In this episode we talk to Sam Bankman Fried from FTX.
Sam is one of the most well known figures in the crypto space. He's a notorious trader moving billions of dollars on a daily basis. He is so busy that he only sleeps a couple of hours a day on a bean bag next to his desk.

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In this episode we talk to Sam Bankman Fried from FTX.
Sam is one of the most well known figures in the crypto space. He's a notorious trader moving billions of dollars on a daily basis. 

Podcast w. Sam Bankman Fried from FTX on Building A Crypto Exchange Powerhouse | Cryptotesters

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In this episode I talk to Sam Bankman Fried from [FTX](https://ftx.com/#a=cryptotesters).

Sam is one of the most well known figures in the crypto space. He's a notorious trader moving billions of dollars on a daily basis. He is so busy that he only sleeps a couple of hours a day on a bean bag next to his desk.

He recently got a lot of mainstream media attention for donating over $5m dollars to the Joe Biden campaign.

We talk about:

- FTX's fast growth and success reasons
- Plans for Blockfolio and Maps.me
- The FTT token
- Relationship with Binance
- His involvement in the Solana ecosystem

### Sponsors

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Sam Bankman Fried from FTX on his Masterplan to Build an Exchange Powerhouse

In this episode we talk to Stephan Ponnet  Founder of AvadoCloud. Avado produces Blockchain Nodes which users can run at home and are extremely easy to set-up.

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In this episode we talk to Stephan Ponnet  Founder of AvadoCloud. Avado produces Blockchain Nodes which users can run at home and are extremely easy to set-up. Using an Avado device even non-technical people can run nodes in decentralized network and earn crypto tokens for doing so.

Podcast with Stefaan Ponnet, Founder of AvadoCloud | By Cryptotesters

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In this episode we talk to Stephan Ponnet Founder of [AvadoCloud](https://ava.do/). Avado produces Blockchain Nodes which users can run at home and are extremely easy to set-up.

Using an Avado device even non-technical people can run nodes in decentralized network and earn crypto tokens for doing so.

In the episode we talk about how he got the idea for Avado, how he built the first prototypes and why he thinks everyone should run their own node. We also walk through the variety of networks that Avado supports and the long-term vision of his project.

### Special Opportunity 
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Stefaan Ponnet Founder of AvadoCloud about Democratizing Access to Blockchain Nodes

In this episode we talk to Alex Salnikov, who is the founder of Rarible.com one of the largest NFT marketplaces in the crypto space. We discuss how he got into NFTs, why he thinks that what we’re currently seeing with NFT art is just the tip of the iceberg and why there could be much larger technological disruption ahead, as well as the challenges that Rarible faces and how it intends to tackle them.

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In this episode we talk to Alex Salnikov, who is the founder of Rarible.com one of the largest NFT marketplaces in the crypto space. 

Podcast with Alex Salnikov from Rarible.com on NFTs, the Metaverse and the Tokenization of Intellectual Property

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In this episode we talk to Alex Salnikov, who is the founder of [Rarible.com](https://rarible.com/) one of the largest NFT marketplaces in the crypto space. We discuss how he got into NFTs, why he thinks that what we’re currently seeing with NFT art is just the tip of the iceberg and why there could be much larger technological disruption ahead, as well as the challenges that Rarible faces and how it intends to tackle them.

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Alex Salnikov from Rarible.com on NFTs, the Metaverse and the Tokenization of Intellectual Property

In this episode we speak with Nate Hindman, Head of Growth and Mark Richardson, Lead Research at Bancor. We talk about the history of Bancor, how it came to develop its first AMM, why it was ultimately less successful than Uniswap in that period and how its new version solves a lot of the issues that have existed in AMMs in the last couple of years: impermanent loss and single-sided liquidity.

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In this episode we speak with Nate Hindman, Head of Growth and Mark Richardson, Lead Research at Bancor. 

Bancor Podcast on Building a Next-Generation Decentralized Exchange | Cryptotesters

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In this episode we speak with Nate Hindman, Head of Growth and Mark Richardson, Lead Research at [bancor.network](http://bancor.network/).

We talk about the history of Bancor, how it came to develop its first AMM, why it was ultimately less successful than Uniswap in that period and how its new version solves a lot of the issues that have existed in AMMs in the last couple of years: impermanent loss and single-sided liquidity.

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Nate & Mark from Bancor on Building a Next-Generation Decentralized Exchange

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In this episode we talk to Tim Beiko, who has recently become Facilitator of the AllCoreDevs call, where Ethereum Core Developers discuss the Ethereum roadmap and other important governance matters.

Tim Beiko on How Ethereum Governance works and the upcoming EIP-1559 | Cryptotesters

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In this episode we talk to Tim Beiko, who has recently become Facilitator of the AllCoreDevs call, where Ethereum Core Developers discuss the Ethereum roadmap and other important governance matters.

Tim is also the lead coordinator behind one of the most important Ethereum Improvement Proposals this year called EIP-1559.

In our conversation Tim explains in great detail how Ethereum governance works and what he sees as the main challenges today.

We also break down EIP-1559 and discuss how its going to improve the Ethereum fee market.

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Tim Beiko on How Ethereum Governance works and the upcoming EIP-1559

Indices are probably the hottest product category in the DeFi space right now. They allow users to get exposure to specific market sectors within DeFi without having to actively manage their portfolio.

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Indices are probably the hottest product category in the DeFi space right now. They allow users to get exposure to specific market sectors within DeFi without having to actively manage their portfolio.


Dillon Kellar from Indexed Finance on Building An Autonomous DeFi Index Protocol | Cryptotesters

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In this episode I talk to Dillon Kellar from [Indexed Finance](https://indexed.finance/).

Indices are probably the hottest product category in the DeFi space right now.

Probably everyone knows indices or ETFs from the traditional world like the S&P500. They track the performance of entire market sector or baskets of assets.

By doing so they allow investors to get exposure in a passive way without having to actively manage their portfolio everyday, buying and selling various assets. An index takes care of that.

DeFi indices are **even more interesting** because they are decentralised and let governance token holders key factors such as which indices to deploy next, how to manage them and so on.

Indexed is one of the most interesting index projects right now - it rose from $0 to $17m in less than a month!

In this episode we talk about this incredible journey.

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Dillon Kellar from Indexed Finance on Building An Autonomous DeFi Index Protocol

In this episode we talk to Jack Lipstone one of the founders behind Rari Capital, a lending protocol aggregator, promising to always get the best interest rates for their users who trust Rari with their crypto assets.

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Rari Capital is a lending protocol aggregator that allows users to consistently get the best yield. We got Jack Lipestone on the podcast, a 19-year old founder to talk about the project.

Cryptotesters Podcast with Jack Lipestone from Rari Capital

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In this episode we talk to Jack Lipstone one of the founders behind [Rari Capital](https://rari.capital/)

Rari is a **lending protocol aggregator**, promising to always get the best interest rates for their users who trust Rari with their crypto assets.

Since there are multiple lending protocols in the DeFi space, each having different interest rates, it can be quite time consuming for users to always move their assets between apps as soon as interest rates change.

Rari automates this process and deposits user asset in whatever protocol delivers the best rate: whether it’s Compound, Aave, DyDx or mStable.

That’s how it is able to consistently offer interest rates between 15-20% on dollar stable coin deposits

In the episode we talk about Jack’s experience as a 19 year old founder in DeFi, about the fierce competition among lending aggregators and what Rari has in the pipeline to get ahead of the competition in 2021.

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Jack Lipstone from Rari Capital on Building a Yield Aggregating Machine

Staking is the biggest change in Ethereum since its launch in 2015. Staking providers like Stakewise, make it extremely easy for users to stake their Ether (ETH), participate in the validation mechanism of the Ethereum 2.0 network and earn those juicy staking rewards (5-15%).

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The Ethereum Staking Provider Landscape | Podcast with Kirill Kutakov from Stakewise

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In this episode we talk to Kirill Kutakov from [Stakewise.io](http://stakewise.io/), an Ethereum 2.0 staking provider.

Stakewise wants to make it as easy as possible for users to stake their Ether (ETH), participate in the validation mechanism of the Ethereum 2.0 network and earn those juicy staking rewards (5-15%).

We talk about the different staking options available to users, what their respective tradeoffs are, the competition in the staking space, especially with centralised exchanges and how Stakewise plans to attract users in this extremely competitive landscape.

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Kirill Kutakov from Stakewise.io on the Ethereum 2.0 Staking Platform Landscape

In this episode we talk to Burak Benligiray from API3, API3 is building a next-generation oracle solution. Oracles are a crucial piece of infrastructure in the nascent DeFi industry and beyond. They allow smart contracts to communicate with real world data. Currently, the most important data coming from oracles are price feeds. But tomorrow, it could be KYC, open-banking data

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In this episode we talk to Burak Benligiray from API3. API3 is building a next-generation oracle solution. Oracles are a crucial piece of infrastructure in the nascent DeFi industry and beyond. 

Burak Benligiray Co-Founder of API3 on Building the API Gateway for Blockchains

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In this episode we talk to Burak Benligiray from [API3](http://api3.org/). API3 is building a next-generation oracle solution. Oracles are a crucial piece of infrastructure in the nascent DeFi industry and beyond. They allow smart contracts to communicate with real world data. Currently, the most important data coming from oracles are price feeds. But tomorrow, it could be KYC, open-banking data

Big thanks to our sponsors:

[Stakewise.io](http://stakewise.io/): An ETH 2.0 staking provider, allowing you to stake your ETH and earn high yields on it in the most user-friendly manner

-> Try out their Beta product before they go live in December and earn a chance to win a secret prize 🎁

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Burak Benligiray, Co-Founder of API3 on Building the API Gateway for Blockchains

In this episode we talk with Kevin Chou, the founder of Rally, a platform for creators to build next generation community economies.  Using Rally, creators can launch a token, distribute or sell it to their fans, receive donations denominated in that token and use a whole set of tools to create special experiences for their fans.

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Cryptotesters Podcast with Rally Founder Kevin Chou

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In this episode we talk with Kevin Chou, the founder of Rally, a platform for creators to build next generation community economies.  Using Rally, creators can launch a token, distribute or sell it to their fans, receive donations denominated in that token and use a whole set of tools to create special experiences for their fans.

For example, they can reward fans who engage a lot on social media, watch a lot of Twitch content or buy the creator’s merchandise.   The point is that using tokens, creators can rewards fans and align incentives. 

Fans become not only emotionally vested in the creators success but also financially.   In the episode, we talk about Kevin’s experience pre-Rally building a multi-million gaming company, how the Rally platforms works, the potential of creator tokens and if he foresees any negative societal implications with creator tokens

Big thanks to our sponsors:

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Kevin Chou, Founder of Rally on The Potential of the "Creator Economy"

Hardware wallets are essential to securely store crypto and thus an essential belonging in the product stack of ever user. Now that so many new people are entering the space we wanted to make an episode covering the basics of how hardware wallets work but also how they’re going to evolve in the future.

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Hardware wallets are essential to securely store crypto and thus an essential belonging in the product stack of ever user. 

Douglas Bakkum from ShiftCrypto on the Future of Hardware Wallets

In this episode we speak with Douglas Bakkum from [ShiftCrypto](https://shiftcrypto.shop/?ref=S6mZDa5Hem), a swiss hardware wallet company which is behind the [BitBox02](https://cryptotesters.com/best-hardware-wallets/bitbox-02-review), one of the best hardware wallets on the market.

Hardware wallets are essential to securely store crypto and thus an essential belonging in the product stack of every user. Now that so many new people are entering the space we wanted to make an episode covering the basics of how hardware wallets work but also how they’re going to evolve in the future.

Douglas is a true crypto OG and he did an excellent job at explaining everything.

Big thanks to our sponsors:

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-> Try out their Beta product before they go live in December and earn a chance to win a secret prize 🎁

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Douglas Bakkum, Founder of ShiftCrypto about the Past, Present and Future of Hardware Wallets

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In this episode I speak with Roxanna Dalina, she’s the CTO of Nexus Mutual, on of the hottest projects in the growing crypto insurance vertical.   Nexus Mutual brings insurance to the frantic wild west world of DeFi and allows users to protect themselves against hacks and smart contracts bugs in their favourite DeFi projects while continuing to enjoy their high interest rates.  

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In this episode I speak with Roxanna Danila, she’s the CTO of Nexus Mutual, on of the hottest projects in the growing crypto insurance vertical.   Nexus Mutual brings insurance to the frantic wild west world of DeFi and allows users to protect themselves against hacks and smart contracts bugs in their favourite DeFi projects while continuing to enjoy their high interest rates.  

Podcast with Roxana Danila from Nexus Mutual on Building an Insurance Protocol for DeFi | Cryptotesters

In this episode I speak with Roxanna Danila, she’s the CTO of Nexus Mutual, on of the hottest projects in the growing crypto insurance vertical.   Nexus Mutual brings insurance to the frantic wild west world of DeFi and allows users to protect themselves against hacks and smart contracts bugs in their favourite DeFi projects while continuing to enjoy their high interest rates.  

What’s interesting is that [Nexus Mutual](https://nexusmutual.io/) itself is also a protocol consisting of smart contracts. Nexus Mutual members pool capital together to secure the protocol. Users on the other hand, take insurance against that backdrop of capital and Nexus Mutual Members earn  premiums for capitalising the Mutual. Insurance claims are equally processed by the Mutual Members as everything happens on-chain.  

It is a fascinating system which Roxanna explains in very simple terms.

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Roxana Danila, CTO of Nexus Mutual on Building the World's First Insurance Protocol for DeFi

Audius is a decentralized music-sharing and streaming protocol facilitating direct relationships between artist and their fans. 
Learn all about Audius and their AUDIO token.

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Podcast with Cooper Turley from Audius about building a Decentralized Soundcloud | Cryptotesters

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In this episode Cooper Turley from Audius shares with us why he thinks the music industry is ripe for disruption. Whether it's the endless number of middlemen or a disjointed royalty system delaying payments to Artist, projects like Audius are here to make a change.

Audius is a decentralized music-sharing and streaming protocol facilitating direct relationships between artist and their fans. 

We discuss what Audius is about and how to create the right and incentive designs to onboard a new wave of artists & users to the world of crypto.

We also cover what makes Audius unique, the AUDIO platform token and what to keep an eye out for in the coming weeks.

### Big thanks to our sponsors:

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Cooper Turley, Strategy Lead at Audius on Building a Decentralized Soundcloud using Token incentives

It has long been clear that Ethereum needs scaling solutions in order to fulfil its promise of hosting any kind of application on its network. Currently, although DeFi is still a niche industry, the Ethereum network is already reaching its maximum capacity.

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In this episode we talk to Matthew Finestone from Loopring, a team building a ZK Rollup based Layer 2 solution. Matthew and I discuss the landscape of Layer-2 solutions and how Loopring fits in there.

Podcast w/ Matthew Finestone from Loopring on the State of Layer-2 | Cryptotesters

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It has long been clear that Ethereum needs scaling solutions in order to fulfil its promise of hosting any kind of application on its network. Currently, although DeFi is still a niche industry, the Ethereum network is already reaching its maximum capacity.

In this episode we talk to Matthew Finestone from Loopring, a team building a ZK Rollup based Layer 2 solution. Matthew and I discuss the landscape of Layer-2 solutions and how Loopring fits in there.

We also talked about the advantages of being a first mover in the Layer-2 market, the role and mechanics behind the LRC token, and how Loopring plans to bring more users and liquidity onto its network.

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Matthew Finestone HD of Business at Loopring on the State of Layer-2 solutions

DyDx is a decentralised exchange running on the Ethereum Blockchain. Next to conventional spot trading, DyDx offers more sophisticated trading products such as margin trading and perpetuals.

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DyDx is a decentralized exchange running on the Ethereum Blockchain. Next to conventional spot trading, DyDx offers more sophisticated trading products such as margin trading and perpetuals.

Podcast with DyDx Founder Antonio Juliano | Creating a Decentralized Bitmex | Cryptotesters

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In this episode we speak with Antonio Juliano the Founder and CEO of DyDx.

DyDx is a decentralized exchange running on the Ethereum Blockchain. Next to conventional spot trading, DyDx offers more sophisticated trading products such as margin trading and perpetuals.

If you don’t know what these terms mean this is the perfect episode you as Antonio explains it in very simple terms in the episode.

We also talked about how DyDx works, about its plans to migrate to a Layer-2 solution, about potential plans to introduce a governance token and how it views the recent crackdown of Bitmex, a crypto exchange offering similar products to Bitmex but in a centralised fashion, by the US government.

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DyDx Founder Antonio Juliano on Creating a Decentralized Bitmex

There are few projects out there that are building across different blockchains. Frontier is one of them . They want to bring the best DeFi applications to the Indian market, where 1B people are in need of better financial services.

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Ravindra Kumar from Frontier on Building a Cross-Blockchain User Experience | Cryptotesters Podcast

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In this episode I talk to Ravindra Kumar CEO at Frontier, a DeFi dashboard that lets users manage their funds across different Blockchains like Ethereum, Binance Chain, Kava, Cosmos and soon Solana.

As we are really interested in wallets and user experience in crypto, we had to talk to Ravindra to hear about how they intend to aggregate all these different protocols into one user interface.

We found out that they have a very ambitious roadmap with a special focus on the 1B large indian market, interesting ideas on how to monetize and foster community engagement as well as plans to build their own decentralized key management solution.

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Frontier Founder Ravindra Kumar on Building a seamless Cross-Blockchain User Experience

In this episode we talk to Jordan Lyall Founder of the MEME protocol. MEME captures the Zeitgeist of the crypto space like no other project. A protocol comining yield farming, digital art and memes.

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In this episode we talk to Jordan Lyall Founder of the MEME protocol. MEME captures the Zeitgeist of the crypto space like no other project.

MEME Founder Jordan Lyall on farming NFTs, digital art and the future of MEME | Cryptotesters

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In this episode we talk to Jordan Lyall Founder of the MEME protocol. MEME captures the Zeitgeist of the crypto space like no other project. It started as a joke on Twitter as Jordan was mocking the yield farming craze taking place in the DeFi space. He shared a drag and drop interface for building DeFi projects in a few clicks.

Out of nowhere, someone launched a token, a Telegram group was created and motivated community members signaled interest to buil a real product.

Two weeks later [dontbuymeme.com](https://dontbuymeme.com/) was born, a protocol that produces rare NFTs and requires users to lock their assets in order to receive these NFTs.

Within one month MEME's price went from $0 to $2000, some of the most successful digital art artists collaborated with MEME and some of the NFTs sold for $70k dollars.

In this episode you'll learn about the incredible story behind MEME and what's in the pipeline for the next couple of months.

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What did you think about MEME and NFTs in general? Tag us on Twitter [cryptotesters](https://twitter.com/cryptotesters) or join our [Telegram](https://t.me/joinchat/IOe3w04NMhLuDEo3ekLeCQ) to discuss!


MEME Founder Jordan Lyall on farming NFTs and the future of the MEME project

Aave is a lending protocol built on Ethereum. They have seen phenomenal growth this year and no plans to stop here. In this epiosde Stani explains how the protocol works and shares Aave's plans for the future.

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Aave has been on wild price rally this year surpassing a market cap of $1 billion. In this episode founder Stani explains what all the hype is about.

Aave Podcast with Founder Stani Kulechov | Cryptotesters

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In this episode I am talking to Stani Kulechov from Aave protocol. Aave is a lending protocol built on Ethereum. I already had a crypto lending business on the show namely [Nexo](https://cryptotesters.com/podcast/nexo-ceo-antoni-trenchev-on-crypto-backed-loans) but Aave is completely different. 

It runs on smart contracts on the Ethereum Blockchain and is completely decentralized. I loved this episode because it clearly shows what protocols are and how they differ from traditional companies. We also talked about Aave’s roadmap, what he thinks about recent developments in the DeFi space and what is still missing for mainstream adoption and many more topics. 
 
[Try](https://aave.com/) it out!

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Aave Founder Stani Kulechov on Creating the World's First Decentralized Money Market

Zerion is one of the most important tools for heavy DeFi users. Led by a bunch of young builders,  Zerion keeps pushing the boundaries of user experience in crypto.

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Zerion Founder Evgeny Yurtaev on creating the Best DeFi Dashboard

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In today's episode I talk to Evgeny Yurtaev, the founder of Zerion.

Zerion is one of the products or tools I use almost on a daily basis. It embodies a lot of the best properties of Web3 and Ethereum.

You can just connect any Ethereum wallet you own in one click, and Zerion reads all the positions associated to your wallet address from the Blockchain. It displays them in a beautiful dashboard for you, which makes it super convenient to track and manage your funds.

Try it out:
https://zerion.io/

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Bitwala is both a bank and a crypto wallet. How will these worlds converge in the future? Benjamin Jones, CEO & CTO of Bitwala has some interesting answers.

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Bitwala is both a bank and a crypto wallet. Their CEO Benjamin Jones gives us a glimpse on the role of banks in a crypto-first world.

Bitwala CEO Ben Jones on the Cryptotesters podcast on crypto banks

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In this episode we talk to Benjamin Jones, the CEO of Bitwala. Bitwala is in a pretty unique position because they are both a bank and a crypto wallet.

They are between the two worlds.

Many folks in crypto want to make banks redundant. So we asked Ben for his thoughts on how these two worlds will co-exist in the future. 

He had very interesting thoughts on this topic and how banks could adapt.  

Read the [Bitwala review](https://cryptotesters.com/best-non-custodial-wallets/bitwala-review) or [sign-up](https://bitwala.x89scb.net/1xYMd) for a wallet straight away!

Ben Jones CEO of Bitwala on the future of banks in a crypto-first world

In this episode Simon Chamorro, founder of Valiu, talks about how his young startup tries to help the 1.7 million Venezuelan migrants and refugees living in Colombia send money back to their relatives in Venezuela. 

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In this episode Simon Chamorro, founder of Valiu, talks about how his young startup tries to spur bitcoin adoption in Venezuela.

Podcast w/ Simon Chamorro Founder of Valiu on bringing Bitcoin adoption in Venezuela

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In this episode Simon Chamorro, founder of Valiu, talks about how his young startup tries to help the 1.7 million Venezuelan migrants and refugees living in Colombia send money back to their relatives in Venezuela. 

Unfortunately, no international remittance company allows to send money into Venezuela. So Valiu uses Bitcoin to create a platform where users can transfer Colombian Pesos to Venezuelan Bolivares in less than an hour. Valiu also allows their users to hold synthetic cryptodollars that are backed by bitcoin in their Account, to protect themselves from inflation.

Thanks to our sponsor [Bitwala](https://bitwala.x89scb.net/1xYMd) for sponsoring the episode!

Valiu Founder Simon Chamorro on using Cryptodollars for cross-border transfers and savings in Latin America

Wirex was the first company to launch a crypto card in 2015, thereby allowing bitcoin users to spend their cryptocurrency online or in store, pretty much anywhere where Visa is accepted.

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Wirex was the first company to launch a crypto card in 2015, thereby allowing bitcoin users to spend their cryptocurrency online or in store, pretty much anywhere where Visa is accepted.


Podcast w/ Pavel Matveev, CEO of Wirex on Crypto cards and Payments

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In this episode I talk to Pavel Matveev who is the CEO and Founder of Wirex. Wirex was the first company to launch a crypto card in 2015, thereby allowing bitcoin users to spend their cryptocurrency online or in store, pretty much anywhere where Visa is accepted.

We talk about how Wirex grew from a simple idea to a company with more than 230 employees, offices in 7 locations all around the world and more than 3m customers.

The story is quite fascinating as Pavel has been in the space for a long time and knows a lot about traditional finance.

We also discuss Wirex’s plans to launch its own stable coins, why Wirex launched their own token, the Wirex token (WXT) which he thinks about as loyalty token on steroids and what they have planned for the future.  

HINT: A lot!

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Wirex CEO Pavel Matveev on Crypto cards and Payments

Thomas Heller is the Global Business Director at F2Pool, the largest Bitcoin mining pool in the world. Mining pools allow individual miners to join forces in order to increase their chances to mine a block and get more regular rewards payouts.

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Podcast with Thomas Heller on the Crypto Mining Industry | Cryptotesters

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Thomas Heller is the Global Business Director at F2Pool, the largest Bitcoin mining pool in the world. Mining pools allow individual miners to join forces in order to increase their chances to mine a block and get more regular rewards payouts.

In this episode we talk about what mining pools are and whether they're dangerous for proof-of-work chains.

We also discuss whether small investors should start mining and what the best tactics are to mine profitably as a small investor.

Lastly, we talked about the halving and how it impacted the mining industry as well as how the thinks things will play out once they are no more bitcoin block rewards paid out to miners.

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F2Pool Global Director Thomas Heller, On the Future of the Crypto Mining Industry

Ray Youssef is the CEO of Paxful, a peer-to-peer marketplace to trade bitcoin. Paxful let's people **directly **trade bitcoin with with one another.

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Ray Youssef is the CEO of Paxful, a peer-to-peer marketplace to trade bitcoin. Paxful let's people **directly **trade bitcoin with with one another. Anyone can sell bitcoin on the platform and choose which payment methods they like, set the price they want to sell for etc.

Podcast w/ Paxful CEO Ray Youssef 'Building a Universal Money Translator'

[Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/episode/7e63dtv8VFOVzJcFeRtqf2?si=1OOXgpsuQSiRc-dyS-6iDA), [Breaker](https://www.breaker.audio/cryptotesters/e/65326199), [Apple Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/cryptotesters/id1507883894)

Ray Youssef is the CEO of Paxful, a peer-to-peer marketplace to trade bitcoin. Paxful let's people **directly **trade bitcoin with one another. Anyone can sell bitcoin on the platform, choose which payment methods they want to be paid in, set the price they want to sell for etc. It's essentially like Ebay for bitcoin.

The company grew to over 250 employees without ever receiving any investor money. The reason Paxful is so successful is that it does an incredible job at connecting all the fragmented financial systems in the world. Using Paxful, someone in Nigeria can pay someone in China on WeChat by just finding a peer on Paxful who is willing to accept bitcoin and able to pay out the quivalent amount in Yuan on WeChat.

In other words, Bitcoin is the clearing network or 'Money Translator' that connects all these peers and allows anyone to pay anyone in the world.

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Paxful CEO Ray Youssef, On Building A Universal Money Translator using Crypto

Antoni Trenchev is co-founder and managing partner at Nexo, the world’s leading instant crypto credit lines provider. They processed more than $1.5 Billion dollars in loans to date with no plans of stopping anytime soon.

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Nexo Co-Founder Antoni Trenchev on the Cryptotesters Podcast

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Antoni Trenchev is co-founder and managing partner at Nexo, the world’s leading instant crypto credit lines provider. They processed more than $2 billion dollars in loans to date with no plans of stopping anytime soon.

Crypto is a new form of a collateral, that is highly liquid and transfereable. Unlike physical gold or a house, crypto is easily valued and so crypto loan providers like Nexo can serve a global userbase from day one of their operations. No physical branch needed.

In the Episode we talk about the fierce competition in the crypto lending space, Nexo's token sale, why miners are coming to Nexo en masse as of recently, tokenizing Gold and Nexo's opinion on the DeFi space.

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Nexo Co-Founder Antoni Trenchev on the Future of Crypto Backed Loans

Chris Whinfrey is the CEO of Authereum, a wallet that provides a new way to interact with Ethereum dapps. Authereum works similar to "Login with Facebook" or "Login with Gmail" in that you can connect your wallet with any dapp

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Podcast with Chris Whinfrey CEO of Authereum Wallet

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Chris Whinfrey is the CEO of Authereum, a wallet that provides a new way to interact with Ethereum dapps. Authereum works similar to "Login with Facebook" or "Login with Gmail" in that you can connect your wallet with any dapp by just entering your email and your password. Unlike most wallets you are not bound to one device or forced to enter your seedphrase everytime you want to port your wallet to a new device. 

Authereum is also optimized to work on mobile which will hopefully spur a rise of new Ethereum mobile dapps. 

Let us know what you think of Authereum on Twitter [@cryptotesters](https://twitter.com/cryptotesters)

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Authereum CEO Chris Whinfrey, On creating a seamless Login Solution for Ethereum

Xen Baynham-Herd is the COO of Blockchain.com, one of the biggest players in the crypto industry. Their non-custodial web wallet has more than 40m users.

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Podcast w/ COO of Blockchain.com Xen Baynham-Herd, on the Crypto Exchange Industry | Cryptotesters

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Xen Baynham-Herd is the COO of Blockchain.com, one of the biggest players in the crypto industry. Their non-custodial web wallet has more than 40m users.

Recently they launched an exchange. In the episode we talk about what went into the making of the exchange, how they set themselves apart from other exchanges, the rise of DeFi and much more!

**Question**: Are you following the DeFi space?

**Answer**: "*Absolutely, yeah. I personally think DeFi is extremely interesting. I guess DeFi represents the need to have true self-sovereignty over assets and money in a non-custodial way. So what it boils down to is robust private key management and so I think there are some fantastic opportunities out there but getting the basics right is very important and that's where most of our exploration lies, abstracting private keys away, making it easier to use non-custodial wallets and potentially also abstracting away addresses, making it easier to send to other people in a secure way."*

Check out their exchange: [Blockchain.com](https://exchange.blockchain.com/trade?referrerUsername=cryptotester)

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Blockchain.com COO Xen Baynham-Herd, on the Crypto Exchange Industry, the Rise of DeFi and Stablecoins

Graeme is the mastermind behind UX at Argent, an Ethereum wallet that has made it extremely easy to use Ethereum applications. The concept that enables this extreme simplicity is called "Smart Contract Wallets"

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Graeme is the mastermind behind UX at Argent, an Ethereum wallet that has made it extremely easy to use Ethereum applications. The technology that enables this extreme simplicity is called "Smart Contract Wallets"

Argent Podcast with Graeme Blackwood on UX and Crypto wallets | Cryptotesters

Graeme is the mastermind behind UX at Argent, an Ethereum wallet that has made it extremely easy to use Ethereum applications. The technology that enables this extreme simplicity is called ["Smart Contract Wallets"](https://cryptotesters.com/blog/what-are-smart-contract-wallets) and Graeme explains the concept in detail.

In the episode we also talk about UX in general, challenges he sees, how Argent chooses which DeFi projects to integrate and many more interesting topics!

**Favourite quote:** *A lot of people think about the UI when they think about UX, but the UI is really just one layer. It's the stuff underneath that implements the experience. UX issues that we see are often just symptoms of deeper issues.*

Listen on:
[Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/episode/2RecjJcjslji6GDqCoNPIZSP) , [Breaker](https://www.breaker.audio/cryptotesters/e/62420611),  [Soundcloud](https://soundcloud.com/user-342502984/2-argent-head-of-ux-graeme-blackwood-on-crypto-ux-and-argent), [Pocketcasts](https://pca.st/episode/280d2db0-635a-4a8c-90c5-7e337c9cb487)

[Get Argent](https://cryptotesters.com/best-non-custodial-wallets/argent-review)

Head of UX at Argent, Graeme Blackwood on UX and Crypto wallets

Passionate about crypto, impact and above all, the intersection of both.

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Des Martin, Head of Marketing at Brave, joins the show. Des has been with Brave for almost two years in which he saw the user base grow from 2 to more than 12 million monthly active users.

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Podcast with Des Martin, Head of Marketing of Brave Browser | Cryptotesters

Des Martin, Head of Marketing at Brave, joins the show. Des has been with Brave for almost two years in which he saw the user base grow from 2 to more than 12 million monthly active users. In the episode we talk about the factors that have fuelled this tremendous growth, possible next products, Brave's partnership with Binance, the importance of the BAT (Basic Attention Token) and much more!

**Favourite quote:**
*There’s still so much we can do with the browser. The browser can potentially go back to becoming a super app. A lot of things have been taken out of the browser and broken into different apps on your phone. But a browser with a wallet that enables you to a whole range of things that you would have done in other apps is very powerful.
*

[Get Brave](https://bit.ly/brvrfrl)

Check out our website: [https://cryptotesters.com](https://cryptotesters.com)

Tune in .

Our Cryptotesters podcast brings you crypto's brightest builders to discuss their projects.

EPISODE 29

Sam Bankman Fried from FTX on his Masterplan to Build an Exchange Powerhouse

EPISODE 28

Stefaan Ponnet Founder of AvadoCloud about Democratizing Access to Blockchain Nodes

EPISODE 27

Alex Salnikov from Rarible.com on NFTs, the Metaverse and the Tokenization of Intellectual Property

EPISODE 26

Nate & Mark from Bancor on Building a Next-Generation Decentralized Exchange

EPISODE 25

Tim Beiko on How Ethereum Governance works and the upcoming EIP-1559

EPISODE 24

Dillon Kellar from Indexed Finance on Building An Autonomous DeFi Index Protocol

EPISODE 23

Jack Lipstone from Rari Capital on Building a Yield Aggregating Machine

EPISODE 22

Kirill Kutakov from Stakewise.io on the Ethereum 2.0 Staking Platform Landscape

EPISODE 21

Burak Benligiray, Co-Founder of API3 on Building the API Gateway for Blockchains

EPISODE 20

Kevin Chou, Founder of Rally on The Potential of the "Creator Economy"

EPISODE 19

Douglas Bakkum, Founder of ShiftCrypto about the Past, Present and Future of Hardware Wallets

EPISODE 18

Roxana Danila, CTO of Nexus Mutual on Building the World's First Insurance Protocol for DeFi

EPISODE 17

Cooper Turley, Strategy Lead at Audius on Building a Decentralized Soundcloud using Token incentives

EPISODE 16

Matthew Finestone HD of Business at Loopring on the State of Layer-2 solutions

EPISODE 15

DyDx Founder Antonio Juliano on Creating a Decentralized Bitmex

EPISODE 14

Frontier Founder Ravindra Kumar on Building a seamless Cross-Blockchain User Experience

EPISODE 13

MEME Founder Jordan Lyall on farming NFTs and the future of the MEME project

EPISODE 12

Aave Founder Stani Kulechov on Creating the World's First Decentralized Money Market

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Zerion Founder Evgeny Yurtaev on creating the Best DeFi Dashboard

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Ben Jones CEO of Bitwala on the future of banks in a crypto-first world

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Valiu Founder Simon Chamorro on using Cryptodollars for cross-border transfers and savings in Latin ...

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Wirex CEO Pavel Matveev on Crypto cards and Payments

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F2Pool Global Director Thomas Heller, On the Future of the Crypto Mining Industry

EPISODE 6

Paxful CEO Ray Youssef, On Building A Universal Money Translator using Crypto

EPISODE 5

Nexo Co-Founder Antoni Trenchev on the Future of Crypto Backed Loans

EPISODE 4

Authereum CEO Chris Whinfrey, On creating a seamless Login Solution for Ethereum

EPISODE 3

Blockchain.com COO Xen Baynham-Herd, on the Crypto Exchange Industry, the Rise of DeFi and Stablecoi...

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Head of UX at Argent, Graeme Blackwood on UX and Crypto wallets

EPISODE 1

Brave Head of Marketing, Des Martin, on Hypergrowth, Browser Marketing and the Future of Brave