Alex Paley is the co-founder of Faraway , a new gaming studio leveraging blockchain technology to unlock the potential for truly player-driven and decentralized game economies. Faraway’s debut title, Mini: Royale Nations , is the first live multiplayer game to launch on the Solana blockchain platform.
Steven Walbroehl is the Chief Security Officer and cofounder of Halborn . He's also a Blockchain Course Author and Instructor at SANS , one of the top cybersecurity education organizations. In this episode we cover the following: Key vulnerabilities with blockchains and how hackers exploit them to steal crypto; private keys, code vulnerabilities, and financial vulnerabilities Regulation of crypto security Security for dApp and DeFi developers Blockchain and Cybersecurity education How decentrali...
Tomer Weller is the Vice President of Tech Strategy at the Stellar Development Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports the development and growth of Stellar, an open-source network that connects the world's financial infrastructure. Founded in 2014, the Foundation maintains Stellar’s codebase, supports the technical and business communities building on the network, and serves as a voice to regulators and institutions. The Foundation seeks to create equitable access to the global fina...
Evan Kuo is CEO and Co-Founder of Ampleforth . Founded in 2018, Ampleforth is a digital currency, like Bitcoin, but with elastic-supply. The company was founded with a mission to introduce an “ideal money” that would have properties similar to Bitcoin, be able to be used to denominate smart contracts long-term, and act as a hedge against inflation.
Josh Rogers is CEO and Founder of Minterest , a value-capturing lending and borrowing protocol designed to make DeFi fairer for users.
Venn joins Ethan for a look at the "Crypto Bowl" ads as well as some other pop culture blockchain references. Ethan interviews Brian Platz Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Fluree and Dmitri Safine CTO of Ikigai Technologies at the 21:00 minute mark.
Ed DeLeon is the founder and CEO of Anatha , an ethos driven decentralized financial ecosystem.
Brian Bondy is CTO and co-founder of Brave , a privacy browser with a blockchain based digital advertising platform. If you've heard us talk about BAT tokens, then you've probably heard us talk about Brave. Brian gives us a look back at how Brave came to be, their core features, what's new, and what's to come. Brave recently partnered with Solana for Dapps, and also introduced the Brave Wallet ....
Ethan talks with Wesley Thysse about some upcoming changes that may be coming to the crypto community. We talk about the focus on peer-to-peer transactions, stable coins, privacy coins, and more and how individuals and businesses could be effected. Click here to read Wes's full article.
Ryan Worsley is CTO at iov42 and has a love for formal Computer Science approaches and techniques. His career has charted a course in which he developed one of the first retail, customer-facing live FX trading portals; rebuilt an “unfixable” bespoke in-memory database for an investment bank; designed and built a big-data Bitemporal Graph Database; and architected a Non-Repudiation Database for the UK tax authority. Ryan’s love of big-data distributed systems engineering, complex problem spaces a...
Adrian Kolody is Founder of Domination Finance , the first decentralized exchange for dominance trading. It's built on the Universal Market Access protocol and available on Ethereum and Polygon. DomFi’s platform tracks the market cap of bitcoin relative to the market cap of altcoins, allowing users to analyze shifts in relative coin prices and to trade on the overall market dominance of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tether. Last month, the DomFi team announced the close of a $3.2 million seed round, le...
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. Aleph Zero is a new infrastructure PoS infrastruc...
Venn, Daniel, and Ethan share their experiences with Coinbase and offer advice for those ready to make their first crypto purchase. Use this LINK to get $10 of free bitcoin and also to help support this show. If you've been listening for a while and don't need this guide, please share with a friend who may.
Dr. Markus Franke is a partner at cLabs working on Celo , an open source, global platform that aims to facilitate secure and efficient cross border payments to anyone with a mobile device.
Zach Bradford is CEO at CleanSpark . In this episode we identify some problems with electricity production in relation to Bitcoin mining but also society as a whole. CleanSpark has several solutions to address these problems and some innovative ideas for renewable energy beyond the blockchain space.
David Lucatch is the founder & CEO of Liquid Avatar , parent company to Oasis Digital Studios ). David speaks with Ethan about how the blockchain can address current concerns around cybersecurity and digital identity. Specifically, how people can be assured that their identity is not being stolen and or used against or without their permission. By leveraging biometrics to scan a digital avatar, his company can validate and verify a user's identity without costing them any control over their like...
James Wo is an experienced investor and entrepreneur in blockchain technology and digital assets; delivering a 200% return on investment in less than 2 years. Mr. Wo is also the Chairman of Matrix , the first regulated virtual assets multilateral trading facility (MTF) & custodian under the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) VA policy framework. He is a board member of LedgerX, and an Executive Committee member of the Chamber of Digital Commerce. DFG is a global blockchain and digital asset investme...
A lot has changed since Alexander Blum bought his first Bitcoin for $9 in 2012. Alex has been professionally involved with the industry ever since. He previously founded digital investment group Atomic Capital, worked as a technology advisor for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and The World Economic Forum, and served as an economic development specialist for the Peace Corps. He is also a Fellow at the University College London Centre for Blockchain Technologies and Chair of the Nexus Global ...
Cameron Hejazi is the CEO of Cent. Cameron explains how Cent is utilizing Polygon to minimize the energy requirements for a more sustainable blockchain minting solution of their NFTs. He also helps host Ethan understand the power of NFTs and some cool uses that are yet to be fully realized. Cent is a platform that provides the tools to create, curate, and collaborate for a living through the use of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). They're building a digital economy based on ownership, community, and ...
Dr. Kruse is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons and Age Management Medicine Group. He has helped pioneer a totally new medical field - Quantum Mitochondrial Health. Building on his deep medical expertise, he has also built a vibrant community while being a bitcoin maximalist; he is dedicated to helping people build critical thinking skills. He continues to challenge our currently implemented systems and look for more feasible solu...
Jack Ottman is Chief Operating Officer at Minds. Jack is welcomed back for a look into recent updates on the Minds social network platform. Get 20% OFF + Free Shipping with promo code BLOCKCHAIN at MANSCAPED.com
Dan Edlebeck is Co-founder and CEO of Exidio , Sentinel ’s development arm. He joins host Ethan for an informative episode concerning the need for decentralized virtual private networks, or dVPNs. With recent hacks into centralized VPNs, this development comes at a crucial time for internet freedom. Dan outlines how they are building on the Cosmos blockchain and how individuals can get involved and even be rewarded for their efforts as a node and/or validator. theblockchainshow.com Connect via S...
Steve and Ethan look back at the last five years of the podcast. Other topics include: the switch to Ethereum 2.0, staking, Elon Musk’s tweets, committing to crypto, and what we’re looking forward to in the near future.
Nick Saponaro is an entrepreneur, crypto enthusiast, and keynote speaker who is passionate about helping Crypto achieve its vision to deliver a truly decentralized financial services paradigm that benefits everyone. As Divi’s CIO, he deploys his programming and functional design skills to achieve the company’s core aim; to make crypto easy and drive its mainstream adoption. Media appearances include Cheddar, CNBC, Quartz, Investing.com, Nasdaq.com, and CoinTelegraph. The Divi Project was establi...
We hosted Jack O’Holleran, SKALE’s CEO back in February of 2019. We discussed Proof of Stake Blockchains and SKALE. A lot has happened at since then. SKALE is currently going through a big and exciting network upgrade that will bring multichain to Ethereum. Jack talks about the Ethereum Ecosystem Development and the role of L2s like SKALE - which is a center of the conversation at the moment. Jack also shares some great advice and information for new crypto and blockchain enthusiasts....
Prabhakar is the Co-Founder of FalconX. He exited his last venture to an Accel Partners portfolio company, prior to joining Accel as an investor. At Accel, one of the largest and most successful VC firms in the world, Prabhakar focused on Blockchain, B2B, and Enterprise SaaS investments. Prabhakar is a serial entrepreneur with over nine years of experience running successful digital media and online video platforms, having scaled his first startup into the top 100 most visited websites in the wo...
William Quigley is co-founder of the first-ever stablecoin and most traded cryptocurrency in the world, Tether . He is also the co-founder of WAX , the world’s leading decentralized NFT ecosystem. NFTs are very popular currently, and have moved into sports, art, design, and more. William explains to host Ethan how NFTs and the blockchain will completely transform the way we do modern business and collect items in the next 10 years. Some other topics in this episode include: Bitcoin predictions f...
Aaron Kaplan is the founder and co-CEO of Prometheum , Inc., a NYC based fintech company building a Federal Securities Law compliant, blockchain native, public market infrastructure servicing the entire digital asset lifecycle. Aaron is also of counsel at Gusrae Kaplan Nusbaum, where since 2013 he has focused his practice on the applications of distributed ledger technology in the securities industry. In this episode hosted by Ethan, Aaron offers extensive insights into the legalities around blo...
Lihan Lee is the Co-CEO / Founder at Xangle.io . We talk about the need for standardized disclosure practices in blockchain projects, investor relations best practices for crypto startups, what South Korean crypto investors are looking for, how they're helping expose and avoid scams, and the state of the crypto market in South Korea.
Marc Grens is the Co-Founder & President of DigitalMint . He is a serial entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience in the investment industry. Prior to DigitalMint, Grens held senior positions at Charles Schwab, HighTower Advisors, and Alpha Strategies. He received his M.B.A. from the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business at DePaul University in 2010, and a B.A. from Illinois State University. Grens is an active angel investor and serves on multiple advisory boards of companies in the C...
