Mert Mumtaz is the co-founder of Helius Labs, a leading Solana Infrastructure provider company backed by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund. Mert is one of the biggest personalities in the Solana ecosystem and one of the few voices who was hyper bullish and supporting Solana since the $8 SOL low in November 2022 after the FTX collapse. In this episode, Mert shares his unfiltered insights on why Solana is set for explosive growth, despite market doubts. We dive into how Helius is helping developers buil...
Nov 28, 2024•1 hr 31 min
Dr. Gavin Wood is the co-founder of Ethereum, the inventor of the EVM, the man who first coined the term "Web3" in 2014, and the creator of Polkadot. In this fascinating conversation with one of the giga brains of the Web3 industry, we explore Gavin unfiltered perspective on the future of blockchain, the challenges holding Ethereum back, and his bold vision for Web3. As a visionary who not only co-authored the Ethereum Yellow Paper but also pioneered innovations like the Ethereum Virtual machine...
Nov 21, 2024•2 hr 53 min
In his highly-anticipated return to the podcast, @RaoulPalTJM, the Co-Founder and CEO of @RealVisionFinance / @RealVisionCrypto and Founder of Global Macro Investor, shares his blueprint for navigating the meme coin supercycle and crypto's wild future. In this episode, Raoul tackles pressing topics like: -How to position yourself for the next meme coin millionaire wave -Why he went all-in on $SOL, $SUI, and $DOGE—before it was popular -The secret to spotting cult-worthy assets before they ...
Nov 13, 2024•1 hr 49 min
Jeff is the Founder of Hyperliquid Labs, the company behind Hyperliquid, a decentralized perpetual exchange offering best-in-class speed, liquidity, and pricing for crypto traders. Hyperliquid is also one of the most awaited Layer 1s launches and aspires to become the "Amazon Web Services of Liquidity". The protocol is setting a new standard in DeFi by prioritizing users and rejecting traditional VC funding structures. In this episode, we explore: -Who is Jeff? His journey to Hyperliquid Labs -B...
Nov 08, 2024•1 hr 9 min
Joe McCann is the Founder, CEO & CIO of Asymmetric, 2023’s top performing Hedge Fund globally. Joe is an early Solana investor and is most known his ‘Depression or Memecoins to $1 Trillion’ thesis. In this episode, we explore: - Who is Joe McCann? - Autism and Trauma in Crypto Founders - Why Self-Reflection Matters - Importance of being Skeptical - Risk Management and Exit Plans - Macro Trends Driving Crypto - Secrets to Thriving in Crypto - Embracing the Pain of Trading - Maximizing meme co...
Nov 01, 2024•1 hr 39 min
Jesse Pollak is the creator of Base, Coinbase's ethereum layer 2 network offering a secure, low-cost way for anyone to build decentralized apps onchain. He is also the Lead at Coinbase Wallet and a member of the Coinbase Exec Team. In this conversation, Jesse shares his deeply personal journey of building Base, from the intense pressure of early ideation to the physical and emotional toll of its launch. He opens up about almost quitting, losing 20 pounds from stress, and how his wife's intervent...
Oct 25, 2024•1 hr 29 min
In this episode, we sit down with the hosts of @0xSteadyLads Podcast, a leading crypto podcast featuring Jordi Alexander, Founder & CIO at Selini Capital, Justin Bram, CoFounder & CEO of Astaria, and Taiki Maeda, owner of @thehumblefarmer . Jordi, Taiki, and Justin share their insights on navigating the evolving crypto landscape, from launching and growing their podcast to identifying key investment opportunities in DeFi. They discuss the psychology of investing, the importance of divers...
Oct 19, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 92
Hunter Horsley is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bitwise, one of the leading crypto asset managers, which strives to help institutions and individuals invest confidently in the rapidly evolving crypto space. In this insightful conversation, Hunter shares his journey from working at Facebook to co-founding Bitwise, and the lessons he's learned along the way. He delves into the importance of blockchain technology, apolitical money, and applications, as well as the challenges and opportunities facing th...
Oct 11, 2024•1 hr 38 min
Jayendra Jog is the CEO and Co-Founder of Sei Labs, the company behind the Sei Network, the fastest Layer 1 blockchain designed to deliver high performance and scalability for the industry's growing demands. Jayendra touches on the cutthroat world of blockchain innovation, sharing insights into the pressure of leading a company that must stay ahead of rapidly shifting trends while maintaining its core mission of decentralization. In this conversation, we dive deep into: -The Sei Network Story -J...
Oct 04, 2024•1 hr 36 min
Jason Yanowitz is the CoFounder of @BlockworksHQ , a $135M Crypto Media Empire that delivers premium insights and breaking news on digital assets to millions of investors. He is also the Co-Host of the @empirepod , the go-to podcast for crypto founders. Throughout the conversation, we explore the challenges of building a business with no experience, the lessons learned from pyramid schemes Jason was involved with while at college, and more Jason publicly shares about his cluster headaches, often...
Sep 26, 2024•1 hr 51 min
David Garrett is the co-founder and CEO of DVIN Labs, a pioneering company revolutionizing the wine industry by merging blockchain technology with luxury and investment-grade wine. With a background in tech and entrepreneurship, David has a deep passion for wine, having built businesses across multiple countries and becoming a key figure in the wine-tech space. At DVIN Labs, he is focused on turning wine into a digital asset by creating transparent, secure, and decentralized solutions that make ...
Sep 19, 2024•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 88
Adeniyi Abiodun is the Co-Founder and CPO of Mysten Labs and of the Sui Network, a Layer 1 blockchain designed to make digital asset ownership fast, private, secure, and accessible to everyone. we dive into: - Building a project with 5 Cofounders!! - The Current State of Bitcoin Mining - How to deal with burnout as a Founder - Building the Facebook Libra Project - The Sui Network - God, Spirituality, and Destiny And much more! __________________________________ PARTNERS 🚀 Jupiter is the most us...
Sep 12, 2024•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 87
Qiao Wang is the Founding Partner AllianceDAO, the leading crypto accelerator & founder community. He is also the coHost of @goodgamepod , the no BS insights podcast for crypto founders. In this conversation, we dive into: -What It Takes To Be a Great Founder and Investor -How To Make it Big in Crypto -Liquid Investing -Why It's Not Hard to Be Great in 2024 -Why Qiao Sold his ETH and WIF -Investing VS Trading -Key Traits to Make it into the Next Alliance DAO Batch -Autistic Crypto Founders -...
Sep 05, 2024•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 86
Ryan Sungho Kim is a Partner at Hashed, one of the largest and most recognized Web3 Venture Capital firms in Asia. In this conversation, we dive into: - Building Korea’s Crypto Community - Connecting Global Projects to Korea - Korean Crypto Market - Investment Strategies in Volatile Crypto Market - Anime and K-POP to Crypto - Balancing Life, Family, and Business - Meme Coins - Newer Projects with Crazy Potential - Predictions for the Next 12 Months And much more! ________________________________...
Aug 31, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 85
Ray Chan is the CoFounder and CEO of 9GAG, a massively popular online platform for sharing humorous GIFs, memes and videos. He is also the CoFounder and CEO of Memeland, a Web3 venture studio that aims to build social products around memes, creativity, community engagement, and NFTs Ray shares his journey from building the biggest meme company in the world, creating and cultivating a community from 0 to 200 million users, attracting the masses to Web3 with MemeLand, and his predictions for the n...
Aug 22, 2024•1 hr 23 min
Louis Régis is the founder and CEO of XBorg, the world’s largest player identity protocol in gaming. Louis shares his journey from trading to building in the crypto space, offering insights into the challenges of trading, the truth about crypto exchanges, and his predictions for the next big trends in the industry. We also explore how XBorg is revolutionizing the gaming industry by creating the "online CV" for gamers, merging digital identities with blockchain technology. Join us as we discuss H...
Aug 15, 2024•1 hr 1 min
TN Lee is the founder of Pendle Finance - a DeFi platform that enables users to tokenize and trade future yield on Ethereum assets. Pendle has shown remarkable expansion since the beginning of the year, elevating its TVL from $250 million to over $7 billion in just a few months. In this conversation, we dive into: - Analyzing Market Prices - Getting into Crypto via Kyber - Starting and failing a Cold Brew Business - What is Pendle? - Failures & Ventures Within Crypto - Culinary Business in P...
Aug 09, 2024•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 82
Jason is a full-time crypto native angel investor and the Co-Founder of Tangent, an evergreen prop investment firm that supports founders in both early-stage and liquid crypto markets. He is also the Host at the @theblockcrunchpodcast and was previously a General Partner at Spartan Capital, one of Asia’s first institutional crypto funds. He co-led investments in over 80 companies and helped scale the Spartan fund from $9M in to $500M in Assets under management. In this conversation, we dive into...
Aug 02, 2024•1 hr 58 min•Ep. 81
As a founder, engineer, and explorer, JP Thor challenges the limits of human potential with his boundless curiosity. JP continually reinvents himself while exploring the social, physical, and memetic boundaries of his world. In this conversation, we dive into: - Teleportation via Starlink - How JP made $400M in 7 years with Crypto - Why JP Bought a Helicopter - Memetic and Genetic Repository - How Important is Money? - Pioneering Space with Robots - Importance of a Personal Brand - How Meme Coin...
Jul 26, 2024•1 hr 59 min•Ep. 80
Meow is the CoFounder at Jupiter Exchange, the most used decentralized Exchange in the world. He is a true O.G. in the crypto scene, with a wealth of experience as the lead advisor at Instadapp, Kyber, and Blockfolio. In this conversation, we dive into: -The importance of failure -"Going with the flow" in Crypto -Money is energy -Crypto as an insiders game -PPP -Crypto Cycles -How to be resilient -The Zero expectations philosophy -MoonBoys and Attention theory -Meme coins vs Utility coins ______...
Jul 16, 2024•1 hr 53 min
Sebastien Borget is the Co-Founder and COO of The Sanbox, a Unicorn online gaming platform that offers a unique and immersive gaming experience. In this conversation, we dive into: -The Origin of The Sandbox -The Challenges of Traditional Gaming Models -Web3 Gamings Entry Barrier -The Sandbox Future Plans -Are NFTs dead? -Pudgy Penguins Unique Approach -The Risk of NFT Tokens -Meme Coins Vs Social Tokens -Bored Ape Community and NFT Cycles And more! __________________________________ SPONSORS 🚀...
Jul 04, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 78
Luca Netz is the Owner and CEO of Pudgy Penguins a Web3-born brand that fosters creativity, freedom, and community. This is Luca's second time on the podcast, in the first episode we covered how he went from being a 10th-grade dropout to making his first million selling fake chains on Shopify. In this episode, we dove into Luca's "Blueprint" for transforming Pudgy Penguins from a renowned crypto brand into a global powerhouse on par with Apple and Disney. We also go through many other topics you...
Jun 29, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 77
Raoul Pal is the Co-Founder and CEO of Real Vision and the Founder of Global Macro Investors. Raoul candidly opens up about dealing with massive FUD in early 2023, the impact it had on him, and how he not only overcame the FUD but also doubled down on personal branding and ended up being one of the few ones who publicly went all in SOL when it wasn’t a consensus trade last year. We also go through many other topics: - how the crypto industry is literally built to make you “fuck this up” - where ...
Jun 20, 2024•2 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 76
Yat Siu is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Animoca Brands. Animoca Brands is a global leader in gamification and blockchain with a large portfolio of over 400 investments in Web3. Its mission is to advance digital property rights and decentralized projects to help build the open metaverse. In this conversation, we dive into: - How Crypto redistributes wealth - Will every NFT project launch a token? - Pudgy Penguins - BoredApe Yacht Club - Memecoins - Animoca Brands - How Yat focused on ...
Jun 13, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 75
In this episode, we sit down with Guy Young, the founder of Ethena, to dive deep into the world of crypto and DeFi. Ethena is a groundbreaking synthetic dollar protocol built on Ethereum, and it’s shaking up the space with a crypto-native solution that doesn’t rely on traditional banking systems. In this conversation, we dive into: - The vision behind Ethena and the quest for creating a new form of money - Guy’s biggest predictions for the next 12 months in the crypto space - The story behind Et...
Jun 06, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 74
Dave Shin is the head of business development at LayerZero, an interoperability protocol that connects blockchains (50+ and counting), allowing developers to build seamless omnichain applications, tokens, and experiences. With over 20 years of experience in investment banking, and over a decade of experience in the Crypto world, Dave is one of the brightest minds in the space. In this conversation, we dive into: -Dave's discovery of Bitcoin in 2012 -Why gaming is the future of Web3 -The role of ...
May 30, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 73
Keone Hon is the CoFounder & CEO of Monad Labs, the company behind the MONAD blockchain, which offers users 1000x the throughput of Ethereum while maintaining cost-effectiveness. Monad Labs just raised $225M in the largest crypto fund raise of 2024. Keone shares invaluable insights from his journey as a Quant trader to leading Monad Labs from 0 to a Unicorn in just 2 years. In this conversation, we dive into: - How to Master Community Building - What is Monad and why is it so important - The...
May 23, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 72
In this week's episode, I sat down with two monster guests: Luke Belmar and Meow. Luke Belmar is the CoFounder at Capital Club. Belmar's Capital Club is one of the largest decentralized entrepreneurial networks in the world. His estimated net worth is $40 million. Luke made his fortune from digital advertising, e-commerce, dropshipping, and investing in crypto and NFTs. Meow is the CoFounder at Jupiter Exchange, the most used decentralized Exchange in the world. Meow was the lead advisor at Inst...
May 16, 2024•2 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 71
Casper Johansen is the co-founder of Spartan Group, a prominent group in the Web3 Arena. Spartan Group stands as one of the most active venture investors, supporting numerous top-tier crypto companies and networks. As a leader in Web3 mergers, acquisitions, and capital fundraising, Spartan Group draws on its extensive experience, deep knowledge of the cryptocurrency sector, and unmatched network. Together, these assets enable them to collaboratively create substantial value with exceptional foun...
May 08, 2024•2 hr 35 min•Season 1Ep. 70
Darryl Wang is the co-founder at Tangent, a collective of experienced operators and founders behind some of the largest projects and protocols in Web 3. He is also one of the most brilliant crypto traders in Asia-Pacific. In this conversation, we dive into: - What does a Bitcoin ETF mean for the Crypto Industry? - The Future of Crypto Currency - Reasons for Owning Bitcoin / Cryptocurrency - Potential Risks of Web3 and the Centralization of Crypto - How to Master this Crypto Cycle - Memecoins - A...
May 02, 2024•1 hr 54 min•Season 1Ep. 69
