The Crypto Conversation

Spree Finance - Building the Future of Commerce & Credit

27 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Carter Razink is co-founder at Spree Finance, the Blockchain-native Commerce and Credit Infrastructure layer empowering decentralized payments, reward...

Metis - AI-native Web3

25 Feb 2025

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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 ...

Antix - Building Hyper-realistic AI Digital Humans

19 Jan 2025

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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,...

The Post Web Thesis - From Attention to Intention

13 Jan 2025

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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 ...

Aztec - A Privacy-first L2 on Ethereum

21 Dec 2024

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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-ce...

Axelar - The Web3 Interoperability Platform

19 Dec 2024

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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. A...

Nirvana - A New Vision for DeFi

18 Dec 2024

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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 significa...

Mesh Connect - Crypto Connectivity Reimagined

05 Dec 2024

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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 ...

Fluence - The Cloudless Revolution

04 Dec 2024

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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 ...

Chain4Travel - Reinventing Travel with Web3

01 Dec 2024

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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...

Warden Protocol - Bringing AI to Web3

27 Nov 2024

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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 trustwo...

Proof of Play - Play Games From the Future

25 Nov 2024

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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 nove...

dYdX Unlimited - Reimagining DeFi + Derivatives

23 Nov 2024

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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 Fo...

SphereX - The Meme-Centric Ultimate Perpetual DEX

20 Nov 2024

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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...

Kontos - Seamless Interoperability For Web3

19 Nov 2024

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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...

Blockcast - The Future of Content Delivery

13 Nov 2024

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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 monopo...

CrossFi - The Next Generation Digital Ecosystem

12 Nov 2024

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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...

Exponential.fi - Safe, Easy DeFi Yield

08 Nov 2024

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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 (D...

QUEX: Intelligent Data Oracles

04 Nov 2024

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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 s...

=nil; Foundation - An Ethereum L2, powered by zkSharding

30 Oct 2024

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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 Ethereu...

Botanika - Decentralized Data Storage

29 Oct 2024

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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 thi...

Compute Tokenization Protocol - Financializing AI

25 Oct 2024

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Incubated by Nvidia Inception VC Alliance, Compute Labs leverages its self-developed Compute Tokenization Protocol to financialize AI, enable direct e...

SALUD Protocol - Decentralized Health Data

23 Oct 2024

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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....

Arweave - Permanent Information Storage

22 Oct 2024

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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. Th...

Venga - The Future of Finance

21 Oct 2024

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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  Ve...

Sentient - Community-built Open AGI

18 Oct 2024

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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, ...

Network3 - Reconnect the World

15 Oct 2024

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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 tech...

LightLink - The L2 For Instant, Gasless Transactions

14 Oct 2024

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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...

Chirp - The Global DePIN Network For IOT

10 Oct 2024

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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 ove...

Curvance - The DeFi Everything App

06 Oct 2024

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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 t...

GenLayer - The Intelligence Layer of the Internet

03 Oct 2024

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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 inte...

ANKR - Build the Open Internet of the Future

01 Oct 2024

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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, a...

Kairon Labs - The Premium Market Maker

28 Sep 2024

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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 i...

IBL Partners - The Tech-forward Distributed Law Firm

24 Sep 2024

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Aaron Krowne is Partner & Practice Group Lead Blockchain & Corporate, at Industria Business Lawyers (IBL Partners) a technology-forward distributed la...

GOAT Network - Get Yield for Your BTC

23 Sep 2024

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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 s...

Terrace - The Trading Terminal For Everyone

20 Sep 2024

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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 yo...

Stabull Finance - The Decentralized Stablecoin Exchange

18 Sep 2024

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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 Mark...

Three Protocol - Blockchain + AI = Future of eCommerce

18 Sep 2024

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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...

Epic Mining - The Plug-and-play Solution to Democratize Bitcoin Mining

15 Sep 2024

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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...

Concordia - The Adaptive Risk Layer for DeFi

12 Sep 2024

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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 ...

Akash Network - The Decentralized Compute Marketplace

10 Sep 2024

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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. Th...

Io.Net - The Internet of GPUs

09 Sep 2024

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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 ne...

Elastos - Smarter Bitcoin, Smarter Web, Smarter Everything

05 Sep 2024

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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...

Redbelly Network - The Public Real-World Asset Tokenisation Network

04 Sep 2024

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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 Re...

Cartesi - Making Web3 Radically Simple

03 Sep 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 tech...

Barter - Solving for DeFi

01 Sep 2024

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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 ...

TaxBit - Tax and Accounting for the Digital Economy

30 Aug 2024

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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 ...

Chainbase - On-chain Data at Scale

29 Aug 2024

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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 e...

Portal Pay - Bringing Cross-chain Payments to Gaming

28 Aug 2024

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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 partnersh...

SubQuery - Decentralized AI Inference Hosting

27 Aug 2024

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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 ...

BAXUS - The Peer-to-Peer Marketplace for Premium Spirits

22 Aug 2024

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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 w...

Luxolo - Your Digital Asset Concierge

21 Aug 2024

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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 a...

Autonomys - The Radical Autonomy Network for H+AI

18 Aug 2024

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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 i...

Fuse - Unbundling Payments

16 Aug 2024

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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...

Persistence - Bitcoin Cross-chain Swaps

13 Aug 2024

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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 b...

SSV Labs - Next Generation Re/Staking

11 Aug 2024

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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...

Stardust - The Platform for Devs to launch Web3 games

08 Aug 2024

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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 dev...

PepeCoin - The OG Meme Coin

06 Aug 2024

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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 t...

Binance - The Mega Exchange Expands Down Under

05 Aug 2024

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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 ha...

Credbull - reDeFining Private Credit

01 Aug 2024

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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 ...

Kwenta - Decentralized Derivatives Trading

31 Jul 2024

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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 K...

Pixels - Web3 Social Gaming on the Ronin Network

29 Jul 2024

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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 po...

PlaysOut - Bring Game-changing Games to the World

23 Jul 2024

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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 devel...

DeXe - Launch a DAO on any Chain

14 Jul 2024

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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. ...

Flux - Web3 Cloud Infrastructure

09 Jul 2024

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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 glob...

Stripchain - Interoperability Through Chain Abstraction

04 Jul 2024

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0xnovachrono is the Founder of Silent Research Labs, building Stripchain, an intent-based interoperability protocol designed to simplify chain abstrac...

Core DAO - Decentralized Applications Secured by Bitcoin

02 Jul 2024

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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, des...

Helios - The Future of Music Streaming

01 Jul 2024

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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...

USDz - the RWA-backed Stablecoin

25 Jun 2024

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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 l...

Wondra - The Metaverse for AI Agents

23 Jun 2024

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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 age...

DFINITY - Chain Fusion for the Internet Computer

18 Jun 2024

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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 intersecti...

Brickken - The Real World Asset Token Suite

17 Jun 2024

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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...

CUDIS - The Wearable Smart Ring on Solana

13 Jun 2024

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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 s...

ZTX - A Virtual World for Creators and Communities

11 Jun 2024

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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. Ope...

Plato - The Eat 2 Earn Protocol

06 Jun 2024

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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 yo...

GigaStar - The Marketplace for YouTube Creators and Investors

04 Jun 2024

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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 cre...

Lido & SSV - Integrating Distributed Validator Technology

02 Jun 2024

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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...

Shardeum - Web3 for Humans

30 May 2024

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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 wi...

Portal Finance - Bridgeless Interoperability on Bitcoin

27 May 2024

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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 hyperbitcoini...

Pundi X - Blockchain-based POS

27 May 2024

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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 governme...

Bitget Wallet - Taking Web3 Forward

23 May 2024

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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 ...

Hashdex - The Crypto ETF Pioneer

21 May 2024

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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 index...

Sui - Web3 with the ease of Web2

16 May 2024

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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, priva...

Native - Web3's Unified Liquidity Layer

14 May 2024

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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 ineffi...

Ta-da - The Data Platform for AI

12 May 2024

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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 disrupt...

Celebrating 500 Episodes - Josh Returns!

09 May 2024

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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 l...

Azuro - Infrastructure & Liquidity for On-chain Predictions

07 May 2024

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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 Liqu...

VALR - The South African Exchange Going Global

06 May 2024

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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 ...

BeL2 - Turn an EVM into a Bitcoin Layer 2

02 May 2024

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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 influe...

Dopamine - The SuperApp For Crypto

01 May 2024

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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 tok...

Arrow Markets - The Options Protocol on Avalanche

28 Apr 2024

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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 ...

Cove - Next-Gen DeFi Portfolio Management

26 Apr 2024

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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 decen...

Persistence One - Cosmos Liquid Staking & Restaking

20 Apr 2024

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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 ...

Zircuit - An AI-Enabled ZK Rollup

18 Apr 2024

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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 ...

SOMA Finance - The Best of DeFi & TradFi

18 Apr 2024

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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 tradin...

Gamma - Bitcoin, Runes, & Ordinals

16 Apr 2024

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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 ...

U-topia - Web3 IP

15 Apr 2024

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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 Entertai...

MANTRA - The Layer 1 for RWA Tokenization

11 Apr 2024

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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 t...

Payy - Fast, Free, Private Payments

09 Apr 2024

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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 Consid...

Lingo - The Gamified, RWA-Powered Rewards Token

07 Apr 2024

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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...