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-hig...
Dec 15, 2022•42 min•Ep. 187
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 ...
Dec 12, 2022•34 min•Ep. 186
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...
Dec 08, 2022•38 min•Ep. 185
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 Bl...
Dec 05, 2022•42 min•Ep. 184
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 communit...
Dec 01, 2022•36 min•Ep. 183
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,...
Nov 28, 2022•54 min•Ep. 182
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-...
Nov 24, 2022•51 min•Ep. 181
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 disc...
Nov 21, 2022•48 min•Ep. 180
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 m...
Nov 17, 2022•46 min•Ep. 179
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. Previou...
Nov 14, 2022•40 min•Ep. 178
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 n...
Nov 10, 2022•53 min•Ep. 177
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 w...
Nov 07, 2022•50 min•Ep. 176
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 unwaveri...
Nov 03, 2022•40 min•Ep. 175
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 tea...
Oct 31, 2022•47 min•Ep. 174
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 Universi...
Oct 27, 2022•44 min•Ep. 173
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, ...
Oct 24, 2022•36 min•Ep. 172
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...
Oct 20, 2022•38 min•Ep. 171
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 an...
Oct 17, 2022•48 min•Ep. 170
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 number...
Oct 13, 2022•44 min•Ep. 169
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 ...
Oct 10, 2022•47 min•Ep. 168
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 scalin...
Oct 06, 2022•38 min•Ep. 167
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 build...
Oct 03, 2022•48 min•Ep. 166
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 Pol...
Sep 29, 2022•56 min•Ep. 165
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 inn...
Sep 26, 2022•48 min•Ep. 164
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 -...
Sep 22, 2022•50 min•Ep. 163
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 M...
Sep 19, 2022•46 min•Ep. 162
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...
Sep 15, 2022•40 min•Ep. 161
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 compu...
Sep 12, 2022•37 min•Ep. 160
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...
Sep 08, 2022•38 min•Ep. 159
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 Contrac...
Sep 05, 2022•39 min•Ep. 158
