On episode 295 of the podcast BlockHash: Exploring the Blockchain, Founder Dimitri Nikolakakis and Brandon Zemp come together to talk about his agency DimNiko. Dimitri Nikolakakis is the founder of DimNiko Agency, specializing in paid traffic, customer acquisition, and Web 3.0 integration for eCommerce brands. As well as assisting brands with their growth, he has both founded and acquired his own eCommerce brands. Outside of the eCommerce space, he is working on a tech start-up, creating the wor...
Dec 05, 2022•36 min•Ep. 295
On episode 294 of the podcast BlockHash: Exploring the Blockchain, CEO Mattias Tengblad and Brandon Zemp to talk about Corite, a Web3 solution that lets fans get a share of streaming revenues by investing in music they love. The Podcast is available on… 🔗 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blockhash-exploring-the-blockchain/id1241712666 🔗 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/6dc84ee4-845b-4bea-b812-b876daab2c7e/BlockHash-Exploring-the-Blockchain 🔗 Spotify: https:...
Nov 28, 2022•33 min•Ep. 294
On episode 293 of the podcast BlockHash: Exploring the Blockchain, CEO Alex Fleseriu and Brandon Zemp to talk about buying and selling digital fine art on the Solana blockchain with Exchange Art. The Podcast is available on… 🔗 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blockhash-exploring-the-blockchain/id1241712666 🔗 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/6dc84ee4-845b-4bea-b812-b876daab2c7e/BlockHash-Exploring-the-Blockchain 🔗 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4AGqU...
Nov 17, 2022•31 min•Ep. 293
On episode 292 of the podcast BlockHash: Exploring the Blockchain, Kyle Rojas with Edge & Node joins me to chat about The Graph and the importance of Web3 indexing. The Graph is an indexing protocol for querying networks like Ethereum and IPFS. Anyone can build and publish open APIs, called subgraphs, making data easily accessible. The Podcast is available on… 🔗 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blockhash-exploring-the-blockchain/id1241712666 🔗 Amazon Music: https://mus...
Nov 10, 2022•22 min•Ep. 292
On episode 291 of the podcast BlockHash: Exploring the Blockchain, CEO Theo Gauthier joins Brandon Zemp on the show to talk about Toposware, interoperability and an ecosystem of blockchains. Theo is the founder and CEO of Toposware, a consensusless, trustless interoperability protocol establishing a transformative infrastructure standard for Web3. Theo founded Toposware in 2019 after proactively identifying the need for improved protocol functionality within the decentralized ecosystem and pursu...
Nov 03, 2022•21 min•Ep. 291
The DOJ is currently investigation an attempted bribery of an FBI agent by two Chinese individuals, supposedly working on behalf of Huawei. This bribe was offered in Bitcoin and denied. What happened exactly? The podcast is available on… 🔗Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blockhash-exploring-the-blockchain/id1241712666 🔗Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/6dc84ee4-845b-4bea-b812-b876daab2c7e/BlockHash-Exploring-the-Blockchain Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/sh...
Oct 31, 2022•27 min•Ep. 290
The CFTC and SEC are in a heated battle over jurisdiction of the cryptocurrency industry. One side advocates for them to be classified as commodities. The later for securities. How will regulation shape up? How will this effect a future multi-trillion dollar market? The podcast is available on… 🔗Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blockhash-exploring-the-blockchain/id1241712666 🔗Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/6dc84ee4-845b-4bea-b812-b876daab2c7e/BlockHash-Exp...
Oct 27, 2022•26 min•Ep. 289
Crypto-friendly Rishi Sunak is set to become the UK Prime Minister. During his time as finance minister, Sunak unveiled plans to turn the country into an international hub for cryptocurrency and blockchain. Will his ambitions continue? The podcast is available on… 🔗Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blockhash-exploring-the-blockchain/id1241712666 🔗Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/6dc84ee4-845b-4bea-b812-b876daab2c7e/BlockHash-Exploring-the-Blockchain Spotify: ...
Oct 26, 2022•32 min•Ep. 288
On episode 287 of the podcast BlockHash: Exploring the Blockchain, CEO Michel Triana joins Brandon Zemp to uncover more of Mean Finance and what they are doing in the DeFi space. Mean DAO is bringing financial freedom to people and businesses worldwide. Through the Mean Protocol, they provide real-time cash flows and crypto asset management solutions for businesses and institutions. The Podcast is available on… 🔗 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blockhash-exploring-the-bloc...
Oct 25, 2022•28 min•Ep. 287
On episode 286 of the podcast BlockHash: Exploring the Blockchain, Chief Business Development Officer, Simon Schaber, joins Brandon Zemp on the show to talk about Spool. Spool is a DAO that aims to create better and simpler composable access to DeFi. The company is now launching its' Smart Vault’ creation tool allowing institutions and funds to tailor all aspects of their portfolio and have access to multiple yield generators while serving their risk appetite and portfolio diversification. Simon...
Oct 21, 2022•41 min•Ep. 286
On episode 285 of the podcast BlockHash: Exploring the Blockchain, CEO Valentin Pletnev sits down with Brandon Zemp to talk more about Quasar Finance. At just 23 years young, Valentin has already had exposure and experience in a variety of blockchain and emerging technology-focused fields. In 2018, he was accepted into Draper University. After that, he joined Advanced Blockchain where he, together with his co-founders, came up with the idea for Quasar Finance, a Cosmos project that is home to ne...
Oct 19, 2022•19 min•Ep. 285
On episode 284 of the podcast BlockHash: Exploring the Blockchain, we chat with Chjango Unchained, host of the Interchain.FM podcast. She worked formerly for NASA, joined the Cosmos ecosystem as a builder and is an interchain validator. The Podcast is available on… 🔗 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blockhash-exploring-the-blockchain/id1241712666 🔗 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/6dc84ee4-845b-4bea-b812-b876daab2c7e/BlockHash-Exploring-the-Blockchain 🔗 Spo...
Oct 17, 2022•27 min•Ep. 284
On episode 283 of the podcast BlockHash: Exploring the Blockchain, we sat down with Colombian artist Ana Escobar for another BlockHash Exclusive, to chat about her mini series Criptopoéticas, her work as an artist and the future of NFT art. The Podcast is available on… 🔗 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blockhash-exploring-the-blockchain/id1241712666 🔗 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/6dc84ee4-845b-4bea-b812-b876daab2c7e/BlockHash-Exploring-the-Blockchain 🔗...
Oct 12, 2022•28 min•Ep. 283
On episode 282 of the podcast BlockHash: Exploring the Blockchain, Brandon Zemp chats with James and Cais, the CEO and CPO for Obscuro. Obscuro is a company building an L2 that brings privacy to Ethereum. The team comes from R3 and built Corda, which is the leading permissioned blockchain in the finance sector. Obscuro, as a Layer 2, massively scales Ethereum with faster, cheaper transactions, while inheriting all its security and ecosystem. The Podcast is available on… 🔗 Apple Podcasts: https:...
Oct 06, 2022•36 min•Ep. 282
On episode 281 of the podcast BlockHash: Exploring the Blockchain, we spoke with the COO of KYVE Network, Fezyla, on data streams, their products and what it’s like being a woman in the crypto industry. $KYVE is an initiative to store any data stream, with built-in validation. By leveraging the Arweave blockchain, they can permanently and immutably store this type of data. KYVE is also a network through which discrete elements of information enter, that are standardized, combined, stored permane...
Oct 05, 2022•44 min•Ep. 281
On episode 280 of the podcast BlockHash: Exploring the Blockchain, we sat down at Hash House in Medellin, Colombia with CEO of GiveMeFive, Santiago Restrepo. GiveMeFive is the 1st P2P lending platform to be launched in Colombia, offering workers, students and every day people access to restrictive credit and financial support. The podcast is available on… Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blockhash-exploring-the-blockchain/id1241712666 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/p...
Oct 03, 2022•29 min•Ep. 280
On episode 279 of the podcast BlockHash: Exploring the Blockchain, we went LIVE at Cosmoverse for our 4thinterview with one of the Co-founders of Cosmoverse, Basil! Cosmoverse is a global, yearly event that is aimed at promoting the Cosmos Ecosystem, its various projects and highlighting key milestones to grow awareness and adoption. Cosmoverse was held this year in Medellín, Colombia and had a fantastic turnout, with over 1,000 tickets sold and a tremendous amount of enthusiasm at the event. Fr...
Oct 01, 2022•12 min•Ep. 279
This week on episode 278 of the podcast BlockHash: Exploring the Blockchain, we went LIVE at Cosmoverse for our 3rd interview with the CEO of Agoric, Dean Tribble. Agoric is A Proof-of-Stake chain utilizing Hardened JavaScript smart contracts to rapidly build and deploy DeFi. They enable you to save time by using their pre-built smart contract components and Dapps. They’re secure, composable, and let you get your project out the door fast. Dean Tribble is leading the front as CEO of Agoric. He h...
Sep 30, 2022•28 min•Ep. 278
This week on episode 277 of the podcast BlockHash: Exploring the Blockchain, we went LIVE at Cosmoverse for our 2ndinterview with the Co-founder of Injective, Eric Chen. Injective is an open interoperable smart contracts platform optimized for decentralized finance applications. They have support from major players like Binance, Pantera and Mark Cuban. They are optimized for DeFi, with out-of-the-box interoperable orderbook primitives to create mainstream DApps. They feature cross-chain interope...
Sep 29, 2022•22 min•Ep. 277
This week on episode 276 of the podcast BlockHash: Exploring the Blockchain, we are LIVE at Cosmoverse with the CTO of Komodo, Kadan Stadelmann. Komodo is a non-custodial wallet and atomic swap DEX rolled into one application. More importantly, a community of innovators aiming to change the world! We also go into detail on the AtomicDEX Protocol, a multi-coin wallet, bridge, and DEX rolled into one app where you can manage your crypto without limitations. The podcast is available on… Apple Podca...
Sep 28, 2022•26 min•Ep. 276
This week on episode 275 of the podcast BlockHash: Exploring the Blockchain, we are unveiling a new series called BlockHash Exclusives, where we interview top founders and execs in the Web3 industry LIVE in-person! For this first episode exclusive we are chatting with Greg Roggero, the CMO of Algem. Algem is a DeFi dApp built on Astar Network that allows you to stay liquid while staking your ASTR. Staying liquid means you can double-dip with your Astar tokens by staking while yield farming. We g...
Sep 23, 2022•21 min•Ep. 275
Are you interested in DeFi loans and credit lines? Do you want to borrow against your crypto? Do you want to hold onto your crypto as long as possible while taking advantage of liquidity? Then this episode is for you! On episode 274 of the podcast BlockHash: Exploring the Blockchain, we are happy to have Shawn Owen, the CEO of SALT Lending. Unlike a traditional loan that takes your credit score into account, a SALT loan is an asset-backed loan in which your cryptoassets act as collateral for you...
Sep 22, 2022•22 min•Ep. 274
This week on episode 273 of the podcast BlockHash: Exploring the Blockchain, we have a new episode with the Co-founders of the Partisia Blockchain Foundation, Dr. Ivan Damgard and Brian Gallagher. Partisia Blockchain Foundation is an independent non-profit supporting the development of the world’s most advanced zero-knowledge blockchain. Partisia Blockchain’s zero-knowledge multi-party computation (MPC) and unified smart contract technology, is focused on solving for true blockchain confidential...
Sep 21, 2022•35 min•Ep. 273
This week on episode 272 of the podcast BlockHash: Exploring the Blockchain, we have a new episode with the Founder of Solidified. Solidified is one of the largest communities of smart contract auditors and blockchain security experts. That expertise provides them the unique perspective to perform the most secure audits and deep research of up-and-coming crypto startups. Eduard Kotysh is the Founder of security audit firm Solidified, which was established in 2016 as one of the longest-running bl...
Sep 20, 2022•43 min•Ep. 272
This week on episode 271 of the podcast BlockHash: Exploring the Blockchain, we have a new episode with the CEO of Orb Collective. In 2020, Jeremy Musighi joined Balancer Labs to roll up his sleeves and work hands-on in DeFi, by helping to scale the Balancer Protocol-- a liquidity layer for the financial system of the future. In 2022, he led the creation of Orb Collective, an independent entity providing growth services to the Balancer DAO. The podcast is available on… Apple Podcasts: https://po...
Sep 16, 2022•27 min•Ep. 271
For episode 270, get predictability with nSure.ai through less friction, more approvals and chargeback guarantees regardless of reason for fraud prevention. The CEO, Alex Zeltcer, joins me on the show to talk about fraud and how to stop it with AI and behavioral analytics. The podcast is available on… Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blockhash-exploring-the-blockchain/id1241712666 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/6dc84ee4-845b-4bea-b812-b876daab2c7e/BlockHash-...
Sep 15, 2022•25 min•Ep. 270
This week on episode 269 of the BlockHash Podcast, we have an exciting episode with the CEO of Sweat Economy. Oleg Fomenko is the founder of Sweatcoin, the #1 most downloaded fitness app in the world. They are currently trending because they are about to bring their 100M users from web2 to web3. He has done the research & surveys and found surprising results - that his 60+ old users ARE VERY INTERESTED in entering web3, IF certain issues are solved. Oleg is a serial entrepreneur who has laun...
Sep 06, 2022•33 min•Ep. 269
This week on episode 268 of the BlockHash Podcast, we have the CEO of Chains, Anderson McCutcheon. Chains.com offers users one single account, with a stack of Products designed to help earn, trade, invest and spend cryptocurrency without the need to understand the underlying technologies. The podcast is available on… Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blockhash-exploring-the-blockchain/id1241712666 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/6dc84ee4-845b-4bea-b812-b876daa...
Sep 05, 2022•39 min•Ep. 268
This week on episode 267 of the BlockHash Podcast, we have CEO James Wo of DFG. James is the Founder and CEO Digital Finance Group (DFG), a global blockchain and digital asset investment firm with more than $1B Assets Under Management. Mr. Wo is also the Chairman of Matrix, the first regulated virtual assets multilateral trading facility (MTF) & custodian under the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) VA policy framework. He is a board member of LedgerX, and an Executive Committee member of the Ch...
Aug 29, 2022•24 min•Ep. 267
This week on episode 266 of the BlockHash Podcast, we have CEO Juan Álvarez of BRET to talk about tokenization of real estate in the United States. BRET is allowing anyone to invest in real estate regardless of their economic background through the power of tokenization on blockchain. The podcast is available on… Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blockhash-exploring-the-blockchain/id1241712666 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/6dc84ee4-845b-4bea-b812-b876daab2c7...
Aug 25, 2022•36 min•Ep. 266