Episode 14 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with Dan Held, Growth Lead at Kraken. Tor asks Dan: What does it mean to have a growth mindset in the blockchain space, and what insights can it lead to? What does he believe are some of Satoshi's secrets that led to the growth and adoption of Bitcoin? How important is privacy to Bitcoin and other blockchains? And why is 2020's Bitcoin bull run fundamentally different from previous cycles? What happens next? Dan on Substack: https://danheld.substack....
Dec 23, 2020•50 min
Episode 13 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with Charlie Lee, the creator of Litecoin. Tor asks Charlie: What secrets has he learned as the creator of one of the most successful cryptocurrencies in the world? What has he timed well - or timed poorly? How is Litecoin implementing privacy, and why was that decision made? Why is privacy important for users and for fungibility? Why does he think we’re about to see a massive surge in cryptocurrency adoption? And crucially, what will make it be sust...
Dec 12, 2020•46 min
Episode 12 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with Bruce Pon, Founder of Ocean Protocol and Founder / CEO of BigchainDB. Tor asks Bruce: What secrets did he learn building data and blockchain-based solutions before Ocean Protocol? How did Ocean emerge from those learnings, and what are they building now? What is the importance of privacy and data for artificial intelligence? What are datatokens, and how can they revolutionize the data economy? And what is the biggest piece of advice he has for p...
Dec 06, 2020•49 min
Episode 11 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with Josh Cincinnati, the former Executive Director of the Zcash Foundation. Tor asks Josh: What secrets did he learn trying to bring privacy to the cryptocurrency space? Why is privacy education and communication so challenging? What are the biggest threats to privacy and our greatest opportunities to solve them? And what relationship is there between protecting privacy and decentralization? Do they go hand in hand - or are they at odds? Josh on Twi...
Nov 24, 2020•52 min
Episode 10 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with Brittany Kaiser, former Cambridge Analytica whistleblower and co-founder of the Own Your Data Foundation. Tor asks Brittany: How is our data being misused - and what are the consequences? What was it like to share her secrets for the acclaimed Netflix documentary “The Great Hack”? How can technologists and regulators work together to create better laws, educate the public, and fuel innovation that protects users and their data? Are blockchains r...
Nov 06, 2020•53 min
Episode 9 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with Jamie Burke, Founder and CEO of Outlier Ventures. Tor asks Jamie: What secrets has he learned as an investor? How does he learn from the experiences of other investors and founders? How has he developed his investment theses in the blockchain space? How does Outlier Ventures support projects and founders? And crucially, how can we achieve broader adoption of groundbreaking use cases like NFTs and DeFi? This is Part 2 of a two part episode. Part 1...
Oct 31, 2020•39 min
Episode 8 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with RAC, grammy-winning musician and early adopter of Web3. Tor asks RAC: What secrets has he learned that other artists should know as they explore the new frontiers of blockchain? What are his favorite experiments that he and other artists have done in the blockchain space? How disruptive will decentralized technologies be to the business models of the legacy music world? And what might the music platforms of the future look like - or are they alre...
Oct 24, 2020•47 min
Episode 7 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with Josh Lee of Chainapsis, makers of Keplr Wallet. Tor asks Josh: What secrets has he learned on his journey from journalism to building key infrastructure for Cosmos and beyond? What does it feel like to be successfully funded by a community proposal (like Keplr was by the Secret community)? What excites him the most about emerging DeFi products? And what will it take to achieve sustainable mass adoption of blockchain technology, including wallets?...
Oct 17, 2020•42 min
Episode 6 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with Qiao Wang of the DeFi Alliance. Tor asks Qiao: What secrets has he learned trading, researching, and investing? What's the right way to measure growth for DeFi, and what will unlock the next phase of growth? Is there a close connection between privacy and liquidity? And what role can the DeFi Alliance play in helping scale decentralized finance from billions to trillions? DeFi Alliance: https://www.defialliance.org/ Qiao on Twitter: https://twitt...
Oct 12, 2020•43 min
Episode 5 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with Jake Brukhman of Coinfund. Tor asks Jake: What secrets has he learned as an investor, builder, and artist in the blockchain space? Why are NFTs finally gaining traction after years of development - and what will the next phase of growth look like? How will the introduction of privacy impact both the NFT and DeFi spaces? And how close are we to "mainstreaming" NFTs and other blockchain-based applications? Coinfund: https://coinfund.io Jake on Twit...
Oct 06, 2020•46 min
Episode 4 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with Mike Dudas, Founder of The Block. Tor asks Mike: What brought him to the blockchain space, and what secrets did he learn along the way? What makes building a media company in the blockchain space particularly challenging? Will decentralized finance play a pivotal role in mainstream adoption of cryptocurrencies? And how has the mainstream world already become more like the blockchain space - including the gamification of markets? The Block: https:...
Sep 27, 2020•47 min
Episode 3 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with Zaki Manian, cofounder of Iqlusion, formerly of Tendermint Labs. Tor asks Zaki: What brought him to the blockchain space, and what secrets did he learn along the way? What's the best way to develop products and processes in a decentralized ecosystem? How is DeFi on Cosmos manifesting with IBC and beyond? And importantly, what kind of role can Secret Network and privacy play in building more sustainable and more usable open economies? Iqlusion: ht...
Sep 23, 2020•45 min
Episode 2 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with Ed Moncada, cofounder of Blockfolio, now with FTX after a $150M acquisition.. Tor asks Ed: What’s the biggest secret you learned while at Blockfolio? When did you know you had a hit? How does he feel about his transition to FTX and the opportunity to work with Sam Bankman-Fried? What's the future of DEXes and CEXes? And what is Ed excited to build next? Blockfolio: www.blockfolio.com FTX: www.ftx.com --- Sharing Secrets - a new series from the Se...
Sep 22, 2020•42 min
Episode 1 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with Guy Zyskind, CEO of Enigma. Tor asks Guy: Why is privacy important to him? What has he learned in the past few years of developing secret contracts? How does he feel now that they're finally launching to mainnet? What does he think of DeFi? And where does he see Secret Network playing a huge role in both our present and our future? Sharing Secrets - a new series from the Secret Foundation - explores the biggest secrets of the blockchain and crypt...
Sep 21, 2020•48 min
Hosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our thirty-third episode features John Wolpert. John currently works at Consensys on the Web3Studio team, helping drive adoption of the decentralized web by identifying and building solutions using decentralized technologies. John has decades of entrepreneurial experience and previously co-founded IBM's blockchain business unit as well as Hyperledger Fabric. He also currently helps lead the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance's Mainnet Working Group, where En...
Nov 22, 2019•47 min
Hosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our thirty-second episode features Roneil Rumburg. Roneil is the co-founder and CEO of Audius, a decentralized music streaming and hosting platform that’s hoping to disrupt the music industry for the benefit of artists. Audius allows artists to freely share their work or work-in-progress with a dedicated community. The platform already features a bunch of high profile DJs and artists, including deadmau5 and Zed’s Dead. Audius also recently raised a new...
Oct 25, 2019•49 min
Hosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our thirtieth episode features Andreas M. Antonopoulos. Andreas is a best-selling author, speaker, educator, and one of the world’s foremost bitcoin and open blockchain experts. In 2014, he wrote the one of the foundational books of the blockchain space, Mastering Bitcoin. He is also the author of The Internet of Money as well as his most recent book, Mastering Ethereum. He is widely respected in the blockchain space for not only his knowledge and ceas...
Oct 09, 2019•55 min
Hosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our thirtieth episode features Kevin Owocki. Kevin is the founder and self-described chief janitor of Gitcoin, a blockchain-based incentivization layer for open-source software. Gitcoin helps connect developers eager to contribute to open source projects with projects offering bounties for development work. Kevin himself is an experienced developer and passionate about strengthening the foundations and expanding the impact of open-source software. On t...
Jul 24, 2019•42 min
Hosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our twenty-ninth episode features John Egan. John is the cofounder and CEO of Editional, an application where you can create and discover limited edition digital art. John is an experienced product builder and leader - he previously led Facebook’s Workplace product and founded Caffeinated Mind, a YCombinator-funded startup. John and Editional are helping show how blockchain and NFTs can shape the future of the digital art world - and perhaps much more....
Jul 02, 2019•44 min
Hosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our twenty-eighth episode features Nathaniel Whittemore. Nathaniel is a communications specialist in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space, and he is the mastermind behind Long Reads Sunday, where he curates the best content in the blockchain and decentralization space. He is deeply interested in how narratives evolve in our industry and the way these stories shape what we build, what we use, and what we believe. On this episode Nathaniel talks with ...
Jun 05, 2019•57 min
Hosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our twenty-seventh episode features Angela Walch. Angela is a Professor of Law at St. Mary's University School of Law. Her research focuses on money and the law, cryptocurrencies, blockchain technologies, and financial stability. She is a self-described skeptic of blockchain technology, and she's considered one of the leading legal experts on many of the complexities being created by decentralized technologies. Angela has presented her work at Harvard ...
May 10, 2019•45 min
Hosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our twenty-sixth episode features Jake Brukhman. Jake is the founder of CoinFund, a cryptoasset-focused investment and research firm founded in 2015. CoinFund directly engages with decentralized networks and contributes support to companies designing blockchain protocols and applications - something they've referred to as "generalized mining." Jake himself has a technical background, previously studying mathematics and computer science and working as a...
Apr 25, 2019•55 min
Hosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our twenty-fifth episode features Kyle Samani. Kyle is a managing partner at Multicoin Capital, a cryptoasset fund whose stated mission is “to accelerate the transition from the centralized institutions of the Industrial Age to the decentralized institutions of the Internet Age.” Kyle is a serial entrepreneur in the tech world, having previously founded a company in the cutting-edge field of augmented reality before it was acquired. He also frequently ...
Apr 16, 2019•50 min
Hosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our twenty-fourth episode features Alexis Gauba. Alexis is the cofounder of Mechanism Labs, an open-source research lab focused on studying consensus, scalability, usability, and other aspects of decentralized systems. She is also the cofounder and executive director of SHE256, a non-profit focused on increasing diversity and breaking down barriers to entry for the blockchain and decentralization space. Alexis is currently a student at UC Berkeley work...
Mar 27, 2019•51 min
Hosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our twenty-third episode features Fabian Vogelsteller. Fabian is the co-founder and CTO of LUKSO, an open blockchain ecosystem for the fashion and lifestyle industry. Fabian has been a mainstay in the Ethereum ecosystem, having previously worked at the Ethereum Foundation and having built foundational products and libraries such as the Mist Browser, Ethereum Wallet, and web3js. In 2015 he proposed the ERC-20 token standard, which became the foundation ...
Mar 14, 2019•54 min
Hosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our twenty-second episode features Loi Luu. Loi is the CEO and co-founder of Kyber Network, an on-chain liquidity network for inter-token transactions. Kyber is focused on providing and creating liquidity across the entire decentralized finance ecosystem, and they've integrated with dozens of projects to facilitate use cases from token-based payments to portfolio rebalancing. Loi previously earned his PhD in Computer Science at the National University ...
Mar 05, 2019•49 min
Hosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our twenty-first episode features Josh Cincinnati. Josh is the executive director of the Zcash Foundation, a non-profit focused on financial privacy and in particular serving users of the Zcash protocol. Zcash itself is a digital currency that provides enhanced privacy for users. Neither the foundation or the currency is to be confused with Zcash the company, which recently rebranded itself as the Electric Coin Company (but not quite in time for this p...
Feb 26, 2019•52 min
Hosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our twentieth episode features Tony Sheng. Tony is currently leading product at Decentraland, an open virtual world running on Ethereum. He's also a prolific writer in the decentralization space, and he publishes weekly on topics ranging from in-game economies and growth models to investment valuations, governance, and censorship. Previously Tony worked on products at companies like Google and AltspaceVR, and he remains very interested in virtual reali...
Feb 19, 2019•51 min
Hosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our nineteenth episode features Max Brody. Max is the co-founder and CEO of Cent, a social network built on Ethereum that aims to get creators paid directly for sharing their work and wisdom. Cent is another example of a “hybrid dApp”, where parts of the product are decentralized (and other parts centralized) for the ultimate benefit of users. Max himself is an experienced designer as well as a musician and writer, so he understands how to build produc...
Feb 12, 2019•54 min
Hosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our eighteenth episode features Jameson Lopp. Jameson is an experienced engineer who has been working full-time in the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency space since 2015, contributing to a number of different projects. He is currently the CTO of Casa, which builds best-in-class key management solutions as well as Casa Node, a Bitcoin and Lightning node that can be used in your home. He is also the creator of Statoshi, a fork of Bitcoin Core aiming to analyze ...
Feb 05, 2019•53 min
