Carrie Kellar is the co-founder and CTO of BAXUS, a global marketplace for the world’s most collectible spirits. Why you should listen Collectible wines and spirits are one of the most rapidly expanding and lucrative asset classes with the global luxury wines and spirits market forecasted to surge from $250 billion to $470 billion by 2032. However, being predominantly localized, disconnected, and auction-based, the collectible spirits market is illiquid, inefficient, and opaque creating countles...
Aug 22, 2024•27 min
Daren Hebold (Founder, CEO) and Michael Seymour (Director of Sales) run Luxolo Financial, a Portland-based service company that ensures clients have access to warm, professional, and timely service and support as they enter the digital assets space. Why you should listen Luxolo is dedicated to making digital assets more accessible to everyone. As the world rapidly adopts digital assets and explores new economic models, Luxolo remains steadfast in its commitment towards a brighter, more inclusive...
Aug 21, 2024•41 min
Labhesh Patel is the CEO and Co-Founder of Autonomys. Formerly known as Subspace, Autonomys (pronounced as “autonomous”) has created a decentralized identity protocol named Autonomys ID (Auto ID). Why you should listen The convergence of human and artificial intelligence is redefining every aspect of our lives. As we navigate this transformative era, Autonomys is pioneering a path that champions individual autonomy, meaningful contribution, and self-driven prosperity in the age of AI. Autonomys ...
Aug 18, 2024•35 min
Mark Smargon is co-founder and CEO at Fuse a leading web3 platform for business and finance, powered by a performant zkEVM tailor-made to get millions of consumers on-chain. Why you should listen Fuse Network is a blockchain platform focused on simplifying Web3 payments and making blockchain technology more accessible to businesses and developers. It combines features like Account Abstraction, interoperability, and community engagement to create a user-friendly environment for decentralized appl...
Aug 16, 2024•33 min
Jeroen Develter is the Chief Operating Officer at Persistence Labs. Persistence One aims to become the gateway for Bitcoin Interoperability, powered by Intents, secured by Bitcoin. The solution ensures seamless movement of BTC with fast, zero slippage, cross-chain swaps. Why you should listen Persistence One is developing a Bitcoin interoperability solution for Bitcoin Layer 2 and related assets, powered by Intents and secured by the Bitcoin network. The rapid rollout of Bitcoin Layer 2s and sid...
Aug 13, 2024•30 min
Alon Muroch is the Founder of SSV Labs, a globally distributed team of developers, researchers, and ETH enthusiasts working to ensure Ethereum becomes fail-proof for many years to come. SSV.network is a decentralized, open-source ETH staking network, based on Secret Shared Validator (SSV) technology. Why you should listen SSV is also known as DVT, or Distributed Validator Technology, as it provides an open and simple infrastructure for splitting and distributing a validator key into multiple Key...
Aug 11, 2024•36 min
Stardust is a $35M funded web3 gaming infrastructure and user acquisition service provider's Wallets-as-a-Service (WaaS) product and provides game development tools to build and scale blockchain games. Stardust’s Wallets-as-a-service (WaaS) is used by more than 90 active game studios. Why you should listen Stardust’s platform offers game developers easy access to the most scalable, secure, and compliant infrastructure for invisible player wallets while empowering them with user acquisition and a...
Aug 08, 2024•38 min
Brian Fanzo is a digital futuirst who is helping out the dev team from PepeCoin, the OG meme coin community working to unlock utility and innovation to grow Web3 adoption. There is much, much more to Pepecoin than a fun meme, listen and learn. Why you should listen Pepecoin was originally launched in 2016 by a group of crypto OGs. Originally it was launched using its own proof-of-work blockchain network. Due to controversy surrounding the Pepe the Frog meme after the 2016 presidential election, ...
Aug 06, 2024•38 min
Ben Rose is the General Manager of Binance Australia and New Zealand. Binance is the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange platform by volume and has been instrumental in shaping the global crypto landscape since its inception in 2017. Ben joined Binance in 2022. Why you should listen Binance has close to 200 million users globally and trades around $138 billion USD each day. The mega exchange is continuing to expand around the world, so Ben joins Andy to discuss Binance down under, New Zealan...
Aug 05, 2024•41 min
Jason Dehni is CEO and co-founder at Credbull, the first licensed on-chain private credit fund. Through its on-chain fund, Credbull allocates capital to established Lending Originators offering loans to creditworthy small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) such as working capital, trade receivables, and invoice factoring. In return, the Fund’s liquidity providers gain access to the best performing asset class on an absolute and risk adjusted basis. Credbull provides universal access to 10% Fixed Yield...
Aug 01, 2024•34 min
Burt Rock is the marketing lead at Kwenta, a derivatives marketplace with multiple integrations, meaning you can trade multiple DeFi venues from the Kwenta platform. Why you should listen Kwenta is a decentralized derivatives trading platform leveraging the Synthetix protocol, optimized for trading perpetual futures on the Optimism layer. It's designed to provide traders with access to a range of on-chain and real-world assets without taking custody of user assets, emphasizing security and user ...
Jul 31, 2024•35 min
Luke Barwikowski is the founder and CEO of Pixels, the largest web3 game by DAU. With over 2.5M total players, Pixels is a social, casual web3 game powered by the Ronin Network, focusing on farming, exploration, and creation in an open world. Why you should listen Pixels is a Web3 social gaming platform on the Ronin Network, blending farming, exploration, and community building in an open-world universe. Emphasizing a community-focused approach, Pixels builds alongside its users and is on a miss...
Jul 29, 2024•34 min
Jassem Osseiran, the founder of PlaysOut, discusses bringing Web3 to the gaming industry. PlaysOut is an SDK and standalone app that allows game developers to transition from traditional gaming to the Web3 space. Why you should listen PlaysOut aims to solve the problem of monetizing global audiences and integrating with Web3 ecosystems. PlaysOut has partnered with Tencent to bring casual gaming to the WeChat ecosystem and expand to global audiences. They have plans to integrate with other super ...
Jul 23, 2024•28 min
Serhii Kravchenko is the CEO at DeXe, the solution for creating and governing DAOs, projects, tokens, and NFTs through a seamless, no-code interface. Why you should listen DAOs can remove human error by automatically executing the community’s decisions. DAOs also make distributing roles, voting power, treasury funds, and more quicker, simpler, and cheaper than in traditional hierarchical organizations. The DeXe DAO management platform allows you to build a DAO for no cost. Creating your DAO via ...
Jul 14, 2024•37 min
Davy Wittock leads the Flux Business Development team. Flux is a decentralized Web3 cloud infrastructure comprised of user-operated, scalable and globally distributed computational nodes. Why you should listen Flux is a decentralized cloud infrastructure designed to provide scalable and reliable services for blockchain applications and other web services. Built to address the growing need for decentralized computing resources, Flux offers a robust platform that enables developers to deploy, mana...
Jul 09, 2024•39 min
0xnovachrono is the Founder of Silent Research Labs, building Stripchain, an intent-based interoperability protocol designed to simplify chain abstraction. True interoperability entails seamless interaction with applications. Stripchain is engineered to eliminate developer complexities, making application chains arbitrary. Why you should listen Stripchain is an intent-based interoperability protocol designed to simplify chain abstraction. Central to Stripchain is the StripVM, which ensures secur...
Jul 04, 2024•40 min
Rich Rines is an initial contributor to Core Dao. Why you should listen Core Chain is the first Bitcoin-aligned EVM-compatible Layer-1 blockchain, designed to be Bitcoin's complementary and hyper-scalable smart contract platform. With 50% of Bitcoin mining hash power already contributing to its security model and through the ground-breaking innovation of Non-Custodial Bitcoin staking, Core Chain is unlocking Bitcoin both as the prime protector and central asset of the future of DeFi. Core Chain'...
Jul 02, 2024•35 min
Ryder Havdale is the CEO and founder of Helios Creators Inc., which aims to revolutionize the music streaming industry by offering fairer compensation and deeper engagement between artists and fans through the Helios platform, using Web3 technologies. Why you should listen Ryder Havdell, CEO and founder of Helios Creators, discusses the need for fairer engagement and deeper connection between artists and fans in the streaming industry. Helios aims to revolutionize the music streaming landscape b...
Jul 01, 2024•35 min
Ben Shyong is the Co-Founder of Anzen Finance, a digital asset platform that issues USDz, a Real World Asset (RWA) backed stablecoin. Why you should listen Anzen Finance is a web3 protocol for minting and staking USDz, a stablecoin backed by a portfolio of private credit assets. USDz is a composable digital asset with utility across different crypto platforms. Token holders can use their USDz to participate in DeFi protocols, trade on exchanges, and use it for online payments. Users can buy or s...
Jun 25, 2024•24 min
Robert Cartwright is the CEO of AI agent-driven metaverse 2.0 ecosystem. Why you should listen Wondra Protocol aims to create the world's first AI agent-driven metaverse 2.0 ecosystem. Within this ecosystem, user digital twin data, driven by AI agents, will become autonomous inhabitants of the metaverse, possessing independent needs and matching various supply services, forming a self-consistent and evolving free market. Within the foundational architecture of the Wondra metaverse lies an advanc...
Jun 23, 2024•38 min
Aisling Connolly is the General Lead at DFINITY, working on Chain Fusion for the Internet Computer blockchain. Aisling is interested in the intersection of cryptography, information security, and privacy. Why you should listen Aisling works at the intersection of cryptography, information security, and privacy. Her work focuses on the foundations, design, and provable security of global-scale data systems. She aims to design privacy-preserving protocols by leveraging techniques in cryptography a...
Jun 18, 2024•39 min
Edwin Mata is the CEO and Co-Founder of Brickken, a Tokenisation suite for Real World Assets. From real estate to franchises to IP to business, almost anything can be tokenized via Brickken. Why you should listen Edwin Mata and Andy discuss several critical aspects of the tokenization space, particularly focusing on Brickken, where Edwin is the CEO and co-founder. Brickken is a tokenization suite for real-world assets. Real estate tokenization, which benefits from fractional ownership and new fu...
Jun 17, 2024•27 min
Edison Chen is the co-founder and CEO of CUDIS, a Web 3.0 startup making the world’s first AI smart ring that rewards your wellness journey. Why you should listen The CUDIS ring represents a significant leap in the realm of wearable wellness technology. Positioned as a competitor to the Oura ring in the web3 landscape, the CUDIS ring is a Solana-based wearable that discreetly monitors users’ physical well-being, offering a wealth of biometric insights. Coupled with a personalized AI coach, the C...
Jun 13, 2024•37 min
ZTX - A Virtual World for Creators and Communities Niko Hosn is the CTO of ZTX, an immersive virtual world empowering creators and communities. Open Beta is now live. Why you should listen ZTX builds upon the foundation and success of ZEPETO, the largest metaverse platform in Asia with over 430M registered users. Prioritizing interoperability and scalability, ZTX harnesses blockchain technology to empower players, creators, and communities. ZTX embodies three core pillars: Identity, Experience, ...
Jun 11, 2024•39 min
Robert Kao is the co-founder of Plato Protocol. Plato rewards consumers who create and curate content around restaurants. Ready to Eat to Earn? Why you should listen Plato is an on-chain reputation and gamified dining experience, with a mission to revolutionize the food economy. Plato users create a unique dataset around food backed by proof of purchase at restaurants to create personal restaurant discovery, reservation and payment user experience. At its core, Plato operates as a rewards protoc...
Jun 06, 2024•30 min
Sarah McNabb is CMO at GigaStar a next-gen crowdfunding marketplace for YouTube Creators and Investors. Why you should listen GigaStar fuels human creativity by bringing Creators and Investors together. GigaStar provides Creators with an intuitive SEC-registered crowdfunding platform to raise capital from Investors who gain exposure to the Creator Economy while joining a Creator's journey. GigaStar’s mission is to empower Creators with access to crowdfunding and provide Investors with unique rev...
Jun 04, 2024•34 min
Isodoros Passadis is a contributor to the Lido DAO as Master of Validators, while Alon Muroch is the Founder of SSV Labs. Why you should listen Lido (the biggest LST by TVL on Ethereum) is deploying the new SimpleDVT module. Liquid staking protocols allow users to mint a transferable utility token that can be used in on-chain activities while their stake is locked-up while they continue to get staking rewards without maintaining any staking infrastructure. Thus it is said to be “liquid”. The Lid...
Jun 02, 2024•45 min
Kelsey McGuire is the Chief Growth Officer at Shardeum, the world’s first EVM-based L1 blockchain which uses dynamic state sharding to increase TPS with every new node. Or as Shardeum describe themselves, Web3 for Humans. Why you should listen Shardeum is an EVM-based, linearly scalable smart contract platform that maintains true decentralization and solid security through dynamic state sharding. This means Shardeum can increase its TPS capacity with each validator added to the network to retain...
May 30, 2024•30 min
Chandra Duggirala is the CEO at Portal Finance, a bridgeless interoperability protocol on Bitcoin aiming to to accelerate the arrival of hyperbitcoinization. Why you should listen Portal Finance brings Native BTC, BRC20s, Ordinals and atomic swaps to any chain. Portal is fostering the Bitcoin Renaissance by building the tools for global financial self sovereignty. Their web scale, serverless, peer-to-peer infrastructure and ecosystem of tools financially empower individuals around the globe. Por...
May 27, 2024•43 min
Peko Wan is co-CEO of Pundi X, which has been deploying their blockchain-based point-of-sale (POS) solution and solidifying partnerships with governments, payment companies, and retailers around the world. Why you should listen Pundi X is a blockchain payments ecosystem. XPOS is the leading blockchain-based Point-of-Sale solution, enabling merchants to accept crypto payments or sell cryptocurrency in a physical shop. Running on the Android operating system, XPOS equips merchants with the capabil...
May 27, 2024•29 min
