Nico Brugge and Real Vision Pro Crypto member Kris Bullock, aka Blastoplast, are joined by Ruben Merre, co-founder and CEO of NGRAVE, to discuss a critical (and often daunting) aspect of crypto investing: self-custody. What's the difference between a software and a hardware wallet? How to improve the user experience while maintaining security? And what's with that Ledger controversy? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Jul 07, 2023•37 min
Real Vision's Jeremy Varlow welcomes Robbie Ferguson, co-founder of Immutable, to discuss Web3 gaming trends, mainstream adoption progress, and Immutable’s partnerships with the likes of Polygon and GameStop. Recorded on July 5. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 06, 2023•41 min
Welcome to the inaugural episode of Web3 Wednesdays on the Crypto Daily Briefing. Elaine Ly will host Marcello Mari, CEO of SingularityDAO, an on-chain portfolio manager platform that aims to combine the power of AI and DeFi. Can artificial intelligence give you an edge or do the risks outweigh the rewards? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 05, 2023•36 min
When GMoney first got into NFTs it was purely as a trade — now, it’s a lifestyle. He joins Raoul to dig into his journey from trad-fi trader to NFT collector and founder of a Web3-enabled fashion brand, 9DCC. Along the way, GMoney and Raoul get into the future of Web3, the controversies surrounding creator royalties, and whether the bottom is in for the market. Recorded on May 3, 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Jul 04, 2023•1 hr 3 min
The crypto market appears to be in thrall of the SEC again and whether it finally approves one of the many applications for a spot bitcoin ETF. John Palmer, president of CBOE Digital, joins Maggie Lake to talk about this race, the influx of TradFi into crypto, and CBOE’s recently approved leveraged derivative products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 03, 2023•37 min
From drastically reducing the price of NFT collections to launching their hardware phone, Saga, Solana has been moving fast and furious. Solana's co-founder, Anatoly Yakovenko, joins Raoul Pal to dig into the recent developments and why the future of Solana is “open-source.” Anatoly and Raoul also discuss the migration of various Layer-1s moving onto Solana and what the future holds for the ecosystem — both in terms of its blockchain and hardware aspirations. Recorded on May 1, 2023. Learn more ...
Jul 02, 2023•57 min
Evan Cheng, co-founder and CEO of Mysten Labs, the developers behind Sui, believes that the existing blockchain model is broken and that Sui offers the solution. Santiago Velez, co-founder and division lead (R&D) at Block Digital Corporation, welcomes Evan to dig into those claims and explore why a new approach to blockchain models is necessary. Recorded on June 13, 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Jul 01, 2023•53 min
The news flow is all about Bitcoin today as Fidelity follows BlackRock in applying for a spot bitcoin ETF; mining activity ramps up, with miners sending a record amount of revenue onto exchanges; and an unusually large number of bitcoin options are set to expire today. Are we set for more volatility ahead? Mike Alfred, founder and managing partner of Alpine Fox LP, joins Ash Bennington to dissect it all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Jun 30, 2023•33 min
Ash Bennington is hosting Jacob Blish, the head of business development at Lido, the biggest liquid staking protocol. Liquid staking has grown into an increasingly important sector of the crypto economy, recently becoming the most valuable category of DeFi. Can it maintain its momentum despite a skeptical SEC? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 29, 2023•35 min
Ash Bennington sits down with Lars Seier Christensen, founder and chairman of Concordium Foundation, to talk about the layer 1 blockchain that promises regulatory compliance through embedding zero-knowledge identification into every transaction. The two also discuss the future of DeFi and where we are in the current market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 28, 2023•38 min
Crypto jargon can be pretty daunting for newcomers. Asking for a Friend is designed to help with that. Join Real Vision's Elaine Ly and Elizabeth Olson, head of growth at Xverse, for a breakdown of one of the hottest new trends in Bitcoin: Ordinals. What are they? How do I get into them? And are they a value-add or a drain on Bitcoin? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 27, 2023•42 min
Ash Bennington is joined by Steven Goldfeder, co-founder and CEO of Offchain Labs, the company that has developed Arbitrum, a layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum. The two will discuss Arbitrum's positioning in the L2 space, the latest upgrades, and the outlook for the protocol, its sister chain, and the wider market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 26, 2023•39 min
In this long over-due catch-up, Jeff Dorman, CIO of Arca, joins Raoul to examine the fallout from the ongoing banking crisis and share why he's bullish on Bitcoin. Jeff and Raoul also cover ETH staking, regulation, and just what might be the biggest issue for the industry going forward. Recorded on May 3, 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 25, 2023•1 hr 3 min
On the fifth day of the Festival of Learning: AI Edition, Robert Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad, and Raoul Pal come together, focusing on how AI is about to majorly upend everything we know. Learn from them why you should consider “investing in your own demise," how entrepreneurship could be the key in the age of AI, and so much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 24, 2023•43 min
One of the biggest obstacles to scaling Ethereum is the number of transactions it can process per second. Mantle, which is scheduled to launch on mainnet next month, hopes its DAO-governed (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) layer-2 blockchain is the solution. Ash Bennington discusses this with Arjun Kalsy, Mantle's head of the ecosystem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 23, 2023•34 min
Crypto investors are finally breathing an air of optimism with the price of bitcoin and ether enjoying double-digit percentage gains over the past week. What a great time then for Ash to catch up with Raoul for an Ask-Me-Anything session. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 22, 2023•1 hr 7 min
Parataxis Capital co-founders — CEO Edward Chin and CIO Thejas Nalval — join Ash Bennington to assess the state of the crypto markets, liquidity conditions, where we are in the cycle, how institutions are allocating their investments, and where opportunities lie right now. And of course, they'll break down BlackRock's big move. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 21, 2023•44 min
Ash Bennington is joined by Caitlin Long, CEO of Custodia Bank and a high-profile Bitcoin supporter, whose company has been trying to obtain a Federal Reserve master account. They'll discuss Custodia's lawsuit against the Fed, the wider regulatory pressure on crypto, BlackRock's promising bitcoin ETF application, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 20, 2023•46 min
Raoul Pal joins the Coins Podcast on the 1st episode of their new docuseries where they discuss the battlefront of Operation Choke Point 2.0 - the latest war on decentralized money, and the final frontier of privacy. Raoul offers his unique perspective and insights on the unfolding saga and the fight for financial freedom. Don't miss it! You can find out more about the Coins Podcast and their new 11-part docuseries on Twitter @coins_podcast and check it with video on their YouTube https://www.yo...
Jun 19, 2023•55 min
From her start in the oil business to becoming the high-priestess of memes and CryptoDickbutts, Meltem Demirors, head of strategy for Coinshares, joins Raoul to dig into the power of memes and how they drive everything — including meme'ing a $1 trillion asset into existence. Meltem and Raoul also cover L1s, L2s, and the debate of centralization versus decentralization. And of course, why Meltem loves CryptoDickbutts so very much. Recorded on June 5, 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...
Jun 17, 2023•1 hr 13 min
This time Asking for a Friend delves into the world of layer 2s. Crypto jargon can be pretty daunting for newcomers. "Asking for a Friend" is designed to help with that. Join Real Vision's Nico Brugge and Rainbow co-founder Mike Demarais to learn what is a layer 2, how and why people use them, and which ones are the most popular. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 16, 2023•30 min
The regulator has targeted multiple altcoins and exchanges but not BTC. We discuss the impact. Ash Bennington is joined by Bruce Fenton, CEO of Chainstone Labs and host of The Satoshi Roundtable, to discuss how the U.S. Securities and Exchange's designation of multiple altcoins as securities could affect the original cryptocurrency. Plus, Tether wobbles and Blackrock is reportedly close to filing an application for a Bitcoin ETF. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoic...
Jun 15, 2023•43 min
The mounting enforcement actions against the crypto industry by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission are now playing out in court, with significant developments in multiple cases on Tuesday. Ash Bennington is joined by securities and crypto expert James Murphy, aka MetaLawMan, to analyze and explain the news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 15, 2023•47 min
The biggest Initial Coin Offering in history ($4B raised). A top-10 market cap. But 5 years after the launch of EOS, the initial hype made way for performance issues, SEC charges, a plunge in price, and eventually a community takeover. Ash Bennington is joined by Yves La Rose, CEO of the EOS Network Foundation, who is trying to rebuild the protocol and bring back the glory days. Can it be done? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Jun 12, 2023•37 min
This episode is in partnership with the Crypto Phenom Letter - This one-of-a-kind premium investment newsletter service highlights the next winners coming in cryptocurrency tokens and equities. Get special access now: https://phenomcrypto.com/realvision/ We have a special treat for you today — 10T Holdings founder Dan Tapiero and Raoul Pal haven’t caught up in ages, so they decided to do it on camera for you, our amazing audience. Raoul and Dan dig into the current macro environment, how it’s af...
Jun 11, 2023•1 hr 12 min
This episode is in partnership with the Crypto Phenom Letter - This one-of-a-kind premium investment newsletter service highlights the next winners coming in cryptocurrency tokens and equities. Get special access now: https://phenomcrypto.com/realvision/ When GMoney first got into NFTs it was purely as a trade — now, it’s a lifestyle. He joins Raoul to dig into his journey from trad-fi trader to NFT collector and founder of a Web3 enabled fashion brand, 9DCC. Along the way, GMoney and Raoul get ...
Jun 10, 2023•1 hr 4 min
This episode is in partnership with the Crypto Phenom Letter - This one-of-a-kind premium investment newsletter service highlights the next winners coming in cryptocurrency tokens and equities. Get special access now: https://phenomcrypto.com/realvision/ Global banking network SWIFT announced with its partner Chainlink earlier this week that they will test connecting several major financial institutions to different blockchain networks — in a move that could potentially 10x the industry. Chainli...
Jun 09, 2023•40 min
This episode is in partnership with the Crypto Phenom Letter - This one-of-a-kind premium investment newsletter service highlights the next winners coming in cryptocurrency tokens and equities. Get special access now: https://phenomcrypto.com/realvision/ Diego Gutiérrez Zaldívar, co-founder and CEO of IOVLabs, and Pei Chen, the company's chief growth officer, join Ash Bennington to discuss what they claim is a "Bitcoin renaissance." They see a network evolving thanks to sidechains like Rootstock...
Jun 08, 2023•43 min
This episode is in partnership with the Crypto Phenom Letter - This one-of-a-kind premium investment newsletter service highlights the next winners coming in cryptocurrency tokens and equities. Get special access now: https://phenomcrypto.com/realvision/ Can you do something for the greater good and save money at the same time? That's Adam Nash's idea behind Daffy — a platform for charitable donations of cash, stocks, and crypto that he co-founded and runs as the CEO. Adam and Ash Bennington als...
Jun 07, 2023•37 min
This episode is in partnership with the Crypto Phenom Letter - This one-of-a-kind premium investment newsletter service highlights the next winners coming in cryptocurrency tokens and equities. Get special access now: https://phenomcrypto.com/realvision/ How do you successfully marry the innovative world of digital art with the traditional setting of an art gallery? Real Vision's Nico Brugge speaks to Mark Dale, founder of W1 Curates, a home for NFT exhibitions in Oxford Street, London's ultra-b...
Jun 06, 2023•33 min
