Jacquelyn Melinek

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2,935 appearances 30 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 14 Aug

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Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing · Stablecoins, RWAs & DeFi: What Institutions Actually Want · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

Today's guest is Jill Friedman, the Chief Operating Officer at Symbiotic, a decentralized finance infrastructure protocol.

She is also a veteran crypto lawyer and former COO and CFO of Ether Capital.

Jill, welcome on.

Thanks.

Happy to be here.

Happy to have you.

Yeah, I know when I was doing some research on you before the episode,

You began your career in law before moving into digital assets at the National Bank of Canada, which is interesting.

I don't think we've had anyone on the show who has worked there.

So maybe what was kind of the transition like and then what convinced you that crypto wasn't just like this niche weird thing, but actually something that you wanted to move your career to?

What about the decentralized side of finance that interests you?

Because obviously, like some people go down the path of like CeFi, which is like the centralized exchanges or some things that are more like akin to traditional finance.

And then other people go down the path of like the DeFi side, which is a bit more technical, I would argue, and more, you know, self-custody and things like that.

So what made you decide to go that route and then ultimately land at Symbiotic?

So do you ultimately see them kind of coming together then, even if they have, you know, different purposes and different ways that they structure the businesses?

It's just going to be like seen as finance across both sides of the spectrum.

When it comes to like digitally native assets, what are like the key things that you think are possible with this technology that maybe doesn't exist when they're not digitally native?

Like when you're having conversations with people, how do you like differentiate between the two?

Yeah.

And I think some people like have a light definition of it too.

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