Josh Benaron is the Founder & CEO of Irys (https://irys.xyz), the world’s first programmable Layer-1 datachain designed to integrate low-cost, scalable storage with high-performance, EVM-compatible execution via IrysVM. Backed by Lemniscap, Framework Ventures, and Primitive Ventures, Irys is revolutionizing onchain data infrastructure for AI, IP, and consumer applications. In this episode, Josh shares his journey from building Bundlr Network to launching Irys, overcoming challenges in transa...
Jul 30, 2025•21 min•Season 2Ep. 159
Yat Siu is Co-Founder and Chairman of Animoca Brands (https://www.animocabrands.com), a global leader in blockchain gaming, investing and web3, championing digital property rights through decentralized ecosystems. Yat shares his thoughts on stakeholder capitalism, redefining economic models by empowering users as network owners, as well as groundbreaking initiatives like Open Campus, which integrates blockchain into education to revolutionize student loan financing. He discusses the emergence of...
Jul 22, 2025•44 min•Season 2Ep. 158
Deborah Simpier is Co-Founder and CEO of Althea (https://althea.net), a decentralized infrastructure platform revolutionizing internet access through blockchain-based, community-driven networks. Deborah shares her journey from advocating for net neutrality and running a rural IT business to co-founding DePIN network, Althea, a company pioneering multi-stakeholder networks with innovative products like KeyLTE and Liquid Infrastructure. She discusses Althea’s milestones, including deploying networ...
Jul 18, 2025•26 min•Season 2Ep. 157
Itai Turbahn is Co-Founder and CEO of Dynamic (https://www.dynamic.xyz), a Web3 authentication platform that simplifies wallet-based login and onboarding through a flexible SDK, combining authentication, smart wallets, and secure key management. Itai shares his journey from product management leadership roles and consulting at the Boston Consulting Group to co-founding Dynamic, a company backed by a16z crypto, Founders Fund, and others. He discusses how Dynamic’s growth, milestones, including sp...
Jul 01, 2025•26 min•Season 2Ep. 156
Kurt Larsen is Co-Founder of Rhinestone (https://www.rhinestone.wtf), a platform revolutionizing Web3 by building modular smart account infrastructure to enhance interoperability, security, and developer accessibility. Kurt shares his journey from a banker to launching markets for Deliveroo and leading a machine learning product division, to co-founding Rhinestone, which recently raised $5 million in a seed round led by 1kx, with support from CoinFund, Lattice, Heartcore, Circle Ventures, among ...
Jun 28, 2025•28 min•Season 2Ep. 155
Nirav Murthy is CEO, Co-Founder of CAMP Network (https://www.camp.network), a Layer-1 blockchain designed to modernize intellectual property (IP) infrastructure, empower decentralized identity and data sovereignty, and power the next generation of AI Agents on verifiable IP. In this episode, Nirav shares his journey from advising global media and tech brands at The Raine Group to co-founding CAMP Network’s modular platform that empowers creators to own and monetize their IP. He discusses how CAM...
Jun 12, 2025•28 min•Season 2Ep. 154
Rich Rines is a Initial Contributor at Core DAO (https://www.coredao.org), the first proof-of-stake (PoS) layer for Bitcoin, pioneering self-custodial Bitcoin staking and hosting the largest Bitcoin DeFi ecosystem. In this episode, Rich shares his journey from re-discovering Bitcoin in 2013, captivated by its potential as a non-sovereign store of value, to becoming a key figure in Core DAO’s mission to bridge Bitcoin’s security with DeFi innovation. He dives into how Core DAO’s layer-1 revolutio...
May 31, 2025•32 min•Season 2Ep. 153
Ezra Kebrab is CEO and Co-Founder of Caliza (https://www.caliza.com), a platform leveraging stablecoin infrastructure to revolutionize cross-border payments, enabling instant, cost-effective international transactions, with a focus on Latin America. Ezra shares his journey from leading fintech initiatives at Visa and Intuit to building Caliza’s API-driven platform that bridges the gap in global finance. He also discusses how Caliza is reshaping the future of stable finance in Latin America, tack...
May 26, 2025•22 min•Season 2Ep. 152
Tom Trowbridge is CEO and Co-Founder of Fluence Labs (https://fluence.network), a decentralized, enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure with global compute. Tom dives into Fluence’s mission to reshape the future of the internet through its cloudless computing platform, offering resilient, low-cost, and open alternatives to traditional cloud services. He discusses how Fluence’s DePIN platform, governed by the Fluence DAO and powered by FLT on Ethereum, delivers cheaper decentralized compute compar...
May 21, 2025•30 min•Season 2Ep. 151
Illia Polosukhin is Co-Founder of NEAR , ( https://www.near.ai ), a high-performant, AI-native blockchain platform that provides the infrastructure needed for AI applications and agents to transact, operate, and interact across both Web2 and Web3. With a deep background in machine learning and software engineering, Illia shares his journey into crypto, from early contributions in tech to co-founding NEAR, where he focuses on building an accessible Web3 ecosystem. He emphasizes the importance of ...
May 18, 2025•42 min•Season 2Ep. 150
Patrick O'Grady is Founder and CEO of Commonware , (https://www.commonware.xyz), an open-source set of primitives that developers can use to build and reassemble their applications without resorting to a complicated fork. Patrick shares his journey into crypto, building in the early days at Coinbase and thereafter joining Ava Labs, where he left to pursue his passion for simplifying blockchain development with the founding of Commonware. He discusses the importance of application specific blockc...
Apr 17, 2025•36 min•Season 2Ep. 149
Ryne Saxe is CEO and Co-Founder of Eco , ( https://www.eco.com ), a network for apps that use stablecoins and stablecoin liquidity, providing a frictionless stablecoin experience that accelerates user onboarding and streamlines money movement onchain. Ryne is quite the polymath, sharing his journey as a physicist, coder, lawyer, turned technology founder. He shares his unique perspective on the evolution of payments technology over the last decade, its embrace of crypto, stablecoins as crypto's ...
Mar 31, 2025•38 min•Season 2Ep. 148
Siddarth "Sid" Sridhar is Founder and CEO of BIMA Labs (https://www.bima.money), a decentralized finance platform that enables users to stake assets like Bitcoin and Bitcoin derivatives such as Liquid Staked Tokens (LST), to borrow USBD, a stablecoin pegged to the US Dollar. Sid talks about his journey from being a Draper-backed investor at 19 years old to being a crypto founder in the BitcoinFi space, the role of USDB plays in social impact by promoting financial inclusion, why over-collaterali...
Mar 29, 2025•32 min•Season 2Ep. 147
Aki Balogh is Founder and CEO of iBTC , ( https://www.ibtc.network ), a platform that harnesses the power of Discrete Log Contracts (DLCs) to establish the safest, theft-proof, and institutionally compliant trustless bridge between Bitcoin. Aki shares his journey into entrepreneurship and consequently crypto, discusses his vision of how Discrete Log Contracts (DLCs) can unlock BTCFi, the mechanics of iBTC fka dlcLink, and his thoughts on the exploding Bitcoin Layer 2 ecosystem....
Mar 02, 2025•45 min•Season 2Ep. 146
Elias Tazartes is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Kakarot , (https://www.kakarot.org), a zero-knowledge EVM written in Cairo aiming to allow users to leverage the scaling benefits of validity roll-ups while maintaining compatibility with the Ethereum ecosystem. Elias shares on the emergence of verifiable computing and how Kakarot is innovating applied Zero Knowledge Proof (ZKP) to transform the blockchain industry securing billions of transactions. Elias dives deep into Kakarot’s evolution as it crosse...
Feb 23, 2025•35 min•Season 2Ep. 145
Jason Li is Co-Founder of Solayer Labs , ( https://www.solayer.org ), builder of Solayer, the hardware-accelerated blockchain, infinitely scaling the SVM to enable high-throughput, near-zero latency use cases. Jason returns this season to share the latest on this revolutionary innovation in blockchain, which enables a mind-blowing 100 Gbps throughput while maintaining an atomic state. He walks us through Solayer's vision of a world where billions of people can process USDC transactions, game in ...
Feb 13, 2025•36 min•Season 2Ep. 144
Eric Won Choi is CEO and Founder of The Guild , a decentralized web3 protocol that combines gig economy elements with social networking, enabling users to monetize their networks and build verified on-chain reputations. Eric shares about his crypto and founder journeys, key insights on on-chain community development, why he is innovating in the on-chain community space, growing the blockchain ecosystem in Korea, the future of web3 communities, and the work behind building the world’s first fully...
Feb 07, 2025•39 min•Season 2Ep. 143
Alex Ryvkin is CEO and Founder of Rho Labs , an institutional grade decentralized crypto native marketplace that allows retail and professional traders to efficiently trade swaps and futures on-chain compliantly. Alex joins us to discuss his journey in traditional finance and crypto, building the first crypto interest rates derivatives exchange, an asset class currently valued at over $500 trillion, opportunities for investors and traders given the broader risk-off sentiment, and the road ahead ...
Feb 01, 2025•36 min•Season 2Ep. 142
Ash Arora , is an Investment Partner at LocalGlobe , (https://www.phoenixcourt.vc/localglobe), a top-tier European early-stage venture capital firm renowned for backing unicorns like SoRare, LayerZero, Robinhood, Figma, Wise, and Twitter (X). As a Strategic Partner and valued member of the WAGMI Ventures family, Ash leads LocalGlobe’s Enterprise AI and Frontier Technology Investments practice. She dives into her seasoned perspective on investing in crypto, navigating crypto market cycles, the ar...
Jan 24, 2025•33 min•Season 2Ep. 141
Miguel de Vega is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Nillion , a decentralized infrastructure network based on the use of various privacy enhancing technologies to support private storage and computation of sensitive data, while seamlessly connecting to existing blockchain infrastructure. Miguel discusses his journey into crypto, his extensive background in AI, how Nillion seeks to provide decentralized privacy and compute solutions leveraging multi-party computation and fully homomo...
Jan 18, 2025•39 min•Season 2Ep. 140
Charlie Hu is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bitlayer , a pioneering Bitcoin security-equivalent Layer 2 solution aimed at overcoming scalability and smart contract limitations of Bitcoin utilizing BitVM paradigm and zero-knowledge proofs. Charlie shares his journey in the Bitcoin ecosystem, Bitlayer's approach to scaling and enabling a more programmable and secure Bitcoin ecosystem, the road ahead for Bitlayer, and how this innovation is redefining the decentralized finance landscape....
Jan 10, 2025•39 min•Season 2Ep. 139
Michael Heinrich is the Co-Founder and CEO of Zero Gravity (0G) , the fastest modular AI blockchain, providing unmatched infrastructure to scale both Web3 and AI, future-proofing the massive demands of AI infrastructure. 0G recently closed a $40 million seed round and secured another $250 million in liquid funds for its blockchain-based decentralized AI infrastructure. Michael shares his interesting journey into crypto, personal story on what drives him, how 0G achieves high data availability th...
Dec 28, 2024•34 min•Season 2Ep. 138
Dmitriy Berenzon is a Partner at Archetype ( https://archetype.fund ), an early-stage venture fund focused on accelerating the decentralized future, by backing the next generation of crypto founders disrupting the status quo. Dmitriy drives research, investments, portfolio support and fund strategy at Archetype. He shares his extensive experience as a crypto investor through the different phases of crypto development and adoption, the investment philosophy at Archetype, and his insightful though...
Dec 19, 2024•47 min•Season 2Ep. 137
Daryl Xu is Co-Founder of NPC Labs ( https://npclabs.org ), a core contributor to B3.fun, a game ecosystem built on Base, committed to building a seamless and open game ecosystem to change the ownership and incentive model of gamers and developers, as well as provide web2 gaming developers the necessary infrastructure to transition on-chain and to create an engaging user experience with casual and hyper-casual games. Backed by Pantera Capital, Makers Fund, Hashed, Collab+Currency, Mirana Venture...
Dec 15, 2024•23 min•Season 2Ep. 136
Rushi Manche is Co-Founder of Movement Labs ( https://www.movementlabs.xyz ), developer of the Movement Network, an ecosystem of modular Move language based blockchains, creating the Move Virtual Machine Layer 2 for Ethereum, that enables developers to launch high-performance Move-VM rollups easily, bridging Move and EVM ecosystems. Backed by Polychain, Hack VC, Placeholder, Archetype, Aptos Labs, among others, Rushi discusses the limitations of monolithic blockchains, and how Move-VM, through p...
Dec 12, 2024•17 min•Season 2Ep. 135
Jordan Oroshiba is CTO and Co-Founder of Astria ( https://www.astria.org ), a modular blockchain that allows individuals to deploy their own censorship-resistant rollup without relying on a centralized sequencer, easily allowing many rollups to share a single decentralized network of sequencers that’s simple and permissionless to join. Jordan shares his thoughts on the modular blockchain ecosystem, issues Astria addresses across data availability and sequencing, and how Astria is re-inventing th...
Dec 10, 2024•30 min•Season 2Ep. 134
Chjango Unchained is host of Interchain.FM (https://interchain.fm), a technical podcast that covers cutting edge crypto projects, and was one of the founding members of Cosmos Network. Actively involved in Cosmos appchains as a validator, investor, and advisor, Chjango is a long standing crypto evangelist, community builder, and specialist on Layer 1 consensus protocols. She shares about her journey from NASA Jet Propulsion Labs to being an early crypto builder and adopter, the evolution of cryp...
Nov 29, 2024•44 min•Season 2Ep. 133
Ron Bodkin is CEO and Co-Founder of TheoriqAI (https://www.theoriq.ai), the first on-chain multi-agent system, enabling users to build, deploy, and earn via a community-governed AI agent marketplace, developed under the ChainML AI agent research and development platform. Ron has held pioneering AI roles at the world's most innovative tech companies, shares his journey from Google to founding TheoriqAI, his passionate commitment to community governed AI, the role of decentralization in ensuring s...
Nov 26, 2024•35 min•Season 2Ep. 132
Chris Yin is Co-Founder at Plume Network (https://www.plumenetwork.xyz), a purpose built public layer-2 blockchain and ecosystem optimized for the rapid adoption and demand-driven integration of real world assets (RWAs). Backed by Haun Ventures, Galaxy Ventures, Superscrypt, Reciprocal Ventures and others, Chris passionately shares about his founder to investor to founder journey, how Plume Network is transforming the RWA/RWAfi space, building fullstack RWA infrastructure to deploy any asset onc...
Nov 20, 2024•36 min•Season 2Ep. 131
Ani Pai is Partner at Dragonfly (https://www.dragonfly.xyz), one of the largest and most successful global crypto-focused venture capital firms, investing across all stages of blockchain and crypto-native companies, protocols and tokens. Ani discusses his journey as an investor, Dragonfly's contrarian and long term approach to investing, the due diligencing framework that continues to deliver winning projects, rate cuts and its impact on investing into 2025, and his view on the current venture c...
Nov 14, 2024•30 min•Season 2Ep. 130
