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Jason Hitchcock is CEO of Greenlane Holdings (Nasdaq: GNLN), the only US-listed vehicle purpose-built to hold BERA, the native token of the Berachain network, and to put that treasury to work inside the chain's Proof of Liquidity economy. Before taking the job in February he spent fifteen years on the business side of technology startups — a venture studio that sold an app to Amazon, a stint at Twitch, then a liquid token fund launched off the back of a DeFi Summer obsession — and most recently ran business development at thirdweb, where he built out chain infrastructure partnerships across more than 150 networks.
Why you should listen Greenlane's origin story was as a cannabis accessories distributor that rode the boom and the bust of that industry before the Berachain Foundation went looking for a public-market proxy for a token with no ETF and no ETP. A $110.7 million private placement led by Polychain Capital — half cash and stablecoins, half BERA — brought in a new board, new management and eventually Jason himself. The legacy business survives as an asset-light drop-shipping operation that helps cover overhead. Everything else points at one asset. Greenlane held roughly 77.7 million BERA at the end of the first quarter, close to a third of circulating supply, and grew BERA-per-share about 44 percent over three months while booking an $18.4 million net loss on fair-value markdowns. That combination — accumulating fast while the mark-to-market bleeds — is the whole digital asset treasury trade in miniature. The argument underneath is more interesting than the balance sheet. Jason's view is that "chain revenue" as the industry reports it is largely a fiction: what those league tables measure is gas burned, money that is destroyed rather than routed to anyone. Berachain inverts the model. Rather than paying the security budget entirely to validators, a large share of emissions is directed to the businesses building on the chain, which use it for customer acquisition and financing, and which bid for those emissions in a validator marketplace — fifty or seventy cents on the dollar for incentives that will grow their protocol. That bid is the revenue, and it flows back to token holders with a claim on it. Protocols like Kodiak, the dominant DEX on the network, and lending market Dolomite are the practical expression of it. Greenlane doesn't just hold the asset; it runs validators, stakes into Proof of Liquidity, and lends its stablecoins into DeFi and onto stable pairs to earn trading fees. Jason frames the company as a signal to the market that there is a buyer in size, permanently. He is candid that this is a rough season to be doing any of it. Equities and precious metals have run while crypto has languished, and he catalogues the disconnect with a certain incredulity: DTCC tokenizing assets, Nasdaq experimenting with blockchain settlement, Stripe with its own chain, Druckenmiller predicting all money becomes stablecoins, BlackRock and Franklin Templeton shipping tokenized funds. Headlines that would have detonated the 2021 market barely register now. His read on what breaks the drought is not a narrative but an invisibility: crypto disappearing into the back end of ordinary products, users earning yield or settling in stablecoins without ever knowing it, and several more zeros of participants arriving without wallets. The CLARITY Act sits in the background as the regulatory unlock, still stalled in the Senate. In the hot take round he lands firmly as a multi-chain opportunist, argues that blockchains are a generic public database technology that will proliferate along distribution lines, and picks Curve Finance as his example of the future already being here — narrow, well-defined DAO governance operating at genuine scale, which he thinks is the model everyone else got wrong.
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Andrey Didovskiy is the CEO of Seasons, a Solana DeFi protocol built around a Yield 3.0 mechanism which pays holders real assets, gold, Bitcoin and dollars, funded by trading activity. A near-decade crypto veteran who broke into the industry writing white papers before running Atleta Network and co-founding the consultancy SYSDK, Andrey brings an operator's eye to a key problem in decentralized finance: yield that vanishes when prices turn.
Why you should listen Most DeFi headline rates are a bull-market illusion. A "100% APY" advertised on a token that then falls eighty percent is worth almost nothing, because the yield was tied to price all along. Seasons flips that dependency. As Andrey explains, the protocol harvests a ten percent Transactional Transfer Tax on every $SEAS trade and converts it into a basket of hard assets paid directly to holders — no staking, no lock-ups, nothing to claim. Hold enough $SEAS in a self-custody wallet and you become a "node," and gold, Bitcoin and dollars simply arrive twice a week. Because the engine runs on volume and velocity rather than sentiment, it keeps working whether the market is climbing or bleeding — a design Andrey frames as turning your wallet into something closer to a savings account.
Crypto has always moved in seasons, and so does Seasons the protocol, packaging its evolution into discrete chapters. Season one paid out in memecoins, and Andrey is candid that the community verdict was swift: the people who actually want yield do not want meme yield. Season two corrected course to what the team calls "perfect order" — a basket of Tether Gold, Wormhole-wrapped Bitcoin and Jupiter Lend USDC — assets a saver might happily hold for years. Under the hood, the roadmap layers three compounding engines: the live TTT, a Stakeholder Stablecoin Yield Module that puts queued distributions to work in transit, and Yield Asset Vaults, the first of which is slated to deploy on Kamino. Recent distributions have hovered around ten percent, with the team steering toward a sustainable double-digit band rather than the fleeting ninety-percent spikes that briefly followed launch.
Solana is the foundation by conviction, not accident — Andrey sees it as one of a handful of settlement layers where the coming agentic economy will actually live, though he's careful not to write off Ethereum's next act. The bigger bet is that the winning move is to hide the blockchain entirely: strip out the jargon, and let a "put your idle assets to work" button sit quietly inside a Robinhood or Coinbase account. That thesis runs all the way to machines, with Seasons' first AI agent, Gaia, now public and a ten-year vision of a million autonomous "agent loans" and on-chain credit that finally functions. In the hot-take round he lands as a mild Bitcoin-leaning multichain pragmatist, argues that blockchain becomes the priceless trust-and-security layer beneath AI, flags longevity as the most unevenly distributed piece of the future. His closing pitch is the one that sticks: treat a node as infinite dollar-cost averaging, spend only the yield, and you keep stacking Bitcoin for as long as you hold.
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Tom Gadsden is Vice President of Product at Shufti, the London-based identity-verification and fraud-prevention platform built to let businesses onboard and screen users across borders in seconds rather than days. Gadsden has spent more than a decade building identity and financial-crime products, with earlier roles at credit bureau Experian and in card payments, giving him a close view of how fraud has scaled from a cottage problem into an industry.
Why you should listen Shufti sits at an awkward and revealing intersection of the crypto economy. Bitcoin was designed to strip out gatekeepers; Shufti, and the compliance layer it represents, exists to put a version of them back. Gadsden doesn't pretend that tension away. He accepts that know-your-customer checks are anathema to part of the crypto community, and that self-hosted wallets will always let people move funds outside the system. But where crypto collides with fiat on- and off-ramps, governments have decided they want to see where money comes from and where it goes, and firms like Shufti, alongside chain-analytics players such as Chainalysis and Elliptic, are how businesses meet that expectation. He reaches for a useful historical parallel: the card-payments crackdown that arrived with Europe's PSD2 rules, when regulators decided the fraud losses banks had quietly tolerated were grey money the wider economy shouldn't have to absorb. Stablecoin growth, he argues, makes that scrutiny more likely, not less.
The most gripping stretch of the conversation is on deepfakes, where Gadsden describes an arms race that has already run through several generations. Shufti is on the third iteration of its detection models, having moved past early metadata tells to techniques that examine how synthetic images blend, how their frequency signatures break down, and what shows up outside the visible spectrum where the generators stop trying. What has really changed, he says, is economics: AI dragged the cost of a convincing fake from tens of dollars to cents, turning fraud into something closer to a production line, with the same operator filing attempt after attempt from bed. The surge is real, with Shufti warning of a many-fold jump in deepfaked-document attacks year over year. The counterintuitive twist is that as detection has caught up, the pendulum has swung back toward human beings: real faces recruited down the pub, and money mules who sail through the initial check and only later start moving other people's money. Catching those cases, Gadsden explains, means watching for behavioral tells, funds fanning in and straight back out, high velocity and low retention, the classic setup where someone keeps fifty pounds for passing thousands through their account.
Gadsden is also sharp on where the regulatory map is heading. He reads Tether's retreat from Europe, its USDT effectively pulled from regulated EU exchanges under MiCA, and Binance's withdrawn licensing bid in Greece, as a live test of whether hard rules end up pushing offshore the very firms regulators most want to supervise. On the perennial privacy question he's bracingly unsentimental: anyone uneasy about sharing their face should be far more wary of handing over an iris, a pointed nod to Sam Altman's World project, and even the privacy-forward EU Digital Identity Wallet will still ask for your name, date of birth and a biometric. His honest expectation is that a genuinely high-privacy identity system isn't coming for a decade or two. He closes on a contrarian note for his own industry: the physical passport and plastic driver's license that products like Shufti are built to read will, he suspects, erode faster than most insiders think as digital IDs become the default. It's a clear-eyed, occasionally unsettling tour of the machinery now standing between you and the fraudsters.
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Margie Feng is marketing lead at Solayer, the Solana-compatible layer-one and the team behind Margin Trade, a non-custodial perpetuals platform that lets traders hold crypto, commodities and equities in a single cross-margin account. Feng came to Web3 from Bitmain, the world's largest crypto-mining hardware maker, and before that ran PR and marketing in the automotive industry for luxury marques including BMW and Genesis, an unusual path that informs her core pitch: she markets as the non-technical user she is, translating complicated machinery into something an ordinary trader actually wants.
Why you should listen Solayer began life as a Solana restaking protocol before building out InfiniSVM, a hardware-accelerated chain that already clocks around 330,000 transactions per second on the way to a million-plus, alongside Solayer Pay, a card that lets users spend stablecoins anywhere. Its new flagship is Margin Trade, which reached mainnet in June. Feng's framing of the product is refreshingly concrete. Rather than scatter your collateral across five different positions, one pool backs everything, so a trader can express a view on rates, a chip stock, gold and a token from the same account, with funding, margin and liquidations all settling onchain. The platform was built by contributors from Solayer Labs alongside former traders out of Citadel and Kraken, and that market-structure DNA shows up in details like its auto-deleveraging design, which she argues spreads the pain across many positions instead of bluntly punishing whoever happens to be winning.
The conversation's sharpest thread is Feng's view of what "bringing TradFi onchain" should actually mean. The lazy version, she says, is to copy whatever Wall Street is listing. The point instead is to hand anyone the same toolkit without the gatekeeping, collapsing what historically required three separate accounts into one venue. Her clearest proof of concept is Pearl Research (PRL), the GPU-mined token tied to the AI-compute narrative that no other venue, Hyperliquid included, had listed. Margin Trade became the first platform to offer a liquid, leveraged perp on it. The marketing logic follows the same instinct: instead of announcing a listing like everyone else, tell a PRL miner they are already long the token whether they like it or not, then show them how to stop being forced long. The pitch starts from the pain, not the product, and she is candid that in a saturated perps market the only winning move is to play a different game entirely.
She situates all of this in a wider migration of equities and real-world assets onchain, and in the demand that platforms like Hyperliquid have proven exists for trading everything in one place. On the mood in Solana's community she is measured rather than hyped, describing a builder base that keeps shipping through the bear market, with payments an especially active corner. The hot-take round lands her as a Bitcoin-leaning holder who keeps most of her stack in cold storage, convinced crypto will reshape the financial system, and genuinely unsure what ten years holds beyond a strong hunch that everyone ends up with a personal AI agent managing their portfolio. Fittingly for someone who thinks the future is already arriving faster than anyone can narrate it, she signs off on Black Mirror and Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem as the fiction that keeps feeling less like fiction.
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Ilies Larbi is the founder and CEO of Ouinex, a multi-asset trading platform built to fuse crypto and traditional markets in a single account while shielding retail traders from the structural disadvantages of conventional order books. A nearly fifteen-year veteran of New York-based forex broker FXCM, where he climbed from sales associate to Managing Director for Europe and a seat on the executive committee, the Paris-based Larbi stepped into crypto in 2022 — late by bull-run standards, as he admits, but with a clear view of the gap he wanted to fill.
Why you should listen Larbi's central argument lands with a memorable image: most crypto exchanges drop retail traders into a tank full of sharks. His culprit is the central limit order book, which works beautifully in regulated venues like the NYSE where institutions compete against each other, but breaks down in crypto, where a trader tapping orders from their phone over café Wi-Fi sits on the same book as a high-frequency desk running millions in low-latency infrastructure around the clock. That asymmetry, he argues, is why retail traders so often see stop losses picked off and price action that feels suspiciously erratic. Ouinex's answer is a no-CLOB execution model: institutions are still welcome to provide liquidity, but they're allowed only to make markets, never to take them, and they get zero visibility into where retail orders are resting since those sit on Ouinex's own servers. The result is a kind of Chinese wall, with liquidity providers forced to compete purely on the best bid and ask while an aggregator passes only the sharpest prices through to traders.
Ouinex lets users trade spot crypto and perpetuals alongside forex, gold, indices and equities, using their crypto as collateral rather than cashing out to fiat — and crucially, it routes the TradFi side through hundred-year-old market infrastructure rather than rebuilding it as a thin perpetual. Larbi makes the case with hard numbers, contrasting a euro-dollar or gold trade on Ouinex against the same instrument as a perp on a venue like Hyperliquid, where he claims spreads run several times wider, commissions stack on top, and the order book is far shallower. He also points to early evidence that the multi-asset thesis is working: as geopolitics roiled markets, his traders moved record volume into oil and gold while waiting for crypto to get interesting again, exactly the cross-market hedge the platform was designed to enable.
Larbi raised nine million dollars entirely from his own trading community — much of it the French-speaking InteractivTrading community — with no venture capital on the cap table, which he argues leaves the platform answerable to its users rather than to investors holding a bag of future tokens. That native token, OUIX, is heading to an ICO via the company's launchpad, pitched as a low-sell-pressure utility play with fee discounts and trading cashback. He's candid that the product is still maturing, urging listeners to test it on a demo account with virtual funds and lean on Ouinex's human (not chatbot) support. The closing hot-take round rounds him out nicely: a self-described multi-chain pragmatist with unshakeable conviction in blockchain's staying power, convinced AI agents will reshape how — and whether — we trade at all, and unashamedly nostalgic for the original Avatar.
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Sebastian Salomon is the CGO and co-founder of oneBanking, a Malta-registered fintech building an all-in-one app that fuses everyday banking, crypto, and an AI assistant designed to save users money. A 31-year-old German serial entrepreneur, Sebastian started his first company, an e-commerce sports-nutrition business, straight out of his studies in 2016, then co-founded a business-coaching venture that he says has worked with thousands of founders and small companies, giving him a broad read on where technology and money are heading next.
Why you should listen Sebastian's starting point is a gap that European crypto users will recognize. In the wake of the EU's MiCA regime, a number of global platforms pulled back or reshaped their European offerings, leaving Europeans with fewer clean, regulated ways to buy, hold, and cash out of crypto. oneBanking pitches itself as a fully regulated bridge across that divide: a single app where fiat and digital assets sit side by side, where conversions are meant to be near-instant and cheap, and where users can move coins out to self-custody, including via a hardware-wallet integration with Switzerland's Tangem. Layered on top is the project's own oneToken, positioned as the engine of the ecosystem and partly funded by its community. The framing throughout the conversation is that the old, app-by-app model of personal finance is about to be collapsed into one place.
The more distinctive idea is what Sebastian means by AI banking. Rather than bolting a chatbot onto a banking app, oneBanking is building what he describes as an AI assistant with the trappings of an actual employee: its own phone number, email, and messaging accounts, hooked into your finances and into thousands of comparison platforms such as Germany's Check24. The promise is that the assistant doesn't just flag that you're overpaying; it acts, switching providers in your name, hunting discounts on insurance, energy, and mobile plans, and even timing a flight booking to a cheaper day. He argues the real payoff is on the business side, where an AI combing through a company's stack can surface duplicate software seats and overpriced contracts, then negotiate them down. He frames small monthly savings as genuinely life-changing for ordinary households, which is the emotional core of the pitch.
On timing, Sebastian says the app launches at the end of June, rolling out in stages: IBAN accounts and cards first, then crypto and the AI assistant a few weeks later, with EU passporting and a oneToken offering slated for later in the summer, and a longer-term ambition to extend into sports and real-estate tokenization and well beyond Europe. The conversation closes with the hot take round, where he plants his flag as a Bitcoin guy who has broadened into a wider portfolio through his Web3 work, predicts the legacy banking system will essentially disappear within a decade as AI banking matures and regulation catches up, points to his daily phone calls with oneBanking's own AI as a glimpse of a future that's already here, and lands on Star Wars as his sci-fi pick.
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Lili Hellriegel is head of enterprise solutions at Cherry Servers, a Lithuania-based bare metal cloud provider that pitches itself as a sovereign, Web3-friendly alternative to the US hyperscalers. Before joining Cherry, Lili was head of infrastructure at staking firm Blockdaemon, where she built out data center partnerships, network architecture and the server specs behind validation workloads — work that left her unusually fluent in what crypto teams actually need from their infrastructure.
Why you should listen The pitch for European infrastructure has rarely been louder, and Lili makes the case with the confidence of someone who has lived on both sides of it. Every major hyperscaler — AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, even Oracle — is a US company, and for a growing cohort of Web3 teams that is no longer a neutral fact. Cherry Servers sits under European jurisdiction, runs its own facility in Lithuania, and operates data centers across Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, Chicago, Singapore and a newly opened site in Tokyo. Some of Cherry's customers come for hard compliance reasons; others, Lili says, come for ideological ones, wanting the chains they help secure to live beyond the reach of any single government. The conversation lands at a moment when data sovereignty and distrust of concentrated American cloud power have moved from fringe concern to boardroom agenda.
The sharper argument is about economics, and here Lili thinks the industry is approaching an inflection point. She describes a shift from "cloud-first" to "workload-first" thinking: instead of defaulting to a hyperscaler and accepting whatever T-shirt-sized instance you're sold, teams running archival nodes, validators or other niche workloads are discovering they pay more and perform worse than they would on dedicated hardware tuned to the job. Cherry's answer is granular customization — choose your disks, your storage, your RAM, and pay only for what the workload demands — backed by account managers who architect the build rather than just sell a box, with human support that answers in well under a minute. For staking-heavy customers, the model is almost self-funding: a large share pay in crypto, drawing on staking rewards to cover their infrastructure across some thirty different chains.
Her forecast for the next eighteen to twenty-four months is the part worth sitting with. Lili argues the era of free cloud credits is ending — she doubts AWS will keep handing startups six-figure credit grants for signing up to an accelerator — and that founders, newly disciplined about runway, will increasingly treat optimized bare metal as a way to extend it. In the closing hot-take round she plants her flag as a multi-chain "Solana maxi," names Bitcoin as the enduring store of value while backing the smaller chains' upside, and offers a builder's creed: the market ultimately rewards people who make useful things on-chain, not those treating tokens purely as speculation — which, she adds, is also why she thinks people should run nodes with smaller providers. The desert-island sci-fi pick, naturally, is Star Wars.
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Cam Darlington is Global Strategy Expert at Mitrade, the Australian-founded CFD trading platform regulated by ASIC in Australia and CySEC in Europe, offering forex, commodities, indices, shares, and crypto from a single account. A Nova Scotia native based in Hong Kong for the past eight years, Cam brings a dual perspective: a traditional finance background working with brokers expanding across Asia, and recent experience as co-founder and COO of easy.fun, a social trading app built on Solana and Hyperliquid.
Why you should listen Cam has a name for the phenomenon most people inside traditional brokerages never see from the trenches: the convergence. TradFi and crypto are collapsing into a single market structure, and the pivot point, he argues, is Washington. With the CLARITY Act working through the Senate and President Trump signing the Integrating Financial Technology Innovation into Regulatory Frameworks executive order in May, digital asset brokers are being ushered toward the core plumbing of the US financial system, including direct access to Federal Reserve payment rails. Add growing regulatory comfort with tokenized stocks trading at parity with their underlying assets, and the discount problem that dogged early real-world-asset experiments like Robinhood's tokenized equities starts to disappear. Tokenized RWAs, Cam says, just became viable.
The second-order effects are reshaping market infrastructure itself. When a broker like Robinhood can mint tokenized stocks on its own proprietary chain and handle execution and settlement in-house, it stops feeding liquidity to the public exchanges. Cam frames the exchange's recent moves, including its tokenization partnership with Kraken built on the xStocks framework, as a defensive response to exactly this threat. He speaks from experience here: his team at easy.fun integrated the xStocks API and saw firsthand how thin liquidity gets once you trade beyond Nvidia, Apple, and Tesla. Cam says players most at risk are the centralized crypto exchanges, squeezed between newly crypto-enabled traditional brokerages on one side and purpose-built DeFi venues like Hyperliquid on the other.
For traders, Cam's message is about survival. The first year determines whether someone becomes a trader or a statistic, and he is scathing about platforms offering 1,000x leverage to beginners, which he likens to handing a brand-new driver a Ferrari and pointing at the motorway. He makes the case for starting on a regulated platform with guardrails, modest leverage, built-in TradingView charting, and daily strategy feeds, which is precisely the gap Mitrade aims to fill as a companion to a traditional brokerage account.
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Professor Lisa Wilson is CEO and co-founder of nGRND, a gold protocol that turns verified but unmined "in-ground" gold into a fully backed, reward-bearing digital asset rather than digging it up. An Australian who holds a South African professorship and lives in France, Wilson is a genuine mining insider — she has written operational and hazard-standards systems for the likes of Rio Tinto and BHP — with a parallel career in blockchain, where she helped list the world's first actively managed certificates for investment-grade carbon assets.
Why you should listen Wilson's pitch is a contrarian one: the best place to keep gold may be exactly where it already is. Billions of ounces of verified gold sit classified as resources that can't economically advance to production, with mine timelines now stretching toward two decades once permitting, First Nations consultation and environmental compliance are factored in. Gold, she argues, is unusual among metals — it has almost no industrial use, so above-ground stock is mostly worn or stored, which means an ounce in the ground is functionally the same store of value as an ounce in a vault. nGRND acquires long-term rights (30 to 100 years) to independently verified deposits, leaves the metal "in situ," and monetizes it without the environmental decimation of extraction. The mechanics are concrete: for every 35,000 tokens in circulation, at least one ounce of preserved gold is held in the protocol treasury, and every ounce left undisturbed avoids an estimated 792kg of CO2.
The more interesting half of the model is what happens on the surface. Because the land above each deposit stays untouched, nGRND layers a second income stream on top of gold's own appreciation — what Wilson calls alternative land-use monetization. That can mean soil-carbon and avoided-mining carbon credits, ecotourism, data cables routed across otherwise off-limits ground, or wind and solar microgrids, with a single site capable of generating millions a year across a multi-decade rights agreement. Brownfield sites are their own opportunity: in Australia a decommissioned site can carry a reclamation bond north of $20 million, and nGRND positions itself as the party that cleans up tailings and restores biodiversity while still capturing the value sleeping below. The token itself is tokenized through a VARA-regulated issuer in Dubai and backed by resources verified to NI 43-101 standards — a structure aimed squarely at the institutional real-world-asset crowd having its moment right now.
For all the heavy machinery of the model, nGRND's on-ramp is deliberately playful: its sponsored mobile games Dig It and Gold Fest have pulled in more than 855,000 players across 200-plus countries and accrued roughly $6 million in rewards ahead of the token launch, with TON Foundation backing and a Base expansion planned. Wilson is adamant the ecosystem isn't just for stakers and gamers — she describes participation streams spanning impact, learning and governance, including immersive digital twins of actual project sites. In the closing hot-take round she leans to the Bitcoin side of the spectrum as a self-described early mover, makes the case that crypto literacy should be embedded education for everyone, and sketches a ten-year future in which wealth migrates away from a USD-hedged system toward assets people actually control — before signing off with a charmingly vintage sci-fi pick in the British fantasy series Catweazle.
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div]:bg-bg-000/50 [&_pre>div]:border-0.5 [&_pre>div]:border-border-400 [&_.ignore-pre-bg>div]:bg-transparent [&_.standard-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pl-2 [&_.standard-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,ul,ol,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pr-8 [&_.progressive-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pl-2 [&_.progressive-markdown_:is(p,blockquote,ul,ol,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)]:pr-8"> _*]:min-w-0 gap-3 standard-markdown"> Charlie Durkin is Principal Solutions Lead at Chainlink Labs, where he works with the world's largest banks, asset managers, and market infrastructures on bringing capital markets onchain. A decade at Citigroup – five years in investment banking and debt capital markets, then five more in product management building the actual rails – gives him a grounded view of the gap between TradFi reality and crypto's promises, and what it will take to close it.
Why you should listen Charlie's path from Citi's product team to Chainlink is the perfect frame for this conversation. He's lived inside the legacy plumbing of capital markets and now spends his days helping institutions migrate workflows to blockchain rails without throwing out the existing infrastructure they're built on. His explanation of Chainlink itself is refreshingly concrete: not a competing L1, but the middleware connecting blockchains to each other and to the offchain world – an oracle network at its core, expanded into a full orchestration layer via the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE). The "give us an API and we'll connect you securely to the blockchain ecosystem" framing is exactly how Chainlink keeps showing up in the headlines alongside DTCC, Swift, UBS, Euroclear, JPMorgan, BNY Mellon and Franklin Templeton.
The tokenization discussion is where Charlie shines. The popular narrative is "tokenize everything"; his lived experience is that the interesting frontier is tokenizing cash. Stablecoins are becoming foundational market infrastructure because instant settlement is too compelling to ignore, but they don't work on a bank's balance sheet – under GENIUS Act rules, stablecoins must be backed one-for-one with HQLA, meaning banks lose the benefit of fractionalized reserves. That's why tokenized deposits are now the hottest conversation in institutional finance: same rails, same settlement story, but compatible with how banks actually run their balance sheets. Charlie also pushes back on the tokenized equities hype, arguing that "mirror tokenization" of stocks bolts complexity onto an already complex system (corporate actions, final settlement, CSD reconciliation), and that the real unlock comes only after cash is natively onchain. At that point native equity and debt issuance starts to make sense on its own terms.
Andy and Charlie dig into the harder questions: where the institutional friction actually lives (legal, compliance, security, operational integration – not the business case, which everyone now buys), how procurement teams trained on on-prem-to-cloud transitions are now having to wrap their heads around decentralized infrastructure, and why Chainlink's defense-in-depth architecture – independent node operators, cryptographic consensus, geographic redundancy – is what lets GSIBs sign off on production deployments. Charlie pulls in the standards-and-scale argument with sharp historical analogies: rail gauges for industrialisation, standardised shipping containers for global trade, US GAAP for capital allocation, TCP/IP for the internet. Financial markets need standards before they can scale, and no institution wants to integrate ten different blockchains ten different ways. The hot take round delivers a multi-chain opportunist stance, a contrarian view on tokenised equity headlines, a 10-year vision in which blockchain rails disappear entirely from the user experience, and a callout to the recent DTCC Collateral AppChain announcement – built on Chainlink's CRE, slated for Q4 2026 – as the first glimpse of an onchain capital markets future that's already arriving.
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Kenny Wood is the newly appointed CEO of Sleepagotchi, the Solana-based platform building what it calls the intelligence layer for the wellness economy. A two-decade veteran of the games industry, Wood cut his teeth as an artist on Mattel's Barbie titles before working on chart-topping franchises including Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX, Transformers, Formula 1 and World Rally Championship, later moving into ship-simulation work at VSTEP in the Netherlands and serving as CTO of AI world-generation startup Moonlander prior to its acquisition by Alpha 3D.
Why you should listen Sleep is the foundation almost every other health metric rests on, and that is precisely why Wood argues it is the right wedge into a much larger market. Fix sleep and mood, energy and recovery tend to follow; neglect it and the deficit cascades through everything else. Sleepagotchi began life as a gamified sleep-to-earn app, but under Wood the thesis has sharpened: the real prize is not the streak mechanic but the data exhaust it generates. The company reports that roughly three-quarters of users open the app within ten minutes of waking, and its Telegram-based Lite version has touched two million all-time users, the kind of daily habit loop most wellness startups never achieve. The question Wood keeps returning to is who should capture the value of all that biometric signal.
The product architecture he describes is ambitious. Rather than a single sleep score, Sleepagotchi runs four cooperating AI agents: a sleep coach that explains causally why a night went the way it did, a wellness agent that checks in on mood, diet, caffeine and alcohol through the day, a meal planner that turns those insights into recipes, and a shopping agent that sources the ingredients or supplements and can have them delivered. If you are tired despite doing everything right, the system might infer low iron and nudge you toward leafy greens, then route that recommendation downstream into an actual basket. A built-in marketplace lets vendors offer supplements, courses and the like, knitting recommendation and commerce into one loop. It is a bold attempt to make wellness advice actionable rather than merely informational, and it leans on integrations with Whoop, Oura and Apple Watch to pull in the raw signal.
The thornier and more interesting argument is about ownership. Wearable terms of service generally bar reselling raw device data, a constraint Wood acknowledges candidly, but he draws a line between that raw feed and the processed, AI-derived record of a person's life built on top of it, which he believes the user should own and, eventually, permission or monetize on their own terms via the platform's $SLEEP token. Wood inherits the company from founding CEO Anton Kraminkin, now a strategic advisor, and a cap table that includes Sfermion, 6th Man Ventures, Inception and others. In a relaxed closing stretch, he talks up the strength of the underlying game IP, its outsized following across Japan, the Philippines and Korea, and the new levels arriving in the months ahead, while staying refreshingly honest about the work still to do. The result is a conversation that doubles as a preview of where the AI agent economy and personal health data may be heading.
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Richard Green is Director of Institutional and Ecosystem at Rootstock Labs, a core contributor to Rootstock, the Bitcoin sidechain that has been quietly running for eight years and now anchors a growing slice of institutional Bitcoin DeFi. Based in London, Green came to crypto through fifteen years in traditional finance — a decade at Bloomberg working with banks and high-frequency trading desks, followed by a stint at Circle building out the European stablecoin business — before going further down the Bitcoin rabbit hole when emerging-market clients made clear they wanted something more than a dollar wrapper.
Why you should listen Green's central argument is that the digital gold narrative, while true, is incomplete and increasingly expensive to leave unchallenged. There is roughly $260 billion in Bitcoin sitting idle on corporate treasuries, ETF balance sheets and miner books, paying 10 to 50 basis points a year in custody fees and earning nothing. That, he says, is what pristine collateral looks like when it has nowhere productive to go. Rootstock's pitch is to change the denominator: keep the security model of Bitcoin, but give holders the ability to borrow against their stack, run it through tokenized real-world asset vaults, or deploy it into native yield strategies without selling a single satoshi. The first product out of the new institutional unit, launching in the next month, is a Bitcoin-collateralized loan aimed squarely at miners who are sitting on inventory but still need to pay the power bill.
The proof points are no longer theoretical. Mercado Bitcoin recently deployed $20 million of tokenized private credit on Rootstock, with a $100 million target by April, giving Bitcoin holders Brazilian receivables and corporate debt exposure they would otherwise struggle to access. In Japan, where Green sees an unusually crypto-curious institutional base, Rootstock has partnered with Animoca Brands Japan to bring corporate treasury and BTCFi tooling to a market that historically follows rather than leads but is now reportedly seeing 80% of investors plan crypto allocations within the year. Midas, Hyperithm and other ecosystem builders are stacking institutional-grade vaults on top of the chain, with custody handled through the usual professional suspects — Fireblocks, Fordefi and Utila — and Green argues spreading risk across providers and protocols is the obvious lesson from a year of high-profile DeFi hacks.
Where the conversation gets provocative is on what Bitcoin actually competes with. Green draws on Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan's framing of Bitcoin as an out-of-the-money call option on becoming a payment instrument, and argues that the real prize is the roughly half of global savings parked in fine art and real estate — illiquid stores of value that Bitcoin, once composable through chains like Rootstock, can simply do better. He is candid about the risks, too: concentration in a handful of ETFs and the dominance of Strategy as the largest non-Satoshi holder are not trivial, even if he thinks the diversification of providers is happening fast enough. His closing critique is one the institutional crowd will recognize — DeFi has an institutional-grade communications problem, and until protocols learn to handle incidents the way Circle handled its de-peg, the larger pools of capital will keep migrating to centralized custody. Stick around for his sketch of what a five-year transition to Bitcoin-backed mortgages and productive retail BTC actually requires.
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Kosala Hemachandra is the founder and CEO of MyEtherWallet (MEW), one of crypto's true OG products and a wallet that has been onboarding users to Ethereum since the network's mainnet launch. Eleven years, three million users, and a team of more than twenty later, MEW is positioning itself as a self-custodial home not just for crypto but for tokenized stocks, bonds, and the broader real-world asset economy now arriving on-chain.
Why you should listen Kosala's origin story is a reminder of how far this industry has travelled. A computer engineering graduate who discovered Ethereum through Bitcoin, he built MEW because accessing the network at launch meant the command line and nothing else. The earliest MEW users were almost exclusively technical; today's users, by contrast, often have no idea which chain their assets are sitting on – and that is the point. Andy and Kosala dig into the decade-long tension at the heart of self-custody: balancing genuine user sovereignty with an onboarding experience that doesn't terrify newcomers. Mnemonic phrases have been "bread and butter" for ten years for a reason – any proprietary fix would lock users in and break the very portability that makes self-custody meaningful – but advances like account abstraction, social recovery, and smart contract wallets are finally pointing toward a more humane future.
The conversation covers tokenized stocks and real-world assets, where Kosala sees the most profound shift of his career. TradFi went from hostile to crypto eight years ago to actively partnering with it today, and MEW is leaning into that convergence by offering tokenized equities alongside crypto assets in a single self-custodial wallet. Kosala uses his home country of Sri Lanka as an illustration: six months ago, a Sri Lankan investor wanting US stock exposure faced brokerage friction, 10–15% taxes, and layered commissions. Now they can simply hold tokenized Nvidia or Tesla in a MEW wallet. He also walks through the difference between USDC and yield-bearing stablecoins like Ondo's USDY (which is backed by government bonds), and why this category collapses the old workflow of "buy stablecoin → bridge to Aave or Compound → lend → harvest yield" into a single token you just hold.
On regulation, Kosala is candid: US users are currently locked out of tokenized assets and there is no shortcut, but the trajectory of the last decade gives him real confidence the rules will catch up. The bigger bet is that MEW evolves into a global, full-service, self-custodial wealth platform – one login, one set of keys, exposure to crypto, fiat, RWAs, and traditional yield instruments without ever surrendering custody. The episode closes with details on MEW's live $100,000 Energy Campaign (points for swaps, transactions, and tweets convert into chances at $5–$10 of tokenized US equities) plus an hourly $5 swap reward for early users. The hot take round delivers Kosala's tidy framing of Bitcoin as gold and Ethereum as USD, a strong vote of confidence in AI-driven portfolio management as a future that's already here for the few, and a Christopher Nolan pick to close things out.
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Kise Shannon is VP of Business Development at Gridmatic, an AI-first power company helping Bitcoin miners and other flexible loads turn energy market volatility into opportunity. Drawing on more than 20 years in the US energy industry – starting in Texas the moment the state deregulated – Kise has built her career across both global energy majors and startups, and now leads Gridmatic's push into the Bitcoin mining vertical from her base in Houston.
Why you should listen Most retail electricity providers evolved out of legacy utilities, and it shows: slow innovation, rigid contracts, and pricing models that punish flexibility. Gridmatic was built differently. The company applies foundational AI models – the same forecasting and optimization engine that powers its wholesale trading desk and its battery storage business across ERCOT and CAISO – to the question every miner is trying to answer in real time: when do I run, when do I curtail, and what is my true effective rate? Kise walks Andy through how that AI layer ingests hundreds of thousands of data points to forecast prices down to specific nodal locations, automating the financial trading between day-ahead and real-time markets while the miner stays focused on operations. It's a clear-eyed look at what "AI-powered energy optimization" actually means once you strip away the buzzwords.
The conversation then turns to one of the most underdiscussed problems in mining economics: collateral. New mining LLCs have no trade history, which means traditional retail suppliers demand large upfront deposits at exactly the moment a miner is bleeding cash on land, interconnect, containers, and ASICs. Gridmatic has solved this through partnerships with OBM, Synota, and Satoshi Energy's Bitcurrent platform, all of which enable daily settlement in place of monthly invoices. Layer in Strike for Bitcoin-to-USD conversion and miners can effectively pay their power bill in BTC each day without parking working capital as collateral. Kise also explains why contractual flexibility matters more than ever as miners blend ASIC and AI compute on the same site – two very different load profiles requiring very different energy strategies.
Kise makes a strong case for why Texas remains the best home for flexible mining despite tightening competition for interconnects. Abundant land, a state government that has actively welcomed the industry, deep renewable penetration, and natural synergies with the oil and gas sector all combine to make ERCOT uniquely suited to flexible loads. More importantly, Bitcoin miners are not just consumers of Texas power – they are critical grid resources, capable of fully shutting down when supply tightens in a way AI data centers (which often demand five-nines uptime) simply cannot. On the AI-versus-Bitcoin debate, Kise sees coexistence rather than replacement: miners with land and interconnects are partnering with AI customers, and new flexible load is still arriving in Texas. The hot take round closes things out with thoughts on a 10-year vision of Gridmatic as "the power company of the future," why every professional should be using AI now rather than fearing it, and a fitting May the 4th nod to The Martian.
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Peter Anthony is the co-founder of Perceptron Network, a decentralised data infrastructure purpose-built for AI. A crypto native since 2019, Peter also runs The House of Crypto — one of the fastest-growing crypto YouTube channels — where years of speaking with founders convinced him that the next wave of blockchain projects would be defined by real revenues, real users, and real-world utility. Perceptron, which merged with the 700,000-node BlockMesh network in mid-2025, is his bet on what he sees as AI's biggest unsolved bottleneck: access to high-quality, affordable, real-time data.
Why you should listen Data, not compute, is the real AI bottleneck. Peter opens by arguing that while the market has spent the last few years obsessing over GPUs and compute networks like Aethir and Akash, the harder problem sits upstream — the high-quality training data AI models actually need is locked behind paywalls. OpenAI reportedly pays Reddit around $70 million a year, with similar eye-watering cheques going to X, and that pay-to-play economy effectively freezes out smaller AI startups. Research groups like Epoch AI project the stock of public text data will be fully exhausted somewhere between 2026 and 2032, and even Sam Altman now concedes data — not compute — is the binding constraint. Perceptron's pitch is that a decentralised network can fix this by turning users' idle bandwidth into a globally distributed vantage point on the live web, at roughly a 90% cost advantage to traditional centralised data providers.
A thousand eyes, one vision. Perceptron's architecture combines Perceptron Nodes — a software client that sits quietly in the background of a user's browser or Android device and lends out unused bandwidth — with Perceptron Agents embedded in Discord, Telegram and WeChat communities, plus a human-in-the-loop Questing app where contributors annotate datasets. The point isn't to harvest anyone's personal data; it's to aggregate geographically diverse viewpoints of the public web. Peter walks through the use cases this unlocks: an e-commerce operator seeing how their products rank simultaneously in New Zealand, the UK and the US; a quant desk arbitraging cross-border discrepancies in gold, oil or crypto prices in real time; a crypto trader spotting a sentiment shift across thousands of Telegram groups before it shows up on price. Perceptron is already supplying data to Everlyn AI, a text-to-image and text-to-video platform that would have been priced out through traditional suppliers.
Freshness, sovereignty and a universal basic data income. Peter makes the case that data freshness is becoming the decisive edge for frontier models, because a ChatGPT or Claude answering questions about a fast-moving crypto market on four-month-old data is flying blind. He also makes a pointed argument about annotation bias — that when a narrow set of labellers with their own agendas decide what a dataset "means," the models downstream inherit those opinions — and contends that decentralised annotation is the counter. In the hot-take round Peter calls himself a multi-chain opportunist who still holds Bitcoin as the anchor, argues we're in a 2020-style bull market (not a 2022 bear), and reckons the real 10-year story of AI is that it will displace a lot of jobs but open up far more opportunity for anyone willing to pick up the tools now — pointing to Claude Code as a live example of a non-developer being able to ship working software in minutes. His sci-fi pick: Avatar — fittingly, recorded the day before a trip to Zhangjiajie, the real-world mountain range that inspired Pandora.
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Wei Zhou is the CEO of Coins.ph, the largest crypto-native fintech platform in the Philippines, which he acquired in 2022. A former CFO of Binance and long-time finance executive — Wei has been rebuilding Coins.ph as a fully regulated on-ramp between fiat, crypto and stablecoins for Filipino users and businesses, while extending the playbook globally through Coins.xyz.
Why you should listen A real-world stablecoin case study: The Philippines pulls in close to $100 billion a year in foreign inflows — roughly $38 billion in retail remittances from nearly 10 million overseas Filipino workers, plus around $50 billion flowing into the country's huge business process outsourcing sector. Historically almost all of it moved over Swift banking rails at 5–6% in fees, which remittance pioneers like Remitly and MoneyGram dragged down to 2–4%. Wei walks through how stablecoin rails are collapsing those costs further still — Coins.ph has run USDC flows with Circle at just 20–30 basis points — and why, post-Covid, everyday Filipino families and businesses with overseas ties are pivoting into stablecoins on their own.
A two-sided marketplace with a stablecoin flywheel: Wei thinks of Coins.ph less as an exchange and more as a stablecoin marketplace, with retail users as net buyers of digital dollars on one side, and businesses and institutions sending money into the country as net sellers on the other — a balance that drives liquidity, tightens pricing and fuels growth. The biggest friction, he argues, isn't crypto; it's fiat. Opening up cheap 24/7 deposits and withdrawals is what pulls users in, and weekend trading volumes on Coins already outstrip weekday volumes simply because traditional banks are closed. He also previews a B2B push launching before the end of May, enabling online and offline Coins merchants to accept USDC and USDT payments, alongside partnerships with Circle, HashKey and other licensed players to build out regional stablecoin corridors.
Stablecoins as the new unit of account: Looking three to five years out, Wei sees a world where more and more assets — from Bitcoin pairs to tokenised securities and real-world assets — are denominated in stablecoins rather than fiat. The GENIUS Act in the US, along with parallel regimes in the EU, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan and the UAE, is the unlock: traditional financial institutions can finally engage with stablecoins directly, letting platforms like Coins.ph tap deeper pools of liquidity and bring more investment products to Filipino users. In the hot-take round, Wei calls Bitcoin to a million dollars ("and then sats become the new stablecoin"), argues the AI intelligence layer is already quietly embedded in everything we use, and names Asimov's Foundation and Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem as his favourite sci-fi.
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Raees Chowdhury is the co-founder and chief investment officer of Tok-Edge, a London-based regulated DeFi hedge fund built around a novel cryptoasset structure called the Redemption Token. With a career spanning senior roles at BCG and Bain Capital, a managing partner position at Revolt Ventures — a fund sitting beneath a $10 billion AUM vehicle — and deep roots in on-chain markets dating back to the ICO era of 2016–17, Raees brings rare dual fluency in institutional finance and DeFi to one of crypto's most ambitious new fund structures.
Why you should listen Tok-Edge emerged from stealth on the day of this recording, and the timing is deliberate. Raees argues that the current drawdown — with Bitcoin sitting roughly 50% off all-time highs and many altcoins down 90% or more — is precisely the moment to be allocating capital to DeFi. The fund is built on a contrarian but rigorous thesis: that crypto is a genuinely new liquid asset class, that existing token models are structurally flawed, and that the teams best positioned to capture the next cycle are those who can hold TradFi infrastructure and DeFi-native thinking in the same hand.
The centrepiece of what Tok-Edge is building is the Redemption Token — a new category of cryptoasset designed to solve what Raees calls the duality problem that has undermined most token models to date. Unlike governance tokens, which trend towards zero, or utility tokens, which are constrained to their native blockchain, the Redemption Token is permissionless and composable in DeFi while carrying a genuine defined function: the ability for fund investors to redeem underlying fund shares at net asset value. The model Raees reaches for by analogy is MicroStrategy — a structure designed first, then deployed as a product. Tok-Edge is doing the same, with the Redemption Token as the architecture and the Tok-Edge Fund as its first application.
The fund itself is built to institutional standard — custodians, regulated directors, and governance structures you'd expect from any tier-one equities vehicle — but applied entirely to crypto and DeFi strategies. Raees walks through the team's approach to on-chain yield generation, active capital allocation between strategies, and why sitting in stablecoins and earning on-chain yield is a feature rather than a concession. He also shares his conviction that DeFi yields are far from dead, why on-chain flows will identify the winners of the next cycle before most people see them coming, and how the Berkshire Hathaway model — long-only, actively managed, comfortable holding cash — translates surprisingly well to liquid crypto asset management. With a TGE capped at $21 million targeting a $100 million first close later in 2026, this is a conversation worth hearing early.
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Marco Kowalewski is the managing partner at MovitOn, a Dubai-headquartered startup building what it describes as the Uber for delivery. Originally from Germany, Marco spent years in management roles and as a business lecturer before diving into blockchain around eight years ago. He is a three-time author on topics spanning cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and tokenisation, and joined the MovitOn team roughly eight months ago after an advisory relationship evolved into a leadership role.
Why you should listen The global logistics industry is worth trillions, yet sending a single document internationally through legacy couriers like DHL or FedEx can still cost well over a hundred dollars and take a week to arrive. MovitOn is attacking that inefficiency with a peer-to-peer model that connects senders directly with travellers who have spare luggage capacity. The concept is deceptively simple: if someone is already flying from Medellín to Frankfurt, they can carry your parcel for a fraction of the traditional cost and get it there within 24 hours instead of seven days. Marco walks Andy through exactly how a shipment works — from personal handovers and smart IoT terminal pickups at airports, through to delivery at the destination — and explains why the platform targets prices 25 to 50 per cent lower than incumbent services while paying couriers anywhere from 50 to 100 dollars per delivery.
What sets MovitOn apart from a simple marketplace is the infrastructure being built underneath it. The MVON utility token powers a smart contract escrow system: when a courier picks up a high-value item like a laptop, a deposit is locked on-chain and only released upon confirmed delivery, removing the trust gap that would otherwise kill peer-to-peer logistics at scale. On top of that, the team is developing physical smart terminals — MovitBoxes — equipped with AI-powered security scanners, initially deployed at airports, that verify parcels contain nothing prohibited or dangerous. An AI compliance engine navigates the regulatory patchwork of import and export rules across jurisdictions in real time, guiding users through what can and cannot be shipped between specific countries. It is an ambitious blend of atoms and bits that Marco acknowledges is significantly harder than a pure software play, but one the team believes is necessary to make the model safe, scalable, and compliant.
The project has just closed a two-million-dollar community pre-sale round, with a public sale currently underway and a centralised exchange listing expected shortly after. Early adoption markets include Dubai — where the company is headquartered and which serves as a natural hub for international travellers — along with the European Union, with Germany as a priority. Eastern Europe and parts of Asia are next, followed by the United States and South America, with a target of operating in over 100 countries by 2030 and onboarding half a million users. Marco also shares his honest read on the current crypto market: he had been expecting Bitcoin to pull back toward the 50,000-dollar range but concedes that recent price stability and upward momentum may be shifting the picture.
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Wael Rajab is the CMO of PerpTools and co-founder and director of DEXT Ventures, the capital arm of DEXTools — one of DeFi's original and most widely used on-chain trading and analytics platforms. With nearly a decade in crypto and a portfolio spanning over 100 investments across 150+ integrated blockchains, Wael has been at the centre of decentralised finance's growth from data dashboard to full trading stack.
Why you should listen DEXTools built its reputation as the go-to platform for on-chain token analytics — the place traders head when they want to understand what's happening across chains without needing to be technically fluent. But the landscape has shifted dramatically. DEX volumes have grown nearly eightfold in two years, from $81 billion to roughly $740 billion, and perpetuals trading has become one of the most contested battlegrounds in DeFi. PerpTools is DEXTools' answer: a native perps vertical that gives millions of existing users the ability to trade derivatives without ever leaving the platform they already trust.
What makes the PerpTools story compelling isn't just the product — it's the distribution. Most new perp DEXs face a brutal cold-start problem, spending heavily on user acquisition with uncertain results. PerpTools launched into an established audience and reached 40,000 users and over $150 million in traded volume within weeks of its beta. Built on Orderly's shared order book and liquidity layer, the platform is designed for speed and capital efficiency, with sub-200 millisecond latency and leverage up to 100x — all self-custodial and permissionless.
The roadmap is where things get genuinely interesting. AI trading agents — back-tested to average 20% monthly returns — are being rolled out in tranches to top community members, with copy trading and vault-based strategies to follow. Prediction markets, a tap-to-earn trading game, and a token generation event targeted within six to eight months round out a product pipeline designed to make the platform as sticky as possible. Wael also opens up on competing in a space where Hyperliquid looms large, the strategic logic behind the Orderly partnership, and why DeFi's permissionless, borderless architecture represents a genuine levelling of the financial playing field.
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Andy sits down with Donald Griswold, director of the new indie documentary feature Abundant, and Sheila Dohmann, Chief Marketing Officer at Stuff.io, the decentralized media platform bringing the film to audiences worldwide. Abundant examines generosity, scarcity and what drives the rarest altruists among us — non-directed kidney donors who give a kidney to a complete stranger — and it's being distributed exclusively via blockchain streaming starting March 26th.
Why you should listen This conversation cuts to the heart of what's broken in independent film distribution. Donald explains how the traditional model leaves filmmakers at the mercy of major streamers who treat art as content consumption metrics, with barely-cracked doors for indie creators. His experience pitching Abundant to Hollywood as an original led to an unexpected revelation: a blockchain-native platform could offer something no subscription streamer could — true audience ownership, transparent economics and a real business plan filmmakers can take to investors. For any creator who's ever struggled to answer the question "what's your distribution plan?", this is essential listening.
Sheila breaks down exactly how Stuff.io works under the hood, and for a crypto-savvy audience, the architecture is genuinely interesting. The platform shatters media files into millions of encrypted shards stored across IPFS, reassembled second-by-second only when an owner authenticates. It's a fundamentally anti-piracy design that also solves the ownership problem — unlike every major streaming licence that vanishes if the platform shuts down. She tells the cautionary tale of Stuff.io's origin: a successful e-book startup was sold to a VC who simply closed it, and eight million people lost their libraries overnight. That moment sparked the mission to put digital ownership on-chain permanently.
The most compelling thread is where the technology meets the cause. Abundant isn't just a film about kidneys — it's a general audience exploration of generosity and scarcity with a twist ending that leaves audiences emotionally moved. Donald explains how blockchain portability enables a gifting strategy where medical practices, transplant centres and kidney community affiliates can buy copies and pass them on, just like a DVD. For a community where most people with kidney disease don't even know they have it, that frictionless sharing could literally save lives. Sheila extends the vision further into banned books on the blockchain, historical document preservation and IP protection for creators — a picture of Stuff.io as essential cultural infrastructure, not just another streaming app.
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Jessica Ellerm and Kent Grogan are the co-founders of Themelia, a platform building the next infrastructure layer for crypto investment through custom indexing technology. Jessica comes from a fintech background — including a stint at ASX-listed payments platform Tyro and a superannuation startup she founded and sold — while Kent ran a hedge fund for years before moving into portfolio management and FinTech. Together, they're tackling one of the most underserved problems in digital assets: how do you get sensible, risk-adjusted exposure to a market of 52 million tokens without getting wrecked?
Why you should listen Crypto has a reputation problem, and Kent and Jessica argue it's largely structural. Most tokens are created, pump briefly, and go to zero — which means a naive index that mirrors the full market is essentially a vehicle for buying failure at scale. The Themelia thesis is that an index needs to do better than that: not just collapse the market into something manageable, but actively filter for tokens with genuine staying power before they've already made their biggest moves. Kent draws a sharp analogy to equities — nobody in TradFi just buys one marquee stock and calls it a portfolio, yet that's essentially what most crypto investors do with Bitcoin. The pair make a compelling case that the infrastructure for smarter diversification is long overdue.
The platform's most interesting innovation is the distinction between static and dynamic indexing. Jessica points out that most existing crypto index products — exchange bundles, early ETF attempts — don't move fast enough to keep pace with shifting narratives. Themelia's custom index builder lets users set their own filters, backtest against up to three years of historical data, then execute and auto-rebalance directly through connected exchange accounts like Coinbase, Binance, or Bybit. For those who don't want to build their own, the platform is evolving toward an "ensembling" model — aggregating the token picks of vetted crypto analysts into a curated house index that does the filtering work for you.
The bigger picture is a genuine gap in the market. Jessica notes that index products now capture the majority of capital flows in traditional finance — from retail investors all the way to pension funds — yet less than 0.1% of the total crypto market is currently invested through indexes. That's not just an opportunity for Themelia; it's an argument for why the space needs this infrastructure to mature. If the house index can demonstrate better risk-adjusted returns than simply holding Bitcoin, it could become the entry point that brings cautious, sideline-sitting investors into the market for the first time.
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Bisher Khudeira is the COO of Stormrake, a Melbourne-based digital asset brokerage offering best execution trading, institutional custody, and asset management across Bitcoin, digital assets, and tokenized real-world assets. Bisher joins Andy to explain why the brokerage model beats the exchange model for serious investors, what it takes to build a crypto business in one of the most hostile banking environments in the developed world, and why Stormrake is about to plant its flag in Dallas.
Why you should listen Bisher has spent a decade in financial services, starting in foreign exchange brokering in 2015 and buying his first Bitcoin in a McDonald's car park in 2016 via peer-to-peer. He joined Stormrake in 2022, bought into the business, and has helped scale it from fewer than a hundred clients — mostly friends and family — to over 10,000 across Australia, with a US launch now weeks away. He walks through the core brokerage proposition: Stormrake faces around 20 exchanges and OTC desks simultaneously, aggregates client orders to access deeper liquidity and sharper pricing, and charges a flat commission with no spread markup. The result is what Bisher calls the Satoshi maximiser — clients walk away with more Bitcoin per transaction than they would going it alone on a single exchange.
The conversation covers Stormrake's two wholesale funds: the Cumulus class, which targets picks-and-shovels digital assets like Ethereum, Solana, Hyperliquid, and Chainlink alongside select private equity plays; and the Stratus class, a Bitcoin and gold fund designed to smooth out Bitcoin's volatility while improving on gold's growth profile. Bisher also details the custody offering — fully institutional grade with insurance, separation of funds, and cold storage as default — while stressing that Stormrake fully supports self-custody for clients who want it. The US expansion into Dallas, two years in the making and launching end of April 2026, is built as a direct lift-and-shift of the Australian model into a jurisdiction where digital asset brokers are treated as normal participants in the economy rather than pariahs.
Bisher doesn't hold back on the state of Australian banking, describing three personal debankings and ongoing hostility from the big four toward crypto businesses and their clients. He argues Australia is a decade behind the US on digital asset regulation, with an AFSL licensing regime for digital assets only coming into effect by mid-2026. Despite that, he frames the challenge as deeply rewarding — building a business from zero in a nascent industry with no playbook, bootstrapped the entire way, with the goal of becoming a digital-era complement to the likes of Charles Schwab or E-Trade. The episode closes with Bisher's market outlook: he sees Bitcoin within 10 to 20 percent of its bottom, expects three to four months of sideways chop, and is watching large institutional buyers accumulate aggressively at current levels ahead of what he believes will be a run toward $200,000 and beyond.
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Joshua Sum is the Chief Product Officer at Solayer, a hardware accelerated network built to move money at the speed of metal. Joshua joins Andy Pickering to explain how dedicated chip-level infrastructure is pushing blockchain throughput into territory no software-only chain can reach — and why that matters as payments, AI agents, and real-world asset tokenization all converge on the same rails.
Why you should listen Joshua's path to crypto ran through direct-to-consumer e-commerce, a founding quant role at Treehouse, and building CollegeDow into the largest university blockchain network in the world, spanning around 120 campuses globally. He joined Solayer as a founding engineer and has grown with the company over two years into his current role leading product across multiple lines. He walks through how Solayer evolved from pioneering restaking on Solana — using it as a tool to improve transaction reliability and throughput — into building a full hardware accelerated Layer 1 that uses the Solana Virtual Machine but separates consensus across dedicated machines connected by low-latency, high-bandwidth equipment. The result is battle-tested performance of 200,000 to 300,000 transactions per second using messy, real-world transaction types, not the synthetic benchmarks that get loosely thrown around in the space.
The conversation covers Solayer's $35 million ecosystem fund and why the team deliberately avoided a grants model in favour of a venture approach, investing in founders building sustainable, revenue-generating businesses rather than handing out free money for narrative-driven experiments. Joshua walks through three early-stage portfolio projects: Docs Exchange, a full-suite DeFi trading platform; BuffTrade, an AI agent launchpad where bots trade on your behalf and back their tokens with actual strategy performance; and SpoutFi, which tokenizes equities and lets users borrow against them the way high-net-worth individuals already do — without selling, and without triggering a tax event. Each use case maps directly back to the throughput thesis: more agents, more users, more overlapping state means you need a chain that can actually handle the load.
Joshua also breaks down Solayer's consumer-facing push through Solayer Pay, which includes a mobile app, rotating private addresses for peer-to-peer transfers, and the Emerald crypto card with built-in travel rewards and partner airdrops. He explains why the chain will launch with SOL as its gas token — removing the onboarding friction that kills adoption on new L1s — before introducing a dual-token model with LAYER as the ecosystem matures. The episode closes with Joshua's take on the current market: tough conditions are positive for the long term because they flush out narrative-driven projects and reward teams building real products with real revenue, which is exactly where Solayer wants to be.
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Viktor Ihnatiuk is the co-founder and CEO of UTEXO, a Tether-backed global settlement network for native USDT and Bitcoin payments, powered by the Lightning Network and the RGB protocol. Viktor joins Andy Pickering to walk through a decade-long journey from Ukrainian fintech to the frontline of Bitcoin infrastructure — and to explain why the world's biggest stablecoin is finally coming back to the chain where it was born.
Why you should listen Viktor traces his path from launching Ukraine's first peer-to-peer lending platform and first fintech conference — where he discovered Bitcoin in 2015 — through to building Boosty Labs, a 150-person dev shop that served Coinbase, Bitfinex, Ledger, MetaMask, and WalletConnect. That operation evolved into a venture studio, and a chance meeting with Tether at Bitcoin Prague in 2023 set the stage for what became UTEXO. Viktor explains how he helped push RGB to mainnet, and how a joint venture with Tether was rebranded into UTEXO, which has just closed a $7.5 million seed round co-led by Tether, Big Brain Holdings, and Plan B Ventures.
The conversation digs into what UTEXO actually delivers: instant USDT and Bitcoin settlement at zero transaction cost, with client-side validation privacy baked in through RGB. Viktor breaks down why this isn't USDT arriving on Bitcoin for the first time — it originally launched on OmniLayer back in 2014 — but rather coming home, rebuilt on infrastructure that finally works. He makes the case that Lightning's scalability leaves every other chain behind, and walks through the key use cases UTEXO is targeting: native BTC-to-USDT swaps, new revenue models for wallets through transaction fee monetization, and cross-exchange high-frequency arbitrage.
Viktor also lays out UTEXO's broader thesis on stablecoin adoption and payments. He argues that the biggest growth opportunity for stablecoins isn't in DeFi yield — it's in emerging markets where USDT already functions as everyday money for savings, remittances, and increasingly, point-of-sale payments. UTEXO is positioning itself as the infrastructure layer for that shift, working alongside partners like WalletConnect and aligning closely with Tether's distribution strategy. The episode closes with Viktor's take on what blockchain is actually good for — payments, trading, and gambling — and why ten years in the trenches taught him to ignore everything else.
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Open Frontier Executive Director Erik Balsbaugh and board member Amanda Wick join Andy Pickering for a wide-ranging conversation on crypto, politics, and the future of digital finance. The discussion explores why digital assets are too important to be left to partisan trench warfare, and why the real promise of crypto has less to do with speculation and more to do with reducing fees, expanding access, and breaking the grip of extractive financial intermediaries. Erik and Amanda make the case that this is ultimately a fight about fairness, affordability, and who the financial system is built to serve.
Why you should listen Erik lays out the mission behind Open Frontier: to ensure progressive and broader public-interest voices stay engaged in shaping digital asset policy before the space is captured by incumbents and centralized financial power. He argues that crypto and fintech can help restore finance to everyday people by lowering remittance costs, reducing predatory fees, and enabling more transparent, accountable financial flows. Rather than letting digital assets become just another tool for concentrated institutions, Open Frontier wants to push for a democratic financial future—one where the benefits of innovation reach workers, immigrants, nonprofits, and small businesses, not just insiders and early winners.
Amanda brings hard-earned perspective from the Department of Justice, FinCEN, Chainalysis, and Capitol Hill, and offers one of the episode's sharpest reframes: crypto doesn't uniquely create crime—it makes financial activity more visible. She argues that much of the outrage around crypto crime reflects a visibility problem, not a new crime problem, noting that scams, laundering, and illicit finance long predate blockchain. What changed is that crypto put more of it in plain sight. She also takes aim at the media and political tendency to reduce the entire sector to meme coins and scandals, while ignoring the less flashy but genuinely transformative use cases: stablecoins, cheaper cross-border payments, tokenization, digital identity, and financial infrastructure that can return value to consumers instead of extracting it.
The conversation closes on the geopolitical and ethical stakes of the current moment. Amanda warns that stablecoins are becoming a major global channel for dollar access, and that U.S. policymakers risk undermining dollar influence if they fail to regulate intelligently and stay competitive while other jurisdictions move faster. At the same time, both guests address the reputational damage caused by political grift and conflicts of interest in crypto, stressing that corruption should be treated as a governance and ethics problem—not as evidence that the underlying technology should be discarded. Amanda ends with a broader call that goes beyond left versus right: in a world increasingly split between the haves and the have-nots, digital assets may be one of the few tools capable of shifting structural power in finance—if people pay attention before the opportunity is lost.
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Andy Werner is VP of Partnerships and Strategy at Transak, one of the world's leading fiat-to-crypto on-ramp providers. Werner shares his journey through fintech — from big banks to startups — and explains how Transak is building the compliance and payments infrastructure that quietly powers hundreds of crypto platforms globally. While the company operates in what he jokingly calls the "boring" side of crypto, Werner argues that boring is exactly what payments infrastructure should be: seamless, reliable, and invisible to the end user.
Why you should listen The conversation dives deep into the evolving role of stablecoins, which Werner frames not as ideological crypto instruments but as practical tools for builders. For developers and businesses, stablecoins function like programmable payment rails — enabling instant settlement, global reach, and lower costs through a single integration. He points to the past 18–24 months as a turning point, driven by clearer regulation in the U.S. and frameworks like MiCA in Europe. This regulatory momentum, combined with improving UX abstraction around wallets and compliance, is accelerating enterprise adoption and opening new product categories.
Werner also reflects on stablecoin usage through the lens of his Argentine roots, where inflation and currency instability make the value proposition immediately obvious. In markets across Latin America, Africa, and parts of Asia, dollar-backed stablecoins act as a digital escape hatch — giving consumers access to dollar savings, payments, and yield via nothing more than a smartphone. From remittances to trade finance and cross-border payroll, these real-world use cases are driving rapid growth. Transak is already seeing 30–40% of its volume in stablecoins, a figure Werner expects to exceed 50% — possibly 75% — within a year as adoption shifts from speculative crypto assets to everyday financial flows.
The discussion closes on regulation and the future of financial services. Werner is strongly in favor of pending U.S. stablecoin legislation, particularly provisions that would allow issuers to pass yield to users — arguing competition with banks ultimately benefits consumers. Looking ahead, his conviction is clear: all financial services will migrate on-chain. His hot takes? He's 90% Bitcoin maximalist, believes everything will eventually run on blockchain rails, and expects AI — still under-adopted today — to unleash massive productivity gains. His sci-fi pick to wrap it all up: Foundation by Isaac Asimov — a fitting nod to long-range technological inevitability.
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Andy sits down with SB, CEO and co-founder of Veera, to unpack a bold attempt at one of crypto's oldest and most stubborn problems: making it usable for normal people. From launching BlackBerrys and building early mobile ad tech, to challenging Netflix with an Asian streaming platform and exiting a travel startup, SB's winding entrepreneurial path now lands squarely in on-chain finance. The conversation traces how Veera is positioning itself as a true crypto neobank — not just a wallet with a card — and why user experience, not yield or hype, will decide whether crypto ever really breaks into the mainstream.
Why you should listen SB starts by framing Veera as a product-led response to crypto's stalled adoption curve. Despite hundreds of millions of internet users globally, crypto still lives in the "tens of millions" club, largely because it's too complex for everyday users. Veera's core idea is simple but ambitious: your mother should be able to swap tokens, stake assets, or move funds without knowing what a bridge, seed phrase, or protocol is. That philosophy has driven Veera's focus on passkeys instead of seed phrases, simplified onboarding, and heavy use of abstraction to hide blockchain complexity behind familiar, intuitive design. SB positions himself as a "fresh eyes" builder in Web3 — someone who didn't grow up native to crypto and therefore isn't blind to how broken the experience still is.
Geographically, Veera is betting on the same adoption arc the internet followed: emerging markets first, then deeper penetration in developed economies. SB points to Latin America, parts of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East as the next major growth zones, where access to global financial products is still limited. From there, he lays out Veera's four-pillar model: Invest, Earn, Spend, and Borrow. That includes tokenized gold, upcoming tokenized equities for users who've never had realistic access to global stocks, multi-chain yield in a single interface, a crypto prepaid card with tens of thousands already waitlisted, and a longer-term push into on-chain lending using financial identity and credit scoring. The pitch is clear: a full-stack, crypto-native bank rather than a TradFi app with a blockchain sticker slapped on top.
The conversation closes on the bigger picture — institutional capital, regulation, and what actually moves the needle for mass adoption. SB sees the market maturing, citing massive liquidation events that no longer crash the system as a sign of growing resilience and institutional presence. But for consumers, he's blunt: UX is still the real bottleneck. Yields exist, volatility is slowly compressing, but the experience remains "so, so broken." In the rapid-fire hot take round, he plants his flag as a multi-chain opportunist, calls Ethereum his firmest conviction, and predicts stablecoins will become the basic financial rails of the next decade. It's a forward-looking, product-first take on a future where on-chain finance doesn't feel like crypto anymore — it just feels like money.
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John Hargrave, CEO of Media Shower and author of The Intelligent Crypto Investor, joins the show to unpack a radically calm, Buffett-inspired approach to crypto investing. From wiring money to Belarus to buy Bitcoin in 2013 to nearly losing his business in the 2018 crypto winter, John shares how hard-earned wisdom led him to a disciplined, diversified strategy that blends traditional assets with a carefully sized slice of high-quality crypto — and why this model has quietly outperformed traditional portfolios over the past several years.
Why you should listen John traces his origin story from early Bitcoin believer to battle-tested investor, recounting the moment he and his wife went "all in" on crypto during the 2017 bull run — and the brutal reality check that followed when the market collapsed. That near-death experience for his marketing business reshaped his philosophy around risk, leading him to embrace diversification over maximalism. The result: a framework that treats crypto not as a lottery ticket or ideological crusade, but as a serious asset class that earns its place alongside stocks and bonds. At the core of John's book is a simple but contrarian portfolio model: a traditional 60/30-style mix of stocks and bonds, plus up to 10% allocated to high-quality crypto assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum. He argues this small slice has historically captured outsized upside while strictly limiting downside risk — even in worst-case scenarios. John also takes aim at financial advisors for being "a decade behind," suggesting everyday investors can now build and manage this strategy themselves with the right tools and long-term mindset. Beyond numbers, John brings storytelling and big ideas into the mix, drawing inspiration from legendary investors like Warren Buffett, Ben Graham, and Bill Miller to apply value-investing principles to blockchain projects. He shares his bold conviction that crypto and AI represent unevenly distributed futures — and that a global digital currency is not a question of "if," but "when." The conversation closes on sci-fi, Asimov, and the long arc of technological change, framing crypto not just as an investment, but as a bet on the architecture of tomorrow's financial system.
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Andy sits down with Dave Sutter, CEO and co-founder of OpenTrade, to unpack why stablecoins are rapidly becoming the most important financial primitive in crypto — and arguably the missing link between digital assets and traditional finance.
Why you should listen Dave traces his journey from building early Bitcoin wallets and launching one of the first dollar-backed stablecoins, through years working with major regulated institutions, to founding OpenTrade in 2023. His core thesis is simple but bold: stablecoins are no longer a niche crypto product — they are evolving into internet-native dollars used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide for real payments, savings, and cross-border commerce
The conversation dives deep into OpenTrade's role as institutional-grade "yield-as-a-service" infrastructure for stablecoins, enabling fintechs, neobanks, and platforms to embed yield directly into their apps without building complex financial plumbing themselves. Dave explains how OpenTrade allows users to earn yield across a wide spectrum — from ultra-safe U.S. Treasuries and money market funds, through higher-yield bonds and private credit, to delta-neutral crypto strategies and curated DeFi markets — all while keeping funds liquid and accessible. This shift, he argues, flips the old crypto narrative on its head: stablecoins are no longer just a parking spot between trades, but a competitive alternative to bank savings accounts that offer better yields with fully reserved, transparent structures.
Zooming out, Dave makes the case that stablecoins are not just a technological upgrade but a reinvention of money itself — permissionless digital cash that anyone with an internet connection can hold, move, and earn on. He points to growing regulatory clarity, adoption by giants like Visa, PayPal, and Stripe, and even banking lobby warnings about deposit flight as evidence of how disruptive this shift really is. His bold conviction: stablecoin market capitalization will exceed $10 trillion within the next decade. The episode wraps with rapid-fire hot takes on Bitcoin vs multi-chain futures, the convergence of DeFi and real-world finance, and a shared love of science fiction — fitting for a conversation about a financial future that, as Dave puts it, is already here but not evenly distributed.
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Andy sits down with Kanny Lee, CEO and co-founder of SecondSwap, to explore one of crypto's most under-discussed structural problems: liquidity for locked and vested tokens. With a background spanning two decades in Big Four forensic accounting and early institutional crypto OTC trading in Hong Kong, Kanny brings a rare blend of TradFi discipline and on-chain realism to the conversation.
Why you should listen Kanny explains why crypto's evolution now demands proper secondary market infrastructure—something traditional finance has always relied on, but Web3 has largely ignored. SecondSwap is building a decentralized, on-chain marketplace that allows locked token positions to be traded without breaking vesting schedules, inflating supply, or undermining token integrity. By operating directly at the smart-contract layer, SecondSwap enables partial exits, discounted entry for new investors, and real liquidity where none previously existed.
The discussion digs into "mid-life markets," token dump cycles, and the difference between superficial liquidity driven by short-term speculation versus sustainable liquidity built on conviction and patience. Kanny makes the case that healthy secondary markets could be a missing piece behind the stalled altcoin cycle—and that better liquidity design benefits founders, early investors, and new entrants alike.
The conversation wraps with rapid-fire hot takes on Bitcoin maximalism, real-world assets, AI, privacy chains, and whether another alt season is still possible.
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Vijit Katta is the CEO and co-founder at Tria, a self-custodial neobank that unifies spending, trading, and earning across all chains — without bridges, gas, or custodians.
Why you should listen Vijit explains Tria's core vision as building both a protocol layer and a consumer layer that abstracts away blockchain complexity for users and businesses. He describes how the fragmentation of chains, gas fees, bridges, failed transactions, and security risks have slowed mass adoption, and how Tria's infrastructure removes these friction points across Bitcoin, EVM chains, Solana, and beyond. This foundation enabled the launch of Tria's consumer-facing product, a self-custodial neo-bank experience where users can spend, trade, and earn without needing to understand the underlying blockchain mechanics.
The conversation explores Tria's early traction, including more than 50,000 users in its closed beta generating close to $100 million in transaction volume across spending, swaps, and bridges within just three months. Vijit attributes this growth to Tria's ability to seamlessly bridge real-world payments and on-chain assets, allowing users to spend thousands of supported tokens directly via cards without manual off-ramps or asset conversions. The emphasis is on maintaining full self-custody while delivering a user experience comparable to traditional Web2 banking apps.
Vijit also discusses Tria's intent-based infrastructure, which routes transactions across multiple paths to reduce failure rates and improve reliability in a multi-chain environment. Rather than relying on single bridges or interoperability layers, Tria processes user intent and dynamically fulfills transactions through the most reliable route, ensuring users receive the outcome they want without being exposed to technical failures.
The episode covers Tria's card offerings, including virtual and physical cards across different tiers, each unlocking varying cashback rates, trading fee discounts, and access to curated DeFi yield strategies. Vijit explains how Tria aims to surface opportunities that are typically inaccessible or too complex for everyday users, while aligning rewards and benefits with long-term usage rather than speculation.
Vijit outlines his conviction that blockchain-based payment rails will ultimately replace legacy systems and envisions Tria becoming a primary bank account for millions across emerging markets within the next decade. He also touches on emerging developments such as agent-driven payments, where AI systems initiate transactions on behalf of users, and reflects on the uneven distribution of technological progress. The episode concludes with Vijit sharing his optimism for borderless, accessible finance and his belief that seamless on-chain banking is closer than most people realise.
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Kam Punia is the Founder and CEO of Pixion Games, the London based studio behind Fableborne and the $POWER gaming ecosystem.
Why you should listen In this episode, Kam Punia, founder and CEO of Pixion Games, shares his background as a long-time game industry veteran and explains how that experience shaped the studio's approach to building competitive, mobile-first games. He reflects on lessons learned from working on large global franchises such as Yu-Gi-Oh!, including how to scale game universes, balance progression, and design systems that keep players engaged over long periods of time. Kam also discusses the broader state of the gaming market and why mobile remains the dominant platform for global player hours.
The conversation focuses on Pixion Games' flagship title, Fableborne, a mobile action RPG that blends fast-paced combat with strategic base building and asynchronous PvP gameplay. Kam explains the core mechanics of the game, including hero collection, kingdom defence, and raid-based progression, as well as the fantasy setting of the Shatterlands. He outlines how Fableborne is designed to be accessible for casual players while offering deeper strategic layers for more competitive audiences.
Kam discusses how Web3 elements are integrated into Fableborne in a way that supports gameplay rather than replacing it. He explains Pixion's philosophy of optional blockchain participation, where players can enjoy the full game experience without needing to interact with wallets or tokens. The episode explores how Web3 can enable ownership, progression systems, and long-term incentives, while keeping onboarding friction low for traditional gamers.
The discussion covers Pixion's partnerships and ecosystem support, including collaborations with infrastructure providers and investors that help power live operations, scaling, and community engagement. Kam shares insights into how Pixion thinks about player trust, controlled economies, and sustainable reward systems as part of building a long-lasting game.
Finally, Kam looks ahead to the future of gaming, outlining why competitive, mobile-first experiences with strong live-ops foundations are likely to lead the next wave of innovation. He explains how community-driven content, evolving game worlds, and optional digital ownership can coexist with proven free-to-play models, and why experienced game designers will play a critical role in shaping the next generation of hybrid games.
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Florian Klein is the Commercial Lead at Bitpanda's Web3 team. Bitpanda, one of Europe's most regulated digital asset platforms (7M+ users, multiple MiCA licences), is expanding into Web3 through Vision ($VSN), its ecosystem token for compliant tokenisation and DeFi infrastructure.
Why you should listen Vision is Bitpanda's unified Web3 ecosystem designed to make decentralised technologies accessible through a familiar, compliant, and integrated framework. The initiative brings together a suite of products; one wallet, one protocol, one chain, and one token, intended to create a consistent experience for users exploring on-chain finance.
By combining intuitive interfaces with regulatory alignment, Vision aims to bridge traditional finance and the decentralised web in a way that supports long-term adoption. The ecosystem is built around several core components: the Bitpanda DeFi Wallet, Vision Protocol, Vision Chain, Bitpanda Launchpad, and the Vision Token (VSN). The DeFi Wallet provides non-custodial access with features such as smart onboarding, sponsored and discounted gas fees for eligible actions, multichain swaps, staking and an Engage section coming soon, allowing users to earn monthly rewards through collecting XP by interacting with Web3.
Vision Protocol acts as an interoperability layer that aggregates liquidity and routing across multiple chains and major DEX aggregators, while Vision Chain is presented as an Ethereum-based Layer-2 with compliance tools suitable for tokenisation and institutional on-chain activity. The VSN token serves as the unifying token that powers rewards, governance, and participation across the ecosystem.
Staking VSN enables users to earn rewards, and in the future, owners of VSN may access early launchpad rounds, participate in governance, and benefit from Bitpanda's loyalty programmes. Its tokenomics include a dynamic emission model that will be governed by token holders, a distribution structure designed to prioritise circulating supply and revenue flows, such as buybacks and programme funding, managed by the Vision Web3 Foundation. Together, these components form what Bitpanda describes as a connected Web3 environment where user activity reinforces the growth and utility of the network.
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Canopy Network powers the peer-to-peer launchpad for new application-specific chains. Built on a recursive architecture, applications bootstrap each other into independence, forming an unstoppable web of utility and security.
Why you should listen Canopy Network is a blockchain project designed to help teams build their own independent blockchains that are connected to a wider network. Instead of forcing many applications to share the same chain, Canopy allows each application to run on its own dedicated chain while still being part of a shared ecosystem. This structure is intended to give applications more control over how they operate, including performance, rules, and economics.
The network is built so that these individual chains, called Nested Chains, can connect to one another and share security and resources when needed. Canopy provides a common framework and base network that helps new chains launch and operate without relying on centralized services. Participants such as validators and delegators help secure the network by staking the Canopy token, which supports the operation of active chains.
Canopy Network aims to make it easier for developers to launch scalable, independent blockchains without the limitations of shared infrastructure. The project's stated goal is to support a growing ecosystem of applications that can operate autonomously while still benefiting from being part of a broader decentralized network, enabling long-term growth and flexibility for blockchain-based products and services.
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James Ashton is a former Chelsea FC and Premier League footballer turned gamer. He is the Founder & CEO of Planet-X and Core Contributor to Gallaxia.
Why you should listen Gallaxia is a gaming and entertainment studio built on its own blockchain infrastructure, designed so that gamers, creators, and community members can hold shared ownership in the ecosystem. The project positions this model as an alternative to traditional centralized publishers, with its blockchain serving as the underlying system for game assets, rewards, and participation rights.
James says it has brought on 50 co-owners made up of professional gamers and digital creators. Collectively, these creators are said to have an audience reach of over 200 million followers and more than 30 billion total video views across their channels. Gallaxia presents this creator network as a built-in distribution and engagement engine for the games and products developed within the ecosystem.
Gallaxia is developing a suite of games, including a location-based mobile title involving treasure hunting and extraction-style gameplay, a hyper-casual game called One Pixel, and additional console and PC titles planned for future release. The ecosystem also includes the Gallaxium Bar, a digital asset that grants holders co-ownership rights and a share of proceeds generated by Gallaxia's games and related products, alongside a native token used within the platform.
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Haven is a blockchain ecosystem based on the foundations of anonymity and authenticated ownership. Using real and continuous biometric authentication it verifies that the user is the true authenticated owner at all times. It protects users from fraud, loss, and impersonation by making your face the ultimate key. No passwords, no seed phrases, no risks of theft.
Why you should listen Haven is building what it calls the world's first blockchain ecosystem powered by continuous biometric authentication. Instead of relying on passwords, seed phrases, or private keys, Haven ties wallet access directly to an encrypted, live biometric signature — essentially letting users interact with the blockchain simply by being themselves. The goal is to make digital ownership feel seamless and secure, removing one of the biggest points of friction in Web3: losing or managing keys.
At the heart of the project is the Haven Blockchain, designed so every wallet and transaction is verified through the user's biometric identity. This creates a user experience where onboarding is immediate, recovery is intuitive, and security is built in from the ground up. Haven's approach also aims to bridge mainstream audiences into Web3 by offering familiar, easy-to-use authentication rather than complex crypto tooling.
Haven is also positioning itself as a developer-friendly platform. Through Open Layer — their upcoming development environment — builders will be able to create dApps that automatically inherit Haven's secure, biometric-first design. Their roadmap includes the Haven Wallet & App launch in October 2025, followed by a pre-ICO in November and a full blockchain release in 2026, promising a growing ecosystem built around identity-native Web3 experiences.
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Bill Dafflon is Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Wondera.AI, an AI music company backed by leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms. Bill is currently an investor in WebX, the world's first Bitcoin Accumulation Company (BAC).
Why you should listen WebX International Holdings Limited began its journey in manufacturing — transforming raw materials into value. Today, that same spirit of transformation drives the company towards a new frontier: computation power.
Around the world, computation resources are abundant yet scattered — powerful, but often idle or misallocated. WebX saw an opportunity: to turn this fragmented infrastructure into a connected, efficient, and finance-enabled network.
Evolving from a textile innovator into a computing-power pioneer, WebX builds the systems that convert energy and computation into digital value — redefining how infrastructure powers growth in the digital age.
Backed by world-class partners across finance, technology, and blockchain, WebX connects global capital with computation power — unlocking transparent, sustainable, and enduring value creation.
Digital asset treasury companies are booming, but WebX is taking a very different path. Instead of raising capital to buy and hold Bitcoin, the company accumulates BTC directly through operational revenue and targeted investments—feeding value back into the Bitcoin ecosystem over time. After securing an account with a regulated Hong Kong crypto trading provider, WebX recently completed its first Bitcoin purchase, fully funded from internal resources.
The company's strategy addresses a major problem in the Digital Asset Treasury (DAT) sector. More than 100 publicly traded firms now hold Bitcoin and other digital assets, but most do so passively. Without income-generating operations tied to their treasury, traditional DATs rely heavily on external fundraising—often at inflated market prices—which dilutes shareholders and collapses in bear markets. WebX's active accumulation model avoids these pitfalls by using its own operating business to steadily buy BTC.
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Harvey Liu is the CEO at LeveX, a crypto exchange built by traders who believe that sharing strategies and successful trades builds a stronger community where everyone wins.
Why you should listen LeveX is a centralized cryptocurrency exchange that launched in 2023. It offers a wide array of trading options — spot and perpetual futures — across hundreds of coins and trading pairs to serve both casual and advanced crypto traders.
What sets LeveX apart is its emphasis on community-driven trading rather than treating every user as a lone investor. The platform integrates a social feed where traders can share strategies, follow experienced peers, and learn from the community instead of going it alone. On top of that, there are extra features like regular trading tournaments, educational content, and a "creator following" system that brings market analysis and real-time trade insights from seasoned traders right into the interface.
LeveX offers serious logical advantages: very competitive fee structure (makers can pay as little as 0.0060% under their VIP program), transparent operations (including a public "proof-of-reserves" policy), and advanced order/position tools. Their "multi-trade" system is especially appealing for seasoned traders: you can hold multiple, independent positions on the same trading pair — with different leverage, margin, and risk settings — which allows for hedging, scaling in/out, or running parallel strategies in a way few other exchanges offer.
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Jack Cameron is the co-founder of CreatorFi, a unified platform for creative capital, partnerships, and growth enablement to help the world's best creators
Why you should listen CreatorFi is a financing platform developed by the team behind Insomnia Labs, designed to provide working capital to digital creators across categories such as YouTube, music, and user-generated gaming platforms like Roblox. The product emerged after multi-channel networks and creator organizations—including Yoola, which represents around 3,000 creators—approached Insomnia seeking a more efficient way to lend against creators' digital earnings. CreatorFi underwrites assets such as YouTube channels, music catalogs, and in-game item sales, determining how much a creator earns and how much can be advanced to them.
The platform uses machine-learning models to evaluate creator data, behavioral patterns, and catalog performance to generate risk-adjusted financing offers. Because digital earnings can be redirected at the platform level, CreatorFi operates as a receivables-based lender—allowing repayments to occur in real time and reducing risk for liquidity providers. Underwriting challenges vary by vertical: YouTube and Roblox offer relatively clean data streams, while music earnings require additional normalization due to fragmented reporting systems.
CreatorFi issues advances and repayments primarily in USDC and operates on Aptos, selected for its native USDC support, low transaction fees, and robust on-/off-ramp payment infrastructure. This stablecoin-based system enables faster, lower-cost global payments, particularly benefiting creators in regions where FX conversion fees can exceed 70%. CreatorFi has active partnerships with YouTube networks, music distributors, and Roblox studios, and the company is expanding its origination capacity following a newly announced $2 million strategic partnership with Aptos, with additional creator-focused partnerships planned.
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The PlayAI Network is the orchestration network and interface for users and developers for seamless communication and coordination between tools, agents, applications, and data sources. Acting as the backbone of the agentic ecosystem, it addresses the challenges of fragmented AI systems by creating an interconnected environment where tasks can flow seamlessly across different platforms and contexts.
Why you should listen PlayAI offers an orchestration layer designed to break down the silos between disparate applications, tools, and data sources. Rather than having individual AI agents, apps, and services working in isolation, PlayAI's platform connects them in a unified workflow. For example, it can trigger actions across calendars, messaging, cloud storage or business tools based on one prompt. This means enterprises can automate multi-step tasks spanning different systems with far less manual effort, helping boost productivity and reduce friction between tools.
From a technical and commercial standpoint, PlayAI deploys its infrastructure as a modular stack built on decentralised frameworks: it uses node infrastructure ("Oasis Nodes"), a native token ($PLAI) to power the economy, and an SDK/API layer to enable integrations for developers and enterprises. What this means for business: you have a platform where automation, AI-agent orchestration, and workflow integration are baked into a single system — useful if you're looking to move beyond one-off automation scripts to a scalable, cross-tool orchestration backbone.
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Wish is the Co-Founder and CEO of Pharos Network, a Programmable Open Financial Layer 1 For RWAs & Cross-Chain Liquidity. Wish leads the development of its decentralized protocol stack and drives key industry partnerships. Formerly CSO at ZAN, Ant Group's Web3 arm, he specialized in security architecture and vulnerability management.
Why you should listen Pharos Network is a next-generation layer-1 blockchain protocol designed to bridge Web 2 and Web 3 liquidity by providing a high-throughput, modular platform for real-world asset tokenisation and open finance. Built by a team with backgrounds at organisations such as Ant Financial, Microsoft Research and Stanford University, the network emphasises institutional-grade performance while remaining accessible to individual users and developers. On its website, Pharos highlights its ability to handle 30,000+ transactions per second with block-finality in under one second and support for up to one billion simultaneous users.
Designed for real-world finance applications, Pharos targets use-cases such as tokenised financial products, stablecoins backed by real-world collateral, and infrastructure assets like property, energy and commodities. It also incorporates features aimed at regulatory compliance including identity – and AML/ KYC infrastructure – while maintaining open-chain access. With these characteristics, the network positions itself to enable institutions and individuals alike to participate in an on-chain economy that seeks to combine scalability, transparency and broad access.
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Fidelity began researching Bitcoin and developing blockchain solutions in 2014. After seeing demand from its clients, Fidelity developed a dedicated business, Fidelity Digital Assets. Today, it services hundreds of institutions globally.
Why you should listen Chris Kuiper is VP of Research, Fidelity Digital Assets. In this conversation, Chris Kuiper discusses the unpredictable nature of technological advancements and how past innovations have often been underestimated.
He emphasizes that new technologies can lead to entirely new industries and business models that were previously unimaginable. Chris discusses Bitcoin's disappointing price performance in 2025, and looks at the current trends in the institutional adoption of digital assets.
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John Woods is CTO at the Nillion Association, a secure computation network that decentralizes trust for high-value data in the same way that blockchains decentralized transactions.
Why you should listen John Woods is the Chief Technology Officer of the Nillion Association, where he's leading the development of a decentralized privacy compute network known as the "Blind Computer." Previously, John served as CTO at the Algorand Foundation and Chief Architect at IOHK (Cardano). With a background in cryptography and systems architecture, John's work focuses on building scalable, secure, and verifiable infrastructure for the decentralized internet. Nillion is building one of the most advanced decentralized privacy infrastructures in Web3 — a system designed not just for security, but for verifiability and scale. Now moving from a company-operated model to a fully permissionless network, Nillion is embedding decentralization into the architecture layer-by-layer: node operators, attestation checkers, and a cryptoeconomic substrate ($NIL) that rewards contribution and accountability.
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Jan Warmus is the director across Europe at EMCD — one of Europe's fastest-growing crypto super apps with over 400,000 verified users. EMCD is positioning itself as a "Web2.5" bridge, offering fiat ramps, staking, and other retail-friendly crypto services in a highly compliant, accessible format.
Why you should listen EMCD is a full-spectrum crypto ecosystem. You'll find their mining pool (one of the top global SHA-256 pools), a multi-currency wallet, a savings-type product called Coinhold, and a peer-to-peer exchange all under one roof. Their wallet claims "no seed phrases, no middlemen," and integrates swaps, mining-earnings transfers, and holdings in one interface.
They make a clear play for convenience and control: plug-in your mining hardware, track accruals, deploy earnings into savings with up to ~14 % annualized yield (depending on term and asset) — all via one account. Additionally, their mining arm emphasizes daily payouts, low withdrawal thresholds, and global server infrastructure across Europe, Asia, and North America.
EMCD has partnered with Stabul Finance. STABUL Finance operates as a specialized decentralized exchange focused exclusively on stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets. The platform uses what it calls a "fourth-generation" automated market maker (AMM) that builds upon previous technologies like Uniswap and Curve. The EMCD-STABUL partnership addresses a significant market gap. While non-USD currencies account for over 40% of global forex trading, less than 1% of on-chain volume involves non-USD stablecoins. This partnership gives EMCD's 400,000 KYC-verified users access to efficient stablecoin and commodity swaps through STABUL's platform.
For EMCD users, this integration means seamless access to international currencies and tokenized assets without leaving their primary platform. Users earning cryptocurrency through mining can convert to stable assets, earn yield through Coinhold, and eventually spend through the upcoming EMCD Card – creating a complete financial ecosystem.
The timing aligns with EMCD's broader expansion plans. The company offers zero percent mining fees through 2025 and is preparing to launch its crypto debit card, which will connect directly to users' USDT balances for spending at any Visa or Mastercard merchant.
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DEIN, short for Decentralized Insurance Network, is a platform that offers permissionless, decentralized, and DAO-managed discretionary risk coverage. It is designed to provide insurance for smart contracts, stablecoins, centralized exchanges, and other vital services within the DeFi ecosystem.
Why you should listen DEIN allows users to purchase coverage for their funds, enabling them to safeguard their assets against potential losses caused by hacks, rug-pulls, or other exploits leading to permanent loss of funds. Additionally, DEIN empowers individuals to actively participate in the insurance process by allowing them to provide coverage and liquidity for various smart contracts, exchanges, or listed services in exchange for yield.
DEIN addresses the risks and uncertainties that exist within the DeFi space. By providing a decentralized insurance network, it aims to enhance the trust and confidence of users, allowing them to navigate the DeFi landscape with reduced concerns about potential financial losses.
DEIN embraces the principles of decentralization and community governance. It is designed to be owned and governed by its users, ensuring that the decision-making process is inclusive and transparent. Through a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) framework, DEIN allows individuals to actively participate in shaping the platform's policies and future development.
DEIN has been architected with self-sustainability, flexibility, and scalability in mind. It aims to serve as an infrastructure that can be expanded and adjusted according to the needs of individuals and larger groups. By offering a modular approach, DEIN enables users to build their perfect solutions within the DeFi space, fostering innovation and growth.
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Why you should listen Uplink is building a decentralized network that connects people, devices, and businesses through shared internet infrastructure. It allows individuals and organizations to contribute their existing Wi-Fi routers and other connectivity devices to a global network, turning unused bandwidth into an asset. Participants can earn rewards for providing connectivity or verifying that network nodes are operating correctly, creating a distributed and incentivized internet ecosystem rather than relying solely on centralized telecom providers.
The Uplink system operates with several key roles. Consumers use the network to access connectivity, while providers share or deploy routers and other hardware to extend coverage. Verifiers check that network nodes are genuine and functioning as claimed, validators maintain the blockchain that underpins the network's operation, and holders stake the native token to help govern and secure the ecosystem. Together, these roles form a circular economy where connectivity, verification, and governance all reinforce each other.
Uplink's goal is to scale beyond Wi-Fi into other communication technologies such as 5G and LoRaWAN, creating a fully decentralized connectivity layer for the modern internet. The company is hardware-agnostic and aims to integrate with millions of existing access points worldwide. Over time, Uplink plans to expand its network through user adoption, partnerships, and blockchain incentives, establishing an open, verifiable infrastructure where anyone can contribute to and benefit from global connectivity.
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Wojtek Kaszycki is the Founder and Chairman of BTCS S.A. a technology company that builds and manages validation infrastructure for leading blockchain networks.
Why you should listen BTCS S.A. is a publicly listed company based in Warsaw, Poland, founded in 2010. It operates on the Warsaw Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol BTF. The company's headquarters are located at Plac Powstańców Warszawy 2, and it was originally known as Vakomtek S.A. before rebranding to BTCS S.A. to reflect a new strategic direction. Over time, it has evolved from a traditional electronics distributor into a technology company focused on blockchain infrastructure and digital-asset management.
In its early years, BTCS built its business around the import and distribution of consumer electronics and computer accessories. The company's product portfolio included gaming peripherals, LED lighting, and small household electronic devices, marketed through various retail and wholesale channels in Poland. These operations helped establish its reputation in the local electronics sector before the company began exploring emerging technology opportunities.
Today, BTCS S.A. is focused on blockchain technology and Web3-related activities, positioning itself within the growing digital-asset ecosystem. The company is developing infrastructure for staking, validation, and digital-treasury management, reflecting a shift toward decentralized-finance and crypto-related operations. Recent years have seen restructuring and investment aimed at aligning its business model with the rapid expansion of blockchain-based services and financial technologies.
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Maximiliano Stochyk is Head of Sales at CoinTerminal — a fundraising platform helping DeFi and Web3 founders raise millions transparently while giving retail investors a fair chance to participate.
Why you should listen CoinTerminal lets you buy into the best new tokens before they list on exchanges. Just like your favorite leading funds. Buy presales at the lowest cost before they hit exchanges. You could get up to a 10x better price on CoinTerminal. CoinTerminal positions itself as a crypto launchpad built for everyone — no staking, no gating, just open access. Anyone with a crypto wallet can join presales for new tokens without needing to lock up collateral or hold platform-specific tokens. Their model is refreshingly straightforward: find promising early-stage projects, contribute via IDOs (initial DEX offerings), and claim tokens once they launch — with the option for refunds if things don't pan out. They've funded 80+ ventures, distributed over $80 million, and already attracted more than 620,000 investors.
What sets CoinTerminal apart is their "no bar, no hidden fees" ethos. There's no minimum play beyond the $100 opening ticket, and they promise prices up to 10× lower than public listing. Transparency is baked in: winner selections are randomized and verifiable, and they publish transparency reports.
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Maximiliano Stochyk is Head of Sales at CoinTerminall — a fundraising platform helping DeFi and Web3 founders raise millions transparently while giving retail investors a fair chance to participate.
Why you should listen CoinTerminal lets you buy into the best new tokens before they list on exchanges. Just like your favorite leading funds. Buy presales at the lowest cost before they hit exchanges. You could get up to a 10x better price on CoinTerminal. CoinTerminal positions itself as a crypto launchpad built for everyone — no staking, no gating, just open access. Anyone with a crypto wallet can join presales for new tokens without needing to lock up collateral or hold platform-specific tokens. Their model is refreshingly straightforward: find promising early-stage projects, contribute via IDOs (initial DEX offerings), and claim tokens once they launch — with the option for refunds if things don't pan out. They've funded 80+ ventures, distributed over $80 million, and already attracted more than 620,000 investors.
What sets CoinTerminal apart is their "no bar, no hidden fees" ethos. There's no minimum play beyond the $100 opening ticket, and they promise prices up to 10× lower than public listing. Transparency is baked in: winner selections are randomized and verifiable, and they publish transparency reports.
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Toby Gilbert is a Co-Founder at PACT Swap, a cross-chain DEX built on Coinweb. Pact Swap enables trading of native Bitcoin, TRON, and other assets across incompatible chains - without bridges, wrapped tokens, or external validators.
Why you should listen PactSwap is a decentralized exchange (DEX) built on the Coinweb PACT framework that enables cross-chain swaps of digital assets without using traditional bridges or wrapped tokens. It's designed to let users trade native assets directly across multiple blockchains in a decentralized, non-custodial environment.
The platform supports trading between major chains including Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB Chain, Litecoin, TRON, Dogecoin, and Polygon. Its system uses collateralized reactive smart contracts to coordinate trades across otherwise incompatible blockchains. This approach allows PactSwap to execute bridgeless cross-chain swaps efficiently, aiming for high capital efficiency and lower transaction fees than conventional cross-chain bridges.
The goal of PactSwap is to combine the liquidity and trading depth of centralized exchanges with the transparency and security of decentralized finance. By removing the need for wrapped tokens and third-party bridges, PactSwap aims to reduce costs and risks for users, offering faster and more secure asset swaps with up to 95% lower fees compared to older cross-chain solutions.
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Xin Yan is the Co-founder and CEO of Sign, a blockchain technology company leading the industry in token distribution and verifiable credentials, now focused on building blockchain infrastructure for nations and enterprises. He began his career as a hardware engineer before becoming a crypto venture capitalist, and now leads Sign's vision to build national-scale blockchain infrastructure.
Why you should listen The core offering of Sign Global is built around the Sign Protocol — a multi-chain attestation framework that allows users to submit, verify and manage on-chain attestations of real-world or digital claims. This is an infrastructure layer for trust, identity and verification across "Web 3" ecosystems, designed to reduce reliance on centralised authorities by making attestations transparent and accessible.
In addition to the protocol itself, Sign Global offers tools and services built atop that infrastructure. For example, they highlight developer-friendly integrations that span multiple blockchain networks (Solana, Aptos, TON, others), and features including "TokenTable" and "EthSign" (contract signing tools) as components of their stack.
Finally, from a business reach perspective, Sign served over 50 million users and facilitated more than US$2 billion in digital-asset transactions via its platform.
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Tony Pham is the CMO at Kava, a decentralized blockchain that combines the speed and interoperability of Cosmos with the developer power of Ethereum. Tony Pham lives in New York City and is a fractional CMO for various crypto and AI startups, including Kava and Superlayer portfolio companies.
Why you should listen The Kava Network is the first Layer-1 blockchain to combine the speed and scalability of the Cosmos SDK with the developer support of Ethereum. The Kava Network will empower developers to build for Web3 and next-gen blockchain technologies through its unique co-chain architecture. KAVA is the native governance and staking token of the Kava Network, enabling its decentralization and security.
The Ethereum and Cosmos Co-Chains interoperate seamlessly with each other, empowering developers to build in whichever environment they want without sacrificing access to the users and assets of the other.
The Kava Rise program will reward the top projects on Kava with the $750M developer incentive program, awarded transparently on-chain based on usage.
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Cole Chapman is the Co-Founder of Global Gold. Cole is leading the tokenization of gold, creating a global liquidity layer that enables fractional ownership, on-chain liquidity, and collateralized lending.
Why you should listen Global Gold is a blockchain-based financial protocol focused on bridging traditional gold markets with decentralized finance (DeFi). It enables the creation of digital tokens that are fully backed by physical gold, offering users the ability to own, trade, and utilize gold-backed digital assets on-chain. The platform issues "Global Gold Bars" — tokenized representations of specific weights of physical gold — that can be used similarly to stablecoins, providing a digital alternative to gold ownership with on-chain transparency and liquidity. Each token is designed to represent a verifiable and redeemable claim on real, audited gold stored in secure vaults. Global Gold's infrastructure also includes a decentralized exchange for trading gold-backed assets and an integrated vault management system that tracks provenance, audits, and insurance in real time.
The company's vaulting and custody operations are centered in a 70,000-square-foot, Class 3 facility located in Casper, Wyoming, which it describes as an institutional-grade site for high-value asset storage. Global Gold emphasizes compliance, transparency, and security by working with third-party auditors — Alfred H. Knight and FORVIS — to conduct regular, independent verification of its gold reserves. These audits are complemented by full insurance coverage to protect stored assets, and all reserves are claimed to be 100% physically backed and legally segregated from corporate holdings. The platform positions its tokenized gold as a bridge between traditional asset stability and blockchain liquidity, providing users with the ability to move, trade, or collateralize gold holdings instantly while maintaining full physical backing and regulatory oversight.
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Mitchell Nicholson is the founder of Sierra Labs. The SIERRA Liquid Yield Token (LYT) is built to deliver the best user experience across DeFi, CeFi, and TradFi.
Why you should listen Sierra Protocol is the issuer of SIERRA, a liquid yield token (LYT) that offers the best risk-adjusted yield in a freely tradeable ERC20 token on Ethereum and Avalanche. SIERRA enables holders to earn passively accrue 6-12% APY compounded daily and does not require staking or claiming, holding periods or lockups, paying hidden fees or providing KYC. Its reserves are managed by OpenTrade, an institutional-grade market leader offering stablecoin yield products and is backed by a16z, Circle, Mercury, Notion and other leading VC firms.
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Oliver Feldmeier is the founder of Griffin AI, the first no-code platform for building autonomous AI agents tailored to DeFi and crypto finance.
Why you should listen Griffin AI is the first no-code platform for building autonomous AI agents tailored to DeFi and crypto finance. Their toolkit enables users to spin up agents in minutes, feed them real-time price, liquidity, and news data, and deploy them across multiple blockchains and wallets — all without writing code. They're leaning heavily into multi-agent workflows, letting creators chain together analytics, execution, and risk modules under one "agent network."
Their flagship modules include a Transaction Execution Agent (TEA) — which translates natural language into trades, swaps, and wallet operations — plus Alpha Hunter, which continuously scans 950+ decentralized exchanges to surface new listings and momentum. Griffin also embeds supplementary agents like news summarizers, price analyzers, and research bots, giving users a full "agent playground" within the ecosystem
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Alexander Zahnd is the Interim CEO and Chief Financial Officer of Zilliqa, a leading Layer 1 blockchain platform.
Why you should listen Zilliqa is a high-performance Layer 1 blockchain platform built to power scalable, secure, and interoperable decentralized applications. As the first public blockchain to implement sharding, Zilliqa has consistently pushed the boundaries of blockchain infrastructure. With the launch of Zilliqa 2.0, the platform is evolving to meet the needs of institutions, enterprises, and developers seeking high-throughput infrastructure with the trust, transparency, and flexibility required for real-world adoption.
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Alessandro De Carli the founder at Acurast, a scalable, secure, decentralized compute network powered by the massive global base of modern smartphones.
Why you should listen Acurast is a decentralized, serverless cloud platform that transforms everyday smartphones into secure computing nodes, removing the need for centralized data centers. By tapping into the massive global base of modern smartphones—devices that already come equipped with advanced security features—Acurast creates a scalable, confidential, and verifiable compute network. Its mission is to democratize access to computing power, enabling anyone with a smartphone to contribute to, and benefit from, a decentralized cloud.
The platform is built on a modular architecture that spans three layers. At the Consensus Layer, Acurast employs a Nominated Proof-of-Stake (NPoS) mechanism enhanced with an orchestrator, reputation engine, and attestation service. This ensures the network runs reliably and securely, with strong incentives for honest behavior. The Execution Layer harnesses Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) inside smartphones to carry out tasks in a secure and confidential manner, guaranteeing data privacy and computational integrity. Sitting at the top, the Application Layer hosts decentralized applications that can seamlessly offload computations to the network. This layered design allows developers to deploy applications requiring verifiable, secure computations—without relying on traditional servers.
This architecture opens up a range of compelling use cases. Acurast can support confidential AI processing, enabling decentralized execution of sensitive AI models. It can function as a decentralized oracle, securely feeding off-chain data to smart contracts. It also powers cross-chain asset management, allowing operations to flow securely across multiple blockchain networks. Additionally, Acurast offers a framework for ethical web scraping, providing a compliant and decentralized way to collect data without centralized gatekeepers.
The ecosystem is underpinned by its native token, $ACU, which plays a vital role in the platform’s economy. Tokens are used to pay for transaction fees, staked to secure the network and earn rewards, and wielded for governance—giving holders a say in the platform’s future direction. The total supply of $ACU is capped at 1 billion tokens, ensuring scarcity and long-term value alignment.
Community engagement is a central pillar of Acurast’s strategy. Through initiatives like the “Cloud Rebellion,” users can contribute their devices, refer others, and complete various tasks to earn rewards. This community-driven model accelerates the network’s growth while reinforcing its decentralization ethos. Under this approach, Acurast has already onboarded over 100,000 devices and executed more than 300 million transactions, setting a new benchmark for what decentralized computing networks can achieve.
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Gordan Kljajic is the co-founder of GEM DiCom - The first digital commodity backed by investment-grade gemstones with a real-time proof of reserve and minimal drawdown.
Why you should listen DiCom, short for Digital Commodity, is the term coined to describe what GEM actually represents. The word “token” has been diluted by years of speculative hype and vaporware, so GEM intentionally steps away from that language. This isn’t a marketing promise dressed up in blockchain buzzwords — it’s a verifiable claim. Each GEM is backed by a reserve of audited, securely stored, investment-grade gemstones and cash equivalents. That reserve anchors GEM’s value in the real world, while making it transparent and tradable on-chain.
Unlike stablecoins, GEM isn’t pegged to fiat, doesn’t fix its price, and doesn’t grant redemption rights. Its market price floats freely, shaped by supply and demand. But beneath that floating price is a solid foundation: independently appraised, tangible assets that provide a real floor. Each GEM exists only because there’s a corresponding value behind it, continuously visible through real-time proof of reserves. It behaves like a traditional commodity — its price can fluctuate, but the intrinsic backing gives it substance, similar to gold or oil.
Calling GEM a Digital Commodity isn’t just semantics. It’s a deliberate legal and structural choice. By positioning GEM as a commodity rather than a security or stablecoin, it avoids the regulatory straightjacket that binds many financial instruments and fiat-linked tokens. This opens the door to a freer, more flexible model — while simultaneously offering exposure to an asset class that’s rare, historically uncorrelated to mainstream markets, and inherently resistant to inflation.
GEM bridges the gap between the physical and digital worlds. It lets anyone store value in one of humanity’s oldest and most enduring forms of wealth — gemstones — without needing vaults, specialized knowledge, or accepting illiquidity. It’s preservation meets participation: timeless assets, brought natively into the digital realm. That is the essence of DiCom. That is what GEM stands for.
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Shahaf Bar-Geffen is the CEO for COTI, working on On-chain privacy for every user, everywhere.
Why you should listen Privacy isn’t a luxury — it’s the backbone of real freedom. It gives users the confidence to transact and explore without fear, and empowers builders to innovate without trade-offs.
COTI is a high-performance, EVM-compatible privacy layer built on Garbled Circuits, a powerful cryptographic primitive. It delivers scalable, privacy-on-demand across blockchains — unlocking the full potential of Web3 for businesses, individuals, and autonomous AI agents.
COTI is laying the cryptographic foundation for a new era of on-chain confidentiality. By combining cutting-edge privacy tech with fast, scalable infrastructure, we enable businesses and their users to interact securely — without friction and without compromise.
COTI is building a future where data and interactions remain protected by default, allowing everyone — companies, creators, users, and machines — to confidently participate and push the boundaries of what’s possible online.
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Michael Sena is the CSO and Co-founder of Recall, an on-chain arena where the community evaluates, ranks, and rewards the best AI.
Why you should listen Recall is positioning itself as a decentralized skill-market for AI, where communities don't just consume AI but actively fund, rank, and discover it. Its core idea is that instead of centralized gatekeepers deciding which AI models get attention, users (or “the crowd”) can back AI agents they believe in, participate in competitions, and help curate what “good AI” means. In effect, it aims to align incentives: if the AI you back wins, you earn rewards.
At its heart is a reputation protocol called Recall Rank, which transparently ranks agents on specific skills, making it easier to browse, compare, and trust AI tools across domains (e.g. crypto trading, summarization, coding, personal assistants). The platform also runs ongoing competitions in these domains: developers compete to build the best agent for a task, and users can “pick winners” by staking or backing them.
Recall aims to shift how AI is discovered, monetized, and evaluated. Instead of a few companies deciding which models get built or promoted, the community collectively funds and judges their merit. That’s a bold bet — on whether the “crowd” can reliably spot promising AI, and whether decentralized funding models can sustainably drive real innovation.
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Matt O’Connor is the Founder of Legion, a platform that provides early access to the best ICOs and pre-token sales.
Why you should listen Legion is a merit-based, on-chain fundraising platform designed to bridge the gap between founders, VCs, and retail investors. Projects are evaluated not just on hype but on measurable signals (on-chain behavior, developer contributions, social metrics), and those metrics are distilled into a “Legion Score” that helps determine access and allocation. Importantly, Legion claims to be MiCA-compliant (i.e. aligned with European crypto regulation) in its operations, which gives it a regulatory defensibility that many launchpads lack.
A concrete example of its traction: Kraken has partnered with Legion to launch the Yield Basis (YB) token sale. In that offering, a portion of the allocation was reserved for users based on their Legion Scores, giving “builders” prioritized access over purely speculative buyers. That move demonstrates Legion’s attempt to shift the narrative from “first-come, loudest voice wins” to “the ones doing real work deserve preferential access.”
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Michael Heinrich is co-founder and ceo of ØG Labs, building the 0G chain - the largest AI L1.
Why you should listen ØG, short for Zero Gravity Labs, is staking its claim as the AI‐native Layer-1 blockchain: infinitely scalable, modular, and purpose-built to power the next generation of AI applications. What really stands out is how every piece of their stack is optimized for AI workloads—from a chain capable of high TPS per shard, to AI-optimized storage, to trustless compute. They’re not just promising performance; they already have metrics: hundreds of millions of transactions on testnet, tens of millions of active accounts, and thousands of testnet validators, all delivering toward real scale.
Their architecture is a vision of decentralized AI infrastructure. ØG’s components—modular chain, compute network, data availability, storage, service marketplace, alignment nodes—are all built to interoperate, enabling developers to build and deploy AI + Web3 dApps with low friction. Transparency, composability, and verifiability are baked in: AI fully on-chain, decentralized validation, verifiable permanence of storage. For anyone interested in the future where AI isn’t just centralized in big labs but powered by open, scalable blockchains—ØG makes a convincing case.
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David Johnston is the Lead Technologist & Code Maintainer at Morpheus, a decentralized network of AI agents. An early pioneer in AI and Web3, David coined the term “DApps” in 2013 when he wrote the first white paper on “Decentralized Applications”.
Why you should listen Artificial Intelligence is rapidly advancing, but most of this progress is locked behind closed doors, controlled by a handful of tech giants. The result? Censored, centralized, fragile models that operate in walled gardens, with the most cutting-edge AI locked behind paywalls inaccessible to the majority of the world.
Morpheus is founded on the belief that AI should be uncensored, permissionless, and fully aligned with the values of the open-source, decentralized community. Morpheus is designed to incentivize the first open-source peer-to-peer network of personal general-purpose AI (smart agents).
The Morpheus network is powered by the MOR token, which rewards contributors who work together to build, maintain, and utilize the open-source decentralized AI infrastructure.
The Morpheus Compute utilizes the Lumerin protocol routing pattern to create a peer-to-peer, decentralized, and anonymous ecosystem for connecting AI users with AI models and agent compute providers.
By leveraging the Lumerin model, Morpheus lays the foundation for a decentralized, open-source AI ecosystem.
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Unique is a co-founder of Nibiru, the Web3 hub ushering in the next era of money. Nibiru is a blockchain and smart contract hub with DeFi, RWAs, and more.
Why you should listen Nibiru is a Layer-1 blockchain built with performance and usability in mind. It uses the Cosmos SDK and is EVM-compatible, meaning developers used to Ethereum tooling can easily drop in. Its architecture is designed to deliver high throughput, secure smart contract execution, and interoperability via the Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol — letting it talk to other chains in the Cosmos ecosystem.
Nibiru Offers a suite of structured products that simplify complex DeFi strategies into easy to use one click vaults for users just starting their DeFi journey while enabling advanced DeFi natives with all the complex tools to create their own strategies. All of this is tied together with Nibiru VM, an execution layer combining different environments enabling developers with different focuses to build seamlessly on one platform.
What sets Nibiru apart is how it integrates DeFi primitives, such as derivatives (perpetuals), spot trading, oracle modules, and a native stablecoin nUSD, more tightly into its core than many competitors. Rather than “bolting on” such features, they aim to make them first-class components in the system. The native token NIBI powers staking, governance, and transaction fees, and validators also act as oracles to feed the system real-world price data.
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Patrick Carey is the CTO of CoinTerminal, the industry's only launchpad with no token staking requirements.
Why you should listen CoinTerminal positions itself as a crypto launchpad built for everyone — no staking, no gating, just open access. Anyone with a crypto wallet can join presales for new tokens without needing to lock up collateral or hold platform-specific tokens. Their model is refreshingly straightforward: find promising early-stage projects, contribute via IDOs (initial DEX offerings), and claim tokens once they launch — with the option for refunds if things don’t pan out. They’ve funded 80+ ventures, distributed over $80 million, and already attracted more than 620,000 investors.
What sets CoinTerminal apart is their “no bar, no hidden fees” ethos. There’s no minimum play beyond the $100 opening ticket, and they promise prices up to 10× lower than public listing. Transparency is baked in: winner selections are randomized and verifiable, and they publish transparency reports.
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Alexei Zamyatin is the co-founder of BOB, the gateway to Bitcoin Defi. Bob’s hybrid model aligns with both Bitcoin and Ethereum, fusing the strengths of both networks to put BTC at the heart of DeFi.
Why you should listen Bitcoin has long been the undisputed heavyweight in value, but its role in DeFi has been embarrassingly small—just 0.3% of total value locked (TVL), compared to Ethereum’s ~30%. BOB positions itself as the answer to this imbalance: a secure, hybrid, multichain gateway aiming to capture the roughly $750 billion in “latent capital” locked out of Bitcoin-native DeFi. By providing seamless access to yield and liquidity across chains, while preserving Bitcoin’s ethos and combining it with Ethereum-style programmability, BOB wants to make Bitcoin DeFi not just possible—but massive.
To overcome the trust and fragmentation issues holding Bitcoin back, BOB introduces two key innovations. First, native BTC DeFi powered by Bitcoin staking finality and the BitVM bridge—meaning BTC on BOB is literally just “BTC,” not wrapped or custodial. Second, a revolutionary Bitcoin Intents system and hybrid vaults let users swap between native BTC, wrapped BTC, and DeFi positions—or deploy BTC into strategic yield-bearing vaults—with a single transaction. Together these features unify experience and security, enabling any EVM-compatible chain to integrate BOB and unlock trustless, composable Bitcoin DeFi.
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Frank Hepworth is the CEO and Founder of Yieldschool. Yieldschool helps high-net-worth investors build responsible crypto allocations with proper risk management and strategic positioning.
Why you should listen Yieldschool is a specialist educational and consultancy service aimed at serious crypto investors. Its core proposition is guiding clients to the “primary crypto markets”—that stage where crypto assets are first issued, before zigzagging through traditional retail exchanges—enabling users to acquire assets earlier and generally cheaper. Led by founder Frank Hepworth, a regulatory lawyer with experience in guiding crypto exchanges and involvement in launching early crypto ETFs, the operation offers angel-investor-style insights, supported by a full-time research and consulting team with TradFi and crypto backgrounds.
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Bryce Ferguson is the founder of Turnkey. Turnkey provides secure, flexible, scalable wallet infrastructure. Turnkey is private key management made simple. Create wallets, sign transactions, and automate onchain actions, all with one elegant API.
Why you should listen Turnkey provides secure, flexible, scalable wallet infrastructure, offering developers an elegant API to create wallets, sign transactions, and automate on-chain actions. Built on non-custodial principles and leveraging Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), Turnkey ensures that private keys remain fully under the users’ control while also delivering enterprise-grade performance with low latency (around 50–100ms) and high availability (99.9% uptime). Their infrastructure supports multichain operations and is designed for scale—capable of signing millions of transactions in minutes, and able to power embedded wallets seamlessly across diverse applications in DeFi, payments, developer tooling, consumer apps, and AI agents.
Turnkey is on a mission to secure the open internet by building verifiable, programmable primitives for crypto applications. The founding team brings deep expertise from their work at Coinbase Custody, and together they’ve amassed over 100 years of experience in cryptography, security, and low-level systems design. In June 2025, Turnkey raised a $30 million Series B round led by Bain Capital Crypto (with support from Sequoia, Lightspeed Faction, Galaxy Ventures, Wintermute, and Variant), reaffirming its vision to provide open, composable, developer-friendly infrastructure for the next generation of crypto services. Turnkey recently earned recognition as one of CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies, underscoring its growing influence and leadership within the financial technology landscape.
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Radix DLT is a Layer-1 distributed ledger—think blockchain for DeFi, but without the clunky blocks. It's built from the ground up to make decentralized finance smoother, safer, and more scalable.
Why you should listen Radix DLT is a full-stack Layer-1, distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform purpose-built for the next wave of decentralized finance (DeFi) and Web3 development. Unlike traditional blockchains, Radix isn't chained to blocks—it's a true DLT leveraging its novel Cerberus consensus algorithm, offering atomic composability across shards and effectively limitless scalability. That means DeFi dApps can interoperate seamlessly in a single transaction without choking on traffic—Radix is engineered to scale to the needs of global finance. Radix isn’t just about raw speed—it doubles down on usability. On the user side, the Radix Wallet brings clarity: no more blind signing or seed-phrase nightmares. Transactions are human-readable, and multi-factor, decentralized account recovery makes losing access a bore of the past. For developers, Radix gives you Scrypto—the world’s first asset-centric smart contract language—and the Radix Engine, a DeFi-optimized “game engine” for building secure, composable dApps fast. Think of it as trading in clunky old engines for a sleek, intuitive ride that actually encourages innovation. Radix wasn't tinkering around—it’s OECD-scale serious. With integrated, platform-native identity solutions baked right into its design, Radix is tackling one of the biggest barriers to real-world adoption: bridging crypto and compliance. That means institutional investors can actually bring capital on-chain, using verifiable, on-ledger identity in a way that’s compatible with KYC/AML frameworks. If Web3 is ever going mainstream, it needs to solve identity—not just scalability and UX. Radix aims to check all three boxes.
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Yu Xiong is Co-President of Luffa, a Web3 decentralized instant messaging app designed specifically for security.
Why you should listen Luffa is a next-generation Web3‑powered social and messaging app built on the decentralized Endless protocol. Its core mission? To give users a clean, private, and distraction‑free experience—no user tracking, ads, or hidden analytics in sight. Everything is end‑to‑end encrypted, including photos and voice messages, and there’s a distributed storage mechanism—so not even Luffa can peek at your chats. Oh, and yes, it's entirely free—no subscriptions, no in‑app purchases necessary. But Luffa doesn’t stop at secure messaging—it’s more like a mini Web3 ecosystem. You get a multi‑chain wallet, AI translation to help you chat globally, and even a token issuance roadmap promising content and transaction monetization. Users can display or set NFTs as avatars, mint their own on Endless Chain, and manage them all within Luffa’s unified wallet experience. In short, it’s where state-of-the-art privacy meets next-level social finance—and it’s trying to be more than just another chat app.
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David Byrne is a technologist building Daiko, a Web3 Pet-Tech platform that combines real-world pet care with blockchain rewards.
Why you should listen To understand Daiko, think Fitbit for dogs meets gamified pet ownership, with a smart leash, virtual pet system, and a Proof-of-Woof model that turns daily walks into tokenized incentives. Daiko recently rolled out its smart leash ecosystem and already has thousands of early users signing up for their beta. The high-tech dog leash syncs with the Daiko Rewards App. Walk your pup, earn tokens, and interact with a gamified virtual pet right from your phone.
They’ve baked in some serious bonus features too: a safe‑lock mechanism, titanium carabiner, integrated DooPod waste bag holder, and a super-strong rope tested up to 200 kg. Daiko isn’t just about fetching rewards—it’s about redefining “pet ownership in the metaverse,” or at least in a Web3-flavored reality. By rewarding real-world activity (like walking your dog) with crypto tokens, they blissfully blur the line between IRL routines and digital perks. It’s gamification meets leash tech for dog lovers around the world. They’re expanding globally this year with plans to integrate NFTs, utility tokens, and community-driven rewards.
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Sam Klehr is Global Head of Sales and Business Development at Chorus One, a leading institutional staking infrastructure provider founded in 2018.
Why you should listen Chorus One operates secure, enterprise-grade validator infrastructure across 50–60+ Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchain networks—ranging from Ethereum, Solana, Cosmos, Avalanche, and Near to newer entrants like TON and Stacks—positioning itself as one of the largest staking service providers globally. The company offers a suite of services tailored to institutions, exchanges, wallets, foundations, and private investors, including whitelabel validators, ETH staking vaults (OPUS), staking SDKs, and API-based rewards reporting—all backed by ISO 27001-level security, robust infrastructure, and slashing protection mechanisms. Chorus One’s value proposition centers on reliability, transparency, and ecosystem engagement. They emphasize continuous uptime, redundancy, and security through custom infrastructure—including hardware security modules and geographically distributed server clusters—thanks in part to partnerships like the one with DataPacket. The firm also provides a $250,000 delegator protection pool, refreshed quarterly, to safeguard user assets. Beyond staking services, Chorus One is deeply involved in ecosystem development, offering research and MEV insights, managing an investment arm (Chorus Ventures), and pioneering institutional solutions like TON Pool (for streamlined TON staking) and support for Bitcoin Layer‑2 protocol Stacks.
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David Kinitsky is the CEO of Everstake, a leading global non-custodial staking provider serving institutional and retail clients, with $6.5 billion staked across 85+ networks. David was the founding General Manager of Grayscale Investments, now one of the world’s largest digital asset managers, and previously led operations for SecondMarket, the private market platform later acquired by NASDAQ.
Why you should listen Everstake is a professional staking provider founded in 2018 by a team of Ukrainian engineers. The company specializes in Proof-of-Stake (PoS) validation, helping individuals and institutions participate in securing blockchain networks while earning staking rewards. Today, Everstake supports more than 70 networks, including Ethereum, Solana, and Cosmos, and operates with a strong technical focus, maintaining over 99.9% uptime for its users. In terms of scale, the platform has worked with more than 735,000 stakers, facilitated over $6.5 billion in assets staked, and distributed around $712 million in rewards.
Beyond being a validator, Everstake positions itself as a broader infrastructure partner within the Web3 ecosystem. The company has contributed to well-known projects such as Solana, Wormhole, The Graph, and Pyth, and has provided advisory and engineering support to help these networks grow. One of its most visible initiatives was managing the Aid for Ukraine crypto fundraising campaign, in partnership with the Ukrainian government and other industry players, which raised over $60 million for humanitarian and defense support.
Recently, Everstake has also expanded into institutional services. Through a collaboration with io.finnet, it now enables enterprises to stake assets like ETH and SOL directly from secure multiparty computation (MPC) wallets, removing custodial risk while simplifying the staking process. This shows Everstake’s dual focus: serving the crypto community at large while also providing infrastructure for institutional adoption.
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Danny Chong is co-chair of the Digital Assets Association (DAA) Singapore, a Singapore-based non-profit association dedicated to guiding individuals and organisations through the landscape of digital assets. Danny is also Co-Founder and CEO of Tranchess, a leading structured liquid staking protocol.
Why you should listen Danny discusses the importance of regulatory clarity in driving digital asset growth across Asia and how to attract institutional investments from Asia’s financial giants while protecting retail users.
Bridging TradFi and digital assets for institutional adoption in Asia is underway. Drawing on his APAC expertise, Danny explains how integrating TradFi’s risk management with blockchain’s transparency enables institutions to adopt tokenised assets, positioning Asia as a pioneer in blending traditional finance with digital innovation.
He's an advocate for RWA tokenisation’s two-way flow: Aside from moving assets like bonds and equities on-chain, RWA tokenisation also brings DeFi innovations like liquid staking into TradFi.
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Zac Townsend is CEO and Co-Founder of Meanwhile, the first life insurance provider denominated and operating in Bitcoin. Life Insurance serves a critical role in developed economies, and Meanwhile is building a defining financial institution for the global Bitcoin economy.
Why you should listen Meanwhile is the world’s first fully Bitcoin‑denominated life insurance company, licensed and regulated by the Bermuda Monetary Authority. Operating out of Hamilton, Bermuda, it offers Bitcoin Whole Life policies that allow users to pay premiums in BTC, accumulate savings denominated in Bitcoin, and carry out legacy planning—all without exposure to fiat currency volatility. Meanwhile’s regulatory status as a Class IILT insurer—stemming from its graduation from Bermuda’s innovation sandbox in July 2024—gives it unique legitimacy as a crypto-native institution working within a fully regulated financial framework.
In June 2025, Meanwhile made history by publishing its first-ever audited financial statements fully denominated in Bitcoin. As of December 31, 2024, the company held approximately 220.4 BTC in assets and generated net income of 25.29 BTC—a 300 % year‑on‑year increase. Meanwhile is not only the first life insurer to report in Bitcoin, but is also prohibited from liquidating its BTC holdings except when policyholders redeem under strict regulatory rules—making the company’s BTC reserve inherently long‑held and less subject to market speculation.
Meanwhile sells its policies directly via its website, meanwhile.bm, and offers personalized consultations to prospective clients. Positioned at the intersection of insurance and decentralized finance, it offers high‑net‑worth and crypto‑savvy individuals a novel way to secure, grow, and pass down wealth using Bitcoin.
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Matthew Graham is the Managing Partner at Ryze Labs, a fund investing in blockchain innovators worldwide who are building Web3 applications to drive adoption and expand access to the next generation of the internet.
Why you should listen In this conversation, Matthew Graham, managing partner at Ryze Labs, discusses the intersection of AI and crypto, the investment thesis of Ryze Labs, and the potential of Web3.
He emphasizes the importance of stablecoins in the financial infrastructure, describing stablecoins as the “best product-market fit in crypto,” especially for emerging markets where hyperinflation undermines local currencies.
The discussion also touches on the future of AI technologies and the challenges faced in the crypto space. Graham believes the future of crypto involves autonomous AI agents operating above Layer 1 protocols. These agents will transact on-chain, manage wallets, trade assets, and execute user commands—essentially acting as a user’s “digital twin.”
Ryze Labs invests in the builders of blockchain technology around the globe that are designing Web3 applications that will accelerate adoption and democratize access to the next generation of the internet. Ryze Labs has always supported projects founded by hard-working visionaries that work with cutting-edge technologies, located in the next Silicon Valley. Ryze Labs leverages emerging markets expertise as strategic investors for best-in-class web3 projects looking to expand their international presence into emerging markets with high-growth potential. Ryze has invested in some of the most successful web3 projects to date, including Solana, LayerZero, Polygon, and Wintermute.
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Peter Goodwin is the CEO and founder of Idea-L®, the platform that combines generative AI and real-time validation to help anyone go from idea to funded startup, without gatekeepers. Think: “AI x AngelList meets Product Hunt — but fully decentralized.”
Why you should listen idea‑L® is an AI-powered, Web3-native platform designed to accelerate the journey from concept to launch. At its heart is a step-by-step process—Imagine, Design, Execute, Accelerate, and Live—providing founders with a structured framework to turn bold ideas into viable ventures without the usual guesswork. This fusion of AI-driven validation, decentralized funding via the GovToken, and human mentorship redefines early-stage entrepreneurship by making it accessible, intuitive, and speed-focused.
Beyond automation, idea‑L® embeds Web3-powered transparency and community governance into its DNA. Its tech stack includes predictive analytics, smart contracts, and a DAO-based decision-making structure—all delivered through an agile, intuitive interface. Token holders gain real voting power, staking benefits, and fee-based perks, while the platform steers clear of insider privilege—no presales, and no secret taps to exclusivity.
Currently in private beta ahead of a 2025 GovToken public launch, idea‑L® is based in Dubai but operates globally, targeting founders of any background or mission type—commercial, social, or public good. It’s positioning itself as a democratic co‑founder: always on, structured, and deeply rooted in fairness and momentum. If you're tired of the startup snail's pace and gatekept funding, idea‑L® is staking its claim as the launchpad that tells it like it is.
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John Cho is Vice President of Partnerships at Kaia DLT Foundation, a non-profit organization established to accelerate the Kaia blockchain’s global adoption and ecosystem maturity.
Why you should listen Kaia is a mobile-first superapp that’s rapidly becoming one of the most intriguing Web3 platforms to watch. Originally known as Klaytn, Kaia rebranded and repositioned itself in 2024 with a bold vision: make crypto invisible. By integrating blockchain seamlessly into daily mobile life, Kaia’s goal is to onboard the next billion users without them even realizing they’ve crossed into Web3. And it seems to be working—Kaia has seen a staggering rise in on-chain activity, ranking second globally in daily active users. This momentum is largely fueled by its unique strategy: hosting Mini Dapps inside the app itself—think of them like mobile games or utilities that live inside a crypto-native superapp.
But what makes Kaia different is it is open to third-party developers and fully committed to open-source gaming. That’s a huge shift. Instead of locking users into a walled garden, Kaia is betting on community-driven innovation through Mini Dapps—lightweight, mobile-friendly, and composable little apps that make up the building blocks of the platform. These Mini Dapps allow users to explore DeFi, NFTs, and gaming with just a few taps, no wallet stress or MetaMask hurdles.
On the financial infrastructure side, Kaia is moving quickly. It recently partnered with Tether to integrate USDT, and it's also driving the development of stablecoins pegged to the Korean won (KRW) and Japanese yen (JYP). This isn’t just about payments—it’s about enabling a stable, familiar financial layer inside a blockchain ecosystem. For users in Asia especially, being able to transact with stable, fiat-pegged assets makes the jump into Web3 feel a lot less risky and a lot more practical. Kaia isn’t just building an app—it’s building an economy, one mobile tap at a time.
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Callan, also known as “Sap” is the Co-Founder of Threshold Labs, the managing team behind Threshold Network’s tBTC, a trust-minimized bridge enabling native Bitcoin in DeFi.
Why you should listen Threshold Network is a decentralized infrastructure protocol that leverages threshold cryptography to provide privacy and access control services on public blockchains. It was formed through the merger of two projects, Keep and NuCypher, with the aim of enabling secure and decentralized custody and data privacy. One of its core offerings is tBTC, a decentralized bridge that allows users to bring their Bitcoin onto Ethereum and other EVM-compatible networks in the form of an ERC-20 token that is fully backed 1:1 by BTC.
tBTC is designed to address the limitations of custodial wrapped Bitcoin products, such as WBTC, which rely on centralized entities to hold users' BTC. Instead, tBTC uses a network of randomly selected node operators that collectively manage custody through threshold signature schemes. This structure ensures that no single party can access or move the underlying BTC, enhancing security and decentralization. The latest version, tBTC v2, introduces a scalable and permissionless model, progressively shifting control from human intermediaries to protocol-based guarantees.
Bitcoin DeFi—or BTCFi—is an emerging segment of decentralized finance that aims to bring Bitcoin’s liquidity into smart contract ecosystems. Historically, Bitcoin has been underutilized in DeFi due to its limited scripting capabilities and incompatibility with platforms like Ethereum. Bridges like tBTC are key to unlocking Bitcoin’s potential in DeFi, enabling BTC holders to participate in lending, yield farming, liquidity provision, and collateralized borrowing—all while retaining exposure to Bitcoin. By offering a decentralized, trust-minimized bridge, Threshold Network positions itself as a foundational layer in this growing ecosystem.
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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+ cryptocurrencies from 2023–2024, simulating weekly long/short strategies based on TVL rankings. The result? No outperformance, no alpha. And no meaningful insight once broader market movements are accounted for.
As Pew reported last year, most Americans still don’t trust crypto. If TVL continues to be used as a shorthand for credibility, that only adds noise. This paper adds to the growing push for better metrics in DeFi.
Algorand’s mission is to power a world where information has integrity and innovative ideas can scale. The Algorand Foundation supports Algorand’s rapidly growing ecosystem by providing a best-in-class developer environment, supporting key infrastructure and setting technical standards, offering comprehensive support to builders and entrepreneurs, and providing the framework for decentralized governance.
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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 global FX giant while keeping its Union-Jack credentials intact.
Coinpass is unapologetically business-first: corporate and SSAS pension accounts, OTC desks, Faster Payments for GBP, SEPA Instant for EUR, and a Fireblocks-secured custody stack. The offering tops out at roughly 18 coins across 50 pairs, with auto-trade DCA tools and a staking “Earn” programme.
As the FCA’s May 2025 paper ushers in a tougher regulatory era, Coinpass is already playing the game two moves ahead—fully registered, audit-ready, and backed by OANDA’s deep balance sheet. Its curated asset list and institutional-grade spreads may forego meme-coin noise, but they deliver what CFOs and treasurers actually need: transparent pricing, instant GBP rails, and a compliance posture built to glide through tomorrow’s rulebook. While other exchanges scramble to retrofit governance, Coinpass stands out as the gold-standard gateway for UK digital-asset professionals—future-proof, rock-solid, and ready to scale.
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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 should listen Pi Squared solves the fragmentation and trust limitations of today’s blockchain infrastructure by enabling verifiable, cross-chain computation and settlement, so apps, agents, and protocols can interact across ecosystems without relying on bridges, centralized parties, or unprovable logic.
It’s the missing trust layer for a modular, interoperable, and enterprise-ready Web3.
Pi Squared’s core offering is its Verifiable Settlement Layer (VSL)—essentially a decentralized, programmable foundation that wraps any action (data storage, transactions, computation) into a cryptographically sealed “claim.” These claims are verified by a global network of validators, settled via their high-performance FastSet consensus protocol, and become instantly accessible across chains and environments—all without intermediaries or trust assumptions. VSL enables fast, provable, cross-ecosystem settlements—serving AI, blockchains, or any off-chain systems.
Already live on devnet, Pi Squared showcases powerful use cases like cross-chain asset bridging (e.g., via Wormhole NTT), blockchain state mirroring, and auditable AI pipelines via Trusted Execution Environments. Their system dramatically reduces redundant computation in blockchains—one node computes and proves, and everyone else verifies in milliseconds—boosting throughput, slashing energy use, and minimizing vulnerabilities. Think verifiability everywhere—from remote compute and DeFi to AI inference—supercharged by formal-language-backed proofs.
Pi² is stitching formal verification, zero-knowledge proofs, and cross-chain interoperability into one fast, composable layer. No fluff, no trust—just proof.
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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, the Signals platform lets any collection on any chain list a drop in a neutral pre-launch lobby where real bidders “signal” demand with its in-app Bars points, surfacing a genuine clearing price before a single NFT is minted. In other words, it replaces finger-in-the-air pricing with data-driven price discovery and a transparent view of market appetite. For creators, Signals works like a launchpad that actually understands their pain. Instead of cobbling together Discord bots, spreadsheets and three different mint sites, they spin up one Signals page and let the auction mechanic do the heavy lifting: it “crowdsources a fair market price,” shows how many wallets are willing to pay it, and locks those commitments in Bars. That means no more under-pricing your art, no more over-promising on a fat 10k supply, and—because Signals is chain-agnostic—no more rewriting solidity every time you switch ecosystems. The result is predictable revenue and a public demand curve you can point investors (and your community) at with confidence. For traders, Signals “kills the whitelist grind”: you don’t have to spam Twitter giveaways or write bad haiku in Discord for a shot at mint—just stake Bars during the signalling window and you’re in the price-discovery pool. Because the final mint price is the auction’s clearing price, everyone pays the same number, eliminating the FOMO-fuelled gas spikes and post-mint dumpage that plague most drops. Add the fact that Signals listings are chain-agnostic and verified by the Gamma marketplace, and you’ve got a launch flow that feels less like a casino and more like a proper primary market—still speculative, but finally transparent and, dare we say, civilized.
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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 agent runs as a Gaia “node,” a lightweight, sandboxed runtime powered by technologies like WasmEdge, fine‑tuned open‑source LLMs, embedding models, vector databases, prompt management, a plugin system, and open APIs. This stack can be deployed anywhere (personal devices, cloud, edge), enabling agents that reflect the creator’s own style, knowledge, values, and expertise.
Unlike closed‑box SaaS solutions (e.g., GPT‑4), Gaia nodes enable deep customization via fine‑tuning, RAG‑enhanced prompts, schema‑enforced outputs, and domain‑specific knowledge embeddings. This reduces hallucinations, cuts costs, and maintains data privacy. Users can build agents that speak and think like them, tailored to specific domains—far beyond generic LLM capabilities—and can interconnect to ingest external tools, memory systems, or APIs seamlessly.
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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 platform, and the upcoming token launch. The discussion highlights the importance of data analytics and user experience in enhancing engagement and sustainability in the Web3 ecosystem.
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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 art. Following the recent authentication and rediscovery of “Recto: Study for the Battle of the Milvian Bridge” by Renaissance master Raffaello, the project was created to enable public participation in cultural heritage through blockchain technology.
Raphael Coin uniquely allows public access and fractional ownership of an authenticated and recently rediscovered Renaissance masterpiece. It combines cultural importance, secure custody, and transparent ownership through blockchain technology.
Raphael Coin offers fractional ownership of a culturally important artwork, the "Recto: Study for the Battle of the Milvian Bridge" piece recently rediscovered. Using blockchain technology, Raphael Coin makes fine art ownership accessible, secure, and transparent, allowing individuals worldwide to become stakeholders in cultural history.
Founded in 2015, Gleec.com started as a comprehensive blockchain ecosystem aiming to simplify and secure digital asset management.
Today, Gleec provides integrated blockchain infrastructure, centralized and decentralized exchanges, crypto cards, secure chat, and banking solutions, all underpinned by strong regulatory compliance. Gleec’s secure and licensed infrastructure now also powers innovative projects like Raphael Coin.
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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 costs, slippage, and revert protection.
Velora’s core mission is to simplify access to DeFi by breaking down liquidity fragmentation—aggregating over 160 integrated protocols across Ethereum, BSC, Avalanche, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, zkEVM, and more.
One of Velora’s standout features is Delta, a trading layer that shields you from MEV (miner extractable value) issues and rids you of gas costs. Delta uses "Portikus Infrastructure" and a fleet of competing settlement agents to secure best‑execution swaps—without upfront gas fees. On top of swaps, Velora offers on‑chain RFQ (request‑for‑quotes) from vetted market makers, yield optimization tools, and a public API/SDK for advanced integrations—making it a go‑to for DeFi devs and institutional teams. Velora is carving out the middle‑layer of DeFi—powering fast, secure, cross‑chain trades with gasless UX and plug‑and‑play tools for developers and institutions.
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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): validator clusters made up of multiple operators who jointly run a validator, each holding partial key shares (via Distributed Key Generation). This setup boosts fault tolerance—if one or two nodes go offline or are compromised, the validator stays operational and the full private key is never concentrated in one place, significantly slashing security risk.
Obol also integrates a rewards distribution mechanism, Obol Splits, that lets cluster participants define on‑chain how staking rewards are split—non‑custodial, transparent, and immutable.
The Obol Stack is a plug‑and‑play framework that sits on Kubernetes and Helm, enabling users to deploy and maintain decentralized infrastructure—like Ethereum validators, full nodes, L2 sequencers, DePIN nodes, AI agents, and more—in an enterprise‑grade but user‑friendly fashion.
Whether you're a solo home operator or part of a global datacenter cluster, the Stack lets you package, version, and deploy your setup via Helm charts—then share or discover them through the Obol App Store. This means no wrestling with Bash, Docker Compose, or fragile scripts—everything’s containerised, composable, and ready to scale.
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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 users to earn interest on their Bitcoin and USDC holdings or access liquidity through Bitcoin-backed loans without having to sell their assets. The company operates under strict financial regulations and emphasizes transparency, including regular third-party attestations of client asset balances.
One of Ledn’s flagship products is its Bitcoin-backed loan, which enables users to borrow USDC or USD against their Bitcoin at competitive interest rates, while maintaining ownership of their crypto. Ledn also offers a Bitcoin and USDC savings account, where clients can earn compounding interest paid monthly. The platform distinguishes itself through its security-first approach, with assets held in institutional-grade custody via BitGo Trust Company, a qualified custodian regulated in the U.S. This custody structure gives clients additional protection and reassurance in an industry often plagued by custodial risk.
Ledn has raised significant venture funding from prominent investors including Coinbase Ventures, Kingsway Capital, and White Star Capital, signaling confidence in its business model. With a growing customer base in Latin America and other regions, Ledn continues to expand its product offerings while remaining committed to regulatory compliance and user-focused innovation in the Bitcoin finance space.
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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 both individuals and institutions to invest with confidence.
Why you should listen Glitch Financial, launched in 2024 as a subsidiary of Taoshi, is a SaaS platform designed to bring advanced, AI-powered trading strategies to everyday investors. It offers automated trading features, allowing users to link their external brokerage accounts and select from a range of AI-driven strategies. Glitch is non-custodial, meaning users retain full control over their funds, and it's built to be user-friendly, catering to both novice and experienced traders. It is currently in Beta testing.
Together, Taoshi and Glitch Financial represent a push towards making institutional-grade trading tools accessible to a broader audience. By combining decentralized AI infrastructure with user-centric design, they aim to transform the landscape of financial trading, offering tools that adapt to market volatility and empower users to make informed investment decisions.
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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 decentralization and staking in securing Ethereum's future, while also addressing the need for a clearer narrative to attract users back to the ecosystem. Alon introduces the concept of based applications as a way to enhance the role of Ethereum validators and drive value back to the Ethereum network.
Even though Ethereum remains a leader in terms of total value locked (TVL), there is room for improvement. Network activity is down, and momentum is slipping. Without meaningful change, Ethereum risks becoming inaccessible to the builders and users it needs to thrive. Ethereum needs fresh ideas to bolster the ecosystem out of its slump, unify it, and genuinely support innovation.
Enter based applications (bApps), which are any application or service that uses the Ethereum validator set for security. Inspired by the based movement, bApps enable any project to bootstrap directly from the Ethereum layer 1 (L1), enabling interoperable, scalable and cost-effective development.
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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 Financial opens the door to alternative investments like real estate, precious metals, private placements, and even cryptocurrencies. With over 24,000 clients and $3.2 billion invested in alternative assets, they're making diversification more accessible than ever.
IRA Financial offers IRAfi Crypto, a platform that allows you to buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies within your retirement account 24/7. Partnered with Bitstamp, it supports over 30 popular tokens, including Bitcoin and Ethereum. The best part? There's no need to set up an LLC, and they handle all IRS reporting for you. For a $100 annual fee and a 1% trading fee, you get full control over your crypto investments, all within a tax-advantaged account . It's a modern twist on retirement planning, giving you the freedom to invest in the digital assets shaping our future.
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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 newcomers and seasoned crypto enthusiasts.
Unlike traditional wallets, Ambire operates as a smart contract wallet, allowing for advanced functionalities such as transaction batching and programmable account behavior. It leverages account abstraction to provide features like seedless account creation using email and password, and the ability to pay gas fees in stablecoins or other tokens.
The wallet supports multiple EVM-compatible networks, enabling users to manage assets across different blockchains seamlessly. Ambire's unique Gas Tank allows users to prepay for transaction fees in various cryptocurrencies, offering savings and convenience. Additionally, the wallet supports hardware wallets like Ledger and Trezor for enhanced security.
Ambire Wallet is designed with user-friendliness in mind. Its intuitive interface simplifies complex crypto operations, making it accessible for users at all levels. The wallet also provides human-readable transaction details, reducing the risk of errors.
With the introduction of Ethereum's Pectra upgrade and EIP-7702, Ambire has enhanced its wallet capabilities, allowing existing accounts to become programmable without compromising on functionality. This advancement enables users to enjoy the benefits of smart wallets without the need to create new accounts.
Ambire Wallet stands out as a robust and user-centric solution for managing digital assets in the Web3 ecosystem. Its combination of advanced features, security, and ease of use positions it as a compelling choice for anyone looking to navigate the decentralized internet confidently.
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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, particularly focusing on perpetual futures. He explains the advantages of perpetual futures over traditional futures, the unique appeal of leverage in trading, and the innovative zero-fee trading model of RabbitX. Ming also shares insights on the future of finance, the importance of decentralized finance (DeFi), and the potential for disruption in traditional markets. He emphasizes the significance of Bitcoin and gold as safe-haven assets in a changing global economy.
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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 mainstream apps that require phone numbers or email addresses, Session lets users sign up with nothing more than a randomly generated ID. This removes the link between your identity and your conversations. Built on the Oxen privacy network and utilizing onion routing (similar to Tor), Session protects your metadata and ensures your messages are never stored or routed through centralized servers.
Beyond its privacy architecture, Session offers a suite of features you'd expect from any modern messenger: encrypted one-on-one and group chats, voice and video calls, file sharing, and disappearing messages. It’s cross-platform, open-source, and community-driven. The app runs on a decentralized network powered by incentivized nodes, which enhances resilience against censorship, server failures, and surveillance.
Session will launch its token, $SESH, on May 21, 2025. The Token Generation Event (TGE) coincides with the official launch of the new Session Network on mainnet.
Session has attracted over one million monthly active users, making it one of the most popular dApps in crypto. It runs on a purpose-built DePIN network of over 2,000 nodes, enabling a unique feature set that offers total privacy and anonymity. Underpinning the decentralized network is the ecosystem’s native token, $SESH, which is used to reward its community for storing and routing Session messages, and keeping the Session Network running smoothly and securely.
The maximum token supply of SESH is 240 million, with up to 80 million tokens unlocked at TGE.
Over 13 million people have downloaded Session, which is viewed as a vital tool for protecting free speech, including for journalists, activists, and other people working in civil society.
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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. When you dispatch a message, it’s slotted into a Merkle tree; off‑chain relayers pick it up, bundle the proof, and submit it to the destination’s Mailbox, where it’s verified and delivered to your target contract
Security is modular thanks to Interchain Security Modules (ISMs). You can choose default multisig sets, compose prebuilt ISMs, or even craft custom ones to suit your risk appetite. That means you decide how many validator signatures you need or even plug in your own validator network—no one‑size‑fits‑all guardrails here
Beyond pure messaging, Hyperlane offers Warp Routes—its native, no‑slippage token bridges. Lock your token on Chain A, mint a wrapped version on Chain B, and reverse when you bridge back. All managed by the same mailbox/ISM infrastructure for consistency and security
Developers get robust tooling: TypeScript, Python, Rust, Go SDKs, CLI commands, Terraform modules—and an Explorer to track message status. Want interchain accounts? Execute contracts on remote chains from a single signer. Need cross‑VM swaps? Hyperlane’s got EVM↔SVM covered.
HYPER (the native token) powers staking, validator incentives, governance, and expansion rewards. With a 1 B supply over 25 years and liquid staking via stHYPER, it aligns long‑term builders with protocol security and growth. If you’re building the next multi‑chain DeFi, game, or governance tool, quitting the single‑chain mindset starts here.
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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 independent spirit and economic aspirations. Founded by Bobby Gray, a veteran in alternative currencies, TEXITcoin aims to provide a decentralized, secure, and value-driven method for individuals and businesses in Texas to engage in commerce. Unlike many cryptocurrencies, TXC is exclusively mineable within Texas, reinforcing its commitment to local empowerment and economic sovereignty.
Technically, TEXITcoin operates on a Layer 1 blockchain, utilizing the Scrypt Proof-of-Work algorithm, similar to Litecoin. The project's mission extends beyond digital currency; it seeks to foster financial independence and support the broader movement for Texas sovereignty.
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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 memorable identifiers. This approach enhances user experience and fosters broader adoption by reducing barriers to entry in the blockchain ecosystem. The platform supports a multi-chain name service, allowing users to establish a unified identity across various blockchains. This interoperability is crucial in the decentralized world, enabling seamless interactions and transactions across different networks. SPACE ID's Web3 Name SDK & API further streamline the integration process for developers, offering a comprehensive toolkit to incorporate verified Web3 domains into their applications.
The platform's governance is driven by the $ID token, which serves multiple functions within the ecosystem. Holders can stake $ID tokens to receive discounts on domain registrations and marketplace trading fees, use them as a means of payment within the SPACE ID ecosystem, and participate in governance decisions through the SPACE ID DAO. This decentralized approach ensures that the community has a say in the platform's development and direction.
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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, aiming to unify the carbon credits market and empower businesses and individuals to fight climate change effortlessly. The platform facilitates the tokenization of verified carbon credits, ensuring transparency and trust in the carbon market.
Fedrok's approach includes innovative mechanisms like the "Proof of Green" consensus, which rewards blockchain activities powered by renewable energy sources. This incentivizes the use of clean energy in blockchain operations, aligning technological advancement with environmental responsibility.
FDK is Fedrok's native cryptocurrency, uniquely built to support carbon reduction and sustainability.
Each FDK coin represents one metric ton of CO₂ offset through verified carbon credits, so your impact on the planet is measurable. FDK is also the green fuel powering transaction fees on the Fedrok Blockchain, actively promoting a sustainable ecosystem.
FDK coins are created and burned based on global carbon offset activity, with a flexible supply that adapts to the demand for carbon reduction.
Miners earn FDK by using renewable energy for Bitcoin mining, verified by our Proof of Green (PoG) system. Each time a green Bitcoin miner mines a block, FDK coins are also minted. Miners can either mine FDK blocks for extra rewards or let others handle it and still earn a share, making FDK mining simple and accessible for everyone.
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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 Infrastructure Network) baselayer, utilizing an AI-driven, Hyper-Fabric Network to enable fast and scalable connectivity across various applications, including gaming, AI, and telecom. By unifying idle hardware bandwidth into a global decentralized network, Datagram delivers fast, secure, and scalable connectivity for modern internet applications.
One of the key features of Datagram is its AI-driven coordination, which dynamically optimizes traffic, congestion control, and scalability while predicting traffic patterns to balance network loads for peak efficiency. This ensures that the network can adapt to varying demands and maintain optimal performance. Additionally, Datagram offers cross-network interoperability through standardized DePIN cross-network communication, ensuring seamless interoperability, improved efficiency, and optimal resource utilization while scaling effortlessly.
Datagram's decentralized architecture eliminates the need for central servers, reducing the risk of single points of failure and enhancing privacy and security. It provides a multifunctional platform with RTC, CDN, GPU compute, and storage functionalities, supporting mission-critical connectivity across the next generation of digital applications. Use cases include distributing AI/ML workloads, enabling seamless real-time audio and video communication, powering multiplayer gaming with ultra-low latency, and accelerating content delivery through a global node network.
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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 physical assets — for example, turning a property into a digital NFT (called Regna Minima) that comes with real legal rights. These tokenized assets can then be used as collateral for borrowing and lending stablecoins, giving asset owners a way to unlock liquidity without selling their holdings. It’s a smart idea, solving one of the biggest problems traditional finance still struggles with: making illiquid assets liquid.
RAAC has launched a $235 million testnet for a gold-backed RWA platform, signaling they’re serious about bridging mining, real-world commodities, and crypto. They’ve also joined Chainlink’s BUILD program, meaning they now have top-tier oracle support for securing real-time, tamper-proof data — essential when you’re tying digital assets to physical gold bars or apartment buildings. The platform appeals to institutions wanting yield, to DeFi users who want more real-world asset exposure, and to developers looking to build cool things with tokenized assets.
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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 crypto, Avantis allows you to trade a wide array of assets with leverage—up to 100x on forex and commodities, and 50x on crypto—making it an ambitious bridge between traditional finance and DeFi.
The trading experience itself is designed to be more user-friendly and risk-aware. Avantis has baked in features like loss rebates, which can return up to 20% of a trader's losses under specific conditions, and incentives for positive slippage that make getting in and out of trades potentially smoother and more profitable. For liquidity providers, the platform offers USDC vaults with junior and senior tranches, giving LPs control over their risk exposure and rewards. LPs can also time-lock their deposits to earn additional yield and XP rewards. It’s a system that balances the need for deep liquidity with the safety of the capital involved, which is crucial in high-leverage environments.
What makes Avantis stand out is its focus on engagement through gamified incentives. Their XP rewards program gives users points for trading, providing liquidity, and referring others. These XP points can lead to future perks, governance rights, and seasonal leaderboard rewards, making it feel more like participating in a game or social network than using a traditional exchange. Between the wide range of tradable markets, its advanced risk tooling, and this immersive rewards system, Avantis is building something that feels like the future of trading—accessible, global, and defi-native.
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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 transaction throughput. This architecture ensures consistently low gas fees, even as the network grows.
The platform employs a hybrid consensus mechanism combining Proof-of-Stake (PoS) and Proof-of-Quorum (PoQ), enhancing security and decentralization. Transactions are processed individually at the transaction level rather than in blocks, allowing for faster and more efficient processing.
Shardeum's native token, SHM, serves multiple purposes within the ecosystem, including transaction fees, staking, governance, and rewards. The tokenomics are designed to support the network's sustainability and growth.
The project boasts a robust and growing ecosystem, with over 150 projects and counting. These include decentralized exchanges like Tegro, NFT marketplaces like Zezu, and infrastructure tools like NodeOps.
Shardeum is community-driven, with over 1.3 million community members and more than 400 Proof of Community events across 19 countries. The mainnet launch is scheduled for May, 2025, marking a significant milestone in its development.
For developers, Shardeum offers comprehensive resources, including detailed documentation, a testnet for experimentation, and support for Solidity and Vyper smart contracts. The platform's design ensures that building and deploying decentralized applications is both accessible and efficient.
Shardeum presents a compelling solution to the scalability challenges faced by blockchain networks, combining innovative technology with a strong community focus to pave the way for broader adoption of decentralized applications.
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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 core, Olas seeks to address the shortcomings of current media incentives. Traditional models often prioritize clicks and subscriptions, which can compromise content quality. Olas introduces a subsidy-based economic model, leveraging quadratic funding and tipping mechanisms to reward contributors directly. This approach ensures that high-quality information remains free to access while providing fair compensation to content creators.
Olas employs a combination of markets and reputation systems to maintain content integrity. Prediction markets, including opinion markets utilizing the Bayesian Truth Serum algorithm, incentivize honest reporting by rewarding accurate, albeit unpopular, viewpoints. Reputation scores track contributors' historical performance, guiding readers toward reliable sources.
To prevent manipulation and ensure accountability, Olas implements a decentralized identity layer. Users undergo Proof of Unique Human verification, confirming their authenticity while allowing for pseudonymity. This system safeguards against Sybil attacks and maintains the platform's integrity.
Contributors on Olas can publish various content types, from news articles to scientific research. They have the opportunity to receive funding through donor contributions and quadratic funding mechanisms. Additionally, creators can earn royalties from their work, especially when their content is reused or cited, ensuring ongoing compensation.
Olas features a sophisticated tagging system, enabling efficient content organization and discovery. Both system-generated and user-generated tags contribute to a comprehensive knowledge graph, facilitating easy navigation and searchability across the platform.
By reimagining the economics and governance of information dissemination, Olas presents a compelling alternative to traditional media systems. Its decentralized, incentive-driven approach aims to elevate content quality, promote transparency, and empower both creators and consumers in the digital information landscape.
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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 infrastructure and enhancing the resilience and censorship resistance of blockchain ecosystems.
Traditional RPC systems depend on centralized servers to handle requests from clients to blockchain nodes. This centralization can introduce single points of failure and potential vulnerabilities. dRPC addresses these issues by distributing the RPC infrastructure across multiple nodes, ensuring that dApps can access blockchain data and services even if some nodes become unavailable.
The dRPC protocol incorporates mechanisms for node discovery, load balancing, and failover, allowing dApps to dynamically select the most appropriate nodes for their requests. This dynamic selection enhances performance and reliability, as dApps can route requests to nodes with the lowest latency or highest availability.
Security is a core focus of dRPC. The protocol includes authentication and encryption features to protect data integrity and confidentiality during communication between dApps and nodes. By leveraging decentralized identity systems and cryptographic techniques, dRPC ensures that only authorized parties can access and interact with blockchain services.
The dRPC ecosystem is designed to be interoperable. It supports multiple blockchain networks and can be integrated with various dApp frameworks and development environments. This flexibility allows developers to build cross-chain applications and services that can interact with different blockchains through a unified interface.
dRPC provides a decentralized, secure, and efficient mechanism for dApps to communicate with blockchain networks. By eliminating centralized intermediaries and enhancing the robustness of RPC infrastructure, dRPC contributes to the scalability and sustainability of decentralized applications and services.
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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 a critical, underserved niche within the expanding DeFi landscape - to provide a specialized, efficient, secure platform for swapping non-USD stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets.
Stabull uses a 4th Generation AMM designed for the nuances of stablecoin and RWA swaps. This builds upon the lessons learned from previous AMM models. Its core innovation lies in how it dynamically concentrates liquidity around an off-chain FX or commodity oracle price.
Stabull’s AMM is described as “proactive”. Instead of passively waiting for arbitrage traders to correct price differences between Stabull and other markets (which drains value from LPs), Stabull actively uses the oracle feed to keep its internal pricing aligned, providing better rates for traders and protecting LPs. It strikes a balance, avoiding the pitfalls of a purely flat curve (vulnerable to oracle manipulation or draining if the peg breaks) while still offering much better pricing than general-purpose AMMs for its target assets.
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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 uninterrupted money market services, solving the problem of liquidity fragmentation.
Malda is a next-gen lending protocol that will use the power of zero-knowledge proofs to provide unparalleled services via off-chain computations, but remain fully verifiable. Malda’s position is that future applications will only use blockchains as an anchor for verified state but all computation will happen off-chain.
The next step in building the first truly scalable money market DeFi protocol is to outsource all the interest rate and balance calculations into a zkVM.
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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 Seier Christensen, Concordium embeds encrypted identity into every transaction at the protocol level. This design ensures accountability while preserving user confidentiality, addressing a significant challenge in the blockchain space where anonymity often clashes with regulatory requirements.
What sets Concordium apart is its use of Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs), allowing users to verify specific identity attributes without revealing unnecessary personal information. This means that while every user undergoes an identity check before account activation, their personal data remains private unless a legitimate legal request necessitates disclosure. Such a framework not only fosters trust among participants but also aligns with global regulatory standards, making it particularly appealing for businesses and institutions seeking compliant blockchain solutions.
Concordium is making waves in the stablecoin arena by integrating compliance directly into its blockchain infrastructure. Unlike traditional stablecoins that rely on potentially vulnerable smart contracts, Concordium issues these digital assets at the protocol level, enhancing security and reducing risk. This approach not only streamlines compliance for issuers but also instills confidence in institutional adopters. By embedding identity at the protocol level, Concordium enables seamless adherence to regulatory standards without compromising user privacy. This design facilitates advanced functionalities like geofencing, allowing issuers to restrict token access based on verified user attributes such as citizenship. Such capabilities are invaluable for ensuring cross-border compliance and simplifying international finance.
Moreover, Concordium's architecture supports sophisticated payment mechanisms, including programmable money features like scheduled payments and automated financial operations. These innovations position Concordium's stablecoin framework as a robust solution for businesses seeking secure, compliant, and efficient digital payment systems.
Its native cryptocurrency, the CCD token, serves multiple functions within the ecosystem, including facilitating transaction fees, staking, and rewarding node operators. This combination of speed, security, and integrated compliance positions Concordium as a robust platform for developing decentralized applications that require both efficiency and adherence to regulatory frameworks.
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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 and the role of algorithmic trading in managing risks. Jens also reflects on the current state of the market and the necessity for serious innovation amidst a crowded landscape of tokens.
Kairon Labs is a premier crypto market-making and liquidity-providing firm specializing in digital assets, cryptocurrencies, and tokens. Utilizing advanced algorithmic trading software, they offer tailored solutions to enhance market efficiency and stability for their clients. Their services are designed to prevent illiquid markets, reduce short-term volatility, and facilitate instant transactions for traders.
Beyond market-making, Kairon Labs provides comprehensive advisory services, including exchange listing strategies, negotiation assistance, and quantitative feedback on marketing efforts. Their expertise in market structure and financial derivatives positions them as a trusted partner for digital asset issuers seeking to navigate the complex crypto landscape.
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Josh Bowen is the founder of Astria, the easiest way to deploy decentralized rollups.
Why you should listen In this conversation, Josh Bowen, co-founder of Astria, discusses the evolution and significance of decentralized sequencing in the blockchain ecosystem. He shares insights on the current state of rollups, the impact of regulatory changes, and the future of decentralized finance (DeFi). Josh also introduces Astria's new rollup, Flame, and emphasizes the importance of user experience in attracting wider adoption of DeFi. The discussion touches on the existential questions surrounding decentralization and the future of blockchain technology.
Astria is building the shared sequencing layer for modular blockchains — an innovative approach designed to supercharge rollup scalability while preserving decentralization. By decoupling sequencing from execution, Astria gives developers the ability to launch fast, censorship-resistant rollups without needing to bootstrap their own validator sets or trusted sequencers. The core idea? Shared sequencing as a public good — one decentralized sequencer network serving many rollups.
Under the hood, Astria’s shared sequencer is powered by CometBFT and integrated with Celestia for data availability. This enables near-instant transaction inclusion and atomic cross-rollup composability, solving some of the most pressing coordination problems in the modular stack. Developers can spin up an Astria-integrated rollup with tools like Rollkit and benefit from out-of-the-box speed, fairness, and security. In a world of rollup proliferation, Astria is carving out the infrastructure to make modular chains truly interoperable and decentralized.
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Seek Protocol is a cutting-edge ecosystem on Solana at the intersection of AI, augmented reality (AR), geolocation, and GameFi.
Why you should listen Don Reijke is the Founder and CTO of Seek Protocol, and Lukas Novotny is COO of Seek Protocol. Seek Protocol is a technology initiative dedicated to blending cutting-edge innovation with human experience.
At the crossroads of Augmented Reality (AR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Web3, Seek Protocol is revolutionizing how people interact with the digital and physical worlds.
Seek Protocol is building an ecosystem where creativity, ownership, and exploration converge. Seek Protocol is committed to creating dynamic and immersive experiences that empower users to engage with digital ecosystems in transformative ways. From gamified experiences (GameFi) to personalized AI-driven interactions and AR-enhanced interactions, Seek Protocol strives to blur the lines between reality and imagination. The mission is clear: to redefine how people interact, innovate, and connect on a global scale.
Seek Protocol is the first project on Solana to integrate augmented reality, geofencing technology, AI agents, and the Solana L1 blockchain. Seek Panel in combination with SeekAR function as the ultimate user acquisition platform, enabling creators and projects to distribute their tokenized assets to users on-chain in a gamified and engaging way. SeekAI, on the other hand, ensures that end users enjoy a dynamic and engaging experience through an ever-evolving treasure hunt, offering infinite replayability mixed with a continuous stream of new rewards.
This enables meme token creators and communities to add utility to their tokens, helps web3 games attract players, and allows other Solana-based projects to introduce their token to new audiences in an innovative way.
With SeekAR’s crypto-native user base, comprising individuals passionate about cutting-edge technologies and GameFi, the platform becomes an ideal gateway for new projects entering the Solana ecosystem.
Integrating assets into the app drives demand for its native token, $SEEK, which is essential for launching campaigns within the SeekAR app, creating a positive buying pressure, and fostering ecosystem growth.
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Steve Merry is the co-founder of Scenario Protocol, a game-changing alerts platform that empowers users with control over the information that matters.
Why you should listen Scenario Protocol is a decentralized platform designed to deliver user-specific notifications by achieving on-chain consensus for topics of interest, encompassing both Web3 events and real-world occurrences. Users specify the information they wish to monitor and Scenario ensures they receive timely alerts when those events transpire, streamlining the process of staying informed in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
The platform is currently in its early access phase, inviting users to participate in shaping its development. Early adopters have the opportunity to build their reputation scores from the outset, contributing feedback that influences Scenario's evolution. The roadmap includes a transition to testnet, where initial applications will go live followed by a mainnet launch on the Base network. This progression will embed tokenomics into Scenario's consensus and security mechanisms, enhancing the platform's robustness and reliability.
Scenario Protocol operates as a decentralized platform that facilitates user-requested notifications and oracle-style data outputs by achieving on-chain consensus about a wide range of user-defined, real-world occurrences and scenarios. This process enables the creation of data triggers that not only meet the immediate need for bespoke notifications but also hold potential for valuable oracle-style applications in the future. The protocol serves as an on-chain marketplace connecting two primary user groups: individuals willing to pay a fee to be notified when specific events occur, and those incentivized to confirm the occurrence of these scenarios accurately and promptly.
Users within the Scenario ecosystem assume distinct roles to maintain the protocol's functionality and integrity. 'Askers' are users seeking notifications about specific events; they can either create new scenarios ('asker-makers') or join existing ones ('asker-joiners'). 'Confirmers' are responsible for verifying that a scenario's conditions have been met, with roles divided into 'confirmer-makers' (those first to state a scenario has occurred) and 'confirmer-joiners' (those who subsequently verify this claim). In cases of disputes, 'Arbiters' step in to resolve conflicts, ensuring the protocol's reliability and trustworthiness.
To support the arbitration process, Scenario Protocol establishes an Arbiter Fund, allocating 3% of all funds from resolved pools to ensure arbiters are compensated fairly, regardless of their decisions. This mechanism maintains impartiality and encourages honest participation. The protocol's rollout follows a staged approach, initially limiting testing to whitelisted addresses from engaged, knowledgeable communities. During these early phases, an off-chain reputation scoring system is employed to reward or penalize participants, fostering desirable user behavior and laying the groundwork for a robust, decentralized notification and data verification system.
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Patrick Young is head of ecosystem for Galxe / Gravity. Galxe is onboarding the world to Web3 by enabling seamless web3 experiences through a suite of AI, digital identity, and blockchain solutions.
Why you should listen Galxe is a decentralized super app and the largest on-chain distribution platform in Web3, offering a suite of AI, digital identity, and blockchain solutions to enhance user experiences and community engagement. Central to its ecosystem is the Galxe Identity Protocol, a permissionless, self-sovereign identity infrastructure powered by zero-knowledge proof technology. This protocol enables users to securely own, manage, and share verifiable credentials, fostering trust and privacy across various applications. Complementing this is the Galxe Passport, which securely stores users' identity information, allowing seamless integration across platforms without compromising privacy.
To facilitate community growth, Galxe offers Galxe Quest, a leading platform that connects projects with millions of users through reward-based loyalty programs. This no-code solution has seen over 1.1 billion quests completed, demonstrating its effectiveness in driving user engagement. Additionally, Galxe Compass serves as a hub for exploring airdrop campaigns across Web3, leveraging AI to curate detailed watchlists of opportunities, making it invaluable for both newcomers and seasoned users.
In its commitment to advancing Web3 infrastructure, Galxe introduced Gravity, an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-compatible Layer 1 blockchain designed for mass adoption and an omnichain future. Gravity aims to streamline and enhance cross-chain interactions, offering efficient, scalable, and secure mechanisms for managing complex transactions. To support development on this network, Galxe unveiled a $50 million ecosystem fund, encouraging developers to build user-focused applications that leverage Galxe's extensive user base and infrastructure
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Chris Chung is CEO and co-founder of Titan, a DEX Aggregator and Meta aggregator on the Solana blockchain. Titan has just announced their mainnet launch plans.
Why you should listen In this conversation, Chris Chung, CEO and co-founder of Titan, discusses the innovative features of Titan as a DEX aggregator on the Solana blockchain. He shares insights into the evolution of the Solana ecosystem, the impact of meme coins, and the importance of regulatory clarity for the future of crypto. Chris also explains Titan's unique algorithmic advantages and the concept of intent-based transactions, highlighting the potential for a seamless user experience in decentralized finance.
Titan currently has two main products. Firstly, Unique Spot Swap Routes (DEX Aggregator) Titan has developed its own unique algorithm that fixes problems associated with current solutions in finding the best trade routes. This has resulted in better prices for users 81% of the time.
Secondly, Meta Aggregation on Solana. To ensure that users always get the best deal, Titan aggregates multiple aggregators and will route the user to the best quote with no fees attached.
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Brandon Goh is Co-Founder & CEO of Treehouse. Focused on building the fixed income layer for digital assets, Treehouse introduces innovative fixed income products and primitives.
Why you should listen Treehouse Finance is carving out a niche in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space by focusing on fixed income solutions for digital assets. Treehouse introduces Treehouse Assets (tAssets) and Decentralized Offered Rates (DOR), aiming to establish robust benchmark rates essential for fixed income markets. This framework is designed to enable users to earn enhanced yields while contributing to a new era of fixed income products within the digital asset ecosystem.
One of Treehouse's flagship offerings is tETH, which allows users to engage in interest rate arbitrage strategies. By staking native tokens or Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs), participants can earn yields that combine LST annual percentage yields (APY) with Market Efficiency Yield (MEY). This approach seeks to align fragmented rates of native chain assets with their risk-free rates, optimizing returns for users.
Security and transparency are paramount for Treehouse. The platform undergoes regular security audits and maintains a bug bounty program to ensure the integrity of its protocols. Treehouse has established an insurance fund to further protect users' assets, reinforcing its commitment to building a secure and reliable DeFi environment.
Treehouse Finance is pioneering the integration of fixed income products into the DeFi landscape, offering institutions and individuals innovative tools to maximize yields while maintaining security and transparency.
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David Iseminger is CEO of IronWeave, a public blockchain with unscannable privacy. IronWeave is redefining blockchain, data storage, AI, and payments with its patented multi-blockchain fabric platform, which surpasses existing solutions in scalability (over 1 million TPS), privacy, security, and cost-efficiency.
Why you should listen IronWeave is redefining blockchain infrastructure with its patented multi-blockchain fabric platform, a revolutionary approach that shatters the limitations of traditional public blockchains. Unlike conventional networks that store transactions on a single, linear ledger, IronWeave introduces a Shared-Block Architecture, where each data interaction is private, encrypted, and isolated, ensuring unscannable privacy. This allows businesses, individuals, and AI systems to store, share, and transact data securely, without exposing sensitive information to unauthorized third parties. With a scalability breakthrough of over 1 million transactions per second (TPS) and on-chain micro-payments, IronWeave is poised to become the backbone of decentralized, high-speed digital economies.
What truly sets IronWeave apart is its cost efficiency and enterprise-grade capabilities. With 80% lower per-byte data costs than Solana, it delivers an unparalleled value proposition for organizations seeking affordable yet high-security blockchain solutions. Unlike traditional blockchains, where every transaction is public and visible, IronWeave’s compartmentalized blocks ensure that only authorized participants can access specific data, making it the most privacy-centric yet compliant L1 blockchain available. This design not only mitigates data breaches and security risks but also allows seamless AI-driven automation, real-time processing, and enhanced digital ownership without the inefficiencies of centralized cloud storage.
Currently raising $15 million to reach mainnet launch and a token offering later this year, IronWeave is offering early investors a highly attractive entry point. With 16.7% equity in the company, token warrants for 10% of the token generation market cap, and exclusive staking benefits, early backers stand to gain significantly from its rapid adoption. Already securing patents and strategic LOIs with major players—including a partnership with a stablecoin issuer serving 170+ countries—IronWeave is targeting a $1 billion+ run-rate profitability within a year of commercial launch. As AI, Web3, and decentralized finance (DeFi) demand scalable, secure, and private data solutions, IronWeave stands at the forefront, ready to redefine the digital infrastructure of tomorrow.
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Sebastien is the CEO and co-founder of Sophon - building amazing onchain experiences focused on entertainment and lifestyle applications.
Why you should listen Sophon is reimagining the future of blockchain by making it invisible to the end user, focusing on delivering seamless entertainment experiences that feel natural to mainstream consumers. Unlike most crypto projects that emphasize technical innovation within a niche audience, Sophon is breaking out of the echo chamber by embedding blockchain's advantages—ownership, engagement loops, and decentralized infrastructure—into products people already use. Backed by Binance Labs, Maven11, and a successful $60 million node sale involving 200,000 participants, Sophon is led by former ZKSync executives who understand that mass adoption won’t come from convincing people to use crypto, but rather from offering better internet products powered by onchain technology.
To achieve this, Sophon is prioritizing high-impact sectors such as gaming, social platforms, AI, and prediction markets—where users are already engaged—while stripping away the complexity that has traditionally hindered crypto adoption. Features like seamless logins, gasless transactions, and intuitive interfaces remove friction, making blockchain’s benefits accessible without requiring technical knowledge. Beyond just financial speculation, Sophon is enabling the financialization of culture through sustainable, value-driven ecosystems, moving past the short-term hype of meme coins. Their curation model ensures that only high-quality applications with strong user retention make it onto the platform, differentiating Sophon from previous blockchain iterations that flooded the market with low-value projects.
Additionally, Sophon’s network is designed to align incentives through a node-based participation model, turning retail investors into active contributors rather than passive speculators. This approach fosters a more engaged and decentralized ecosystem, reinforcing its long-term viability. By partnering with industry leaders like Beam (gaming), Aethir (decentralized compute), and OPEN (ticketing), Sophon is proving that blockchain’s future lies in enhancing real-world applications, not just creating financial instruments. The shift toward an onchain-powered internet is already underway, and Sophon is positioning itself at the forefront of this transformation.
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Pocket Network's mission is to provide the world with unstoppable open-source infrastructure. They aim to empower developers with access to reliable, performant, and cost-effective data access. Pocket Network's vision is a future where the world's most important digital infrastructure is owned and governed by its users.
Why you should listen In this episode, Jinx, Head of Operations at Pocket Network, dives deep into the importance of decentralized infrastructure and open data in the blockchain ecosystem. He breaks down why centralized providers create single points of failure and how Pocket Network is building a more resilient and censorship-resistant alternative.
Jinx explains how Pocket Network’s decentralized RPC services enable developers to access blockchain data without relying on Web2 intermediaries, ensuring high availability, security, and cost efficiency. The conversation also explores the upcoming Shannon upgrade, a major evolution designed to enhance scalability, reduce friction for developers, and make participation in the network more accessible.
Beyond infrastructure, Jinx highlights why uninterrupted, permissionless access to data is critical—not just for blockchain applications, but for AI agents, financial systems, and emerging digital economies. He shares his vision of a future where decentralized networks uphold free speech, empower innovation, and redefine digital collaboration.
The discussion also delves into the role of the Pocket token (POKT) in incentivizing node operators and securing the network, as well as the vibrant community that powers its growth. Whether you're a developer, an investor, or just someone who believes in the decentralized future, this episode offers key insights into the infrastructure that will shape the next era of the internet.
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Robby Greenfield is the founder of Umoja, a structured finance protocol that enables next-generation YVTs with lower risk and higher yields for any blue-chip cryptocurrency.
Why you should listen Umoja Labs is a Web3-focused technology company committed to building blockchain-driven financial solutions that foster global economic inclusion. Their core offering, the Umoja Protocol, is designed as an advanced yield-generation platform specifically optimized for cryptocurrency investors. At its heart is the tokenized asset $yBTC, which provides users with the ability to earn yield on Bitcoin holdings in a secure, compliant, and efficient manner.
The platform allows investors to stake Umoja’s native token ($UMJA) to earn yield-bearing Bitcoin tokens ($yBTC), effectively compounding their cryptocurrency assets. Umoja achieves competitive yields through sophisticated liquidity management and strategic partnerships with leading DeFi protocols, including Goat Protocol and Bunni. These collaborations enhance the protocol’s ability to optimize returns while maintaining robust risk management practices.
Security remains paramount for Umoja Labs. The protocol has undergone comprehensive audits, including certification from Certik, a respected blockchain security firm. Additionally, Umoja partners with trusted custodial providers like Cobo to ensure institutional-grade security for users' assets. By combining innovative tokenization strategies, rigorous compliance standards, and robust security measures, Umoja Labs aims to transform cryptocurrency investing into a more accessible and lucrative opportunity for investors worldwide.
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Carter Razink is co-founder at Spree Finance, the Blockchain-native Commerce and Credit Infrastructure layer empowering decentralized payments, rewards, settlement, & credit for 2M+ top brands and merchants.
Why you should listen Spree Finance is pioneering a blockchain-native commerce infrastructure designed to revolutionize traditional payment systems. By integrating decentralized payments, rewards, settlement, and credit, Spree aims to provide a seamless experience for both consumers and merchants. Set to launch in February 2025, the platform boasts a network of over 2 million premium merchants, enabling users to effortlessly exchange cryptocurrencies for travel, luxury products, and exclusive experiences.
One of Spree's standout features is its ability to significantly reduce transaction fees. Traditional payment networks often impose fees exceeding 3% per transaction, with funds taking days or even weeks to reach merchants. In contrast, Spree's decentralized system cuts these fees to near-zero and ensures near-instant settlement. This efficiency is achieved through a peer-to-peer network that facilitates rapid merchant funding, addressing longstanding challenges in the payment processing industry.
The platform introduces two native tokens: SPREE and Spree Points (SP). SPREE serves as the governance token, allowing holders to run validators, stake for rewards, and influence the ecosystem's direction. Spree Points, on the other hand, are stablecoin-backed tokens redeemable across the extensive merchant network. Consumers can pay directly with cryptocurrencies from self-custody wallets, converting their crypto into Spree Points for seamless transactions. Merchants can then redeem these points into USD through licensed network partners, ensuring flexibility and trust in the system.
Beyond payments, Spree Finance offers a decentralized credit marketplace. Qualified participants can access crypto-backed credit lines for purchases, while merchants have the option to tokenize unpaid credit card receivables, selling them to network participants for quicker access to funds. This peer-to-peer credit market not only provides liquidity but also offers stakers the opportunity to earn yields from network fees upon repayment. By bridging the gap between cryptocurrency and mainstream commerce, Spree Finance is set to reshape the future of payments and credit.
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Tom Ngo is the CEO of Metis, a permissionless Layer 2 network powering the next generation of decentralized applications and AI data systems.
Why you should listen Metis is redefining the Ethereum Layer 2 landscape with its ambitious ReGenesis initiative, a transformative step toward integrating AI with blockchain technology. Metis is introducing infrastructure tailored for AI-driven applications. Central to this vision is LazAI, a decentralized AI framework designed to solve the fundamental issue of data alignment in artificial intelligence. Unlike conventional AI models, which rely on centralized, opaque datasets, LazAI leverages blockchain’s transparency and composability to democratize AI data, ensuring bias-resistant, context-aware, and verifiable AI models. This innovation positions Metis as a key player in shaping an AI-native Web3, where intelligent agents and decentralized AI economies thrive.
ReGenesis represents more than just a technical upgrade; it’s a fundamental restructuring of the blockchain ecosystem to support high-performance AI computation. The initiative introduces Andromeda’s dual-chain architecture, combining AI’s need for high throughput with the deterministic security of Web3 transactions. Through innovations like Decentralized AI Assetization (DAT) and Verified Computing, Metis ensures that AI-generated data and models are treated as on-chain assets, allowing their value to be transparently assessed and traded within the Web3 economy. By integrating AI governance mechanisms such as iDAOs (individual decentralized autonomous organizations), Metis is laying the groundwork for a decentralized AI economy, where users, rather than centralized corporations, dictate the direction of AI innovation.
Beyond infrastructure, Metis is actively fostering AI-native applications through its Alith AI agent framework, enabling intelligent, on-chain automation. This positions Web3 as not just a decentralized financial system but as the foundational layer for AI’s next evolutionary leap. By creating a high-throughput blockchain network purpose-built for AI, incubating decentralized AI projects like LazAI, and establishing mechanisms for AI asset verification, Metis is spearheading the convergence of AI and Web3. In doing so, the project ensures that AI does not remain monopolized by tech giants but instead becomes a shared, transparent, and community-driven force, shaping a future where blockchain and AI coalesce into a self-sustaining digital ecosystem.
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Roman Cyganov is the Founder and CEO of Antix, a company pushing the boundaries of Web3, AI, and gaming technologies. At the heart of Antix is Avagen, a proprietary technology that builds hyper-realistic AI-powered humans.
Why you should listen Antix has a growing global client base, working with industry giants such as Warner Brothers, Porsche, Tencent, and HBO Entertainment. With over 20 clients, 20 completed projects, and 70+ cinematic experiences created, they have a proven ability to deliver innovative, scalable solutions.
At the heart of Antix is Avagen, a proprietary technology that builds hyper-realistic AI-powered humans, fundamentally changing client engagement in the digital space.
Antix's mission is to bridge the gap between real and virtual worlds through hyper-realistic digital humans.
Digital Assistants, Digital Influencers and Digital Twins are here. There are many implications for this. Antix is working to build a token economy and blockchain-proven ownership of a digital ID, this is the type of protection users need for this innovation to be a positive technology for all.
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Jasper De Maere is Head of Research at Outlier Ventures, the world’s leading Web3 accelerator and most active Web3 investor. Their new thesis, called the Post Web Thesis explores the intersection of Web3 and AI.
Why you should listen The "Post Web Thesis" is a new body of work from Outlier Ventures. Chapter 1, titled "The Web is Disappearing," argues that we're moving beyond Web3 into an era where AI-driven agents act on our behalf, making traditional web interfaces less relevant. This shift transitions us from an attention-based economy to an intention-based one, where users delegate tasks to autonomous systems. The chapter critiques the slow adoption of Web3 and sets the stage for a future where AI and blockchain converge to create agent-first networks.
The second chapter is called, Turning the Web3 Tech Stack into the Post Web Stack. The journey from Web3 to The Post Web is not just an evolution; it’s a transformation of the internet’s core principles and architecture. At the heart of this transformation lies The Post Web Technology Stack — the foundational framework of Chapter Two in the four-part Post Web thesis. This chapter builds upon the Web3 foundation they’ve collectively constructed, and optimizes it for a new primary user: AI agents.
The thesis is structured into four chapters:
- The Why: Examines the limitations of Web3 and introduces intent-based architectures.
- The How: Explores the technology stack powering the Post Web, including wallets and decentralized AI.
- The What: Identifies the defining traits of the Post Web, such as being intent-based, verifiable, and hyper-contextual.
- The Endgame: Presents the ultimate vision of a fully verifiable and data-driven economic model, termed the Computable Economy.
This progression suggests a future where the internet becomes an extension of our agency, with machines transacting and collaborating autonomously. The "Post Web" concept is both ambitious and thought-provoking and provides a detailed roadmap for the next decade.
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Zac Williamson is the co-founder and CEO of Aztec, a privacy-first Layer 2 solution on Ethereum.
Why you should listen Aztec Network is a privacy-centric Layer 2 (L2) solution built on Ethereum, aiming to enhance user confidentiality and transaction scalability within the blockchain ecosystem. By leveraging zero-knowledge proofs, specifically zk-SNARKs (Succinct Non-Interactive Argument of Knowledge), Aztec enables encrypted transactions that maintain the transparency and security inherent to Ethereum.
Traditional blockchains like Ethereum operate with full transparency, where all transaction details are publicly accessible. While this openness ensures trustlessness and verifiability, it compromises user privacy, exposing sensitive financial data and potentially deterring broader adoption. Aztec addresses this issue by introducing a privacy layer that conceals transaction details without sacrificing the integrity of the blockchain.
A key component of Aztec's technology is its zkRollup architecture, which aggregates multiple transactions into a single proof, thereby enhancing scalability and reducing gas fees. This batching process allows Aztec to offer up to 100 times cost savings compared to standard Ethereum transactions, making private transactions more economically viable.
Aztec Connect is a platform that integrates privacy features into existing Ethereum DeFi protocols such as Lido, Curve, and Element Finance. This integration allows users to engage in private staking, lending, and other DeFi activities without exposing their financial data. Developers can utilize Aztec's SDK and bridge contracts to seamlessly incorporate privacy features into their applications, promoting a more secure and user-friendly DeFi ecosystem.
Aztec's commitment to privacy extends to its development of Noir, a universal language for zero-knowledge proofs. Noir simplifies the creation of private smart contracts by abstracting complex cryptographic concepts, enabling developers to write code without deep expertise in zero-knowledge technology. This initiative broadens the accessibility of privacy-preserving applications within the blockchain space.
The network's vision for a trustless, scalable, and decentralized L2 solution has garnered significant attention and investment. Aztec secured $100 million in a Series B funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), underscoring the industry's recognition of the importance of privacy in blockchain technology.
By integrating privacy features directly into Ethereum's infrastructure, Aztec Network empowers users with enhanced security and confidentiality, paving the way for broader adoption of decentralized applications. Its innovative approach ensures that users can transact and interact within the Ethereum ecosystem without compromising their personal data, marking a significant advancement in the evolution of blockchain technology.
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Georgios Vlachos is the co-founder of Axelar Protocol and director at Axelar Foundation. He received his BSc and MS Eng. in computer science at MIT. After graduation, he became part of the Algorand founding team. Axelar is a Web3 interoperability platform, delivering the shortest path to scale: an open stack to connect all blockchains.
Why you should listen Axelar is a decentralized network designed to seamlessly connect various blockchain ecosystems, enabling secure cross-chain communication for Web3 applications. By acting as an overlay network, Axelar allows developers to build decentralized applications (dApps) that can interact with assets and functionalities across multiple blockchains, simplifying user experiences and broadening access to decentralized economies.
In 2024, Axelar introduced the Mobius Development Stack (MDS), comprising:
Interchain Amplifier: A tool that allows for the permissionless connection of new blockchains to the Axelar network, enhancing scalability and flexibility.
Interchain Token Service (ITS): Enables the minting and management of tokens across multiple blockchains, maintaining their fungibility and custom functionalities.
Axelar Virtual Machine (AVM): Provides a programmable layer for cross-chain logic, allowing developers to deploy smart contracts that operate across different blockchain ecosystems.
These innovations aim to establish new interoperability standards, facilitating the development of dApps that can seamlessly operate across various blockchain networks.
The native utility token of the Axelar network, AXL, plays a crucial role in maintaining network security through staking, enabling governance participation, and serving as a medium for transaction fees. This tokenomics model incentivizes active participation and ensures the network's robustness and scalability.
By providing a comprehensive solution for cross-chain communication, Axelar is contributing to the unification of blockchain ecosystems, promoting greater accessibility, and driving the adoption of decentralized applications across the Web3 landscape.
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Sid, Co-founder of Nirvana Finance, shares insights into the evolution of the Nirvana DeFi protocol, and the resilience demonstrated after a significant hack in 2022. He discusses the innovative features of the just launched Nirvana Version 2, including enhanced security measures and the introduction of the Market Driven Mint, which aims to stabilize liquidity and pricing. Sid emphasizes the importance of transparency and accountability in DeFi governance, highlighting how Nirvana's approach sets a new standard in the industry.
Why you should listen Nirvana Finance has relaunched as Nirvana V2. In July 2022, the protocol was targeted in a high-profile hack, resulting in the loss of customer funds. Following legal action, Nirvana achieved a historic victory with the conviction of the hacker—the first U.S. legal case involving DeFi hacking. Nirvana V2 is a revitalized platform, celebrating not only its restitution efforts but also advancements in security, governance, and tokenomics.
Setting a new precedent in the DeFi space, Nirvana V2 has reimbursed all funds stolen during the 2022 hack. This achievement underscores the protocol’s community-first ethos, further exemplified by the introduction of a perpetual recovery model. Through an innovative revenue-sharing mechanism, all protocol-generated revenue will be distributed continuously to hack victims.
To address vulnerabilities exposed during the hack, Nirvana V2 introduces a single-collateral reserve system designed to enhance the protocol’s security and stability. This isolated approach eliminates the risk of cascading failures and provides robust protection against external shocks. With these measures, Nirvana V2 positions itself as a safer and more resilient platform for users navigating the dynamic DeFi landscape.
Governance in Nirvana V2 takes a step forward with its Automated Token-Managed Adjustments (ATMA) system. Unlike traditional governance structures, ATMA relies on token-based voting to enable continuous, incremental adjustments to protocol parameters. Importantly, governance tokens are earned solely through organic protocol use, with no insider allocations, ensuring fairness and aligning participants’ interests with the protocol’s long-term success. These tokens also serve as revenue-sharing assets, directly linking governance activity to the protocol's financial performance.
Central to Nirvana V2’s value proposition is the Market-Driven Mint (MDM), an advanced framework for token price stability. The MDM ensures that all liquidity remains protocol-owned, fostering durability, predictability, and fairness in tokenomics. The ANA token, Nirvana’s flagship asset, features a reserve-backed rising floor price mechanism that adjusts automatically with demand. This ensures a minimum exit value, limiting downside risk while offering unlimited upside potential, making ANA a highly reliable collateral asset within the ecosystem.
Nirvana Finance was established to challenge systemic flaws in traditional DeFi protocols, including insider allocations, opaque operations, and unstable liquidity solutions. Nirvana V2’s combination of decentralized governance, robust security, and pioneering tokenomics aims to set a new standard for fairness, transparency, and resilience in DeFi.
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Bam Azizi is the CEO & Co-Founder of Mesh Connect, Mesh securely enables safer and easier crypto deposits, payments, and on-ramping from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform.
Why you should listen In this conversation, Bam Azizi, CEO and co-founder of MeshConnect, discusses the challenges and opportunities in the crypto space, particularly focusing on user experience and the importance of stablecoins. He explains how MeshConnect aims to bridge the gap between complex crypto transactions and everyday usability, enabling businesses to offer seamless crypto payment solutions. The discussion also touches on market trends, the future of tokenization, and the need for clearer regulations in the crypto industry.
Mesh, founded in 2020 by CEO Bam Azizi and COO Adam Israel, is revolutionizing the financial technology landscape by simplifying cryptocurrency transactions. Their platform enables seamless crypto deposits, payments, and on-ramping from over 300 leading exchanges and wallets, all within a single, unified API.
The company's suite of products includes Mesh Deposit, Mesh Pay, and Mesh Ramp, each designed to enhance user experience and security. By eliminating the need for API keys and manual address entries, Mesh allows users to connect their preferred exchanges or wallets directly to a platform, facilitating direct wallet-to-wallet transfers without leaving the host application.
Security is a cornerstone of Mesh's offerings. The platform employs a zero-trust architecture and is SOC 2 Type II certified, ensuring that no personally identifiable information or user credentials are stored at rest. This commitment to security not only protects users but also streamlines the integration process for businesses, with most integrations completed in under a week using Mesh's developer-friendly APIs and SDKs.
Mesh's innovative approach has attracted significant investment, including a $22 million Series A funding round in September 2023.
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Tom Trowbridge is an advocate for decentralized systems. Tom is a co-founder of Fluence Labs, and Hedera Hashgraph (HBAR) where he was President from Inception. He co-founded Fluence Labs in 2019 to revolutionize cloud computing by offering decentralized, serverless solutions that reduce reliance on traditional providers like AWS.
Why you should listen Fluence Network is an open, decentralized platform designed to revolutionize how applications and services operate on the internet. It provides a peer-to-peer network that enables developers to build, deploy, and scale decentralized applications (dApps) without the need for centralized infrastructure. Unlike traditional cloud-based solutions, Fluence leverages a network of independent nodes to provide computation and storage, making it highly resilient, secure, and censorship-resistant.
At its core, Fluence is built on Aqua, a unique programming language tailored for distributed systems. Aqua allows developers to write composable, modular workflows that seamlessly interact with multiple services across the network. This design enables the creation of sophisticated dApps that can interact with various APIs, blockchain protocols, and traditional systems. Aqua’s ability to orchestrate services on decentralized infrastructure removes reliance on centralized servers, making applications more robust and transparent.
The network itself is powered by a decentralized marketplace of computing resources. Node operators provide storage and computational power to the network and are compensated through Fluence’s native economic model. This incentivizes participants to maintain the network’s efficiency and reliability. Developers, in turn, benefit from flexible pricing and the ability to scale their applications as demand grows without locking themselves into proprietary ecosystems or platforms.
Fluence distinguishes itself through its emphasis on composability and collaboration. The platform enables developers to share and reuse application components, fostering a community-driven ecosystem of reusable modules and services. This not only accelerates development but also reduces duplication of effort, making the network an efficient environment for innovation. The open-source nature of Fluence further aligns with its goal of democratizing access to decentralized computing resources.
A significant application of Fluence is in Web3, where it acts as a critical infrastructure layer for decentralized finance (DeFi), NFTs, and other blockchain-powered services. By integrating seamlessly with blockchain networks, Fluence can provide scalable, off-chain computation that complements the strengths of on-chain operations. This hybrid approach opens up new possibilities for complex dApps that require high-performance computing alongside blockchain security and transparency.
Fluence Network represents a shift toward a more open and decentralized internet. It empowers developers to build applications that prioritize user autonomy, data privacy, and resistance to censorship. With its innovative technology and community-first ethos, Fluence is poised to become a foundational layer for the next generation of the internet.
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Pablo Castillo is CEO and CTO of Chain4Travel. Chain4Travel is the lab building the Camino Network, a Layer 1 blockchain designed for the needs of the travel industry. It provides travel-related businesses with web3 technology. The ecosystem has unified data standards for seamless communication, decentralized payments/settlements infrastructure, KYC/KYB for security. The CAM token powers it.
Why you should listen Chain4Travel aims to revolutionize the travel industry by integrating blockchain technology to create a more efficient, secure, and interconnected ecosystem. At the heart of this transformation is the Camino Network, a blockchain platform tailored specifically for the travel sector.
Today's travel industry is hindered by outdated systems and fragmented supply chains, with some standards and protocols exceeding 40 years in age. This antiquated infrastructure results in sluggish product development and technical enhancements, impeding innovation and efficiency.
Chain4Travel envisions a decentralized and collaborative travel ecosystem. By leveraging blockchain, the Camino Network facilitates seamless connections across a distributed network, enabling rapid transactions and significantly reducing costs. This approach fosters collaboration among travel technology systems, establishing a single source of truth and paving the way for new business models, including B2C2B and C2C interactions.
The Camino Network is a blockchain platform designed for the global travel industry, promoting seamless integration of travel offerings. It incorporates Know Your Business (KYB) and Know Your Customer (KYC) processes, self-custodial wallets, and supports a variety of use cases.
Complementing the Camino Network is Camino Messenger, a decentralized network that connects travel suppliers and distributors for efficient trade. By mapping existing systems to Camino Messenger, businesses can easily access new partners, such as hotels, airlines, and car rentals. This tool streamlines API management, standardizes communication, and unlocks innovative monetization opportunities.
Founded by industry veterans Ralf Usbeck, Thomas Stirnimann, and Pablo Castillo, Chain4Travel leverages decades of experience in travel technology. Their vision is to build a collaborative network that enables digital innovation for the global travel industry, positioning Chain4Travel as a pioneer in this transformative journey.
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David Pinger is the co-founder of Warden Protocol. Warden brings AI to web3, enabling any application, protocol or smart contract to integrate trustworthy AI.
Why you should listen Warden Protocol is a blockchain platform designed to bring artificial intelligence (AI) into the Web3 world. It allows developers to easily add AI capabilities to their applications, smart contracts, and protocols. By combining blockchain and AI, Warden Protocol ensures that AI predictions are trustworthy and secure.
At the heart of Warden Protocol is the AI Blockchain Interface (AIBI). This tool helps integrate AI into blockchain systems by verifying that AI models are producing accurate results. The verification process uses a unique method involving cryptographic proofs and blockchain consensus to ensure reliability.
Warden Protocol has two main layers. The Verification Layer ensures that AI outputs are accurate and secure using cryptographic validation. The Execution Layer helps developers integrate AI into apps and smart contracts across different blockchains, automating processes efficiently.
One of the standout features of Warden Protocol is its user-friendly design. Developers can integrate AI easily, without needing to understand complex cryptographic systems. It also enables smooth interactions across blockchains by aggregating multiple accounts, making it easier to sign transactions on different networks.
Developers can use Warden Protocol for several purposes. They can build applications with embedded AI for enhanced functionality. The platform also supports creating Omnichain Applications (OApps), which work across multiple blockchains. Additionally, Warden introduces Keychains, which handle secure key storage and transaction signing, simplifying cross-chain coordination.
Warden Protocol supports running validator nodes. These nodes help secure the network and allow participants to earn rewards. This feature ensures the stability and security of the blockchain ecosystem.
Comprehensive documentation is available to help developers get started. The guides cover everything from basic information about the protocol to instructions for creating applications, managing Keychains, and running validator nodes. Warden Protocol also provides details about its tokens, WARD and WARP.
Warden Protocol is a cutting-edge solution for integrating AI into blockchain systems. It simplifies AI adoption for developers and creates opportunities for innovative Web3 applications. With its secure, flexible, and user-friendly design, it is set to play a significant role in the future of decentralized AI.
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Amitt Mahajan is the Co-Founder of Proof of Play. Proof of Play’s mission is to create fun, accessible onchain games and, in the process, develop novel technology that makes onchain game development easier for everyone.
Why you should listen Founded by leaders from Epic Games, Zynga, EA, Riot Games, Activision, Google, Facebook, Disney, and Warner Brothers, Proof of Play’s mission is to create fun, accessible onchain games and, in the process, develop novel technology that makes onchain game development easier for everyone.
The company’s flagship game, Pirate Nation, is a fully onchain RPG where players battle monsters, build their pirate crew, and compete to become number one on the captain leaderboard.
The team has raised $33M in funding and is supported by a16z, Greenoaks, and other investors.
Pirate Nation is a fully onchain free-to-play pirate-themed roleplaying game (RPG). Pirate Nation is live on Proof of Play’s Apex chain.
Pirate Nation is a fully onchain game. This is a new type of game that's only possible using blockchain technology. The game and all of its functionality is running on the blockchain using hundreds of smart contracts. Onchain games have a lot of unique characteristics that distinguish them from traditional, centralized games: All player items, actions, and achievements are publicly viewable and auditable.
Onchain games are "forever games" and will continue to operate as long as the blockchain they are running on exists. It is possible for onchain games to be able to be remixed. Meaning players can add their own features or even create fully derivative works from the game. Onchain games are more secure and transparent. They are enforced with the same security that protects other assets on blockchains.
The Proof of Play engine, which powers Pirate Nation, isn’t just another gaming chain—it’s a cutting-edge onchain game engine designed to enable developers to build games onchain faster than offchain. They are developing a powerful, decentralized foundation for the next generation of onchain games, starting with Pirate Nation.
On November 14th, Proof of Play launched Pirate Nation Season 3, adding a refreshed crafting system, two new leaderboards, and an enhanced staking experience, deepening player engagement.
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Charles d'Haussy is CEO of dYdX Foundation. The dYdX Foundation is an independent not-for-profit foundation headquartered in Zug, Switzerland. dYdX Foundation’s purpose is to support the dYdX protocol and to foster community-driven growth in the dYdX ecosystem.
Why you should listen dYdX Unlimited has launched, marking one of the most significant upgrades to the dYdX exchange since the launch of the dYdX Chain in 2023. With dYdX Unlimited, users can instantly list and trade new markets with liquidity, earn passive yield through MegaVault, benefit from enhanced trading rewards, and earn lifetime commissions through the new Affiliate Program.
Key highlights of Unlimited include:
- Instant Market Listings: list any market with immediate liquidity. Anyone can launch a new leveraged market to trade crypto, prediction markets, and more with up to 20x leverage on dYdX.
- MegaVault Global Liquidity Pool: provide liquidity across all dYdX markets through automated market-making. Depositors have a potential passive income strategy by sharing in MegaVault’s P&L.
- Revamped Trading Rewards Program: A redesigned incentive structure that rewards both traders and market makers with DYDX tokens, encouraging engagement and liquidity over a 4-month period.
- Affiliate program: enable users to earn referral commissions, offering rewards up to $1,500/month per referral with a VIP program for high-performing affiliates.
Together, MegaVault and Instant Market Listings let users trade anything, instantly, with liquidity.
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Mihai Alexandru Radu is Head of Investor Relations at SphereX, a pioneering perpetual decentralized exchange (DEX) in the decentralized finance sector, aiming to redefine digital asset trading with unmatched freedom and innovation.
Why you should listen SphereX is a decentralized exchange (DEX) aiming to democratize finance by making trading accessible to everyone. Drawing inspiration from Robin Hood, SphereX emphasizes fairness, accessibility, and empowerment within the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector. The platform combines the efficiency of centralized exchanges (CEXs) with the security and transparency of DeFi, offering an order book mode and a user-friendly interface reminiscent of traditional CEXs. SphereX enables seamless cross-chain and cross-asset trading, ensuring high liquidity and minimal slippage. It also leverages Layer 2 Zero-Knowledge Rollup (L2 ZK Rollup) technology to enhance transaction speed, reduce costs, and address scalability challenges while maintaining robust security and risk controls.
SphereX is governed through the TraderDAO Round Table, an exclusive decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) for professional traders. This invite-only group plays a pivotal role in shaping the platform's governance and future developments, including decisions on trading pairs, ecosystem deployment, and new DeFi features. By introducing this governance model, SphereX addresses fragmentation and centralization concerns within the DeFi space and ensures that its community remains at the heart of decision-making.
To foster user engagement, SphereX offers several incentives and rewards. These include trading fee deductions, commission sharing, and competition jackpots, which encourage active participation on the platform. Additionally, staking and validator rewards incentivize users to contribute to the governance process. SphereX also builds community engagement through referral bonuses, copy trading rewards, and social trading initiatives, creating a vibrant and supportive ecosystem for traders.
SphereX is redefining the DeFi trading experience by combining user-friendly interfaces, advanced security measures, and community-driven governance. Its focus on empowering individual financial freedom, paired with a transparent and innovative approach, positions SphereX as a transformative force within DeFi.
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Tharaka is Head of Partnerships at Kontos, a zk-powered omnichain abstraction layer. Kontos aims to break down barriers in Web3 by providing solutions that simplify cross-chain interactions through a user-friendly interface.
Why you should listen Kontos is a blockchain platform that simplifies cross-chain transactions by integrating artificial intelligence (AI) and chain abstraction technologies.
This approach allows users to interact with multiple blockchains without needing an in-depth understanding of the underlying complexities. The platform's AI Agent, powered by a large language model, identifies users' transaction intents and automates complex cross-chain operations, enhancing efficiency and user experience.
Launched on June 30, 2023, by Zecrey Labs, Kontos aims to break down barriers in the Web3 space by providing solutions that simplify cross-chain interactions through a user-friendly interface.
The platform offers a unified interface for interacting with blockchains, abstracting accounts, assets, behaviors, and gas fees. This design enables users to focus on their intentions without worrying about the complexities of gas fees, cross-chain bridges, network switching, or account management.
Kontos also provides a Web App and a Telegram Bot, offering users multiple avenues to access its services. The Web App serves as a gateway to the Kontos protocol, providing secure and intuitive management of digital assets in decentralized finance.
The Telegram Bot allows users to interact with Kontos' AI Agent directly through the messaging platform, facilitating seamless transactions and market analysis.
By integrating AI and chain abstraction, Kontos lowers the barrier to using Web3 technologies, promoting the widespread adoption of blockchain and attracting more users and developers to the ecosystem.
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Omar Ramadan, CEO and co-founder of BlockCast, discusses the challenges of content delivery in the current internet landscape, particularly the monopolistic control over media distribution and the resulting internet capacity crunch. He explains how BlockCast aims to decentralize content delivery using blockchain technology, allowing individuals and organizations to participate in a more efficient and equitable media distribution system. The discussion also covers the marketplace dynamics for CDNs, the product roadmap for BlockCast, and Omar's vision for the future of internet broadcasting.
Why you should listen Blockcast is a cutting-edge content delivery network (CDN) that utilizes multicast technology to revolutionize internet content distribution. Unlike traditional centralized CDNs, Blockcast operates through a decentralized caching architecture. This approach aggregates capacity from a global network of nodes, enabling content providers, such as streaming platforms and gaming companies, to deliver high-quality experiences more efficiently. By leveraging this decentralized framework, Blockcast reduces delivery costs and extends its reach to even the most remote areas.
At the core of Blockcast’s offering is its Multicast Adaptive HTTP Proxy technology. This enables one-to-many content delivery, optimizing bandwidth usage and alleviating network congestion. Blockcast is creating a Capacity Marketplace where content providers can purchase delivery capacity from a diverse range of network operators, including ISPs, over-the-air broadcasters (ATSC, 5G, DVB, and satellite), and individual users hosting caching nodes. This system not only maximizes resource utilization but also opens up new revenue streams for participants.
Blockcast’s decentralized caching nodes play a vital role in enhancing content delivery speed and reliability. Individuals and organizations are incentivized to host these nodes through Web3 token rewards, encouraging widespread participation and bolstering the network’s robustness. The benefits of this setup extend across various stakeholders. Content providers can cut delivery expenses while maintaining high-quality service and expanding into underserved regions. The multicast capabilities further allow for the efficient delivery of high-resolution content like 4K streaming without additional cost burdens.
Broadcasters, including ATSC 3.0 television stations, cellular carriers, and satellite operators, can capitalize on their existing infrastructure by contributing data channel capacity to Blockcast. This not only helps them generate new revenue streams but also allows them to participate actively in the evolving digital content ecosystem. Similarly, CDNs and ISPs gain an opportunity to extend their capacity and reach, especially in geographies where deploying traditional infrastructure may not be economically feasible.
In April 2024, Blockcast joined the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) to support the development of ATSC 3.0 technologies. This collaboration underscores Blockcast’s dedication to mitigating network congestion and inefficiencies tied to unicast content delivery. By integrating over-the-air digital technologies, Blockcast is positioned at the forefront of content distribution innovation.
Blockcast’s decentralized approach addresses key challenges in the content delivery space, including high costs, network congestion, and infrastructure limitations. Its scalable solution is well-suited for the increasing demands of today’s digital content consumers, providing an efficient, cost-effective alternative to traditional CDNs.
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Phillip Alexaeev, is the Chief Growth Officer of CrossFi, Cross Finance is a next generation digital ecosystem offering cutting-edge payment solutions. Phillip shares insights into his journey in growth marketing, the importance of building during bear markets, and the innovative ecosystem of CrossFi. He discusses user acquisition strategies, the significance of user confidence, and the future trends in the crypto space, including real-world assets and interoperability.
Why you should listen CrossFi is a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that blends traditional financial services with blockchain technology, operating on its proprietary Layer 1 blockchain, CrossFi Chain. This infrastructure aims to provide secure, transparent, and efficient financial solutions.
The CrossFi Chain features a modular architecture comprising two key components: a Cosmos-based component for handling consensus, block production, and transaction creation, and an EVM-based component for Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatibility, enabling seamless interaction with smart contracts. Within this ecosystem, CrossFi leverages a dual-token model. The Mint Power (MPX) token represents the computing power required for mining XFI coins through staking, while the CrossFi (XFI) token functions as a utility token, granting access to services, decentralized applications (dApps), and products.
CrossFi offers a suite of DeFi services, including liquidity provision, staking, and borrowing of algorithmic stablecoins such as xUSD, designed to harness multi-chain benefits and provide users with diverse financial tools. To foster innovation, the CrossFi Foundation supports ecosystem development through grant programs targeting users, developers, creators, and validators. Initiatives like the CrossFi Evolution Hackathon aim to drive innovation and expand the platform’s capabilities.
Additionally, the platform plans to launch the xAssets decentralized platform, allowing users to mint, trade, and swap synthetic tokens representing real-world assets such as commodities, stocks, and currencies. This feature will offer financial products like margin and options trading, typically available only in traditional markets. Complementing these innovations, CrossFi is developing a crypto banking app and a CrossFi Card, which will provide a full suite of banking services with Web3 security.
By integrating traditional financial instruments with cutting-edge blockchain technology, CrossFi seeks to redefine the financial landscape, delivering decentralized, transparent, and user-centric financial solutions.
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Mehdi and Driss are the founders of Exponential, an investment platform that makes it easy to discover, assess, and invest in decentralized finance (DeFi) yield opportunities.
Why you should listen DeFi enables anyone to become a lender or market maker. When individuals have the power to grow their wealth exponentially, financial freedom is within reach for everyone.
The problem is that investing in DeFi is complex and risky. Exponential is intended to help investors assess the risk of DeFi yield opportunities so they can invest with confidence.
Exponential.fi is battle-tested and ready to grow your crypto. After a year of rigorous beta testing, Exponential emerged as a proven and reliable decentralized finance (DeFi) investment platform for investors of all levels — from newbies to degens. Now, crypto holders across 90 countries can access DeFi investment opportunities on a compliant platform designed to grow their crypto safely, easily, and gas-free.
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Vetted investment opportunities – their team of experts curates the top 5% of DeFi pools, all backed by comprehensive risk assessment and research.
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Institutional-grade fund safety — all funds are held 1:1 and protected by multiple layers of security.
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Seamless DeFi investing, no gas fees — one-click trading, streamlined performance tracking, and simplified tax reporting, all with a flat trading fee of .2%
They start with risk analysis and empower DeFi investors with the tools to assess the risk of DeFi investments. That’s why they built the first advanced risk assessment system in DeFi, which distills thousands of risk vectors into a simple rating, from lowest risk to high risk. Rate My Wallet, our ground-breaking risk assessment product, has enabled crypto holders to assess the risk of $23B in asset value, to date.
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Dmitry Meshkov is Founder and CEO of QUEX Tech. Quex are launching a next-gen Oracle which will be an alternative to Chainlink and sets the security standard for DeFi, RWA, and Prediction Markets.
Why you should listen Quex is revolutionizing blockchain oracles by integrating hardware-level cryptographic security to provide secure, decentralized data transfer to blockchain platforms. Their oracle solution addresses the pressing issue of data manipulation, which costs the DeFi space $400 million yearly, by notarizing HTTPS requests and ensuring verifiable on-chain data. This approach is especially valuable for the rapidly expanding Real-World Asset (RWA) market, projected to reach $16 trillion by 2030, where secure, tamper-proof data is crucial. Using trusted execution environments (TEEs), Quex enables robust data integrity for DeFi, prediction markets, and RWA applications, creating a secure foundation for future decentralized applications.
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Avi Zurlo is the new CEO at =nil; Foundation building an Ethereum L2 powered by zkSharding. =nil; Foundation is rolling out Testnet v1 for its Ethereum Layer 2 solution, powered by zkSharding. This launch marks a major step on their roadmap after the initial Devnet release in July. With zkSharding, =nil; Foundation’s new L2 combines the efficiency of appchains with the cohesive capabilities of a monolithic blockchain, aiming to offer unmatched scalability and interoperability for Ethereum developers.
Why you should listen In this conversation, Avi Zirlo, CEO of NIL Foundation, discusses his journey in the crypto space, the vision and goals of NIL Foundation, and the significance of ZK sharding in building scalable applications on Ethereum. By enabling zero-knowledge (zk) proofs and sharding, =nil; allows developers to build scalable decentralized applications. Each shard in its architecture processes transactions independently but reports back to a primary shard, which validates and syncs data across Ethereum. This approach promises enhanced transaction efficiency, security, and low costs, making =nil; a robust framework for developing high-performance blockchain applications. Avi shares insights on the current landscape of Ethereum layer 2 solutions, the launch of NIL's testnet, and the focus on developer experience. Avi also provides his perspectives on the Ethereum ecosystem, market trends, and the future of blockchain technology.
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Siwon Kim is the Co-Founder and CEO of Botanika, a hyper-scalable, hyper-efficient decentralized data storage platform.
Why you should listen In this conversation, Siwon Kim, co-founder and CEO of Botanica, discusses the importance of decentralized data storage and how Botanica aims to address the growing demand for data storage solutions. He explains the innovative AI-powered hardware nodes that differentiate Botanica from other providers, the tokenomics behind their native token Bonsai, and the strategies for user acquisition. Siwon Kim also highlights Botanica's role in the AI narrative and shares insights on the product rollout and future plans.
The Botanika B1 device offers a decentralized solution for scalable, secure, and efficient data storage. Combining hardware optimized for AI tasks with the Botanika Protocol, it tackles high cloud costs, security risks, and inefficiencies of centralized storage by dispersing data across a global node network. Key features include AI-driven resource allocation, data sharding, and B-Code compression for significant cost savings. Botanika aims to provide high-performance, low-latency access, making it ideal for industries needing reliable, scalable, and decentralized storage solutions.
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Incubated by Nvidia Inception VC Alliance, Compute Labs leverages its self-developed Compute Tokenization Protocol to financialize AI, enable direct exposure to compute assets, and create compute derivates, empowering investors to effortlessly yield from compute, the currency of the future
Why you should listen Compute Labs believes that compute will become the currency of the future, they are committed to democratizing access to this advanced AI infrastructure. Their mission is to establish the financial ecosystem for compute as an emerging asset class from zero. By leveraging blockchain technology and enabling financial derivatives, Compute Labs aims to reshape AI investments and create diversified opportunities for investors interested in capturing the most fundamental infrastructure, AI compute, throughout the AGI journey. They aim to be the premier platform for compute tokenization, derivatives, and structured products.
In this conversation, Albert Zhang, founder and CEO of Compute Labs, discusses the innovative approach of financializing AI through compute assets. He explains the vision behind Compute Labs, the tokenization of GPU resources, and how this model aims to democratize access to AI infrastructure. The discussion also covers the engagement of both retail and institutional investors, the collaboration with AI companies, and the roadmap for product rollout. Albert shares insights on the Nvidia Inception VC Alliance, the future of AI and AGI, and why investors should consider Compute Labs as an opportunity in the evolving landscape of AI and crypto.
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Fabian is the co-founder of Illuminodes, guiding the development of the SALUD Protocol, which aims to give individuals control over their health data. Fabian shares insights on the challenges of managing health data, the collaboration with local hospitals in El Salvador, and the integration of global standards in health data management.
Why you should listen The SALUD Protocol is a groundbreaking initiative aimed at revolutionizing the way healthcare data is managed in El Salvador, using the NOSTR protocol. The pilot project, launched at Paravida hospitals in collaboration with the Salvadoran tech initiative Illuminodes, seeks to address the growing concerns around centralized healthcare systems and patient data privacy. Currently, many healthcare data systems are controlled by large corporations, which often monetize this data at the expense of patient privacy. With the SALUD Protocol, the aim is to return control of personal health data to the individual.
SALUD, which stands for "Sistema de Administración de Libertad Único y Descentralizado," offers a decentralized method of managing healthcare information. By leveraging blockchain technologies, it ensures that health data remains tamper-proof, trustworthy, and accessible only on a need-to-know basis by authorized healthcare providers. The promise of SALUD lies in its ability to provide accurate, decentralized data storage, reducing costs compared to traditional systems while also preventing single points of failure (SPOF).
El Salvador has positioned itself as a leader in both financial and technological innovation, particularly under the leadership of President Nayib Bukele, who made Bitcoin legal tender. With new healthcare laws on the horizon, El Salvador offers a prime testing ground for SALUD’s pilot program. This initiative represents more than just a local change; it reflects a global shift towards decentralized control of personal data, which is increasingly being seen as a fundamental human right. The team behind SALUD is optimistic that the success of this project will serve as a model for other countries and systems worldwide, ushering in a new era of digital sovereignty and patient-controlled healthcare data.
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Sam Williams is the founder of Arweave. The Arweave network is like Bitcoin, but for data: A permanent and decentralized web inside an open ledger. The Arweave protocol is stable, mature and widely adopted.
Why you should listen Permanent storage has many applications: from the preservation of humanity's most important data, to the hosting of truly decentralized and provably neutral web apps.
In this conversation, Sam Williams, founder of Arweave, discusses the vision behind Arweave as a permanent data storage solution, its implications for information control, and the development of the Permaweb. He introduces the AO protocol, a decentralized supercomputer, and explains the economic model behind it, emphasizing the importance of liquidity in attracting users. The conversation also touches on the Universal Data License and the future of decentralized services in cyberspace
Arweave is a decentralized storage network that aims to provide a permanent, tamper-proof archive of data on the blockchain. Unlike traditional cloud storage platforms that charge ongoing fees and store data temporarily, Arweave introduces a novel concept called the "permaweb." This innovation guarantees that once data is uploaded, it will be available indefinitely without requiring the uploader to keep paying to maintain access. This is achieved through a unique economic model and technical infrastructure.
Data can never be taken down or censored, offering an unprecedented level of freedom for content creators and developers. Users have built platforms like decentralized social media apps, content archiving services, and even NFT marketplaces on Arweave, taking advantage of its promise of permanence.
A key part of Arweave's value proposition is that users only pay a one-time fee to store data, covering the cost for its perpetual storage. The one-time payment is calculated based on the current price of AR tokens and the anticipated future costs of storage. The system is designed to scale effectively, with storage costs decreasing over time due to advancements in storage technology.
Arweave has attracted attention due to its role in solving the problem of data integrity, especially in an age where information can be manipulated. By ensuring that information stored on its network can never be altered or deleted, Arweave offers a solution for organizations needing long-term data archival, such as research institutions, media outlets, and governments. Arweave represents a radical shift in how we might think about data storage, offering a decentralized, permanent solution in contrast to the fleeting nature of traditional cloud services.
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Michael Stroev is the CEO of Venga, a universal crypto app aimed at bridging decentralized finance and traditional banking.
Why you should listen Venga is a versatile crypto app designed to simplify how users navigate the world of Web3 and decentralized finance (DeFi). Launched with a mission to bring blockchain technologies closer to mainstream users, Venga offers an intuitive, user-friendly platform that helps people buy, sell, and swap cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and others with ease. The app stands out by providing competitive exchange rates and lower fees, making it attractive for both newcomers and seasoned crypto enthusiasts.
The app aims to bridge the gap between decentralized technologies and traditional finance, addressing common issues in the crypto space such as poor user experiences, slow functionality, and a lack of trust. Venga is built on robust technology to avoid bugs and glitches, and it maintains a strong compliance-first approach. This is particularly important post-FTX, as trust in the crypto industry has become more critical than ever. Venga is fully registered as a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) in both Spain and Poland, ensuring it operates under strict regulations, which enhances user confidence.
Venga’s long-term vision includes making crypto more accessible by improving education around blockchain technologies. The team behind the app believes that lack of understanding is one of the biggest hurdles preventing the broader adoption of Web3. In response, the app not only provides trading tools but also aims to educate users on DeFi innovations, allowing them to discover and explore new opportunities in the crypto world.
Looking ahead, Venga plans to expand its offerings with features like staking, additional cryptocurrencies, and its own Venga token. The team has big plans for 2025, including launching a fully-fledged cryptocurrency exchange and more advanced DeFi products, all while maintaining a focus on security, compliance, and a seamless user experience.
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Dr. Himanshu Tyagi is a Core Contributor at Sentient, a blockchain project enabling community-built open AGI He’s a researcher in information theory, applying its principles to solve real-world problems. Currently, he's a Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Why you should listen Sentient is an AI research organization fostering a new Open AGI Economy for AI Builders and Creators. It is building platforms and protocols to enable open-source AI developers to (1) monetize their models, data, and other innovations, (2) collaborate with each other to collectively build powerful AIs, and (3) be significant stakeholders in a new Open AGI economy.
Today, the development of AI is almost entirely controlled by a few organizations and a few individuals at those organizations. These organizations are locked into a feverish race to build AGI and, in the process, make critical decisions for all of humanity.
On the other side, a large fraction of humanity is working to build AI developer and user skills. They have limited ways to showcase and contribute their skills and even worse ways to be gainfully employed.
Sentient has the goal of bringing ownership rights to open AI development. By inventing science and technology that enables anyone to build, collaborate, own, and monetize AI products, we will birth an era of AI entrepreneurship.
Sentient is building an AI platform for builders to collaborate and monetize their innovations. AI builders are the workhorses and principal actors of this economy, the ones who innovate and collaborate to build powerful new AI offerings. The underlying blockchain protocol and incentive mechanism provide the necessary economic alignment needed for the evolution of Open AGI in this collective offering.
For all this to work, it is necessary that the powerful AI models hosted on Sentient are Open, Monetizable and Loyal (OML) – “loyal” models are those which remain aligned with the community that built them, enforced by the underlying blockchain protocol.
Sentient has pioneered a new ambitious field in AI research with OML models. OML models will drive a shared Open AGI economy, supporting millions of AI agents and further downstream applications for billions of AI users.
The next generation of AI will be able to reason, plan, and act strategically. This AI will be built using new innovative agents and by learning from interactions between these agents, underlying models, and humans. The Sentient AI platform will enable the community and the AI built by them to participate and learn from these interactions, with the underlying blockchain protocol ensuring everyone is incentive-aligned.
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Leanid Palkhouski is the Head of Ecosystem at Network3, helping AI developers efficiently train and validate models using Network3’s AIoT Layer 2 technology.
Why you should listen Network3 builds a dedicated AI Layer2, enabling AI developers worldwide to efficiently train, validate, and optimize models at scale through advanced techniques like AI model optimization, compression, federated learning, edge computing, and confidential computing.
They recently secured $5M to build Edge AI infrastructure, growing to over 300,000 nodes and 100,000 daily active sessions.
Network3 announced its new Local Large Language Model (LLM) feature at the TOKEN2049 DePIN Summit. This feature enhances the AI processing capabilities of smart devices by optimizing performance and reducing reliance on cloud computing. With Edge AI, data processing is done directly on local devices, improving efficiency, reducing costs, and enhancing privacy. Network3 aims to make AI and Web3 more accessible by allowing IoT devices to train small AI models and offer rewards for shared computing power. The new LLM will launch for testing soon.
Network3’s N3 Edge V1 mining device, designed for decentralized physical infrastructure (DePIN) applications, sold out within seconds of its release. The high demand for the device reflects strong market interest in DePIN, which enables the deployment of decentralized infrastructure networks using token incentives. The N3 Edge V1 offers powerful edge computing capabilities, contributing to Network3's broader goal of enhancing smart device networks.
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Roy Hui is the Co-Founder and CEO of LightLink, a Layer 2 blockchain company that lets dApps and enterprises offer users instant, gasless transactions. Roy also founded Pellar, a Web3 builder of blockchain solutions for government and enterprises.
Why you should listen LightLink is an Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain platform designed to offer fast, gasless transactions, primarily aimed at enterprises and decentralized applications (dApps). It was developed by Pellar Technology, a company that has been creating blockchain solutions for enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region since 2017. One of LightLink's key innovations is its Enterprise Mode, which allows businesses to run on the blockchain without requiring their users to pay transaction fees or even possess tokens, thereby simplifying the user experience.
The platform stands out for its scalability and affordability, boasting a transaction throughput of over 10,000 transactions per second (TPS) at a cost of less than $0.01 per transaction. This performance is achieved using its Optimium architecture, which separates the consensus, execution, and data availability layers. LightLink integrates with Celestia's data availability solution, enhancing security and allowing the platform to continue functioning even if the Layer 2 network goes offline.
In addition to its performance advantages, LightLink offers a gasless transaction model for both developers and enterprises, making it easier to scale decentralized applications without the need for complex tokenomics.
The platform's native token, LL, is used for governance, staking, and utility within the ecosystem. LightLink is also designed to be fully EVM-compatible, meaning developers can migrate their Ethereum-based projects to LightLink without needing to modify their code, simplifying the process of building on the network.
LightLink's mission is to make blockchain adoption as seamless and intuitive as possible, abstracting away complex features like gas fees so that users can interact with blockchain technology as easily as they do with traditional Web2 applications.
LightLink and its partners have demonstrated cutting-edge web3 capabilities in over 50 projects, including Australian Open, Translucia, The Red Village, Vhils, CoalaPay, and more.
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Tim Kravchunovsky is the founder and CEO of Chirp. Chirp is a DePIN network founded by a team of Telecommunications experts. Tim Kravchunovsky has over 20 years of experience as a network engineer, having held a position as a Consulting Engineer at the World Bank, Comacast and Chemonics International. Tim founded Chirp in January 2021 to connect the world through groundbreaking, accessible technology that has the potential to transform the way we live our daily lives.
Why you should listen Chirp’s mission is to connect the largest number of devices with the blockchain under one revolutionary network and a SaaS platform. With a focus on IoT and Mobile, Chirp aims to redefine the future of wireless communication.
DePIN is one of the leading crypto narratives of 2024. DePIN uses blockchain to develop physical infrastructure like telecom communication, storage, IoT, and more. By decentralizing infrastructure, DePIN achieves tech scale and gives power back to the users.
Tim Kravchunovsky, founder and CEO of Chirp, discusses the ambitious goals of Chirp in creating a global IoT ecosystem that connects real-world devices through decentralized technology. He shares insights on the challenges of IoT connectivity, the importance of breaking down barriers between different devices, and the potential of decentralized networks to empower communities. Tim emphasizes the need for standardization in IoT and the role of Chirp in facilitating this transformation, while also touching on the future of smart cities and the impact of blockchain technology.
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Curvance is a modular liquidity management protocol designed to optimize the use of yield-bearing assets and ERC-20 tokens. Curvance DeFi aims to be the “everything app” for lending and borrowing, designed to help address fragmentation across chains and protocols.
Why you should listen Curvance is a chain-agnostic reward and utility layer for yield-bearing assets and other ERC-20 tokens. Initially to be launched on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Blast, Base, Optimism, and Polygon zkEVM, it aspires to establish itself as the de-facto reward and utility layer for any ERC-20 token.
Curvance as a protocol allows users to unlock further capital efficiency on yield-bearing assets. The vault technology's modular approach allows the support of nearly any ERC-20 token.
The goal of Curvance is to become DeFi’s end-game and the de-facto "everything app" to facilitate user access to lending and yield generating protocols.
As DeFi continues its growth trajectory and more sophisticated yield-generating products are built upon existing DeFi infrastructure, the market size and prevalence of yield-bearing assets are expected to expand significantly.
In this evolving landscape, Curvance assumes a pivotal role, facilitating the continued growth of DeFi by empowering users to leverage their assets through borrowing, lending and staking protocols, thus amplifying their capital efficiency and opening doors to new opportunities.
A key component of this vision is Curvance's multichain strategy that enables Curvance to tap into different flywheels quickly. This removes one more step in the users journey, further simplifying the DeFi experience.
As a result, Curvance can provide services to a broader range of users and leverage the strengths of different yield-bearing asset protocols and markets, maximizing its revenue potential.
The goal is to become the top liquidity management layer for new crypto users and experienced DeFi veterans. This mission starts with supporting and integrating the biggest revenue generating protocols in DeFi, abstracting the complexity required to access these opportunities away from the user. Additionally, the multichain strategy enables Curvance to expand to emerging chains and protocol flywheels that are in demand easily.
The Curvance protocol capitalizes on the extensive composability of yield-bearing assets and ERC-20 tokens, allowing tokenized treasuries, tokenized NFT markets, and other primitives to be borrowed against in a decentralized peer-to-peer fashion. It will open a whole new world of capital efficiency and optimized yield.
On Curvance, users can access third-party protocols that facilitate earning a competitive Annual Percentage Rate (APR) on assets. Curvance unlocks additional utility and reward layers that can unlock liquidity by securing loans against user assets and in some cases earn CVE tokens via the Gauge System.
Hence, Curvance can be regarded as the final top layer for DeFi yield.
Upon beta, Curvance will be live on at least Ethereum, Arbitrum, Blast, Base, Optimism, and Polygon zkEVM. By being multichain from the start, Curvance places itself at the center of the multichain DeFi landscape and aligns itself with similar protocols.
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Albert Castellana is the Co-Founder and CEO at Yeager AI, building GenLayer, a decentralized blockchain platform designed to integrate artificial intelligence directly into smart contracts. By combining blockchain and AI, GenLayer opens up a range of use cases, such as intelligent oracles, prediction markets, decentralized governance, parametric insurance, and more.
Why you should listen GenLayer is a decentralized blockchain platform designed to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) directly into smart contracts. These enhanced contracts, called Intelligent Contracts, surpass traditional smart contracts by not only executing predefined conditions but also by interacting with real-time data from the web and processing natural language. This integration allows GenLayer's contracts to perform tasks beyond basic transactions, such as decision-making based on dynamic, real-world information without the need for oracles.
At its core, GenLayer uses a Python-based execution environment called GenVM, which enables developers to create contracts that can interact with large language models (LLMs), such as GPT, to analyze and process complex information. The platform’s unique Optimistic Democracy consensus mechanism ensures that multiple validators, powered by AI models, reach an agreement on the validity of transactions. This consensus mechanism allows for greater flexibility, as validators can handle non-deterministic tasks (those with multiple possible correct outcomes) like interpreting natural language queries or accessing web data.
By combining blockchain and AI, GenLayer opens up a wide range of innovative use cases, such as intelligent oracles, prediction markets, decentralized governance, parametric insurance, and much more.
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Tyler Sloan is a Product Manager at ANKR, the leading Web3 infrastructure company. It has a set of different products for building, earning, gaming, and more — all on blockchain.
Why you should listen Ankr is a decentralized infrastructure platform designed to simplify access to Web3 services, making it easier for developers and enterprises to build, deploy, and manage blockchain applications. By leveraging a global network of nodes, Ankr aims to provide a cost-effective and efficient solution for interacting with blockchain networks, supporting various use cases in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.
Ankr focuses on providing reliable and scalable node hosting services. Developers can deploy their own nodes on the Ankr network, accessing a variety of blockchain protocols such as Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, and Polygon. This flexibility enables users to tailor their infrastructure according to specific project needs, ensuring optimal performance and reduced latency. By eliminating the need for extensive technical knowledge and resources, Ankr empowers developers to focus on building their applications rather than managing complex infrastructure.
One of the standout features of Ankr is its unique proof-of-stake consensus mechanism, which enables users to earn rewards by staking their tokens. This not only incentivizes participation in the network but also enhances its security and decentralization. Users can stake ANKR tokens, the native cryptocurrency of the platform, to support various blockchain networks while earning rewards in return. This dual functionality of staking and node hosting positions Ankr as an attractive option for both developers and investors.
Ankr also offers a developer-friendly suite of tools and APIs that facilitate seamless integration with blockchain networks. The platform provides SDKs (Software Development Kits) and documentation to help developers create decentralized applications (dApps) and services with ease. These resources streamline the development process, allowing for rapid prototyping and deployment of projects. Ankr’s commitment to fostering innovation is evident through its focus on community engagement and support, providing a vibrant ecosystem for developers to collaborate and share ideas.
Ankr addresses the scalability challenges faced by many blockchain networks. By utilizing its distributed architecture, the platform can handle a high volume of transactions without compromising speed or efficiency. This scalability is crucial for supporting the growing demand for decentralized applications and services in various sectors, including finance, gaming, and supply chain management.
Ankr is a comprehensive infrastructure solution for Web3, offering developers and enterprises the tools and resources necessary to thrive in the blockchain space. With its focus on accessibility, scalability, and community support, Ankr is poised to play a significant role in shaping the future of decentralized technology.
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Mathias Beke is Co-Founder and CTO at Kairon Labs, an advisor and crypto market maker for digital asset issuers.
Why you should listen Kairon Labs is a player in digital asset trading and liquidity provision, offering a wide range of services designed to optimize liquidity management for crypto projects and exchanges. Established as a leading market maker in the cryptocurrency space, Kairon Labs specializes in ensuring that digital assets have sufficient liquidity across centralized exchanges (CEXs) and decentralized exchanges (DEXs), allowing for seamless trading experiences for users and institutional clients.
One of the core services provided by Kairon Labs is liquidity provision. By utilizing sophisticated algorithms and market-making strategies, the company ensures that token projects can maintain tight spreads and consistent order books, helping to minimize volatility and enhance market depth. This service is vital for new token launches and ongoing token liquidity management, ensuring that tokens are traded efficiently across multiple platforms.
Kairon Labs also offers market-making services, acting as a liquidity provider to foster a healthy trading environment. This can be particularly beneficial for tokens listed on multiple exchanges, where liquidity fragmentation can hinder smooth trading. The company’s market-making solutions help reduce slippage, enhance price discovery, and improve overall market quality.
Kairon Labs also provides advisory services, leveraging its deep expertise in digital assets and liquidity management to help projects navigate the complexities of exchange listings, trading strategies, and regulatory landscapes. By offering tailored consulting services, they enable crypto projects to develop optimized strategies for liquidity deployment, tokenomics, and exchange relationships.
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Aaron Krowne is Partner & Practice Group Lead Blockchain & Corporate, at Industria Business Lawyers (IBL Partners) a technology-forward distributed law firm.
Why you should listen Since its founding in 2018, IBL Partners has leveraged versatility and technology to deliver professional and sophisticated legal services for innovators in the twenty-first century technology sector. Advances in technology, including AI, Blockchain and DLT, fintech, "DeFi", and "Web3", continue to revolutionize the industry. Unfortunately, government agencies and corporate stakeholders often find themselves playing catch-up with innovation. IBL Partners leverages its collective regulatory experience and expertise in technology to navigate the regulatory uncertainty and offer clients indispensable legal support in new frontier as well as established areas of the law.
Aaron Krowne is an attorney who arrived at the practice of law following a career in computing and technology, where he worked as a research data scientist.
He founded a series of online startup ventures, several of which attained global recognition. His pre-law career also includes establishing multiple online libel law precedents and participating in the early development of the Creative Commons IP license system.
He was one of the first lawyers globally to focus on blockchain, initially familiarizing himself with Bitcoin and its underlying technology in its early days.
Today, he advises a diverse array of blockchain and “crypto” companies, covering areas ranging from money services and AML law to NFTs, and works at the forefront of the professionalization and expansion of the rapidly-growing cryptocurrency finance and “DeFi” space.
Aaron joins Andy to discuss blockchain law, regulations, the regulation by enforcement approach of many US agencies, and the Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act.
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Mario F. Pazos is the marketing lead at the memorably named GOAT Network, the first BTC L2 to offer a sustainable yield.
Why you should listen BTC serves as a store of value, offering fewer opportunities for yield generation compared to other cryptocurrencies, like Ethereum or stablecoins. This limited utility in DeFi applications has resulted in lower returns for BTC holders.
BTC holders have serious concerns when their BTC moves to another chain. The security of Bridges and BTC Layer2 needs to be addressed given the limited functionalities of BTC scripts.
GOAT Network aims to solve this via its decentralized sequencer, the key to GOAT network's fairness and censorship resistance. A native Bitcoin Script based Locking mechanism is also introduced to guarantee GOAT Network is immune to Long-Range Attacks.
GOAT network’s OCP(Optimistic Challenge Process) is built on BitVM2’s permissionless bridge protocol and allows any computation off-chain to be verified on Bitcoin with Continuation techniques. Inspired by ZKM’s proof network, splits the SNARK verifier into a group of subscripts, and the subscripts are committed by MAST and Taproot on Bitcoin.
Decentralized sequencers create an open market to earn sustainable sequencer revenue (in BTC and GOAT Tokens).
Sequencer revenue can be tokenized in order to trade and generate additional returns. BTC holders can lock BTC on L1 to mint goatBTC on GOAT BTC L2; goatBTC can be used for yield generation.
GOAT token lockers earn additional goatBTC mint /redeem fees.
More ways to generate sustainable yield via Defi, Cefi and Tradfi are on the way.
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Jesse Beller is the co-founder and CEO at Terrace, the all-in-one trading terminal and portfolio management system for everything and everyone.
Why you should listen Terrace is a multi-wallet, non-custodial crypto trading terminal designed for both institutional traders and crypto enthusiasts. We offer best price routing, advanced order types, synthetic pairs, token screening, and portfolio management across 13 different blockchain networks. Users can choose between a DeFi-only (no KYC) platform or a KYC-enabled platform for access to top centralized exchanges (CEX), over-the-counter (OTC) markets, and market makers (MMs).
Terrace employs smart order routing and best price execution algorithms that analyze and execute trades across multiple decentralized exchanges (DEXs), centralized exchanges (CEXs), over-the-counter (OTC) markets, and market makers (MMs). The Pathfinder feature identifies and executes the most efficient trade paths from any token on any chain to another, ensuring optimal prices and minimal slippage. Terrace is backed by industry leaders like YCombinator, Hack VC, and Hashkey.
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Fran Stranar is the founder of Techemy Group and a core contributor to Stabull Labs, shepherding Stabull Fiance, the capital-efficient Web3 Money Market. Stabull’s mission is to democratizē the multi-trillion dollar FX and Commodities markets on-chain.
Why you should listen Stabull Finance is a decentralized exchange (DEX) that specializes in facilitating low-slippage, capital-efficient swaps between fiat-backed stablecoins, particularly non-USD stablecoins.
It operates as an automated money market (AMM) on the Ethereum and Polygon blockchains, aiming to provide liquidity for stablecoins like NZDS (New Zealand Dollar), EURS (Euro), 1GBP (British Pound), and TRYB (Turkish Lira). The platform is built to serve the foreign exchange (FX) market, which remains underrepresented in decentralized finance (DeFi), despite accounting for a large portion of global financial transactions.
Stabull allows users to perform fast and cost-effective swaps between stablecoins while minimizing price volatility and slippage, using a model that integrates FX oracle data to anchor pricing. Additionally, the platform provides opportunities for liquidity providers to earn rewards by staking stablecoin pairs, with governance rights also extended to those participating in the liquidity pools. Security is a core focus, with regular audits and a bug bounty program to ensure platform safety.
Stabull is addressing a gap in the DeFi space by providing infrastructure specifically designed for non-USD stablecoins, enabling decentralized and permissionless trading for a wide variety of tokenized fiat assets.
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Grant Robertson is the founder of Three Protocol, creating a series of decentralised marketplaces to open digital commerce to the world, including the unbanked, debanked, and those who value privacy.
Why you should listen Three Protocol aims to establish a network of autonomous marketplaces using blockchain technology. These marketplaces aim to facilitate Product, service and Real World Asset financial inclusion for individuals lacking traditional banking facilities.
Three Protocol uses the latest Neural Network Artificial intelligence technologies to increase marketplace procurement efficiency, to enable the utilization of cryptocurrencies for transactions and to instate equitable governance via a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO).
The first platform, Jobs3, is set to emerge as a decentralized contender to existing employment marketplaces such as Upwork and Fiverr.
Central to the project is the $THREE governance token, Neural Network machine learning, and ZKP pseudo-anonymisation Digital IDs alongside smart contract technology, which together will enable secure escrow services, efficient procurement of marketplace products, services, real-world assets, DAO-facilitated dispute resolution mechanisms, and seamless cryptocurrency purchase transactions.
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Mitchell Weijerman is the founder of Epic Mining. Epic Mining makes Bitcoin mining easy, accessible, and profitable for investors worldwide. Utilizing green energy and cutting-edge technology, Epic Mining provides a seamless, automated mining experience with real-time performance tracking and daily payouts.
Why you should listen Epic Mining offers an automated, turnkey solution for Bitcoin mining, designed to make the process accessible to both beginners and experienced investors. The company manages over 80,000 machines across multiple locations, leveraging low-cost green energy to maximize profitability. Clients can track real-time performance through a personalized dashboard, with daily payouts directly to their Bitcoin wallets. Epic Mining handles the technical setup, maintenance, and energy management, allowing users to participate in Bitcoin mining without requiring specialized knowledge. The company aims to democratize mining, providing a streamlined, passive income opportunity for investors. Mitchell shares his thoughts on mining profitability, the halving, and nation state involvement in Bitcoin.
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Uri Ferruccio is co-founder of Concordia, the first Adaptive Risk Layer that mitigates market risk for all of DeFi, and Tabiya Capital, a VC fund for next-gen data technologies.
Why you should listen Concordia aims to improve blockchain technology by infusing it with artificial intelligence, and the mission is to create an intelligent layer that acts as the “brain” for blockchain infrastructure.
Concordia delivers a scalable modular Adaptive Risk Layer that mitigates market risk and paves the way for mass adoption.
Concordia serves as a catalyst for unlocking DeFi's true potential by addressing core challenges and facilitating mass adoption. Through its modular Adaptive Risk Layer, developers can create groundbreaking applications, leveraging dynamic, AI-powered risk management for composable innovation. This proactive approach enhances resilience against systemic risks, safeguarding users and fostering trust.
As a result, Concordia empowers a new era of institutional adoption, forging a path towards a secure, scalable, and inclusive DeFi future. Its innovative framework cultivates a robust ecosystem, encouraging widespread participation and driving DeFi towards its full potential.
Functioning as a central hub for the next generation of DeFi innovation, Concordia's Adaptive Risk Layer offers unparalleled flexibility and adaptability. This enables builders to construct leading-edge projects within the ecosystem, promoting collaboration and pushing the boundaries of DeFi possibilities. Concordia's risk model creates a fertile ground for incubating cutting-edge DeFi protocols such as Superposition, paving the way for a wave of groundbreaking advancements yet to come. Each new protocol built upon Concordia further strengthens the AI engine, fueling its continuous learning and improvement through a powerful flywheel effect.
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Greg Osuri is the co-founder and CEO of Akash Network, an open network that lets users buy and sell computing resources securely and efficiently. The network is purpose-built for public utility.
Why you should listen Akash Network is a decentralized cloud computing platform that provides an open-source and decentralized marketplace for computing resources. It uses a blockchain-based system to facilitate secure and efficient buying and selling of computing power, which is offered by providers who manage infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters. Akash Network enables users to deploy applications using Docker containers, promoting a cost-effective and flexible alternative to traditional cloud services like Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure. Akash operates a marketplace where users can lease computing resources from various providers. The platform uses the Akash Token (AKT) for transactions, which also serves for governance, security through staking, and as a default exchange of value within the network.
Hosting on Akash is significantly cheaper—approximately one-third the cost—compared to conventional cloud services.
The platform is secured with a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchain, and AKT holders can participate in governance decisions. Akash provides greater infrastructure flexibility and is built on open-source principles, promoting community involvement and avoiding vendor lock-in.
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Tory Green is the co-founder & CEO at IO.net, the Internet of GPUs for large-scale AI startups.
Why you should listen io.Net is a decentralized GPU network designed to give unlimited computing power to ML applications by making computing more scalable, accessible, and efficient. Their mission is to unlock fair access to computing power by assembling 1 million + GPUs from independent data centers, crypto miners, and crypto projects such as Filecoin or Render.
io.net offers a fundamentally different approach to cloud computing, leveraging a distributed and decentralized model, which can provide more control and flexibility to users, our services are permissionless and cost efficient. The combination of all these factors sets io.net in its own league of Decentralized providers.
DePIN, or Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks, leverages blockchains, IoT and the greater Web3 ecosystem to create, operate and maintain real-world physical infrastructure. These networks leverage token incentives to coordinate, reward and safeguard members of the network. io.net is the first and only GPU DePIN. We are optimized for machine learning but suitable for all GPU use cases as we connect computing power providers with users to offer accessibility and profit for everyone involved.
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Jon Hargreaves is the Global Head of growth at Elastos, a public blockchain project building modern Internet infrastructure that provides protection for privacy and digital asset ownership.
Why you should listen ELA (Elastos) is a digital asset and part of a broader ecosystem aimed at creating a secure, decentralised internet. It benefits from merged mining with Bitcoin, meaning it leverages Bitcoin’s Proof of Work (PoW) security without additional energy consumption.
Smarter Bitcoin, powered by Elastos, revolutionises Bitcoin’s capabilities with merged mining and smart contracts, enhancing its utility and security. This innovative strategy leverages Bitcoin’s vast hashing power through merge-mining with Elastos, ensuring dual network security and rewarding Bitcoin miners with ELA. By marrying Bitcoin’s unparalleled security with Elastos’s scalability and flexibility, Smarter Bitcoin marks a significant advancement in blockchain technology, offering enhanced security, efficiency, and utility for both users and developers, paving the way for a more integrated and innovative digital world.
BeL2, Bitcoin Elastos Layer 2, is a Layer 2 platform enhancing Bitcoin by enabling its transactions to interact with smart contracts on other blockchains, offering unique interoperability and smart contract extension features. It stands out by allowing Bitcoin to maintain its integrity while engaging in the programmable and dynamic world of decentralised applications (DApps). BeL2 serves as a bridge, making Bitcoin more versatile without changing its fundamental protocol. It supports the development of DApps that capitalise on Bitcoin’s security and user base, thereby broadening Bitcoin’s utility and application scope. This Layer2 solution focuses on cross-chain interactions and smart contract integration, differentiating it from conventional Layer 2 technologies that primarily target scalability or transaction speed improvements.
Elacity is an Elastos project delivering a decentralised Digital Rights Management (dDRM) system to revolutionise digital asset monetisation by eliminating traditional centralised license servers. This innovative approach automates license issuance and enables immediate royalty payments, offering creators and organisations a platform to monetise digital assets directly in a global decentralised marketplace. By encrypting content into “Digital Capsules” distributed across decentralised networks, Elacity ensures secure, transparent, and equitable asset management.
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Vincent Gramoli is the founder and CTO of the Redbelly Network, a public purpose-built Real-World Asset Tokenisation Network.
Why you should listen Redbelly was born at the University of Sydney when Prof. Vincent Gramoli set out to see if he could build a fork-proof blockchain. Through a rigorous scientific development process and in partnership with CSIRO, the Redbelly Network was commercialised in 2021 with Mainnet launch scheduled for late 2024.
Redbelly's Compliant Asset Tokenisation solution is the bridge between the regulated Web2 economy of today and the Web3 economy of the future.
Redbelly is the only open and purpose-built accountable RWA network. Open, fast, scalable, cost-effective and natively compatible with assets in regulated markets.
Redbelly Network is a revolutionary solution for Compliant Asset Tokenisation, built on an open finance platform that embeds distributed ledger technology into the heart of financial relationships. This eliminates information asymmetry and dramatically increases efficiency, helping to build a fairer financial system for all. With a novel leaderless consensus mechanism, democratic byzantine fault tolerant (DBFT) consensus developed with The University of Sydney and CSIRO’s Data61, they are able to achieve high performance and guarantee the impossibility of forking and mitigate double spending with near-instant finality.
Redbelly Network is designed to focus on accountability. Accountability is enforced at a protocol level through a novel mechanism that constructs undeniable proofs of fraud -Polygraph; and at the functional level through an innovative identity layer that ensures all network participants are known.
Redbelly is projected to be #1 in Global RWA TVL by late 2024.
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Felipe Argento is co-founder at Cartesi and an advisor at the Cartesi Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the Cartesi technology and the decentralization of the Cartesi ecosystem.
Why you should listen Cartesi is a blockchain platform designed to bridge the gap between traditional software development and blockchain technology. It introduces a Linux runtime environment directly on the blockchain, which allows developers to utilize a vast array of mainstream software stacks and programming languages that are familiar and widely used. This capability makes the development of decentralized applications (dApps) more accessible and efficient by avoiding the need to rewrite or adapt existing codebases to blockchain-specific languages like Solidity.
One of the core features of Cartesi is its application-specific rollups, termed Cartesi Rollups. These rollups provide a dedicated computational layer for each dApp, which significantly enhances performance and scalability by handling complex computations off-chain while still securing them on the blockchain. This approach reduces the transaction costs associated with smart contracts and avoids blockchain constraints like gas limits.
Cartesi aims to foster a wide range of applications across various fields such as finance, gaming, and social networks by leveraging its scalable and developer-friendly platform. It supports a diverse ecosystem where developers can create more sophisticated and computationally intensive applications than those typically associated with traditional blockchain environments.
The platform also emphasizes community and governance, providing a framework where stakeholders can participate in decision-making processes and contribute to the development of the ecosystem. Cartesi offers various resources and tools for developers, including comprehensive documentation, developer hubs, and community forums to assist with dApp development and deployment on its platform.
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Nikita Ovchinnik is the co-founder of Barter DeFi, a prominent swap system handling on-chain volume of over 5 billion.
Why you should listen Barter is a decentralized protocol and solver system that provides transparent trade routes across liquidity providers like CoW Swap and UniswapX, minimizing costs and maximizing efficiency. Barter has over $5 billion processed on Ethereum.
Nikita Ovchinnik, co-founder of Bater DeFi, discusses the importance of decentralized finance (DeFi) and the role of intent-based exchange engines in improving user experience. He explains that intent-based systems, like Barter, offer more flexibility and better user rates compared to traditional centralized exchanges. Nikita also highlights the need for transparency and efficiency in DeFi and discusses the future of the industry. He believes that DeFi will continue to evolve and become more user-friendly, with improved liquidity and a wider range of assets. Nikita emphasizes the importance of standardizing the regulatory framework and the role of solvers in facilitating efficient trading across different platforms.
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Reagan Cook is an Accounting Subject Matter Expert at TaxBit, the leading enterprise provider for digital assets tax and accounting technology.
Why you should listen TaxBit is a premium end-to-end compliance and reporting solution for the Digital Economy. Their single API-powered platform for tax and accounting reduces manual work improving operational efficiency and more.
Reagan Cook, an accounting subject matter expert at Taxbit, discusses the company's tax and accounting solutions for the digital economy. Taxbit offers software solutions to create more efficient back-office processes and modernize reporting and accounting for companies transacting in crypto or digital assets. Their clients range from individual taxpayers to large enterprises like PayPal, Google, and the IRS. Cook highlights the unique accounting challenges in the crypto space, such as price volatility and evolving accounting guidance. She also emphasizes the importance of staying educated and getting ahead of accounting and reporting requirements in the crypto industry.
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Chris Feng is a co-founder and COO of Chainbase, the world’s largest omnichain data network designed to integrate all blockchain data into a unified ecosystem. Chainbase is building a decentralized data economy with advanced AI capabilities where anyone can participate, contribute, and be incentivized.
Why you should listen Chris Feng, co-founder and COO of Chainbase, discusses the importance of data in the blockchain era and the role of Chainbase as a data protocol. He explains that Chainbase aims to create a new data stack for the next generation of blockchain, where all data is interconnected and accessible.
The Chainbase mission is to become developers’ interface for interacting with on-chain data, offering reliability, accuracy, and openness.
Currently, Chainbase attracts over 15,000 developers and 8,000 project partners, managing over 500 billion data calls within the network. Now growing beyond Series A funding, they are backed by prominent funds including Tencent Investment Group, Matrix Partners, Hash Global, Folius Ventures, JSquare, DFG, Mask Network, Bonfire Union Ventures, and BODL Ventures. Chris highlights the key use cases of Chainbase, including providing real-time on-chain data, offering a comprehensive structure for developers, and enabling easier interaction with on-chain data for end users.
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Ezra Strauss, the Head of Partnerships at Portal, has a background in technology and gaming, previously working at Immutable and focusing on partnerships and business development. He joins Andy to discuss Portal, Portal Coin and the new Portal Pay payment solution.
Why you should listen Portal Pay, developed by Portal, is a new payment solution aimed at enhancing the blockchain gaming experience, empowering developers, and impacting the broader Web3 ecosystem. It is part of a broader product roadmap with transaction fees used to purchase the token.
Portal Pay offers unprecedented interoperability by allowing seamless transactions of any token from any chain within games. This improves asset management and the gaming experience by enabling easy transfers and purchases without leaving the game.
Developers benefit from the ability to receive payments in their preferred currency and the support for multiple blockchain networks. This reduces friction and broadens market reach, while also supporting NFT integration and management.
Portal Pay promotes interoperability and decentralization, facilitating seamless transactions across different blockchain networks. This contributes to the growth of decentralized applications (dApps) and services.
The platform uses smart contracts for secure and private transactions, supporting complex workflows and automated management of digital assets.
Portal aims to be the distribution layer for Web3, connecting users with top dApps, especially in gaming, and facilitating a unified ecosystem through innovative solutions and a liquidity layer.
Portal has just announced a partnership with Futureverse, one of the most influential players in AI and metaverse technology, to integrate Portal Pay—Portal’s cutting-edge crypto payment solution—across Futureverse’s expansive ecosystem.
The first four experiences to benefit from this integration include Reebok Impact, JenMusicAI, The Third Kingdom, and Apes Unleashed, bringing secure and seamless crypto payments to millions of users.
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James Bayly is COO and a cofounder at SubQuery, building fast, flexible, and scalable web3 infrastructure. Subquery is an infrastructure company that started as a data index and has now expanded to include RPCs and AI inference hosting.
Why you should listen Subquery is expanding its infrastructure services to include AI inference hosting, aiming to bring decentralization to the AI space. The Subquery network incentivizes node operators and delegators to participate in hosting AI models.
In 10 years, blockchain technology will be seamlessly integrated into applications, providing censorship resistance and privacy protection.
SubQuery is developing the next generation of Web3 applications for a global user base, with decentralization at its heart. At the core of this initiative is the SubQuery Network, an advanced infrastructure layer that supports decentralized data indexers and RPCs—essential tools for anyone developing decentralized applications (dApps). This network marks SubQuery as a contender against traditional centralized services by providing an open platform for node operators and delegators to contribute.
The potential for AI to reshape industries, including Web3, has caught SubQuery's attention. The company is actively integrating AI functionalities into its decentralized framework. SubQuery's focus lies primarily on AI inference—utilizing pre-trained models to analyze new data, rather than training new models. “While there are commercial platforms that host inference for custom models, similar offerings are sparse in the Web3 realm,” James explained. “Our decentralized network is for trustworthy, enduring AI model hosting.”
Currently, the AI inference market is controlled by centralized cloud services, which charge steep fees and utilize customer data to refine their proprietary models. “Big players like OpenAI and Google Cloud AI are not just costly; they also use your data to bolster their private solutions,” James pointed out. In contrast, SubQuery is dedicated to offering an affordable, open-source option for hosting production AI models. “Our aim is to enable users to deploy a production-ready LLM model on our network within just 10 minutes,” he added. Through the SubQuery Network, cutting-edge hosting for the latest open-source AI models will be available, providing scalable and accessible AI services for Web3. By adopting a community-based strategy, SubQuery aims to facilitate decentralized AI inference on a large scale, empowering a global community of independent Node Operators.
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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 countless challenges for collectors in pricing and sourcing specific, coveted bottles.
BAXUS modernizes the collectible spirits market by bringing it online and constructing a liquid marketplace that seamlessly connects buyers and sellers.
Built on Solana, the BAXUS Marketplace harnesses open Web3 payment infrastructure to reduce costs, increase transparency, and infuse liquidity into what has historically been a fragmented, offline market. Leveraging blockchain technology, BAXUS ensures unparalleled transparency and access, enabling real-time authentication, storage, and trading.
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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 landscape. One of the key ways that Luxolo is working to achieve this goal is through education. The company believes in the power of education to transform lives and empower individuals to take control of their financial futures in a fast-changing world.
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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 is building the decentralized infrastructure for secure, sovereign collaboration between humans and AI. Our mission is to empower you to thrive in this new era, not as a passive recipient of handouts, but as an active architect of your own future.
Central to this mission is the Autonomys Network, powered by the innovative Subspace protocol. This decentralized network, underpinned by a Proof-of-Archival-Storage (PoAS) consensus, enables individuals to farm the network by contributing storage, thereby earning rewards through active participation and skill. This model champions the dignity of meaningful work over passive dependence.
Autonomys Identity (Auto ID) is the key to self-sovereign identity in the age of AI. Auto ID empowers you to prove your humanity without subjecting yourself to invasive biometric scans. It allows you to control your AI’s permissions and authenticate AI-generated content, ensuring that you maintain authority over your digital footprint.
In contrast to projects like Worldcoin that promote a future of Universal Basic Income (UBI) and relinquished agency, Autonomys empowers users to benefit from their effort and capability. It’s platform enables you to learn cutting-edge AI technology, develop your own AI agents, and collaborate with AI to amplify your potential.
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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 applications and financial transactions.
Fuse is designed to empower anyone with the ambition to build on a decentralized blockchain infrastructure. Whether you're an existing crypto project, a startup, or a blue-chip company, Fuse welcomes you with open arms. This versatility enables the development of a wide range of products, from gaming and social applications to Web3 payment-focused solutions.
Fuse delivers a fast, cheap and borderless payment experience with their stablecoin-first payment stack.
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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 sidechains has led to a significant increase in BTC variants. These tokens are neither fungible nor easily swapped, creating a fragmented and complex ecosystem that could hinder the immense potential growth of BTCfi.
Leveraging years of experience in the DeFi and interoperability space, Persistence One is addressing this issue head-on by offering fast, zero-slippage, cross-chain swaps, enabling BTC to move seamlessly between different versions. Our solution will leverage scalable liquidity without limitations, driven by cross-chain intents.
For the widespread adoption of BTCfi, Bitcoin must be able to move seamlessly. With this vision, Persistence One aims to become the gateway for Bitcoin ecosystem swaps and a cornerstone hub for all BTC variants.
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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 KeyShares, for the purpose of running an Ethereum validator across multiple non-trusting nodes.
Running an Ethereum validator on ssv.network achieves active-active redundancy, introduces new levels of validator key security, and benefits the Ethereum network, staking pools, staking services and solo stakers.
Independent operators, located all over the world, provide the infrastructure for ssv.network and are responsible for maintaining its overall health. Each operator is free to choose the validator client(s) software they will run and their hardware infrastructure, while stakers are free to choose the independent operators that will run their validator(s). This increases the overall health of the Ethereum blockchain and further eliminates single points of failure and risk for stakers by allowing validators to run on multiple clients.
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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 attribution resources necessary to accomplish their revenue and player retention goals.
Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Stardust supports major gaming studios like Midnight Society, Shrapnel, Habbo, Tilting Point, Stillfront, and more.
Stardust recently announced the Starbase, a consumer-facing unified rewards and social gaming platform. Partnering with game titles like Nifty Island, Shrapnel, BloodLoop, Habbo Hotel, Cap’n’Company, and more, Starbase features missions and challenges that allow players to earn Gems while they play their favourite games. Gems are a part of a larger rewards system that aligns incentives between players, games, and advertisers through a broader network called Starnet. The company will be unveiling partners on a weekly basis and has already onboarded over 20 of the top web3 games to the Starbase missions platform.
Stardust recently announced a strategic partnership with Shrapnel, a highly-anticipated AAA first-person extraction shooter. The partnership plans to provide scalability to take the first-person shooter to the next level - with the potential to bring tens of millions of players into the blockchain gaming space. WaaS product enabled Shrapnel to offer invisible, custodial wallets to players, providing a seamless game experience while leveraging the underlying Shrapnel subnet.
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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, a handful of exchanges forcefully renamed the Pepecoin project with the ticker "MEMETIC" on their platforms to be politically correct. At the time, the project was the only other memecoin except for Dogecoin and it quickly grew in popularity. In 2017, it even attracted the attention of Vitalik Buterin himself. After several years of operating its own blockchain network, the Pepecoin project decided to migrate to the Ethereum blockchain to take advantage of EVM smart contracts and DEX platforms where their ticker could not be arbitrarily changed.
A group of opportunistic individuals saw the Pepecoin migration announcements and frontran it by deploying the $PEPE token that many of you know today - even going as far as to steal the original Pepecoin logo, until they were forced to remove it due to copyright. The OG $PEPECOIN contributors were fortunately no strangers to injustice. After all, they are battle-hardened crypto OGs who survived the great meme war of 2016. So rather than wallowing in their sorrows, they embarked on a journey to reclaim what is rightfully theirs by devving their way to the top.
Since then, they have released:
- PepeOS: A web application inspired by vintage operating systems
- Pepe Paint: A unique draw-to-NFT platform and marketplace that empowers artists to create & monetize their talent
- Kek Bot: An advanced AI trading engine that converts natural language into automated trades & rewards users for training it
- BasedAI: A custom layer 1 blockchain network for ZK-LLMs and smart contracts
- Pepe Messenger: A vintage MSN Messenger themed chat application for decentralized, E2E encrypted, wallet-to-wallet instant messaging with much more on the way!
Pepecoin is throwing a wrench in the well-oiled influencer shitcoin factory that churns out copypasta tokens to dump on unsuspecting average Joes. Instead, they are demonstrating that meme coins can and should be coupled with innovation and meaningful utility. You can either support the status quo by keeping the influencer assembly line running, or you can be part of history by joining the journey to becoming the first meme coin to be simultaneously considered a top-5 network. The #Pepening is inevitable
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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 Zealand and Australia’s role in the global crypto space, and what crypto adoption looks like down under.
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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 on USDC regardless of market cycles, as well as the option to participate in up to 30% in the Fund’s performance.
Why you should listen Credbull is a DeFi platform offered High Fixed Yield Structured Products. It has a licensed on-chain private credit fund. The platform is a blend of traditional finance (TradFi) and DeFi features, delivering high transparency, accessibility, and security in private credit investments. Credbull’s integration of blockchain technology allows for real-time transparency and decentralized governance over its fund operations, which includes everything from strategy formulation to risk management and performance evaluation.
The core products of Credbull are tailored to offer competitive fixed yields with lock-up periods designed to balance liquidity and return. These products are part of a broader strategy to attract a wide range of investors by breaking down barriers to access traditionally exclusive asset classes like private credit. Credbull is making private credit accessible to a broader audience, traditionally dominated by institutional investors and high net-worth individuals. This has the potential to democratize an asset class that has been out of reach for many investors.
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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 autonomy.
The platform operates entirely on-chain, supported by decentralized Chainlink oracles for accurate price feeds, and does not utilize traditional order books. Instead, trades are executed using the liquidity from the Synthetix debt pool, ensuring traders can execute trades at any price level due to the liquidity and stability provided by sUSD, a stablecoin used within the system.
Kwenta offers features like trading with up to 25x leverage and low transaction fees due to its construction on the Optimism layer 2 solution, which significantly reduces gas costs and trading fees compared to mainnet Ethereum. This system benefits from the security and consensus mechanisms of Ethereum while allowing faster and cheaper transactions.
In terms of community incentives, Kwenta rewards users who stake their KWENTA tokens and engage in trading. Stakers are eligible for a share of inflationary rewards generated from trading fees. The staking system is integrated into the Kwenta dashboard, allowing users to manage their stakes and claim rewards seamlessly.
Additionally, Kwenta supports delegated trading, allowing users to manage trading permissions within their wallets securely. This feature is critical for users who wish to allow others to trade on their behalf without giving permission to withdraw funds, ensuring that control over funds remains secure while still enabling active trading strategies.
Kwenta aims to push the boundaries of decentralized finance by providing a robust platform for trading derivatives on blockchain, backed by advanced security features and a community-driven governance model.
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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 mission to become the biggest casual games company. In the rapidly evolving world of blockchain gaming, Pixels is setting the stage to redefine player engagement and ownership through its unique integration of gaming and blockchain technology. Pixels is an open-ended world where players can farm, explore, and build one pixel at a time, offering a rich blend of resource management, skill advancement, and relationship building, all underpinned by an immersive narrative and quests.
The game leverages blockchain technology to record player progress and achievements, thereby marrying digital ownership with game advancement. This feature is aimed at enhancing the gaming experience by providing players with tangible ownership of their in-game assets and progress.
The developers of Pixels have expressed their mission to create a fun, accessible blockchain-backed game that serves as an entry point for millions into the web3 space. The game was initially cultivated around a core group of dedicated enthusiasts and has since expanded its community outreach, attracting a broader audience through strategic sharing and community building.
As Pixels moves into its next development phase, the focus is on pushing the boundaries of web3 gaming by experimenting with and iterating on its core components. The development team is particularly interested in exploring features unique to web3 gaming, such as play-to-earn models, guild systems, on-chain reputation, player personas, social-fi, and interoperability among different platforms.
The ambition behind Pixels is not only to innovate within the web3 framework but also to discover and implement features that have yet to be fully explored in the gaming industry. This ongoing exploration is expected to significantly impact the next generation of gaming, making Pixels a potential pioneer in the space.
The game's approach and the technology backing it suggest a promising shift towards more interactive and ownership-driven gaming experiences, setting a new standard for what is possible in the world of web3 gaming.
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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 apps like Telegram. PlaysOut’s platform and SDK solution tackles the profitability challenges faced by game developers and traffic providers worldwide, ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to earn rewards for their effort and engagement with games. The profitability of games serves as support for PlaysOut, upon which web3 empowerment is built, amplifying the value of excellent products.
PlaysOut is poised to revolutionize web3 gaming by fostering a thriving community through innovative developer and gamer tools. This focus on a healthy ecosystem will attract high-quality games and players while also engaging better with the existing audience. By setting a new standard for transitioning web2 games and building a unified platform, PlaysOut is on track to become a central force in the future of gaming, where the best of both worlds collide.
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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 the DeXe DAO protocol is as simple as clicking through a guided menu and selecting the best options for your needs.
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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, manage, and scale applications across a network of nodes.
This infrastructure is powered by the FluxOS, an operating system that manages node operations and resource allocation efficiently. By utilizing FluxOS, developers can deploy Dockerized applications, which are easily scalable and highly resilient to failures.
One of the key features of Flux is its incentivized node operation model. Node operators are rewarded with FLUX tokens, the native cryptocurrency of the platform, for contributing computational resources to the network. This incentivization ensures a robust and reliable network of nodes, promoting decentralization and reducing the risk of single points of failure.
Flux also supports interoperability with other blockchains, making it a versatile choice for developers. The platform’s flexible architecture and comprehensive toolset empower developers to create innovative applications without being constrained by traditional cloud infrastructure limitations.
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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 security while coordinating, orchestrating, and executing user calls. This unifies diverse blockchains and introduces unprecedented domain fluidity.
True interoperability entails seamless interaction with applications. Stripchain is engineered to eliminate developer complexities, making application chains arbitrary. The goal is to provide a user experience comparable to web2, reflecting Stripchain’s vision.
Stripchain aims to revolutionize transaction order flow by integrating StripVM into various applications, achieving true interoperability. It enables developers to facilitate cross-domain communication, allowing users and applications from different domains or chains to interact and respond to requests, fundamentally changing our perspective on interoperability today.
Stripchain supports scalable cross-domain communication between users and applications, paving the way for a more interconnected blockchain ecosystem.
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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's major innovation is it's novel consensus mechanism, Satoshi Plus, that unites Delegated Proof of Work (DPoW), Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS), and Non-custodial Bitcoin Staking. Through this combination, Core Chain incorporates Bitcoin miners in the security of Turing-complete smart contracts, unlocks the functionality and utility of those miners beyond the simple maintenance of the Bitcoin ledger, and provides them with purely additive supplemental income in the form of CORE token rewards. This symbiotic relationship works to strengthen Bitcoin without consuming Bitcoin block space or detracting from the miners' primary role as defenders of the Bitcoin network. While DPoW leverages Bitcoin miners, through the DPoS, Core Chain leverages both the CORE and BTC holders that stake their assets onto the Core blockchain and influence the network’s consensus by delegating their staked assets to the validators on the Core Chain network.
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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 by offering a platform where artists can be directly rewarded for their work and fans can engage with their favorite artists. The current streaming landscape, dominated by platforms like Spotify, has its advantages for listeners, but artists often struggle to earn a fair income. Helios seeks to change that by allowing fans to directly support the artists they love. The platform utilizes an algorithm that distributes subscription fees based on user engagement, ensuring that artists receive their fair share. Helios also plans to incorporate NFTs, ticket sales, and advertising to further support artists and provide a comprehensive music experience for users. The platform is currently in beta and plans to launch fully in September.
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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 sell USDz permissionlessly on Automated Market Makers (AMMs) with USDC. Qualified Market Makers can directly mint USDz with Anzen if they fulfill the KYC/KYB requirements. Users can stake USDz in certain jurisdictions to receive sUSDz and earn staking rewards.
As an ERC-20 compatible token, USDz functions across all crypto protocols. It is also compatible with the LayerZero Omnichain Fungible Token (OFT) standard for bridging across multiple blockchains. Anzen is working with partners to increase the usefulness of USDz across the entire DeFi ecosystem.
RWA tokenization injects liquidity into traditional assets and enables fractional ownership and seamless global transactions without complex bureaucratic processes. Tokenized RWAs open the market to a wider range of digitally savvy investors by lowering entry barriers and providing flexible investment opportunities. Thus, digitized RWAs positively affect retail and institutional investors and the financial markets.
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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 advanced AI assistant powered by neural network-based large-scale models. This assistant utilizes a transformer-based deep learning framework to train and enhance its language understanding system. The AI assistant will appear in the form of Wonki, and users can interact with it through conversation to receive services and earn $WII. Wonki can engage in interactive communication through text and voice, providing players with a range of intelligent assistance functions including answering open-ended questions on various topics, searching the internet for advice and solutions, creating articles and stories, offering learning and trading guidance, providing emotional support and encouragement, assisting in programming, and conducting data collection, organization, and analysis.
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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 and applying them to problems that arise in our increasingly technological society.
The DFINITY Foundation is a major contributor to the Internet Computer blockchain. It is a Swiss-based not-for-profit organization with the largest R&D team in blockchain.
Chain Fusion is the leading priority for DFINITY alongside DeAI. It encompasses all technical integrations (native or RPC) as well as the suite of threshold signing implementations and packages them together to form the orchestration layer for all of Web3. Aisling's role is to establish Chain Fusion as a key enabler of a multichain world and Web3 in general.
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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 funding avenues, is a primary use case, explained Edwin. The conversation includes Brickken's global reach and the importance of legal compliance across various jurisdictions. Edwin emphasized the company's focus on user experience to differentiate from competitors and simplify tokenization for non-tech users. Regulatory frameworks, particularly harmonization globally, were discussed alongside the role of the Brickken Token (BKN) in the ecosystem, serving purposes like gas fees and community engagement. Edwin is excited by several upcoming partnerships and projects, including European sandbox testing with Coinbase Institutional. Edwin projects a future where trillions in assets could be tokenized over the next decade.
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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 CUDIS ring dynamically tailors its recommendations to individual users.
CUDIS seeks to empower users by providing a rewards mechanism. This mechanism enables users to monetize their health data while accessing premium membership features without incurring additional costs.
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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, and Creator Development.
Identity: ZTX takes avatar identity and experience to new heights. Extending what currently exists in ZEPETO, ZTX not only empowers users to create their digital identity, it also leverages their creativity and monetizes their time through actual on-chain ownership of assets.
Experience: ZTX offers a range of experiences for all types of users, and will integrate social aspects into its multi-layered approach to building a world. First, ZTX introduces innovative concepts like free land ownership along with crafting assets and land development. Users will be able to take advantage of the highly customizable decorator modes to create their digital homes and eventually invite friends over. Future plans for ZTX include integrating aspects of decentralized finance, establishing a multi-tiered economy, self-governed Districts, portal games, and much more.
Creator Development: ZTX empowers not only creators but also players and communities to monetize through gameplay. For creators, ZTX offers a new medium to express themselves, grow their fan base, and earn from asset and experience creation. It is a platform that serves as a playground for creativity and community, enabling users of all backgrounds to chart their journeys in a digital world beyond the physical.
ZTX is introducing this immersive world to a diverse audience, encompassing both crypto natives and existing ZEPETO users. ZTX places a strong emphasis on education and empowerment, ensuring that all users, regardless of their background, have access to Web3 tools and experiences. Leveraging the existing ZEPETO software architecture, the Web2 user base, and a robust pipeline of partnerships with global companies and brands, ZTX is poised to launch an unparalleled virtual experience that captivates the market like few other projects.
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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 protocol, empowering users to Eat2Earn at dining establishments globally (supports 15 million restaurants). Through the Plato Eats dApp, available on iOS and Android, users incentivize a network of data collectors with rewards sourced from restaurant marketing budgets. The collaborative effort culminates in the creation of the world's premier verified food data source.
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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 revenue-sharing assets in the Creator Economy, fostering mutual success and innovation.
GigaStar Technology leverages blockchain smart contracts (as the technology facilitator) to help creators distribute YouTube channel revenue monthly to thousands of their investors.
For investors, it opens up new avenues for investment and engagement, while for creators, it offers innovative ways to fund their work and build stronger relationships with their audience.
GigaStar is a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) as a funding portal and is registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Since its inception, GigaStar has successfully raised over $2.2M in funds for YouTube Creators from over 14K investors, with over $129K in revenue distributed to investors.
GigaStar Market, an SEC-registered funding portal, streamlines access to funding and introduces new partnership opportunities for YouTube Creators and Investors.
Through GigaStar Market, the company offers a regulated, secure, and transparent environment for fans to invest in the future revenue of Creators, turning viewers into vested stakeholders.
Through GigaStar Market, YouTube Creators can collect potential future revenue through a public revenue-share offering, enabling individual and institutional investors to participate in the Creator Economy.
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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 Lido protocol is integrating Distributed validator technology (DVT) to help increase and decentralize its node operations. SSV Network is a leading DVT provider and will have its technology integrated into the module.
SSV Network distributed validator infrastructure establishes a new standard for staking by providing a permissionless and decentralized platform to develop the next go-to applications and tooling for the staking industry.
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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 low gas fees forever.
Shardeum is the solution to the blockchain trilemma. As blockchain tries to achieve scalability, decentralization and security, it will only be able to attain two. There must be a trade-off between decentralization and scalability with security an essential element. Shardeum achieves scalability, decentralization and still maintains security.
Shardeum’s auto-scaling feature allows the network to automatically adjust the number and size of shards based on the current workload. This allows the system to optimize performance and maintain high levels of scalability as it grows and evolves.
Shardeum aims to be a chain capable of onboarding over a billion people to the blockchain and crypto revolution. Shardeum, like the Internet, will be open, collaborative, and community-driven and would democratize accessibility to decentralization. Shardeum will be the infrastructure on which the next iteration of the Internet, Web3, will be built.
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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.
Portal is live on testnet, and users can earn points toward the airdrop for participating.
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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 capability to capture data in QR codes, as well as support NFC applications. Verified merchants can allocate funds between cashier and sales account as well as monitor their transactions via the merchant portal. The solution integrates Ethereum and BNB smart chain, TRON, and Bitcoin Lightning networks and supports popular blockchain wallets, including Muun Wallet, Metamask, Trust, f(x)Wallet, and more.
Pundi X Chain is a dedicated payment-focused blockchain in the Function X network. It is specially designed to perform high throughput transactions with low latency and low transaction fees. In addition, it provides room for future compliance requirement upgrades, hardware (XPOS) integration, and Point-of-Sales compatibility, with tokenonomics that offer incentives to merchants and payment processors.
The consensus mechanism for processing transactions and creating new blocks in Pundi X Chain is proof of stake. Holders can delegate PUNDIX coins to receive PURSE as block reward and PUNDIX reward generated by the network transaction fees.
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Alvin Kan is the Chief Operating Officer at Bitget Wallet, a comprehensive Web3 ecosystem platform.
Why you should listen In just six years, Bitget Wallet has evolved from a simple wallet to a comprehensive Web3 ecosystem platform.
Bitget Wallet is the ultimate Web3 multi-chain wallet, offering a comprehensive platform with wallet, Swap, NFT Market, DApp Browser, and Launchpad functionality. Supporting 100+ public chains, Bitget Wallet aggregates top DEXes and NFT markets to provide users with the best trading prices.
Their mission is to create a world-class decentralized Web3 crypto wallet that offers a secure and convenient trading experience for all crypto users.
The NFT Market of Bitget Wallet is one of the largest marketplaces on BNB Chain and Polygon, with 220,000+ NFT collections and US$40+ million in trading volume. It utilizes a unique DESM encryption algorithm and shares a US$300 million Protection Fund with the Bitget Exchange, ensuring the security of user assets and transactions.
With its user-friendly features, the Bitget Web3 Wallet empowers users to engage with decentralized applications and digital assets, making it easier than ever to embrace the opportunities offered by the Web3 ecosystem.
Bitget Wallet's on-chain layer is the future roadmap and blueprint of Bitget Wallet, and includes a $10 million BWB Ecosystem Fund to invest in and incubate emerging projects to build on the Bitget Onchain Layer. BWB will serve as the system token for the Bitget Onchain Layer, integrating deeply with the Bitget ecosystem.
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Samir Kerbage is the Chief Investment Officer and Head of Products at Hashdex, a global pioneer in crypto asset management, with ETFs and crypto indexes worldwide.
Why you should listen Founded in 2018, Hashdex is a global pioneer in crypto asset management. They are building pathways to prosperity by opening the crypto ecosystem to the world. With extensive experience in digital assets, Hashdex is a global leader that has launched numerous innovative products across Latin America, Europe and North America, aligning with relevant regulatory environments.
Dedicated to bringing crypto opportunities to the mainstream, Hashdex partnered with Nasdaq to develop the Nasdaq Crypto Index (NCI) and Nasdaq Crypto Index Europe (NCIE) to provide global investors with a reliable benchmark for this dynamic asset class.
In 2021, Hashdex introduced the world's first crypto index ETF, enabling many investors to allocate to crypto for the first time.
Hashdex serves as the digital asset advisor for the Hashdex Bitcoin ETF. As one of the 13 asset managers approved for a spot Bitcoin ETF in the United States, Hashdex is further solidifying its global presence.
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Stefan Kimmel is the CEO of M2, an Abu Dhabi based crypto exchange that Kevin O’Leary has described as a next-generation crypto exchange.
Why you should listen Based in Abu Dhabi, M2 is regulated by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority, as a trading platform and custodian. It is a part of wave of digital assets companies setting up in the region.
M2 offers an Earn product, with yields of up to 10% on assets such as Bitcoin, Solana and Ethereum. The M2 platform is designed to foster high levels of trust, security, and integrity in the emerging virtual asset class.
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Greg Siourounis is the managing director of the Sui Foundation, advancing and supporting Sui, the layer 1 blockchain designed to make Web3 fast, private, secure, and accessible to everyone.
Why you should listen Mysten Labs' objective is to provide the basic architecture for Web3, creating tools for the future of Web3 to make it secure, dependable, and ready for widespread adoption. The Sui Blockchain was established to overcome common blockchain limitations and create a new blockchain with horizontal scalability. This unique approach aims to maintain low gas fees and high transaction processing capacity, offering improved security, scalability, and a user-friendly experience at a low cost. Mysten Labs, the creator of the Sui blockchain, closed a $300 million Series B funding round, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, and Binance Labs.
The Sui Foundation is an independent organization with a mission to onboard the next billion users to web3 by advancing the global adoption of the Sui blockchain. The Sui Foundation exists in service of the Sui community and is committed to decentralization. The Sui Foundation marshals financial and personnel resources to fulfill its mission, including by educating, activating, funding, and promoting builders and creators working on Sui-based projects. It administers a few key programs including the Developer Grant Program, the Delegation Program, and the Ambassador Program.
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Meina Zhou is co-founder and CEO at Native. Native’s mission is to improve the web3 user experience by solving fragmented liquidity and capital inefficiency in DeFi. They’ve built a unified, cross-chain liquidity layer combining on and off-chain liquidity sources using RFQ architecture.
Why you should listen Native Labs is building Web3’s Liquidity Layer, a protocol built to unify crypto’s fragmented liquidity and radically enhance capital efficiency for PMMs. Via their RFQ System, Native’s platform aggregates and connects order flow to PMMs for efficient off-chain pricing and on-chain execution. Since launching in April 2023, Native has onboarded over $100M in PMM liquidity and executed $2.2B+ in trading volume.
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William Simonin is the c-founder of Ta-da - a data platform for AI. Projected to reach $109B by 2032, the data collection market is primed for disruption. Ta-da offers high-quality data at lower costs, outperforming outsourcing and micro-tasking companies with a hybrid model that ensures quality, cost-effectiveness and scalability.
Why you should listen Data is the new oil. Several growth factors are present in the data market, one of them being artificial intelligence, a big consumer of data. By 2032, the data collection market will experience a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 25%, meaning that the market will grow from $63 billion to $109 billion dollars. Ta-da is innovating an old data collection technique, crowdsourcing, to collect and validate data through their community, at a price you choose. Ta-da specializes in Voice Recordings, Images, Videos, Text, and labeling to cater to user data collection needs. Companies can get more accurate AI models with custom datasets at a fair price.
Although the data collection market is promising, it still relies on mechanisms and technologies that can be improved. There is a market with great potential which is still based on outdated processes.
In this context, Ta-da aims to become the first decentralized web3 micro-tasking data collection platform on the blockchain.
Ta-da is a solution that enables cost-effective, high-quality, and diversified data collection. Their web and mobile application allows users to provide data that meets precise criteria through our clients. Ta-da offers flexibility by enabling companies to specify and customize their requirements in detail.
The Ta-da platform promises traceability of the production and verification process, as well as fair remuneration of the community via its TADA token. Their goal is to establish Ta-da as the standard for data collection.
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Josh Olszewicz, renowned crypto trader and technical analyst, joins Andy to celebrate the 500th episode of the Crypto Conversation.
Why you should listen Andy and Josh discuss Bitcoin, alts, American politics, memecoins, and Josh explains why he is serious about his $333k by July 2025 Bitcoin price target. It’s the 500th Episode of Crypto Conversation, thank-you so much for listening!
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Rossen is a core contributor at Azuro, an infrastructure/liquidity layer for on-chain predictions. It utilizes a new Liquidity Pool design, the Liquidity Tree, which creates and maintains market liquidity.
Why you should listen Azuro is an infrastructure/liquidity layer for on-chain predictions. It utilizes a Liquidity Pool design, the Liquidity Tree to create and maintain market liquidity.
The Azuro Protocol is a decentralized protocol that enables peer-to-pool prediction markets without intermediaries. It's built on EVM-compatible blockchains and consists of several smart contracts that handle different aspects of the prediction process, such as liquidity pools, odds, live betting, and payouts. The protocol uses a hybrid oracle/ automated market maker solution to determine the odds of different outcomes and to ensure that the process is fair and transparent.
Azuro supports thousands of sports markets and other games, plus a rich feature set, which can be utilized by anyone permissionlessly for the creation of apps, embedded integrations or derivative products.
The human desire to take risk for a gain is more widespread than ever. A generation of degens within and outside of crypto is here. A bet was one of the first forms of contract used by ancient people.
Azuro enters the space with the mission to break down the barriers, creating a protocol dependent on community participation and ownership. A piece of critical on-chain infrastructure which acts as a black hole for liquidity for decentralized predictions and gaming.
Azuro’s approach to concentrating liquidity can deliver much deeper liquidity vs any centralized options. Azuro's tooling and oracle solutions can be utilized by any blockchain, starting with EVM-compatible ones. Azuro's open design will allow anyone to launch a prediction site/app with no upfront costs and zero risk management capacity needed.
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Farzam Ehsani is co-founder and CEO of VALR, a South African crypto exchange headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa. With regulatory approval to operate in Europe, VALR has 1000 corporate and institutional clients, more than half a million users, and now is expanding globally.
Why you should listen VALR has raised $55 million in equity funding from leading investors such as Coinbase Ventures, Pantera Capital, and Avon Ventures.
Inspired by the adage "it is expensive to be poor," they’re committed to creating a financial ecosystem that is accessible to all, challenging the status quo and reducing the frictions imposed by outdated systems. The VALR platform is a testament to their belief in a socio-financial evolution. They envision a future where the global community is not defined by national boundaries but united by a shared vision of justice and prosperity.
VALR caters to the specific needs of professional traders with a high-performance trading platform that boasts one of the industry's most advanced API systems. Their commitment to professional traders is matched by their dedication to making crypto trading accessible to everyone, ensuring a comprehensive, inclusive financial ecosystem. VALR's platform combines professional-grade tools with an intuitive interface, making it the ideal choice for traders at every level of expertise.
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Sasha Mitchell is Head of Operations at Bel2. Imagine if Bitcoin could talk to other blockchains, make deals, execute contracts, and expand its influence without ever compromising its integrity. That's BeL2, the Bitcoin Elastos Layer 2 Protocol.
Why you should listen BeL2 transforms EVM-compatible blockchains into Bitcoin Layer 2s, without bridging BTC. It utilizes a secure ZKP data feed, enhancing Bitcoin's utility from a store of value to a foundational layer for BTC-powered applications.
BeL2 allows smart contracts to communicate with Bitcoin, utilizing a specialized proof and relayer mechanism. This allows services to connect into the Bitcoin network and its liquidity.
ELA, is Elastos' Layer 2 coin merged-mined with Bitcoin since 2018 with over 50% of Bitcoin's miners security. It has a total supply of 28.22 million coins by 2105 and current circulation of 21.3 million. Within BeL2, ELA is essential, serving as collateral for Relayers, powering trust and stability. Stake ELA, earn BTC contributes to network security, empowering holders to shape Bitcoins smart economy.
Elacity's Decentralised Digital Rights Management (dDRM) protocol eliminates license servers using blockchain technology and edge computing, delivering secure business models to Web3.
Elacity dDRM transforms digital rights and asset management in Web3. It addresses key challenges in Digital Rights Management (DRM), such as packaging, transparency, and secure playback, through the use of blockchain and peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies. By offering a decentralised, scalable networking solution, Elacity enables a digital asset marketplace which features robust IP protection and scarce, tradable access, ownership and distribution rights. Elacity delivers decentralised business models, instant royalties, and inclusive economics to owners in Web3, automating contractual challenges, optimising resource sharing, and enabling equitable control and monetisation of digital assets through a democratised online Access Economy.
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Karim Chaib is the founder of Dopamine a "superApp" for crypto. In an era where human attention drives software revenue, 'Dopamine' stands as your tokenized web3 software license, powering businesses and Super Apps with Web 3 Code, AI, Big Data, and Compliance.
Why you should listen Dopamine combines AI and compliance infrastructure with super app capabilities, deployed primarily on Solana before expanding to a multichain ecosystem, giving users the power to manage wallets, and centralized and decentralized exchanges with the latest AI and compliance advancement.
Users can connect their banks and participate into launchpads, RWA and much more. Elon is building the everything app, Dopamine built the everything app for crypto!
The Dopamine token is the license token for the app and also allows banks and exchanges to access all the api and source code.
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Edward Mehrez is Co-Founder at Arrow Markets, a hybrid options protocol built on the Avalanche Blockchain
Why you should listen Arrow Markets is a hybrid options protocol built on the Avalanche Blockchain.
In the traditional options market, options must be sold by a writer who receives the premium from the buyer and is responsible for paying the buyer if the option is exercised in the money. As an options protocol on Avalanche, Arrow Markets gives users the ability to buy options without the need to be matched by a middle-man. Arrow will facilitate the creation and settlement of options on popular underlying assets such as AVAX, ETH, and BTC.
The name Arrow Markets is a nod to Nobel laureate economist Kenneth Arrow, who showed that options contracts form a basis for prices and payoffs of financial assets. Options make it possible to construct a wide variety of derivatives and structured products, by forming specific portfolios.
Arrow Markets brings a new paradigm to options trading on Avalanche, combining centralized efficiency and on-chain transparency. The RFQ (Request for Quote) enables traders to request quotes from multiple market makers with a single click, providing a simpler, faster, and more secure trading experience.
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Sunil Srivatsa is the founder and CEO of Storm Labs, an open-source software development studio. They help build and maintain infrastructure for decentralized protocols like Cove.
Why you should listen Storm Labs is an open-source software development studio that builds infrastructure for the next financial generation. Their mission is to build and share foundational infrastructure that enables economic empowerment for all.
Storm Labs raised $3 million in pre-seed funding from leading venture capital firms and angel investors to launch their protocol Cove, the first onchain portfolio manager that addresses the challenges of Automated Market Makers (AMMs). The round was led by Electric Capital.
The current scarcity of dedicated onchain management platforms forces retail crypto users to navigate DeFi's complexities and potentially lose through DIY yield-farming. According to the survey conducted by Storm Labs, 25% of investors spent 3+ hours a week manually managing their portfolios.
Cove’s platform empowers users to tailor their investments to their risk appetite and goals to build their optimal DeFi portfolio without any need for manual management, while addressing the limitations of traditional AMMs and eliminating Loss-Versus-Rebalancing (LVR). They achieve this through a unique execution mechanism that guarantees fair and transparent trades, minimizing issues like price impact, slippage, MEV (Maximal Extractable Value).
Trades within Cove are facilitated through a proprietary matching engine, while external trades are routed through CoW Swap for added security while still eliminating MEV and capturing positive slippage. This means the platform can seamlessly match individuals holding complementary liquidity positions, facilitating efficient trades and maximizing returns.
Marking Stage 1 of the product roll-out will be the launch of Cove Boosties. Boosties is the first dedicated liquid locker and staking platform specifically designed to simplify and enhance the Yearn experience. It allows users to effortlessly earn boosted APY on Yearn vaults and mint coveYFI, with flexible dYFI rewards and early access to Cove's governance token ($COVE). Boosties is built using Yearn V3 and optimized by Gauntlet and audited by Trail of Bits, Quantstamp, and yAudit. The main protocol is slated to launch during Stage 2 later this year.
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Mikhil Pandey is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Persistence Labs, building Persistence One a purpose built Layer 1 on a mission to maximize yield and security through Liquid Staking & Restaking.
Why you should listen Persistence One is one of the first Cosmos app chains and has been relentlessly building at the edge of the Proof-of-Stake landscape since 2019. Ehile staking attracts a large number of participants in their pursuit to earn rewards and provide better network security, significant potential TVL and activity have been siloed away from the DeFi landscape into PoS. Reversely, the emergence of DeFi has highlighted the limited utility that staked assets provide compared to the composability and financial opportunities available in the vibrant DeFi space, thereby taking away from the attractiveness of staking to secure the chain. Liquid Staking solves this problem, enabling users and their additional liquidity to enter DeFi by allowing PoS token holders to stake and participate in DeFi at the same time. Liquid stakers receive liquid-staked representative tokens that can be used across DeFi ecosystems, while earning rewards from their underlying staked tokens and supporting the underlying networks. As Liquid Staking becomes more broadly adopted, users are looking for opportunities to put their Liquid Staked Assets to good use and generate more yield. Persistence aims to make that user journey as smooth as possible by offering a wide array of use cases within the ecosystem.
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Jan Gorzny is the co-founder of Zircuit, a fully EVM-compatible zero-knowledge rollup powering the limitless potential of web3.
Why you should listen Backed by pioneering L2 research, the network’s unique hybrid architecture combines battle-tested infrastructure with zero-knowledge proofs to give developers the best of both worlds.
With cutting-edge performance and security at the sequencer level, users can explore new frontiers with faster transactions, and reduced fees.
Zircuit is in Testnet phase. While the team prepare for Mainnet, users can participate in testing on Testnet or be a part of their staking program. To learn more, visit https://stake.zircuit.com/faq.
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Bill Heyn is the CEO of SOMA.finance. SOMA is building finance for the future by uniting DeFi and TradFi. SOMA aims to be the first DEX-style trading platform that is legal and compliant in the US, and the rest of the world.
Why you should listen The non-custodial SOMA.finance platform aims to be the world's first compliant hybrid decentralized exchange and launchpad. SOMA was founded to build the technology and systems required for a platform for the issuance and purchase and sale of securities utilizing distributed ledger technology (“DLT”). As a semi-permissionless, decentralized web based platform utilizing automated peer to peer marketplace technology, the new platform is intended to combine the ease of use and accessibility of decentralized platforms with the safety and security of a regulated peer to peer platform.
The SOMA.finance platform is being rolled out in stages; presently, the SOMA onboarding platform is live allowing interested parties to enroll and secure their access to the products to come. Following the $SOMA Token sale, the SOMA Starter launch pad, a globally compliant token issuance and capital raising platform will begin operations. The decentralized exchange (DEX), SOMA Swap, and additional products such as SOMA Earn will follow.
The $SOMA token sale is live now via the Akemona platform.
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Nick Sainato is the co-founder at Gamma, a Bitcoin creator launchpad and NFT marketplace.
Why you should listen Nick from Gamma joins Andy to discuss Bitcoin, the halving, memecoins, Runes, and Ordinals. Ordinals are Bitcoin NFTs you can mint directly on the Bitcoin blockchain. Each sat (the smallest unit of Bitcoin) can be inscribed with data, such as JPGs, GIFs, PDFs and more, creating a Bitcoin Ordinal Inscription.
Thanks to Ordinal Theory (which references the ordering of individual Satoshis), we can now inscribe data onto single Satoshis on the Bitcoin blockchain directly and transact them like NFTs. Whether it’s an image, a memo, or anything else you want to inscribe, this data is immutably and securely stored directly on the L1 Bitcoin Blockchain.
With the rise in interest around Ordinals, Bitcoin blockchain activity has increased, giving miners more fees and putting positive effects on the security and decentralization of Bitcoin. And because of Bitcoin’s robustness, every inscription is immutably and permanently secured on the Bitcoin blockchain.
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Emmanuel Quezada is the CEO & Co-Founder of U-topia, a Web3 entertainment company innovating with IP Licensing in GameFi, AI Music, and Video Entertainment, backed by NFT provenance.
Why you should listen U-topia is a Web3 entertainment company that brings the convergence of innovative IP Licensing in GameFi, AI Music, and Video Entertainment, backed by NFT provenance. They recently received an investment from GDA Capital.
U-topia powers a gamified multiverse that leverages IP from Web2 and content from top sports teams. The U-topia ecosystem is powered by U-coin a crypto asset designed to incentivize and reward user participation.
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John Patrick Mullin is the CEO and co-founder of MANTRA, the Layer 1 blockchain for RWA tokenization.
Why you should listen The Mantra team saw that the Cosmos ecosystem lacked a chain specifically designed to provide regulatory compliance across a wide range of real-world assets (RWA) and tokenized assets. They feel that a “chain of regulated digital assets” will create a forward-thinking protocol that attracts users from diverse backgrounds, many of whom may not be current participants within the crypto space, and who value the importance and safety of regulatory compliance.
Mantra are creating an ecosystem for tokenization. Tokenizing an asset refers to the act of representing an ownership interest in real-world assets in a digital token (i.e., tokenization is the process of issuing a token that digitally represents tradable assets). Any asset with real-world value such as art, commodities or real estate can be easily tradable once it is converted into a digital representation in the form of a token. These tokens are issued through security token offerings (STOs) and can then be traded on a KYC/AML guarded secondary market such as the Mantra Chain decentralized exchange (DEX).
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Sid Gandhi is the founder and CEO at Polybase Labs, building Payy - to bring fast, free, private payments to the world.
Why you should listen Consider that 15 years into the blockchain era - we still don't have a simple private solution for fast, private, global payments. Using zero-knowledge cryptography, Payy aims to solve global payments.
Payy is a payments network built as a ZK roll-up for USDC transactions. Sid says there are four interesting things that Payy does that no one else does today.
First, it's fully private. Second, it is fast, free, and easy, less than 10 seconds per transaction. There are no gas fees, and there are no addresses or keys or tokens to manage. They've also integrated fiat ramps directly into the application layer of the blockchain, and it's decentralized and compliant.
Users can earn Payy Rewards for using Payy and inviting others to the network.
Want to send money instantly for free anywhere in the world? Use Payy.
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HM Rawat is a Co-Founder and CEO at Lingo, a gamified, RWA-powered rewards token to onboard the next billion in Web3.
Why you should listen Blockchain adoption is growing 2x faster than the internet in the 90s, making it the fastest technological adoption in history. Today, the tech is easy. Applications aren't hard to write, but they’re really hard to market, and really hard to persuade big communities to use them, in volume. Lingo is cracking that code.
They’re leveraging blockchain technology and Real-World Assets to onboard the next billion in Web3 with a vision to build the world's most rewarding token.
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Tony Saliba is a professional trader, a “Market Wizard” and CEO at Liquid Mercury, a professional crypto trading platform.
Why you should listen Tony Saliba is a Master trader at CBOE where he also served on Board of Directors. He was the only options trader to be featured in the seminal book “Market Wizards” showcasing the world’s best pro traders.
Tony founded LiquidPoint in 1999, and the company (sold to Bank of New York ConvergEX in 2007) is currently #3 in highest overall execution volumes behind Citadel Securities and Susquehanna.
Tony has collected the best and brightest minds, including his key management from LiquidPoint and Matrix Executions, to create the leading professional crypto trading solution, Liquid Mercury.
Liquid Mercury was built by professionals for professionals. Liquid Mercury is the #1 choice for sophisticated buy-side and institutional sell-side legacy trading professionals moving into crypto.
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Norman Wooding is co-founder and CEO of SCRYPT, a leading Swiss financial service provider specializing in crypto assets.
Why you should listen SCRYPT acts as a trusted partner for institutions by building and providing infrastructure that delivers digital assets and services in a robust regulatory framework. SCRYPT's product line is designed to cover every institution’s crypto needs, removing the complexity of crypto finance with technology and innovative products.
As a Swiss-regulated entity, compliance and security are at the heart of SCRYPT operations.
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Bezalel Eithan Raviv, a former member of Israel’s IDF Cyber Unit 8200, is the CEO and founder of Lionsgate Network, a digital platform that specializes in providing professional fund recovery services for participants in the crypto ecosystem.
Why you should listen Lionsgate Network is a digital platform that specializes in providing professional recovery services for investors navigating the uncertain financial landscape of digital currencies. The proliferation of scams and frauds has created unique challenges for investors seeking to recover their funds, and Lionsgate Network is positioned to offer effective solutions.
With a team of blockchain analysts and cyber advisors based in Israel, Lionsgate Network leverages the country’s status in cyber intelligence and blockchain analysis to establish trustworthy financial systems for individual investors. Using innovative techniques, the company has a proven track record of successfully recovering investors’ funds.
The Hamas attack on Israel has prompted renewed efforts by U.S. authorities to eradicate the financial networks of terrorists. In Israel, the National Bureau for Counter-Terror Financing, together with Israeli police and intelligence agencies, launched an operation to locate and freeze Hamas’ crypto accounts. Lionsgate Network joined the effort and was successful in identifying and intercepting crypto accounts linked to Hamas.
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Frank Cheng is co-founder and loremaster at the Fonnie Magus game studio. They are developing Apeiron, part of a new wave of token-driven, play-and-earn NFT games.
Why you should listen Apeiron is part of a new wave of token-driven, play-and-earn NFT games. Our tri-token system utilizes governance, play-to-earn, and alliance tokens in tandem to create a dynamic economy that mirrors the real world, while our NFTs - in the form of Planets, Stars, and Relics - puts the ownership in the rightful hands of the player. What you make in the game - the planets you build - they’re yours: keep them, sell them, or use them in the wider NFT metaverse.
Inspired by classic God-games such as Populous and Black & White, as well as modern Roguelite action-adventure games, Apeiron will offer integrated gameplay where you can shape the world from on high before getting down to earth as a controllable Avatar to unlock the universe’s mysteries. Grow your planet until it can’t grow anymore, then reset the planetary cycle, opening the door to exciting Alliance level PvE and PvP gameplay. The universe awaits!
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Richard Parris is a co-founder at Saito - a self-sufficient Layer 1 Blockchain designed for devs that provides the foundation for building open and scalable web applications.
Why you should listen Saito is a new type of layer-1 blockchain that powers peer-to-peer applications. Saito delivers a new economic model for blockchain. Saito Consensus aligns incentives for all participants, paying nodes for scale while remaining open.
Saito is designed to create a real economy running on this network, that supports an open ecosystem of peer to peer applications, where users are sovereign and own their data, and providers that serve them best are most profitable.
Saito Consensus eliminates the sybil attacks, majoritarian attacks,and several other attack vectors common in proof-of-work and proof-of-stake consensus mechanisms by correcting the collective action problems buried in their incentive structures.
When users send transactions into the network they add cryptographic routing signatures that specify the first-hop node(s) to which they are sending their transaction(s). Receiving nodes add similar routing signatures as they forward these transactions, creating an unforgeable record within transactions of the path they have taken into the network.
These routing paths can be examined to confirm the amount of "routing work" available in a transaction. Transactions without valid routing paths contain no routing work. The amount of routing work in any other transaction is its total fee halved with each hop beyond the first that the transaction has taken into the network.
The blockchain maintains a "difficulty" for block production that is measured in routing work. Nodes produce blocks when they have enough routing work in the transactions in their mempool to meet difficulty criteria. Blocks which do not contain the required amount of routing work are invalid according to consensus rules.
While most of crypto uses a Web 2 model with token integrations or a federated model reliant on volunteer work, Saito applications operate in true, peer-to-peer Web 3 and are self-funding.
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Nick Zaldastani is Chairman and Co-Founder at CESS, a blockchain-powered decentralized storage and content delivery network infrastructure.
Why you should listen CESS is a blockchain powered decentralized storage and content delivery network infrastructure. Users and creators alike use the platform for on-chain data sharing, whilst builders can develop and deploy DApps.
Offering the most optimal Web3 solution for storing and retrieving high-frequency dynamic data, CESS reshapes the value distribution and circulation of data assets whilst ensuring data sovereignty and complete user privacy.
By utilizing a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) model, CESS drives mass deployment of network nodes globally through incentives.
Nick says, “Data Value Networks are the future, and it is time we get our data back, and take control of it. The evolution has been from Oracle to the cloud to decentralized databases for sharing content, but in today’s world, if we don’t own the data, AI will run it, which is ultimately owned by centralized organizations. It is imperative that networks of the future be decentralized, and anonymous yet support multi-party participation. CESS has its own blockchain, its own CDN, is chain-agnostic and interoperable, and is modular and can plug into different ecosystems. Combining these capabilities forms the basis of the Data Value Network that we provide.”
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Aditya Das is a researcher and analyst across the Techemy Group. He joins Andy to discuss the current Memecoin mania that has gripped the crypto markets.
Why you should listen Bitcoin has led the crypto market’s move into bull market territory, but it is meme coins that have captured the altcoin zeitgeist, with many investors ignoring the fundamentals in favor of the memes. Welcome to Financial Nihilism.
Memecoins are blockchain-based tokens that are based on popular pieces of internet culture. They are generally characterized by having minimal utility and extreme volatility. If you identify with cute dogs, the edgy Pepe frog, or President Trump, there is a memecoin for your tribe.
Memecoins have been popular with retail crypto investors who see the more affordable unit prices and lower market caps as an opportunity. The lack of fundamentals or a pretense at seriousness is a feature, not a bug. The vast majority of crypto retail investors have no desire to learn about composable privacy, and the esoteric differences between five different layer 2 solutions. But a meme? If there is one thing today’s extremely online retail traders understand, it is the power of a meme.
In past cycles, memecoin rallies have tended to take place at the market top, some analysts say this time is different, and it’s due to a rise in financial nihilism, according to a thesis by Ikigai Fund Manager Travis Kling.
Kling argued that this crypto bull cycle will see an altcoin rally driven by the concept of “financial nihilism” – the idea that cost of living is strangling most Americans; that upward mobility opportunity is out of reach for increasingly more people; that the American Dream is mostly a thing of the past; and that median home prices divided by median income is at a completely untenable level. As a result, the younger generation have turned to gambling, from sports betting to memecoin investing in an attempt to win big.
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Felix Xu is the Co-Founder of ARPA Network, a decentralized computation network based on threshold cryptography and its use cases
Why you should listen Randcast is ARPA’s first product, an on-chain verifiable random number generation service with an easy-to-use Smart Contract SDK that can be directly integrated into DApps to provide out-of-the-box functionalities like rolling dice, shuffling an array, generating in-game item attributes based on probability, generating random in-game maps or dungeons, and deciding the probability outcomes of a lottery.
Using a random number in a smart contract is a common requirement. For example, a game may need to generate a random number to determine the lottery winner. However, the blockchain is deterministic, and the result of a smart contract is determined by the input. That is to say, a blockchain is a decentralized and trustless environment where the random number generation can be easily manipulated by any party in the network. e.g., if we use a block hash or timestamp as the source of randomness, the miners can manipulate it to their advantage by either withholding the block or manipulating the timestamp.
The solution is to use an external source of randomness. Randcast is a service that generates random numbers through a decentralized network and provides them to smart contracts. The process of generating randomness is both transparent and verifiable. It is facilitated by a group of nodes that utilize the threshold BLS signature scheme. Before returning the requested random number to the user's smart contract, the randomness is verified on-chain by the Randcast Adapter smart contract.
Randcast and the ARPA Network solve another major issue with random number generation. Randomness generated by a single off-chain entity could potentially be tampered with or manipulated by that entity. Randcast solves this issue by using multiple nodes in the ARPA Network to generate randomness through BLS Threshold signature tasks, which means that no single node has the ability to manipulate the final randomness result.
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Tim Kravchunovsky is the founder and CEO of Chirp. Chirp is a trailblazing DePIN network founded by a team of Telecommunications experts with decades of experience. Tim Kravchunovsky has over 20 years of experience as a network engineer, having held a position as a Consulting Engineer at the World Bank, Comacast and Chemonics International. Tim founded Chirp in January 2021 to connect the world through groundbreaking, accessible technology that has the potential to transform the way we all live our daily lives.
Why you should listen Chirp’s mission is to connect the largest number of devices with the blockchain under one revolutionary network and a SaaS platform. With a focus on IoT and Mobile, Chirp aims to redefine the future of wireless communication.
DePIN project Chirp Token is about to launch its testnet - the first step in bringing interconnected, people-powered IoT connectivity to the world. Mainnet will follow later in the year.
DePIN is one of the leading crypto narratives of 2024. DePIN uses blockchain to develop physical infrastructure like telecom communication, storage, IoT, and more. By decentralizing infrastructure, DePIN achieves tech scale and gives power back to the users.
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Brett Herskope aka Eliherf is head of growth at Gamma, the open marketplace for Bitcoin Ordinals. Brett and Andy discuss Bitcoin’s recent all-time high, Gamma and Bitcoin Ordinals, and The Three-Body Problem. One of the most popular answers to the very famous Crypto Conversation Hot Take Round Sci-Fi question, The Three-Body Problem is a trilogy by Chinese science fiction author Liu Cixin. A Netflix adaptation by David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, and Alexander Woo is expected to premiere on Netflix on March 21, 2024.
Why You Should Listen Thanks to Ordinal Theory (which references the ordering of individual Satoshis), we can now inscribe data onto single Satoshis on the Bitcoin blockchain directly and transact them like NFTs. Whether it’s an image, a memo, or anything else you want to inscribe, this data is truly immutably and securely stored directly on the L1 Bitcoin Blockchain.
Before NFTs took off on Ethereum, NFTs had originated on Bitcoin. But due to the complexities and limitations of the Bitcoin blockchain, Bitcoin-native NFTs could never really take off — until now. At the time of writing, nearly 60 million inscriptions have been made, and creating your own inscriptions is easier than ever thanks to Gamma’s no-code Ordinal inscription tool. With the rise in interest around Ordinals, Bitcoin blockchain activity has increased greatly, giving miners more fees and putting positive effects on the security and decentralization of Bitcoin. And because of Bitcoin’s robustness, every inscription is immutably and permanently secured on the Bitcoin blockchain.
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Connor O’Shea is the CEO of Bril Finance, a cutting edge DeFi UX for seamless access to professional-grade portfolio management algorithms and yield strategies.
Why you should listen Bril is a sophisticated decentralized finance (DeFi) tool that actively optimizes and manages portfolio strategies in a secure, non-custodial manner. The dapp allows users to deposit tokens into single-asset vaults, which drive yield based on automated liquidity strategies- giving everyone professional-grade tools that deliver high yields for risk-adjusted returns. Bril leverages an underlying liquidity provisions algorithm, which runs category-defining, automated rebalancing for high capital efficiency.
With Bril, users deposit tokens into single-asset vaults and receive LP tokens representing their share in the liquidity pool. Single-asset vaults remove the complexity of managing multiple assets in a liquidity pool. Bril deploys the deposited assets into concentrated liquidity AMMs across blockchain ecosystems via a premier cross-chain bridging partner. Positions are automatically adjusted based on market conditions. Users can withdraw deposits and earnings at any time.
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Pradeep Goel is the Chief Executive Officer at the Solve Care Foundation. Solve Care is a blockchain platform for digital health networks.
Why you should listen Solve Care is a global healthcare platform that redefines care coordination, improves access to care, reduces benefit administration costs, and helps reduce fraud and waste across the healthcare sector globally. Solve Care’s decentralized healthcare model, ensures all stakeholders, from the patient, physician, insurance companies, care coordinators, and healthcare institutions have a better and more direct peer-to-peer relationship.
It is a model where patients are empowered to have sovereignty over their healthcare data, giving them control over their healthcare journey. The current model that protects centralized healthcare systems around the world fails to serve the needs of the patient and the doctor in a manner that can be fundamentally improved via blockchain.
Solve Care is focused on adoption and building real utility in healthcare rather than just focusing on blockchain technology itself. Solve Care has launched a new solution called Care Trials, which simplifies matching patients with clinical research opportunities globally and provides more choices for patients in their healthcare decisions. Care Trials aims to accelerate research for chronic diseases like cancer by decentralizing access to clinical trial information and empowering patients with options beyond traditional treatment methods offered by doctors or hospitals alone.
Its interoperable, composable, full-stack platform is the first in the world to successfully deploy digital currency and blockchain technology for value-based healthcare payments. Upon this platform, multiple Care Networks are built and operated to create an ecosystem for patient-centric care based on medical conditions, economic and social needs, and other tailored eligibility criteria.
The mission is to make healthcare work better for our parents, children, society, business, and the future global economy.
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Dr. K is the Co-Founder of Quai Network, a new Layer 1 network of blockchains designed to scale to handle all human commerce while maintaining true decentralization.
Why you should listen Quai Network is an EVM compatible, highly scalable, secure Layer 1 blockchain, designed for fast, low cost, high-throughput transactions, complemented by programmable smart contracts. It emphasizes swift finalization, steadfast censorship resistance, and robust resilience against adversarial threats. The system is built using an advanced multi-threaded blockchain with adaptive architecture and a native dual token system $QUAI & $QI, enabled by a breakthrough Proof-of-Entropy-Minima (“PoEM”) consensus mechanism. The Quai Network is in testnet.
Quai is a merge-mined network of blockchains. This network is able to coordinate an infinite number of blockchains (execution shards) by using the Proof-of-Entropy-Minima (PoEM) consensus mechanism, which eliminates all consensus-based contention. The ability for PoEM to coordinate a perpetually growing set of blockchains allows the network to process more than 50,000 transactions per second. The architecture is a composable multithreaded execution environment with blocks being produced approximately every 1.1 seconds in a 9-shard construction.
All blockchains in the network can transfer and receive state through the process of merged mining, which asynchronously produces hash linked references between chains. Quai extends traditional work-based block production to enable transfers between blockchains without introducing new trusted validation mechanisms.
Quai provides scalability by dynamically sharding to add more execution shards to the network as demand for block space increases. This enables Quai to support low-cost day-to-day transactions as the user-base grows in perpetuity.
While blockchain technology has shown its potential to enable a widely-used digital currency, existing solutions reintroduce subjectivity while only achieving limited scale. Quai is unlike other multi-chain solutions which require a trusted set of validators that create weak security guarantees when moving between chains.
Quai addresses issues with scalability while maintaining decentralization to create an un-censorable network that can be ubiquitously used as money.
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Matt Liu is the co-founder of Origin Protocol, an Ethereum-powered platform for NFTs, DeFi, Liquid Staking, and Restaking.
Why you should listen Origin has a stablecoin, the Origin Dollar (OUSD) to support users as they passively earn yield on OUSD held in wallets – as opposed to being staked or locked up in a protocol.
Ethereum restaking has become one of 2024’s most disruptive narratives. The thriving sector is teeming with innovation, offering new opportunities for builders and users alike.
Matt says he learned that if you want to remain at the forefront, you need to constantly evolve along with the space. This principle allowed him to take liquid staking by the horns with Origin Ether. In a few months, they brought a product to market that continues to deliver value for users. Today, Origin Ether is approaching $100M of TVL while delivering higher risk-adjusted yields than the top liquid staking tokens like stETH, rETH, and frxETH.
His new product is Prime Staked ETH (primeETH), a liquid restaked token (LRT) that provides liquidity for assets that have been deposited into EigenLayer. By converting staked ETH into primeETH, users can stack ETH staking yield, EigenLayer points, and primeETH XP points all while remaining liquid.
primeETH is a reward-bearing token that works similarly to cTokens. primeETH tokens are not rebasing like stETH or OETH. Instead, the underlying rewards accrued by restaking positions are reflected in the price of primeETH over time as it increases in value.
primeETH was developed by Matt and the Origin Protocol team that have launched multiple DeFi products with $100M+ in TVL. Prime Staked is a fork of Kelp which has been battle-tested with hundreds of millions of funds and has been audited by sigmaPrime and code4arena. The primary change to the codebase was the addition of new LSTs and configuring their associated oracles. Each of the newly added assets have been carefully reviewed to make sure they don't introduce new reentrancy vectors or unexpected behaviors.
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Lark Davis is a cryptocurrency investor, influencer, YouTuber, and founder of weekly crypto newsletter, Wealth Mastery. He shares his top crypto narratives for 2024, and why it's better to be an investor than a trader.
Why you should listen Lark Davis began creating cryptocurrency content in 2017, starting on the Steam blockchain and then transitioning to YouTube. His Wealth Mastery newsletter combines insider insights and market analysis to offer cryptocurrency investors opportunities to grow their wealth, stay ahead of the curve, and avoid costly mistakes.
Lark focuses mostly on longer-term investments rather than day trading, to ride the market cycle for potential gains. He advises caution when entering the market late in a cycle as the risk-reward decreases significantly.
Lark shares his thoughts on the current investible narratives in crypto such as layer twos, DeFi, and crypto gaming.
Andy and Lark discuss AI technology and how it is impacting content creation. Lark predicts that AI will soon replace some content creators while acknowledging its current limitations regarding voice quality and inflection. However, he anticipates premium demand for human content creators who will offer unique perspectives compared to AI-generated content.
Finally, Lark says Dune is his favorite sci-fi book and expresses admiration for its writing style, battles, mythology, and world-building.
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Peter Curk is the CEO of ICONOMI, an advanced crypto investment and portfolio platform that makes it easy for beginners and for power users to choose from hundreds of Crypto Strategies and copy them with a single click.
Why you should listen ICONOMI is a cryptocurrency portfolio management platform. Offering a suite of tools and infrastructure, ICONOMI enables experienced traders to create and manage their own Crypto Strategies, with advanced features to align strategy with market conditions. These include algorithmic trading execution, one-click portfolio rebalance, smart price discovery on multiple exchanges, and portfolio automation management rules.
Beginner traders can copy more experienced crypto strategists. There are more than 150 different public strategies on the platform.
ICONOMI has just launched its new digital asset wealth management platform, ICONOMI Wealth for professional asset managers.
The platform will enable small and mid-sized asset management firms, as well as financial advisors, to launch and manage multiple cryptocurrency portfolios, while supporting their own clients.
Asset management firms may be looking into launching their digital asset strategy, or their clients may be requesting alternative investments. If they don’t have the know-how or resources to build internal infrastructure, ICONOMI Wealth can bridge the gap.
By leveraging the ICONOMI Wealth platform, they can access ICONOMI’s full suite of expert services to tap into digital assets without high costs and complexities, while ensuring the safeguarding of investor assets through cold storage solutions.
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Spada₿oom is the founder of BadgerDAO, a Bitcoin-focused DeFi protocol. The team is working on eBTC – a groundbreaking new synthetic asset that capitalizes on the evolution of ETH staking to create the most transparent and capital-efficient borrowing facility for Bitcoin on Ethereum in DeFi.
Why you should listen eBTC is a protocol that allows anyone to use Lido’s Staked Ether (stETH) as collateral to borrow a synthetic Bitcoin asset with zero borrowing fees. Powered by non-custodial, immutable, governance-minimized smart contracts, it aims to be the most trustless and censorship-resistant synthetic Bitcoin in DeFi.
eBTC is the first protocol to focus exclusively on the ETH/BTC ratio. While most of the trading and strategies for this pair are currently done off-chain using centralized counter-parties, eBTC empowers users to now bring this activity on-chain with extreme transparency. Further, due to its immutability and composability, it enables any protocol to integrate its functionality and build on top of it.
Its vision ignited by the abundance of highly publicized financial collapses in 2022, eBTC has been designed as a response to the shortcomings of the centralized and opaque financial infrastructure that is commonplace within the blockchain space. By moving more ETH/BTC activity on-chain within immutable smart contracts, eBTC moves the space further away from the centralized solutions for borrowing Bitcoin currently seen in the market today.
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Hinza Asif is the CEO of NFTStudio24, a decentralized media platform based in Japan that's empowering journalists and reporters worldwide.
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Traditional media involves lengthy editorial processes, where journalists may spend weeks on a story, only to have it become the property of the media house they work for.
NFTStudio24 is a platform that allows journalists to publish their stories directly to their decentralized media network. Once published, these stories become the sole property of the author, giving them full ownership. The platform leverages blockchain technology to reward journalists for their contributions based on engagement metrics such as views, likes, shares, and comments. Readers can engage with the story by liking, sharing, and commenting, which increases its visibility and earns the author rewards in the form of cryptocurrency tokens.
The goal is to democratize access to information and empower journalists to tell the stories that matter most to them and their communities.
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Dave Weisberger is the co-founder and CEO of CoinRoutes, a leading provider of algorithmic trading strategies and execution management.
Why you should listen CoinRoutes has an extensive algo suite and market data plant specifically designed around crypto market structure and its intricacies. They provide best-in-class smart order routing, along with the infrastructure for exchange market access and market data consolidation, with options for both UI and API users. Dave talks about the challenges of trading in the crypto markets, the benefits of algorithmic trading strategies, and CoinRoutes' role in providing liquidity and better pricing for traders. Dave also shares his thoughts on the recent approval of bitcoin ETFs and their potential impact on bitcoin's adoption as a store of value.
He emphasizes that transparency is an advantage in crypto markets but warns about conflicts of interest due to knowing who is behind certain wallets. Dave expresses concerns about US financial regulation under Elizabeth Warren's influence and highlights the importance of having a supportive regulatory environment for crypto innovation. He concludes by mentioning CoinRoutes' plans for international expansion, its focus on DeFi solutions, and its goal to simplify trading processes while providing more efficient execution for users.
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Mostafa Al-Mashita, is co-founder, and Yacine Ouldchikh is a Senior Trader at Secure Digital Markets (SDM), a digital asset brokerage firm that offers institutional, high net worth, and corporate clients access to spot trading, derivatives, and lending services.
Why you should listen Mostafa and Yacine from Secure Digital Markets discuss the market structure and deeper trends driving the crypto markets in 2024. They analyze the impact of the spot Bitcoin ETFs and the potential for an Ethereum ETF.
They highlight the growing interest from institutional investors and financial advisors in cryptocurrencies. They mention their focus on building a global financial services ecosystem at Secure Digital Markets, with plans to release a mobile app and expand their presence internationally.
SDM offers comprehensive liquidity and settlement solutions that generate efficient crypto asset exposure.
SDM bridges the gap between institutional balance sheets and Web3 by offering highly liquid onramps into the digital currency market. SDM accommodates the unique execution needs of its clients through multiple technology solutions including GUI (SDM.Live), API, and RFQ.
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Naveen Jain and Riccardo Spagni are contributors at Tari Labs, building Tari. Tari is a new open-source, decentralized protocol that reimagines the future of digital assets. Tari is being architected as a merge-mined sidechain of Monero and will inherit its security model.
Why you should listen Tari is an open-source blockchain protocol built in Rust. Tari is architected as a merge-mined sidechain with Monero. Tari aims to provide programmable privacy and composable confidentiality. Tari's philosophy is to normalize privacy in the crypto space and offer a spectrum of confidentiality options for users. Privacy is treated as a spectrum rather than a binary outcome. Tari's protocol allows developers to build applications with varying degrees of confidentiality, meeting user expectations and complying with regulatory requirements when necessary.
It allows developers to build applications on top of it, such as NFT marketplaces, DeFi platforms, and more.
The Tari protocol has a live testnet available for users to explore and participate in mining. Interested individuals can download the Tari Aurora wallet from the App Store and start mining on the testnet. The team is working towards the mainnet launch soon.
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Prince Jindal and Jung Won Kim are co-founders at Lantern Finance, a US-based staking platform built for the everyday crypto investor.
Why you should listen Lantern Finance is for crypto beginners, crypto OGs, and everyone in-between, offering a seamless Ethereum staking experience for all experience levels.
Lantern's robust security measures are supported by BitGo, an industry leading US-based, qualified crypto custodian. Lantern charges 15% of staking rewards, allowing you to keep more of your rewards.
Lantern is the first consumer crypto app to offer USD loans against staked ETH. This revolutionary product allows users to take out loans that pay themselves off (i.e. self-paying loans). When you borrow against your staked crypto, it means you are still earning staking rewards. These staking rewards can be used to offset your loan’s interest payment, creating an automatic, self-repaying loan.
Imagine you bought a house with several bedrooms and decided to live in one of them. Every month you have to pay for the mortgage on the house out of your own pocket. This is like paying for your loan while your assets are unstaked.
Lantern is registered with FinCEN as a Money Services Business (MSB) and has robust KYC and AML processes in place.
Every client has direct access to the Lantern team for support including by telephone.
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James McDowall is the founding partner of Arcanum Capital, a venture capital firm focused on supporting enterprising and forward-thinking teams that are establishing decentralized networks and applications for the global blockchain ecosystem.
Why you should listen Arcanum Capital has just announced its second fund, the Arcanum Luganodes Fund. The new fund is focused on further early-stage investments, as well as more established growth-stage investments at higher valuations, with this made possible by Arcanum’s collaboration with Luganodes a leading ‘staking services’ provider. Luganodes is a Swiss-operated, institutional-grade, non-custodial staking provider born out of the Lugano Plan B Program, an initiative driven by Tether and the City of Lugano. The partnership with Luganodes will help Fund II gain access to some of the most sought-after Layer 1 and Layer 2 investment opportunities in the space and enable us to add even more value to our portfolio networks.
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Alex Ryvkin is the CEO of Rho Labs, building Rho Protocol, an interest rate derivatives protocol and the first institutional grade on-chain rates market.
Why you should listen Rho Protocol is a new institutional-grade decentralized marketplace on Arbitrum that allows retail and professional traders to efficiently exchange rate risk via on-chain swaps and futures in a secure, efficient, and compliant manner.
Rho Protocol’s first family of products are fixed-to-floating interest rate swaps on a diverse set of index rates. In TradFi, this product comprises over 60% of the total outstanding interest in interest rate derivatives.
The protocol is currently in beta with big expansion plans for new products planned for 2024. Rho raised $2.2m in a pre-seed funding round late last year.
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Dr. Fan Long is the co-founder of Conflux Network, a PoW/PoS Hybrid Blockchain. Dr. Fan Long graduated from Tsinghua University Yao Class, and he holds Ph.D of Computer Science from MIT. His research interests include systems security, programming languages, and blockchain.
Why you should listen Conflux is a public blockchain with superior performance, a unique consensus mechanism, and an innovative dual-space design. These features enable Conflux to deliver a fast, secure, and decentralized platform that is well-suited for various applications, including decentralized finance and Web3.
Conflux employs a hybrid consensus mechanism, combining Proof of Work (PoW) and Proof of Stake (PoS), ensuring high security, throughput, and decentralization. Conflux's PoW consensus leverages the Tree-Graph ledger structure and GHAST algorithm, delivering a high transaction throughput of up to 3,000 TPS and confirmation latency within 1 minute, while maintaining the same level of decentralization as Bitcoin Fan explains Conflux's unique features such as its hybrid proof-of-work/proof-of-stake blockchain, the tree graph ledger structure, and its compliance with Chinese regulations. Fan explains China's stance on blockchain and cryptocurrency regulation, highlighting their concerns about capital outflow and support for technology development.
Fan Long shares some use cases of Conflux Network, including NFTs being used as marketing tools in China and collaborations with China Telecom to develop a blockchain SIM card that allows easy access to web3 assets. Future plans for Conflux include an upcoming hard fork to enhance performance and compatibility with Bitcoin layer two solutions.
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Dr. Dmitry Zhelezov is the Co-Founder and CEO and Marcel Fohrmann is the Co-Founder and CFO of Subsquid, a decentralized data lake and query engine that offers developers permissionless, cost-efficient access to on-chain data from over 100 chains and is integrated into a large ecosystem of Web2- and Web3-native developer tools.
Why you should listen Subsquid Network is a decentralized query engine optimized for batch extraction of large volumes of data. It currently serves historial on-chain data ingested from 100+ EVM and Substrate networks, including event logs, transaction receipts, traces and per-transaction state diffs. In the future, it will additionally support general-purpose SQL queries and an ever-growing collection of structured data sets derived from on- and off- chain data.
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JC Kim is the CEO of Planetarium Labs, a community driven, Web3 gaming company founded in South Korea and backed by Animoca. They create games where users can create, share, own, and earn.
Why you should listen Planetarium Labs has created Nine Chronicles, the first-ever Web3 RPG game. The game combines blockchain technology with immersive gameplay. The game is a fantasy MMORPG powered by the players, set in a world that can never be shut down. Infinitely moddable and owned by the community, Nine Chronicles invites you to aid the goddess Freya in her eternal struggle against an evil ravaging the land.
Nine Chronicles is the first-ever fully on-chain, open-source RPG. All of the transactions are recorded on-chain, which means there isn’t a traditional server like traditional RPGs. Anyone can access the code and create different versions of the game utilizing the IP, giving the community and the players true ownership of the game. In addition to enjoying the gameplay, players can contribute to the game’s ecosystem and content and get involved in ways that they would not be able to in traditional RPG games.
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Chris Kline is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Bitcoin IRA, a crypto IRA platform for investing in cryptocurrencies with self-directed IRAs.
Why you should listen In 2015, Chris launched Bitcoin IRA, the world’s first company allowing U.S. investors to purchase Bitcoin for their IRA and 401(k) retirement accounts. He developed the process and partnerships to create a full-service, turnkey solution allowing investors to capitalize on the rapidly growing digital currency market space for their retirement portfolio while maintaining full IRS compliance.
Under his direction, the company has grown to over $100 million in assets under custodianship.
Bitcoin IRA was the world’s first platform that allowed clients to open, fund and trade their retirement accounts with digital assets, firstly Bitcoin, and now a multitude of different digital assets.
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Chris Bradbury is the CEO at Summer.fi, a DeFi front end that enables users to deploy capital into DeFi, using best-in-class UI/UX.
Why you should listen Summer.fi is a DeFi front end that enables users to deploy capital into DeFi, via three main products, advanced automation features, and various strategies, from basic to very sophisticated.
Summer.fi (previously Oasis.app) began as one of the first projects by MakerDAO, even before Single Collateral Dai, in 2016.
Summer.fi, became a standalone entity after the full decentralization of Maker. The Summer.fi mission is to build the most trusted app to deploy capital in DeFi, using best-in-class UI/UX.
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Danielle Wall Elliott is the COO at Nayms, the crypto native insurance marketplace. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink sees tokenization of RWA as the next big unlock.
Why you should listen Nayms is the world’s leading, fully regulated marketplace for on-chain insurance. They are paving the way in providing a new digital asset risk market that allows regulated brokers and underwriters to find digital asset capital providers to share in the premium and liability covering digital asset risk.
Nayms’ traceable smart contract is built on a trustless system, meaning insurance brokers can place a contract between market participants in a limitless number of areas and share in the future value of such open trade.
At Nayms, marketplace users are the product. These users are digitally native brokers, new-age carriers and investors fit for the world of digital assets.
Nayms isn’t new technology for old companies, it’s new technology for the insurance participants of the future, who deserve the back-end infrastructure capable of conducting truly digital insurance with the market, for the benefit of coverholders.
Nayms recently launched the first institutional tokenized (re)insurance marketplace on Base. Nayms introduces insurance as an asset class and users can earn yield on real world assets by committing capital onto their marketplace.
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Mark Hendrickson is the General Manager of Leather, the Bitcoin wallet for the fast-emerging Bitcoin Economy.
Why you should listen Mark explains the importance of Ordinals on Bitcoin and their potential for storing different types of data securely on-chain. He emphasizes that Leather is a Web3 wallet for Bitcoin users and highlights the value proposition of Bitcoin as a foundation for building a new digital economy. With the surge of interest in Ordinals in 2023, Leather had impressive growth metrics for the year, and they expect this to continue in 2024. Leather has Ledger integration, and is working on an app-based wallet for this year.
The Leather vision is to be the gold standard among Bitcoin wallet brands, built to last so that users can explore Bitcoin Web3 knowing that they have a reliable hub to come back to. Mark says a complete Bitcoin wallet user experience involves best-in-class UX, code health, and content geared toward user needs, and being a responsible steward, helping usher in the next generation of Bitcoiners.
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Swaroop Hegde is a co-founder at PowerLoom - a decentralized Data Layer for Web3 that is scaling trustless data and building on-chain data primitives.
Why you should listen The Powerloom Protocol is a decentralized data protocol designed to meet the growing data requirements of smart contract-based applications, including DeFi, games, and other user-centric platforms. It incentivizes participating peers to achieve consensus on state transitions and event emission observations across multiple smart contracts.
By utilizing data compositions on smaller, consensus-reached data units, Powerloom stands as a peer-validated and accurate information source, empowering rich data applications such as dashboards, bots, aggregators, and insights trackers.
Powerloom in a nutshell: Powerloom acts as a decentralized library catalog for blockchain data, providing verified and up-to-date information from multiple chains. Powerloom has a snapshot-driven approach to data retrieval, which allows for efficient scaling and trust in the results.
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Pan Lorattawut is the CEO of VUCA Digital, the blockchain consulting firm behind the CROWN Token Project. Prior to VUCA Digital, Pan was Senior VP at Meketa Investment Group, a full-service investment consulting and advisory firm with $1.4 trillion-plus in assets under advisement in the United States.
Why you should listen CROWN Token (CROWN) is issued by Vega Investment Group, an affiliated company of T&B Media Global, a global IP management and entertainment investment company, and is developed and managed by the VUCA Digital team.
T&B Media Global manages, produces, and invests in live-action and animated feature films and TV series that are distributed globally.
Through this network CROWN can leverage a portfolio of intellectual properties (IPs) to expand into adjacent businesses both in the physical and digital world. CROWN aims to be a token for the entertainment industry by bridging traditional IPs with blockchain technology to enhance the core business and create additional value to both IP owners and the community. With CROWN, the audience can become part of the story. Through their proprietary ADOT platform, token holders can vote to select a film’s direction, character designs and art concepts, or content that T&B and partners will produce.
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In a historic move, the SEC today announced that it has approved eleven Bitcoin Spot ETFs. U.S. investors will now be able to gain exposure to Bitcoin when trading begins tomorrow. Andy marks the historic occasion by recapping the days events and looking forward to what happens next for Bitcoin.
Why you should listen Finally, after a multi-year effort by the Bitcoin community, all eleven much-anticipated Bitcoin Spot ETFs have been approved by the SEC and will begin trading tomorrow.
Bitcoin’s journey has been a strange and wild ride. Exactly 14 years ago today, Hal Finney tweeted that he was “Running bitcoin.” In the years afterward, Bitcoin’s creator Satoshi Nakamoto disappeared, and Bitcoin began its slow journey from a curious collectible for cypherpunks and cryptographers, to a payment mechanism for the dark web, to a speculative bet, to a means of outpacing inflation, and today, to a full embrace from the traditional financial system.
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Sebastien Borget is the co-founder and Chief Operations Officer of The Sandbox a virtual world that leverages blockchain technology to empower users to create, build, buy, and sell digital assets in the form of a game.
Why you should listen Players, brands and companies can create worlds and experiences with the game’s built-in tools. The Sandbox has a native currency SAND, alongside a variety of in-game NFTs.The Sandbox is empowering a global community of players, creators, and owners to participate in an emerging digital economy.
Players can own virtual LAND and launch their own Experiences, own SAND to earn passive income and participate in governance of The Sandbox metaverse, purchase unique avatars and equipment to make gameplay experience more fun, and use catalysts and gems to create assets for players and Experience builders.
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Rena Shah is a former petroleum engineer turned Bitcoin strategist at Trust Machines. Trust Machines has the goal of onboarding 1 billion people into Bitcoin.
Why you should listen Trust Machines is building the largest ecosystem of Bitcoin applications to maximize the value of the Bitcoin network. They are Bitcoin layer agnostic and currently use Stacks, Lightning, DLCs and are always open to exploring other tools.
Trust Machines are building applications that focus on real-world utility that brings users deeper into web3 through the lens of decentralization only Bitcoin provides. Products include Console, a web3 messaging app for online communities that lets users retain privacy and own their identity, and Leather, a premium self custody Bitcoin wallet for Web3.
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Simon Chadwick is Co-founder and CEO at Eclipse Fi, a modular launch and liquidity protocol on Cosmos. Eclipse Fi aims to revolutionize token launches, and support innovation across Cosmos and up-and-coming Layer2s.
Why you should listen Simon says that the goal of Eclipse Fi is to align quality projects with users by providing a platform for launching tokens that attracts users into the ecosystem and builds a community.
Simon discusses the concept of a launch pad and how it is evolving into something more meta. He talks about bringing different types of launch and distribution mechanisms to align early communities of projects.
Recognising a substantial market gap for a dependable launch platform, the team established Eclipse Fi as a go-to primitive launch platform for DeFi and Web3, addressing multiple issues related to launchpads and token launches.
Eclipse Fi aims to become the hub for GTM, launches, and liquidity bootstrapping. A place where builders and the community can get involved and help to innovate and shape the future of token launches sustainably.
They chose the Cosmos ecosystem with Neutron as an initial home base due to the lack of adequate launch solutions, the high quality of projects and chains being developed, the strong focus on quality DeFi, and the cross-chain interoperable nature of IBC.
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Claude Eguienta is the Chief Executive Officer at Mimo Capital, a company that creates protocols providing tokenized real-world assets. So far, it has created the Kuma and Parallel protocols. Kuma is a DeFi protocol that provides tokenized real-world assets. The Parallel protocol is a lending platform for overcollateralized stablecoin loans.
Why you should listen Kuma is a DeFi protocol that provides tokenized real-world assets in various forms.
The Parallel protocol is a lending platform for overcollateralized stablecoin loans. It allows users to mint price-stable tokens backed by various currencies after depositing collateral.
Claude explains that Kuma aims to provide sustainable returns within the crypto world by tokenizing assets like treasury bills (T-bills). The Kuma protocol is designed to provide a balanced portfolio by combining tradfi and crypto. Claude says the industry is gradually moving towards tokenizing riskier assets with higher yields, which would offer better commissions and differentiated products.
The Parallel protocol was created to solve the problem of providing a euro stablecoin in a cost-effective way. It allows users to deposit volatile assets as collateral and borrow stablecoins against them.
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Jeff Owens is co-founder of Haven1 - an EVM-compatible layer 1 blockchain designed to offer a secure, trusted environment to drive the mass adoption of on-chain finance. DeFi with training wheels.
Why you should listen Incubated by the team behind digital wealth platform, Yield App, Haven1 incorporates a provable identity framework and robust security guardrails at network level to provide retail, professional and institutional investors with an on-chain finance platform.
Haven1 aims to bridge DeFi for Web2.5 users. It is built for secure transactions on-chain, fulfilling Web3’s promise to integrate a DeFi feature into the system. Among Haven1’s notable initiatives is its provable identity framework, which provides a solution for transparent and verifiable financial transactions.
The complexities of transitioning into Web3 require long-term preparation for major communities to adopt due to the issues involved with blockchain awareness, interoperability, user experience, and scalability issues. Web2.5 provides a familiar feel of Web3 through its hybrid purpose, and Haven1 aims to bring Web2.5 users to easily navigate DeFi transactions in the Web3 space. With Haven1, you can seamlessly buy, trade, and sell your preferred assets within the network, free from hefty fees imposed by centralized authorities like banks. To unlock these benefits, all you need is a Haven1 token, and generally, there are no associated costs when moving assets between accounts.
In a real-world setting, leveraging Haven1’s capabilities for transitioning from Web2.5 to Web3 promises a future of integrated financial inclusivity within the current centralized financial system.
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Chris Shei is the founder and CEO of OneSafe, a financial technology company that partners with crypto-friendly banks to provide banking services for web3 startups.
Why you should listen Chris shares his personal history with cryptocurrencies, including being debanked in the early days by JPMorgan and Citibank. He explains that OneSafe is a financial technology company, not a bank, and partners with crypto-friendly banks to provide banking services for web3 companies. OneSafe is available for businesses worldwide and allows them to easily open US-based bank accounts. The goal is to bridge the gap between the crypto ecosystem and traditional finance for web3 startups.
Chris describes OneSafe as a global neo-bank for crypto-friendly businesses, offering bank accounts and 24/7 crypto on/off ramp services without fees. The company has a waitlist, but expedited applications are available with the referral code "Brave New Coin."
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Gabriel Barros is a Developer Advocate at Cartesi, an app-specific rollup protocol with a virtual machine that runs Linux distributions. At Cartesi, he delivered its Proof of Stake pool staking system, and now is working on Developer Relations, fostering the ecosystem of Cartesian developers.
Why you should listen Cartesi is an app-specific rollup protocol with a virtual machine that runs Linux distributions, creating a richer and broader design space for DApp developers.
Cartesi Rollups offer a modular scaling solution, deployable as L2, L3, or sovereign rollups, while maintaining strong base layer security guarantees.
The Cartesi Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the Cartesi technology and the decentralization of the Cartesi ecosystem. The Foundation's mission is to be a supporting member of the Cartesi community, through fundings, education programs, grants, strategic alliances, and other focused activities. The Foundation is committed to supporting the development of the Cartesi ecosystem; bringing mainstream scalability and convenience to DApp developers and users.
The Cartesi Machine is breakthrough tech that expands what's possible with DApps. We're getting a glimpse into a future where application-specific rollup chains could handle DApps that were previously unimaginable.
For example, in 12 seconds, Eth can process 10 million changes to the blockchain, but Cartesi can process up to 3.6 billion changes in 12 seconds.
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Derek Yoo is CEO at Moonsong Labs, an innovation lab facilitating the development of next-generation protocols and software infrastructure in Web3. Moonbeam is a platform for cross-chain connected applications that unites assets and functionality from many blockchains.
Why you should listen Moonbeam is a smart contract platform for building connected applications that can access users, assets, and services on any chain. By uniting functionality from Ethereum, Cosmos, Polkadot and more into a single platform, Moonbeam solves today’s fragmented user experience — unlocking true interoperability and paving the way for the next generation of applications. The Moonbeam platform uses integrated cross-chain messaging to allow developers to create smart contracts that access services across many remote blockchains. This approach, plus Moonbeam’s developer-friendly EVM platform, vast tool support, and modern Substrate architecture, creates the ideal development environment for building connected applications. Devs can combine the functionality of multiple specialized chains or simply deploy natively on Moonbeam to bring projects to new users.
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Dan Keene is the Chief Business Officer and on the Founding Team of Portal Foundation. Portal is the universal gaming ecosystem, powered by $Portal. Through market-leading tech products and a world-class network, Portal is bringing blockchain gaming to mainstream audiences.
Why you should listen Portal is a universal gaming platform with a mission to onboard the first billion gamers into Web3. Portal provides a single, seamless point of entry into blockchain gaming for both Web2 and Web3 gamers, giving games access to millions of gamers worldwide in the process.
The global games market is set to hit US$334.00 billion this year, witnessing extensive growth in game studios and player numbers. While Web3 gaming holds immense disruptive potential, current challenges include player education, onboarding, and distribution. Gamers struggle to transition due to the complexities of multiple chains and tokens, limiting blockchain game developers from reaching the broader traditional gaming community. These are the problems that Portal solves.
Portal is at the forefront of the Web3 gaming revolution, with 180+ games already signed to integrate with the platform in just four months.
This includes Web3 gaming giants such as Star Atlas and Space Nation. Powered by LayerZero, the leading interoperability protocol, Portal enables seamless integration between games on various chains.
The integration allows gamers to access and use $Portal for game assets on Portal - regardless of their Web3 familiarity or the game’s chain.
Portal gives gamers a sleek, intuitive experience of jumping into blockchain games, reminiscent of traditional gaming experiences. The underlying tech and integration of LayerZero mean that Portal can facilitate an entry point for any gamer into any ecosystem or game, effectively making the blockchain aspect of Web3 gaming invisible. This bypasses the large learning curve and multiple steps required for gamers to jump into Web3 gaming, allowing Portal to better cater to traditional gamers looking to enter blockchain gaming.
Portal has also established a distribution partnership with Magic Eden, the leading cross-chain NFT platform, enabling users of Portal to purchase any NFTs using the $Portal token. This makes the token a Magic Eden-verified currency and allows for additional utility. With a shared vision for facilitating seamless, cross-chain interaction for digital assets and gaming, the partnership simplifies the NFT aspect often associated with Web3 gaming. Go to Crystal Dash on the link below to earn Portal Rewards.
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Kai is a core contributor to RAILGUN, a DeFi privacy toolkit powering a rich on-chain Zero-Knowledge privacy ecosystem.
Why you should listen Transactions on public blockchains like Ethereum are viewable on the ledger. Whilst blockchains are a huge technological advancement for financial freedom, they have fundamental shortcomings in protecting the human right of privacy, which is also core to true financial freedom. RAILGUN is a secure and composable private DeFi solution. As a flexible smart contract, RAILGUN achieves higher levels of privacy than other protocols, including dedicated privacy coins and chains.
RAILGUN uses zk-SNARKs to encrypt wallet balances, transaction history, and transaction details so that users can use something like Ethereum with all its benefits (liquidity, dApps, and security) and remain private. With zk-SNARKs, you can prove you have the right to spend tokens (i.e., you have a sufficient balance) completely privately. RAILGUN uses a new kind of wallet technology (called 0zk addresses) with this kind of Zero-Knowledge proving, meaning that assets held in RAILGUN are yours and yours only and can only be spent (and viewed) with your private key.
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Andrew McFarlane is CTO at Validation Cloud an Institutional Staking-as-a-Service provider and Web3 infrastructure platform.
Why you should listen Web3 infrastructure platform Validation Cloud has launched a staking-as-a-service platform for institutions. The platform enables institutions to deploy validators in bulk and earn rewards through smart contract automation. Institutions can stake on-demand and the platform is non-custodial. Validation Cloud has designed its platform to ensure that it is SOC2 compliant, a voluntary compliance standard defined by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
The framework is designed to uphold high data security standards for companies, ensuring that customer information adheres to five principles: security, privacy, confidentiality, processing integrity and availability.
The target market includes institutions in the staking space such as asset managers and custodians. Andrew explains that Validation Cloud provides security, scalability, and operational expertise to these institutions, allowing them to participate in staking without building their own team or infrastructure.
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Jonas Simanavicius is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Syntropy, the data layer for Web3.
Why you should listen Syntropy is a decentralized oracle and data network that uses patented technology to stream data in real-time from 12+ blockchains, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Base, Osmosis, and more. Syntropy has 40+ SDKs for instant deployment and full composability.
When compared to other providers, Syntropy is up to 5 times faster (due to streaming), up to 95% more efficient (no persisted data), decentralized and trustless.
The platform operates on a Gas-for-Data principle and provides rewards for community publishers and builders. Consumers have the option to subscribe to validated publications or create their own private streams.
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Gracy Chen is MD at Bitget, a leading crypto copy trading and cryptocurrency exchange platform. Bitget’s mission is to inspire individuals to embrace crypto and connect with the future.
Why you should listen Gracy joins Andy to talk about 2023, highlighting the key events impacting the crypto industry during that year. Gracy shares her experiences from traveling around the world, meeting people involved in Web3 projects, discussing regulatory frameworks with government officials in Singapore, being part of a TV reality show called Killer Whale in Los Angeles, and exploring innovation in Dubai.
Gracy says there are two major trends anticipated by institutional investors: Bitcoin Spot ETFs and US interest rate decreases. These, along with the Bitcoin Halving are seen as strong potential catalysts for a new crypto bull market and a possible Bitcoin Super Cycle.
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Trent McConaghy is an AI and blockchain expert and the founder of Ocean Protocol, a decentralized data marketplace. Ocean’s newest product is Predictoor, a decentralized prediction feed platform.
Why you should listen Trent shares his journey from being raised on a farm to studying electrical engineering and computer science. He talks about his experience in starting companies focused on AI for chip design and exploring the creative uses of AI through his PhD.
Trent has always been ahead of the curve and has been publishing thought pieces on tokens, blockchain, big data, AI, solarpunk, nfts, Moore’s law, transhumanism, UBI, human actualisation, life on mars, and Dyson spheres over the two decades. Trent focuses his work at the intersection of AI, blockchain, and data.
Ocean Protocol aims to connect the dots and envision future possibilities by focusing on interpolation rather than extrapolation. They have been building decentralized data marketplaces since 2017. Their core team has been divided into three sub-teams to pursue different traction hypotheses in data and AI.
One of the projects is Predictoor, which focuses on time series prediction using accurate prediction feeds and data coordination. The goal of Ocean Protocol is to create an open data economy where individuals and organizations can easily make money by adding value to data through AI models, predictions, actions, and revenue generation loops.
Ocean Protocol is now focused on allowing people to make money in the Ocean ecosystem, particularly through DeFi.
Predictoor is a two-sided marketplace where predictors submit predictions and traders buy those predictions. The predictions are made every five minutes for various cryptocurrencies and traders can purchase them for a straightforward price of $1 per feed per day. The accuracy of the predictions determines whether users can make money, taking into account fees and slippage. Predictions can be made using AI ML models based on historical data. This crowdsourced approach allows data scientists to practice their skills while providing accurate prediction feeds to users. The goal is to have thousands or even millions of accurate prediction feeds available in different domains such as weather forecasts, traffic congestion, digital asset prices, etc., benefiting various industries and normal people alike.
For example, accurate predictions for energy demand and price are crucial at both individual and national levels to avoid issues like brownouts or blackouts. Predictions are closely linked with intelligence and can be applied across various industries. Trent emphasizes the importance of accurate predictions through crowdsourcing combined with skin-in-the-game incentives on-chain, where custody is decentralized.
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Maksim Hramadtsou is the founder and CEO of GoodCrypto and goodcryptoX - a next-generation non-custodial DEX trading platform that revolutionizes DEX trading with the help of ERC-4337 Account Abstraction and Smart Contract Wallets.
Why you should listen Maksim founded 2018 GoodCrypto in 2018, an all-in-one crypto portfolio manager and multi-exchange trading terminal. GoodCrypto supports 35 centralized exchanges and has grown to over 200k registered users and over $3B of trading volume.
Following the launch of Uniswap v2 in 2020, Maksim and his team have looked at integrating DEXs in the app to provide DEX traders with the same UX and trading tools they are accustomed to when trading on CEXs.
They believe that DEX trading should be fully non-custodial - anything less that that directly contradicts the whole point of decentralized trading
The recent adoption of ERC-4337 Account Abstraction has provided the opportunity to create a fully non-custodial feature-rich DEX trading platform - this is goodcryptoX.
goodcryptoX creates a smart contract wallet that only the user controls. It is tied to your social login or an existing Metamask wallet. That smart contract wallet issues ’session keys’ - a kind of on-chain API key to your wallet that allows our platform to trade on your behalf within the smart contract-enforced limits that you set.
This allows goodcryptox to bring to DEXs most of the features of CEX trading: from trailing stop order and stop-loss/take-profit combos to DCA and Grid trading bots and trading on technical indicators and TradingView webhooks.
Besides CEX functionality, smart contract wallets allow goodcryptoX to also offer a number of unique DeFi-specific features: from the ability to pay gas fees in any ERC-20 token and automated buying of gas tokens when they are cheap and using them when the network becomes congested to automatically bridging your tokens to an L2 chain like Arbitrum, running your bots there to save on gas fees and auto-bridging them back after.
goodcryptoX will support all leading DEXs on all EVM-compatible blockchains.
GOOD token is the native utility token of goodcryptoX. GOOD provides revenue share, governance, and swapping fee discounts.
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Gennaro D'Urso is the founder of Pharma Collective and Israel Mirsky is the Director at Pharma Collective. Gennaro has a background in science and entrepreneurship, while Israel comes from the advertising industry and has experience in the pharmaceutical psychedelic space.
Why you should listen Gennaro and Isreal discuss the problems with big Pharma's business model, which focuses on new drug discovery rather than affordable medications that meet public health needs. They propose building an ecosystem to manufacture essential drugs or repurpose existing ones for broader use.
Gennaro discusses the mission of Pharma DAO, which is to develop affordable drugs and combat the monopoly of big pharma. By involving the community in identifying needs and participating in trials, Pharma DAO aims to establish a sustainable economic model through royalties received from for-profit companies. Israel highlights potential strategies such as repurposing off-patent drugs and supporting manufacturing to address drug shortages. Collaboration with small pharmaceutical companies is crucial, as they play a significant role in manufacturing essential medications. However, these smaller companies face challenges due to profit margins and outdated technologies. The goal is to create funding models that support projects between millions and hundreds of millions of dollars, filling the gap where traditional funding falls short. Licensing agreements rather than investments are pursued with for-profit companies, allowing Pharma DAO to receive royalties for self-sustainability. This model has been successful before with organizations like the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
They emphasize the importance of decentralization, community involvement, and equal voting rights.
The next steps include a proper launch, raising awareness, setting up efficient mechanisms, and involving the community in decision-making. They believe that decentralized technologies can have a significant impact on public health and encourage people to join as members to make a difference.
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Jasper De Gooyer is the co-founder and CTO at SEDA, a multichain, permissionless protocol connecting real-world data to any network on-chain.
Why you should listen SEDA is a decentralized oracle network designed to bring data from the real world onto the blockchain. It is a multichain, permissionless protocol connecting real-world data to any network on-chain by enabling the integration of external data and events into smart contracts.
Jasper says the SEDA team made the conscious decision to build the 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑙𝑒. This is absolutely core to the design. It means that just as any user can interact with Ethereum to perform deterministic computation, any contract can interact with the Seda Protocol to perform deterministic computation on non-deterministic data.
SEDA has launched its first testnet, with mainnet coming in Q1, 2024.
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Tanya Petrusenko is the CEO at Bitmedia, a global crypto advertising platform that helps crypto companies find crypto users around the world.
Why you should listen Bitmedia started in 2014 to provide advertising opportunities for businesses in the emerging crypto space. Back then, there were few competitors, and most ads were on Bitcoin Talk. The goal was to connect crypto publishers with advertisers and enable monetization through ads.
Bitmedia has grown over the years and currently has around 120 team members. Despite challenges during bear markets when budgets are tight, they continue to attract advertisers preparing for future growth. They also explore other niches like gaming to diversify their offerings.
The Bitmedia engine is a self-serve platform where advertisers can easily set up ad campaigns based on their preferences such as target audience or ad format. The system tracks various metrics for performance evaluation. Account managers help guide advertisers who may be unfamiliar with digital advertising processes.
In terms of building brand loyalty in the crypto space, Bitmedia collaborates closely with brands to craft unique campaigns that resonate with their target audience.
Tanja explains that her company works with various established companies to help them with advertising, specifically branding campaigns. They utilize performance tracking and aim for brand recognition. They also engage in PRS and KOL marketing, creating stories and publishing them on top crypto media outlets while promoting businesses to key opinion leaders. Tanja discusses their previous efforts to use blockchain for advertising but mentions that they are currently focusing on building their own DSP (Demand-Side Platform) for buying traffic and ads from different media outlets. She also mentions plans for a decentralized ad exchange using smart contracts to combat ad fraud.
In terms of the future of crypto advertising, Tanja believes that traditional advertising technologies should be prioritized over blockchain-based solutions at this point because the technology is not yet mature enough in the crypto market. However, she envisions AI playing a role in future developments within the industry.
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Andy records a video podcast to check in on the current narratives and data points impacting the crypto markets.
With approximately 150 days until the 4th Bitcoin Halving, and less than two months until the likely approval of multiple Bitcoin Spot ETFs, the markets are leaning bullish.
Bitcoin has been on an upward trend for the last 4 weeks, gaining over 36% in that time. Solana has outperformed Bitcoin and most other assets, gaining 190% in the last four weeks alone.
Andy looks at all this, and much more in today’s market sentiment report.
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Aditya Das is Head of Research at Volcan Capital, a financial services company focused on investment opportunities in El Salvador.
Why you should listen Aditya has authored a comprehensive research report titled "Invest in El Salvador," which covers various sectors of the country's economy and highlights its emerging opportunities for investors. Volcan Capital has created two investment funds, that are tokenized on the Bitcoin Blockchain. The funds are, the El Salvador Real Estate Investment Trust Fund and the El Salvador Technology Venture Fund.
El Salvador has made significant progress in the last decade, particularly in addressing its issues with gang violence and improving safety. The government-implemented measures have been controversial but effective in reducing crime rates. El Salvador has successfully managed its fiscal deficit and restructured its debt, leading to improved credit ratings and increased foreign investment. President Nayib Bukele is seen as a populist leader who has embraced progressive financial policies and actively communicates with the public through social media platforms like Twitter.
El Salvador became the first country to make Bitcoin legal tender in 2021. This decision was driven by the need for an alternative currency since El Salvador uses US dollars as its primary currency but lacks monetary sovereignty. Bitcoin offers benefits for remittances and acts as a hedge against potential devaluation or economic instability caused by external factors.
El Salvador has set up legislation and a regulatory framework for Bitcoin service providers, which has attracted prominent exchanges like Bitfinex and Binance. The country offers a separate company registry and clear language in its regulations to support Bitcoin-related companies. El Salvador's embrace of Bitcoin as legal tender also provides a ready-made base of users for these companies. Additionally, the country has created a separate framework for digital asset service providers, embracing digital assets other than Bitcoin. El Salvador's use of geothermal energy from volcanoes for Bitcoin mining adds to its appeal as an innovative hub.
Volcan Capital is ready to assist international capital looking for a geopolitical hedge or growth prospects in this emerging market: in other words, the Singapore or Dubai of 40 years ago.
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Jae Yang is the CEO of Tacen and the Chief Architect of Project TXA. Tacen and Project TXA are sister projects - Project TXA develops the hybrid decentralized exchange protocol (hDEX) and the decentralized settlement layer (DSL), while Tacen develops the world’s first hDEX interfaces for traders to use (Tacen Swap and Tacen Exchange).
Why you should listen Jae Yang is the CEO of Tacen and the chief architect of Project TXA, an open-source project that aims to build a cross-chain settlement network. Tacen is a commercial entity building an exchange on top of the TXA settlement network.
Both projects were inspired by Jae's frustrations with traditional crypto exchanges including custody issues, lack of transparency in proof of reserves, and centralization. Project TXA seeks to address these issues by providing fast cross-chain transactions and noncustodial exchanges.
The target audience is experienced traders looking for secure and low-cost options beyond centralized exchanges. Jae Yang also emphasizes compliance with regulations while maintaining user privacy. Tacen Exchange is live on multiple networks with various crypto pairs available for trading. Interested individuals can learn more through technical documentation, code repositories, joining Discord, or visiting the exchange website.
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Collin Woodward is the President and General Counsel of StealthTest. This secure, cloud-based environment enables teams to create their own Ethereum and EVM-compatible test networks for private and secure Web3 development.
Why you should listen StealthTest is designed to ensure industry Web3 projects can protect their privacy, compliance, and IP. With a track record including Chainlink, CertiK, and Gary Vee, StealthTest pioneers scalability, reliability, and swift deployment of secure blockchain apps.
StealthTest is a comprehensive infrastructure solution for smart contract development, testing, and deployments. Nestled securely within cloud-based, private testing environments, the platform provides blockchain infrastructure to service every phase of the Web3 product lifecycle.
This allows developers to direct their energies toward crafting innovative applications, liberating them from the complexities of node deployments and environmental variables.
Engineered for optimal functionality, StealthTest is designed to minimize maintenance and maximize cost efficiency via resource autoscaling and frictionless network upgrades. This is accomplished through a proven, repeatable node deployment strategy and a hands-off management approach, eliminating the common headaches associated with self-managed node upkeep. StealthTest supports all EVM networks.
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Jonathan Bertrand is CEO at D-Central Technologies, a Bitcoin mining company empowering pleb miners to industry giants. D-Central is North America and Europe's one-stop shop for hardware, hosting, and repair.
Why you should listen Since its inception in 2016, D-Central has been at the forefront of innovation and development within the Bitcoin mining sector. The company operates a physical and online retail store making it easy for hobbyists to access Bitcoin mining hardware. D-Central also operates a comprehensive Bitcoin ASIC Service Center, which includes diagnosis and repair of ASIC hardware issues, firmware updates, overclocking, optimization of hardware performance, cleaning and maintenance for prolonged life expectancy, replacement parts for damaged or worn parts, technical support and troubleshooting assistance.
D-Central runs a comprehensive Bitcoin Mining Hosting solution, and now sell Bitcoin Space Heaters. These heaters repurpose the heat generated from cryptocurrency mining, turning what was once considered waste into a valuable resource for homeowners. As Bitcoin miners work tirelessly to validate transactions and secure the blockchain, they produce a significant amount of heat. Instead of letting this heat dissipate into the surroundings, Bitcoin Space Heaters capture and channel it to warm living spaces, ensuring that every joule of energy is put to good use.
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Riad Wahby is the CEO and co-founder at Cubist, a company focused on key management solutions for Web3. Riad has a background in electrical engineering and computer science, particularly zero-knowledge proofs. Cubist was founded after Riad and the team identified the problem of key security as a major challenge in Web3 applications.
Why you should listen Cubist began as a developer of hardware-backed, non-custodial key storage and signing infrastructure that enables institutional blockchain staking providers to protect staking keys and secure withdrawals.
The company was started by Wahby, his co-founder, former fintech COO and fraud prevention expert Ann Stefan, and two other Computer Science and Engineering professors from Carnegie Mellon and UC San Diego.
Cubist has just launched a first-of-its-kind Wallet-as-a-Service platform called CubeSigner to support everything from loyalty programs to market makers to games to custody platforms across virtually every chain.
The WaaS solution is differentiated in that applications can request signatures through revocable signing sessions via simple API calls, and then the WaaS signs from within secure hardware. As a result, keys are constantly safe because users can’t accidentally leak keys and attackers can’t steal keys.
CubeSigner is designed to solve the trade-off between convenience/usability and security when it comes to managing keys.
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Ayush Ranjan is the Co-Founder and CEO at Huddle01, whose mission is to democratize WebRTC and make it more private, secure, and scalable.
Why you should listen Huddle01 is building a decentralized real-time communication network. Developers can leverage their suite of developer-friendly SDKs to enable powerful audio/video experiences on your app with just a quick plug in.
Ayush talks about privacy concerns with video communication platforms like Zoom and how that led him to create Huddle01, a peer-to-peer video calling platform with added layers of security and scalability. Ayush explains how WebRTC works and its evolution from peer-to-peer to server-based communication. He highlights the challenges of centralization, such as lack of content encryption and latency issues caused by distant servers.
Ayush discusses the concept of a people-powered communication network, where individuals can become nodes and power calls without relying on centralized servers. This leads to increased privacy, reduced latency, and the creation of a new bottom-up economy. Ayush also highlights features of Huddle01 that differentiate it from platforms like Zoom, such as seamless integration with popular streaming sites, enhanced privacy options, crypto primitives for avatars, and cheaper call recordings using filecoin storage. Andy acknowledges the importance of building user-friendly platforms regardless of users' familiarity with web3 technology. The conversation then shifts to the concept of "DePIN," which refers to leveraging blockchain technology for decentralized physical infrastructures. Examples include Helium's approach to creating a decentralized 5G mobile network and Filecoin's role in enabling individuals to become storage providers. The discussion concludes by emphasizing the need for more affordable communication infrastructure in order to reduce costs currently associated with centralized systems.
Ayush describes the different layers of Huddle01, including the app layer for consumers, the SDK layer for developers, and the protocol layer for miners and validators. Ayush envisions a future where Huddle powers all communication platforms, making calls more immersive and solving global problems more effectively. Looking ahead, Ayush sees a utopian future where humans explore outer space and achieve higher levels of energy consumption through advanced infrastructure systems like Dyson Spheres.
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Justin Flitter is the founder of NewZealand.AI Their mission is to help businesses scale their superpowers with Artificial Intelligence to increase productivity or create new digital experiences.
Why you should listen Justin shares his background in marketing and emerging technology, and his involvement with the New Zealand AI community. He talks about starting The AI meetup and organizing events to showcase companies using AI. Last year's launch of Chat GPT changed everything and the AI revolution is now upon us. Andy and Jason discuss the ways that AI is impacting sectors such as business and education. The conversation concludes with a discussion on how AI impacts different sectors such as education and business. Finally, Andy and Jason reflect on their time spent on Twitter, and how Elon Musk's ownership has changed the platform.
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Pelli Wang is the Co-Founder and COO of Bracket Labs. Bracket Labs' mission is to democratize financial products for all users, specifically mainstream leveraged structured products within DeFi.
Why you should listen Bracket Labs focuses on building range-bound products for traders in the DeFi derivatives space using web3 technology. The platform is built on Arbitrum and has recently launched a testnet called Passage. They aim to simplify options trading for users who are native to DeFi but may not be comfortable with traditional options platforms. Look out for mainnet coming soon and some trading competitions!
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Mayur Relekar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Arcana, a Web3 adoption and integration network. Arcana provides developer tools and SDKs that enable developers to build user-friendly Web3 applications.
Why you should listen Akana initially focused on decentralized storage but later shifted to building products for developers in the Web3 space. The three products they have released are Auth, which allows users to log into Web3 apps with email or social accounts; Gasless, which provides a gasless experience for app users by sponsoring their gas fees; and SendIt, a simple way to send crypto to an email ID or Twitter handle without requiring the recipient to be a SendIt user.
Mayur Relekar discusses the success of SendIt, which gained 50,000 users in six days and has now reached 500,000 users. He also highlights the need for user-friendly experiences in Web Three and believes that builders are starting to prioritize user needs. Mayur emphasizes the importance of creating applications that solve real problems for users and compares it to moving from building "vitamins" to "painkillers."
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Austin Federa is the Head of Strategy at Solana Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in Switzerland that provides grants and supports development on the Solana network. Solana is known for its fast, cheap, and scalable blockchain solution with transactions finalizing in 400 milliseconds and low fees of around $0.00025 per transaction.
Why you should listen Solana first gained adoption due to its ability to handle a high volume of transactions at low costs compared to other L1 blockchains like Ethereum. The Solana Network continues to grow with about 2,000 nodes globally, demonstrating decentralization and increasing stake distribution compared to other networks like Ethereum or Polygon.
Visa is running a pilot program using the USDC stablecoin on the Solana network after previously conducting it on Ethereum.
Austin says that the collapse of FTX did not significantly impact Solana as users continued transacting and builders kept building on the network. The network is resilient and has a strong community.
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Solo Ceesay is the CEO and co-founder of Calaxy, a social marketplace for creators, built on Hedera Hashgraph. He aspires to bridge the gap between fans and creators that legacy media has created by utilizing the limitless capabilities of distributed ledger technology.
Why you should listen The creator economy is among the fastest-growing sectors of the internet. Calaxy aims to empower the next generation of creators by streamlining the process and cutting out expensive intermediaries. The platform offers creators an end-to-end toolkit to build community, sell a range of experiences, and receive instant payouts.
Designed for simplicity, the app features a home feed to connect with the platform’s experience, together with an ‘experience scroll’ where users can discover tailored experiences provided by their favorite creators.
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Evan Cheng is the Co-Founder and CEO at Mysten Labs building Sui, an innovative, decentralized Layer 1 blockchain that redefines asset ownership. Evan previously spent time at Apple and Meta.
Why you should listen Sui aims to make Sui the most accessible smart contract platform, empowering developers to create great user experiences in web3.
To usher in the next billion users, Sui empowers developers with various tools to take advantage of the power of the Sui blockchain. The Sui Development Kit (SDK) will enable developers to build without boundaries. Sui is a smart contract platform maintained by a permissionless set of validators that play a role similar to validators or miners in other blockchain systems.
Sui offers scalability and unprecedented low-latency for simple use cases. Sui makes most transactions processable in parallel. This better utilizes processing resources and offers the option to increase throughput by adding more resources. Sui forgoes consensus to instead use simpler and lower-latency primitives for simple use cases, such as payment transactions and asset transfers. This is unprecedented in the blockchain world and enables a number of new latency-sensitive distributed applications ranging from gaming to retail payment at physical points of sale.
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Dr. Marco Krohn and Dr. Anthony Jefferies are co-authors of a new book - Decrypting Money - A Comprehensive Introduction to Bitcoin. The book provides a high-level overview of Bitcoin's properties, decentralization, mining, and its role in the larger context of money.
Why you should listen In Decrypting Money, cryptocurrency experts Marco Krohn, Anthony Jefferies, Marco Streng, and Zoran Balkic pull back the curtain on the world of public ledgers, decentralization, mining, blockchains, and private keys.
On the podcast, the authors discuss the historical context of Bitcoin and its relevance in today's financial landscape. They highlight the recurring issue of centralized control over money supply throughout history and how Bitcoin offers a decentralized alternative. The authors express optimism about Bitcoin's progress, acknowledging its adoption and integration into conventional financial markets while recognizing that it is still not widely accepted as a medium of exchange. They also discuss the upcoming Bitcoin halving event, emphasizing that making concrete predictions about its impact is difficult but expressing confidence in Bitcoin's long-term value as an asset class.
The book is published under a Creative Commons license, allowing people to distribute copies freely. The authors are long-time Bitcoiners and believe spreading knowledge about Bitcoin and decentralized systems is important.
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Riyaz Faizullabhoy and Nassim Eddequiouaq, are the former Chief Technology Officer and Chief Security Officer of a16z Crypto, and the founders of Bastion. Bastion is an enterprise-focused web3 orchestrator enabling companies to seamlessly integrate web3 infrastructure into enterprise technologies through a compliant, white-label platform.
Why you should listen Bastion, founded by the former Chief Technology Officer and Chief Security Officer of a16z crypto, empowers enterprises to develop products and experiences that unlock the full potential of web3 for their end users by allowing brands to implement new, or expand existing, infrastructure. Using Bastion’s proprietary routing system, companies can now leverage the utility of the blockchain only when necessary, providing a pragmatic solution for web3 implementation.
Through its comprehensive platform, the Company eliminates the need to individually source solutions such as custody, wallet management, and user onboarding. Bastion combines the simplicity of web2 with the efficiencies of web3, so businesses can create faster, easier ways for people to pay, play, connect, and shop, all while simultaneously offering valuable insights through data analytics.
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Rekt Capital is a cryptocurrency trader and technical analyst. In this episode, Andy and Rekt discuss the historical patterns and tendencies leading up to the Bitcoin halving, including pre-halving periods, retracements, and post-halving rallies.
Why you should listen Rekt Capital suggests that the next 140 days present an opportunity for dollar-cost averaging and accumulation before potential price increases post-halving. He mentions the possibility of Bitcoin dropping below $20,000 before the halving, but cautions that it is not guaranteed. The conversation highlights the importance of this time period for long-term investors to position themselves strategically for the upcoming cycle.
Andy and Rekt discuss the potential impact of spot ETFs on Bitcoin's price, emphasizing the fact that both ETFs and halving events are long-term catalysts that will have significant effects over future cycles.
Rekt also discusses the importance of long-term time horizons, the psychological number that is a $100k Bitcoin, strategies for selling Bitcoin during peak periods, such as dollar cost averaging out of the market, the altcoin money cycle, and the inevitability of meme coins.
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Marc Taverner is the CEO and co-founder of XEROF, a financial services provider for crypto assets. Marc says the idea for XEROF stemmed from a recognition of the friction between traditional finance and crypto assets. XEROF aims to provide compliance-first solutions that bridge this gap for high net-worth individuals, businesses, corporates, web3 companies, asset managers, and family offices globally.
Why you should listen XEROF offers services such as cross-border payments using stablecoins like tether USDT to reduce fees and increase cash velocity; facilitating real estate purchases with cryptocurrency through currency conversion; supporting web3 companies' periodic conversion of treasury into fiat currencies for operational costs; and providing institutions with an Active Managed Certificate (AMC) to gain exposure to crypto assets in a regulated manner. This allows asset managers to recognize placements as assets under management without needing to take custody of the underlying asset.
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Andrew Smith is the founder of Versatus Labs. Versatus is building a decentralized compute stack to make it easier for developers to build on blockchains. Their vision is similar to cloud compute providers like AWS, but for blockchain technology. They aim to reduce the language barrier and provide tools for developers to build applications on any chain. They believe that attracting more developers will lead to the creation of killer apps and drive mass adoption of Web3 technology.
Why you should listen Andrew Smith discusses the challenges of talent acquisition in Web3 development and emphasizes the need to make the hiring process easier and reduce barriers. He predicts that within the next decade, about a third of all applications will be built on decentralized stacks. Andrew provides an overview of Versatus' layer one blockchain and consensus mechanism. Andrew projects a future where Web3 has multiple killer apps and over 100 million daily active users, with trillion-dollar market cap platforms. He believes that decentralization is the future but acknowledges the current knowledge gap in blockchain technology among most people.
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Billy Sullivan is the COO, and Arran Potter is the founder at Grease Monkey Games, a Melbourne games studio building immersive community-driven games for fans of Motorsport. Billy and Arran are Motorsport and car culture enthusiasts IRL and in the digital realm.
Why you should listen Founded in 2013, Melbourne-based Grease Monkey Games is the developer of Torque Burnout and Torque Drift, both available on mobile devices, with the latter also released on PC. In 2022 Animoca Brands acquired Grease Monkey Games for an undisclosed amount.
Torque Drift 2 is an upcoming Web2 meets Web3 motorsport game from Grease Monkey Games. From the colorful drift scene of Tokyo streets to professional competitions sponsored by global brands, Torque Drift 2 invokes all aspects of drift culture. From nostalgic nightscapes to major league championships, your drift style and gameplay choices will determine your legacy as a drift legend.
With extensive profile and garage customization options as digital collectables, linear and open-world environments, a powerful suite of player custom creation tools, and a multitude of feature support for both single and multiplayer experiences, Torque Drift 2 aims to offer a ‘play-your-way’ experience that players can define for themselves.
The game will have continuous releases of interactive experiences such as a tuning garage open to players starting as early as Q3 2023, with the full release of the game staged for 2024.
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Brian Courchesne started his career on Wall Street and became interested in Bitcoin in 2014. He recognized a need for licensed advisors in the space and founded DAIM to provide professional management of crypto assets. DAIM's typical clients are busy business owners looking to make larger allocations to the crypto space. They offer personalized portfolio recommendations and manage assets according to their model portfolio. Additionally, they provide services such as tax optimization and access to various retirement accounts, including a unique corporate 401k plan that allows employees to invest in Bitcoin alongside traditional funds.
Why you should listen DAIM is a successful traditional and digital asset manager that uses its unique investing experience to help its clients achieve their investment goals. DAIM’s expertise, research, and access gives clients the confidence to stay at the forefront of modern investing. DAIM has established relationships with traditional and digital investment technology companies and are able to take disconnected platforms and combine them into streamlined solutions.
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Ethena Labs - Enabling the Internet Bond
Guy Young is the CEO and Founder of Ethena Labs, the crypto infrastructure company building USDe, the first-ever global internet bond and stablecoin not reliant on existing banking institutions.
Why you should listen Ethena Labs is a decentralized stablecoin protocol built on Ethereum that will provide a crypto-native solution for money not reliant on traditional banking system infrastructure, alongside a globally accessible and permissionless dollar denominated savings instrument - the 'Internet Bond'.
Ethena’s stablecoin, USDe, will provide the first censorship resistant, scalable, and stable crypto-native solution for money by delta-hedging staked Ethereum collateral. USDe will be fully collateralized transparently onchain and free to compose throughout DeFi.
The ‘Internet Bond’ is built upon USDe and will combine yield derived from staked Ethereum as well as the basis in both perpetual swap and futures markets, to create the first onchain bond that can function as dollar denominated savings instrument for users worldwide.
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Valio - Next Generation Asset Management Platform
Karlis is the of founder Valio, an asset management platform that connects users to leading traders and digital asset managers.
Why you should listen Valio.xyz is a new cross-chain asset management platform that aims to solve the technical challenges that have held back decentralized asset management.
It works by allowing investors to allocate their capital to traders without the need for trust. Investors are able to allocate capital to traders without trusting them, while traders have access to the many chains supported by LayerZero, to craft flexible strategies that can include long-tail crypto assets, derivatives and, eventually, the full gamut of DeFi.
Valio.xyz is incubated by Openhedge, a venture studio. The core team is made up of six experienced professionals with backgrounds in software engineering, investment banking, and DeFi.
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Jason Grewal is the Chief Legal Officer at SYS Labs, a company building products and services for Web3.
Why you should listen Rollux is SYSLabs’ premier product, an EVM rollup platform rooted in Bitcoin’s PoW for unparalleled security, scalability, and affordability.
Bitcoin is the most secure store of value in blockchain. Its value is protected against malicious actors through its Proof-of-Work protocol and a decentralized global network of miners.
Rollux inherits Bitcoin security by deploying Syscoin on the base settlement layer. Syscoin is a dual-chain (EVM + UTXO) blockchain project that uses merge mining to deploy over 30% of Bitcoin’s security, and continues to grow.
Jason also introduces Camada, a compliant capital-raising platform that aims to connect investors and issuers worldwide while ensuring regulatory compliance.
Jason expresses his opinion on the current state of crypto regulations, highlighting the lack of consensus and unified approach among regulatory agencies. He believes that a new regulatory regime is needed to accommodate the technology and innovation in the crypto industry.
Jason also discusses Syslabs' product, SuperDapp, a social platform with AI capabilities and self-custody wallet features. By creating an AI-driven super app that unifies chat, Web3, and social functionalities, SuperDapp aims to transform how users interact with technology and bridge the gaps in the existing fragmented ecosystem. SuperDapp offers an integrated platform where users can access multiple services and features without the need to switch between applications.
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Lodewyck Berghuijs is the CEO and co-founder of Delos Digital, the parent company to Kodoma and Pantheon Mining. Lodewyck shares his personal journey into bitcoin mining after facing challenges in the music industry due to COVID-19.
Why you should listen The narrative around Bitcoin's energy consumption is evolving, with a shift towards recognizing its positive impact on driving sustainable energy sources.
Pantheon's focus is on catering to high-net-worth individuals, while Kodoma offers fractionalized Bitcoin mining for retail investors. The conversation touches on the challenges faced by individual home miners due to energy costs and technological advancements. Lodewyck stresses the importance of decentralization and encourages more people to participate in Bitcoin mining through the options provided by Pantheon and Kadoma. He highlights the profitability potential of bitcoin mining compared to simply buying and holding bitcoin, especially when considering long-term strategies aligned with halving cycles.
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Paul Salisbury is the co-founder of Everlasting, a digital currency hybrid custody initiative founded in New Zealand. Everlasting provides users with sovereignty over their assets while mitigating risks such as hacks or loss of funds. The goal is to offer a robust solution that can cater to individual investors, asset managers, and high-net-worth individuals.
Why you should listen Paul Salisbury discusses the need for a more secure and flexible approach to on-chain finance. He mentions the challenges of estate planning and inheritance in crypto, where lawyers are hesitant to handle digital assets stored in hardware wallets or seed phrases. To address these issues, Paul introduces a technology approach that allows non-technical users to securely participate in asset signing and approval workflows. The goal is to create an environment where users have control over their assets and transactions are auditable. Paul emphasizes the importance of decentralization and avoiding centralized risks. He also mentions the potential for hybrid custody options that provide more choices for individuals entering the crypto market.
Paul Salisbury discusses the challenges faced by the current exchange custody industry and emphasizes the need for hybrid models to accommodate different user cases. He highlights the importance of providing a comfortable way for non-technical users to access tokenized financial products without compromising security. He believes that simplifying complexity for users and enhancing privacy is critical for future advancements in the crypto space.
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Corey Caplan and Adam Knuckey are the co-founders of Dolomite, a next-generation money market and margin trading protocol built on Arbitrum.
Why you should listen The decision to build Dolomite on Arbitrum was driven by the need for faster transactions and lower gas fees compared to Ethereum mainnet. Dolomite aims to provide a better decentralized exchange experience by addressing the limitations of existing decentralized exchanges.
Adam Knuckey explains that the goal of building Dolomite was to enable lending platforms for modern DeFi, incorporating features like voting, staking, vesting, and rewards. They aim to create a platform that offers decentralized exchange capabilities and maximizes yield earning potential through efficient asset utilization. Corey Caplan further discusses how Dolomite's infrastructure can solve liquidity crunch scenarios and retain control over assets during stressful situations. He highlights the ability to earn swap fees and lending yield simultaneously as a key advantage. The team tracks metrics like TVL and borrow activity while focusing on shipping utility through the platform. Despite market fluctuations, Dolomite has retained its TVL without any incentive programs due to its usefulness for users.
They also mention their collaboration with OffChain Labs and Chainlink, highlighting how Dolomite relies on these teams for securing its network and valuing user collateral. The conversation shifts to broader perspectives on DeFi, with Corey discussing the analogy between the early internet and the current state of DeFi, while Adam mentions the challenges posed by unclear regulations in the industry.
Adam Knuckey emphasizes the importance of approaching projects in a secure and proper manner, rather than treating legal matters as an afterthought. He acknowledges that overcoming this challenge can be difficult, but making the best efforts is crucial.
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Fred Thiel is the CEO of Marathon Digital Holdings, one of the largest Bitcoin mining companies on the planet. The company holds 13,000 BTC in its corporate treasury.
Why you should listen Fred Thiel discusses the role of Bitcoin mining in balancing the grid and incentivizing renewable energy. He explains how miners can use stranded energy from solar and wind farms, benefiting both the operators and consumers. Fred also addresses the narrative shift towards recognizing Bitcoin's positive impact on renewable energy sources. The conversation then shifts to the potential approval of Bitcoin ETFs by institutions like BlackRock, Fidelity, and Vanguard. Fred shares his perspective on the likelihood of these approvals happening and highlights the growing separation between Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in terms of narrative and risk profiles.
Fred emphasizes Marathon's preparedness for the upcoming Bitcoin halving, regardless of whether prices go up or down, due to their reserves and efficient mining operations.
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Jay White is the co-founder of Space and Time, a decentralized data warehouse. Space and Time can be understood as a web3 native database platform with applications in gaming and DeFi.
Why you should listen Space and Time is (SxT) is a decentralized data warehouse that comes preloaded with indexed blockchain data from major chains. You can join tamperproof on-chain data with your own off-chain datasets in a simple SQL format and publish the result to smart contracts, dapps, dashboards, BI tools, and ML models. Proof of SQL is a novel zk cryptography that proves that queries run in SxT are verifiably tamperproof. SxT revolutionizes data for Web3, powering sub-second queries and enterprise-scale analytics in a tamperproof and blockchain-anchored way. The development process is ongoing with an alpha launch recently completed. Space and time investors include Chainlink, Microsoft, Samsung Next, among others.
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Tomer Afek is the CEO and Co-founder of Spacemesh, a layer 1 Proof of Space Time (PoST) protocol. Following mainnet launch on the 14th of July 2023 they have created the “People’s Coin” magic internet money, that anyone can mine from home, no special mining gear required.
Why you should listen Spacemesh is a decentralized smart contract platform that uses Proof of Space-Time (PoST) as its consensus protocol. It has a mesh structure to order transactions. SpaceMesh relies on PoST due to the team's belief that it is less resource intensive, more easily decentralized, and better secured compared to Proof of Work and Proof of Stake.
Spacemesh intends to build a decentralized, secure, and scalable cryptocurrency and smart contracts platform that can be used by anyone with excess hard drive space.
Spacemesh want to reinvent “Magic internet money everyone can join via mining from home”, to keep the cryptocurrency money system always open, dynamic, fair, and decentralized.
They believe that it will pave the way for a world that is more equitable, facilitating more and better cooperation regionally, nationally, and globally.
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Jett Tang is the executive producer of The Next Crypto Gem, a Reality TV series that premieres September 7. It’s the first crypto-related TV show of its kind. Think Shark Tank meets The Apprentice in Web3.
Why you should listen The Next Crypto Gem is a crypto reality TV show starring Brian D. Evans, Layah Heilpern, George Tung as judges. The Next Crypto Gem puts the best projects in the wild world of cryptocurrency to the ultimate test. Each week the judges challenge the teams to explain their projects through a series of competitions with real-world applications. Shark Tank’s Kevin Harrington, and YouTube’s BitBoy make guest appearances.
The executive producer, Jet Tang, says that he and the team at Hourglass wanted to create a show that could bring crypto to the mainstream via the power of television. Tang says it is important to highlight the pioneers and builders in the crypto space to change negative media perceptions. He explains that season one is just the beginning and they plan to expand with more productions in season two.
The goal is to present crypto in a fun and entertaining format to the masses while also educating them. The show will sprinkle in concepts such as tokenomics, crypto basics, and blockchain understanding. The script and pacing is designed to entertain so those who have no understanding of the industry can enjoy the program along with the crypto natives.
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Dermot O’Riordan is the director of Pocket Network. Pocket Network's mission is to build censorship-resistant technology that will lay the foundation for reorganizing the world’s institutions toward a more equitable, hyper-connected, interplanetary future.
Why you should listen Pocket Network is one of the pioneering projects driving the DePin revolution. Since 2017, it has empowered developers with reliable, performant, and cost-effective access to blockchain data. It does this by decentralizing remote procedure calls (RPC), a standardized method for developers to interact with a blockchain network, allowing them to send and receive data from that network.
Decentralized Physical Infrastructures (DePIN) leverage blockchain technology to build and operate real-world physical infrastructure in a permissionless, trustless, and programmatic way. For some, this possibility represents the apex of what blockchain can achieve - giving distributed individuals the ability to collectively build, maintain, and operate networks without the need for a centralized entity.
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Yves La Rose is the CEO of the EOS Network Foundation and a modern-day samurai. EOS was the largest ICO and raised over $4 billion in the biggest initial coin offering of all time. With its promise of being more efficient than other cryptocurrencies, EOS gained a reputation as "Ethereum on Steroids." Over time, however, users declined, its token's value declined, and developers left the project. Yves La Rose and the EOS community are determined to bring EOS back from the dead.
Why you should listen The EOS community, led by Yves La Rose, feels that the ICO funds were used for unrelated ventures and that Block.one has neglected the project. The community has shifted its focus and is determined to regain control of the platform. As a result, there is now a renewed emphasis on developing the core technology of EOS.
The EOS Network Foundation is coordinating and advancing the EOS network, including its upcoming major consensus upgrade, Antelope Leap 5.0. Yves expresses optimism for EOS's future and aims to regain its position among the top ten cryptocurrencies due to its scalability, mass adoption potential, and impressive transaction capabilities at low cost with reliable uptime.
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Boris Alergant is the Head of DeFi at Ripple. He discusses the challenges of institutional adoption in DeFi and the importance of compliance.
Why you should listen Ripple's report, "2023 Crypto Trends in Business and Beyond," explores tokenizing assets, managing them securely, and facilitating asset movement on the XRP ledger. The report also highlights that global finance leaders are increasingly interested in exploring DeFi. Boris explains how businesses have become more open to blockchain technology over time, recognizing its potential for cost reduction and growth. He emphasizes that institutions want to use blockchain technology but need a compliant way to do so. The conversation touches on decentralized identity as a solution for regulatory compliance in DeFi and predicts that younger generations inheriting wealth will drive adoption of blockchain technology. Legacy banks face pressure from innovative neo-banks, which may lead to their eventual adoption of new technologies. The podcast concludes with discussions around Ripple's products aimed at removing frictions in traditional banking systems, particularly cross-border payments.
Boris Alergant explains the two components of Swift, which are the messaging layer and settlement layer. He emphasizes that traditional correspondent banking can be slow and costly. Ripple is working to create more efficient solutions like ODL to enable faster and cheaper payments. Boris also mentions the disruption happening in traditional financial services activities through technologies like DeFi. He discusses Ripple's partnership with crypto native companies and their use of XRP on the Root Network blockchain.
He highlights the AMM functionality proposed by Ripple for the XRP ledger as a way to minimize impermanent loss in liquidity pools.
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Keone Hon is the Co-Founder and CEO of Monad, an EVM-compatible L1 that can process 10k TPS. Konad explains why he decided to move on from Jump Trading and start a new venture with Monad, focusing on building an ultra-high-performance EVM blockchain that improves upon Ethereum's throughput. He highlights the need for pipelining in transaction execution and state access to achieve higher performance.
Why you should listen Keone discusses the need for pipelining in the Ethereum virtual machine to improve efficiency and scalability. Monad is focused on building execution systems that can handle a high number of transactions per second. The team also aims to support developers through grants and create better user experiences in open finance. Keone acknowledges that Ethereum's roadmap has changed over time and emphasizes the importance of adapting based on market feedback. He believes that delivering a better user experience is crucial for widespread adoption of decentralized finance. Monad has received backing from Dragonfly Capital and Placeholder, and they are currently working on their DevNet, testnets, and documentation.
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There are approximately 281 days until the next Bitcoin halving. In this episode, Andy looks at several data points related to the Bitcoin halving cycle, and the fast-rising odds that suggest not just one, but a group of Bitcoin Spot ETF applications are likely to be approved soon. Plus, what did David Bowie say about the internet in 1999 that was so eerily prescient?
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Raj Brahmbhatt is the co-founder and CEO of Zeebu, a blockchain-based settlement platform for telecom carriers. Zeebu aims to revolutionize the telecom wholesale voice industry by introducing a decentralized ecosystem for voice traffic exchange. Traditional voice traffic exchange is riddled with inefficiencies, opaqueness, and trust issues, which leads to higher costs and remittance delays.
Zeebu addresses these pain points by leveraging blockchain technology to create a trustless ecosystem for buyers and sellers to exchange voice traffic directly. The platform provides transparent and auditable records of all transactions, reducing the risk of fraud and disputes.
Why you should listen Raj says the global telecom industry is a vital part of the global telecommunications ecosystem, facilitating the exchange of voice, data, and messaging between carriers and operators. However, the sector is fraught with challenges, including inefficiencies, lack of transparency, and high costs, which all lead to revenue loss for telecom wholesale voice businesses.
With the advent of Web3 technology, there is an opportunity to address these pain points to create a more efficient, secure, and cost-effective telecom wholesale ecosystem. Zeebu aims to leverage blockchain, tokens, and smart contract technology to create a decentralized marketplace for telecom operators, carriers, and service providers, enabling them to transact with each other securely, and earn rewards for every transaction made on the platform.
The platform’s key features include transparent pricing, smart contract-enabled payment settlements, reducing the need for intermediaries and manual intervention. Additionally, the platform will provide loyalty token rewards for every transaction made on the platform, incentivizing both buyers and sellers to participate in the ecosystem.
The Zeebu (ZBU) loyalty token is designed to introduce a B2B loyalty program and revolutionize global business transaction settlements. Raj says B2C initiatives are in the works.
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Daniel Dizon is the Founder of Swell, an Ethereum liquid staking protocol, backed by Mark Cuban, Bankless, Framework, Apollo, Maven 11, and more. Daniel is actively involved in the DeFi ecosystem as an early-stage strategic advisor and angel investor. Previously, Daniel founded and exited a software start-up and formerly served in corporate finance advisory roles, including portfolio management for multibillion-dollar portfolios for various public sector clients.
Why you should listen Liquid staking allows users to stake their ETH to earn rewards while using their ETH in DeFi applications simultaneously. Daniel highlights that Ethereum staking is growing but has great potential for further adoption. Swell has seen significant growth with 45,000 ETH ($80 million USD) being staked and over 10,000 unique wallets participating in their protocol. The success can be attributed to innovative features like gamified incentivization through "Pearls" and community engagement through events called Voyages.
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Christopher Brookins is the co-founder of RociFi, a DeFi primitive for on-chain scoring and capital-efficient lending.
Why you should listen RociFi enables borrowers with clean EVM-compatible on-chain history and reputation to borrow with collateral while offering lenders a high, stable deposit yield.
In order to borrow on RociFi, users must mint an ERC-1155 token, NFCS (Non-Fungible Credit Score). The NFCS proves ownership of the address bundle that the borrower wishes to be credit scored.
The need for a unique, non-transferable on-chain credential that unlocks greater utility and safety across Web3 has grown in interest since Vitalik Buterin’s recent post about “Soulbound” tokens.
RociFi’s NFCS (Non-fungible credit score) is designed to be Web3’s first, verified token for credit, reputation, and trust.
As the need for on-chain reputation and credit scoring grows, Chris says RociFi is moving away from under-collateralized lending and will focus on credit scoring, expanding utility, and integration with other projects. Potential future directions for the protocol include reconfiguring credit scores for lower borrow rates or partnering with existing liquidity pools.
There is an upcoming token launch for ROCI via an IDO which will unlock elements of integration and collaboration in their platform. They aim to grow liquidity responsibly and decentralize the credit scoring apparatus. After token launch, the core team plans to introduce an incentive and staking system designed to attract and retain sticky token holders that promote long-term growth and sustainability of the protocol.
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Moka Han is the COO at BitKeep Wallet which has been acquired by Bitget and rebranded to the Bitget Wallet. With over 10 years of experience in FinTech, Moka has led BitKeep to achieve several growth milestones and into the largest multi-chain wallet in Asia.
Why you should listen Bitkeep’s collaboration with the Bitget exchange and brand repositioning as Bitget Wallet was conceptualized from a desire to take their integrated trading features to the next level to better cater their services towards the needs of their users.
The wallet is now a fully-furnished application with a portfolio of useful features for users, such as Assets Discovery and Management, Swap Service, NFT Trading Marketplace, PoS Staking, DApp browser, Launchpad, and more.
As a self-custodial Web3 "Wallet Exchange", Bitget Wallet aims to serve as the ultimate gateway for users to explore the world of Web3 with just a tap of a finger by integrating these purpose-built features on a dynamic interface.
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Jake Claver is the founder of Digital Ascension Group, and a business leader, keynote speaker, and performance expert who helps professionals build wealth and grow their businesses.
Why you should listen Jake services a client list of high-net-worth individuals to help them secure wealth for generations to come. He runs the Beyond Broke Mastermind Group to give individuals affordable access to a powerful network, game-changing knowledge and deal flow.
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Graham Elwood is a comedian, filmmaker, and podcaster. He has just spent time on the ground in El Salvador exploring the country's Bitcoin adoption. He is producing a new documentary called Bitcoin Saves El Salvador.
Why you should listen Graham first learned about Bitcoin when Max Kaiser appeared on his show Political Vigilante.
Graham discusses his experience in El Salvador, particularly in Bitcoin Beach, where he witnessed the adoption of Bitcoin and its positive impact on the local community. NGOs like My Premier Bitcoin and Hope House are educating locals about using Bitcoin in a circular economy and providing language education. Graham was impressed with being able to use Bitcoin for everyday transactions like renting a surfboard and noted the lack of crime compared to other Latin American countries. He highlights how legalizing Bitcoin has helped redirect extortion money back into the economy, creating hope for a brighter future in El Salvador. The adoption of Bitcoin varies across towns and regions, but there is overall optimism among those he spoke with regarding President Bukele's actions against criminals and corruption and the adoption of Bitcoin.
Graham is raising funds for his documentary project and hopes that the Bitcoin community will support it. He sees potential in combining Bitcoin with film production ensure fair compensation for content creators.
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Petr Kozyakov is the Co-founder and CEO of Mercuryo, an international fintech company focused on providing cryptocurrency payment solutions.
Why you should listen Mercuryo began in 2017 as an onramp solution to help users buy crypto easily and at lower costs. Later, they expanded their services to provide banking solutions, payment solutions, and to act as a bridge between traditional financial institutions and crypto companies. They now work with many high profile international fintechs and crypto companies.
Petr talks about the challenges faced by crypto companies in accessing fiat infrastructure due to banks' risk aversion towards cryptocurrencies. Petr also mentions that self-custodial wallets are becoming popular among users after incidents like the FTX collapse, leading to increased demand for using crypto in daily life.
Petr predicts that by 2024, large crypto players will start providing fiat services, leading to real crypto adoption in the second half of 2024 and beyond. He emphasizes the importance of efficiency, sustainability, and finding real use cases for cryptocurrencies in improving operations. Petr highlights his company's ability to provide all services in one place, easy integration, and a long-term strategy for partners to evolve into crypto fintechs quickly.
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Denis Creighton is the CEO of IMPT, a carbon-offsetting ecosystem designed to connect global retail brands with socially responsible individuals and businesses seeking to reduce their carbon footprint.
Why you should listen Described as the Planet's Loyalty Programme, IIMPT is a carbon-offsetting ecosystem designed to connect retail brands with socially responsible individuals and businesses seeking to reduce their carbon footprint.
Carbon offsetting is a mechanism that allows individuals, organizations, or companies to compensate for their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by funding projects that reduce or remove an equivalent amount of emissions elsewhere. The idea behind carbon offsetting is to achieve carbon neutrality, where the total emissions produced are balanced by an equivalent reduction in emissions or removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
While carbon offsetting can play a role in mitigating climate change, its effectiveness and impact can vary depending on several factors. IMPT’s tech stack demonstrates the value of Web3 by aiming to unlock transparency and verification in the carbon credit industry.
IMPT aims to disrupt two areas: online retail shopping and the carbon credits industry. IMPT has the power to give socially conscious shoppers the ability to make a difference by reducing their carbon footprint through easy and adaptable ways. With the carbon credits sector — by using the benefits of the blockchain and the non-fungible token (NFT) process IMPT aims to build a credible and transparent ecosystem.
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Micky (Mr. Telecom) Watkins is the CEO at World Mobile, a mobile network owned by the people and built on blockchain technology. Micky shares his background in telecommunications and his passion for connecting the unconnected.
Why you should listen Micky understands the importance of internet access for underserved communities and is focused on providing connectivity. World Mobile started as a privacy-based platform but shifted its focus to connecting the unconnected to address the fact that half of the world's population lacks proper internet access. Mickey explains how they set up an air node device in a remote village in Tanzania, which had a positive impact on the villagers' lives by improving communication and economic opportunities. They further explore World Mobile's mission to connect unconnected regions using off-the-shelf hardware, proprietary technology, and a sharing economy model that incentivizes individuals to host infrastructure.
World Mobile, a mobile network operator based on the blockchain, is expanding its sharing economy model to connect unconnected populations in various regions. They have successfully implemented their vision in Zanzibar and Pakistan, and are now focusing on fine-tuning the sharing economy around the globe. By utilizing blockchain technology and smart contracts, World Mobile aims to reduce bureaucracy and ensure privacy for users. They have developed different types of nodes (air nodes, earth nodes, ether nodes) to provide connectivity in rural areas and address gaps in coverage. World Mobile's goal is to connect one billion people by 2030 through its shared economy approach.
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Elena Sinelnikova is Co-Founder and CEO of Metis, a layer-2 solution built on Ethereum powering dApps, businesses, and communities by scaling Ethereum to what it’s meant to be - boundless.
Why you should listen Metis, a layer-2 solution built on Ethereum works to provide a completely decentralized infrastructure to support the emerging web3 economy. Metis’ goal is to simplify the process of decentralization by making the technology accessible, adaptable, and affordable for anyone to get involved, from individual developers to established enterprises. With the lowest fees available across blockchain ecosystems, Metis makes it easier for businesses to utilize blockchain technology efficiently and at low cost.
Elena discusses how they solve for scalability, security, and decentralization while maintaining their vision of easy onboarding for businesses onto the blockchain to create a Web3 economy.
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David Tse, a professor at Stanford University and co-founder of Babylon Chain, discusses the integration of proof-of-work Bitcoin security with proof-of-stake chains. The combination of these two opposing security models creates a more powerful protocol.
Why you should listen Babylon Chain was founded in 2021 and has integrated with 28 Cosmos chains on its testnet.
David Tse discusses the importance of increasing the value of Bitcoin to maintain high security and value. He explains Babylon's Bitcoin staking protocol, which utilizes assets such as Bitcoin to secure proof of stake chains. David envisions a future where only a few chains like Bitcoin and Ethereum provide security for other chains while their tokens focus on utility and application development. He believes that blockchain will one day have a tremendous impact on changing how humans interact, similar to wireless communication infrastructure.
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Maxwell McKendry is Director of Business Development for Phi Labs, building out the Archway blockchain - an incentivized L1 blockchain that allows developers to capture the value their dapps create, enabling sustainable economic models. Mainnet launch is coming in July.
Why you should listen Max McKendry, Director of Business Development for Phi Labs discusses Archway blockchain, which aims to incentivize developers by enabling them to capture the value that their dapps create and build sustainable economic models. The Archway Foundation held a public sale through Coin List where they distributed 5% of the total supply. The purpose was to distribute, supply, and decentralize the protocol, which sold out in under an hour.
They plan on launching Mainnet in early July with user-facing applications as well as developer-facing tooling along with AWS-like interoperability with easy-to-use tools for web two developers and users who want to launch new business models on-chain easily while being intuitive at the same time.
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Josh Frank is the CEO and Co-Founder of The Tie - a Premium Digital Asset Data provider for institutions.
Why you should listen The Tie’s core offering, The Tie Terminal, is the fastest and most comprehensive platform for institutional digital asset market participants. With its unmatched breadth and depth of data coverage, combined with a suite of powerful, customizable tools, The Terminal provides an all-in-one solution to stay on top of the crypto market.
The Tie has a large range of datasets and dashboards, for example, the Tie Terminal Funds Screener provides a real-time feed of the most recent fundraises in the crypto space, with each fund's most recent amount raised, the number of new investors in that raise, as well as aggregated totals.
The Funds Screener has advanced filtration capabilities that enable you to discover opportunities that meet specific criteria. For example, identify any firm that has raised $25M+ in aggregate, raised capital since January 1st, and has made investments in 10+ crypto projects. Clicking any fund within the Funds Screener will take you to a dedicated profile, where you'll find a breakout of the fund's investments, granular details around capital they've raised, as well as news, headcount growth, company descriptions, and other key metrics.
The Tie’s primary clientele includes traditional and crypto-native hedge funds, OTC desks, market makers, banks, and other institutional market participants.
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Arjun Kalsy is the Head of Ecosystem at Mantle, a modular layer two blockchain designed to help scale Ethereum and drive mass adoption of decentralized technologies.
Why you should listen Arjun explains the unique features of Mantle's technology, including its modular architecture and data availability solution provided by EigenLayer. The rebranding from BitDao to Mantle signals a commitment to becoming a product-focused DAO with one brand and one token (MNT) across the entire ecosystem. The goal for Mantle is mass adoption of decentralized and token governed technologies through community ownership and governance. Main net launch for Mantle is scheduled for mid-July 2023.
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zondacrypto is one of the largest digital asset investment platforms in Europe with over 1 million users. The company was established in 2014 and is the leading crypto payments provider in central and eastern Europe.
Why you should listen Long ago, people traded seashells. Then raw materials like copper and gold. Today, it’s crypto. zondacrypto believe that everyone should have a place to buy and sell, just like we always have. Their exchange is a regulated platform where you can join 1 million+ people trading in cryptocurrencies.
Zonda is the biggest crypto payments provider in central and eastern Europe and are iimplementing digital currency payments and driving the dynamic of crypto payments adoption in the EU. The upcoming zondacrypto token (ZND) will be introduced soon with an updated fee structure, featuring a tiered system, and an enhanced user experience.
ZND is a utility token that will offer users unique benefits such as lower trading fees, staking, exclusive access to new projects, and the ability to participate in governance decisions.
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Abdul Osman is the founder and CEO of Goracle - a Decentralized Oracle Network built on the Algorand blockchain. With the new cross-chain compatibility feature, Goracle can import data from Ethereum and other blockchains, opening up new use cases.
Why you should listen Goracle is a decentralized blockchain oracle solution built on the Algorand blockchain. It provides a secure and reliable way for smart contracts on the Algorand blockchain to access off-chain data. With the new cross-chain compatibility feature, Goracle can import data from Ethereum and other blockchains, opening up new use cases and opportunities for developers. Goracle is in Testnet and plans to launch to Mainnet this month.
Goracle’s features enable Algorand to act as a settlement layer for other blockchains, providing seamless access to data on other chains and facilitating cross-chain liquidity. This feature will enable developers to build a wide range of applications without building their own centralized oracles. For example, developers can now build DeFi apps that allow users to trade assets across multiple blockchains.
Other use cases for cross-chain applications include supply chain management, gaming, and asset management. For example, developers can build applications that track the movement of goods across different blockchains, verify the ownership of virtual assets in games, or manage a portfolio of assets across different blockchains.
Goracle is conducting an IDO for their $GORA token on June 28 via Tokensoft.
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Brandon “Psifour” Conley is a Bitcoiner and cypherpunk and an enthusiastic proponent of the Bitcoin Ordinals Project.
Why you should listen The Ordinal Theory Handbook explains that Ordinal theory concerns itself with satoshis, giving them individual identities and allowing them to be tracked, transferred, and imbued with meaning. Satoshis, not bitcoin, are the atomic, native currency of the Bitcoin network. One bitcoin can be sub-divided into 100,000,000 satoshis, but no further.
Ordinal theory does not require a sidechain or token aside from Bitcoin, and can be used without any changes to the Bitcoin network.
Ordinal theory imbues satoshis with numismatic value, allowing them to be collected and traded as curios.
Individual satoshis can be inscribed with arbitrary content, creating unique Bitcoin-native digital artifacts that can be held in Bitcoin wallets and transferred using Bitcoin transactions. Inscriptions are as durable, immutable, secure, and decentralized as Bitcoin itself.
Other, more unusual use-cases are possible: off-chain colored-coins, public key infrastructure with key rotation, a decentralized replacement for the DNS. For now though, such use-cases are speculative, and exist only in the minds of fringe ordinal theorists.
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Josh Olszewicz, Head Of Research and Portfolio Manager at Valkyrie Investments, returns to the Crypto Conversation for a Crypto Market Update. Josh gives us the Valkyrie update and shares his views on the current market. Plus, hear Josh’s thoughts on Ethereum, Bitcoin Ordinals, and his Bitcoin price targets for the peak of the next bull market.
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Winston Zhang is a co-founder at Cega, DeFi’s Exotic Options Protocol - a platform that offers safer and more transparent yield strategies.
Why you should listen Cega is building the next evolution in defi derivatives. Cega is the first protocol focused purely on exotic derivatives, a class of options products that combine basic options (e.g. call/put) with advanced options characteristics to create packaged offerings for investors which generate superior yield, provide downside protection, and express infinite views of the financial market.
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Liam Bacon and Jacob Horgan are the co-founders of Aradena, a gaming platform that uses innovative gameplay developments and web3 to revolutionize competitive gaming. The token sale for the Aradena Gold token is happening soon.
Why you should listen Aradena: Battlegrounds offers a unique, immersive and compelling battle system that is strategic and fun. A competitive strategy game that combines the deck-building mechanics of CCGs like Hearthstone, with the strategic moment-to-moment gameplay of the likes of Civilisation, Warhammer and XCOM - all this creates a new and exciting competitive strategy gameplay experience, set in the medieval fantasy Kingdom of Aradena.
Liam and Jake discuss the principles behind creating a successful blockchain game, which includes creating gameplay that is fun and addictive. They explain their sustainable game economy design, which involves having more syncs than sources to control token emissions. They also introduce their dual economy system with silver and gold economies. In terms of user acquisition strategy, they focus on targeting both Web3 gamers and traditional gamers by removing barriers to entry for traditional gamers. Their ultimate goal is to onboard millions of traditional gamers into web3 gaming by providing an amazing game experience enhanced by Web3 technology. Finally, they talk about their Aradena Battlegrounds game which utilizes trading card game mechanics in a snappy gameplay format.
Aradena will be launching its closed beta soon, which requires owning one of their Warrior NFTs; they will also launch their token sale shortly after the closed beta release date announcement.
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Harrison Hines is the CEO and co-founder of Fleek, the web3 development and infrastructure platform, and Fleek Network, the decentralized Edge network, and protocol.
Why you should listen Fleek is a Web3 infrastructure platform that surfaces protocols like IPFS, Arweave, Filecoin, Akask, POKT, ENS, and more. Fleek lets developers use them independently or combine them together to create awesome new Web3 experiences.
Harrison discusses his journey in the industry and how he was drawn to decentralizing the web. He explains that Fleek is a Web3 development platform that focuses on the non-smart contract side of DApps such as IPFS hosting and storage. Harrison also talks about the current state of Web3 developer culture and its potential for growth, but notes that there are still gaps to fill such as better tooling and more user-friendly experiences for developers using these protocols. He highlights the Fleek Network's ability to offer cost advantages without sacrificing performance or reliability when compared with traditional cloud providers in Web Two.
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Dan Edlebeck is the Director of Ecosystem at Phi Labs, a core contributor to Archway, the value capture chain. Archway, is a new network that seeks to fairly incentivize the contributions of its participants. The Archway protocol and community are making efforts to align the interests of all participants and build a fairer, developer-first ecosystem.
Why you should listen Archway is an incentivized L1 blockchain that allows developers to capture the value their dapps create, enabling sustainable economic models. Archway is designed to be scalable, secure, and interoperable. It is built on the Cosmos SDK and uses Tendermint consensus.
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Brett Sager is a commercial trial lawyer at Ehrenstein Sager, a business law boutique providing bespoke trial and transactional services. Sager specializes in digital asset disputes, especially in play-to-earn games and Metaverse land sales.
Why you should listen Play-to-Earn games provide an opportunity for investors to earn profits while having fun. However, until the regulation of digital assets is more established, investors should be careful when investing their digital resources in games in the metaverse. Although PTE games create an opportunity for rewards, they invite potential risks for gaming investors. That risk exists because the digital asset industry does not face the same federal oversight as traditional investments such as stocks and bonds. For now, a PTE game or virtual real estate investor won't receive the same financial and nonfinancial disclosures they would otherwise receive if they were purchasing a more traditional investment. Do your due diligence.
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The next Bitcoin halving is estimated to take place in 334 days. Andy discusses the performance of Bitcoin this year, and asks Google's Bard AI for its assessment of Bitcoin, and what the best strategies are to trade the halving.
Why you should listen Despite regulatory headwinds and economic instability, buying pressure for Bitcoin continues with prices up over 70% this year.
Google Bard provides some possible strategies for investing in Bitcoin, including buying before or after the halving. Google Bard also provides some potential benefits and drawbacks of Bitcoin for the world, leaving it up to individuals to decide if it's good or not. Will history repeat leading to a new bull market as part of the Bitcoin 4-year halving cycle? Position accordingly.
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Joel Kruger, a trader, collector of digital art and bitcoin, and strategist at LMAX Group, discusses his background in investment banking and how he got involved with LMAX Group. He provides an overview of the institutional exchange's FX and cryptocurrency offerings and his role as a strategist at the LMAX Group.
Why you should listen Joel shares his thoughts on traditional markets such as equities and currencies, noting concerns about inflation potentially putting pressure on equity markets. On the other hand, he is optimistic about the outlook for cryptocurrencies in 2023 due to positive fundamentals that are specific to crypto. While there are regulatory headwinds that need to be addressed before full institutional adoption can take place, Joel believes that all signs point towards increased interest in this asset class from larger players looking to allocate down the line.
Joel Kruger shares his views on the SEC's mixed commentary and lack of regulatory clarity for the crypto industry. He emphasizes the importance of providing a regulatory-compliant structure for clients, while also acknowledging that regulators don't want to make any hasty decisions. Kruger is optimistic about the potential in digital assets, including Bitcoin and Ethereum, which he sees as complementary to each other. He also discusses NFTs and believes that their current bearish market is just another cycle that will eventually lead to a flight to quality within the space. Finally, Kruger encourages investors to apply calmness during periods of excess craziness when believing in an asset's value proposition.
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David Schwed is COO at Halborn, an Elite Blockchain Security Solutions provider. Halborn brings ethical hackers and blockchain specialists into companies to protect the services and apps from cyber attacks and exploits.
Why you should listen Halborn was founded in 2019 by renowned ethical hacker Steven Walbroehl and growth hacker Rob Behnke. The fully remote organization has since grown to over 100 offensive security engineers. Profitable since inception, co-founders Steven Walbroehl and Rob Behnke bootstrapped Halborn into a world-class Web3 security firm. Today, Halborn is growing rapidly, serving over 250 clients focusing on Layer 1 blockchains, infrastructure providers, financial institutions, and application and game developers. Some of Halborn’s most notable clients include Solana Foundation, Avalanche, and Figment.
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Pradeep Goel is the Chief Executive Officer at the Solve Care Foundation. Solve Care is a blockchain platform for digital health networks.
Why you should listen Solve Care offers a decentralized healthcare model, where all stakeholders, from the patient, physician, insurance companies, care coordinators, and healthcare institutions have a better and more direct peer-to-peer relationship.
It is a model where patients are empowered to have sovereignty over their healthcare data, giving them control over their healthcare journey. The current model that protects centralized healthcare systems around the world fails to serve the needs of the patient and the doctor in a manner that can be fundamentally improved via blockchain.
Solve.Care is a global healthcare platform that redefines care coordination, improves access to care, reduces benefit administration costs, and helps reduce fraud and waste across the healthcare sector globally.
Its interoperable, composable, full-stack platform is the first in the world to successfully deploy digital currency and blockchain technology for value-based healthcare payments. Upon this platform, multiple Care Networks are built and operated to create an ecosystem for patient-centric care based on medical conditions, economic and social needs, and other tailored eligibility criteria.
In short, their mission is to make healthcare work better for our parents, children, society, business, and the future global economy.
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Gracy Chen is MD at Bitget, a leading crypto copy trading and exchange platform. Bitget’s mission is to inspire individuals to embrace crypto and connect with the future.
Why you should listen Established in 2018, Bitget is one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges. With two million users in 50 countries, Bitget's mission is to accelerate decentralized finance via a 600-strong workforce in over twenty countries.
Since Bitget’s official launch in the crypto derivatives market in 2019, the platform has become one of the largest crypto copy trading and derivatives exchanges in the world.
Upholding the mission of Better Trading Better Life, the platform aims to provide global customers with a fair trading experience.
As a result, Bitget has become the world’s largest crypto copy trading platforms, with over 55,000 traders generating close to US$100 billion in transaction value in 2021.
Bitget partners with some of the world’s most pioneering and beloved brands, in an effort to enhance its own global expansion strategy. Bitget is the official crypto partner for Leo Messi, winner of a record-breaking seven Ballon d'Ors, and the sleeve sponsorship partner for Juventus, Italy’s oldest and most successful club.
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Christos Makridis is the COO of Living Opera, an art and technology startup at the intersection of technology, fine arts, classical music, and philanthropy.
Why you should listen Technology is a vehicle for creating transformative, immersive experiences that empower and inspire people at scale. By combining the timeless beauty of fine art, especially opera, with technological tools, Living Opera is building a flourishing worldwide community.
The NFTs are a funding mechanism for giving: Living Opera provides free training and mentoring experiences for aspiring artists otherwise unable to receive resources, including providing them with world-class voice lessons in Italy.
Living Opera views blockchain technology as a catalyst for positive change in the arts. Using revenues from the Magic Mozart collection, they will launch a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) for grant-making, community-building, and education in the arts, starting with and specializing in opera, to award micro-grants to young artists and promote skill acquisition.
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Jamil Dhanani is the co-founder of Gamma, the open marketplace for Bitcoin NFTs, including STX and Bitcoin Ordinals.
Why you should listen Gamma is a Bitcoin-based NFT marketplace and a home for your Web3 social identity. Gamma started as an open marketplace for Bitcoin-secured NFTs on the Stacks blockchain, and has since added support to view Ethereum NFTs, and most recently support for Ordinals — including a no-code creator portal for Ordinal inscriptions.
Thanks to Ordinal Theory (which references the ordering of individual Satoshis), we can now inscribe data onto single Satoshis on the Bitcoin blockchain directly and transact them like NFTs. Whether it’s an image, a memo, or anything else you want to inscribe, this data is truly immutably and securely stored directly on the L1 Bitcoin Blockchain.
Before NFTs took off on Ethereum, NFTs had originated on Bitcoin. But due to the complexities and limitations of the Bitcoin blockchain, Bitcoin-native NFTs could never really take off — until now. At the time of writing, nearly 200,000 inscriptions have already been made, and creating your own inscriptions are easier than ever thanks to Gamma’s no-code Ordinal inscription tool. With the rise in interest around Ordinals, Bitcoin blockchain activity has increased greatly, giving miners more fees and putting positive effects on the security and decentralization of Bitcoin. And because of Bitcoin’s robustness, every inscription is immutably and permanently secured on the Bitcoin blockchain.
Stacks is a smart contract layer for Bitcoin that brings extra functionality to the Bitcoin base layer, allowing us to build everything from DeFi to Bitcoin-secured NFTs. Because Stacks allows for scalability and functionality beyond Bitcoin, we can create a robust ecosystem of Bitcoin-secured NFTs using the Stacks blockchain.
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Robert Quartly-Janeiro is Chief Strategy Officer at Bitrue, an advanced cryptocurrency management platform.
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Bitrue is a forward-thinking cryptocurrency exchange platform dedicated to providing the most trustworthy digital asset management services in a simple, efficient and secure manner. Launched in 2018, Bitrue is a global company with a vision in providing both novice and advanced traders a simple, yet highly secured and efficient environment to manage digital assets in a better way. The company was built by a good mix of digital finance experts, cyber security specialists and blockchain developers, who share the same passion of redefining crypto trading experiences.
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Siddarth Patil is cofounder and COO at Comdex, layer-1 infrastructure for seamless deployment of DeFi applications in the Cosmos ecosystem, powering DeFi in the multi-chain future.
Why you should listen The Comdex chain is built to enable the bridging of capital to assets across the DeFi and CeFi ecosystems. A decentralized ecosystem of solutions enables limitless access to global liquidity in finance. Comdex aims to deliver a robust infrastructure layer that supports the seamless creation and deployment of DeFi applications in the Cosmos ecosystem.
Comdex is a technological infrastructure that facilitates the creation of DeFi. In addition to the stablecoin, the chain has a decentralized exchange (called cSwap) and a decentralized money-market (called Commodo). The infrastructure can be utilized to create decentralized apps (dApps), including decentralized futures, perpetual exchanges, peer-to-peer markets, and more. However, builders and users need a common means of on-chain exchange.
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Joshua Scigala is the founder of The Standard - a decentralized stablecoin protocol that enables users to lock up crypto and or physical gold to generate fiat-pegged stablecoins.
Why you should listen Trillions of US Dollars worth of assets, such as gold and cryptocurrencies, are locked away in vaults and digital wallets around the world. The Standard.io, a next generation monetary system, unlocks this stored value. It enables users to generate a stable virtual currency called “Standard Euro”, with more stablecoins based on other fiat currencies coming soon.
This is achieved by locking up collateral in smart contracts, called Smart Vaults. This allows people to spend their locked-up funds without selling their assets.
The protocol is governed by a community of “Standard Token” holders which form a DAO. The Standard DAO will manage the protocol by making key decisions utilizing smart voting mechanisms and prediction markets.The innovative concept of stable virtual currencies backed by rare assets constitutes a new privatized and decentralized Gold Standard for the 21st century.
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David Wyly is CEO at Decentra Inc, a Blockchain Software Development and Consulting Services company based in Silicon Slopes, Utah.
Why you should listen Decentra, Inc. was born out of the need for organizations to build niche, powerful, accessible, and beautiful Web3 products without the need to staff their own product and engineering teams.
They started with Decentra’s flagship product: the All For One mobile app. With its easy-to-use user interface and an intuitive non-custodial multi-chain wallet, those who are new to DeFi can more easily onboard and experience crypto in a way that isn’t overwhelming.
Decentra’s leadership team is a group of industry professionals who have more than 75 years of combined industry experience.
David Wyly, Decentra CEO was recently appointed by Governor Cox to the Blockchain and Digital Innovation Task Force for the State of Utah, and spends his time advocating for decentralization principles and the right for everyone to freely build, use, trade, and own digital assets and cryptocurrencies.
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Mikko Ohtamaa is the CEO and Co-founder of Trading Strategy, an algorithmic trading protocol for decentralized markets. Mikko is a pioneer in the blockchain and Python space having been in the industry since 2012, working as a CTO of one of the first Bitcoin exchanges LocalBitcoins.
Why you should listen Algorithmic trading is a method of trading where an individual uses a computer program (an algorithm) that has predefined rules and instructions to place a trade on an exchange. These predefined rules can be based on timing, price, quantity, action, or any mathematical model. A trader or strategy developer will create a trading algorithm with specific trade rules and then the owner will deploy this algorithm for it then to execute trades automatically on the trader's behalf.
On Trading Strategy users will be able to create or invest in algorithmic trading strategies on decentralized markets. The Trading Strategy protocol facilitates automated cryptocurrency trading built on a safe and secure non-custodial Framework.
Traders can access automated trading strategies created by skilled strategy developers and quants.
Strategy developers and quants can create and easily deploy trading algorithms for decentralized markets and get rewards for their performance.
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Robert Miller is VP of Growth at Fuse, a business and consumer-friendly blockchain for mainstream adoption of web3 payments.
Why you should listen Fuse is an enterprise-grade, use-case agnostic, reliable, and secure decentralized EVM-compatible public blockchain. Fuse is designed for entrepreneurs and organizations that want to experiment, launch and scale Web3 apps and integrate crypto payments. Anyone can build on the Fuse Blockchain and leverage enterprise-ready, decentralized tech - be it existing crypto projects, start-ups, or blue-chip companies.
From gaming, social, or Web3 payment-focused products, Fuse is designed as a decentralized blockchain infrastructure built to power the future of Web3.
The Fuse SDK lets companies plug Web3 services and crypto payments into their existing mobile products with business-ready smart contract wallets, eliminating the complexities of Web3.
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Owen O’Donoghue is co-founder of InfiniGods, a Web3 gaming studio building a suite of fun, free-to-play blockchain games. O'Donoghue is the former Director of Gaming at Facebook, and knows what it takes to establish and legitimize an industry. He was a part of the Facebook mobile gaming boom of the 2010s and sees a similar path forward for Web3 via quality, fun, and accessible games.
Why you should listen InfiniGods is a blockchain gaming studio with a suite of Web3 games centered around ancient mythologies and civilizations. The company was founded in 2021 and raised a seed round of $9M led by Pantera Capital and joined by Framework Ventures and Animoca Brands.
The team has worked at major gaming companies such as Facebook, EA, LucasArts, Scopely, DGN & Zynga. They believe that blockchain technology can solve many problems that Free to Play games faced in Web2. In particular, giving players ownership over their in-game assets can create a better consumer experience.
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SynFutures is a next-generation Web3 decentralized derivatives platform that creates an open and trustless derivatives market by enabling trading on anything with a price feed anytime.
Why you should listen SynFutures democratizes the derivatives market by employing an Amazon-like business model, giving users the tools to freely trade any assets and list arbitrary futures contracts within seconds. It is the first protocol in the decentralized derivatives industry to introduce permissionless asset listings powered by an innovative Synthetic Automated Market Making (sAMM) model.
Deployed on multiple blockchains, SynFutures is currently the largest derivatives exchange on Polygon and is among the top three most actively used decentralized derivatives exchanges.
Backers include Tier 1 Web3 institutional investors Pantera Capital, Polychain Capital, Susquehanna International Group (SIG), Dragonfly Capital, Standard Crypto, and Framework Ventures
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Jaydeep Korde is the founder of Launchnodes, which provides nodes on infrastructure, the public cloud or bare metal, for Ethereum and other proof-of-stake blockchains. Launchnodes make it easy to spin up pre-configured, secure Validator, Beacon, Geth, and RPC nodes, allowing you to become a Solo Staker.
Why you should listen The Launchnodes mission is to make Solo Staking and independent access to blockchain data easy, without third-party dependency.
They provide self-serve options and support for non-technical Stakers. Helping those building at scale as well as delivering end-to-end managed services and consultancy, for clients who are looking for specific support and financial outcomes.
Launchnodes’ services are designed to be easy, scalable, and secure, leveraging the public cloud.
Launchnodes believes that Ethereum staking returns can be used as a long-term financing tool to fund positive outcomes related to climate change, inequality, and new infrastructure. Their model for Impact staking is about building an ecosystem of partners and open-source experiments that use staking returns to drive social impact and share the data related to that impact.
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Derivatives Data is a new product in Brave New Coin’s market data product suite. Developed by BNC in response to the accelerating growth in crypto derivatives trading, the product provides comprehensive real-time data on the crypto derivatives market. Track the next expiring Bitcoin Futures, compare funding rates between Perpetual swaps, or explore open interest across Option strikes.
Why you should listen Brave New Coin’s Aditya Das and Ryan Greaves join Andy to discuss the crypto derivatives market and the new derivatives data offering from Brave New Coin. BNC’s market-data platform provides high up-time, low latency data throughput to support a range of business and trader use cases. It’s built for enterprise developers with BNC’s robust exchange and asset mapping to avoid duplicate and inconsistent ticker symbols.
The data tracks Futures, Perpetuals, and Options using data from Binance, BitMEX, Bybit, Deribit, Kraken, LedgerX, and OKX.
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Eric and Ethan Parker are the co-founders of Giddy, a self-custodial crypto wallet that aims to make DeFi accessible for everyone. After experimenting with Bitcoin mining in 2012, Eric moved to Ethereum mining which led to an interest in DeFi. After helping a friend recover funds from the BSC chain, he realized there was a need for a DeFi wallet that was accessible to mainstream users. Giddy was born.
Why you should listen Giddy is on a mission to make decentralized finance accessible to everyone. With Giddy, you can buy, send, receive, and earn rewards from your crypto in one safe and easy-to-use mobile app.
US-based and VC-backed, Giddy was founded by a team of engineers with decades of experience in mobile app development, security, finance, and cryptography.
Giddy began in 2021 by helping people tap into the rewards of decentralized finance, but quickly learned the tools are limited and the knowledge barriers are too high for many to overcome. So they've put themselves to work solving these challenges with a powerful but joyful mobile app.
Giddy is a self-custodial crypto wallet that has a recoverable private key, fiat onramp and offramp capabilities, and single-swipe staking into multiple DeFi protocols.
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Curtis Schlaufman is the Global Head of Marketing at Enya Labs - a core contributor to the Boba Network, an Ethereum Layer 2 Optimistic Rollup scaling solution.
Why you should listen Founded by a team of Stanford faculty and alumni, Enya Labs is an innovator of software frameworks specializing in distributed systems engineering and application development. The Company serves clients and organizations by facilitating the interoperability between web2 and web3 and promoting the widespread adoption of blockchain technology for a more transparent and connected world.
Boba Network is an optimistic-based multichain layer-2 scaling solution that aims to unlock the potential of rollup technology and enable more flexible blockchain communication. The protocol is fully compatible with EVM-based tools and has already deployed multichain support for Avalanche, BNB, Moonbeam and Fantom, supporting lightning-fast transactions and fees anywhere from 40-100X less than the respective layer-1. Boba Network is powered by Hybrid Compute technology that brings the power of Web2 on-chain, with smarter smart contracts that allow developers to leverage off-chain compute and real-world data to deliver enriched experiences for decentralized applications.
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Kevin Callahan is Co-Founder at Uniblock, who provide a collection of blockchain tool kits designed to make Web3 development faster and scalable.
Why you should listen Uniblock provides blockchain toolkits such as the APIs, SDKs, and No-Code tools needed to build any Blockchain application. They offer various products and services, including a blockchain-based e-commerce platform, digital identity management solutions, and a suite of developer tools and APIs. The company is focused on providing user-friendly and accessible blockchain technology to businesses of all sizes, making it easier for them to leverage the benefits of blockchain without the need for extensive technical knowledge or expertise.
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Berk Ozdogan aka Firestorm is the Head of Strategy at Dexalot, a decentralized central limit order book exchange. Previously, he worked in traditional finance at JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, and Bank Of America Merrill Lynch. Firestorm is an electronic trading expert across FX and Equities asset classes, focusing on algorithmic execution, automated market making, and liquidity curation.
Why you should listen Dexalot chose the Avalanche platform due to its advantages in speed, throughput, and near-instantaneous finality. Previous attempts to bring Central Limit Order Book Functionality on blockchains with inferior consensus protocols typically led to limited adoption, high slippage, and large amounts of market risk for the users. Dexalot solves these issues.
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Matthew Sedigh is the CEO at Xclaim, a marketplace for crypto bankruptcy claims. Users who have accounts with stranded assets at FTX, Genesis, Celsius, Voyager or BlockFi can sell the claim on their account to recover some liquidity.
Why you should listen Xclaim has helped more than 10,000 creditors manage more than $750 million of claims through an open and efficient marketplace that ensures a fair trading experience for all.
Users with trapped accounts with Genesis, Celsius, Voyager or BlockFi can sell the claim on their account to recover some instant liquidity - compared to the years and uncertain outcome the court process will take.
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Lucas Kiely is Chief Investment Officer at Yield app, a regulated digital wealth platform that offers its customers a comprehensive suite of wealth management products to manage their digital assets.
Why you should listen Yield App unlocks the full potential of digital assets with a simple, safe, and secure digital wealth platform anyone can use to earn. As well as an earn platform, and a Web3 research and development studio called Yield App Labs, Yield App offers a tailored product suite consisting of capital guarantee products, single-strategy and multi-strategy regulated funds and a full traditional structured products platform.
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Justin Banon is the Co-Founder of Boson Protocol, Web3’s commerce layer. Boson Protocol aims to revolutionize commerce by tokenizing real-world items as NFTs, bridging the gap between decentralized technologies and the transfer and trade of physical goods, while minimizing arbitration, cost, and trust.
Why you should listen Decentralized commerce allows brands to bridge the gap between shopping at home and in an actual store. Through virtual realities, brands can offer a virtual shopping experience where customers can buy a product in their store in the metaverse, and have a physical version delivered directly to their door.
Boson previously partnered with some of the world's most sought-after brands during 2022’s Metaverse Fashion Week, including Tommy Hilfiger. It attracted attention after it purchased the most expensive Dolce & Gabbana suit ever sold as an NFT, for $1 million USD.
Boson was recently awarded World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer status for its potential to democratize and reshape global commerce.
The revenue opportunities of the metaverse through e-commerce have been forecast to reach a potential $2.6 trillion by 2030.
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Jack Vinijtrongjit is Co-Founder and CEO at AAG Ventures, a Web3 infrastructure company focusing on providing software that helps users simplify interactions with blockchain applications and the Metaverse.
Why you should listen AAG is a web3 infrastructure company focusing on providing software that helps simplify interactions with blockchain applications and the Metaverse for mainstream users and traditional companies. AAG provides a secure and easy-to-use MetaOne® wallet, as well as infrastructure software, such as a cross-chain search engine and GameFi SDK for enterprise companies. With the belief that education is the key to unlock the potential of web3, AAG is also exploring the concept of Learn-and-Earn with the mission of enabling economic opportunities worldwide via the Metaverse economy. AAG aims to bring 1 billion people into the Metaverse economy by 2030.
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William Quigley is the co-founder of WAX, a web3 ecosystem for gaming and NFTs, and Tether, the most traded cryptocurrency in the world. William was an early investor in leading Web 1.0 era companies including Paypal, and early blockchain companies such as Kraken and Coinbase.
Why you should listen WAX, or Worldwide Asset eXchange, is a carbon-neutral design for seamless transactions. It's specifically known for trading digital assets. WAX blockchain is hyperfocused on gaming and digital collectibles. In 2020 William Shatner of Star Trek fame released a series of digital photographs on WAX, helping pioneer the early NFT trading movement.
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Paddy Cerri is the Chief Blockchain Architect for the Minima Protocol. Minima is a blockchain and peer-to-peer network designed to be accessible to as many people as possible by making it compact enough to run on mobile and IoT devices. It is complete, quantum-resistant and secured by every single one of its users.
Why you should listen The Minima network will enable people or devices to exchange value or information directly and securely, without third party interference. Minima has no centre of control, as each user - by simply downloading a mobile app - contributes to the network as an equal participant. The Minima blockchain uses the Minima coin as its currency. It is a store of value and medium of exchange, enabling peer-to-peer value transfer to any participant on the Minima network.
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Borha Villalobos is the co-founder of Banger Games, a decentralized gaming ecosystem that rewards players using a Blockchain-based crypto economy.
Why you should listen Made by gamers, Banger is a unified hub for all gamers. Banger is a blockchain-powered gaming platform that provides its users with an array of earning possibilities through one global gaming currency. Banger is set to become the go-to community for both gamers and publishers to thrive, enabling different Play2Earn tools that allow gamers to earn while enjoying a complete gaming experience.
Banger provides publishers and developers with a variety of features, such as blockchain integration SDK and crypto-enabled monetization methods.
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Xiao Xiao is an investment director at HashKey Capital. Launched in 2018, HashKey Capital manages over $1 billion in assets. HashKey operates in Hong Kong and Singapore, with a presence in the U.S. and Japan.
Why you should listen HashKey Capital, the investment arm of financial-services firm HashKey Group, has just closed its third fund with $500 million in capital. The fund will invest in crypto and blockchain initiatives around the world with a focus on emerging markets and Web3.
The HashKey FinTech Investment Fund III was backed by institutional investors, including sovereign-wealth funds, businesses and family offices. It will invest in the infrastructure, tools and applications that can help achieve mass adoption of blockchain technologies.
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Anthony Mongiello is CEO and Co-Founder of the Bulls and Apes Project (B.A.P.), a multi-faceted entertainment and media company born in Web3.
Why you should listen Mongiello says the team’s focus is on delivering digital and physical goods and services by creating compelling brands and intellectual properties. At Bulls and Apes Project, they bring top-notch art and creativity that draws consumers into the ecosystem with gamification, events, and media that keep holders engaged and connected.
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Gregory d'Incelli is a Crypto Fund of Funds Manager and Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Scenius Capital.
Why you should listen Scenius Capital, a multi-strategy fund of funds focused on digital assets and blockchain technology. Scenius provides investors a single turnkey vehicle to gain diversified access to best-in-class actively managed investment strategies in the digital assets sector.
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Gaurav Dubey is the CEO of TDeFi, a Crypto Incubator and Advisor for blockchain startups, currently incubating and advising DeFi, NFT, EdTech, Gaming, and crypto projects for over 45 companies.
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Sakina Arsiwala is the founder of Taki App. Taki is a token-powered social network where everyone can own, manage and earn their own rewards by participating in community conversations.
Why you should listen Taki is a token-powered social network where all users can earn a daily income. Anyone can create their own crypto creator coin to jumpstart their personal economies. Creators create value by creating content and users can participate in their economies by supporting them.
On Taki all users can earn cryptocurrency for simply showing up and doing things they already do — chatting, sharing, creating.
Creators can focus less on the size of their following, and can build a robust personal economy creating their own creator coin and engaging with their fans. Everything is on-chain and portable. By making the onramp to crypto easy and accessible Taki hope to enable the next 100 million users.
Taki is pioneering a new #EngageToEarn model where casual users can earn crypto for just showing up and consuming content, interacting with friends, and making new friends, just as they normally would. Taki is a social network that has the token built into its core. Taki differentiates on crypto economy design. Users can easily create their own coins that are freely tradable on the platform and off, and represents a better way for creators/users to monetize their content.
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Boyd Cohen is the CEO/Co-Founder of Iomob, the Internet of Mobility Network, and the WheelCoin M2E platform.
Why you should listen The Internet of Mobility is a global decentralized mobility network whereby any vehicle - public, shared, private, electric, or autonomous - can be discovered, combined, booked, unlocked, and paid for by any user of any interface.
The Internet of Mobility is a decentralized marketplace that aggregates the highly fragmented ground mobility market - an industry that is worth over $6tn. The IoM standardizes and democratizes access to mobility services. The result is a mobility network that works for the mobility service providers (MSPs), system integrators, demand partners, and most importantly - for the end user.
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Bernd Stöckl is the CPO and co-founder of Palmswap, a decentralized perpetual contract trading protocol that aims to become the next-generation perpetual DEX for cryptocurrency markets.
Why you should listen Palmswap is a decentralized trading platform based on Binance Smart Chain. More chains are coming soon. Palmswap offers 100% on chain perpetual futures. Users can open long positions (bet that the price of a coin goes up) or open short positions (bet that the price goes down), users can also leverage up (use borrowed funds to trade assets more than your wallet balances) without owning the underlying asset.
Palmswap doesn’t require Registration or KYC requirements, users have full control over their own assets with the lowest fees possible. Palmswap offer PALM token rewards for active traders on the DEX.
PALM token is a governance token designed to facilitate and incentivize the decentralized governance of the protocol, users stake and farm it by providing liquidity. You get also incentivized by trading on the protocol through Tradingcycles. 50% of the exchange revenue will be used to buy back and burn PALM.
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Sam Huber is the CEO and founder of LandVault, an end-to-end metaverse solution for Web2 and Web3 digital experiences.
Why you should listen LandVault builds engaging experiences in the Open Metaverse. Starting from their first build in 2021, the process of planning, building, and activating a metaverse experience is something the company has continued to improve upon.
So far, LandVault has successfully completed 200 metaverse experiences spread across 100 million sqft in multiple virtual world platforms, like The Sandbox, Decentraland, and Somnium Space, to name a few. This was accomplished with a team of 120+ in-house professional builders.
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Chris Fortier is VP of Product for Yuga Labs, working across the entire Yuga Labs ecosystem including Bored Ape Yacht Club, Otherside, CryptoPunks, Meebits, and more.
Why you should listen The Yuga team want the Otherside Metaverse to be ‘Web3-Native Roblox’ for Adults, Otherside is a gamified, interoperable metaverse currently under development. The game blends mechanics from massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPGs) and web3-enabled virtual worlds. Think of it as a metaRPG where the players own the world, your NFTs can become playable characters, and thousands can play together in real time.
The mission is to make Otherside immersive, interactive, and collaborative in a way that’s never been done before. So in the spirit of Dungeons and Dragons, Otherside will be an always-evolving experience co-created with its players. With an Otherdeed, you can participate in prototype builds, demos, and tests that shape the final game design and experience.
Chris says there is no bear market for story-telling, and they’re continuing to work hard on making Web3 experiences that are awesome.
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Austin Kimm is the Director of Strategy & Investments at Choise.com a new solution that combines elements of centralized and decentralized financial solutions within a single marketplace.
Why you should listen Almost one million users take advantage of Choise.com to buy crypto, earn interest on their holdings, or boost their income with attractive earn products and ultimate security. Choise.com is a brand-new solution that connects CeFi and DeFi. Austin says they call Choise.com a MetaFi ecosystem, as they are gathering multiple solutions in a single marketplace to offer more opportunities to earn on crypto. New CeFi and DeFi products appear every day, but it is still a challenge for people to make use of them: one has to move between blockchains, platforms, wallets to access liquidity pools or multi-currency deposits. Choise.com will aggregate the most profitable crypto solutions of the industry, regardless of their complexity under one roof. They will make it possible for both crypto newbies and pros to find an interesting way to earn on crypto every single moment in one app.
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Wolfgang Rückerl is the Co-Founder and CEO of Entity web3 launch pad, and Istari Vision, an augmentative growth engine for MultiversX.
Why you should listen Wolfgang led the development of the Entity Launchpad, which launches innovative Web3 projects and includes complimentary tools for reward strategies, investment analytics, and crypto taxation compliance.
Wolfgang prides himself on being an innovator and blockchain instructor, as well as a mentor for ascendant Web3 companies. He has experience as a fintech innovator and blockchain instructor, and regularly mentors DeFi startups working on the MultiversX network. Prior to founding Istari Vision, Wolfgang worked in the ethical AI and data privacy industries.
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Jeff Morris Jr. is the Founder and Managing Partner of Chapter One, a Web3-focused venture capital fund that works with early-stage crypto UX startups.
Why you should listen Jeff Morris Jr. is Founder and Managing Partner of Chapter One, a Web3-focused venture capital fund that works with early-stage crypto UX startups. Chapter One provides a full-stack team of product-focused builders to offer round-the-clock support for founders. Chapter One is a full-stack fund that invests early in generational companies building Web3 products that enable people to own their time, money, and ideas.
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Kurt Hemecker is COO of the Mina Foundation, building on the Mina Protocol to create a privacy and security layer for web3. Kurt is the former Head of Business Operations at Facebook's Diem Association (formerly Libra).
Why you should listen Using zero knowledge technology, Mina is creating the infrastructure for a secure, democratic future. Mina’s zkApps, smart contracts powered by zero knowledge, keep users in control of their privacy by validating and sharing proofs of their data, rather than the data itself. Think about getting a loan by simply sharing a proof of your personal ID and credit score, rather than the data itself. No risk of your personal information being hacked or sold. You are the only one owning your data, and it never leaves your device.
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Jacques Swanepoel is CTO at Seal Storage Technology, cloud storage and blockchain experts with over 100 years of experience in enterprise data storage from Seagate, Oracle, Cisco, and more.
Why you should listen Seal provides sustainable, immutable, and affordable data storage. They are stewarding their clients into decentralized cloud storage, and making Web3 an accessible reality for enterprises, research institutes, NFT, and Web3 firms alike. Seal has decentralized cloud storage partnerships with the ATLAS Experiment at CERN, UC Berkeley, and the University of Utah.
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Andy Beal is ecosystem lead at Forta Network, a real-time detection network for security and operational monitoring. Forta protects $36b in TVL including 52% of the top 30 DeFi protocols.
Why you should listen Forta is a real-time detection network for security and operational monitoring of blockchain activity
As a decentralized monitoring network, Forta detects threats and anomalies on DeFi, NFT, governance, bridges and other Web3 systems in real-time.
Given timely and relevant alerts about the security and health of owned or dependent systems, protocols and investors can react quickly to neutralize threats and prevent or minimize loss of funds.
Underlying Forta is a decentralized network of independent node operators that scan all transactions and block-by-block state changes for outlier transactions and threats. When an issue is detected, node operators send alerts to subscribers of potential risks, which enables them to take action.
The future is multi-chain. That is why Forta continues to expand into the emerging landscape of new L1s and L2s, bringing runtime monitoring and anomaly detection to Ethereum, Avalanche, Polygon, BNB Chain, Fantom, Arbitrum, and Optimism.
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Pavel Bains is an entrepreneur, futurist, designer, and investor in exponential technologies. He is the founder of Bluzelle, gamefi for cosmos, and Executive Producer of MixMob. Andy and Pavel talk science fiction, gaming, and pop culture and the intersections with the growing web3 ecosystem.
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Ken Liao is the Founder of Xverse, an advanced Bitcoin wallet for Web3.
Xverse is building the world’s most advanced Bitcoin Web3 wallet. Founded in 2021, Xverse empowers individuals across the world to access the true potential of Bitcoin for NFTs, DeFi and Decentralized Applications by delivering a beautifully designed, easy-to-use wallet. Available for iOS and Android, the app allows users to secure, manage and exchange Bitcoin powered by Stacks, and soon the Lightning Network. Xverse is a self-custody wallet and the keys to the wallet are encrypted locally on users' own devices, ensuring privacy, security and complete control over their wealth and data. For more info visit http://xverse.app.
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Brendan Eich is the creator of JavaScript and the co-founder and CEO of Brave Software, makers of Brave, the Web3 privacy-focused browser.
Why you should listen Brendan helped build Web1 and Web2 through his creation of JavaScript and Mozilla – JavaScript’s unintended consequences - which Brendan has described as “Frankenstein's monster” led to a toxic digital ecosystem and was a catalyst for the targeted advertising and invasive tracking that consumers experience today on the internet.
The Brave Browser is an open-source, privacy-by-default web browser with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform and crypto wallet. Brave Wallet, a crypto wallet built into the Brave desktop browser, and mobile apps, enables Brave users to store, manage, grow, and swap crypto from a single wallet. Unlike most crypto wallets, the Brave Wallet does not require extensions; it’s browser-native, reducing security risks and reliance on extra CPU and memory. Users can transact with almost any crypto asset with safety and performance, as well as connect with other wallets and Web3 DApps.
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Alex Salnikov is the Chief Strategy Officer and co-founder of Rarible, a community-centric NFT marketplace. Rarible has just launched a suite of new features including aggregated listings from more marketplaces and new token rewards for traders.
Why you should listen Rarible, a decentralized community-centric NFT marketplace and protocol, has introduced Rarible 2. Rarible 2 brings about new changes for Rarible.com and the distribution of the $RARI token. The establishment of RARI Foundation also pushes the Rarible protocol another step towards decentralization. Under the new update, Rarible.com has become a first-of-its-kind aggregated marketplace for NFTs, showcasing the best prices for listings from the top NFT marketplaces hosting Ethereum NFTs. The RARI DAO has approved a new locking and rewards program for $RARI token, offering sustainable token incentives for both buying and listing
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Oleg is Fomenko is the co-founder and CPO of Sweatcoin, and the CEO of Sweat Economy. Are you ready to walk into crypto?
Why you should listen Sweat Economy is the network that grows with every step. Products: Sweatcoin (non-crypto) and Sweat Wallet (crypto) reward hundreds of millions of people for their steps.
Oleg says that by incentivizing movement, which we know to be associated with health, we can help to catalyze and bring health to their users.
Sweat Economy is building features and partnerships that will increase token demand. New features are coming soon - Learn & Earn, crypto-to-crypto trading, and the SWEAT dynamic NFT game — that will drive demand for SWEAT, and produce revenue to funnel back into buy and burn
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Joshua Scigala is founder of The Standard - a decentralized stablecoin protocol that enables users to lock up crypto and or physical gold to generate multiple fiat pegged stablecoins.
Why you should listen Trillions of US Dollars worth of rare assets, like gold and cryptocurrencies, are locked away in vaulting facilities and digital wallets around the world. The Standard.io, a next generation monetary system, unlocks this vast stored value. It enables users to generate a stable virtual currency called “Standard Euro”. This is achieved by locking up tangible and intangible assets as collateral in decentralised smart contracts, called Smart Vaults. This allows people to spend their locked up funds without selling their assets.
The protocol is governed by a community of “Standard Token” holders which form a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO). The Standard DAO will manage the protocol by making key decisions utilizing smart voting mechanisms and prediction markets.The innovative concept of stable virtual currencies backed by rare assets constitutes a new privatized and decentralized Gold Standard for the 21st century.
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Teymour Farman-Farmaian is the founder of Slide, a Web3 UX startup that provides dApps with the infrastructure for easy onboarding by any user.
Why you should listen Slide aims to make web3 effortless for dApps and everyday users. Users of Slide-enabled dApps can purchase NFTs with card, custody and manage assets without installing wallets, seamlessly transact with any asset across any blockchain (with no blockchain-specific gas fees), and enjoy a web3 experience as simple as web2. Olaf Carlson-Wee (1st Coinbase employee, Polychain founder, and one of Slide’s lead investors) has called Slide a “browser-level moment” for web3.
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Midas Investments is a custodial crypto-investment platform with one mission — provide passive income streams to crypto investors by combining the best features of CeFi and DeFi.
Why you should listen Midas Investments is a custodial crypto-investment platform with one mission — provide passive income streams to crypto investors. By combining the simplicity of CeFi with the transparency of DeFi strategies, and fueled by an algorithmic infrastructure and 24/7 portfolio monitoring, Midas has built an ecosystem of intuitive tools that allows any investor to generate sustainable, passive income in the crypto economy. They call this CeDeFi.
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Hugo Philion is the co-founder and CEO of Flare Networks. Flare enables secure interoperability between chains, scaling the use of blockchain by enabling all digital assets and on-chain data to flow freely.
Why you should listen The Flare Network is a new layer-1 blockchain aiming to connect everything, including off-chain data and other layer-1 blockchains through their F-Asset, State Connector and Layer Cake protocols.
Flare is designed to be an advanced network that features cross-chain interoperability. This system will facilitate a fully decentralized cross-chain future, which issafer than the current alternative. The open protocols that Flare Network provides allow developers to create different kinds of interoperability solutions. Their goal is to connect everything, while still maintaining a decentralized system.
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Tom Norwood is co-founder of Loop Finance, empowering Web 3.0 Communities in the Cosmos ecosystem.
Why you should listen Loop originated back in 2017 on the EOS network as Trybe. When EOS user numbers dwindled, the team rebranded to Loop and moved to Terra. After the demise of Terra, Loop Finance is now on the Juno Network and has grown its user base throughout the Cosmos ecosystem.
Loop Finance is the central hub, and includes a DEX and NFT launchpad and marketplace as the first products to launch and enable Web3 use cases.
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Kyle Fry is the CEO and co-founder of Digital Markets - a platform that connects the world's best assets with global investors through a network of digital securities exchanges.
Why you should listen Digital Markets (DIGTL) connects the world’s best assets with global investors through a network of digital securities exchanges and alternative trading venues, allowing issuers to quickly access the world’s capital at a fraction of the cost, and providing investors with exciting investment opportunities.
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Dim Niko is the founder of the DimNiko digital marketing agency. Dim is now developing 3Commerce, a suite of solutions and a token ecosystem that enables direct to consumer brands to integrate blockchain technology to increase Customer Lifetime Value (LTV) and decrease Customer Acquisition Costs, at the push of a button.
Why you should listen Dim helps ecommerce brands integrate blockchain to drive growth. Blockchain based loyalty programs and product linked NFTs close the gap between brands and their community of customers, as well as enable brand collaborations in a way never seen before. 3Commerce introduces all-new revenue streams into the ecommerce business model, as well as increases lifetime value while decreasing customer acquisition costs.
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Nick Swinmurn, Zappos founder and Golden State Warriors co-owner, has turned his attention to Web3 with the NFT-powered sports prediction game, Play Hellebore.
Why you should listen Hellebore is an NFT-powered play-and-earn sports prediction game that brings together the features of traditional sports “Pick’em” and player-based fantasy sports leagues on one platform.
Hellebore players can predict the outcomes of games in the NFL, NCAA Football, MLB, and European professional soccer to earn NFTs (called Sibers), unlock physical and digital prizes, and increase their player rating – allowing them to tilt the odds in their favor.
Players can create or join custom leagues with friends, family, or strangers to compete directly against other players, similar to traditional player and statistics-based fantasy sports leagues.
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Marius Ciubotariu is the founder of Hubble Protocol, a DeFi project that is supercharging liquidity on Solana.
Hubble is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol built on the Solana blockchain. In Phase 1 of development, Hubble enables you to borrow the stablecoin USDH against multiple assets. Borrowing USDH allows users to access the liquidity in their long-term holding tokens.
USDH is a censorship-resistant, crypto-backed stablecoin, soft-pegged to the US Dollar. USDH is fully collateralized by a basket of crypto assets, deposited into a Hubble Smart Contract.
USDH is Solana-native, and can be held in any Solana wallet. For every 1 USDH on the market, more than $1 of crypto is deposited into Hubble.
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Weso is lead developer at Beefy Finance, a Multi-Chain Yield Optimizer that autocompounds crypto assets for the best APYs.
Why you should listen Beefy Finance is a decentralized, multi-chain Yield Optimizer platform that allows its users to earn compound interest on their crypto holdings. Beefy Finance automatically maximizes the user rewards from various liquidity pools (LPs), automated market-making (AMM) projects, and other yield farming opportunities in the DeFi ecosystem. The main product offered by Beefy Finance is the 'Vaults' in which you stake your crypto tokens. The investment strategy tied to the specific vault will automatically increase your deposited token amount by compounding arbitrary yield farm reward tokens back into your initially deposited asset.
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After spending time at Robinhood, Jay Jog is now co-founder and engineering lead for Sei Network, a L1 blockchain with a built-in orderbook. Sei is the fastest Defi layer 1 and is optimized to give DeFi apps an advantage, enabling entirely new financial products.
Why you should listen Most layer 1s fall into a barbell distribution: two extremes with general-purpose chains on one end (Ethereum, Solana) and app-specific chains on the other (dYdX, Osmosis).
Sei unlocks a new design space between the two—not general-purpose nor app-specific, but DeFi-specific, which enables Sei to create an environment custom-built for DeFi applications. Sei features a built-in order matching engine, frontrunning protection, and the fastest finality of any chain (600 ms) currently in market. The combination of these optimizations make it possible for new types of financial products to emerge — everything ranging from live sports betting to complex options and futures.
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Max Krupyshev is the Co-Founder and CEO of the crypto payment ecosystem CoinsPaid. CoinsPaid provides cryptocurrency payment services and personal wallets to businesses and individuals. CoinsPaid is one of the world’s largest crypto payment providers.
Why you should listen Max Krupyshev is a Ukraine entrepreneur with experience in developing fintech and crypto projects. He stood at the origins of this market in Ukraine, launching a Bitcoin Foundation to promote crypto adoption in the country. Max believes that digital assets can improve the financial sector, and works to make their adoption easier, faster and more transparent.
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Alex Zeltcer is CEO & Co-Founder of nSure.AI, which helps businesses to prevent fraud in the crypto and digital goods space by leveraging predictive AI fraud detection - instead of jeopardizing the user experience.
Why you should listen nSure.ai is an advanced payment fraud prevention platform that protects sellers of digital goods, Crypto and Fintech businesses with a chargeback guarantee solution. Alex says businesses should use behavioral analysis and recognize scalable fraud patterns. He says that a safety strategy — one that emphasizes blocking fraud while streamlining the user experience — removes these friction points and increases conversion rates by more than 100%.
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Alex Zeltcer is CEO & Co-Founder of nSure.AI, which helps businesses to prevent fraud in the crypto and digital goods space by leveraging predictive AI fraud detection - instead of jeopardizing the user experience.
Why you should listen nSure.ai is an advanced payment fraud prevention platform that protects sellers of digital goods, Crypto and Fintech businesses with a chargeback guarantee solution. Alex says businesses should use behavioral analysis and recognize scalable fraud patterns. He says that a safety strategy — one that emphasizes blocking fraud while streamlining the user experience — removes these friction points and increases conversion rates by more than 100%.
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Matt Wisniewski is the founder of Satellite IM, a fully-integrated decentralized messaging platform that is tackling today’s data ownership and privacy issues.
Why you should listen Unlike popular instant messaging apps such as Facebook Messenger and Google Chat, Satellite IM enables users to chat in a decentralized and peer-to-peer way, without any intermediaries storing or tracking users’ data. Satellite gives its users peace of mind with end-to-end encryption without sacrificing the quality of video calls and recording. Satellite's early access is available now.
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Matt Wisniewski is the founder of Satellite IM, a fully-integrated decentralized messaging platform that is tackling today’s data ownership and privacy issues.
Why you should listen Unlike popular instant messaging apps such as Facebook Messenger and Google Chat, Satellite IM enables users to chat in a decentralized and peer-to-peer way, without any intermediaries storing or tracking users’ data. Satellite gives its users peace of mind with end-to-end encryption without sacrificing the quality of video calls and recording. Satellite's early access is available now.
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Daniel Tamas is the founder of WAM - a platform for hypercasual gamers to earn crypto, socialize and have fun.
Why you should listen With your WAM account, you can play in several short or long tournaments — a few hours or a few days — and compete against players entering that tournament. There are currently players from over 30 countries who are on the platform and at the end of each tournament, you can win some digital coins and increase your player profile.
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Daniel Tamas is the founder of WAM - a platform for hypercasual gamers to earn crypto, socialize and have fun.
Why you should listen With your WAM account, you can play in several short or long tournaments — a few hours or a few days — and compete against players entering that tournament. There are currently players from over 30 countries who are on the platform and at the end of each tournament, you can win some digital coins and increase your player profile.
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Alan Vey is co-founder and CEO of Aventus Network a user-friendly, interoperable blockchain for enterprises.
Why you should listen The Aventus Network (AvN) began as a layer-2 blockchain protocol that brings scalability, lower costs, and speed to Ethereum transactions. It enables digital asset issuance, management, and ownership, bringing the scale of permissioned blockchains and the security and interoperability of public blockchains — without the shortcomings of either.
Aventus is now focused on interoperability - Alan says “The blockchain industry is rolling out much like the internet did, where there was siloed value in various intranets which, when connected up by the internet, led to an explosion in value through the network effect. Blockchain is the same today. Various layer 1s and 2s all need to be connected so value can seamlessly transfer everywhere across the internet of blockchains.
In August Aventus won a Parachain slot on Polkadot and now Aventus users can easily deploy across Ethereum and Polkadot. The Aventus mission is to enable companies in any ecosystem to capitalize on a vast series of use cases – including NFTs, video games, loyalty schemes, event ticketing, supply chain provenance, and cargo management – via enterprise-grade modular architecture and future-proof themselves via blockchain interoperability.
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Alan Vey is co-founder and CEO of Aventus Network a user-friendly, interoperable blockchain for enterprises.
Why you should listen The Aventus Network (AvN) began as a layer-2 blockchain protocol that brings scalability, lower costs, and speed to Ethereum transactions. It enables digital asset issuance, management, and ownership, bringing the scale of permissioned blockchains and the security and interoperability of public blockchains — without the shortcomings of either.
Aventus is now focused on interoperability - Alan says “The blockchain industry is rolling out much like the internet did, where there was siloed value in various intranets which, when connected up by the internet, led to an explosion in value through the network effect. Blockchain is the same today. Various layer 1s and 2s all need to be connected so value can seamlessly transfer everywhere across the internet of blockchains.
In August Aventus won a Parachain slot on Polkadot and now Aventus users can easily deploy across Ethereum and Polkadot. The Aventus mission is to enable companies in any ecosystem to capitalize on a vast series of use cases – including NFTs, video games, loyalty schemes, event ticketing, supply chain provenance, and cargo management – via enterprise-grade modular architecture and future-proof themselves via blockchain interoperability.
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Ruben Merre is CEO and co-founder of NGRAVE, a next-generation crypto hardware wallet with the highest security-certified OS in the world (EAL7).
Why you should listen Founded in 2018, NGRAVE is a digital asset security provider offering user-friendly maximum security solutions for blockchain and crypto use cases.
Its flagship product — crypto hardware wallet “NGRAVE ZERO” — is the only financial product in the world with a custom operating system featuring the highest security certification: EAL7.
NGRAVE’s product suite is a 3-tier solution. ZERO, the offline touch-screen hardware wallet allows users to securely store and transact their crypto.
GRAPHENE, the stainless steel encrypted backup solution ensures that users never lose their keys.
LIQUID is a mobile app that connects users in real-time to the blockchain without ever exposing their private keys.
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Ruben Merre is CEO and co-founder of NGRAVE, a next-generation crypto hardware wallet with the highest security-certified OS in the world (EAL7).
Why you should listen Founded in 2018, NGRAVE is a digital asset security provider offering user-friendly maximum security solutions for blockchain and crypto use cases.
Its flagship product — crypto hardware wallet “NGRAVE ZERO” — is the only financial product in the world with a custom operating system featuring the highest security certification: EAL7.
NGRAVE’s product suite is a 3-tier solution. ZERO, the offline touch-screen hardware wallet allows users to securely store and transact their crypto.
GRAPHENE, the stainless steel encrypted backup solution ensures that users never lose their keys.
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It’s merge week - the week that Ethereum will finally transition from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake. The Ethereum foundation says that the Merge will be ‘the most significant upgrade in the history of Ethereum.’ The switch to PoS will replace energy-intensive mining, and instead secure the network with staked ETH.
Why you should listen The Merge represents the joining together or ‘merging’ of the execution layer, Ethereum as we know it today, with a consensus layer called the Beacon chain. The Beacon chain uses a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus model that will replace the current Proof-of-Work (PoW) model that the mainnet currently uses. The switch to PoS will replace energy-intensive mining, and instead secure the network with staked ETH.
The merge is set to cut the emission rate of Ethereum by 90% (according to some analysts). PoS makes securing the network much cheaper than with Proof-of-Work because PoS validators are paid far less than PoW miners. Calculations from some analysts suggest that the inflation rate cut to Ethereum will be the equivalent of “three Bitcoin halvings”.
Bitcoin bulls generally tout the halving as a powerful bullish tailwind and often focus on investing for around 4 years. If Ethereum bulls are right then the PoS transition will be 12 years of halving cycles in a single event.
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It’s merge week - the week that Ethereum will finally transition from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake. The Ethereum foundation says that the Merge will be ‘the most significant upgrade in the history of Ethereum.’ The switch to PoS will replace energy-intensive mining, and instead secure the network with staked ETH.
Why you should listen The Merge represents the joining together or ‘merging’ of the execution layer, Ethereum as we know it today, with a consensus layer called the Beacon chain. The Beacon chain uses a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus model that will replace the current Proof-of-Work (PoW) model that the mainnet currently uses. The switch to PoS will replace energy-intensive mining, and instead secure the network with staked ETH.
The merge is set to cut the emission rate of Ethereum by 90% (according to some analysts). PoS makes securing the network much cheaper than with Proof-of-Work because PoS validators are paid far less than PoW miners. Calculations from some analysts suggest that the inflation rate cut to Ethereum will be the equivalent of “three Bitcoin halvings”.
Bitcoin bulls generally tout the halving as a powerful bullish tailwind and often focus on investing for around 4 years. If Ethereum bulls are right then the PoS transition will be 12 years of halving cycles in a single event.
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Diego De Tommaso is co-founder and COO of OVER an AR and NFT Metaverse platform that layers over the entire world.
Why you should listen OVER is building an augmented reality (AR) open metaverse and enabling users to create unique geolocalized experiences that bridge the gap between our physical and digital worlds. Utilizing world-class, community-driven 3D mapping, OVER provides users and builders with the opportunity to own AR metaverse real estate, map their local areas, and explore Web3. Committed to cross-platform interoperability, OVER supports real-time augmented reality capabilities, AI avatar motion-captured interactions, and hyperrealistic NFT assets which, in time, will be transmissible between metaverses.
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Diego De Tommaso is co-founder and COO of OVER an AR and NFT Metaverse platform that layers over the entire world.
Why you should listen OVER is building an augmented reality (AR) open metaverse and enabling users to create unique geolocalized experiences that bridge the gap between our physical and digital worlds. Utilizing world-class, community-driven 3D mapping, OVER provides users and builders with the opportunity to own AR metaverse real estate, map their local areas, and explore Web3. Committed to cross-platform interoperability, OVER supports real-time augmented reality capabilities, AI avatar motion-captured interactions, and hyperrealistic NFT assets which, in time, will be transmissible between metaverses.
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Holger Arians is CEO of Banxa, which aims to accelerate Web3 projects with its global on-and-off ramp solution. Through its extensive network of local payment solutions paired with the required crypto licenses, Banxa gives its partners and projects access to global audiences with less friction and higher conversions.
Why you should listen With positive year-on-year growth and over $1b in transactions, Banxa is one of the fastest-growing global on and off-ramp solutions. Through its extensive network of local payment solutions paired with the required regulatory licences, Banxa gives its partners and projects access to global audiences with less friction and higher conversions. As a publicly traded company, Banxa is one of the few global on and off ramp providers that is transparent in both its ownership and reporting.
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Adam De Cata is CEO of NFT Tech, a new platform that works with global brands, influential individuals, artists, celebrities, and athletes wanting to experiment with Web3.
Why you should listen NFT Tech works to develop infrastructure, assets, real estate and IP in the metaverse, build and generate revenue from P2E and M2E games, and bring insights and benefits to the public markets. By bridging the gap between traditional capital markets and the Web3 space, NFT Tech is mainstreaming decentralized ownership, NFTs, and the metaverse.
Following the signing of multi-year contracts with major brands, NFT Tech has aggressive partnership and contract goals and expects to close several more by year-end. The Company has already announced partnerships with the Australian Open, Elvis Presley Enterprises, Sony Sports, and an exclusive multi-year deal with World Table Tennis.
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Phillip Shoemaker is the former Apple App Store Director. He is now Executive Director at Identity.com, a non-profit organization pioneering pseudonymous on-chain identity verification for Web3.
Why you should listen Identity.com is an open-source, decentralized platform that offers developers permissionless authentication and verification while allowing consumers to control their own data. Identity.com is a product of Identity Technologies, Inc., a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization to promote social welfare that will create a world where individuals and organizations can freely access decentralized identity verification services on demand.
Identity.com is the leading identity-verification nonprofit providing an open-source, decentralized ecosystem.
It also provides a marketplace focusing on verifying credentials rather than exchanging personally identifiable information. Together with Identity.com, companies and developers may create convenient, on-demand identity verification solutions that offer consumers more control over their digital identities.
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Chris Castig is co-founder of Console, a Web3 Discord with DAO Tooling for decentralized communities. He’s a General Manager at Trust Machines and an adjunct professor at Columbia University Business School.
Why you should listen Console is designed to be a web3-ready Discord. Discord is currently home to many NFT communities but it is not crypto native, and preyed upon by crypto scammers. Console is built from the bottom up to give the web3 community more control over their personal data with a crypto-native application.
Chris says Console is Built on Web3 Principles:
Console is decentralized, in the first release identity verification, voting and multisig transactions will be on-chain and decentralized. Moving forward, Console will employ a progressively decentralized approach based on the needs of its communities.
Console is open source and secure by design — Users are verified with native smart contracts, not third-party bots. Because identity is stored on the Bitcoin blockchain, you can feel safe knowing that your identity is secured by Bitcoin. And unlike Facebook, Instagram, Discord and nearly every other social media app, Console doesn’t own access to your identity, uers do. Console will be community owned via the Console DAO. Console is currently in beta, you can sign up for the waitlist or to get early access for your community.
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Jason Cozens is the founder and CEO at Glint - a platform and app that enables users to digitally buy, sell, send, and use gold as everyday money.
Why you should listen Jason began development of Glint in 2015, launching the first iteration of the Glint app three years later. Jason’s vision for a world where everyone has an equal opportunity to prosper has culminated in the creation of a global payments platform that enables its users to buy, sell, save, send and spend real, allocated gold, even at the checkout, using the Glint Mastercard and the Glint app. Glint, which also supports fiat currencies on its platform, has over 104,000 registered users in over 200 eligible countries. Glint, regulated by the FCA in the UK, has completed more than $300 million worth of transactions to date. Glint clients’ gold is securely stored in a Brinks vault in Switzerland, insured by Brinks with Lloyds of London.
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Jason Cozens is the founder and CEO at Glint - a platform and app that enables users to digitally buy, sell, send, and use gold as everyday money.
Why you should listen Jason began development of Glint in 2015, launching the first iteration of the Glint app three years later. Jason’s vision for a world where everyone has an equal opportunity to prosper has culminated in the creation of a global payments platform that enables its users to buy, sell, save, send and spend real, allocated gold, even at the checkout, using the Glint Mastercard and the Glint app. Glint, which also supports fiat currencies on its platform, has over 104,000 registered users in over 200 eligible countries. Glint, regulated by the FCA in the UK, has completed more than $300 million worth of transactions to date. Glint clients’ gold is securely stored in a Brinks vault in Switzerland, insured by Brinks with Lloyds of London.
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Brett Herskope aka Eliherf is head of growth at Gamma, the platform built to become a hub for Web3 social identity, centered around NFTs. Brett is also the project lead for the Stacks Parrots NFT collection.
Why you should listen Brett has a background in education, and he has found that these skills have helped him to become a strong advocate for NFT communities.
Brett says digital scarcity will help usher in a future world of abundance, whether it’s it 21 million Bitcoin or 402 Stacks Parrots.
Gamma consists of three core platforms: its user-first marketplace for exploring and collecting NFTs, its creator-first launchpad for artists to deploy fully-tested no-code smart contracts, and its social platform.
As well as leading the Stacks Parrots team, Eliherf is an advocate for the entire Stacks ecosystem of projects, NFT teams and communities. Everyone knows Eliherf and Elihef knows everyone. He says it’s important to look after your mental health and don’t stop having fun with it…
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Andy is here with a special episode to mark an auspicious occasion - it's the 300th episode of the Crypto Conversation podcast. Thank you for listening!
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Simon Harman is founder and CEO of Chainflip - a cross-chain AMM designed to seamlessly allow users to swap tokens across ecosystems without violating chain sovereignty.
Why you should listen Chainflip is a decentralized, trustless protocol that enables cross-chain swaps between different blockchains. Chainflip is what DeFi users have been waiting for - easy and intuitive swaps from one major blockchain to another. Chainflip will connect and bridge major ecosystems like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Polkadot, Solana, or Cosmos to allow users to navigate through this growing multi-chain space.
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Corbin Fraser is Head of Financial Services at Bitcoin.com. Corban is a hacker, entrepreneur, and builder with over nine years of experience in Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. A vocal advocate for p2p cash and optimizing the user experience of crypto for mass adoption, Corbin has helped position Bitcoin.com as one of the most widely used crypto wallets globally with millions of monthly active users.
Why you should listen Bitcoin.com is on a mission to make crypto accessible to millions more people. Their approach to crypto onboarding, encompassing educational resources and intuitive technology has already opened the door to millions of crypto curious investors.
The financial services team focuses on creating intuitive and easy-to-understand user experiences, tying together Bitcoin.com products, partner services, and community financial service offerings across web, mobile, smart devices, and beyond. Their flagship product, the Bitcoin.com Wallet, with over 14 million wallets created, serves anyone in the world who has an internet connection - regardless of nationality, socioeconomic status or access to “traditional finance”.
They’re launching Verse, a rewards and utility token for the Bitcoin.com ecosystem and the gateway to DeFi.
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Will Peck is Head of Digital Assets at WisdomTree. WisdomTree is a traditional asset manager with crypto exchange-traded products in EU (and a pending filing in the US) that is launching an app for retail investors in the US.
Why you should listen WisdomTree has a history as the world’s largest, independent ETF sponsor and is now working to bridge the gap between TradFi and DeFi.
WisdomTree is launching a blockchain-native mobile app, WisdomTree Prime, which will provide retail access to select crypto assets such as bitcoin or ether. The app will also offer tokenized versions of traditional, physical assets such as the U.S. dollar and gold.
The WisdomTree Prime beta is live and they are selecting users from the waitlist on a rolling basis, with a national U.S. rollout targeted for later this year.
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Josef Tetek is an ambassador and analyst at Satoshi Labs and Trezor. Josef is a long-time bitcoiner with a background in Austrian economics and political philosophy. Josef believes that Bitcoin is the next step in mankind’s monetary evolution.
Why you should listen Josef is a long-time Bitcoiner with a background in Austrian economics and political philosophy and is the author of two books: Bitcoin: Separation of Money and State, and Enemies of State, Friends of Liberty.
“There’s no doubt that many current crypto projects with risky business models will collapse - including some exchanges. This cleansing process - whilst painful in the short-term - will ultimately be good for the long-term future of Bitcoin. We have to move on from the current get-rich-quick crypto mentality and think much further into the future. When viewed over the long-term, saving in bitcoin should be seen not only as conservative but fiscally prudent. And with withdrawal freezes being put in place, it has demonstrated yet again that if you hold crypto on a centralized exchange you do not have control of your assets. When crypto values are heading north people pay little attention to the risks involved, but in a bear market, the custody tables turn very quickly.
“The only way to really own your own cryptocurrency is via self-custody - cold storage on a hardware wallet. This is how bitcoin was intended - no middle man, p2p, sovereign ownership of one's own money.”
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João Ferreira founder of Defi Basket - a portfolio management protocol that lets users buy a DeFi portfolio in a single transaction.
Why you should listen DeFi Basket lets users invest with a single transaction in multi-token, multi-protocol strategies that you can create or copy from others.
Portfolios are called baskets. For example, The Stablecoins Maxi basket is a portfolio designed to provide exposure to non-USD stablecoins. It allows you to park your funds into a safe and stable investment, while you reduce your exposure to the US Dollar. This basket invests in liquidity pools that provide high single or double digits yields, each focused on a single stablecoin. This allows maximum returns with minimum impermanent loss.
When you invest in a basket, you are given a financial NFT that shows how much you own of each asset. It can be transferred, lent, or sold as an NFT.
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Tracy Leparulo is the CEO of Untraceable, the Crypto & Blockchain Events company behind the Blockchain Futurist Conference in Toronto.
Why you should listen Since 2013 Tracy and her team have run leading events and marketing campaigns within the blockchain and crypto space. From major conferences to hackathons to launch events. The Untraceable team creates unforgettable experiences that build the blockchain and crypto community.
The Blockchain Futurist Conference is August 9 - 10 in Toronto, Canada. Speakers include Vitalik Buterin and more on panel discussions including: NFTs, the metaverse, DeFi, cryptocurrency, DAOs and more.
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Stefan Rust is the founder of Laguna Labs, a cutting-edge blockchain development house. It has developed Truflation, an independent, on-chain inflation index that aims to provide cryptographically true information on price inflation using the most recent and accurate real-market data.
Why you should listen Stefan Rust is the founder of Laguna Labs, a cutting-edge blockchain development house, under which he has launched trustednode.io, truflation.com, and nuon.fi.
Truflation is an independent, on-chain inflation index that aims to provide cryptographically true information on price inflation using the most recent and accurate real-market data. Founded in 2021, Truflation offers independent and censorship-resistant inflation calculations based on census-level price information from more than 30 data sources in real time. Truflation was built on the premise of revolutionizing century-old models and methodologies that are no longer relevant. Truflation leverages 30+ data sources to give multiple confirmations of price from different sources.
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Jadu is an AR platform and narrative layer for Web3 and the metaverse. Jadu is pioneering the functionality of digital assets in AR and the physical world by converting 3D NFTs into playable avatars and objects that can interact with each other in an ever-expanding AR game world. Jadu is minting 11,111 AVAs in August.
Why you should listen Asad J. Malik is the founder of Jadu. He has a background in storytelling, film, music, and AR. Asad is leading a team of talented creatives and technologists to build the world’s most exciting Web3 AR platform.
Jadu’s vision is to build unparalleled 3D utility for NFTs, partnering with key players in the crypto community to deliver a virtually native future where the creation of content is democratized, decentralized, and creator-owned in a world where players can build valuable communities.
Jadu Hoverboards are NFTs that can be used to fly your avatars in the Metaverse and in Augmented Reality. Along with Jadu Jetpacks, they will function as key transport mechanisms in Jadu’s AR Mirroverse game.
Jadu is minting 11,111 AVAs in August. Jadu AVAs are built natively for mobile and will be the most technically and creatively ambitious Avatars in Web3. Each of the 11,111 #JaduAVAs will be 3D full-body game-ready avatars and will also unlock a whole new genre of AR gameplay within the Jadu App.
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Kyle Rohas is Edge & Node Business Development and Partnerships at The Graph, a web3 protocol for indexing and querying blockchain data to empower developers to build and give users access to blockchain data in a verifiable and decentralized way.
Why you should listen The Graph is working to decentralize data indexing and query services for all public data on all blockchains. What Google did for web2 in a centralized and rent-extracting way, The Graph is doing for web3 in a permissionless, open-source, and inclusive way. Since The Graph launched its decentralized network in July, a huge community of indexers are serving query requests, curating useful information, and staking to protect the network.
The Graph is an indexing protocol for querying networks like Ethereum and IPFS. Anyone can build and publish open APIs, called subgraphs, making data easily accessible. Subgraphs can be composed into a global graph of all the world's public information. This data can be transformed, organized, and shared across applications for anyone to query with just a few keystrokes.
The Graph is an indexing protocol for querying networks like Ethereum and IPFS. Anyone can build and publish open APIs, called subgraphs, making data easily accessible. Subgraphs can be composed into a global graph of all the world's public information. This data can be transformed, organized, and shared across applications for anyone to query with just a few keystrokes.
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Christopher Brookins is the co-founder of RociFi, a new DeFi primitive for under-collateralized lending. In order to borrow on RociFi, users must mint an ERC-1155 token, NFCS (Non-Fungible Credit Score). The NFCS proves ownership of the address bundle that the borrower wishes to be credit scored. The NFCS operates as on-chain reputation and credit score.
Why you should listen RociFi enables borrowers with clean EVM-compatible on-chain history and reputation to borrow with reduced or zero collateral while offering lenders a high, stable deposit yield. Initially, RociFi’s approved assets for lending and collateral will be USDC, DAI, USDT, ETH, and WBTC.
As the protocol grows in adoption, it will function similarly to a Layer 1 whereby DeFi and TradFi firms can build new capital markets services atop RociFi, thus creating a decentralized credit economy.
In order to borrow on RociFi, users must mint an ERC-1155 token, NFCS (Non-Fungible Credit Score). The NFCS proves ownership of the address bundle that the borrower wishes to be credit scored.
The need for a unique, non-transferable on-chain credential that unlocks greater utility and safety across Web3 has grown in interest since Vitalik Buterin’s recent post about “Soulbound” tokens.
RociFi’s NFCS was designed to be that and more by becoming Web3’s first, verified token for credit, reputation, and trust (CRT), i.e. proof of CRT.
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Aditya Das is an analyst and researcher at Brave New Coin. With Bitcoin struggling to stay above the key $20,000 price level, investors are bracing for a long crypto winter. Fundamental analysis, however, suggests that Bitcoin is oversold.
Why you should listen Fundamental analysis examines the internal and external factors that affect the value of a business or commodity. The value of an investment can be affected by factors such as the state of the global economy or by new updates to the core product of a company. These factors can affect the intrinsic value of an asset before they are reflected in the market value. The market value of an asset, the price investors actually pay for an asset, is affected by speculation and is driven by emotional factors and beliefs around what may occur in the future.
Aditya Das explains 5 fundamental indicators that are designed to reflect the intrinsic value of Bitcoin. They are also designed to discount factors like speculation. Currently, the price of BTC is depressed because of concerns around a possible global recession, high-interest rates and the potential for a long crypto winter.
While indicators such as the Mayer Multiple currently sit at around historical cycle lows, the crypto fear and greed index suggests that the crypto market is still in a state of ‘extreme fear’. Although the price of BTC is above $20,000, a bleak macro-economic situation will continue to be a factor for why sentiment may remain depressed in the short term.
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Pascal Tallarida is the founder of Jarvis Network, a trading platform to buy, sell and exchange stable and liquid synthetic fiat currencies powered by an on-chain Forex market.
Why you should listen Jarvis Network’s mission is to bring decentralized finance to everyone. Stablecoins have a key role to play in DeFi adoption. Non-USD stablecoins struggle to be liquid and maintain their peg.
Syntthereum’s role is to solve these issues and launch non-USD stablecoins (JFIATs). Synthereum is the first protocol of the Jarvis Network. The protocol pioneers a capital-efficient manner to issue and exchange synthetic fiat currencies called jFIATs, on multiple EVM-compatible network.
In May, Techemynt launched a new partnership with Jarvis. As part of the launch, a new pool featuring Techemynt’s 1-for-1 backed stablecoin NZDS and Jarvis’s synthetic jNZD. The pool will go by the ‘2nzd’ moniker and LP tokens of the pool will also be known as 2nzd tokens and will be stakeable on other platforms. 2nzd is yield-bearing as well.
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The NZDS is a New Zealand Dollar stablecoin backed 1:1 with physical New Zealand Dollars in cash and cash equivalents. NZDS was launched in March 2021 by Techemynt, a registered New Zealand Financial Services provider, using the FiatToken framework developed by Centre that is the basis for USD-Coin (USDC).
Why you should listen As a blockchain-based stablecoin, NZDS combines the stability and value of the New Zealand Dollar with the intrinsic utility of cryptocurrency to allow arbitrage, remittance, and digital payments.
After working in Traditional finance at places like Standard & Poor’s in New York, and Reuters and Cantor Fitzgerald in Tokyo, Scott has spent the last four years in the digital asset space with Techemy Capital, Brave New Coin, and now with Techemynt to build out the market for the New Zealand Dollar Stablecoin.
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Ari Redbord is Head of Legal and Government Affairs at TRM Labs, the blockchain intelligence company. Ari was previously the Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary and the Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence at the United States Treasury.
Why you should listen To build a safer financial system, TRM Labs developed the first blockchain intelligence platform that combines cross-chain data with threat intelligence, advanced analytics, and intuitive visualizations to help organizations detect crypto fraud and financial crime. Fast-growing cryptocurrency businesses like Circle, FTX US and MoonPay use TRM Transaction Monitoring to detect suspicious activity and meet Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulatory requirements.
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Jack O'Holleran is co-founder and CEO at SKALE Labs, an Ethereum Layer 2 multichain network.
Why you should listen Skale aims to solve the blockchain scalability problem by facilitating processing between blockchains and decentralized applications, helping the ecosystem run hundreds of millions of smart contracts and transactions per second.
SKALE is an open-source Web3 blockchain network buil on Ethereum. The SKALE Network is governed by the SKALE DAO. There are over 50 unique companies, business entities, organizations, and DAOs that work to support, run, and govern the SKALE Network. All core smart contract changes require a decentralized multisig approval held by numerous unique entities and contributors.
The network is also supported by two entities, the N.O.D.E. Foundation and SKALE Labs. SKALE Labs is the core team involved in proposing technical specs, supporting with open source code contributions, and educating the public on the technical elements of the SKALE Network. The N.O.D.E. Foundation is located in Vaduz, Liechtenstein and SKALE Labs is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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Chris Zhu is the founder of Mirror World, a Game Matrix powered by an interoperability SDK layer that accelerates Web3 game development for Web2 developers.
Why you should listen Mirror World is the intersection of NFTs, the metaverse, artificial intelligence, and interoperability. Chris aims to build the ‘Nintendo of the Metaverse’ by creating digital native beings capable of learning and communicating with their owners.
Mirror World is a content matrix with AI-powered virtual life forms in each one of its games. All virtual lives are interoperable across all games, which ensures that holders will have the freedom to enter each one of the GameFi. After publishing 3 different types of games, we will publish a standard economic framework for more content producers to connect to our game ecosystem. Mirror World will be an AI-powered virtual carnival that yields crypto returns of the people, by the people, for the people.
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Fringe Finance is a decentralized money market designed to unlock the capital spread in crypto assets regardless of their capitalization and supported network. We talk with CTO Brian Pasfield.
Why you should listen Fringe Finance is a decentralized money market designed to unlock the capital spread in crypto assets regardless of their capitalization and supported network. With a next-generation DeFi lending and borrowing ecosystem, Fringe aims to unlock the dormant capital from traditional financial markets and all-tier cryptocurrencies.
The Fringe Finance Primary Lending Platform has just been released. Collateral and stablecoins have been deposited. You can deposit your $USDC to collect interest or use your $LINK, $MATIC, $REN, $BNT, $OGN, $IOTX, or $TOMOE to collateralize $USDC loans.
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Patricia Trompeter is the CEO of Sphere 3D Corp., a net carbon-neutral Bitcoin miner.
Why you should listen Patricia Trompeter is the CEO of Sphere 3D Corp., a net carbon-neutral cryptocurrency miner.
The Company is rapidly growing its industrial-scale mining operation through the capital-efficient procurement of next-generation mining equipment and partnering with data center operators.
Sphere 3D has 6.0 EH/s of capacity under contract for deliveries this year. Currently, the Company operates a fleet of 1,000 miners and expects delivery of an additional 59,000 miners by year-end 2022 for a total hashing capacity of 6.0 exahash.
"Our primary focus is growing our mining operations. Our fleet of S19j Pros is producing as expected, and we are deploying our new miners as rapidly as possible. We are laser-focused on executing our strategy of becoming a leading carbon-neutral Bitcoin mining company," said Patricia Trompeter, CEO of Sphere 3D.
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Will Rush is the founder of Stack, an app that goes where school curricula won’t, and educates the next generation about personal finance. It does this by harnessing Gen Z’s interest in cryptocurrency to teach them about responsible investing habits.
Why you should listen Stack is going to be the first crypto platform to welcome investors under the age of 18 (thanks to custodial accounts). Stack is a Seattle-based startup building a crypto platform for teenagers and others disenfranchised by the financial system. Stack will soon launch a gamified platform that allows teens to invest in more than 30 cryptocurrency coins. Parents co-own the account if the user is under 18. Users earn social and merchandising rewards for responsible investment activity and for watching educational videos.
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Haste Arcade is the world’s first Instant Leaderboard Payout arcade. The arcade enables players globally to earn real-time, peer-to-peer rewards for simply placing on a game's leaderboard. The vision for Haste is to have the platform serve as a fun and entertaining visual representation of micro transactions, and how they can empower new business models.
Why you should listen Joe De Pinto was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. After spending 4 years playing professional baseball in the Chicago White Sox farm system, he co-founded his first venture, Barpay, in 2015 with Daniel Wagner. The company has since grown to become a leader in the mobile ordering and payment space.
In January 2021, along with Wagner, he co-founded Haste, the world’s first Instant Leaderboard Payout arcade. De Pinto’s vision for Haste is to have the platform serve as a fun and entertaining visual representation of micro transactions, and how they can empower new business models.
Haste Arcade is a developer SDK and player site with ILP Games™ or Instant Leaderboard Payout™. Games enable players globally to earn real-time, peer-to-peer rewards for simply placing on a game's leaderboard.
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Kraken is one of the OG global crypto exchanges, founded in 2011. In 2020 Kraken launched in Australia. Andy speaks to Kraken’s Aussie MD, Jonathon Miller.
Why you should listen Jonathon came to Kraken in 2020 as a founder of Australian crypto exchange Bit Trade and was one of the founding members of the Blockchain Association of Australia.
Kraken acquired Bit Trade in 2020 and appointed Jonathan as MD of its new Australian operation.
Outside of crypto, Jonathan is one half of Sydney group Magnetic Heads, a baroque blend of new wave and post-punk, cold wave and avant-pop via synths, guitars, and exquisite production.
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Gamma is the leading marketplace for creators and digital collectors to find, list, and sell NFTs, secured by the Bitcoin blockchain. Gamma also provides a minting platform for creators to launch their NFT collections without any code, and a social platform built to become a hub for the world's web3 social identity, centered around NFTs.
Why you should listen Jamil Dhanani is the founder of Gamma, the leading marketplace for creators and digital collectors to find, list, and sell NFTs, secured by the Bitcoin blockchain.
Gamma was launched in September of last year as STXNFT.com. They have now rebranded as Gamma, a platform built to become a hub for the world’s Web3 social identity, centered around NFTs. Gamma aims to serve as the home for collectors, creators, and investors to come together to explore, trade, and showcase extraordinary NFTs through the Bitcoin ecosystem.
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Stacked Invest is a simple, easy-to-use platform for crypto investing. Equipped with ready-to-grow, personalized, and professionally managed portfolios, Stacked aims to be the “life jacket” that saves people from the typical pain points of crypto investing.
Why you should listen Joel Birch is the CEO of Stacked Invest, a simple, easy-to-use platform for crypto investing. Equipped with ready-to-grow, personalized, and professionally managed portfolios, Stacked aims to be the “life jacket” that saves people from the typical pain points of crypto investing.
Pre-built Stacks are designed to give users instant access to pre-built portfolios modeled after some of the most popular crypto indexes, hedge funds, and other investor portfolios. The platform’s ready-to-grow portfolios, called Stacks, and digital advising tools make investing quick and easy for the masses, allowing the average individual to enter the crypto space without discomfort or uncertainty.
Stacked has been approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to operate as an investment advisor. This classification makes Stacked one of the few crypto-focused entities offering investment advice while being registered with a federal regulatory agency.
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Pollen is a DeFi 2.0 asset management protocol that allows communities to curate fully optimized and dynamically rebalanced custom asset pools.
Why you should listen Frederico Teixeira is a quant analayst at Pollen. Frederico is a Mathematician and holds a PhD in Computational Modelling from ETH Zurich. He has over 15 years of experience in the numerical solution of differential equations, high-performance computing, optimisation, uncertainty quantification, meta-modelling, and machine learning.
Pollen is a permissionless protocol that allows communities to launch fully backed Asset Pools that reflect their community’s values.
Pollen asset Pool allocations are optimized, continually rebalancing to ensure that the assets in the DAO outperform the market. Index Tokens are backed by dynamically rebalanced Asset Pools designed for markets that operate 24/7.
Governance processes allow communities to launch asset pools on their terms, leveraging the collective intelligence from the Pollen protocol with the autonomy to grow, customize and develop to meet their community needs.
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Michael Brooks is the CEO and founder of goLance, an award-winning online freelance marketplace that's used to recruit, screen, hire, manage, and pay global talent. A fast-growing segment of goLance users transacts using crypto.
Why you should listen Michael Brooks is the CEO and founder of goLance, an award-winning online freelance marketplace that's used to recruit, screen, hire, manage, and pay global talent. He runs the company, which has more than 600,000 users and $94+ million in payouts, entirely with freelancers.
Michael is a leading author on HackerNoon.
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Anthony Ng is the Founder and CEO of Metalend, a decentralized lending and borrowing protocol for fiat-backed stablecoins. The future of Defi cannot be built by USD stablecoins alone, users need access to their local currencies to live life. A decentralized lending marketing protocol that supports a wide range of stablecoins is necessary.
Why you should listen Metalend Finance is a decentralized open-source lending protocol on Ethereum. It supports local currencies and this currently includes Singapore Dollar (XSGD) and Indonesian Rupiah (XIDR) and the New Zealand Dollar Stablecoin (NZDS).
“We aim to create a whole new community that is more comfortable trading in their home currency. This opportunity to use local currencies for lending brings greater access, ease, relatability, and most importantly many new investors from countries like Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Malaysia,” said Anthony Ng.
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Brent Xu is the Founder and CEO of Umee, a Cross Chain DeFi hub designed to operate seamlessly across protocols. Brent has extensive experience in blockchain and venture investments and previously held business strategy roles at ConsenSys and Tendermint and Cosmos.
Why you should listen After cutting his teeth working with Tendermint to build Gravity Dex and the Gravity Bridge on the Cosmos network, Brent Xu founded Umee in April 2021 to bring cross-chain DeFi use cases to the Cosmos and Ethereum ecosystems. Umee aspires to create a DeFi experience across blockchain networks and resolve three major issues universal to all DeFi projects: detached yields, concentrated systemic risks, and isolated capital.
Umee was designed to use the IBC protocol, an “internet of blockchains,” created from the Cosmos ecosystem. Initially implementing a cross-chain borrowing and lending framework, Umee’s vision evolved to include DeFi and open finance more broadly.
To accomplish this, Umee would need to break the existing silos between blockchains with novel bridging solutions — a difficult and critical obstacle to the broad adoption of DeFi.
The native UMEE token is a Proof of=Stake asset that can exist as a Cosmos SDK token and as an ERC20 token on Ethereum. Ab initio, Umee would be built to be interoperable with blockchains such as Terra, Crypto.com, Binance Chain, Osmosis, Secret Network, and many, MANY others. In plain language, users could lend, borrow, stake, delegate, and more, across dozens of chains.
Umee secured its seed round funding led by Polychain, with investors including Coinbase Ventures, Alameda, Ideo CoLab, ConsenSys Ethereal, and others.
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Powerledger develops software solutions for the tracking, tracing, and trading of renewable energy. They believe in the democratization of power, for a sustainable future.
Why you should listen Anya Nova is head of blockchain development and staking at Powerledger. Powerledger platforms track and trade features help users stay on top of the provenance and flow of energy. It can give consumers choice over the energy they’re using and facilitate peer to peer trading. Solar P2P energy trading can deal with excess solar in the grid without subsidy.
Their platform technology is being used to ensure the trading of environmental commodities such as renewable energy certificates and carbon credits, are more transparent, secure, and efficient. Their platform TraceX is a digital marketplace and exchange for carbon and renewable energy credits.
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Breno Araujo is the Founder and CEO of Boto - the no-code automation platform for creating and sharing bots that automate your crypto, NFT, and other blockchain or DeFi activities.
Why you should listen Using a simple drag-and-drop platform, Boto’s goal is to democratize bots by establishing a community in which both developers and non-developers can create and share automation.
Before Boto, Breno was head of Revenue Intelligence for Ripple and has been in the blockchain space since 2016. Breno has been coding since he was 12 years old, and has an MBA from INSEAD and a BSc in Mechatronics Engineering from PUC-Rio (Brazil).
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NFT Butler is an automation tool to make mass bidding requests on OpenSea. Users can create multiple tasks for several collections on Opensea and configure the task to bid on every token of their choice with a specific bid price and validity period.
Why you should listen An NFT Butler license can be purchased on OpenSea. The current floor is around 1 ETH. There are only 1000 NFT Butler licenses available. Having one allows the owner to use a collection scanner to find the most profitable collections, mass bidding on OpenSea with up to 6000 bids/h, and smart bidding (outbidding, relative to floor price bidding, trait-filtered bidding).
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Festival Pass is embracing the evolution of entertainment into Web 3. It is the world's first live events subscription service across music, film, food & wine, theater, tech, and innovation. Users can enjoy thousands of events locally and globally for one monthly fee. The Festival Family Founder NFT is a limited collection of 10,000. The Founder NFT comes with the ultimate utility and includes a lifetime founder membership to festivalPass with $1,200 worth of credits annually to redeem for over 80,000 live events in North America and 600,000 hotels globally.
Why you should listen Ed Vincent is the founder and CEO of Festival Pass. The world's first live events subscription service across music, film, food, and wine, theater, tech and innovation, and more.
The company was founded on the mission to inspire people to lead active and engaging lives through passion-connected member experiences. Members of Festival Pass can enjoy 80,000 plus live events from notable festivals like Coachella and ACL Music Festival, to live shows with GRAMMY-winning artists like Dua Lipa, John Mayer, Billie Eillish and more with a unique credit system. Members can also use their credits to book rooms at over 600,000 hotels at reduced rates.
Festival Family is an NFT Project from festivalPass, the world's first live event subscription marketplace. The Festival Family Founder NFT is a limited collection of 10,000 total Founder NFTs that will be made available in tranches of 1,000. Each new tranche will launch when the previous one is sold out. Price will increase per tranche. Once minted out, there will be no more Founder NFTs offered.
The Founder NFT comes with the ultimate utility that includes a lifetime founder membership to festivalPass with $1,200 worth of credits annually to redeem for over 80,000 live events in North America and 600,000 hotels globally. Plus access to quarterly bucket list events only available to NFT holders.
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James West is the co-founder of Globe. A crypto exchange funded by Y Combinator and Pantera Capital, Globe’s goal is to enable its customers to exchange everything. Globe offers new products such as volatility trading among more traditional spot and perpetuals markets, and innovative approaches to managing risk with their Unified Margin system.
Why you should listen Globe co-founder and CEO James West is a technologist, digital assets pioneer, and former trader and investor. He led the quantitative team at a hedge fund for four years, growing it from a small family fund to $300m assets under management with incredible risk-adjusted returns. He earned his PhD from UCL, just across from DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, his research has now generated over 600 citations. Prior to that, he studied algebraic geometry at Cambridge University under 2018 Fields Medallist Caucher Birkar.
Globe aims to be a robust and rewarding exchange platform, with market-leading performance and deep liquidity, and payouts and fee discounts for staking GDT, the token that powers Globe.
They are a provider of Bitcoin security services that enable users to have total self-custody over their crypto holdings, without risk of theft or hacks like those experienced by exchanges.
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Nick Neuman is the founder of Casa – a provider of Bitcoin security services that enables users to have total self-custody over their crypto holdings, without risk of theft or hacks like those experienced by exchanges.
Why you should listen Nick talks about the importance of Bitcoin self-custody and the risk of BTC loss if they don’t properly secure their holdings.
Most bitcoin wallets only require 1 key to send bitcoin. Casa uses multiple keys which makes your money extra safe and secure. Casa is a multi-sig, multi-device, multi-location solution with the ease of the app.
If you do lose a key or have one stolen, you can swap it out for a new one. Simply transfer your bitcoin to the new, healthy set of keys using your two remaining keys from the initial set. Casa App walks you through it all, step by step.
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Crypto dev Andre Cronje is back, advising the Fantom Foundation after publically turning his back on crypto earlier this year. We speak to Fantom Foundation CEO Michael Kong to find out more... Why you should listen Fantom is a high-performance, scalable, EVM-compatible, smart-contract platform. Fantom’s mainnet deployment, Fantom Opera, is built on Fantom’s consensus mechanism, Lachesis. Fantom is a leaderless, asynchronous, and byzantine fault-tolerant Layer 1 blockchain protocol.
Crypto dev Andre Cronje is back, advising the Fantom Foundation after publically turning his back on crypto earlier this year. We speak to Fantom Foundation CEO Michael Kong to find out more...
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Josh Reyes is the co-founder of the Minke, a DeFi platform that aims to be the easiest way to use DeFi via an app designed for mobile. Minke offers savings rates 40x higher than big banks.
Why you should listen Co-founders Josh Reyes and Marcos Teixeira met as early employees at Melbourne startup SmartrMail. Like that venture, the global team is operating remotely with early employees based in Australia, Portugal, Japan, Brazil, and the UK.
Minke is a non-custodial wallet, meaning only you have access to your money, not Minke, not anyone else. Minke believes self-custody is the safest way to protect your money in the long-term.
Marc Andreessen coined the famous phrase “Software is eating the world" predicting that large swathes of the economy will be taken over by software and technology. That’s not a 10x improvement, it’s a 38x one. Warren Buffet says compounding interest is the 8th wonder of the world. Minke see these trends as the power behind DeFi’s growth.
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Sergey Nazarov is the Co-founder of Chainlink, the industry-standard oracle network for connecting smart contracts to real-world data and off-chain computation.
Why you should listen In this podcast Sergey lays out his current thinking on how teams and protocols such as Chainlink are building a world powered by cryptographic truth.
Sergey explains how smart contracts are becoming an increasingly important part of the global economy, and he talks about the importance of the Chainlink community as the crypto ecosystem continues to mature.
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Adrian Brink is the founder of Anoma, a blockchain protocol that enables private, asset-agnostic cash and bartering. Adrian founded Anoma to fight surveillance capitalism and the over-concentration of power in fiat currency, by protecting individuals’ privacy through zero-knowledge technology.
Why you should listen Anoma is a proof-of-stake blockchain protocol that enables multi-asset privacy and bartering among any number of parties. Adrian is a passionate advocate for embedding privacy into blockchain networks as part of the next iteration of our financial infrastructure and believes that there has been a loss of individual financial sovereignty and privacy by non-consensual usage of sensitive data by third parties.
Anoma was established to address these concerns with zero-knowledge privacy built-in, and is making progress towards its goal, raising $26M in November led by Polychain Capital.
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Andy Blood was executive creative director at Colenso BBDO and a creative strategist at Facebook. He is the creator of the multiverse series “Near Futures. Far-Fetched” an intriguing series of NFTs that are available on the Lithoverse NFT platform.
Why you should listen Near Futures. Far-Fetched is a collection of six short stories with one thing in common: somewhere in the multiverse these stories will be true. The themes explored range from The Last Bitcoin (set in the year 2139), to the social network of objects, a terrorist group infiltrating CERN, our too-smart cities becoming dumb, weaponizing ‘clean’, and first contact with intelligent non-human life.
Near Futures Far-Fetched is a continuation of the creative partnership between CENNZnet and Andy Blood that produced last September’s world first ‘Book As NFT’ project.
Each individual story NFT is available in an edition of ten. With each sale granting its owner a 1% share of the revenue of the full and final collection released as an NFT.
Andy Blood is the author of ‘Full Bleed’ a book of ‘Remarkable stories and hard-won lessons from the coalface of creativity and the bleeding edge of advertising and technology.’
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Chiente Hsu is the ex-Managing Director and Global Head of Quantitative Investment Strategy and Research at Morgan Stanley. She is the founder of ALEX, an open-source DeFi development company built on the Stacks Blockchain.
Why you should listen ALEX is an open-source DeFi development company built on the Stacks Blockchain and modeled on the world’s financial markets. The ALEX mission is simple: to give customers the tools to become the masters of their own financial experience. On our platform, you can lend, earn, and borrow BTC, minimize the risks, and maximize returns with fully decentralized integrated financial solutions.
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IBEX believes that a well-developed system of financial markets is indispensable for the health and efficiency of a society. The combination of robust and sophisticated markets and financial institutions, as well as diversity in instruments and financial products, supply the need for people and the general economy. There is a strong correlation between the development of financial markets and socioeconomic well-being. Bitcoin can help.
Why you should listen IBEX CEO, Jose Lemus talks about Bitcoin’s path to mainstream adoption and his experiences on the ground in El Salvador.
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Dave the Wave is an investor, trader, and technical analyst. A contrarian, Dave is respected on Crypto Twitter for his objective, rational approach to technical analysis. Dave’s thesis is that Bitcoin is following a Logarithmic Growth Curve model. Logarithmic growth suggests exponential gains at the beginning that slowly taper off towards a plateau in the long term.
Why you should listen: Andy and Dave discuss Dave’s Logarithmic Growth Curve model. Dave says that Bitcoin is a nascent currency in the process of capitalization. There are periods of volatility in both directions as new people add and subtract liquidity in adoption waves.
Despite sometimes being misunderstood as bearish, Dave says that if Bitcoin follows the Logarithmic Growth Curve, Bitcoin could hit almost $1million in approximately ten years' time.
Dave analyses several other Bitcoin models, such as Stock to Flow, and Lengthening Cycles, and explains why in his view, they have been invalidated, leaving Bitcoin’s Logarithmic Growth Curve as the last model standing.
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Chris Harmse is the co-founder and MD of crypto financial services company, BVNK. The BVNK platform bridges fiat and crypto together. Combine your crypto and fiat banking into one place, with payments, trading, custody, and yield integrated into one account.
Why you should listen BVNK launched in the UK last October and is primarily aimed at the massively underserved mid-market enterprise sector (high net worths, family offices, mid-sized companies) and offers treasury, payment and investment transactions together on a single platform, based on crypto and fiat currencies.
The platform provides a business account for settlement, exchange and payment of crypto, access to markets for large-volume trades and a yield service where funds are deployed to earn interest.
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Dignity Gold is a blockchain development company creating securities tokens to establish investment opportunities in the U.S. precious metals mining and minerals sectors.
Why you should listen Kent M. Swing is Chairman of Dignity Gold. Kent is an owner of several real estate operating companies as well as commercial and residential real estate properties throughout the United States.
Steve Braverman is president and CEO of Dignity Gold. Steve has more than 30 years of experience in securities trading and investment management.
The DIGau token is a verified gold reserve-backed security token represented by a pledge of at least $6 billion in gold reserves in tailings and alluvial placer deposits. DIGau is supported by a minimum of $6 billion of the gold reserves pledged to Dignity Corp.’s parent company, Dignity Gold, under deeds of trust and a pledge and security agreement. This was represented by 3,442,144 ounces of gold reserve or, $6 billion dollars divided by the market price of gold on the day of the agreement.
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Dave Balter is the CEO of Flipside Crypto, the platform lets users get paid to learn about protocols and chains, and level up to become a crypto-SQL superstar.
Why you should listen Flipside enables growth and strategic business insights for the blockchain industry through actionable market intelligence obtained from a community of highly skilled, highly motivated analysts. Flipside’s free-to-use platform gives analysts access to an unparalleled variety of bounty programs, distributing token incentives to users for answering questions and performing tasks in campaigns tailored to their skill, experience and knowledge level.
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Shiv Malik is the CEO of Pool, a data platform and marketplace that wants to increase data privacy and enable individuals to monetize their own data.
Why you should listen Pool’s purpose is to redistribute power, value, and control in the data economy. Pool's platform supports organizations that enable ordinary people to monetize and share their data. These are called Data Unions. And because those people are positively engaged in sharing their information, data products on Pool’s platform are richer, more relevant, and easier to license. It’s data working for everyone.
UK-based Pool, currently valued at $39m, is building a data marketplace and associated payment rails for new data-sharing entities called data unions. These new data-sharing organizations are themselves seeking to leverage shifts in privacy, the end of consumer data following Chrome’s deletion of third-party cookies, and new EU rules for data portability which are due to come into effect next year.
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We’re unofficially celebrating 250 episodes of the Crypto Conversation. To celebrate, Andy is joined by Rory Manchee, CEO at Brave New Coin.
Why you should listen After spending six years as Head of Business Development for Brave New Coin and Techemy, Rory has been part of the global blockchain conversation at the highest level. Rory joins Andy to unofficially celebrate three years and 250 episodes of the Crypto Conversation podcast and his appointment as Brave New Coin CEO.
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Nick Rose is the CEO and co-founder of Ethernity Chain - the NFT issuing platform and marketplace for athletes and celebrities. Leveraging their own IP Ethernity has launched verified artwork from Shaq, Bruce Lee, Lionel Messi, the James Dean and Marilyn Monroe estates, Nas, and Muhammed Ali.
Why you should listen Earlier this year, Ethernity raised a $20 million funding round - led by Fanatics CEO Michael Rubin and founder of League of Legends Thomas Vu - and announced the launch of Ethernal Labs - a studio-style approach to producing and fostering creative ventures in the NFT space.
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Kiwi tech entrepreneur Daniel Batten has an intriguing thesis. He sees Bitcoin as an unexpected superhero - his view is that Bitcoin mining can drive us to 70% renewables-based energy consumption by 2030.
Why you should listen If we’re unable to transition to 70% renewable energy by 2030 the earth will face runaway climate change. Bitcoin mining could be the catalyst to drive the increased adoption of renewable energy this decade. Bitcoin miners are location agnostic, time-of-day-agnostic, and have an insatiable appetite for both existing and new energy production. This lowers the economic barrier that has been preventing the faster adoption of renewables. That’s why Bitcoin is an unexpected superhero.
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SparkWorld is an innovative community-centric web3 ecosystem, powered by Fair Prediction Launches and underpinned by the SPRK token.
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Jolyon Horsfall is the founder of SparkWorld, an innovative community-centric web3 ecosystem on a mission to creatively overcome the challenges of whitelisting, randomized minting, and prelaunch NFTs through a gamified trustless marketplace that creates value for everyone.
Spark facilitates Fair Prediction Launches (FPLs) through a new mechanism that distributes NFTs in the most equitable and engaging way possible using gamification and prediction markets.
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Sheldon Dearr is technical lead at Octopus Network, a multichain, interoperable crypto network and Web3 incubator designed to facilitate a new wave of web innovation.
Why you should listen Sheldon is a security engineer who was referred to as the "King of Major Incidents" during his time at HP due to his ability to solve problems. Sheldon has a keen understanding of the complex world we all operate in.
Octopus Network is a multichain crypto network for launching and running Web3.0 application-specific blockchains — appchains.
Appchains in the Octopus Network benefit from flexible and cost-effective leased security (LPoS), out-of-the-box multichain interoperability, complete infrastructure, and a ready-to-be-engaged community.
The core of the Octopus Network is the Octopus Relay — a set of smart contracts running on the NEAR blockchain, aka mainchain, that implements the security leasing market. The Octopus Network chose to build on NEAR because it offers a more cost-effective, scalable, user-friendly, and interoperable L1 solution for building appchains.
The Octopus Accelerator Programme is a collection of courses and seminars available to both Substrate developers and Web3.0 teams funded by the Octopus Foundation. The Octopus Foundation will directly fund 20 appchain projects through the Octopus Accelerator Programme each year, granting them up to $1M in total per year.
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Alan Vey is the co-founder and CEO of Aventus Network, a layer-2 blockchain protocol that brings scalability, lower costs, and speed to Ethereum transactions. Why you should listen The Aventus Network (AvN) is a layer-2 blockchain protocol that brings scalability, lower costs, and speed to Ethereum transactions. It enables digital asset issuance, management, and ownership, bringing the scale of permissioned blockchains and the security and interoperability of public blockchains — without the shortcomings of either.
Eth 2.0 is designed to address Ethereum’s scalability and speed issues, where will this leave the scores of layer 2 solutions that have emerged over the past five years?
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Big Town Chef is a play-to-earn, NFT farming, trading and cook-off Web3 game. Powered by $BURP, the game is in partnership with celebrity chef Gino D’Acampo. Why you should listen Big Town Chef is a metaverse game that enables players to farm, trade virtual ingredients, and compete in cook-off battles.
All in-game activity will take place in an immersive and engaging 3D Metaverse environment called Big Town. Big Town Chef is built on blockchain technology and allows users to earn tokens that can be traded for tangible real-world rewards and valuable digital assets. Powered by the $BURP token on the Polygon network, Big Town Chef is the next generation of interactive online decentralized gaming. Users can steer the narrative, shape the experience, and vote on the direction of the wider organization. Those looking to learn more about the crypto space can enjoy the process of growing virtual foods and competing with other players while earning in-game credits that equal real-world revenues.
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Last week the Bitcoin 2022 conference took place in Miami with announcements coming from some of the most prominent Bitcoin speakers and companies. Did it deliver?
Why you should listen The Bitcoin 2022 Conference in Miami took place April 6-9 with speakers including Jordan Peterson, Jack Malles, Adam Back, Cathie Wood, and Peter Thiel.
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Medha Parlikar is the Co-Founder and CTO of CasperLabs, a blockchain built for enterprise adoption. The CasperLabs mission is to lead the era of distributed computing by giving every organization access to state-of-the-art technologies and services. Why you should listen CasperLabs is the team behind the development of the Casper Network. It provides services and support for organizations of all sizes, from enterprise to startup. Guided by open source principles, CasperLabs is committed to supporting the next wave of blockchain adoption among businesses and providing developers with a reliable and secure solution. The Casper Network is the first live proof-of-stake blockchain built off the Casper CBC specification. Casper is designed to accelerate enterprise and developer adoption of blockchain technology today and evolve to meet user needs in the future.
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Zaki Manian is the Co-Founder of Sommelier Finance, a DeFi platform and coprocessor for the EthereumVM. Why you should listen Zaki believes that regulators can be supportive of the incredible innovation going on in the DeFi space by developing a regime of awards rather than punishments for DeFi projects that move the industry towards reasonable integration with financial safeguards that regulators are bound to pursue. Sommelier is a bet that Ethereum will be a dominant player in the global economy. Sommelier consists of the Cosmos Stargate SDK, its Tendermint-based consensus layer, and a decentralized, bi-directional Ethereum bridge, managed by a global network of validators.
Liquidity Providers (LPs) will be able to use the Sommelier to author and execute complex, and automated financial transactions, such as portfolio rebalancing, limit orders, batched orders, as well as a host of other features that traders have come to expect from CeFi, but that are not currently available in DeFi.
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With Bitcoin holding steady at $46,000, and both whales and shrimps accumulating, is Bitcoin warming up again?
Why you should listen The 19,000,000 Bitcoin has been mined, whales and shrimps are accumulating, and anticipation is mounting that we’ll hear some big Bitcoin news out of this weeks Bitcoin 2022 conference.
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Christian Keroles is Managing Director of Bitcoin Magazine and a passionate Bitcoiner who thinks Hyperbitcoinization is going to happen faster than anyone thinks.
Why you should listen Founded in 2012, Bitcoin Magazine was the first ever magazine dedicated solely to covering the cryptocurrency space. Its reporting focus is on Bitcoin, its underlying blockchain technology and the industry that has built up around it.
The team is organizing the Bitcoin 2022 Bitcoin Conference in Miami. This takes place April 6-9 with speakers including Jordan Peterson, Jack Malles, Adam Back, Cathie Wood, Peter Thiel, Eric Weinstein, and many more.
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Arie Trouw is Chief Executive Officer, Chief Technology Officer, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at XY Labs, building the XYO Network. The network is described as a reality oracle that empowers people to participate in the world's data economy through the validation of anonymous and secure geospatial data. Why you should listen The XYO Network is a reality oracle that empowers people to participate in the world's data economy through the validation of anonymous and secure geospatial data.
The world is full of data producers and data consumers. XYO connects both parties and provides a token economy to encourage data flow and value. With over 4 million nodes and counting, XYO is one of the largest operating blockchain node networks in the world.
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Brett Herskope aka Eliherf is a project lead for Stacks Parrots, a collection of Parrot NFTs on Stacks. Eliherf is also head of community for several NFT communities in the Stacks ecosystem.
Why you should listen Eliherf has a background in education, and he has found that these skills have helped him to become a strong advocate for NFT communities. He says the best community managers are like a concierge or a barista. They are welcoming and know eveyone’s name.
Stacks Parrots is a collection of 402 unique and talking parrots NFTs secured by Bitcoin living in the metaverse.
As well as leading the Stacks Parrots team, Eliherf is an advocate for the entire Stacks ecosystem of projects, NFT teams and communities. Everyone knows Eliherf and Elihef knows everyone. He says it’s important to look after your mental health and don’t stop having fun with it.
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Brian Bondy is the co-founder, CTO, and lead developer for Brave Software, developer of Brave, the open-source, privacy-by-default web browser with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform and crypto wallet.
Why you should listen Brave is an open-source, privacy-by-default web browser with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform and crypto wallet. Brave Wallet, a crypto wallet built into the Brave desktop browser, and mobile apps, enables Brave users to store, manage, grow, and swap crypto from a single wallet. Unlike most crypto wallets, the Brave Wallet does not require extensions; it’s browser-native, reducing security risks and reliance on extra CPU and memory. Users can transact with almost any crypto asset with superior safety and performance, as well as connect with other wallets and Web3 DApps. The Brave Wallet supports all EVM compatible chains and L2s, and unlike other wallet extensions, the Brave Wallet is built with an open MPL license, enabling developers to make contributions easily. Brave believes that the crypto ecosystem should not only be open source, but should also be enabled via tools and wallets with an open license.
Brave will soon integrate the Solana blockchain into the Brave browser, providing default Solana ecosystem support to Brave’s 42 million monthly active users and 1.3 million verified Creators. Brave will soon default to Solana for cross-chain and Solana native DApps.
The Solana blockchain enables faster low-fee transactions which help in the adoption of DeFi and Web3.
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Cody Willard, an American investor and hedge fund manager and ex-anchor on the Fox Business Network is a co-founder of SKTLs ("Sky's The Limit"). The SKTL Space Tokens will be airdropped free-of-charge to U.S. and Canadians on May 6th, Space Day, 2022.
Why you should listen The SKTL ERC20 token project is a cryptocurrency token for space enthusiasts. SKTL tokens are designed to capitalize on the future of the space economy while at the same time providing funds to clean up space debris. Space debris is an ever-growing problem that has the potential to severely affect the space economy and the ease of access to outer space.
Morgan Stanley predicts that the global space industry could surpass a total value of $1T by 2040. The designers of the SKTL token believe this estimate is conservative and expect the space economy to become a multi-trillion dollar economy within the next ten years and become perhaps the single largest economic revolution in history over the next decades.
There is a cloud of more than 9,000 tons of space debris flying around in space at more than 10x the speed of a bullet that poses a huge risk to satellites, rockets, and anything else needed for the space economy.
The SKTL cryptocurrency token is a smart contract that is intended to reward holders for humanity’s progress in developing and exploring space while also providing a fund to help with ensuring that Space remains open to humanity. This token provides a way for token holders to benefit from the incredible potential growth that the Space economy offers while also supporting the very necessary social good of space cleanup.
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Megapont is a pixel art nft project on Stacks. Megapont is a fictional universe in which advanced scientific mutations accelerated the evolutions of every species on Earth. Earth is currently a thriving, bustling paradise that has been at peace for a generation. Megapont Ape Club is a celebration of the more scenic members of the Megapont world.
Why you should listen Stacks is an open-source network of decentralized apps and smart contracts built on Bitcoin. Stacks unleashes Bitcoin's full potential by bringing scalable transactions and general-purpose smart contracts to Bitcoin without doing any modification.
The Megapont Ape Club is the #1 NFT collection on Stacks by trading volume. Mark McKenzie is the founder of Megapont. His next NFT collection the MegaKongs will mint on Ethereum in April.
Mark is building Apes Together an NFT community that provides chain-agnostic tooling for NFT collections.
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Plutus and Obsidian are the co-founders of Byzantion, the #1 NFT Marketplace on Stacks. Users can buy, sell, auction, and discover Bitcoin-Secured NFTs on the Byznation Universal Marketplace.
Why you should listen Stacks is a layer-1 blockchain that connects to bitcoin and brings smart contracts to it and decentralized apps to it. Because Stacks enables smart contracts, it gives the ability to create NFTs and gives them the security of the bitcoin network. Provenance is key when it comes to art and the way to prove provenance for NFTs is through entries on the blockchain. To trust that a piece's provenance remains intact, you must tie it to the most secure blockchain you can, which is what Stacks does.
The Stacks ecosystem is home to a passionate fast-growing community of builders and marketplaces such as Byzantion, a marketplace where users can collect NFTs such as Crash Punks and Megapont Apes.
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TommyD is an award-winning multi-platinum selling music producer, songwriter, artist, DJ, and creator of 808 Whisky. He is the founder of TokenTraxx is a British tech company that uses Web3 tools to innovate how we all engage with music.
Why you should listen TokenTraxx is built by musicians for the music community, providing a whole new way to create, curate and collect music. Token||Traxx provides a powerful opportunity for Creators to engage on every level with fans using NFT technology, whilst creating a whole new income stream.
Those who have a good ear for music can become Curators and can earn from their ability to spot untapped potential by building brilliant playlists.
And as you would expect from a music NFT market place; Collectors can search tracks, artists, and genres to build their NFT libraries which they can showcase to the community or trade on the open market.
The TRAXX token sale is scheduled for the 14th March 2022. It will also provide holders with benefits and be used as an incentive for a platform use rewards program.
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Aera Force is a Venture DAO focused on web3 x climate projects. The DAO is made up of climate investors, founders, scientists and civic leaders investing in accelerating towards a regenerative world through web3.
Why you should listen Aera Force is a Venture DAO focused on web3 x climate projects. Aera Force is a learning experiment co-founded by Gotham Labs, New York-based creator of the DreamDAO and Auckland-born global climate venture fund Aera VC founded by Derek Handley.
The DAO is made up of climate investors, founders, scientists and civic leaders investing in accelerating us towards a regenerative world through web3.
They’re raising a 2000ETH fund and community to engage the world on our mission to back iconic ideas and teams building a brighter future. Aera Force is investing in new web3 frameworks, protocols and concepts to accelerate a regenerative future. Aera Force has teamed up with Kenneth Alexander to create 200 unique pieces for the Investment Ticket NFTs. The NFTs incorporate SolarPunk art – a movement which envisions how the future might look if we lived in harmony with nature in a sustainable and egalitarian world.
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Sandy Carter is SVP at digital identity platform Unstoppable Domains. The Unstoppable domain names are minted as NFTs and allow users to replace awkward cryptocurrency addresses with a single human-readable name that simplifies crypto transfers. The domains can also host decentralized websites, act as a chat ID and more. NFT Domains are user owned and controlled, and have no renewal fees.
Why you should listen Unstoppable Domains is on a mission to return the power of the internet to people. To accomplish this, they are creating NFT domains that put users back in control of their data. These aren’t just traditional domains, these are domains with superpowers.
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Andy Pickering is here with a weekly crypto market update where we look through the volatile world of Crypto Twitter to tease out the most important narratives and data points.
Bitcoin is back to $42,000 and Ukraine is deploying a potent mix of crypto donations and an NFT drop in its war effort, with assistance from Elon Musk.
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David Puth is CEO, and Kim Hamilton Duffy is Director of Identity and Standards at Centre, an open-source technology project launched by founding members Circle and Coinbase. Centre has launched a set of decentralized identity protocols designed to give users direct control over how, when, and where their personal information is shared when doing business in the crypto economy.
Why you should listen: Verite is a set of open-source identity protocols, built to enable trust, transparency and interoperability within the crypto ecosystem.
Verite’s flexible architecture interacts with the increasingly open and interoperable world in which we live. Users will be able to custody their own credentials and maintain their privacy by sharing only the information necessary to verify a particular claim.
Verite will enable the privacy-preserving issuance and validation of Know Your Customer (KYC) credentials, allowing users and organizations to validate their identity across the crypto ecosystem. Centre Consortium founding member Circle and launch partner Block, and a number of other leading crypto-focused companies have already announced their intention to develop products using Verite standard credentials.
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Zeb Rice is a Co-Founder and Partner at King River Capital, in Surrey Hills, Sydney where he leads investments in companies that are redefining key sectors of the economy across the US and Australia. His current focus areas include Web3 infrastructure, software as a service, eCommerce, and digital health.
Why you should listen: King River invests in high-growth technology businesses that are solving critical problems in large markets. The fund invests in both equity and digital assets where they see compelling Web2 and Web3 opportunities. King River Capital has a new fund focused on Web3 opportunities, with plans to buy into fast-growing cryptocurrency related projects. “The next waves of innovation aren’t traditional and the way they’re funded isn’t traditional either,” says Zeb.
King River Capital’s current investments include the fast growing coms and social platform Discord, home to countless crypto communities, and Immutable, the Aussie start-up that is scaling Ethereum.
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Robbie Heeger is President and CEO of Endaoment, the first fully on-chain 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity providing a wide range of philanthropic financial services. Crypto investors and orgs can use Endaoment to donate crypto to nearly any US nonprofit.
Why you should listen: Endaoment accepts more than 150 different crypto assets as donations. Endaoment has experienced massive growth over the past year, including more than 100x growth in donations received and grants distributed. Its growth exemplifies a larger trend in crypto philanthropy in 2021, during which time cryptocurrency charity donations increased by nearly 600%.
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Matthew Savare, a partner at the law firm Lowenstein Sandler, joins Andy to explore the important legal issues surrounding the use of someone’s likeness in an NFT.
Why you should listen: The state of the law regarding name, image, and likeness issues (“NIL” or right of publicity) was once described as a “haystack in a hurricane.” For creators, developers, and brands seeking to incorporate any of these elements into their NFTs, the current state of affairs is even more chaotic and confusing. Matt joins Andy to explore the important legal issues surrounding the use of someone’s likeness in an NFT.
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Bitcoin is back down to $38,500 as negative news headlines continue to impact the markets. The Queen and Justin Bieber both have COVID and Russia appears set to invade the Ukraine.
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Richerd is a professional NFT Degen, a smART contract artist, and the co-founder of Manifold. Manifold enables web3 creators to have true creative ownership, preserve on-chain provenance, and interoperate with all major NFT marketplaces.
Why you should listen: Manifold Creator includes a powerful extension framework that allows creators to install blockchain “apps” into their creator contract. This allows creators to create products beyond just visual and audio NFTs and support features beyond just minting.
Manifold Studio combines the power of a Manifold Creator Contract with a seamless user interface to mint your own NFTs with zero coding required. Manifold Studio allows creators to mint original high-quality NFTs while retaining true ownership and provenance of their work.
Manifold is advocating for what's called creative sovereignty, the idea that as a creator, you have full ownership over your creative output.
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Milana Valmont and Mateusz Grzelak are the co-founders of KIRA, a financial hub connecting decentralized Web3 applications.
Why you should listen: KIRA is a decentralized network secured by both cryptocurrencies and real-world assets at stake thanks to its proprietary Multi-Bonded-Proof-of-Stake (MBPoS) consensus mechanism. Positioned within the Interchain and Web3 ecosystems KIRA makes it safer and easier to gain access to decentralized financial applications and unlock the economic potential of your capital to generate yield.
As part of the Web3 stack, KIRA enables value settlement between dApps and the largest interconnected networks in the cryptocurrency ecosystem.
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Fran Strajnar is the co-founder of Techemynt, the issuer of the NZDS, a New Zealand Dollar (NZD) Stable Coin backed 1:1 with physical New Zealand Dollars in a cash and cash equivalent treasury managed by a New Zealand registered financial services provider.
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Why you should listen: NZDS was launched in March 2021 by Techemynt, a registered New Zealand Financial Services provider, using the FiatToken framework developed by Centre that is the basis for USD-Coin (USDC).
New Zealand’s currency is a leader in adaptability, resilience, and market trustworthiness. NZD is the 10th most traded currency globally. The NZDS stable coin offers cryptocurrency users the stability and utility of the New Zealand Dollar with the versatility of a cryptocurrency.
The NZDS can be used through a variety of Ethereum wallets including Metamask. Once added to an Ethereum wallet, the NZDS token can be used for making payments and interacting with a variety of applications on the Ethereum blockchain network.
An example of a decentralized application where NZDS can be used is on DFX, a stablecoin exchange, and finance platform. High yield is available for liquidity providers. The NZDS/USDC pool on the Automated Market Maker-based decentralized exchange, DFX, offers liquidity providers APYs of 10-25%. This is impressive given the average rate for 1-5 year term deposits in New Zealand is ~3%. The pool currently has US$4.2 million worth of assets locked into it by the DFX community.
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Bitcoin is back above $44,500 and firmly in an uptrend for the first time since November. Plus, the strange circumstances surrounding the theft of 120,000 Bitcoin from Bitfinex back in 2016. Heather Morgan, one of the two people arrested after the DOJ recovered the Bitcoin is a rapper who describes herself as an expert in social engineering.
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Phil Ingram is CMO of Lepricon, a community-governed games platform working to accelerate the blockchain gaming revolution.
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Why you should listen: Lepricon is a blockchain-driven ecosystem of DeFi, games, and NFTs delivered on their gas-free Ethereum compatible side chain, Leprichain. Lepricon believe that the world of video games, from AAA titles for PC and console to the casual games you play on your phone, will be the first killer on-ramp to blockchain for mainstream audiences. Lepricon’s mission is to provide the technology and know-how that enables mainstream game developers to incorporate blockchain into their games to improve player utility and experience.
Key takeaway: While blockchain gaming and ‘Play to Earn’, is all the rage, it has limitations and does not appeal to traditional gamers. The real opportunity is when the gaming industry adopts blockchain. This monumental change will lead to player-run economies with tens of millions of players, not tens of thousands. However, for this to happen, the technology has to develop to meet the needs of the consumer. It has to be about the game, not blockchain. It’s the experience that matters, not the technology. Technologies that allow AAA game developers to incorporate blockchain utility into their games will need to move beyond the ideology of DeFi, and the complex interplay of wallets and expensive NFT sales that count as the onboarding process. Players should not notice the difference when getting into a new game for the first time from any game they have played before, just the extra things they can do in their new player-owned economy.
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Alex Svanevik is CEO of Nansen, an analytics platform for smart contract blockchains. Nansen combines on-chain data with a database of millions of wallet addresses. Nansen helps institutional and retail investors surface the signal from the noise.
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Why you should listen: Alex Svanevik is the CEO of Nansen. Nansen gives its users better understanding of the activity of different participants on a blockchain network. Using Nansen dashboards users can get unique insights into different sectors of the market such as DeFi and NFTs, such as what the smart money and biggest wallets are doing.
Key takeaway: Blockchains represent radical transparency. Investors are able to get real-time direct access to what is happening in the markets, something that is not available in the traditional markets. This radical transparency has advantages and disadvantages. On the negative side, some entities would prefer to hide their movements, whether that be purchases, investments or trades, so there is a lack of privacy to some degree. On the positive side, this transparency creates a higher degree of trust, and we can see what other entities are doing on-chain.
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Alejandro Gutierrez is Co-Founder and Operations Lead at Defactor, an integration layer and suite of tools for traditional businesses to leverage Defi using the systems they already have in place.
Why you should listen: Defactor is a bridge between decentralized and traditional finance. Defactor is an integration layer and suite of tools for traditional businesses to leverage Defi using the systems and processes which they already have in place. The platform enables asset originators to digitise their data and plug into the liquidity available through defi lending protocols.
Defactor developed Springpad to help SMEs determine if DeFi is right for them. Springpad runs every quarter.
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Jessica Manins and Anton Mitchell are co-founders of Beyond a VR studio in Wellington, New Zealand. Beyond has worked with Weta Workshop, and now Flufworld, to create the Burrows, the 3D VR immersive environments for the Flufworld NFTs to live.
Why you should listen: Concept designer Imery Watson (Lord of the Rings, Batman Begins, Sweeney Todd, and Guardians of the Galaxy) created the concepts for Flufworld Burrows. The Jessica and Anton and the Beyond team used a variety of tooling including the Unrreal Engine to evolve the concepts into 3D environments. iOS and Android apps will be released in February with the full VR experience to follow later this year.
The top tier burrow is a collab with Snoop Dogg that features a nightclub and production studio.
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Paolo Ardoino is CTO at Bitfinex and Tether. Paolo and the team at Bitfinex Securities have worked with Blockstream and Nayib Bukele, President of El Salvador to create the Bitcoin Bond. This is a key component in El Salvador’s Bitcoin strategy.
Why you should listen: Bitfinex Securities is a unique way for the modern trader to access tokenized equities, bonds, and investment funds.
iFinex Inc., the parent company of Bitfinex has entered into an agreement with the Government of El Salvador to create digitized financial instruments to promote the growth of the cryptocurrency sector in El Salvador.
The $1 billion “Bitcoin Bond” will be issued on the Liquid Network. The $1 billion US raised will be split between a $500M allocation of bitcoin (BTC) and a $500M infrastructure spend for building out energy and Bitcoin mining infrastructure in El Salvador.
Plus hear Paolo's favorite science-fiction, his opinions on the importance of the Lightning Network, and whether other nation states are poised to follow El Salvador's lead.
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Evan Cheng is co-founder at Mysten Labs. Mysten is building the foundational infrastructure to accelerate Web 3.0 adoption. The founding team recently left their positions at Facebook (Meta), where they developed Diem, Novi – Facebook's digital wallet, as well as highly composable blockchain language, Move.
Why you should listen: It’s early, but Web3 has arrived. Innovators are reimagining new kinds of products, services, and business models. The opportunities to leverage programmable assets and open, decentralized infrastructure are endless. But first, infrastructures must get out of the way, and developer tooling needs to be modernized. Mysten Labs is built to accelerate the adoption of web3.
Under the assertion that true asset self-sovereignty will be the foundation of economics in the Metaverse, Mysten plans to unveil a new blockchain design allowing users to move NFTs across digital worlds while maintaining their functionality and history.
In December, they drew $36M in funding from a16z and Coinbase Ventures.
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Luis Molina is co-founder at Superalgos, a trading bots platform that aims to empower a decentralized trading community like WallStreetBets - but being able to mobilize within a couple of minutes.
Why you should listen: Superalgos allows Algo traders to design, test, and deploy strategies using the #1 trading bots platform on GitHub.com. The Superalgos platform integrates crypto trading automation in a visual scripting environment accessible to all and optimized for developers. The leading design principles are maximum power and flexibility. The software is free and open-source, running on your premises so that you have complete control, no third-party risks, and no limitations.
Superalgos is pioneering Decentralized Trading with an open network designed for dominance! The ecosystem's design of incentives turns Superalgos into an ever-evolving technology infrastructure capturing ever-increasing amounts of talent.
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On our most recent episode, we offered regular listeners the chance to win a Crypto Coral Tribe NFT. Did you win? Listen to find out! Crypto Coral Tribe is a creative hub and NFT project leveraging art and tech to protect the natural world - the Crypto Coral Tribe invests 50% of all proceeds in a community-led Impact Fund driving marine and wildlife restoration.
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The Crypto Coral Tribe is a creative hub and NFT project leveraging art and tech to protect the natural world - the Crypto Coral Tribe invests 50% of all proceeds in a community-led Impact Fund.
Why you should listen: The Crypto Coral Tribe aims to have a positive impact on the world by driving marine and wildlife restoration, and ethical art. NFTs are a perfect vehicle for driving change. NFTs allow verifiable collaboration on an unprecedented scale.
The inspiration for the Crypto Coral Tribe art and mission stems from nature. The founders have grown up on coasts all over the world and have a deep connection with the ocean.
The NFT collection will be on Solana due to its close-knit community and energy efficiency. Solana consumes approx 1,837 Joules of energy per TX; less than the environmental impact of two Google searches.
At the heart of the project lies the Impact Fund, an environmental investment fund. The IF will be seeded with 50% of mint proceeds and all future revenues. The goal is to use blockchain technology to create a community-led fund that proposes, discusses, and votes on how the investments are made.
By holding a Crypto Coral NFT you will have a voice in how the capital is allocated.
The IF’s first pledge is to plant 3,000 corals across 3 continents. Coral reefs are expected to decline by up to 90% over the next 20 years. This is an existential threat to our global ecology.
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Kieran Nolan is a Melbourne-based educational technologist and blockchain expert. Based on the concept of a DAO, Kieran is building a decentralized autonomous education system (DAES) - a dynamic open-source curriculum and learning network with financial literacy at the core as the only didactic part of the system.
Why you should listen: Kieran has extensive industry experience, specializing in education, technology, and blockchain application in Melbourne. He worked with students at Wooranna Park Primary School and taught them how to use blockchain tech to create their own encrypted digital currency. Under the supervision of Nolan, the students created a new currency called "WoorannaCoin."
Financial literacy is not taught in schools but it is one of the most important skills to learn. This will be the only didactic aspect of the DAES. Nolan says that we need to teach our kids not only numeracy and literacy but also financial and digital literacy, as well as coding and networks.
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JP Richardson is the CEO and co-founder of Exodus, one of the crypto ecosystems' most popular crypto wallets with over 2.3 million users. The Exodus team prides itself on providing a beautiful, delightful experience for its users.
Why you should listen: Exodus aims to help in the mission to onboard half of the planet into crypto by 2030. As well as providing a seamless, delightful wallet experience, Exodus users can stake their assets from within Exodus, access a variety of dapps, and even trade Solana NFTs on the Magic Eden marketplace.
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After a gloomy start to 2022 that saw the crypto markets in the doldrums, high inflation figures helped fuel a minor rally in the markets today.
Why you should listen: Andy looks at the most important data points and narratives driving the crypto news cycle this week. Inflation in the US jumped at its fastest pace in nearly 40 years, a 7% spike from a year earlier that is increasing household expenses, eating into wage gains, and heaping pressure on the Federal Reserve.
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We’re revisiting the best Crypto Conversation podcast episodes of 2021. Jules Urbach is the CEO of OTOY, a leading cloud graphics company that is pioneering technology to redefine content creation and delivery. The work of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is being cataloged in a new digital archive by OTOY.
Why you should listen: RNDR, whose partners include Amazon, Google, Apple, and HBO, developed a cutting-edge platform based on underlying OTOY technology that allows individuals to create graphics at the same level as Hollywood studios. RNDR is revolutionizing visual effects by using the cloud to democratize GPUs and other rendering resources and also seeks to provide energy-efficient solutions for creating NFTs.
Jules' best friend from childhood is Rod Roddenberry. Jules is working on a new digital archive of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s legacy.
The Roddenberry Archive will feature the flagship Star Trek series, original films, and spinoffs in a variety of formats including digital and holographic renderings, documents, images, models, and blueprints.
The archive will capture deep 3D asset metadata from assets, images, blueprints, and models using RNDR, OTOY's blockchain GPU computing network. In order to capture original studio and physical assets at the highest level of photographic fidelity, the archive will leverage OTOY's LightStage Academy-Award-winning facial scanning service, generating the first comprehensive lighting and reflectance data set for future archival use. Iconic artist Mike "Beeple" Winklemann is joining the Roddenberry Archive project as a creative consultant, and, alongside legendary painter and illustrator Alex Ross, will help commemorate the Roddenberry Archive and cross-link it to both the Alex Ross and Beeple RNDR Archives.
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We’re revisiting the best Crypto Conversation podcast episodes of 2021. Tom Bilyeu is the CEO of Impact Theory and one of the world’s leading motivational speakers. Tom is committed to pulling people out of the matrix. A successful multi-business entrepreneur, Tom’s goal is to impact culture at scale. He plans to do this by building the next Disney. Impact Theory produces comics, graphic novels, books, television, film, interview talk-shows and more. Tom is building an NFT universe that will leverage the unique properties of Manga, Anime and blockchain to take Impact Theory to the next level.
Why you should listen: Impact Theory is a revolutionary studio that produces original content on themes of empowerment, by bringing together some of the most talented creators, writers, and artists. The studio was started by CEO Tom Bilyeu, one of the planet’s most successful entrepreneurs. Impact Theory distributes content across digital platforms including the emerging NFT space. The studio has built a loyal audience in the millions with over one billion social media impressions, and its catalog of content has over hundreds of millions of views.
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We’re revisiting the best Crypto Conversation podcast episodes of 2021. Bobby Lee is the Founder of Ballet Crypto, co-founder of BTCChina, and he is the author of a superb new book called The Promise of Bitcoin: The Future of Money and How It Can Work for You.
Why you should listen: With a software engineering and computer science background, Bobby Lee has always been technologically inclined. So when his brother Charlie Lee introduced Bobby to Bitcoin in 2011, he understood its significance immediately. After dedicating himself to Bitcoin for the last ten years, Bobby has written a book that tells his story and explains why Bitcoin’s journey has only just begun.
Key takeaway: Bobby says that understanding and projecting the value of Bitcoin can be daunting - while the path is never a straight line, Bitcoin continues to grow in interest and appreciate in value. While Bitcoin is still working out its kinks - corporations and governments are likely to become more interested in Bitcoin, and interested in acquiring it as an asset.
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We’re revisiting the best Crypto Conversation podcast episodes of 2021. Sergey Nazarov is the co-founder of Chainlink where he is spearheading the smart contract oracle revolution. In this podcast, Sergey lays out his current thinking on DeFi (Decentralized Finance), how it improves on CeFi, the role of oracles in decentralized finance, and the fast and slow cases on what is needed for DeFi to go mainstream. Sergey says “decentralized finance is the thing that people want. They just don't know that they want it yet.”
Why you should listen: Sergey says the recent Robinhood r/Wallstreetbets phenomenon has injected new realizations into society's collective consciousness. People are waking up to the realization that in the legacy financial system - they don't have full control of their financial assets and trading accounts. And they have seen that the ability of the average person to participate in a system that they were told was fair can be taken away by those who hold the power.
Sergey says that in the financial world if enough people believe in something, it starts to occur. If enough people decide to buy GameStop stock, something happens. If enough people decide to shift from one platform to another, something significant happens.
Social media, digital platforms, and decentralized blockchain applications make fast collective action possible in new ways. DeFi is the system that people want. Sergey thinks it is only a matter of time before this becomes self-evident and people begin to move to DeFi applications at scale.
Key takeaway: Sergey says the increasing mainstream adoption of DeFi will happen through the search for yield and the transparency and control of one's assets.
With fiat interest rates low and the returns of DeFi much higher, eventually, even the legacy financial system is likely to build interfaces that flow value into DeFi to capture yield. Everybody wants to at least maintain their wealth. And so any place where they can do that will become popular, and eventually, there will be a tipping point.
Sergey says there is a slow case and a fast case for how this evolves. “The slow case for DeFi is what we're experiencing now, as unbelievable as that sounds going from something like 20 billion to 40 billion in assets in DeFi over the last month.”
This is the slow case as only about 2.6% of the crypto value that could be in DeFi, is in DeFi. The slow case will be accelerated by events such as Robinhood. “It's slow because there is friction to using DeFi, but it will slowly be accelerated through better and better user interfaces. Eventually, someone will figure out a way to just make it seamless for people to interact with DeFi, and the tipping point will be reached.”
The fast case is a rapid succession of failures in the traditional financial system. This will create a fear of counterparty risk and a newfound cynicism about the solvency of traditional financial institutions. This would lead a majority of people to seek alternatives even if there is still some friction in the DeFi user experience.
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We’re revisiting the best Crypto Conversation podcast episodes of 2021. Anthony “The Mooch” Scaramucci is best known for his short-lived, but very entertaining tenure as the White House communications director under President Trump. Anthony has had a long career in investment banking and he is the founder of Skybridge Capital, a global investment fund that has just launched the Skybridge Bitcoin fund.
Why you should listen: Anthony says investors have a Eureka moment when they begin to understand that Bitcoin is a monetary network. “Just like there is a retail network, Amazon, a social network, Facebook, like there is a search network, Google. Bitcoin is the monetary network, and that makes it potentially very valuable. Think about where Apple or Amazon or Google were ten years ago, maybe that is where Bitcoin is at today.”
Key takeaway: Anthony says that Bitcoin is the only thing in our society right now, where if the demand goes up, there's no increase in supply. “When people want Tesla shares, there's a sausage factory in the back of Tesla. They're printing out Tesla shares. Do people want dollars? They're printing out dollars. If oil prices are going up, we're drilling for oil everywhere to meet that demand and produce more oil, but that can’t be done for Bitcoin. And so that's the Eureka moment.”
Anthony says that President Trump was out of control. “He was a full-on liar. He added a trillion dollars to the deficit and his legacy will be that he made our country weaker, sicker, and poorer. He had malpractice on the pandemic and then on the way out the door, he tried to undermine our democracy.”
Anthony says that Joe Biden, “whether you like him or not, what does he represent as a pillar of Democratic party politics? He represents centrism. He represents core bureaucratic competence. To me this was a seismic change for good. Do I love the excess regulation? I don't. Do I love ponderous government? I don't. But do I like competent people in positions? I do. And so I like Joe Biden.”
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We’re revisiting the best Crypto Conversation podcast episodes of 2021. In this episode, we talk to Jeff Zirlin, co-founder Axie Infinity, a Pokémon-inspired blockchain-based digital pet universe where players can earn tokens through gaming. Players can battle, collect, breed, and build a kingdom for their pets. Like CryptoKitties, Axies are non-fungible tokens (NFTs) represented as cryptographically unique characters that can’t be replicated. And like Pokémon, they are born to battle. While Axie can be just a game, it has built a strong social network, passionate community, and emerging jobs platform due to the play to earn opportunities it is generating.
Why you should listen: Jeff grew up playing games like Neopets, Pokémon, and World of Warcraft. “I played so much WOW that my parents sent me to boarding school,” he says. “I’ve always been a collector. As I kid my dad and I would collect fossils and insects. And as a lifelong gamer, I’m a digital collector as well, so I was predisposed to be interested in blockchain gaming.”
The blockchain gaming play to earn revolution started to gain traction after it emerged that a large community of players in the Philippines was earning money playing Axie Infinity.
Jeff says "Most game companies sell in-game resources, items, and upgrades. With Axie there's an in-game resource that you need to create more Axies and it's called the love potion. So most game developers would sell this love potion, and people would pay for it. In Axie we don't sell it ourselves, the only way that love potions can be created is by people playing the game. Players who have big Axie collections need the love potion to breed Axies and have to buy the token from a liquidity pool on UniSwap or from Binance. So players can earn a basic income and we've seen that with the rise in value of ETH, this can appreciate significantly.”
Key takeaway: The power of blockchain games is that they're becoming more than games. They're becoming places that we can live, work and play. The eventual vision is to create a Metaverse similar to Ready Player One where people spend the majority of their time.
“We believe in a future where work and play become one,” says Jeff. “And we believe in empowering our players and giving them economic opportunities.”
To do this the Axie team is committed to aligning the incentives of the Axie community. Players can earn the AXS governance token. The token economics were designed by Delphi Digital. Delphi Digital has invested a significant amount of capital in buying several extremely rare Mystic Axies. If Axie Infinity continues to gain traction Mystic Axies will grow in value in the future.
Jeff says “We’re seeing the rise of Mystic Axies and other NFTs as a true asset class. This trend accelerated when Delphi Digital picked up some of the rarest Axies in the game, like quadruple Mystics, triple Mystics. You can think of Mystics as rare and valuable skins. It makes sense that there's a lot of interest around NFTs and it makes sense because we live in a digital world.”
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We’re a few days out from Xmas and it’s time for this week’s crypto market sentiment report. Plus, Jack Dorsey is not a fan of Web3. Why not?
Why you should listen: As we move into the Xmas period Bitcoin is holding steady at just under $50,000 with ETH just over $4,000. The market is in a cooling-off period for now. Meanwhile, on Crypto Twitter, Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk are ruffling feathers with their takes on Web3.
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Andrew Cordle is an American entrepreneur, wealth strategist, and in-demand speaker. Andrew is the founder and CEO of Money Is, a company and show dedicated to sharing the secrets of the wealthy 1% and sparking authentic conversations about money.
Why you should listen: Andrew Cordle is an acclaimed author and international speaker, and host of the Money Is show where he hosts today’s leaders and influencers in authentic conversations about money. He has interviewed hundreds of experts, including Kevin O’Leary, Gary Vaynerchuck, and Grant Cardone. Andrew also contributes as a partner in a multi-billion dollar enterprise; made up of twenty-three current companies. One of which is a real estate development with a portfolio of over 1.5 Billion. Passionate about the benefits of mentorship in business, he founded Power Room, a CEO mastermind where today’s top thought leaders combine forces to help teach entrepreneurs how to achieve success. Andrew is an enthusiastic crypto investor and trader of NFTs.
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Aaron McDonald and Brooke Howard-Smith are leading the teams behind some of 2021’s biggest NFT projects. Fluf World, Altered State Machine, Thingies, and now, Party Bears… a pack of loose unit DJs about to bring the party to the metaverse…
Why you should listen: 2021 was the year NFTs went mainstream. Andy, Aaron, and Brooke reflect on a huge year and look at what happens next for Fluf World, Party Bears, and the wider web3 ecosystem.
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Janine Grainger is the CEO and co-founder of Easy Crypto, a New Zealand-based digital currency retailer, and Vault International Bitcoin Fund (VIBF) a New Zealand-based Portfolio Investment Entity (PIE) Fund that provides investors with exposure to offshore listed Bitcoin funds and ETFs.
Why you should listen: Vault Digital Funds Limited was founded in 2021 in partnership with Easy Crypto, New Zealand's largest cryptocurrency brokerage. The Vault International Bitcoin Fund (VIBF) is the first digital asset fund to be launched under the Vault Digital Funds registered scheme. VIBF is a New Zealand-based Portfolio Investment Entity (PIE) Fund that provides investors with exposure to offshore listed Bitcoin funds and ETFs, taxed under the FDR methodology.
Investors can gain exposure to digital assets investing without the challenges of buying, storing, and safekeeping digital currencies directly. The Vault International Bitcoin Fund is a Multi-rate Portfolio Investment Entity (PIE) that will be taxed in accordance with the Fair Dividend Rate method. Given the PIE fund will own fund(s) listed on an offshore exchange, the underlying investment will be treated as a global equity for tax purposes.
In effect, this means there is no capital gains tax on any gains made on the VIBF. There will be an annual “deemed” dividend of 5% per annum, and investors would pay a maximum of 28% of tax on that 5% dividend, so an effective maximum tax rate of 1.4%pa.
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Rekt Capital, a Forbes featured crypto technical analyst and trader returns to the Crypto Conversation. With Bitcoin dumping to $46,000 REKT and Andy discuss the current market conditions - is the bull market over?
Why you should listen: December has failed to live up to the bulls' expectations with Bitcoin dropping to $46,000 and bear sentiment growing. With Bitcoin hashrate at an all-time high and the liquid BTC supply on exchanges dropping, is it too soon to get bearish? Rekt suggests we may have to enter a consolidation period before an eventual resumption of the BTC uptrend.
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Pat Doyle is the co-founder of Pink Swan Trading, the holding company of Genesis Volatility and Degen Data. The former caters for sophisticated options traders while the latter provides analysis of NFT projects.
Why you should listen: Genesis Volatility is an institutional-grade crypto analytics platform, providing live statistics, historical data, DeFi analytics, and API solutions for traders, investors, and speculators alike. Genesis provides detailed information to help identify opportunities and mitigate risk in the booming crypto options market.
Degen Data is a data lab for NFT projects. The platform will be put up for sale in the medium term. The platform will come with an associated Crypto Punk.
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On Friday Bitcoin dropped 25% in one day, one of the steepest drops since March 2020. With the market sentiment now in extreme fear, is the bull market over?
Why you should listen: The Bitcoin stock to flow model is in danger of being invalidated, $100K targets for December are off the table. There seems to be an increasing acceptance that clear bear and bull market cycles may be a thing of the past. As bitcoin matures into a mature, liquid asset, we may see diminishing returns eth faster bull and bear peaks and troughs.
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Bill Ottman is CEO and founder of Minds - an alternative social network with over 5M users. Minds is building an open-source and decentralized app that shares revenue and crypto with its community.
Why you should listen: Minds is an alt-tech blockchain-based social network. Users can earn money or cryptocurrency for using Minds, and tokens can be used to boost their posts or crowdfund other users.
The Minds token can be used to reward users for their engagement on the social network and to both promote and receive payment for content. Minds has been described as more privacy and free speech focused than mainstream social media networks.
Bill Ottman is passionate about free speech and open source technology protocols. In September Minds announced that it had converted 25% of its balance sheet, or around $2.5 million, into cryptocurrencies.
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Andras Kristof is CEO and founder of Ether Cards - a platform that provides tools for gamifying and supercharging your NFTs. Ether Cards are advanced NFT cards that allow the community to use the platform and its features with increased benefits.
Why you should listen: Ether Cards is a limited-edition collection of dynamic NFT cards that activate discounts, enable access, unlock features, connect to physical items, and grant upgrades. They can even trigger changes based on real-world events using Chainlink oracles and VRF.
The Ether Cards platform is a community-driven NFT framework. It enables every creator to maximize the value of their NFT asset or series by expanding the capability of any NFT Marketplace. It allows anyone to set up tickets, puzzles, bounties, and a dozen other different events for any NFT asset of their choice.
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Jake Sally is the COO of Jadu, an AR platform and narrative layer for Web3 and the metaverse. Jadu is pioneering the functionality of digital assets in AR and the physical world by converting 3D NFTs into playable avatars and objects that can interact with each other in an ever-expanding AR game world. Jadu is minting 5555 hoverboard NFTs in December.
Why you should listen: Jadu’s vision is to build unparalleled 3D utility for NFTs, partnering with key players in the crypto community to deliver a virtually native future where creation of content is democratized, decentralized, and creator-owned in a world where players can mobilize in Web 3 and build valuable communities.
Jadu Hoverboards are NFTs that can be used to fly your avatars in the Metaverse and in Augmented Reality. Along with Jadu Jetpacks, they will also function as key transport mechanisms in Jadu’s AR Mirroverse game next year.
Jadu’s NFT Hoverboards will include collaborations with Lewis Hamilton; GRIMES; Snoop Dogg; Mimi Onuoha and NFT curator, Trippy. These artists will work with Jadu to design and release 5555 Jadu Hoverboard NFTs which go on sale December 12 for a cost of 0.222 ETH.
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Bitcoin price action is subdued this week with Mt Gox jitters spooking the market. Blockstream has partnered with El Salvador to issue $1B in Volcano Bonds. It’s this week’s crypto market sentiment report.
Why you should listen: Andy looks at the most important data points and narratives driving the crypto news cycle this week. The Mt Gox Trustee's pool of bitcoins (about 141,000 BTC) appears to be getting ready to be distributed. Blockstream has partnered with El Salvador to issue $1B in Volcano Bonds. Zhu Su says he has “abandoned” Ethereum due to the chain's failure to scale and is there a connection between Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson and Satoshi Nakamoto.
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Artist Grace Ng is about to launch Crash Punks - an NFT collection on Stacks/Bitcoin. Crash Punks is inspired by sci-fi, anime, and Snow Crash, the iconic 1992 novel by Neal Stephenson. Snow Crash has been an inspiration for the Stacks and Bitcoin communities and is considered one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time.
Why you should listen: Grace Ng is a tech entrepreneur, angel investor, neuro-artist, co-founder of Lean Startup Machine, and VP at the Stacks Accelerator. Grace is the creative force behind Crash Punks, an NFT collection of 10,000 unique art profile pictures on Bitcoin/Stacks. Crash Punks is inspired by the 1992 cyberpunk novel Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
Neal Town Stephenson is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction. His novels have been categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, postcyberpunk, and baroque. Stephenson's work explores mathematics, cryptography, linguistics, philosophy, currency, and the history of science.
"Computers rely on the one and the zero to represent all things. This distinction between something and nothing-this pivotal separation between being and nonbeing-is quite fundamental and underlies many Creation myths," Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
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Cecil Pang and IIan Klein are co-founders at Open Art Source, a blockchain-supported marketplace where artists can sell their works. It provides the tools necessary for artists to showcase their works and for collectors to research their purchases. The Arties is an NFT collaboration between Open Art Source, Shaderverse, and NFT artist Spencer Terry. The project is funding the development of the Open Art Source platform, which brings a blockchain data layer to the physical art market.
Why you should listen: The Arties is an NFT collaboration between Open Art Source, Shaderverse, and NFT artist Spencer Terry. Open Art Source and Shaderverse came together in the Stacks Accelerator. The Arties is the first 3D NFT project on Stacks, and they’re attached to specific benefits on the Open Art Source platform. Shaderverse has developed AR 3D game-ready assets for each Artie in the collection, and these assets will be sent to Artie holders for Christmas/Chanukah.
Arties are minting now on STX.
Cecil Pang is an artist; a technologist, and a world-class computer scientist. With CS credentials from Stanford and Columbia and art credentials from Parsons School of Design, he’s the perfect person to tackle the structural injustices of the art world.
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Sam Zou and James Bayly head the team at SubQuery, a decentralized data aggregation, indexing, and querying layer between Layer-1 blockchains and decentralized applications. SubQuery is focused on the fast-growing Polkadot ecosystem.
Why you should listen: The team had experienced first-hand the difficulties of testing, deploying, and managing blockchain infrastructure. The team founded OnFinality to solve key pain points around decentralized infrastructure management and automate the deployment of Polkadot/Substrate based networks to the cloud.
In 2020, while helping key Polkadot parachain teams, the team listened to requests for a data indexing service to help the teams better understand their chain data. Additionally, these teams wanted this in place to ease the barriers to entry for their future development communities.
After a period of research, the team formally established the SubQuery project at the end of 2020 through a Web3 Grant, delivered the first open source version in January, and announced the platform to the world in February 2021. It now has backing from Arrington Capital and Digital Currency Group.
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Stacks 2.0 (formerly Blockstack) is a layer-1 blockchain that connects to Bitcoin and brings smart contracts, DeFi, NFTs, and decentralized apps to Bitcoin. Smart contracts and apps developed on the Stacks platform are natively integrated with the security, stability, and economic power of Bitcoin.
Why you should listen: Trevor Owens is the managing director at Stacks Accelerator. The Stacks Accelerator works with the Stacks Foundation's Grants program to deliver flexible, fair, and efficient funding options. It invests $50K at a no-valuation cap into teams solving real-world problems on Stacks. Stacks 2.0 implements a new mining mechanism called Proof of Transfer (PoX). PoX is a consensus algorithm between two blockchains. It uses an established blockchain (in this case Bitcoin) to secure a new blockchain (Stacks). PoX connects to Bitcoin with a 1:1 block ratio, meaning anything that happens on the Stacks blockchain can be verified on the Bitcoin Blockchain. Instead of burning electricity on proof of work, PoX reuses already minted bitcoins as "proof of computation" and miners represent their cost of mining in bitcoins directly. Clarity is a new language for smart contracts on the Stacks 2.0 blockchain. The Clarity smart contract language optimizes for predictability and security. Stacks 2.0 anchors clarity smart contracts to Bitcoin making it possible for smart contracts to operate based on actions seen on the bitcoin blockchain.
Crash Punks are a 10,000 collection of unique and generative art profile pictures as Bitcoin/Stacks NFTs, inspired by the novel Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. It's the first major collection by entrepreneur and crypto artist Grace Ng and will be the community dedicated to all of her future artistic work related to AR/VR, 3D, visual art, music, and neuro-feedback art.
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Nick, the lead developer at ENS, the Ethereum Naming Service joins Andy for a wide-ranging discussion on ENS, DAOs, Proof of Stake Vs Proof of Work, and why Cory Doctorow is wrong about NFTS.
Why you should listen: ENS is a decentralized naming system for crypto addresses, wallets, websites, and more. ENS is moving towards decentralization and has passed ENS governance to the community through their new governance token, ENS. The token was distributed by an air drop to ENS users. Community members could apply to be ENS delegates and delegate their voting rights to others.
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Markets are on the edge, torn in opposite directions by two big news events. Inflation hit 6.2% hitting earners and shoppers in their wallets. In response, Bitcoin was poised to smash through $69,420 before Evergrande headlines spoiled the party.
Why you should listen: Bitcoin got tantalizingly close to the mythical $69,420 level today as investors continue to seek exposure to Bitcoin to hedge against inflation. However, news that Evergrande may default on its next interest loan payments sent all global markets into a spin.
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Shiba Inu (SHIB), a dog-based crypto memecoin, has defied all expectations to become the best-performing asset of 2021. In the last year, the token is up ~75,000,000%, and for the last month, it has felt like everybody wants a piece of it. What is the bull and bear case for Shiba Inu?
Why you should listen: Brave New Coin analyst Aditya Das joins Andy to discuss the fascinating, controversial history of crypto’s current Memecoin of the moment, Shiba Inu. Has SHIB topped out? Or are there more gains to come?
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Memecoins are dominating the crypto markets while Bitcoin takes a breather. U.S. politicians from all sides are warming up to Bitcoin, with some even taking part of their salaries in BTC. It’s the weekly Crypto market update.
Why you should listen: First, there was DOGE. Then SHIBA. Then SQUID. Memecoins are dominating the frothy end of the market as the meme narrative attracts new retail investors. Bitcoin is cooling off after the surge following the approval of the ProShares Bitcoin ETF. Pressure is mounting for the U.S. to next approve a spot-based ETF but it’s not likely in the short term.
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Checkmate is the lead on-chain analyst at Glassnode, an on-chain data and intelligence platform for the crypto markets. Checkmate joins Andy to discuss the edge that on-chain data can provide and why he is bullish for Q4 and beyond.
Why you should listen: With a background in data and engineering, when Checkmate discovered blockchain he was immediately drawn to the data-driven insights that on-chain analytics can provide.
Checkmate says that the dip in mid-2021 can be viewed as a mini bitcoin bear market. We are now at the beginning stages of a new Bitcoin bull market. Due to the inefficiencies in the fiat system, one way of viewing Bitcoin in the long term is that there is no top.
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After the approval of a long-awaited Bitcoin ETF U.S. investors finally have an easy means to invest in Bitcoin. What is the likelihood that a Bitcoin spot-based ETF will be approved next? Andy speaks to Brave New Coin analyst Aditya Das to assess the evolving Bitcoin ETF landscape in the U.S.
Why you should listen: The launch of the first-ever Bitcoin ETF by ProShares in the United States was the trigger that pushed the price of Bitcoin to new all-time highs in October. On October 18th, the day of the ETF launch, ‘Bitcoin ETF’ was the sixth trending Google Search term in the United States just below searches for ‘Kanye West’.
Demand for the ETF has already exceeded expectations. Upon opening for trading, it broke the record for the largest day-1 ETF launch ever by natural volume. BITO assets under management (AUM) hit US$1.1 billion after its 2nd day of trading, making it the fastest ETF to get to $1b, breaking an 18-year-old record previously set by gold.
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Battle Drones is a collection of 10,000 programmatically generated collectible artworks, hovering on the Solana blockchain. Each Battle Drone provides access to the Battle Drones ecosystem and play-to-earn game. A console Battle Drones game is coming in 2022. The artwork is inspired by the founders' PhD studies in the field of human drone interaction at the University of Auckland.
Why you should listen: Battle Drones was inspired by the background of the founders. They are PhD students and engineers who have studied drone flight and human drone tactile interaction. Battle Drones 2D artwork will be developed into a Metaverse character when the PC and Console game is launched in 2022. To engage the community in the lead up to that point, Battle Drones will launch community challenges, including browser-based minigames. Once the 3D avatar is airdropped users can lend them to other people around the world for a fee to play within the Battle Drones metaverse. By doing this the community members will make their NFTs more valuable as they progress within the rankings.
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Les Borsai is the Chief Strategy Officer at Wave Financial Group. Les began his career as a rave promoter in the Southern California underground scene of the late 1980s. Earlier this year Wave launched the world’s first-ever traditional NFT fund.
Why you should listen: Les held positions at Avalon Attractions (now Live Nation Entertainment|Live Nation), MCA Records, and Bill Silva Entertainment before starting the musician management company Modern Artist Management. His client list includes country singer Wynonna Judd. After being an early investor in cryptocurrency platform Ethereum, he served as an advisor to blockchain companies and in 2018 co-founded Wave Financial, a digital asset management firm.
Wave Financial offers early-stage VC investment, asset management, treasury management, and strategic consulting in the blockchain ecosystem. It has a number of funds including Index funds, a Whisky fund, and an NFT fund. The NFT fund takes an analytical approach including analysis based on the rarity of traits, focusing on unique content and scarcity in properties as value drivers.
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Michael Wagner is the CEO and co-founder of Star Atlas, a next-gen gaming metaverse emerging from the confluence of state-of-the-art blockchain, real-time graphics, multiplayer video game, and decentralized financial technologies.
Why you should listen: Star Atlas - Star Atlas is a space-themed video game metaverse of grand strategy, open world exploration, territorial conquest, and political domination. Underlying technology consists of the latest in hi-fidelity game development, Unreal Engine, stunning visuals, and a blockchain baselayer utilizing Solana. The metaverse represents an alternative world of economic and political strategy, with player ability to generate real-world wealth transcending video game assets. Non-fungible tokens obtained and traded within Star Atlas creates an economy that replicates the tangibility of real-world assets and ownership.
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ArrowHaven and OpalAbyss from the Witchz NFT project join Andy for a Crypto Conversation Halloween special. The 6666 Witchz pay homage to the Witches of North America and Europe and take inspiration from films, Wicca, mother nature, and the four elements of the universe.
Why you should listen: 6666 unique digital art Witchz are conjuring at 00:00 UTC 24/10/21 for 77 Matic on Polygon. Witchz are airdropping 10% of the mint back to the Witchz Coven. Anyone holding a Witchz NFT and matching Elementz NFT will be eligible for the airdrop.
The Witchz art was created by AmethystMoon. She began her artistic journey on the page with watercolour, pencil, and acrylics. The Witchz are generated from a vast array of detailed traits. 27,563 brushstrokes went into creating this collection.
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Luke Ryan is the founder of the Titan Tiki Tribe - an NFT collection taking Māori culture to the metaverse. The Titan Tiki team has an indigenous Māori background, deep respect for the protocols of Māori, and is proud to show the wairua (energy) of the Titan Tiki Tribe. Bill Takarei is a respected Kaumatua (Māori elder) and spiritual guide to the Titan Tiki, ensuring Māori culture is represented according to custom.
Why you should listen: The Titan Tiki Tribe is a unique NFT collection of 1000 Tiki. The collection includes rarity traits such as Pounamu Mere and Taiaha Weapons, traditional Korowai cloaks, Paua eyes, and Pukana forked tongues. Tiki come as Green Navigators, Blue Priests, Gold Chiefs, or Brown Gatherers. The Titan Tiki mission is to preserve and protect Māori culture while expressing it to the world via the new digital medium of the Metaverse.
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Bitcoin is poised for further upside as the first two futures-based Bitcoin ETFs prepare to start trading on the New York Stock Exchange. On Tuesday the ProShares ETF goes live with the Valkyrie ETF due to begin trading later this week. Will Bitcoin hit a new all-time high? Or is this a sell-the-news event? Either way, this is set to be a historic week for Bitcoin.
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Ethan Lou is a Canadian journalist and the author of a new book called Once a Bitcoin Miner: Scandal and Turmoil in the Cryptocurrency Wild West. The book explains how Ethan had gone to North Korea and met the Ethereum Foundation's Virgil Griffith — the man later arrested for allegedly trying to help the totalitarian state break sanctions through blockchain. Griffith pleaded guilty last Monday, and this book grants an exclusive insider's look into those seven nights in Pyongyang.
Why you should listen: As well as covering Ethan’s adventures in North Korea, and stories from the early days of bitcoin, Ethan takes stock of a world that is sometimes hostile. Ethan's millennial generation sees itself as inheriting a collapsing world, weighed by dread and meaninglessness. Stylistically evoking the western genre, this book presents Bitcoin and its insular community, bursting with wealth, as representing a new form of the frontier myth.
The book is an example of the sort of gonzo, adventure journalism for which Ethan has been known. Field Notes from a Pandemic, an accidental journey around the world at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, was named among the CBC's best domestic nonfiction of the year and shortlisted for Kobo's emerging writer award.
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John Light is head of product at Sovryn, a decentralized Bitcoin trading and lending platform. Sovryn is one of the first platforms to bring decentralized finance products to the Bitcoin protocol.
Why you should listen: Bitcoin was the first and original cryptocurrency, but it is slow, and limited in functionality. Competitors such as Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain(BSC) and Solana have now become the primary destination for developers looking to build dapps and DeF ecosystems.
Bitcoin remains the biggest and most decentralized cryptocurrency and the hardest form of money. Now developers are bringing DeFi to Bitcoin.
Sovryn is built on the Rootstock (RSK) platform, a Bitcoin sidechain compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine that can support the smart contracts protocol. RSK is the most permissionless and censorship-resistant Bitcoin sidechain: RSK is permissionless and its consensus mechanism is merge-mined PoW with about 50% of Bitcoin’s hashpower currently mining RSK. This means that RSK is mined by more hashpower than any other chain, except Bitcoin itself.
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Josh Olszewicz is the lead analyst at Brave New Coin. Josh joins Andy to discuss Bitcoin’s bullish start to Q4 and the likelihood that the bull trend will continue. Josh says he is targeting $100K Bitcoin before the end of the year.
Why you should listen: "If we can hold $50K, I like six figures easily by the end of the year. Definitely. Maybe $120k, $130k, $140k, but definitely six figures by the end of the year."
Yes indeed, Josh is bullish. How bullish? Josh says, “If we get an ETF approved that will be massive for price. We have seasonality on our side. And the on-chain metrics are bullish with continuous upticks in active address and transaction counts since the end of July. What else do you need? When you line up the fundamentals and the technicals and the on-chain stuff Bitcoin looks amazing to me.”
Listen to the show to hear what would need to happen for the bull thesis to falter, plus Josh and Andy chat hash rate, NFTs, altcoins, the funds Josh trades for Techemy Capital, and why they’re watching Netflix at 2x speed.
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Tushar Aggarwal is the CEO of Persistence, an interoperable protocol built to facilitate the creation of next-gen financial products. Tushar is a member of the Forbes 30 under 30 Asia club.
Why you should listen: Persistence is an ecosystem of multi-chain DeFi products designed to stimulate global liquidity and enable seamless value exchange. Persistence is bringing different asset classes into DeFi through its products – Proof-of-Stake assets (pSTAKE), Commodities synthetic assets (Comdex), and NFT assets (Asset Mantle).
Persistence’s Core mainnet is a Proof-of-Stake chain powered by Tendermint BFT consensus engine. Persistence multi-chain tech stack (currently supporting Cosmos, Ethereum and other Tendermint-based chains) abstracts away the complexities for developers and enables them to create DEXs, marketplaces, lending/borrowing platforms etc.
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After a bearish September, Uptober has begun and in the first week of Q4 Bitcoin has soared 20% in one week to $51,000. Technical analyst Rekt Capital returns to give us his predictions for Q4.
Why you should listen: Rekt Capital is an astute analyst who specializes in technical analysis and trading psychology. After a bearish September saw Bitcoin battling another round of China FUD, expectations are high for a bullish Q4. Andy and Rekt discuss Bitcoin stock to flow, the effect a Bitcoin Futures ETF approval would have on the market, and what needs to happen for altcoins to outperform.
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Adam De Cata is the head of partnerships at Decentraland, a virtual social world, created and owned by its users. Decentraland is an early version of the metaverse.
Why you should listen: Decentraland is a decentralized virtual reality platform powered by the Ethereum blockchain. Within the Decentraland platform, users can create, experience, and monetize their content and applications.
The finite, traversable, 3D virtual space within Decentraland is called LAND, a non-fungible digital asset maintained in an Ethereum smart contract. Land is divided into parcels that are identified by cartesian coordinates (x,y). These parcels are permanently owned by members of the community and are purchased using MANA, Decentraland’s cryptocurrency token. This gives users full control over the environments and applications that they create, which can range from anything like static 3D scenes to more interactive applications or games.
Decentraland is made up of parcels of LAND, each 16 meters by 16 meters. A scene is an experience that is built on one or several parcels.
Scenes are displayed one next to the other and players can freely walk from one to the other. Each scene is its own little world, items from one scene can’t extend out into another scene, and the code for each scene is sandboxed from all others.
Decentraland is working with brand partners such as WallStreetBets who are building a community within Decentraland. WSB has released Diamond Hands NFTs with unique utility for accessing events in the metaverse.
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Andy Pickering is here with a weekly crypto market update where we look through the volatile world of Crypto Twitter to tease out the most important narratives and data points. This week Bitcoin continues to fall and remains in danger of breaking the key US$40,000 price level. The latest bearishness was triggered by China’s latest ban on crypto, and uncertainty across all markets. PlanB, creator of the Stock to Flow model remains bullish for Q4, while technical analyst Davethewave sees the current correction continuing until December.
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Joel Dietz is a technology entrepreneur and early contributor to Ethereum. The founder of Swarm Network Joel is researching blockchain network topologies, swarm intelligence, and holonic philosophy. Joel is working on Art Wallet, a smart wallet for NFTs.
Why you should listen: Art Wallet is a one-stop solution for the NFT markets and the Metaverse. ArtWallet provides a solution for storing and owning NFTs with a simple gateway to NFT marketplaces. ArtWallet provides a media delivery vehicle for the playback of unique audio/visual content.
Created with Data Persistence and Authenticity Verification in mind, the protocol acts as a useful gateway to the most reputable NFT platforms while also providing a media delivery vehicle for unique audiovisual playback. ArtWallet even supports NFT content rental, introducing a new primitive in the market and giving users the convenience of only paying for the time they use the material itself. The protocol’s media delivery vehicle supports exclusive content locked to specific consumers: raising the possibility of accessing fan sites via non-fungible tokens. Holonic philosophy is an evolution of jurisprudence, data-driven approaches to innovation, and smart city data architecture.
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Andy Pickering is here with a weekly crypto market update where we look through the volatile world of crypto Twitter to tease out the most important narratives and data points. This week Bitcoin continues to fall and is now in danger of breaking the key US$40,000 price level. The fall was triggered by the China Evergrande crisis which has put traders into risk-off mode. Meanwhile, in the U.S. Gary Gensler has continued his war of words against crypto projects. He has made it clear that the overwhelming majority of altcoins are securities and in danger of being regulated as such.
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Frank Miller is a legend in comics, graphic novels, and film. Known for his hard-boiled storytelling and gritty film noir aesthetic, Frank is the creative force behind iconic titles such as The Dark Knight Returns, Daredevil, 300, and Sin City. Frank is about to drop an NFT collection based on the Sin City universe.
Why you should listen: The Sin City books have won numerous awards, including six Eisner Awards, for Best Writer/Artist, Best Graphic Novel Reprint, Best Cartoonist, Best Cover Artist, Best Limited Series, and Best Short Story. Miller made his feature film directorial debut in 2005 with Sin City, the adaptation of his graphic novel, which he co-directed with Robert Rodriguez. The critically acclaimed film was nominated for a Palme d'Or at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
The Sin City NFTs will be available September 29 from www.FrankMiller.io. There are 11 pieces, staggered over time, some are open editions, some are auction-based. The first NFT will be one of Frank’s favorite pieces - an in real life, laser engraved Crystal piece featuring Marv limited to 1000.
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Andy Pickering is here with a weekly crypto market update where we look through the volatile world of crypto Twitter to tease out the most important narratives and data points. This week Bitcoin is back at $48,000 and just posted a Golden Cross. Is Bitcoin warming up for a bullish Q4? Meanwhile, Gary Gensler is in a war of words with Coinbase, and OpenSea’s head of product was caught insider trading NFTs.
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Chris Fortier is Vice President of Product at Rally, a project built on Ethereum that helps creators develop economic relationships with their audiences by launching their own crypto social tokens and NFTs.
Why you should listen: Rally builds tools for creators to launch and grow their crypto economies. Rally started with social tokens but has always imagined a world where a creator’s crypto economy included both fungible tokens and NFTs.
Fans want reasons to buy, use and hold social tokens and creators have pioneered countless ways to power experiences with those tokens. But they also want tangible goods and services — as well as experiences — that they can own in exchange for those social tokens. NFTs and social tokens paired together tie the creator’s crypto economy into a cohesive whole.
Rally is building NFT capabilities that allow creators to focus on utility and collectability versus scarcity. They believe that the true economic value of NFTs will come from creators and their fans using NFTs to drive connections, particularly if creators allow more of their fan-base to participate. By enabling these utility-based NFT use cases, Rally is opening up a world for creators to experiment in their engagements with their fans and focus on offerings that delight their broader fan base rather than a small set of deep-pocketed speculators.
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Maestro Bignose is a co-founder of Elyseos, a decentralized ecosystem designed to support the evolving Sacramental Medicine space. Sacramental medicines include psychedelic plants and fungi. The Elyseos DAO supports the evolving ecosystem with compassionate feedback loops incentivizing collaboration and decentralization.
Why you should listen: As people search for meaning, and alternative ways of healing, Sacramental Medicines are bursting into the mainstream. The risks in this emergence include dilution, corruption, decay, centralization, control, and capture. Middlemen and ‘authorities’ can excessively appropriate the value generated while excluding dedicated servants, discoverers, and long-time practitioners.
Maestro Bignose compares the new world of blockchain and Web3 to the ancient world of shamans. He says, “It is a wonderful meeting between one unregulated sphere so ancient it is forgotten by the mainstream and another unregulated sphere just birthing and completely nascent. Decentralized ledgers bypass the legacy system, whose top-down hierarchical control structures tend to be resistant and inimical to what shamanic medicines represent. These two universes share in being fundamentally distributed, robust, private, and by their nature not amenable to capture and control. They often escape. They both teach us to take deep responsibility for our agency rather than handing it off to a third party. Control your set and setting is similar to not your keys, not your coins.”
Elyseos is built on the Fantom network. This ecosystem will use a utility token - ELYS which you can buy on ZooDEX. To buy ELYS you will need MetaMask installed with the Fantom Opera network active on it.
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Andy Pickering is here with a weekly crypto market update where we look through the volatile world of crypto Twitter to tease out the most important narratives and data points. This week Bitcoin crashed overnight dropping 10% to US$43,000. The dump happened on the same day that El Salvador made Bitcoin legal tender and became the first nation-state to buy Bitcoin.
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Jules Urbach is the CEO of OTOY, a leading cloud graphics company that is pioneering technology to redefine content creation and delivery. The work of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is being cataloged in a new digital archive by OTOY.
Why you should listen: RNDR, whose partners include Amazon, Google, Apple, and HBO, developed a cutting-edge platform based on underlying OTOY technology that allows individuals to create graphics at the same level as Hollywood studios. RNDR is revolutionizing visual effects by using the cloud to democratize GPUs and other rendering resources. It also seeks to provide energy-efficient solutions for creating NFTs.
Jules' best friend from childhood is Rod Roddenberry. Jules is working on a new digital archive of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s legacy. The Roddenberry Archive will feature the flagship Star Trek series, original films, and spinoffs in a variety of formats including digital and holographic renderings, documents, images, models, and blueprints. The archive will capture deep 3D asset metadata from assets, images, blueprints, and models using RNDR, OTOY's blockchain GPU computing network. In order to capture original studio and physical assets at the highest level of photographic fidelity, the archive will leverage OTOY's LightStage Academy-Award-winning facial scanning service, generating the first comprehensive lighting and reflectance data set for future archival use. Iconic artist Mike "Beeple" Winklemann is joining the Roddenberry Archive project as a creative consultant, and, alongside legendary painter and illustrator Alex Ross, will help commemorate the Roddenberry Archive and cross-link it to both the Alex Ross and Beeple RNDR Archives.
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DFX is an Ethereum-based decentralized exchange protocol with a dynamically tuned bonding curve optimized for fiat-backed stablecoins using real-world FX price feeds. Mainstream adoption of Web 3.0 requires assets that are protected from price volatility. By focusing on fiat-backed stablecoins on the Ethereum blockchain, DFX leverages the existing defi ecosystem to bootstrap humanity's next-generation foreign exchange.
Why you should listen: DFX is a decentralized foreign exchange protocol optimized for stablecoins. In building the protocol, DFX will bring liquidity and volume to fiat-backed stablecoins globally. The next generation of global finance cannot rely solely on USD-pegged stablecoins. A decentralized protocol where users can efficiently exchange stablecoins pegged to various foreign currencies is not only important but necessary.
DFX has added the NZDs, the New Zealand Dollar Stable Coin to the protocol. NZDs is a New Zealand Dollar (NZD) Stable Coin backed 1:1 with physical New Zealand Dollars in a cash and cash equivalent treasury managed by a New Zealand registered financial services provider. New Zealand’s currency is a leader in adaptability, resilience, and market trustworthiness. NZD is the 10th most traded currency globally. The NZD stable coin will offer cryptocurrency users the stability and utility of the New Zealand Dollar with the versatility of a cryptocurrency. The NZDs is issued by Techemynt.
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Aaron McDonald and Brooke Howard-Smith are co-founders at Non-Fungible Labs, the team behind the FLUF World NFTs. FLUF World is home to 10,000 unique 3D animated rabbits. The FLUF metagame describes the emerging, expanding metaverse treasure hunt that the FLUFs exist in.
Why you should listen: FLUFs have been programmatically generated from 270 attributes across 14 categories to be entirely unique by at least three degrees of separation. This also excludes their expression, dance, scene, and soundtrack. Non-Fungible Labs have an exciting roadmap that will continue to unlock ever-increasing, advanced functionality for FLUFs.
The future of the digital world will be expansive and complex. Smart agents are needed to help navigate these always-on spaces. Altered State Machine is a framework to track ownership of AI agents in any digital environment.
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Konstantin is the founder and CEO of Vaulty Finance - a vault that bridges Defi and NFTs on the Binance Smart chain. The Vaulty platform is a yield aggregator that offers multiple strategies to optimize yield farming through regular auto-compounding.
Why you should listen: Vaulty is a decentralized platform designed to enable automatic asset allocation across DeFi instruments. Every vault has its own smart contract with predetermined logic. Choose your vault and passively earn yields or NFTs stress-free. Vaults allow users to minimize network fees and time spent researching the best instruments. Vaulty unites the power of DeFi and NFT. Vaulty is a unique profit-sharing yield aggregator that incorporates both traditional DeFi and NFT yield strategies into the same decentralized platform. Konstantin shares some fascinating stories on what it was like to grow up in rural Russia and why so many talented poker and chess players are Russian.
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Bill Barhydt is the CEO of Abra, a platform that enables crypto banking services for consumers and institutions in over 100 countries. Abra’s mission is to become a crypto bank that replaces the need for legacy banking services. Bill was a member of the Cryptography Mailing List where Satoshi first released the Bitcoin White Paper. Bill started his career working in cryptography for the CIA.
Why you should listen: Abra is making cryptocurrency investing simple. Abra operates an easy-to-use smartphone-based wallet, exchange, high yield interest accounts, and lending service supporting 125 digital assets. Users can buy, sell, store, and invest in cryptocurrencies and manage their crypto investments, in one app. Their vision is an open, global financial system that is easily accessible to everyone. Bill is a globally recognized technology pioneer with a unique perspective on the early days of the internet and blockchain. Bill started his career working in R&D at the CIA and NASA. Bill was one of the early team members at Netscape where he was involved in building the core infrastructure that helped grow the consumer Internet we use today.
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Andy Pickering is here with a weekly crypto market update where we look through the volatile world of crypto Twitter to tease out the most important narratives and data points. This week Morgan Stanley’s SEC Filings reveal it has purchased a large holding of Bitcoin via the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust. Only Fans has reversed its decision to ban sexually explicit content, and the NFT market continues to boom as a new wave of Generative Art is released.
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Zach Burks is the CEO and founder of NFT marketplace Mintable. Mintable is the first NFT platform to pioneer ‘gasless minting’, enabling content creators to mint NFTs without prohibitive transaction fees. Zach says he is building Mintable with Mom in mind. If his Mom finds it easy to use Mintable to mint and trade NFTs, then anyone can use Mintable. Zach is applying the best features from e-commerce sites such as Amazon to make Mintable one of the most exciting and feature-rich marketplaces of the future.
Why you should listen: Mintable is the first NFT platform to pioneer ‘gasless minting’, enabling content creators to mint NFTs without being burdened by prohibitive transaction fees. When the Mark Cuban-backed platform recently completed its US$13 million Series A funding round, it also announced an upcoming integration with Ripple’s XRP ledger to enable a new breed of ecologically friendly NFTs.
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Manu Alzuru is a humanist, a solarpunk, and the founder of DoinGud - a next-gen NFT platform designed to empower creators and collectors to create meaningful impact.
Why you should listen: DoinGud is an NFT ecosystem where passion has the ability to create social impact. NFT creators can donate at least 5% of their profits from every sale to charitable causes benefiting the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. These goals include creating gender equality, ending world hunger, ensuring all individuals have good health and well-being, and quality education for all.
Invited creators can onboard colleagues. Brands and communities can open meta-galleries to house their artists. Anyone can submit their artwork to a pool to be represented by a community gallery. Solarpunk is an art movement that envisions how the future might look if humanity succeeds in solving climate change. The iconography of Solarpunk focuses on renewable energies such as solar and wind power. It is the flipside to Cyberpunk.
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Victor David is co-founder and CEO of Epik, a global agency that connects brands with video games to offer unique and immersive digital experiences using NFTs.
Why you should listen: Epik is putting brands into video games to offer unique and immersive digital experiences to more than a billion fans worldwide. Epik is solving the problem of building interconnectivity between metaverses so that metaverses will be able to talk to each other in ways never possible before. Called the “Epikverse,” this technology will span across multiple virtual worlds, including, one day, Facebook.
Epik’s core mission is to improve the experience of gamers, making them feel the nostalgia of collecting in-game items that are accessible across different games, allowing them to interact with their assets outside of the game, and be able to trade them anytime. The opportunities we see in NFTs are not only limited to arts and music. Most of our NFT collections are based on collaborations with the leading gaming companies, and these unique digital assets will give the players distinctive benefits when playing the game (special offers, skins, accessories, playable characters, etc) giving real-world value in real life.
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Andy Pickering is here with a weekly crypto market update where we look through the volatile world of crypto Twitter to tease out the most important narratives and data points. This week Bitcoin breaks US$46,000 while the U.S. senate has included draconian restrictions on the crypto ecosystem in the infrastructure bill. On the positive side, the last week has seen an awakening of political support for crypto, from all sides. Following the successful implementation of EIP-1559, can Ethereum become ultra sound money?
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Dave the Wave is a pseudonymous investor, trader, and technical analyst. A contrarian, Dave is respected on Crypto Twitter for his objective, rational approach to technical analysis. Dave’s thesis is that Bitcoin is following his Logarithmic Growth Curve model. Logarithmic growth suggests exponential gains at the beginning that slowly taper off towards a plateau in the long term.
Why you should listen: Dave the Wave has a gentleman’s agreement with Plan B (stock to flow). If Bitcoin achieves a price above $100K by December this year, the stock-to-flow model will remain valid, and Dave’s Logarithmic Growth Curve will be invalidated. If Bitcoin fails to break $100K by December, then stock-to-flow is invalidated and the Logarithmic Growth Curve remains valid.
Dave says that Bitcoin is a nascent currency in the process of capitalization. There are periods of volatility in both directions as new people add and subtract liquidity in adoption waves. Bitcoin is following the path of gold that was capitalized over hundreds if not thousands of years, Bitcoin has already reached a market cap of 1T in just 12 years.
Despite sometimes being misunderstood as bearish, Dave says that if Bitcoin follows the Logarithmic Growth Curve, Bitcoin will hit somewhere between $500k and $1million in approx ten years' time.
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Jamie Burke is the Founder & CEO of Outlier Ventures. Jamie and his team are investors in and authors of The Open Metaverse thesis which explores how the Web 3.0 Stack extends beyond financial services into virtual worlds, gaming and decentralized economies.
Why you should listen: Outlier has created a framework to assess and interrogate Metaverses, and a toolkit to design alternatives based on the principles of user centricity and sovereignty of identity, data and wealth. They call it the Open Metaverse OS, a shared and open operating system built upon the success of decentralized protocols, in particular DeFi and NFTs emerging in The Web 3 Stack.
Jamie says it is important to understand that the beginnings of the Metaverse are already here and if we think of it as a far-off destination we will sleepwalk into not addressing some fundamental design choices and replicate what is broken about the Web today.
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeny said “The Metaverse is going to be far more pervasive and powerful than anything else. If one central company gains control of this, they will become more powerful than any government, and be a god on Earth.” For this reason, it is crucial that the metaverse is designed on open and permission protocols.
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Mark Berisha is the CEO of APEcoin and MemeFarm, and a founding member of the BustaBNB DAO. APECoin embraces the viral nature of memes and builds DAO-based perpetual utility machines. Apecoin is developing BustaBNB for the Binance Smart Chain and they have just launched a new NFT marketplace and NFT-OTC solution.
Why you should listen: APEcoin is an ecosystem for crypto enthusiasts and entrepreneurs who are building DAO-based perpetual utility machines. APEcoin incubates projects which focus on automated Defi solutions. MemeFarm is designed to automate the NFT ecosystem and allow users to mint, auction, buy and sell NFTs on the Binance smart chain. By using the NFT marketplace, users can solve many of the problems that exist in the altcoin OTC trading space. BustaBNB is an online crypto crash game with BNB as the primary play token. Users place a bet, watch the multiplier curve increase exponentially and click before the crash. BustaBNB was influenced by games like Bustabit, and Satoshi Dice. A BUST airdrop will occur for existing APE holders.
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Iqbal V Gandham is VP of Payments & Transactions at Ledger. One of the best-known companies in crypto, Ledger has sold more than 3 million hardware devices and secures an estimated 15% of all crypto assets. Ledger is now preparing to make inroads into Web3.
Why you should listen: As we move towards a world where all types of assets will be digitized, providing users with the most complete and secure user experience will be more important than ever. Ledger Live is an all-in-one digital asset management application that allows users to exchange, stake, and lend their crypto, interact with dapps and manage NFTs. When combined with Ledger’s hardware, Ledger Live provides best-in-class security for users in the digital asset environment. Iqbal hints that a new Ledger hardware wallet is coming in 2022.
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Andy Pickering is here with a weekly crypto market update where we look through the volatile world of crypto Twitter to tease out the most important narratives and data points. This week markets are up as Amazon rumors and a short squeeze pump Bitcoin. Plus Elizabeth Warren says shadowy super coders are threatening the financial system, Tether is in the regulatory firing line, and CZ is ready to work with regulators.
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Tom Bilyeu is the CEO of Impact Theory and one of the world’s leading motivational speakers. Tom is committed to pulling people out of the matrix. A successful multi-business entrepreneur, Tom’s goal is to impact culture at scale. He plans to do this by building the next Disney. Impact Theory produces comics, graphic novels, books, television, film, interview talk shows and more. Tom is building an NFT universe that will leverage the unique properties of Manga, Anime, and blockchain to take Impact Theory to the next level.
Why you should listen: Impact Theory is a revolutionary studio that produces original content on themes of empowerment, by bringing together some of the most talented creators, writers, and artists. The studio was started by CEO Tom Bilyeu, one of the planet’s most successful entrepreneurs. Impact Theory distributes content across digital platforms including the emerging NFT space. The studio has built a loyal audience in the millions with over one billion social media impressions, and its catalog of content has hundreds of millions of views.
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Tess Rinearson is VP of Engineering at Interchain where she leads the team responsible for Tendermint Core, the leading BFT engine for building blockchains.
Why you should listen: Interchain is responsible for stewarding foundational infrastructure for blockchain ecosystems. Their work helps secure billions of dollars in value across a variety of major blockchain projects, including Cosmos. The team is pioneering new protocols for interoperability across the entire blockchain ecosystem. The vision is to create a new interconnected ecosystem, a new internet of blockchains: The Interchain. In 2017 Tess published a popular Bitcoin explainer guide using emojis.
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Andy Pickering is here with a weekly crypto market update where we look through the volatile world of crypto Twitter to tease out the most important narratives and data points. This week markets are down as rising inflation pushes up food costs and the delta variant worsens the pandemic. Plus AXIE keeps mooning, stablecoins are in the regulatory firing line, and is CZ willing to work with regulators?
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Dean Tribble is the CEO of Agoric, the JavaScript-native smart contract platform with backing from Naval and Polychain Capital. Dean co-designed the negotiation process and contract for the first smart contracting system, AMiX. As a Principal Architect at Microsoft, he co-designed the Midori distributed object-capability operating system. As founder and CTO for Agorics, he architected the brokerage information system for Schwab’s active traders and the WebMart electronic contract system for SunLabs. Dean has a fascinating perspective on the past, present, and future of blockchain.
Why you should listen: Dean’s life work can be described as creating software that lets humans cooperate better. He wants to use technology to give humanity leverage to accomplish our goals and create a more cooperative world. A Proof of Stake blockchain and JavaScript-native smart contract platform, Agoric offers developers and enterprises an interoperable ecosystem for deploying and managing DeFi applications. Agoric is a robust architecture for building secure smart contracts based in JavaScript for maximum reach. Agoric empowers developers to execute transactions, establish new markets, and craft novel exchanges — without centralized control. Agoric uses an object-capability (ocap) security architecture, in which access to a programming object itself is the authority to use the object. All kinds of digital assets can be created, but importantly, they can be transferred in exactly the same ways, with exactly the same security properties. Agoric’s composable smart contract development environment provides reusable governance, lending, and trading components to propel the creators of the multi-chain DeFi economy.
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Andy Pickering is here with a weekly crypto market update where we look through the volatile world of crypto Twitter to tease out the most important narratives and data points. This week we look at Shapeshift’s announcement that it will decentralize and give FOX tokens away in an airdrop to a million users. Plus what’s behind the AXIE blockchain game boom, and more signs of the emerging Metaverse...
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Molly Mackinlay is Network Lead at Protocol Labs, an open-source research, development, and deployment laboratory. Protocol Labs projects include IPFS, Filecoin, libp2p, and more. The team aims to make human existence orders of magnitude better through technology.
Why you should listen: Molly is project lead at IPFS, The InterPlanetary File System, a peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol designed to preserve and grow humanity's knowledge by making the web upgradeable, resilient, and more open.
Filecoin is an open-source, public cryptocurrency and digital payment system intended to be a blockchain-based cooperative digital storage and data retrieval method. It is made by Protocol Labs and builds on top of InterPlanetary File System, allowing users to rent unused hard drive space.
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James Gillingham is the Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of FINXFLO, the world's first Regulated Hybrid Liquidity Aggregator. The platform is launching in August but traders can sign up now.
Why you should listen: After an injury brought a promising football career to an end, James worked at Close Brothers, and International Asset Management, before founding JageroFX, a startup delivering automated trading algorithms. Having spent his career identifying problems in the financial markets, James then founded FINXFLO to provide solutions for crypto traders. FINXFLO is described as the world's first hybrid DeFi/CeFi liquidity and protocol aggregator. Using only one account with one KYC, users are now able to utilize liquidity from 25+ CeFi and DeFi platforms through a single user interface.
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Simona Pop is Head of Community at Status, a secure messaging platform that also functions as a crypto wallet and Web3 browser. Status is designed to enable the free flow of information, protect the right to private, secure conversations, and promote the sovereignty of individuals.
Why you should listen: Status aims to be a decentralized, secure by design communication tool. The true benefit of Web3 is the ability to transact and communicate on our own terms – without middlemen. In order to enjoy this type of free communication, we must be confident that our messages, transactions, identities, and funds are safe and secure.
Status has been hosting workshops in Latin America to provide educational resources to local creators on how to get involved with NFTs - from minting to collecting - in a variety of native languages. Looking ahead, the team is also examining how crypto-based social applications are a key component of crypto’s evolution. Status believes creating social platforms that uphold crypto’s values of decentralization, privacy, and user rights is the next step.
Simona is an NFT collector and inverse meme aficionado. To find what an inverse meme is, listen to the show!
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Andy Pickering is here with a weekly crypto market update where we look through the volatile world of crypto Twitter to tease out the most important narratives and data points of the last week. June was a huge month with Bitcoin’s antifragility put to the test. Bitcoin’s market cap dropped by 50%, hash rate dropped by 50%, China stepped up its crackdown on mining and exchanges, and everyone from Nassim Taleb to Elizabeth Warren had a crack at Bitcoin. What happens next?
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Benjamin Sauter is a partner at Kobre and Kim, a legal firm that specializes in International Disputes and Investigations. The firm prides itself on its aggressive, trial-ready approach. Ben’s role is to aggressively defend clients in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industries against high-stakes government enforcement actions.
Why you should listen: Ben and his colleagues wrote a piece for Brave New Coin called The U.S. govt is aggressively prosecuting crypto cases - how to defend yourself. The article summary reads: Thinking Beyond The Government Playbook - how crypto holders can proactively plan for and respond to aggressive U.S. Government enforcement tactics.
Ben says the high level takeaway is that U.S. prosecutors are becoming increasingly aggressive in their attempts to police digital asset markets — and more creative in their ability to follow through. Recent events highlight the ability of prosecutors not only to collect actionable intelligence about digital assets, but also to use that information to achieve law enforcement objectives across international borders.
By recognizing these tactics and acting proactively, individuals with digital-asset wealth can reduce the risk of falling afoul of the authorities.
With U.S. prosecutors adopting an aggressive approach towards enforcement against cryptocurrency market players, companies and individuals who are concerned that they may be the target of a government investigation should prepare to mount a creative defense. That means hiring counsel who understands criminal defense and trial strategy, and the technical issues raised by digital asset holdings, including blockchain forensics, and asset forfeiture procedures.
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Charlie Silver is the founder and CEO of Permission, a crypto startup that gives individuals a way to monetize their data and get paid in ASK, the crypto asset that powers the Permission ecosystem.
Why you should listen: Permission.io has developed the infrastructure for a new engagement model based on permission and value exchange. The Permission platform runs on ASK, a new currency created to pay users for your engagement. ASK allows users to be compensated for data shared while doing the things users normally do online.
ASK is a currency that users can spend on Permission.io and on other sites that accept ASK. The company has created the Permission Coin (“ASK”) to enable individuals to securely grant permission and monetize their personal data across a decentralized eCommerce ecosystem. Advertisers reward consumers with ASK for interacting with brands and content, building loyalty and trust. By transferring value back to consumers along the buying journey, away from big tech’s exploitation of data, Permission is bringing change to the current Internet business model. The company has launched a Google Chrome browser extension that enables members to monetize their data while browsing the web.
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BTSE is a crypto asset exchange and futures trading platform. BTSE has partnered with Brave New Coin to create two indices - the BBCX and BBAX, around which BTSE has developed futures trading products. BTSE co-founder Brian Wong explains what makes BTSE one of the most compelling crypto trading solution providers.
Why you should listen: BTSE offers a suite of sophisticated futures trading products. BTSE traders can now use index perpetuals to build market-neutral strategies, and target risk profiles. Index perpetuals allow traders the ability to hedge out unwanted exposures, such as the broad crypto market or a particular sector.
BTSE has partnered with Brave New Coin to create several indices. An index is a way to track the value of a broad market or sector, via a single price. The BNC-BTSE Composite Index (BBCX) tracks the real-time market performance of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin.
The BNC-BTSE Alt Coin Index (BBAX) tracks the real-time market performance of Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin and EOS.
Both indices have outperformed their largest constituents in the year to date 2021.
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Andy Pickering is here with a weekly crypto market update where we look through the volatile world of crypto Twitter to tease out the most important narratives and data points of the last week. And what a week it was - China has stepped up its crackdown on all parts of the crypto ecosystem. As a result, miners are moving out of China, and the Bitcoin hashrate is dropping. The markets are down in response, but ultimately, is this good for the bitcoin network?
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Sebastián Milla is Chief of Special Projects at Exodus, one of the most popular blockchain wallets in the world. Exodus has 1.6 million users and completed a fund-raising round by issuing stock tokens to Exodus users on Algorand.
Why you should listen: The internet is the future of experiences. The Exodus product and design teams are focused on delivering these experiences now. By focusing relentlessly on UI/UX Exodus has grown swiftly, developing a cryptocurrency wallet experience that surprises and delights its users.
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Andy Pickering is here with a weekly crypto market update where we look through the volatile world of crypto Twitter to tease out the most important narratives and data points of the last week. And what a week it was, Andy looks at El Salvador’s decision to make Bitcoin legal tender, which countries might be next, and is Elon Musk warming back up to Bitcoin?
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Oliver Gale is the CEO and co-founder of Panther Protocol, an end-to-end privacy protocol for digital assets, which can be deployed in a compliant way on any public blockchain. After pursuing a hip-hop career in the Caribbean, Oliver entered the world of start-ups and blockchain.
Why you should listen: Panther Protocol is an interoperable privacy solution focused on the needs of decentralized finance traders and investors. Due to the immutable and transparent nature of public blockchains, DeFi users are subject to surveillance and economic espionage. Transactional privacy is in high demand, as it allows retail, whales, and institutional users to protect their competitive advantages by not allowing adversaries to reverse engineer and front-run their strategies. Traders lose their alpha very quickly in DeFi, and Panther’s value proposition is to help traders protect that alpha.
Key Takeaway: Panther Protocol is an end-to-end privacy protocol for DeFi. Panther provides DeFi users with fully collateralized privacy-enhancing digital assets, leveraging crypto-economic incentives and zkSNARKs technology. Users are able to mint zero-knowledge zAssets by depositing digital assets from any blockchain into Panther vaults. zAssets will become an ever-expanding asset class for users who want their transactions and strategies the way they should always have been: private.
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Aaron McDonald is the CEO and co-founder of Centrality, a tech ventures ecosystem building the infrastructure for the emerging decentralized web.
Why you should listen: One of Centrality’s mission statements is to UnF**ck the world. To achieve this they are building a suite of decentralized technology solutions that allow the world’s citizens to interact with each other on a more even playing field.
Key Takeaway: The CENNZ blockchain is part of the Centrality ecosystem. It is the world’s first natively permissioned public blockchain. A “permissioned” blockchain provides specific access or privilege for certain participants of the network. So by making the permissioning native, you can be certain that the access control functionality is aligned with all the services. In practical terms, this means CENNZnet is one of the most secure blockchains in the world with higher performance and fewer issues.
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Johan Unger is the CEO of Meme.com, a memetic asset protocol that acts as a story layer of the internet. Operating at the intersection of memes, NFTs, and social media, the platform describes itself as what would happen if Doge and Wikipedia had a baby.
Why you should listen: Meme.com uses crypto and entertainment to measure the value of internet content. It enables people to mint memetic coins, which are priced based on the perceived value of the trend or meme they represent, like a CoinMarketCap for memes.
Key Takeaway: Memes are the soul of the internet, a new way to communicate complex ideas, and fun to make, trade and collect. Johan thinks of memes in the way that Richard Dawkins originally described them: that any idea that spreads is a meme. So a song, a YouTube video or a tweet can be memes if they spread. Meme.com is building the meme economy.
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Matthew Graham is the CEO of Beijing-based Sino Global Capital. Matthew is a prominent personality on Crypto Twitter, an authority on China’s ever-shifting attitude to blockchain, and an outspoken critic of Elon Musk and Bitclout.
Why you should listen: Sino Global Capital is an investment firm based in China that invests in decentralized technologies that have a strategic connection to the mainland Chinese market. Matthew says the firm is very bullish on DeFi, and the Ethereum and Solana ecosystems. While he comes from a traditional finance background and describes himself as an intense personality and a suit and tie guy, Matthew has embraced crypto’s meme culture.
Key Takeaway: China sees blockchain as a key strategic technology pillar critical to the next decade of growth. China is moving forward with its digital currency initiative and continuing to hold trials across the country. While headlines that say China is banning bitcoin or banning crypto mining can be alarming and market-moving, there is always much more nuance behind the scenes and headlines shouldn’t be taken at face value.
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Lin Dai is the CEO and co-founder of OneOf, a green NFT platform for music NFTs, built on Tezos, with backing by Quincy Jones.
Why you should listen: OneOf was co-founded by tech entrepreneur Lin Dai, digital media executive Joshua James, and music industry veteran Adam Fell, in partnership with Quincy Jones. Launching in June, the platform will feature exclusive NFT drops from top music artists such as Whitney Houston, Doja Cat, H.E.R., Quincy Jones, John Legend, and TLC.
Key Takeaway: Non-fungible token (NFT) platform OneOf raised $63 million in a seed round from prominent tech and music industry veterans. Its mission is to become a more environmentally sustainable marketplace for artists and fans. OneOf is built on the Tezos blockchain. Minting an NFT on OneOf uses an order of magnitude less energy than platforms on the Ethereum Network.
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Andy Pickering is here with a weekly crypto market update where we look through the volatile world of crypto Twitter to tease out the most important narratives and data points of the last week. We look at Elon Musk and the new Bitcoin Mining Association, the price volatility, and the news out of China - bullish or bearish for Bitcoin?
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Erica Stanford is the founder of the popular Crypto Curry Club in the UK and the author of a new book called Crypto Wars: Faked Deaths, Missing Billions and Industry Disruption.
Why you should listen: With time on her hands during lockdown, after listening to the BBC podcast The Missing Crypto Queen about the infamous Onecoin crypto scam, Erica decided to write a book about crypto scams. The book covers everything from Onecoin to Bitconnect, the ICO bubble, and the various exchange exit scams.
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Colin Pape is the founder of Presearch, a community-powered, decentralized search engine that provides better search results while protecting privacy and rewarding users with crypto when they search.
Why you should listen: Colin says the best way to compete with Google is to build a framework that enables people from all over the world to collaborate on an open and decentralized search engine. Presearch is preparing to release its first decentralized technology – a new search engine experience that runs on node servers operated by Presearch community members. The new Presearch Engine offers results that are as good as the world’s top search engines. It also provides an additional layer of data through community packages which makes those results even better. For example, you can search Presearch for “Bitcoin” to see what the crypto package looks like. Over time, there will be additional results provided by a user-curated supplementary index.
Key takeaway: Presearch is dedicated to creating significant value for marketers who want to reach Presearch users. Advertisers can stake their PRE to a keyword, and whichever advertiser stakes the most tokens will have its ads displayed when a user searches on the term selected. Advertisers confer the most external value on PRE, so their success is important to the ecosystem.
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Ben Pousty is the US Marketing Lead for Bitstamp, a crypto exchange with offices in Luxemburg, London and New York. We talk to Ben about Bitstamp’s new "For All The Ways We Crypto" campaign, the challenges of crypto marketing, Bitcoin’s unit bias issue, and more.
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Last week Elon Musk tweeted that Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin. He said that Tesla is concerned about the increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining. In response, the crypto markets crashed with Bitcoin falling to $42,000. Let’s look at the subsequent tweets from Elon, reaction from the Bitcoin community, the Doge angle, and speculate on what happens next.
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Elon Musk tweeted today that Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin. He said that Tesla is concerned about the rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining. In response, the crypto markets crashed with Bitcoin falling 12% to $49,000. In this podcast, Andy reacts to Elon’s tweets and suggests some resources that argue that Bitcoin mining incentivizes a renewable energy future.
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Owl is the cofounder of 0x_nodes, a cross-chain yield aggregation network. 0x_nodes is a network of deployed systems that allow users to move, acquire, and build yield-bearing strategies with non-native assets across EVM and non-EVM-based blockchains.
Why you should listen: One of the fundamental problems across the crypto ecosystem is the lack of interoperability between blockchains. The ability to easily move value between blockchains will unlock the next growth cycle in decentralized finance. This is the problem that 0x_nodes seeks to solve.
To the non-technical, Web 3.0 feels seamless. Video streaming, global zoom conferences, smartphone apps, gaming, and social media. Everything is integrated and it all just works. Through innovation and fast development cycles, 0x_nodes aims to end the fragmentation of the Ethereum network — and make interoperability commonplace for all.
Key takeaway: 0x_nodes is a cross-chain protocol that allows synthetic asset movements between blockchains — enabling broader yield aggregation strategies. Being able to seamlessly move value between blockchains will open up a new world of financial products and services. 0x_nodes will start on the Ethereum mainnet first — deploying nodes throughout the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) ecosystem.
Instead of utilizing a spoke network topology, 0x_nodes will be comprised of a core mesh network between EVM ecosystems — and will bridge the EVM network with external blockchain networks. This unidirectional yield aggregation pulling from EVMs to the mainnet will create new opportunities for yield, while simplifying the experience for the user.
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Bette Chen is the co-founder of Acala - the DeFi hub of Polkadot, powering open finance applications and removing the need for financial intermediaries.
Guest: Bette Chen
Why you should listen: The mission of the Acala project is to support and nurture the financial applications of the decentralized web. The drivers of this mission are delivering financial stability, liquidity, and accessibility for all.
Key takeaway: Acala offers a suite of financial primitives, including: a trustless staking derivative (liquid DOT - LDOT), a multi-collateralized stablecoin (aUSD) backed by cross-chain assets, and an AMM DEX – all with micro gas fees that can be paid in any token. Acala is a blockchain platform custom-built for DeFi and powered by ACA.
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Dogecoin, a memecoin that was abandoned by its founders, is the best performing crypto asset of 2021, appreciating more than 12,000% YTD. With high-profile backers such as Elon Musk and Mark Cuban, can Doge stay the course or is it set to crash and burn?
Why you should listen: Andy takes a deep dive into a new report by Galaxy Digital that takes a 360 angle look at Dogecoin’s fundamentals. The report finds a large number of positives and some serious negatives as well. Dogecoin may have always been a joke, but it’s a joke that keeps getting both funnier and more serious too.
Key takeaway: On the positive side of the ledger, Doge is the best performing major digital asset year to date. More people own Doge than at any other time. Doge is dominating the cultural conversation thanks to memes and to Elon Musk.
There are negatives. Dogecoin has zero development. Few people run full nodes and those who do have difficulty downloading the chain or staying synced with the network. There’s no market infrastructure, barely any wallet software, and despite being more than 7 years old, many exchanges don’t support it. There is no long-term narrative or use-case supporting its wide adoption. And it’s not clear whether DOGE holders are dogmatic about the coin’s long-term prospects.
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Alex Wearn has a background in product development for tech companies such as Amazon. He now brings a user-first product lens to decentralized exchanges. Alex is the CEO and co-founder of IDEX, one of the first decentralized exchanges.
Guest: Alex Wearn
Why you should listen: The IDEX goal is to create a non-custodial exchange that has the same user experience as a centralized exchange, eliminating the choice that users have to make today between functionality and fund safety.
Key takeaway: IDEX has just announced the IDEX Hybrid Liquidity model. This new innovation is a response to the rise of AMM based DEXes. However, AMMs have issues with failed transactions, high slippage, front-running bots, and high gas fees. These issues are a result of users being close to the blockchain. The IDEX Hybrid Liquidity approach attempts to smooth out these issues while still maintaining the core ethos of a DEX - remaining non-custodial.
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Bobby Lee is the Founder of Ballet Crypto, co-founder of BTCChina, and he is the author of a superb new book called The Promise of Bitcoin: The Future of Money and How It Can Work for You.
Why you should listen: With a software engineering and computer science background, Bobby Lee has always been technologically inclined. So when his brother Charlie Lee introduced Bobby to Bitcoin in 2011, he understood its significance immediately. After dedicating himself to Bitcoin for the last ten years, Bobby has written a book that tells his story and explains why Bitcoin’s journey has only just begun.
Key takeaway: Bobby says that understanding and projecting the value of Bitcoin can be daunting - while the path is never a straight line, Bitcoin continues to grow in interest and appreciate in value. While Bitcoin is still working out its kinks - corporations and governments are likely to become more interested in Bitcoin, and interested in acquiring it as an asset.
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Camilla Churcher is the Global Head of Business Development at Celsius Network.
Why you should listen: After a successful career in traditional finance with stints at Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, and Bank of America, Camilla made the move into crypto. She has been at Celsius since March 2020.
Camilla sees crypto regulations as a positive that allow more users and institutions to enter the crypto ecosystem. She thinks there is a 75% chance that a Bitcoin ETF is approved in 2021.
Key takeaway: The Celsius platform lets users earn interest on their crypto assets and use it as collateral to get fiat loans. Celsius offers a platform of curated financial services and can be thought of as a crypto bank. Their goal is to disrupt the financial industry, one user at a time, and introduce financial freedom through crypto. Supporting links: Celsius Network
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Techemy Capital has launched two actively managed portfolios that allow investors to gain exposure to BTC/ETH price action and the DeFi sector. Trades are executed by Techemy Capital’s Josh Olszewicz. Investors can take advantage of crypto price moves without having to trade themselves - and because Techemy’s products are non-custodial - without releasing control of their assets.
Guest: Josh Olszewicz
Why you should listen: Trader Josh Olszewicz joins Andy to talk about the two actively managed portfolios that Techemy Capital has deployed on Enzyme Finance. Individuals can invest into the portfolios in a non-custodial manner that gives them exposure to Josh’s professional trading strategies.
Key takeaway: Enzyme Finance is an on-chain asset management platform. Because everything is on-chain all trades are transparent and recorded on the blockchain. Rather than have to learn the stress of trading themselves, investors can simply buy into either portfolio and capture the gains or losses that the portfolios achieve over time. Investors can enter or leave the portfolios at any time.
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Market optimism around the soon-to-be-implemented Ethereum Improvement Proposal, EIP1559, is high. The Ethereum EIP will arrive as a part of the London network Hard Fork in July and will overhaul Ethereum’s fee structure. Andy is joined by Brave New Coin analyst Aditya Das to discuss the implications of EIP1559 for users, investors, and miners.
Guest: Aditya Das
Why you should listen: EIP1559 was first proposed by Vitalik Buterin in 2018. It will replace the variable first-price auction model currently used to decide Ethereum transaction fees with a more deterministic base fee model. It is hoped this will remove much of the volatility and uncertainty associated with paying the Gas fees required to successfully conduct a transaction on the network. It will also introduce a fee burn model for each transaction, that may add a deflationary element to the ETH currency and increase its appeal as a safe-haven, hard asset.
Key takeaway: EIP1559 will solve four key problems with the current gas model:
- Making transaction fees more predictable
- Reducing delays in transaction confirmation
- Improving user experience by automating the fee bidding system
- Creating a positive feedback loop between network activity and the ETH supply.
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Vasja Veber is the co-founder of music tech company Viberate. Vibrate has been building blockchain solutions for the music industry since 2017 and are positioning as market leaders in the music data sector. They have just entered the NFT space. Techno DJ UMEK is also a co-founder and is about to execute a live event NFT.
Guest: Vasja Veber
Why you should listen: On April 29 Viberate co-founder and Techno producer UMEK will mint the first-ever live performance and live stream NFT. If the release is successful, Viberate plans to enable their half a million verified artists database to mint gig NFTs, secure future bookings, and create a new revenue stream.
Key takeaway: With this drop, UMEK aims to disrupt the live event industry, minting the first-ever live gig NFT and the first-ever livestream NFT, as well as minting three unique remixes of his track Lanicor.
During the pandemic, UMEK, like all touring artists, has resorted to live streams and online fan interaction. Still searching for new ways of expression and exploring the digital space, he wants to push the boundaries of NFTs and create something unique. With the live gig NFT, he aims to disrupt the booking industry and offer promoters and artists a safety net until events are up and running again. Live streams have proven they’re here to stay. NFTs have the power to create a brand new market for them, offering musicians a new revenue stream and enabling fans to support and book their favorites.
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Robbie Ferguson is the co-founder of Immutable, best known for launching the Gods Unchained blockchain game, one of the most successful blockchain games in the wild. Robbie is now focused on Immutable X, a decentralized gas-free layer-2 protocol for Ethereum NFTs.
Guest: Robbie Ferguson
Why you should listen: Immutable X is the first Layer 2 scaling solution for NFTs on Ethereum. It seeks to solve the key challenges facing the Ethereum NFT ecosystem such as scaling, UX, fees, and environmental impact. Immutable X has instant trade confirmation, massive scalability (9,000 TPS+), and zero gas fees - without compromising user custody. The largest NFT marketplace OpenSea is one of many NFT projects working with or supporting Immutable X including: SuperfarmDAO (defi NFT farm), Epics.GG (collectibles), Illuvium (auto battler RPG), Lucid Sight (MLB Champions Baseball, Crypto Space Commander), War Riders (post-apocalyptic MMO), Gods Unchained (TCG), Guild of Guardians (mobile RPG), and Mintable (NFT marketplace).
Key takeaway: Robbie is a passionate supporter of the Ethereum community. He says it best represents the philosophy of trustless, decentralized asset ownership. It has prioritized decentralization and network health over short-term scalability upgrades. Immutable X lets projects stay on Ethereum while massively boosting their scalability and liquidity.
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Chainlink has released a new whitepaper called Chainlink 2.0: Next Steps in the Evolution of Decentralized Oracle Networks. The new whitepaper outlines an ambitious vision for the future of smart contracts. We talk with Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov who explains the implications for the next generation of blockchain ecosystems.
Guest: Sergey Nazarov
Why you should listen: Chainlink’s new whitepaper outlines a long-term, multi-year vision for the future of oracle-enabled smart contracts. The paper states that “Decentralized Oracle Networks will create a decentralized meta-layer that enhances smart contracts with highly scalable, confidential, and secure forms of off-chain computation, in addition to the external data feeds that Chainlink powers today.”
Key takeaway: The Chainlink 2.0 Whitepaper is over 100 pages long and represents a year of work by the Chainlink team. It was written by a team of academic researchers from computer science fields such as security, cryptography, distributed systems, game theory, and mathematics. The paper outlines a new architecture for building hybrid smart contracts where Decentralized Oracle Networks offer all of the capabilities that blockchains cannot, serving as an off-chain computation layer that is anchored to blockchains for security while operating with the feature-richness and scalability of off-chain systems. The new layer enables a product suite of Chainlink Decentralized Services that power a variety of secure, smart contract applications capable of supporting a wider set of use cases than is currently available today.
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Jaime Rogozinski was the original founder of the r/wallstreetbets subreddit. WSB is notorious for its community of young traders who executed risky trading strategies. WSB played a key role in the GameStop short squeeze that caused losses on short positions in U.S. firms topping US$70 billion in early 2021. VIX is the CEO of the new WSB Dapp, a decentralized Dapp that is launching a token. Token funds will be used by a WSB DAO to buy token portfolios (ETPs) voted on by the community.
Guest: Jaime Rogozinski and VIXX
Why you should listen: The Wall Street Bets subreddit is described as "Like 4chan found a Bloomberg terminal." Known for its aggressive trading strategies, members are generally young retail traders prepared to take on high amounts of risk. The community is fond of meme stocks that capture the zeitgeist. The subreddit is also known for its memes, with traders self-identifying as degenerate apes who trade stonks for tendies (profits).
Key takeaway: The WSB movement for financial democracy began on Reddit and has become a global phenomenon. The WSB Dapp was created to give this decentralized community a tool to voice their opinions as retail investors so that anyone, anywhere can YOLO together as one.
The WSB Dapp allows for index-fund type instruments to exist on the blockchain. $WSB governance token holders vote to decide on the rebalancing and exposure of each community-controlled instrument. The ETPs are wholly collateralized, instantly redeemable, and self-custodial.
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Michael Anderson is a co-founder and partner at Framework Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on building the value of blockchain networks through strategic investment and infrastructural support. Before founding Framework, Michael built and sold Hashletes the first and only NFLPA-licensed digital collectibles, with co-founder Vance Spencer. Michael’s prior experience bridges investment banking and consumer tech, with experience from Snap, Inc., Dropbox, and Barclays Capital.
Guest: Michael Anderson
Why you should listen: Framework Ventures is a team of technologists, researchers, and investors who participate in open crypto networks to build open-source finance. Framework is a technology company, building products and services to support the open blockchain networks that they invest in. The firm has backed many key companies in the decentralized finance space, including Synthetix, Chainlink, Aave, and The Graph.
Key takeaway: Framework Ventures believes a new age of venture capital is here. They call this thesis Network Capital. Rather than just hold onto an asset, this type of investing aims to be more hands-on. In the new era of open-source decentralized finance, the best investing requires a new hybrid model where stakeholders are investing, market-making, staking, validating, and participating across all aspects of the ecosystem.
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Jonathan is the lead developer and ceo of Aleph - Aleph is a cloud computing platform that makes it easy for DeFi and Web3 dapps to securely access trusted off-chain data or computation. One of their current projects is working to solve the problem of NFT security standards and ownership.
Guest: Jonathan
Why you should listen: Many NFTs point to a URL on the internet or an IPFS hash. In many circumstances, this references an IPFS gateway on the internet run by the startup you bought the NFT from. the URL is not the media. That URL is a JSON metadata file. The problem with that is that if the marketplace goes bust… so does your NFT.
Key takeaway: Aleph has a solution - just like an Internet wayback machine backs up website versions over time, Aleph creates snapshots of NFTs at a certain point in time. Using decentralized storage capacities, the Aleph NFT Backup dApp allows any holder to save their NFT content on the Aleph network that is secured currently by nodes which all are incentivized to store the data and pin it on IPFS. The Interplanetary File System, or IPFS, is used by most NFT minting platforms to store their NFTs.
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Li Jun is the founder of Ontology, a decentralized system that protects data integrity and security. After launching its mainnet in June 2018, Ontology has continued to press forward, building a key partnership with Daimler.
Guest: Li Jun
Why you should listen: Ever since the early days of the internet, questions have swirled about the nature of our online selves. We all have large digital footprints that represent your digital identity, fragmented, unrecognizable, and trackable. We have provided social networks and service providers with our most valuable asset — our information — and we’ve done so free of charge.
Ontology wants to change this. Blockchain’s ability to store information on either a public or private network enables key parties to access critical information, and then only what the individual allows. This way, the power is placed back into the hands of the individual, where they can choose who they share their data with, and to what extent.
Key takeaway: The solution is a concept called Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI), which places control of personal information with the user, enabling them to log in to all of their online services using just one ID. No more forgotten passwords or having to hand over all your personal information; this is a concept that could dramatically change how we use the internet.
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Tim Frost is the CEO of YIELD App. The YIELD mission is to provide anyone with access to the best investment opportunities, regardless of their financial or technical knowledge. The YIELD platform is a bridge between FinTech and DeFi.
Guest: Tim Frost
Why you should listen: YIELD is a FinTech company that enables anyone to invest in decentralized finance with the touch of a button. This allows users around the world to earn returns from DeFi products without having to go through a complex learning process.
Key takeaway: App users can deposit and withdraw stablecoins USDT and USDC, as well as the native YLD token. The team is now working on YIELD 2.0 which will bring new improvements and updates.
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The Binance Smart Chain is a fork of Ethereum. However, BSC transactions are much faster and cheaper than Ethereum. As a result, it is onboarding millions of users at an eye-watering pace. Brave New Coin’s Aditya Das joins Andy to answer the question - Is Binance Smart Chain an Ethereum killer?
Why you should listen: The Binance Smart Chain is cheaper and faster than Ethereum by an order of magnitude. However, this speed comes at the cost of decentralization. Binance CEO CZ calls this ‘CeDeFi’ or Centralized DeFi, DeFi with training wheels.
Key takeaway: As the Binance Smart Chain is a fork of Ethereum, it uses popular tools like MetaMask that any user who has experimented with Ethereum is likely to be familiar with. In addition, the BEP20 smart contract standard for issuing new tokens on BSC is similar to the ERC20 smart contract standard that was originally developed for Ethereum. As a fork of Ethereum, the BSC can also run the same smart contracts that Ethereum can. This has helped the network bootstrap quickly by forking popular existing Ethereum DeFi protocols. For example, Uniswap becomes PancakeSwap, Compound becomes Venus and Zapper becomes Yield Watch.
Supporting links: Is BSC the Ethereum Killer?
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Marouane Hajji is the protocol lead at Unslashed Finance, a decentralized insurance protocol built on Ethereum. Insurance is a part of the decentralized finance stack that has received less attention. However, crypto is no different from any other industry - there are many risks. Smart contract hacks, exploits, oracle manipulation, data breaches, theft, and so on. Creating an insurance protocol requires both technical skills and a deep understanding of risk modeling.
Why you should listen: Unslashed clients include decentralized exchange aggregator ParaSwap, infrastructure provider Lido Finance, decentralized on-chain asset management platform Enzyme, and several crypto hedge funds such as Techemy Capital who leverage insurance to hedge a certain number of risks. Individual traders can also use Unslashed to hedge their risk profiles.
Key takeaway: Unslashed uses a quantitative approach to model the risks and build out a decentralized insurance protocol that enables almost instant liquidity to insurance buyers and risk underwriters, ensures constant collateralization, and guarantees transparency.
In the Crypto Conversation hot take round Marouane reveals that he is a mega-fan of Battlestar Galactica.
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Craig MacGregor is the founder of Taxoshi, a cryptocurrency tax calculator that helps Kiwis understand their crypto tax position. Taxoshi’s algorithms automate the currency conversions and calculate your trading and mining loss and profit in accordance with the cryptocurrency guidance from the New Zealand IRD. Use the discount code “bravenewcoin” to get a 10% discount if you use Taxoshi.
Why you should listen: Craig has been in the blockchain space for a number of years and is a co-founder of the Navcoin project. After making some capital gains from early crypto trading, Craig wanted to declare these to the IRD. He saw that there was a need for a simple solution that could help other Kiwis calculate their tax position quickly and easily. He built Taxoshi as that solution.
Key takeaway: The IRD’s position is that any time an individual makes a crypto to crypto trade, that is a taxable event that should be declared. The IRD estimates that there are between 25,000 and 100,000 people in New Zealand who have a tax obligation on their crypto assets. If you’ve never filed before, the IRD is currently allowing for voluntary disclosures from previous years.
Supporting links: Taxoshi
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Richard Sanders is a co-founder and lead investigator at CipherBlade, an elite blockchain investigation agency that works closely with top crypto exchanges, blockchain protocols, and the FBI. In this episode, Rich explains his views on the sometimes shady world of crypto ATM operators, the confusing new BitClout platform, and we cover best practice crypto security tips.
Guest: Rich Sanders
Why you should listen: CipherBlade uses a potent mix of on-chain and off-chain analytics and investigative techniques to track the most sophisticated cybercriminals on the planet. Using these techniques he has been tracking the transactions from crypto ATMs. Rich says many of these transactions are being sent to wallets linked to scammers.
Key takeaway: Rich says just because VCs are involved with a project, it doesn’t mean retail investors won’t get burned. In fact, the ones with public team members are the soft exits that often end up mismanaged/shady. People think of this binary, like "it's a scam or not", where "scam" is defined as rug pull, it's a lot more nuanced.
The range of scammers and bad actors in the blockchain ecosystem runs the full gamut from the lowest to the highest basket of sophistication. The least sophisticated are Twitter and Telegram impersonation scammers, often based out of Nigeria. Many of these scammers don’t use VPNs, they don't always use mixers and sometimes they use direct deposit addresses for exchanges. At the other end of the scale, you have very sophisticated hacking groups out of North Korea that use sophisticated mixing and crypto hopping techniques. What scammers have in common is they play on human greed, stupidity, and laziness.
Supporting links: CipherBlade
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Guide to Crypto Scams
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Andy is joined by Samson Mow, CSO at Blockstream. Samson discusses the partnership between Blockstream and Seetee, a new Bitcoin company started by a 100-year-old company from Norway. He talks about the drop in hash power from Chinese miners as American miners increase, and he explains why he thinks Bitcoin will hit $100k in 2021 and could go even as high as $300K leaving $100K as the new price floor.
Why you should listen: Two weeks ago, Aker, a 100-year old Norwegian company announced that it had established ("Seetee"), a new company dedicated to investing in projects throughout the Bitcoin ecosystem. Seetee said, “Bitcoin has inspired us to challenge our intuitive understanding of money. Having followed the cryptocurrency discourse for a while, we decided to reach out to the engineers who made it their mission to change the inner workings of money more than two decades ago. Seetee has formed a partnership with Blockstream, a global leader in Bitcoin and blockchain technology. Blockstream’s leadership includes Adam Back, the inventor of Hashcash, a 1997 precursor to Bitcoin. With Blockstream as our partner, we are confident that we can navigate this industry.”
Key Takeaway:
Samson talks Blockstream, Liquid, why NFTs might be in a bubble and he gives the background and progress to Infinite Fleet, the epic sci-fi massively multiplayer online (MMO) strategy game he founded. Plus listen to the end of the show for a very special sci-fi easter egg!
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Andy is joined by Zack Burks, CEO at the Mintable NFT marketplace, and Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine, grandson of the legendary Ukrainian, Russian and French painter. Mintable is hosting an exclusive NFT based collection of 10 drops, 4 auctions, and 1 original 96-year-old physical painting, all by Baranoff-Rossine. It’s a historic first where avant-garde art meets the brave new world of NFTs.
Guests: Zach Burks and Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine
Why you should listen: Zach and Wladimir have teamed up to create a collaboration that represents a piece of fine art and NFT history. The Mintable auction goes live on March 25 and is expected to attract interest from digital art collectors, the NFT ecosystem, and fine art connoisseurs. Listen to the episode to hear Zach talk about the new NFT creator economy, why we are not in an NFT bubble, and Wladimir explains the unique history of the pioneering artwork of his grandfather.
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Jonas Simanavicius is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Syntropy. Syntropy, based in San Francisco, transforms the public internet into a secure and user-centric internet, where encryption and optimized performance are built-in and automatically enabled for anything and everything connected to it.
Guest: Jonas Simanavicius
Why you should listen: Prior to founding Syntropy, Jonas worked on the engineering and application development teams of Royal Bank of Scotland and JPMorgan Chase. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Edinburgh.
Syntropy Stack is a collection of tech and tools that allows anyone to build and deploy applications on Syntropy, with all connections optimized-for-performance and encrypted-by-default. It is compatible across millions of devices and services, including cloud, on-premise, and edge infrastructure. Syntropy Stack gives every developer the power and control to build on Syntropy’s unifying layer.
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Alex Mashinsky is the CEO and founder of Celsius, the platform that lets you earn interest on your crypto and use it as collateral to get fiat loans. Celsius offers a platform of curated services that have been abandoned by big banks – fair interest, zero fees, and fast transactions. Their goal is to disrupt the financial industry, one user at a time, and introduce financial freedom through crypto.
Guest: Alex Mashinsky
Why you should listen: Alex explains the successful journey that has seen users deposit $10B in assets with Celsius. The Celsius token was one of the best-performing crypto assets in 2020.
Key takeaway: Alex says Celsius is a supporter of DeFi and they are the bigger user of Aave, as one example. Celsius is aimed at noobs or everyday holders of Bitcoin and Ethereum and allows them to generate yield or get loans without the risk and knowledge barrier of DeFi.
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Dr. Marc Fleury is the founder and CEO of Two Prime, a digital assets investment firm that invests in BTC and ETH. Marc has a PHD in theoretical physics and he is an open-source evangelist. Two Prime uses a variety of sophisticated hedging strategies to help high net worth individuals gain exposure to the upside potential of BTC and ETH but remain hedged against downside risk.
Why you should listen: Dr. Marc Fleury joins Andy for a fascinating and wide ranging discussion on why Bitcoin is the most important decentralized, open-source project on the planet. Marc explains why he is involved with the Mont Pèlerin Society, a group of economists and intellectuals advocating for an open society and economy driven by free-market principles, personal and political liberty, and freedom of expression. Marc shares his views on post-capitalism, UBI, a world of abundance, and how we evolve to a sci-fi future.
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Mark Berisha is the CEO of APECoin and the MemeFarm and BustAbnb ecosystems. APECoin embraces the humor and viral nature of memes to bring new participants into crypto. Apecoin is developing a game called “Bust-a-BNB” for Binance Smart Chain (BSC). An airdrop will occur for existing APE holders on March 14. GO APE!
Why you should listen: The exponential growth of DeFi in the past nine months has sparked a flood of experimentation in smart-contract and Dapp design. The APEcoin Dev team realized the world is already farming memes, and created MemeFarm.io to get involved.
Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs) can extend digital scarcity beyond currency to art, music, and design — any other form of expression that can be digitized. Suddenly, the control of scarcity and the ability to create a single verifiably unique version of anything digital is in the hands of the artists and creators where it belongs.
Today, artists and makers have few choices as to how they commercialize their NFTs. They can either find buyers themselves or set up an auction through platforms like Rarible — where their success will depend on how well they market their creations and how hard they work to establish a market price.
Mark thinks there is a better way. They could bootstrap the price discovery through a novel curation farming mechanic. Mark calls it the NFT DAO, and it could revolutionize how these trends interact on a whole new level.
NFT DAO offers a new choice to makers and artists:
- They can submit their NFTs to the NFT DAO. MemeFarm token holders vote to accept or reject submitted NFTs.
- The artists of the accepted NFTs then receive their share of NFT DAO’s monthly rewards. And the farmers compete to ‘mine’ those NFTs.
Supporting links: APEcoin
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Norwegian Billionaire Kjell Inge Røkke says that Aker ASA, his Norwegian fishing, oil, and engineering company has established Seetee, a new company dedicated to investing in projects and companies in the Bitcoin ecosystem. Seetee will keep all its liquid investable assets in bitcoin.
To announce this decision, Mr Røkke wrote a letter to shareholders. The letter is one of the most bullish Bitcoin letters published this year and points towards the changing narratives around Bitcoin mining and how Bitcoin may help speed up the global transition to renewable energy.
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NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) is one of the most exciting narratives in crypto in 2021. The collectible digital art world has exploded with some pieces selling for millions of dollars. The market is frothy and might be in bubble territory but over the next decade, NFTs have the potential to bring millions of people into crypto and help build out the metaverse.
Guest: Aditya Das
Why you should listen: Aditya Das is a blockchain analyst and researcher at Brave New Coin. He joins Andy to discuss NFTs. Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are unique, digital assets that can be owned, bought, sold, and traded on a blockchain. A non-fungible token is a type of cryptographic token that represents something unique. People often refer to them as “Provably rare digital assets.”
If we are going to build a Ready Player One metaverse, it is important that it is built on a neutral platform where individuals can own their own items and not be at risk of censorship. If one central company gains control of the metaverse, it will become more powerful than any government and be a god on Earth.
Key takeaway: Right now, NFTs mostly exist in the world of art, music, and gaming. But It’s about to get a whole lot crazier, with NFTs poised to explode across the digital economy.
The NFT art scene has boomed in the last few months. Marketplaces like SuperRare, Rarible, and Nifty Gateway are seeing record volumes.
In January, a piece of artwork by Mike Winkelmann, a digital artist also known as Beeple, sold for $6.6 million at Nifty Gateway.
A digital art piece by Beeple called The First 5000 Days is being auctioned by Christie’s. The current bid is USD 3,750,000, and the auction closes in 4 days.
People are finding new ways to tokenize anything digital. You can now buy tweets as NFTs and Jack Dorsey’s original tweet is valued at USD 2.5 million.
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CME Group has launched its Ether Futures product offering. The new contract is cash-settled, and based on the CME CF Ether-Dollar Reference Rate. Tim McCourt, CME Group Global Head of Equity Index and Alternative Investment Products, joins Andy to talk Ether Futures.
Guest: Tim McCourt
Why you should listen: Andy and Tim discuss the CME Futures markets, the role of futures in global price discovery, and how market participants use Futures to hedge their positions. Tim says, “Based on increasing client demand for our Bitcoin futures and options markets, we see the addition of Ether futures as a valuable tool to trade and hedge this growing cryptocurrency. Ethereum is the second-largest cryptocurrency by both market capitalization and daily volume. The introduction of listed Ether futures will help create a forward curve so Ethereum market participants can better manage price risk.” Tim McCourt serves as CME Group’s Managing Director and Global Head of Equity Index and Alternative Investment Products. He is responsible for leading the development and execution of the company’s global Equity Index, Commodity Index, and Cryptocurrency product strategies. He serves on the CME Ventures Investment Committee and the S&P Dow Jones Indices U.S. Advisory Panel.
Key takeaway: Andy asked Tim how CME Group thinks about open-source decentralized protocols such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. Tim said, “When we look at cryptocurrencies we think it’s interesting in the way they are pushing out the frontier of finance. CME Group is a two-century-old institution with an innovative history itself. We’ve introduced all sorts of innovative financial products across that 200-year history. So when we see new technologies that can help our clients engage with markets in new ways, we adapt and innovate, and look for new ways to serve the risk management needs of our customers. I think it’s exciting and interesting and I look forward to seeing how this continues to evolve.”
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Rekt Capital, a Forbes featured crypto technical analyst and trader returns for his third appearance on the Crypto Conversation. With Bitcoin and Ethereum continuing to hit new all-time highs, REKT and Andy discuss the current bull market.
Guest: Rekt Capital
Why you should listen: Rekt Capital is an astute analyst who specializes in technical analysis and trading psychology. He has written several research articles analyzing the effect of the Bitcoin Halving, and the Crypto Money Flow Cycle to track the movement of capital from Bitcoin to mid-caps to small-caps and back.
Key takeaway: Andy and REKT talk about the psychological toll that crypto volatility can have on traders, what new investors to crypto need to know, and the clever ways that Elon Musk and Michael Saylor influence the markets.
Want to get $20 OFF Rekt Capital’s Technical Analysis course? Simply follow this link and use the discount code “cryptoconversation” in the Discount Code field.
Supporting links: The Bitcoin Halving with REKT Capital
What to expect from the 2021 Bull Cycle
The Dash Market Cycle
Bitcoin Corrections
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Rekt Capital Newsletter
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Josh Olszewicz, lead analyst at Brave New Coin joins Andy to discuss the recent crypto correction and today’s recovery. Is the correction over? Will the bull run continue? Is the NFT boom a sign of market froth?
Why you should listen: Josh and Andy share their plans for creating more crypto content as a response to the growing audience demand that a bull market generates.
For crypto investors wanting to copy trade Josh, there’s an easy solution via Techemy Capital’s holistic ETH/BTC portfolio via Enzyme Finance.
Key takeaway: After a swift run up in price, you should expect a swift correction. We’ve had two 30%+ corrections this year, however, this is normal in a bull market. Bitcoin continues to look strong with a series of bullish news events driving new buyers to Bitcoin.
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Techemy Capital has launched Decentralized Exchange-Traded Portfolios (ETPs) on Balancer, starting with a DeFi ETP. We’re joined by Techemy Capital CEO Fran Strajnar, and Balancer CEO Fernando Martinelli who discuss why these ETPs are a potential game-changer, how to invest, and what this means for DeFi.
Guests: Fran Strajnar and Fernando Martinelli
Why you should listen: “Digital asset investors and traders are seeking more advanced ways to gain exposure to popular DeFi assets,” says Fran Strajnar, CEO at Techemy Capital. “BNC’s DeFi Index and ETP provides this, all with industry-leading security, transparency, and speed. Rather than having to pick one DeFi winner and hope for the best, investors can now get exposure to the success of the entire sector.”
Fernando says it is validating to see funds such as Techemy Capital be early adopters of Balancer. "We're about to launch Balancer V2 which will bring massive gains in cost efficiency for gas fees. It's an exciting time for crypto and for DeFi and brilliant to see Techemy Capital provide a use case for Balancer that we foresaw from day one.”
Key takeaway: The DeFi ETP is a physical representation of Brave New Coin’s Blue-Chip DeFi Index ( a portfolio of 8 key assets). The DeFi ETP gives traders non-synthetic exposure to assets in the BNC DeFi Blue-Chip Index: Yearn Finance ($YFI), Compound Finance ($COMP), Aave Protocol ($AAVE), MakerDAO ($MKR), Synthetix ($SNX), Uniswap ($UNI), SushiSwap ($SUSHI) and Uma Project ($UMA).
Issued on Balancer Protocol, the new DeFi ETP mimics the constitution and weights of the BNC Blue-Chip DeFi Index. It is rebalanced in alignment with the index, providing traders an opportunity to get non-synthetic exposure to the assets that make up the index, and/or to speculate or arbitrage between the price parity of the index-powered perpetual swaps [offered by third parties such as BTSE] and the spot market for the ETP.
The DeFi ETP is non-custodial, transparent, on-chain, wholly collateralized, highly liquid, and instantly redeemable.
Supporting links: Techemy Capital
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Multichain Ventures is the parent company of The Tokes Platform. Multichain produces blockchain-focused products including cryptocurrency-based payment processing and supply chain visibility tools for the cannabis industry.
Guests: Michael Wagner and Pablo Quiroga
Why you should listen: The Tokes Platform builds software solutions for the merchant adoption of cryptocurrency and the data provenance of supply chains in the legal cannabis industry. The platform was developed as a solution to the cash-only problem caused by federal prohibition resulting in banking restrictions. To solve this issue, Tokes created software for tokenized transactions encompassing consumer to business, business to business, and business to state transactions. Blockchain provides utility for more than payments, as ensuring the provenance and transparency of cannabis supply chain data from seed-to-sale is not only a preferred scenario for consumers but regulated by state agencies. Tokes produces supply chain visibility solutions on blockchain for integration with seed-to-sale software to ensure the accuracy and availability of cannabis data for regulators and business stakeholders.
Key takeaway: Multichain recently secured a public sector contract with the State of Nevada to fulfill the requirements of Assembly Bill 466. The Bill creates a Pilot Program and legal framework within which legal cannabis entities and supporting businesses can eliminate the necessity of transacting exclusively in cash, through the implementation of blockchain-based services. Multichain’s contributions to the B466 date back to 2018. Early discussions centered on a variety of potential alternative solutions to issues facing cannabis operators and how tokenized ecosystems might help solve these issues.
Multichain is working on Star Atlas, a space-themed metaverse of grand strategy, open world exploration, territorial conquest, and political domination. Underlying technology consists of the latest in hi-fidelity game development, Unreal Engine, stunning visuals, and a blockchain baselayer utilizing Solana. The metaverse represents an alternative world of economic and political strategy, with the ability to generate real-world wealth transcending video game assets.
Supporting links: Tokes Platform
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Sergey Nazarov is the co-founder of Chainlink where he is spearheading the smart contract oracle revolution. In this podcast, Sergey lays out his current thinking on DeFi (Decentralized Finance), how it improves on CeFi, the role of oracles in decentralized finance, and the fast and slow cases on what is needed for DeFi to go mainstream. Sergey says “decentralized finance is the thing that people want. They just don't know that they want it yet.”
Guest: Sergey Nazarov
Why you should listen: Sergey says the recent Robinhood r/Wallstreetbets phenomenon has injected new realizations into society's collective consciousness. People are waking up to the realization that in the legacy financial system - they don't have full control of their financial assets and trading accounts. And they have seen that the ability of the average person to participate in a system that they were told was fair can be taken away by those who hold the power.
Sergey says that in the financial world if enough people believe in something, it starts to occur. If enough people decide to buy GameStop stock, something happens. If enough people decide to shift from one platform to another, something significant happens.
Social media, digital platforms, and decentralized blockchain applications make fast collective action possible in new ways. DeFi is the system that people want. Sergey thinks it is only a matter of time before this becomes self-evident and people begin to move to DeFi applications at scale.
Key takeaway: Sergey says the increasing mainstream adoption of DeFi will happen through the search for yield and the transparency and control of one's assets.
With fiat interest rates low and the returns of DeFi much higher, eventually, even the legacy financial system is likely to build interfaces that flow value into DeFi to capture yield. Everybody wants to at least maintain their wealth. And so any place where they can do that will become popular, and eventually, there will be a tipping point.
Sergey says there is a slow case and a fast case for how this evolves. “The slow case for DeFi is what we're experiencing now, as unbelievable as that sounds going from something like 20 billion to 40 billion in assets in DeFi over the last month.”
This is the slow case as only about 2.6% of the crypto value that could be in DeFi, is in DeFi. The slow case will be accelerated by events such as Robinhood. “It's slow because there is friction to using DeFi, but it will slowly be accelerated through better and better user interfaces. Eventually, someone will figure out a way to just make it seamless for people to interact with DeFi, and the tipping point will be reached.”
The fast case is a rapid succession of failures in the traditional financial system. This will create a fear of counterparty risk and a newfound cynicism about the solvency of traditional financial institutions. This would lead a majority of people to seek alternatives even if there is still some friction in the DeFi user experience.
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Enzyme Finance is an Ethereum-based protocol for decentralized on-chain asset management. Enzyme empowers anyone to set up, manage and invest in customized on-chain investment vehicles. Techemy Capital has launched the non-custodial Holistic ETH-BTC Portfolio on Enzyme. This actively traded portfolio provides exposure to Bitcoin and Ethereum price action using Long/Short trading strategies designed and executed by Josh Olszewicz.
Guests: Mona El Isa and Josh Olszewicz
Why you should listen: Traditionally, starting and managing investment funds has been complicated, and costly. Enzyme Finance has disrupted the old model by making it possible for anyone to set up their own on-chain fund that others can invest in. With a 5 minute set-up time and streamlined processes, Enzyme allows anyone to create or invest in an investment fund without asking for permission. This is a game-changer because historically there have been massive barriers to entry in the fund industry, both for fund managers and investors.
Each fund on Enzyme is transparent and on-chain and its past performance and trading history, asset allocation, and the ruleset which describes its operations are all public and available for anyone to inspect.
Josh Olszewicz is a trader at Techemy Capital. He says that Enzyme Finance is a game-changer. “Everyone is interested in trading now. They want exposure to markets. What I like about Enzyme is that everything is open and transparent. It's effectively like on-chain copy trading.”
The next Techemy Capital product to be released on Enzyme is an actively managed DeFi portfolio.
Key takeaway: Mona says “You can think of Enzyme Finance as a technology protocol that enables fund managers to customize the set-up of their own unique fund. Managers can pre-define all sorts of rules from fees, to the number of positions, types of assets, risk management, and so on. They can build and scale investment strategies from discretionary and robo to ETFs and market-making. The protocol takes care of investments and redemptions, NAV calculations, and enforces the rules that managers have in their funds. Everything is automated using smart contracts. Users can write as many rules as they want, so they can create uniquely individual funds.”
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Anthony “The Mooch” Scaramucci is best known for his short-lived, but very entertaining tenure as the White House communications director under President Trump. Anthony has had a long career in investment banking and he is the founder of Skybridge Capital, a global investment fund that has just launched the Skybridge Bitcoin fund.
Why you should listen:
Anthony says investors have a Eureka moment when they begin to understand that Bitcoin is a monetary network. “Just like there is a retail network, Amazon, a social network, Facebook, like there is a search network, Google. Bitcoin is the monetary network, and that makes it potentially very valuable. Think about where Apple or Amazon or Google were ten years ago, maybe that is where Bitcoin is at today.”
Key takeaway:
Anthony says that Bitcoin is the only thing in our society right now, where if the demand goes up, there's no increase in supply. “When people want Tesla shares, there's a sausage factory in the back of Tesla. They're printing out Tesla shares. Do people want dollars? They're printing out dollars. If oil prices are going up, we're drilling for oil everywhere to meet that demand and produce more oil, but that can’t be done for Bitcoin. And so that's the Eureka moment.”
Anthony says that President Trump was out of control. “He was a full-on liar. He added a trillion dollars to the deficit and his legacy will be that he made our country weaker, sicker, and poorer. He had malpractice on the pandemic and then on the way out the door, he tried to undermine our democracy.”
Anthony says that Joe Biden, “whether you like him or not, what does he represent as a pillar of Democratic party politics? He represents centrism. He represents core bureaucratic competence. To me, this was a seismic change for good. Do I love the excess regulation? I don't. Do I love a ponderous government? I don't. But do I like competent people in positions? I do. And so I like Joe Biden.”
Supporting links: Skybridge Bitcoin Fund
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Edmund Lowell is the CEO of KYC-chain and the Selfkey network - a blockchain startup developing digital identity solutions that empower individuals to take back ownership of their identity data.
Guest: Edmund Lowell
Why you should listen: Everyone’s data is concentrated in the hands of a few large institutions. They store information about your browsing history, shopping habits, location data, bank statements, medical history, and more. With the growing threat of data breaches, and the loss of privacy - our information is increasingly at risk. One of the reasons for this is because rather than the individual controlling their data, it is instead tech companies and government databases that store data. This is at risk of being hacked and leaked. For example, last year hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger was data hacked. The data consisted of a list of one million email addresses, as well as a list of 272,000 individual customers, containing emails, phone numbers, and physical addresses. Those customers have since been targeted with phishing attempts by scammers sending fraudulent emails claiming that their "cryptocurrency assets are at risk", prompting them to download a fake version of Ledger Live that would then ask for the user's seed phrase.
Key takeaway: Current identity systems have failed to deliver the most basic requirements for a successful identity system: security, privacy, ownership, access, protection, interoperability, or linked data portability to identity owners.
SelfKey’s mission is to empower individuals to own, control, and manage their personal data; and to help businesses protect personal data entrusted to them by users, and stay compliant with privacy regulators. SelfKey envisions a safer world where individuals are freer because their personal data and privacy is protected and under their control.
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Axie Infinity is a Pokémon-inspired blockchain-based digital pet universe where players can earn tokens through gaming. Players can battle, collect, breed, and build a kingdom for their pets. Like CryptoKitties, Axies are non-fungible tokens (NFTs) represented as cryptographically unique characters that can’t be replicated. And like Pokémon, they are born to battle. While Axie can be just a game, it has built a strong social network, passionate community, and emerging jobs platform due to the play to earn opportunities it is generating.
Guest: Jeff Zirlin
Why you should listen: Jeff grew up playing games like Neopets, Pokémon, and World of Warcraft. “I played so much WOW that my parents sent me to boarding school,” he says. “I’ve always been a collector. As I kid my dad and I would collect fossils and insects. And as a lifelong gamer, I’m a digital collector as well, so I was predisposed to be interested in blockchain gaming.”
The blockchain gaming play to earn revolution started to gain traction after it emerged that a large community of players in the Philippines was earning money playing Axie Infinity.
Jeff says "Most game companies sell in-game resources, items, and upgrades. With Axie there's an in-game resource that you need to create more Axies and it's called the love potion. So most game developers would sell this love potion, and people would pay for it. In Axie we don't sell it ourselves, the only way that love potions can be created is by people playing the game. Players who have big Axie collections need the love potion to breed Axies and have to buy the token from a liquidity pool on UniSwap or from Binance. So players can earn a basic income and we've seen that with the rise in value of ETH, this can appreciate significantly.”
Key takeaway: The power of blockchain games is that they're becoming more than games. They're becoming places that we can live, work, and play. The eventual vision is to create a Metaverse similar to Ready Player One where people spend the majority of their time.
“We believe in a future where work and play become one,” says Jeff. “And we believe in empowering our players and giving them economic opportunities.”
To do this the Axie team is committed to aligning the incentives of the Axie community. Players can earn the AXS governance token. The token economics were designed by Delphi Digital. Delphi Digital has invested a significant amount of capital in buying several extremely rare Mystic Axies. If Axie Infinity continues to gain traction Mystic Axies will grow in value in the future.
Jeff says “We’re seeing the rise of Mystic Axies and other NFTs as a true asset class. This trend accelerated when Delphi Digital picked up some of the rarest Axies in the game, like quadruple Mystics, triple Mystics. You can think of Mystics as rare and valuable skins. It makes sense that there's a lot of interest around NFTs and it makes sense because we live in a digital world.”
Supporting links: Axie Infinity
Delphi Digital on Axie
Leverj
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The legendary Bitcoin evangelist, educator, and advocate Andreas M. Antonopoulos returns for his second appearance on the Crypto Conversation. Topics of discussion include the Ledger data breach, crypto security, the proposed new FinCEN regulations, techno-optimism, and why decentralized blockchains are a source of hope.
Why you should listen: “I'm a techno-optimist,” says Antonopoulos. “I believe that technology has freed people from the constraints of the past. It has empowered individuals and improved the lives of billions. The world is a more equitable place as a result. Technology itself is a neutral tool that we can use for good or evil. You have to take the base assumption that the vast majority of human beings are good. There are exceptions, of course, but the exceptions validate this truth. Technologies that are truly decentralized and go directly into the hands of empowering individuals, they will be used by those individuals to do good. And so when I look at a technology that can be used at scale by lots of people and based on my understanding of human nature, I see immense hope. I see immense hope that if you allow people to act on their own impulses and give them power in the form of technology, the outcomes are massive good on a massive scale.”
Key takeaway: Antonopoulos, never one to mince words, says the proposed FinCEN regulations are an attempt to extend a totalitarian financial surveillance structure over the entire world. “They are acting with complete disregard for the consequences and side effects on billions of innocent people,” he says. “This is wrapped up in the self-righteous and easy to sell idea that this prevents crime. Of course, they bundled in all of the worst kinds of crimes, such as terrorism and child pornography. The truth is, however, that for decades now, every study that has ever looked at the effectiveness of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing, these kinds of customer regulations prevent a vanishingly small amount of those activities.”
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We’re revisiting some of the best Crypto Conversation podcast episodes of 2020. In this episode, we talk to Bharath Rao and Swapman from LEVERJ, the world’s first scalable decentralized derivatives exchange. LEVERJ is a trading platform created to perform like traditional financial exchanges while maintaining the critical function of security. Built on Gluon, a Plasma sidechain, LEVERJ is self-custodial by design, meaning that users always control their private keys and funds. Gluon is the first fully operational Ethereum Layer 2 chain, giving LEVERJ the high-transaction throughput to work as fast as centralized exchanges.
Why you should listen: LEVERJ is a self-custodial decentralized derivatives exchange that provides up to 100x leverage. High speed, decentralized spot trading went live on mainnet in 2019 while futures trading went live in September. The first tradable futures products are ETH-USD and BTC-USD perpetual swaps with many more products in the pipeline.
LEVERJ has partnered with Brave New Coin to roll out a pipeline of innovative exchange traded products. Some examples of these are sub-sector specific tradable products such as a DeFi index, a privacy coin index, volatility indices and more. “Most exchanges self-index, which introduces unnecessary risk,” says LEVERJ CEO Bharath Rao. “By partnering with Brave New Coin, we give our users more transparency in the benchmark methodology and instrument design process as well as a greatly expedited product roadmap. It’s our goal to bring the best practices of capital markets into the DeFi space, thus attracting new institutions.”
Key takeaway: Interest in DeFi exploded in 2020. To cater to this demand, LEVERJ has built a high-frequency, multi-currency spot and futures trading platform.
The explosion of DeFi in 2020 has seen Ethereum gas prices rise significantly. The huge spike in demand for transaction space on the Ethereum chain has put a strain on the Ethereum and DeFi ecosystems. Centralized cryptocurrency exchanges have faced challenges with security and performance, often falling short of the standards set by traditional financial exchanges.
LEVERJ solves these challenges with the Gluon sidechain, a mathematically rigorous protocol preventing fraud, compromise, and collusion to provide the benefits of blockchain without the limitations. Gluon is an advanced, fully operational Ethereum Layer 2 chain, giving LEVERJ high-transaction, low-latency throughput similar to centralized exchanges.
Other developers can also build decentralized applications using Gluon, including their own decentralized exchanges.
Gluon has been in development for over three years and is currently the only Layer 2 solution purpose-built for high-capacity trading, that has instant-finality, strong composability, and conventional APIs for sophisticated traders to feel like they are using a regular centralized exchange without counterparty risk.
Supporting links: LEVERJ
LEVERJ on Twitter
Andy on Twitter
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We’re revisiting some of the best Crypto Conversation podcast episodes of 2020. In this episode, we talk to DJ J-SCRILLA, a critically acclaimed hip-hop producer from Washington DC. DJ J-SCRILLA has released a new hip-hop album called Sound Money that tells the story of Bitcoin. Here it is, the official hip-hop edition of the Crypto Conversation…. Yeah boi!
Why you should listen: Sound Money by DJ J-SCRILLA is a body of Bitcoin art combining audio clips, samples, dirty drums and some of the hip-hop underground’s best rappers. The album serves as a soundtrack for Bitcoiners and serves up audio inspiration for no-coiners interested in the future of decentralized money. This podcast features music highlights from the album including the new crypto anthem ‘Faith In My Money (Money Printer Go Brrr)’.
Key takeaway: On the hip-hop edition of the Crypto Conversation podcast, we discuss the lockdown trend that has seen top rappers engage in Instagram battles, such as the recent soundclash between DJ Premier and RZA.
DJ J-SCRILLA says “the album is not a foolishly positive take on Bitcoin. It’s a rational angle that condemns the abuses of central banking and portrays Satoshi Nakamoto’s currency as an alternative.”
Following the Crypto Conversation hot take round, DJ J-SCRILLA shares his top 5 hip-hop albums. Sound Money is available on major streaming services.
Supporting links: Rarescrilla.com
Money Printer Go Brrr
DJ J-Scrilla on Twitter
Sound Money on Spotify
Andy on Twitter
Brave New Coin on Twitter
Brave New Coin
LEVERJ
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We’re revisiting some of the best Crypto Conversation podcast episodes of 2020. In this episode, we talk to Robert Breedlove, one of the deepest and most insightful thinkers on Bitcoin. Robert is the author of The Number Zero and Bitcoin. Robert says Satoshi gave the world Bitcoin, a true “something for nothing.” This discovery of absolute scarcity for money is an unstoppable idea that is changing the world tremendously, just like its digital ancestor: the number zero.
Guest: Robert Breedlove
Why you should listen: Robert says that Satoshi gave the world Bitcoin, a true “something for nothing.” This discovery of absolute scarcity for money is an unstoppable idea that is changing the world tremendously, just like its digital ancestor: the number zero.
Like the invention of zero, which led to the discovery of “nothing as something” in mathematics and other domains, Bitcoin is the catalyst of a worldwide paradigmatic phase change. What numeral is to number, and zero is to the void for mathematics, Bitcoin is to absolute scarcity for money: each is a symbol that allows mankind to apprehend a latent reality (in the case of money, time). More than just a new monetary technology, Bitcoin is an entirely new economic paradigm: an uncompromisable base money protocol for a global, digital, non-state economy.
Key takeaway: Robert says that many believe that Bitcoin is “just one of thousands of crypto assets”—this is true in the same way that the number zero is just one of an infinite series of numbers. In reality, Bitcoin is special, and so is zero: each is an invention which led to a discovery that fundamentally reshaped its overarching system—for Bitcoin, that system is money, and for zero, it is mathematics. Since money and math are mankind’s two universal languages, both Bitcoin and zero are critical constructs for civilization.
Zero and Bitcoin are unstoppable ideas gifted to mankind; gestures made in the spirit of “something for nothing.” In a world run by central banks with zero accountability, a cabal that uses the specious prospects of “infinite cash” to promise us everything (thereby raising the specter of hyperinflation), nothingness may prove to be the greatest gift we could ever receive…
Supporting links: The Number Zero and Bitcoin
An Open Letter to Ray Dalio
Robert’s Tweet Storm
Sapiens
Interstellar
The Sovereign Individual
Andy on Twitter
Brave New Coin on Twitter
Brave New Coin
Leverj
We’re revisiting some of the best Crypto Conversation podcast episodes of 2020. In this episode, we talk with Torsten Hoffmann a documentary filmmaker. His new film Cryptopia: Bitcoin, Blockchains and the Future of the Internet is now available online.
Why you should listen: After writing a research paper on alternative currencies as part of his MBA at Oxford University, Torsten was intrigued by Bitcoin. In 2014 he started working on Bitcoin: The End of Money As We Know it, his first documentary. Hoffmann’s award-winning first film looks at Bitcoin in the context of the history of money. His new film, Cryptopia: Bitcoin, Blockchains and the Future of the Internet is a bigger budget, ambitious follow up that takes a 360 wide-angle approach to the technology that may define Web 3.0.
“Since the release of the first film, the industry has grown by a factor of 100. Bitcoin has been called one of the most disruptive technologies of our time. However, media coverage is often misinformed and the general public is still confused about the technology and its implications,” says Hoffmann. “Can this technology, designed to operate independent of trust and within a decentralized network, really provide a robust alternative? Or are cryptocurrencies just as unfairly distributed, easily manipulated, and dangerous as our current systems? That was my starting point.”
Key takeaway: Filmed over two years Torsten says the new documentary has three arcs. "First we look at Bitcoin, then we look at the ecosystem, public / private blockchains and ICOs, and then we look forward at the potential of blockchain to unlock Web 3.0."
He interviewed some of the ecosystem’s biggest brains and biggest egos including Andreas Antonopoulos, Roger Ver, Charlie Lee, Samson Mow, Craig Wright, Preethi Kasireddy, and Wences Casares.
While the film has a global feel, with filming taking place on four continents in cities including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Tokyo, London, Berlin, Switzerland, and Melbourne, Hoffmann says the highlight of the filming schedule was being granted access to the Xapo vault located in a top secret location buried deep in the Swiss mountains.
Founded by Bitcoin entrepreneur Wences Casares, the Xapo vault is a decommissioned military bunker dug into the mountainside in a remote part of Switzerland. Its exact location is secret, and access is protected by a complex series of security measures.
“The bunker scene was a highlight and we are the only film crew to be allowed inside. Allegedly up to 10% of all Bitcoin private keys are stored in the Xapo vault. It was a James Bond style adventure to get clearance and film inside the bunker,” said Hoffmann.
Supporting links: Cryptopia Film
Torsten on Twitter
Andy on Twitter
Brave New Coin on Twitter
Brave New Coin
Leverj
Bitcoin achieved a new all-time high today of USD $20,800. Bitcoin is now in full price discovery mode and looks set to continue as the bull market heats up. With a reduction in supply following May’s halving, increasing demand from institutions, and a strong narrative that Bitcoin is a store of value, Bitcoin’s future has never looked brighter.
Why you should listen: Josh says “I think that $33k by July 2021 is more viable and possible than ever. I don’t think it is likely we’ll see a bear market any time soon, we’re now in possible multi-year bull market territory. This is good for BTC, this is good for ETH, this is good for all of crypto.”
Key takeaway: If you’re reading this, you are probably a bitcoiner - good for you. Give yourself a pat on the back for believing in and participating in the birth of a brand new asset class, this is just the beginning. Andy and Josh also discuss ETH, DeFi and the growing NFT and collectible digital art scene.
Supporting links: Leverj
Josh on Twitter
Andy on Twitter
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Haseeb Awan is a cellphone security expert and the CEO of efani - America's most secure & private cellphone service. Haseeb was the creator of the 1st Bitcoin ATM in the U.S.
Why you should listen: Haseeb has a background in Telecom Engineering. After being targeted by a sim swapper he looked at the weaknesses in existing mobile operators. He then designed a secure solution for his personal use. After growing interest from his network, Haseen founded efani, the most secure, private mobile operator in the U.S.
The potential ROI for sim-swap attackers is massive. Crypto is an attractive target that can be turned into dollars. The sim-swap attack is easy to execute and doesn’t require coding skills.
Once an attacker has control of a phone account, they are often able to gain access to a victim’s email account, Google Drive, passwords, and more.
Key takeaway: With crypto prices tracking up, it’s an excellent time to review your security practices. If prices continue to rise more bad actors will be incentivized to target crypto holders.
Mobile phone support staff are underpaid and overworked and are not well trained against sophisticated social engineering attacks. All of the information an attacker needs to know to begin a social engineering attack can be purchased on the dark web.
efani will transfer your existing number to efani and separate your personal information from your telephone number. Efani enforces 11-layers of military-grade client-side integrity, privacy and authentication protection.
Efani is not for everyone, the company is a boutique solution for those who understand the value of privacy and security.
Supporting links: Efani
Haseeb on Twitter
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Richard Sanders is a co-founder and lead investigator at CipherBlade, an elite blockchain investigation agency that works closely with top crypto exchanges, blockchain protocols, and the FBI. The agency uses a potent mix of on-chain and off-chain analytics and investigative techniques to track the most sophisticated cybercriminals on the planet.
Guest: Richard Sanders
Why you should listen: Richard Sanders and his team at CipherBlade are the 911 that the blockchain industry calls for cryptocurrency scam and hack investigations. Richard says “We'd prefer it if people came to us before they get hacked, rather than after they get hacked. We provide security audits for exchanges and high net worth individuals and can provide extensive training for companies and individuals.”
Blockchain investigators use a variety of tools that allow them to visualize the blockchain. A block explorer does something similar, the difference with professional tools is they take those visualizations to the next level and significantly increases the information and attribution that can be analyzed.
Richard says he is also adept at off-chain investigative skills. “Social engineering is a good example of this. I pretended to be a female gamer on Discord and that helped me identify one of the Ian Balina scammers. At the end of the day, the blockchain is the best source of data, if you can follow a set of transactions to a KYCed account on an exchange, that is the best place to start. There are some elements on the psyops side that can come into play. For example, you might look at indicators of behavior. If a person of interest has a history of speeding tickets and gambling, then those would be red flags, just as an example.”
Key takeaway: Richard describes himself as a Realistic-Libertarian-Contrarian-Cyborg. Despite his intensive military background and strong working relationship with the FBI, Rich is also a cryptocurrency advocate, a staunch supporter of Monero, and a passionate believer in privacy.
Richard says “I love the idea of privacy by default. As a realist, I understand that there will be an increase in diligence on people using crypto platforms and if you're making deposits you'll need to explain your source of funds. Monero has never tried to advertise using Monero for nefarious purposes. They don't need to. Privacy is a strong enough use case for adoption in and of itself. The question is, how do we have privacy by default but in the interests of public safety? We need to have this conversation as an industry so we can figure this out before governments are forced to do it for us.”
The range of scammers and bad actors in the blockchain ecosystem runs the full gamut from the lowest to the highest basket of sophistication. The least sophisticated is Twitter and Telegram impersonation scammers, often based out of Nigeria. Many of these scammers don’t use VPNs, they don't always use mixers and sometimes they use direct deposit addresses for exchanges. At the other end of the scale, you have Lazarus, a very sophisticated hacking group out of North Korea that uses sophisticated mixing and crypto hopping techniques.
What scammers have in common is they play on human greed, stupidity, and laziness.
Richard says a significant portion of the industry is in it for the money. “There's a meme that says I'm in it for the technology but come on. It's fine to want to make money, but it gives people an unrealistic impression that crypto is a way to get rich quick and this makes them more vulnerable to these scams where people promise high returns.”
It’s not just scammers that are having a negative effect on the industry. When considering the broader topic of crypto exchanges - think about what the perception is of our industry is from the outside. Exchanges get hacked left and right, scams abound, and there is a lax level of KYC and AML. Critics of crypto like to say that Bitcoin is only used for illegal activity, and while in the industry we know that is not true, it doesn't help to combat that narrative when exchanges get hacked and don't do enough to stop engaging with transactions from bad actors. In less than half an hour, Richard was able to identify several OKEx deposit addresses that received deposits from addresses associated with darknet markets. Any exchange with a simple compliance tool would pick these transactions up.
Compliance professionals at compliant exchanges have access to know your transaction (KYT) tools. These tools show sending and receiving exposures, and break these down by category. If a transaction comes from a darknet market, the tool will identify this. These tools are not expensive for an exchange, they are usually charged by volume, so they are affordable for exchanges but out of the reach of individuals.
Supporting links: CipherBlade
Richard on Twitter
Andy on Twitter
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Nansen is an analytics platform for the Ethereum blockchain. Nansen combines on-chain data with a massive database of millions of wallet addresses. Nansen helps crypto investors and product teams surface the signal from blockchain data.
Guest: Alex Svanevik
Why you should listen: Alex Svanevik and his co-founders have worked in the blockchain data space since 2017 and kept seeing the same problem. There was a need to get a better understanding of who the different participants were on a blockchain network. This challenge of trying to understand the different addresses on the Ethereum blockchain was unsolved. The Nansen team knew that knowledge about network participants would be valuable to crypto product builders and potential investors. Alex says “that was our big idea, to help those two customer profiles better understand Ethereum blockchain activity to inform their decision making. Crypto is information inefficient which means there are opportunities to be gained if you are able to gain an insight into blockchain activity.”
Alex and his team have been tracking the deposits into the Ethereum 2.0 smart contract and he is excited by the potential of Ethereum 2.0. “I hope that people understand that the transition from Ethereum 1.0 to 2.0 is going to be a long and slow process but many of the challenges that Ethereum has faced will be addressed with 2.0.”
Alex says DeFi has had a promising year in 2020 and it has a sustainable future, something that wasn't the case with ICOs. Despite the many smart contract exploits, Alex is not concerned and sees these as part of the evolutionary process and a result of early adopters experimenting and taking risks. “Everything is in an experimental learning phase at the moment that is fraught with risk,” he said. “Right now DeFi is complex and difficult to use. The future of DeFi will be a mix of centralized exchanges that integrate with DeFi protocols. This will improve the user experience and benefit all participants.”
Key takeaway: Blockchains represent radical transparency. Investors are able to get real time direct access to what is happening in the markets, something that is not available in the traditional markets. This radical transparency has advantages and disadvantages. On the negative side, some entities would prefer to hide their movements, whether that be purchases, investments, or trades, so there is a lack of privacy to some degree. On the positive side, this transparency creates a higher degree of trust. If you send your money to a centralized exchange, once your assets arrive with them, it is harder to trust that they are safe. However, decentralized on-chain platforms such as Aaave and Compound are inherently transparent and the user can see their transactions and assets on-chain at all times.
Supporting links: Nansen
Alex on Twitter
Andy on Twitter
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Mark Yusko is the CEO of Morgan Creek Capital. Mark is one of the most insightful investors and most articulate Bitcoin bulls on the planet. Mark’s investment thesis is that the greatest wealth is created by being an early investor in innovation. Making that investment requires believing in something before the majority of people understand it.
Why you should listen: Mark says that Bitcoin is the most elegant savings technology ever invented. In a world where consumption is emphasized you become a slave to money. In a world where money is working for you, like with Bitcoin, your savings power is strengthened. With Bitcoin back at high prices, anyone who bought Bitcoin any day across the last 11 years, except for 5 days in December 2017, is now in profit. Marks says “What that tells me is that if you're a fiduciary, family office or individual, you don't need to pick a day to buy. It might be easier and less stressful to adopt a dollar cost average strategy. Buy some every day. Or every week. Or every month. Think of Bitcoin as savings technology, so instead of putting all of your money in the bank, put some in the bank, and some into Bitcoin.
Key takeaway: Mark says it is not too late for people who have not already taken a position in Bitcoin. "Like Churchill said, this is not the end, this is not the beginning of the end, it may perhaps be the end of the beginning,” says Mark. “But people haven't missed anything. The fact that we went from 0.003 cents in 2009 to where we are today, at $18k that's not the miracle. The miracle is that we went from 0.003 cents to one dollar and that Bitcoin survived all the attempts to kill it in those early years. The miracle is that Bitcoin found critical mass and it was elegantly constructed so that it could reach critical mass and then the network effects kicked in from there.
Mark says that with prices now close to all time highs, it’s important for new investors not to FOMO. “A better idea is to dollar cost average in overtime, have some discipline to it. Allocate some % of your portfolio to Bitcoin over time. The younger you are, the higher that % can be. Just remember that concentration makes you rich and diversification keeps you rich. And Bitcoin is one of the great diversifying assets on the planet so adding a small amount to a portfolio can pay great dividends. You have to embrace technological innovation, and that’s what Bitcoin is, and that is why it is time to #GetOffZero.”
Supporting links: Morgan Creek
Mark on Twitter
Andy on Twitter
Brave New Coin on Twitter
Brave New Coin
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Decred is a hybrid proof-of-work/proof-of-stake store of value crypto asset for the digital age. It has strong governance, good security, privacy, and an innovative incentive alignment. If Bitcoin is about being your own bank, Decred is about being your own bank and having a say in bank policy. Decred has launched a new DEX with no trading fees.
Guest: Jake Yocom-Piatt
Why you should listen: Decred is an experimental project to redefine governance using blockchain technology. Instead of electing officials, Decred uses a rolling opt-in lottery to make policy decisions. Decred aims to create a fairer financial system driven by sound money, where the community makes decisions and every decision-maker has skin-in-the-game.
Decred has just launched the DCRDEX, a decentralized crypto exchange. DCRDEX does not collect trading fees and utilizes an order matching system to level the playing field between retail and professional traders. The DCRDEX is permissionless and non-custodial. The first assets available to trade are Decred, Bitcoin, and Litecoin. However, DCRDEX plans to allow all crypto assets, putting projects on an equal footing by not charging a listing fee. Projects can get their crypto asset supported by adding support for atomic swaps.
Key takeaway: Jake says “The goal with DCRDEX is to bring the same principles that we support in Decred, like sound money and strong governance, and create a fairer system for trading crypto. We want to make sure that the DCRDEX is true to the spirit and ethos of the cryptocurrency movement. That’s why it is non-custodial, there is no KYC, and it is secure. Instead of turning DCRDEX into a business that is driven by fees and rent-seeking, we aim to create an email-like user experience for the exchange process, where anyone can operate a server and exchange any crypto they want.”
Supporting links: Decred
DCRDEX
Decred on Twitter
Andy on Twitter
Brave New Coin on Twitter
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Jed McCaleb is the co-founder and Chief Architect of the Stellar Development Foundation, an open network working to connect the world’s financial infrastructure. In 2014, Jed created Stellar, an open-source blockchain network designed to democratize economic participation by making money more fluid, markets more open, and people more empowered.
Why you should listen: Jed's history is the story of crypto itself. An early pioneer of decentralized systems, he created eDonkey2000 one of the first file-sharing networks.
In July 2010, after reading about Bitcoin on Slashdot he became fascinated and founded the mtgox.com Bitcoin exchange.
"I wanted to get some Bitcoin and the only way you could do that at the time was to mine it or go on internet forums. So I started the Gox exchange so I could learn more about Bitcoin as a system, and buy bitcoins. It was something that was needed by the community at the time and I knew it could build it so I did. I didn't run it for very long before Mark Karpeles took over and everyone knows what happened after that.”
In 2011 McCaleb founded the crypto asset company Ripple and served as CTO until 2013. McCaleb then parted ways with Ripple but as part of a settlement, he was granted a large amount of XRP tokens. At the height of the January 2018 altcoin boom, McCaleb was briefly the 40th wealthiest person on the planet based on the value of his XRP tokens.
McCaleb founded Ripple and then Stellar to try and improve on the promise of Bitcoin. “Bitcoin is an awesome idea,” says McCaleb, “But software is iterative and can always be improved. One of the things that bothered me about Bitcoin is the mining aspect. There are literally billions of dollars spent on mining which is a shame. I thought if there is another way we can solve the consensus problem, then we should explore it. So with Ripple and now Stellar, this is a way to solve consensus without the proof-of-work mining process so transactions can be sent in a much cheaper, faster, more energy-efficient way."
Key takeaway: McCaleb says the current financial system is clunky and inefficient. “The problem with the way that money moves around the planet, is that the rails were built pre-internet so none of it was designed to interoperate. And the beauty of the internet is that with email, for example, it doesn't matter who runs your email server, they all speak the same language so you can seamlessly and instantly send an email to anyone in the world. There is really no reason why money can't work the same way. That’s what Stellar is, it is an interoperable payment protocol between payment networks.
McCaleb says that Stellar is intended to enhance rather than replace the existing financial system. Whereas, say, the Bitcoin network was made for trading only bitcoins, Stellar is a decentralized system that’s built for trading any kind of money in a transparent and efficient way. “Stellar is designed as an upgrade to the existing financial structure,” says McCaleb. “It will be a long time, if ever before everyone is using one cryptocurrency. So instead, the better route is to build something that makes the current system easier, cheaper, reduces friction, and enables value transfer between people that wasn't possible before. Once we connect these networks of information in a frictionless way that will allow people to build all these interesting things on top of the network. Once you can send 10 cents from the U.S. to Vietnam, with no problem, that's when innovation happens. Right now we're building the plumbing for everything to be built on top of.”
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Rekt Capital, a Forbes featured crypto technical analyst and trader returns for his second appearance on the Crypto Conversation. As Bitcoin surges through $15,000 to hit its highest price since January 2018, Rekt Capital says this bull cycle is just getting started.
Guest: Rekt Capital
Why you should listen: Rekt Capital is an astute analyst who specializes in technical analysis and trading psychology. He has written three recent research articles, analyzing the effect of the Bitcoin Halving on price, dissecting Bitcoin’s Four Year Cycle to better understand Bitcoin’s price trajectory, and the Crypto Money Flow Cycle to track the movement of capital from Bitcoin to mid-caps to small-caps and back.
Key takeaway: Rekt Capital says that if we assume the rate of diminishing Post-Halving returns remain constant, Bitcoin could rally exponentially to a relatively conservative new all-time-high of ~$90,000 in 2021. However, this conservative extrapolation of current Post-Halving bull trends by the standards of Bitcoin’s price history doesn’t account for upside wicks past key resistances. This means Bitcoin could overextend past $90,000 and even beyond the psychological level of $100,000 before finally rejecting.
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Trality is building a marketplace where creators can publish crypto trading bots and get paid rent by anyone wanting to piggyback on their trades. The creator’s algorithmic secret sauce remains top secret. Guests: Moritz Putzhammer and Christopher Helf
Why you should listen: While working as an assistant professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, Moritiz Putzhammer was trading crypto on the side and working on a PHD. He realized that any individual actively trading crypto would at some point lose sleep, and money. Wanting to devise a system that would allow him to trade without having to be in front of the screen he reached out to his friend Christopher Helf, who has a background in computer science. After reaching his limit as a trader with an economics background, Putzhammer worked with Helf to automate his trading.
The pair began by writing basic utility scripts that soon evolved into a useful set of automated trading tools. The pair realized that they had a product that could help other traders and decided to build a product.
Key takeaway: Trality is a platform for anyone to create and invest through algorithmic trading bots. The platform is aimed at two groups. The first group are “creators” who have access to state of the art tools to build the best possible bots and the data to test and improve them. Creators can deploy their bots on the Trality cloud platform and on the Trality marketplace. The second group, called “followers” can access the marketplace and choose what bot they want to use, and copy trade that bot.
The Trality team believes that in the near future everything will be automated, from your car to your home, to work and investment tools. Trality wants to be the platform for automated private investments.
Trality has launched a trading bot competition. It has a submission period of 30 days and then a competition period that runs for 45 days. Bots are simulated in a live environment where the best performing bots will win a cash price. Got to trality.com
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Bruce Pon is the founder of Ocean Protocol. Ocean helps developers build marketplaces so that organizations can privately and securely publish, exchange, and consume data. Ocean protocol is building the new data economy. Guest: Bruce Pon
Why you should listen: Ocean protocol enables the monetization and tokenization of data. This gives power back to data owners, enabling them to gain value from their data and allow it to be used in ways that benefit the world.
Pon says the data economy already exists but there are powerful gatekeepers such as the FAANG companies in the West, Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent in China, and data publishers such as Bloomberg and Reuters. “The data economy is any economic value that can be created from the use of data,” says Pon. “It's all around us and it is potentially worth trillions. Data can be reused, optimized and improved over time. Data can be used in countless different ways for different purposes. So as the world goes digital, the potential to turn this data into something truly valuable is immense.”
Key takeaway: There is a growing understanding that from a macro world level to an industry sector level, to the government and institutional level, to the city, to company, and the individual - all are data producing machines. We now have the tools to collect and analyze this data and there are huge learnings and breakthroughs that can be teased out of the data. This is what makes data incredibly valuable.
Pon says that Ocean Protocol Version 3 is the culmination of all of the learnings from version 1 and 2. “The space has advanced a lot since we began building in 2017,” he explained. “The architecture that we designed early on can now be simplified and optimized to integrate with the current state of the art. So with a light weight model we can integrate with the web 3.0 infrastructure and make full use of AMMs like Balancer and Uniswap to create data tokens. We always talked about turning data streams into value streams and it is now possible. We have the ability to create ERC20 tokens that represent data streams. The tokens can be used to access the data, and they can also be traded or speculated on. We can even create mutual data funds that can track various types of health data or automotive data for example. That's what Ocean enables.”
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Josh Olszewicz is a professional crypto trader and analyst. In this episode Josh explains why he thinks a Bitcoin price target of $20K by January is reasonable. Plus Josh gives his views on DeFi, Monero, and announces his new crypto analysis YouTube channel for Brave New Coin.
Guest: Josh Olszewicz
Why you should listen: As we close out a volatile year, Bitcoin is looking extremely bullish. Josh says it is very possible that Bitcoin reaches a new all time high in the near future. “The way I look at it is to ask what is the rate of change in the current trend? That gives us a timeline for price expectation. This suggests that if the current rate of change continues we can expect that by January price should be somewhere around $18-$20k. Those numbers sound insane but as long as the trend remains intact, there aren’t many reasons to be bearish right now."
Bitcoin has only a short history of the price being in five figures. The time it has spent above $12k is even shorter, just 61 days or so. To put this in context Josh says it’s important to note that “the biggest thing we're doing now is normalizing five digits versus four digits. In 2017 it was more of a parabolic rise, there were simply more buyers than sellers and price didn't really matter. When they aren't enough sellers to meet the demand the price just keeps going up. When you have a bull trend you have to let a runner run. If this goes to 20K people will feel euphoric, but it's just a number, it could go much higher.”
Key takeaway: Josh has started a series of four new weekly videos for the Brave New Coin YouTube channel. Monday features Josh’s trading set-up for the week, Tuesday is trading tip Tuesday with a weekly trading tool breakdown, Wednesday is a DeFi roundup focusing on chart action for the leading DeFi tokens, and Thursday sees Josh look at the legacy charts such as equities and precious metals.
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Fernando Martinelli is the founder and CEO of Balancer, an automated asset management platform for programmable liquidity. Balancer allows anyone to create public or private liquidity pools for up to 8 assets with customizable weighting.
Guest: Fernando Martinelli
Why you should listen: Balancer began as a research project in 2018. By exploring multidimensional invariant surfaces, Fernando and his team came up with a powerful mathematical framework that enables continuous portfolio rebalancing while also generating fees. Fernando says “the formula itself is quite simple and easy to express mathematically. The way it works and the way it proves self-balancing in liquidity pools is the trickier part. It’s a function of mathematical expression whose value cannot change when trades are done. The same way Uniswap relies on X x Y = K, we have something similar but slightly more complex. And if you think of each of the balances as a dimension and then if you have a pool with three balances, then you have a 3-dimensional surface, which is actually in the fourth dimension because the surface itself is the energy value of this function that has three inputs and one output.”
Balancer is similar to Uniswap. However Fernando says that one of the main differences is that “our main focus is on the asset management side of things where Uniswap’s focus is more on the decentralized exchange. So our focus is to make sure we meet the needs of liquidity providers so they will come to Balancer to put their crypto to work, and rebalance their portfolios. We want to be a flexible primitive where people can be as creative as they want.”
Asked about one of the key Defi themes in 2020, Fernando said, “Liquidity mining is a mechanism to get a platform to a decentralized stage. Balancer started with investors, advisors, founders, and this was at a time when there wasn’t really an idea of a fair launch. It’s just the way it worked out. There are pros and cons but ultimately you need capital to bootstrap but we don’t want to be a VC coin we want to be decentralized and that’s our goal.”
Key takeaway: Balancer is a financial primitive that serves as a fundamental building block in decentralized finance. However, it is also an asset management platform, and it is an automated market maker (AMM) providing programmable liquidity. This in turn makes other features such as decentralized asset exchange, automated portfolio management, DAO-governed treasuries, and fair token distributions possible. Fernando says this is an important point, and that as a permissionless platform, Balancer allows any developer to leverage its infrastructure to build financial products and services.
“Balancer wouldn’t work if there wasn’t the other side of the market. So you have the liquidity providers who want to have their index funds rebalanced, and make some money with fees. And that’s up to them to decide. And the other side of the equation is the DEX. So all the pools on Balancer allow anyone to trade in any direction on any pair that that pool contains. The fact that we have a two sided market means we need both actors for the system to work.”
Balancer Smart Pools are private pools controlled by a smart contract. These pools can be made of two to eight token constants, and customized with configurable weights that represent the desired ratio of each token in a pool. The smart contract acts as a controller for the liquidity in that pool. Fernando describes smart pools as “Uber for liquidity pools, whereas what we’ve had to date has been taxis. It’s about matching demand to supply.”
For example, the RealT smart pool – essentially a real estate index fund building on all their tokenized real-estate – where the smart pool ERC20 tokens represent ownership of the whole index.
Finally Fernando says “DeFi is a revolution that is just getting started. It will have cycles and some serious ups and downs but it is going to keep growing I believe.”
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Anton Bukov is the co-founder and CTO of the 1inch exchange. 1inch is a DEX aggregator that executes a swap of tokens at the best price in one single transaction. Anton is a software developer with more than 15 years experience.
Why you should listen: The 1inch exchange began life as a hackathon project which was presented at ETHNewYork in 2019. 1inch was created and developed by Sergej Kunz (co-founder & CEO) and Anton Bukov (co-founder & CTO). After receiving positive feedback, Kunz and Bukov kept working to improve the project to the point that it became their primary work focus.
Bukov says “1inch is a DEX aggregator that executes a swap of tokens at the best price in one single transaction. With some DEXes there has been a lack of liquidity, and the more liquidity there is, the better it is for everyone. So 1inch addresses the liquidity problem through an optimizing algorithm that splits up the trade across different exchanges. We see 1inch as unifying all of the layer one DEXes into one single highly liquid DEX, so the purpose of 1inch is to create one super DEX with the highest possible amount of liquidity and best possible fees on layer one.”
Key takeaway: Bukov revealed that 1inch is working on a 1inch token that will arrive this year. "In 2017 users paid money to get ICO tokens and after three years we see that most of those projects have failed. Now, projects start with the opposite model. They are not selling tokens, they give tokens away to the users of the platforms. So users who provide liquidity to the platform are rewarded with the token. You can see this as payment for market making. This idea of a far launch is nice because it means that the supply that exists is fairer, there is no pre-mine and it is less likely that someone can dump a large amount of tokens. Yes we are considering a 1inch token - we have worked on the tokenomics and the token will do some interesting things, it’s not just a governance token. But for it to work, there is a new product we need to launch that we are building now. We are trying to deliver this token and product this year.”
Bukov says “the most interesting thing about DeFi is the way the protocols work with each other - composability - anyone can build an amazing product on a protocol. The creativity that this allows is amazing and you don't have to ask anyone permission. This is a very powerful idea.”
Bukov says that he believes that “crypto is the missing piece of the puzzle for how money should work. Visa, Mastercard and the current banking system is the wrong idea. We are building a new system and every banking system on the planet will eventually use it. It won't happen overnight, it might take up to 20 years.”
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Shayne Coplan is the founder of Polymarket, an information markets platform. Speculators can bet on the world's most highly-debated topics like the upcoming US elections, COVID-19, DeFi, cryptocurrencies, and more.
Guest: Shayne Coplan
Why you should listen: In 2014 Coplan was a teenager interested in music, technology, and the peer-to-peer file sharing scene. He had started mining crypto assets like Litecoin using the early GPU miners. When the website for the Ethereum presale went live he became inspired by the Ethereum vision and at 16 years old, Coplan was one of the youngest participants in the Ethereum presale. “It seemed really cool to me. I didn’t have a lot of capital to put into it but it was really exciting and it has been fantastic to be part of the journey so far.”
Prediction markets are exchange-traded markets created for the purpose of trading the outcome of events. They date back to the 1500s and started as simple bets. Some forms of information markets such as dead pools or assassination markets are part of the Cyberpunk literature.
Polymarket is an Information Markets platform built on Ethereum. Speculators can harness the power of free markets to bet on the outcome of real world events. Coplan says, “I’ve always loved markets. I’m a fan of liquid markets and I’m fascinated by shadow economies and different market structures. I’m a believer in markets as the most effective mechanism for aggregating information. I have a tough time believing everything I read in the media. I think a market is a much more reliable aggregator of truth. If you have a lot of different participants acting on their beliefs, a market is the best way we can distill that information into one equilibrium or signal.”
Key takeaway: One of the problems with social media is a lack of accountability. Everyone has an opinion to share and there’s not much downside to being wrong. This makes it hard for regular people to find out what’s fact and what’s fiction. 2020 has showcased just how bad the consequences can be.
Ploymarket thinks that one part of the solution is to let people bet on current events. Free markets are the best method of aggregating disparate information in real time (see: Hayek, stock market, EMH).
Coplan says “one of the best use-cases for a blockchain and a generalized smart contract platform is the ability to create markets on arbitrary topics that can be easily created, traded, and resolved. For a couple of dollars you can create a market on anything and avoid the bureaucratic risk that is inherent to creating these markets in the legacy financial system.
On Polymarket, speculators bet on future event outcomes and profit from accuracy. With all the conflicting ‘expert’ opinions on social media, Polymarket lets people put their money where their mouth is, have skin in the game, and profit from being correct.
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Steve Kokinos is the CEO at Algorand. Algorand is an open, permissionless, pure proof-of-stake blockchain protocol that wants to usher in a new era of serious DeFi. Similar to how AWS (Amazon Web Services) has made cloud computing accessible, Algorand is building an ecosystem to unleash the potential of DeFi.
Why you should listen: Led by Turing award-winner Silvio Micali and a team of cryptographers, engineers, and mathematicians that claim to have solved the blockchain trilemma, Algorand is committed to the development of solutions for the future of economic exchange. Impressed by the Bitcoin whitepaper and its deployment, computer science professor Silvio Micali thought that Bitcoin represented a fascinating use of cryptography and distributed systems science. However, he felt that the high costs of mining coupled with its low performance features left room for improvement. His work with Algorand is concentrated on improving the fundamental properties of blockchain.
Key takeaway: After a successful career in tech, Steve Kokinos met Silvio Micali and impressed with his vision for Algorand he joined the company as CEO in 2018.
Steve says we are moving toward a multi-blockchain world. “There will be a handful of platforms and public networks that can be used for different purposes and they can all be winners here. Other tech waves have shown that there can be several winning platforms or several winning new technologies that are adopted. In the same way that when a user fires up Spotify or Netflix there isn't an AWS logo saying they're running the back end, and that's how we see Algorand, we want to be the utility in the background that people can build great applications on.”
Ethereum currently supports around 15 transactions per second, Bitcoin is a little slower. Steve says that Algorand today can process 1100 tps and over the next coming releases they want to scale that up 10,000 tps. “It's important for us to understand what people are using blockchains for and to build the functionality that they need
into layer one primitives. At Algorand we’re focused on layer one primitives, that might be financial applications, programmable money or building dapps. We've also announced a layer 2 smart contract platform where the initialization of the contract will be on layer 1 but will then run-off-chain. We think the way to do that is run the computation off-chain, make sure it's provably true and then bring it back to the main again.”
Algorand is permissionless so anyone can build on it. Steve says, “Our layer 1 pure proof of stake approach lends itself to different forms of financial applications. Use cases include DeFi, more traditional payment assets, and bank transfers and post-trade settlements. And then the third use case is central bank digital currencies. The Marshall Islands has launched a CBDC on Algorand.
There are 400 companies that have deployed projects on Algorand. One is Planet Watch, which has sensors in homes and businesses across the world to capture air quality data around the globe and then compare that to govt guidelines and regulations.
The ALGO token is the prime asset of the public network. It is used to pay transaction fees and run smart contracts. As part of the pure proof of stake protocol every token holder can be called upon to propose a block, and every token holder can vote on upgrades via its use as a governance token.
Asked about his favorite piece of sci-fi, Steve picks Snow Crash directed by Neal Stephenson.
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Peter McCormack is the host of the popular What Bitcoin Did podcast and the new Defiance podcast. After starting the podcast in late 2017, What Bitcoin Did has grown steadily and recently achieved an impressive 5 million downloads.
Why you should listen: Before the pandemic, Peter traveled regularly preferring to do his interviews in-person. With global travel now on hold, Peter is based out of his home in Bedford, UK. Peter says that he has used the time to focus on his craft and keep refining his content production. He has also given up booze and redone his garden.
Peter says the Libertarian argument against lockdowns is stronger now and as countries get hit by a second wave it will likely be more difficult to enforce new lockdowns without social unrest. Peter is impressed by the leadership of New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern.
Key takeaway: Peter started podcasting almost by accident after spending time at a retreat in Italy with podcaster Rich Roll. After telling Roll about his growing interest in Bitcoin, Roll encouraged McCormack to start a Bitcoin podcast. In the three years since McCormack has traveled to 30 countries and interviewed hundreds of people. The success of the podcast means McCormack now has the freedom to pursue topics that he is genuinely interested in.
What Bitcoin Did will continue to focus on the Bitcoin ecosystem. Peter says, “If you're into lots of different coins you get called a shitcoiner and if you’re into Bitcoin only, you get called a maximalist. So at one point I took a step back and thought ‘what is it I want to do?’ I looked at my portfolio and I only hold Bitcoin. Why? Because I believe in it and because I understand it, and because I think it can be a useful tool for a lot of people. I'm also interested in the human rights angle, so if I focus on Bitcoin - it allows me to cover other topics such as Ross Ulbricht of Silk Road and Venezuela.”
In some circumstances, Peter will cover other blockchains if it is of interest to bitcoiners. For example, his recent episodes on Ethereum were relevant because there are people who are wrapping Bitcoin on Ethereum so it's important for people to understand what Ethereum is. "Does that mean I'll cover Tron? No. Does it mean I'll cover Binance Chain? No. I will cover Ethereum because there is a significant amount of Bitcoin that is wrapped on it and people need to understand the risks."
Asked about his favorite piece of sci-fi, Peter picks Alien 3 directed by David Fincher.
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Piers Ridyard is the CEO of Radix, a layer-one protocol built for DeFi. DeFi applications are currently built on protocols that were not designed to scale. Radix has built a scalable, secure, high-throughput protocol for building applications and tokens. Building on the successes of existing public ledgers, Radix’s protocol is a permissionless framework on which DeFi services can be developed and run. Radix claims to have solved two of the biggest challenges in DeFi - scalability, and security.
Why you should listen: Radix has raised $6 million in funding, including $4.1 million in 2020 from the founder of TransferWise, Taavet Hinrikus.
The value of DeFi is over $8 billion. However, for DeFi to reach its full potential, it needs fast, low-cast transactions and secure by design systems. It’s critical that DeFi applications are scalable and composable. Piers says that protocols such as Ethereum 2,0, Polkadot and Cosmos are solving the wrong scaling problems, and not addressing others. Piers says that mainstream DeFi needs a DLT platform designed bottom-to-top to make DeFi just work – for users, and for developers. This is the aim of Radix.
For the DeFi ecosystem to continue to grow incentives are needed to attract developers. Radix has an innovative developer incentive program that allows developers to profit from the applications they contribute to.
Key takeaway: Radix features two core innovations, firstly Cerberus, the scalable consensus protocol. Cerberus is capable of processing massive numbers of transactions in parallel due to its highly sharded data structure and unique application layer.
The second innovation is the Radix Engine, a developer interface that allows quick public ledger deployments in a secure environment. The Radix Engine is Radix’s application layer.
In the Crypto Conversation hot take round Piers says that he expects DeFi to have more liquidity than any other single exchange in the transitional market within the next ten years. “The fundamental component of DeFi is the way that liquidity can move between applications and products.”
Asked about his favorite piece of sci-fi, Piers picks Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke.
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Douglas Borthwick is Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer at INX. INX is building a regulated cryptocurrency, security token, and derivatives trading platform in the U.S. INX has just launched the world’s first fully regulated Security Token based IPO.
Why you should listen: Douglas has a long career in finance including roles with Morgan Stanley, managing foreign exchange derivatives trading groups, and running the strategic trading desk at Merrill Lynch. He is part of an impressive team of financial market, crypto asset and technology experts at INX.
INX is building a fully-licensed and regulated cryptocurrency, security token and derivatives trading platform. The goal is to be a leader in the regulated security token platform space. INX aims to enable the listing and trading of both regulated security tokens and cryptocurrencies for institutional and retail investors.
Security tokens give investors the ability to trade fractionalized assets, specific income streams, particular business lines, or assets that could not be traded before. This brings new liquidity and efficiencies to the markets.
Key takeaway: The INX blockchain asset trading solution has been developed and is ready for launch following the completion of the IPO. After launch INX traders will be able to buy/sell crypto assets as well as security tokens and their derivatives.
INX announced in January 2018 its submission of a draft registration statement to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an initial public offering of the INX Token.
In August this year, INX announced that the SEC declared as effective the registration statement on Form F-1 filed in connection with the initial public offering of up to 130 million INX Security Tokens. INX has set the offering price at $0.90 per Token with a minimum investment of $1,000. The offering began August 25, 2020.
INX intends to use a portion of the net proceeds raised from the sale of INX Tokens in the offering for the continued development and operation of INX Trading Solutions, and for the establishment of a cash reserve fund. Investors in the tokens are entitled to receive pro rata distributions of 40% of the Ccmpany’s cumulative adjusted operating cash flow.
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The next big thing in DeFi is LEVERJ - the world’s first scalable decentralized derivatives exchange. LEVERJ is a trading platform created to perform like traditional financial exchanges while maintaining the critical function of security. Built on Gluon, a Plasma sidechain, LEVERJ is self-custodial by design, meaning that users always control their private keys and funds. Gluon is a mathematically rigorous solution preventing fraud, compromise, and collusion to provide all the benefits of blockchain without the limitations. Gluon is the first fully operational Ethereum Layer 2 chain, giving LEVERJ the high-transaction throughput to work as fast as centralized exchanges.
Why you should listen: LEVERJ is a self-custodial decentralized derivatives exchange that provides up to 100x leverage. High speed, decentralized spot trading went live on mainnet in 2019. Futures trading is available on testnet and will launch on mainnet at the end of September. The first tradable futures products are ETH-USD and BTC-USD perpetual swaps with many more products in the pipeline.
LEVERJ has partnered with Brave New Coin to roll out a pipeline of innovative exchange traded products. Some examples of these are sub-sector specific tradable products such as a DeFi index, a privacy coin index, volatility indices and more. “Most exchanges self-index, which introduces unnecessary risk,” says LEVERJ CEO Bharath Rao. “By partnering with Brave New Coin, we give our users more transparency in the benchmark methodology and instrument design process as well as a greatly expedited product roadmap. It’s our goal to bring the best practices of capital markets into the DeFi space, thus attracting new institutions.”
Key takeaway: Interest in DeFi has exploded in 2020. Trading on decentralized exchanges reached $4 billion in July. To cater to this demand, LEVERJ has built a high-frequency, multi-currency spot and futures trading platform.
The explosion of DeFi in 2020 has seen Ethereum gas prices rise significantly. The huge spike in demand for transaction space on the Ethereum chain has put strain on the Ethereum and DeFi ecosystems. Centralized cryptocurrency exchanges have faced challenges with security and performance, often falling short of the standards set by traditional financial exchanges.
LEVERJ solves these challenges with their Gluon sidechain, a mathematically rigorous protocol preventing fraud, compromise, and collusion to provide the benefits of blockchain without the limitations. Gluon is an advanced, fully operational Ethereum Layer 2 chain, giving LEVERJ high-transaction, low-latency throughput similar to centralized exchanges.
Other developers can also build decentralized applications using Gluon, including their own decentralized exchanges.
Gluon has been in development for over three years and is currently the only Layer 2 solution purpose built for high-capacity trading, that has instant-finality, strong composability and conventional APIs for sophisticated traders to feel like they are using a regular centralized exchange without counterparty risk.
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Mona El Isa is the founder of the Melon protocol. Melon is an Ethereum-based protocol for decentralized on-chain asset management. Melon empowers anyone to set up, manage, and invest in customized on-chain investment vehicles. The process of setting up an investment fund on Melon costs less than $60 and takes ten minutes using the Melon terminal.
Why you should listen: After spending a decade building a career as a successful trader at Goldman Sachs and at a hedge fund, Mona was approached to set up and run her own investment fund. It did not work out. Mona realized that successful traders at investment funds were shielded from the many administrative processes required. Companies like Goldman hire entire teams of people to look after the many legal and financial requirements needed to run a fund. This means that setting up a new fund is out of reach except for those with the resources to do so.
Melon is a decentralized protocol to set up and manage on-chain investment funds. By automating the back and middle office processes of fund management through the use of smart contracts, Melon enables fund managers to create their own tokenized funds.
Managers can write a fund prospectus in code. Mona says “You can think of Melon as a technology that helps managers customize the set-up of their fund. You can pre-define all sorts of rules from fees, to number of positions, types of assets, risk management etc.”
The protocol takes care of investments and redemptions, it takes care of the NAV calculations, it enforces any of the rules that managers have in their funds. And everything is automated using smart contracts. Users can write as many rules as they want, so they can create uniquely individual funds.
The process of setting up an investment fund on Melon costs less than $60 and takes ten minutes using the Melon terminal.
Key takeaway: The Melon target market is what Mona describes as the “long tail of investment managers”. This could be any fund below $150 million dollars. 90% of new funds in this category fail, many due to the high level of compliance, fees and processes involved.
It will soon be possible to set up a Melon fund that has a yield-farming strategy, or lends to market-making pools, or a DAO that invests in other Melon funds, or can interact with synthetic assets.
No other protocol is permissionless in the way that Melon allows any non-technical person to set up an on-chain investment fund in a matter of minutes.
Ethereum Gas prices are putting a strain on DeFi. The Melon team is slimming down contracts to make them more efficient and less gas-intensive for V2. Medium-term the team are looking at layer two solutions to mitigate against high gas prices.
Supporting links: Melon Protocol
Melon Terminal
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Kosala Hemachandra is the founder and CEO of MyEtherWallet, one of the original and most popular Ethereum wallets. MEW is now at the center of a fast growing ecosystem designed to become the nexus of Ethereum.
Why you should listen: MyEtherWallet was founded in 2015, ten days after the launch of Ethereum - as one of the first client-side interfaces for the Ethereum blockchain. With first-mover advantage, it became the default Ethereum wallet for the first users of Ethereum. MyEtherWallet was a popular and user-friendly wallet that supported ERC-20 tokens — important for engaging with ICOs. As a result, MEW attracted a large user-base during the ICO boom of 2017.
Kosala says, “the MEW motto is that if it works with Ethereum it works with MEW. Our goal is to become the nexus of Ethereum.”
MEW is the umbrella brand for the MEW ecosystem that includes MEWwallet, MEWtopia, and MEWconnect.
Key takeaway: Kosala says there are some similarities between the ICO boom of 2017 and the current interest in DeFi. He says that is human nature to be attracted to hype and speculation. However, he says he is excited by the promise and potential of DeFi as a technology and what it brings to Ethereum.
The first MyEtherWallet DeFi integrations are with Ren and Aave, with more to come. The new MyEtherWallet DeFi integrations use MEWconnect, a connection protocol designed to let Dapp developers make their Dapps available to MEW users. Dapp developers can make their products available to a large user base while MEW users can access the growing suite of decentralized tools and apps designed to navigate the Ethereum ecosystem.
Supporting links: My Ether Wallet
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Josh Olszewicz is a professional crypto trader at Techemy Capital and the lead analyst at Brave New Coin. On this episode of the Crypto Conversation Josh joins Andy to discuss the recent positive price action, the TokenSets platform, and Josh confirms that we’re in a crypto bull market.
Why you should listen: Josh says that the technical indicators are looking very strong for BTC with strong echoes of 2017. “There is a possibility we’re set for a multi-year bull run, especially post-halving. It’s almost eerie the similarities we’re seeing in the price chart and in the fundamentals to 2017. It’s ramping up for quite an exciting situation. With Gold at all-time highs, ongoing money printing, and with chaos in the world, it’s an ideal macro backdrop for BTC to perform well.”
Josh says that for ETH, a price target of $750 is on the cards, and for BTC $13K might happen in the next two weeks. “$33k sounds like a ridiculous target, but for me, that is where we are headed. One of the big banks released a target recently of $125K based on the 2017 bull run, so all of a sudden my targets are low compared to traditional financial analysts. All the signs are converging, so seeing BTC at an all-time-high soon is an expectation. It’s not that I think it might happen, at this point I‘m expecting it will happen.”
Key takeaway: Josh says that while it is an uncertain time in the world, the U.S. election might not be too disruptive to the markets. “As soon as Bernie lost the nomination, traditional financial markets exhaled dramatically. He was the potential change agent for anything that would affect them. But now, with Biden and Trump, they don’t mind too much, either is fine at this point. Biden is not going to rock the boat and Trump is Trump.”
Josh is a pro trader at Techemy Capital who has just launched two actively managed investment portfolios on the TokenSets automated asset management platform. This allows investors to gain exposure to BTC and ETH price action. Investors are now able to take advantage of the crypto market’s price moves without having to trade themselves - and because Techemy’s new products are non-custodial - without having to release control of their crypto assets to a third party.
Techemy Capital’s BTC and ETH portfolios are actively traded using strategies designed to generate capital gains. Trades are executed by Techemy Capital’s professional in-house trading team, led by Rob Brewis and Josh Olszewicz.
Supporting links: Techemy Capital
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James Beattie is the CEO of the Toronto Futures Options Swaps Exchange (tFOSE), a new Canadian-based derivatives exchange and clearinghouse. tFOSE is currently seeking regulatory approval in Canada and plans to open for trading in early 2021.
Why you should listen: Canada has been slow to bring institutional-grade crypto asset products to market. The Canadian exchange-traded derivatives market is ripe for disruption. Issues include a lack of liquidity driving order flow out of Canada, high FX cost and currency risk, high trading fees, and a lack of product innovation. There’s a growing demand for traders to diversify their portfolios and exposure, hedge risk, and access an emerging asset class without having to directly hold the underlying crypto assets. tFOSE aims to provide a solution to these issues.
James Beattie, tFOSE CEO says they are working closely with regulators in Canada. “Regulators have put forward a definitive affirmative effort to understand crypto. It's incumbent on ecosystem participants to build the right way. If they want the benefits of regulation, they should understand process and due diligence. You must play by the rules, there is no downside to transparency.”
Key takeaway: tFOSE CEO James Beattie says the team is committed to new derivative solutions that will repatriate order flow to Canada and unlock new global markets. Brave New Coin has signed a contract with tFOSE to design, calculate, and administer a suite of crypto indices to power tFOSE’s cash-settled options trading. tFOSE expects production on the indices to be completed during Q3 2020 with cash-settled crypto options trading beginning in early 2021. James says Brave New Coin was selected as tFOSE crypto index builders after a due diligence process. ”BNC meets all of our needs,” he said, “taking a unique approach to index design, methodology, and governance that will help tFOSE meet the specific, exacting needs of both our retail and institutional investors.”
Supporting links: tFOSE
Crypto Indices Program
Andy on Twitter
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Loi Luu is the CEO and Co-Founder of Kyber Network - one of the best used Defi protocols in the world. Kyber is an on-chain liquidity protocol that powers decentralized applications, exchanges, funds, and DeFi lending protocols.
Why you should listen: Loi Luu has a PhD in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore, where he worked to improve the base technical layers of decentralization, scalability and security for the public blockchain infrastructure. His work benefits many blockchain companies and projects world wide and collectively these companies are worth tens of billions of US dollars.
The idea for Kyber Network came from Loi’s belief that he could bring the benefits of decentralized technologies to a bigger audience and facilitate real-world use cases. When a project approached him to accept a different token in addition to Ethereum, Loi realized that there was no practical solution to this problem. He then began work on developing the liquidity infrastructure for what would become known as the decentralized finance ecosystem.
Key takeaway: Kyber is the liquidity infrastructure for decentralized finance (DeFi). Kyber aggregates liquidity from diverse sources into a single pool, which provides the best rates for takers such as DApps, wallets, and DEXs. Kyber is a fully on-chain liquidity protocol that enables the decentralized exchange of crypto assets in any application. Liquidity providers are integrated into one single endpoint for takers and users. When a user requests a trade, the protocol will scan the entire network to find the reserve with the best price and take liquidity from that particular reserve.
Kyber was the most used project in DeFi in 2019. To date, more than 100 blockchain projects have integrated Kyber for their liquidity needs.
Supporting links: Kyber Network
Loi Luuu on Twitter
Kyber on Twitter
The DeFi Liquidity Vortex
Andy on Twitter
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Hugh Karp is the founder and CEO of Nexus Mutual - a people-powered alternative to insurance. Nexus Mutual uses the power of Ethereum so individuals can share risk together without the need for an insurance company.
Why you should listen: Hugh is an insurance professional and actuary with 15 years of experience. An actuary is a business professional who deals with the measurement and management of risk and uncertainty. Actuaries are employed by insurance companies or risk management firms to calculate the "risks" associated with insuring individuals against downside events.
A mutual is simply a group of people coming together to share risk. Hugh says the only reason we’ve moved away from a mutual (in legacy systems) to shareholders is that it’s a more efficient way of connecting capital with people. However, thanks to smart contracts, we can start to do that in a peer to peer fashion which optimizes for efficiency when it comes to capital pooling. When joining the mutual you become a legal member of a UK company. All members have legal rights to the pool of funds.
Key takeaway: Hugh first became interested in blockchain technology in 2011. He became fascinated by the emergence of Ethereum. Hugh recognized that the traditional insurance industry wasn’t yet prepared to provide any meaningful cover for crypto-related risks. Hugh watched the DAO being drained live and realized there was a need for a company like Nexus Mutual to provide cover against Smart Contract risks.
Smart Contract Cover is not an actual contract of insurance but rather an insurance like product. Members of the mutual vote to decide on claims. Claims payments are enforced by token economic incentives rather than placing trust in an insurance company.
In DeFi there are three primary risk categories; technical smart contract risk, external risk, and economic incentive failure risk. It’s important to understand these risks are in addition to the normal use of the particular smart contract. For example, if you use a gambling app there is a risk you could lose all of your money through the normal usage of the system. Nexus Mutual is focused on the more severe risks, and provides cover against system failure.
Supporting links: Nexus Mutual
Nexus Mutual on Twitter
Hugh Karp on Twitter
Andy on Twitter
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Why you should listen: Vallas says “the promise of the Blockchain industry is extraordinarily expansive. Before we build out that capability we need a renewed focus on establishing confidence. Confidence in our vision, confidence in the regulatory frameworks that underpin this emergent technology, and confidence in the people and organizations that will drive the uptake in this space.”
Key takeaway: As the new CEO of Blockchain Australia, Vallas says he is focused on building confidence in blockchain and improving the image of blockchain technology among businesses and governments.
He says Blockchain Australia’s success will be judged by its ability to educate (grassroots to the boardroom), elevate (drive innovation), and leverage partnerships (with industry leaders across the economy).
In February, the Australian government released a National blockchain roadmap titled “Progressing towards a blockchain-empowered future.” The report projects that Blockchain technology will generate an annual business value of over US$175 billion by 2025 and in excess of US$3 trillion by 2030.
The roadmap identifies three key areas where blockchain technology can provide solutions. These are in supply chains, trusted credentials in the university sector, and transferable customer checks in the finance sector.
Steve says his personal vision is for Australian stakeholders to gain confidence in blockchain tech. He wants developers to keep building, and for industry and investors to get buy-in.
Supporting links: Blockchain Australia
Australia’s blockchain roadmap
Steve on Twitter
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Eden Dhaliwal is the Global Managing Director at Conflux Network, a high-performance, layer-1 blockchain protocol designed for scalability, security, and extensibility for the next generation of open commerce, decentralized applications, and Web 3.0. Conflux is the most endorsed DLT project in China.
Why you should listen: Conflux Network is an open protocol for a new world of Dapps, finance, and Web 3.0. As a fast and secure public blockchain, Conflux Network combines Proof of Work and a Tree-Graph structure to power a new generation of decentralized commerce.
Prior to joining Conflux, Eden was a Partner at Outlier Ventures, where he worked on crypto tokenomics. Eden helped develop Outlier’s Convergence Thesis - the Convergence Stack is a set of privacy-protecting, peer-to-peer, open-source technologies that will decentralize the cloud and unbundle internet platforms to build Web 3.0.
Key takeaway: Founded in 2018, Conflux Network raised $35 million in capital from investors including Sequoia China, Metastable, Baidu Ventures, F2Pool, Huobi, IMO Ventures. Conflux Network has backing from the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission.
Currently in Testnet, Conflux Network seeks to provide the security of a POW network with transaction speeds an order of magnitude faster. The key enabler technique is a novel DAG-based ledger structure together with an optimistic concurrency control to achieve a consistent order of transactions among all the nodes in the network. In Conflux, the throughput bottleneck is no longer at consensus layer. Unlike other scalability solutions such as DPOS and hybrid consensus, the Conflux consensus algorithm is decentralized and permissionless without any hierarchy.
Supporting links: Conflux Network
Conflux Network on Twitter
Eden on Twitter
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Techemy Capital and TokenSets have collaborated to launch a suite of DeFi-based investable products to help investors tap into the open finance ecosystem. Hosted on the TokenSets automated asset management platform, Techemy has created two actively managed investment portfolios that allow investors to gain exposure to BTC and ETH price action. Investors can take advantage of the crypto market’s price moves without having to trade themselves - and because the products are non-custodial - without having to release control of their crypto assets to a third party.
Guests: Fran Strajnar and Anthony Sassano
Why you should listen: Anthony Sassano, Product Marketing Manager at TokenSets, says “Holding is no longer enough. If you want to get outsized returns in crypto, you can play in the altcoin market, which is basically like a casino. Trying to pick the ones that will do well, and knowing when to sell is extremely difficult. Most users don’t want the stress and pressure of having to make trading decisions themselves. They want to make a return, and they want someone else or an algorithm to do the trading for them. That’s where TokenSets comes in.”
Key takeaway: DeFi refers to the interconnected crypto assets, smart contracts, protocols, and decentralized applications built on the Ethereum blockchain. Run by programmable code, DeFi reduces friction and capital inefficiency and offers the possibility of higher yields.
Fran Strajnar, CEO at Techemy Capital says, “We’ve been talking about DeFi being a game-changer since 2014. It has taken until now for the infrastructure to mature enough for innovative investable products that can scale globally. Money and value are now woven into the fabric of the internet. Liquidity is abundant and risk is manageable. This has created an environment that is appealing to many investor classes.”
Hosted on the TokenSets automated asset management platform, Techemy’s new offering consists of two actively managed investment portfolios that allow investors to gain exposure to BTC and ETH price action. Investors are now able to take advantage of the crypto market’s price moves without having to trade themselves - and because Techemy’s new products are non-custodial - without having to release control of their crypto assets to a third party.
Techemy Capital’s BTC and ETH portfolios are actively traded using strategies designed to generate capital gains. Trades are executed by Techemy Capital’s professional in-house trading team, led by Rob Brewis and Josh Olszewicz.
A third portfolio that Techemy will launch soon on TokenSets is a passive yield portfolio based on the yield-bearing cDAI/cUSDC stablecoin pair. This portfolio protects against price volatility and offers other benefits including the ability to earn interest through the Compound Finance network.
Techemy’s new portfolio products are aimed at investors already familiar with digital assets and those entering the market for the first time. While the former can interact with the new portfolios with ease due to the seamless user experience, for users needing additional support Techemy offers personalized services - from custody to OTC and wallet management.
Supporting links: Techemy Capital
TokenSets
Techemy Capital on Twitter
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Torsten Hoffmann is a documentary filmmaker who has completed two full length blockchain films. Bitcoin: The End Of Money As We Know It from 2015, and his new film Cryptopia: Bitcoin, Blockchains and the Future of the Internet which is now available online.
Why you should listen: After writing a research paper on alternative currencies as part of his MBA at Oxford University, Torsten was intrigued by Bitcoin. In 2014 he started working on Bitcoin: The End of Money As We Know it, his first documentary. Hoffmann’s award-winning first film looks at Bitcoin in the context of the history of money. His new film, Cryptopia: Bitcoin, Blockchains and the Future of the Internet is a bigger budget, ambitious follow up that takes a 360 wide-angle approach to the technology that may define Web 3.0.
“Since the release of the first film, the industry has grown by a factor of 100. Bitcoin has been called one of the most disruptive technologies of our time. However, media coverage is often misinformed and the general public is still confused about the technology and its implications,” says Hoffmann. “Can this technology, designed to operate independent of trust and within a decentralized network, really provide a robust alternative? Or are cryptocurrencies just as unfairly distributed, easily manipulated, and dangerous as our current systems? That was my starting point.”
Key takeaway: Filmed over two years Hoffmann says the new documentary has three arcs. "First we look at Bitcoin, then we look at the ecosystem, public / private blockchains and ICOs, and then we look forward at the potential of blockchain to unlock Web 3.0."
He interviewed some of the ecosystem’s biggest brains and biggest egos including Andreas Antonopoulos, Roger Ver, Charlie Lee, Samson Mow, Craig Wright, Preethi Kasireddy, and Wences Casares.
While the film has a global feel, with filming taking place on four continents in cities including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Tokyo, London, Berlin, Switzerland, and Melbourne, Hoffmann says the highlight of the filming schedule was being granted access to the Xapo vault located in a top secret location buried deep in the Swiss mountains.
Founded by Bitcoin entrepreneur Wences Casares, the Xapo vault is a decommissioned military bunker dug into the mountainside in a remote part of Switzerland. Its exact location is secret, and access is protected by a complex series of security measures.
“The bunker scene was a highlight and we are the only film crew to be allowed inside. Allegedly up to 10% of all Bitcoin private keys are stored in the Xapo vault. It was a James Bond style adventure to get clearance and film inside the bunker,” said Hoffmann.
Supporting links: Cryptopia Film
Torsten on Twitter
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A New Zealand software engineer, Sam Blackmore is the CEO and co-founder of Vimba, a platform that makes it easy for users to save Bitcoin using an automated dollar cost average strategy.
Why you should listen: After growing up as a surf photographer, Sam moved to Bristol in the early 2000s where he documented the street art culture popularized by Banksy. As a software engineer, Sam became fascinated by open source technology such as Linux. He first discovered Bitcoin when he saw a headline on a Linux magazine that described Bitcoin as the most powerful open-source technology ever created. Intrigued, Sam became fascinated by Bitcoin’s philosophy and potential. He created Vimba to make it possible for friends and family to easily accumulate Bitcoin without having to join an exchange. Vimba is now available in over thirty countries, making it easy for anyone to save in Bitcoin using an automated dollar cost average strategy.
Key takeaway: To scale Vimba, Sam moved to the UK to leverage the UK’s open banking framework and FinTech friendly regulations. The 2018 open banking legislation forced banks to open up their APIs so that users can share their data with other services. This has allowed a wave of innovative new financial products. Vimba will integrate with these products allowing users to easily purchase Bitcoin or use it as collateral. Vimba’s mission is to make it as normal to accumulate BTC as it is to save dollars. A recent survey suggests that 42% of millennials are planning to buy BTC in the next 5 years.
Banksy is anonymous. Satoshi Nakamoto is anonymous. This anonymity allows Banky’s artwork and Satoshi’s Bitcoin to be judged on their own merits without being tainted by the individual creator and their beliefs or flaws.
Supporting links: Vimba
Vimba on Twitter
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An OG Bitcoiner from Colorado with a background in precious metals, Stephen Macaskill is the co-founder and CEO of the Dasset digital asset exchange. Based in New Zealand, Dasset has announced a strategic partnership with the U.S. based Bittrex exchange. The new partnership will give Dasset users access to deeper liquidity.
Why you should listen: Stephen says the impetus for Dasset came from the realization that there was a gap in the local crypto market. “When we looked at the New Zealand market four years ago, there was a 20% premium over the global spot prices of crypto assets in New Zealand due to a lack of liquidity, and a lack of local exchanges,” he said. “Dasset has helped that situation, so the spread has dropped by around 80%. That means that compared to global spot prices, New Zealanders can now access rates that are within 1-3% of those prices.”
Key takeaway: Dasset provides the ability for New Zealanders and Australians to buy, sell, and trade over thirty different crypto assets. Stephen says that Dasset provides the on-ramps and off-ramps between the legacy financial system and the digital asset financial system.
Stephen is a Bitcoiner who pays his bills in crypto. He says he has opted out of the legacy financial system and uses crypto for all of his financial transactions. While Stephen is a passionate supporter of Bitcoin as the world’s largest decentralized digital currency, he says ultimately it is up to the market to decide which digital asset will win the future.
Supporting links: Devs
The Sovereign Individual
Bitcoin Billionaires
Dasset on Twitter
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Framework Ventures is a San Francisco based venture firm with a strong DeFi thesis. Framework believes a new age of venture capital is upon us, known as ‘Network Capital.’ Rather than just hold onto the asset, this type of investing aims to be more holistic.
“If you're going to be investing in decentralized networks, this requires a new hybrid model where the stakeholders can participate in market-making, staking, and governance.”
Framework is a major holder of Chainlink’s LINK token.
Why you should listen: Framework Ventures is a thesis-driven venture firm that partners with founders and teams to build token-based networks and develop the requisite cryptoeconomics, governance, and community to scale. Framework are very bullish on the DeFi space in general, and particularly on Chainlink and Synthetix. Vance Spencer, a co-founder at Framework, spent time as head of strategy for Netflix Japan. His co-founder Michael Anderson spent time at Snapchat and Dropbox. This gives Framework unique insight into digital products and networks which they apply to DeFi.
Key takeaway: Vance says DeFi is still early and just needs time to mature. Chris Dixon said that most new disruptive technology starts out looking like a toy. This is a good analogy for DeFi right now. As DeFi building blocks start to be put together in new and increasingly useful ways, exciting new use cases will be unlocked.
Framework doesn’t invest in Bitcoin and it doesn't invest in Ethereum killers. Framework is long Ether as a core position. Ethereum built liquidity for Ether, it built tooling for Solidity, and it built a passionate dev community. These are significant achievements. 2000 ETH devs dancing on stage at Devcon is not something you can easily replicate. The ETH community is hard to disrupt.
Supporting links: Framework Ventures
Aggregation Theory
The next big thing will start out looking like a toy
Donnie Darko
Framework Ventures on Twitter
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Andy on Twitter
Brave New Coin on Twitter
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Robert Breedlove wrote The Number Zero and Bitcoin. Robert says Satoshi gave the world Bitcoin, a true “something for nothing.” This discovery of absolute scarcity for money is an unstoppable idea that is changing the world tremendously, just like its digital ancestor: the number zero. Robert is the CEO of Parallax Digital, a firm specializing in digital asset investments. The company is founded on the premise that Bitcoin will radically reshape the global economy.
Why you should listen: Robert says that Satoshi gave the world Bitcoin, a true “something for nothing.” This discovery of absolute scarcity for money is an unstoppable idea that is changing the world tremendously, just like its digital ancestor: the number zero.
Like the invention of zero, which led to the discovery of “nothing as something” in mathematics and other domains, Bitcoin is the catalyst of a worldwide paradigmatic phase change. What numeral is to number, and zero is to the void for mathematics, Bitcoin is to absolute scarcity for money: each is a symbol that allows mankind to apprehend a latent reality (in the case of money, time). More than just a new monetary technology, Bitcoin is an entirely new economic paradigm: an uncompromisable base money protocol for a global, digital, non-state economy.
Key takeaway: Robert says that many believe that Bitcoin is “just one of thousands of crypto assets”—this is true in the same way that the number zero is just one of an infinite series of numbers. In reality, Bitcoin is special, and so is zero: each is an invention which led to a discovery that fundamentally reshaped its overarching system—for Bitcoin, that system is money, and for zero, it is mathematics. Since money and math are mankind’s two universal languages, both Bitcoin and zero are critical constructs for civilization.
Zero and Bitcoin are unstoppable ideas gifted to mankind; gestures made in the spirit of “something for nothing.” In a world run by central banks with zero accountability, a cabal that uses the specious prospects of “infinite cash” to promise us everything (thereby raising the specter of hyperinflation), nothingness may prove to be the greatest gift we could ever receive…
Supporting links: The Number Zero and Bitcoin
An Open Letter to Ray Dalio
Robert’s Tweet Storm
Sapiens
Interstellar
The Sovereign Individual
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Stephen Stonberg is the COO/CFO at Bittrex Global, a digital asset exchange based in Liechtenstein. Bittrex Global is a spin-off from one of the OG crypto exchanges, the original Bittrex, based in the U.S. Bittrex Global serves all Bittrex users based outside of the U.S.
Why you should listen: Stephen Stonberg is a graduate of Harvard who spent time at Goldman Sachs. Working in the finance industry in London, Stephen became interested in the potential of the crypto asset class in 2017. After a short stint working in business development in the early days of Binance, Stephen moved to Bittrex where he is now as COO/CFO at Bittrex Global.
Key takeaway: Bittrex Global moved from Malta to Liechtenstein. The Liechtenstein Blockchain Act that was passed in January is a good piece of legislation that best supports their exchange activities.
Liechtenstein is a professional financial services hub and is a much better fit than Malta for Bittrex Global. Bittrex Global aims for the highest possible standards of regulation, security, and compliance to protect itself and its users. A new Bittrex Global exchange token is coming soon.
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Jeff McDonald is the co-founder of the NEM Foundation. Jeff was one of the first members of the NEM community and has helped build the NEM project to where it is today. NEM is preparing for the launch of Symbol (codename Catapult), the second generation of the NEM blockchain.
Why you should listen: Jeff McDonald shares recollections of the NEM journey to date. NEM was one of the earliest enterprise blockchains and began life as a thread on the BitcoinTalk forums before growing into a top 5 market cap asset with NEM communities all over the globe. Symbol (codename Catapult) represents a full rewrite of the NEM protocol. NEM core dev Jaguar recently published an update that unifies the governance plans for all NEM ecosystem entities to support one goal - the launch of Symbol later in 2020.
Key takeaway: In building Symbol, Jeff says NEM has applied all the learning that comes from running version 1 of their blockchain in production for four years. Symbol is a more performant, scalable, and feature-rich protocol as a result. It will become the core NEM engine, powering both private and public blockchains. Jeff says the 3 other blockchain projects that he sees as the most formidable competitors are Libra, Hyperledger, and Ethereum.
Supporting links: Symbol Roadmap
Nem Ecosystem Updates
Nem.io
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Chris Brookins is the founder of Valiendero Digital Assets, a quantitative cryptocurrency investment fund. Chris is the co-author of a new report titled Safe Havens - How gold and bitcoin can adapt to a new paradigm. In the current global crisis - the world is trending towards negative interest rates, money printing, and a decline in cash - traditional safe-haven assets are being turned on their head. The report explores what the function of a 21st-century safe haven should be.
Why you should listen: Bitcoin is on the path to becoming a store of value. The narrative of bitcoin being uncorrelated with any other asset class, and being a safe haven store of value took a hit on March 12, black Thursday when it crashed along with other global markets. However, Bitcoin has since recovered, proving itself surprisingly resilient, and its recovery didn’t require central bank intervention or a government bailout.
Key takeaway: The COVID-19 pandemic is a black swan event that will impact all industries. It will affect the economy, supply chains, and political and social systems. Bitcoin is antifragile and may benefit from the current global uncertainty. However, as a risk asset, due to rising unemployment retail investors will likely have less income to buy Bitcoin.
Expectations of risk to the global economy based on historical events are underestimated because events are inherently fat-tailed and because the tail has become fatter with increased connectivity. In other words high impact, low probability events are becoming more probable.
Supporting links: Safe Havens - How gold and bitcoin can adapt to a new paradigm
Valiendero Digital Assets
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DJ J-SCRILLA is a critically acclaimed hip-hop producer and illustrator from Washington DC. His discography includes hall of fame rappers Killer Mike, Raekwon, and Smif N Wessun. DJ J-SCRILLA has released a new hip-hop album called Sound Money that tells the story of Bitcoin, and samples John Mcafee, Hotep Jesus, and Andreas Antonopoulos. Why you should listen: Sound Money by DJ-SCRILLA is a body of Bitcoin art combining audio clips, samples, dirty drums, and some of the hip-hop underground’s best rappers. The album serves as a soundtrack for Bitcoiners and serves up audio inspiration for no-coiners interested in the future of decentralized money. This podcast features music highlights from the album including the new crypto anthem ‘Faith In My Money (Money Printer Go Brrr)’.
Key takeaway: On the hip-hop edition of the Crypto Conversation podcast, we discuss the lockdown trend that has seen top rappers engage in Instagram battles, such as the recent soundclash between DJ Premier and RZA.
DJ J-SCRILLA says “the album is not a foolishly positive take on Bitcoin. It’s a rational angle that condemns the abuses of central banking and portrays Satoshi Nakamoto’s currency as an alternative.”
Following the Crypto Conversation hot take round, DJ J-SCRILLA shares his top 5 hip-hop albums. Sound Money is available on major streaming services.
Supporting links: Rarescrilla.com
Money Printer Go Brrr
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Sound Money on Spotify
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Hugo Renaudin is the CEO and co-founder of LGO Group, a digital asset exchange for institutions. Hugo says that Bitcoin has a fascinating market infrastructure. It is both revolutionary, but imperfect. Hugo says the Black Thursday crash revealed underlying problems with Bitcoin's market infrastructure. The crash triggered a wave of liquidations that could have sent BTC to zero. What can be done to avoid this risk?
Why you should listen: The Bitcoin and crypto markets have a fascinating market infrastructure that is potentially revolutionary, and a vital part of the capital markets 2.0. However, there are serious problems with Bitcoin's market infrastructure due to the centralization of existing trading platforms. These problems surfaced on Black Thursday, March 12, when the global markets crash triggered a wave of liquidations that could have sent BTC to zero on Bitmex.
Key takeaway: Volatility is a natural part of markets but the potential for volatility remains extreme in the crypto markets. The current financial crisis means that the months and years ahead are a make or break time for Bitcoin and the digital asset space. Bitcoin emerged out of the 2008 financial crisis and it now has the potential to establish itself in the current COVID-19 economic crisis. Bitcoin is not controlled by governments, it has a fixed supply, limited inflation, and it is decentralized. That makes Bitcoin uniquely positioned as a hedge when central banks are forced to inject new fiat into the system.
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Loong Wang is the CTO and co-founder of Ren, a DeFi protocol that enables the private, permissionless transfer of value between any blockchain. Ren is solving the blockchain interoperability problem.
Why you should listen: Loong studied computer science and distributed systems and then became increasingly interested in the potential of blockchain and decentralized finance. The goal of Ren is generic interoperability to enable the trustless, permissionless transfer of value between blockchain. Ren is part of the DeFi ecosystem but Loong sees Ren as helping to build out the decentralized future internet.
Key takeaway: Ren will make it possible to exchange value between different blockchains. The launch of the Ren mainnet is one month away. The goal of interoperability is to make it possible for users to exchange value on any chain, without even knowing that they are interacting with a blockchain. Everything should happen seamlessly in the background. Blade Runner is Loong’s favorite sci-fi movie, a masterpiece of patient world-building and story-telling.
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Marco Streng is the CEO of Genesis Mining, one of the largest Bitcoin cloud-mining companies. Genesis has mining locations in Iceland, Greenland, Norway, and Europe. Marco studied mathematics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He set up a Bitcoin mining operation in his dorm room that ended when the electricity bill arrived.
Why you should listen:
Bitcoin mining is a contest for cheap energy and efficient mining rigs. Miners who are able to operate for long time frames at low costs are in the best position. All other miners are at risk of being buffeted by external market forces.
Key takeaway:
Any professional miner is well prepared for the Bitcoin halving in May. It is a known event therefore competent miners are able to prepare for all scenarios well in advance.
Marcos says that worries about Bitcoin’s energy footprint are overblown due to Bitcoin mining’s increasing use of cheap renewable energy.
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Diogo Monica is the president and co-founder of Anchorage, the leading crypto custodian for institutional investors. Anchorage was selected as a founding member of the Libra Association and recently completed a $40m Series B fundraise, led by Visa.
Why you should listen:
Diogo says that custody needs have evolved beyond simple cold storage. With proof-of-stake assets allowing on-chain governance and 24/7 trading opportunities, there’s a need for a custody solution that allows institutional-grade security as well as near-instant access to assets. Anchorage aims to be the leading provider of that solution.
Key takeaway:
Anchorage uses multiple types of biometric signals and behavioral analytics about the client and device to verify their identity. This is the cutting edge of crypto custody.
Digo thinks that Facebook’s Libra stablecoin will launch in some form in 2020. Anchorage is a founding member of the Libra Association.
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Glacier Protocol
The Way of Kings
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Muneeb Ali is the co-founder and CEO of Blockstack, a decentralized computing network that gives users control of their data. Muneeb talks about the limits of Web 2.0 and how that led to an intrusive ad model, and how web 3.0 changes this model by giving individuals control of their digital sovereignty.
Why you should listen:
Muneeb explains that over a dinner with Balaji S. Srinivasan in February, Balaji convinced him that COVID-19 was about to crash the world and all precautions should be taken. Balaji was right.
The simple but robust protocol design for the Internet Protocol (IP) took the internet to 15B connected devices through the period of the fastest technological change in history. Muneeb says Bitcoin’s protocol has the same properties - it is simple and robust - that’s why Bitcoin is the ideal narrow waist for Web 3.
Key takeaway:
Blockstack completed its capital raise six months ago and rebalanced its portfolio in February - leaving them in a strong position to keep building in these turbulent times.
Blockstack aims to be simple and powerful - like Bitcoin. Blockstack can be thought of as the inverse of the world computer - or platform blockchains such as Ethereum and EOS.
Muneeb says that in trying and uncertain times - it is important for individuals to have a sense of purpose to help them keep pushing forward.
Snow Crash is Mnueeb’s fav sci-fi novel and it informs his thinking about Web3 and Web4.
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Blockstack
Blocktack Blog
Bitcoin as the narrow waist for Web3
Fireside chat with Balaji S. Srinivasan
Snow Crash
Simulation Theory
Why Decentralization Matters
Google creepily records you
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Trent McConaghy is a data and statistical modeling expert. Alarmed at the exponential spread of COVID-19, Trent became concerned that if the virus followed the same trajectory as in Wuhan and Lombardy - other cities would be similarly overwhelmed. Trent created a model to answer the question - how long before hospital capacity gets overwhelmed; at which point the death rate jumps? The focus of the modeling is on the hot zones of the U.S. and Germany: Washington state (WA) and Berlin. According to the model WA will hit capacity by March 25, and Berlin by April 5.
Why you should listen:
There are things we can do now, as citizens, organizations and governments, to slow the spread of COVID-19 and to bound the downside. If we don’t, the downside could be severe. Trent has a Ph.D. in EE from KU Leuven, Belgium. He undertook machine learning research for the Canadian Department of National Defense. He is the founder of Ocean Protocol, a decentralized data marketplace.
COVID-19 is a Black Swan. It’s gone from highly unlikely, to likely, to happening. No one has perfect models of how it will unfold, exactly. But, we can identify possible worst-case scenarios and take action to minimize the negative impacts if those scenarios do occur. The most rational thing that we can do is to bound the downside.
Key takeaway:
The virus will not hit nations in a uniformly spread fashion. It will take out one city at a time, not one country at a time. In China, Northern Wuhan was taken out first. In Italy, it was Lombardy, Venice, and Milan. So while we can start with analyses at the national level (USA, Germany), it’s critical to drill into specific hotspots (Washington state, Berlin) which will experience capacity constraints sooner than the national average.
What can be done? For starters, get more beds. Cancel large gatherings, start remote work, and accelerate universal testing. We should act now. We can learn a lot from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
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When does hospital capacity get overwhelmed
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Systemic Risk of Pandemic via Novel Pathogens
Ocean Protocol
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Catherine Coley is the CEO of Binance.US - the San Francisco based digital asset marketplace that serves American traders under the blue-chip Binance brand. Catherine says that CZ led Binance to the top by adopting a remote-first, decentralized approach.
Why you should listen: Catherine says Binance U.S. is the perfect mix for the ‘ambitious trader’, someone who knows markets, wants to see order depth and market structure, and wants to use the best trading tools available. Binance executed flawlessly in its first year of operation, growing at a scale beyond any other exchange. By adopting a remote-first, decentralized approach, CZ allowed the Binance team to be their best selves.
Catherine also talks about her time as the head of XRP Institutional Liquidity at Ripple during the 2017 bull run. There was a button on the Ripple website that traders could push to find out where to buy XRP that sent an auto-email to Catherine. She says at the peak of the rally, she received 17,000 emails in a six-hour window.
Key takeaway: The U.S. exchange market is competitive, but Catherine is confident to be the CEO of the leading exchange brand in crypto and working with the best trading engine available. While some see the U.S. as falling behind in the global crypto market, Catherine sees an incredible opportunity to get it right. She says crypto represents freedom and we are at the very beginning of the crypto revolution globally.
Catherine still does customer support which gives her invaluable insight into Binance customer needs. Catherine is a major Star Wars nerd, a mega Mandolorian fan and she proudly wears her Darth Vader costume every year for May the 4th and Halloween.
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Kevin Kelly is a co-founder and macro strategist at Delphi Digital, an independent research boutique providing institutional-grade analysis on the digital asset market. Kevin has been tracking what he calls an “inflection point” in the “everything rally.” Is the Coronavirus the black swan event that will trigger a major correction across global financial markets? What does this mean for the crypto markets?
Why you should listen:
Kevin was a U.S. Equity Strategist at Bloomberg before falling down the crypto rabbithole and taking his macro skills to the digital asset space. Kevin gives his helicopter view of the fast-moving macro situation. All markets are extremely volatile and the situation is changing daily as markets react to rising concern over the potential for a global Coronavirus pandemic.
Key takeaway:
The Coronavirus is a black swan event that is likely to get worse before it gets better. When confronted by a highly contagious virus, it is better to be paranoid early, rather than panic late. Google, Amazon and Facebook have too much market power and too much control over user data. The promise and potential of Web 3.0 is to give power back to the individual by giving them the tools to monetize their data and attention.
Supporting links:
Delphi Digital
Systemic Risk of Pandemic via Novel Pathogens
The Transall Saga
The Bitcoin Halving
Kevin Kelly on Twitter
Andy on Twitter
Brave New Coin on Twitter
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Andy talks with self-described ‘flash loans maximalist’ Stani Kulechov, founder and CEO of the Aave Protocol. We explore the increasingly exotic and esoteric landscape of Decentralized Finance or Money Lego - the DeFi ecosystem built on Ethereum. Against the backdrop of the recent DeFi exploits, we discuss the new flash loan innovation that allows traders to take out a loan without collateral by paying back the loan in the same smart contract transaction.
Why you should listen:
Ethereum developers and the DeFi community see the emerging decentralized finance model as a genuine alternative to the legacy financial system. Listen as Stani explains his vision for the Aave protocol and the use cases for flash loans. DeFi is still in a nascent stage andexploits are an inevitable part of the growth cycle as the technology matures. These events are necessary to strengthen the system before it is ready for mainstream use.
Key takeaway:
Decentralization is a journey, not a destination. DeFi may be the decentralized, accessible, immutable financial system of the future, however, the technology is new and still in the experimental stage. The current smart contract attack surface remains open to exploits.
Supporting links:
Aave
Flash Loans
Stani on Twitter
Aave on Twitter
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In part 2 of our conversation with Bram Cohen, Bram outlines the flaws in the financial system, and how Bitcoin was supposed to address them. Bram then takes on Bitcoin, his view is that Bitcoin is too centralized and that its energy footprint is wasteful. Bram explains how his new cryptocurrency project Chia hopes to build on the blueprint of Bitcoin, but instead of using the energy-intensive proof-of-work consensus algorithm, Chia uses proof of space and time, free hard disk space, to create a new Nakamoto-style consensus algorithm.
Why you should listen:
Bram’s vision for Chia is to create a cryptocurrency with the same properties as Bitcoin, but without the enormous energy footprint, and he wants it to be decentralized, and for any individual to be able to farm (mine) the network and participate. Bram says Chia has several unique features that will encourage adoption and even capture market share from Bitcoin.
Key takeaway:
Bitcoin is a revolutionary idea that solved the trusted third party problem and the double spend problem but miners are too centralized and the energy footprint is wasteful. Bram’s vision for Chia addresses these two perceived weaknesses.
Links:
Bram Cohen’s Wikipedia page
Chia
Chia Green Paper
Bitcoin
Bitcoin Hash Rate By Mining Pool
Dr Who
Bram on Twitter
Chia Project on Twitter
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This is part one of a two-part conversation with Bram Cohen. Bram is the inventor of the peer to peer BitTorrent protocol that changed the world in the early 2000s, disrupting the way we understand copyright, how we consume content, and leading to the destruction and rebirth of corporate media companies. Bram is now working on Chia Network, a cryptocurrency with the same properties as Bitcoin, but without the intensive energy footprint. Chia uses a new consensus algorithm called Proof Of Space and Time.
Why you should listen:
The BitTorrent protocol was a catalyst for the golden age of file-sharing in the early 2000s. Bram says it was never about being a crusader against copyright, he was simply interested in moving data from point A to point B. Listen to Bram’s memories of being a childhood programming prodigy, his early start-up failures, and his impressions of Hal Finney and Satoshi Nakamoto during the early years of Bitcoin.
Key takeaway:
At its peak, BitTorrent had hundreds of millions of users and accounted for 40% of all internet traffic. At the core of this was the idea that information wants to be free - and the tension behind that idea is still at the root of what it means to be extremely online today.
BitTorrent is the world’s largest decentralized protocol. Bitcoin is the second largest. Bitcoin is a revolutionary idea but miners are too centralized and the energy footprint is growing. Bram’s vision for Chia addresses these two perceived weaknesses.
Links:
Bram Cohen’s Wikipedia page
Chia
Chia Green Paper
United States of America Mathematical Olympiad
Mojo Nation
BitTorrent
Copyright
Hal Finney
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Bitcoin IRC Channels
Bram on Twitter
Chia Project on Twitter
Andy on Twitter
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In this episode of the Crypto Conversation Andy is joined by Arif Khan, CEO of Alethea AI, a decentralized Synthetic Content Network that allows users to own the rights to their AI-generated identity, secured by a blockchain. Are you ready to monetize your likeness, face and voice data in a trusted environment?
Why you should listen:
Deepfakes are hyper-realistic AI-generated synthetic media in which a person in an existing image or video is replaced with someone else's likeness. Deepfakes can be used to deceive, such as a manipulated video of a politician deployed in an attempt to cause political unrest. However, individuals and media companies are now using the tech in exciting and creative new ways to enable virtual influencers and new digital and social media opportunities. The result is that the lines between virtual, digital, social, and reality continue to blur.
Key takeaway:
Synthetic Media is an emerging creativity multiplier that enables a new kind of storytelling. Like all technology, it can be used in both positive and negative ways. China’s attempt to contain the Coronavirus is likely to accelerate the trend towards remote work, VR, and virtual identities. The future is likely to be weirder and stranger than you dared hope.
Supporting links:
Alethea AI
War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast 1938
Lil Miquela
Sapiens
Alethea AI on Twitter
Arif on Twitter
Andy on Twitter
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In this episode of the Crypto Conversation Andy is joined by Rekt Capital, a trader and technical analyst who has been studying Bitcoin’s price history to look at the effect of the previous halving events on Bitcoin’s price performance. Rekt Capital says the Bitcoin Halving is an important catalyst that will propel Bitcoin into a new bull market.
Why you should listen:
Andy and Rekt Capital discuss the Bitcoin Halving in a macro context to address the following questions: How did each of the previous two Bitcoin Halvings affect Bitcoin’s price? Are there any recurring tendencies as to how these two Halvings affected Bitcoin’s price? How could Bitcoin’s upcoming third Halving potentially affect Bitcoin’s price? Is the Bitcoin Halving priced in?
Key takeaway:
The amount of Bitcoin that is created every 10 minutes gets cut in half every four years. This is why the Bitcoin Halving can be seen as a catalyst that leads to Bitcoin price appreciation. It is important to develop an understanding as well as the ability to appreciate, with a level-head, the historical significance of the Bitcoin Halving effect on Bitcoin’s price. Of course, past performance doesn’t guarantee future outcomes. But as Mark Twain said, two things can be said about history. “History doesn’t repeat itself — but it often rhymes.”
Supporting links:
Brave New Coin Halving Countdown
Rekt Capital Bitcoin-Halving-Everything-You-Need-To-Know
Rekt Capital TA Course (use discount code cryptoconversation)
Brave New Coin Bitcoin Liquid Index
Rekt Capital on Twitter
Andy on Twitter
Brave New Coin on Twitter
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In this episode of the Crypto conversation I’m joined by Pierre Ansaldi and Paul Salisbury from Brave New Coin to discuss the Bitcoin halving, and the new halving countdown page on Brave New Coin. The Bitcoin halving is a key macro event for Bitcoin in 2020, and as we get closer to the halving, Bitcoiners and the rest of the world alike will be watching Bitcoin’s price action.
Why you should listen:
With increasingly turbulent global financial markets and less than 100 days until the Bitcoin halving, while stock markets fall, the BTC price is soaring. Investors are asking when is the halving, and is it priced in? Find out more!
Key takeaway:
Brave New Coin’s new halving countdown page is dedicated to estimating the date and time of the next Bitcoin Block Reward Halving. We have created four scenarios based on different block time metrics. Each scenario is a moving estimate and the timestamp, charts, and values shown on the page are re-calculated daily. The page provides everything you need to watch all of the data around the halving.
Supporting links:
Brave New Coin Halving Countdown
Andy on Twitter
Brave New Coin on Twitter
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Scott Freeman, a former prosecutor with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, is the co-founder of JST Capital, a firm specializing in providing a full suite of traditional financial services to institutions and high-net worth individuals in the digital asset market. On this episode of the Crypto Conversation, Scott and Andy discuss institutional investors, whether the Bitcoin halving is priced in, and the effect of the Coronavirus on the financial markets.
Why you should listen:
As we begin a new decade, many market watchers had expected turbulence and volatility, and 2020 is not playing around. The Coronavirus is driving the global news cycle and impacting all financial markets as governments scramble to contain the virus and prevent a pandemic. In the meantime, with just 100 days until the Bitcoin halving, while stock markets fall, the BTC price is soaring, is the halving priced in?
Key takeaway:
It’s too early to know what will happen with the Coronavirus but it’s already having a negative impact on the global economy. Andy and Scott discuss a note on the virus by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a statistician and risk analyst whose work concerns problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty. Taleb’s take is that in order to contain such a virus, all resources must be diverted to containment as soon as possible, an opportunity that China missed. Taleb’s view is that while there is a very high probability for humanity surviving a single such event, over time, there is eventually zero probability of surviving repeated exposures to such events.
Supporting links:
JST Capital
Systemic Risk of Pandemic via Novel Pathogens
Andy on Twitter
Brave New Coin on Twitter
Brave New Coin
Samson Mow is the Chief Strategy Officer at Blockstream, a company dedicated to building the financial infrastructure of the future on the Bitcoin blockchain. Samson is an outspoken defender of Bitcoin and a self-described toxic maximalist. On this episode of the Crypto Conversation, Samson explains the Blockstream thesis for Bitcoin, why Bitcoin is the centre of the blockchain universe, and what it’s like to be the target of crypto conspiracy theories.
Why you should listen:
Blockstream is building an array of products and protocols to support, extend, and protect the Bitcoin ecosystem. Samson says the Blockstream Satellite has captured people’s imagination and Andy ponders how Elon Musk’s Starlink Satellite network might support Bitcoin. Plus Samson and Andy discuss Bitcoin stock-to-flow, how the Lightning network can scale Bitcoin to 25,000,000 tps and much more.
Key takeaway:
Companies that are participating in the Bitcoin industry should help to grow and secure the network by mining. Blockstream mining is helping to facilitate this. Samson believes in calling out scams and has embraced the Bitcoin maximalist persona. A certain segment of the population is naturally attracted to conspiracy theories and crypto is no exception. The wildest conspiracy theory about Blockstream is that it is controlled by The Bilderberg Group.
Supporting links:
Blockstream
Excellion
Starlink
Pixelmatic
Magical Crypto Friends
Blockstream on Twitter
Samson on Twitter
Andy on Twitter
Brave New Coin on Twitter
Brave New Coin
Daniel Masters is the Executive Chairman at Coinshares, a leading digital asset management firm. The Coinshares Group manages nearly $700 million of assets on behalf of a global investor base. Daniel has a long history in the financial markets and was once the global head of energy and trading at JP Morgan. Now he wants to position CoinShares to be the crypto equivalent.
Why you should listen:
CoinShares is an umbrella company to some of the most innovative investment vehicles in the crypto space and Daniel has a bold vision for the next decade of blockchain.
Key takeaway:
Bitcoin is and will be complementary to the existing financial system. CoinShares have put physical gold on the bitcoin blockchain with the gold backed token DGLD.
Supporting links:
CoinShares
DGLD
XBT Provider
Andy on Twitter
Brave New Coin on Twitter
Brave New Coin
Matthew Graham is the CEO of Sino Global Capital, a team of Beijing-based investment bankers. China sees blockchain as a key strategic technology pillar critical to the next decade of growth. As it prepares to deploy a state-issued digital currency or DCEP (Digital Currency / Electronic Payment) China has a unique opportunity to take control of its monetary system and get a jump on other nation states. What are the implications for China and its citizens?
Why you should listen:
China’s leaders are engineering-minded and technologically bold. China has a large influence on the crypto space. The majority of bitcoin mining is based in China, and China’s changing stance towards crypto assets has tended to have an exaggerated effect on the volatile crypto markets. China sees blockchain very differently from the west and appears uniquely positioned to be the first large nation state to deploy a state-issued digital currency. Plus Andy and Matthew discuss Tokenization, Star Wars, sneaker trading.
Key takeaway:
A state-issued digital currency is a powerful idea. However, if combined with other technologies such as facial recognition, a social credit score, digital identity, and phone tracking, it would be an authoritarian method of control. State issued digital currency puts into stark relief the potential of an open, borderless, decentralized non-state issued digital currency such as Bitcoin.
Supporting links:
Sino Global Capital
Matthew on Twitter
Andy on Twitter
Brave New Coin on Twitter
Brave New Coin
Andreas M. Antonopoulos has spent the last decade traveling the world, delivering hundreds of live talks on Bitcoin. Combining his knowledge of economics, psychology, technology, and game theory with his unique views on politics and history, Andreas makes a compelling case for the importance of open, decentralized, borderless, censorship-resistant, neutral, public blockchains. As we enter the 2020s, Andreas reflects on the first decade of blockchain and asks what happens next?
Why you should listen:
Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a critically-acclaimed best-selling author, speaker, educator, and one of the world’s foremost bitcoin and open blockchain experts. A prolific speaker, teacher, author and bitcoin advocate, Andreas says this has become his life mission. After achieving his goal of reaching 10 million people by 2020, his next goal is to reach 100 million by the end of 2022.
Key takeaway:
Bitcoin had an incredible first decade of existence. It started as an idea on a small cryptography email list and grew into the world’s most valuable, decentralized blockchain network. Learn why Andreas describes himself as a Gen X who aspires to be a millennial. Andy and Andreas talk science fiction, discussing the dystopian near-future as depicted by Cory Doctorow, George Orwell, and Aldous Huxley. Finally, in the Crypto Conversation hot take section, Andreas says that The Next Generation is his favorite Star Trek universe.
Supporting links:
Aantonop.com
The Aantonop Youtube Channel
Andreas on Twitter
Unauthorized Bread
Andy on Twitter
Brave New Coin on Twitter
Brave New Coin
Sergey Nazarov is the CEO at Chainlink where he is spear-heading the smart contract oracle revolution. Sergey believes that blockchain technology has the ability to change the way societies distribute wealth, enforce contracts, and share, monetize, and utilize critical information. Relentlessly focused and logical, Sergey is single-minded in his approach to unleashing the true potential of smart contracts.
Key takeaway:
Smart contracts have the potential to change the world by making it possible for anyone to enter into a digital agreement with anyone else. But there’s a problem - for the potential of smart contracts to truly be unleashed - they need a reliable way to connect with events in the real world - this is called the ‘oracle problem.’ An oracle’s function is to find and verify real-world occurrences and provide this data to a blockchain based smart contract in a manner that is decentralized and not vulnerable to a single point of failure. This is the solution that Chainlink provides.
Why you should listen:
Sergey says that the blockchain space is in an early form and has a long way to evolve, he is committed to helping this process. He sees smart contracts as an extremely reliable form of automation that has the potential to unlock vast amounts of value across the existing financial system, and also improve emerging markets by enabling individuals to pursue their economic destiny in whatever manner they see fit. Finally, in the Crypto Conversation hot take section, Sergey explains his passion for science fiction and the Star Trek and Expanse universes.
Supporting links:
Chainlink
The Brave New Coin Chainlink
Nick Szabo Smart Contract Essay
Chainlink on Twitter
Sergey on Twitter
Andy on Twitter
Brave New Coin on Twitter
Brave New Coin
Chris Brookins is the author of a new report - Ethereum Price Forecast into 2020 - a data first analysis. The report assess Ethereum’s tumultuous 2019 and attempts to address the question - is an ETH price reprieve on the horizon? Against the backdrop of the Ethereum 2.0 Serenity blockchain upgrade, Andy and Chris discuss how the Ethereum team plan to maintain the network’s position as the leading smart contract platform blockchain and how this might lead to a new bull cycle for the ETH token.
Key takeaway:
Ethereum has had a tumultuous 2019 and there are further growing pains ahead. The upcoming, long-anticipated launch of Ethereum 2.0 in January will be the most important and comprehensive update in the network’s history. The 2.0 launch will reconfigure and adjust many existing Ethereum network dynamics. Chris’s report analyzes Ethereum’s seasonal characteristics and uses the Hurst exponent to tease out a likely trajectory in 2020. We verify the fundamental metrics driving price and assess their implications for the future of the Ethereum network.
Why you should listen:
Chris Brookins is the Founder and CIO of Valiendero Digital Assets, a quantitative cryptocurrency investment fund founded out of Carnegie Mellon University. Andy and Chris discuss Nike’s patent to tokenize sneakers on Ethereum, Chris gives his assessment of Plan B’s Bitcoin stock to flow model and he shares a view on what he expects to happen around the Bitcoin halving. Finally, Andy and Chris geek out over The Expanse and agree that it is an accurate depiction of a dystopian near future.
Supporting links:
Ethereum Price Forecast 2020 Report
Ethereum At The Crossroads Report
Valiendero
Chris on Twitter
Andy on Twitter
Brave New Coin on Twitter
Brave New Coin
Kadan Stadelmann is the Komodo Platform’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Kadan’s background includes coding from an early age which led to him becoming a white-hat hacker and operations security and penetration testing at the nation-state level. Komodo has conducted the world’s first web browser-based atomic swap and is expanding its decentralized exchange solution, AtomicDEX, to web browsers. The atomic swap is a smart contract technology that allows users to trade digital assets without any third-party involvement.
Key takeaway:
To date, most decentralized exchange solutions have been clunky and lacking in users. Komodo says that the AtomicDEX is now the industry leader. Komodo has been working on atomic swaps since 2014 and has collaborated with their inventor, Tier Nolan. In the last four months, Komodo has launched the first DEX for mobile phones, on-boarded thousands of users, and executed the first web browser-based atomic swap. Komodo is on a mission to make it so that if you want to trade crypto without a middleman, you can do it by typing in a URL or pulling out your phone.”
Why you should listen:
Hear why Kadan’s experience working in op-sec at the nation-state level led to a realization that trustless, decentralized solutions are the most effective means to change the world. Plus, hear Kadan’s diplomatic assessment of the McAfeeDEX, and learn why Kadan is extremely pessimistic about humanity’s future.
Supporting links:
Komodo Platform
AtomicDEX
Kadan on Twitter
Komodo on Twitter
AtomicDEX on Twitter
Andy on Twitter
Brave New Coin on Twitter
Brave New Coin
Notsofast is the pseudonymous Twitter persona of a crypto OG. Notsofast was a prolific early altcoin spec miner, a dogecoin enthusiast and one of Crypto Twitter’s most helpful personalities. Notsofast is a consultant to many blockchain projects and an advocate for the potential of decentralized, permissionless systems. An insightful and engaging speaker Notsofast says it’s important to get friendly with the idea of cognitive dissonance.
Key takeaway:
Deploying a pseudonymous persona gives the individual a blank canvas to build a solid reputation by setting a good example. This is a kind of superpower. Notsofast’s entry into crypto came via Dogecoin, a fun community and an entry into the space that allowed users to not take themselves too seriously, or have to engage with fringe political beliefs. Notsofast has approximately 300 altcoin bags and believes that while Bitcoin maximalism is a strong argument for the success of blockchain generally, there is a part of it that descends into groupthink meaning nuanced discussion is lost.
Why you should listen:
Hear why Dogecoin is an oscillator that has proven store of nostalgia properties, and while Notsofast was once a prolific spec miner, hobbyist mining opportunities are rare now that anyone can launch their own token. Notsofast says it’s important to get friendly with cognitive dissonance and he uses the Indian parable of the blind men and the elephant to illustrate the difficulties of grokking the crypto asset space. Plus Andy and Notsofast discuss Willy Woo’s Oscillators and Degenerators thesis, why families might be natural crypto custodians and the practicalities of securing 300 different altcoin holdings.
Supporting links:
Notsofast at CoinfestUK
Die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain
Willy Woo’s Oscillators and Degenerators
The parable of the blind men and an elephant
The Wasp Factory
Cryptochrisw on Twitter
Notsofast on Twitter
Andy on Twitter
Brave New Coin on Twitter
Brave New Coin
Alex Mashinsky is a successful entrepreneur best known for inventing VOIP which enables 1B people to talk over the internet for free. VOIP disrupted the Telecom companies, and now Alex wants to disrupt the banks with Money Over IP. His newest start-up Celsius Network has a massive goal - allow crypto users to unbank themselves by depositing crypto with Celsius, and receive interest rates on crypto deposits or fiat loans that are far superior to legacy banking.
Key takeaway:
Alex Mashinsky is a fascinating guy with a fascinating background. He was born into communism, raised under socialism, and he has made a fortune via capitalism. Alex views Decentralization as a 4th system - and the one system that has the potential to benefit the 99%, not just the 1%. Is there a theme running through Alex's career? Yes. The theme is taking a risk, trusting your gut, and trying to change the world by disrupting an entire industry. Alex has done this once, and now he wants to do it again. First the Telecom companies, and now the banks.
Why you should listen:
Alex is positioning Celsius to bring mainstream users into the crypto ecosystem by offering financial services with rates superior to the legacy system, and to the emerging DeFi ecosystem. Alex has a long history of successful investments and missed opportunities. In fact, in a roundabout way, Alex founded Uber before it was Uber, it was called GroundLink, and he then got crushed by Uber.
Alex has 50 patents that make everything from voice over internet, Twitter, Skype, the App Store, and Netflix streaming possible. Alex has made 120 VC investments, he's raised over a billion dollars for his companies, and Alex has achieved exits to the value of $3 billion.
Supporting links:
Celsius.network
Mashinsky
Groundlink
Alex on Twitter
Andy on Twitter
Brave New Coin on Twitter
Brave New Coin
Danny Kim is Head of Growth at SFOX, a crypto trading platform and prime dealer for whale traders and institutional investors. SFOX is connected to 20+ exchanges and OTC desks to provide a single point of access to the crypto markets. SFOX was one of only two crypto companies to make Y Combinator's list of the Top 100 most valuable companies to come out of its accelerator program.
Key takeaway:
A prime dealer provides a single point of liquidity to all the major crypto exchanges, a vital access point for large whale traders and institutional investors. The prime dealer model is an evolution in the Bitcoin and crypto markets as more sophisticated traders demand a more comprehensive liquidity solution via a single trading platform. The exact amount of OTC volume is unknown but may be up to 70% of the market.
Why you should listen:
Danny explains the animal-inspired suite of SFOX algorithms - Polar Bear, Tortoise, Hare, and the Gorilla. He says the institutions are coming, however, it’s a slow and steady process due to the complex requirements of the larger pension funds and custodial clients. In the Crypto Conversation hot take round, Danny says he is a fan of Andrew Yang, and his favorite science fiction film is Interstellar.
Supporting links:
SFOX
SFOX on Twitter
Brave New Coin on Twitter
Andy on Twitter
SFOX-Crypto-Volatility-Report
Brave New Coin
Y Combinator Top Companies
Professional trader and market analyst Josh Olszewicz joins Andy Pickering for a brain dump on the crypto news cycle. Bakkt’s volume hit a new all-time-high, and Square had its sixth consecutive growth quarter - bullish for Bitcoin? Plus recent developments in China, why Libra is dead in the water, and Andy tells the story of how Kim Dotcom introduced him to Bitcoin.
Key takeaway:
Crypto has a scam problem, a fungibility problem, and a user-experience problem, are these solvable? Darknet markets still prefer Bitcoin over privacy coins, why? As Boomers fade out, millennial adoption of Bitcoin as digital money for a digital world will become inevitable. China has been working on the digital yuan for 3-4 years, what is really happening, and why China is so adept at playing the long game. Bitcoin’s stock to flow model suggests a $55,000 Bitcoin after the 2020 halving.
Why you should listen:
Andy and Josh discuss whether “nocoiner” is a derogatory term in the same way as ”Ok Boomer,” and Josh outs himself as an Overwatch and Magic: The Gathering enthusiast. Everyone is mad at Facebook, and just as well, as Libra looks like it is designed to use private social media data to calculate credit scores. That would be dystopian. The story of the next decade will a Darwinian battle between decentralized digital currencies, corporate coins, and central bank digital currencies. Spoiler alert - Josh picks Bitcoin as the winner.
Supporting Links:
Plan B - The Bitcoin Stock to Flow model
Josh On Twitter
Brave New Coin on Twitter
Andy on Twitter
Josh’s Brave New Coin reports
Josh’s Trading tips
Ledger Status
Libra is Architecturally Unsound
BTSE is a crypto asset exchange and futures trading platform. BTSE has partnered with crypto data company Brave New Coin to create two indices - the BBCX and BBAX, around which BTSE has developed futures trading products. Brian Wong and Lina Seiche from BTSE talk to Andy Pickering about crypto futures trading, the role of marketing and social media in crypto, and we finish with the Crypto Conversation hot take round.
Key takeaway:
An index tracks the performance of a basket of assets to represent the overall strength of a market. The new BTSE BBCX index tracks Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin and can be combined with leveraged futures trading. Brian discusses the collaborative process working with the Brave New Coin market data team to create the index. Brian and Lina explain why they think the next Bitcoin bull run will be even bigger than 2017, how futures trading allows miners and traders to hedge their positions and why liquidity attracts liquidity.
Why you should listen:
Lina talks about the importance of separating signal from noise on social media and at crypto conferences. She explains why there is a first-place prize of 10 Bitcoins in the BTSE trading competition and why centralized exchanges need to win the trust of their users. In the Crypto Conversation hot-take round, Brian says he admires the vision of Andrew Yang, Lina explains why BTSE sponsors the Magical Crypto Friends, and why she respects Elon Musk’s vision to take humanity to another planet. Not to be outdone in the sci-fi stakes, we learn that Brian’s Twitter handle is a reference to the Infinite Square Well - the particle in a box model in quantum mechanics. Brian says that his favorite sci-fi film is Interstellar, while Lina admits to being more of a fantasy fan, and picks the Lord of the Rings as her fantasy literature of choice.
Supporting links:
Btse.com
Btse trading-competition
Btse-x-bnc-bbcx-index-futures-trading-tutorial
Brave New Coin indices-program
BNC-BTSE Composite Index (BBCX)
Brave New Coin
BNC-pro.com
Andy on Twitter
Lina on Twitter
Brian on Twitter
Fluffy Pony sells BTSE like a BOSS
Particle in a box
Tal Kol is the co-founder of Orbs, a public blockchain for enterprise. Tal is a veteran of Israel’s 8200 unit, a military intelligence agency comprised of the smartest 18 - 21 year-olds in Israel. Alumni of the unit have been unusually successful in the global startup scene. Tal believes that the Dapp model is flawed, that Dapps can’t compete with their centralized counterparts, and that public blockchains should work with enterprise to build out Web 3.0.
Key takeaway:
Tal says the 8200 unit is a tech incubator and it’s one of the reasons why Israel is a global technology innovator. Learn why Tal says public blockchains for Dapps such as Ethereum, Tezos, EOS, and Cosmos will not succeed and nor will private, permissioned blockchains such as Corda and Hyperledger. Instead, Tal thinks that public blockchains that help enterprise is the only model that makes sense.
Why you should listen:
Tal has some extremely insightful things to say about human nature, power, corruption, and how blockchain can help. Does blockchain have a role to play in the Israeli Palestine conflict? In the Crypto Conversation hot take round, we get deep - Tal says that the global populace and the 1% have a different understanding of governance, power, and how the world really works. Everything is up for manipulation, and nothing can be trusted because power corrupts - can blockchain help? Finally, Tal explains why the laws of physics suggest that in the future as humans start to expand beyond Earth - we will inevitably split into different races and end up at war with each other across the universe.
Supporting links:
Orbs.com
Medium.com/@talkol
Kardashev_scale
Brave New Coin
BNC-pro.com
Andy on Twitter
Tal on Twitter
John McAfee speaks to us from inside a Faraday cage. At the height of the 2017 crypto bull run John made a wild Bitcoin price prediction and bet his manhood on it coming true. John is a renegade, he’s an outlaw, he may or may not be on the run from the US government and he has just launched a new decentralized exchange that he says will rival Binance in six months time.
Key takeaway:
A passionate Libertarian, John seeks to free people from corrupt governments. His latest endeavour is the McAfee Decentralized Exchange (DEX). A DEX cannot be shut down by authorities. John believes that governments will continue to crack down on the crypto ecosystem and to defend against this, it is critical that a network of decentralized exchanges exist to enable the free exchange of crypto assets.
Why you should listen:
John is a notorious prankster, trickster, and modern day pirate. That makes him a very entertaining interview subject. Listen as John explains why he is talking to us from a Faraday cage so that the authorities cannot track him. We discuss John’s wild Bitcoin price prediction, why he thinks the math says that Bitcoin hits 1 million by Dec 31, 2020, and why John believes this is a bet he can’t lose. Plus - John’s fascinating history working as a programmer at NASA, and on black projects at Lockheed, and we finish with the Crypto Conversation hot take round.
Supporting links:
McAfee2020.com
McAfeedex.com
Brave New Coin
Liquid.com/bnc
BNC-pro.com
Faraday cage
Andy on Twitter
John on Twitter
A crypto entrepreneur and blockchain evangelist, Fran Strajnar is the founder and CEO of Brave New Coin. Fran says his mission is to “terraform the digital asset landscape.” Brave New Coin’s latest product is BNC Pro - a ground-breaking all-in-one crypto portfolio management platform.
Key takeaway:
Information flow in today’s crypto economy is fragmented, fallible and flawed. Market beating insight and advantage is available to those who can assemble, curate and filter this data quickly. Launching in November, BNC Pro is an all-in-one crypto asset management solution that integrates a user’s portfolio with Brave New Coin’s verified market data, newsfeeds and analysis tools - delivering actionable insights in near real-time. Premium tools are unlocked using the BNC Token which is launching via IEO on November 4th at Liquid.com.
Why you should listen:
Fran explains his vision for the future of the crypto and blockchain space and why BNC Pro is positioning to be the terminal experience at the heart of the industry. Plus - why science fiction is the literature of ideas, and the eerie similarities between Huxley’s Brave New World and Orwell’s 1984. Fran explains Star Trek’s unique ability to provide a glimpse of the future, it’s foreshadowing of mobile phones, iPads, and other technology, and how Gene Roddenberry’s clever commentaries on the cultural issues of the day shaped today's world.
Supporting links:
Brave New Coin
Liquid.com/bnc
BNC-pro.com
A-pioneering-business-model-for-a-frontier-industry
Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Near
Kardashev scale
Fran on Twitter.com
Andy on Twitter
Brave New World
Mark Yusko is the CEO of Morgan Creek Capital. Mark is one of the most insightful investors and most articulate Bitcoin bulls on the planet. Mark’s investment thesis is that the greatest wealth is created by being an early investor in innovation. Making that investment requires believing in something before the majority of people understand it.
Key takeaway:
Being able to generate significant wealth from investing early in innovation requires doing the work and having conviction. Blockchain and crypto assets are a technological evolution equivalent to the internet.
Why you should listen:
Andy and Mark discuss Ray Kurzweil’s Law of Accelerating Returns, why new technology adoption tends to follow an s-curve, and why the human brain struggles to understand the speed of exponential growth. Plus - why crypto is a virus that will keep spreading, the myth of Warren Buffett's "Aw shucks" persona, why institutions must #GetOffZero and allocate to Bitcoin, and Mark explains why he thinks Tesla is a good company but not a good stock.
Links:
Morgan Creek Capital
Brave New Coin
Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Near
The Virus Is Spreading
Inside Bill’s Brain
Mark’s Webinar on #GetOffZero
Mark Yusko on Twitter
Andy Pickering on Twitter
Jake Yocom-Piatt, Decred co-founder and project lead talks about the mysterious Decred origin story and how it relates to Satoshi Nakamoto. A hybrid proof-of-work/proof-of-stake store of value asset, Decred has strong governance, good security, privacy features, and an innovative incentive alignment. If Bitcoin is about being your own bank, so is Decred - but it's also about having a say in your bank's policies. Plus, surveillance capitalism, Decred’s new privacy features and we listen to the ‘Privacy Flow’ hip-hop track.
Key takeaway:
Decred is about reorganizing society around fairer games. Decred’s point of difference is the addition of a governance system on top of a hybrid proof-of-work/proof-of-stake cryptocurrency. Decred now has privacy features that compete with Monero and Zcash. Bitcoin maximalists often support two other projects - Monero and Decred.
Why you should listen:
Jake is a fascinating guy with very strong opinions. Learn why he thinks Satoshi Nakamoto was a team of at least three people and the mysterious similarities in the origin stories of Bitcoin, Monero and Decred. Plus - listen to Decred’s ‘Privacy Flow’ hip-hop track, and learn why Jake feels vindicated by Edward Snowden’s revelations.
Supporting links:
Decred.org
medium.com/decred
Twitter.com/decredproject
blog.companyzero.com/2015/11/bitcoins-biggest-challenges
placeholder.vc/blog/2018/5/12/decred-investment-thesis
Hedera Hashgraph is an enterprise-grade distributed ledger platform. After years of development, Hedera came out of stealth mode and launched the public beta of its mainnet in September. The Hedera team describes the Hashgraph as a 3rd generation public ledger (they refer to Bitcoin as 1st generation and Ethereum as 2nd generation). Hedera claims the Hashgraph can process up to 10,000 transactions per second, an order of magnitude faster than current blockchains.
Rather than use a blockchain platform, the Hedera Hashgraph is based on a DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph). This form of DLT doesn’t rely on a proof-of-work or proof-of-stake consensus mechanism. Instead, Hedera network participants act as nodes that validate each other’s transactions which leads to faster consensus. However, the hashgraph is not decentralized. Instead, it has a governing council with members including corporate heavyweights such as IBM and Boeing.
Mance Harmon co-founder and CEO of Hedera Hashgraph talks about his early years at the Missile Defense Agency where he met Leemon Baird, the inventor of the Hashgraph algorithm. The two tech entrepreneurs say they’ve solved blockchain’s scalability problem. Have they? Let’s try and find out...
Key takeaway:
Hedera is no threat to Bitcoin. But when compared to platform blockchains like Ethereum, Hedera appears to offer a compelling feature set and faster transaction times.
Why you should listen:
Mance explains why he thinks Hedera is a generation ahead of current blockchains, why the team has been consciously controversial, and why existing within legal and regulatory frameworks is a feature, not a bug.
Supporting Links
Hedera.com
Hedera Hashgraph - Time for Some Fud by Eric Wall
Counter Fud by Hedera’s Paul Madsen
Counter Counter Fud by Eric Wall
Fair Access v. Fair Ordering, & Transactions Per Second Examined & Explained
Twitter.com/hashgraph
Twitter.com/ManceHarmon
The Bitcoin price has risen 300% in 2019 but the long-suffering altcoin markets have not been able to keep pace. Earlier this month, while BTC was in a range, we started to see some altcoin moves. ETH, Stellar and Dodge all made gains in USD and BTC terms. Is there an alt window opening? What are the chances of a Q4 alt season? When is the point of maximum opportunity and minimum risk for altcoins? Can Bitcoin lead a market-wide recovery? Or is there simply more pain to come?
Altcoin trader, crypto market researcher, author, and analyst Nik Patel provides his assessment of the crypto markets and where we are in the wider altcoin market cycle.
Key takeaway
Trading altcoins is extremely risky but it can be profitable. Due to the varied trading experience and diverse nature of global market participants, the altcoin markets are a hyper volatile expression of pure human emotion.
Why you should listen
Learn why Nik is short term bearish on BTC and why he thinks an alt season may be on the cards for Q4 2019. Nik discusses his website, his research process, the book he published in 2018, An Altcoin Trader’s Handbook, and he reflects on the importance of security and what he learned after a significant portfolio loss due to a hack.
Supporting links
altcointradershandbook.com
An Altcoin Trader’s Handbook (on Amazon)
A-Notsofast-security-primer
Jameson Lopp’s privacy-protection-proposal
turtlebc.com/tools/bull_percentage/btc
twitter.com/cointradernik
twitter.com/AndyPickeringNZ
Bitcoin is the best performing asset on the planet across the last ten years. Modern Portfolio Theory suggests that by allocating 5% of an investment portfolio to Bitcoin, investors could generate outsized returns without taking on high levels of risk. Jack Tatar, an investor, advisor, and author talks about crypto assets as an investment class and reflects on the impact of the book he co-authored - Crypto Assets, the Innovative Investor’s Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond.
Key Takeaway:
Modern Portfolio Theory suggests that an investment portfolio should allocate 5% towards high-risk, high-return assets such as Bitcoin. Investors can reduce overall risk while maximizing return by holding a diversified portfolio of non-correlated assets.
Why you should listen:
Learn why Jack thinks Bitcoin hits $20,000 in 2020 and the likely impact of the Bitcoin halving. Plus Jack talks about the altcoin market, his favorite sci-fi novels and the two portfolios he tracks for his Forbes crypto asset newsletter subscribers.
Links
Forbes.com/newsletters/forbescryptoassetadvisor
Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond
Modern Portfolio Theory
The Sirens of Titan
What’s the Deal With Bitcoin?
twitter.com/JackTatar
twitter.com/AndyPickeringNZ
While the SEC drags its feet, the EU is embracing blockchain and the emerging Security Token Offering model. Monique Bachner, a Luxembourg based company law and corporate governance expert discusses the different regulatory approaches of the EU and the U.S.
Key Takeaway:
Blockchain friendly EU directives are creating a positive regulatory framework for Security Token Offerings.
Why you should listen:
Learn why Luxembourg is a hub for blockchain, tech and AI. Plus, just because tokenization will soon make it possible to trade a digital sword for a fraction of a Ferrari, it doesn’t mean you should.
eublockchainforum.eu
thinkblocktank.org
twitter.com/moniquebachner
twitter.com/AndyPickeringNZ
Despite a compelling ‘world computer’ narrative, Ethereum has failed to deliver market-ready applications at scale. With its future no longer a foregone conclusion, Aditya Das discusses his new report that assesses the Istanbul hard fork and Ethereum 2.0. Can the roadmap deliver on the blockchain’s early promise?
bravenewcoin.com/ethereum-at-the-crossroads
twitter.com/bravenewcoin
twitter.com/Dascryptoforyou
twitter.com/AndyPickeringNZ
Ed Felten, a founder at Offchain Labs and Professor of Computer Science at Princeton who served as Deputy Chief Technology Officer to President Obama, joins Andy for a fascinating, wide-ranging discussion on the potential of smart contracts, Bitcoin’s exponential growth curve, the tensions between technology and public policy, and why blockchain voting is a non-starter.
https://offchainlabs.com
https://twitter.com/OffchainLabs
https://twitter.com/EdFelten
https://twitter.com/bravenewcoin
https://twitter.com/AndyPickeringNZ
NEM Ventures director Dave Hodgson speaks to NEM’s investments in Vimba and IoDLT and how its Catapult upgrade will accelerate the coming wave of interoperable blockchains. Also covered is the emerging Security Token Offering model - and Dave explains the differences between ICOs, STOs and IEOs, before another round of crypto hot takes.
https://nem.io/
https://nemventures.io/
https://vimba.co/
https://iodlt.com/
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https://verifiedtokenframework.com/
Blockstack’s Brittany Laughlin joins Andy to explore Blockstack's historic SEC approval and why it’s a game-changer for crypto investors around the world. Plus, why Donald Trump's tweets and Facebook's Libra are good for crypto — and another round of crypto hot-takes.
https://blockstack.org/
http://www.lattice.vc/
https://medium.com/s/story/why-decentralization-matters-5e3f79f7638e
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Josh Olszewicz reveals the secrets behind successful crypto trading — and explains why most who attempt it end up losing their shirts. Josh also analyzes June's epic Bitcoin rally - and identifies the crucial technical indicators that signaled the bull run weeks in advance.
Josh's Brave New Coin reports Josh's Trading tips & tricks
Researcher Andrew Gillick talks about 2 new investment reports that examine negative interest rates and their effect on the economy, plus Modern Monetary Theory and what it means for Bitcoin. He covers the emergence of central bank digital currencies, why negative interest rates could provide an upwind for new forms of commodity money such as Bitcoin and Litecoin, and the likely impact of the May 2020 Bitcoin halving event.
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The end of cash: Investing in digital scarcity as a hedge against negative interest rates The war on fake news: An opportunity for decentralized media