Grant and 563 are back. This time they both took turns to go through some unreleased crypto projects that are set to either go live or launch their project token in the coming months. Funnily enough, a lot of these revolved around the DEX landscape with the odd curve ball there. Both Grant and 563 are full-time researchers in DeFi so naturally, all these projects fall under that category. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message
Nov 16, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Luca Netz joins Dan for a catch up on all-things Pudgy Penguins and how the brand is revolutionising the way retail views NFTs and the blockchain. The two chat about the brilliant marketing move to use toys as a trojan horse for blockchain technology and crypto, by simplifying the UI experience for the public. Scan a QR code and enter the world of blockchain, without even knowing. Genius. Also covered is the decision to use zkSync, the roll-ups and why Pudgy Penguins felt it was the right choice...
Nov 15, 2023•29 min
Grant and 563 sat down to go through a brief history of blockchains and how their purpose and use cases have changed over the years. From a standard peer-to-peer electronic cash system which is Bitcoin, to Ethereum and the EVM, smart contracts and DeFi. Now we are entering the next paradigm shift in how blockchain technology reaches the masses. Is this through a hyper-scalable blockchain with ultra-high performance like Solana? Or, does something like a modular blockchain that uses Celestia for ...
Nov 14, 2023•55 min
Jedi speaks to Darius on the journey less travelled from the Terra Luna crash and how Vertex had to dig deep to arrive at Arbitrum and now a year later they will be launching their token off the back of a very successful year of building. A perps DEX that is poised to take on the biggest and the best on-chain. They are now looking to reward their loyal community with a token that incentivises and rewards.Vertex enables you to trade multiple different tokens with cross-margin all the while being ...
Nov 13, 2023•40 min
And we are back on the blocmates podcast and this time Dan is joined by PintSwap Max, the Co-Founder of PintSwap, an OTC platform for small to midcap cryptocurrency tokens. In today's interview, we talk about Max's origin stories into crypto, how he survived the darkest crypto winter ever and go in-depth into the whats, whys and hows of the PintSwap protocol. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message
Nov 10, 2023•33 min
Grant, Mike and Alex round up the week in crypto, including the big news that the SEC's window for approving all Bitcoin ETFs is now in motion. Over the next seven days, all applications will likely be approved. We chat about what this means for the industry and why it's net positive for the space, despite being almost counterintuitive to what Bitcoin was created for. Our pal Gary Gensler has been back at it, claiming FTX could be set for a revival, there's big news coming out of the web3 gaming...
Nov 10, 2023•42 min
After three weeks away, the team are back with plenty to discuss. The Bitcoin and overall market pump has been welcomed, with some other big winners such as Solana and the entire SOL ecosystem, as Grant has long predicted. Plus, all of our friends and family are now primed to be our exit liquidity. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message
Nov 03, 2023•31 min
Jedi invited Chris to discuss exactly why summer.fi really does bring the best of DeFi onto one app. Summer.fi has teamed up with a few protocols like Ajna, an “Oracle-less, Permissionless, zero-governance protocol, AAVE, MakerDAO, SparkDAO (a subDAO associated with MakerDAO), and more to come, to create a giant of a money market with the best interest rates you possibly could find across DeFi. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message
Oct 31, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Jedi has a catchup call with 0xNic the founder of Unstoppable. They discuss all the progress that has been made with Unstoppable and the big news that they are building out a mobile wallet that will allow normies to access the DEX effortlessly and without all the usual burdens of DeFi. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message
Oct 30, 2023•53 min
Grant is joined by Luigi D'Onorio Demeo, Head of DeFi & Dev Rel at Ava Labs for the latest instalment of Still Early. In a varied chat, the two discuss everything from the beginnings of the Avalanche rush, how it felt to be a part of and how it came to be. We dig into Stars Arena and SocialFi, why the onboarding process has been net positive for crypto, why people are becoming more excited to build on Avalanche and the difficulties around user and developer acquisition. --- Send in a voice m...
Oct 25, 2023•54 min
Jedi sits down Robbie Ferguson, co-founder of Immutable, a game-changer for web3 gaming. A robust ecosystem that simplifies the process of building Web3 games on Ethereum, allowing developers to focus on what truly matters which is creating fun and compelling games. It achieves this by providing a tech stack consisting of two layers: rollup and platform. While the former serves as the foundational infrastructure of Immutable, the latter is more focused on equipping games with the right tools. --...
Oct 17, 2023•29 min
Grant sits down for a chat with Derek Lim, Head of Ecosystem Research at Mantle. Mantle is an Ethereum Layer 2 that utilises EigenDA for its data availability. The two discuss Liquid Staking Derivatives, DeFi, Consumer apps and gaming. On this channel, we will talk about Bitcoin, Ethereum, BTC, ETH and many altcoins including Arbitrum ARB, Solana SOL, Avalanche AVAX, Optimism OP tokens etc. We will discuss how to get your hands on the latest crypto airdrops, yield farming strategies, new DeFi pr...
Oct 16, 2023•42 min
Jedi and Dan are back, this time featuring the incredible team from HashFlow who have released the HashVerse, one of the best battle royales to hit the crypto space this year.Andrew, Varun and Thibault, the brains behind the game, sit down with us to discuss what the HashVerse actually is, the mechanics behind and most importantly how to WIN! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message
Oct 13, 2023•56 min
Grant sat down with Willem the founder of Botanix Labs a novel chain that is building an Ethereum equivalent network on top of Bitcoin... Yes, you read that correctly. Botanix will enable all your favourite applications to launch with the composability of the EVM whilst benefiting from the security of the Bitcoin Network. Users will pay for each transaction in BTC which will take some getting used to! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message...
Oct 12, 2023•51 min
Welcome to the first episode of Still Early a new weekly podcast from the blocmates team. Still Early is a podcast dedicated to uncovering the hottest emerging trends in crypto, before they happen. We will cover all areas of the crypto, DeFi, NFT and gaming markets to bring you the information before anyone else. In this podcast, we will interview founders, investors, builders and operators to get you their insights into where the industry is headed. So, who better than the one and only Crypto F...
Oct 11, 2023•46 min
Grant and 563 were joined by Henri from Privy to discuss their infrastructure that is enabling new SocialFi apps such as Friend Tech and many more crypto and web3 applications across DeFi, NFTs, Real-world assets and more. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message
Oct 09, 2023•48 min
Grant and Alex welcome comedian David Boyle from the I'm Quitting Alcohol podcast back to roast the ludicrous side of the crypto industry. We're chatting all things Bitcoin, the nerd crowd at TOKEN2049, and digging deep into the world of meme coins, how they work and how to find them. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message
Oct 06, 2023•44 min
This is a 10-15 minute Podcast every Tuesday and Thursday Morning filling you in on the latest market moves in the crypto space. We will cover the Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) Prices, The fear and greed index, What are the biggest winners and losers in the altcoin markets and why these tokens are performing the way they are. We will also cover any overnight crypto news that you will need to be aware of. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message...
Oct 05, 2023•18 min
Do you want to maximise yields with your NFTs as your weapons of choice? ZooDAO is a no-loss yield farming game that allows you to leverage your future yields and take on more risk for potentially maximised returns by winning your opponent’s yield, all in the safety of a no-loss environment. ZooDAO is a fun way for the gamification of fighting for your opponent's yields while taking crypto PVP to a whole new level. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/me...
Oct 04, 2023•48 min
This is a 10-15 minute Podcast every Tuesday and Thursday Morning filling you in on the latest market moves in the crypto space. We will cover the Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) Prices, The fear and greed index, What are the biggest winners and losers in the altcoin markets and why these tokens are performing the way they are. We will also cover any overnight crypto news that you will need to be aware of. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message...
Oct 03, 2023•12 min
Jedi took some time out with the founders of Arcton, Merens and Francesco, in order to look at how Real World Assets can practically be a part of blockchain efficiency. With clear regulatory compliance and a method to raise capital, startups can now access liquidity through efficient crowdfunding through a platform like Arcton. Arcton is a crowd-investing platform where securities can be issued cross-border and investors can buy and resell digital shares 24/7 on one of the world’s largest exchan...
Oct 03, 2023•1 hr
Grant and 563 are back again, this time discussing their thought process when thinking about tokenomics, and token design and how this affects their decision when making an investment in specific crypto projects. In the early days, there was Bitcoin. Then came Ethereum and ETH which enabled a wave of new altcoins in DeFi to experiment with inventive ways to reduce volatility and increase user incentives. In this episode, we will cover the following: Tokenomics is the study of the economic factor...
Sep 29, 2023•1 hr 2 min
This is a 10-15 minute Podcast every Tuesday and Thursday Morning filling you in on the latest market moves in the crypto space. We will cover the Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) Prices, The fear and greed index, What are the biggest winners and losers in the altcoin markets and why these tokens are performing the way they are. We will also cover any overnight crypto news that you will need to be aware of. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message...
Sep 28, 2023•19 min
This is a 10-15 minute Podcast every Tuesday and Thursday Morning filling you in on the latest market moves in the crypto space. We will cover the Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) Prices, The fear and greed index, What are the biggest winners and losers in the altcoin markets and why these tokens are performing the way they are. We will also cover any overnight crypto news that you will need to be aware of. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message...
Sep 26, 2023•16 min
Grant, Dan and Jedi sat down for the weekly catch-up discussing everything that happened at Token2049, some bold ETH price predictions from Jedi, laughing at known scammers in the industry and much more. Join 9,416 others trying to stay ahead in the crypto, DeFi, NFT and Web3 space but subscribing to our free newsletter. Get ahead in less than 5 minutes, 2 times a week. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message
Sep 22, 2023•43 min
This is a 10-15 minute Podcast every Tuesday and Thursday Morning filling you in on the latest market moves in the crypto space. We will cover the Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) Prices, The fear and greed index, What are the biggest winners and losers in the altcoin markets and why these tokens are performing the way they are. We will also cover any overnight crypto news that you will need to be aware of. Join 8,416 others trying to stay ahead in the crypto, DeFi, NFT and Web3 space but subscr...
Sep 21, 2023•21 min
Jedi spends quality time with Penny from Mori finance discussing the uniqueness of Mori finance’s approach to reinventing the way we view Stablecoins. We’ve previously covered Mori finance on blocmates.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message
Sep 21, 2023•53 min
This is a 10-15 minute Podcast every Tuesday and Thursday Morning filling you in on the latest market moves in the crypto space. We will cover the Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) Prices, The fear and greed index, What are the biggest winners and losers in the altcoin markets and why these tokens are performing the way they are. We will also cover any overnight crypto news that you will need to be aware of. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message...
Sep 19, 2023•20 min
In this exclusive interview, we sit down with Dan Albert The Head of the Solana Foundation to discuss some of the most exciting recent developments in the Solana ecosystem, including:The Solana x Visa announcement: Solana is partnering with Visa to enable global merchants to accept Solana payments through the Visa network. This is a major step forward for Solana's adoption and usability.Solana Pay - Shopify Integration: Solana Pay is now integrated with Shopify, making it easy for merchants to a...
Sep 18, 2023•54 min
Account Abstraction is a term that gets thrown around the crypto space quite a lot but what does Account Abstraction actually mean?Grant and 563 talk about all the basics and the latest developments in an area of crypto and DeFi that will enable the next 1 billion users. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message
Sep 12, 2023•58 min
