EPISODE 27
Alex Salnikov from Rarible.com on NFTs, the Metaverse and the Tokenization of Intellectual Property
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 technolo...
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EPISODE 26
Nate & Mark from Bancor on Building a Next-Generation Decentralized Exchange
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 tha...
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EPISODE 25
Tim Beiko on How Ethereum Governance works and the upcoming EIP-1559
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....
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EPISODE 24
Dillon Kellar from Indexed Finance on Building An Autonomous DeFi Index Protocol
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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EPISODE 23
Jack Lipstone from Rari Capital on Building a Yield Aggregating Machine
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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EPISODE 22
Kirill Kutakov from Stakewise.io on the Ethereum 2.0 Staking Platform Landscape
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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EPISODE 21
Burak Benligiray, Co-Founder of API3 on Building the API Gateway for Blockchains
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 ...
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EPISODE 20
Kevin Chou, Founder of Rally on The Potential of the "Creator Economy"
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 spec...
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EPISODE 19
Douglas Bakkum, Founder of ShiftCrypto about the Past, Present and Future of Hardware Wallets
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 futu...
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EPISODE 18
Roxana Danila, CTO of Nexus Mutual on Building the World's First Insurance Protocol for DeFi
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 the...
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EPISODE 17
Cooper Turley, Strategy Lead at Audius on Building a Decentralized Soundcloud using Token incentives
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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EPISODE 16
Matthew Finestone HD of Business at Loopring on the State of Layer-2 solutions
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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EPISODE 15
DyDx Founder Antonio Juliano on Creating a Decentralized Bitmex
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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EPISODE 14
Frontier Founder Ravindra Kumar on Building a seamless Cross-Blockchain User Experience
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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EPISODE 13
MEME Founder Jordan Lyall on farming NFTs and the future of the MEME project
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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EPISODE 12
Aave Founder Stani Kulechov on Creating the World's First Decentralized Money Market
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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EPISODE 11
Zerion Founder Evgeny Yurtaev on creating the Best DeFi Dashboard
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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EPISODE 10
Ben Jones CEO of Bitwala on the future of banks in a crypto-first world
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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EPISODE 9
Valiu Founder Simon Chamorro on using Cryptodollars for cross-border transfers and savings in Latin America
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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EPISODE 8
Wirex CEO Pavel Matveev on Crypto cards and Payments
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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EPISODE 7
F2Pool Global Director Thomas Heller, On the Future of the Crypto Mining Industry
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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EPISODE 6
Paxful CEO Ray Youssef, On Building A Universal Money Translator using Crypto
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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EPISODE 5
Nexo Co-Founder Antoni Trenchev on the Future of Crypto Backed Loans
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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EPISODE 4
Authereum CEO Chris Whinfrey, On creating a seamless Login Solution for Ethereum
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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EPISODE 3
Blockchain.com COO Xen Baynham-Herd, on the Crypto Exchange Industry, the Rise of DeFi and Stablecoins
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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EPISODE 2
Head of UX at Argent, Graeme Blackwood on UX and Crypto wallets
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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EPISODE 1
Brave Head of Marketing, Des Martin, on Hypergrowth, Browser Marketing and the Future of Brave
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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