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 bes...
Sep 01, 2022•51 min•Ep. 157
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...
Aug 29, 2022•46 min•Ep. 156
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...
Aug 25, 2022•37 min•Ep. 155
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 Oxf...
Aug 22, 2022•44 min•Ep. 154
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: - Visiting Italy - Keet.io - DHT - Distributed Hash Table - Holepunch - Swarming - Live data streaming - Crypto payment adoption for nations - Bitfinex Pay - Tether ($USDT...
Aug 18, 2022•59 min•Ep. 153
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), artificia...
Aug 15, 2022•42 min•Ep. 152
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 sp...
Aug 11, 2022•42 min•Ep. 151
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 min...
Aug 08, 2022•48 min•Ep. 150
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 enterp...
Aug 04, 2022•50 min•Ep. 149
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 d...
Aug 01, 2022•45 min•Ep. 148
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 ...
Jul 28, 2022•40 min•Ep. 147
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...
Jul 25, 2022•57 min•Ep. 146
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 Stanfo...
Jul 21, 2022•57 min•Ep. 145
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 Cr...
Jul 18, 2022•43 min•Ep. 144
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 blo...
Jul 14, 2022•34 min•Ep. 143
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-p...
Jul 11, 2022•41 min•Ep. 142
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...
Jul 07, 2022•44 min•Ep. 141
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 ...
Jul 04, 2022•45 min•Ep. 140
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 majo...
Jun 30, 2022•45 min•Ep. 139
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...
Jun 27, 2022•42 min•Ep. 138
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...
Jun 23, 2022•40 min•Ep. 137
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 resu...
Jun 20, 2022•50 min•Ep. 136
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....
Jun 16, 2022•48 min•Ep. 135
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 m...
Jun 13, 2022•45 min•Ep. 134
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 - Wor...
Jun 09, 2022•39 min•Ep. 133
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 communit...
Jun 06, 2022•43 min•Ep. 132
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 in...
Jun 02, 2022•40 min•Ep. 131
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...
May 30, 2022•48 min•Ep. 130
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 - Blockch...
May 26, 2022•38 min•Ep. 129
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 ...
May 23, 2022•33 min•Ep. 128
