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 exp...
May 23, 2024•42 min•Ep. 337
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-...
May 20, 2024•45 min•Ep. 336
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 t...
May 16, 2024•45 min•Ep. 335
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...
May 13, 2024•37 min•Ep. 334
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 scalabili...
May 09, 2024•35 min•Ep. 333
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 graduate...
May 06, 2024•39 min•Ep. 332
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 -...
May 02, 2024•32 min•Ep. 331
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 wher...
Apr 29, 2024•34 min•Ep. 330
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 p...
Apr 25, 2024•40 min•Ep. 329
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 ...
Apr 22, 2024•44 min•Ep. 328
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 wo...
Apr 18, 2024•34 min•Ep. 327
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...
Apr 15, 2024•31 min•Ep. 326
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 & Entrepren...
Apr 11, 2024•35 min•Ep. 325
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 DeF...
Apr 08, 2024•36 min•Ep. 324
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...
Apr 04, 2024•38 min•Ep. 323
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 ...
Apr 01, 2024•33 min•Ep. 322
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...
Mar 28, 2024•34 min•Ep. 321
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 a...
Mar 25, 2024•40 min•Ep. 320
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 A...
Mar 21, 2024•41 min•Ep. 319
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 technolo...
Mar 18, 2024•36 min•Ep. 318
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 protoco...
Mar 14, 2024•33 min•Ep. 317
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 i...
Mar 11, 2024•38 min•Ep. 316
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 co...
Mar 07, 2024•49 min•Ep. 315
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 pre...
Mar 04, 2024•31 min•Ep. 314
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...
Feb 29, 2024•42 min•Ep. 313
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 bre...
Feb 26, 2024•45 min•Ep. 312
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 conversatio...
Feb 22, 2024•32 min•Ep. 311
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 disc...
Feb 19, 2024•42 min•Ep. 310
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 disenfran...
Feb 15, 2024•34 min•Ep. 309
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, an...
Feb 12, 2024•39 min•Ep. 308
