Raoul Pal: The Journey Man

Has Bitcoin Found a Bottom?

05 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Bitcoin has recovered a bit, and altcoin prices have stabilized. Is the status quo sustainable, or is there more downside ahead? Option Insight's Imra...

Building Blocks With Ash Bennington: Chris Sullivan Explains What Makes Crypto So Compelling

04 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Transparency. Efficiency. Innovation. These are just a few of the many reasons why Chris Sullivan believes crypto has so much promise. He joins Ash Be...

Art Is Art

03 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What happened at a New York party when traditional art gallerist Adam Lindemann, the founder of Venus Over Manhattan, met Erick Calderon, the founder ...

NFTs Will Be the Sirens of the Digital World

02 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As Andrew Steinwold sees it, we can't expect people to change the way they transact based on arguments built around "blockchain transactions per secon...

Here’s What We’ve Learned From Terra’s Meltdown

01 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It looks like Bitcoin is recovering from its recent steep sell-off, but many investors fear this could be a short-lived bounce. That reflects a broade...

How To Make Ethereum for the People

31 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ethereum gas fees are high. Unless costs of using the network can be controlled, the dream of an open and user-owned internet is a fantasy. Are layer ...

When Music and Crypto Collide

30 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Two complementary industries, music and crypto, are becoming more intermingled by the day. Jack Spallone, head of crypto at HIFI Labs, joins Kevin Kel...

Investment DAOs Are Coming for TradFi

29 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The future of investing is decentralized, democratized, and community-driven. The co-founders of Syndicate, Ian Lee and Will Papper, sit down with Kev...

Why I Love Buying NFTs

28 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It's the regular Saturday hang, where Real Vision's Elaine Ly talks to the people who make the NFT world go round. Today she chats with Zoë Davis, wh...

Is This the Future of NFTs?

27 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It’s "rudimentary" to have a digital wallet, according to engineer and founder of BEASY (“Blockchain Made Easy”) Bob Kramich. In conversation wi...

There's Blood in the Streets of the Crypto Market

26 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Has Bitcoin bottomed? What about altcoins? If not, where lie the lows? Ben Cowen, CEO of Into The Cryptoverse, joins Real Vision's Ash Bennington to t...

Bitcoin’s Post-Terra Resilience Is a Good Sign for the Future

25 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In normal times, Bitcoin's recent sideways action wouldn’t be newsworthy. But we're far from normal right now. Volatility is rampant across financia...

Prime Trust Has the Ultimate Set of Fintech Tools

24 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Blockchain startups and TradFi companies face many challenges when they choose to enter the cryptoverse. To build an ecosystem capable of supporting m...

Let the People Play (and Profit From) Blockchain Games

23 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever wondered what it will take to get to a billion crypto users? That’s widespread adoption. And it’s easier said than done. As CMT Digi...

Raoul Pal: Real Vision - Christopher Tyrer Sheds Light on The Institutional Adoption of Crypto

22 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Here's a full-length episode from Real Vision's new original series, Raoul Pal: Real Vision - be sure to subscribe. Christopher Tyrer, Head of Fidelit...

Building Blocks with Ash Bennington: Ukrainian Roots, the Celsius Network, and the Future of Crypto

21 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Inventor and entrepreneur Alex Mashinsky joins Ash Bennington to talk about his newest venture, the Celsius Network, and how it’s disrupting the fin...

Crypto's Fate Is Tied to Old School Finance

20 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There's a narrative in the crypto space that digital assets are uncorrelated to other markets. In fact, the opposite is true. Francis Hunt returns to ...

Real Vision Crypto Unwrapped : Terra’s Bad News Could Be Great News for Bitcoin

18 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There’s no bigger story in the cryptocurrency space right now than the meltdown of Terra’s stablecoin UST and its sister token LUNA. The challenge...

Marketing Will Evolve From Web2 to Web3

18 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Where did Web2 end? Where does Web3 begin? Where’s the overlap? With things moving so fast it all seems like a blur, this conversation between Jeff ...

Why This Is Ethereum's Awkward Teen Phase

17 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The price of Ethereum has dropped significantly over the past 12 months. But, as longtime investor and community member Ryan Berckmans says, "Ethereum...

An NFT Ecosystem Like This Is Worth Guarding

16 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Times are rough out there in the NFT market. But Meta Angels are serious builders who create unique experiences for their holders. It starts with dire...

Raoul Pal: Real Vision - Ben Mezrich’s Fascinating New Screenplay

15 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Here's a full-length episode from Real Vision's new original series, Raoul Pal: Real Vision - be sure to subscribe. New York Times best-selling author...

Building Blocks with Ash Bennington - Andrew Keys Shares How the Future of Crypto Relies on Cooperation

14 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

DARMA Capital Co-founder and Managing Partner, Andrew Keys, talks about how creating software for the medical industry led to his early investment in ...

An Update From Raoul: Just What Is Going On in Crypto?

13 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this special episode, Raoul Pal joins Ash Bennington to provide an update from Raoul on just what he thinks amid the turmoil in cryptocurrency mark...

How To Build a Crypto Capital Market

12 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Crypto capital markets platform Maple Finance seeks to serve growing and innovative companies that are in need of capital but can’t get it from trad...

Is This Bitcoin Bulls' Last Stand?

11 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Where’s the support for Bitcoin, and what happens if that level fails to hold? Crypto analyst and trader Rekt Capital returns to offer his technical...

This Is How DeFi Will Attract Institutions

10 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The people working in DeFi are reimagining the delivery of a key set of human services on-chain. One of them, Ryan Hanley, is Head of Product – DeFi...

GameFi Is a Whole New World for Vcs

09 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The gaming industry is huge. What happens when a new technology disrupts its entire architecture? Do top developers understand how to build on-chain? ...

Hugh Hendry & Rally CEO Kevin Chou Discuss the Token Revolution

07 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Real Vision senior editor Ash Bennington welcomes Kevin Chou, founder & CEO of Rally, and Hugh Hendry, founder of Eclectica Asset Management, to discu...

Building Blocks with Ash Bennington - Cami Russo on Cryptocurrencies and a Movie Deal

07 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Financial journalist Cami Russo, breaks down what initially drew her to cover the ever-growing crypto market. Russo joins Ash to discuss how all of th...

Ether-Backed DeFi Platform Offers Interesting Incentives

06 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A reformed lawyer, Liquity founder Robert Lauko met Vitalik Buterin in 2015 in Switzerland. After that fateful encounter, Lauko decided to dedicate hi...

What Does High Inflation Mean for Crypto?

05 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What does inflation being at a 40-year high mean for crypto? After the gas war, is Bored Ape Yacht Club’s Otherside metaverse really going to move c...

How One Crypto Quant Fund Finds Alpha

04 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Sullivan and Rishi Narang of digital asset manager Hyperion Decimus join Real Vision's Ash Bennington for a wide-ranging conversation about quan...

Regulation & Legislation Rep. Emmer Is Crypto's Champion in Congress

03 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer, a Republican from Minnesota, has introduced a number of bills on cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, including the Securiti...

The DeFi Shift Is Driven By People

02 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Whitby, who oversees strategic partnerships and regulatory affairs at Qredo, welcomes Lex Sokolin, the head economist at Consensys, for a high-lev...

All You Need to Know About Yield in Crypto

01 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ever wondered why the crypto industry seems to promise much higher yield than TradFi institutions? Alex Mashinsky, CEO of the Celsius Network, gives u...

Building Blocks with Ash Bennington - Metallicus is Creating a Cutting Edge System to Buy Crypto

30 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Marshall Hayner and his company, Metallicus, are making it easier than ever to buy, sell, and trade crypto. Marshall joins Ash to break down how Me...

Why This Medical Doctor Went Full-Time Crypto

29 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"I had been making far more money trading crypto,” explains Dr. Ray Ng, Alt-Tab Capital co-founder and CIO, “than I ever did in the medical profes...

Elon Musk Won Twitter. How Did the Crypto Community React?

28 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It’s almost as if he tweeted it into reality: Elon Musk's $44 billion, $54.20 per share takeover bid has been approved by Twitter’s board of direc...

Is It Best to "Stay Heavy Bitcoin" Until Markets Look Better?

27 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"For altcoins to do well, we need Bitcoin to go parabolic or… through a bear market," says Ben Cowen, CEO of Into The Cryptoverse. “The best strat...

How Bluzelle Is Building the Play-to-Earn Blockchain

26 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Heavyweights like Amazon Web Services dominate the cloud space with centralized databases. But Bluzelle, a decentralized storage network, has quickly ...

Culture and Social Tokens Are the Future of Everything

25 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Delphi Digital, and Real Vision CEO and co-founder Raoul Pal reflect on Web 3.0 and community-driven social tokens. Kelly h...

What Does the Transition to Web 3.0 Look Like?

24 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We continue to see incumbent corporations experimenting with Web 3.0 projects, especially in the NFT space. Jeff Kauffman, founder of Jump, has experi...

"Proof of History" -- Rethinking Consensus on the Blockchain

23 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Anatoly Yakovenko, CEO and co-founder of Solana, joins Eric Kryski, CEO and co-founder of Bidali, to expound upon the inner workings of Solana, an Eth...

When Quants and Crypto Collide

22 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Exponential Age Asset Management CIO Moritz Seibert probes the mind of Martin Green, CEO and Co-CIO of Cambrian Asset Management. Moritz and Martin di...

Can Coinbase Change the NFT Game?

21 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It's finally here: Coinbase NFT Marketplace has been released in beta mode for users who signed onto the waitlist. With more than 85 million users, th...

A Technical Analyst Talks Key Crypto Levels

20 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How do you distinguish trading signals amid all the noise financial markets create? Technical analyst Dean Carr from C The Light Trading joins Real Vi...

How To Manage a Crypto Investment Firm

19 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ever wondered what it’s like to manage a crypto investment firm? Leigh Drogen, the CEO of Starkiller Capital, is walking that walk, and he joins Cor...

How FTX Is Building the Biggest Crypto Business in the World

18 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Brett Harrison is helping one of the world’s richest crypto billionaires, Sam Bankman-Fried, build one of the “most sophisticated derivative produ...

The Power of Randomness: Algorand and The Future Of Blockchains

17 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Real Vision senior editor Ash Bennington hosts Silvio Micali, founder of Algorand, to discuss Micali’s journey into crypto, the founding of Algorand...

Building Blocks with Ash Bennington - COSIMO X is Building the Next Wave of the Internet

16 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Rob Frasca, co-founder and managing partner of COSIMO Ventures, joins Ash Bennington to discuss how his experience in the Navy influenced is career in...

Meta Zucks Up NFTs With Hefty Virtual Vig

15 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Just how bad is Meta’s plan to take a nearly 50% cut of digital asset sales in its virtual world? Is Coinbase’s partnership for a film trilogy wit...

Singapore's Top Crypto Derivatives Trader Talks Strategy

15 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Exponential Age Asset Management CIO Moritz Seibert welcomes co-founder and CIO Darius Sit for a deep dive into the investment management strategies e...

How Will Bitcoin React to Recession?

14 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What's driving the crypto sell-off? Francis Hunt shifts from Market Sniper to Crypto Sniper to sort through the competing narratives on recent price a...

Built for Speed: The Future of Central Bank Digital Currencies

12 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What do the brightest minds in the space consider when they think about the design of a central bank digital currency (CBDC)? Anders Brownworth, Princ...

The Federal Reserve, Innovation, and the Future of Money

11 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the digitization of “everything,” and, now, both consumers and investors are looking to gain more exposure to di...

DFINITY: Building a New Internet on Blockchain

10 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Raoul Pal, CEO & co-founder of Real Vision, sits down with Dominic Williams, chief scientist & founder of DFINITY, to discuss DFINITY's progress towar...

Building Blocks with Ash Bennington - Steve Kurz Breaks Down The Future of Crypto

09 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Steve Kurz, Global Head of Asset Management at Galaxy Digital, joins Ash Bennington on the first episode of Building Blocks to discuss when he first h...

Market-Neutral Strategies Set This Crypto Fund Apart

08 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Exponential Age Asset Management CIO Moritz Seibert returns with a new episode in his asset management series where he explores techniques of top asse...

New Crypto Hubs, the Chief Meme Officer, and Ledger Jumps Into The Sandbox

07 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The United Kingdom wants to become the next global hub for crypto, but is it too late for London to catch up to Miami, Beijing, and Singapore? What do...

Crypto Is Not Just for Tech Geeks

06 Apr 2022

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Co-founder Valeria Benitez Florez is building the Pocket Network around the idea that "more people need to come into the space across all fields, as e...

Big Family Wealth Apes Into Crypto Too

05 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Haouk Lee started his investing career in real estate and emerging markets. A fiat currency bear with an eye for new trends, the digital asset value p...

Everyone Can Mine Bitcoin

04 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Building a Bitcoin mining rig can be complex. Compass Mining is here to simplify it to the point that literally anyone can participate in the decentra...

"What Will Your Identity Look Like in the Metaverse?"

03 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Gabby Dizon, CEO and co-founder of Yield Guild Games, envisions a Metaverse where individuals have ownership over their digital identity and the assoc...

Opposing Views: Pomp & Mike Green on Bitcoin

02 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mike Green, chief strategist and portfolio manager at Logica Capital, and Anthony Pompliano, investor at Pomp Investments, join Ash Bennington, Real V...

ECASH Act Would Establish a Real Digital Dollar

01 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In its most basic terms, the digital dollar debate is about a public option versus a private option. According to Rohan Grey, assistant professor at W...

Good Price Action, Bad Hacks, and NFT LA

31 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Is the crypto bull market back on track? What should we make of the massive Ronin bridge hack? And how is Elaine’s field trip to NFT LA shaping up? ...

The Next Generation of Tech Leadership Will Be Decentralized and More Female

31 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Randi Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Zuckerberg Media, is particularly interested in female-led NFT projects. But the entrepreneur knows “that w...

How To Build a Community-Focused Business

29 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Greg Isenberg is co-founder and CEO of Late Checkout, a product studio and agency that designs, creates, and acquires community-first tech businesses....

Liquidity Drives Success for This Crypto Hedge Fund

28 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How do the world's most successful crypto hedge funds think about trading? Exponential Age Asset Management CIO Moritz Seibert is hosting a series of ...

The Founder's Scaling Debate: Solana vs. StarkWare

27 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Most people agree Ethereum is too expensive. Many different tokens and companies have formed around the hype of being the next “Ethereum killer”. ...

An Academic Expert Talks Crypto, FinTech, and Regulation

26 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Fabian Schär, Professor for Distributed Ledger Technologies and Fintech and the Managing Director of the Center for Innovative Finance at the Uni...

Medha Parlikar Is Lifting Women From Web 2.0 to Web 3.0

25 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

One of the few women in crypto, Medha Parlikar, co-founder and CTO of CasperLabs, joins Wendy Diamond, founder and CEO of LDP Ventures and Women’s E...

Ape-ing Into the World of NFTs

24 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

With confirmation that Raoul Pal finally bought himself a Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT, The Defiant’s Robin Schmidt sits down with Real Vision’s found...

How To Make Sense of Bitcoin's On-Chain Metrics

23 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

All cryptocurrency trading and investing activity is available on a public ledger. And all that activity can be extracted and studied. This is what’...

How Blockchain Can Make Medicine Better

22 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Clinical trials are a crucial part of the development of new medicines. But existing processes are antiquated, and it can take as many as 10 years bef...

How Does Japan's Deflation Explain Crypto's Rise?

21 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Persistent deflationary forces in Japan have puzzled economists for decades. Takaaki Kato, the Japan-based executive director and head of sales/tradin...

How Do Crypto Lenders Generate Big Yields?

20 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Interest rates on DeFi platforms are often as opaque as they are impressive, to the point where they seem too good to be true, especially in a world o...

Bored Ape Yacht Club Makes Major Waves

19 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We're back, just in time to talk about the biggest NFT news of 2022: Yuga Labs, the creator of the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) collection, has acquire...

Distilling the Essence of the DAO

18 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Marcello Mari is the CEO of SingularityDAO and an expert on the emerging business structure that’s opening new frontiers to individual investors. Ma...

Could Bitcoin Be the Global Reserve Currency?

17 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ray Dalio, founder, co-chairman, and co-chief investment officer of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund, famously noted that glob...

"Traditional Financial Markets Are Broken"

16 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What problem does DeFi solve? Jamis Johnson and Ali Hassan, founding partners of Perceptive Capital, attempt to answer that question. As two early Bit...

NFTing the World for the General Good

15 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We promised Bill Tai would be back soon, and the day has come. In this special follow-up to their talk at Real Vision/MGM’s The Takeover, Bill share...

The Man Behind Ukraine's Crypto Defense Fund

14 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Almost overnight Ukraine’s largest crypto exchange has turned into a pool worth tens of millions of dollars that’s poured in from around the world...

This Is How To Build a Creator Economy

13 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

André Allen Anjos is a musician and digital artist better known by his pseudonym, RAC. Years ago, he “went down the rabbit hole” of Napster. He e...

Former CFTC Chair Says Web 3.0 Favors New Ways of Thinking

12 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“What is the future of money?” is a question more and more about the future of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency. The rise of Web 3.0, as C...

Olaf Carlson-Wee on Web 3.0 and His 2022 Forecast

11 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The first employee at Coinbase, Olaf Carlson-Wee, founder and CIO of Polychain Capital, went on to create one of the first crypto investment funds in ...

A Masterclass Discussion on the Future of Digital Assets

10 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Yassine Elmandjra, analyst at Ark Investment, and Real Vision co-founder and CEO Raoul Pal come at the digital asset space with different perspectives...

Jan Van Eck Talks Digital Assets

09 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 1955, during the post-World War II global economic boom, John van Eck set out to create an international broker to give US citizens access to forei...

Is It Possible To Solve This DeFi Nightmare?

08 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The recent $320 million Ethereum-Solana cross-chain hack – the second-biggest exploit ever, behind the $600 million Poly Network theft – is only t...

How the Real Vision Bot Is Building a Digital Community

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Quantitative traders Moritz Heiden and Moritz Seibert, chief technology officer and chief investment officer, respectively, at the Exponential Age Dig...

Anonymous @punk4156 Speaks on Next Generation NFTs

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The virality of CryptoPunks has spawned a series of new projects, one of which is led by a former punk himself: @punk4156, co-founder of Nouns.wtf DAO...

Is Ukraine's Use of Crypto a Major Widespread Adoption Moment?

05 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Within a week of announcing it would accept cryptocurrency donations, Ukraine raised nearly $40 million. The Ukrainian government even announced an ai...

Titans Team Up To Shape Crypto's Future

04 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Two major players in the crypto industry, BitGo and Galaxy Digital, have come together to advance a shared vision of what comes next for digital asset...

My First Million With Our Very Own Raoul Pal

04 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ever wanted to know more about Raoul’s story? Interested in how he approaches not only his investments but life generally? Curious about what made i...

Can Crypto and NFTs Cut Transaction Costs and Democratize Property Investing?

02 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Multiple layers of bureaucracy in the California real estate industry create major burdens but have proven ineffective at preventing fraud. This duali...

How NFTs Are Changing the World

01 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The NFT revolution has only just started and we all need to learn how to navigate it. This interview sets the core foundation stones for all of us to ...

"It's No Longer a Question of 'Will Bitcoin Exist'"

01 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Thorn, head of firmwide research at Galaxy Digital, says Bitcoin is inevitable. That’s despite a slide of nearly 40% from its all-time-high pri...

How Everyrealm Is Developing the Metaverse

27 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Everyrealm is already an active developer in the metaverse ecosystem, with holdings in 25 platform portfolios, ownership of more than 3,000 NFTs, and ...

WoW: An NFT Collection With a Feminine Touch

26 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

One of the world’s most successful NFT art-drops to date, Yam Karkai’s 10,000 images of diverse and powerful women has drawn global attention to f...