Staci Warden is the Algorand Foundation CEO, and Dr. Matthew Brigida is Chief Economist at Algorand Foundation. In June, the Algorand Foundation’s tokenomics team released a new study questioning the assumption that TVL is a meaningful investment signal. Despite being widely cited as a proxy for legitimacy, the research found that TVL doesn’t correlate with token performance, even when adjusted for known distortions like double-counting. Why you should listen The team analyzed 300+ cryptocurrenc...
Jul 03, 2025•40 min
Jeff Hancock is the CEO of Coinpass, a UK-based crypto exchange acquired by OANDA in 2023. He’s bringing crypto and traditional finance closer together in a secure, regulated way. Why you should listen Born in London in 2018, Coinpass climbed the regulatory mountain early, securing an FCA crypto-asset registration and then catching the eye of multi-asset heavyweight OANDA, which snapped up a majority stake in August 2023. Now the exchange enjoys the deep pockets and risk-management chops of a ...
Jun 30, 2025•32 min
Grigore Roșu is a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois and a former NASA engineer, where he developed the K Framework - an open-source “Rosetta Stone” for programming language semantics. A day-one contributor to the Ethereum Foundation, he later founded Runtime Verification, now the leading formal verification company in Web3. In 2023, he founded Pi Squared with the vision of bringing the next million developers to Web3 by utilizing his revolutionary K Framework. Why you s...
Jun 25, 2025•30 min
Nick Sainato, the Co-Founder of Gamma, has just launched Signals to fix NFT launches. Signals is a first-of-its-kind go-to-market platform that uncovers hidden demand signals and helps determine a fair market price for items within any launch, on any blockchain, on any drop site. Why you should listen NFT launches are famously chaotic: dummy wallets farm allow-lists, creators guess at a mint price, and traders pray the gas-war gods are kind. Signals flips that script. Built by the Gamma team, th...
Jun 23, 2025•34 min
Shashank Sripada merges institutional rigor with systemic change. After managing $7B+ in assets and advising the White House, he co-founded Gaia to prove decentralized models can scale equitably. Gaia aims to empower anyone—from individual knowledge workers to domain experts—to build, launch, scale, and monetize their own AI agents. Why you should listen Gaia aims to empower anyone—from individual knowledge workers to domain experts—to build, launch, scale, and monetize their own AI agents. Each...
Jun 18, 2025•32 min
Matthew Ainscow is a co-founder of Me3, a web3 engagement and infrastructure platform. Matthew has built partnerships with several of Asia’s largest E-sports and GameFi networks with the goal of converting Web2 users to Web3. Why you should listen In this conversation, Matthew discusses Me3, the innovative AI-powered engagement platform designed for Web3. He shares insights into the challenges of user retention in the crypto space, the technological advancements being implemented in their platfo...
Jun 17, 2025•26 min
Aliyyah Koloc, a professional racing driver and advocate for autism awareness, shares her unique journey from tennis to motorsports, her passion for art, and her involvement with Raphael Coin. She discusses the challenges and rewards of racing, the importance of tokenization in making art accessible, and her insights on the future of crypto for her generation. Why you should listen Raphael Coin was founded in early 2025 with the mission to democratize ownership of historically significant fine a...
Jun 16, 2025•19 min
Mounir Benchemled is the founder of Velora, an intent-based crosschain trading protocol that makes complex trading strategies simple and accessible for users. Why you should listen Mounir’s deep expertise in DEX aggregation and intent-based trading has positioned Velora as a leader in the DeFi space. As the platform evolves, Mounir is steering the next stage of growth by focusing on crosschain interoperability and agent-based execution, ensuring the best possible user experience with reduced gas...
Jun 12, 2025•28 min
Kody Sale (Head of Product) and Anthony Bertolino (Head of Marketing & Ecosystem) are leading Obol’s charge to scale the next generation of infrastructure networks. Together, they’re building the largest Decentralized Operator Ecosystem in Ethereum and Web3—powered by Obol’s groundbreaking distributed validator technology. Why you should listen Obol Network is building a decentralized staking infrastructure for proof‑of‑stake networks like Ethereum. Obol enables Distributed Validators (DVs):...
Jun 09, 2025•31 min
Mauricio Di Bartolomeo is the Co-Founder of Ledn, a pioneer in the fast-growing Bitcoin-Backed Loans category. Ledn provides a secure and transparent way to access liquidity while maintaining your Bitcoin holdings. Why you should listen Ledn.io is a financial services platform that provides Bitcoin and digital asset-backed loans and savings products. Founded in 2018, Ledn specializes in offering secure, transparent, and regulation-conscious financial tools for cryptocurrency holders. It allows u...
Jun 04, 2025•37 min
Arrash Yasavolian is the Founder and CEO of Taoshi, Inc and Glitch Financial. Taoshi is a decentralized trading platform that leverages AI and blockchain technology to democratize access to sophisticated trading strategies. Built on the Bittensor network, Taoshi's Proprietary Trading Network (PTN) allows traders to compete in a decentralized ecosystem, where they are graded on risk-adjusted returns across various asset classes. The platform emphasizes transparency and fairness, aiming to empower...
Jun 03, 2025•27 min
Alon Muroch, founder of SSV Labs, the core development team behind ssv.network, a distributed staking infrastructure securing ~5% of all staked ETH. Alon’s work with SSV 2.0 and the Based movement is paving the way for validators to extend Ethereum’s security to emerging applications. Why you should listen In this conversation, Alon Murock, founder of SSV Labs, discusses the evolution of Ethereum, its current challenges, and the potential of based applications. He emphasizes the importance of de...
May 29, 2025•37 min
Adam Bergman is the founder of IRA Financial, is a U.S.based fintech company specializing in self-directed retirement accounts, offering a platform for individuals to invest their retirement funds in alternative assets. Why you should listen Founded by Adam Bergman, a former tax and ERISA attorney, IRA Financial empowers individuals to take control of their retirement funds through self-directed IRAs and Solo 401(k)s. Unlike traditional retirement accounts that limit you to stocks and bonds, IRA...
May 28, 2025•33 min
Ivo Georgiev is the CEO & founder of Ambire Wallet, the Web3 wallet that just works. As the CEO of Ambire Wallet, Ivo leads a team of skilled developers and designers in building innovative products for the blockchain space. Why you should listen Ambire Wallet is a self-custodial smart wallet designed to simplify and enhance your Web3 experience. Built on the principles of account abstraction, it offers a user-friendly interface combined with powerful features, making it suitable for both ne...
May 26, 2025•36 min
Ming Wu is the founder of RabbitX, a global, permissionless perpetual futures exchange for the next generation of traders. RabbitX aims to redefine market access by combining speed, transparency, and zero fees. The platform offers deep liquidity across 100+ markets, up to 50x leverage, and low-latency execution, available 24/7 with no account restrictions. Why you should listen Ming Wu, founder of RabbitX, discusses his journey from traditional finance to the world of crypto trading, particularl...
May 22, 2025•38 min
Kee Jefferys and Chris McCabe are the co-founders of Session - an encrypted messaging application which minimises the collection of user metadata. Session is an end-to-end encrypted messenger that protects your personal data. Take back control with a messaging app designed, built, and operated by a global community of privacy experts. Why you should listen Session is a privacy-focused messaging app designed for users who want true anonymity and secure communication—without compromise. Unlike mai...
May 20, 2025•40 min
Jon Kol is a Co-founder at Hyperlane, the open interoperability framework to connect anywhere onchain. Why you should listen Hyperlane is the “open interoperability framework” that lets any blockchain—whether an L1, rollup, app‑chain, or VM—talk to any other, permissionlessly. Think of it as the universal plumbing for cross‑chain apps, assets, and arbitrary messages, already live on 140+ chains and five VMs. At its core, Hyperlane uses Mailbox contracts on each chain as send/receive endpoints. W...
May 15, 2025•28 min
Bobby Gray has manufactured gold, silver, and copper coins for the past sixteen years. In 2012, he created the original Bitcoin coin–the same year he testified as an Expert Witness for the US House Financial Services subcommittee regarding "Parallel Currencies: the Roadmap to Monetary Freedom”. Now, Bobby is the founder of TEXITcoin, a Made-in-America and community-driven cryptocurrency. Why you should listen TEXITcoin (TXC) is a Texas-born cryptocurrency designed to embody the state's independe...
May 06, 2025•35 min
Harrison Seletsky is Director of Business Development at SPACE ID, a universal name service network that connects and coordinates people, assets, and dApps across blockchains. Why you should listen SPACE ID is a Web3 identity platform that simplifies the process of discovering, registering, trading, and managing digital identities across multiple blockchains. It offers a one-stop solution for users to create and manage human-readable domain names, replacing complex wallet addresses with memorabl...
Apr 30, 2025•28 min
Philip Blazdell is CEO at Fedrok AG, a Swiss-based blockchain company focused on enhancing transparency and trust in the carbon credit market. Why you should listen Fedrok AG is a Swiss blockchain company focused on combating climate change by transforming the carbon credit market. Their mission is to make Bitcoin mining environmentally friendly, unify the carbon credit market, and integrate blockchain technology with carbon offsetting. To achieve this, Fedrok developed the Fedrok blockchain, ...
Apr 29, 2025•29 min
Jason Brink is the CEO and co-founder of Datagram, a decentralized real-time communication (RTC) infrastructure platform that leverages underutilized network resources to provide secure, scalable, and cost-effective communication solutions. Why you should listen Datagram is a decentralized real-time communication (RTC) infrastructure platform that leverages underutilized resources to provide scalable and cost-effective connectivity solutions. It operates as a DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infras...
Apr 28, 2025•31 min
Kevin Rusher is the Founder and CEO of RAAC, a protocol that enables real estate tokenization, lending, and borrowing. It connects DeFi with real-world assets (starting with real estate), allowing users to tokenize properties, use them as collateral, and participate in DeFi activities. Why you should listen RAAC (Regnum Aurum Acquisition Corp.) is a next-gen DeFi platform that fuses real-world assets (RWAs) like real estate and gold with blockchain technology. RAAC does this by tokenizing physic...
Apr 27, 2025•26 min
Harsehaj Singh is the CEO and co-founder of Avantis, an on-chain exchange for trading and market-making cryptocurrencies, forex, and commodities. Why you should listen Built on Coinbase’s Layer 2 chain, Base, Avantis is designed to offer traders permissionless access to crypto, forex, metals, and real-world commodities—all directly from their wallet. It's backed by serious players like Pantera Capital, Founders Fund, and Galaxy Digital. Unlike typical decentralized exchanges that just handle cry...
Apr 24, 2025•23 min
Srini Parthasarathy is the CTO of Shardeum - an EVM-based autoscaling blockchain. Shardeum's architecture addresses the blockchain trilemma of decentralization, scalability, and security. Why you should listen Shardeum is an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain designed to tackle the blockchain trilemma—scalability, decentralization, and security—without compromise. Utilizing dynamic state sharding, Shardeum achieves linear scalability, meaning that each additional node increases the network's tra...
Apr 23, 2025•27 min
Ciarán Murray is the founder and CEO of Olas, an open protocol for sharing, interrogating, and aggregating trustworthy information. Why you should listen Olas is an ambitious open protocol aiming to revolutionize how we produce, verify, and consume information online. Unlike traditional media platforms driven by advertising and subscriptions, Olas operates as a decentralized, ownerless network designed to foster trust and accuracy through innovative economic and technological frameworks. At its...
Apr 21, 2025•47 min
Constantine Zaitcev is CEO at dRPC.org - a new generation web3 infrastructure and data service that combines the advantages of distributed systems with first-class UX and support. Why you should listen dRPC (decentralized Remote Procedure Call) is a protocol designed to facilitate secure and efficient communication between decentralized applications (dApps) and blockchain networks. It enables dApps to interact with blockchain nodes in a decentralized manner, reducing reliance on centralized inf...
Apr 17, 2025•37 min
Ryan is the Head of Product at Stabull Finance, a Stablecoin and tokenized RWA DEX on Ethereum and Polygon. Stabull Finance is the new home for non-USD, fiat-backed stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets, providing crypto and forex traders with access to 24/7/365 FX markets. Why you should listen Stabull is a next-generation Decentralized Exchange (DEX) built to become the central source of liquidity for all local stablecoins and tokenized Real World Assets (RWAs). Stabull Finance addresses...
Apr 16, 2025•33 min
Barna Kiss is a co-founder of Malda, a decentralized lending protocol for individuals, institutions, and protocols to access financial services. Why you should listen Malda is a Unified Liquidity Lending protocol on Ethereum and Layer 2s, delivering a seamless lending experience through global liquidity pools, all secured by zkProofs. Malda is the first DeFi protocol built on a zkCoprocessor technology to create unified pools within the Ethereum ecosystem that act in sync to provide uninterrupte...
Apr 14, 2025•33 min
Boris Bohrer-Bilowitzki is the CEO of Concordium, a secure, scalable, regulatory-ready blockchain designed for real-world applications. With its built-in ID layer, predictable fees, and high-performance smart contracts, developers can build with confidence while ensuring compliance and privacy. Why you should listen Concordium is a public Layer 1 blockchain platform that integrates identity verification at its core, aiming to balance privacy with regulatory compliance. Founded in 2018 by Lars Se...
Apr 06, 2025•36 min
Jens Willemen is a Partner & Co-Founder at Kairon Labs, an advisor and crypto market maker for digital asset issuers. Why you should listen In this conversation, Jens Willemen, co-founder of Kiron Labs, discusses the evolution of market-making in the crypto space, emphasizing the importance of ethical practices and the challenges faced by new token launches. He shares insights on market sentiment, regulatory complexities, and the future of tokenization, highlighting the need for compliance a...
Mar 27, 2025•34 min
