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 comp...
Oct 26, 2023•43 min•Ep. 277
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 promo...
Oct 23, 2023•40 min•Ep. 276
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 ot...
Oct 19, 2023•37 min•Ep. 275
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 programm...
Oct 16, 2023•38 min•Ep. 274
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 ...
Oct 12, 2023•39 min•Ep. 273
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...
Oct 09, 2023•38 min•Ep. 272
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 Amer...
Oct 05, 2023•37 min•Ep. 271
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 w...
Oct 02, 2023•41 min•Ep. 270
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 l...
Sep 28, 2023•37 min•Ep. 269
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...
Sep 25, 2023•42 min•Ep. 268
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...
Sep 21, 2023•34 min•Ep. 267
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 - BU...
Sep 18, 2023•34 min•Ep. 266
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 derivati...
Sep 14, 2023•33 min•Ep. 265
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 outstandi...
Sep 11, 2023•45 min•Ep. 264
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...
Sep 07, 2023•36 min
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,...
Sep 04, 2023•41 min•Ep. 262
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 Brai...
Aug 31, 2023•35 min
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...
Aug 28, 2023•36 min•Ep. 260
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 w...
Aug 24, 2023•35 min•Ep. 259
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 ...
Aug 21, 2023•39 min•Ep. 258
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 ...
Aug 17, 2023•40 min•Ep. 257
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 $1.25B. Rudy has over 15 years of game development experience shipping some of the most prolific games in the industry: 5 Call of Duty games, 2 World of Warcraft expansions, 1 Disney MMO, and a handful of #1 mobile games. He is currently exploring the intersection between blockchain technology and games. In this conversation, we...
Aug 14, 2023•47 min•Ep. 256
Paolo Ardoino is the CTO of Bitfinex and Tether, who also recently launched Keet.io , a Peer-to-Peer Chat App, built with the Holepunch platform that allows anyone to create apps that don’t use any servers. Paolo is also a certified meme-lord and has one of the best accounts on crypto Twitter. In this conversation, we discuss: - Tether ($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 e...
Aug 10, 2023•44 min•Ep. 255
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 t...
Aug 07, 2023•37 min•Ep. 254
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...
Aug 03, 2023•37 min•Ep. 253
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 Technolo...
Jul 31, 2023•33 min•Ep. 252
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...
Jul 27, 2023•44 min•Ep. 251
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 thr...
Jul 24, 2023•38 min•Ep. 250
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 N...
Jul 20, 2023•32 min•Ep. 249
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 alway...
Jul 17, 2023•36 min•Ep. 248
