Charlie is joined by Diego Di Tommaso, the Co-Founder and COO of OVR, an open-source, AR platform powered by Ethereum Blockchain. Diego and Charlie talk about the future, where AR will begin to augment our perception and field of view in the physical world, and how OVR’s digital lens is making this possible today. Diego explains what will come next, revealing how will soon be able to bring our “whole body” into the metaverse through motion tracking bodysuits, unlocking new opportunities for huma...
Feb 24, 2023•32 min•Ep. 352
Charlie starts the show off by talking about being on a film set with his wife and how it fuels him creatively. Max discusses how he views tokenomic and why he values token use cases outside of turning them into fiat. Charlie and Max compare the Fed to those creating tokenomics for crypto projects and the importance of data. Max shares what people should look for when determining if they should join and/or invest in a project. Charlie and Max discuss ETH staking and the upcoming Beacon chain unl...
Feb 22, 2023•34 min•Ep. 351
Charlie Shrem sits down with Riccardo Pelligrini, Co-founder and CEO of Web3 Builders Inc., the makers of TrustCheck.xyz, to discuss the issue and prevalence of scamming in Web3. With users only ever “one wrong button” away from a “rugpull”, “honeypot” or “drainer”, Riccardo gives listeners a peak under the hood to explain how TrustCheck works, and how small behavioral shifts can help keep the community safe. Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show . For more free content and access to...
Feb 16, 2023•37 min•Ep. 350
Charlie reflects on the 9 year anniversary of his arrest. Charlie and David Wachsman compare FTX and Mt. Gox. David and Charlie discuss the passion then and now in the Bitcoin and crypto communities. David reflects on the mainstream perspective of crypto. Charlie discusses the positives of the reduced interest in crypto post-FTX. Charlie shares his views on maximalism in the industry. Charlie talks about why decentralized matters to him. Charlie shares how he learned about Bitcoin and why he cre...
Feb 14, 2023•34 min•Ep. 349
Security is critical to unlocking the potential of DeFi and creating an environment where mass adoption can occur, but security is contingent on education. How do we teach what they need to know when crypto education is shrouded with tribalism and mounting politicization, and access is only typically reserved for those with the financial means? Charlie speaks with Jessica Levesque the Executive Director at CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium (C4), the industry leader in professional blockcha...
Feb 07, 2023•36 min•Ep. 348
Charlie introduces Alex Kriete of Motus Capital Management and his storied history with Citi Bank. Alex and Charlie discuss the continued need for centralized banking alongside decentralization and how the industry should move forward post-FTX. Alex describes his company’s approach to managing investments in a volatile market, then pivots to why Motus dove into crypto. Alex shares an example of his fundamental approach to the market and how they evaluate tokens and projects. Charlie and Alex dis...
Feb 02, 2023•40 min•Ep. 347
Today’s episode takes a look at blockchain security, mainstream user experience, comics for blockchain, bridges and more. The conversation begins with Will introducing GBC.AI and explaining how its simple technology can keep blockchain users from getting scammed. After reflecting on public sentiment of crypto the last six months, Charlie and Will discuss how imperative security in the space will be moving forward. The conversation then dives into the importance of user interface and experience t...
Jan 30, 2023•39 min•Ep. 346
Today’s guest is Nick Johnson, the founder and lead developer of ENS. Ethereum Name Service (ENS) is a distributed, open, and extensible naming system based on the Ethereum blockchain. ENS converts human-readable Ethereum addresses like john.eth into the machine-readable alphanumeric codes you know from wallets like Metamask. The reverse conversion -- associating metadata and machine-readable addresses with human-readable Ethereum addresses -- is also possible. Nick previously worked as a softwa...
Jan 19, 2023•29 min•Ep. 345
Jordan Fried is a blockchain evangelist and crypto-capitalist. He’s currently the Chairman and CEO of Immutable Holdings, “The Blockchain Holding Company.” Immutable Holdings is a collection of industry-leading businesses within the digital assets ecosystem. Our mission is to demystify and democratize digital assets by building products and services that increase awareness and adoption of digital assets for both retail and institutional users. We’re capitalizing on market opportunities made poss...
Jan 17, 2023•38 min•Ep. 344
Today’s guest is Steve Walbroehl, Chief Technology Officer / Chief Security Officer and cofounder of Halborn. Halborn is a blockchain cybersecurity firm that aims to secure the blockchain and protect users against data and monetary. Operating across the software development lifecycle, Halborn provides a suite of products and services designed to identify and close vulnerabilities in Web3 applications, helping to create the security standards that the market lacks. The company serves a diverse gl...
Jan 12, 2023•50 min•Ep. 343
My guest today is my friend, Scott Melker, the Wolf of All Streets. Scott is a trader, investor, and the host of the popular “The Wolf of All Streets Podcast,” the author of “The Wolf Den” Newsletter, and prolific writer and thought leader in the crypto space. He has been featured on Fox Business, in the New York Times, Forbes, Businessweek, The Wall St. Journal, Coindesk, CoinTelegraph, CNN, and much more. Prior to jumping down the Crypto rabbit hole, Scott Melker, also known as The Melker Proj...
Jan 04, 2023•40 min•Ep. 341
Today’s guest is Justin Banon, co-founder of Boson Protocol, the decentralized network on which the future of commerce will run. Boson Protocol (BOSON) is a decentralized infrastructure for e-commerce transactions. The ecosystem enables the exchange of digital value for real-world products and services through the use of tokenized futures contracts. Сommitments to buy and sell physical assets are represented as stateful non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on the platform. Together with its native utility...
Dec 29, 2022•34 min•Ep. 340
Ingo Rübe is the founder and CEO of BOTLabs, a Berlin-based company providing Blockchain-powered solutions for Self-Sovereign Data. BOTLabs is the team behind KILT, a Blockchain protocol, enables the user to describe and attest any kind of characteristics of persons, organizations, and things in a standardized way. KILT is an open-source fat blockchain protocol for issuing claim-based verifiable, revocable, and anonymous credentials in the Web 3.0. It allows end users to claim arbitrary attribut...
Dec 27, 2022•35 min•Ep. 339
Today’s guest is Matthew Niemerg, a distributed ledger technology researcher. He advises and is integrated with various teams on multiple projects in the blockchain space. He provides technical expertise in a wide range of areas within this field: economic incentive of tokens, i.e. game theory design; security and consensus protocols; cryptographic schemes; business logic; and much more. He is currently the co-founder of Aleph Zero (https://www.alephzero.org) and is leading the team at Cardinal ...
Dec 22, 2022•49 min•Ep. 338
I caught my friend Haseeb in a tough moment. He is getting ready to leave the Crypto community in Puerto Rico and move back to California. He seems frustrated with things. I started the show by asking him why? Today’s guest is Haseeb Awan, the founder and CEO of Efani. Efani is the most secure Telecommunication Service that guarantees protection against any kind of SIM port-out hacks, encrypts your personal information & backs it with a $5M Insurance coverage. Efani operates on America’s #1 ...
Dec 20, 2022•48 min•Ep. 337
What does it mean to be a Bitcoiner living in a Crypto World? Today’s guest is Mark Jeffery, an award-winning serial entrepreneur and author with Harper Collins. He is currently working on the Boolean Fund Previously, Mark co-founded the Guardian Circle emergency response network (NEWSWEEK Blockchain Impact Award Nominee (2019), One of FAST COMPANY’s 'World Changing Ideas' (2018); Partner: XPRIZE Foundation; Featured in TRUST MACHINE (2018), THE RISE OF BLOCKCHAIN (2019). He is also an early pio...
Dec 16, 2022•42 min•Ep. 336
Today’s guest is Sakina Arsiwala, Co-Founder of Taki. We begin our conversation by discussing Sakina’s experience working at NextDoor. Sakina explains how NextDoor enabled trust by ensuring the users of the platform were verified and how that helped create a flywheel effect for getting users to use and trust the platform. We discuss the lessons blockchain startups can take from NextDoor’s success. We transitioned our discussion to focus on Taki. Taki is an engage-to-earn social network which aim...
Dec 14, 2022•33 min•Ep. 335
Get ready for this epic episode! We discuss a variety of topics including Ribbon Finance, CeFi’s Blowups, DeFi’s Future, Yield, and much more. We began our conversation by discussing Julian’s journey into the crypto-space. Julian shares how he got interested in crypto and how he was able to navigate the previous bear market to position himself for success in the recent bull market. Our next conversation topic centered around “Crypto Banks.” We discuss the current fallout from the failure of CeFi...
Dec 08, 2022•36 min•Ep. 334
Today's guest is Alex Strześniewski is the Founder of AngelBlock. AngelBlock is a Crypto and FinTech investment platform connecting investors with noteworthy startups with a focus on early-stage investments. AngelBlock is on its way to creating the largest decentralised venture capital fund for the Crypto, FinTech, and Blockchain space. Their mission is to build a cohesive and synergistic community of investors, supporters and entrepreneurs developing innovation within the blockchain space. Ange...
Dec 06, 2022•42 min•Ep. 333
The last episode of UntoldStories and the first episode of The Charlie Shrem Show Today's guest is Jan Leitenbauer, the co-founder of MovieShots. MovieShots is an Austrian startup which enables film lovers to own a part of their favorite movie as a unique collector’s item. As a digital collectible, MovieShots aims to link the two worlds of film and NFT. Using software developed in-house, individual still images from iconic films transform and become originals. Using NFT technology, this content ...
Dec 02, 2022•48 min•Ep. 332
Today’s guest is Mario Stumpo, Founder and Director of the Yanda Protocol. Yanda is the all-in-one solution for cryptocurrency trading. Yanda allows you to manage all your funds from one terminal, and makes automated trading simple and accessible to all. Yanda platform allows you to create and customize your own trading bot, as well as helping optimize your trading through free forecasting and analytics tools. Additionally, Yanda services include: automated trading (PATS), portfolio management, ...
Nov 30, 2022•31 min•Ep. 331
Today’s guest is Sergey Gorbunov, co-founder of Axelar. Axelar is a universal interoperability platform that connects all blockchains through a decentralized network and an SDK of protocols and APIs. Using the network and SDK, developers can efficiently integrate their applications across all blockchain ecosystems creating greater access to users, assets, liquidity and other applications. Sergey is also an Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo (2016 - present). He is interested in bu...
Nov 24, 2022•42 min•Ep. 330
Today’s guest is Adrian Brink, CEO at Heliax, Co-Founder of the Anoma project, and a member of the Anoma Foundation Council. Heliax is a blockchain research, development, & product company bringing financial sovereignty and privacy to the world. They are the team behind Anoma. Anoma is a sovereign, proof-of-stake blockchain protocol that enables private, asset-agnostic cash and private bartering among any number of parties. Prior to Heliax, Adrian co-founded, scaled and eventually sold Crypt...
Nov 22, 2022•43 min•Ep. 329
Today’s guest is Nick Rose Founder and CEO at Ethernity Chain, Chief Digital Officer at Global Wildlife Conservation, and Investor. Ethernal Labs is a premier Web3 creative and technology studio. Projects spun out of Ethernal Labs includes Ethernity Chain, Exorians, Fanable, Eyecandy, and more to come. Ethernity Chain is a community-oriented platform that produces limited edition authenticated NFTs (aNFTs) and trading cards created by your favorite artists and endorsed by notable figures. Users ...
Nov 17, 2022•44 min•Ep. 328
Today’s guest is Jamie Burke, Founder and CEO of Outlier Ventures, Europe’s 1st venture fund and platform dedicated to blockchain and Web 3. Outlier Ventures is a leading Web3 accelerator and founder community. They fund and help over 100 web3 startups a year, supporting projects across DeFi, NFTs, blockchain infrastructure, and more. Jamie has built a portfolio that includes industry-defining projects such as Brave Browser, Fetch.ai, Ocean Protocol, DIA Data, and Enigma / Secret Network and dev...
Nov 15, 2022•49 min•Ep. 327
Today’s guest is Phil Fogel, the co-founder and Chief Blockchain Officer at FlowCarbon. Flowcarbon is a pioneering climate technology company that brings carbon credits onto the blockchain. Its mission is to make carbon markets accessible and transparent, enabling the efficient and early flow of capital to be invested directly into projects that combat climate change. FlowCarbon is committed to driving real impact for people, biodiversity, and the planet. Phil has deep expertise in finance and m...
Nov 10, 2022•46 min•Ep. 326
Today’s guest is Tara Fung, the Co-Founder, and CEO of Co:Create. Co:Create provides the foundational infrastructure for decentralized brands of the future. It enables projects to mint NFTs and launch their own DAOs and fungible tokens associated with their collections. These services expand individual communities, incentivize dApp ecosystems' growth, and decentralize project governance. The Co:Create protocol will provide the tooling to support these communities in achieving their full potentia...
Nov 08, 2022•47 min•Ep. 325
Today’s guest is Viktor Fischer, the Managing Partner at Rockaway Blockchain Fund. Rockaway Blockchain Fund is a venture capital firm backing leading Web3 founders. Based in Europe and boasting a portfolio of industry-leading decentralized projects, they focus on long-term value creation by providing engineering, liquidity, and community support. At Rockaway, Viktor oversees the onboarding and growth of early-stage blockchain startups. Previously, Viktor worked at McKinsey & Company, focusin...
Nov 03, 2022•40 min•Ep. 324
Today’s guest is Mark Lurie, the CEO & Co-Founder of Shipyard Software. Shipyard Software builds decentralized exchanges (DEX) for specific types of trades, traders, and instruments, starting with Clipper, a DEX with the best prices anywhere on retail trades. Mark is an entrepreneur and investor who founded two venture-backed startups, Codex Protocol and Lofty. He is currently a Venture Partner at FJLabs, a board member of GMO Trust (issuer of GYEN, the first Yen-backed stablecoin), and a bo...
Nov 01, 2022•49 min•Ep. 323
Today’s guest is Ahmed Al-Balaghi, co-founder of Biconomy. Biconomy is a multichain relayer protocol that aims to improve the user onboarding and transaction experience on decentralized applications (DApps). The project’s declared goal is to make web3 products as intuitive and easy to use as web2 products. In short, Biconomy focuses on transaction management and gas optimization and can reduce gas costs by up to 40%. For several reasons, interactions with decentralized applications are nowhere n...
Oct 27, 2022•45 min•Ep. 322
