My guest today is Scott Stuart, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at Kava Labs the team behind Kava and the Kava ecosystem. The Kava platform is a decentralized network purpose built for scalability and security. It provides access to high yield earning opportunities, inclusivity and no-limits in a de-risked DeFi model. At the center of this is a safe, intuitive and complete user experience that creates the base layer for financial service applications. Kava Lend, Kava Mint, and Kava Swap a...
Sep 07, 2021•51 min•Ep. 219
My guest today is Alex Thorn, Head of Firmwide Research at Galaxy Digital. Galaxy Digital is a diversified financial services company operating in the digital asset, cryptocurrency, and blockchain technology sector. He manages a research team and platform that generates unique insights on the state of public blockchain networks for their clients. Prior to joining Galaxy Digital, Alex was an investor at Avon Ventures, the bitcoin and blockchain-focused venture capital fund affiliated with FMR LLC...
Sep 02, 2021•42 min•Ep. 218
My guest today is my friend Jeff Garzik. Jeff has long been at the center of developing and commercializing open source software related to Bitcoin and blockchain technology. Before co-founding Bloq to develop blockchain solutions for a multi-chain world, he spent five years as a Bitcoin core developer and ten years at Red Hat. His work with the Linux kernel is now found in every Android phone and data center running Linux today. Jeff serves on the advisory boards of BitPay, BitFury, Netki and W...
Aug 31, 2021•43 min•Ep. 217
My guest today is Will Reeves, Found and CEO of Fold. Fold is a rewards app where users can earn bitcoin back on every purchase. Fold offers bitcoin cashback via its Visa debit card and mobile application. Fold enables its customers to earn bitcoin on everything they do: spending, saving and investing. Cardholders can win up to 100% back on every purchase, or even a whole bitcoin. Fold is excited to open access to its bitcoin cashback debit card to all U.S. residents. Instead of offering points ...
Aug 26, 2021•51 min•Ep. 216
My guest today is Fernando Martinelli, Co-Founder and CEO of Balancer Labs. Balancer Labs is the company behind Balancer. Balancer is an automated market maker (AMM) that was developed on the Ethereum blockchain and launched in March 2020. It was able to raise a $3M seed round by Placeholder and Accomplice. Balancer protocol functions as a self-balancing weighted portfolio, price sensor and liquidity provider. It allows users to earn profits through its recently introduced token ($BAL) by contri...
Aug 24, 2021•42 min•Ep. 215
My guest today is my friend Aaron Gooding, Founder and CEO of F.I.T. CONCEPTS, a verticalized fitness company focused on helping people achieve their fitness goals. He was pushed to start a fitness company out of his immense passion for helping others overcome the difficulties associated with health, fitness, and lifestyle change. Aaron's journey is very inspiring and is clear why he is passionate about helping others build a better version of themselves. In 2007, he was involved in a horrific c...
Aug 19, 2021•58 min•Ep. 214
My guest today is Ryan Condron, CEO and Co-Founder of Titan. Titan is a leading developer of software and services for advancing Bitcoin mining at scale. Built by miners for miners, Titan makes mining easy, profitable, and scalable through advanced mining management software and North America’s first enterprise-grade mining pool. Titan was formed and founded in September 2018 by Ryan Condron, Jeff Garzik and Matthew Roszak. Most mining management software options are either incomplete or difficu...
Aug 17, 2021•48 min•Ep. 213
My guest today is Dean Tribble, Agoric CEO. Agoric is an open-source development company launching an interoperable Proof-of-Stake chain and economy. Our JavaScript-native smart contract platform offers developers a safe, reusable library of DeFi components to rapidly build and deploy on-chain. Dean is an OG cypherpunk, he co-designed the negotiation process and contract for the first smart contracting system, AMiX. As a Principal Architect at Microsoft, he co-designed the Midori distributed obj...
Aug 10, 2021•46 min•Ep. 211
My guest today is my friend Luke Lango, the Senior Investment Analyst at InvestorPlace. InvestorPlace is an investment and financial news website that provides millions of individual investors with access to free stock picks, options trades, market news, and actionable commentaries. Luke jumped into the startup world while in college. He began his career at Scoutables, a Sports data analytics business founded by Mark Goodstein, a former Dodgers GM. He has also worked in voice AI research and con...
Aug 03, 2021•45 min•Ep. 209
My guest today is Steve Gregory, CEO of the US Branch of Currency.com . Currency.com is a high-growth, crypto-asset platform helping everyone securely connect with the booming world of cryptocurrencies to buy, sell or trade digital assets. Steve has extensive working experience in the digital currency space and is an expert in the legal area. Before joining Currency.com , he was previously the Chief Compliance Officer and Corporate Counsel at CEX.IO , another crypto exchange. Based in New York, ...
Jul 29, 2021•32 min•Ep. 208
My guest today is Stephen Tse, Founder of Harmony. Harmony is a blockchain platform designed to facilitate the creation and use of decentralized applications (DApps). The network aims to innovate the way decentralized applications work by focusing on random state sharding, which allows creating blocks in seconds. According to the project’s website, Harmony is expected to introduce cross-shard contracts and a cross-chain infrastructure by the end of 2021. Stephen's been obsessed with protocols an...
Jul 27, 2021•33 min•Ep. 207
My guest today is my friend Luke Stokes, Managing Director for the Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO). FIO is a decentralized service layer that removes the risk, complexity, and inconvenience of sending and receiving tokens and coins identically across every blockchain and near error-free by providing a decentralized human-readable address (NFT). Luke is passionate about voluntary systems of governance and has been involved in bitcoin since early 2013. He's been a consensus witness fo...
Jul 20, 2021•50 min•Ep. 205
My guest today is Michael O'Rourke, Founder of the Pocket Network. Pocket Network is a blockchain data platform built for applications that uses cost-efficient economics to coordinate and distribute data at scale, enabling seamless interactions between blockchains and applications. With Pocket, the use of blockchains can be simply integrated into websites, mobile apps, IoT and more, giving developers the freedom to put blockchain-enabled applications into the “pocket” of every mainstream consume...
Jul 15, 2021•43 min•Ep. 204
My guest today is my friend Omer Ozden, CEO and Founder of RockTree Captial. RockTree Capital is a pioneer in international merchant banking with expertise in cross-border transactions, mergers and acquisitions, blockchain and technology, energy, investment, and real estate between China, North America, the Middle East, and Central. Omer is also co-founder and International Expansion Partner of UCommune, China’s largest co-working company with over 200 locations globally, Partner of DGroup, and ...
Jul 13, 2021•36 min•Ep. 203
My guest today is Latif Peracha, General Partner (GP) at M13. M13 is a venture capital firm focused on building a team of industry-leading operating executives to help founders make better decisions and win in their category. They believe founders deserve an investor who propels them on their mission of transforming an idea into a successful company, while staying out of their way. This is why they are building a Venture Engine, a full-service venture firm that provides the right people, platfor...
Jul 08, 2021•36 min•Ep. 202
My guest today is Konstantin Richter, CEO and Founder of Blockdaemon. Blockdaemon is a provider of a node management platform designed to empower businesses to simply and efficiently manage blockchain applications. The company's platform offers a multi-chain multi-cloud network management tool that can deploy nodes and connect them to blockchains within minutes and also offers its own infrastructure for select projects to offer faster deploy times and lower costs, enabling businesses to quickly ...
Jul 06, 2021•44 min•Ep. 201
My guest today is Pat Duffy, co-founder of The Giving Block. Pat began as a federal consultant for pharmaceutical companies, focused on collaboration with nonprofits. He then shifted to the nonprofit sector, focusing on executive leadership and fundraising. Leading to eventually starting The Giving Block with his co-founder Alex Wilson by merging their passion for Nonprofits and Bitcoin. The Giving Block makes it easy for nonprofits to accept bitcoin and other crypto donations while giving donor...
Jul 01, 2021•39 min•Ep. 199
My guest today is Peter Wall, CEO of Argo. Argo is a publicly-traded blockchain technology company focused on large-scale cryptocurrency mining. Headquartered in London, England, Argo is the only cryptocurrency mining company listed on the London Stock Exchange. Their energy-efficient, powerful mining operations are strategically located throughout North America. Peter was a member of the management team that founded Argo, and was the vice president of operations since the group's beginning - re...
Jun 29, 2021•38 min•Ep. 199
My guest today is my friend, Jeremy Gardner. Jeremy is an American serial entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist based in Beverly Hills, California. He is primarily known for his early investments in Bitcoin, Crypto Castles brand, and as a co-founder of Augur. Before Augur, he founded the Blockchain Education Network, a global educational nonprofit, and afterwards founded Distributed magazine, SAAVHA, an enterprise security startup. He continues to advise and invest in startups in the blockc...
Jun 24, 2021•59 min•Ep. 198
My guest today is my friend Michael Kimelman. Michael is an expert on disruptive innovation and personal disruption; he uses the lessons of his own life to offer inspiration and insight to others — from formerly incarcerated youth to global CEOs — on overcoming personal and professional challenges. His mission is to empower people with the skills and mindset to become resilient and prosper in the face of adversity. Michael was a lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell and then founded Incremental Capi...
Jun 22, 2021•46 min•Ep. 197
My guest today is my lovely wife, Courtney Warner. Courtney recently finished filming her first feature length film, Ask Me To Dance, co-starring Tom Malloy, Briana Evigan, Mario Cantone, Joyce DeWitt, and Kurt Angle. Our discussion centers around pursuing your passion and achieving success. We specifically touch on Courtney’s journey to becoming an actor, the commitment and sacrifices she needed to do to achieve her goals, her experience filming a feature length film, and how she landed the rol...
Jun 17, 2021•34 min•Ep. 195
My guest today is John Burris, the Chief Strategy & Blockchain Officer at Together Labs. Together Labs aims to redefine social media as a catalyst for authentic human connection through the development of a family of products grounded in this core value. Together Labs are the makers of IMVU, a social gaming space that has been around since the early 2000s. It’s similar to Second Life, where players gather with virtual avatars and items you can buy. The service operates in over 140 countries,...
Jun 10, 2021•39 min•Ep. 194
My guest today is my friend, Tom Malloy, a critically acclaimed Actor/Writer/Producer. Tom as a critically acclaimed actor, wowed Hollywood with his stunning turn in the indie-cult favorite Gravesend in 1998, which was produced by Oliver Stone. Tom became a trend setter as one of the first successful triple-hyphenate Actor/Writer/Producers. Tom starred in the 2019 thriller Trauma Therapy opposite Brian Krause (Charmed) and Chase Coleman (The Originals). Prior to that, Malloy starred in the found...
Jun 03, 2021•54 min•Ep. 193
My guest today is Lina Seiche, the Managing Director of the BTC Times. The BTC Times delivers high quality coverage focused on Bitcoin from an economic, technical, social, and political angle. The BTC Times counters the news that prioritize clicks over accuracy, with the facts that set the record straight. In comprehensive, authentic coverage, we seek to capture the impact of Bitcoin and how it is transforming the future of money. Lina is not only the Managing Director of the BTC Times but she’s...
Jun 02, 2021•50 min•Ep. 192
My guest today is Mark Lamb, CEO and Co-Founder of CoinFLEX. CoinFLEX (Coin Futures and Lending Exchange) is the world’s first physically delivered cryptocurrency futures exchange, developed to provide avenues for investors to hedge cryptocurrency exposure with minimal index or price settlement risk, Mark has also been a longtime advocate for physically delivered futures over cash settlement as a way to prevent manipulation. For their traders, CoinFLEX prioritizes user education, advanced order ...
May 27, 2021•59 min•Ep. 190
My guest today is my friend, Graham Friedman, a Director at Republic & Co-founder and Partner at TLDR Global. Republic is an investment platform for everyone to invest in private deals, including startups, real estate, video games, and crypto. TLDR Global is a global investment firm focusing on tokenized assets and DLT technology.Our conversation covers a wide range of topics including the importance of Memetics in crypto and the rise in popularity of meme-coins, ethereum's incredible Q1 per...
May 26, 2021•38 min•Ep. 190
My guest today is my friend, Joel Edgerton, the COO of BitFlyer USA. BitFlyer is a Bitcoin exchange and marketplace that enables its customers to buy, sell, and spend bitcoins. The site offers an Application Programming Interface which allows their clients to access and control their accounts, using custom-written software. In addition, it offers businesses e-commerce payment services that can transfer Bitcoin inorder to provide users with secure trading by all possible measures of security as a...
May 18, 2021•44 min•Ep. 188
My guest today is Jamie Thomson, Co-founder and CEO of Vulcan Verse. Vulcan Verse is a fantasy decentralized universe that bridges the gap between normal blockchain sandbox games to MMO (massively multiplayer online) game functionality. It offers complex building tools as well as fight, forage and spy mechanics embedded into the game world. VulcanVerse encompasses a 3km by 3km virtual environment set in a Greco-Roman fantasy theme. Jamie has extensive experience building web projects by building...
May 13, 2021•43 min•Ep. 187
My guest today is my friend, Nicholas Chan, co-founder of Refinable, the first major NFT marketplace on BSC, empowering both individual creators and beloved brands to easily and affordably create, discover, trade, and leverage NFTs. As one of the first NFT marketplace on Binance Smart Chain, the Refinable ecosystem allows Creators, Collectors, and Traders to engage with rare tokenized content on an ultra-fast and low-cost network. By leveraging NFT's provable scarcity and transferability, Refina...
May 11, 2021•38 min•Ep. 186
My guest today is my friend, Mounir Benchemled, the founder and CEO of ParaSwap. ParaSwap aims to solve the liquidity problem in crypto markets by bringing every exchange protocol into one platform. Their goal is to empower users with the most competitive market prices and the highest liquidity. Currently, they exclusively handle Ethereum and ERC-20 tokens, but they have stated their goal is to handle most major blockchains. Mounir's a tech/ product guy. He started as a software engineer in 2007...
May 06, 2021•40 min•Ep. 185
