and fall of memecoins
- Liquidity across blockchains
- Partnership with Berachain and SONIC

Vertex
Website: vertexprotocol.io
X: @vertex_protocol
Telegram: t.me/LiquidityLounge

Darius Tabai
X: @DariusTabai

#425: Ian Smith, CEO & CTO at Quantum EVM, on Quantum Computing Risks to Blockchain and The Future of Web3 Security

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 06:00:00 -0400

Ian Smith is the CEO & CTO at Quantum EVM. He’s a seasoned technologist with 21+ years of experience spanning blockchain, cryptography, cloud microservices, and AI-driven solutions.

Proficient in 20+ languages, including Golang, Python, and C++, he has led groundbreaking projects across industries. Ian has worked with major organizations like NASA, Oracle, VISA, and Boeing, contributing to secure, scalable systems in finance, IoT, and blockchain.

With deep expertise in cryptography and post-quantum security, Ian has designed advanced blockchain architectures and smart contract platforms. His blend of technical depth and leadership makes him a key innovator in next-generation digital ecosystems.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The Quantum Threat to Cryptography
- Quantum Computing Risks to Blockchain
- Why existing cryptographic systems are vulnerable and how to prepare
- Quantum-Safe Solutions
- Practical steps to secure blockchain infrastructure and decentralized applications
- The Future of Web3 Security
- How post-quantum cryptography will transform the blockchain landscape
- The Timeline and Race for Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC)
- What’s next for Quantum EVM?
- Quantum safe crypto addresses

Quantum EVM
Website: quantumevm.com
X: @quantumevm
Telegram: t.me/quantumevm

Ian Smith
X: @IanSmith_HSA
LinkedIn: Ian Smith

#424: Yves La Rose, CEO of EOS Network, on The History EOS Network, EOS Rebranding to Vaulta, and Scaling Bitcoin

Mon, 24 Mar 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Yves La Rose is a global technology entrepreneur who founded the EOS Network and currently serves as its CEO. Yves is a long-standing, well-respected leader within the EOS community, known particularly for the pivotal role he has played in the ecosystem’s resurgence.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The history and future of EOS Network
- Blockchains need to upgrade themselves
- EOS Rebrand to Vaulta
- The New Era of Finance
- How Web3 is Poised to Dramatically Disrupt Finance
- Vaulta Banking Advisory Council
- Creating the Financial Operating System for Web3 Banking
- Innovation is shifting back to Bitcoin
- The future of Bitcoin DeFi
- Canada and USA relationship
- The Four Pillars: Wealth management, consumer payments, portfolio management, insurance

EOS Network
Website: eosnetwork.com
X: @EOSNetworkFDN
Telegram: t.me/EOS_global

Yves La Rose
X: @BigBeardSamurai

#423: Kyle Reidhead, Co-Owner of Milk Road, on The Current Crypto Market, "The Fat App" Thesis, and Coinbase Becoming a Trillion Dollar Company by 2030

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Kyle Reidhead is Co-Owner & Head of Research at Milk Road, a leading crypto investing media company, and Founder of Impact3, a crypto-native marketing agency helping top protocols and brands in crypto grow.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Current market sentiment - short-term pain for long-term gain
- The market isn’t as bad as it seems
- The USA needs to refinance their trillions of debt and they want lower interest rates
- Trump is trying to cause a fake recession
- "The Fat App" thesis
- All the L1s are lowering their prices
- Analyzing the business cycle
- Kyle’s thesis around Coinbase becoming a trillion-dollar company by 2030
- DeFI
- AI agents

Milk Road
Website: milkroad.com
X: @MilkRoadDaily
Instagram: @milkroaddaily

Kyle Reidhead
X: @KyleReidhead
LinkedIn: Kyle Reidhead

#422: Seb, CEO of Sophon, on The Secret for Mass Adoption, High-quality Sticky Apps, AI Agents, and Sophon’s Curation Model

Mon, 17 Mar 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Seb is the founder and CEO of Sophon, the Consumer chain bridging Web2 to Web3 and the largest blockchain node sale, raising $65 million. He also serves as VP of Paper Ventures. He was previously at Matter Labs, the creators of ZKsync.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Why is the market down bad? Trump trying to cut rates
- US Bitcoin reserve - won’t be buying Bitcoin anytime soon
- Mass adoption won’t happen by convincing people to use crypto
- Mass adoption = better internet products, powered by the benefits of having an onchain backend
- Gaming, social, AI, prediction markets = crypto goes mainstream
- Why the current crypto UX is broken
- Sophon’s curation model - focuses on high-quality, sticky applications
- The financialization of culture
- Data drives our modern economies
- Sophon Intelligence Agency - $5M for on-chain AI agents
- The social oracle
- Sophon’s data hub

Sophon
Website: sophon.xyz
X: @sophon
Discord: discord.gg/sophonhub

Seb
X: @0xsebastiena

#421: Frederik Gregaard, CEO of the Cardano Foundation, on Identity Layers, Current Market Insights, Regulatory Landscape, and the Future of Cardano

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Frederik Gregaard is CEO of the Cardano Foundation, the Swiss-based non-profit organization which exists to ensure the advancement of the Cardano protocol, while also contributing to the positive advancement of blockchain as a world-changing technology. A leader in fintech and blockchain, Gregaard previously served as Director and Head of Digital in PwC's Financial Services Advisory practice and as Director and Head of Institutional Business at Saxo Bank Switzerland. Whilst at the Cardano Foundation, Gregaard has overseen the advanced integration of state-of-the-art blockchain technology in a variety of fields that address real-world problems through collaborations with Switzerland for UNHCR, veritree, and University of Zurich among others.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Cardano's Inclusion in the U.S. Crypto Strategic Reserve
- Current market insights
- Vision for Cardano's Institutional Adoption
- Views on regulatory landscape
- Foundation's role in Cardano ecosystem growth
- Cardano future roadmap and priorities
- Cardano is the world’s largest DAO
- Respecting borders and nationalism
- Adding 2 billion people to the market
- Bank’s superpower is the direction of capital
- Midnight - spinning up blockchains and give up ownership of the chain
- Creating something that’s decentralized from Day 1
- Cardano’s roadmap: Expanding bitcoin, RWAs, data provenance
- AI Agents

Cardano Foundation
Website: cardanofoundation.org
X: @Cardano_CF
Telegram: t.me/CardanoAnnouncements

Frederik Gregaard
X: @F_Gregaard
LinkedIn: Frederik Gregaard

#420: Aryan Sheikhalian, Head of Research at CMT Digital, on The State of Crypto VC, Stablecoins, AI Agents, and The Solana Ecosystem

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 03:00:00 -0400

Aryan Sheikhalian is the Head of Research and helps with deal sourcing and due diligence at CMT Digital. Aryan joined CMT Digital in the summer of 2021 during Fund II to focus on blockchain research and venture. Aryan started his career at Accenture prior to starting college as part of the "Horizons scholar" program. He then worked and published research throughout his time at college with the Blockchain Research Institute under the leadership of Don Tapscott. He graduated from Columbia University in the City of New York with a B.A in Economics and Mathematics, where he also co-founded the Blockchain Club in the Fall of 2017.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The US will continue it’s dollar supremacy via stablecoins
- CMT Digital Fund 4 & Investment Strategy
- CMT Digital views blockchain as the "Everything Technology"
- Emerging Investment Opportunities
- State of Crypto VC
- Fintech & Stablecoins Convergence
- AI Agents & Blockchain
- Scaling Infrastructure
- Solana Ecosystem
- Self-ownership is still an untapped area of crypto
- Regulatory environment is great, but new developers aren’t here yet
- Tariff implications

CMT Digital
Website: cmt.digital
X: @CMT_Digital
LinkedIn: CMT Digital

Aryan Sheikhalian
X: @Aryonchain
LinkedIn: Aryan S.

#419: George Bousis, CEO of Raise, Web3 Gift Cards Industry, Spending to Earn, Raising an Additional $63M, and Customer Loyalty Programs

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 03:00:00 -0500

George Bousis is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor at the forefront of the payments, loyalty, and blockchain industries. As the Founder, CEO, and Chairman of Raise, he launched the world's leading platform for digital gift cards. Under his leadership, Raise achieved over $5 billion in sales and saved its customers upwards of $250 million.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Becoming a Dad!
- $63M Strategic Raise & Smart Cards Initiative
- Building Web3 tech that feels like web2 tech
- Raise Consumer App
- Raise for Business (B2B)
- Gift Card Exchange (GCX)
- Spend to earn model
- Web3 Gift Cards Industry
- Customer Loyalty Programs
- Partnership with Citi Bank and BILT Rewards
- Challenging the status quo
- Utility drives loyalty

Raise
Website: www.raise.com
X: @RaiseApp
LinkedIn: Raise

George Bousis
X: @GBousis
Instagram: @gbousis
LinkedIn: George Bousis

#418: Dominic Schwenter, COO of Lisk, on The Ethereum Foundation, The Superchain, and Ethereum’s Role in High-Growth Markets

Mon, 03 Mar 2025 05:00:00 -0500

Dominic Schwenter is the COO of Lisk, the Layer 2 blockchain dedicated to bringing Web3 adoption in emerging markets back to Ethereum. Dominic’s understanding of blockchain technology and its applications has positioned him as a thought leader in the industry, contributing to numerous innovative projects and solutions. Dominic is dedicated to advancing the adoption of blockchain technology with a specific focus in emerging markets. His contributions continue to shape the future of decentralized finance and technology, making him a key figure in the digital revolution.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Current market sentiment and why we’re bleeding
- Market are usually tied to global liquidity
- Trump wants the market to hit ATHs
- Current discussion on the Ethereum Foundation
- Ethereum’s Role in high-growth markets.
- The Superchain - interoperability and scalability
- Web3's biggest challenge is usability
- Defining builder-focused networks
- Crypto needs a super app
- Lisk’s Role in the Optimism Superchain

Lisk
Website: lisk.com
X: @LiskHQ
Telegram: t.me/Lisk_HQ

Dominic Schwenter
X: @domschwenter
LinkedIn: Dominic Schwenter

#417: Austin King, Co-Founder of Omni Network , on Memecoin Mania, $XRP, and Creating the Abstraction Layer for the Ethereum Ecosystem

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 03:00:00 -0500

Austin King is the Co-Founder of Omni Network and CEO of Labs, the abstraction layer for the Ethereum ecosystem. With a background in computer science from Harvard, Austin began his entrepreneurial journey by creating a payment network that scaled to over 10 billion transactions before being acquired by Ripple. Today, Austin, alongside Co-Founder Tyler Tarsi, is leading Omni’s mission to empower application developers to access users and liquidity across the entire Ethereum ecosystem without smart contract upgrades.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Memecoin Mania
- Portnoy running with GREED and GREED 2
- Hayden is going to jail!
- Onboarding people to memecoins kills our chance for mass adoption
- Ripple and XRP - current sentiment and why normies love it
- Omni is an abstraction layer for the Ethereum ecosystem
- Allowing users to trade crypto like Robinhood
- Removing bridges and wrapped assets from the front-end
- Gaining access to all the users in the on-chain economy
- The secret sauce to mass adoption
- SolverNet SDK
- Tokenization is crypto’s killer use case

Omni Network
Website: omni.network
X: @OmniFDN
Telegram: t.me/OmniFDN

Austin King
X: @0xASK
LinkedIn: Austin King

#416: Prabal Banerjee, Co-founder of Avail, on The Future of Blockchain Interoperability, Chain Abstraction, and Scalability in Web3

Mon, 24 Feb 2025 03:00:00 -0500

Prabal Banerjee, co-founder of Avail, is a researcher and technical leader. He spearheaded the implementation of the Data Availability layer in 2020 and led a team of researchers to explore new frontiers in cryptography and blockchain technology.

Prabal's interest in cryptography began in 2013, which led him to explore blockchain technology in 2016. He accumulated a wide range of internship experience with companies including IBM and Oracle. With his extensive expertise and passion for blockchains, Prabal is poised to continue leading the way in exploring the possibilities of this exciting and fast-evolving field for years to come.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Breaking down the $LIBRA token launch
- The future of blockchain interoperability
- Web2 allows us to scale, Web3 has too many chains and we need more interoperability
- When will the interoperability problem be fixed
- The nuances of blockchains
- How cross-chain communication is evolving and why interoperability is critical for the next phase of Web3 growth
- The challenges of fragmented ecosystems and how unification can drive adoption
- Scalability in Web3: are we ready for mass adaption?
- Avail DA, Avail Fusion, Avail Nexus

Avail
Website: www.availproject.org
X: @AvailProject
LinkedIn: Avail

Prabal Banerjee
X: @prabalbanerjee
LinkedIn: Prabal Banerjee

#415: William Quigley, Co-founder of Tether & WAX, on Bitcoin, Stablecoins, ETH vs. SOL, Crypto Regulation, and The 2025 Crypto Cycle

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 03:00:00 -0500

William E. Quigley is a cryptocurrency and blockchain investor. He has incubated and invested in more than 30 bitcoin, blockchain and cryptocurrency-related investments and co-developed the first crypto derivative used to trade pre-release Ethereum. He co-founded Tether, the first fiat-backed stablecoin and most traded cryptocurrency to date, GoCoin, a pioneering crypto payments processor, and co-founded WAX, a leading NFT blockchain platform. In 2013, Mr. Quigley co-founded Crypto Currency Partners, a blockchain equity investment fund with early notable investments in Coinbase, Kraken, Bitfury, Authy, ChangeTip and Circle.

Prior to his involvement in blockchain, Mr. Quigley was a venture capitalist, co-founding Clearstone Venture Partners, a $700M early-stage focused venture capital firm where he concentrated on communications and consumer technology companies. Before Clearstone, Quigley was a managing director at Idealab! Capital Partners (ICP), the world’s first consumer Internet venture capital firm. ICP was an early investor in some of the leading Web 1.0 era companies including Paypal, Netzero, MP3.com and Goto.com, one of the first companies to rank search results based on a bidding process.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The 2025 post-bitcoin halving is proceeding precisely as prior patterns predict. The first 3 stages in the pattern have already occurred
- If BTC follows past patterns, it should hit $300K to $350K in this 2025 bull market run
- The cycle we're in has a bigger impact than the news cycle
- Trump’s crypto policy
- ETH vs. SOL
- The founding story and growth of Tether / $USDT
- Hot take — countries will adopt CBDCs
- You can’t hide your money, might as well use digital currencies
- US Strategic Bitcoin reserve
- Did MicroStrategy drive the price from 60k-100k?
- US banks should not be able to close accounts of customers who own or trade cryptocurrencies

WAX
Website: www.wax.io
Twitter: @WAX_io
Telegram: t.me/wax_io

William E. Quigley
Twitter: @WilliamEQuigley
LinkedIn: William E. Quigley

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#414: Jay Jog, Co-Founder of Sei Labs, on L1s vs. L2s, Solving EVM’s Scalability Issues, Stablecoin Tooling, and Unlocking Web2-level Performance for Web3

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 03:00:00 -0500

Jayendra "Jay" Jog is the Co-Founder of Sei Labs, the team behind the Sei Network, a high-performance, low-fee, general-purpose blockchain designed for the best UX for developers and users. Before Sei, Jay was a software engineer at Robinhood, an experience that inspired his decision to build a layer-1 blockchain capable of Web2 scale.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- L1s vs. L2s
- Working at Robinhood during the Gamestop saga
- T+2 settlement period is archaic and crypto solves this
- Sei’s origin story
- Base layer blockchains
- The EVM is here to stay
- Solving the EVM’s scalability issues
- Unlocking Web2-level performance
- Sei’s Giga Roadmap
- Stablecoin tooling
- AI agents
- $SEI

Sei Labs
Website: www.sei.io
X: @Sei_Labs
Telegram: t.me/seinetwork

Jay Jong
X: @jayendra_jog
LinkedIn: Jayendra Jog

#413: Sean Ren, CEO of Sahara AI, on Personalized Knowledge Agents (KAs), Copyright Issues in AI, and The Future of Crypto AI

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 03:00:00 -0500

Sean Ren is the CEO and Co-Founder of Sahara AI, a decentralized blockchain platform built for AI. Backed by top investors in AI and Crypto, including Pantera Capital, Polychain Capital, Sequoia Capital, Samsung, Matrix Partners, and many more, Sahara AI has raised over $40 million to advance decentralized AI. Today, Sahara AI is trusted by 35+ leading tech innovators and research institutions, such as Microsoft, Amazon, MIT, Character AI, and Snapchat.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The Future of AI and Crypto
- Knowledge Agents (KAs)
- Complexities of Data Collection
- Operational Hurdles
- Ethical Considerations
- AI Across Leading Institutions
- Generative AI
- Autonomous Systems
- DeepSeek Open Source AI
- The Issue of Copyright in AI
- AI-based Revenue Streams and Marketplaces

Sahara AI
Website: saharalabs.ai
X: @SaharaLabsAI
LinkedIn: Sahara AI

Sean Ren
X: @xiangrenNLP
LinkedIn: Sean (Xiang) Ren

#412: Vijay Chetty, CEO of Eclipse Labs, on Combining Solana’s Speed With Ethereum’s Liquidity and Ethereum’s First SVM L2

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 03:00:00 -0500

Vijay Chetty is the CEO of Eclipse Labs, bringing a wealth of experience in business development and corporate strategy. Previously, he served as the Chief Growth Officer at Eclipse Laboratories Inc. and held advisory roles at Uniswap Labs. His career includes notable positions as Head of Business Development at both Uniswap Labs and the dYdX Foundation, where he played a pivotal role in enhancing liquidity and trading volumes.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Combining Solana’s speed with Ethereum’s liquidity
- Deepseek’s effect on the market
- X/twitter = the townsquare and scoreboard of crypto
- Developer interest
- Liquidity fragmentation
- The blockchain trilemma
- Mainnet Metrics: 1.5 billion transactions in first 2 months + 100M-150M daily transactions in the last few weeks
- Multichain Future
- Trading and Capital Markets Impact
- LRTs and tETH

Eclipse Labs
Website: www.eclipse.xyz
X: @EclipseFND
Discord: discord.gg/eclipse-fnd

Vijay Chetty
X: @0xLitquidity
LinkedIn: Vijay Chetty

#411: Ahmad Shadid, CEO of o.xyz, on Building the World's First Sovereign Super AI, DeAIOs, and The Future of AI & Crypto

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 03:00:00 -0500

Previously, Ahmad was CEO of IO.net, where he led the company to a $4.5 billion valuation in under a year. His leadership propelled IO.net to secure $2 million in a seed round with a $10 million fully diluted valuation in June 2023, followed by a groundbreaking $40 million Series A round at a $1 billion FDV in March 2024. This rapid growth culminated in the successful launch of the $IO coin on Binance, with a remarkable $4.5 billion FDV in June 2024.

Ahmad is a visionary behind the DeAIO – an Autonomous AI Organization, the next step in the evolution of DAOs which is aiming to revolutionize AI governance and development. Demonstrating his commitment to innovation, he has personally invested $130M into the development of DeAIO. O.XYZ builds on Ahmad’s legacy, aiming to redefine AI and showcase how decentralized technology can drive common progress and serve people.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Building the world's first Sovereign Super AI
- Decentralized AI Managed Organization (DeAIO)
- The future of crypto and AI
- Quant funds are already dabbling into AI-based cryptocurrencies
- AI CEOs
- AI infrastructure
- O.REASEARCH, O.INFRA, O.CHARITY, O.CAPITAL, and O.CHAIN
- O.ATLAS, O.PACIFIC, O.ORBIT
- Sending AI data to space
- Living in Qatar
- Deepseek rocking the AI industry
- What’s next for O.XYZ over the next 12-24 months
- Feb 22 product release in Hong Kong

O.XYZ
Website: www.o.xyz
X: @o_fndn
Telegram: t.me/oxyz_community

Ahmad Shadid
X: @shadid_io
LinkedIn: Ahmad Shadid

#410: Brandon Goh, CEO of Treehouse, on Liquid Staking Tokens, Decentralized Offered Rates (DORs), and The Fixed Income Market

Mon, 03 Feb 2025 03:00:00 -0500

Brandon Goh is the Co-Founder and CEO of Treehouse Labs, the parent company of TRHX and Treehouse. The firm builds infrastructure, data, and standards to enable confident and informed investments in digital assets. Before founding Treehouse, Brandon held fixed-income roles at Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo Securities, focusing on credit, derivatives, and asset-backed securities. He has a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Summary of Treehouse Labs
- Overview of the fixed income market - total market is worth $600 trillion
- The problems and solutions of the fixed-income market
- Bringing decentralized infrastructure to fixed income
- Liquid staking tokens - tAssets and tETH
- Capturing returns from market inefficiencies
- Decentralized Offered Rates (DOR)
- The history of benchmark and interest rates
- Ensuring accuracy and transparency in rate-setting
- Project Bamboo

Treehouse Labs
Website: www.treehouse.finance
X: @TreehouseFi
Discord: discord.gg/treehousefi

Brandon Goh
X: @mytwogweis

#409: Raj Brahmbhatt, CEO of Zeebu, on How Blockchain Can Revolutionize B2B Settlement Times and Reshape Financial Ops in the Telecom Industry

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 03:00:00 -0500

Raj Brahmbhatt is the CEO of Zeebu, a trailblazing company revolutionizing the telecommunications sector with cutting-edge blockchain solutions. Raj has been at the forefront of innovation in the Web3 and decentralized finance (DeFi) industries. Raj began his career addressing key challenges in the telecom industry, transitioning from Web2 to Web3, bringing blockchain technologies to markets heavily reliant on legacy systems. With a passion for entrepreneurship and a deep understanding of blockchain's potential, Raj has dedicated himself to transforming how businesses and individuals interact with telecom solutions while spearheading Zeebu’s mission to shape the future of connectivity.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- How Blockchain Can Revolutionize B2B Settlement Times
- Legacy Problems in the Telecom Industry
- Reshaping financial operations in the telecom industry
- Potential of DeFi for B2B Transactions
- Blockchain’s environmental sustainability
- Borderless payments and instant settlements
- USA has a chance to become the leader of Web3
- Memecoin mania
- Valuit
- RWAs
- Making assets more accessible, liquid, and tradable on a global scale

Zeebu
Website: www.zeebu.com
X: @zeebuofficial
Telegram: t.me/ZeebuOfficial

Raj Brahmbhatt
X: @RealRajBrahm
LinkedIn: Raj Brahmbhatt

#408: Gregg Bell, CBO of HBAR Foundation, on Hedera, Creating New Investment Vehicles, Tokenization, and Creating the Trust Layer of the Internet

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 03:00:00 -0500

Gregg Bell currently serves as Chief Business Officer at The HBAR Foundation, the venture arm of the Hedera ecosystem. Previously, he was the Head of Growth at Binance.US overseeing several business lines. Before that, he co-founded and led the asset management business at A3 Financial Investments (NASDAQ listed fund) and the crypto lending business at Salt Blockchain, where he served as Chief Investment Officer and Chief Operating Officer. Gregg’s entrepreneurial and investment experience spans over 15 years, and bridges traditional finance and digital markets, with roles at two multi-billion dollar hedge funds. At ArrowMark Partners, his responsibilities included investment analysis and trading. He began his career at the hedge fund Silver Point Capital. He also spent a tenure on Wall Street as a trader and investment banker at the Royal Bank of Scotland. Gregg holds a B.S. from the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering. Gregg’s philanthropic activities include founding a non-profit charitable foundation in 2009 which has funded the construction of several elementary schools.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- HBAR’s 2024 growth and catalysts behind the 400% gain
- Creating new investment vehicles
- RWA tokenization
- Enormous global brands building on and working with HBAR
- Hedera is the most used public protocol
- Canary Capital HBAR Trust and the recent HBAR ETF filing
- Hedera’s DLT
- Asset Tokenization Studio
- Creating the trust layer of the internet
- The future of AI and crypto
- Working at Binance US and stories of working with CZ

HBAR Foundation
Website: www.hbarfoundation.org
X: @HBAR_foundation
Telegram: t.me/HBAR_foundation

Gregg Bell
X: @GregoryLBell
LinkedIn: Gregg Bell

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#407: Gaurav Sharma, CTO of IO.net, on DePIN, the Internet of GPUs, and AI Integration in Decentralized Systems

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 03:00:00 -0500

Gaurav Sharma is the Chief Technology Officer at IO.net, where he leads technology-driven departments with a focus on backend engineering, AI, and data infrastructure. With a track record of senior tech leadership, Gaurav has previously headed teams managing core engineering initiatives at organizations like Binance, Agoda, Amazon, eBay, and HP R&D. His career highlights include optimizing data processes and scaling technology solutions to meet complex demands. Driven by a passion for leveraging technology, Gaurav aims to drive innovation and operational efficiency within the decentralized space.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- DePIN
- The Internet of GPUs
- AI integration in decentralized systems
- Instant and permissionless access to the internet of GPUs
- Putting your GPU to work and receiving earnings
- Building on Solana
- Working for Amazon, HP, and Binance
- Stories from working with CZ
- Pattern recognition across tech sectors
- Advice for CTOs
- IO Intelligence

IO.net
Website: io.net
X: @ionet
Telegram: t.me/io_net

Gaurav Sharma
X: @gauravtdhinait
LinkedIn: Gaurav Sharma

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#406: Justin Banon, Founder of Boson Protocol, on Decentralized AI Commerce and Tokenization of Real-World Assets

Mon, 20 Jan 2025 03:00:00 -0500

Justin Banon is the founder of Boson Protocol, the foundational infrastructure enabling decentralized AI commerce by automating trust and transactions for the exchange of physical and digital goods. He is also the founder of Fermion Protocol, an extension of Boson designed to facilitate decentralized commerce for high-value items.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Introduction to Boson and Fermion Protocols
- Tokenization Should Provide More Usability Than the Traditional Asset
- Solving the Physical Asset Oracle Problem
- Trends in Web3 and Consumer Adoption
- Luxury and Fashion Markets Embracing Web3
- Tokenization of Real-World Assets
- Crypto Commerce AI agents
- Decentralized AI commerce
- Which industries are best positioned to adopt RWAs in the near term

Boson Protocol
Website: www.bosonprotocol.io
X: @BosonProtocol
Telegram: t.me/bosonprotocol

Fermion Protocol
Website: www.fermionprotocol.io
X: @FermionProtocol
Telegram: t.me/fermionprotocol

Justin Banon
X: @JBanon
LinkedIn: Justin Banon

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#405: Nemil Dalal, Head of Coinbase Developer Platform, on AgentKit, Bridging AI and Blockchain, Crypto AI Agents, and Building the Onchain Future

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 03:00:00 -0500

Nemil Dalal is the Head of Coinbase Developer Platform, a suite of tools designed to simplify and secure blockchain development. CDP aims to make building onchain applications as accessible as traditional software development, helping developers and creators of all skill levels innovate within the onchain economy.

Nemil joined Coinbase in 2019 as Director of Crypto and has since been a key part of creating the building blocks for developers to build onchain experiences for a billion users. Before Coinbase, Nemil served as CEO for CryptoFin where he developed one of the earliest DeFi protocols.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Getting into crypto - Brian Armstrong giving Nemil 0.1 BTC in 2012
- Coinbase Onramp: Simplifying Global Stablecoin Adoption
- Coinbase Developer Platform: Building the Onchain Future
- AgentKit: Bridging AI and Blockchain
- On-chain AI
- The role of AI agents in crypto
- Crypto opens the floodgates for AI agents
- AgentKit powers the Virtuals ecosystem
- How the developer landscape will change in 2025
- We will tokenize everything

Coinbase
Website: www.coinbase.com
X: @coinbase
Facebook: Coinbase

Nemil Dalal
X: @nemild
Website: nemil.com

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#404: Ogle, Co-founder of Glue, on The Evolution of Crypto Security Threats, the Future of Blockchain Security, and the Glue Blockchain

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 03:00:00 -0500

Ogle is a globally recognized cybersecurity and on-chain negotiation expert known for his work in recovering funds from major crypto hacks. He is the co-founder of Glue, a blockchain ecosystem that features a primary Layer 1, integrated Layer 2 solutions, an application hub and a user-friendly service layer for enhanced functionality. He has successfully helped recover over $400 million in cryptocurrencies from high-profile incidents involving platforms like Euler, Curve/Alchemix and Kyberswap. Before founding Glue in 2021, Ogle built several multi-million dollar tech companies, with the largest achieving over $45 million in annual revenue. His expertise has led him to lecture at Ivy League institutions and train government agencies on DeFi and crypto security. With extensive experience and innovative solutions at his disposal, Ogle is driven to make blockchain technology secure, user-friendly and accessible to all.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Ogle’s methodology for recovering stolen funds
- Crypto safety best practices
- Crazy hacking stories
- The creation of Glue
- Glue Token
- Fixing the blockchain Trilemma
- Creating an L1 that acts as a communication between L2s
- Layer 1 blockchain with three purpose-built Layer 2 networks optimized for finance, gaming, and payments
- The evolution of crypto security threats
- The future of blockchain security
- Being an advisor in Trump's World Liberty Financial

Glue
Website: glue.net
X: @GlueNet
Telegram: t.me/gluenet

Ogle
X: @cryptogle

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#403: Phillip Alexeev, CGO at CrossFi, on Banking the Unbanked, Bridging TradFi & Crypto, and The Evolution of Payment Tech

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 03:00:00 -0500

Phillip Alexeev, Chief Growth Officer at CrossFi is a distinguished growth marketing strategist who has architected success stories across Web2 and Web3. As a veteran growth advisor, he has helped companies achieve billions in revenue, multiple IPOs, and strategic acquisitions through data-driven marketing engines. His expertise spans from developing comprehensive omni-channel frameworks to implementing precise growth tactics that consistently deliver results.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Q1 2025 market sentiment
- AI crypto agents + memecoins + AGI
- Banking the Unbanked
- 60% of the world doesn’t have a bank
- The evolution of payment tech
- CrossFi’s payment processing ecosystem
- MPX and XFI tokens
- CrossFi banking app and xApp
- Bridging traditional finance and web3
- The future of cross-chain DeFi

CrossFi
Website: crossfi.org
X: @crossfichain
Telegram: t.me/crossfichain

Phillip Alexeev
X: @gophillionaire
LinkedIn: Phillip Alexeev

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#402: Jason Li, Co-founder of Solayer Labs, on Restaking, Scaling Solana, Tokenizing RWAs, and Hardware Scaling

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 03:00:00 -0500

Jason Li is the Co-founder of Solayer Labs, where he leads research and engineering. Solayer Labs is the company behind the pioneering restaking protocol Solayer, built natively on the Solana blockchain. The company has garnered support from prominent investors, including Polychain Capital, Hack VC, Binance Labs, and Big Brain Holdings.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- What is restaking?
- Restaking to Scale Solana
- Tokenization of Real-World Assets (RWA)
- Hardware Scaling: Pushing Blockchain Boundaries
- 1M TPS: Transforming Blockchain Throughput
- Launch of sUSD (T-bills-backed stablecoin)
- Launch of bnSOL (Binance Solana)
- Liquid staking tokens
- When will web3 completely feel like web2?
- Scaling web3
- Optimizing high-performance GPUs and specialized hardware

Solayer Labs
Website: app.solayer.org
X: @solayer_labs

Jason Li
X: @lxjhk
LinkedIn: Jason Li

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#401: Aaron Buchwald, Software Engineer at Ava Labs, on Avalanche, Launching L1s, The Next Killer Crypto Consumer App, and The Future of L1s

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 03:00:00 -0500

Aaron Buchwald is a Software Engineer at Ava Labs.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Moving from aerospace to blockchain
- Current status and growth of the Avalanche ecosystem
- Avalanche9000 is now live on mainnet
- Launching an L1 for 99.9% cheaper than before
- Every L1 is connected with Interchain Messaging
- Many L1s that feel like 1
- Ava Labs EVM
- Giving services and running dynamic fees
- Keeping things cool = the ultimate meta
- The future of L1s
- The next killer crypto consumer app

Ava Labs
Website: www.avalabs.org
X: @AvaLabs

Avalanche9000
Webiste: www.avax.network
X: @avax

Aaron Buchwald
X: @AaronBuchwald
LinkedIn: Aaron Buchwald

#400: Edan Yago, Core Contributor of BitcoinOS, on Bitcoin-Based DeFi, ZK-Proofs, BitSNARK, and The Future of Bitcoin

Mon, 30 Dec 2024 03:00:00 -0500

Edan Yago is a Core Contributor of BitcoinOS. He is also an early core contributor to Sovryn, a decentralised Layer 2 Bitcoin trading, lending, and asset management platform. Earlier in his career, Yago founded several other companies in the Bitcoin and crypto space, including CementDAO and Epiphyte, which provided global remittance services.

As an anti-finance financier and radical optimist, Yago is a passionate advocate for the mass adoption of open, borderless, and incorruptible finance. He believes in both Bitcoin's reliable permanence and crypto's decentralized innovation. As such, he’s made it his mission to marry the best of both worlds, bringing unity back to the blockchain universe.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- What is Bitcoin DeFi?
- Bitcoin DeFi challenges
- What’s next for Bitcoin DeFi
- Micheal Saylor buying up all the bitcoin
- Functional escape velocity
- The future of Bitcoin
- BitVM and BitSNARK
- Practical use cases of Bitcoin-based DeFi
- Role of smart contracts in BitcoinOS
- Why are we still in the degenerate crypto era?
- What is a Bitcoin L2?

BitcoinOS
Website: www.bitcoinos.build
X: @BTC_OS
Discord: discord.gg/bitcoinos

Edan Yago
X: @EdanYago

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#399: Calanthia Mei, Co-Founder of Masa, On AI Crypto Bots, The AI Agent Timeline, and Bittensor

Thu, 26 Dec 2024 03:00:00 -0500

Calanthia Mei is the Co-Founder of Masa and a leading global fintech investor and builder. She was a founding member of PayPal’s Venture Capital arm. At PayPal, she oversaw $250-million investments in hyper-growth global fintech startups, including Toss in South Korea, and incubated crypto product and investment strategy, including Coinbase’s 2018 partnership with PayPal. Calanthia most recently scaled a Stripe-backed Fintech startup to 450 employees, raised $130-million funding, and acquired by a public company – all in a short span of 2 years. Transitioning her focus towards decentralized AI, Calanthia believes in leveraging technology to enhance global inclusivity and equality. She has shared her expert insights during broadcast appearances on platforms like the New York Stock Exchange, CNBC, and NASDAQ, and is known for embodying a global perspective that bridges the US and international tech landscapes.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Calanthia’s journey into crypto
- The future of AI Crypto bots
- AI Agent Timeline:

The first generation brought us "Interactive JPEGs"
Now we're seeing the rise of "Self-Improving AI Agents”
The next frontier is "AI Agent Societies”

- AI Agents big use cases = money and love
- Masa & Bittensor
- Masa’s latest funding from DCG
- Advancing Decentralized AI Infrastructure
- Launch of Second Bittensor Subnet: Agent Arena
- AI Agent Societies
- Expanding a Powerful Real-Time Data Network

Masa
Website: www.masa.ai
X: @getmasafi

Calanthia Mei
X: @calanthiaaa
LinkedIn: Calanthia Mei

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#398: Lucas Matheson, CEO of Coinbase Canada, on Crypto in Canada, Institutional Interest, and Improving Crypto Literacy in Canada

Mon, 23 Dec 2024 03:00:00 -0500

Lucas Matheson is the CEO of Coinbase Canada. He is committed to helping create a more equitable financial system in Canada through the power of blockchain.

Prior to Coinbase, he was the founder and CEO of Pinshape (exit Formlabs), and Senior Director at Shopify leading various operational and finance teams.

Lucas is passionate about entrepreneurship. He spends his spare time advising entrepreneurs and founders on how they can grow and scale, and actively invests in web3 projects and infrastructure.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Coinbases’s journey back into Canada
- Making it really easy to move into and out of Coinbase
- Canada was the first country to allow ETFs
- Canadian paycheques depreciate by 8% per year
- Banks vs Exchanges in Canada
- Outlook for crypto in Canada in 2025 after BTC hitting all-time high
- Impact of the US election on Canadian crypto industry
- State of crypto in Canada and Stand With Crypto's role
- Regulatory landscape in Canada
- Current crypto adoption rates in Canada and predictions for 2025.
- The growth of institutional interest in crypto in Canada and how Coinbase Canada is supporting this transition.
- The impact of Canadian financial institutions embracing or resisting crypto.
- Efforts to improve crypto literacy in Canada.

Coinbase
Website: www.coinbase.com
X: @coinbase
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Coinbase

Lucas Matheson
X: @lucmatheson
LinkedIn: Lucas Matheson, MBA, CFA

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#397: Rushi Manche, Co-Founder of Movement Labs, on $MOVE, How To Successfully Launch a Token, and The Move Programming Language

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 03:00:00 -0500

Rushi Manche is the Co-Founder of Movement Labs, a pioneering engineer and the visionary architect behind Movement Labs' groundbreaking technology. With a strong background in smart contract engineering and extensive experience in the Ethereum DeFi ecosystem, Rushi brings a wealth of technical expertise and innovative thinking to the Web3 space. His journey in blockchain led him to work closely with Cosmos protocols, notably contributing to the development of a decentralized file storage system. During the buildup of Aptos, Rushi became a core contributor to the ecosystem, particularly within the DeFi scene, where he engineered a leading DEX. This hands-on experience with multiple blockchain platforms equipped Rushi with an unparalleled understanding of the limitations and potential of various technologies.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Launching $MOVE
- How to launch on all the tier 1 exchanges
- What is Move, and how will it compete with the big dawgs
- 3 factors of every token launch: airdrop, launch, sentiment
- Move vs Aptos & Sui
- Community-First engagement
- Move-based L2 on Ethereum
- Fractal: EVM Interpreter
- 2025 roadmap
- Move - the next big application-based ecosystem
- Fitness could be the killer consumer app - Move To Earn
- AI <> Crypto

Movement Labs
Website: movementlabs.xyz
X: @movementlabsxyz
Telegram: t.me/movementlabsxyz

Rushi Manche
X: @rushimanche
LinkedIn: Rushi Manche

#396: Brandon Truong, Co-Founder of ZetaChain, on The First Universal Blockchain, and Unlocking DeFi Potential for BTC

Mon, 16 Dec 2024 03:00:00 -0500

Brandon Truong, Co-Founder and CPO at ZetaChain, the first Universal Blockchain, where he leads the development of the first universal blockchain for chain abstraction and interoperability. Brandon co-founded Yada, a social and SaaS startup (acquired in 2020), while simultaneously holding leadership roles at Stanford, Udacity, and BuzzFeed.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Brandon's journey from start-ups to co-founding ZetaChain
- The first universal blockchain: interoperability & user experience
- Unlocking DeFi potential for BTC
- Enhancing Bitcoin's programmability to seamlessly connect with multiple blockchains
- What are universal apps and how to build them
- Allowing BTC, ETH, and USDC to flow freely across chains
- Omnichain Smart Contracts and Universal EVM
- Deploying universal apps in a single place
- On November 15th, ZETA becomes the 6th token recognized by the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA)
- The future of AI and crypto
- Interoperability and cross-chain communication

ZetaChain
Website: www.zetachain.com
X: @zetablockchain
Telegram: t.me/zetachainofficial

Brandon Truong
LinkedIn: Brandon Truong

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#395: Robinson Burkey, Co-Founder of Wormhole, on Bridges, The Liquidity Fragmentation Problem, and Cross Chain Communication

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 03:00:00 -0500

Robinson Burkey is the Co-Founder & CCO at Wormhole Foundation. With an impressive track record spanning nearly a decade, Robinson has consistently excelled in leading growth and go-to-market strategies for startups, making a significant impact in the crypto industry since 2021.

Prior to joining the Wormhole Foundation, Robinson held a key position at Acala, where he spearheaded Business Development and Ecosystem efforts within the Polkadot ecosystem. As the Chief Commercial Officer, Robinson is dedicated to accelerating the foundation's growth trajectory and fostering the widespread adoption of Wormhole's groundbreaking cross-chain communication protocol.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Cross-chain comms = asset transferability and messaging
- Liquidity fragmentation is a real problem
- Stablecoins = crypto’s killer use case
- Native Token Transfer (NTT) fixing liquidity fragmentation
- Securing the most value between all blockchains
- Wormhole Institutional launch - partnering with Blackrock
- Being the leader on action, not announcements
- General roadmap for Wormhole in 2025
- Blockchain interoperability in 2021 within the Polkadot ecosystem
- AI memes and X bots
- Wormhole is the Panama Canal for memecoins
- Relationship between BTC and USA

Wormhole Foundation
Website: wormhole.foundation
X: @WormholeFdn
LinkedIn: Wormhole Foundation

Robinson Burkey
X: @RobinsonBurkey
LinkedIn: Robinson Burkey

#394: Joshua Tobkin, Founder of Supra, on Building the World’s Computer, Vertical Integration, and What Sets Supra Apart from Other Layer-1s

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 03:00:00 -0500

Joshua Tobkin is the Founder and Lead Architect of Supra and Co-designer of SupraBFT Consensus Algorithm.

Joshua has 18+ years in SaaS businesses, starting with payments and online gaming and ending with a successful exit. Previously held positions in growth stage companies as Creative Director/CTO.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Supra = L1 that is super fast, more secure, EVM support, and built on MOVE
- What sets Supra apart from other Layer-1s like Solana, Sui, etc
- Josh’s journey into crypto
- Stories from playing poker at a young age
- Creating value and capturing value = business models
- Building the actual world computer
- Move language
- Why XRP ripped - potential USD stablecoin?
- Why performance drops once a chain has over 150+ nodes
- MultiVM on one chain, how does this work?
- What are the issues with L2s?
- What is $SUPRA

Supra
Website: supra.com
X: @SUPRA_Labs
Telegram: t.me/SupraOracles

Joshua Tobkin
X: @JoshuaTobkin
LinkedIn: Joshua D. Tobkin

#393: Lark Davis, Founder of Wealth Mastery, on AI Memecoins, Bitcoin, Solana, and 2025 Crypto Trading Strategy

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 03:00:00 -0500

Lark Davis is the Founder of the weekly crypto newsletter Wealth Mastery. It combines insider insights and in-depth market analysis to offer cryptocurrency investors the best opportunities to grow their wealth, stay ahead of the curve, and avoid costly mistakes.

Lark has been a crypto investor for 5+ years and has made millions of dollars—while also suffering significant losses—in the markets.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Recent Bitcoin performance and Lark’s $BTC target of $200k
- How do we slam through the $100k BTC price
- Ethereum’s market position and sentiment: why Lark will sell his ETH this cycle
- Solana’s dominance and potential to overtake ETH
- Memecoins = gateway drug to everything else in crypto
- Memecoin strategy - how to pick and trade them
- Pump.fun madness
- $CHILLGUY + $WIF
- AI memecoins - $ZEREBRO, $GOAT, $FARTCOIN, $BULLY
- Lark’s 2025 Investment strategy
- Always take your profits!

Wealth Mastery
Website: thewealthmastery.io

Lark Davis
X: @TheCryptoLark
LinkedIn: Lark Davis

#392: Steven Goldfeder, CEO of Offchain Labs, on Arbitrum and The Future of Layer 2s

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 03:00:00 -0500

Steven Goldfeder, CEO of Offchain Labs, is a key blockchain innovator who developed Arbitrum—the largest and most advanced Ethereum tech stack—authored "Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies," and pioneered multi-party computation, shaping the future of blockchain interaction for consumers and institutions alike.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The founding story of Arbitrum
- Building a decentralized future for the internet
- Future of Layer 2 Solutions
- In-depth review of current L2s
- Arbitrum has more features and a more expansive developer kit than Ethereum
- The speed, scalability, and innovation of Arbitrum
- Unifying trad-fi and defi … it will simply be called “finance” in the future
- Making blockchain go mainstream
- Arbitrum's position in the DeFi space
- Stylus — allowing web2 devs to create web3 code

Offchain Labs
Website: www.offchainlabs.com
X: @OffchainLabs
LinkedIn: Offchain Labs

Steven Goldfeder
X: @sgoldfed
LinkedIn: Steven Goldfeder

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#391: Antonio Juliano, CEO of dYdX, on Derivative Market Instant Listings, The Future of Crypto, and dYdX Unlimited

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 03:00:00 -0500

Antonio Juliano is a software engineer and Founder/CEO of the world's leading decentralized exchange for cryptocurrencies, dYdX. After obtaining a computer science degree at Princeton University in 2015, Antonio started working at Coinbase as a software engineer, where he learned about cryptocurrency and the world of blockchain.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Antonio’s return as CEO of dYdX and his vision for the company’s future
- dYdX Unlimited
- Instant market listings and enhanced liquidity
- Derivative market instant listings for the first time ever
- DEXs vs CEXs
- The future of crypto
- Unique novel products are a huge needle mover for defi
- Soaring markets and the impact of a new administration
- What's to come from prediction markets post-election
- Growing institutional interest in crypto and DeFi
- Crypto industry heading into 2025 and beyond
- Bull markets are characterized by the main product or character

dYdX
Website: www.dydx.foundation
X: @dydxfoundation
Discord: discord.gg/dydx

Antonio Juliano
X: @AntonioMJuliano
LinkedIn: Antonio Juliano

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#390: Veronica McGregor, Chief Legal Officer at Exodus, on Regulatory Reform, Legislative Clarity, and The Importance of Self Custody

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 03:00:00 -0500

Veronica McGregor has served as Chief Legal Officer of Exodus since January 2022. Prior to joining Exodus, Veronica was the chief legal officer of ShapeShift from 2018 to 2021, where she managed in-house legal and compliance functions, global legal strategy, governmental relations, and regulatory affairs. Prior to that, she was a partner at Goodwin Proctor from 2016 to 2018 and Hogan Lovells from 2014 to 2016, where she specialized in assisting companies navigate state and federal laws and regulations related to digital assets, among other things.

Veronica has a Juris Doctor from the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from San Francisco State University.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Regulatory Reform as a Bipartisan Imperative
- Institutionalizing Crypto Education for Legislative Clarity
- Establishing the U.S. as a Global Blockchain Hub
- Crypto’s influence proved pivotal in shaping election outcomes
- Crypto Sentiment and Outlook Post-Election
- BTC all-time high
- The SEC’s stance on crypto; will it ever change?
- Crypto - the only industry that asks to be regulated
- Changing the negative narrative of crypto
- Exodus’s $1.3M donation to Stand with Crypto
- The power of self custody

Exodus
Website: www.exodus.com
X: @exodus_io
Discord: discord.gg/exodus

Veronica McGregor
X: @vkm1
LinkedIn: Veronica McGregor

#389: Alan Orwick, Co-Founder of Quai Network, on Energy-tied Stablecoins and Proof-of-Work Blockchains

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 03:00:00 -0500

Alan Orwick is the Co-Founder of Quai Network, the only fully scalable and programmable Proof-of-Work Layer 1 designed for global commerce. He also serves as the CEO of Dominant Strategies, the development behind Quai Network devoted to building blockchain tooling and infrastructure. Previously an Apple software engineer, Alan is committed to continuing to innovate the Quai Network with his engineering skills. His passion for blockchain technology began while he was a student at the University of Texas at Austin, where he founded Texas Blockchain, a student-led blockchain club.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Quai’s Proof-of-Work mechanism doubles as an economic oracle, linking token value directly to real-world energy costs and demand
- Energy-tied stablecoin model
- Creating a more efficient stablecoin
- Proof-of-Work consensus mechanisms
- L1s own the whole end-to-end tech stack
- Mainstream political engagement
- Educating lawmakers on Crypto
- Technology vs. Politics
- Polymarket’s power in future elections
- Founding Texas Blockchain Club
- Quai’s Final Testnet Launch - 32,000 GPUs online mining Quai
- The intersection of crypto + AI + DePIN

Quai Network
Website: qu.ai
X: @QuaiNetwork
Telegram: t.me/QuaiNetwork

Alan Orwick
X: @0xalank
LinkedIn: Alan Orwick

#388: Solo Ceesay, CEO of Calaxy, on The Future of Decentralized Media, The Rise of SuperApps, and Democratizing the Internet

Mon, 18 Nov 2024 03:00:00 -0500

Solo Ceesay is CEO and Co-Founder at Calaxy. Before co-founding Calaxy with his business partner, Brooklyn Nets star Spencer Dinwiddie, Solo held the position of Securitization Investment Banker at Citi after graduating from the Wharton School of Business. As a 30-year-old tech founder, Solo has successfully spearheaded over $33.5 million in private funding for Calaxy. He was named one of Variety’s Hollywood’s New Leaders of 2022, and has brought his financial expertise to many mainstream audiences including Nasdaq, CNBC, and Cheddar News, as well as on his own video podcast New Money.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Democratizing the internet
- The rise of super apps and how SocialFi will enable cryptocurrency adoption
- Future of decentralized media and the creator economy
- The benefits of decentralization & giving users control over data
- The global impact of the U.S. election on crypto and the wider economy
- The true power of Polymarket
- Decentralized identity
- Making Web3 technology accessible to both creators and fans
- Calaxy’s new integration with Solana
- Creating dApps and decentralized communities in one minute
- Calaxy Worlds

Calaxy
Website: calaxy.com
X: @CalaxyApp

Solo Ceesay
X: @SoloCeesay
LinkedIn: Solo Ceesay

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#387: Georgios Vlachos, Co-Founder of Axelar, on Seamlessly Connecting Blockchains, Connecting On/Off Chain Systems, and Crypto in Countries Without Robust Banking Systems

Thu, 14 Nov 2024 03:00:00 -0500

Georgios Vlachos, Co-Founder of Axelar protocol and director at Axelar Foundation. Georgios received his BSc and MS Eng. in computer science at MIT. After graduation, he became part of the Algorand founding team, where he worked on the design and development of the consensus protocol and other core components. While in high school, Georgios became the first Greek to win a gold Medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The financial crisis in Greece and current day economy in Argentina
- The power of crypto in countries without Robust banking systems
- Early days of Algorand
- Why Cross-chain Bridges Fall Short - True interoperability demands collaboration across projects, not just patched-together solutions.
- AI agents will be the biggest users of blockchains
- Could there be a world where every human has their own blockchain?
- RWAs and DePIN need interoperability
- Connecting on-/off-chain systems
- Deploying your token on many chains with a couple of clicks
- Crypto needs more applications and less infrastructure
- How AI will impact crypto

Axelar Foundation
Website: www.axelar.network
X: @axelar
Telegram: t.me/axelarcommunity

Georgios Vlachos
X: @yorgosv_
LinkedIn: Georgios Vlachos

#386: Jason Zhao, Co-founder of Story, on Tokenizing Intellectual Property and How Blockchains Will Eat The World

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 03:00:00 -0500

Jason Zhao is the Chief Protocol Officer and Co-founder of Story, the world’s IP blockchain. Jason was the youngest ever Product Manager at DeepMind focused on productionizing Google’s cutting-edge artificial intelligence models across industrial and enterprise applications. He is an active angel investor in frontier technology startups. Jason served as the founding Editor-in-chief of Stanford Rewired, a magazine focused on the intersection of storytelling and technology. As a Design Fellow at IDEO, Jason created and taught a course at Stanford’s d.school. Jason received both a Bachelor’s in Philosophy and a Master’s in Computer Science at Stanford University.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Tokenizing the multi-trillion-dollar intellectual property (IP) market
- $80 million raise
- Programming the terms behind your IP & content
- Turning code into law via smart contract
- Building the world’s largest IP library
- IP Lego blocks are the future of blockchain
- Creating more demand for money (or crypto)
- Story's Proof of Creativity protocol
- The relationship between art and tech
- Blockchain was driven by human and political behaviour
- How blockchains will eat the world
- Solving the problem of AI intellectual property

Story
Website: www.story.foundation
X: @StoryProtocol
Discord: discord.gg/storyprotocol

Jason Zhao
X: @jasonjzhao
LinkedIn: Jason Zhao

#385: Vugar Usi Zade, COO of Bitget, on The Current State and Future of Crypto in Canada

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 03:00:00 -0500

Vugar is an award-winning senior manager and communications expert with 15 years of progressive hands-on experience spanning Fortune 500 giants to dynamic startups, currently serving as Chief Operating Officer at Bitget.

A stalwart in the Web3 and blockchain arena, Vugar previously assumed the role of Chief Marketing Officer at Beincrypto, leaving an indelible mark on the industry. His journey extends to co-founder and board levels, where he adeptly crafted brands and ushered in compelling products, contributing to the success of a "unicorn" MarTech startup. Vugar held senior positions at renowned brands such as Carlsberg, Facebook, Danone, Coca-Cola, Twitter, SONY, and more, showcasing his versatility and strategic insight. Having also lent his expertise as a senior consultant at Bain & Company, Vugar focused on Web3, blockchain technologies, and private equity, further solidifying his standing as a seasoned professional in the field.

An Edward S. Mason Fellow, Vugar holds a master's degree from Harvard University and a post-graduate degree in Economics from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Vugar passionately hosts a popular crypto podcast, the "Usi Talk," delving into technology, Web3, AI, and Blockchain.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Canada = top 20 countries for crypto adoption and top 10 by on-chain value
- Canada was the first country in the world to approve the spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs almost 4 years ago
- The current state and future of cryptocurrency in Canada
- Educating Canadians on crypto
- Creating a smooth and efficient onboarding process
- The mindset behind a traditional Canadian investor
- Bitget’s copy trading platform
- Pre-market opportunities on Bitget
- $30mm investment into the TRON ecosystem
- Bread and butter of crypto = CEXs and Stablecoins
- Bitget’s multi-million dollar partnership with LaLiga

Bitget
Website: bitget.com
X: @bitgetglobal
LinkedIn: Bitget
Telegram: t.me/bitgetEN

Vugar Usi Zade
X: @usithetalk
LinkedIn: Vugar Usi Zade

#384: Jeff Garzik, CEO of Bloq and Hemi Network, on The Future of Bitcoin, Bridging Bitcoin and Ethereum, and Proof-of-Proof (PART TWO)

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 03:00:00 -0500

Jeff Garzik is the co-founder and CEO of Bloq and leader of the Hemi Network project. He has long been at the center of developing and commercializing open-source software related to Bitcoin and blockchain technology. Previously, he spent five years as a Bitcoin core developer and ten years at Red Hat.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The Future of Bitcoin
- Bridging Bitcoin and Ethereum
- Proof-of-Proof (PoP)
- Micro Nations and Network States
- Praxus raising $550mm
- Bitcoin is bomb proof
- Crypto’s two MVPs: Bitcoin and Stablecoins
- The limitations of building on bitcoin
- Bitcoin is censorship-resistant

Hemi Network
Website: hemi.xyz
X: @hemi_xyz
LinkedIn: Hemi Labs

Jeff Garzik
X: @jgarzik
LinkedIn: Jeff Garzik

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#383: Jeff Garzik, CEO of Bloq and Hemi Network, on Working with Satoshi, The Early Days of Bitcoin, and Present Day Bitcoin (PART ONE)

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Jeff Garzik is the co-founder and CEO of Bloq and leader of the Hemi Network project. He has long been at the center of developing and commercializing open-source software related to Bitcoin and blockchain technology. Previously, he spent five years as a Bitcoin core developer and ten years at Red Hat.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Network states - the next big trend
- The power of Linux
- Jeff’s story about getting into Bitcoin in 2010 (before it was even traded)
- Working with Satoshi
- Creating ASIC mining software for bitcoin
- Satoshi’s anonymity was CIA-level - a true pro
- The founding story of Bitcoin
- Present day Bitcoin
- Future of Bitcoin
- Power Law
- The internet was started to survive nuclear war
- Pros and cons of the lightning network
- Getting on-chain is still the biggest challenge
- Going back to our peer-to-peer roots

Hemi Network
Website: hemi.xyz
X: @hemi_xyz
LinkedIn: Hemi Labs

Jeff Garzik
X: @jgarzik
LinkedIn: Jeff Garzik

#382: Sunny Aggarwal, Co-Founder of Osmosis, on The Cosmos Ecosystem, Bitcoin Based DeFi, and The Future of Decentralized Exchanges

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Sunny Aggarwal is the Co-Founder of Osmosis, the premier DEX and DeFi hub for the Cosmos ecosystem and beyond. To date, the Osmosis DEX has facilitated over $35 Billion in trading volume, and more than 100 separate blockchains have connected to the Osmosis blockchain. At Tendermint, Sunny served as a Core Developer of the Cosmos SDK and contributed to the development and launch of Cosmos and IBC. Sunny then decided to build on top of the foundation he had developed at Tendermint and co-founded Osmosis to develop an appchain and DEX that rivals even the most robust centralized exchanges.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Present day and future of the Cosmos ecosystem
- Bitcoinization of the Cosmos eco
- How Cosmos is uniquely positioned to serve as the application layer for Bitcoin
- Facilitating over $35B in trading volume to date
- Alloyed Assets: Osmosis’s solution for improving UX and reducing liquidity fragmentation
- Smart Accounts + 1-Click Trading, Spurring Adoption via UX Improvements
- The backstory behind Cosmos
- Bitcoin-based DeFi
- Proof of Stake
- Bringing privacy to a DEX
- Polaris

Osmosis
Website: osmosis.zone
X: @osmosiszone
Telegram: t.me/osmosis_chat

Sunny Aggarwal
X: @sunnya97
LinkedIn: Sunny Aggarwal

#381: George Bousis, CEO of Raise, on Blockchain Innovation in the Gift Card Industry, and The Future of Customer Loyalty Programs

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Raise is recognized globally as a pioneer in the payments, loyalty, and blockchain sectors. George's innovation is showcased by the 30 patents he's authored. This spirit of innovation has attracted significant backing for Raise, helping the company secure over $225 million from leading institutions like Accel, PayPal and NEA.

Outside the boardroom, George's passion for startups is evident. He's invested in over 85 companies and co-founded Protagonist. Beyond business, he enjoys gaming, music, real estate, and traveling.

George's accolades include three nominations for the Goldman Sachs Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs Award, a spot on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, and recognition as a Crains 20 in their 20s standout.

He's also committed to giving back, serving as a board member for the Northwestern Hospitals Hippocratic Cancer Research Foundation and as a member of the Young Presidents Organization, Chicago Chapter.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Introduction to Raise
- WalletConnect & Polkadot Integrations
- Blockchain Innovation in the Gift Card Industry
- Future Vision: blockchain innovation in the consumer space
- Overview of the gift card industry
- Programming digital money to do anything
- TPS and gas fees limiting adoption in the early days of crypto
- Billions of dollars in gift cards go unused every single year
- Brands taking out the middleman
- The future of customer loyalty programs

Raise
Website: www.raise.com
X: @RaiseApp
LinkedIn: Raise

George Bousis
X: @GBousis
Instagram: @gbousis
LinkedIn: George Bousis

#380: Anthony Georgiades, Co-Founder of Pastel Network, on The Intersection of AI and Web3, The Fate of NFTs, and Current Crypto Markets

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Anthony Georgiades is co-founder of Pastel Network, a fully decentralized, developer-friendly layer-1 blockchain serving as the preeminent protocol standard for non-fungible tokens ("NFTs") and Web3 technology. While performing his duties as President, Anthony is also a General Partner at Innovating Capital, a technology fund focused on disruptive companies and digital assets that have incubated Pastel Network since day one. Anthony previously spent time on the investment team at First Round Capital and on the operations teams of various startups. He studied finance, management, and computer science at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton and engineering schools.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The rise of AI and how Pastel has been in the AI space "before it was cool"
- How Pastel is involved in the intersection of AI and Web3
- Pastel's new AI product Inference
- The fate of NFTs overall
- How start-ups can weather the fluctuating trends in the industry
- What Pastel has done to maintain its success amid the decline of interest in traditional NFTs
- Current crypto market
- Solana ecosystem & meme coins
- Current factors that are driving the crypto market
- The Spatial Web
- How AI will drive crypto adoption

Pastel Network
Website: pastel.network
Twitter: @PastelNetwork
Telegram: t.me/PastelOfficial

Anthony Georgiades
Twitter: @panthonylg
LinkedIn: Anthony Georgiades

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#379: Azeem Khan, Co-Founder of Morph, on Crypto Donations, Permissionless L2s, and Mastering Distribution & GTM Strategy

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Azeem Khan is the Co-Founder and COO of Morph, an EVM Layer-2 blockchain company focused on user-friendly options for developers to create finance, gaming, social media, and entertainment apps. Azeem aims to broaden the global exposure of Web3 projects through the building of critical relationships and deals with NGOs, governments, and for-profit companies. He is a consultant to the UNICEF Crypto Fund, which distributes millions of dollars towards open-source software that is helping to improve the lives of vulnerable children and will be working with Mercy Corp to raise funds and resources for distribution in Gaza.

Previously, Azeem was the Head of Impact at Gitcoin where he played a pivotal role in the adoption of quadratic funding to benefit organizations including UNICEF and the American Cancer Society. Azeem’s efforts at Gitcoin resulted in contributions of over $60 million in grants to the company and over $29 billion in global financial impact.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Permissionless EVM L2s
- UNICEF Crypto Fund
- Crypto donations to NGOs
- Frictionless aspect of crypto donations
- Consumer-friendly blockchain products
- Mastering distribution and go-to-market strategy
- The lack of go-to-market playbooks in crypto
- Allowing builders to build so Morph can help with distribution
- The killer crypto consumer app
- Stablecoins are the best consumer application in present-day crypto
- Crypto adoption takes real-time and we must be patient
- Pooling resources together will get us to the finish line.

Morph
Website: www.morphl2.io
X: @MorphL2
Telegram: t.me/MorphL2official

Azeem Khan
X: @azeemk_
LinkedIn: Azeem Khan

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#378: Federico Brokate, VP at 21Shares, on The Future of Crypto ETFs, and The Convergence Between Crypto & TradFi

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Federico Brokate, VP, is the Head of the U.S. Business at 21.co. In this capacity, he oversees the growth of the U.S. business, providing investors with the most access, convenience, and quality in the digital asset ETF industry. Previously, Federico led the iShares Business Strategy team at BlackRock, where he created and executed strategic initiatives driving organic asset and revenue growth. He also developed go-to-market strategies for new business verticals and managed priority product launches, including the successful launch of iShares’ Bitcoin ETF. Federico holds a Bachelor of Science in Business from NYU Stern School of Business, with dual concentrations in Finance and Global Business.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The role firms like 21Shares play in bringing crypto into the mainstream in the U.S., and why accessible products and ETFs will help move the industry forward
- Where there is the greatest opportunity for industry development
- How a push into crypto ETFs from RIAs could bring in significant flows
- 21Shares’ expansion into the U.S. market with the launch of its Spot Bitcoin ETF (ARKB) and its Ethereum ETF (CETH)
- Letting retail invest in crypto via ETFs
- What exactly is an ETF
- How do decide which ETF to invest in
- Convergence of crypto and tradfi
- Arbitrage opportunities in ETFs, mainly by hedge funds and PE funds
- The security aspect of ETFs
- The future of crypto ETFs
- Implications of the upcoming US election

21.co
Website: www.21.co
X: @21co__
LinkedIn: 21.co

Federico Brokate
X: @Fede_Brokate
LinkedIn: Federico Brokate

#377: Roham Gharegozlou, CEO of Dapper Labs, on FLOW Blockchain, The Future of NFTs, and The Importance of Digital IP

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Roham Gharegozlou is the Founder and CEO of Dapper Labs, and a Board Member of the Flow Foundation. After founding Axiom Zen in 2012, he developed multiple award-winning products and companies, including Routific and Zenhub. During this time, his team introduced ERC-721 to mainstream audiences and coined the term "NFT" with CryptoKitties, one of the first blockchain games to gain widespread popularity. Under Roham's leadership, Dapper Labs developed NBA Top Shot, NFL ALLDAY, and Disney Pinnacle. He was also instrumental in developing Flow, a blockchain designed for mainstream adoption.

Flow is now the home for consumer Web3, attracting major brands like Disney, Mattel, and Ticketmaster/LiveNation, with over 45 million user accounts on the network. With the biggest ecosystem fund in Web3 for supporting developers and projects building on Flow, the network was the L1 of choice for hackers at the most recent ETHGlobal hackathon. Roham holds BA, BS, and MS degrees from Stanford University.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The origin story of Crypto Kitties & NFTs
- Fungible vs non-fungible things in life
- CryptoKitties new game
- General Web3: Future of NFT market, blockchain-based IPs
- The Crescendo Upgrade: Flow achieving EVM equivalence
- What EVM equivalence means for Flow, and on a wider scale, for developers and users
- How Flow is building web3's next killer app, and Crescendo's role in mobilizing that process
- Making Cadence one of the best smart contract languages in the industry
- DeFi on FLOW
- Digital IP
- Crypto in Canada

Flow
Website: flow.com
X: @flow_blockchain
Telegram: t.me/flow_blockchain

Roham Gharegozlou
X: @roham
LinkedIn: Roham Gharegozlou

#376: Isha Varshney, Head of Ecosystem at Celo Foundation, on Transitioning From a L1 to L2, Bringing RWAs On-chain, and Onboarding the Next 1bn People to Crypto

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Isha Varshney is the Head of Ecosystem at the Celo Foundation. Isha has expertise in decentralized finance, digital currency, and the intersection of technology and economic and social inequality. She also supports global pilots developing Web3 use cases and reimagining infrastructure in emerging markets to increase financial inclusion. Isha previously co-founded a fintech company. She has an MBA from Oxford’s Said Business School and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Bloom, an advisory service for projects to help them navigate their Token Generating Event (TGE)
- Bringing Real-World Asset (RWA) on-chain
- How Celo is expanding its ecosystem across Africa
- MiniPay, a self-custodial stablecoin wallet
- Fintech apps in emerging markets
- Testnet going live and getting a shoutout from Vitalik
- Onboarding the next 100mm users to crypto
- Transitioning from a L1 to L2
- The importance of stable coins in emerging markets
- Flipping TRON in stablecoin volume
- Bringing FX markets on-chain

Celo
Website: celofoundation.org
X: @Celo
LinkedIn: Celo Foundation

Isha Varshney
X: @ivcelo
LinkedIn: Isha Varshney

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#375: Pascal Gauthier, CEO of Ledger, on Self-Custody, Security, Ledger Flex + Stax, and The Right to Economic Freedom

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Pascal Gauthier is the Chairman & CEO of Ledger, a tech company that specializes in developing secure hardware for consumers and enterprise-grade custody solutions for institutions, enabling the storage and management of cryptocurrencies and NFTs.

He began his career at Kelkoo, later acquired by Yahoo, and was COO at Criteo, where he played a key role in the company's pivot to advertising and global expansion. Pascal Gauthier also worked as a Venture Partner at Mosaic Ventures, a London-based VC firm, and is non-executive chairman of Kaiko, a leading digital data analytics provider.

Since he became Chairman & CEO of Ledger in 2019, Pascal Gauthier has expanded the company's product line with Ledger Live, an intuitive digital asset management app, and a next-generation consumer device, Ledger Stax. He also started Ledger Enterprise, the company’s B2B product enabling companies to secure their digital assets at scale. Ledger Enterprise offers TRADELINK, a best-in-class open network to enable custodial trading via exchange and custodial partners. Pascal Gauthier is committed to driving ownership and security in the cryptocurrency industry.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Self-custody, security, and the right to economic freedom
- Ledger's growth amidst their tenth anniversary and key learnings
- How they've performed since the launch of two products— Ledger Stax and Ledger Flex— earlier this year
- AI & blockchain's relationship— why proof-of-you is crucial
- The unique insight Ledger has as the only hardware solution with a consumer trading business via Ledger Live
- Their new HQ in Paris that's home to their revamped white hat hacker lab dubbed the "Donjon"
- Working with Tony Fadell, the creator of the iPod
- The importance of “cool” in hardware and IRL products
- The future of hardware wallets
- NYT full page ad for Ledger Stax + Flex

Ledger
Website: www.ledger.com
X: @Ledger
Discord: discord.gg/ledger

Pascal Gauthier
X: @_pgauthier
LinkedIn: Pascal Gauthier

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#374: Michael Kong, CEO of Sonic, on Rebranding from Fantom to Sonic, Upcoming Launch of Sonic Mainnet, and Cross Chain Communication

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Michael Kong is an influential thought leader and developer concentrated on the expansion of blockchain technology and CEO and CIO of Sonic Labs (previously Fantom). Before Sonic, Kong served as CTO of myStake, Digital Currency Holdings, and Liberté & Co. He has been a part of the ETH community since 2013.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Rebranding from Fantom to Sonic Labs
- Everyone launching a coin after November U.S election
- Sonic Boom: ~200M $S airdrop to spur adoption of the network
- $FTM to $S Token Merge - how to take advantage and get your tokens
- DeFi applications within the Sonic ecosystem
- Upcoming launch of Sonic Mainnet
- Stories from testnet and timeline for Mainnet (Dec 1)
- Sonic’s bridge to ETH
- Cross-chain communication + interoperability
- Outlook for the next few months before testnet
- Sonic’s insanely high TPS

Sonic Labs
Website: www.soniclabs.com
X: @0xSonicLabs
Telegram: t.me/Sonic_English

Michael Kong
X: @michaelfkong
LinkedIn: Michael Kong

#373: Pratik Gauri, CEO of 5ire, on Environmentally Responsible Blockchains, Enhancing Accessibility in DeFi, and Combining Profit & Purpose

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Pratik Gauri is the founder & CEO of 5ire.org, one of the world’s fastest-growing unicorns that achieved the coveted billion-dollar valuation less than one year from the day it was founded. He conceptualized the term 5th industrial revolution as a founding principle for shaping a for-purpose world that combines sustainability, innovation, and business viability.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- How blockchain will transform the fintech landscape in the next decade
- Sustainability approach, how 5ire minimizes the carbon footprint
- Enhancing inclusivity and accessibility in DeFi
- Navigating regulation
- Role of AI and data
- Building trust and security
- Combining profit and purpose
- The 5th industrial revolution
- Sustainable proof of stake model
- ESG layer build into the blockchain
- RWAs and AI will move the next bull market
- Hiring talent in web3

5ire
Website: www.5ire.org
X: @5ireChain
Discord: discord.gg/5ire

Pratik Gauri
Website: www.pratikgauri.in
X: @pratikgauri

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#372: John Patrick Mullin, Co-founder of MANTRA, on Technological Innovation in RWAs, and The Convergence of Blockchain & TradFi

Mon, 23 Sep 2024 03:00:00 -0400

John Patrick Mullin is a Hong Kong-based entrepreneur and builder, focused on DeFi, blockchain technology, digital assets, and Web3. John has been investing/building in the crypto and digital assets space for over 10 years, having worked in decentralized finance and exchange/brokerage businesses.

John helped found MANTRA, a Layer 1 blockchain for RWA tokenization, and has raised tens of millions of dollars for various ventures while working with a dedicated team of 50+ builders worldwide.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Reason for strong interest in RWAs & MANTRA
- Convergence of Blockchain & TradFi’s
- RWA’s hype or real show
- Institutional adoption of RWAs, where is retail lacking?
- Challenges of building regulated RWA blockchain
- Success with Mag Global (real-estate in Dubai) & Novus Aviation
- Technological innovation in the RWA space + future of RWAs
- Crypto needs the killer consumer facing app
- RWAs = opening financial access to the masses
- 3 phases of RWA = adoption, liquidity, discoverability
- The future of MANTRA

MANTRA
Website: www.mantrachain.io
X: @MANTRA_Chain
Telegram: t.me/MANTRA_Chain

John Patrick Mullin
X: @jp_mullin888
LinkedIn: John Patrick Mullin

#371: Edison Chen, CEO of CUDIS, on DePIN Wearables, Solana, and The Intersection of Wellness, AI, & Blockchain

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:00:00 -0400

Edison Chen is the Co-founder and CEO of CUDIS, a Web3 startup incentivizing healthy habits. A UCLA grad and serial entrepreneur, he has managed a $200 million fund in a top-tier VC with a background in consumer tech, fashion and blockchain.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- What are the benefits of web3 for wearables? (data, incentives)
- DePIN wellness and wearable products
- The intersection of wellness, AI, and blockchain technology
- Building on Solana
- Giving data back to the consumers
- Oura and comparisons to CUDIS
- Cudis events at Solana Breakpoint
- New 5mil raise from Draper Associates and Anthony Scaramucci
- How CUDIS promotes a healthier lifestyle
- Pre-orders and launch on Solana
- The future of CUDUS

CUDIS
Website: www.cudis.xyz
X: @CudisWellness
Discord: discord.gg/cudis

Edison Chen
X: @EDCBeatBit
LinkedIn: Edison Chen

#370: Hugo Philion, Co-Founder of Flare, on Mass Adoption, Rich & Decentralized Data, and Off-chain Compute

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 05:00:00 -0400

Hugo Philion, a globally recognized speaker and thought leader, is a Co-Founder of Flare and CEO of Flare Labs. Flare is the blockchain for data: an EVM smart contract platform specifically designed to support data-intensive use cases, including machine learning, real-world asset tokenization, gaming, and social.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The problem of existing oracle systems
- How Flare achieves rich and decentralized data with its enshrined oracles
- Flare Time Series Oracle & Flare Data Connector’s overview and use cases
- Unique role of Flare’s infrastructure providers including Google Cloud
- Blockchains for use cases like AI
- TradFi = legal guarantees, crypto = software guarantees
- EVM Layers 1s
- How oracles power sports betting
- Sports betting arbitrage
- USA presidential debate
- Trusted Execution Environment (TEE)
- Limitations of current Dapps and how we get to mass adoption
- Web2-like experiences with Web3 guarantees

Flare
Website: flare.network
X: @FlareNetworks
Telegram: t.me/FlareNetwork

Hugo Philion
X: @HugoPhilion
LinkedIn: Hugo Philion

#369: Bill Laboon, Director of Education at Web3 Foundation, on The Polkadot Ecosystem, Web3 Education in LATAM, and The Importance of Regulatory Clarity

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Bill Laboon is the Director of Education and Governance Initiatives at the Web3 Foundation, after spending the previous five years teaching Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of two books: A Friendly Introduction to Software Testing, an undergraduate textbook; and Strength in Numbers, a near-future novel set in a world in which cryptocurrency has eliminated traditional money.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Future growth and evolution of the Polkadot ecosystem
- Reaching 1000 referendums in the Polkadot ecosystem
- Dot Play and Kylix Finance
- The Decentralized Futures grant programme
- Zug is the crypto valley of the world
- Importance of regulatory oversight in crypto
- Upcoming US election
- Trump launching World Liberty Coin
- Web3 education in LATAM
- Polkadot isn’t one blockchain, it’s 51 different para-chains
- Friend.tech going under
- Crypto needs end-user consumer apps

Web3 Foundation
Website: web3.foundation
X: @Web3foundation

Bill Laboon
X: @BillLaboon
LinkedIn: Bill Laboon

#368: Graeme Moore, Head of Tokenization at Polymesh, on Institutional Grade Layer 1s, Tokenizing Real World Assets, and Creating New Liquidity Venues

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Graeme Moore is the Head of Tokenization at the Polymesh Association, a not-for-profit dedicated to the growth of the Polymesh blockchain ecosystem. He is also the author of B is for Bitcoin, the first-ever ABC book about Bitcoin. Prior to Polymesh, Graeme was the first employee at Polymath; the creative director at Spartan Race; and an associate at Canada’s largest independent investment advisory firm.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Institutional grade Layer 1s
- Governance is underrated in crypto
- Public-permissioned blockchain
- The 5 pillars of Polymesh - governance, confidentiality, compliance, settlement, identify
- Tokenizing Old Stone Church in Colorado
- REtokens - RWA tokens for real estate
- TradFi tokenizing crypto assets and crypto assets being TradFi’ed
- Crypto = money legos
- Creating new liquidity venues
- OpenSea Wells Notice
- Writing “B is for Bitcoin,” the first-ever ABC book about Bitcoin
- The relation between TradFi and crypto

Polymesh
Website: polymesh.network
X: @PolymeshNetwork

Graeme Moore
X: @MooreGrams
LinkedIn: Graeme Moore

#367: Rebecca Liao, CEO of Saga, on Crypto’s Political Playbook, Launching an L1 for L1s, and Web3 Gaming

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Rebecca Liao is the CEO of Saga and an advisor to Sommelier Protocol, where she is designing their DAO. She is also the co-founder, advisor, and former COO at Skuchain, a currency agnostic blockchain for global trade. Before Skuchain, she was director of business development and head of Asia for Globality, a Softbank-backed B2B unicorn for AI-powered procurement of professional services.

Rebecca was a member of President Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign, where she helped advise on China, technology, and Asia economic policy. She also served on Secretary Clinton’s foreign policy team for her 2016 presidential campaign, responsible for Asia trade and economic policy.

She also writes for the New York Times, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, Bloomberg View, and various other publications. Rebecca is also a fellow at the Stanford Program in Law, Science, and Technology, where she focuses on tech policy.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Launching an L1 for L1s
- Crypto’s political playbook
- Working for President Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign
- Politics and crypto
- Empowering developers
- Monolithic blockchains
- Present day web3 gaming
- Web3 entertainment
- Web3 games need L1s for scalability and zero gas fees
- Little - Saga’s liquidity integration layer
- Saga Origins, the publishing arm of the Saga Protocol

Saga
Website: www.saga.xyz
X: @Sagaxyz__

Rebecca Liao
X: @beccaliao
LinkedIn: Rebecca Liao

#366: SlumDOGE Millionaire, Memecoin Trader, on Finding Memecoins, $NEIRO, and Turning $180,000 Into $3 million in $DOGE

Mon, 02 Sep 2024 03:00:00 -0400

SlumDOGE Millionaire was recently unveiled as the face of $NEIRO, providing a firm seal of approval for the upstart meme coin. SlumDOGE Millionaire gained public recognition after he turned roughly $180,000 into over $3 million in $DOGE, a story which was chronicled in the documentary ‘This Not Financial Advice’, featured on Apple TV, Amazon Video and other streaming services. Catapulting him to the cover of The New York Times and the Ryan Seacrest Morning Show in Los Angeles, SlumDOGE Millionaire’s unlikely story has also been covered by the likes of CNBC, MSNBC, Business Insider, TIMES Magazine, and was featured in ABC Australia documentary ‘Crypto Mania’ as well as CNBC’s mini-doc ‘How I Became An Overnight Dogecoin Millionaire’.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The playbook for trading meme coins
- Measuring conviction and memecoin narratives
- Turning roughly $180,000 into over $3 million in $DOGE
- NEIRO’s origin story
- The key factor behind NEIRO’s meteoric recent rise
- Many meme coins struggle with long-term value creation … how do we flip this trend?
- Identifying investing trends
- The art of risk taking
- Meme stocks

Neiro
Website: www.neirocoin.xyz
X: @NeiroOnEthereum
Telegram: t.me/neiro_ethereum

SlumDOGE Millionaire
X: @ProTheDoge

#365: Jag Singh, CEO of re.al, on Real World Assets (RWAs), On-chain Home Loans, and Calculating Yields for RWAs

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Jag Singh is the CEO and co-founder of re.al, an L2 build to facilitate deep onchain liquidity for tokenized RWAs. re.al seeks to redefine how RWAs are integrated into DeFi, using yield-generating real-world assets as novel building blocks in existing DeFi primitives.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Real World Asset thesis
- TVL/RWA yields
- Benefits of tokenizing real-world assets
- On-chain Home Loans
- Building on Arbitrum
- Current market discussion
- Transparent rewards program
- Value accrual to community
- Vertically integrated ecosystem
- Rewards and points programs
- Season 2 rewards goals

re.al
Website: www.re.al
X: @real_rwa
Discord: discord.gg/realrwa

Jag Singh
X: @jagTNFT
LinkedIn: Jag Singh

#364: Ben Goertzel, CEO of SingularityNET, on The Relationship Between AI & Blockchain, The Future of AI, and AGI

Mon, 26 Aug 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Dr. Ben Goertzel is a highly influential figure in the fields of artificial intelligence, robotics, and computational finance. Born in 1966, he has been a pioneering force in multiple scientific and technological domains. With a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Temple University, Goertzel has dedicated his career to both the theoretical and practical applications of AI, striving to bridge the gap between machine intelligence and human-like cognition. He helped popularize the term “artificial general intelligence” and he has been a strong advocate for moving the field of AGI.

Dr. Goertzel leads the SingularityNET Foundation, the enterprise AI firm TrueAGI, the OpenCog Foundation, and the AGI Society. Additionally, he is the facilitator of the Artificial General Intelligence conference, held annually for more than fifteen years.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The future of AI & Blockchain
- The history and future of AI
- How AI and blockchain work together
- Artificial General Intelligence
- Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (ASI) merger
- $ASI
- The killer use case for blockchain-based AI
- AI product lifecycle
- How AI agents can make our lives easier
- AI-based fraud detection is more efficient on the blockchain

SingularityNET Foundation
Website: singularitynet.io
X: @SingularityNET
Telegram: t.me/singularitynet

Ben Goertzel
X: @bengoertzel
LinkedIn: Ben Goertzel

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#363: Gabriele Giancola, CEO of Qiibee, on Web3 Loyalty Programs, Liquidity’s Role in Points Programs, and The Future of Rewards Programs

Thu, 22 Aug 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Gabriele Giancola, council member of qiibee Foundation, is a prominent Swiss entrepreneur known for his contributions to the Web3 and blockchain space. After graduating with a Master’s in Business Management from the University of St. Gallen, Gabriele co-founded qiibee, where he is CEO, a blockchain-based loyalty ecosystem that helps brands run and connect loyalty programs.

Gabriele has worked with brands such as Miles & More, Etihad Guest, Renault, and Coca-Cola. Dedicated to pushing the boundaries of how blockchain can be applied to solve real-world problems, Gabriele envisions rewards as one of the top three payment methods that will drive blockchain’s growth and societal impact.

Gabriele’s areas of expertise include blockchain innovation and business enterprise loyalty programs.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The next iteration of loyalty programs
- Consumer brands and sports clubs are now adopting blockchain
- How Web3 has continuously evolved its incentivisation processes
- Offering greater transparency and flexibility
- Calculating the value of points programs
- Creating liquidity in points programs
- The importance of partnerships for loyalty programs
- Using web3 to unlock the next frontier of loyalty programs
- The future of rewards programs

qiibee
Website: www.qiibee.com
X: @qiibee
LinkedIn: qiibee

Gabriele Giancola
X: @gabriele_qbx
LinkedIn: Gabriele Giancola

#362: Chris Yin, CEO of Plume, on Real World Assets (RWAs), Tokenizing Everything, and The Crypto Product Lifecycle

Mon, 19 Aug 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Chris Yin is CEO/Co-Founder of Plume, which he founded in 2024 to redefine how people use and think about RWAs. He is leading the team realizing the vision to simplify how users bring any kind of asset including collectibles and alternative assets in addition to traditional financial instruments onchain. Chris has an accomplished track record as a product lead and investor, with prior positions at Beluga, Scale Venture Partners, and Rainforest QA.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- RWAs
- RWA-Fi
- Advantages of tokenizing assets
- Biggest challenges in RWA deployment
- Plume’s unique offerings in the RWA space
- Which collectibles and alternative assets that will be most valuable to bring onchain
- Alternative assets for retail investors
- Crypto evolving to serve institutional partners
-RWA based loans and looping
- Understanding the crypto product life cycle
- Knowing your audience

Plume Network
Website: www.plumenetwork.xyz
X: @plumenetwork
Telegram: t.me/plumenetwork_community

Chris Yin
X: @chriseyin
Blog: www.chrisyin.xyz

#361: Cooper Scanlon, Co-founder of Movement Labs, on The Move Programming Language, Powering the Fastest L2 on Ethereum, and Leveraging Blockchain Tech

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Cooper Scanlon, Co-founder of Movement Labs, dropped out of Vanderbilt after his journey led to the blockchain space and he realized that formal education wasn’t the key to his success and he enjoyed building a SPACDAO Vehicle more. This decision led to him pioneering the first yield aggregator leveraging Move and eventually envisioning and creating Movement Labs.

Fostering cross-disciplinary collaborations, championing Web3 initiatives, and drawing from his experiences, Cooper brings a unique blend of financial & technical expertise and economic system insights to Movement Labs, steering and leading its strategic and cultural direction.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The Move programming language
- Using web3 tech to create your own change
- "Building The Parthenon"
- Battle of Olympus Hackathon
- Rewarding community engagement in web3
- Launching testnet and securing $160M in Total Value Locked (TVL)
- Raising $38M from Binance Labs
- Writing cheques for new teams in the Move / Movement Labs ecosystem
- Incubating a community from scratch
- Living in NYC vs. SF

Movement Labs
Website: movementlabs.xyz
X: @movementlabsxyz
Telegram: t.me/movementlabsxyz

Cooper Scanlon
X: @coopsmoves

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#360: J.D. Seraphine, Founder of Raiinmaker, on Blockchain’s Influence on the Entertainment Industry, Merging Crypto & AI, and DePIN

Mon, 12 Aug 2024 03:00:00 -0400

J.D. Seraphine founded Vision Tree with the sole purpose of transforming our culture and changing the world for the better through Media and Technology. With over 16 Years experience in the entertainment industry, he started in television working in production on the hit show 24 and went on to finance and produce a number of projects: including Hesher, starring Natalie Portman and Joseph Gordon Levitt, the viral documentary sensation Sirius, and the Tony-nominated hit Broadway Play, Rock of Ages.

J.D. directed the groundbreaking documentary series, Open Source Money, about the rise of Disney-incubated blockchain company, Dragonchain, and the global evolution of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. The series premiered on Discovery Science Channel on the 4th of July 2020 and reached 1 million viewers in the U.S. He co-founded Raiinmaker, one the fastest growing Web 3.0 powered apps designed for the social creator economy. J.D. is committed to growing Vision Tree & Raiinmaker into powerful forces for change in the world that will have a major positive impact on the future of the global cultural landscape.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Merging Crypto & AI
- DePIN
- Simplifying the process of setting up nodes
- Empowering everyone to train AI models
- Democratizing data creation and collection
- Importance of “Know Your Customer” (KYC) compliance
- Deploying code directly from your smartphones to tap into decentralized computing power
- Stories from working in the entertainment industry
- Blockchain’s influence and distribution on the entertainment industry
- Harnessing the power of community and removing the middleman

Raiinmaker
Website: www.raiinmaker.com
X: @Raiinmakerapp
Telegram: t.me/raiinmakernetwork

J.D. Seraphine
X: @commodorgonzo
LinkedIn: J.D. Seraphine

#359: William Quigley, Co-founder of Tether & WAX, on the Future of Crypto, DeFi, Stablecoins, Regulation, and CBDCs

Thu, 08 Aug 2024 03:00:00 -0400

William E. Quigley is a cryptocurrency and blockchain investor. He has incubated and invested in more than 30 bitcoin, blockchain, and cryptocurrency-related investments and co-developed the first crypto derivative used to trade pre-release Ethereum. He co-founded Tether, the first fiat-backed stablecoin and most traded cryptocurrency to date, GoCoin, a pioneering crypto payments processor, and co-founded WAX, a leading NFT blockchain platform. In 2013, Mr. Quigley co-founded Crypto Currency Partners, a blockchain equity investment fund with early notable investments in Coinbase, Kraken, Bitfury, Authy, ChangeTip, and Circle.

Prior to his involvement in blockchain, William was a venture capitalist, co-founding Clearstone Venture Partners, a $700M early-stage focused venture capital firm where he concentrated on communications and consumer technology companies. Before Clearstone, William was a managing director at Idealab! Capital Partners (ICP), the world’s first consumer Internet venture capital firm. ICP was an early investor in some of the leading Web 1.0 era companies, including Paypal, Netzero, MP3.com, and Goto.com.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Overall market moves and SEC approvals
- Maturation of the crypto market
- Unique value of where we are in crypto adoption era
- Why Tether has no peg
- The future of Stablecoins and De-Fi
- De-Fi’s impact on the global commerce
- The spread and use of blockchain technology across other industries
- Why countries will adopt CBDCs
- The history of banking
- RWAs
- Digitization vs Tokenization

WAX
Website: www.wax.io
Twitter: @WAX_io
Telegram: t.me/wax_io

William E. Quigley
Twitter: @WilliamEQuigley
LinkedIn: William E. Quigley

#358: Amitt Mahajan, Founder of Proof of Play, on Building Viral Games, Web3 Games, Building Community, and Co-creating FarmVille

Mon, 05 Aug 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Amitt Mahajan is the Founder of Proof of Play, the creators of Pirate Nation, the fully onchain free-to-play pirate-themed roleplaying game (RPG). Prior to founding Proof of Play, Amitt was the founder and CTO of MyMiniLife (acquired by Zynga), founder and CEO of Toro (acquired by Google), and the co-founder and CTO of Rare Bits, an NFT marketplace launched in 2018 the same week as OpenSea. While at Zynga, he co-created the game FarmVille (300M players, $1B+ in revenue) and served as the CTO of Zynga Japan. Before his entrepreneurial work, Mahajan was an engineer at Epic Games on the Unreal Engine and Gears of War.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Building FarmVille and working at Zynga, a top 3 gaming studio of all time
- The importance of distribution in gaming
- Distribution in FB vs Telegram vs Discord
- Social gaming
- Creating games = giving multiple choices and giving high player agency
- “Finding the fun”
- Building decentralized games and gaming infrastructure
- Crypto is ethical neutral technology
- Importance of streaming in today’s games
- Building community
- Dev cycle speed

Pirate Nation
Website: piratenation.game
X: @PirateNation
Discord: discord.gg/piratenation

Amitt Mahajan
X: @amittm
LinkedIn: Amitt Mahajan

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#357: Evan Weiss, COO at Alluvial, on Liquid Staking, the ETH ETF, and the Future of DeFi & Staking

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 05:00:00 -0400

Evan Weiss, Chief Operating Officer at Alluvial, is a seasoned expert in the crypto industry. Prior to Alluvial, he served as the Business Development Lead for Coinbase Cloud at Coinbase, where played a crucial role in leading business teams for the launch of Coinbase's Wallet-as-a-Service. Prior to this, he served as the Head of Business Operations at Bison Trails, where he successfully managed sales, business operations, and customer success teams. Under Evan's leadership, these teams built the largest staking provider in the industry, overseeing assets staked totaling over $30 billion by November 2021.

Evan is also the founder of the Proof of Stake Alliance (POSA), a nonprofit industry alliance established in 2019. POSA has been a driving force in advocating for forward-thinking public policies to foster innovation in proof-of-stake ecosystems. Evan's work with POSA includes contributions to legal frameworks for staking, industry principles for staking-as-a-service, and fair taxation of staking rewards. His efforts have resulted in the publication of the first legal research addressing staking regulation and tax considerations, particularly in the context of liquid staking in the United States.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- ETH ETF
- What is “liquid staking”
- The difference between staking, liquid staking, and re-staking?
- The future of DeFi
- What is Alluvial and Liquid Collective?
- Future of ETH ecosystem and staking industry
- The current staking narrative for institutions and normies
- What will be the killer consumer crypto app?

Alluvial
Website: alluvial.finance
X: @alluvialfinance

Evan Weiss
X: @evweiss1
LinkedIn: Evan Weiss

#356: Matt Wright, CEO of Gaianet, on The Current and Future State of Decentralized AI, The Ethereum ecosystem, and ETH ETFs

Mon, 29 Jul 2024 03:00:00 -0400

As Gaianet's CEO, Matt spearheads the mission to reshape the AI landscape. With his adept leadership and 8 years of experience in community development, developer evangelism, and strategic partnership, Matt is dedicated to driving Gaianet toward a future where AI technologies are transparent, accessible, and beneficial to all – facilitating innovation and progress across industries.

Matt previously served as the Director at Consensys and endeavored to contribute to the evolution of the web (web3) and build the future of community development in the Ethereum ecosystem. With Matt being the leader, Consensys launched a dynamic virtual pre-accelerator program in collaboration with Tachyon, MetaMask, and Linea. Through mentorship, Matt helped numerous promising founders grow their businesses as members of the Consensys community.

During his time at J.P. Morgan, Matt built a developer community around Quorum, an open-source private/permissioned enterprise blockchain platform based on Ethereum. He established a 50+ member global Ambassador program, tripled the size of the community, and garnered substantial support from the enterprise Ethereum ecosystem.

Matt's contributions extended to organizing 150+ hackathons for renowned Fortune 500 companies, including Mastercard, Motorola, ABInBev, RBC, Barclays, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and UBS. Collaborating closely with local tech partners, NGOs, universities, accelerators, and government agencies, Matt facilitated impactful events that embraced startup culture on a global scale.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Ethereum ETF
- The current and future state of decentralized AI
- The technical and philosophical benefits of AI
- Real world applications of decentralized AI
- Navigating the challenges in decentralized AI implementation
- The role of community in decentralized AI ecosystems
- Overcoming centralization in AI
- The future of AI innovation
- The relation of AI and crypto
- What is Gaianet?
- Why do people shit on the Ethereum ecosystem?
- AI agents

Gaianet
Website: www.gaianet.ai
X: @Gaianet_AI
Telegram: t.me/Gaianet_AI

Matt Wright
X: @mateo_ventures
LinkedIn: Matt Wright

#355: Bobby Lee, CEO of Ballet, on Bitcoin Ownership, ETFs, Custody, and Bitcoin Regulations in USA & China

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Bobby Lee is the Founder and CEO of Ballet, the cryptocurrency company behind the innovative REAL Series Cold Storage. This physical cold storage was launched in 2019 as the world’s first-ever non-electronic cold storage card with multicurrency support that requires zero setup to use. Ballet aims to bring true global adoption to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency by making it easy, safe, and reliable for everyday people to store and manage their digital assets.

Bobby Lee has been a leading entrepreneur and expert in the crypto industry since 2011. He is also the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller “The Promise of Bitcoin.” Prior to founding Ballet, Lee was the CEO and co-founder of the first Bitcoin exchange established in China, BTC China (later renamed BTCC), which was acquired by a Hong Kong-based investment firm in January 2018.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Mining and buying Bitcoin back in 2011
- The relation between gold and bitcoin
- Bitcoin ETF
- Bitcoin regulatory landscape in USA and China
- Future of Bitcoin
- What is Ballet? The easiest and most efficient cold storage crypto solution
- BIP38 private key encryption
- Bitcoin ownership and custody
- The importance of self-custody + cold storage
- Trump + JD Vance being pro-crypto

Ballet
Website: www.ballet.com
X: @BalletCrypto
Telegram: t.me/BalletCrypto

Bobby Lee
X: @bobbyclee
LinkedIn: Bobby Lee

#354: Sunil Srivatsa, CEO of Storm Labs, on DeFi, Loss Versus Rebalancing, Yield Farming, Points Programs, and Automated Market Making in Crypto

Mon, 22 Jul 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Sunil Srivatsa is the founder and CEO of Storm Labs, the creators of the Cove Protocol, the first onchain portfolio manager.

Previously, Sunil founded Saddle, the premier open-source StableSwap with $2.2B+ in volume, and was a senior software engineer at Uber where he worked on infrastructure security, self-driving cars in the Advanced Technologies Group (ATG), and real-time analytics.

Before Uber, Sunil was an early member of the data engineering team at Square. He is also a founding partner at eGirl Capital. Sunil earned his B.S. in Computer Science with a double major in Finance from Washington University in St. Louis.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Stories from working at Uber
- When company names come verbs … sky is the limit
- What is Storm Labs?
- The importance of onchain portfolio manager
- Current global DeFi landscape
- Automated market makers in crypto
- Loss Versus Rebalancing
- Yield farming, re-staking + points programs
- Tips to deal with slippage
- AI-powered investment tools in crypto

Cove
Website: www.cove.finance
X: @cove_fi
Discord: discord.gg/fvxc4p6gB2

Sunil Srivatsa
X: @devops199fan
LinkedIn: Sunil Srivatsa

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#353: Burnt Banksy, CEO of XION, on Chain Abstraction, Mass Adoption, and Burning a Banksy Painting

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Three years ago, Burnt Banksy’s act of burning a physical Banksy ignited global discourse on NFTs and Web3, exposing the industry's flaws. The story was covered by leading publications including Bloomberg, CoinDesk, GQ, CoinTelegraph, BBC, CBS, and is often cited as the catalyst of the NFT revolution. Now, through the XION blockchain, founder Burnt Banksy leads a mission to democratize Web3 to the masses, making ownership accessible to all by removing unnecessary barriers and complications through chain abstraction.

Burnt Banksy can provide valuable insights into a range of topics, especially as they relate to chain abstraction and crypto abstraction in general—making blockchain technology easier to use for a larger audience. Burnt Banksy can also speak to ecosystem interoperability and related topics of making crypto more adoption-friendly.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The decision behind burning a Banksy painting
- State of the market — why create another L1?
- Solving UX & fragmentation
- Mass adoption - is it just a pipe dream or can crypto fully go mainstream?
- Long tail crypto thesis
- What is chain abstraction?
- EarnOS with Uber, Baskin Robins, Sunglass Hut, The North Face, etc
- Mass adoption = chain abstraction
- Creating a wallet-less L1 chain
- The power of micropayments

XION
Website: xion.burnt.com
X: @burnt_xion
Discord: discord.gg/burnt

Burnt Banksy
X: @BurntBanksy

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#352: Sid Coelho-Prabhu, Senior Director of Product Management for Coinbase Wallet, on The Importance of Self Custody, The Future of Crypto Wallets, and New Coinbase Products

Mon, 15 Jul 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Sid Coelho-Prabhu is the Senior Director of Product Management for Coinbase Wallet, the self-custody wallet that serves as a gateway to the onchain ecosystem. He joined Coinbase in 2017 with a goal of helping to build a more open financial system. Prior to joining Coinbase, he was the CEO and co-founder of Savvy Investments, an online investment advisory and management service.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Republican Party to implement crypto in official party platform
- Working at Coinbase
- Creating a trustworthy brand
- The importance of self-custody
- The evolution of crypto wallets
- Building on base
- Coinbase Wallet web app launch
- One-stop destination to explore, manage, and engage with the blockchain
- Coinbase’s Smart Wallet
- Adoption of decentralized applications
- On-chain summer
- Payments in crypto is vastly underrated

Coinbase
Website: www.coinbase.com
X: @coinbase
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Coinbase

Sid Coelho-Prabhu
X: @sid_coelho
LinkedIn: Siddharth Coelho-Prabhu

#351: Will Fan, CEO of NewCampus, on The Future of Education and Integrating Web3 Into Education

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Will Fan is the CEO and Head of School at NewCampus, a challenger business school designed for emerging markets.

As a partner at Open Campus, a pioneering Web3 foundation, he is deeply involved in financing groundbreaking education and future of work initiatives.

His work is driven by a blend of education, community building, and exploring new industries. Over the past decade, his experiences have spanned from China and the Middle East to Southeast Asia.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Price action’s correlation to attention
- Overview of Open Campus
- Integrating crypto and blockchain education into curriculums
- Bridge between Web3 and education
- Blending nodes of education problems into solutions
- The future of education
- Launching a new L3 on Arbitrum
- Verifying education problems on-chain
- Web3 financing as the catalyst for moving the needle

Open Campus
Website: www.opencampus.xyz
X: @opencampus_xyz
Discord: discord.gg/opencampus

Will Fan
X: @hellowillfan
LinkedIn: Will Fan 🕊️

#350: Matthijs de Vries, CEO of Nuklai, on The Future of Decentralized Data, Crypto, and AI

Mon, 08 Jul 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Matthijs de Vries is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for blockchain technology, as well as its role in the future of data and AI. He is currently building the collaborative smart data ecosystem and decentralized data infrastructure provider, Nuklai. With extensive experience in DeFi and Web3, Matthijs is also one of the co-founders of tokenization infrastructure expert, Nexera (fka AllianceBlock), DeFi trading strategy software provider Nuant, and a strategic advisor for the smart wallet project Brillion.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Why the current market sell-off
- Germany and Mt. Gox market implications
- How blockchain and AI work together
- The future of crypto and AI
- AI needing traceability, hence the need for blockchain
- AI agents
- Data monetization
- The problem of fragmented data
- Enterprise data sharing insights
- Successful data collaboration initiatives
- 2024 H2 predictions

Nuklai
Website: www.nukl.ai
X: @NuklaiData
Telegram: t.me/NuklaiOfficial

Matthijs de Vries
X: @MatthijsDeVries
LinkedIn: Matthijs de Vries

#349: Shant Kevonian, CEO of EtherMail, on Web3 Email, The Future of Email, Ethereum, and How to Successfully Launch Tokens

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Shant Kevonian is the Founder and CEO of EtherMail. He is responsible for setting the company’s strategy, directing its product vision, developing company culture, and managing its agendas. A technical founder with a love of computer programming from a young age, Shant left university early to join the Barcelona startup scene. He joined hospitality startup ByHours as an intern and was promoted to CTO within six months, leading a 20-strong team.

Shant has developed high-performance, proprietary algorithms for several startups in his decade-long career as a CTO. He was a senior technical advisor for the interactive virtual concert platform SoundStage.fm, acquired by Audius in 2022. He is an enthusiastic gamer with a preference for RTS and RPGs, and his interests include dabbling in new technologies, entrepreneurship, and good comedies.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Why the future of email is web3
- The secret sauce of launching a token
- 320 billion emails are sent every day
- EVM compatibility
- Building on Ethereum
- Purpose and tokenomics of $EMT
- GDPR nonsense
- Getting incentivized for your data
- Elite gaming setups
- FOMO in crypto
- The killer use case in crypto will be a consumer app

EtherMail
Website: ethermail.io
X: @ethermail_io
Telegram: t.me/ethermail_official

Shant Kevonian
LinkedIn: Shant Kevonian

#348: Arjun Bhuptani, Co-founder of Everclear, on Web3 Branding, Clearing Layers, The Power of Netting, and Rollups

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Arjun Bhuptani is a co-founder of Everclear, the first clearing layer for the web3 ecosystem. He is also a co-creator of Moloch DAO, the earliest and one of the most frequently used Decentralized Autonomous Organization frameworks meant to help individuals and institutions coordinate around shared resources in a fair and transparent manner.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Connext’s decision to launch a new protocol and rebrand to Everclear
- Clearing layers in web3
- Crypto UX and liquidity fragmentation across chains
- ENS names
- Web3 branding
- Chain Abstraction’s dirty Secret: scalability was only possible through centralization
- Why bridges alone can't solve cross-chain interactions
- Solving Ethereum’s scalability issues
- What is netting?
- Rebalancing liquidity
- H2 predictions
- What is a rollup?

Everclear
Website: www.everclear.org
X: @EverclearOrg
Discord: discord.gg/everclear

Arjun Bhuptani
X: @arjunbhuptani
LinkedIn: Arjun Bhuptani

#347: Eric Chen, CEO of Injective Labs, on Institutionalized DeFi, Tokenized RWAs, and Revolutionizing On-chain Trading

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Eric Chen is the CEO and co-founder of Injective Labs, the core contributor to Injective. Before founding Injective, he worked as a cryptography researcher and trader at Innovating Capital, where he led market-neutral trading efforts in the blockchain space and invested in prominent companies such as 0x, ChainLink, and Cosmos. Eric possesses extensive knowledge of blockchain protocols and traditional finance, along with a deep understanding of both Eastern and Western blockchain-based protocols and communities.

Eric was featured in Forbes 30 under 30 in 2023 for his significant work with Injective. He studied finance and computer science at NYU.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Institutionalized DeFi
- The convergence of DeFi and TradFi
- Building the fastest L1 blockchain for DeFi
- High-yields in crypto
- Tokenized RWAs
- The need for consumer-based RWAs
- Burning $INJ tokens
- Micro vs. Macro environments
- The current state of crypto conferences
- H2 Outlook
- ETH ETF underscores legitimacy of the crypto industry
- Helix 2.0 upgrade

Injective Labs
Website: injectivelabs.org
X: @InjectiveLabs
Discord: discord.gg/NK4qdbv

Eric Chen
X: @ericinjective

#346: Jack O’Holleran, CEO of SKALE Labs, on Web3 Gaming, The Current Ethereum Narrative, and Meme Coins vs. NFTs

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Jack O’Holleran is the Co-Founder and CEO of SKALE Labs, a gas-less EVM-compatible blockchain designed for secure Ethereum scaling. Jack is a veteran Silicon Valley Technology entrepreneur with a deep background in machine learning/AI technologies and blockchain. Formerly, Jack co-founded Aktana in 2008 and led the company's transformation from a four-person startup to a global leader in the Analytics market category, boasting over 350 employees and serving an impressive roster of Global Fortune 500 clients with its AI and machine learning platform tailored to optimize sales and marketing decisions.

Jack first started working with digital assets in 2008 when he was instrumental in building a digital currency platform for Enterprise Resource Allocation and initially saw a big opportunity to bring scalability to the blockchain. Jack is a veteran Silicon Valley Technology entrepreneur with a deep background in machine learning/AI technologies and blockchain and a longstanding connection to web2 and web3 developers. ****As a previous starting receiver for the Nebraska Cornhuskers Football team, Jack is passionate about bringing blockchain technology to the sports industry to bring fans closer to their favorite teams.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The state of Web3 gaming
- The power of casual games
- In-game economies
- Current state of Ethereum
- Gas-free, zero-cost minting
- ETH-based L2s
- Meme coins vs. NFTs
- SKALE’s recent partnership with Virtualness to bring fans of Liga1 to Web3
- SKALE’s partnership with Unity
- Empowering developers
- DeSci (Decentralized Science)

SKALE Network
Website: skale.space
Twitter: @SkaleNetwork
Discord: discord.gg/SKALE

Jack O'Holleran
Twitter: @jackoholleran
LinkedIn: Jack O'Holleran

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#345: Vince Yang, CEO of zkLink, on The current state of L3s, What are ZK Proofs, and Aggregated Rollup Narratives

Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:00:00 -0400

A bitcoin hodler & former engineer, Vince Yang's journey into crypto started with Bitcoin mining and gradually evolved into a deeper exploration of blockchain's potential and ZK Proofs. Vince is now the CEO of zkLink, a team dedicated to pioneering a decentralized trading reality of secure, unified liquidity with zkSnarks and blockchain's Layer 3 scaling solutions.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The current state of L3 and the Aggregated Rollup Narratives
- Why do we need L3 and what do they do for Ethereum
- The modular narrative and decentralization
- Unifying blockchains
- What are ZK proofs?
- Real-life examples of ZK tech
- What are these L3s lacking?
- Destination of settlement
- Challenges in growing TVL
- zkLink Nova: From zero to $ 1 billion with the Aggregation Parade

zkLink
Website: zk.link
X: @zkLink_Official
Discord: discord.gg/zklink

Vince Yang
X: @zkVinceReal

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#344: Alexei Zamyatin, Co-founder of BOB, on The Bitcoin Ecosystem, Hybrid Layer 2s, and Bitcoin’s Brand & Recognizability

Mon, 17 Jun 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Alexei Zamyatin is a Co-founder of BOB, a first-of-its-kind hybrid Layer-2 powered by Bitcoin and Ethereum. He has been a Bitcoin and interoperability research contributor since 2015 and is most known for his work on trustless cross-chain bridges and L2s. Alexei holds a PhD in computer science from Imperial College London.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Making bitcoin more useful
- Bitcoin utility
- Bridging from Bitcoin to Ethereum
- Bitcoin’s brand and recognizability
- The adoption of L2s
- Ordinals, Runes
- What are Hybrid Layer 2s
- How L2s on Bitcoin will impact the cost of transactions in this cycle
- The difficulties ETH/SOL devs would have when starting to build on bitcoin
- Merge mining
- Ordinals was Bitcoin’s Crypto Kitty moment

BOB
Website: www.gobob.xyz
X: @build_on_bob
Telegram: t.me/gobobxyz

Alexei Zamyatin
X: @alexeiZamyatin
LinkedIn: Alexei Zamyatin

#343: Chris Liquin, CEO of Cupcake, on CultureFi, Digital Self vs. Physical Self, and The Intersection of Finance & Culture

Thu, 13 Jun 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Chris Liquin is CEO of Cupcake.com, the social layer of Solana. Chris has been investing in crypto since 2016 and has worked full-time in the space since 2021. Prior to Cupcake, Chris worked for Gary Vaynerchuck at Vayner3, a Fortune 500 Web3 consulting firm, as SVP of Strategy & Operations. During his time at V3, he led over $25M of work with brands like Budweiser, Red Bull, Coinbase, Johnny Walker, Crocs, and KFC as they explored the frontier of the internet. He holds an MBA from Chicago Booth, spent his non-crypto career at KPMG and Google Cloud.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- What is CultureFi?
- The intersection of finance and culture
- The founding story of Cupcake
- Web3 vs Web2 engagement
- Stories from working with Gary V
- Onboarding Fortune 500 brands to web3
- Why celebrating culture is the future of crypto = CultureFi
- Digital self vs. physical self
- Fractionalizing assets
- Solana ecosystem
- The future of social media

Cupcake
Website: www.cupcake.com
X: @cupcakeprotocol
LinkedIn: Cupcake

Chris Liquin
X: @chrisliquin
LinkedIn: Chris Liquin

#342: Stefan Kimmel, CEO of M2, on the Ethereum ETF, Institutional Crypto Adoption, and How Crypto Exchanges Can Offer 10% Yields

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Stefan Kimmel is the CEO at M2, leading the company's mission to establish a world-class global digital currency investment platform. With over 25 years of experience in finance, fintech, and digital innovation, Stefan has a proven track record of delivering products and services to his clients. He specializes in leveraging digital products to optimize the delivery of financial solutions, ensuring optional outcomes for his clients. Stefan has held prominent executive roles in the fintech industry, including positions such as Chief Commercial Officer at Kraken MENA, Chief Operating Officer of the Commercial Bank of Dubai, and leadership roles at PWC, IBM, and Oliver Wyman Middle East. His extensive expertise and unwavering commitment to innovation make him a respected thought leader in the industry, driving M2 towards its goal of becoming the leading global digital investment platform.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- How crypto exchanges can offer 10% yields
- ETF’s impact on credibility
- Impact of potential SEC approval of ETH ETF (Time-dependent)
- Status of crypto adoption in UAE and MENA generally
- Why M2 sees the UAE as the springboard to building an exchange with global reach
- Regulatory comparison between UAE and US
- Broad adoption of crypto via institutional investors
- Real World Assets (RWA)
- Fractionalized assets via tokenization

M2
Website: www.m2.com
X: @M2Exchange
Telegram: t.me/M2Community

Stefan Kimmel
X: @M2Stefan
LinkedIn: Stefan Kimmel

#341: Ariel Seidman, CEO of Hivemapper, on DePIN, Decentralized Maps, and AI in Crypto

Thu, 06 Jun 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Ariel Seidman is the CEO & Co-Founder of Hivemapper, a decentralized mapping community that relies on a network of drivers, AI trainers and advanced technologies to create the world’s freshest map.

A seasoned expert in the field, Ariel's journey began over a decade ago at Yahoo! Search and Maps, where he garnered invaluable experience in building maps at scale. Motivated by the inefficiencies of traditional methods, he embarked on a mission to revolutionize global mapping. Prior to Hivemapper, Ariel founded Gigwalk, a pioneering location-based data collection firm that transformed mobile devices into lucrative tools for data gathering, earning recognition from Fast Company as a Top 10 Mobile Innovation Company. With his extensive background and unwavering commitment to innovation, Ariel continues to shape the future of mapping technology.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The difficulties of building digital maps
- Google vs. Yahoo maps in early 2000s
- Maps are clear sources of truth
- Decentralized maps
- AI in crypto
- Creating the world's freshest global map
- Building AI models to train date and perform map QA
- Getting paid to drive with a dash-cam
- DePIN - touching real markets and industries
- Hivemapper has already mapped 20% of the world

Hivemapper
Website: hivemapper.com
X: @Hivemapper
Instagram: @hivemapper

Ariel Seidman
X: @aseidman
LinkedIn: Ariel Seidman

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#340: Unique Divine, Co-founder and CEO of Nibiru, on Creating L1s, Parallel Optimistic Execution, and EVM-compatibility

Mon, 03 Jun 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Unique Divine is the co-founder and CEO of Nibiru, the user-centric layer-1 super chain that is paving the way to mainstream blockchain adoption through its exceptionally high throughput and parallel optimistic execution approach. Following its $8.5 million seed round in September 2022, co-led by the $1.6B+ AUM firm Tribe Capital, Republic Capital, Original Capital, and NGC Ventures, Nibiru secured an additional $12 million from venture firms, including Kraken Ventures, ArkStream, Tribe Capital, and others.

Unique’s expertise in decentralized financial services, blockchain, and smart contracts is preceded by a professional background primarily in applied machine learning, where he consulted as an AI engineer for startups and Fortune 500 companies with Insight Softmax.

Unique financed his Physics and Computer Science degrees at Columbia University through earnings generated from algorithmic trading, combining transformers for processing historical sequences and reinforcement agents to make trading decisions. Following graduation, he worked as a data scientist for IBM before helping develop Sommelier, the blockchain protocol for executing automated trading strategies on-chain, where he was in charge of the team’s data science division and led the development of DeFi trading strategies.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Creating a new L1
- L1 ecosystems
- Fundraising for L1s - tough to find a niche
- Increasing throughput
- High-level overview of Nibiru — a new L1 blockchain valued at $100 million
- 2024 Roadmap: Parallel Optimistic Execution, EVM-compatibility
- Strategic expansion into the APAC region
- Developing Sommelier for IBM
- Hands on ecosystem
- Venture-arms within the ecosystem
- The integration of CeFi and DeFi

Nibiru
Website: nibiru.fi
X: @NibiruChain
Telegram: t.me/nibiruchain

Unique Divine
X: @DivineNibirun
LinkedIn: Unique Divine

#339: Josh Fraser, Co-Founder of Origin Protocol, on Liquid Staking, Getting Better Yields in Crypto, and The Future of DeFi

Thu, 30 May 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Josh Fraser is the Co-Founder of Origin Protocol. Prior to Origin, he co-founded three other venture-backed companies: EventVue, Torbit (acquired by Walmart Labs) & Forage. Josh started coding at the age of 10.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- DeFi industry
- Automated Redemption Manager (ARM)
- Liquid staking
- Transparency and integrity in crypto
- Crypto industry's volatility
- Staking and Ethereum
- Learning to code at age 10
- Getting better yields in crypto
- The future of yield is multi-chain

Origin Protocol
Website: www.originprotocol.com
X: @OriginProtocol
Telegram: t.me/originprotocol

Josh Fraser
X: @joshfraser
LinkedIn: Josh Fraser

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#338: Anurag Arjun, Co-founder of Avail, on Scaling Ethereum, The Future of L2s, Roll-ups, and Why Crypto Needs a Unification Layer

Mon, 27 May 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Anurag Arjun, Co-founder of Avail, is a seasoned entrepreneur who has founded several successful startups across diverse industries, ranging from cash flow lending to regulatory tech. With a strategic move into the blockchain space in 2017, he co-founded Matic Network, which has since evolved into Polygon, a platform for scaling Ethereum.

In 2020, Anurag spearheaded the development of Avail, an innovative solution within the Polygon ecosystem that empowers developers to create fast, efficient, and scalable applications. As a pioneer with a background spanning research, economics, and engineering, Anurag's unique skill set has been invaluable in creating Avail and the broader blockchain community. In March 2023, he and co-founder Prabal Banerjee spun off Avail from Polygon to embark on a journey to empower rollup and application blockchain communities with the development of a unification layer that enables modular execution layers to scale and interoperate in a trust-minimized way.

With an unwavering commitment to realizing the full potential of modular blockchain technology, Anurag is excited to leverage this cutting-edge approach to maximize Avail's impact. His expertise and vision continue to drive Avail's success and position the company at the forefront of the blockchain revolution.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Founding Polygon in 2020
- Why a unification layer is needed
- Present day L2s
- Avail ecosystem: Gaming , AI, Bitcoin L2's, DeFi, Wallet & Infra
- Modular blockchains
- Avail’s mainnet launch
- $27mm raise, led by Founders Fund and Dragon Fly
- The future of L2s and roll-ups
- L1s as tribes
- Web3 infrastructure

Avail
Website: www.availproject.org
X: @AvailProject
Telegram: t.me/AvailCommunity

Anurag Arjun
X: @anuragarjun
LinkedIn: Anurag Arjun

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#337: Ethan Buchman, CEO of Cycles Protocol, on The History of Money, Cosmos Ecosystem, and Collaborative Finance

Thu, 23 May 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Ethan Buchman is Co-founder of Cosmos, CEO of Informal Systems, and Founder Cycles Protocol

Ethan is a leading figure in blockchain technology and has worked at the Interchain Foundation, Tendermint, and his consultancy CoinCulture CryptoConsulting.

His academic background in Biophysics from the University of Guelph informs his interdisciplinary approach, evident in his research contributions across institutions like the University of California, San Francisco. Ethan's innovative mindset and expertise continue to drive advancements in decentralized systems.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Blockchains' killer app is money
- What is money? To denominate and discharge debt
- The history of money and blockchain
- Cycles protocol
- The inception of Cosmos ecosystem
- Community computers - the ethos of blockchain
- Collaborative Finance, blockchain's missing promise
- Money isn't just about storing value; it's about accounting and exchange
- Traditional banking's power lies in clearing debts
- Clearing more debt with less money
- Crypto in Canada and Ethereum in Toronto

Cosmos
Website: cosmos.network
X: @cosmos
Telegram: t.me/cosmosproject

Ethan Buchman
X: @buchmanster
LinkedIn: Ethan Buchman

#336: Tristan Frizza, Founder of Zeta Markets, on Solana’s DeFi Layer 2 Plans, Perpetual Trading, and 2024 DeFi Summer

Mon, 20 May 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Tristan Frizza is the Founder of Zeta Markets. Tristan’s curiosity for crypto was ignited in 2017 when he traded his first cryptocurrency, spurring him to finish his Computer Science degree with an emphasis on distributed systems and PoW blockchain technology. He then worked in AI research and as a data scientist in Silicon Valley, eventually writing his thesis on Generative Adversarial Network for Image Super-Resolution for which he received First Class Honours.

Motivated by a passion for open-source software and the potential to democratize finance, Tristan co-founded Zeta. His venture aimed to introduce transparency and accessibility to the financial sector, drawing on his deep technological expertise and vision for the future of global markets. The turning point came in 2021 when Tristan and his team triumphed in a Solana hackathon, outshining over 13,000 participants, which catalyzed the transformation of their proof of concept into a prominent decentralized exchange.

Today, Zeta is a testament to Tristan’s ambition and innovation, having processed over $5 billion in trading volume. His journey from a crypto enthusiast to a trailblazer in decentralized finance illustrates the impact of perseverance, hard work, and conviction in blockchain technology in reshaping the financial landscape.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Perpetual trading
- Solana’s DeFi Layer 2 plans & Ecosystem
- 2024 DeFi summer
- $Z token
-New $5M Strategic Round led by @ElectricCapital
- The future trajectory of DeFi
- The role of enhanced staking mechanisms
- Fostering a robust and secure trading environment
- Innovative tokenomics
- Solana congestion issues
- Ethereum vs. Solana

Zeta Markets
Website: www.zeta.markets
X: @ZetaMarkets
Discord: discord.gg/Xn9HCJaDZd

Tristan Frizza
X: @Tristan0x
LinkedIn: Tristan Frizza

#335: Tomer Pascal, CEO of CityVerse Tycoon, on Web3 Mobile Gaming Ecosystem, PWAs, and Battling the Apple/Google App Stores

Thu, 16 May 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Tomer Pascal is the CEO and co-founder of OwnPlay, a web3 mobile gaming ecosystem that has developed CityVerse Tycoon, a PWA game allowing players to trade, buy, and sell tokenized replicas of real buildings in New York City. Tomer has extensive multi-disciplinary experience in delivering products to their appropriate markets, working with early-stage companies, businesses with new products, and well-established organizations. He combines his tech mindset, ability to create effective marketing technology platforms, and business capabilities to help companies monetize their products and achieve growth.

Before founding OwnPlay, Tomer held several positions, including Chief Revenue Officer at Mohawk Group, Inc., where he focused on driving revenue and holistic growth; Chief Executive Officer at OMG Studios, where he served as a corporate strategist and worked on digital media and customer engagement; and General Manager of the Perion Lightspeed Division at Perion, overseeing the GrowMobile mobile advertising platform. With his diverse skill set and experience, Tomer leads OwnPlay in its mission to innovate in the mobile gaming industry using web3 technology.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- What is a PWA game?
- CityVerse Tycoon = Monopoly GO + Zillow
- Trade, buy, and sell tokenized replicas of real buildings
- The opportunity that mobile offers for web3 gaming
- Challenges of creating and operating a mobile web3 game
- Mobile offering unparalleled accessibility
- The "David and Goliath" struggle between crypto apps and centralized app stores
- Apple and Google’s Appstore Duopoly
- Building the game as a PWA rather than a traditional mobile app
- PWA’s influence on distribution and monetization for mobile gaming

CityVerse Tycoon
Website: cityversetycoon.com
X: @CityVerseTycoon
Discord: discord.gg/cityversetycoon

Tomer Pascal
X: @TomerPascal
LinkedIn: Tomer Pascal

#334: Spencer Farrar, Partner at Theory Ventures, on Web3 Venture Capital, Funding, and Strategy

Mon, 13 May 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Spencer Farrar is a Partner at Theory Ventures. Spencer was a two-sport athlete at Berkeley (swimming and water polo). He then worked at a Web3 startup, Velocity, which processed more than $150m of volume per day, before joining Bienville, a $4b asset investing in early-stage blockchain companies.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The state of Web3 funding
- Web3 startups
- Venture strategy and liquid strategy in crypto
- AI-based Web3/blockchain companies
- Go-to-market strategy
- Influencers becoming VCs
- Swimming and water polo
- Working in trad-fi
- Similarities between VC and PE
- Supporting portfolio companies
- Web2 vs. Web3 sales

Theory Ventures
Website: theory.ventures
X: @Theoryvc
LinkedIn: Theory Ventures

Spencer Farrar
X: @SpencerFarrar
LinkedIn: Spencer Farrar

#333: Eduard Jubany Tur, Founder of ZKX, on Perpetual Futures, DeFi Growth in Asia, and How DeFi can Democratize Finance

Thu, 09 May 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Eduard Jubany Tur, Founder of ZKX, a decentralized perpetual futures exchange on Starknet.

Eduard’s background in tech and finance has led him to tackle some of DeFi’s most pressing challenges, such as accessibility and user engagement. With the goal of making DeFi more approachable and efficient, Eduard has been at the forefront of integrating gamification into trading, enhancing the learning curve with innovative solutions. Beyond that, Eduard and ZKX are also leveraging Starknet for scalability, advancing trading with security and transparency, and fostering community governance. This multifaceted approach highlights his commitment to not only making DeFi fun and accessible, but also robust, secure, and inclusive.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Perpetual futures trading
- DeFi’s growth in Asia + crypto in Asia
- The potential of DeFi to democratize finance
- Starknet
- Account abstraction
- Challenges of achieving widespread adoption
- Appchains
- Incentivizing engagement while ensuring accessibility
- Onboarding the masses
- The explosion of L1s and L2s

ZKX
Website: zkx.fi
Z: @zkxprotocol
Telegram: t.me/zkxcommunity

Eduard Jubany Tur
X: @0xEduard
LinkedIn: Eduard Jubany Tur

#332: Armani Ferrante, CEO of Backpack, on Solana and Web3 Super Apps

Mon, 06 May 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Armani Ferrante is the founder and CEO of Backpack. The Backpack ecosystem of companies, creators of the Backpack wallet, the Mad Lads NFT collection, the xNFT standard, and Backpack Exchange. Before founding Backpack in April 2022, he was the creator of Anchor, a groundbreaking developer tool that revolutionized programming on Solana. Anchor has become an integral part of numerous Solana projects and protocols, and bonding its commitments to simplifying the developer experience. Armani graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Computer Science and before dedicating all his effort into crypto and web3, he used to work for Apple as a software engineer.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Super Apps in crypto
- Growth of the Solana ecosystem
- Hill climbing business mindset
- Backpack
- Mad Lads NFT collection
- Anchor developer tools
- Solana vs Ethereum
- Multi-threaded and parallel blockchains - the future of web3
- Speed, security, applications - the 3 things people care about
- The future of consumer crypto

Backpack
Website: backpack.app
X: @Backpack
Discord: discord.gg/backpack

Armani Ferrante
X: @armaniferrante

#331: Tascha Punyaneramitdee, Founder of INIT Capital, on DeFi, Liquidity Hook Money Markets, Point Farming in Crypto, and 2024 Trends

Thu, 02 May 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Tascha Punyaneramitdee serves as Core Contributor & Founder of INIT Capital, a Liquidity Hook Money Market designed to enhance liquidity layers. Her prior role in leading Stella, a protocol offering multi-chain leveraged strategies, highlights her significant contributions and expertise in the sector.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Liquidity Hook Money Market
- Addressing information asymmetry
- Better management of liquidity
- Innovating DeFi’s architecture
- Crypto scene in Thailand
- Point farming in crypto
- 2024 trends
- Creating new liquidity streams
- Memecoins
- RWA, DePIN, AI
- Bitcoin L2s

INIT Capital
Website: init.capital
X: @InitCapital_
LinkedIn: INIT Capital

Tascha Punyaneramitdee
X: @tascha_panpan
LinkedIn: Tascha P.

#330: Gracy Chen, Managing Director of Bitget, on The Current Bull Run, Memecoin Mania, AI Tokens, and Getting Listed on Crypto Exchanges

Mon, 29 Apr 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Gracy Chen, the Managing Director of Bitget, oversees the growth and expansion of global markets, strategy, execution, business and corporate development of Bitget. She started her journey to the crypto world in 2014, being an investor in the early days of BitKeep (now Bitget Wallet), Asia’s leading decentralized wallet. Gracy was named a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum in 2015.

Moreover, Gracy has been selected as delegate to attend the recent UN Women CSW68 conference , an event where the UN member states representative and social organizations get together to raise and discuss critical issues impacting gender equality and women’s rights in New York, and address poverty and diversity problems and strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Post Bitcoin halving update
- Memecoin mania
- How coins get listed on exchanges
- AI tokens outpacing Bitcoin
- Immersive NFTs
- Augmented reality (AR) technology in art and entertainment
- The big picture of this current bull market
- Life in Boston
- Are we getting a rate cut?
- Predictions for AI-focused crypto assets for 2024

Bitget
Website: bitget.com
Twitter: @bitgetglobal
LinkedIn: Bitget
Telegram: t.me/bitgetEN

Gracy Chen
Twitter: @GracyBitget
LinkedIn: Gracy Chen

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#329: Zach Bruch, CEO of MyPrize, on the Evolution of Crypto Casinos, Trading, and Creating Multiplayer Experiences in Web3

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Zach Bruch is the Founder and CEO of MyPrize, an online crypto casino. Zach previously held positions at Kraken and Cumberland Labs, where he ran their sales trading desk. He later created his own trading operation and became one of the most profitable individual traders of all time. Prior to founding MyPrize, Zach served as an advisor at JST Capital, a financial services firm specializing in digital asset markets.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Working at Kraken and Cumberland Labs
- The power and future of streaming
- Stories from institutional trading desks
- The evolution of crypto trading
- Zach being FTX’s largest individual creditor
- The next evolution of crypto casinos
- MyPrize has the highest-ever pre-launch valuation for an online casino of $140M
- Crypto casinos onboarding normies to web3
- Creating multiplayer experiences in web3
- Bringing community to web3 casinos
- Community drives everything on the internet

MyPrize
Website: myprize.com
X: @myprizecom

Zach Bruch
X: @ZachBruch
LinkedIn: Zach Bruch

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#328: Ian Rogers, CXO of Ledger, on Self Custody and The Future of Hardware Wallets

Mon, 22 Apr 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Ian Rogers is the Chief Experience Officer (CXO) of Ledger, the world-leading crypto and NFT hardware wallet manufacturer. Ian has spent his career exploring and innovating at intersection of music, artists, and technology.

Prior to joining Ledger, he spent five years as Chief Digital Officer at LVMH, where he was responsible for building group-level digital excellence and accelerating digital transformation for LVMH maisons. Ian is also renowned for his work in the music industry, where he was the CEO of Beats Music and GM of Music at both Apple and Yahoo!.

Ian Rogers also built some of the earliest music-related websites in the early 90s, including Winamp.com, and has been working with Beastie Boys since 1993.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Self custody
- Ledger Stax launch
- New generation of hardware wallets
- The need for clear signing
- Increasing ease of use
- The upcoming bull market, and what's different this time around
- Ledger's transactional business
- Launching Apple Music
- Working at LVMH
- Identifying trends + culture

Ledger
Website: www.ledger.com
X: @Ledger
Discord: discord.gg/ledger

Ian Rogers
X: @iancr
LinkedIn: ian rogers

#327: Andreas Brekken, Founder of SideShift.ai, on Meme Coins, Eigenlayer Mainnet Launch, and ETH Dencun Upgrade

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Andreas Brekken is the founder of SideShift.ai, a platform offering direct-to-wallet trading. The exchange has processed over $1.25B in volume to date. Andreas first discovered Bitcoin in 2011 and has a deep technical understanding of the cryptocurrency space. In addition to being a long-term supporter of the cryptocurrency space, Andreas has substantial hands-on industry experience. He founded Justcoin.com, a Norway-based cryptocurrency exchange in 2013 (later acquired by ANX INTL), and then worked at Kraken as a software engineer in 2015 and 2016. He is also the founder of Shitcoin.com, a wide-reaching crypto content platform.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Meme coins
- When will meme coin mania end?
- Interacting with crypto exchanges
- ETH Dencun upgrade
- Eigenlayer mainnet launch
- The impact of Bitcoin halving on asset liquidity
- Balancing short-term optimization with long-term scalability
- Meme coin trading’s impact on the limits of current protocols
- How we reached the era of ‘peak degeneracy'
- Which blockchain network to build meme coins on
- Discovering Bitcoin back in 2011

SideShift.ai
Website: sideshift.ai
X: @sideshiftai
Telegram: t.me/sideshift

Andreas Brekken
X: @abrkn
LinkedIn: Andreas B.

#326: Vijay Pravin, CEO of bitsCrunch, on AI Enhanced Decentralized Data Analytics, Blockchain Forensics, and Staking Mechanisms

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Vijay Pravin is the Founder & CEO of bitsCrunch, a Blockchain Analytics and Forensics company focusing on securing the NFT ecosystem. Living in Munich, Germany for the last 10 years, and originally from India.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The role of AI/ML in blockchain analytics
- Data integrity and transparency in NFT Markets
- Navigating the regulatory landscape
- Staking mechanisms
- Solana integrating bitsCrunch
- Sustainable economies
- Network security and anti-fraud
- NFT data insights and forensics tools
- Token 2049 in Dubai
- Wash trading

bitsCrunch
Website: www.bitscrunch.com
X: @bitsCrunch
Discord: discord.gg/bitscrunch-official

Vijay Pravin
X: @VijayPravinM
LinkedIn: Vijay Pravin

#325: Nikolaj Rosenthal, CEO of Myrmidon, on ETH, Staking as a Service, Non-Custodial Staking, and the Ethereum ETF

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Nikolaj Rosenthal is the Co-Founder and CEO of Myrmidon, a non-custodial staking provider. Nikolaj was a professional hockey player for +10 years and the first athlete to accept Bitcoin as a salary in 2017. He’s been involved with crypto since late 2016, is an investor + entrepreneur, and was the CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Evonax.com. He went to Copenhagen Business School, where he holds a BSc. Business Administration and Service Management, and Msc. Organizational Innovation & Entrepreneurship.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Being the first athlete to accept Bitcoin as salary in 2017
- Non-custodial staking
- Beaconchain, London fork, Merge, Shanghai/Capella & DenCun hardfork
- DVT (Distributed validator technology)
- ETH ETF
- What’s going on with Ethereum?
- Solo-home staking
- Staking as a service
- Pooled staking
- Centralized staking
- How to pick the right staking provider?

Myrmidon Staking
Website: myrmidonstaking.com
X: @Myrmidonstaking
Discord: discord.gg/kwE9EGnz96

Nikolaj Rosenthal
Instagram: @nikolajrosenthal
Facebook: @nikolaj.rosenthal
LinkedIn: Nikolaj Rosenthal

#324: Niraj Pant, Co-founder of Ritual, on The Future of Crypto, Decentralized AI, and Applying ML to DeFi

Mon, 08 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Niraj Pant is Co-Founder of Ritual, the decentralized execution layer for AI. Prior to founding Ritual, Niraj spent six years as a General Partner at Polychain, leading investment rounds in startups like Offchain Labs, EigenLayer, and Compound. He began his career as a cryptography researcher in the Decentralized Systems Lab at UIUC.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The relationship between crypto and AI
- The future of AI and crypto
- Building autonomous worlds and games
- Applying ML to DeFi
- Smart Agents
- Building decentralized AI infrastructure
- Story Protocol
- Exciting developers
- AI-based DApps
- GPU as a service

Ritual
Website: ritual.net
X: @ritualnet
Discord: discord.ritual.net

Niraj Pant
X: @niraj
LinkedIn: Niraj Pant

#323: Matt Duea, Co-Founder of Roobet, on Web3 Casinos and Sports Betting, Crypto Gambling, and The Future of Crypto Gambling Regulations

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Matt Duea is an entrepreneur and a co-founder of Roobet, a betting brand for the next generation of gamers, and part of the group behind Roobet.fun and Roobet.com.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Crypto-based gambling
- Advancing the everyday application of cryptocurrencies
- Crash gambling game
- roobet.fun - the official social casino of the UFC
- Future of crypto gambling regulations
- Blockchain and crypto integration in gambling
- Difference between web3 and web2 gambling
- The benefits of a crypto casino
- Social casinos

Roobet
Website: roobet.com
X: @Roobet
Telegram: t.me/roobetcom

Matt Duea
Website: mattduea.com

#322: Luke Barwikowski, CEO of Pixels, on The Current State of Web3 Gaming, Growing to 500k Daily Active Users, and Building on Ronin Blockchain

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Luke Barwikowski is the founder and CEO of Pixels, the largest web3 game by DAU. With over 2.5M total players, Pixels is a social, casual web3 game powered by the Ronin Network, focusing on farming, exploration, and creation in an open world. As CEO, Luke's mission is to build the biggest Web3 casual games company.

Luke's background in software engineering started at 12, and he built and sold his first app at 18. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Economics from the University of Michigan.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Current state of Web3 gaming
- Future of Web3 gaming
- Coding and making video games at 12yrs old
- Bitcoin mining back in the day
- How Pixels differs from other web3 games
- Move from Polygon to Ronin
- Building on Ronin Blockchain
- Virtual world building
- Building the biggest Web3 casual games company
- 500K+ real daily active users and 4.5M USD in token revenue in the last 30 days
- Becoming the Zynga of Web3

Pixels
Website: www.pixels.xyz
X: @pixels_online
Discord: discord.gg/pixels

Luke Barwikowski
X: @whatslukedoing
LinkedIn: Luke Barwikowski

#321: Dominic Williams, Founder of DFINITY, on Decentralized AI, AI DApps, Hosting AI Models on the Blockchain, and Multichain DeFi

Thu, 28 Mar 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Dominic Williams is the Founder and Chief Scientist of the DFINITY Foundation, a major contributor to the Internet Computer (ICP) blockchain. Dominic is a crypto theoretician and entrepreneur who has been involved in the blockchain space since 2013, prior to which he was an engineering entrepreneur who created multiple internet technologies and products. Dominic specializes in distributed computing and crypto network theory, having proposed multiple innovations in use today.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Decentralized AI (DeAI)
- Why AI projects should be decentralized
- Why DApps should get into AI
- Building out a world-class content studio
- Hosting AI models on the blockchain
- Multichain DeFi
- Decentralized Cloud Computing
- Three lanes of blockchains

DFINITY
Website: dfinity.org
X: @dfinity
LinkedIn: DFINITY

Dominic Williams
X: @dominic_w
LinkedIn: Dominic Williams ∞

#320: Gerald Heydenreich, Founder of EtherMail, on Web3 Email, Tokenization, and The Future of Email

Mon, 25 Mar 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Gerald Heydenreich is the co-founder and Preisdent of EtherMail. He's a seasoned entrepreneur, has consistently demonstrated his ability to innovate and grow businesses across various sectors. Starting at age 25, he founded Portum, the first European B2B reverse online auction and sourcing events platform with more than 1 bn USD trading volume, and later sold it to CapGemini/IBX. He then co-founded BuyVIP, a European private sales club that scaled to over 8 million users, 120 m USD in revenues and was acquired by Amazon. Gerald's passion for empowering others also led him to create Pippa&Jean, a social selling community enabling more than 3.500 female entrepreneurs. Currently, Geald is serving as the President and co-founder of EtherMail, the leading web3 email Platform building the bridge between web2 and web3 and bringing full inbox ownership, control, and sovereignty back to users. He also leads the Barcelona Blockchain Network that he co-founded with Shant Kevonian, a venture studio focusing on web3 and AI start-ups.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The future of email
- Web3 email use cases
-Launch of new Email-as-a-Wallet product
- EtherMail backstory
- Upcoming launch of mobile app
- Upcoming $EMAIL token launch
- EtherMail’s advertising platform
- Similarities between web1 <> web3
- The history and importance of email
- Email commerce
- Tokenization of assets

EtherMail
Website: ethermail.io
X: @ethermail_io
Telegram: t.me/ethermail_official

Gerald Heydenreich
LinkedIn: Gerald Heydenreich

#319: Max Howell, Founder of Tea Protocol, on Unlocking the Open-Source Economy, Measuring the Impact of Blockchains, AI, and Incentivizing Developers

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Max Howell is the founder of Tea Protocol, a decentralized technology protocol that enables open-source developers to be adequately rewarded and compensated for their software contributions. Max previously founded Homebrew, a free and open-source package management system that simplifies the installation of software on macOS and Linux. Since its founding in 2009, Homebrew has become one of the most widely used open-source projects of all time. Max has also served as a Senior Xcode Developer at Apple and as the Chief Product Officer at MyHealthily, an open-source healthcare technology platform. Max remains a frequent open-source software developer and contributor.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Unlock the open-source economy
- Compensating developers to create open-source software
- 90% of all publicly traded companies utilize open-source software
- The relationship between open-source software and capitalism
- The emergence of commercial open-source
- Open-source AI
- Valuing open-source software
- Package management tools
- Tea token
- Staking and gas fees on Tea Protocol

tea
Website: tea.xyz
X: @teaprotocol
Telegram: t.me/teaprotocol

Max Howell
X: @mxcl
LinkedIn: Max Howell

#318: Jimmy Zhao, Senior Solution Architect at BNB Chain, on DeFi, AI, DePIN, Fully On-Chain Gaming, and One BNB

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Jimmy Zhao is a seasoned Senior Solution Architect at BNB Chain, leveraging over a decade of diverse experience in system and infrastructure development. Leading the design and implementation of enterprise-grade blockchain solutions, Jimmy focuses on translating business needs into technical requirements, collaborating closely with dApp and Infrastructure projects. His extensive background spans notable roles at Alibaba, HSBC, and IBM, showcasing his prowess in the payment, finance, and technology sectors. Jimmy's significant contribution to the opBNB system and ecosystem development demonstrates his commitment and contribution to accelerating the adoption of blockchain technology.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- High-frequency DeFi, AI, DePIN, and fully on-chain gaming
- One BNB multi-chain paradigm
- BNB Chain Dapps
- AvengerDao
- opBNB and BSC DAU now no. L1 and L2
- Working for Alibaba, HSBC, Huawei, and IBM
- The differences between each chain (opBNB, BSC, Greenfield)
- Present-day crypto market
- ETH gas fees

BNB Chain
Website: www.bnbchain.org
X: @BNBCHAIN
Telegram: t.me/bnbchain

Jimmy Zhao
X: @JimmyZ77633809
LinkedIn: Jimmy Zhao

#317: Paul Frambot, CEO of Morpho Labs, on DeFi 2.0, Modular Layered Protocols, and The Next Evolution of DeFi

Thu, 14 Mar 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Paul Frambot is the Co-Founder and CEO of Morpho Labs, a research and development company responsible for building and growing the Morpho protocol. Paul co-founded Morpho Labs whilst studying towards his, now-completed, Master's in Parallel & Distributed Systems from the Institut Polytechnique de Paris in 2021. During his studies, Paul raised $18M from top investors, including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Variant for Morpho, which has since grown into a multi-billion-dollar lending protocol. The latest version, Morpho Blue, is a completely independent but remarkably simple protocol that serves as a secure, efficient, and flexible base layer for users and applications.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Liquid staking and yield farming
- Next evolution of DeFi Spending
- Moving from App to Infra = the future of DeFi
- DeFi 2.0 will define crypto’s coming bull market
- Gauntlet leaving Aave to join Morpho
- 2024 will see a shift from monolithic to layered protocols
- DAOs are not suited for managing the risk of protocols
- Morpho Blue
- Lowering the barrier to entry
- Raising $18M while still in school

Morpho Labs
Website: morpho.org
X: @MorphoLabs
Discord: discord.morpho.org

Paul Frambot
X: @PaulFrambot
LinkedIn: Paul Frambot

#316: Lark Davis, Founder of Wealth Mastery, on Bitcoin ETF In-Flows, AI Tokens, DePIN, Aidrops, and 2024 Crypto Market Cycles

Mon, 11 Mar 2024 03:00:00 -0400

Lark Davis is the Founder of Wealth Mastery, one of the most famous newsletters in crypto. He is also an Entrepreneur, and investor and is a prominent figure in the cryptocurrency community, widely recognized for his expertise and contributions as an analyst, educator, and influencer.

Known online as @thecryptolark, Lark has garnered a significant following on social media platforms, including Twitter and YouTube, where he shares comprehensive market analyses, educational content, and insights into the latest trends and developments in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sectors.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Bitcoin ETF - current results and its long-term importance
- ETF inflows
- Ethereum ETF
- How to get involved in airdrops
- March 2024 crypto trends
- AI, gaming, DePIN coins
- Bitcoin20 tokens
- Market cycles
- When to buy + when to sell
- BLAST
- CBDCs

Wealth Mastery
Website: thewealthmastery.io

Lark Davis
X: @TheCryptoLark
LinkedIn: Lark Davis

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#315: Piers Ridyard, CEO of Radix DLT, on The Future of Web3, Wallets, Account Abstraction, and Creating the Game Engine for DeFi

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 03:00:00 -0500

Piers Ridyard is the CEO of Radix DLT. Radix is the only decentralized network where developers will be able to build quickly without the constant threat of exploits and hacks, where every improvement will get rewarded, and where scale will never be a bottleneck. Piers also founded and exited Surematics, a YCombinator company, and was mining on the genesis block of Ethereum in July 2015. Piers graduated from the University of Manchester and the University of Law and has a CFA level 1.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Radix DLT in a nutshell
- Radix's scalability and simple coding language
- Creating a game engine for DeFi
- Improving the crypto user experience
- Project Ignition; RDX liquidity drive
- Mining on the genesis block of Ethereum in July of 2015
- Y-combinator stories
- ERC-20 contracts owning your tokens... not your wallet
- The future of Web3
- Wallets and abstraction
- The power of public ledgers
- Users in common

Radix DLT
Website: www.radixdlt.com
X: @radixdlt
Telegram: t.me/radix_dlt

Piers Ridyard
X: @PiersRidyard
LinkedIn: Piers Ridyard

#314: Matty Taylor, Co-founder of Colosseum, on Solana, Hackathons, and Growing the Solana Ecosystem

Mon, 04 Mar 2024 03:00:00 -0500

Matty Taylor is the Co-founder of Colosseum. Previously, Matty was the Head of Growth at the Solana Foundation, where he kickstarted the Solana hackathon program in 2020. Over the past three years, that program cumulatively resulted in over 60,000 participants, 4,000 projects launched, and $600 million in venture funding for winners. Top Solana ecosystem founders from Tensor, Squads, StepN, Jito, and dozens of other leading projects got their start through Solana Foundation hackathons. Matty previously worked at 0x Labs and Square (now Block).

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Solana ecosystem
- Creating the Y-Combinator of Solana
- 3 pillars of Colosseum: hackathon, accelerator and venture fund
- Bonk DAO
- Bonk bot
- Solana hackathons
- Working at Square and 0x
- Sphere - the on-chain version of stripe
- The rise + fall + rise of Solana
- DePIN + AI on Solana
- Creating markets around social media

Colosseum
Website: www.colosseum.org
X: @ColosseumOrg
LinkedIn: Colosseum

Matty Taylor
X: @mattytay
LinkedIn: Matty Taylor

#313: Brock Pierce, Co-Founder of Tether, EOS, & Blockchain Capital, on Tokenizing Real Estate, 2024 Crypto Markets, and Bitcoin

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 03:00:00 -0500

Brock Pierce is a well-known figure in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space, a true OG, recognized for his extensive contributions as an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and advocate for the digital currency ecosystem. Pierce began his career in the entertainment industry as a child actor but later shifted his focus towards technology and innovation.

He co-founded several high-profile projects in the crypto and blockchain sectors, including Blockchain Capital, Tether, and EOS. Brock has also served as the chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation, aiming to standardize, protect, and promote the use of Bitcoin cryptographic money worldwide.

Brock is also actively involved in philanthropic efforts and supports organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, and the Brennan Center for Human Rights.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- EstateX
- Real estate tokenization
- Security tokens in the real estate industry
- Being a market maker for virtual worlds
- The difference between securities and utility tokens
- 2024 Crypto Market
- RWA - real-world assets
- How crypto provides solutions to the traditional banking system
- $USDT - $50trillion in annual transaction volume
- Bitcoin ETF
- 52 million Americans hold digital assets

EstateX
Website: www.estatex.eu
X: @estatexeu
Telegram: t.me/estatexofficial

Brock Pierce
X: @brockpierce
Wikipedia: Brock Pierce

#312: John Paller, Founder of ETHDenver, on The Present State of ETH, and The Future of DeFi, DAOs, and NFTs

Mon, 26 Feb 2024 03:00:00 -0500

John Paller is a Denver-based blockchain entrepreneur, inventor, and futurist, and the Founder and Executive Steward of ETHDenver, the world’s largest Web3 and Ethereum-based innovation festival. He is also the Founder and Executive Steward of Opolis, a Digital Employment Cooperative for independent workers.

Prior to discovering Ethereum in 2015, John spent more than 15 years in talent acquisition, HR Technology, and employment systems, building multiple successful enterprises. John brings a breadth of experience in fundraising, investor relations, community outreach, and crypto economies, guiding his vision of democratizing employment and growing decentralized communities. In 2014, John was awarded “40 Under 40” by the Denver Business Journal for his contribution to shaping the future of business.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- ETH Denver 2024
- Predictions for DAO 2.0, DeFi 2.0, NFT 2.0
- Current Web3 trends and narratives
- Shifting regulatory dynamics in the US
- Origin story of POAP
- UI + UX = mass adoption
- Current ETH narrative
- Interdependency
- RFK Jr. speaking at ETH Denver

ETHDenver
Website: ethdenver.com
Twitter: @EthereumDenver
Instagram: @ethdenver

John Paller
Twitter: @PallerJohn
Medium: @opolisjohn
LinkedIn: John Paller

#311: Harsh Rajat, Co-Founder of Push Protocol, on Bringing Notifications to Web3, Token-Gated Messaging, and Web3 Native Communication

Thu, 22 Feb 2024 03:00:00 -0500

Harsh is the Co-Founder and Project Lead of Push Protocol (formerly EPNS). He has over 12 years of entrepreneurial experience in various spectrums of tech, including system architecture, development, and design in different tech fields (including mobile, web services, SaaS, and blockchain).

Harsh previously spoke/judged at multiple tech conferences and hackathons including Messari Mainnet, ETHCC, ETHDenver, Schelling Point, ETHAmsterdam, NFT NYC, Liscon, HackMoney, and EDCON.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Intro to Push Protocol
- Bringing notifications to Web3
- Web3 UX
- Web3 native communication
- Token-gated group messaging platforms
- Unlocking power of community
- Unstoppable Domains
- Security 101
- Building on ETH
- ETH’s current narrative
- Partnership with MetaMask Snap
- Farcaster

Push Protocol
Website: push.org
Twitter: @pushprotocol
Telegram: t.me/epnsproject

Harsh Rajat
Twitter: @harshrajat
LinkedIn: Harsh Rajat

#310: David Johansson, CEO of BLOCKLORDS, on Blockchain Gaming, Web3 Gaming Airdrops, and User Acquisition for Web3 Games

Mon, 19 Feb 2024 03:00:00 -0500

David Johansson is the CEO, Co-Founder & Creative Director of BLOCKLORDS. David is also the CEO of Seascape Network & Metaking Studios, the creator of BLOCKLORDS. A passionate gamer and industry veteran, David has held numerous creative and production roles on some of the most successful products in their fields, including Crusader Kings, Liberators, and League of Angels, before turning his focus towards building out BLOCKLORDS in 2018 and never looked back.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Introduction to BLOCKLORDS
- AAA developers venturing into Web3 gaming
- BLOCKLORDS whitepaper
- Industry layoffs at Riot, Epic, Activision Blizzard
- BLOCKLORDS Drops 300,000 $LRDS
- Player-driven economies
- The next generation of Web3 gaming
- Player reward mechanisms
- Blockchain integration in Web3 gaming
- User acquisition
- Fun conquers all

BLOCKLORDS
Website: blocklords.com
X: @BLOCKLORDS
Telegram: t.me/blocklordsgame

David Johansson
X: @lordofblocks
LinkedIn: David Johansson

#309: Jon Trask, CEO of Dimitra, on Blockchain Tech for Farming and Agriculture

Thu, 15 Feb 2024 03:00:00 -0500

Jon Trask is the CEO and Founder of Dimitra and has been working with blockchain since 2017. Prior to founding Dimitra, Jon had an extensive career building and developing enterprise software solutions to revolutionize supply chain processes and improve immutable traceability.

A recognized expert in his field, Jon is also Founder and CEO of Blockchain Guru and a Partner with the Blockchain Training Alliance. Jon’s mission now is to increase farming connectivity, particularly with those disenfranchised across the globe, and to leverage the power of innovative technologies to bridge farming and technology.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Web3 tech for agriculture
- IoT Avocado Quality Meters
- Blockchain Training Alliance
- Growing up on a farm
- Challenges in the agricultural sector
- AI, IoT, and blockchain in farming
- Traceability
- Founding story of Dimitra

Dimitra
Website: dimitra.io
X: @dimitratech
Telegram: t.me/dimitraofficialgroup

Jon Trask
LinkedIn: Jon Trask

#308: Kenny Li, Core Contributor of Manta Network, on The Future of Modularity, Decentralization, Scalability, and Security

Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:00:00 -0500

Kenny Li is the Co-Founder of p0x Labs and Core Contributor for Manta Network. Prior to this, Kenny received an MBA from MIT in 2020. Whilst at MIT, he was a teaching assistant for several courses, mainly blockchain-based, and worked with the Digital Currency Initiative (DCI). As a successful entrepreneur, Kenny has started, advised, and invested in startups for over a decade.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The future of modularity
- 3 tenets of blockchain: decentralization, scalability, and security
- Simplifying adoption for widespread impact
- Pioneering modularity in 2024
- Revolutionizing cross-chain interoperability
- zk-enabled applications
- Cross-chain functionality
- p0x Labs
- Manta Network
- Work culture at Manta

Manta Network
Website: manta.network
X: @MantaNetwork
Telegram: t.me/mantanetworkofficial

Kenny Li
X: @superanonymousk

#307: Steven Waterhouse, CEO of Orchid Labs, on DePIN, AI, Decentralized VPNs, and Fighting for Internet Freedom

Thu, 08 Feb 2024 05:00:00 -0500

Dr. Steven 'SEVEN' Waterhouse is an active investor and builder in the crypto / web3 space with 11 years of experience. Dr. Waterhouse is currently CEO and co-founder of Orchid Labs, advisor to various projects including RiscZero and Squid Router, and is CEO and co-founder of Nazare Ventures, a new fund focused on crypto and AI, highlighting his ambition to contribute towards the digital landscape of the future. He was recently CTO & Venture Partner at Fabric Ventures and was previously a partner at Pantera Capital from 2013 to 2016. He served on the board of Bitstamp during this period.

Dr. Waterhouse holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from Cambridge with a focus on speech recognition and machine learning. At Cambridge, Dr. Waterhouse received the Isaac Newton Prize for outstanding Ph.D. research and represented Cambridge in the rowing and water polo teams.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Introduction to Orchid Protocol
- Ensuring decentralisation as AI and Web3's convergence grows
- DePINs
- Technology and innovation
- Privacy in the digital age
- Building blocks for a freer internet
- Integrating on-chain privacy
- The fight for internet freedom
- Probabilistic nano-payments
- The role of Digital Resource Networks (DRNs)
- Sensorship

Orchid
Website: www.orchid.com
X: @OrchidProtocol
Discord: discord.gg/GDbxmjxX9F

Dr. Steven Waterhouse
X: @deseventral
LinkedIn: Steven W.

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#306: Rob Solomon, Co-Founder of DIMO, on DePIN, DAOs, and Building the Future of Mobility

Mon, 05 Feb 2024 03:00:00 -0500

Rob Solomon is the Co-Founder of DIMO, an open-connected vehicle platform. Rob’s background is in finance, investing, and organizational design. Most recently, he worked at Consensys, the largest Ethereum-focused development company, focusing on finance, internal economics, and decentralizing the organization. Prior to that, he was at Vroom, a pioneer in the online used-car marketplace sector. He started his career at the Downtown Project in Las Vegas (a spinoff of Zappos.com), working on corporate finance and investments and implementing Holacracy.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- DePIN
- DIMO - building the future of mobility
- 2024 trends
- DAOs
- The peer-to-peer economy
- Internal economies
- $DIMO
- Ethereum's death has been greatly exaggerated
- Polygon Zk-tech
- Working at Zappos
- Holacracy
- Building a blockchain for consumers

DIMO
Website: dimo.zone
X: @DIMO_Network
Discord: chat.dimo.zone

Rob Solomon
X: @robmsolomon
LinkedIn: Rob Solomon

#305: Alex Svanevik, CEO of Nansen, on Blockchain Data, AI in Crypto, and Investing for the Future

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 03:00:00 -0500

Alex Svanevik is the CEO and Co-founder of Nansen. He has a background in artificial intelligence, with 10+ years of experience as a data scientist and management consultant before co-founding Nansen in 2019. Alex is also one of the initial DAO members of Lido Finance and PleasrDAO and serves on the board of WalletConnect.

With an academic background in artificial intelligence and machine learning, Alex is also an entrepreneur with strong opinions on data-driven insights in cryptocurrency and blockchain. Alex has secured over $88.2 million in funding during his tenure. He has an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh as well as a BSc in Cognitive Science from the University of Bergen (UiB).

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Launch of Nansen query
- Launch of Nansen 2
- Nansen’s Plans for 2024
- Life in Singapore
- The founding story of Nansen
- How Nansen uses AI
- Deepening data moats
- Less input, more output
- Signals - gold nuggets in a simple feed
- The four C’s - Cute, Community, Content, CEO

Nansen
Website: www.nansen.ai
X: @nansen_ai
Telegram: t.me/nansen_announcements

Alex Svanevik
X: @ASvanevik
LinkedIn: Alex Svanevik

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#304: Bobby Zagotta, CEO of Bitstamp, on Bitcoin ETF, The Halving, DeFi for Capital Markets, and 2024 Predictions

Mon, 29 Jan 2024 03:00:00 -0500

Bobby Zagotta is the US CEO & Chief Commercial Officer at Bitstamp. He came to Bitstamp from Kraken, where he served as Chief Commercial Officer responsible for strategy, business development, marketing, M&A, research and analytics, and global growth initiatives. Before that, he was a Senior Managing Director, Strategy & Execution and a member of the Executive Team for CME Group Inc., a global, publicly traded financial exchange.

As CEO for the Americas and Global Chief Commercial Officer at Bitstamp, Bobby is responsible for strategy and growing our presence and business globally, as well as overseeing day-to-day operations in the Americas.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Bitcoin ETF
- 2024 predictions
- The halving
- Bitcoin block reward will fall from 6.25 to 3.125 bitcoins
- Present state of bitcoin
- Bitstamp 101
- Crypto in Latin America
- DeFi for capital markets
- The on-going wealth transfer
- Cenotes

Bitstamp
Website: www.bitstamp.net
Twitter: @Bitstamp
LinkedIn: Bitstamp

Bobby Zagotta
Twitter: @BobbyZagotta
LinkedIn: Bobby Zagotta

#303: Vince Yang, Co-Founder of zkLink, on Layer 3s, Mapping zk Proofs, and DeFi

Thu, 25 Jan 2024 03:00:00 -0500

Vince Yang is Co-founder of zkLink, the company building the first multi-rollup Layer 3 to solve liquidity fragmentation on Ethereum Layer 2 rollups—pioneering more liquid, secure, customizable DeFi trading experiences. A former engineer, Yang began his experience in crypto with Bitcoin mining. This evolved into a deeper exploration of areas, including blockchain's potential for financial applications and zk Proofs.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- What are L3s
- Layer 3 ecosystem
- Boosting liquidity in the blockchain ecosystem
- Unifying the L1 and L2 ecosystem
- Zk proofs
- $ZKL token
- Ethereum
- DeFi
- Security and interoperability
- Bitcoin ETF
- Modular solutions
- Account Abstraction

zkLink
Website: zk.link
X: @zkLink_Official
Discord: discord.gg/zklink

Vince Yang
X: @zkVinceReal

#302: Dean Tribble, CEO of Agoric, on Distributed Systems, JavaScript in Crypto, MetaMask Snaps, and Institutional Adoption of DeFi

Mon, 22 Jan 2024 03:00:00 -0500

Dean Tribble is CEO of Agoric OpCo, the software development company supporting Agoric, the JavaScript smart contract platform, and Proof of Stake (PoS) blockchain. Dean drives the vision to build a safe and composable JavaScript smart contract platform to onboard the next 14M+ developers into Web3.

An OG Cypherpunk and pioneer in distributed systems and smart contract technology, Dean, co-designed the negotiation process and contract for the first smart contracting system, AMiX. As a Principal Architect at Microsoft, he co-designed the Midori distributed object-capability operating system. As founder and CTO for Agorics (acquired by Microsoft), he architected the brokerage information system for Schwab’s active traders and the WebMart electronic contract system for SunLabs. He was CTO of VerifyValid and VP of Deluxe, where his echeck systems have carried billions of dollars.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Hardened JavaScript
- MetaMask Snaps
- Building the first smart contract in 1989
- History of distributed systems
- Getting acquired by Microsoft
- Babylon integration for bitcoin time stamping
- Agoric partnership with BitGo
- $BLD and $IST
- Institutional adoption of DeFi

Agoric
Website: agoric.com
X: @agoric
Telegram: t.me/agoricsystems

Dean Tribble
X: @DeanTribble
LinkedIn: E. Dean Tribble

#301: Matthew Graham, Managing Partner of Ryze Labs, on 2024 Crypto Investing Narratives, BTC, and ETH

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 05:00:00 -0500

Matthew Graham is the Managing Partner of Ryze Labs and one of the key drivers of the firm's long-term strategic vision and mission. Matthew founded Ryze in 2015, initially as a sell-side tech investment banking platform focusing on representing international technology companies for strategic partnership and investment in emerging markets. Matthew has been involved in the blockchain industry since 2013 and has supported many great entrepreneurs and companies through good and bad times.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- BTC ETF was a huge success, even though the price of BTC didn’t rise
- BTC CME Futures open interest
- Analysis of ETF flows
- 2024 investment narratives
- ETH ETF
- Celsius’ overhang on assets like ETH
- Asia versus Western Markets
- VC investing strategy
- Ordinals being far more popular in China vs the West
- The secret sauce of making a pitch deck

Ryze Labs
Website: www.ryzelabs.io
X: @RyzeLabs
Instagram: @ryzelabs

Matthew Graham
X: @mattyryze

#300: Greg Magadini, Director of Derivatives at Amberdata, on the Bitcoin ETF Approval, Volatility, and Crypto Derivatives

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 03:00:00 -0500

Greg Magadini, Director of Derivatives at Amberdata, spent over a decade as a professional trader in traditional finance markets with proprietary firms such as SMB Capital, Chopper Trading, and DRW before co-founding and working as CEO of Genesis Volatility, a leading crypto options insights provider. Genesis Volatility was acquired by Amberdata in 2022 to grow their options data analytics capabilities for their roster of institutional clients such as Citi, NASDAQ, Franklin Templeton, and more.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Bitcoin ETF
- Crypto derivatives
- Choosing which ETF to invest in
- Data gathering
- Differences between volatility and implied volatility
- ETF news driving the market
- DEX pool data
- Buy the rumor, sell the news
- On-chain data
- 2024 trends

Amberdata
Website: www.amberdata.io
X: @Amberdataio
LinkedIn: Amberdata

Greg Magadini
X: @genesisvol
LinkedIn: Greg Magadini, CFA

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#299: Dan O’Prey, Chief Product Officer of Bakkt, on The Bitcoin ETF, Bitcoin in Public Markets, Custody, and Lightning Network

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 03:00:00 -0500

Dan O’Prey is Bakkt’s Chief Product Officer. Dan most recently served as Chief Strategy Officer as part of the executive team at Digital Asset, creators of the Daml smart contract language. He was responsible for defining the corporate strategy and aligning the top-level product strategy, assisted with over $300 MM of financing, and oversaw marketing and communications across the firm. Dan joined Digital Asset as part of the acquisition of Hyperledger, the first permissioned distributed ledger platform, where he was co-founder and CEO. Dan then co-led the creation of Hyperledger at The Linux Foundation, where he participated at the board level since inception and was elected as the Chair of the Marketing Committee for 3 consecutive terms.

Prior to Hyperledger, Dan was the cofounder and CEO of MadeiraCloud, a Sequoia Capital backed SaaS company for designing, monitoring and managing cloud infrastructure resources based in Beijing, China. The company later rebranded to HyperHQ and was acquired by Ant Financial. Dan is a frequent public speaker and co-created the Synchronize DLT and Crypto conference. He holds a BA in Business Management and Information Management from the Sheffield University Management School.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Bitcoin ETF
- Bitcoin in public markets
- 2024 Outlook
- Bakkt’s key focus areas
- Custody
- Lightning Network
- State of the market
- Building in bear markets
- Interoperable P2P commerce
- Bakkt’s partnership with Unchained

Bakkt
Website: bakkt.com
X: @Bakkt
LinkedIn: Bakkt

Dan O'Prey
X: @danoprey
LinkedIn: Dan O'Prey

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#298: Aaron Evans, Head of Operations at Moonbeam Foundation, on Blockchain Scalability, Scalable L1s, and Polkadot 2.0

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 03:00:00 -0500

Aaron Evans is Head of Operations at Moonbeam Foundation. Aaron is an experienced software engineer, executive, and technical leader. He has been working with Moonbeam and ecosystem projects since 2021. He is skilled in crypto, people management, and startups.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Blockchain scalability
- Scalable L1s (Solana, Sui, Aptos, etc.)
- Decentralization / Governance
- Emerging markets for blockchain
- Crypto in Latin America
- Introduction to Moonbeam
- New opportunities for DeFi on Moonbeam
- DEXes, staking, liquid staking, lending/borrowing
- Polkadot 2.0/DOT unlock
- The future of ETH
- Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu certifications on Moonbeam
- Tech stack consolidation
- 2024 trends

Moonbeam Network
Website: moonbeam.network
X: @MoonbeamNetwork
Telegram: t.me/Moonbeam_Official

Aaron Evans
X: @DoubleARon2048
LinkedIn: Aaron Evans

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#297: Veronica Wong, CEO of SafePal, on Web3 Wallet Wars, Account Abstraction, and 2024 Trends

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0500

Veronica Wong is the CEO and Co-Founder of SafePal, the comprehensive non-custodial crypto wallet suite with 10+ million users across hardware wallet, mobile app, and browser extension wallet solutions.

With a decade of experience in Big Tech/Fortune 500 companies like Tencent — Veronica leaped into crypto with SafePal in 2018 and has been committed to solving security, UI, UX, issues for crypto users, and cross-chain interoperability for 100+ blockchains (EVM and non-EVM).

In this conversation, we discuss:
- War of the Web3 wallets
- Multi-Party Computation
- Account Abstraction
- 2024 trends and predictions for which Web3 verticals
- The recent Ledger exploit
- Bridging the language gap
- Developments in project trends
- 2024 user patterns
- Life in Singapore
- Working for Tencent

SafePal
Website: safepal.com
X: @iSafePal
Telegram: t.me/SafePal_official

Veronica Wong
X: @V_SafePal
LinkedIn: Veronica Wong

#296: Josh Jones, Co-CEO of Cornucopias Game, on Cardano Web3 Games, Interoperability, and Cornucopias

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 04:00:00 -0500

Josh Jones is the Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Cornucopias Game. Josh is an experienced startup entrepreneur for the last 25 years, specializing in building marketing teams and crafting strategies to go to scale. Discontent with existing monetary systems drives his passion for the crypto and blockchain industry. He is the Co-Founder and stake pool operator of Grow Your Stake [GYS], a mission-driven, #cleanwaterforall, Cardano stake pool. He is also half of the Cardano-based YouTube podcast Cardano Chats.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Massive multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG)
- Unreal Engine 5
- Building on Ethereum and Cardano
- Cardano NFTs
- Increasing interoperability
- Status of Cornucopias
- The power of lore
- $COPI
- Node sale
- Building AAA-rated games
- Creating avatars
- Expansion strategy for daily active users
- AI in web3 gaming

Cornucopias
Website: www.cornucopias.io
X: @CornucopiasGame
Telegram: t.me/cornucopiasgameofficial

Josh Jones
X: @keyofjoshua
LinkedIn: Josh Jones

#295: Mathew Sweezey, CSO at Smart Token Labs, on ERC-5169 Dynamic NFTs, Future Proofing, and Smart Cats

Fri, 29 Dec 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Mathew Sweezey is the Chief Strategy Officer of Smart Token Labs and former Co-Founder of the Salesforce Web3 Studio, where he helped create Salesforce's first commercial Web3 products and worked with the world's largest brands on their Web3 strategy. A 2X author, his last book, The Context Marketing Revolution, was published by HBR in 2020.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- ERC-5169 dynamic NFTs
- Smart Cats
- Onboarding Fortune 500 brands via NFTs
- Salesforce Web3 Studio
- Tokenizing vehicles
- Web3 tech powering verification
- Future-proofing
- Smart Token Labs - ERC-5169
- xNFTs as apps
- Token-2-Token messaging
- Tokens are apps, wallets are browsers
- All NFTs will be xNFT
- Token gating
- Joy ID
- Smart Layer Network

Smart Layer
Website: www.smartlayer.network
X: @SmartLayer
Discord: discord.gg/smartlayer

Mathew Sweezey
X: @msweezey
LinkedIn: Mathew Sweezey

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#294: Arjun Bhuptani, Co-Founder of Connext, on Ethereum’s Scalability Problem, Account Abstraction, and the SOL vs ETH Narrative

Tue, 26 Dec 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Arjun Bhuptani is the Co-Founder of Connext and understands the value of a truly universal interoperability protocol for the web3 industry. A pioneer in the space, Arjun was previously a lead developer in scaling infrastructure for Ethereum, and a co-creator of the Moloch DAO, one of the earliest Decentralized Autonomous Organization frameworks developed in 2018.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- SOL vs ETH narrative
- Founding story of Connext
- Ethereum’s scalability problem
- Speed vs Decentralization
- Account abstraction
- Connext’s aim to create interoperability
- Building the future of the Internet
- 2024 outlook on intent-centric development
- 2024 macro trends
- Crypto being the Wild West back in the day

Connext
Website: www.connext.network
X: @ConnextNetwork
LinkedIn: Connext

Arjun Bhuptani
X: @arjunbhuptani
LinkedIn: Arjun Bhuptani

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#293: George Isichos, Core Contributor at Game7, on The State of Web3 Gaming and 2024 Web3 Gaming Trends

Thu, 21 Dec 2023 03:00:00 -0500

George Isichos is a Core Contributor at Game7, recently spearheading Game7's all-inclusive report on the state of Web3 Gaming for 2023. Before joining Game7, George was a product strategist for R3 and a strategy consultant for PWC.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The state of web3 gaming
- 2023 gaming trends
- Web3 game development by country
- Web3 gaming investments defy post-correction slowdown
- Gaming-based blockchains
- Blockchain wars in full swing for Web3 Gaming
- Distribution challenge
- Polygon, Immutable, and Arbitrum
- The reality of AAA web3 games
- L1s, L2s and L3s

Game7
Website: game7.io
X: @G7_DAO
Discord: discord.gg/g7dao

George Isichos
LinkedIn: George Isichos

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#292: Bob Ras, Co-Founder of Sologenic, on Tokenization of Real World Assets, 24/7 Trading, and The Future of Tokenization

Mon, 18 Dec 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Bob Ras is the Co-founder of Sologenic, a sophisticated ecosystem built on top of the XRP Ledger. It facilitates investing and trading between crypto and non-blockchain assets such as stocks, ETFs, and commodities from the top 30+ global stock exchanges. Alongside his work at Sologenic, Bob also co-founded Coreum, the 3rd generation, layer 1 smart blockchain built to serve as a core infrastructure of future Blockchain applications. Bob is a serial entrepreneur who has established several ventures within the manufacturing, tech, and blockchain industries. Bob has been a keynote speaker at many reputable Blockchain summits globally including Malta AI & the Future Blockchain Summit in Dubai.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Tokenization of stocks, bonds, real estate, etc.
- 24/7 Trading
- Building on XRP Ledger Networks
- How tokenization democratizes asset ownership
- Institutional tokenization of assets
- Unveiling the liquidity crisis
- Future-proofing financial services
- Coreum, the 3rd generation, layer 1 smart blockchain
- CBDC tool
- The future of tokenization

Sologenic
Website: www.sologenic.com
X: @realSologenic
Telegram: t.me/SOLOGENICxGoSOLO

Bob Ras
X: @bobrasX
LinkedIn: Bob Ras

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#291: Tom Mizzone, CEO of Sweet, on NHL Breakaway NFTs and Digital Sports Collectibles

Thu, 14 Dec 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Tom Mizzone is the CEO and Founder of Sweet, a premier platform for gamified digital sports collectible experiences powered by blockchain technology. With over two decades of experience as an entrepreneurial executive, Tom has a proven track record of launching, growing, and operating successful technology organizations. His expertise extends to developing and managing multi-million-dollar services and products for entertainment and media companies, often in close collaboration with some of the world’s most renowned brands. Tom's vision revolves around the belief that gamified digital collectibles usher in an entirely new category for sports leagues, teams, and athletes, creating an immersive collecting experience that is fan-first, gamified, and deeply social, strengthening the bond between fans and sports. At the heart of this vision is Sweet's groundbreaking digital collectibles program: NHL Breakaway, the official digital collectibles marketplace of the NHL, NHLPA, and NHLAA, which is centered around iconic highlights from top goal scorers, defensemen, and goalies, revolutionizing how fans experience NHL hockey.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The NHL's foray into Web3 and digital collectibles
- Digital collectibles' impact on sports
- NHL Breakaway’s impact on global hockey fans
- The future of sports collectibles
- Why digital collectibles will bring Web3 mainstream
- The difference between NHL Breakaway and similar platforms (like TopShot)
- Platform features (Trade Lounge, freezing packs, etc)
- Tracking authenticity
- Digital collectible marketplaces

NHL Breakaway
Website: nhlbreakaway.com
X: @NHLBreakaway
Discord: discord.gg/nhlbreakaway

Sweet
Website: sweet.io
X: @sweet
Discord: discord.gg/SX8gqKXyt9

Tom Mizzone
X: @tmizzone
LinkedIn: Tom Mizzone

#290: Ansem (@blknoiz06) on Solana, Altcoins, $BONK, and 2024 Trading Strategies

Mon, 11 Dec 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Zion aka Ansem aka @blknoiz06 is the king of retail trading on Twitter.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- SOL thesis
- SOL shitcoins + airdrops
- Marginfi, Jupiter, drift, zeta markets
- How can the average joe take their USD and onboard to SOL altcoins
- Cosmos
- Becoming a good trader
- Keeping a trade journal
- Trading strategies and capital allocation
- $JTO + $JUP
- $BONK
- Coinbase thesis
- 2024 predictions
- DFK and JEWEL

Ansem
X: @blknoiz06

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#289: Avril Dutheil, Core Contributor of Neutron, on The Cosmos Ecosystem, DeFi, and the Web3 Entrepreneur Shortage

Thu, 07 Dec 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Avril (Spaydh) Dutheil is a Core Contributor of Neutron and is an experienced digital specialist with a background in marketing, community management, digital services, and infrastructure, with a longstanding interest in computing systems and privacy. Starting his crypto journey when he purchased Bitcoin in his high school cafeteria, Avril went on to work for big industry names, including P2P and Lido Finance, growing communities and leading strategic business initiatives. He is now focused on supporting the Cosmos ecosystem, ushering in secure cross-chain DeFi, and creating the next generation of blockchain tech.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The unique value proposition of Cosmos
- Cosmos’ money and user problems
- The launch of wstETH
- Bringing Ethereum’s liquidity to Cosmos
- Improving liquidity choices and DeFi infrastructure
- Entrepreneur shortage in web3
- Empowering developers
- Onboarding users to the Cosmos ecosystem
- Neutron’s strategic investment in Confio
- Neutron network’s Neutrality upgrade
- Duality integration
- 2023 was the role of modularity

Neutron
Website: neutron.org
X: @Neutron_org
Telegram: t.me/neutron_community

Avril Dutheil
X: @0xSpaydh
LinkedIn: Avril Dutheil

#288: Harry Halpin, CEO of Nym Technologies, on Privacy, Decentralized Mixnet, VPNs, and The Fall of Fiat Currency

Mon, 04 Dec 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Harry Halpin is the CEO and co-founder of Nym Technologies, a startup building a decentralised mixnet to end mass surveillance. Prior to founding Nym, he was a Senior Research Scientist at MIT, where he led the standardisation of the Web Cryptography API across all browsers at W3C, and at Inria de Paris where he led interdisciplinary research on socio-technical systems and privacy. He was the project coordinator of the European Commission project NEXTLEAP on secure messaging at Inria de Paris, where he worked on anonymous communication and mix-networking and joined the Station F Founders programme.

Harry has a Ph.D. in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh and also teaches cryptocurrency at the American University of Beirut.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Lebanese banking scheme
- The fall of fiat currency
- Anti Fiat Social Club
- Importance of privacy
- IP addresses
- Privacy-centric internet
- Nym’s fully decentralized VPN
- VPNs are finite
- Mixnet
- Building on Cosmos blockchain
- Anonymous credentials
- How AI will impact the world moving forward

Nym
Website: nymtech.net
X: @nymproject
Discord: discord.gg/nym

Harry Halpin
X: @harryhalpin
LinkedIn: Harry Halpin

#287: Kavita Gupta, Founder of Delta Blockchain Fund, on The Crypto VC Landscape and The Role of Institutional Demand

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Kavita Gupta is the Founder and General Partner of Delta Blockchain Fund. She has over 18 years of investment experience via The World Bank, IFC, and the Eric Schmidt Family office. She started one of the first Blockchain early-stage funds, ConsenSys Ventures and accelerator Tachyon. Kavita has invested first checks into sector-defining companies such as Polygon, Starkware, Quantstamp, and Sorare, to name among over 100 companies - she is also a visiting scholar at Stanford University teaching the Beyond Bitcoin class and an advisor to the Hus Institute, the UNICEF Giga project, the Katapult investment fund, the International Emmys and more. In 2015, Kavita received the UN Innovation Award for being one of the core members of creating green and social impact bonds.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- CZ and Binance news
- The role of institutional demand
- SEC decisions and regulatory hurdles
- The evolving crypto VC landscape
- Bitcoin ETF approval
- The impact of global and geopolitical events on market dynamics
- How a spot Bitcoin ETF approval could reshape the crypto investment landscape
- Fostering a decentralized world
- Life of a crypto VC

Delta Blockchain Fund
Website: deltafund.io
X: @Deltabc_fund
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/delta-blockchain-fund

Kavita Gupta
X: @KavitaGupta19
LinkedIn: Kavita Gupta

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#286: Conor Ryder, Head of Research at Ethena, on Stablecoins, Synthetic Dollars, and Current Market Trends

Mon, 27 Nov 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Conor Ryder is CFA, Head of Research & Data at Ethena, the crypto infrastructure company building USDe, the first-ever global internet bond and stablecoin not reliant on existing banking institutions. Prior to joining Ethena, Conor built his career in the traditional finance industry and pivoted into the crypto sector in 2022 as a research analyst at Kaiko, a leading crypto data provider. Conor is CFA-certified and a seasoned expert in crypto markets and industry events, and his industry insights have been featured in CNBC, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Reuters, CoinDesk, and more.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Solving the stablecoin trilemma
- How stablecoins or synthetic dollars can help maintain US dollar dominance
- Lack of yield incentive is holding back stablecoin adoption
- Difference between 'stablecoins' and 'synthetic dollars’
- Stability and decentralization
- Current crypto market trends
- Stablecoin use cases/adoption around the world
- Internet bonds
- The importance of liquidity in crypto markets
- USDe

Ethena
Website: www.ethena.fi
X: @ethena_labs
Discord: discord.gg/ethena

Connor Ryder
X: @ConorRyder
LinkedIn: Connor Ryder, CFA

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#285: Frederik Gregaard, CEO Cardano Foundation, on Operational Resilience, Making Blockchain Immortal, and Cardano

Thu, 23 Nov 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Frederik Gregaard is CEO of the Cardano Foundation. A leader in fintech and blockchain, Fred has a background in banking, wealth management and asset management.

Gregaard joined the Cardano Foundation in 2020 and leads work across the Foundation’s three core focus areas: operational resilience, education, and adoption. These focuses guide all of the Foundation’s activities. Gregaard’s work enables expedited value creation for inclusive and equitable growth using Cardano, with the overall goal of decentralised, efficient, and secure economic empowerment for all.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Intro to Cardano
- Operational resilience
- Education and Adoption
- Georgian wine partnership
- Third Global Impact Challenge
- Policy developments in the blockchain space
- Recent engagement with regulators
- Plans for the coming year
- Helping people without an identity
- Making blockchain immortal

Cardano Foundation
Website: cardanofoundation.org
X: @Cardano_CF
Telegram: t.me/CardanoAnnouncements

Frederik Gregaard
X: @F_Gregaard
LinkedIn: Frederik Gregaard

#284: Charlie Schumacher, VP of Marathon Digital Holdings, on The Future of Bitcoin Mining and The Bitcoin Halving

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Charlie Schumacher, VP Corporate Communications of Marathon Digital Holdings (NASDAQ:MARA), a digital asset technology company that mines cryptocurrencies with a focus on the blockchain ecosystem and the generation of digital assets. From 2018 to 2021, Charlie worked at Gateway Investor Relations, first as an Analyst and later as an Associate, specializing in investor relations. Then, in 2021, they joined Marathon Digital Holdings as the Director of Corporate Communications before being promoted to VP of Corporate Communications in January 2022. Charlie Schumacher has a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Boston University.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Some changes from the last halving cycle that miners are focused on
- How do miners survive with their revenue being cut in half?
- Macro trends that will affect miners going forward
- Bitcoin ETF - what will this entail?
- How Marathon is preparing for a bull market
- How the Bitcoin ETF will affect miners
- Investor relations and corporate communications
- Utilization of AI
- Using methane to mine bitcoin

Marathon Digital Holdings
Website: www.mara.com
X: @MarathonDH
Instagram: @marathondigitalholdings

Charlie Schumacher
X: @charlieschu
LinkedIn: Charlie Schumacher

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#283: Lars Seier Christensen, Chairman of Concordium, on Bridging the Gap Between DeFi and TradFi

Thu, 16 Nov 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Lars Seier Christensen is Chairman of the Swiss non-profit Concordium Foundation. With over 30 years of experience across the banking and financial sector, Seier Christensen is a global pioneer in FX and derivatives trading, having co-founded the online trading and investment platform Saxo Bank in 1992. He served as co-CEO of Saxo Bank for more than 20 years, in which time the bank grew to 1,500 employees across 150 locations serving customers in 170 countries. SaxoTrader, the bank’s flagship online trading offering, was launched in 1998 and was one of the first online FX trading platforms in the world. SaxoTrader has since grown to become one of the world’s most complete multi-asset trading platforms. Seier Christensen is also the founder and sole owner of Seier Capital, a private equity and venture capital firm that specializes in investments in angel, seed, and A-round stage companies. The firm invests in art & fashion, financial services, food and beverages, sports & entertainment, social media, and technology industries.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- DeFi is paving the way for a more inclusive financial future
- Legal clarity is the key to institutionalizing DeFi and will drive adoption at scale
- Bridging the gap between DeFi and TradFi
- Marrying decentralization with regulatory compliance
- Bolstering data security
- 1.4 billion people are currently unbanked
- The future of ID + KYC
- Stories from growing Saxo Bank
- Concordium moving forward

Concordium
Website: www.concordium.com
X: @ConcordiumNet
Discord: discord.gg/GpKGE2hCFx

Lars Seier Christensen
X: @larsseier
LinkedIn: Lars Seier Christensen

#282: Tara Fung, CEO of Co:Create, on How Web3 Loyalty Can Onboard Brands to Web3

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Tara Fung is the Co-Founder & CEO of Co:Create. Tara is a growth-oriented leader who enables innovative brands to unlock the power of their community through gamified, self-owned reward programs. With a background as Chief Revenue Officer of Alto, a leading cryptoIRA and digital asset IRA custodian, Tara forged partnerships with institutional crypto asset managers, driving a staggering 25X revenue growth in just 18 months.

She also served as Chief Commercial Officer at a consumer lending FinTech firm, spearheading an advocacy campaign to change the tax treatment of employer-sponsored student loan repayment programs. Her efforts resulted in the passage of this initiative as part of the CARES Act. Tara holds degrees from Harvard Business School and the University of South Carolina.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- How Web3 loyalty is an upgrade on traditional loyalty programs
- How Web3 loyalty can help onboard brands to Web3
- Tattoos on the blockchain
- How can the eCommerce industry benefit from Web3 technologies as a whole
- Why the intersection of web3 and luxury fashion will be one of the most popular use cases
- Co:Create Ink — ten world famous tattoo artists enter web3 loyalty
- Co:Create Studios
- Delta changing their loyalty program
- Owning the experience layer
- The power of APIs

Co:Create
Website: www.usecocreate.io
X: @usecocreate
Discord: discord.gg/AUJbWTw5mS

Tara Fung
X: @nonfungibletara
LinkedIn: Tara Fung
Instagram: @tara_fung

#281: Adam Reeds, CEO of Ledn, on Crypto Lending and Why Bitcoin Makes Great Collateral

Thu, 09 Nov 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Adam Reeds is the Co-Founder and CEO of Ledn, a global company regulated in the Cayman Islands that focuses on building financial products to help people save in bitcoin and digital assets. Prior to co-founding Ledn, Adam spent ten years at Dream Asset Management, where he developed, built, and financed a $1.5 billion portfolio of renewable power projects. It was Bitcoin's connection with the energy that brought Adam into Bitcoin mining, where he and his co-founder identified a gap in financing digital assets. Today, Ledn is a broad financial services platform with clients in over 130 countries. Adam is a graduate of the HBA program at the Richard Ivey School of Business and also holds a Bachelor of Engineering Science from the University of Western Ontario.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Crypto loans vs. traditional loans
- The future of crypto lending
- Why Bitcoin Makes Great Collateral
- How Ledn survived the lending crisis of 2022
- Ledn's new products (DCNs and Growth Accounts)
- Investing in the energy sector
- Bitcoin mining in Canada
- Canada’s energy consumption

Ledn
Website: ledn.io
X: @hodlwithLedn
Instagram: @ledn.io

Adam Reeds
X: @adamreeds
LinkedIn: Adam Reeds

#280: Rich Rines, Contributor to Core DAO, on Bitcoin Utility and Cross Chain Functionality

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Rich Rines is an initial contributor to Core DAO, an independent blockchain combining the decentralization and security of Bitcoin with the scalability and application platform of Ethereum.

Rich focuses on the implementation and growth of Core DAO’s revolutionary decentralized consensus mechanism aimed at unlocking the full potential and promise of blockchain technology by leveraging the complementary qualities of Proof of Stake alongside Proof of Work.

Rich is also the founder and CEO of an outbound contact center software company called AutoReach and led money movements engineering at Coinbase for 3 years. Prior to those roles, Rich was an engineer at LendingHome and Thoughtbot.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Bitcoin miner challenges
- Bitcoin use cases
- Leveraging PoW and PoS
- Core’s impressive global audience and the successful airdrop stats from launch
- Interoperability and cross-chain functionality
- Onboarding communities that need crypto most: developers, Bitcoin miners, and end-users
- Building money movement products
- Onboarding web2 over web3

Core DAO
Website: coredao.org
X: @Coredao_Org
LinkedIn: t.me/CoreDAOTelegram

Rich Rines
X: @richrines
LinkedIn: Rich Rines

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#279: Nihar Neelakanti, CEO of Ecosapiens, on Blockchain-Based Carbon Tracking and Web3 Powering Eco-Conscious Consumerism

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Nihar Neelakanti is the Co-Founder and CEO of Ecosapiens, a VC-backed platform enabling consumers to fight climate change through the world’s first carbon-backed NFT. Nihar previously worked in venture capital, spending several years at VCs, including Correlation Ventures, Kauffman Fellows, and most recently, at the prestigious Menlo Ventures, where he helped develop the climate thesis that sparked the idea for Ecosapiens. He is deeply fascinated by the opportunity to rethink economics in a way that regenerates the planet rather than extracts from it.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Are we back?
- Crypto VC landscape
- Carbon tracking on the blockchain
- Web3 tech powering eco-conscious consumerism
- Invest in the environment
- How businesses can achieve their climate goals
- Growing in a bear market
- Using NFTs to solve climate problems
- Climate tech

Ecosapiens
Website: ecosapiens.xyz
X: @ecosapiensxyz
Discord: discord.gg/57AszRvpFj

Nihar Neelakanti
X: @NiharNeelakanti
LinkedIn: Nihar Neelakanti

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#278: Oleg Fomenko, Co-Founder of Sweat Economy, on the Movement Economy and Sweatcoin

Mon, 30 Oct 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Oleg Fomenko is the Co-Founder of Sweat Economy, which is establishing the movement economy by realizing the value of physical activities and rewarding all forms of movement. Nine years prior to the conception of Sweat Economy, Oleg co-founded Sweatcoin, a digital currency backed by physical movement within the Sweat Economy ecosystem. Oleg has more than 15 years of experience as an entrepreneur. As founder of bloom.fm, he spearheaded a £16M funding raise, attracting 1.2 million registered users in the UK and offering the world’s first £1 per month subscription service. He has a wealth of experience in the areas of propositions, strategy development, consultancy, and brand management. A serial entrepreneur, Oleg has been described by clients as a “true creative visionary” and is particularly interested in the areas of health, civil rights and social action, human rights, economic empowerment, and education.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The founding story of Sweatcoin
- Sweat Economy's DeFi structure
- Historical instability of the move-to-earn industry
- Decentralized governance
- Sweatcoin
- Ripple Rulling
- Measurability tech = improving health and fitness
- How Move-To-Earn can lower long-term healthcare costs
- Protecting data privacy in the fitness industry
- Near ecosystem

Sweat Economy
Website: sweateconomy.com
X: @SweatEconomy
Telegram: t.me/sweateconomy

Oleg Fomenko
X: @oleg_fem
LinkedIn: Oleg Fomenko

#277: Don Norbury, Head of Studio at Shrapnel, on GameFi and the Trajectory of the Web3 Gaming Industry

Thu, 26 Oct 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Don Norbury is Head of Studio at Shrapnel, a AAA first-person extraction shooter with a creator ecosystem that empowers players to own their creations and shape the future of the game. From the genre-defining franchises of Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Bioshock, Sunset Overdrive, and Crackdown to the sports superstars Madden NFL and NASCAR, Don has redefined creative boundaries across platforms and player experience for more than 16 years. Prior to joining Shrapnel, he held senior positions at companies such as HBO, Microsoft, and Electronic Arts.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Web3 game developer platforms
- Trajectory of the Web3 gaming industry
- Don’s experience and gameplay-first approach to game development
- How blockchain can be included as an optional additional element of AAA games
- Shrapnel - a AAA first-person extraction shooter
- GameBridge empowers game developers to easily integrate advanced content creation capabilities
- Building games like Starwars and Madden
- Working for HBO, Microsoft, and Electronic Arts
- Building in person > building online

SHRAPNEL
Website: www.shrapnel.com
X: @playSHRAPNEL
Discord: discord.gg/shrapnel

Don Norbury
X: @DonNorbury
LinkedIn: Don Norbury

#276: Ryan Gill, CEO of Crucible Network, on the Open Metaverse, Pattern Recognition, and First Principals

Mon, 23 Oct 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Ryan Gill is a pioneer of the open metaverse movement. He is the founder and CEO of the Crucible Network, an enterprise offering easy on-ramps for developers to leverage web3 technologies, as well as a founding member of the Open Meta DAO, an organisation supporting the delivery of products, experiences, services, best practices, and tools underpinning the emergence of an open metaverse. Ryan stands out as a visionary leader and entrepreneur and has been among the first industry figures to promote the term ‘open metaverse.'

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The Open Metaverse
- Self-Sovereign Identity (Verification of ID in Gaming)
- Emergence SDK
- The future of the metaverse
- Learning as a skill
- Learning for in your 20s and building in your 30s
- Pattern recognition as a skill
- First principals
- Virtual Reality Modelling (VRMs)
- Gamespace

Open Meta
Website: www.openmeta.xyz
X: @OpenMetaDAO
Discord: discord.gg/openmeta

Ryan Gill
X: @RyanCrucible
LinkedIn: Ryan Gill

#275: Oliver Linch, CEO of Bittrex Global, on Developing Regulatory Framework for A Digital Asset Economy

Thu, 19 Oct 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Oliver Linch is CEO of Bittrex Global, one of the world's most secure digital asset exchanges. Oliver has over a decade of experience as a financial regulatory lawyer, having advised major investment banks, exchanges, and leading financial institutions on regulatory matters across the EEA, UK, and US. During his tenure with a leading global law firm, Oliver specialised in various areas of financial regulatory advisory work, with particular expertise in advising exchanges, clearing houses, and other financial market infrastructure companies, as well as payment service providers. Oliver's extensive legislative and regulatory drafting experience includes advising special economic zones around the world on devising and drafting new regulatory regimes, particularly focusing on financial regulation and fintech.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Developing the regulatory framework for a digital asset economy
- Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong moving the needle for crypto regulation
- Asset protection and transparency
- Crypto industry in Bermuda
- Security, innovation, regulation
- Battling the SEC
- Without knowing the rules, you can’t win
- Winning back people’s trust
- DYOR

Bittrex Global
Website: bittrexglobal.com
X: @BittrexGlobal
Telegram: t.me/s/bittrexglobal

Oliver Linch
X: @OliverLinch
LinkedIn: Oliver Linch

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#274: Adeniyi Abiodun, Co-Founder of Mysten Labs, on The Role of Blockchain for Digital Economies, and Building Libra/Diem

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Adeniyi is a product leader with experience spanning from financial services to crypto. Adeniyi has led engineering and product teams across Big Tech companies including Oracle, VMware and Facebook. Prior to founding Mysten Labs, Adeniyi led many of Meta’s R&D initiatives in blockchain and cryptocurrency, including the Diem (aka. Libra) Network and the Move programming language.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Facebook’s blockchain/cryptocurrency Diem (aka. Libra) Network
- Move programming language
- Working at Facebook
- Blockchain-based authentication
- Web3 identity via zk tech
- Crypto as a solution for the unbanked in the world
- The importance of gaming and the digital economy
- The role blockchain can play for corporate brands
- Supporting the Sui community with Ecosystem and Community Development funds

Mysten Labs
Website: mystenlabs.com
X: @Mysten_Labs
Discord: discord.gg/mysten

Sui Network
Website: sui.io
X: @SuiNetwork
Discord: discord.gg/sui

Adeniyi Abiodun
X: @EmanAbio
LinkedIn: Adeniyi Abiodun

#273: Bob Bodily, CEO of Toniq, on Scaling Bitcoin and Ordinals

Thu, 12 Oct 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Bob Bodily is the Provo, Utah-based CEO and Co-Founder of Bioniq, a BTC Ordinals wallet and marketplace. He has a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience and a Ph.D. in educational/instructional technology from Brigham Young University, with 25 articles and 1k citations. He is a data engineer with 100k+ lines of production Python code, and he has two previous software startups, including an EdTech SaaS that sold in 2021.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Bitcoin 101
- Zk-rollups
- Bioniq
- Ordinals
- Building on Bitcoin
- NFTs on Bitcoin
- Taproot
- Bitcoin side chains
- ICP
- Bitcoin's metaprotocol layers

ToniqLabs
Website: toniqlabs.com
X: @toniqlabs
Discord: discord.gg/toniqlabs

Bob Bodily
X: @BobBodily
LinkedIn: Bob Bodily, PhD

#272: Toby Rush, CEO of Deem, on The Future of Web3 Mobile, NFT Ticketing & Sports, and the Power of Open Ecosystems

Mon, 09 Oct 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Toby Rush is a twenty-year industry veteran with extensive deep tech experience as both a founder and an investor. Currently, he is CEO and Co-Founder of Redeem, a company unlocking Web3 for the world using phone numbers.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The future of Web3 Mobile
- Mobile as the key to NFT storage and security
- Mobile and its ongoing impact on payments
- NFT Ticketing & Sports
- The power of open ecosystems
- Token gating activity
- Simplicity in technology
- Working for Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group

Redeem
Website: www.usedeem.com
X: @Redeem_xyz
LinkedIn: Deem

Toby Rush
X: @TobiasRush
LinkedIn: Toby Rush

#271: Phil Harvey, CEO of Sabre56, on The Current State of Bitcoin Mining, and the Future of Mining + Energy Usage

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Phil Harvey is the Founder & CEO of Sabre56, the leading hosting provider and digital asset mining consultant. As a cryptocurrency mining expert, Phil has been active in the space since 2014.

With a background in military operational planning, he has been devising solutions for the most complex problems facing blockchain companies for years, including growing one of the largest miners on the North American market.

Sabre56 today has consulted on over 700MW of computing power across North America, the Nordics, and the Middle East. The company builds and operates the most technologically advanced blockchain data centres, and acts as trusted hosting partner for leading miners globally.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Current state of the mining industry
- Phil’s road from elite military to crypto
- Mining economics & the upcoming halving
- Sabre56 scaling in the US market
- Vision for US expansion of blockchain data centres
- Partnerships + landmark consulting/construction deals
- Conceptualising Bitcoin’s energy use
- Computing infrastructure of the future
- Crypto mining 101
- Regulation around digital asset mining
- Digital assets and renewable energy
- Bitcoin halving

Sabre56
Website: www.sabre56.com
X: @Sabre_56
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/sabre56

Phil Harvey
LinkedIn: Phil Harvey

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#270: Gracy Chen, Managing Director of Bitget, on Copy-Trading, Derivatives Trading, Managing Crypto Exchanges, and Q4 2023 Predictions

Mon, 02 Oct 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Gracy Chen is the Managing Director of the top crypto derivatives and copy trading platform Bitget, where she oversees market expansion, business strategy, and corporate development. Under her leadership, Bitget's user base has quadrupled, propelling the exchange to the top five positions among crypto exchanges in terms of crypto derivatives trading volumes.

Before joining Bitget, she held executive positions at the fintech unicorn company Accumulus and Foxconn-backed VR startup XRSPACE. Gracy was also an early investor in BitKeep, Asia's leading decentralized wallet.

In 2015, Gracy was honored as a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum. She graduated from the National University of Singapore and is currently pursuing an MBA degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Derivatives trading 101
- Bitget's market position
- Potential crypto exchange alliance
- End of 2023 crypto predictions
- Partnership with HELLO Labs
- Trading-based AI tools and strategies
- Decentralization and centralization efforts
- Bitget EmpowerX Fund
- Community engagement
- Nansen H1 CEX Landscape report
- AI-based virtual boyfriends and girlfriends
- The dangers of AI

Bitget
Website: bitget.com
Twitter: @bitgetglobal
LinkedIn: Bitget
Telegram: t.me/bitgetEN

Gracy Chen
Twitter: @GracyBitget
LinkedIn: Gracy Chen

#269: Omer Amsel, Head of Web3 at Fireblocks, on Web2 Companies Moving to Web3, and Crypto Going Mainstream

Thu, 28 Sep 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Omer Amsel is Fireblocks’ Head of Web3 and Director of Product Management. As Head of Web3, Omer is responsible for the strategy and product development enabling access and building of the emerging digital economy, including DeFi, NFTs, and GameFi, via the Fireblocks platform. For over a decade, Omer has been adapting cutting-edge technologies, such as blockchain, solar energy, machine learning, and computer vision, to create products that solve real-world challenges.

Prior to Fireblocks, Omer led product at UVeye, which developed automated inspection systems for vehicles, working with the firm’s most high-profile clients including a Fortune 5 company. He also co-founded Slice RE, a blockchain-based real estate equity crowdfunding platform focused on high-growth, large-scale urban real estate developments. Omer met Fireblocks’ Co-founder & CTO Idan Ofrat at Generaytor, a solar energy community created to accelerate solar adoption through the sharing economy model, where he worked with Idan to bring the product to market.

Omer graduated with a BA in Computer Science from IDC Herzliya (formerly Reichman University).

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Developing Web3 for mainstream adoption
- Web2 businesses moving into Web3
- Web3 barriers to entry
- DeFi 101
- How to get to the next million users in the ecosystem
- How brands can leverage digital assets like NFTs to extend their customers’ experiences
- Upskilling Web2 developers
- Onboarding + removing friction

Fireblocks
Website: www.fireblocks.com
X: @FireblocksHQ
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/fireblocks

Omer Amsel
X: @OmerAmsel
LinkedIn: Omer Amsel

#268: John Reynolds, Product Manager for Aleo, on ZK Tech, Privacy, and Safeguarding Personal Information

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 03:00:00 -0400

John Reynolds is a Product Manager for Aleo with years of experience as a cybersecurity professional. After 3+ years in the United States Air Force as a Cyber Operations Officer, he gained an understanding of the need to safeguard autonomous systems apart from central authorities while also upholding privacy and fostering accountability.

At Aleo, John is responsible for product development and project management. Prior to joining Aleo, John was the Strategic Deployment Lead for Blend. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the United States Air Force Academy and a master’s degree in Software Engineering from Southern Methodist University.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Common misconceptions about ZK technology
- Zero knowledge proofs: applications, use cases, and common misconceptions
- Privacy + safeguarding personal information
- Identity
- Mining ETH back in the day
- The grand vision for Aleo
- Z-Prize; Aleo’s hardware-based ZK competition
- John’s background in the US Air Force
- Every day privacy tips
- Leo programming language

Aleo
Website: aleo.org
X: @AleoHQ
Discord: discord.gg/aleohq

John Reynolds
X: @gweiworld
LinkedIn: John Reynolds

#267: Arno Bauer, Senior Solution Architect at BNB Chain, on opBNB, Ethereum Killers, L1s, L2s, and Bitcoin

Thu, 21 Sep 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Arno Bauer, Senior Solution Architect at BNB Chain. With over a decade in Data Management across diverse international environments, Arno focuses on enhancing business operations through the research and application of innovative technologies. Here, he specializes in enhancing the core blockchain landscape of the BNB ecosystem and helping its growth through innovation, particularly focusing on governance model enhancements.

Arno is deeply attracted to transformative technologies, especially when applied to human science. His journey to blockchain was sparked by his fascination with new technologies and the potential of blockchain to revolutionize various industries. After studying the fundamentals and business applications of this technology through various opportunities, he enjoys contributing to a field that has the potential to significantly impact society.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- BNB launched a new layer-2 testnet called opBNB
- How opBNB will impact developers -- the benefits, the future, etc.
- A look back at the past 3 years of BNB Chain and the Web3 ecosystem and what's to come
- How Greenfield is a leader in programmable storage
- Decentralized storage
- Overwhelmed by the multiple blockchain layer-1 and layer-2 options available to choose from
- Summary of present-day L1s & L2s
- Ethereum Killers
- Arno’s journey into crypto
- Bitcoin

BNB Chain
Website: www.bnbchain.org
X: @BNBCHAIN
Telegram: t.me/bnbchain

Arno Bauer
LinkedIn: Arnaud Bauer

#266: Erica Kang, CEO of KryptoSeoul, on Crypto in Asia and Bridging the Gap Between the West & the East

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Erica Kang is the CEO and Founder of KryptoSeoul, a leading community-building team in South Korea. She leads the KryptoSeoul team to organize BUIDL Asia, the first Asian community-driven crypto conference. Having earned her Masters in International Policy Studies at Stanford, Erica previously served at the Korea Blockchain Association as an advisor.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Asia is a powerhouse for crypto
- Bridging the gap between crypto communities located in the West and East
- BUIDL Asia providing a global stage for crypto in Asia
- Community building spirit
- Nurturing regulatory environment
- Token 2049 in Singapore
- KryptoSeoul: a premiere crypto conference in South Korea
- Stanford
- Cultural differences between East and West
- Education in South Korea

KryptoSeoul
Website: kryptoseoul.com
X: @kryptoseoul
Telegram: t.me/kryptoseoul

Erica Kang
X: @ekang426
LinkedIn: Erica Kang

#265: Rachel Lin, CEO of SynFutures, on DeFi, Decentralized Derivatives Trading, and NFT Futures

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Rachel Lin is the CEO and Co-Founder of SynFutures, a decentralized derivatives trading platform. Rachel previously worked at Deutsche Bank, specializing in derivatives, and was part of the founding team at Matrixport, one of Asia’s largest crypto neobanks.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- TradFi players entering the crypto space
- Potential to power the unbanked and underbanked
- Removing unnecessary intermediaries in Trad-Fi
- Importance of treasury management
- SynFutures’ V3 DeFi derivatives platform
- NFTures
- Interoperability & scalability (zkrollups)
- Regulatory compliance
- Does FTX deserve a second chance?
- Advantages of DeFi over Trad-Fi

SynFutures
Website: www.synfutures.com
X: @SynFuturesDefi
Telegram: t.me/synfutures_Defi

Rachel Lin
X: @RachelLin_SF

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#264: Elena Nadolinski, CEO of Iron Fish Foundation, on Web3 Privacy, ZK Proofs, and L1s vs. L2s

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Elena Nadolinski is a computer scientist and software engineer, and the CEO of the Iron Fish Foundation, the organization supporting the Iron Fish network, a dedicated privacy layer for Web3 with built-in compliance solutions.

Prior to founding Iron Fish in 2017, Elena worked as a software engineer at companies including Microsoft, Tilt, and Airbnb. Elena is a Forbes 30 under 30 alum, and has been honored with awards from both the White House and the Central Intelligence Agency for her outstanding achievements.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Iron Fish 101 & Iron Fish’s recent Mainnet launch
- Making crypto accessible (making it easy to run nodes, mine tokens, etc.)
- Zero-knowledge proof technology and applications
- Proof-of-work vs. Proof-of-stake
- The importance of privacy in Web 2.0 + Web3
- Merging privacy and compliance in Web3
- The world of L2s
- Stories from working at Microsoft, Tilt, and Airbnb
- Living in SF

Iron Fish
Website: ironfish.network
X: @ironfishcrypto
Telegram: t.me/ironfishcryptochat

Elena Nadolinski
X: @leanthebean
LinkedIn: Elena Nadolinski

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#263: Eric Chen, CEO of Injective Labs, on Building Finance Specific Blockchains and the Current State of DeFi

Thu, 07 Sep 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Eric Chen is the Co-Founder and CEO of Injective Labs. Prior to Injective, he was a researcher at Innovating Capital, working on trading strategies and protocol research. Before that, he was a part of the NYU Blockchain Labs. Eric has worked within the crypto industry since 2017. Eric dropped out of NYU and currently has one of the best accounts on crypto Twitter.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Current State of DeFi
- Building blockchains specifically for finance
- Founding story and vision of Injective Labs
- Helix
- Exchange Modules
- Measuring signal-to-noise ratios
- Frontrunner.xyz
- Dropping out of NYU to work in crypto
- Raising funds and becoming a VC
- Driving industry growth

Injective Labs
Website: injectivelabs.org
X: @InjectiveLabs
Discord: discord.gg/NK4qdbv

Eric Chen
X: @ericinjective

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#262: Sandy Carter, COO of Unstoppable Domains, on User-Owned Digital Identities, Web3 Domains, and Owning Your Data

Mon, 04 Sep 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Sandy Carter is the Chief Operating Officer and Head of Business Development at Unstoppable Domains, a platform for user-owned digital identity. As COO, she is responsible for driving growth and developing business strategies in pursuit of the company’s mission to provide a user-owned identity for the world. She also drives partnerships and integrations for Web3 and the Metaverse. Prior to Unstoppable, Sandy was a VP at AWS, where she created and grew businesses in emerging tech, leveraging AI, blockchain, and AR/VR. Before that, she was a General Manager at IBM and a Silicon Valley start-up founder. Sandy also recently published a new book on Web3 and AI called “The Tiger and the Rabbit.”

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Delivering user-owned, digital identity to every person on the planet
- .eth community
- Importance of loyalty programs
- Writing and launching books
- GenZ & digital identity
- Messaging with domains instead of phone numbers
- Blockchain x AI
- Unstoppable Messaging, a new way to build connections and community in Web3
- Unstoppable partnership with Rarimo on their proof of humanity verification aggregator
- Web3 domains
- Giving people the power to own their data and reputation
- “Drinking your own champagne”
- The convergence of tech

Unstoppable Domains
Website: unstoppabledomains.com
X: @unstoppableweb
LinkedIn: Unstoppable Domains

Sandy Carter
X: @sandy_carter
Website: socialbusinesssandy.com

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#261: Navin Vethanayagam, Chief Brain at IQ.wiki, on The Future of AI & Blockchain, Friend.tech, and Grayscale Bitcoin ETF

Thu, 31 Aug 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Navin Vethanayagam serves as the Chief Brain of the IQ.wiki platform, working to grow the site's traffic and community. He first joined IQ.wiki, formerly Everipedia, as a founding team member at 19, gaining experience in community management, marketing, press, and international business. He was previously the Chief Community Officer of Everipedia, where he focused on growing the site's traffic by focusing on its community, social channels, and press relations. He is also the Galaxy Brain of BrainDAO, which manages the IQ token.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Gracyscale winning SEC lawsuit
- Friend.tech - here to stay or just a fad?
- The future of AI x Blockchain
- The open-source and decentralized nature of IQ.wiki
- What’s IQ.wiki?
- Hashing edits on Polygon
- IQ GPT
- The disruptive potential of collaborative AI-blockchain applications
- Significance of AI-powered knowledge tools for Web3 communities
- Verifying content authenticity

IQ.wiki
Website: iq.wiki
Twitter: @IQWIKI
Telegram: t.me/everipedia

Navin Vethanayagam
Twitter: @NavV96
LinkedIn: Navin Vethanayagam

#260: Richard Ma, CEO of Quantstamp, on Blockchain Security, Web3 Audits, and Smart Contracts

Mon, 28 Aug 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Richard Ma is the Co-Founder and CEO of Quantstamp, a global leader in blockchain security. Quantstamp has performed more than 500 audits and secured over $200 billion in digital asset risk from hackers. Prior to starting Quantstamp, Richard was involved in algorithmic and high-frequency trading as a trading fund manager and senior quantitative strategist, most recently with Tower Research Capital. He founded Quantstamp to improve security auditing after investing in the DAO and experiencing the aftermath of the hack firsthand. Richard graduated with a degree in electrical computer engineering from Cornell University.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The role security plays in helping web3 achieve mainstream adoption
- Blockchain Security
- Smart contract audits
- Most common types of hacks
- Auditing Ethereum 2.0
- Chainproof, the world’s first regulated smart contract insurer
- Working with companies like Visa, Toyota, and Siemens
- Blockchain Futurist Conference
- Richard’s journey from Quantstamp trader to founder

Quantstamp
Website: quantstamp.com
Twitter: @Quantstamp
LinkedIn: Quantstamp, Inc.

Richard Ma
LinkedIn: Richard Ma

#259: Ed Marquez, Developer Relations Engineer for Hedera, on Blockchain Scalability and AI Language Models Within Web3

Thu, 24 Aug 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Ed Marquez is a Developer Relations Engineer for Hedera at Swirlds Labs. He is passionate about helping developers get on board with Web 3 and the Hedera network. In addition to distributed ledger technology (DLT), Ed has worked on Model-Based Design and development of control algorithms for embedded systems. Ed holds a MS and BS in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech, and is currently pursuing a MS in Business Management at Harvard.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Swirlds Labs’ role within the Hedera ecosystem
- Developer Relations
- Hedera’s recent integration of ChatGPT’s plugin
- Blockchain scalability
- HBAR Foundation
- Blockchain economy bolstered by AI
- AI language models within Web3
- The future of Blockchain x AI
- FedNow instant payments

Hedera
Website: hedera.com
Twitter: @hedera
Discord: hedera.com/discord

Ed Marquez
Twitter: @ed__marquez
LinkedIn: Ed Marquez

#258: Dirk Lueth, Co-Founder of Upland, on the State of the MetaVerse, SuperApps, and Web3 Games

Mon, 21 Aug 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Dirk Lueth, is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Uplandme, Inc. Based in Silicon Valley, Dirk is a serial entrepreneur and an early adopter of blockchain and related technologies. In addition to being the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Uplandme, Inc., Dirk co-founded and is chairman of the Open Metaverse Alliance for Web3 (OMA3). He is the author of the bestselling book, Navigating the Metaverse: A Guide to Limitless Possibilities in a Web 3.0 World (Wiley, 2022) and the official Metaverse ambassador of the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC).

Previously, Dirk co-founded European and US-based FinTech and digital media companies, including the Financial Times Deutschland and Forbatec, which SunGard acquired (today NYSE:FIS). Dirk mentored over 30 startups through his work at international startup accelerators in Silicon Valley and is a frequent speaker/panelist focusing on topics about the metaverse, blockchain, and platform economics. He studied Business Administration in Frankfurt and Paris and earned a Ph.D. from the European Business School in Germany, where he wrote his doctoral thesis about private and state-controlled currencies.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- In-game currencies & economies
- Upland ‘Cafes’
- Expanding to new cities
- SuperApps
- Web3 gaming
- Navigating the metaverse
- Importance of the community
- Upland’s partnership with FIFA Women’s World Cup
- State of the Metaverse
- Why the future will and most be open

Upland
Website: www.upland.me
Twitter: @UplandMe
Discord: discord.gg/umwJEYzPeR

Dirk Lueth
Twitter: @DirkLueth
LinkedIn: Dirk Lueth

#257: Bobby Zagotta, US CEO of Bitstamp, on US Crypto Regulation, The Banking Crisis, and Web3 Innovation

Thu, 17 Aug 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Bobby Zagotta, US CEO & Chief Commercial Officer at Bitstamp. He came to Bitstamp from Kraken, where he served as Chief Commercial Officer responsible for strategy, business development, marketing, M&A, research and analytics, and global growth initiatives. Before that, he was a Senior Managing Director, Strategy & Execution and a member of the Executive Team for CME Group Inc., a global, publicly traded financial exchange.

As CEO for the Americas and Global Chief Commercial Officer at Bitstamp, Bobby is responsible for strategy and growing our presence and business globally, as well as overseeing day-to-day operations in the Americas.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Navigating regulation
- Bitstamp growth
- Current crypto market
- Web3 innovation
- Banking crisis
- Training for triathlons
- Regulation/American Adoption
- US debt ceiling
- XRP ruling
- Stories from growing CME and the parallels to present-day crypto
- Journey from trad-fi to crypto

Bitstamp
Website: www.bitstamp.net
Twitter: @Bitstamp
LinkedIn: Bitstamp

Bobby Zagotta
Twitter: @BobbyZagotta
LinkedIn: Bobby Zagotta

#256: Rudy Koch, Co-Founder of Fenix Games, on Web3 Gaming, Shipping World-Class Games, and Treating Gamers as Stakeholders

Mon, 14 Aug 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Rudy Koch is the co-founder of Fenix Games, which is based out of UAE. He is also the co-founder of Web 3 unicorn Mythical Games, which has raised $270M and is valued at $1.25B. Rudy has over 15 years of game development experience shipping some of the most prolific games in the industry: 5 Call of Duty games, 2 World of Warcraft expansions, 1 Disney MMO, and a handful of #1 mobile games. He is currently exploring the intersection between blockchain technology and games.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Partnership with Immutable
- Making money playing games
- Shipping famous games like Call of Duty and World of Warcraft
- Shift of gaming: pay-to-play > free-to-play > web3
- Inviting players in as stakeholders
- Game-specific DAOs
- Gaming as a career path
- Web3 allowing gamers to participate in gaming economies
- Biggest advantages/features of web3 gaming compared to web2 gaming
- The biggest roadblocks stifling the mass adoption of web3 gaming

Fenix Games
Website: www.fenixgames.com
Twitter: @playfenixgames
LinkedIn: Fenix Games

Rudy Koch
Twitter: @rudykoch
LinkedIn: Rudy Koch

#255: Paolo Ardoino, CTO of Tether, on $USDT Fud and Tether’s Diversification into Energy

Thu, 10 Aug 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Paolo Ardoino is the CTO of Bitfinex and Tether, who also recently launched Keet.io, a Peer-to-Peer Chat App, built with the Holepunch platform that allows anyone to create apps that don’t use any servers. Paolo is also a certified meme-lord and has one of the best accounts on crypto Twitter.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Tether ($USDT) FUD
- Having $72.5B overall exposure in US T-Bills
- Tether Excess reserves at $3.3B
- Binance + Justin Sun FUD
- Banking collapse
- Current pressure on exchanges
- Tether’s Diversification into Energy
- Partnership with Government of Georgia
- Tether fostering the use of P2P technology
- What’s next for Tether?
- Keet.io
- Bitfinex P2P trading
- Trade finance - the next trend in crypto

Tether
Website: tether.to
Twitter: @Tether_to
Telegram: t.me/OfficialTether

Paolo Ardoino
Twitter: @paoloardoino
LinkedIn: Paolo Ardoino

#254: Daniel Paez, Executive Producer at Gods Unchained, on Web3 Gaming, Building AAA Games, and Publishing Games

Mon, 07 Aug 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Daniel Paez is Executive Producer at Immutable Game’s flagship trading card game, Gods Unchained. As a developer of data-driven business strategies, Daniel focuses on bridging the gap between insights from a variety of players in the industry. These include linking information from business intelligence teams to key decision makers, product designers to commercial strategists, and brand management heads to social media influencers. Daniel uses a scientific approach to challenge assumptions and then to build a data-supported knowledge-base that influences business organizations, from the bottom up. Before joining Immutable, Daniel worked as the Director of Monetization for both Worldspark Studios and Big Time Studios. He also worked as the Senior Manager of Commercial Finance and Operations at Activision, and previously held several positions at gaming company, Blizzard Entertainment, most recently as Senior Manager of Publishing Intelligence.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Elevating the player experience
- Gods Unchained recent roadmap updates
- The future of web3 gaming
- New Content Creator Program
- Making AAA games is more difficult than making movies
- Making games vs. publishing games
- Regulation for web3 gaming
- New Pack Opening Experience
- $GODS token
- Immutable Games
- Staking in web3 gaming
- Season 2 + mobile soft launch

Gods Unchained
Website: godsunchained.com
Twitter: @GodsUnchained
Discord: discord.gg/godsunchained

Daniel Paez
Twitter: @_Papalicious_
LinkedIn: Daniel Paez

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#253: Sid Gandhi, CEO of Polybase, on ZK Proofs and Decentralized Databases

Thu, 03 Aug 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Sid Gandhi is a technology leader, entrepreneur, and investor, currently CEO of web3 infrastructure company Polybase.

In the past, he led product and technical strategy for simulation at Cruise, co-founded Hmatix Cybersecurity, built AR tools for the US Navy at Moback, and wrote software for iOS at Apple.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Story of Polybase
- Polybase Modular Architecture
- Polybase Private mainnet
- How is Polybase different from Ceramic & Tableland
- Leveraging ZK proofs for security and scalability
- Building self-driving cars at Cruise
- Building AR tools for the US Navy
- Writing software for iOS at Apple
- Building developer databases
- Sid’s $100k burrito

Polybase
Website: polybase.xyz
Twitter: @polybase_xyz
LinkedIn: Polybase

Sid Gandhi
Website: sidhantgandhi.com
Twitter: @sidgandhi_xyz
LinkedIn: Sid G. 3rd

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#252: Lomesh Dutta, VP of Growth at DFINITY, on Internet Computer, Bitcoin DeFi, and ckBTC

Mon, 31 Jul 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Lomesh Dutta is Vice President of Growth at DFINITY. Lomesh holds over 17 years of experience in building and scaling startups. Before DFINITY, he was the Head of Growth and Marketing at the crypto banking service, Abra. He has also served as the Vice President of Growth at Paytm, the largest fintech in India. He has previously founded and successfully sold two separate startups and is passionate about tackling innovative and unique problems. Lomesh has also been a TEDx speaker at Delhi Technological University, and in 2012 he was Awarded the title of India's Hottest Young Entrepreneurs by Business World.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Internet Computer
- Bitcoin-based DeFi
- ckBTC
- Bitfinity Wallet
- Building and selling startups
- DFINITY Foundation
- Autonomous cloud
- The “public everything stack”
- Crypto in India
- AI on the blockchain
- Twitter rebrand to “X”

DFINITY
Website: dfinity.org
Twitter: @dfinity
LinkedIn: DFINITY

Lomesh Dutta
Twitter: @lomeshdutta
LinkedIn: Lomesh Dutta ∞

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#251: Andrew Smith, Founder of VRRB Labs, on the State of Blockchains, the Metaverse, and AI Use Cases

Thu, 27 Jul 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Andrew Smith is the Founder of VRRB Labs, a decentralized protocol that is developing the VRRB Layer 1 blockchain, an innovative blockchain that will make it easy and financially sustainable for developers to build user-friendly applications. Andrew founded VRRB Labs in 2020 after experiencing the challenges inherent in many blockchains, including a lack of scalability and developer-focused resources. Prior to founding VRRB Labs, Andrew served as co-founder and Chief Data Scientist of OWL ESG, a tech-driven ESG data provider. Andrew began his career as Chief Product Strategist of the investment firm New Millennium Macro.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Replacing the legacy financial system
- Nurturing developer communities
- State of blockchains
- The language barrier in developer tooling
- Metaverses should not be built on the blockchain
- The future of AI and Web3
- Creating more stable market makers
- AI interacting with on-chain programs
- AI use-cases

VRRB Labs
Website: vrrb.io
Twitter: @VRRBLabs
LinkedIn: VRRB Labs, Inc

Andrew Smith
Twitter: @VRRBFounder
LinkedIn: Andrew Nicholas Smith, CAIA

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#250: Liam Herbst, NFT Analyst, on the Current NFT Market and the Future of NFTs

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Liam is leading the go-to-market strategy for a new NFT company which is currently in stealth mode. He previously worked with BasedAF, Blur, and DeSo, and his NFT trading journey began in January 2021 with NBA Top Shot.

Before getting into NFTs, Liam worked at a startup accelerator called On Deck. He graduated from the Ivey School of Business at Western University and played four years of professional junior hockey.

You can follow him on Twitter (@liamherbst_), where he posts informational threads on the NFT market.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The most important metric in NFTs (Blur lending outstanding volume)
- How new NFT trading instruments like futures will make the market more efficient
- Why ETH will outperform virtually every NFT
- Nike’s NFT project .SWOOSH for virtual apparel
- How the NFT trading landscape will change
- Dr Disrespect’s NFT game
- NFT lending against real watches
- Liam’s investing approach now: buying early art from top 10 NFT artists
- OG PFP projects

Liam Herbst
Twitter: @liamherbst_

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#249: Alex Shevchenko, CEO of Aurora Labs, on EVMs, $NEAR, and Uniting Blockchain Ecosystems

Thu, 20 Jul 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Alex Shevchenko is the CEO of Aurora Labs, a bridge and EVM scaling solution for Ethereum built on top of NEAR Protocol as a smart contract. Alex has a Ph.D. in physics & math, has been an entrepreneur and blockchain enthusiast since 2015, and developed Bitfury's Exonum, blockchain-as-a-service solution.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Building the Biggest L2 on Near Foundation (1/2 of Near's TVL comes from Aurora)
- $NEAR
- Aurora's Customized Enterprise Blockchain Solution
- Aurora's Native Wallet
- Frictionless Blockchain Experience for Developers
- Crypto folks living in Lisbon
- EVM gas vs. Near gas on Aurora
- Gaming on Aurora
- Aurora Cloud
- Fast rainbow bridge
- Ethereum

Aurora Labs
Website: aurora.dev
Twitter: @auroraisnear
Telegram: t.me/auroraisnear

Alex Shevchenko
Twitter: @AlexAuroraDev
LinkedIn: Alex Shevchenko

#248: JP Baric, CEO of Miningstore, on Bitcoin Mining and Energy Usage

Mon, 17 Jul 2023 03:00:00 -0400

JP Baric is the Founder and CEO of Miningstore, a well-established technology company that designs, builds, and operates large-scale cryptocurrency mining data centers. JP has been mining since Bitcoin was valued at $70/coin and regularly consults with Fortune 1000 companies entering the fast-paced cryptocurrency mining business. MiningStore was launched in 2016 with a focus on reducing friction and increasing financial access to the cryptocurrency mining industry. From a young age, JP has always had a passion for being his own boss. Since starting a robotics camp at only 15 years old, he has created three businesses and has led the development of ten cryptocurrency mining sites.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Benefits of Bitcoin mining on the rural electric grid
- Energy usage and bitcoins inherent value.
- How to build consistent returns in Bitcoin from 10 years of being in the space
- How to evaluate crypto protocols for longevity and value creation
- Selling energy back to the grid
- Building bitcoin mining rigs
- Transitioning from a debt-based monetary system to an energy-based
- Blackrock into Bitcoin
- Bitcoin halving

MiningStore
Website: miningstore.com
Twitter: @miningstore
Instagram: @miningstoreteam

JP Baric
Twitter: @jpbaric
LinkedIn: JP Baric

#247: Aaron Kong, Growth & Strategy Lead at Osmosis Labs, on The Cosmos Ecosystem, Decentralized Exchanges, and Interoperability

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Aaron Kong is the Growth & Strategy Lead at Osmosis Labs, where he spearheads growth initiatives and business development efforts. Osmosis Labs is the core team responsible for developing Osmosis, an appchain that serves as the DeFi hub for the Cosmos ecosystem.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Cosmos + Osmosis 101/overview
- Latest updates in the Cosmos ecosystem
- Mesh Security: Creating the ‘NATO of Web3’
- Cosmos ecosystem appchain alliances.
- ETH L2s/Rollups vs. Cosmos appchains
- Growing L1 ecosystems
- Mars Protocol
- Quasar Finance
- Improving tokenomics with OSMO 2.0
- How DEXes can outcompete centralized exchanges
- The future of blockchain interoperability and composability

Osmosis Labs
Website: osmosis.zone
Twitter: @osmosiszone
Discord: discord.gg/osmosis

Aaron Kong
Twitter: @aaronxkong

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#246: Sue Ennis, VP at Hut 8, on Bitcoin, A.I Infrastructure, and Bitcoin Mining

Mon, 10 Jul 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Sue Ennis is the Vice President of Corporate Development, and Investor Relations at Hut 8 Mining. Sue is a Chartered Investment Manager, emerging technology and innovation champion, advisor, and investor whisperer.

Since 2016, Sue has steered underappreciated companies in the digital asset sector into multi-billion market cap opportunities and told some of Canada’s greatest emerging tech and innovation stories.

Prior to joining Hut 8, Sue worked with both start-ups and scale-ups in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- How A.I infrastructure is different from traditional data centres
- Where is the opportunity for miners in the data centre space
- Strategies & impact on miners in next years Bitcoin halving
- Nasdaq 100 rose 39% in the first half of 2023 its best first half of the year ever
- Once Hut 8 and U.S. Bitcoin Corp. complete their merger, the resulting U.S.-based company will be one of the largest public miners in North America
- Running marathons
- Investor Relations
- Bitcoin ETFs

Hut 8
Website: hut8mining.com
Twitter: @Hut8Mining
LinkedIn: Hut 8 Mining Corp.

Sue Ennis
Twitter: @bigsuey
LinkedIn: Suzanne Ennis

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#245: Mike Belshe, CEO of BitGo, on U.S. Regulatory Environment and Institutional Crypto Adoption

Thu, 06 Jul 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Mike Belshe is the Co-Founder and CEO of BitGo and Internet Pioneer. At BitGo, Mike Belshe drives product and business strategy for delivering security, compliance, and custodial solutions for blockchain-based currencies. Before founding BitGo in 2011, Mike helped develop the internet as we know it today and was also an advanced tech pioneer.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Preventing further crypto failures
- Blackrock ETF
- Principles-Based regulation
- BitGo processes approximately 20% of all global Bitcoin transactions
- Improper bank management
- Good custody vs. bad custody
- Stories from working at Netscape, Lookout, Microsoft, Google, HTTP/2

BitGo
Website: www.bitgo.com
Twitter: @BitGo
LinkedIn: BitGo

Mike Belshe
Twitter: @mikebelshe
LinkedIn: Mike Belshe

#244: Shane Mac, Co-Founder of XMTP, on The Future of Messaging, and Decentralized Communication

Mon, 03 Jul 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Shane Mac is the Co-Founder of XMTP, the largest open protocol, and network for secure web3 messaging. Prior to XMTP, Shane founded Assist, which built the first business messaging for Facebook Messenger, Apple Business Chat, Google Business Messaging, and SMS. Assist was acquired in 2019. In 2017, Shane co-founded & bootstrapped Squared Away, which provides remote executive assistants powered by military spouses. Squad Away recently passed $25M in revenue, led by his co-founder.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Web3 messaging
- Decentralized communication
- Portability of messages is key in developing the web3 ecosystem
- 13yr old Shane making $3k per month selling baseball bats
- Nashville is booming
- Working with FaceBook & 1-800-FLOWERS
- Builders keep building
- Communication before commerce

XMTP
Website: xmtp.org
Twitter: @xmtp_
Discord: discord.gg/xmtp

Shane Mac
Twitter: @ShaneMac
LinkedIn: Shane Mac

#243: Humayun Sheikh, CEO of Fetch.ai, on AI, Machine Learning, Autonomous Agents, and Blockchains

Thu, 29 Jun 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Humayun Sheikh is the Founder and CEO of Fetch.ai. He is an entrepreneur, investor, and tech visionary passionate about AI, machine learning, autonomous agents, and blockchains. In the past, he was a founding investor in DeepMind where he supported commercialisation for early-stage AI & deep neural network technology. Currently, he is leading Fetch.ai as a CEO and co-founder, a start-up building the autonomy of the future. He is an expert on the topics of artificial intelligence, machine learning, autonomous agents, and the intersection of blockchain and commodities.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The intersection of AI and crypto
- Autonomous software agents
- AI Training
- Connecting smart agents to automate web3 systems
- Agent-based trading tools for decentralized exchanges (DEXs)
- Large Language Models
- Development of advanced blockchain technologies to overcome the security and scalability challenges
- Machine Learning

Fetch Network
Website: fetch.ai
Twitter: @Fetch_ai
Telegram: t.me/fetch_ai

Humayun Sheikh
Twitter: @HMsheikh4
LinkedIn: Humayun Sheikh

#242: Anthony Georgiades, Co-Founder of Pastel Network, on the Current NFT Market, NFT Native Blockchains, and the US Economy

Mon, 26 Jun 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Anthony Georgiades is the Co-Founder of Pastel Network, a fully decentralized, developer-friendly layer-1 blockchain serving as the preeminent protocol standard for non-fungible tokens ("NFTs") and Web3 technology. While performing his duties as President, Anthony is also a General Partner at Innovating Capital, a technology fund focused on disruptive companies and digital assets that has incubated Pastel Network since day one. Anthony previously spent time on the investment team at First Round Capital and on the operations teams of various startups. He studied finance, management, and computer science at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton and engineering schools.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Web3/NFT security
- The importance of decentralized storage
- Struggles creators face in the NFT space
- NFT use cases beyond art, such as within DeFi
- The current state of the NFT market and where we’re headed
- Loan collateralization
- Fractionalized NFTs
- On-chain storage solutions
- Current state of the US economy

Pastel Network
Website: pastel.network
Twitter: @PastelNetwork
Telegram: t.me/PastelOfficial

Anthony Georgiades
Twitter: @panthonylg
LinkedIn: Anthony Georgiades

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#241: Daniela Barbosa, Executive Director of Hyperledger Foundation, on Asset Tokenization, Enterprise Blockchain Use Cases, and CBDCs

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Daniela Barbosa serves as General Manager Blockchain and Identity at the Linux Foundation and as Executive Director of Hyperledger Foundation. She has more than 20 years of enterprise technology experience, including at Dow Jones where she worked with the top global brands across various sectors, including finance, consumer and energy, to architect and deliver enterprise systems, ontologies and semantic web solutions. In the early 2000s, Daniela became involved in the early web 2.0 community helping to advance the concept of digital identity and data portability as the pathway for people to reuse their data across interoperable applications.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Government adoption of CBDCs
- Asset tokenization
- Hyperledger Foundation’s history
- Institutional adoption of blockchain technology
- Enterprise blockchain use cases
- Climate-forward blockchain initiatives
- Open source technology
- Distributed Ledger Technology

Hyperledger Foundation
Website: www.hyperledger.org
Twitter: @Hyperledger
LinkedIn: Hyperledger Foundation

Daniela Barbosa
Twitter: @danielabarbosa
LinkedIn: Daniela Barbosa

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#240: Barney Mannerings, Co-Founder of Vega Protocol, on Crypto Derivatives and Permissionless Market Creation in DeFi

Mon, 19 Jun 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Barney Mannerings is the Co-Founder of Vega Protocol, the derivatives layer for Web3, backed by Coinbase, Pantera, and other prominent VCs. Barney sits at the intersection of institutional finance and crypto, having founded Vega after building two versions of the London stock exchange matching engine and working in capital markets in London for 15 years.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- SEC vs Coinbase and Binance
- Vega’s recent deployment on Alpha Mainnet
- Purpose-built Blockchains for DeFi Applications
- The present + future of Crypto Derivatives
- Permissionless Market Creation in DeFi
- DeFi Trading
- Retail Investors vs. Institutional Investors

Vega Protocol
Website: vega.xyz
Twitter: @vegaprotocol
Discord: vega.xyz/discord

Barney Mannerings
Twitter: @barnabee
LinkedIn: Barney M.

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#239: Keone Hon, CEO of Monad Labs, on High Frequency Crypto Trading, L1s, L2s, and Security

Thu, 15 Jun 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Keone Hon is the CEO and Co-founder of Monad Labs, the team supporting the high-performance Monad blockchain. He is a software developer and blockchain researcher. Before founding Monad, he spent eight years at Jump Trading, leading an HFT team. In 2021, Keone joined Jump’s crypto division and led a team of engineers focused on blockchain research and dApp development.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- JUMP Trading
- High frequency trading
- The relationship between HFT and crypto trading
- Security on the Monad blockchain
- L1 pros and cons vs. the pros and cons of L2s
- The narrative always changes
- Roll-ups
- Scaling blockchain tech at the L1 level
- Creating better blockchain-based mobile apps

Monad Labs
Website: www.monad.xyz
Twitter: @monad_xyz
Discord: discord.gg/monad

Keone Hon
Twitter: @keoneHD
LinkedIn: Keone Hon

#238: Mike Silagadze, CEO of ether.fi, on ETH, Re-Staking, and Building Start-Ups

Mon, 12 Jun 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Mike Silagadze is the founder and CEO of ether.fi, the first decentralized, delegated staking protocol that allows stakers to maintain full control of their keys – and by extension, their staked ETH – throughout the entire staking process.

Prior to founding ether.fi, Mike was CEO and co-founder of Top Hat, which he grew into the market leader in student engagement software, with 500 employees and $60 million in annual revenue. He is also an active speaker and lecturer in the higher education, technology, and startup communities, having lectured at the Rotman Commerce Entrepreneurship Organization, the ASU GSV Summit, MaRS, Tech Fest Toronto, SAAS North and TEDxLaurierUniversity, among many others.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Growing start-ups
- Building Top Hat
- Overview and Foundation of ether.fi
- The Importance of Self-Custody in Ether Staking
- Re-Staking – the Next Major Development on Ethereum
- Mainnet Phase 1 Launch
- Operation Solo Staker
- $ETH
- Decentralization
- Non-custodial liquid staking platform
- Coinbase + Binance vs. SEC

ether.fi
Website: ether.fi
Twitter: @ether_fi
Discord: discord.gg/CuhQKGkEaF

Mike Silagadze
Twitter: @MikeSilagadze
LinkedIn: Mike Silagadze

#237: Craig DeWitt, Co-Founder at Supermojo, on Creating New Payment Networks, Ripple, and NFT Payment Solutions

Thu, 08 Jun 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Craig DeWitt co-founded Supermojo, an NFT payment solution, and leads all Product and Engineering efforts. Prior to Supermojo, Craig was Product Director at Ripple, where he started the RippleNet payments business in 2015 and grew that product into the world’s first and largest cryptocurrency payment network for financial institutions. Craig has built wallet and custody experiences, enterprise payment protocols, and established rulesets powering billions of dollars in annual volume. While at Ripple, Craig was the Vice Chair on the Faster Payment Council, where he worked on faster payment steering, creating new payment networks separate from ACH from scratch. Before Ripple, Craig earned an MBA from Stanford and worked on financial technology at Bloomberg.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Creating new payment networks separate from ACH
- Vitalik interning at Ripple
- The future of alternative payment methods
- ChatGPT iphone app
- FedNow Instant Payments
- Ongoing USD debt ceiling
- The end of the USD?
- Automatically creating wallets and self-custody options
- NFTs and Superfans
- SEC vs. Ripple

Supermojo
Website: supermojo.com
Twitter: @realsupermojo
LinkedIn: Supermojo

Craig DeWitt
Twitter: @CryptoCwby
LinkedIn: Craig DeWitt

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#236: Harsh Rajat, Co-Founder of Push Protocol, on Creating a Web3 Communication Network, and AI

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Harsh is the co-founder and Project Lead of Push Protocol (formerly EPNS). He has over 12 years of entrepreneurial experience in various spectrums of tech; including system architecture, development and design in different tech fields (including mobile, web services, SaaS, and blockchain).

Harsh previously spoke/judged at multiple tech conferences and hackathons including Messari Mainnet, ETHCC, ETHDenver, Schelling Point, ETHAmsterdam, NFT NYC, Liscon, HackMoney, EDCON.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Creating a web3 communication network
- Cross-chain notifications
- Native communication between wallets
- Centralized communication platforms
- Wallet-to-wallet messaging
- Integrating ChatGPT into the Push Chat app

Push Protocol
Website: push.org
Twitter: @pushprotocol
Telegram: t.me/epnsproject

Harsh Rajat
Twitter: @harshrajat
LinkedIn: Harsh Rajat

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#235: Mitya Argunov, CPO of P2P.org, on ETH, Direct Staking, and Validators

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Mitya Argunov is the Chief Product Officer for P2P.org and the technical expert in Ethereum and blockchain development.

With extensive experience from holding leadership roles in finance and tech industries, Mitya is an expert when it comes to building. He joined P2P.org as a Senior Product Manager, where he managed staking and infrastructure products across multiple ecosystems. Based in Cyprus, Mitya is passionate about offering users the best platform to stake their assets.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Direct Staking
- Validators
- Non-custodial staking services
- Working with various blockchains
- The future of staking
- How does P2P secure its validators
- What are the most significant benefits of direct staking
- How does P2P differ from other staking platforms
- Ethereum

P2P.org
Website: p2p.org
Twitter: @p2pvalidator
Telegram: t.me/P2Pstaking

Mitya Argunov
Twitter: @d_argunov
LinkedIn: Dmitry Argunov

#234: Dan Nissanoff, CEO of Game of Silks, on The Intersection of Gambling x Fantasy x Blockchain

Mon, 29 May 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Dan Nissanoff, Founder and CEO of Game of Silks, is a veteran technology entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience developing and scaling startups. He has founded multiple venture-backed businesses including Partminer, Portero, Make Meaning and The Crown League.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The intersection of gambling x fantasy x blockchain
- Current pro horse racing landscape
- Partnerships with the biggest names in horse racing
- Kentucky Derby/Racing Season
- NFT landscape + utility
- Play-to-earn or gambling?
- Project growth and what's to come
- Silks in-game economy
- Generating a community of 25,000+ members

Game of Silks
Website: www.silks.io
Twitter: @gameofsilks
Discord: discord.gg/silks

Dan Nissanoff
Twitter: @dan_nissanoff
LinkedIn: Dan Nissanoff

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#233: Steve Cho, Partner at Mechanism Capital, on Web3 VC funding and the Current Crypto Market Landscape

Thu, 25 May 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Steve Cho is Head of Mechanism Play and Partner at Mechanism Capital. Prior to Mechanism, Steve was focused on growing the games business for the App Store. He was the subject matter expert on NFTs and blockchain technologies for the store and helped inform and educate other parts of Apple as well including App Review, Apple Pay and Apple Music to name a few. He also focused on User Generated Content experiences and performance marketing. Before Apple, Steve lead business development efforts at two startups both in the mobile ad technology. In 2013, it was at his first startup, Kiip, where he discovered Bitcoin, and has been coin collecting ever since.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Web3 VC funding
- Current crypto market landscape
- Learnings from working at start-ups
- Working at Apple
- Strategies for navigating the bear market
- Synergies between web2 and web3 gaming
- Web 3 performance marketing
- Investing in the right teams
- AR/VR devices
- Profitable and popular genres of web3 games

Mechanism Capital
Website: www.mechanism.capital
Twitter: @MechanismCap

Steve Cho
Twitter: @stevencho
LinkedIn: Steve Cho

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#232: Scott Lawin, CEO of Candy Digital, on the Intersection of Web3, The Sports Industry, and Community

Mon, 22 May 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Scott M. Lawin is CEO/COO of Candy Digital, Inc., a next-generation sports and culture digital asset platform, providing authentic objects and experiences that deepen fan engagement and connect people to their passions.

Before launching Candy, Mr. Lawin founded Parametric, LP, a private investment and advisory firm focused on early-stage opportunities in blockchain, fintech, art, and real estate. From 2010-2017, Mr. Lawin was the Chief Operating Officer of Moore Capital Management, a $15bn global alternative investment management company. Prior to joining Moore, Mr. Lawin served as Chief Operating Officer of the Liquid Markets business at Fortress Investment Group following a 12-year career at Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Mr. Lawin serves on the Boards of Art Money and Srinidhi Investment Group and is an Advisor to the MIT MET Fund, Stonyrock Partners, Dore Partnership, 24/7Office, and Streetlinx. He is the Founder of Museum of the Street, Vice-Chairman and Director of Hudson River Park Friends, and an Advisory Board member of JUST Capital and The Kitchen.

Mr. Lawin earned his BS in Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993 and is a Founding member of the Dean’s Advisory Committee for the MIT School of Architecture and Planning. He and his family reside in Tribeca in New York City.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Building businesses and connecting with communities
- Partnerships and collaboration in the Business of Content and IP Ownership
- Exploring the impact of NFTs on fans in the digital landscape
- NFTs and their influence on content creators and monetization
- Forming and developing partnerships
- Collaborating with brands and institutions
- The intersection of technology and finance
- NFTs and digital innovations
- Mainstream adoption
- Unlocks around crypto and web3
- Democratization and participation of artists

Candy Digital
Website: www.candy.com
Twitter: @CandyDigital
Discord: discord.gg/candydigital

Scott Lawin
Twitter: @lawinesque
LinkedIn: Scott Lawin

#231: Michael Sanders, Co-Founder of Horizon Blockchain Games, on Web3 Gaming, Blockchain, and Ayahuasca

Thu, 18 May 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Michael Sanders, Co-Founder & Storyteller of Horizon Blockchain Games. Micheal connects the dots, makes the esoteric comprehensible, and tells the Horizon story through narrative, lore, brand, and marketing. Michael first fell in love with blockchain technologies in 2010 before becoming more actively involved in the industry in 2013 as an investor in cryptocurrencies and related startups. He previously co-founded a clean energy startup, acted as VP of ClearMedia advertising agency, co-founded a transformational dance and sound therapy experience, and authored the best-selling Ayahuasca: An Executive’s Enlightenment. Michael lives a life of love, openness, and play, and he’s committed to infusing web3 and the new dimension with these same values.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Benefits of blockchain technology for gaming
- Web3 gaming
- Challenges and opportunities of developing web3 games
- Embracing the shift in web3 gaming:
- Play-to-earn is now play-and-earn
- Gaming and web3 outlook
- Ayahuasca: An Executive’s Enlightenment
- Stories from Ayahuasca ceremony

Horizon Blockchain Games
Website: horizon.io
Twitter: @0xHorizon
LinkedIn: Horizon

Michael Sanders
Twitter: @_michaelsanders
LinkedIn: Michael Sanders
Website: www.michaelsanders.co

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#230: Liam Herbst, Growth at Stealth NFT Startup, on NFTs, $BLUR, and $PEPE

Mon, 15 May 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Liam is leading the go-to-market strategy for a new NFT company currently in stealth mode. He previously worked with BasedAF, Blur, and DeSo, and his NFT trading journey began in January 2021 with NBA Top Shot.

Before getting into NFTs, Liam worked at a startup accelerator called On Deck. He graduated from the Ivey School of Business at Western University and played four years of professional junior hockey.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Why NFT business models are broken
- The long-term bull case for NFTs
- How to get a job in NFTs
- NFT perps
- $BLUR
- The history of Pepe and the power of memes
- The importance of L2s
- How Polygon is killing it with early NFT partnerships
- Not training and running a marathon in sub 4hrs
- Liam’s hockey career + injury
- Career transition into business and crypto

Liam Herbst
Twitter: @liamherbst_

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#229: Jacobc.eth, Founder at Hyperplay and Founding Contributor at Mantle, on Decentralised Trust, Modular L2s and Account Abstraction

Thu, 11 May 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Jacobc.eth is the Founder of Hyperplay and Founding Contributor at Mantle. Prior to joining Mantle, Jacobc.eth was Operations Lead at MetaMask, developing growth and monetisation strategies for the leading crypto wallet and its parent company, ConsenSys Software, where he spent over four years.

Jacobc.eth has spearheaded innovation across a variety of industries, serving as Chief Technology Officer for Concierge Auctions, the largest online marketplace for luxury real estate, Chief Technology Officer for Merlin Labs, an autonomous aviation technology company, and Director of Innovation at Berkshire Hathaway's HomeServices of America, the largest real estate company in the world.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Creating decentralized trust
- Cryptoeconomic security
- (Re)staking innovation
- Modular L2s
- Account abstraction
- Infrastructure to sustain Web3’s vibrant #BUIDLer ecosystem
- Partnership-driven approaches
- Sustainable blockchain innovation
- Token Curated Registry (TCR)
- True ethos of the internet
- Decentralizing access to information

Mantle
Website: www.mantle.xyz
Twitter: @0xMantle
Telegram: t.me/mantlenetwork

Jacobc.eth
Twitter: @jacobc_eth

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#228: Jim Myers, CTO of Flipside Crypto, on the Intersection of Data and Community, Growing Startups, and Incentives

Mon, 08 May 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Jim Myers is the CTO and co-founder of Flipside Crypto. Prior to Flipside, Jim developed the core technology that took products from 0 to 1 at companies such as Mylestone, Pluralsight (IPO), and Smarterer (acquisition). Jim joined Pluralsight in 2014, following the acquisition of Smarterer, a machine learning-based skill assessment company. At Smarterer, Jim was an early engineer that built advanced machine learning technology and enterprise software adopted by Fortune 100 companies.

Jim’s introduction to crypto began shortly before the public launch of Ethereum in 2015 when a group he was part of began tinkering with smart contracts. He co-founded Flipside Crypto in 2017 to help empower crypto communities to create and share data-driven insights on the projects they care most about.

Jim's passion for building extends to the broader startup community as an angel investor to several local startups, including Broadlume (formerly Adhawk) and LinkSquares. Jim attended Gettysburg College receiving a B.S. in economics.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Growing successful startups
- Why is open access to data so important to the future of blockchain?
- Tips and tricks for growing during crypto winter
- AI bandwagon
- Incentive design
- Web3 = human behaviour + software
- SchroomDK

Flipside
Website: flipsidecrypto.xyz
Twitter: @flipsidecrypto
Discord: discord.gg/ZmU3jQuu6W

Jim Myers
Website: jimmyerstech.com
Twitter: @JimMyersTech
LinkedIn: Jim Myers

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#227: Steve Curran, CEO of Burn Ghost Games, on Play-to-Earn Gaming, and Why Some Games Go Viral

Thu, 04 May 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Steve Curran is the CEO and Co-founder of Burn Ghost Games, a Web3 skill-based game platform. Steve is an entrepreneur and creative technologist with extensive experience in developing interactive entertainment and marketing solutions utilizing games, virtual reality, augmented reality, and other emerging media. He has directed award-winning entertainment-based solutions for clients such as Red Bull Records, Sony Entertainment, Warner Brothers, Atlantic Records, Puma, The History Channel, A+E Television, Burger King, Mattel, Animal Planet, and many others.

He is the author of two books on design, including MOTION GRAPHICS Design for Broadcast and Film and CONVERGENCE DESIGN Design for Interactive Television Broadband and Wireless. He was a contributing author to one of the first books on Social Media CONNECTED MARKETING - writing on branded entertainment. He is the CEO and Co-founder of Burn Ghost Games, a Web3 skill-based game platform.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Why casual gaming is crucial to Web3
- The future of Play-to-Earn gaming
- Video games are the biggest use case for Web3
- Why do some games go viral while others fizzle?
- Why are we so captivated by trivia games?
- Wine talk
- Working with world-class brands
- Launching NFTs

Burn Ghost Games
Website: www.burnghost.com
Twitter: @burnghostgames
Discord: discord.gg/burnghost

Steve Curran
Twitter: @Steve_Curran
LinkedIn: Steve Curran

#226: William Wendt, Ecosystem Growth Manager at Oasis, on Web3 Decentralized Infrastructure, Privacy, and Security

Mon, 01 May 2023 03:00:00 -0400

William Wendt is the Ecosystem Growth Manager at Oasis, where he is working to build the future of web3 with a focus on decentralized infrastructure, privacy and security, and open-source environments. Prior to Oasis, Will worked on the Product Development team at The Nature’s Bounty Co., where he managed stability trials and logged different products and materials for compliance with various GMP guidelines.

Will holds a BS in Chemistry from Towson University, where he was also a Division 1 athlete on the Men’s Swimming and Diving Team.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Oasis Labs, and the new Oasis Privacy Layer
- The intersection of AI and web3
- How blockchain is open and transparent
- Regulators concerned about privacy
- Empowering developers to better protect their users’ privacy
- The convergence of AI and web3
- Prioritizing privacy options for consumers
- Partnership with Meta AI

Oasis Network
Website: www.oasisprotocol.org
Twitter: @OasisProtocol
Telegram: t.me/oasisprotocolcommunity

Will Wendt
Twitter: @willfullhodl
LinkedIn: William Wendt

#225: Anna Stone, Web3 at eToro and Director of GoodDollar.org, on Universal Basic Income (UBI) and Web3

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Anna Stone is the Head of Web3 at eToro and Director of GoodDollar.org. Anna is an accomplished Web3 innovator and growth leader with a proven track record in building, launching, and scaling inclusive crypto products, made for the masses. At eToro, Stone oversees go-to-market strategy for the company’s NFT business and leads the company’s impact initiatives which focus on leveraging blockchain and Web3 to democratize finance for all.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Repairing crypto’s reputation
- Redefining the crypto industry
- The future of financial inclusion
- Building a more open financial system
- Universal basic income and Web3
- Open source code as public digital goods
- GoodDollar.org
- Bancor Protocol
- Life in New York
- M-PESA

eToro
Website: www.etoro.com
Twitter: @eToro
LinkedIn: eToro

GoodDollar.org
Website: www.gooddollar.org
Twitter: @gooddollarorg
LinkedIn: GoodDollar.org

Anna Stone
Twitter: @TheRealStone
LinkedIn: Anna Stone

#224: Erez Rachamim, CEO of Stables, on Consumer Facing Stablecoins, The Future of Stablecoins, and Navigating Regulation

Mon, 24 Apr 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Erez Rachamim is the CEO and Co-Founder of Sydney-based Stables (previously Tiiik) — a one-stop digital wallet enabling users to grow, spend and earn from a single balance powered by stablecoins. Before this, he was the Head of Fundraising at Equitise — a leading investment platform for venture capital in Australia & New Zealand — raising over $40M for the company. He was also a financial analyst for Rough Diamond — a seed-stage incubator. A veteran in the space, Erez graduated from the University of Technology Sydney with a Bachelor’s of Business.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Consumer-facing stablecoins
- Navigating regulatory developments
- Partnering with Mastercard
- The future of stablecoins
- The future of payments
- Stables’ long-term vision
- Life in Australia
- Launching products while navigating turbulence

Stables
Website: stables.money
Twitter: @stables_money
LinkedIn: Stables
Telegram: t.me/stables_money

Erez Rachamim
Twitter: @erez_rachamim
LinkedIn: Erez Rachamim

#223: Julian Hosp, CEO of Cake DeFi, on DeFi for Bitcoin and the Current Crypto Market

Thu, 20 Apr 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Dr. Julian Hosp is the CEO and Co-Founder of Cake DeFi. Cake DeFi is a fully transparent, highly innovative fintech platform dedicated to providing easy access to decentralized financial services and applications by enabling users to generate returns from their crypto and digital assets.

Julian was also one of the original Co-Founders of DeFiChain, the world’s first native DeFi blockchain for the Bitcoin network devoted to decentralized monetary applications and services. DeFiChain has since gone on to become a fully decentralized blockchain project with on-chain governance, dedicated to enabling fast, intelligent, and transparent decentralized financial services and applications.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- DeFi on BitCoin
- DeFi for institutions
- CFTC's lawsuit against Binance
- US regulatory crackdown on crypto
- Picking the right Co-Founder
- How to remain resilient despite the crypto market slump
- Future of stablecoins
- Balaji’s $1mm bet
- Selling $10mil worth of BTC on YouTube live stream
- Becoming a professional kite surfer
- Living in Singapore

CakeDeFi
Website: cakedefi.com
Twitter: @cakedefi
LinkedIn: Cake DeFi
Telegram: t.me/CakeDeFi_EN

Dr. Julian Hosp
Twitter: @julianhosp
LinkedIn: Dr. Julian Hosp

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#222: Valentin Pletnev, CEO of Quasar Finance, on Cosmos Ecosystem and Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) Protocol

Mon, 17 Apr 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Valentin Pletnev is currently the CEO and Co-Founder of Quasar Finance, a vault-based asset management appchain for the Cosmos ecosystem and the broader Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol. Valentin has already had exposure and experience in a variety of blockchain and emerging technology-focused fields and is only 24yrs old.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Travelling the world to founding crypto companies
- Quasar Finance launching its mainnet
- Managing DeFi investments across multiple chains
- The importance of crypto analogies
- Growth of Cosmos
- DeFi
- Cosmos
- Decentralization
- Entrepreneurship

Quasar
Website: www.quasar.fi
Twitter: @QuasarFi
Discord: discord.gg/quasarfi

Valentin Pletnev
Twitter: @valeyo777
LinkedIn: Valentin Pletnev

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#221: Grant Haseley, Founder of Wagyu Games, on The Future of Web3 Gaming and Building Web3 Communities

Thu, 13 Apr 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Grant Haseley is the Executive Director and Founder of Wagyu Games, creators of Undead Blocks, the world’s first AAA play-to-earn FPS zombie shooter. Grant brings over an unparalleled passion and vision for gamer empowerment and digital asset ownership that relate to his days working in Banking. Grant was most recently a Vice President for M&T Bank, specializing in Data Analytics, and previously worked at Goldman Sachs as an Analyst in their Securities Lending division. Grant graduated with a BS in Mathematics from the University of Buffalo.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Is Play-To-Earn here to stay?
- The future of Web3 gaming
- How to craft a Web3 community
- The future of esports in Web3
- How to attract and retain Web3 gamers
- The future of asset ownership amongst a myriad of topics
- Transition from the world of investment banking to crypto
- The partnership with Immutable - and the role the platform played in helping to launch a web3 game like Undead Blocks
- The tokenomics of Undead Blocks and how Grant is striving to make the tokens sustainable as well as giving the tokens a purpose
- Working at Goldman Sachs

Wagyu Games
Website: www.wagyu.io
Twitter: @wagyugames

Undead Blocks
Website: www.undeadblocks.com
Twitter: @UndeadBlocks

Grant Haseley
Twitter: @Grant_Wagyu
LinkedIn: Grant Haseley

#220: Yang Adija, SVP at Warner Brothers Discovery Sports, on Bleacher Report Watch To Earn and Identifying Trends

Mon, 10 Apr 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Yang Adija is SVP, Digital League Business Operations, Growth & Innovation for Warner Brothers Discovery Sports. He is responsible for managing the overall business operations and daily execution of strategic and tactical initiatives for digital league partnerships with the NBA and NCAA. In addition, Yang leads WBD Sports’ innovation efforts, leading to the development and launch of Blocklete Games, an original IP franchise built on the blockchain, and the organization’s industry-leading NFT efforts.

In his previous role, Yang was VP, Business Operations and Strategy for Turner NBA Digital, in which he managed NBATV, NBA.com, the NBA App and NBA League Pass and worked closely with the League on communication and execution of new business development deals, strategic partnerships, and product initiatives.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Watch to Earn
- Navigating risk
- Identifying and hopping on trends before they become consensus
- B/R Watch to Earn (B/R W2E) is the first of-its-kind online experience and trivia game that rewards Fans for tuning into live television on TNT
- Rolling out Watch to Earn - looks, feels, and plays like native web2 tech, using web3 tech
- Climbing the ranks at publicly traded companies
- The WBD Sports umbrella consists of sports programming TNT and TBS and digital channels on Bleacher Report, NCAA.com, NBA Digital
- Managing digital league partnerships
- Leaning on multiple demographics

Warner Brothers Discovery Sports
Website: discoverysports.com
Twitter: @WBDsports @eurosport
LinkedIn: Warner Bros. Discovery Sports

Yang Adija
Twitter: @YangAdija
LinkedIn: Yang Adija, MBA

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#219: Wayne Marcel, Head of Biz Dev at FIO, on Replacing Public Wallet Addresses with Crypto Handles, and Usability Holding the Key to Mass Adoption

Thu, 06 Apr 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Wayne Marcel is the Head of Business Development for the Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO), who has been managing, teaching, and coaching high performing teams for over 20 years. In 2016, his passion for helping and teaching people was merged with his passion for technology as he dove into learning about cryptocurrency and blockchain. He published a book in 2018 called “From No Crypto To Know Crypto” and hosted over 140 educational podcast episodes under same name. Since then, he has dedicated himself to working with projects that make using cryptocurrency easier for all.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- ETH Denver and Outer Edge (formerly known as NFT LA)
- FIO use cases
- Reaching one million crypto handles
- How FIO can help onboard new users to web3
- Improving NFT authentication & security
- The impact on the crypto industry from recent bank collapses
- Benefits of operating as a DAO compared to a centralized entity
- Binance getting sued
- Understanding financial systems

FIO
Website: fioprotocol.io
Twitter: @joinFIO
LinkedIn: FIO Protocol

Wayne Marcel
Twitter: @blockchaynwayne
Instagram: @blockchainwayne

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#218: William Quigley, Co-Founder of Tether and WAX, on Founding Companies, Crypto Investing, and The Future of Crypto Regulation

Mon, 03 Apr 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Before his involvement in blockchain, William was a venture capitalist, co-founding Clearstone Venture Partners, a $700M early-stage focused venture capital firm where he concentrated on communications and consumer technology companies. Before Clearstone, he was a managing director at idealab! Capital Partners (ICP), the world’s first consumer Internet venture capital firm. ICP was an early investor in some of the leading Web 1.0 era companies, including Paypal, Netzero, MP3.com, and Goto.com, one of the first companies to rank search results based on a bidding process.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- William’s crypto inception story
- CBDCs
- Companies launching a new start path to cryptocurrency and blockchain programs
- The future of crypto regulation and the SEC involvement
- The current landscape of the cryptocurrency market
- The future of Stablecoin's impact on global commerce and financial developments
- The spread and use of blockchain technology across other industries, such as Visa’s backing of the first-ever bitcoin rewards card, and why we’ll see similar moves in retail, telecommunications, healthcare, and more
- How NFTs are influencing modern businesses

WAX
Website: www.wax.io
Twitter: @WAX_io
Telegram: t.me/wax_io

William E. Quigley
Twitter: @WilliamEQuigley
LinkedIn: William E. Quigley

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#217: Ramani Ramachandran, CEO of Router Labs, on Cross-Chain Communication, Bridges, and AI

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Ramani Ramachandran (Ram) is the Founder and CEO of Router Labs, which runs Router Protocol, a cross-chain infrastructure project, and Dfyn, a cross-chain AMM. Ram has been in crypto since 2014. Before Crypto, Ram was in the financial services industry and spent time across various functions, including product management, research, fundraising, and investments across the US, Europe, and Asia.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Ram’s crypto inception story
- Cross-chain communication
- Router Protocol use cases
- Cross-chain communication issues
- Security, scalability and decentralization
- How does Router differ from its competitors
- Waiting for web3 use cases to play out
- Present-day AI
- Bridges
- Mahadev initiative

Router Protocol
Website: www.routerprotocol.com
Twitter: @routerprotocol
Discord: discord.gg/yjM2fUUHvN
Telegram: t.me/routerprotocol

Ramani 'Ram' Ramachandran
Twitter: @CryptoMan_Ram
LinkedIn: Ramani 'Ram' Ramachandran

#216: Anjali Young, Co-Founder and CCO of Collab.Land, on Token Gating, Building Out Digital Communities, and Launching a Token

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Anjali Young is the Co-Founder and CCO of Abridged Inc, the maker of Collab.Land. Anjali has been active in online communities since 1993 as a member and in leadership positions. She has also worked as a lawyer, adjunct professor, and early tech startup employee. In addition to her interest in online communities and web3 onboarding, she is passionate about NFTs and the artists who create them. Her role at Collab.Land focuses on onboarding all tokenized projects and partners onto the platform, ensuring Collab.Land’s “community of communities” is a safe and welcoming space, educating others about web3 ethos and values.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Collab.Land’s seven-part documentary series
- Behind the scenes of launching a token
- Getting $COLLAB via signing into socials
- NFT royalties
- Engaging communities
- Token Gating
- Building out digital communities
- How NFT creators and DAO members can use web3 tooling to form relationships
- Providing safe spaces for token holders and the greater crypto community
- Launching a marketplace for developers and community administrators

Collab.Land
Website: collab.land
Twitter: @Collab_Land_

Anjali Young
Twitter: @damaderoca
LinkedIn: Anjali Young

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#215: Deniz Dalkilic, CTO of MRHB, on Halal Defi, Tokenizing Commodities, and Decentralizing Cloud Computing

Thu, 23 Mar 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Deniz Dalkilic is the CTO of MRHB and Co-Founder of Paribus.

Deniz has a Master of Science in Computer Software Engineering from the City University of London and a strong software development career for over ten years. Scouted by Tottenham Hotspur FC at 13, Deniz was actively involved in football until interrupted by certain health issues, whereupon he decided to pursue software engineering instead.

Deniz worked in the Web2 world with startups and large corporations – he was the Engineering Lead at Vodafone and the Senior Software Engineer at Thomson Reuters as well as the Software Engineer Lead at Capgemini, where he developed software solutions for clients including Royal Mail, Pole Star Space Applications and Lloyd’s Register.

In 2018, Deniz ventured into the blockchain space and has since co-founded two Web3 companies: decentralized bounty management platform BountyOx, where he was CTO for two years until 2020, and Paribus in 2021, a Cardano-powered cross-chain borrowing and lending protocol for NFTs, liquidity positions, synthetics, and yield-bearing assets.

In the latter half of 2021, Deniz joined MRHB DeFi as the Chief Technology Officer, where he is in charge of the company’s product and architecture development.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Decentralizing cloud computing for the Web3 industry
- Benefits of tokenizing commodities
- What is Halal DeFi?
- Challenges of building a Halal DeFi platform
- How staking works from a Halal point of view
- Importance of philanthropy for Muslims
- Decentralized philanthropy (an upcoming MRHB DeFi product)
- Traditional methods of giving to charity
- Being scouted by Tottenham Hotspur at the age of 13

MRHB
Website: mrhb.network
Twitter: @MarhabaDeFi
Discord: discord.gg/8ZQDHFHvja
Telegram: t.me/mdf_official

Deniz Dalkilic
Twitter: @DnzDlklc
LinkedIn: Deniz Dalkilic

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#214: John Shutt, Smart Contract Engineer at UMA, on Encrypted Messaging Systems, DAO Governance, and Off-Chain Voting Decisions

Mon, 20 Mar 2023 03:00:00 -0400

John Shutt is a smart contract engineer at UMA and co-founder of the Across Protocol, a secure and decentralized cross-chain bridge. He has been working on cryptocurrency and encrypted messaging systems for over a decade.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Encrypted messaging systems
- UMA 2.0
- UMA staking
- Data Verification Mechanism
- Hardened security systems
- Solutions for on-chain transactions based on off-chain voting decisions
- DAO governance
- Oracles
- Across Protocol
- Owning 11,000 books
- SVB Meltdown
- Optimistic Oracles

UMA
Website: uma.xyz
Twitter: @UMAprotocol
Discord: discord.uma.xyz

John Shutt
Twitter: @jdshutt
LinkedIn: John Shutt

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#213: Medha Parlikar, Co-Founder and CTO of CasperLabs, on Enterprise Blockchain Solutions and Future Proof Blockchain

Thu, 16 Mar 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Medha Parlikar is the Co-Founder and CTO of CasperLabs. Medha started working with technology in the early 80s. For the past two decades, she has been delivering production software at Adobe, Omniture, Avalara, MP3.com, and DivX. She strives to deliver high-quality production software while inspiring technical teams to solve tough problems and do their best work. She fell down the blockchain rabbit hole in 2017 and has been an avid fan of the promise of decentralization and open-source software. This led her to co-found CasperLabs in 2018.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Enterprise blockchain solutions being the catalyst for mass adoption
- Creating a server service
- Iterating quickly and releasing to production
- NFTs as patents, a huge use-case for NFTs
- World Economic Forum
- How Casper started, how and why the protocol was built
- How blockchain needs to be future proof
- Blockchain tech providing a trust layer for enterprise
- Blockchain infrastructure compatibility with Rust / WASM and existing programming languages as a driver for adoption
- Casper Labs adding Google Cloud adds to its growing portfolio of Web3 partnerships
- IPwe Inc & Casper Labs announcing the largest enterprise blockchain deployment in history at Davos, Switzerland, during the week of the World Economic Forum

CasperLabs
Website: www.casperlabs.io
Twitter: @Casper_Network
Discord: discord.gg/Q38s3Vh

Medha Parlikar
Twitter: @MParlikar
LinkedIn: Medha Parlikar

#212: Rashid Ajami, CEO of Metropolis World, on Building a Metaverse and the Synergy Between E-commerce & Crypto

Mon, 13 Mar 2023 03:00:00 -0400

Rashid Ajami is the Co-Founder & CEO of Metropolis World, a metaverse experience and virtual landscape comprised of stunning art, a physi-digital marketplace, and an immersive itinerary of curated programming, perks, and events.

Rashid is also an electronic music producer and sound design artist based in London. He has released critically acclaimed tracks on renowned labels such as Anjunadeep, Get Physical, Noir, Tale + Tone, TOR, and Armada Electronic Elements. He’s collaborated with electronic music heavyweights Booka Shade and Julia Govor, been remixed by the likes of Maya Jane Coles and Ramon Tapia, supported by Pete Tong on BBC Radio 1, as well as featuring in some of the world’s biggest music titles such as Rolling Stone, Mixmag, DJ Mag and Clash.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Metropolis World’s metaverse experience
- Moving from music industry to crypto
- Secret sauce of building in a bear market
- Building an immersive world without AR/VR
- Choosing to not launch a coin
- Onboarding famous brands and creators
- Web3 apps that look & feel like web2 apps
- Strategic partnerships
- Blending unique properties, e-commerce, gaming, art, fashion
- The power of fasting

Metropolis World
Website: metropolisworld.io
Twitter: @metropolisworld
Discord: discord.gg/metropolisworld

Rashid Ajami
Twitter: @RashidAjami
Instagram: @rashidajami

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#211: Griffin Anderson, CEO of Phi Labs, on the Cosmos Ecosystem, Incentivizing Developers, and Archway

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Griffin Anderson is CEO of Phi Labs, a core contributor to Archway, the first layer-1 blockchain featuring developer rewards designed and built directly into the protocol itself. As former Head of Product at Ignite (formerly Tendermint) and former Senior Director of Product Management at ConsenSys, Griffin is well-versed in all aspects of consensus and Layer-1 mechanics. Griffin was also a Founder of the blockchain-powered accounting tools project Balanc3 and a Founder & Board Member of the Accounting Blockchain Coalition.

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- Phi Labs
- Developer incentivisation
- How Griffin got into crypto
- Rewarding developers
- Accounting Blockchain Coalition
- Building relationships in crypto

Phi Labs
Website: philabs.xyz
Twitter: @phi_labs
Discord: discord.gg/archwayhq

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#210: Scott Shapiro, Senior Director at Coinbase, on Trading Platforms, Current Crypto Market, and Coinbase

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Scott Shapiro is the Senior Director of Product Management at Coinbase, where he leads a team that builds Coinbase’s trading products for consumers. Crypto has been a passion since he first discovered bitcoin in 2013. This drove him to leave almost a decade of building advertising products at Facebook and Google to join Coinbase in 2019.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Current trends in advanced crypto trading
- Options trading in crypto
- Coinbase Advanced Trade
- Most desired trading features
- Life in Utah
- Stories from working at FaceBook and Google
- How Advanced Trade on Coinbase is different from other advanced trading platforms
- Discovering Bitcoin in 2013

Coinbase
Website: coinbase.com
Twitter: @coinbase
Facebook: fb.com/Coinbase

Scott Shapiro
Website: scottshapiro.com
Twitter: @scottshapiro
LinkedIn: Scott Shapiro

#209: Kieran Warwick, Co-Founder of Illuvium, on Building AAA Blockchain Games, Raising Money, and Interoperability

Thu, 02 Mar 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Kieran Warwick is the Co-Founder of Illuvium and is a proven serial entrepreneur. Working alongside his brother Kain Warwick in e-commerce, Kieran was exposed to Bitcoin and Ethereum early on. His enthusiasm for the crypto space led to joining Blueshyft. While there, Kieran successfully onboarded major Australian Exchanges and started the world’s first OTC cryptocurrency exchange.

Additionally, Kieran helped The Burger Collective amass 100,000 unique reviews, 20,000 monthly web app users, and established a partnership with the global business, DoorDash. At the same time, DeFi was quickly growing, and Kieran and Kain (Synthetix.io) wanted to explore uncharted areas of opportunity. With his background and interest in trading penny stocks, Kieran wanted to pioneer a DeFi project that would be a game-changer (pun intended) for the industries it represented. With this in mind, he tapped his brother Aaron (Co-Founder/Game Designer) to develop what will be the first AAA gaming title on the Ethereum blockchain, and Illuvium was born.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Building AAA blockchain games
- The inception story of Illuvium
- Illuvium building the first Interoperable Blockchain Game
- Launch of Season One of Illuvium Zero
- Importance of developing an IP in an industry full of subpar products
- Long term vision for Illuvium and plans to get there
- DAO voting against Kieran to bring on Zhu Su for an Illuvitar D1sk
- Creating NFT communities
- Gaming NFTs > PFP NFTs

Illuvium
Website: illuvium.io
Twitter: @illuviumio
Discord: discord.gg/illuvium

Kieran Warwick
Twitter: @KieranWarwick
LinkedIn: Kieran Warwick

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#208: Thomas Kralow, Financial Markets Expert, on BTC Price, Trading Tips, and Crypto Market Overview

Mon, 27 Feb 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Thomas Kralow is a financial markets expert, influencer, mentor and entrepreneur behind ‘University Grade Trading Education, an accredited trading learning program that offers the necessary tools to become a consistent trader or investor.

In this conversation, we discuss:
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- Importance of BTC at 25k USD
- Price predictions
- Is the recession over?
- Day in the life of a trader
- Technical analysis patterns

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Twitter: @TKralow
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#207: Trevor Jones, Creator of The Bitcoin Angel, on Digital Art, Fine Art, and NFTs

Thu, 23 Feb 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Originally from Canada, Trevor set out in 1996 with a backpack and a taste for adventure. Three years and four continents later, he found himself in Scotland, fell in love with the country and decided to stay.

In 2008 he graduated from Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art with an MA (Hons) in Fine Art and was appointed director of charity Art in Healthcare in Edinburgh.

He went on to teach at Leith School of Art while exhibiting in London, Truro and Edinburgh, staging his first solo exhibition in 2010. Since 2012 he has been experimenting with the potential of QR codes in art and combining AR with traditional oil painting.

In 2015 he co-founded CreativTek Ltd to provide AR services to artists and left Art in Healthcare and teaching to focus on his own art career. He also “hijacked” images in the Royal Scottish Academy and National Gallery of Scotland to showcase his own work, setting up an app to view his paintings in place of Old Masters.

Two years later, he was invited to exhibit AR paintings at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh and took his first dive into Bitcoin and crypto trading. Since then, he has “hijacked” Edinburgh’s National Portrait Gallery and exhibited crypto-themed work at crypto conferences. In 2021 the open-edition NFT derived from his painting The Bitcoin Angel broke sales record and is now iconic in the NFT world.

He also created The Angel’s Share NFT to accompany the record-breaking $2.3m sale of a cask of Macallan’s whisky and collaborated with rapper Ice Cube.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Introduction to Trevor and his work
- The intersection of fine art and Q.R code paintings
- The importance of motifs and references in Trevor’s work
- Castle Party at Stirling Castle in 2022
- Castle Party 2023 – what’s coming, and what can we expect?
- Must needs in the studio
- What’s next for Trevor as an artist?

Trevor Jones
Website: trevorjonesart.com
Twitter: @trevorjonesart
Instagram: @trevorjonesart

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#206: Shehan Chandrasekera, Head of Tax Strategy at CoinTracker, on Crypto Taxation

Mon, 20 Feb 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Shehan Chandrasekera is the Head of Tax Strategy at CoinTracker, a Forbes Crypto Tax Analyst, and a CPE instructor who has won multiple awards: 2020 & 2019 CPA Practice Advisor 40 under 40 accounting professionals, Outstanding Young CPA of the year, Rising Star of Texas & Among 21 accountants mentioned on Accounting Today who will be helping shape (and reshape) accounting in 2020 and beyond by Accounting Today.

Shehan is a renowned speaker who has done speaking engagements with many organizations, including Google, Coinbase, Square, Consensus, Coindesk, Lyft, AICPA, the American Bar Association, and a plethora of state CPA Societies

In this conversation, we discuss:
- How are cryptocurrencies treated by the IRS?
- What are taxable transactions? There are 5
- What transactions are not taxable?
- What are the biggest challenges when complying with crypto taxes?
- What tax form should you file to report your crypto taxes accurately?
- Highest in, first out
- CoinTracker
- Ambiguous tax rules

CoinTracker
Website: cointracker.io
Twitter: @CoinTracker
LinkedIn: CoinTracker
Telegram: t.me/cointracker_announce

Shehan Chandrasekera
Website: shehanspeaks.com
Twitter: @TheCryptoCPA
LinkedIn: Shehan C.

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#205: Jamie Thomson, CEO of Vulcan Forged, on The Future of Blockchain Gaming and Growing a Company from 1-120 Employees

Thu, 16 Feb 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Jamie Thomson is the CEO of Vulcan Forged, one of the leading blockchain game studios and makers of VulcanVerse powered by $PYR. Vulcan Forged is an established non-fungible token (NFT) game studio, marketplace, and Decentralized App incubator with 15 games, a userbase of 120,000, and a top 10 NFT marketplace volume.

He lives in Greece, graduating with a Master in Education and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Sussex and Washington, respectively.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Metaverse future
- The future of blockchain gaming - next frontier of gaming
- Play to earn sustainability
- How gaming and creativity can utilize blockchain technology
- Hardships of growing a company
- Bootstrapping vs getting funding
- Getting listed on big exchanges

Vulcan Forged
Website: vulcanforged.com
Twitter: @VulcanForged
Discord: discord.gg/ZyjTvFM

Jamie Thomson
Twitter: @JamieThomsonVF
LinkedIn: Jamie Thomson

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#204: Josh Kriger, Co-Founder of Edge of NFT, on the Next Intersection of Tech and Entertainment

Mon, 13 Feb 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Josh Kriger is the Co-Founder of Edge of NFT (formerly known as NFT LA) and Co-Host of The Edge of NFT Podcast. He is a serial entrepreneur from Boston, who has launched and consulted with businesses across various industries (food, fashion, art, and entertainment). Josh is ex big 5 senior manager and led an array of multi-million, complex data analytics and geospatial data projects. Josh has dabbled and then some with data analytics/visualization and marketplaces, and he enjoys sports games and funky art with a message.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Why was NFT LA created (now Outer Edge LA)
- Reasoning behind the name change; NFT LA to Outer Edge LA
- The secret sauce of acquiring speakers for conferences
- The next intersection of tech and culture/entertainment
- How technology is enabling more personalized and immersive experiences for creators to connect with consumers than ever before
- Growing a food delivery service well before Uber Eats
- Giving IRL plots of land at the conference

Outer Edge LA
Website: outeredge.live
Twitter: @NFTLAlive
Discord: discord.gg/2TWj8P9JVU

Josh Kriger
Twitter: @joshkriger
LinkedIn: Joshua Kriger

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#203: Derek Lau, VP of Immutable Games Studio, on The Future of Web3 Gaming

Thu, 09 Feb 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Derek Lau is the VP of Immutable Games Studio and brings a unique blend of experience in start-ups and strategy into the world of web3 and blockchain gaming. Derek had successfully led GoG from the ground up into a community of 400k gamers, $20m in revenue through NFT sales, and a token valued at $300m+. He is an ex-management consultant from Oliver Wyman, where he was responsible for developing and implementing strategy projects for the C-suite of Australia’s biggest companies. He was also the founder of Parkways, a peer-to-peer parking start-up where he developed a strong entrepreneurial spirit and hustle. When he isn’t working, he’s gaming or refreshing Crypto Twitter.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Winning best web3 mobile game of the year award
- Immutable Passport
- ReadyPlayerDAO
- Derek’s mega thread summarizing web3 gaming in 2022
- Future of Web3 gaming
- Staking rewards
- Esports collabs x Web3

Immutable
Website: immutable.com
Twitter: @Immutable
Discord: discord.gg/immutablex

Guild of Guardians
Website: guildofguardians.com
Twitter: @GuildOfGuardian
Discord: discord.gg/gog

Derek Lau
Twitter: @xdereklau
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#202: Nimantha Siriwardana, CTO of Metacask, on Digital Ownership of Luxury Alcohol

Mon, 06 Feb 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Nimantha Siriwardana is the Co-Founder and CTO of Metacask, the marketplace for high-quality spirits. Nim spearheads the platform, helping producers and brands streamline the transaction process and introduce NFTs as digital proofs of purchase. Metacask also offers the spirits industry’s first fully-integrated inventory management, asset tracking, and marketing solution. Nim has over 20 years of experience in delivering technology solutions. Prior to co-founding Metacask, he served as the CTO of GSR and worked across various financial services companies, including Goldman Sachs and Source Capital AG.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Founding Metacask: The idea behind the marketplace
- Digitalizing the spirits industry for transparent asset ownership
- Making the spirits industry more accessible
- NFTs adding real value and utility to the spirits industry
- Establishing legitimacy in the traditional whisky and spirits industry
- Making inventory management less siloed and more secure with asset tracking
- The intersection between luxury goods and NFTs
- Spirits as an asset class

Metacask
Website: metacask.com
Twitter: @metacask
LinkedIn: Metacask

Nimantha Siriwardana
Twitter: @thenim9
LinkedIn: Nimantha Siriwardana

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#201: Jawad Ashraf, CEO of Virtua, on Different NFT Strategies Adopted by Brands and Creators

Thu, 02 Feb 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Jawad Ashraf is the CEO and Co-Founder of Virtua, a gamified metaverse that provides immersive social, web3 gaming, digital collectible, and interactive experiences. He is an entrepreneurial industry leader in blockchain technology, the metaverse, emerging tech, and innovation, as he’s built a career-launching and leading multiple successful businesses.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The complexity of building a massive metaverse
- Different NFT strategies adopted by brands and creators
- Sports fan engagement = next metaverse frontier
- Virtua Partnerships with Kevin Hart, Jesse Lingard and Shelby America Inc.
- Engaging with fans in virtual spaces
- The future of football fandom
- Creating multiple games in a singular metaverse
- APIs for other games to come join
- Virtua's founding story
- Virtua's plans for 2023 and beyond

Virtua
Website: virtua.com
Twitter: @Virtuametaverse
Discord: discord.gg/virtua

Jawad Ashraf
Twitter: @jawadvirtua
LinkedIn: Jawad Ashraf

#200: Jacob Robinson, Crypto Lawyer, on Crypto Taxation and Canadian Crypto Governance

Mon, 30 Jan 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Jacob Robinson is the host of the Law of Code podcast, Director of Operations at the DAO Research Collective, and an incoming associate in the FinTech group at McCarthy Tétrault LLP.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Crypto enforcement in Canada
- Focus of regulators on exchanges
- History of Canadian corporate law
- History of securities in Canada
- How crypto could be governed
- Tension between crypto and the law
- Day to day of a Canadian crypto lawyer
- Investor protection
- Taxation on airdrops
- The future of CBDCs

Law of Code Podcast
Website: lawofcode.io

Jacob Robinson
Twitter: @JacobRobinsonJD
LinkedIn: Jacob Robinson

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#199: Tatsuya Kohrogi, CSO of Digital Entertainment Asset, on Web3 in Japan & Decentralizing Game Development

Thu, 26 Jan 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Tatsuya (Tats) Kohrogi is the Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Business for Digital Entertainment Asset, also known as DEA. Tats is responsible for leading the company’s global operations. He has an extensive background in sales, marketing, business development, and startup management. Prior to joining the company, he was a senior partner manager at Meta managing business partnerships for the Japan market, based in APAC HQ in Singapore.

Prior to Meta, Tats worked with Softbank in Tokyo. He held several leadership roles in sales, digital marketing, investment strategy, portfolio management, and new business development. During his time at SoftBank, Tats co-founded an internal ad-tech service that received funding from SoftBank’s internal venture program. Tats was also part of Son Masayoshi’s successor program, SoftBank Academia. He took part in CEO projects and learned management philosophy directly from Masa for three years.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Stories from Meta and Softbank
- Using a buyback program to stabilize a token economy
- Fundraising challenges during the crypto winter
- How DEA raised USD10 Million from LA-based LDA Capital
- Japan’s Web3 regulations
- Onboarding non-gamers into the Web3 gaming space
- The future of P2E

Digital Entertainment Asset
Website: dea.sg
Twitter: @PlayMining_SG
Discord: discord.gg/UcEAuyZGCV

Tatsuya (Tats) Kohrogi
Twitter: @tatsuya_kohrogi
LinkedIn: Tatsuya (Tats) Kohrogi

#198: Marc Seal, CEO of Sortium, on Creating Web3 Games, Crypto/Metaverse Trademarks, and AI

Mon, 23 Jan 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Marc Seal is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sortium. With over a decade of experience in the technology industry, Marc has a proven track record of successful product builds and team leadership while partnering with major industry leaders, such as Marvel, Fox, Lucasfilm, Toho, MLB, and more.

Marc’s early exposure to game consoles and the film industry sparked his initial interest in how entertainment experiences were created, an interest that would lead to his entrance into the industry. He went on to work with the Topps Company, building their NFT business, and working with top-tier brands like Disney, which introduced him to the right partners and technological access to help launch his latest company, Sortium.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Living in El Salvador
- Expanding access and ownership to build digital worlds
- The rise in Crypto/Metaverse Trademarks
- CosmoGene - AI with web3-reinforced synthetic DNA
- Tokenizing simulated live gameplay
- The future of web3 gaming
- Themes and trends of 2023
- Hot takes

Sortium
Website: sortium.com
Twitter: @Sortium
LinkedIn: Sortium

CosmoGene
Website: cosmogene.com
Twitter: @CosmoGene
Discord: discord.gg/cosmogene

Marc Seal
Twitter: @Kurcide
Instagram: @kurcide
LinkedIn: Marc Seal

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#197: Sasha Tityanko, CEO of Sensorium, on The Concept of Virtual Beings and The Next Iteration of the Internet

Thu, 19 Jan 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Sasha Tityanko serves as Deputy CEO and Art Director at Sensorium. With over 15 years of experience in the international entertainment industry, Sasha is behind the virtual creations and product marketing campaigns of Sensorium Galaxy — a next-generation social metaverse developed in collaboration with the world’s top artists, producers, and media partners.

Before joining the company, Sasha represented global music superstars, including Eurovision winner Dima Bilan and internationally-acclaimed duo t.A.T.u. She’s also worked with top music labels EMI Music and Interscope / Universal Music to collaborate with performers from the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Latin America. Sasha also has extensive experience in marketing and PR, having led major international projects in Russia and abroad, including the Mikhail Gorbachev Prize and the Gorby 80 in the United Kingdom.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Concept of virtual beings
- The next iteration of the internet
- Social AI
- AI-powered functionalities
- Unique traits
- Moving from traditional art to web3
- Virtual artists
- Photorealism

Sensorium
Website: sensoriumxr.com
Twitter: @SensoriumGalaxy
Instagram: @sensorium_galaxy

Sasha Tityanko
Twitter: @santasasha5
Instagram: @santasasha
LinkedIn: Sasha Tityanko

#196: Tony Cheng, Managing Partner at Foresight Ventures, on Crypto Venture Capital, Investing in 2023, and Investing in China

Mon, 16 Jan 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Tony Cheng is a Managing Partner at Foresight Ventures, where he covers Web3 investments for the firm while also acting as Head of Corporate Development at Bitget Exchange. Formerly an investor at Sequoia Capital China and 3G Capital, Tony is well-versed in both traditional and crypto VC. Tony has also worked as a consultant at Oliver Wyman after earning his business degree from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Investing around the world
- Managing investment size and portfolio construction
- Working with Bitget
- Vetting founders
- Importance of conviction
- Investing in the West vs. China
- First-mover advantage
- Strength of a community
- Investment trends of 2023
- Various ways where the VC landscape changed in 2022
- Navigating different bear and bull market cycles
- Day in the life of a VC

Foresight Ventures
Website: foresightventures.com
Twitter: @ForesightVen
LinkedIn: Foresight Ventures

Tony Cheng
Twitter: @tcheng_100
LinkedIn: Tony (Wenji) Cheng, CFA

#195: Mara Schmiedt, CGO of Alluvial, on Liquid Staking and The Future of Staking

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Mara Schmiedt is the Chief Growth Officer at Alluvial. Mara focuses on advancing industry participation and adoption of Liquid Collective, seeking out world-class partnership opportunities, and overseeing Business Development, Sales, and other strategic functions. Mara recently joined Alluvial as Chief Growth Officer from Coinbase, where she served as the Head of Sales for Coinbase Cloud, the leading developer platform for blockchain-based infrastructure products and APIs. She expanded Cloud's staking business, supporting large-scale organizations, enterprises, and institutional investors. Prior to joining Coinbase, she managed Business Development at Bison Trails, a leading provider of blockchain-based infrastructure acquired by Coinbase in February 2021. Mara also served as Strategy Manager at ConsenSys, where she supported the strategic development of Codefi, the blockchain application suite for Web3 Commerce and Finance.

Mara is passionate about open-source technology and has published research multiple research reports and papers on liquid staking, such as The Internet Bond and Ethereum 2.0 Staking Ecosystem Report.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- What it takes to grow a Web3 organization
- Security and decentralization trade-offs
- Working at Coinbase
- Coinbase cloud
- Liquid collective - enterprise grade standard for liquid staking
- The impact of liquid staking on the ecosystem as a whole
- Centralized bad actors
- Alluvial
- The future of staking
- Operational security

Alluvial
Website: alluvial.finance
Twitter: @alluvialfinance
LinkedIn: Alluvial

Mara Schmiedt
Twitter: @MaraSchmiedt
LinkedIn: Mara Schmiedt

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#194: Nick Saponaro, CEO of Divi Project, on 2023 Predictions, Bitcoin, and Altcoins

Mon, 09 Jan 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Nick Saponaro is the CEO of Divi Project and its Fintech Innovation Centre, Divi Labs. Nick is also an entrepreneur, crypto enthusiast, investor and keynote speaker who is regularly featured in the media talking about crypto related issues.

Nick started investing in cryptocurrencies in 2013, however, his crypto career really began straight out of high school when he started a custom PC business that built rigs for gaming and Bitcoin mining.

He joined the Divi Project in 2017 as a full-stack developer and was invited to become a co-founder of the fledgling business. Soon after, he took on responsibility for building and maintaining all of Divi’s web services, client-facing apps, and protocol development for Divi Core.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- 2022 review
- Looking forward to 2023 and the opportunity for DeFi to fill the void
- 2023 predictions
- The challenges of DEXs
- CBDCs
- Bitcoin
- Altcoins
- Divi's Patent
- vSaaS
- ZK Proofs
- Chat GPT

Divi Project
Website: diviproject.org
Twitter: @DiviProject
Telegram: @diviproject

Nick Saponaro
Twitter: @NSapProductions
LinkedIn: Nick Saponaro

#193: Max Krupyshev, CEO of CoinsPaid, on 2023 Crypto Trends and Crypto Payment Ecosystems

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Max Krupyshev is the Co-Founder & CEO of the crypto payment ecosystem CoinsPaid, which is a market leader in terms of transaction volume. He is a serial entrepreneur with long-standing experience in developing fintech and crypto projects. Having entered the world of crypto in 2013, Max stood at the origins of this market in Ukraine, launching a Bitcoin Foundation to promote crypto adoption in the country. As the CEO of CoinsPaid, he sets the goal for the company to become the connecting link between crypto and traditional businesses.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- 2022 crypto year in review
- Trends to expect in 2023
- The immense popularity of crypto payments
- Countries that may become leaders in crypto adoption
- Steps for your business to accept crypto
- Ukraine
- Timing and predicting the market
- Regulation and transparency - the narrative for 2023
- Tokenization of assets

CoinsPaid
Website: coinspaid.com
Twitter: @coinspaid
LinkedIn: CoinsPaid
Telegram: t.me/CoinsPaid_Official

Max Krupyshev
Twitter: @maxkrupyshev
LinkedIn: Max Krupyshev

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#192: Brad Kam, Co-Founder of Unstoppable Domains, on Web3 Domains and Owning Your Data

Mon, 02 Jan 2023 03:00:00 -0500

Brad Kam is the Co-Founder of Unstoppable Domains, a Web3 domain name provider working to onboard the world onto Web3. Prior to Unstoppable Domains, he co-founded Talkable, a marketing tech company backed by Y Combinator. Brad holds a B.A. in Political Science from Emory University.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Walking and talking w/ Paul Graham from YC
- Walking meetings
- The importance of where you live
- Web3 domain name is your identity on the internet - you own it and control it
- Owning and controlling your data on the internet
- Digital profile = user controls the data
- The true value of your data
- ENS Domains
- Building in a bear market

Unstoppable Domains
Website: unstoppabledomains.com
Twitter: @unstoppableweb
LinkedIn: Unstoppable Domains
Discord: discord.gg/unstoppabledomains

Brad Kam
LinkedIn: Bradley Kam

#191: Oliver Gale, CEO of Panther Protocol, on Fundraising and Privacy in Crypto

Thu, 29 Dec 2022 03:00:00 -0500

Oliver is a serial entrepreneur, CBDC pioneer, investor, advisor, and global advocate of distributed ledger technology. He currently serves as the Founder and CEO of Panther Protocol, an end-to-end privacy protocol for digital assets that can be deployed compliantly on any public blockchain. Oliver also serves as Founder and Chairman of Elemental, a web 3.0 credit lending platform focused on democratizing affordable credit for underserved communities. Oliver has been a leading global advocate, championing policy-making discussions and thought leadership at central banks, government entities, and organizations, including the UN, International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Commonwealth Secretariat, Caribbean Development Bank, MIT, Columbia University, and the IMF. Outside of work, Oliver is also an award-winning international reggae and hip-hop artist.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Fundraising / raising money in crypto
- 2023 - The year of regulated DeFi
- Panther's v0.5
- Roadmap to v1
-Privacy and Compliance in DeFi
- What’s new in Privacy tech? Privacy hardware? Any new and noteworthy tools?
- What’s happening next year
- Educating Panther Product
- Contributing to open-source software
- Building CBDCs, payment systems, and compliance tools
- zID’s and zVOTES
- Can privacy be sexy?

Panther Protocol
Website: pantherprotocol.io
Twitter: @ZkPanther

Oliver Gale
Twitter: @OriginalOlii
LinkedIn: Oliver Gale

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#190: Darren Glover, VP of Gaming at VaynerSports, on Web3 Gaming and Content Creation

Mon, 26 Dec 2022 03:00:00 -0500

Darren Glover is the VP of Gaming at VaynerSports (Gary and AJ Vaynerchuk’s sports agency), where he oversees gaming talent representation and web2 / web3 gaming consultation.

Darren is a lifelong marketing and brand-building innovator. He’s obsessed with understanding today's consumers and finding the most valuable ways to talk with them. His experience comes from working with professional athletes, Fortune 500 consumer brands, live streaming platforms, gaming publishers, and gaming content creators.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Staying culturally relevant
- How the current e-sports model is broken
- Finding new ways to innovate and reach consumers
- The dairy industry is the most successful marketing campaign ever
- Fortnite new chapter launches
- Each social media platform has its own language
- NBA, NFL talk
- Championship predictions

VaynerSports
Website: vaynersports.com
Twitter: @vaynersports
LinkedIn: VaynerSports

Darren Glover
Twitter: @ThisIsDglove
Instagram: @thisisdglove

#189: Ingo Rübe, CEO of KILT, on Blockchain Identity Protocol and Digital Identification

Thu, 22 Dec 2022 03:00:00 -0500

Ingo Rübe is the founder and CEO of KILT Protocol, a blockchain identity protocol for issuing self-sovereign and verifiable credentials. He leads a team in Berlin that develops enterprise and consumer services “built on KILT" which protect digital identity across financial services and accounting, health care, IoT, media, energy, and gaming. Earlier in his career, he was the CTO of Hubert Burda Media and also served on the Board of Directors of the Drupal Association.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Digital identification in government
- Polkadot Alliance
- Blockchain’s identity problem
- Identity vs. Identification
- Gaming identifiers
- KILT - the infrastructure layer of identity
- How can we fix digital identity
- Ethereum Killers
- EU’s Digital Identity Program
- CBDCs

KILT Protocol
Website: kilt.io
Twitter: @Kiltprotocol
Discord: discord.gg/HztRqvzbhG

Ingo Rübe
Twitter: @ingoruebe
LinkedIn: Ingo Ruebe

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#188: Susie Batt on Privacy, Security and Web3 Browsing

Mon, 19 Dec 2022 03:00:00 -0500

Susie Batt is the Crypto Ecosystem Lead at Opera, a web browser with a built-in and free VPN, ad blocker and crypto wallet. Susie has been spearheading Opera's Web3 strategy since joining the global company back in 2020, joining from her previous role at ConsenSys.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Susie’s journey into crypto/web3 and her background at ConsenSys
- Reading about blockchain in 2017
- Power skating and hockey
- Landing your dream job
- Opera's crypto ecosystem
- Switching browsers from Chrome to Opera
- Opera's recent announcement with Alteon – instant NFT minting
- NFTs + Music
- Social Graphs
- Layer Zero = people layer

Opera
Website: opera.com
Twitter: @opera
LinkedIn: Opera

Susie Batt
Twitter: @susiebattgirl
LinkedIn: Susie Batt

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#187: Alex Connolly, CTO of Immutable, on Onboarding 3.5 Billion People to Web3 Gaming

Thu, 15 Dec 2022 03:00:00 -0500

Alex Connolly is the CTO and Co-Founder of Immutable. Alex has been passionate about in-game assets his entire life. At 9, he wrote scripts to gather pricing data from the Runescape grand exchange. At 13, he was the top contributor to the largest TF2 item pricing website in the world. Alex invented the most scalable system for creating NFTs ever designed, which has been used to create millions of Gods Unchained cards with no network impact on Ethereum.

Alex graduated high school as the equal-highest-ranked student in Australia. A couple of years later, he joined Immutable after dropping out of a combined Computer Science & Law degree at the University of Sydney, where he was building a blockchain-agnostic programming language for smart contract VMs.

Alex believes that virtual worlds built using blockchain assets will be better, fairer, and more just than current digital economies. In fact, he thinks programmable assets will be ‘realer’ than physical assets.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Partnership with GameStop and Tiktok
- How ImmutableX is powering digital asset ownership
- Powering Web3 games
- Importance of layer2's
- ImmutableX's suite of products that allows Web3 games to scale
- IMX token
- ImmutableX in the future
- How we can onboard the next million gamers to Web3
- Gaming economies
- Runescape in-game economy

ImmutableX
Website: immutable.com
Twitter: @Immutable
Discord: discord.gg/immutablex

Alex Connolly
Twitter: @0xConnolly
LinkedIn: Alex Connolly

#186: Mark van Rijmenam on the Need for an Open Metaverse and AI

Mon, 12 Dec 2022 03:00:00 -0500

Dr Mark van Rijmenam is The Digital Speaker. He is a leading future tech strategist who thinks about how technology changes organisations, society and the metaverse. Dr Mark van Rijmenam is an international keynote speaker, 4x author and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Datafloq and the author of the book on the metaverse: Step into the Metaverse: How the Immersive Internet Will Unlock a Trillion-Dollar Social Economy.

Dr Van Rijmenam is one of the leading voices in technology and known for his candid, educated and balanced views on how technology can benefit but also threaten society. Van Rijmenam's mission is to help large organisations and governments benefit from innovative emerging technologies, while ensuring that it is done ethically and responsibly. Recently, he founded the Digital Futures Institute, which focuses on ensuring a fair digital future for everyone. The research institute uses innovative storytelling to deliver a deep understanding of digital technology and its long-term implications for all levels of society.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The need for an open metaverse
- Why crypto will make the metaverse go round
- Why NFTs are so revolutionary
- The dangers of the metaverse
- Crypto specific AI use cases
- Public speaking tips + tricks
- Metaverse = the next iteration of the internet
- Being in the internet vs being on the internet
- AI and GPT-3

The Digital Speaker
Website: thedigitalspeaker.com

Dr. Mark van Rijmenam
Twitter: @VanRijmenam
LinkedIn: Dr Mark van Rijmenam

#185: Varun Kumar, CEO of Hashflow, on Decentralized Exchanges, AI, and the Future of ETH

Thu, 08 Dec 2022 03:00:00 -0500

Varun Kumar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Hashflow, a decentralized exchange designed for users to trade seamlessly across chains while offering zero slippage, improved pricing, and MEV-protection. Varun Kumar is the brains behind Hashflow, having previously served as an aerospace engineer.

Founded in 2019, Hashflow aims to connect institutional market makers to traders using a request-for-quote (RFQ) model as opposed to automated market makers (AMM). In turn, traders and liquidity providers gain enhanced efficiency, security, valuation and products previously impossible in DeFi.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- AI censorship
- Current state of crypto
- Bad actors leaving the industry
- Making DEXs look like CEXs
- User Experience is paramount to success
- NO KYC = huge value prop for DEXs
- HashFlow - a decentralized exchange with less slippage
- Sandwich attacks
- Story telling; less is more
- Building beautiful websites
- ETH - what’s next? was the merge successful?

Hashflow
Website: hashflow.com
Twitter: @hashflow
Discord: discord.gg/hashflow

Varun Kumar
Twitter: @GandalfTheBr0wn
LinkedIn: Varun Kumar

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#184: Frédéric Chesnais on NFTs and the AlphaVerse

Mon, 05 Dec 2022 03:00:00 -0500

Frédéric Chesnais is the Founder and CEO of AlphaVerse. He was the CEO of Atari Interactive and brings experience in investments, executive production, budgeting, financing and management of intellectual property rights, with a strong background in video games and interactive entertainment. He has successfully completed financial transactions in excess of $1 billion in the interactive entertainment space. He left Atari in 2021 to focus on blockchain and metaverses, with the creation of Crypto Blockchain Industries.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Semi-Fungible Tokens
- The Alphaverse: A metaverse hub
- Developing and shipping games
- Knowing when to kill a game
- Creating a popular game
- Web2 games built on Web3 tech
- Friends in the game = not leaving the game
- Emergence of streaming

AlphaVerse
Website: alphaverse.com
Twitter: @AlphaVerseGame
Telegram: t.me/Alphaversegame

Frédéric Chesnais
Twitter: @FredChesnais
LinkedIn: Frederic Chesnais

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#183: Marina Guryeva on FTX’s Relationship with Solana and Neon Labs

Thu, 01 Dec 2022 03:00:00 -0500

Marina Guryeva is the Founder and CEO of Neon Labs and the developer behind Neon EVM, the gateway for Ethereum-based applications to access the scalability and liquidity of Solana without changing its codebase. Actively involved in the blockchain space since 2015, she was the Director of CyberFund, a platform that invested in blockchain startups. She joined Commun, a blockchain-based social network, as Director in 2019 to spearhead blockchain-based social networking run by self-governed communities. In 2021, Marina founded Neon Labs to bring Solana's scalability and low transaction costs to the Ethereum ecosystem.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Solana breakpoint in Lisbon
- Solana ($SOL)
- Scaling ETH on Solana blockchain
- Live on mainnet on December 12th
- FTX relationship with Solana
- User experience over costs
- Invalidating the Solana “Ethereum killer” thesis
- Ethereum’s high gas fees and low throughput
- Solidity vs. Rust
- Learning Rust
- A day in the life of Marina

Neon Labs
Website: neon-labs.org
Twitter: @neonlabsorg
Telegram: t.me/Neonlabsorg

Marina Guryeva
Twitter: @mariaveirug
LinkedIn: Marina Guryeva

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#182: Jake Yocom-Piatt on Blockchain Fixing Political Voting, Campaign Spending and Privacy

Mon, 28 Nov 2022 03:00:00 -0500

Jake Yocom-Piatt is the Co-Founder & Project Lead for Decred (www.decred.org). He is a cryptocurrency pioneer who has been using, funding, and directing the creation of open-source software for 10+ years and has been featured as an expert source for a variety of publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Coindesk, and many more. Prior to Decred, Jake funded and oversaw the creation of btcsuite, an alternative full-node Bitcoin implementation written in go, whose source code has been used in several other notable projects, e.g. Lightning Network (lnd), Ethereum, and Factom. He also is a co-creator of ZKC, a high-security asynchronous chat system.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Crypto project management
- Political donations
- Blockchain to improve the voting process
- Privacy-focused voting
- Tracking campaign spending
- Middle managers in Silicon Valley
- Decred: Money Evolved
- Bitcoin didn’t want to evolve
- NGU - Number Go UP
- Tracking political donations in the 2020 municipal Brazil elections
- DCR Time Stamp
- Fake volume on centralized exchanges
- Tether ($USDT)

Decred
Website: decred.org
Twitter: @decredproject
Telegram: t.me/Decred

Jake Yocom-Piatt
Twitter: @behindtext

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#181: James and Anjali Young on Collab.Land and Token Gated Communities

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 03:00:00 -0500

James and Anjali Young are the Co-Founders of Collab.Land, a digital concierge for tokenized communities.

James, the CEO of Collab.Land, has founded and grown web-based companies since the early 2000s and was the first developer for Meta’s (formerly Facebook) game Farmville, and worked in previous roles as a software and flash developer. An early member of the crypto community, James co-wrote a white paper on token-curated registries in 2017, was a co-creator of the Moloch DAO framework, and co-summoner of MetaCartel. James is proud to be involved in the evolution of the Internet by empowering individuals through digital ownership. In 2019, he co-founded Abridged, a parent company of Collab.Land, supporting collaborative economies with access to seamless blockchain UX.

Anjali, the CCO of Collab.Land, has been participating in and leading online communities since 1993, as both a member and a moderator. She worked as a lawyer, an adjunct professor, and in the tech startup industry for 20 years. As Anjali’s interest in crypto and passion for web2 inclusion grew, she looked to build an equitable system for all of humanity. In addition to her interest in web3 community collaboration, Anjali is an artist who has a passion for NFTs and creativity and is an advocate for all artists.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Developing Farmville
- Token Gating
- Growth during the 2021 NFT bull run
- Building out digital communities
- Providing a safe space for token holders
- The importance of a pro-social moment within web3 users
- Future of AI and crypto
- Power of social media
- Tools for community building
- What is success

Collab.Land
Website: collab.land
Twitter: @Collab_Land_

James Young
Twitter: @jamesyoung
LinkedIn: James Young

Anjali Young
Twitter: @damaderoca
LinkedIn: Anjali Young

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#180: Brycent on Web3 Gaming, Content Creation and Loot Bolt

Mon, 21 Nov 2022 03:00:00 -0500

Brycent is a Web3 Gaming Creator, Partnered Twitch Streamer and the CEO of venture-funded startup Loot Bolt. Brycent is a web3 gaming OG and the biggest influencer in the space.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Road to becoming the biggest web3 gaming influencer in the space
- Play-to-earn is dead
- Disciplines on streaming platforms
- Content creation
- Signing with VaynerSports
- Types of Web3 games
- Creating content outside of Twitter
- LootBolt
- Elon on buying Twitter at $44bn is a discount

Brycent
Twitter: @brycent_
Twitch: twitch.tv/brycent
Youtube: youtube.com/c/brycent

Loot Bolt
Website: lootbolt.com
Twitter: @LootBolt

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#179: Tony Saliba on Trading Tips and Pioneering Options Trading

Thu, 17 Nov 2022 03:00:00 -0500

Tony Saliba is the CEO of Liquid Mercury. He is an internationally renowned business leader, multi-faceted serial entrepreneur, option trading pioneer, master trader and board member of the Chicago Stock Exchange, author, shareholder, operator, and investor in nearly 100 companies. Tony has been the founding member of key companies in the trading and tech industries such as Efficient Capital Management, International Trading Institute, Liquid Point, Fortify Technologies, and more. He currently maintains a global team of staffers in offices around the US, UK, India, and China helping companies achieve high rates of growth, and identifying initiatives to unlock exponential value.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Providing crypto trading powered by OTC liquidity to retail traders
- Becoming an option trading pioneer
- Trading discipline
- Butterfly technique in options trading
- Journal, journal, and more journal
- Necessity is the mother of invention
- Thesis and risk-reward basis
- Liquid Mercury - providing liquidity to retail traders
- Tony’s story of getting into crypto
- Liquid Mercury’s new partnership with Gemini
- FTX situation - how will this affect us moving forward
- Options trading over standard equities trading
- Managing risk and upsizing returns
- “Staying spread is staying alive”

Liquid Mercury
Website: liquidmercury.com
Twitter: @powerprocrypto
LinkedIn: Liquid Mercury

Tony Saliba
Twitter: @ajsmarketwizard
LinkedIn: Anthony Saliba

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#178: Jason Guthrie on FTX Bankruptcy, Digital Funds and WisdomTree

Mon, 14 Nov 2022 03:00:00 -0500

Jason Guthrie is the Head of Digital Asset Product for WisdomTree in Europe. Guthrie oversees WisdomTree’s digital assets efforts which include bringing new products to market, identifying opportunities to enhance existing products, driving distribution strategies, and leading client education and engagement on cryptocurrencies. He is responsible for efforts beyond the traditional product set and is actively pushing the digital asset agenda by pursuing alternative and strategic projects.

Previously Guthrie was head of Capital Markets for WisdomTree in Europe for 4 years, where his team was responsible for ensuring clients had a smooth trade execution experience. Prior to joining WisdomTree, Guthrie worked at Deutsche Bank’s ETF Capital Markets group as well as Macquarie Bank as an Investment Executive based in Sydney, Australia. Jason holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance) from Macquarie University in Sydney.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- FTX Bankruptcy
- Asia dominating the crypto exchange landscape
- WisdomTree’s crypto and blockchain strategy
- Employee headcount at major exchanges
- SBF being Robinhood, acquiring distressed companies
- News being broken on Twitter
- The power of Twitter
- Bringing traditional assets on chain
- Making crypto more accessible to everyone
- Tokenizing bonds
- Interest rates affecting the bond market
- WisdomTree Prime’s digital wallet
- Mass adoption needing trusted financial institutions
- Peer-to-peer ecosystems

WisdomTree Prime
Website: wisdomtreeprime.com
Twitter: @WisdomTreePrime

Jason Guthrie
Twitter: @GuthrieFi
LinkedIn: Jason Guthrie

#177: Alex Tapscott on The Digital Asset Revolution

Thu, 10 Nov 2022 03:00:00 -0500

Alex Tapscott is an entrepreneur, writer, and seasoned capital markets professional focused on the impact of emerging technologies, such as blockchain and cryptocurrencies, on business, government, and society.

Alex is the Managing Director of the Digital Assets Group at Ninepoint Partners, one of Canada’s leading independent asset management firms. Among other things, Ninepoint launched the world’s first carbon-neutral Bitcoin ETF (BITC:TSX). Alex is also co-author of the critically acclaimed non-fiction best-seller, Blockchain Revolution, which has been translated into more than 19 languages and has sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide. His latest book, Digital Asset Revolution, was published June 2022.

In 2017, Alex co-founded the Blockchain Research Institute (BRI), a global think-tank investigating blockchain strategies, opportunities, and use-cases. Previously, Alex was an executive at the investment bank Canaccord Genuity. Alex is a graduate of Amherst College (Cum Laude) and is a CFA Charterholder. He lives in Toronto.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Crypto in Toronto
- ETH being born in Toronto
- BTC + ETH = most important technological breakthrough of the last decade
- Leaving banking for crypto
- Writing a book
- NFT based storytelling and token-gated communities
- @mv3nft NFTs
- Cosmos and $ATOM
- Interoperability and bridges
- Dollar MilkShake theory
- Elon Musk twitter takeover
- Big companies embracing public blockchains

Ninepoint
Website: ninepoint.com
Twitter: @Ninepoint
LinkedIn: Ninepoint Partners

Blockchain Research Institute
Website: blockchainresearchinstitute.org
Twitter: @blockchainRI
LinkedIn: Blockchain Research Institute

Alex Tapscott
Website: alextapscott.com
Twitter: @alextapscott

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#176: Matt McGuire on Metaverse Development and the Current Crypto Landscape

Mon, 07 Nov 2022 03:00:00 -0500

Matt McGuire is the Chief Technology Officer of Caduceus and brings 18+ years of leadership, strategic business growth, and development experience. Building on his strong development background Matt overlays a passion for code and inventive solutions. Board and investor-level pitch specialist with a background as a digital innovator and emerging technology thought leader. Matt has a hands-on proactive and integrated planning approach to his leadership. He is a team builder and technical mentor with an impressive portfolio of award-winning work.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- UK’s PM Situation
- Current economic situation
- Building pitch decks
- MetaVerse development advancement
- Cloud edge rendering
- Tapping into power users and energy savers
- CMP Coin Tokenomics
- Different types of metaverses
- Fully EVM compatible
- Caduceus Incubator
- Current crypto landscape
- Current economic landscape being much worse than 2008
- Crypto liquidity pools have become so prominent - BTC and ETH won’t disappear

Caduceus
Website: caduceus.foundation
Twitter: @Caduceus_CMP
Discord: discord.gg/caduceus

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#175: Kadan Stadelmann on The Cosmos Ecosystem and $ATOM Becoming a Top 10 Crypto

Thu, 03 Nov 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Kadan Stadelmann is a blockchain developer, operations security expert, and Chief Technology Officer of Komodo. Komodo is a leader in blockchain interoperability and atomic swap technology. Its flagship technology and end-user application are AtomicDEX - a mobile and web-compatible non-custodial multi-coin wallet and atomic swap-powered DEX rolled into one dApp. Kadan strongly identifies with Komodo’s open-source vision and ideology. His dedication to the Komodo project is founded on an unwavering desire to make the world a better place. In addition to cryptography, blockchain technology, and development, Kadan is interested in literature, mathematics, astrophysics, and traveling.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Cosmos ecosystem
- $ATOM price prediction
- Chance of $ATOM flipping $ETH
- Cosmos being quality all around
- Cosmos becoming a major player in the DeFi space
- Achieving total blockchain interoperability on Cosmos
- EVM-compatible blockchains
- Paying fees on your own token
- CosmoVerse in Medellín
- Neural interfaces
- Komodo HD wallet + hardware wallet

Komodo
Website: komodoplatform.com
Twitter: @KomodoPlatform
Discord: komodoplatform.com/discord

Kadan Stadelmann
Twitter: @0xca333
LinkedIn: Kadan Stadelmann

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#174: Fuad Fatullaev on Building Web3 Ecosystems

Mon, 31 Oct 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Fuad Fatullaev is the Co-founder and CEO of WeWay, a Web3 ecosystem for influencers and content makers to support their metaverse presence and teach them how to reach their full potential.

Fuad is an entrepreneur with more than 10 years in launching and developing fintech startups in the UK and UAE. He graduated from Harvard Extension School and launched a startup partnered with McKinsey's startup club. Fuad Fatullaev ran projects with a contract value of over $16.1M and led an international team of more than 300 people in cross-functional departments.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Dubai becoming the new Switzerland
- Launching food delivery startups
- Creating web3 ecosystems
- The end of fiat currency
- MADBACKPACKS
- Growth of traditional gaming
- Fun > financial incentives
- Find-to-earn
- Building mobile games
- WeWay LaunchPad
- Learning, Earning and Playing
- Centralized exchange volume drying up
- Crypto Hot takes

WeWay
Website: weway.io
Twitter: @WeWay_io
Telegram: t.me/WeWay_io

Fuad Fatullaev
Twitter: @fuad_fatullaev
LinkedIn: Fuad Fatullaev

#173: Adam Ilenich on Web3 Community Building, Twitter and Rarible

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Adam Ilenich is the Head of Community at Rarible, where he oversees social media marketing, partnership activations, and Discord—all while finding ways to be involved in events and new business, too. He also co-hosts Rarible’s Monday “GM Weekly” Twitter Spaces. Prior to joining Rarible, he worked at Twitter running the @TwitterMktg handle and producing some of the highest-performing content on that channel. He has bachelor’s degrees in Journalism and Political Theory from Michigan State University.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Working at Twitter
- Elon Musk Twitter takeover
- Crypto Twitter
- Importance of community in Web3
- Replying & responding to people online
- Rarible 2
- Long-term lockers receiving greater voting power
- $RARI Buying and Listing Rewards
- Community marketplaces
- Royalties on NFT exchanges
- Quality interactions over numbers

Rarible
Website: rarible.com
Twitter: @rarible
Instagram: @rarible
Discord: discord.gg/rarible

Adam Ilenich
Twitter: @adamilenich
LinkedIn: Adam Ilenich
Photo credit: Doodles and Letters by Vinnie Hager

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#172: Gracy Chen on Social Trading, Crypto Exchanges and Bitget

Mon, 24 Oct 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Gracy Chen is the Managing Director of Bitget and oversees the growth and expansion of global markets, strategy, execution, business, and corporate development of Bitget. She started her journey to crypto world since 2014, and has been an investor since the early days of BitKeep, Asia’s leading decentralised wallet.

Before joining Bitget, Gracy held executive roles at XRSPACE, a VR technology company. During her time there, Gracy oversaw and led the marketing and business development functions, as well as government and public relations in the region. Formerly an anchor and producer at Phoenix TV’s technology and finance channel, one of the largest media conglomerates in China, Chen has reported on financial news and events extensively, including the World Economic Forum. During her time at Phoenix, she interviewed tech leaders, including Kevin Kelly, founding editor of Wired. Gracy was named a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum in 2015. A graduate of the National University of Singapore, Chen will also be pursuing an MBA degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Partnership with Messi
- Synergies between football and crypto
- Sports partnerships giving credibility to crypto
- The competitive landscape in crypto exchange
- Social trading
- Crypto winter, how to navigate during a bear market
- Current market trends from crypto trading
- Bitget's 3-5 years goal
- High-performing habits
- Women in web3

#171: Collin O’Brien on a Multiple Blockchain Future and Cross-Chain Swaps

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Collin O’Brien is the Head of Marketing at Rubic, a leading cross-chain swap service that allows users to swap assets between major blockchains in one click and with the lowest gas fees.

Collin has 15+ years of experience in marketing and sales in multiple industries, including crypto, tech, real estate, and medical equipment. He has been a crypto investor for 5+ years and almost bought 1,000+ BTC in early 2011! He also was an investor in Rubic before becoming a team member.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Almost buying 1,000+ BTC in early 2011
- Trusting your gut - it’s your moral compass
- Investing in Rubic and then joining the team
- Cross-chain swaps - why are they so important?
- The future is multi-chain
- What are SDKs?
- Competition - there are usually two big behemoths
- The tedious process of cross-chain trading
- Rubic's SDK
- Software Development Kit (SDK)
- How far away are we from mass adoption
- Applications being the catalyst for growth
- Cross-chain in layman's terms
- Advice to 20yr old self

Rubic
Website: rubic.exchange
Twitter: @CryptoRubic
Discord: discord.gg/7EYzPbWKFQ
Telegram: t.me/cryptorubic_chat

Collin O'Brien
Twitter: @Collin_Rubic
LinkedIn: Collin O'Brien

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#170: Mitchell Amador on Crypto Bug Bounties, Web3 Security and Immunefi

Mon, 17 Oct 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Mitchell Amador is the Founder of Immunefi, the leading bug bounty and security services platform for web3 that protects crypto projects and regular users. In a span of less than two years, Immunefi has saved more than $25 billion dollars from being hacked and actively guards over $60 billion in users’ funds.

Before Immunefi, Mitchell was best known for making Sophia the Robot a worldwide sensation as the CMO of SingularityNET and as the VP of Marketing at Steemit, where he drove its adoption and growth, resulting in a peak $2 billion valuation. In addition, he was a member of the rLoop Hyperloop team, drove growth for the world’s dominant web .pdf company, and helped launch the largest user-owned open world, Decentraland.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Paying out over $60 million in bounties
- Web3 security
- How bounties get paid out
- History of Immunefi
- Unsexy problems being very profitable
- The “Hell” lottery
- Scaling
- Creating frameworks and forging new pathways in business
- Blockchain and crypto hacks … will they ever slow down?
- Anonymous workflows
- Immunefi's recent raise with Framework Ventures
- Building the 911 layer of crypto
- Building new systems - it's going to be weird, but it will work

Immunefi
Website: immunefi.com
Twitter: @immunefi
LinkedIn: Immunefi
Discord: discord.gg/rpkPDR7pVV

Mitchell Amador
Twitter: @MitchellAmador
LinkedIn: Mitchell Amador

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#169: Haseeb Awan on Mobile Security, Advice for Founders and Efani Secure Mobile

Thu, 13 Oct 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Haseeb Awan is the CEO & Founder of Efani Secure Mobile. Efani Secure Mobile works with ultra-high net worth individuals on their mobile Security and guarantees protection against SIM Swap, Eevasdropping & location tracking. Haseeb is a Telecom engineer & Y-Combinator Alumni. Previously he co-founded one of the largest Bitcoin ATM networks. He has been featured on NYT, Techcrunch, WSJ, Hulu, and several international media outlets.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Telephone numbers are linked to everything and it can be hacked!
- Stories of people being hacked
- Security tips
- Efani
- Decentralized Wireless (DeWi)
- Distributed vs Decentralized wireless systems
- Crypto evolving behind Ponzi-nomics
- Can we build a better product with privacy at its front
- If you’re not paying for it, you are the product
- Founding BitAccess back in 2013
- Founding fathers of crypto story back in Miami 2013
- Staying focused and solving a simple problem
- Credit score for telephone numbers

Efani Secure Mobile
Website: efani.com
Twitter: @efani
LinkedIn: Efani

Haseeb Awan
Twitter: @haseeb
LinkedIn: Haseeb Awan

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#168: Grace “Ori” Kwan on Solana-Based DeFi and Orca

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Grace “Ori” Kwan is a programmer, designer, illustrator, and Co-Founder of Orca. Her specialty is creating simple, human-centered interfaces for deeply technical fields. Upon graduating from Stanford with a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science, she started her career as a software engineer at Coursera in the Bay Area. After that, she became an Interaction Designer at IDEO's Tokyo studio, which gave her a deep appreciation for the many and varied meanings of "good design." Outside of the space, Ori dabbles as a food writer and has contributed stories to Gastro Obscura.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Design fundamentals; talking to people and finding solutions to problems
- Society rewarding specialists over generalists
- Orca DeFi
- Orca’s climate footprint
- Measuring energy consumption via SDKs and validators
- Solana being energy efficient in contrast to the Solana Conference
- How Web3 leaders can support climate initiatives
- DeFi lego
- The smart router
- Creating value and not just moving value around
- Reality of NFT value
- Living in Mexico City
- Being a food writer

Orca
Website: orca.so
Twitter: @orca_so
Discord: discord.orca.so

Grace "Ori" Kwan
Twitter: @oritheorca
LinkedIn: Ori Kwan

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#167: Markus Levin on Geospatial Data, The MetaVerse and XYO Network

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Markus Levin co-founded XYO Network in 2018, establishing it as the first people-powered decentralized project to connect data from the real physical world directly with blockchain smart contracts and other digital realities. Markus is a blockchain pioneer and an industry visionary regarded for his integral role in shaping the entrance and growth of oracle blockchain technology. He is also the Head of Operations of XY Labs.

Markus has over 15 years of experience in building, managing, and scaling companies. After dropping out of his Ph.D. studies at Bocconi University, he began working with and leading companies in hyper-growth industries around the globe, including cutting-edge technology ventures such as Novacore, “sterkly”, Hive Media, and Koiyo. Markus mined his first Bitcoin in 2013 and has been captivated by blockchain technologies ever since.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Geospatial data and trustless oracles
- XYO network being a trustless oracle
- Using 5 million nodes to verify information
- Cryptographic handshakes
- GPS spoofing apps like VPNs
- Augmented reality MetaVerses
- University and education being cheaper due to the metaverse and AR/VR technology
- Apple entering the metaverse
- XYO 2.0 ecosystem, a developer for many
- Hot take; metaverse will be more than the internet… It will be our next lives.

XYO Network
Website: xyo.network
Twitter: @OfficialXYO
LinkedIn: XYO
Telegram: t.me/xyonetwork

Markus Levin
LinkedIn: Markus Levin

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#166: Jack O'Holleran on The Ethereum Merge, GameFi & SKALE

Mon, 03 Oct 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Jack O'Holleran is the Co-Founder of SKALE. Jack's passion for decentralized systems and blockchain led him to join efforts with Stan Klad-ko to solve the blockchain scalability problem.

Jack is a veteran Silicon Valley technology entrepreneur with a deep background in machine learning/AI technologies, and blockchain. His resume includes Co-Founder of Aktana, Co-Founder IncentAlign, and executive positions at Good Technology, and Motorola. His first work with Digital Currencies was in 2008 building a digital currency platform for Enterprise Resource Allocation. He has been an active Cryptocurrency investor and an evangelist for decentralized systems since early 2013.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Dune
- San Francisco
- NFTs in LA
- Taking back power from streaming entities
- The Ethereum Merge - its implications and limitations
- ETH 2.0 being eco-friendly
- Gas wars
- SKALE = zero gas fees
- NFT Visionaries Grant Program
- SKALE Ecosystem Incentive Program
- Web3 gaming

#165: Zak Manhire on Web3 Loyalty, Memberships and Fr0ntierX

Thu, 29 Sep 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Zak Manhire is the Co-Founder & Chief Revenue Officer at Fr0ntier X. Zak is a true partnership expert and led Costa Coffee’s commercial strategy and was Commercial Director for EMEA at Monster Energy closely working alongside TCCC. Most recently, he was Chief Commercial Officer for a portfolio company within The Foresight Group. Zak has experience with an endless list of major brands such as Adidas, Coca-Cola, Red Bull, Starbucks, and Uber.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Starbucks x Polygon partnership
- Knowing your customer
- Peter Principle
- The drink industry
- Pivoting in business
- Partnership with LG electronics
- Digital mirroring
- Making people feel like a shareholder
- Music related industries
- Fractionalizing subscriptions

Fr0ntierX
Website: fr0ntierx.com
Twitter: @Fr0ntierX
Discord: discord.gg/fr0ntierx

Zak Manhire
LinkedIn: Zak Manhire

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#164: Joel Dietz on Creating Ethereum, MetaMask and MetaMetaVerse

Mon, 26 Sep 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Joel Dietz is the Founder of MetaMetaVerse and is a serial entrepreneur & intellectual historian who helped found several key initiatives in the cryptocurrency space, including Ethereum, MetaMask, the first smart contract educational channel, and the first academic work on cryptoeconomics. His research interests focus on the confluence of blockchain network topologies and swarm intelligence, especially how the principles undergirding decentralized organizations can be used to fuel global innovation. He also works on holonic philosophy, the evolution of jurisprudence, data-driven approaches to innovation, and smart city data architecture.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Creating MetaMask and Ethereum
- ETH = programmable money
- Building MetaMask
- MetaMask token … will it happen?
- Vitalik doing CrossFit
- Sharing ideas through our minds
- Rendering experiences
- King of France + Mississippi stock history story
- Building your own metaverse via AI generator
- Shopify of metaverses
- Governments benefitting from the metaverse
- New world royalty
- Learning the rules of physics

MetaMetaverse
Website: metametaverse.io
Twitter: @m2verse
Discord: discord.gg/TzTpmmSGXG

Joel Dietz
Twitter: @jdietz
LinkedIn: Joel Dietz

#163: John deVadoss on Decentralization and Neo Blockchain

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 03:00:00 -0400

John deVadoss is the Head of Development at Neo Blockchain. John worked in Microsoft for 16 years as Managing Director before moving to crypto and choosing Neo in his mission to make it the go-to blockchain for developers for creating dApps. John believes that adding functionality to the chain and growing its DeFi ecosystem is the best way to get more mainstream users on the protocol.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Journey from Web1 to Web2 to Web3
- Blockchain becoming economic platforms
- Economic platforms = sovereignty of the individual
- Lessons learned from working for Microsoft
- High performance habits
- Decentralization
- End goal of blockchain = self-governance
- What is next for the blockchain industry
- Dev skills + economic skills = superpowers
- N3 = platform for digitizing assets
- NEO Blockchain
- Onboarding the first billion people to Web3
- The next evolution of blockchains

Neo Blockchain
Website: neo.org
Twitter: @Neo_Blockchain
Discord: discord.gg/rvZFQ5382k

John deVadoss
Twitter: @john_devadoss
LinkedIn: John deVadoss

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#162: Christopher Sheehan on Paying Bills with Crypto and Spritz Finance

Mon, 19 Sep 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Christopher Sheehan is the Founder of Spritz Finance. He is an MIT Computer Scientist and repeat fintech entrepreneur. Chris's previous company, WorldCover, was an international insuretech funded by Y Combinator, Index Ventures, Greylock and other global VC investors. The company developed parametric insurance products and software, and its IP assets were acquired in 2021.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Y Combinator stories
- Doing things that don’t scale
- Growing 7% every week
- Life at MIT
- Learning routines
- Bridging tradfi and defi
- Paying your bills with crypto
- Volatility
- Polygon x Starbucks partnership
- Building on Polygon Ecosystem
- Crypto lifestyle app
- Keeping it simple

Spritz Finance
Website: spritz.finance
Twitter: @spritzfinance
Discord: discord.gg/spritz

Christopher Sheehan
Twitter: @ct_sheehan
LinkedIn: Christopher Sheehan

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#161: Harsh Rajat on Ethereum Push Notification Service (EPNS)

Thu, 15 Sep 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Harsh Rajat is the Founder and Creator of Ethereum Push Notification Service (EPNS), the native communication protocol for Web3. Harsh is the Project Lead and looks at driving the protocol to build the product and its tech and is the core of the project of all gets shipped on the product front.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Intro to crypto
- EPNS
- The power of notifications
- Chatting to notifications instead of contacts
- Decentralized communication protocol
- $PUSH
- ENS domains
- 3 and 4 digit ENS domains
- Working with EPNS

EPNS
Website: epns.io
Twitter: @epnsproject
Discord: discord.gg/YVPB99F9W5

Harsh Rajat
Twitter: @harshrajat
LinkedIn: Harsh Rajat

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#160: Matthew Niemerg on Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Privacy and Aleph Zero

Mon, 12 Sep 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Matthew Niemerg, Ph.D., is the co-founder and president of Aleph Zero Foundation—a Swiss non-profit offering a new infrastructure layer with a scalable plug-and-play privacy solution leveraging zero-knowledge proofs (zk-SNARKs) and Secure Multiparty Computation (sMPC). Mathew is also a Ph.D. in Mathematics in the area of numerical algebraic geometry, a Simons-Berkeley Fellow, and an IBM Center of Excellence Fellow in High-Performance Computing.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Math and computer science
- Voluntary economies
- Aleph Zero
- Zero-knowledge proofs
- zk-SNARKs
- Privacy 101
- Liminal - original privacy framework
- Miner Extractable Value (MEV) attacks
- Multichain privacy layers

Aleph Zero Foundation
Website: alephzero.org
Twitter: @Aleph__Zero
LinkedIn: Aleph Zero
Discord: discord.gg/alephzero

Matthew Niemerg
Twitter: @matthewniemerg
LinkedIn: Matthew Niemerg, Ph.D.

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#159: Sebastien Borget on NFTs and The Sandbox

Thu, 08 Sep 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Sebastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of The Sandbox. Together with Arthur Madrid, he has co-founded 3 companies, 2 of which have been acquired. Sebastien has more than 10 years in mobile gaming, running production and marketing for top-grossing titles. His work was awarded the nomination for 2 consecutive years of The Sandbox in App Store Best Games of 2012 and 2013!

Sebastien also became the President of the Blockchain Game Alliance in 2020, a non-profit organization of 230 key members of the industry. He was recently named in the Top #100 most influential people in crypto by CoinTelegraph.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Turning players into creators
- Sandbox Alpha Season 3
- Metaverse = creating new experiences
- Owning experiences in the metaverse
- OMA3
- Blockchain Game Alliance
- Animoca Brands
- Creator tools

The Sandbox Game
Website: sandbox.game
Twitter: @TheSandboxGame
Facebook: @TheSandboxGame
Discord: discord.gg/vAe4zvY

Sébastien Borget
Twitter: @borgetsebastien
LinkedIn: BORGET Sebastien

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#158: Evgen Verzun on Crypto Launchpads and Kaizen Finance

Mon, 05 Sep 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Evgen Verzun is the Founder of Kaizen Finance. He is also an inventor, serial entrepreneur and expert in cybersecurity, real-time systems, networking, and interdisciplinary technology. Evgen has around twenty years of experience in professional communications, developing security systems for mission-critical projects in the United States, Europe and the Middle East.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Patents - protection and attacking
- Providing security solutions for Microsoft
- Smart Contract Audits by Certik
- Cross-chain token lifecycle management
- Launchpads
- Giving locked tokens to users
- Key drivers of user adoption
- Removing barriers to entry
- Keeping communities engaged in bear markets

Kaizen.Finance
Website: kaizen.finance
Twitter: @kaizen_finance
Telegram: @KaizenFinance

Evgen Verzun
Website: evgenverzun.com
LinkedIn: Evgen Verzun
Twitter: @Evgen_AI

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#157: Jacob Robinson on Crypto Law

Thu, 01 Sep 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Jacob Robinson is the host of the Law of Code podcast, Director of Operations at the DAO Research Collective, and an incoming associate in the FinTech group at McCarthy Tétrault LLP.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Brock University
- University Exchange programs
- Crypto law
- Recent undertakings from Canadian exchanges
- Canadian web3 council
- NFTs being securities
- NFT contracts regarding IP and art
- Law of Code
- DAO Research Collective
- Lessons from Podcasting
- Bitcoin being the best DAO
- Golf Talk
- Hot Takes

#156: Wayne Marcel on Crypto for Beginners and FIO Protocol

Mon, 29 Aug 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Wayne Marcel is the Head of Business Development for the Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO). Wayne has been managing, teaching, and coaching high performing teams for over 20 years. In 2016, his passion for helping and teaching people was merged with his passion for technology as he dove into learning about cryptocurrency and blockchain. He published a book in 2018 called “From No Crypto To Know Crypto” and hosted over 140 educational podcast episodes under same name. Since then he has dedicated himself to working with projects that make using cryptocurrency easier for all.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Getting into crypto back in 2016
- Understanding crypto
- How does money work?
- Basics of blockchain
- Taking out the middle man
- Radical Transparency
- ETH for beginners
- Stablecoins = mass adoption
- NFTs for beginners
- NFTs giving power to the creator/artist
- FIO driving mass adoption
- Where to learn more about crypto

FIO
Website: fioprotocol.io
Twitter: @joinFIO
LinkedIn: FIO Protocol

Wayne Marcel
Twitter: @blockchaynwayne
Instagram: @blockchainwayne

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#155: Josh Katz on Music NFTs and YellowHeart

Thu, 25 Aug 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Josh Katz is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of YellowHeart, the premiere NFT marketplace for ticketing, music, and community tokens. With upwards of 25 years of experience in the music industry, Josh began his career at Arista Records and Jive Records, working with breakthrough artists like the Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears. In 2004, Josh founded El Media Group, a company providing premiere music curations for hospitality and retail brands at exclusive venues like Nobu and Tao. In 2017, Josh decided to marry his love for music with a newfound passion for crypto, launching YellowHeart. The company was the first to ever release an NFT album and tickets on the blockchain with Kings of Leon and has since partnered with major artists such as Maroon 5, Julian Lennon, Jerry Garcia, and ZHU, among others.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Working with Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears
- Curating music fo Nobu and Tao
- Travelling the world and visiting the nicest hotels, clubs and restaurants
- Ticketing being super boring
- No innovation in the ticket industry
- Solving ticket fraud
- Including ticket sale royalties back to the artists
- NFTs as ticket stubs = digital collectibles
- Proven ownership
- Partnership with MGM Grand Casinos
- The meaning behind yellow heart
- Working with world class artists
- Building communities with blockchain technology

YellowHeart
Website: yh.io
Twitter: @YellowHeartNFT
Instagram: @yellowheartnft
Discord: discord.gg/bKEp5p96GE

Josh Katz
Twitter: @JoshkatzYh
LinkedIn: Josh Katz

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#154: Saro McKenna on Alien Worlds, Blockchain Games and DAOs

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Saro McKenna is the Co-Founder of Alien Worlds, one of the world’s most popular blockchain games. She has bridged traditional business practices with decentralized communities and concepts since the early days of cryptocurrency. Prior to this, Saro spent more than four years in M&A at Rothschild in London and has represented equity on Boards of Directors. Saro also holds an MA Hons from Oxford University where she was a Mrs. JH McKeown scholar.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Life at Oxford University
- Jump from trad-fi to Web3
- Inspo behind Alien Worlds
- Using NFTs as in-game objects
- DAOs = more people to grow the system
- OMA3, the open metaverse alliance for web3
- Gaming mechanics on chain
- Future use cases for applications within the metaverse
- Future of web3 gaming

Alien Worlds
Website: alienworlds.io
Twitter: @AlienWorlds
Instagram: @alienworlds.io
Discord: discord.io/alienworldsofficial

Saro McKenna
LinkedIn: Saro M.

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#153: Paolo Ardoino on Tether, Bitfinex and Keet.io

Thu, 18 Aug 2022 03:00:00 -0400

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Visiting Italy
- Keet.io
- DHT - Distributed Hash Table
- Holepunch
- Swarming
- Live data streaming
- Crypto payment adoption for nations
- Bitfinex Pay
- Tether ($USDT)

Keet.io
Website: keet.io
Twitter: @keet_io
Discord: @Holepunch

Bitfinex
Website: bitfinex.com
Twitter: @bitfinex
Instagram: @bitfinex

Paolo Ardoino
Twitter: @paoloardoino
GitHub: @prdn
LinkedIn: Paolo Ardoino

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#152: Jesse Tutt on Crypto SEO

Mon, 15 Aug 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Jesse is the Founder of Guru SEO and Web Design, a digital marketing agency based in Canada that has successfully helped organizations rank at the top of Google. Jesse also leads the innovative IT Intelligent Automation team at Alberta Health Services (Canada's 5th largest organization). He is an IT leader with 20 years of experience and his background is focused on automation (robotic process automation, software development, ETL processes, digital marketing (SEO and web development), artificial intelligence (A.I.), and analytics (+200 dashboards measuring the performance of AHS' 2,700 person IT team and the $1.6B Epic program).

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Crypto in Canada
- SEO
- Ahrefs
- Backlinks
- Compressing images
- Crypto/blockchain SEO
- Working with cryptonews.com
- Solchicks, Catheon Gaming
- Fishing + other hobbies
- NFTs
- Journey into crypto
- Favorite pieces of software/technology

Guru SEO Services
Website: guruseoservices.com
Twitter: @GuruSEOService
LinkedIn: Guru SEO and Web Design Services

Jesse Tutt
Twitter: @jessetutt
LinkedIn: Jesse Tutt

#151: Sakhib Waseem on Blockchain Regulation and Astra Protocol

Thu, 11 Aug 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Sakhib Waseem is Chief Technology Officer and Chief Innovation Officer of Astra Protocol as well as a board member and Chief Innovation Officer for the technology group Proof of Trust and is an active thought leader in the blockchain sector. Throughout his career, he worked with a number of top-tier financial institutions leading technology-driven projects from inception including; Bank of America, MBNA, and National Australia Group. Sakhib has also played a leading role in the development of specialist technology and reporting analysis for the Financial Conduct Authority and the Central Bank of Ireland, leading high-impact projects for automated reporting tools. His accomplishments have been recognized by way of several awards in the financial services industry.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Crypto in Dubai
- Blackrock and CoinBase partnership
- How to get your parents in crypto
- Transparent regulation
- KYC, KYB, AML
- DLN - Decentralized Legal Network
- Decentralized compliance layers
- Partnerships with Limechain and Concise Software
- Bridging the gap between regulators and innovation
- Equipping all DeFi with a decentralized compliance layer

Astra Protocol
Website: astraprotocol.com
Twitter: @AstraProtocol
Telegram: @Astra_Protocol

Sakhib Waseem
Twitter: @SakhibWaseem
LinkedIn: Sakhib Waseem

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#150: Jesse Knutson on STOs and Bitfinex

Mon, 08 Aug 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Jesse Knutson is Head of Operations at Bitfinex Securities, a regulated security token platform offering issuers and traders access to capital and tokenized securities. Jesse started his career in traditional finance having worked at global investment banks including Barclays and Macquarie. Prior to joining Bitfinex Securities, Jesse was VP of Financial Products at Blockstream where he worked on developing and distributing financial products built on Bitcoin and backed by Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining. Jesse is also the host of the Blockstream Talk podcast.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The Blockstream Mining Note
- The current state of the STO industry
- The opportunity for STOs
- The benefits for issuers / investors
- Accredited investor rules
- Regulatory environment
- Bitfinex Securities' pipeline of assets
- Bitcoin mining
- Living in Taiwan

Bitfinex
Website: bitfinex.com
Twitter: @bitfinex
Instagram: @bitfinex

Jesse Knutson
Twitter: @KnutsonJesse
LinkedIn: Jesse Knutson

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#149: Alex Zinder & Joel Edgerton on Securely Scaling Web3

Thu, 04 Aug 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Ledger Enterprise is a global technology provider empowering organizations to participate in the digital asset ecosystem securely and at scale.

Alex Zinder became the Head of Ledger Enterprise in March 2021 after almost two decades in capital markets technology. He brings more than 15 years of experience in driving the adoption of emerging technologies in major financial services organizations. Alex previously worked at Nasdaq as director of global software development and associate VP of enterprise architecture roles.

Joel Edgerton is the Head of Americas for Ledger Enterprise where he is responsible for overseeing clients' strategic growth in the United States, Canada, and Latin America. He joined Ledger Enterprise in September 2021 and previously served as COO and Board of Directors of bitFlyer. He has over 17 years of experience in traditional finance and insurance through State Steet, Citigroup, and BNP Paribas.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Moving from banks to Web3
- NFTs - the creation of value
- Security at scale
- Security at the edges
- Not your keys, not your coins
- Ledger NFT marketplace
- Growth of crypto hardware
- Teddy bear market, not a bear market

Ledger Enterprise
Website: enterprise.ledger.com
Twitter: @ledger_business
LinkedIn: Ledger Enterprise

Alex Zinder
Twitter: @AlexZINDER3
LinkedIn: Alex Zinder

Joel Edgerton
Twitter: @JoelE_W3
LinkedIn: Joel Edgerton

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#148: Thibault Perreard on DeFi, StakeFi and Sharing Liquidity

Mon, 01 Aug 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Thibault Perreard is an expert in the DeFi and StakeFi field, driving the strategy of the top cross-chain liquid staking solution: Bifrost. Working closely with Kusama and Polkadot, Thibault and his team launched liquid derivatives of assets such as KSM, DOT, MOVR, and more, whilst their Slot Auction Liquidity Protocol has already helped secure 10 Polkadot and 11 Kusama parachian slots for various projects (including Moonbeam).

With years of experience in traditional finance, leading business development initiatives for a Swiss boutique currency overlay company with $30bn in currency overlay assets, Thibault saw the future of finance in crypto, especially cross-chain DeFi. He joined Bifrost as Head of Strategy in his mission to build the decentralized future for investing solutions.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Current overall crypto market
- Thoughts on the bear market
- How can we build in this bear market
- Creating standardized derivatives
- Cross-chain
- Sharing liquidity
- DeFi - themes, and trends
- DeFi vs. Staking
- Intro to Bifrost
- vToken
- Tokenizing real-world assets

Bifrost
Website: bifrost.finance
Twitter: @bifrost_finance
Telegram: @bifrost_finance

Thibault Perreard
Twitter: @Titi1P
LinkedIn: Thibault Perréard

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#147: Nayana Singh on Bringing Web3 Mainstream

Thu, 28 Jul 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Nayana Singh is the General Manager of Product at ConsenSys. She is responsible for the development strategy for NFTs. Before ConsenSys, she worked at Microsoft for 10+ years in Product Management and Product Planning where she was also one of the first product managers focused on developing blockchain services focused on Tokens. She has nearly two decades of experience in product management and software development. Nayana holds an MS in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Working at Microsoft
- NFTs as a bridge to web2
- Women in web3
- Infura NFT API Beta Release Launch at NFT.NYC
- APIs Will be Used to Curate NFT User Experiences
- Low/No Code Offerings are the Keys to Bringing Web3 Mainstream
- Blockchain Firms are Prioritizing DE&I but More Must be Done (Women in Tech)
- Intro to web3 tech stack

ConsenSys
Website: consensys.net
Twitter: @ConsenSys
Instagram: @consensysofficial
LinkedIn: ConsenSys

Nayana Singh
Twitter: @nayanasingh
LinkedIn: Nayana Singh

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#146: Michael Rubinelli on Wax Studios and Play-to-Own Gaming

Mon, 25 Jul 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Michael Rubinelli is the Chief Gaming Officer at WAX Studios. He's a technology & gaming leader with 15+ years of progressive experience in executive leadership, product development, and continual revenue growth and is renowned for his success at top corporations (including Disney, THQ, and Electronic Arts). Michael has now turned his attention to Play-to-Earn games and spends most of his time expanding the Gaming Division of WAX Blockchain.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Sports stories from days at Electronic Arts
- Blockchain Sports games + ecosystems
- WAX blockchain
- Giving people a better use of their free time
- Selling engagement and entertainment
- Earning is not the goal, it’s a result
- Play-to-own > play-to-earn
- Social good from blockchain gaming
- 13.3 million WAX accounts

WAX
Website: on.wax.io
Twitter: @WAX_io
Instagram: @wax.nft
Discord: discord.gg/WAXBlockchain

Michael Rubinelli
Twitter: @MikeRubinelli
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/michael-rubinelli-gaming

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#145: David Shin on the Future of Gaming on the Blockchain

Thu, 21 Jul 2022 03:00:00 -0400

David Shin is the Head of Global Adoption for Klaytn, the blockchain arm of Kakao - Korea’s Internet technology giant. He is a dynamic Entrepreneur and a successful Investment Banker (IB) turned Blockchain Evangelist.

He has helped establish numerous nonprofits across Asia - facilitating conversations between local entities and governments around the cryptocurrency/blockchain topic. David is also an advisor to various organisations, including Interstellar, Bantu Blockchain Foundation, and Stanford University. He has also consulted numerous Financial Institutions on blockchain implementation projects and Central Banks on the viability and impact of CBDCs.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Creating horizontal verticals between gaming
- High food prices in 2023, potentially bring worse than oil
- OpenSea partnership to expand the asian NFT ecosystem
- Growth of super app e-commerce in Asia
- Use cases of CBDCs
- David’s book, coming out in 2023
- Interoperability in NFTs
- Future of blockchain gaming

Klaytn
Website: klaytn.foundation
Twitter: @klaytn_official
Instagram: @klaytnofficial
Discord: discord.io/KlaytnOfficial

David Shin
Twitter: @shin_novation
Linked: linkedin.com/in/david-shin

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#144: Richard Levin on Bear Markets, Liquidations and Getting Paid in Crypto

Mon, 18 Jul 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Richard Levin is the VP of Global Sales at cryptonews.com, one of the largest global crypto media organizations. Richard is also the Founder of seedsecure.io.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Building in a bear market
- Growing cryptonews.com into a top 10 media outlet
- Getting paid in crypto
- Growth of USDT TRC-20
- Crypto events
- DeFi still buzzing
- 3AC founders going missing
- Celsius and Alex Mashinsky
- BTC & ETH
- SOL, AVAX, NEAR, ATOM
- CityVerse
- Life in NYC
- Seed Secure

Cryptonews
Website: cryptonews.com
Twitter: @cryptonews
Telegram: @cryptonews_official
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/cryptonewscom

Richard Levin
Twitter: @BonjourBitcoin
LinkedIn: Richard Levin

Seed Secure
Website: seedsecure.io

CityVerse
Website: cityverse.gg
Twitter: @NYCityverse

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#143: Dominic Law on Neopets Metaverse and NFTs

Thu, 14 Jul 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Dominic Law is the Chief Metaverse Officer of Neopets Metaverse, a community-driven, Web3 game built for generations of Neopets players: past, present, and future. Building on the nostalgia of the hit online site, Neopets Metaverse allows players to interact with their beloved Neopets in both classic and new ways.

Dominic has a passion for community building & consumer technology, joined NetDragon (the group behind Neopets) in 2020, bringing his expertise and leadership into the realm of blockchain opportunities.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Living in Hong Kong
- Neopets brand pivot
- Neopets Metaverse
- Highlights from NFT NYC
- Web3 growth hacks
- Neopets free-to-play game
- Game dynamics (pet caring, bank, neohome, etc)
- Land sale + beta launch
- The move into crypto
- Current crypto market sentiment

Neopets Metaverse
Website: neopetsmeta.io
Twitter: @NeopetsMeta
Discord: discord.gg/neopets-metaverse
Instagram: @neopetsmetaverse
Medium: neopetsmetaverse.medium.com

Dominic Law
Twitter: @llldomlll
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/domlaw

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#142: Blaise, Bryan and Bryce on Media3, Hollywood Web3 Synergies and Clubhouse Pictures

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 03:00:00 -0400

RUNNER is a media3 NFT project of a futuristic world where speed is the currency of power and four nations compete for this power by becoming the fastest in the ultimate race - the Omega Race.

Blaise Hemingway, Bryan Unkeless and Bryce Anderson are the Co-Creators of RUNNER. Bryan is a producer and founder of Clubhouse Pictures that has a track record of producing high-quality content such as Birds of Prey, I, Tonya, Bright, Dollface, and Kate. Previously, he spearheaded the development and co-produced the record-setting phenomenon The Hunger Games series. Bryce is the Production Executive at Clubhouse Pictures and has worked on titles like Kate, Birds of Prey, and I, Tonya. Blaise is a screenwriter and producer best known for Clifford the Big Red Dog, Vampires vs. the Bronx, and The Settlers of Catan.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Media3
- Synergies between Hollywood and Web3
- Clubhouse Pictures
- The creative process
- How NFTs will change story telling
- RUNNER
- Metaversal
- Launching NFT projects
- Having control and interactivity over stories
- Creating the Sandbox, not the sand castle

Runner
Website: omegaxrunner.xyz
Twitter: @omegaxrunner
Discord: discord.gg/tjNKzzm8vh

Metaversal
Twitter: @HelloMetaversal
Website: metaversal.gg

Bryan Unkeless
Twitter: @omegaXbryan

Bryce Anderson
Twitter: @brycebanderson

Blaise Hemingway
Twitter: @TheHemiSphere

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#141: Voyage in Paradise on Web3 Music, Rave Republic and Plastik Funk

Thu, 07 Jul 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Catheon Gaming’s Voyage in Paradise ‘VIP’ project is the world's first "Listen-to-earn" model. VIP is a collection of VIP NFTs granting holders members-only benefits with the associated artists.

Rave Republic is Asia's biggest DJ duo. Founded by Stas Madorski who left the Fortune 500 company, P&G, to start his entrepreneurial project. Stas is one of the most eclectic and adaptable DJs, owing in part to his strong musical education as well as being a producer signed to Warner Music. The other half of Rave Republic is Mathias Schell who has over 10 years of DJing, all across the world. Matt, as a solo artist, has been involved in big scale projects such as being the music director at the US Open held in New York, music director for the WTA Finals in Singapore, as well as being a resident DJ in the best clubs in Singapore.

Plastik Funk has bought the heat to Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike’s Generation Smash and Don Diablo’s HEXAGON, as well as multi-track signings to Hardwell’s Revealed Recordings including a melding with Eastern artists for a three-pronged ‘Tribute To Asia’ EP. Plastik Funk also appeared on the mainstages of the world’s biggest club World Club Dome and Ultra Europe, as well as performing scorching live sets at some of the scenes' biggest and most exciting events including Tomorrowland and Parookaville.

Rave Republic (#86) and Plastik Funk (#80) are ranked in the top 100 DJ MAG 2022.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Listen-to-earn
- Web3 friction in the entertainment industry
- Voyage in Paradise
- How ViP works
- Solana
- Crazy DJ'ing stories
- Experience with Avicii
- ViP NFT
- Best track of Summer 2022

Voyage in Paradise
Website: voyageip.io
Twitter: @VoyageIP
Discord: @voyageinparadise

Rave Republic - Stas Madorski and Mathias Schell
Twitter: @RaveRepublic
Instagram: @raverepublic
Facebook: Rave Republic

Plastik Funk
Instagram: @plastikfunk

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#140: Austin MVG Hells on Discord, Ecotars NFTs and Building Communities

Mon, 04 Jul 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Austin MVG Hells is Active Duty Military specializing in cyber security. Hells also does professional discord and community management for NFT projects like Ecotars and Heroes of the MetaVerse. Hells has been in IT for 12 years and loves working on systems.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Military life
- Stories from the military
- Journey into crypto
- Ecotars NFTs
- Discord
- How to become a mod
- Security best practices
- Heroes of the MetaVerse
- MVG Charity

Ecotars
Website: ecotars.com
Twitter: @ecotars
Discord: discord.gg/ecotars

Austin MVG Hells
Twitter: @MVG_Hells
Instagram: @mvg_hells
Twitch: twitch.tv/MVG_Hells
Youtube: youtube.com/c/MVGHells

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#139: Anna Trinh on Managing Risk, Regulation and Aquanow

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Anna Trinh is the Chief Compliance Officer of Aquanow and also brings over 15 years of legal experience providing advice and counsel to technology startups in all areas of corporate and securities law - with a particular focus on regulatory compliance. She received her Bachelor of Commerce degree in Finance, and her Bachelor of Laws from the University of British Columbia - and plans to complete the 6 major marathons prior to the Flippening.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Running the 6 major marathons
- Regulatory environment in Canada
- Crypto in Canada
- 2 way convos with regulators
- Canadian Web3 council
- Builders building in bear markets
- Manage risk in uncertain regulatory environments
- Hiring Web3 lawyers
- Bear market advice

Aquanow
Website: aquanow.io
Twitter: @getaquanow
LinkedIn: Aquanow

Anna Trinh
LinkedIn: Anna Trinh
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#138: Hang Zhang on Sing-to-Earn NFTs and Seoul Stars

Mon, 27 Jun 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Hang Zhang is the interim Chief Marketing Officer at Catheon Gaming and Co-CEO of Seoul Stars. Prior to his time at Catheon, Hang has led operations and scaled various growth technology companies. He has extensive experience leading strategy departments in major financial services organizations. He was previously also a Manager at McKinsey, the leading global management consulting firm. Hang studied Computer Science at the University of Queensland, and subsequently his MBA at Michigan University

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Bear market best practices
- Seoul Stars Kpop NFTs
- Shipping great products
- Sing-to-Earn
- Yuna, the first digital kpop idol
- Growing socials to 100k+
- Selling 5k NFTs for $2mm
- 3D Virtual idol
- American Idol" style Korean TV show

Seoul Stars
Website: seoulstars.io
Twitter: @SeoulStarsNFT
Instagram: @seoulstarsnft

Hang Zhang
LinkedIn: Hang Z.

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#137: Brendan O'Flaherty on Building Smart Contracts, Solidity and NFTs

Thu, 23 Jun 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Brendan O'Flaherty, or as he is known in NFT circles, “Bread”, is a Web3 developer and smart contract author. Living in Colorado with his wife and 5 year old son, Bread quickly garnered attention from various blockchain based startups with his ability to incorporate complex blockchain based concepts to solve Web2 problems and reduce points of friction for various companies.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Best resources to become a web3 dev
- Learning basic c++
- Only 8k solidity devs in the world
- NFT tech stack
- Tweaking existing contracts
- Free NFT mints
- no code / low code solutions
- NFT NYC
- Baked Blue Jays NFTs

Baked Blue Jays
Website: bakedbluejays.io
Twitter: @bakedbluejays
Discord: @bakedbluejays

Brendan O'Flaherty
Twitter: @_bcbread

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#136: Dan Reitzik on Virtual Land, Metaverses and Terrazero

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Dan Reitzik is the Chief Executive Officer of Terrazero. Dan was the Co-Founder and CEO of DMG Blockchain Solutions (TSXV-DMGI) from 2016 until March 2021 when he left DMG to launch TerraZero Technologies. When Dan founded DMG, cryptocurrency was in its infancy, and at that time, while most people didn’t understand crypto currency, Dan knew that it would eventually change how many people would transact in the future. Dan believes the Metaverse is the next significant evolution to occur as a result of blockchain technology.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Metaverse world agnostic
- Metaverse being the internet in 1993
- E-commerce presence in the metaverse
- Gaming vs meetings vs socializing
- Centralized vs decentralized worlds
- Renting land in the metaverse
- Launching amadea.com in 1-2 months
- Tools that create interoperability between metaverses
- Creating ticketing systems for the metaverse
- Metaverse is the blending of the real world and virtual world
- AR glasses coming out Q4 this year
- Utility tokens and utility NFTs

TerraZero
Website: terrazero.com
Twitter: @terrazerotech
Discord: discord.gg/Xu9nkNxqWW

Dan Reitzik
LinkedIn: Dan Reitzik

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#135: Charles Stanton on Web3 Branding, Forj and Animoca Brands

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Charles Stanton is the CMO at Forj (formerly Bondly), which is the parent brand of MetaPrints and PolkaPet World.

Charles has years of experience leading digital marketing and campaigns for some of the biggest brands in the UK including KPMG, The National Lottery, BUPA and British Gas. Recognized through multiple awards including the Social Media Marketing Awards UK, and an international award for Innovation, he is passionate about bringing brands and mainstream audiences into Web3 through Forj.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Bondly rebrand to Forj
- Qualitative aspects of onboarding
- Why the name Forj?
- Rebranding 101
- Airdropping tokens on different chains
- Future of the metaverse = values over branding
- Metaprints
- Animoca Brands

Forj
Website: forj.network
Twitter: @ForjOfficial

Metaprints
Website: metaprints.com
Twitter: @Metaprints
Discord: discord.gg/kpqP9MQ7vn

Charles Stanton
Twitter: @Chas_Stanton
LinkedIn: Charles Stanton

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#134: Clayton Roche on DAOs, Web3 and UMA

Mon, 13 Jun 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Clayton Roche is the Head of Community Development at UMA (Universal Market Access). He has been working in DeFi since 2019, well before that term made the cover of The Economist magazine. He was also a country ambassador for MakerDAO, community manager for a DAI wallet called Mosendo, and started a DeFi community called DeFi Nation.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- CoinMarketCap Online Conference
- Costa Rica
- Building in a bear market
- Optimistic Oracles
- Tech stack of DAOs
- Consensus mechanisms
- The Future of DAOs
- Outcome.finance

UMA
Website: umaproject.org
Twitter: @UMAprotocol
Discord: discord.com/UMA

Clayton Roche
Twitter: @TokenArchitect
LinkedIn: Clayton Roche
Instagram: @claytonroche

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#133: William Wu on P2E Gaming, SolChicks and Catheon Gaming

Thu, 09 Jun 2022 03:00:00 -0400

William Wu is the Founder of Catheon Gaming, a team of 200+ people, behind a number of GameFi projects including SolChicks, SeoulStars and Angrymals. SolChicks became the #1 play-to-earn game on Solana within 3 months of launch, raising $55m and listing at a peak diluted market capitalization of $8 billion. Prior to his ventures, he was a Vice President at Oaktree Capital, $120 billion asset manager owned by Brookfield Asset Management.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Covid-19 in China
- World's largest distressed investor
- SOL vs ETH
- The future of P2E gaming
- Growing from 1-200+ people in less than 6 months
- Converting web2 legacy companies to web3
- Building a web3 one-stop-shop
- Working with BP

Catheon Gaming
Website: catheongaming.com
Twitter: @CatheonGaming
LinkedIn: Catheon Gaming

William Wu
Twitter: @SirWilliamWu
LinkedIn: William Wu

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#132: Koh Kim on Working for Google, Mysten Labs and Building Another Layer 1 Blockchain

Mon, 06 Jun 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Koh Kim is the Head of Ecosystem Partnerships and Marketing at Mysten Labs, a Web 3.0 infrastructure company. Previously, she was part of the Google Play Games Business Development team where she led international market strategy and industry influencer outreach.

As one of the key early members of the team since the platform’s rebranding in 2012, she helped expand Google Play’s reach and relationships with video game and tech companies from all over the world, cultivated local developer communities, and improved the platform’s perception dramatically.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Early days at Google
- Working in crypto
- Mysten Labs
- Sui, building another layer1
- Solidity devs ... only 8k in the world
- Shortage of web3 developers
- Crypto in 2022

Mysten Labs
Website: mystenlabs.com
Twitter: @Mysten_Labs
Discord: discord.gg/Sui

Koh Kim
Website: kohkim.com
Twitter: @kohkim
LinkedIn: Koh Kim

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#131: Derek Yoo on Polkadot, Layer Zero and MoonBeam

Thu, 02 Jun 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Derek Yoo is CEO & Founder of Moonbeam, a layer-1 blockchain providing native interoperability and prioritizing secure cross-chain integration solutions. Previously, Derek co-founded and served as CTO of Fuze, where he led the product and engineering teams in the creation of a global Unified Communications-as-a-Service cloud platform.

As a professional tech entrepreneur with over two decades of success building software and cloud companies, Derek can speak to the importance of blockchain infrastructure to eliminate operational complexity and allow developers to focus on building unique applications and projects.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Software eating the world
- Community computers
- Tech stacks over blockchains for longevity
- Fireblocks integration
- DeFi activity on Moonbeam
- Gaming NFTs
- Chainlink
- "Fully Ethereum Compatible"

Moonbeam
Website: moonbeam.network
Twitter: @MoonbeamNetwork
Youtube: youtube.com/MoonbeamNetwork

Derek Yoo
Twitter: @derekyoo
LinkedIn: Derek Yoo

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#130: Ganesh Swami on Granular Historical Data, Covalent and NFTs

Mon, 30 May 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Ganesh Swami is a serial entrepreneur, adventurer, and speaker. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of Covalent – a venture-funded blockchain data analytics startup based out of Vancouver, BC. He has over a decade of experience with database technology and bringing new products to market. His current focus with Covalent is to solve the big problems inhibiting blockchain's mainstream adoption. He started his career in building protein simulation algorithms to solve cancer.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Building protein simulation algorithms to solve cancer
- How P2E games are becoming such a hot topic and what we found in our analysis
- Why people need granular, historical data, and how accessible they are
- How developers and analysts can use our Unified API for free, without coding
- How Covalent help with TAX seasons
- What is on-chain analysis, why do people need them
- Granular, historical data, and how accessible they are
- $25mil in funding to data verification space

Covalent
Website: covalenthq.com
Twitter: @Covalent_HQ
Discord: covalenthq.com/discord

Ganesh Swami
Twitter: @gane5h
LinkedIn: Ganesh Swami

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#129: Tracy Leparulo on Crypto in Canada, ETH and Blockchain Futurist Conference

Thu, 26 May 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Tracy Leparulo is the Founder of Untraceable Events and Founder of the Blockchain Futurist Conference. Since 2013, Tracy has been at the forefront of building communities for leading blockchain projects including Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Polymath. In 2017, she organized Ethereum’s largest Hackathon ETH Waterloo, where Cryptokitties launched while also witnessing their NFT’s crash the Ethereum Network.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Crypto in Canada
- Untraceable Events funny stories
- Blockchain Futurist Conference
- Ins-and-outs of planning crypto conferences
- Present day crypto + NFT landscape
- How to get world class speakers at your events
- Everyone thinking they're an expert
- Toronto crypto events

Untraceable Events
Website: untraceableinc.com
Twitter: @untraceableinc
Facebook: @untraceableinc

Blockchain Futurist Conference
Website: futuristconference.com
Twitter: @futurist_conf

Tracy Leparulo
Twitter: @tracyleparulo
LinkedIn: Tracy Leparulo
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#128: Mattias Tengblad on NFTs and the 4 Pillars of the Music Industry

Mon, 23 May 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Mattias Tengblad is the co-founder and CEO of CORITE. He is a Universal Music Group and MTG alumni and an experienced entrepreneur with over 20 years of unique management, business development, and marketing experience from telecom and gaming to music and media – industries that have all been through radical transformations into digital.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Strengthening the community of artist, fans, backers, investors
- Working in the music industry
- Revolutionizing the music industry
- Production, distribution, marketing, financing
- The mantra of Corite, fan power is the key
- How artists can mint NFTs
- 1000 true fans
- SociaFi era: how social media giants speed up NFT mass adoption.

Corite
Website: corite.com
Twitter: @Coritecom
Instagram: @corite

Mattias Tengblad
Twitter: @TengbladMattias
Instagram: @mattias_tengblad
LinkedIn: Mattias Tengblad

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#127: Paul and Julian Zehetmayr on LimeWire NFTs

Thu, 19 May 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Paul Zehetmayr, LimeWire CEO, is an entrepreneur with a proven track record in business, and a background in programming and economy. Him and his brother Julian co-founded Stack Holdings, a Vienna-based SaaS portfolio company, including eversign, invoicely and ZeroSSL, used by over one million B2B customers worldwide. His previous company, apilayer, was acquired by the Texan company Idera in 2021. As the CEO of Stack Holdings, Paul not only led business development and growth, but also product development.

Julian Zehetmayr, LimeWire CEO, is a founder covering business operations, market strategy and product development. He, alongside his brother Paul, is the co-founder and CEO of Stack Holdings, a company with two SaaS products: invoicely.com, eversign.com and ZeroSSL with more than one million B2B customers around the world. In 2021 he sold his company apilayer, which has a portfolio of productivity-boosting Web APIs & cloud-based microservice applications to leading Texan company Idera.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The story behind the Limewire business pivot
- The re-launch and repositioning of the brand
- Recent private token sale
- How the brand was once a major player in the media
- Algorand partnership
- co-CEO roles
- NFTs and the music industry
- How NFTs are affecting media

LimeWire
Website: limewire.com
Twitter: @limewire
Instagram: @limewire

Paul Zehetmayr
Twitter: @PZehetmayr

Julian Zehetmayr
Twitter: @julianzehetmayr
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#126: Ethan Song on NFTs, Building Communities and RareCircles

Mon, 16 May 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Ethan Song is the co-founder of RareCircles and was previously the co-founder and CEO of Frank And Oak, a leading direct-to-consumer brand that won the Technology Fast 50 and Fast Company’s Most Innovative Company in Retail. Ethan is a thought leader and active angel investor in Web3, the creators economy and commerce enablement space.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Origin story of Frank and Oak
- Community first, sales second
- Should all brands partake in web3?
- Community and loyalty
- Having 1000 true fans
- Web3 = removing the middle man
- Owning the channels in which you communicate
- 2022 being the year of food and beverages NFTs
- integrating life into real life experiences
- Rarecircles
- NFTs and the future of utility

RareCircles
Website: rarecircles.com
Twitter: @rarecircles
Instagram: @rarecircles

Ethan Song
Website: ethansong.xyz
Twitter: @mrethansong

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#125: Kadan Stadelmann on AtomicDEXs, DeFi and Security

Thu, 12 May 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Kadan Stadelmann is a blockchain developer, operations security expert, and Chief Technology Officer of Komodo, Komodo a leader in blockchain interoperability and atomic swap technology. Its flagship technology and end-user application is AtomicDEX - a mobile and web-compatible non-custodial multi-coin wallet and atomic swap-powered DEX rolled into one dApp.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- How Kadan got into crypto
- Explaining DeFi to a 5yr old
- DeFi security best practices
- Trustless bridges being essential to crypto
- Explaining Atomic Dex’s to a 5yr old
- Building the world’s first web browser-based atomic swap
- Kadan’s predictions on the crypto industry in 2022
- Cosmos and NEAR

Komodo
Website: komodoplatform.com
Twitter: @KomodoPlatform
Discord: komodoplatform.com/discord

Kadan Stadelmann
Twitter: @0xca333
LinkedIn: Kadan Stadelmann

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#124: Yossi Hasson on Building an Open, Inclusive Metaverse

Mon, 09 May 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Yossi Hasson is the Co-founder and CEO of Metaversal. He is a venture-backed tech entrepreneur, gamer, an early adopter of blockchain, and has invested in over 60 startups and crypto protocols. Formerly Hasson served as the Managing Director of Techstars Blockchain and a Co-founder of SYNAQ. He sits on the board of WeThinkCode_ and hosts the podcast Goats and the Metaverse.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Building an open, inclusive metaverse
- @AndyTheNguyen founder of @BoredNHngry
- Commercial IP rights in NFTs
- Taking advantage of NFT royalties
- The moonbirds success story, from proof collective
- Metaversal's role as a curator of the metaverse
- Accelerating mass adoption
- MetaLetters DAO
- Goats and the metaverse podcast

Metaversal
Website: metaversal.gg
Twitter: @HelloMetaversal
Instagram: @hellometaversal
LinkedIn: Metaversal

Yossi Hasson
Twitter: @yossihasson
LinkedIn: Yossi Hasson
Instagram: @instayossi

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#123: David Canedo on Crypto & NFT Taxes

Thu, 05 May 2022 03:00:00 -0400

David is a Certified Public Accountant who specializes in taxation of digital assets (cryptocurrencies) and is currently serving as the U.S. Tax Specialist Product Manager at accointing.com, a company that provides tracking, consolidation, tax and compliance solutions for crypto investors.

Before joining Accointing, David spent his career across various roles in public accounting as well as corporate finance, at companies such as pwc, IBM, BMO Harris Bank and Wipfli. David started his career in audit at pwc, but decided to switch his focus to taxation early on as he transitioned to regional size firms and started working with closely held businesses and high net worth individuals.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Most common crypto tax questions
- How to get a tax extension
- Taxing NFTs
- Taxing nodes
- Staking and airdrops ... what's the play?
- 1099
- Accointing updates and news
- Defi protocols

Accointing
Website: accointing.com
Twitter: @accointing
Instagram: @accointing

David Canedo
Twitter: @badgerdave52
Telegram: t.me/DavidAC3
LinkedIn: David Canedo

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#122: Alan Chiu on ETH 2.0 and Layer 2 Rollups

Mon, 02 May 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Alan Chiu is the CEO/Founder Boba Network, a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 Optimistic Rollup scaling solution.

Alan has over two decades worth of experience building and investing in enterprise startups. Before founding Boba Network, Alan held a variety of roles in the tech/software realm including partner at XSeed Capital - an investment firm specializing in fintech, Director of Product Management at Bycast - a cloud storage company, and Software Developer at Creo - a digital prepress tech company.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Extending the benefits of crypto
- Scaling decentralized infrastructure
- BOBA’s recent launch of Hybrid compute
- ETH 2.0
- Gwei prices
- Giving developers more options

Boba Network
Website: boba.network
Twitter: @bobanetwork
Discord: boba.eco/discord

Alan Chiu
Twitter: @alanchiu
LinkedIn: Alan Chiu
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#121: Kayla Kroot on NFT Artists, the Attention Economy and Koii Network

Thu, 28 Apr 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Kayla Kroot is the Creative Director and Co-founder of Koii Network. Kayla is driven by a desire to enhance the experiences of modern digital consumers as they navigate the new internet. Her mission to bridge the gap between user experience and art began during her experience working with the Israeli Opera as a Prop and Set Designer. Prior to co-founding Koii Network, she was a freelance UX/Graphic Designer working for various tech brands. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis, and is currently based in Chicago, USA.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The importance of UX
- How artists can benefit from the Attention Economy
- NFT and the future of the NFT artist
- NFT mass adoption
- How artists can create and publish art that is better for artists
- How artists can maintain the rights to their work
- Women in Blockchain / Crypto
- The future of Web3

Koii Network
Website: koii.network
Twitter: @KoiiNetwork
LinkedIn: Koii.network

Kayla Kroot
Website: kaylakroot.com
Twitter: @kaylakroot
LinkedIn: Kayla Kroot

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#120: Hart Lambur on Oracles in Crypto

Mon, 25 Apr 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Hart Lambur is Co-Founder of UMA, a decentralized financial contracts platform where he leads a team of financial contract and oracle design researchers. He is also Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Risk Labs, the entity behind the UMA protocol.

Prior to this, Lambur served as the Chief Executive Officer of Openfolio, a personal finance tracking platform he co-founded in 2013. He also worked for Goldman Sachs, where he provided liquidity in US Treasuries for a diverse range of clients, including central banks, money managers, and hedge funds.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Canada being the crypto hub of the world
- Working for Goldman Sachs
- The power of DeFi
- Building in a bear market
- "Optimistic Oracle"
- Not being able to sue in crypto
- Minimizing the exploits in DeFi

UMA
Website: umaproject.org
Twitter: @UMAprotocol
Discord: discord.umaproject.org

Hart Lambur
Twitter: @hal2001
LinkedIn: Hart Lambur
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#119: Gwen Regina on BNB Chain's $1bn Fund

Thu, 21 Apr 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Gwen Regina heads BNB Chain (previously Binance Smart Chain) which is a $1Billion fund. Launched in 2021, the BNB Chain fund aims to bring 1 billion crypto users onboard, boosting the adoption of BNB Chain and the wider blockchain industry.

Her main responsibilities include streamlining processes around deal sourcing, investment strategy, portfolio management and growth. As a part of her role she invests in promising projects in the web3 and MetaFi space (GameFi, SocialFi, NFTs etc.), and leads the MVB incubation program.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Intro to BNB chain
- Advantages of BNB chain
- Global Hackathon with $10 Million in prizes and seed funding
- Binance rebrand to BNB
- DeFi League Initiative
- BNB Chain’s $1bn growth fund
- Working in Asia, Paris and Silicon Valley

BNB Chain
Website: bnbchain.world/en
Twitter: @BNBCHAIN
Discord: discord.gg/bnbchain

Gwen Regina
Website: gwendolynregina.com
Twitter: @gwendolynregina
LinkedIn: Gwendolyn Regina

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#118: Simon Yi on Growth Marketing Tactics and Clam Island

Mon, 18 Apr 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Simon Yi is Co-founder and Head of Growth at Clam Island. He has over a decade of experience serving as a growth marketing expert for venture funds and startup studios including Consensys Mesh, Expa, Betaworks and Human Ventures. Simon also serves as a growth marketing advisor for startups, incubators and venture funds throughout New York City.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- VaynerMedia back in the day
- Growth marketing tactics
- Doxing teams
- Finding users that have multiple ERC-721 wallets
- Actionable marketing advice
- Clam Island
- DAOs not really being DAOs

Clam Island
Website: clamisland.fi
Twitter: @clam_island
Discord: discord.gg/F4ak27n8Sh

Simon Yi
Twitter: @MysterYi
LinkedIn: Simon Yi

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#117: Warren Paul Anderson on Privacy, Zero Knowledge Proofs & 2011 Bitcoin Mining

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Warren Paul Anderson is VP of Product at Discreet Labs, which is developing Findora, a public blockchain with programmable privacy. Previously, Warren led products at Ripple for 4.5 years working on the XRP Ledger, Interledger, & PayString protocols, the RippleX platform, and RippleNet's On-Demand Liquidity enterprise product.

Prior to Ripple, in 2014 Warren co-founded Hedgy, one of the first DeFi platforms for derivatives using programmable, escrowed smart contracts on the Bitcoin blockchain. Warren has two bachelor's degrees from Northwestern University, and did graduate studies at Harvard University.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Mining in 2011
- Starting a DeFi company in 2014
- XRP - hating it or loving it
- Misconceptions about privacy in crypto
- Scaling in Privacy
- Lack of Hardware in crypto
- Programmable privacy

Discreet Labs
Website: discreetlabs.io
Twitter: @discreet_labs
LinkedIn: Discreet Labs

Findora
Website: findora.org
Twitter: @Findora

Warren Paul Anderson
Twitter: @warpaul
LinkedIn: Warren Paul Anderson

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#116: Mike Dickens on Sports x Crypto, Social Tokens and DeFi

Mon, 11 Apr 2022 04:00:00 -0400

Mike Dickens is the COO at Blockasset.co, a blockchain-based sports ecosystem that connects famous athletes, clubs, ticketing agencies, and fans.

Mike has worked for several successful startups in the UK, focussing primarily on Project Management and Product Marketing. Mike has managed teams and built systems to encourage effective communication and automate processes. Mike has been involved in crypto eco-systems and De-Fi since 2017 and is currently in his element working with athlete NFT collectibles.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Sports becoming a mass adoption catalyst for NFTs
- Building on Solana
- Social Tokens
- Partnering with UFC athletes
- NFT regulation and KYC
- Becoming a media company
- The future of DeFi

Blockasset
Website: blockasset.co
Twitter: @Blockassetco
Instagram: @blockasset

Mike Dickens
LinkedIn: Mike D.
Twitter: @MikeBlockasset

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#115: Gino LoPinto on E11EVEN and Building World-Class Brands

Thu, 07 Apr 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Gino LoPinto is an operating partner of E11EVEN Partners & co-developer of E11EVEN Residences Beyond. Gino was a New York native residing in Las Vegas for 38 years, he then moved to Miami to build and operate E11EVEN MIAMI. As the owner, creator, developer, and/or operator of the famous nightclub brands E11EVEN, Utopia, Metropolis, and Empire Ballroom, Gino is a true “BRAND ARCHITECT.”

He was responsible for introducing the EDM scene to the Las Vegas strip in the early ’90s with world-renowned DJ’s Tiesto, Erick Morillo, David Guetta, Kaskade, and many others. As the owner of Vegas Alliance, his company operated as the primary independent marketing arm for many of the nightlife groups and Casinos still thriving today.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Gino's baseball stories
- Building the E11EVEN brand
- Turning Spearmint Rhino into a world-class gentlemen's club
- Losing everything in the 2008 financial collapse
- Going crypto
- Drake Stories
- Bored Apes becoming a fashion statement
- E11EVEN purchasing a BAYC
- 11crypto.io

E11EVEN Miami
Website: 11miami.com
Instagram: @11miami
Facebook: @11Miami

E11EVEN Crypto
Website: 11captainsclub.io
Twitter: @11CaptainsClub
Instagram: @11captainsclub_

Gino LoPinto
Twitter: @Gino_LoPinto
Instagram: @gino_lopinto
LinkedIn: Gino LoPinto

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#114: Sue Ennis on Bitcoin Mining, Investor Relations and Hut 8 Mining

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Since 2016, Sue has steered under appreciated companies in the digital asset sector into multi-billion market cap opportunities and told some of Canada’s greatest emerging tech and innovation stories.

Prior to joining Hut 8, Sue worked with both start-ups and scale-ups in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance)
- Investor Relations being an under appreciated role
- Public companies with BTC on their balance sheet
- Current state of bitcoin mining
- Opportunities beyond mining and into web 3
- Hut 8 recent acquisition in the traditional data centre space
- P2E gaming
- Sue running marathons in Greenland and the Middle East
- The importance of lobbyists and regulation

Hut 8
Website: hut8mining.com
Twitter: @Hut8Mining
LinkedIn: Hut 8 Mining Corp.

Sue Ennis
Twitter: @bigsuey
LinkedIn: Suzanne Ennis

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#113: Josh Neuroth on Web 3 Infrastructure and ANKR

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Josh Neuroth is the Head of Product at Ankr, a Web3 infrastructure company based in San Francisco. Josh was previously the Sr. Director of Product & Marketing at Cyxtera Technologies and VP of Product at Inflect. His passions and professional experiences have inspired his mission to build a better and more open web.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Building a better and more open web
- ETH Denver
- Difference between web and internet
- $200 million+ in total value locked (TVL) in Ankr Earn
- ANKR’s role in the infrastructure community
- ANKR becoming one of top 5 BSC and ETH 2.0 validators

Ankr
Website: ankr.com
Twitter: @ankr
Discord: discord.gg/uYaNu23Ww7

Josh Neuroth
Website: joshneuroth.com
Twitter: @joshneuroth
LinkedIn: Josh Neuroth

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#112: Justas on CyberPigs NFTs & Building NFT Communities

Mon, 28 Mar 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Justas is CEO of CyberPigs, a first-of-its-kind NFT collection that derived from a science experiment gone wrong.

Justas is also owner and CEO of a digital marketing and creative agency that's built award winning campaigns for 15 years. His team has worked with some of the biggest companies in Europe and is currently working in crypto.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Growing NFT communities
- How to create an NFT image generator script
- The art of making beautiful promo videos
- CyberPigs 101
- Utility
- Staking, breeding and tokens
- Creating P2E games and material marketplaces
- IRL piggies live stream

CyberPigs
Website: cyberpigs.io
Twitter: @cyberpigsIO
Discord: discord.gg/cyberpigs

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#111: Tiffany Huang on Magic Eden, Solana’s Largest NFT Marketplace

Thu, 24 Mar 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Tiffany Huang is a global marketer who leads content and marketing at Magic Eden. She has spent half her life in the US and the other half in Asia.

Her responsibilities include supporting and amplifying NFT projects within the ecosystem, developing and building the voice of Magic Eden across channels, and co-leading Magic DAO.

Prior to Magic Eden, Tiffany was a Brand Director for Marriott International Asia Pacific and worked in Hong Kong for five years.

Her background also spans UX design and management consulting. She received her Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Michigan, is Taiwanese American, and has conversational proficiency in Mandarin.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- How to grow a community-based platform
- Solana NFTs
- Magic Eden’s DAO
- How to create greater utility out of NFTs
- The potential behind innovative art-based collections
- Community building in web3 and how we move from web2
- Championing and empowering women in blockchain
- Working in Hong Kong

Magic Eden
Website: magiceden.io
Twitter: @MagicEden
Instagram: @magiceden_nft
LinkedIn: Magic Eden

Tiffany Huang
Twitter: @bytheophana
LinkedIn: Tiffany Huang

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#110: Chris Adams on Dreamr and Launching a Token

Mon, 21 Mar 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Chris Adams is a serial entrepreneur with an unshakable belief in the limitless potential of the human spirit. He is the co-founder and CEO of Dreamr, a technology platform with the mission of making the pursuit of our biggest dreams and aspirations more practical. Chris is also the host of The Dreamr Podcast and is back for round two on the CryptoNews Podcast.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Mindset & the pursuit of dreams
- DMR token
- The importance of Tokenomics
- DreamStarter DAO
- Blockchain & Cryptocurrency
- Entrepreneurship
- Spirituality
- Parabolic growth on social media

Dreamr
Website: dreamuniverse.org
Twitter: @dreamr_app
Instagram: @dreamr.app

DreamStarter
Website: dreamstarter.co
Twitter: @DreamStarterDAO

Chris Adams
Twitter: @MrAbundance88
LinkedIn: Chris Adams

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#109: Tyler Mulvihill on the Future of Music NFTs and EulerBeats

Thu, 17 Mar 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Tyler Mulvihill is currently the Global Co-Head of NFTs at ConsenSys. In 2017, Tyler co-founded Treum, a blockchain-based platform that helps businesses build trust with their customers through tokenized non-fungible assets and verifiable product tracking/claims.

Tyler also co-founded EulerBeats in February 2021. Both EulerBeats and Treum were acquired by ConsenSys in October of 2021. Now, Tyler is helping facilitate EulerBeats' ongoing project, Futura, which is helping artists tokenize musical creations to source original mixes and royalties.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- ETH Denver
- Current state of NFTs and the crazy requirements for whitelists
- The future of the music industry
- ConsenSys Future Roadmap with NFT Operations
- The Bond Curve shoutout from Marc Cuban
- Run Down of the Futura Launch and the Experiential Live Event
- Golf talk + Links DAO
- Future Road Map for EulerBeats and Futura ... RemixStudio
- EulerBeats Artists

ConsenSys
Website: consensys.net
Twitter: @ConsenSys
Discord: discord.gg/bZwrf3x4Vs

Tyler Mulvihill
Twitter: @MulvihillTyler
LinkedIn: Tyler Mulvihill

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#108: Matt Gaser and Rolf Kvalvik on Dr. Zammsy NFTs, WAX and NFT Utility

Mon, 14 Mar 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Matt Gaser and Rolf Kvalvik are the creators of The Chronicles of Dr. Zammsy, a remarkable animated, story-driven card series on the WAX blockchain.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Entertainment industry moving towards games
- Dr. Zammsy NFT Set 3 launch
- Creating NFTs on WAX
- Utility = Gaming, staking, collecting
- How to market your NFT collection
- Dr. Z card game + 3D adventure game
- Animated Series development for Dr. Z

The Chronicles of Dr. Zammsy
Website: drzammsy.com
Twitter: @DrZammsy
Telegram: The Chronicles of Dr. Zammsy

Matt Gaser
Website: mattgaser.com
Twitter: @MattGaser
Instagram: mattgaser

Rolf Kvalvik
Twitter: @WarsWax

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#107: Sohrob Farudi on Fan Controlled Football (FCF)

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 03:00:00 -0500

Sohrob Farudi is the co-founder and CEO of Fan Controlled Football (FCF), the only professional sports league that empowers fans to make the key decisions for their favorite team.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- FCF origin story
- Sohrob's crypto background
- Season 2.0
- FCF NFT Drop
- $40M Series A announcement
- Partnering with bluechip NFT brands

Fan Controlled Football (FCF)
Website: fcf.io
Twitter: @fcflio
Discord: discord.gg/fcf

Sohrob Farudi
Twitter: @sohrobf
LinkedIn: Sohrob Farudi

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#106: Yas on Galaxy Fight Club and Building the Super Smash Bros of the Metaverse

Mon, 07 Mar 2022 03:00:00 -0500

Yas also known as MX, is the CMO at Galaxy Fight Club. Yas has an extensive background in Marketing, especially in guerilla. He founded his first business right after graduating in Econometrics & Operations Research. Fast forward a couple of years and he joined Galaxy Fight Club on a mission to innovate the NFT space by building the first cross-IP PVP game.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Intro to Galaxy Fight Club
- Launching a successful NFT mint
- Game loop
- $GCOIN
- Partners/VCs/advisors
- Future plans for Galaxy Fight Club

Galaxy Fight Club
Website: galaxyfightclub.com
Twitter: @GalaxyFight_NFT
Discord: discord.gg/galaxyfightclub

Yas S
Twitter: @bizdevelo
LinkedIn: Yassin Soulimane

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#105: Christian Keroles on Bitcoin Fundamentals and BTC 2022 Conference in Miami

Thu, 03 Mar 2022 03:00:00 -0500

Christian Keroles, known by many as CK, is the Managing Director of Bitcoin Magazine, Co-Host of the Fed Watch Podcast and Advisor to the Bitcoin Advocacy Group. CK believes that the type of money society uses has massive downstream effects on human action. CK sees fiat money as being fundamentally broken and a huge part of the issues holding humanity back. Fix the money, fix the world is a well known motto among Bitcoiners and CK is on a mission to bring Bitcoin to the world as quickly as possible.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Bitcoin Fundamentals
- How to purchase BTC
- BTC price
- Bitcoin Mining
- Bitcoin and fundraising
- Bitcoin 2022 Conference in Miami
- Bitcoin Magazine and BTC Media Inc

Bitcoin Magazine
Website: bitcoinmagazine.com
Twitter: @BitcoinMagazine
Instagram: @bitcoinmagazine

Christian Keroles
Twitter: @ck_SNARKs
LinkedIn: Christian Keroles

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#104: Victor Zhang on The Future of Tokens and Bridging Web2 & Web3

Mon, 28 Feb 2022 03:00:00 -0500

Victor Zhang is the CEO of Smart Token Labs, where he’s building open-source, composable smart token bridges with TokenScript and AlphaWallet. The company has raised USD $6m for TokenScript, with investors Mark Cuban, Crypto.com Capital, Framework Ventures and Mechanism.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Programmable smart tokens
- The future of tokens
- Bridging web2 and web3
- Web2 being the on-ramp to web3
- TokenScript and AlphaWallet
- The transition from a wallet-centric mindset to a token-centric one
- Token-based incentives in web3 communities
- Web3 and its promises/potentials/pitfalls

Smart Token Labs
Website: smarttokenlabs.com
Token Script Twitter: @TokenScript
AlphaWallet Twitter: @AlphaWallet

Victor Zhang
Twitter: @Victor928
LinkedIn: Victor Zhang

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#103: Tim Boucher on Publishing Books as NFTs

Thu, 24 Feb 2022 03:00:00 -0500

Tim Boucher is the owner of Lost Books, an indie blockchain publishing company in Quebec, Canada. He is also a former content moderator and counter-disinformation researcher for a major social media platform, and has advised companies, non-profits, and governments on related issues.

Tim is helping other writers and artists move their work to the blockchain.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- How to move your writing/art to the blockchain
- Minting on Ethereum vs. Polygon (on OpenSea)
- Gumroad
- Utilizing coupons codes for NFTs
- How to use unlockable content in NFTs
- How to create value-added products: e.g., bundles or “box sets"
- Creating airdrops
- NFT book solutions
- File hosting and linking files to owner wallets

Lost Books
Website: lostbooks.ca
Medium: lostbooks.medium.com

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#102: Rob Frasca on Venture Capital in Crypto and COSIMO X

Mon, 21 Feb 2022 03:00:00 -0500

Rob Frasca is a serial entrepreneur, investor, visionary online pioneer and frequent speaker on blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Rob has founded and brought 3 venture-backed startups, to successful exits, and served as CEO of 4 companies.

Present day, Rob is the Managing Partner at COSIMO X.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Venture Capital (VC) in crypto
- COSIMO X being the world's first tokenized evergreen fund
- Blockchain; the next frontier in venture investing
- Casper Labs
- ndau & adaptives currencies
- Dusk Networks
- Hedera

COSIMO Ventures
Website: cosimox.com
Twitter: @COSIMOventures
LinkedIn: COSIMO Ventures

Rob Frasca
Twitter: @robfrasca
LinkedIn: Rob Frasca

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#101: Sven Wenzel on Castello Coin and the Big Golden Cube in NYC

Thu, 17 Feb 2022 03:00:00 -0500

Sven Wenzel is the founder of Castello Coin, a project that changed the way of investment in art. It will be the first coin in history to achieve its level of recognition through a unique, physical artwork, and thus will enjoy a unique position in the crypto world and the traditional world.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Castello coin
- The big golden cube in NYC
- Blockchain: new models of fair revenue distribution in the art world
- A guide to trading art in the world of blockchain
- Non-fungibles: disruptive tech or a fad?
- Mass adoption of crypto and NFTs

Castello Coin
Website: castellocoin.com
Twitter: @CastelloCoin
Instagram: @castellocoin

Sven Wenzel
LinkedIn: Sven Wenzel

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#100: OhMe OhMy on Solana NFTs and the SOL Ecosystem

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 03:00:00 -0500

Oh-Me Oh-My is currently the Co-COO of DigitalEyes (Solana's First Open NFT Marketplace), and currently heading up Strategy, Marketing and Community Management.

He’s also a Co-Founder and the Co-Head of Strategy of Rumble Worlds, an upcoming open metaverse on Solana, which has 80+ partner projects signed up to be onboarded so far.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- $SOL NFTs vs. $ETH NFTs
- Solana NFT ecosystem
- How to purchase $SOL NFTs
- Best $SOL NFT marketplaces
- Solarians, DigitalEyes and Rumble Worlds
- How to evaluate new NFT projects
- Managing community
- $SOL NFT Quick guide for Newbies

DigitalEyes
Website: digitaleyes.market
Twitter: @DigitalEyesNFT
Discord: DigitalEyes

OhMe OhMy
Twitter: @OhMeOhMy_Sol

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#99: Micheal Kong on Fantom (FTM) & L1 Solutions

Thu, 10 Feb 2022 03:00:00 -0500

Michael Kong is the Chief Executive Officer and a director at Fantom Foundation. He is responsible for management of the technical and business development teams, finances, and reviewing the organisation’s progress.

Previously he co-founded one of Australia's first hedge funds focusing on blockchain technologies called Token Capital Management.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- How Micheal got into blockchain
- UX + UI on Fantom
- Fantom’s goals and mission
- Demand for scalable blockchain solution
- DeFi Applications
- Blockchain Trilemma (availability, security, decentralization)
- Sharding
- 8-bit metaverse
- Fantom sponsoring Formula 1 team Alpha Tauri

Fantom Foundation
Website: fantom.foundation
Twitter: @FantomFDN
Telegram: t.me/Fantom_English

Michael Kong
Twitter: @michaelfkong
LinkedIn: Michael Kong

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#98: Pradeep Goel on Blockchain Revolutionizing the Healthcare Industry

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 03:00:00 -0500

Pradeep Goel is the CEO of Solve.Care, a global healthcare company that redefines care coordination, improves access to care, empowers consumers with information, reduces benefit administration costs, and helps reduce fraud and waste in healthcare around the world.

Pradeep has experience developing groundbreaking software for the insurance industry, and co-founding four healthcare IT businesses where he has served in a number of management roles.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Transforming the healthcare industry
- How blockchain technology is part of healthcare’s future
- Solve.care
- Consent of user data
- The Metaverse Doctors Alliance
- Care protocol

Care.Labs
Website: solve.care
Twitter: @Solve_Care
LinkedIn: solve.care

Pradeep Goel
Twitter: @_PradeepGoel
LinkedIn: goelpradeep

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#97: Gabriele Musella on Coinrule, Automated Trading and Pitching Your Start-up

Thu, 03 Feb 2022 03:00:00 -0500

Gabriele Musella is the Co-Founder of Coinrule (YCombinator backed startup, S21), which is all about catching the next market opportunity on your behalf by automating your investments. With Coinrule, hobbyist investors can compete with professional traders and hedge funds by creating automated strategies for Crypto as well as Stocks.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- YCombinator
- The secret sauce of pitching your start-up
- Coinrule automated trading
- User feedback
- UX in DeFi
- The tokenization of all assets
- Managing a fully remote team

Coinrule
Website: coinrule.com
Twitter: @CoinRuleHQ
Youtube: Coinrule

Gabriele Musella
Twitter: @freshmuse
LinkedIn: Gabriele Musella

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#96: Keith Rumjahn on the Move-To-Earn Economy and the Metaverse

Mon, 31 Jan 2022 03:00:00 -0500

Keith Rumjahn is the CEO of OliveX, a digital health & fitness company that delivers unique user experiences through fitness gamification, augmented reality, and play-to-earn experiences.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Move-to-earn
- Virtual goods vs physical goods
- New cycling game
- Animoca Brands recent raise
- Gamifying fitness
- Blue chip brands moving into the metaverse
- The Sanbox's growth
- Olivex's upcoming NFT drop
- The importance of working out

OliveX
Website: olivex.ai
Twitter: @olivexai
Instagram: @olivexhk

Keith Rumjahn
Website: rumjahn.com
Twitter: @krumjahn

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#95: John Paller on ETH Denver Conference, DAOs and ETH 2.0

Thu, 27 Jan 2022 06:00:00 -0500

John Paller is a Denver-based blockchain entrepreneur, inventor and futurist, and the Founder and Executive Steward of ETHDenver, the world’s largest Web3 and Ethereum-based festival. He is also the Founder and Executive Steward of Opolis, a Digital Employment Cooperative for independent workers.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The origin story of ETH Denver
- Building communities
- DAOs
- Digital Communities Act
- ETH 2.0
- Meditation and mycology
- Bufficorn Buidl Brigade
- Spork DAO

ETHDenver
Website: ethdenver.com
Twitter: @EthereumDenver
Instagram: @ethdenver

John Paller
Twitter: @PallerJohn
Medium: @opolisjohn
LinkedIn: John Paller

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#94: David Canedo on Crypto Tax Saving Strategies

Mon, 24 Jan 2022 03:00:00 -0500

David Canedo is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) who specializes in taxation of digital assets (cryptocurrencies). He is currently serving as the U.S. Tax Specialist Product Manager at Accointing.com, a company that provides tracking, consolidation, tax and compliance solutions for crypto investors.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Tax saving strategies
- Tax harvesting
- Taxing crypto to fiat
- Crypto being treated as property
- Accointing.com
- Unrealized gains
- Short term gains vs. long term gains
- Donating crypto
- Opportunity zone funds

Accointing
Website: accointing.com
Twitter: @accointing
Instagram: @accointing

David Canedo
LinkedIn: David Canedo

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#93: Emma-Jane MacKinnon Lee on Digital Fashion, ETH and VCs

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 03:00:00 -0500

Emma-Jane MacKinnon-Lee is the Founder of DIGITALAX, the first NFT live market that brings your unique personality and style into native digital realms –– with layers of verifiable utility.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Living in New York
- Emma’s year end twitter thread
- snapshot.org
- Onboarding designers
- 2022 being a good year for ETH
- How the metaverse will impact our health
- Importance of true ownership and decentralization
- Tech capital and community

DIGITALAX
Website: digitalax.xyz
Twitter: @DIGITALAX_
Youtube: DIGITALAX
Instagram: @_digitalax

Emma-Jane
Twitter: @emmajane1313
LinkedIn: Emma-Jane MacKinnon-Lee

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#92: Andras Kristof on Ether Cards, NFTs and zk SNARKS

Mon, 17 Jan 2022 03:00:00 -0500

Andras Kristof is the CEO and Founder of Ether Cards, who work to gamify & supercharge NFTs. Andras is an entrepreneur and blockchain veteran. After a successful exit with viki.com he entered the blockchain space in 2013, when he and his team built and deployed the first bitcoin ATM in Asia.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Crypto scene in Singapore
- NFTs in 2022
- Utility
- Momentum in communities
- Upcoming Ethereum updates
- Zk snarks
- Efficiency and scalability
- Working with Lonzo Ball and Steve Aoki

Ether Cards
Website: ether.cards
Twitter: @ether_cards

Andras Kristof
Twitter: @akomba

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#91: Nikolaj Rosenthal on Being the First Pro Athlete to Accept Bitcoin as Salary

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 03:00:00 -0500

Nikolaj Rosenthal is the CEO of Evonax and played professional hockey for 9 years. Nikolaj was also the first professional athlete in the world to accept bitcoin as salary.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Being the first pro athlete to take salary in BTC
- Building an exchange
- Hockey talk
- Current market sentiment
- Transition from pro athlete to business
- NFTs, Web3, Metaverse

Evonax
Website: evonax.com
Twitter: @Evonax_com
Facebook: @evonaxcom

Nikolaj Rosenthal
Instagram: @nikolajrosenthal
Facebook: @nikolaj.rosenthal
LinkedIn: Nikolaj Rosenthal

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#90: Justin Chapman on the Synergies Between Banks and Crypto

Mon, 10 Jan 2022 03:00:00 -0500

Justin Chapman is the Global Head of Market Advocacy & Innovation Research for Northern Trust.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Synergies between banks and crypto
- Current market sentiment
- How Traditional Finance (Trad-Fi) views crypto
- Inflation
- NFTs
- Banks treading the fine line
- Cash links vs securities links
- Zodia Custody

Northern Trust
Website: northerntrust.com
Twitter: @NorthernTrust
Youtube: Northern Trust

Justin Chapman
LinkedIn: Justin Chapman

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#89: Jordan Anderson on Bitbuy's $200 million Acquisition

Thu, 06 Jan 2022 03:00:00 -0500

Jordan Anderson is the COO at Bitbuy, Canada’s largest exchange that just got acquired for $200 million.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- $200M acquisition of Bitbuy
- New digital assets
- OSC approval
- International expansion
- .com domain purchase
- Canadian crypto landscape
- Golf talk
- Crypto x Sports

Bitbuy
Website: bitbuy.ca
Twitter: @bitbuy
LinkedIn: Bitbuy

Jordan Anderson
Twitter: @j0rdan_ben
LinkedIn: Jordan Anderson

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#88: Darren Smith on the Early Days of Nintendo and Epik

Mon, 03 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0500

Darren Smith is the Vice President of Product at Epik.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Stories from the early nintendo games
- The origin story of Epik
- NFTs in the metaverse
- UX in crypto
- P2E gaming

EPIK Prime
Website: epikprime.com
Twitter: @EpikPrime
Instagram: @epikprime_official

Darren Smith
LinkedIn: Darren Smith

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#87: Chris Harding on Crypto Regulation

Thu, 30 Dec 2021 03:00:00 -0500

Christopher Harding, Director of Risk & Compliance, Compliance Officer at Civic

In this conversation, we discuss:
- What are the rules?
- The travel rule in crypto
- Bitcoin spot ETF
- Stable coins
- Defi
- Timeline for regulation
- Civic Pass

Civic
Website: civic.com
Twitter: @civickey
Facebook: @civictechnologiesinc
LinkedIn: Civic Technologies

Chris Harding
Twitter: @ChrisHarding_US

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#86: Paolo Ardoino on Bitcoin, Tether and Bitfinex

Mon, 27 Dec 2021 03:00:00 -0500

Paolo Ardoino is the CTO of Bitfinex and Tether.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Micro crashes
- Day in the life of CTO
- Tech stacks
- Tether
- El Salvador's Bitcoin Bond
- Coding in crypto for beginners
- Lightning network

Bitfinex
Website: bitfinex.com
Twitter: @bitfinex
Instagram: @bitfinex

Paolo Ardoino
Twitter: @paoloardoino
GitHub: @prdn
LinkedIn: Paolo Ardoino

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#85: Bill Ottman on Social Media Censorship and minds.com

Thu, 23 Dec 2021 03:00:00 -0500

Bill is the co-founder and CEO of Minds, a leading alternative social network with over 5M users. They are building an open-source and decentralized app that shares revenue and crypto with the community. Bill himself is extremely passionate about addressing privacy concerns surrounding big tech platforms.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Social media censorship
- Big Tech companies and free speech
- Hyper-transparent, open-source platforms
- Minds.com
- Minds token (erc-20)
- The future of social media
- Oracle running the show

Minds
Website: minds.com
Twitter: @minds
LinkedIn: Minds

Bill Ottman
Minds: @ottman
Crunchbase: Bill Ottman

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#84: Jordan Fried on Immutable Holdings, Buying Domains and NFT.com

Mon, 20 Dec 2021 02:00:00 -0500

Jordan Fried is a blockchain evangelist and crypto-capitalist. He’s currently the Chairman and CEO of Immutable Holdings (NEO:HOLD), the publicly-traded blockchain holding company that owns and operates NFT.com, 1800Bitcoin.com, CBDC.com, Immutable Asset Management, HBAR.com, and more.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- VPNs
- HBAR
- Buying domains
- Going public vs DAOs
- Unstoppable domains
- Bills Mafia

Immutable Holdings
Website: immutableholdings.com
Twitter: @ImmutableHold
LinkedIn: Immutable Holdings

Jordan Fried
Twitter: @jordanfried
LinkedIn: Jordan Fried

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#83: Warren Leow on Decentralized Art Museums & NTFs

Thu, 16 Dec 2021 03:00:00 -0500

Warren Leow is the Group CEO of Inmagine Group, a leading creative ecosystem which owns 123RF, Pixlr and Designs.ai. Pixlr Genesis is a cornerstone NFT project for Pixlr, used by millions of creators monthly, to create the world's largest digital art metaverse.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Pixlr & Pixlr Genesis
- Empowering the community through art
- The future of digital art
- Event tickets becoming NFTs
- Art Connoisseur
- Consumption changes and consuming content
- How to vet NFT projects

Pixlr Genesis
Website: pixlrgenesis.com
Twitter: @pixlrgenesis
Discord: PixlrGenesis.com

Warren Leow
Twitter: @Jeleow
LinkedIn: Warren Leow

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#82: Jonathan Schemoul on Solana, Security, Indexing and Storage

Mon, 13 Dec 2021 03:00:00 -0500

Jonathan Schemoul is the Founder and lead developer of Aleph.im, which simplifies cloud computing for DeFi & web3. Aleph.im allows your blockchain enabled app to securely access trusted off-chain data or computation within a couple lines of code.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Solana conference in Lisbon
- Solana's crazy growth
- Differences between ETH and SOL
- NEON Lab
- Amazon Lambda
- NFT security
- Web3 domains
- Living in Paris, France
- Blockchain gaming

Aleph.im
Website: aleph.im
Twitter: @aleph_im
Telegram: t.me/alephim

Jonathan Schemoul
Twitter: @MosheMalawach
Facebook: @jonathan.schemoul
LinkedIn: Jonathan Schemoul

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#81: Dirk Hartig on the 2022 Crypto Market Outlook

Thu, 09 Dec 2021 03:00:00 -0500

Dirk Hartig is a professional crypto trader and partner of PRIME XBT, where he offers state-of-the-art educational content for their clients.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- 2022 Market Outlook
- Importance of liquidity
- How to treat trading like a business
- Rookie mistakes
- Removing emotion from trading
- Choosing the right shitcoins
- End of year price predictions
- The fear and greed index

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Website: primexbt.com
Twitter: @PX_Academy
Youtube: PrimeXBT Academy

Dirk Hartig
LinkedIn: Dirk Hartig

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#80: Nick Saponaro on Crypto Regulation, Staking and Divi Wallet

Mon, 06 Dec 2021 03:00:00 -0500

Nick Saponaro is the CEO of Divi, where he and his team are developing a decentralized solution that makes cryptocurrency faster, more secure and accessible to people at all levels of technical expertise.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Partnering with LaLiga
- Divi Wallet
- Regulation
- Staking
- Inflation
- Crypto in sports
- Bitcoin ETFs
- Current market sentiment

Divi Project
Website: diviproject.org
Twitter: @DiviProject
Telegram: @diviproject

Nick Saponaro
Twitter: @NSapProductions
LinkedIn: Nick Saponaro

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#79: Joshua Barraclough on Moving From Corporate Banking to Crypto

Thu, 02 Dec 2021 03:00:00 -0500

Joshua Barraclough is the CEO of Bitpanda Pro (Bitpanda's fully-regulated digital asset exchange). Before joining Bitpanda Pro, Josh was at J.P. Morgan, where he held key positions such as Co-Head of Digital Innovation and Global Head of the Fintech team.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Moving from JP Morgan to Bitpanda
- Traditional banking vs. crypto
- Corporate culture
- Bitpanda vs. Bitpanda Pro
- Plans for Bitpanda Pro
- Organic growth vs acquisitions
- Manchester United

BitPanda Pro
Website: bitpanda.com/en/pro
Twitter: @BitpandaPro
Facebook: @BitpandaPro

Joshua Barraclough
Twitter: @JTBarraclough
LinkedIn: Joshua Barraclough

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#78: Mateusz Mach on NFT Marketplaces, P2E Gaming and Kinguin

Mon, 29 Nov 2021 03:00:00 -0500

Mateusz Mach is the Director of NFT Marketplace at Kinguin, the world’s first digital marketplace for gamers. Mateusz is also an economist, entrepreneur and investor.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Building FiveApp
- NFT infrastructure and solutions
- L1s vs L2s
- Kinguin's NFT marketplace
- Creating a new revenue streams
- VR in the metaverse
- Stablecoins
- The future of crypto media

Kinguin
Website: kinguin.net
Twitter: @KinguinNet
Facebook: @Kinguin.net

Mateusz Mach
Website: mateuszmach.com
Twitter: @mandmach
LinkedIn: Mateusz Mach

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#77: Emma-Jane MacKinnon-Lee on Building the Web3 Fashion Economy

Thu, 25 Nov 2021 02:00:00 -0500

Emma-Jane MacKinnon-Lee is the Founder of DIGITALAX, the first NFT live market that brings your unique personality and style into native digital realms –– with layers of verifiable utility.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Digital Fashion Operating Systems
- Fashion in the metaverse
- Wear-to-earn
- Virtual land
- Buy-copy-kill
- FB & Meta in Web3
- ENS domains
- $MONA token

DIGITALAX
Website: digitalax.xyz
Twitter: @DIGITALAX_
Youtube: DIGITALAX
Instagram: @_digitalax

Emma-Jane
Twitter: @emmajane1313
LinkedIn: Emma-Jane MacKinnon-Lee

#76: Jack O'Holleran on SKALE Networks, ETH and NFTs

Mon, 22 Nov 2021 02:00:00 -0500

Jack O'Holleran is the co-Founder and CEO of SKALE Networks, a multi-chain network composed of an unlimited number of secure, decentralized, high-performance ethereum blockchains.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- NFT.NYC Event
- dApps + NFTs
- Ethereum gas fees
- Play to earn (P2E)
- SKALE Labs
- Partnership with Ruby.Exchange
- SKALE x Wharton School of Business
- Maslow's hierarchy of needs

SKALE
Website: skale.network
Twitter: @SkaleNetwork
Facebook: @SkaleNetwork

Jack O'Holleran
Twitter: @jackoholleran
LinkedIn: Jack O'Holleran

#75: Jay El-Anis on Building a Decentralized Social Media Platform with 1M+ Users

Thu, 18 Nov 2021 02:00:00 -0500

Jay El-Anis is the CMO of Uhive, a decentralized British social media start-up with over 1m+ users.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Uhive
- Scaling to 1mil users in 1.5yrs
- Competing against Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tiktok
- Growing a company in Europe
- Uhive KPIs and metrics
- 4D space vs 3D space in virtual land
- Advice to new crypto companies
- Marketing in crypto

Uhive
Website: uhive.com
Twitter: @Uhivesocial
Facebook: @UhiveSocial
Instagram: @uhive

Jay El-Anis
Twitter: @JayElAnis1
LinkedIn: Jay (Jawad) El-Anis

#74: Krista Kim & Riley Demps on Utah Jazz NBA NFTs

Mon, 15 Nov 2021 05:00:00 -0500

Krista Kim is a contemporary artist and founder of the Techism movement (2014), whose work explores the concept of digital consciousness. Krista created the first "Metaverse home", Mars House. Currently, Krista is the Creative Director for the Utah Jazz's "JazzXR", the first Sports Team Metaverse NFT in history.

Riley Demps is a young visionary from New Orleans and has collaborated with top brands around the world. Riley is directly responsible for the launch of the Utah Jazz's "JazzXR", the NBA's first NFT.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Working on the official Utah Jazz NFT
- JazzXR
- Meet & Greet with Utah Jazz owner Ryan Smith
- Access to a virtual locker room
- Partnership with non-profit and charities in Utah
- NBA Top Shot
- NBA Players loving Top Shot
- Krista's creative reign
- Daily routine and rituals for creativity

Utah Jazz NFT
Website: nba.com/jazz/nft
Twitter: @utahjazz

Krista Kim
Twitter: @Krista_Kim
Instagram: @krista.kim
Website: kristakimstudio.com

Riley Demps
Twitter: @rddemps
Instagram: @riley.nemo

#73: Mike Germano on Building Bitcoin Magazine

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 02:00:00 -0500

Mike Germano is a Publisher at BTC Media Inc, the creators of Bitcoin Magazine and the Bitcoin event series.

Previously, Mike worked for Vice Media as its Chief Digital Officer, after the media house acquired his company, Carrot, regarded as the first-ever social media agency in the world.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Creating the world's first social media agency
- Working for Vice Media
- Building BTC Media Inc.
- The growth of Bitcoin Conference Series
- Last year's crazy event in Miami
- Bitcoin maxies
- Pressing issues in bitcoin

Bitcoin Magazine
Website: bitcoinmagazine.com
Facebook: @BitcoinMagazine
Twitter: @BitcoinMagazine
Youtube: Bitcoin Magazine

Mike Germano
Twitter: @mikegermano
Instagram: @mikegermano
LinkedIn: Mike Germano

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#72: Michael Shinall on P2E, GameFi and Board Game NFTs

Mon, 08 Nov 2021 02:00:00 -0500

Michael Shinall is the Design and Development Manager for CMON Inc, one of the largest and most successful board game companies in the world. Micheal also has over a decade of experience in the professional board game world, with a special focus on IP-related games.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Moving from board games to NFTs
- Why CMON chose to build on FLOW blockchain
- How Play-To-Earn (P2E) is taking over gaming
- Second life in digital land
- OpenSea profile pic NFTs
- Moonsoon Digital partnership
- Daily routines and rituals of a game developer
- The future of GameFi

CMON
Website: cmon.com
Twitter: @CMONGames
Facebook: @coolminiornot
Instagram: @cmongames

Michael Shinall
Twitter: @MichaelShinall

#71: Dirk Hartig on Being A Professional Crypto Trader

Thu, 04 Nov 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Dirk Hartig is a professional crypto trader and partner of PRIME XBT, where he offers state-of-the-art educational content for their clients.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- 2021 Q4 crypto outlook
- Crypto market predictions
- BTC & ETH
- How to choose altcoins
- Common rookie mistakes in trading
- Daily routines and rituals of a full-time day trader
- Dos and don'ts of technical analysis
- The importance of on-chain metrics

PrimeXBT Academy
Website: primexbt.com
Twitter: @PX_Academy
Youtube: PrimeXBT Academy

Dirk Hartig
LinkedIn: Dirk Hartig

#70: Joshua Goldbard on Mobile Coin

Mon, 01 Nov 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Joshua Goldbard is the Founder and CEO of MobileCoin -- a fast, safe, and easy-to-use payment technology that gives everyone the ability to digitally transact from nearly anywhere around the world.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- MobileCoin's growth story
- Signal Messenger
- Series B announcement
- Partnership with SBF
- Daily routines and rituals
- $MOB
- MobileCoin privacy
- Carbon-negative crypto

MobileCoin
Website: mobilecoin.com
Twitter: @mobilecoin
Facebook: @MobileCoinOfficial
Instagram: @mobilecoincompany

Joshua Goldbard
Twitter: @ThePBXGuy
LinkedIn: Joshua Goldbard

#69: Michael Stockwell on Bitcoin Billionaires NFTs and Blockchain Gaming Studios

Thu, 28 Oct 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Michael Stockwell is the Founder of FizzPow Games and Creator of the hit Bitcoin Billionaire mobile game, now launching their very own Bitcoin Billionaires NFTs.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Blockchain gaming studios
- AAA game studios dabbling in crypto
- Bitcoin Billionaires growth to 10 million downloads
- P2E gaming
- NFT utility
- Bitcoin Billionaire NFT Pre-sale
- Building community in Discord
- Daily routines and rituals

Bitcoin Billionaires NFT
Website: billionaires.io
Twitter: @NFTBillionaires
Discord: discord.gg/BillionairesNFT

Michael Stockwell
Twitter: @akaSurreal

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#68: Ruud Feltkamp on AI Trading and CryptoHopper

Mon, 25 Oct 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Ruud Feltkamp is a Dutch Actor and Entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of CryptoHopper, an Algorithm Intelligence Strategy Designer that allows more flexibility in how users trade.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The growing role of AI in crypto
- How tech is enabling trading to get better/easier
- What to look for when picking or setting up an exchange
- How to source the right tokens to invest in
- Ways to identify what type of investor you are
- CryptoHopper

CryptoHopper
Website: cryptohopper.com
Twitter: @cryptohopper
Instagram: @cryptohopper

Ruud Feltkamp
Twitter: @RuudFeltkamp
Instagram: @ruudfeltkamp

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#67: Oliver Gale on Privacy and Panther Protocol

Thu, 21 Oct 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Oliver Gale is a seasoned fintech entrepreneur, investor, CBDC inventor, and founder of multiple companies including Panther Protocol, Bitt, BaseTwo, and Elemental.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Inspiration behind the style and music
- Beginning of crypto and blockchain career
- Privacy with Panther Protocol
- Why blockchain needs privacy
- Possibility of private NFTs
- PriFi a thing?
- zk-SNARK x Panther Protocol

Panther Protocol
Website: pantherprotocol.io
Twitter: @ZkPanther

Oliver Gale
Twitter: @OriginalOlii

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#66: Rohan Sinha on Polygon, Eco-Friendly NFTs & Bubblehouse

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Rohan Sinha is the CEO and Co-Founder of Bubblehouse, the first social, accessible, and eco-friendly NFT marketplace.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Polygon vs Ethereum NFTs
- Story behind "Bubblehouse"
- Bubblehouse NFT social marketplace
- Market challenges
- Eco-friendly NFTs
- The future of NFTs

Bubblehouse
Website: bubblehouse.com
Twitter: @bubblehouse_app
Instagram: @bubblehouse

Rohan Sinha
LinkedIn: Rohan Sinha

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#65: Kyle Gordon on DoinGud and NFTs

Thu, 14 Oct 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Kyle Gordon is an Advisor, Creative Strategist, and Curator at DoinGud. He is also the founder of Studio ZIRO, creating immersive experiences for global brands, musicians, and festivals.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Building the creator and giving economy
- Launching on Polygon
- Working with Kanye West and Future
- Fundraising and donation incentives
- $AMOR token

DoinGud
Website: doingud.com
Twitter: @DoinGudHQ
Instagram: @doingudhq

Kyle Gordon
Website: kylegordonart.com
Twitter: @kylegordonart

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#64: Umberto Cerchi on Kryptomon

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Umberto Canessa Cerchi is the Founder & CEO of Kryptomon, the next biggest crypto NFT game.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Umberto's Journey to Kryptomon
- Game theory in Kryptomon
- KMON
- GameFi market competition
- Axie Infinity
- Big Kryptomon milestones
- Future of Kryptomon
- How GameFi will revolutionize gaming and the economy

Kryptomon
Website: kryptomon.com
Twitter: @KryptomonTeam
Facebook: @KryptomonTeam
Telegram: t.me/kryptomonofficial

Umberto Canessa Cerchi
Twitter: @umbertocanessa

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#63: Keith Rumjahn on Building the Fitness Metaverse

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Keith Rumjahn is the CEO of OliveX, a digital health & fitness company that delivers unique user experiences through fitness gamification, augmented reality, and play-to-earn experiences.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The future of virtual land
- Sandbox & Decentraland
- Building the fitness metaverse
- Zombies Run
- Gamifying fitness
- OliveX
- Working with Animoca Brands and Yat Siu
- The Toronto Raptors

OliveX
Website: olivex.ai
Twitter: @olivexai
Instagram: @olivexhk

Keith Rumjahn
Website: rumjahn.com
Twitter: @krumjahn

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#62: Twobadour on NFTs, The Metapurse and Dreamverse

Mon, 04 Oct 2021 03:00:00 -0400

Twobadour is the Steward of Metapurse, the world's largest NFT fund, estimated to be worth $189 million USD.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- How Twobadour invests in NFTs
- The impact of NFTs
- Metakovan & Metapurse
- Dreamverse in NYC
- How NFTs will make landfall at Dreamverse
- Who is the dream team?
- The $69 million Beeple NFT
- NFT Radio
- The future of NFTs

Metapurse
Website: metapurse.fund
Twitter: @metapurse

Twobadour
Twitter: @twobadour

#61: Hilmar Orth on Automating Smart Contracts

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 03:00:00 -0400

Hilmar Orth is the Founder and CEO of Gelato Network, a protocol that automates smart contract executions on Ethereum and beyond.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Gelato Network solving dApps issues
- Automating smart contracts
- The history of dApps
- DeFi
- Web3 + NFTs
- dApps + Dexes
- L2 ETH solutions
- The importance of bots in DeFi

Gelato Network
Website: gelato.network
Twitter: @gelatonetwork
Instagram: @officialgelatonetwork

Hilmar Orth
Twitter: @hilmarxo

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#60: Chris McAlary on Digital Currency Machines

Mon, 27 Sep 2021 03:00:00 -0400

Chris McAlary is the Founder and CEO of Coin Cloud, the world’s largest and fastest-growing network of Digital Currency Machines.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- What is a Digital Currency Machine (DCM)?
- Buying crypto with cash
- The evolution of the Bitcoin ATM
- The role of cash in our economy
- The future of digital currency
- Hot takes + predictions
- Stablecoins

Coin Cloud
Website: coin.cloud
Twitter: @CoinCloudDCM
Instagram: @CoinCloudDCM

Chris McAlary
Twitter: @Chris__McAlary

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#59: Dillon Forte on the World's First Tattoo NFT

Thu, 23 Sep 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Dillon Forte is a world-renowned tattoo artist who is trailblazing the crypto x tattoo industry.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Tattooing an NFT
- Traditional art and NFTSs
- Tattooing inside the Pyramids
- Creative process
- Tattooing musicians/actors like Usher, Chris Hemsworth, and more
- Tattoos in the metaverse
- Bitcoin FUD

Dillon Forte
Website: dillonforte.com
Instagram: @dillonforte
Facebook: @DillonForteTattoo

Forte Tattoo Tech Online Store:
Website: fortetattootechnology.com

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#58: Matt Gaser and WaxWars on NFTs, Art and Film

Mon, 20 Sep 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Matt Gaser and WaxWars are the creators of The Chronicles of Dr. Zammsy, a remarkable animated, story-driven card series offered for sale on the WAX blockchain

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Working on Star Wars and Pirates of the Caribbean
- The Chronicles of Dr. Zammsy
- The NFT process
- Making 3D art
- Alex Mashinsky
- WAX NFT Blockchain

The Chronicles of Dr. Zammsy
Website: drzammsy.com
Twitter: @DrZammsy
Telegram: The Chronicles of Dr. Zammsy

Matt Gaser
Website: mattgaser.com
Twitter: @MattGaser
Instagram: mattgaser

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC, or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#57: Tobias Gooden on Crypto Esports

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Tobias Gooden is the CEO of UltimoGG, a game-changing Esports tournament platform that allows gamers of all skill levels to compete on an even playing field.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The growth of Esports
- Play to earn (P2E)
- Crypto x Esports
- Partnering with Birmingham City FC
- Fan Tokens
- ULTGG token
- Building in public

UltimoGG
Website: ultgg.io
Twitter: @UltimoGGesports
Instagram: ultimo.gg
YouTube: Ultimo GG

Ben Husted
LinkedIn: Benjamin Husted

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC, or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#56: LK Shelley on NFTs and The Metaverse

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 02:00:00 -0400

LK Shelley is the Managing Partner at Affiniti Ventures or AV(M), which collectively invests in early-stage mobile-first startups.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- History of NFTs
- NFT communities
- The most effective NFT utilities
- The future of the metaverse
- Social tokens
- NFT incubators: the new type of Venture Capital?
- Recruiting artists
- Investing in virtual land

AV(M):
Website: avmcap.info
LinkedIn: Affiniti Ventures | (AV(M)

LK Shelley
LinkedIn: LK Shelley

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC, or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#55: Johan Unger on the Power of Memes

Thu, 09 Sep 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Johan Unger is the Co-Founder of Meme.com, a place where explorers meet to share their meme discoveries and creations.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Meme.com
- Memes and social media
- NFTs
- Virtual land
- Memes in the Metaverse
- 'Chief Meme Officers'
- Dogecoin
- Marble Cards Arena game

Meme.com
Website: meme.com
Twitter: @MemeExplorers
Telegram: MemeExplorers

Johan Unger
Twitter: @johanunger
LinkedIn: Johan Unger

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC, or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#54: Antonino Abbate and Michele Marchetto on the Future of Music and NFTs

Tue, 07 Sep 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Antonino Abbate and Michele Marchetto are the Founders of Onlymusix, the first music platform for creating and selling NFTs for the music industry.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Onlymusix
- Partnering with musicians
- Smart contracts and copyrighting
- Split payments
- Lazy minting
- Partnering with Forestmatic
- Future of music and NFTs

Onlymusix
Website: onlymusix.com
Twitter: @Onlymusix_NFT
Instagram: onlymusix_nft

#53: Gabriele Bernasconi on the Future of Sports and NFTs

Thu, 02 Sep 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Gabriele Bernasconi is the Co-CEO of Genuino Blockchain Technology, the ultimate fan engagement universe that connects NFTs to real-world objects.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Partnering with ACF Fiorentina
- The future of sports and NFTs
- Building utility for fans
- Revolutionizing the sports memorabilia market
- Fan engagement during covid
- Importance of utility of NFTs

Genuino Blockchain Technology
Website: genuino.world/world/sport
Twitter: @genuinoworld
Instagram: genuinoworld
LinkedIn: Genuino

Gabriele Bernasconi
Twitter: @swissix83
LinkedIn: Gabriele Bernasconi

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC, or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#52: Iggynore on Dogs Unchained NFTs

Mon, 30 Aug 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Iggynore is the Head Artist for Dogs Unchained, a first-of-its-kind deflationary NFT community that also gives back to charity.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Current NFT market
- Inspiration for Dogs Unchained (DU)
- OpenSea
- NFT Discord communities
- Donating 120 ETH to charities
- How DU is deflationary
- Sweeping the floor
- Future roadmap of DU

Dogs Unchained
Website: dogsunchainednft.com
Twitter: @dogs_unchained
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/jcEwHxe4NE
OpenSea: Dogs Unchained

Iggynore
Twitter: @iggynore

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#51: Rafael Boskovic on Satoshi

Thu, 26 Aug 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Rafael Boskovic is the author of Satoshi, a novel about the Bitcoin community rallying together to work around restrictions imposed by nations.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Inflation of the Brazilian Real
- The idea for Satoshi
- Educating people about Bitcoin
- Hidden secret in Satoshi
- Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?
- The writing process

Rafael Boskovic
Satoshi: thesatoshienigma.com
Instagram: rafaelboskovic
Twitter: @rafaelboskovic

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC, or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#50: Dr. Nirmal Shah on the World's First Digital Species NFT

Mon, 23 Aug 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Nirmal Shah is the CEO of Nature Seychelles, the leading environmental organisation in the Western Indian Ocean.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Nature x NFTs
- History of Seychelles
- Preserving the environment through tourism
- Seychelles Magpie Robin NFT
- Future of nature NFTs
- Islands and cryptocurrency
- CBDCs

Nature Seychelles
Website: natureseychelles.org
Twitter: @NatureSey
Instagram: naturesey
Facebook: Nature Seychelles
Nature Seychelles NFT link: https://porini.foundation/naturecollectibles/

Nirmal Shah
LinkedIn: Nirmal Jivan Shah
Twitter: @cousinisland

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC, or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#49: Luke Stokes on El Salvador's Bitcoin Adoption

Thu, 19 Aug 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Luke Stokes is the Managing Director of Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO), an open-source usability-layer solution that makes sending, receiving, and even requesting cryptocurrency across all blockchain easy and error-free by providing a decentralized human-readable address (NFT)

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Visiting El Salvador
- El Salvador's Bitcoin infrastructure
- Early stages of FIO
- Decentralized companies
- Financial DAOs
- Autonomous vehicle DAO
- Mass adoption of crypto
- The future of NFTs

Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO)
Website: fioprotocol.io
Twitter: @joinFIO
Telegram: FIO

Luke Stokes
Twitter: @lukestokes
LinkedIn: Luke Stokes

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC, or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#48: Ben Rogers on Crypto Travel

Mon, 16 Aug 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Ben Rogers is the CMO of Travala, the leading cryptocurrency-friendly online travel agency.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Crypto specific marketing tactics
- Marketing KPIs
- Advertising for crypto companies
- SEO in crypto
- Building trust with transparency
- Social media growth
- How Travala deals with crypto volatility
- $AVA
- The future of crypto and travel

Travala
Website: travala.com
Twitter: @travalacom
Instagram: travalacom
Telegram: Travala.com

Ben Rogers
Twitter: @BenMRogers
LinkedIn: Ben R.

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC, or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#47: Harjyot Singh on HUMAN Protocol

Thu, 12 Aug 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Harjyot Singh is the Technology and Crypto Director of HUMAN Protocol Foundation, where he and his team use Artificial Intelligence to enable the creation of distributed marketplaces for tasks across a global network.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- What is HUMAN Protocol?
- Interoperability
- Machine learning bias
- ReCaptcha vs. hCaptcha
- Balanced & granular data
- Micropayments
- The future of HUMAN protocol

HUMAN Protocol
Website: humanprotocol.org
Twitter: @human_protocol
Telegram: HUMAN Protocol

Harjyot Singh
Twitter: @_harjyot
LinkedIn: Harjyot Singh

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC, or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#46: Curpay on AI Trading

Mon, 09 Aug 2021 02:00:00 -0400

This episode features 3 guests! Ted Hover (Founder), Eric McHugh (Director of Business Development), and Christian Curtain (Director of Operations and Marketing) from CurPay, the world's most advanced yet simple to use artificial intelligence trading software.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- AI-Powered Trading vs Algo Trading vs Bot Trading
- Reducing market volatility
- Infrastructural catalysts to help mass crypto adoption
- How can companies help increase mass adoption?
- DeFi as the hedge against regulation
- The future of CurPay
- Crypto Banking in Wyoming

CurPay
Website: curpay.io
Twitter: @CurpayAVP

Ted Hover
LinkedIn: Ted Hover

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC, or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#45: John Robertson on Solana Based DeFi

Thu, 05 Aug 2021 02:00:00 -0400

John Robertson is the CEO of Soldex, a scalable and decentralized exchange governed by the DeFi community built on Solana.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- AI-Powered Trading, Algo Trading, Bot Trading
- The future of AI
- How DeFi is different from crypto and blockchain
- DeFi vs. Banks
- The importance of time and trust in crypto adoption
- What makes Solana unique
- Permissionless trading

Soldex
Website: soldex.ai
Twitter: @soldexai
Telegram: Soldex

John Robertson
LinkedIn: John Robertson
Twitter: @inspiredeggs

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC, or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#44: Peter Wall on Bitcoin Mining

Mon, 02 Aug 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Peter Wall is the CEO of Argo Blockchain, a publicly traded blockchain technology company focused on large-scale cryptocurrency mining.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Introduction to Bitcoin
- China's Bitcoin regulation
- Bitcoin's Hash Rate
- Mining in Canada and USA
- Environmental FUD
- The Bitcoin Mining Council
- Green Virgin Bitcoin
- Adjusting for the halving
- The future of Bitcoin mining

Argo Blockchain
Website: argoblockchain.com
Twitter: @ArgoBlockchain
YouTube: Argo Blockchain

Peter Wall
Twitter: @PeterGWall
LinkedIn: Peter Wall

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC, or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#43: Sean Worthington on The Theory of Perfect Money

Thu, 29 Jul 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Sean Worthington is the CEO of CloudCoin, the first RAIDA-based cryptocurrency that does not use blockchain technology.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- What is RAIDA technology?
- The "Theory of Perfect Money"
- What is CloudCoin?
- Bitcoin vs. CloudCoin
- Importance of liquidity
- Efficient payment systems
- Clean vs. Dirty crypto
- RAIDAMail

CloudCoin
Website: cloudcoin.global
Twitter: @CloudCoinGlobal

Sean Worthington
LinkedIn: Sean Worthington

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#42: Nik Oraevskiy on Bitcoin

Mon, 26 Jul 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Nik Oraevskiy is the Founder and CEO of Bitcoin reserve, a company that helps people take part in the Bitcoin revolution without the complexity of traditional platforms.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Nik's Bitcoin journey
- Electricity as a means of exchange
- What attracted Nik to Bitcoin?
- European regulations
- Estonia becoming a tech hub?
- Types of custodial clients
- Current Bitcoin sentiment
- The infrastructural future of Bitcoin
- CBDCs

Bitcoin Reserve
Website: bitcoinreserve.com
Twitter: @BTCReserveHQ
LinkedIn: Bitcoin Reserve

Nik Oraevskiy
LinkedIn: Nik Oraevskiy

#41: Oly on the Future of Music and NFTs

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Oly is a musician who is trailblazing the NFT space.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Appearing on The Oprah Winfrey Show
- Nature and the writing process
- Releasing songs as NFTs
- Meeting 3LAU at a coffee shop
- Minting a music video as an NFT
- Somnium Space
- Appearing on the All-In Podcast

Oly
Website: olysounds.com
YouTube: Oly
Twitter: @OLYsounds
Instagram: olysounds

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC, or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#40: Dan Hensley and Matt Starkey on the Steemit vs. Justin Sun Crypto War

Mon, 19 Jul 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Dan Hensley and Matt Starkey are the Founders of 3speak, a censorship-resistant video platform where content creators can earn cryptocurrency. Dan and Matt were also at the forefront of the Steemit vs. Justin Sun Crypto War.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- What really happened in "The Crypto War"?
- Inside stories from Steemit vs. Justin Sun
- Hive Blockchain
- Hard Fork vs. Soft Fork
- Avoiding blockchain wars in the future
- Web2 vs. Web3
- 3speak allowing influencers ownership of their content
- The future of video content

3speak
Website: 3speak.tv
Twitter: @3speakonline
Discord: 3speak

Hive
Website: hive.io
Twitter: @hiveblocks

Dan Hensley
LinkedIn: Dan Hensley
Hive Blog: @theycallmedan

Matt Starkey
Hive Blog: @starkerz

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#39: Tomer Afek on Proof-of-Space-Time

Thu, 15 Jul 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Tomer Afek is the CEO and Co-Founder of Spacemesh, a fairly-mined programmable cryptocurrency platform powered by a novel proof-of-space-time (PoST) consensus protocol.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- What is proof-of-space-time (PoST)?
- How to mine in your own home
- What is Spacemesh?
- Proof-of-space-time vs proof-of-work vs proof-of-stake
- Bitcoin's Whitepaper
- The importance of corporate culture
- Earning through Spacemesh
- Venture capital, tech and crypto in Israel

Spacemesh
Website: spacemesh.io
Twitter: @teamspacemesh
Discord: Spacemesh

Tomer Afek
Twitter: @tomerafek

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#38: Barak Ben Ezer on Building The World's First Sovereign Cryptocurrency

Mon, 12 Jul 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Barak Ben Ezer is the CEO and Co-Founder of SFB Technologies and the SOV Foundation, a blockchain-based currency and the legal tender of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

In this conversation we discuss:
- What is SOV?
- Convincing the Marshall Islands to adopt crypto
- El Salvador's adoption of Bitcoin
- Hodling Bitcoin
- SFB Technologies
- Challenges of integrating crypto into the world’s currency system
- Y Combinator

SOV Foundation
Website: sov.foundation
Twitter: @SOV_Foundation

Barak Ben Ezer
Twitter: @barakbenezer

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#37: Greg Foss on Bitcoin & Sustainable Energy

Thu, 08 Jul 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Greg Foss is the Executive Director at Validus Power Corp, a global leader in Advanced Power solutions focusing on sustainable energy innovation.

In this conversation we discuss:
- Credit Trading
- The risk of not owning Bitcoin
- Why everyone should have Bitcoin
- Bitcoin mining's energy consumption myth
- The best hedges for inflation
- Why borrowing money from banks is actually good
- Bitcoin adoption in Canada

Validus Power Corp
Website: validuspower.com
Twitter: @PowerValidus
LinkedIn: Validus Power Corp

Greg Foss
Twitter: @FossGregfoss
LinkedIn: Greg Foss

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#36: Mike Toutonghi on How Blockchain is the Internet of the 90s

Mon, 05 Jul 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Mike Toutonghi is the lead developer of the Verus Coin, a project that supplies tools for individuals and organizations to build equitable frameworks for social and economic change. Mike also worked at Microsoft in the 90s alongside Bill Gates.

In this conversation we discuss:
- Working at Microsoft in the 90s
- How cryptocurrencies will change the world
- Verus ID creating unique security
- Difference between proof of power, work, and stake
- Verus and DeFi
- Public Blockchain as a Service (Pbass)
- Is Tether a ticking time bomb?
- Verus Coin $VRSC

Verus
Website: verus.io
Twitter: @VerusCoin
Telegram: Verus Community

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#35: Adam Morris on Simplifying Crypto

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Adam Morris is the Co-Founder of Crypto Head, a company that aims to simplify crypto for people around the world.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Bitcoin mining leaving China
- Educating people about crypto
- Crypto volatility
- Micro vs. Macro effects
- Crypto Head tools
- Dollar-Cost-Averaging
- Tether exploding
- The emotional connection to investing

Crypto Head
Website: cryptohead.io

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#34: Ryan McCall and Jon de Wet on DeFi Yield Farming

Mon, 28 Jun 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Ryan McCall and Jon de Wet are the CEO and CIO of Zerocap, Australia's only full-service digital asset investment platform.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Family offices in crypto
- DeFi yield farming
- Governance tokens
- Similarities between poker and crypto
- The importance of having BTC in your portfolio
- Inflation
- Why the price of Bitcoin plummeted
- What it takes for Bitcoin to reach 100k
- On-chain metrics

Zerocap
Website: zerocap.com

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#33: Luke Sully on Digital Treasury Management

Thu, 24 Jun 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Luke Sully is the Co-Founder and CEO of Ledgermatic, a company that provides a single API Treasury management system for enterprises operating in digital assets.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Football and blockchain
- Digital assets
- FX volatility
- El Salvador's bitcoin adoption
- How banks are falling behind the 8 ball
- Elon Musk and Crypto Twitter
- The future of Ledgermatic

Ledgermatic
Website: ledgermatic.io
Twitter: @JoinLedgermatic

Luke Sully
Twitter: @luke11234

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#32: John Dough on Day Trading Crypto

Mon, 21 Jun 2021 02:00:00 -0400

John Dough is a musician, influencer, crypto trader, and an analyst for currency.com.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The future of music and crypto
- Day trading crypto currency
- Becoming an influencer
- Rap music
- Crypto in Canada
- Day trading philosophy and advice
- Partnership with currency.com
- What's John trading right now

John Dough
Twitter: @RealJohnDough
YouTube: Currency.com. Official Channel
Instagram: @realjohndough

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#31: Hueston Heffner on Revolutionizing The Music Industry

Fri, 18 Jun 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Hueston Heffner is an entrepreneur, influencer coach and manager for famous artists/musicians. He's also releasing the Juice WRLD Limited Edition NFT.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Why NFTs are the future of the music industry
- Hueston's journey in the music industry
- Hacking social media algorithms
- Juice WRLD NFT
- The harsh truth about the music industry
- CoinPoker

Juice WRLD NFT (LINK)

Hueston Heffner
Instagram: @huestonheffner
Twitter: @huestonheffner
Tiktok: @huestonheffner

#30: Shayne Mullen on the Ease of Getting Into Crypto With BlockFi

Wed, 16 Jun 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Shayne Mullen is the VP of Business Development and Partnerships at BlockFi, a crypto asset service that pairs financial products with institutional quality benefits.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Crypto in NYC and the Bitcoin Pizza Party
⁃ What is BlockFi?
⁃ BlockFi’s generous APY
⁃ BlockFi unique Credit Card
⁃ Mass adoption of crypto
⁃ Playing Golf at Augusta National
⁃ How BlockFi was founded
⁃ Satoshi Nakamoto: A man from the future?

BlockFi
Website: blockfi.com
Twitter: @BlockFi
YouTube: BlockFi

Shayne Mullen
Twitter: @BlockFiShayne

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#29: Stephen Stonberg on Leaving Investment Banking for Crypto

Mon, 14 Jun 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Stephen Stonberg is the CEO of Bittrex Global, one of the largest and most trusted cryptocurrency exchanges in the world.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Stephen's journey from investment banking to crypto
- Hedge Funds dabbling in crypto
- Regulation
- Security at Bittrex Global
- What is margin trading?
- Tax laws
- Comparisons between crypto and Amazon
- Volatility of cryptocurrencies
- The future of Bittrex Global

Bittrex Global
Website: global.bittrex.com
Twitter: @BittrexGlobal
Facebook: BittrexGlobal

Stephen Stonberg
Twitter: @StephenStonberg

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#28: Scott Heninger on Revolutionizing the Automobile Industry

Fri, 11 Jun 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Scott Heninger is the CEO of Carnomaly, the world's leading automotive crypto company that's bridging the gap between blockchain and the auto industry.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Revolutionizing how dealers and consumers buy, sell, and own vehicles
- What is CarrChain?
- Using blockchain payment history to securely connect with borrowers and lenders
- DeFi for car loans
- Utility of $CARR token
- Autonomous vehicles
- NFTs
- ERC-20 Tokens

Carnomaly
Website: carnomaly.io
Twitter: @carnomaly
Telegram: @carnomaly

Scott Heninger
Twitter: @heninger_scott

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#27: Chris Adams on Helping People Achieve Their Dreams

Wed, 09 Jun 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Chris Adams is the CEO of Dreamr, a technology-based platform aiming to make the pursuit of our biggest dreams and aspirations more practical.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Dreamr’s mission and goal
- How to create a cryptocurrency / Initial Coin Offering (ICO)
- Meditation best practices
- Pivoting in business
- Partnering with Delchain
- Charitable crypto
- The Dream Machine Tour

Dreamr
Website: dreamr.app
Twitter: @dreamr_app
Instagram: dreamr.app
YouTube: dreamr

Chris Adams
Twitter: @cadams888

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#26: Dan Wasyluk on Blockchain Innovation & Publicly Traded Crypto Companies

Mon, 07 Jun 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Dan Wasyluk is the Co-Founder of Syscoin and the CEO of Blockchain Foundry. Syscoin Platform offers fast and low-cost tokens, assets, and NFTs secured by Bitcoin's censorship-resistance and hashrate. Blockchain Foundry is the world's premier blockchain-based business solution consulting and design firm.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The difference between Syscoin and Blockchain Foundry
- Taking crypto companies public
- What is Blockchain Foundry?
- The instability of Stable Coins
- How Syscoin differs from Bitcoin and Ethereum
- Using energy from Bitcoin mining to mine Syscoin
- Syscoin NFTs vs Ethereum NFTs

Blockchain Foundry
Website: blockchainfoundry.co
Twitter: @BlockFoundry
Facebook: @BlockchainFoundry
YouTube: Blockchain Foundry Inc.

Syscoin
Website: syscoin.org
Twitter: @syscoin
Telegram: Syscoin Official
Instagram: syscoin_org

Dan Wasyluk
Twitter: @BlockchainDan

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#25: Nitin Agarwal on Bringing the Next 100 Million to Crypto

Fri, 04 Jun 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Nitin Agarwal is the Co-Founder and CEO of B21, a global crypto platform for buying and managing crypto assets.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- What is B21?
- Bringing the next 100mm people into crypto
- Crypto Relief Fund for Covid-19 in India
- Advice to crypto rookies
- Partnering with Celsius and Alex Mashinsky
- International Cards
- Scaling worldwide
- Crypto in Gibraltar

B21
Website: b21.io
Twitter: @B21Official
Telegram: @B21Official

Nitin Agarwal
Twitter: @nityn

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#24: Ofir Beigel -- Beginner's Guide to Bitcoin

Wed, 02 Jun 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Ofir Beigel is the Founder of 99Bitcoins, one of the largest online sources for cryptocurrency tutorials, reviews and guides.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- What is Bitcoin?
- Why is Bitcoin valuable?
- Bitcoin as a store of value
- Crypto fundamentals
- Blockchain 101
- Crypto vs. Fiat
- 99Bitcoins

99Bitcoins
Website: 99bitcoins.com
Twitter: @99BitcoinsHQ
YouTube: 99Bitcoins

Ofir Beigel
Twitter: @ofirbeigel

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#23: Tracy Leparulo on Crypto Events & Ethereum

Mon, 31 May 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Tracy Leparulo is the Founder of Untraceable and Head of Marketing at Zytara.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Ethereum stories
- OG Vitalik Buterin
- Crypto in Canada
- Untraceable + Zytara
- Floyd Mayweather NFTs
- FinTech crypto

Untraceable
Website: untraceableinc.com
Twitter: @untraceableinc
LinkedIn: Untraceable

Zytara:
Website: zytara.com
Twitter: @zytarahq
Instagram: @zytarahq

Tracy Leparulo
Twitter: @tracyleparulo

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#22: Richard Levin on Bitcoin

Fri, 28 May 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Richard Levin is the VP of Global Sales at Cryptonews, one of the largest global crypto media organizations.

In this episode, we discuss:
- The history of Bitcoin
- Where to learn about Bitcoin
- Getting paid in BTC
- BTC Conference in Miami
- Day-to-day at Cryptonews
- Crypto in NYC
- Dogecoin

Cryptonews
- Website: cryptonews.com
- Twitter: @cryptonews
- Telegram: @cryptonews_official

Seed Secure:
- Website: seedsecure.io

Richard Levin
- Twitter: @BonjourBitcoin

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

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Nhash.io

Nhash has emerged onto the scene as one of the top tier crypto mining platforms as they make cryptocurrency mining an easy, smart and rewarding experience for everybody.

With years of experience, Nhash offers computing power so you can mine bitcoin, ethereum, litecoin and more. Nhash has some of the most affordable pricing in the business ensuring users can begin mining for as low as $70.

You can start mining today with zero maintenance fees and returns upwards of $5,000. Share your referral code with friends and family to multiply your gains and expand your network.

Nhash is currently running a promotion that gets you a $30 coupon and $5 bonus for joining.

This is literally the best way to join the crypto mining revolution!

Website: nhash.io

#21: Danny Brewster on Buying Bitcoin When There's Blood

Wed, 26 May 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Danny Brewster is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of FastBitcoins, a crypto company that allows people from all over the world to buy bitcoin.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Last week's crypto crash (May 18, 2021)
- Dollar cost averaging + stacking sats
- Bitcoin in China
- Trading with leverage
- What is FastBitcoins?
- Stablecoin volatility
- Bitcoin winters
- Football talk

FastBitcoins
Website: fastbitcoins.com
Twitter: @fastbitcoins
Instagram: @fastbitcoins

Danny Brewster
Twitter: @BtcDanny

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#20: Nick Saponaro on Accelerating Global Crypto Adoption

Mon, 24 May 2021 03:00:00 -0400

Nick Saponaro is the CIO of Divi, where he and his team are developing a decentralized solution that makes cryptocurrency faster, more secure and accessible to people at all levels of technical expertise.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Bitcoin vs. Divi
- Buying crypto in 2013
- Accelerating global crypto adoption
- Explaining a "5 layered one click master node" to a 12yr old
- What is Divi?
- Crypto's investment narrative
- NFTs in the sports industry
- Crypto in California

Divi Project
- Website: diviproject.org
- Twitter: @DiviProject
- Telegram: @diviproject

Nick Saponaro
- Twitter: @NSapProductions

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#19: Obi Nwosu on The Bitcoin Crash

Fri, 21 May 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Obi Nwosu is the CEO and co-founder of Coinfloor, the UK's longest-running Bitcoin exchange.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- What caused the crypto crash on May 18th, 2021
- Bringing Bitcoin to millions of people
- Stacking Sats
- Margin trading
- What is Coinfloor
- Writing tips

Coinfloor
- Website: coinfloor.com
- Twitter: @Coinfloor

Obi Nwosu
- Twitter: @obi

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#18: Adrijan Scekic on How to Store Your Crypto

Wed, 19 May 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Adrijan Scekic is the founder and CEO of CRYPTOTAG, the world's premier private key storage solution. CRYPTOTAG allows you to store your recovery words on 6mm thick bulletproof titanium.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The importance of using CRYPTOTAG
- Shamir's Secret Sharing (SSS)
- Storing your crypto on titanium
- Crypto mass adoption + regulation
- Pivoting from B2B to DTC
- Marketing strategies in crypto
- Crypto in Amsterdam

Crypto Tag:
- Twitter: @CRYPTO_TAG
- Website: cryptotag.io
- Instagram: @cryptotag

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#17: Nick Neuman on Keeping Your Crypto Safe

Mon, 17 May 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Nick Neuman is the CEO of Casa, the world's leading provider of Bitcoin self custody solutions.

In this episode, we discuss:
- What is Multisig?
- Hard wallets vs exchanges
- How Casa secures your Bitcoin
- Best practices for storing your Bitcoin at home
- Single wallet storage vs Multisig storage
- Simplifying crypto
- The "Patoshi Pattern"

Casa
- Twitter: @CasaHODL
- Website: keys.casa

Nick Neuman
- Twitter: @Nneuman
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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

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Nhash.io

Nhash has emerged onto the scene as one of the top tier crypto mining platforms as they make cryptocurrency mining an easy, smart and rewarding experience for everybody.

With years of experience, Nhash offers computing power so you can mine bitcoin, ethereum, litecoin and more. Nhash has some of the most affordable pricing in the business ensuring users can begin mining for as low as $70.

You can start mining today with zero maintenance fees and returns upwards of $5,000. Share your referral code with friends and family to multiply your gains and expand your network.

Nhash is currently running a promotion that gets you a $30 coupon and $5 bonus for joining.

This is literally the best way to join the crypto mining revolution!

Website: nhash.io

#16: Tim Boucher on How to Mint NFTs

Fri, 14 May 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Tim Boucher is an author, crypto artist and the Founder of Lost Books, a blockchain publisher.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- How to mint NFTs
- Publishing books as NFTs
- Tim's book "The Lost Direction"
- Rarible vs. OpenSea
- How to use MetaMask
- Mastering your creative process

Website: lostbooks.ca
Twitter: @tphlat
NFT: The Lost Direction NFT

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

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Nhash.io

Nhash has emerged onto the scene as one of the top tier crypto mining platforms as they make cryptocurrency mining an easy, smart and rewarding experience for everybody.

With years of experience, Nhash offers computing power so you can mine bitcoin, ethereum, litecoin and more. Nhash has some of the most affordable pricing in the business ensuring users can begin mining for as low as $70.

You can start mining today with zero maintenance fees and returns upwards of $5000. Share your referral code with friends and family to multiply your gains and expand your network.

Nhash is currently running a promotion that gets you a $30 coupon and $5 bonus for joining.

This is literally the best way to join the crypto mining revolution!

Website: nhash.io

#15: Benjamin Arama on the World's Most Popular Hardware Wallet

Wed, 12 May 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Benjamin Arama is the Head of Product for Ledger Live, the one-stop shop for your crypto. Ledger are the makers of the world's most popular hardware wallet.

In this episode, we discuss:
- Cold wallet best practices
- Ledger hardware wallets
- Cold storage for DeFi and NFTs
- Ledger Live software
- How Ledger Live grows its user base without tracking user data
- Crypto in Paris, France

Ledger:
- Twitter: @Ledger
- Website: ledger.com/ledger-live
- Instagram: @ledger

Benjamin
- Twitter: @Ben_arama

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CoinPoker

CoinPoker is a revolutionary blockchain technology-based platform that was developed by an ambitious team of poker lovers.

CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

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Nhash.io

Nhash has emerged onto the scene as one of the top tier crypto mining platforms as they make cryptocurrency mining an easy, smart and rewarding experience for everybody.

With years of experience, Nhash offers computing power so you can mine bitcoin, ethereum, litecoin and more. Nhash has some of the most affordable pricing in the business ensuring users can begin mining for as low as $70.

You can start mining today with zero maintenance fees and returns upwards of $5,000. Share your referral code with friends and family to multiply your gains and expand your network.

Nhash is currently running a promotion that gets you a $30 coupon and $5 bonus for joining.

This is literally the best way to join the crypto mining revolution!

Website: nhash.io

#14: Alex Mashinsky on Creating the DeFi Industry

Mon, 10 May 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Alex Mashinsky is the CEO of Celsius Network, a DeFi platform that offers interest-bearing savings accounts, borrowing, and payments with digital and fiat assets. Celsius shares up to 80% of revenue so users can earn up to 17.78% APY.

In this episode, we discuss:
- How Alex built three unicorns (billion dollar company)
- Celsius Network
- Earning yield on your crypto
- VOIP
- Cryptocurrency vs. stock market
- Bitcoin price predictions
- How Alex created DeFi
- The rise and fall of fiat currencies
- Decentralized Buddhism

Celsius
- Twitter: @CelsiusNetwork
- Website: celsius.network
- Instagram: @celsiusnetwork

Alex Mashinsky
- Twitter: @Mashinsky

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CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

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Website: coinpoker.com
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#13: Josef Tětek on Bitcoin Energy Usage and Hardware Wallets

Fri, 07 May 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Josef Tětek is a Brand Ambassador at Satoshi Labs, the inventors the world's original cryptocurrency hardware wallet, Trezor.

In this episode, we discuss:
- Bitcoin mining
- On-grid vs. off-grid energy
- Bitcoin energy usage
- Trezor & Satoshi Labs (hardware wallets)
- Wholesale vs. retail CBDCs
- How to hedge against inflation
- Keto diet

Satoshi Labs
- Twitter: @satoshilabs
- Website: satoshilabs.com

Trezor
- Twitter: @trezor
- Website: trezor.io

Josef
- Twitter: @SatsJoseph

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CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

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Website: coinpoker.com
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#12: Aubrey Strobel On Earning Bitcoin While You Shop

Wed, 05 May 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Aubrey Strobel is the Head of Communications at Lolli, the world's leading bitcoin shopping rewards company.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Lolli's $5million raise
- Working with Alexis Ohanian & Serena Williams
- Aubrey's hot takes
- The power of crypto memes
- NYC crypto community
- The future of Lolli

Lolli
- Twitter: @trylolli
- Website: lolli.com
- Instagram: @lolli

Aubrey
- Twitter: @aubreystrobel

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CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

Play some hands, collect wins, and cash out in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or CHP!

Twitter: @CoinPoker_OFF
Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

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David Datuna x Dole NFT Collection for the Boys and Girls Club

Dole SunShine Company is doing a huge NFT Charity drop this Thursday May 6th to help combat world hunger!

Date: Thursday May 6, 2021

Time: 12:30 PST / 3:30pm EST

Where: rarible.com

Dole SunShine Company (the largest producer of fruit and vegetables in the world) is teaming up with ‘hungry artist’ David Datuna, for this limited edition NFT drop for Charity.

They will be dropping 5 NFTs to raise money and bring awareness to their Sunshine For All mission, which aims to increase worldwide access to good nutrition, reduce food waste, reduce plastics in packaging and more!

4 NFTs will be available for purchase and 1 will be auctioned off.

All proceeds go to the Boys and Girls Club, a top notch national charitable organization of local chapters which provides voluntary after-school programs for young people.

Dole
Twitter: @DoleSunshine

David Datuna
Instagram: @david_datuna

Boys and Girls Club
Twitter: @BGCA_Clubs

#11: Nischal Shetty on Building India's First $1bn Crypto Exchange

Mon, 03 May 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Nischal Shetty is the CEO and Founder of WazirX, India's largest crypto exchange.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- How WazirX became India's largest crypto exchange
- Getting acquired by Binance
- Creating the Indian Cryptocurrency Code of Conduct
- Digital Rupee
- Decentralized Notification Protocols
- The future of crypto in India
- NFTs, BTC, ETH
- The crypto community raising money for Covid-19 in India

WazirX
- Twitter: @WazirXIndia
- Website: wazirx.com
- Telegram: @wazirx

Nischal
- Twitter: @NischalShetty

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CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC or CHP tokens and no KYC.

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

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#10: Jordan Anderson on Crypto in Canada

Fri, 30 Apr 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Jordan Anderson is the COO of Bitbuy, Canada's largest crypto exchange.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Building a crypto exchange in Canada
- Struggles of building a crypto company in Canada
- The Canadian history of bitcoin & crypto
- Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC)
- Partnership with famous rappers and NHL teams
- How Bitbuy became Canada's premier crypto exchange
- Taxing crypto gains

Bitbuy:
- Twitter: @bitbuy
- Website: bitbuy.ca
- Instagram: @bitbuyca

Jordan
- Twitter: @j0rdan_ben

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CoinPoker uses USDT as the main in-game currency and CHP as in-game fuel, offering all benefits of the crypto world alongside. CoinPoker also features instant and secure transactions using USDT, ETH, BTC or CHP tokens and no KYC .

CoinPoker users get huge promotions, as they give away thousands in fiat value each week. CHP is the currency of the CoinPoker economy providing players with exclusive benefits and supports future developments delivered to the CoinPoker community.

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Website: coinpoker.com
Telegram: @officialcoinpoker

#9: Sergej Kotliar -- Living on Crypto

Wed, 28 Apr 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Sergej Kotliar is the CEO at Bitrefill, a crypto-only e-commerce company that provides a catalog of gift cards, prepaid mobile refills, and Lightning networking services that allow anyone to live on cryptocurrency.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Becoming the largest crypto-only e-commerce site
- The history of Bitrefill
- How to live on crypto
- Raising money in the crypto industry
- Growing in Public
- Defi, NTFs

Bitrefill:
- Twitter: @bitrefill
- Website: bitrefill.com
- Telegram: @bitrefill

Sergej
- Twitter: @ziggamon

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#8: Eric Demuth on Building a $1bn Crypto Company

Mon, 26 Apr 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Eric Demuth is the CEO of Bitpanda, Austria's first ever unicorn ($1bn company). Bitpanda is a user-friendly, trade-everything platform that empowers the user to invest in stocks, cryptocurrencies and metals, with any amount of money.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- How Bitpanda grew into a $1bn company
- Becoming Austria's first ever Unicorn
- Fractional stock trading, 24/7 trading
- Bitpanda's corporate culture
- How Bitpanda achieved 2 million customers with minimal marketing
- "Wall Street without the Walls"
- The future of Fintech
- How the internet democratizes industries

Bitpanda
- Twitter: @bitpanda
- Website: bitpanda.com
- Instagram: @bitpanda

Eric:
- Twitter: @eric_demuth

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#7: Lennix Lai on Bitcoin Futures and Perpetual Swaps

Fri, 23 Apr 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Lennix Lai is the Director of Financial Markets for OKEx, the world's largest bitcoin futures trading platform.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Bitcoin futures
- Perpetual swaps
- Servicing users in 100+ countries
- Yield farming, C2C loans
- Cross-chain bridge (K-tokens)
- Defi, NFTs
- The history of OKEx
- Token sale platforms (Jumpstart)

OKEx
- Twitter: @OKEx
- Website: okex.com
- Telegram: OKEx English

Lennix
- Twitter: @LennixOkex
- LinkedIn: Lennix Lai

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#6: Preethi Kasireddy on the History of Crypto and Bitcoin

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 02:00:00 -0400

Preethi Kasireddy is an entrepreneur, software engineer, writer, blockchain enthusiast and teacher.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The history of money, crypto & Bitcoin
- Crypto in Miami
- Working at Goldman Sachs, a16z, Coinbase
- Leaving a16z to learn how to code
- The early days of Coinbase
- Preethi's Intro to Cryptocurrency course
- Crypto in India
- The future of crypto

Preethi
Twitter: @iam_preethi
Website: preethikasireddy.com
Instagram: @preethikasireddy
Crypto Course: preethikasireddy.com/intro-to-cryptocurrency

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#5: Marie Tatibouet, CMO of Gate.io on Marketing and Crypto Exchanges

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 03:00:00 -0400

Marie Tatibouet is the CMO of Gate.io, one of the largest crypto exchanges in the world.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Gate.io
- GateChain ($GT)
- Cryptopedia
- Hipo DeFI (decentralized liquidity maker)
- Marketing to global audiences
- NFTs

Gate.io
Twitter: @gate_io
Website: gate.io
Telegram: @gateio

Marie Tatibouet:
Twitter: @marietatibouet
Instagram: @marietatibouet

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#4: Erhan Korhaliller, Founder of EAK Digital & BlockDown Conference

Tue, 13 Apr 2021 23:00:00 -0400

Erhan Korhaliller is the CEO & Founder of EAK Digital, BlockDown Conference and Istanbul Blockchain Week.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- How Erhan and his team created a successful virtual blockchain conference during COVID-19 (BlockDown Conference)
- Marketing & PR in crypto
- EAK Digital
- Party stories from blockchain conferences
- Akoin (famous rapper Akon's cryptocurrency)
- BlockDown 2021
- Virtual Reality in crypto

BlockDown:
Website: blockdownconf.com
Twitter: @BlockDownConf

EAK Digital
Twitter: @EAK_Digital
Website: eakdigital.com

Istanbul Blockchain Week
Twitter: @IstanbulBlockWk
Website: istanbulblockchainweek.com

Erhan
Twitter: @EKorhaliller

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#3: Nuno Fernandes, CEO of Exeedme on Blockchain Gaming

Tue, 06 Apr 2021 20:00:00 -0400

Nuno Fernandes is the CEO of Exeedme, a blockchain powered gaming platform.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Blockchain gaming
- Exeedme
- NFTs & DeFi
- $XED
- Betting/gambling in crypto
- The future of blockchain e-sports teams

Twitter: @Exeedme
Telegram: http://t.me/exeedme
Website: exeedme.com

Nuno: @NunodeOFernande

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#2: DCL Blogger on NFTs and Decentraland

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 23:00:00 -0400

DCL Blogger (Matty) is a YouTuber, NFT investor and entrepreneur.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- NFTs
- Decentraland (virtual land worth thousands of $)
- Alternatives to ETH (gassing fees)
- NFT Marketplaces
- MetaMask
- CryptoArtPulse.com

Twitter: @DCLBlogger
YouTube: DCL Blogger

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#1: Tony G on Crypto, NFTs and Poker

Wed, 24 Mar 2021 22:00:00 -0400

Tony G (Tony Guoga) is a Lithuanian businessman, crypto enthusiast, professional poker player, philanthropist, and CEO of Cypherpunk Holdings ($HODL).

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Crypto (BTC, ETH)
- NFTs
- Animoca Brands (F1 Delta Time, Revv Token, Sandbox, Tower)
- Lympo (LYM, LMT)
- Cypherpunk Holdings ($HODL on the CSE)
- Poker

You can find Tony G on twitter @TonyGuoga

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