Susan Brazer is a digital and mobile transformation exec. She has launched disruptive digital media and mobile platforms globally and has worked for companies such as Apple, DirecTV, Viacom, and Nokia. Currently, Susan is an investment advisor with Decentralized Global and the CEO of LionShare Media. LionShare is a platform that integrates video streaming and blockchain tech to create a decentralized distribution platform. This episode gives us an inside look into both businesses and uncovers va...
Oct 11, 2018•26 min•Ep 146•Transcript available on Metacast This episode of Crypto Token Talk was recorded live with Arun Kalaiselvan, co-founder and CTO of Blockdaemon; Niki Williams, Community Curator of ConsenSys; and Cyrus Taghehchian, co-founder and CEO of Splyt at the General Assembly camplus in Santa Monica. The panel focuses on how blockchain applies and can apply to various industries such as gaming and e-commerce. All three guests give their take on how far away they think we as consumers are from interacting with blockchain technology, how we ...
Oct 04, 2018•45 min•Ep 145•Transcript available on Metacast Today’s guest is Kirill Bensonoff from Caviar, a crypto trading platform. Kirill shares how he transitioned from working for a web hosting company to becoming an early investor in Bitcoin. Since his initial investment in 2013, Kirill has become a blockchain advisor and the host of the Boston Crypto Meetup, founder of the Boston Blockchain & AI Angels group. Recently, Kirill wrote about the advantages of bear markets and discusses with us strategies to get through one. He segues to discuss the cu...
Sep 20, 2018•18 min•Ep 143•Transcript available on Metacast Anita Motwani is the head of business development for Celsius in North America. Celsius is a new way to deposit, borrow, and earn interest with crypto. The platform allows users to earn up to 5% interest while they HODL, or borrow fiat at 9% against crypto stored in a Celsius wallet. They’re aiming to get the next 100 million people into cryptocurrency, and offer an option for those who want to HODL but need cash right away. By taking a loan rather than selling the crypto, users can also avoid l...
Sep 13, 2018•25 min•Ep 142•Transcript available on Metacast This episode’s guest is Juan Hernandez, CEO of OpenFinance Network. Juan introduces us to the OpenFinance trading platform and explains why there is a high demand for security token trading. He offers up information about the different types of security tokens and why he believes they are the key to attracting more mainstream users for crypto trading. We conclude with Juan’s recommendations for first-timers hoping to get involved in crypto. Topics covered: - Juan’s eighteen years of experience i...
Sep 06, 2018•19 min•Ep 141•Transcript available on Metacast Tricia Martinez is Founder & CEO at Wala and Director at Dala Foundation. In this episode, Tricia explains how her research led her to use blockchain to encourage financial growth in emerging markets. The foundation Dala and company Wala are able to operate on a no-fee model and aid consumers and small business owners who are often left out of the current financial markets. Wala is a no-fee financial app for emerging markets, and Dala is a multi-chain open-source crypto asset. Wala is the first ...
Aug 30, 2018•26 min•Ep 140•Transcript available on Metacast David Bleznak is the founder and CEO of Totle, a game-changing ERC-20 token trading platform. The idea for Totle sprung from several challenges that David encountered when he first started trading crypto. He wanted to make everything from balancing his portfolio to dealing with multiple exchanges, and using spreadsheets streamlined, accessible and simple. Totle aims to provide the very best possible user experience to its users. In developing the Totle platform, the user interface was designed b...
Aug 23, 2018•24 min•Ep 139•Transcript available on Metacast Bailey Reutzel, one of the editors at CoinDesk, joins us this week. She shares with us her journey into the counterculture crypto community and the various projects and stories that eventually led her to her current role at CoinDesk. Bailey divulges the types of stories she is interested in covering and that most often her goal is to follow the interests of her readers. Analyzing the needs of the reader is the key for Bailey. Her years of experience and knowledge in the crypto scene have eased t...
Aug 16, 2018•24 min•Ep 138•Transcript available on Metacast Today’s guest is Gavin Douglas, CEO of iPowow and founder of the HIT protocol, the media company’s blockchain initiative for empowering all players in the ecosystem. iPowow is a participation TV platform which has been experimenting with the use of blockchain and their own token. From the beginning of Gavin’s career, he sought to further engagement between viewers and the content they watched. It wasn’t until 2010 when the technology caught up to his dream and he was able to found iPowow with a ...
Aug 09, 2018•29 min•Ep 137•Transcript available on Metacast Nisa Amoils is a venture capital investor with experience as an entrepreneur, a media executive, and a corporate lawyer. She also writes for Forbes and Blockchain Magazine. Nisa tells us about how being part of an Angel Group in New York first got her interested in crypto back in 2013. Today, in addition to investing in blockchain companies, she also works closely with new companies to build communities and raise capital. Nisa educates us about all the industries that blockchain can change, ICO ...
Aug 02, 2018•18 min•Ep 136•Transcript available on Metacast Today we chat with Kunal Desai, a crypto millionaire and the CEO of Bulls on Crypto Street. He tells us about his background in trading stocks and how he began trading cryptocurrency, reflecting on how few websites hosted trading back then. Kunal describes Bulls on Crypto Street as a one-stop-shop for crypto, containing news, blogs, and classes. He advises us about the best ways for beginners to get involved in cryptocurrency. This segues into which exchanges he uses the most and a discussion on...
Jul 26, 2018•31 min•Ep 135•Transcript available on Metacast Today we welcome Jacqueline “JK” Kwok. JK has a background in finance, with most of her career spent in private equity. Now, she is Head of Business Development for Arcana, which is envisioned to be the “cryptocurrency home” for consumers. JK tells us about the Arcana Wallet’s Smart Vault Technology, which will store users’ cryptocurrency offline. She describes the issues with hardware wallets and how features of Arcana will be superior, including passive income and automatically claiming forked...
Jul 19, 2018•22 min•Ep 134•Transcript available on Metacast Today’s guest is Peter Kirby, CEO of Kuvera. Peter and his co-founder Mahesh Paolini-Subramanya were first involved with the Factom project, before they stepped away to pursue Kuvera. They did this because they saw an interesting opportunity to move real-world assets on to the blockchain. Peter explains how Kuvera will be useful in solving real-world problems like the process of getting a mortgage and buying property. We learn that selling mortgages is even more complicated because of the data t...
Jul 12, 2018•25 min•Ep 133•Transcript available on Metacast We sit down with Chitra Ragavan, Chief Strategy Officer of Gem. She tells us about how she first got involved with cryptocurrency, including having to get clearance from the US government before investing. She worked with colleagues who were interested in cryptocurrency and they played a large role in making the space attractive to her. Having a background in journalism, she gives insight on the drama and unreliable sources often associated with crypto. That leads into Gem, which is focused on b...
Jul 05, 2018•20 min•Ep 132•Transcript available on Metacast Jason and Cyrus are co-founders of Spl.yt, which is focused on reinventing e-commerce and displacing the major players in the space. They believe in providing equal opportunity in online marketplaces. Cyrus describes how Spl.yt will be able to work with affiliate marketing, while Jason shines a light on the problems that exist with affiliate marketing today. We then learn about the fractural ownership possibilities with using Spl.yt, its target market, competitor limitations and the benefits of ...
Jun 28, 2018•21 min•Ep 131•Transcript available on Metacast Ada Jonušė, a former politician, is the CEO and co-founder of Lympo. Lympo is creating a healthy lifestyle ecosystem beginning with the Lympo app, which motivates people to exercise. The app launches in September and will be tested soon in Lithuania by approximately 15,000 marathon runners. Testing in South Korea and the USA is expected as well. Ada discusses Lympo’s recently announced partnership with the Dallas Mavericks of the NBA and the excitement and results that Lympo has already created ...
Jun 21, 2018•25 min•Ep 130•Transcript available on Metacast Saul Hudson is a co-founder of Angle 42 which is a consulting agency that acts as a communications directorate for blockchain start-ups. Angle 42 completes tasks such as finding the right PR agency or Community Manager for the start-up. Saul, who has a background in journalism, tells us how he explains blockchain technology to people who are brand new to it. He discusses at what point Angle 42 begins to collaborate with start-ups and the need for various professionals in the blockchain space, th...
Jun 14, 2018•31 min•Ep 129•Transcript available on Metacast Kim LaFleur is the Director of Client Services for Security Token Academy, which is the first video platform focused on security token offerings (STOs). Security Token Academy provides insights to security token enthusiasts, investors, and issuers. Kim takes us through the process of how she vets the tokens that are featured on the platform, from reviewing partners to social media presence. In addition to Security Token Academy, Kim recommends other legitimate resources of cryptocurrency informa...
Jun 07, 2018•31 min•Ep 128•Transcript available on Metacast While working abroad, Felipe Huicochea had his pay blocked by both a bank and PayPal. Next, he tried Bitcoin, and it worked perfectly. As a software engineer, from this moment, Felipe became extremely interested in cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. He started Criptomonedas after noticing that Spanish-language crypto and blockchain resources were scarce. In this episode, Felipe talks about the uses for crypto in developing countries that we rarely see discussed, why the current financia...
May 31, 2018•28 min•Ep 127•Transcript available on Metacast Leigh Cuen is a journalist at Coindesk and joins us today to talk about the intersection of cryptocurrency and the sex industry. Both of these spaces have many misconceptions from people outside of the industries, and Leigh is here to help quash them. One of the most important things Leigh points out is that if the service is lawful, using crypto to pay is lawful. Pornography, exotic dancing, escorting, and other adult services are perfectly legal and regulated in many areas, therefore they shou...
May 24, 2018•21 min•Ep 126•Transcript available on Metacast Parker McCurley Parker McCurley is an Ethereum programmer and co-founder of the company Decent. He is a firm believer in open source software, access to free education materials, and the general sentiment of the decentralization movement. He hopes by focusing on the technical, hard facts of how blockchain systems function and can be applied to practical problems, him and his company Decent can promote a focus on technical innovation and real value in the blockchain community. Show Highlights: - ...
May 17, 2018•22 min•Ep 125•Transcript available on Metacast Emma Channing is the founder and general counsel of Statis group, a premier ICO advisory group. The Satis Group provides end-to-end ICO advisory services including token and offering structuring, legal and tax advice coordination, token / smart contract creation, and investor outreach. Statis is able to be selective in the companies they decide to work with, so Emma explains what they look for when making these decisions, along with her thoughts on ICOs including recent trends and advantages vs....
May 10, 2018•27 min•Ep 124•Transcript available on Metacast John Wise is the CEO & Chairman of the Board of Loci, software is the poised to be the leader of the next generation of search engines, specifically allowing the claim and discovery of patents, inventions, and ideas using the Ethereum blockchain. John has extensive technical and engineering management experience and is also an experienced inventor in auto racing technologies with around 1000 inventions. Show Highlights: - When and where John encountered cryptocurrencies for the first time. - Wha...
May 03, 2018•31 min•Ep 123•Transcript available on Metacast Holochain is a team full of ambition, with the goal of reinventing the internet so there’s no company sitting between us or supporting us and anything we want to do. They believe in the power of a truly peer-to-peer internet, and are building a distributed cloud. Joining us today from Holochain are Matthew Schutte, director of communications, and Sami Van Ness, director of digital marketing. Topics covered: - Holo’s vision and how the “Crowd is the Cloud.” - How something like Amazon Web Service...
Apr 26, 2018•35 min•Ep 122•Transcript available on Metacast Tim Lloyd is a crypto journalist, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) expert, and CEO of Rogue Capital Media, a content marketing consulting firm with a core focus on Fintech. Tim joins Kelley for an in-depth, technical discussion focusing on ICOs and regulations in the crypto space. A previous knowledge of ICOs would be a good thing before listening to this episode, so if you’re a beginner, you may wish to check out some of our previous episodes first! AML is an extremely important element to financial...
Apr 19, 2018•34 min•Ep 121•Transcript available on Metacast Samantha Radocchia is a Serial Entrepreneur, Technologist, Founder of Two Previous Supply Chain Companies. Forbes 30 under 30 List. MA Symbolic Systems and Human Computer Interaction, NYU. Her current project is Chronicled, a San-Francisco based supply chain company, one of the most prominent blockchain-based companies outside of the cryptocurrency space. Chronicled was founded in 2014 with the early idea of using a blockchain for non-financial assets. Samantha tells us about the experience of s...
Apr 12, 2018•30 min•Ep 120•Transcript available on Metacast Ira Herman joins us from WeAreLATech podcast. Ira discusses all things podcasting, including WeAreLATech’s new segment, Crypto Fridays, which Crypto Token Talk host, Kelley Weaver was a recent guest on. Ira is a teacher, CTO of Coinbot, crypto enthusiast, and has a special knack for explaining tough to understand concepts in this confusing industry! Thanks for joining us Ira! Topics Discussed Include: -LA’s growing crypto and blockchain industry -Silicon Beach is out. Welcome in Blockchain Beach...
Apr 05, 2018•37 min•Ep 119•Transcript available on Metacast Diana Adachi is the CEO of Pegasus Fintech, a full-service blockchain, technology, and token accelerator that supports regulatory compliant public initial blockchain offerings. Since the late ‘90s, she has worked in the development and launch of multiple payment innovations, including blockchain and distributed ledgers. Today, Diana shares her expertise on ICOs, their regulations and challenges, and the importance of launching an ICO with the proper guidance....
Apr 03, 2018•32 min•Ep 118•Transcript available on Metacast Continuing with our interviews from UCLA Cyber Days, this episode packs 4 interviews with some brilliant minds from the crypto space! Chris Eberle is with Swarm Fund, which uses blockchain to facilitate access to investment opportunities that are traditionally less accessible. Les Borsai’s career started in the music business, and has since evolved into a plethora of tech-related activities, including being an advisor to Ripple Labs and other blockchain projects. Jason Robert is another person i...
Mar 29, 2018•58 min•Ep 117•Transcript available on Metacast Jalak Jobanputra is Founding Partner of Future/Perfect Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund in NYC focused on next generation technology such as blockchain and machine learning. Prior to starting the fun, Jalak’s career included lots of experience with tech, communications, and investing. When Jalak originally began investing in blockchain projects, she was met with skepticism from many. Bitcoin had been associated with Silk Road and cybercrime, the market wasn’t looking great, and Jala...
Mar 27, 2018•31 min•Ep 116•Transcript available on Metacast 
