The Defiant - DeFi Podcast

Weekly Recap: SBF Arrested; CZ Under Investigation

17 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dear Defiers, In addition to our weekly podcast series, we are happy to now bring our Weekly Recap show to all podcast platforms. Weekly Recap is a sh...

BitGo's Mike Belshe on What's Next for WBTC & Crypto Custodians

15 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Defiant Podcast, we speak with Mike Belshe, the CEO of BitGo, a digital asset custodian, wallet, and issuer of wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC)...

Weekly Recap: SBF Willing To Testify Before Congress

12 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dear Defiers,  In addition to our weekly podcast series, we are happy to now bring our Weekly Recap show to all podcast platforms. Weekly Recap i...

Arweave's Sam Williams on Storing Files On-Chain for Eternity

09 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Defiant Podcast, we speak with Sam Williams, the co-founder and CEO of Arweave, a 'collectively owned hard drive' that enables users ...

Weekly Recap: SBF's Publicity Tour

03 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dear Defiers,  In addition to our weekly podcast series, we are happy to now bring our Weekly Recap show to all podcast platforms. Weekly Recap i...

Filecoin's Juan Benet on Upgrading the Heart of The Internet with Blockchains

01 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Defiant Podcast, we speak with Juan Benet, the founder of Protocol Labs and the inventor of the InterPlanetary File System. Juan is a...

Weekly Recap: Metamask is Tracking You

26 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dear Defiers,  In addition to our weekly podcast series, we are happy to now bring our Weekly Recap show to all podcast platforms.  Weekly R...

Saga's Bogdan Alexandrescu on Making Web3 More Accessible to Builders

24 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Defiant Podcast, Tegan Kline speaks with Bogdan Alexandrescu, co-founder and VP of Engineering at SAGA. SAGA is focused on lowering t...

FTX Fallout's Ugliest Turn Yet

19 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dear Defiers,  In addition to our weekly podcast series, we are happy to now bring our Weekly Recap show to all podcast platforms. Weekly Recap i...

Onyx's Tyrone Lobban Takes Us Behind the Scenes of JP Morgan's First DeFi Trade

18 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Defiant Podcast we speak with Tyrone Lobban, the head of blockchain at JPMorgan’s Onyx, a business unit focused on digital assets. ...

The Fall of FTX - Everything We Know So Far

14 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dear Defiers, In addition to our weekly podcast series, we are happy to now bring our Weekly Recap show to all podcast platforms.  Weekly Recap i...

Polygon's Hamzah Khan Wants to Make DeFi More Accessible Than Running Water

10 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Defiant Podcast we speak with Hamzah Khan, Head of Defi at Polygon. Polygon is one of the biggest players in DeFi with $1.5B in TVL a...

🎙️Offchain Labs' A.J. Warner on Making Arbitrum the Leading Layer 2 Scaling Solution for Ethereum

03 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Defiant Podcast we speak with A.J. Warner, the Chief Strategy Officer at Offchain Labs, the builders of Arbitrum, one of the leading ...

Delphi Labs' Gabriel Shapiro on How 100% of DeFi Could Become Illegal

27 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Defiant Podcast we speak with Gabriel Shapiro, general counsel at Delphi Labs and a member of the LeXpunK group of crypto lawyers. He...

a16z's Ali Yahya Says We’ve Entered The Golden Era Of Blockchain Applications

21 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Defiant Podcast we speak with Ali Yahya, General Partner at a16z, also known as Andreessen Horowitz. a16z is an investment giant - th...

🎙️Friends with Benefits' Alex Zhang on Building Web3 Communities That Endure

13 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week’s Defiant Podcast is from a conversation I had with Alex Zhang at the Unfinished Live conference. Alex is the mayor of Friend with Benefit...

Wintermute's David Micley Says Institutional Investors Are Here To Stay

06 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Defiant Podcast we speak with David Micley, the business development director at Wintermute, one of the largest digital asset market ...

Starkware Founders: Ethereum Could Surpass Visa's Transaction Speeds Within Months

30 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Defiant Podcast we speak with Uri Kolodny and Eli Ben-Sasson, the co-founders of Starkware, one of the leading Layer 2 scaling soluti...

ConsenSys' Ben Edgington On The Future Of Ethereum After The Merge

23 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Defiant Podcast we speak with Ben Edgington, the product owner of Teku, an Ethereum 2.0 client being developed at Consensys. It’s b...

Liquity's Robert Lauko On Censorship And Building A Fully Decentralized Stablecoin

19 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Defiant Podcast we speak with Robert Lauko, founder & head of research at Liquity, an overcollateralized DeFi lending protocol an...

🎙 Stani Kulechov on Building a Social Network for Web3 so Users are Not the Product

08 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the Defiant Podcast we speak to Stani Kulechov, founder & CEO of Aave, one of the first lending protocols in the DeFi space. He has b...

Zcash's Zooko Says Crypto Users Must Have The Choice To Transact Privately

01 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Defiant podcast we speak to Zooko, the founder of  Zcash. Privacy remains one of the hottest issues in crypto after the U.S. Tre...

Jake Chervinsky on Tornado Cash Sanctions: The Rightful Outrage and the Need to Further Decentralize DeFi

20 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Defiant Podcast we speak to Jake Chervinsky, the executive vice president and head of policy at Blockchain Association, a non-profit ...

0x's Will Warren On The Future Of DEXs And The Impact Of MEV

04 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Defiant Podcast, we speak Will Warren, founder and CEO of 0x labs, one of the oldest and largest decentralized exchanges.  0x AP...

UMA's Hart Lambur Says The Current Market Crisis Is A Sales Pitch For DeFi

27 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Defiant Podcast we speak to Hart Lambur, co-founder of the UMA protocol. UMA is an optimistic oracle on Ethereum that aims to record ...

Justin Drake on How The Merge Helps Make Ethereum the Settlement Layer of the Internet

20 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Defiant podcast we speak with Justin Drake. Justin is a researcher for the Ethereum foundation. He’s at the forefront of the bigges...

Tezos Co-Founder Arthur Breitman Looks Forward To No-hype Crypto Shining Through

12 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the Defiant Podcast we speak to Arthur Breitman, the co-founder of Tezos. Created together with his wife Kathleen way back in 2014, Tezos...

Ex SushiSwap CTOJoseph Delong on Why DAOs Fail

06 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Joseph Delong is the former CTO of SushiSwap, one of the biggest decentralized exchanges, and the founder of Astaria, a recently created NFT lending p...

Hasu: Lido's Staked ETH Poses No Systemic Risk to DeFi

28 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Defiant Podcast we speak with Hasu, strategic advisor at Lido, strategy lead at Flashbots, MakerDAO delegate, researcher at Paradigm ...

Gmoney on the NFT Projects That Will Make it Through the Bear

22 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Gmoney is one of the most prominent NFT collectors in the space, breaking into the scene with a splash when he bought a crypto punk for 140 ETH last y...

Mati Greenspan: Only Those Who Are Well Funded or Most Committed Will Make it Through the Bear

15 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on The Defiant Podcast we speak to Mati Greenspan. Mati is the CEO & founder of Quantum Economics, a crypto research and advisory firm. ...

The Fabricant Co-Founder: NFT Fashion Blurs Lines Between Creators and Consumers and Both Share the Upside

08 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Adriana Hoppenbrouwer-Pereira is the co-founder and CMO of The Fabricant, a digital fashion house for the metaverse founded in 2018. Their belief is t...

Yoni Assia on the Rise of Active Trading in a Blockchain-Based World and Building a 27M-User App

24 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Yoni Assia is the founder and CEO of eToro, one of the most successful crypto and stock buying apps with over 27 million users in more than 100 countr...

Terra Post Mortem and Future with Kevin Zhou, One of the Few Investors Who Predicted the Crash

16 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Zhou is the founder of crypto quant fund, Galois Capital and former head of trading at Kraken. Last week, Terra, one of the most prominent ecosy...

Buenos Aires City Innovation Chief Talks Crypto Tax Payments and How Web3 will Revolutionize Democracy

09 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week we speak to Diego Fernandez, the secretary of innovation and digital transformation for the city of Buenos Aires. Recently, news broke that ...

BoredElonMusk Talks Crypto Gaming and Growing a Twitter Following to the Millions

03 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

BoredElonMusk is one of the most prominent Twitter personalities in the crypto space with over 1.7M followers at the time of recording. With decades o...

Prominent Academic Fabian Schär Says Crypto Regulation Should Happen Only at On/Off-Ramps and Ditch Consumer Protection

27 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Fabian Schär is one of the most prominent academics focusing on blockchains and specifically DeFi. He has a great deal of experience speaking with re...

Jill Gunter Talks Crypto's Role in Emerging Markets and Building Scaling Solution Espresso Systems

18 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jill Gunter is the co-founder and chief strategy officer at scaling solution Espresso Systems and a venture partner at Slow Ventures. She became inter...

Making Magic - A Defiant Love Story with Robin Schmidt & Alp Gasimov

12 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We have a special podcast episode this week — a live conversation between Defiant founder Camila, our head of video Robin, and our editor Alp, recor...

Cosmos Co-Founder Ethan Buchman on Building an Internet of Sovereign Blockchains

04 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ethan Buchman is the co-founder of Cosmos, an ecosystem of interoperable blockchains which includes Terra, Osmosis and Crypto.org, and has the most va...

🎙 Blockchange Ventures' Ken Seiff: Betting on Crypto's Base Layer and a Multi-Chain Future

28 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ken Seiff is the managing partner of Blockchange Ventures, one of the longest-standing venture funds focusing on early-stage blockchain startups. One ...

Gitcoin's Kevin Owocki on Fueling Public Goods Funding for the Ethereum Nation

21 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Owocki is the founder of Gitcoin, which helps coordinate crowdfunding for projects and software developments on the Ethereum blockchain.  W...

Fabian Vogelsteller, father of the ERC20 Standard, on the Shift from Blockchain Addresses to Social Profiles with Lukso

14 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Fabian Vogelsteller is a Blockchain veteran who was part of the Ethereum community in its very early days. He helped shape the Ethereum space, buildin...

Laura Shin on Solving Ethereum's Greatest Mystery with Her New Book, The Cryptopians

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode of The Defiant podcast, we speak to Laura Shin, the former senior editor at Forbes and host of the popular podcast Unchained,...

Polkadot's Gavin Wood on Building a Layer 0 to Underpin the Entire Blockchain-Based Economy

28 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Gavin Wood’s crypto journey started with Ethereum – he was one of the eight original founders and the project’s CTO in the early days. Today tho...

Sovryn's Edan Yago on Building Bitcoin DeFi; Slower Growth But Strongest Foundation

21 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Edan Yago is a co-founder of Sovryn, a Bitcoin-based lending protocol. He’s maybe the first Bitcoin builder we have had on our show and that’s bec...

Vitalik Buterin on Building a Base Layer for the Global Economy Without Compromising on Decentralization

14 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Vitalik Buterin wrote the Ethereum white paper when he was just 19. His aim was simple yet comprehensive, to create a ‘world computer’ that was de...

Giveth's Griff Green: Super-Charging Public Goods and Charity With Crypto

07 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Griff Green is one of the co-founders of Giveth, which aims to build the future of charity using the Ethereum blockchain. It wants to become the gatew...

AVAX's Emin Gun Sirer Says Blockchains Should be Scalable at Their Core; Layer 2s Mean Giving Up

03 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When Emin Gun Sirer first came on The Defiant in May 2020, Avalanche was not even on mainnet yet. Since then, it has risen to become one of the leadin...

Synthetix's Kain Warwick: What it Takes to Scale an Ethereum DeFi Protocol

24 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we sit with Kain Warwick, DeFi OG and founder of Synthetix. In some ways, last year wasn’t a great one for the synthetic assets protocol....

Behind the Scenes of The Defiant with Robin and Camila

17 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to The Defiant podcast! After a brief break at the end of last year, we’re back stronger and better than ever to continue chatting with...

Nick Johnson of ENS: "We Want to be the Naming System for Every Digital Resource in the World"

29 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode I speak with Nick Johnson, founder and lead developer of Ethereum Name Service, or ENS. Nick talks about the journey of ENS, ...

Geoff Cook on Building a Crypto Name: "The Strongest Brands Compete on Emotion"

22 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode I speak with Geoff Cook, co-founder of Base, a design studio with huge clients from all industries, including The New York Ti...

Nadya of Pussy Riot: "We Can Be Truly Unstoppable if We Combine Our Ideals With Tools that Crypto Provides"

15 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode I, speak with Nadya Tolokonnikova, one of the founding members of the feminist punk rock protest collective, Pussy Riot. Nady...

Zeneca: "The Market is Fed Up With the Same Sorts of NFT Projects and There's a Flight to Gaming NFTs"

08 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Zeneca is an NFT investor and content creator who grew his collection of non-fungible tokens from 0 to about 3,000 pieces worth millions in less than ...

Eric Wall of Arcane Assets: "Bitcoiners Protect BTC Against 'Shitcoinism' But They're Also Keeping it From Valid Technical Ideas"

02 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode I speak with Eric Wall, chief investment officer at Arcane Assets. He used to be known as the Altcoin Slayer, thanks to his b...

🎙 Scoopy Trooples of Alchemix: "Liquidity Mining is Like a Drug; You Have to Wean Yourself Off Over Time"

25 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode I speak with Scoopy Trooples, founder of Alchemix, a protocol that programs self-paying loans without the risk of liquidation...

Braintrust's Adam Jackson: “Nike is in Crypto Now and They May Not be Fully Aware”

18 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode, I interview Adam Jackson, co-founder of Braintrust, a user-owned talent network. Think Fiverr for web3. Braintrust runs on E...

"NFTs Gave Me a Sense of Security and Economic Stability I Never Felt Before:" WoW Creator Yam Karkai

11 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode I speak with Yam Karkai, the digital illustrator and artist behind NFT project World of Women. She’s had all sorts of odd j...

"Wall Street Bets Taught Me to Have Faith in the Collective Intelligence:" WSB Founder Jaime Rogozinski

04 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode, I interview Jaime Rogozinski, founder of Wall Street Bets, the famous Reddit trading group which earlier this year organized...

"ETH and most DeFi is Trading Cheaper Than Web2 and With Better Growth:” VanEck's Matthew Sigel

20 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode we speak with Matthew Sigel, head of digital asset research at VanEck, an asset management firm overseeing $80 billion, which...

"There's Going to Be a DeFi Universe Geared Towards Non-Fungible Assets:" NFTfi's Stephen Young

14 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode I speak with Stephen Young, the founder and CEO of NFTfi, a platform for enabling NFT-backed loans. For some people, decentra...

"NFTs are Giving Way to The First Art Revolution Since the Internet:" SuperRare's John Crain

06 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode, I speak with John Crain, the co-founder & CEO of SuperRare, one of the top NFT marketplaces. SuperRare wants to differen...

"I Realized We Could Scale Play-to-Earn to Impact Thousands, Hopefully Millions of Lives:" YGG's Gabby Dizon

30 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode, I speak with Gabby Dizon, co-founder of Yield Guild Games, or YGG. Long before Gabby was into crypto he was into gaming, and...

"There's Been a Zero-to-One Switch for Institutions and Crypto:" Pantera's Dan Morehead

23 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode, we speak with Dan Morehead, the founder of one of the longest-standing and largest crypto funds. Dan founded Pantera Capital...

"There is No Political Voice to the Millions of Crypto Users in the US:" Ryan Selkis

16 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode we speak with Ryan Selkis, CEO and founder of Messari, one of the most popular crypto data and research companies.  Rece...

"We're Not Really at an Inflection Point Yet:" OpenSea's Nate Chastain

09 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode we interview Nate Chastain, head of product at OpenSea. Opensea got its start back in 2017 when CryptoKitties launched on Eth...

"We Get to Tell Future Pixar Animators They Can Quit Their Jobs and Come Build With NFTs:" Stoner Cats Team

02 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode, I speak with some of the creators and investors behind Stoner Cats, the NFT-infused adult cartoon show about a group of cats...

"I'm Not an Enemy of DeFi; I Want People to Know About Anything That Goes Against DeFi as a Tool for Financial Liberty:" Chris Blec

26 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode, I interview Chris Blec, a researcher advocating for transparency in DeFi.  He was first drawn to cryptocurrencies throu...

“The Biggest, Clearest Bet of All is Ethereum:" Raoul Pal

19 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode I interview Raoul Pal, who retired from the hedge fund world at 36 years old and has run financial media company Real Vision ...

"It's Almost Like EIP-1559 Fixes an Economic Bug in Ethereum; More Usage Can Now Capture More Value:" Tim Beiko

12 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode we speak with Tim Beiko, who organizes the Ethereum core developers calls and knows all the intricacies and latest developmen...

"V3 is Winding Back a Bit of the Uniswap Revolution; It's Going to be Very Influential:" Dan Robinson

02 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode we speak with Dan Robinson, a research partner at Paradigm, one of the most active VC funds in DeFi and crypto. One of the fu...

"There Will be Billion-Dollar Communities on the Internet:” Jess Sloss

25 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode we speak with Jess Sloss, the instigator of Seed Club, a DAO that builds and invests in community tokens. We talk about the e...

"VCs Typically Treat Community as an Afterthought; That's Wrong:" Soona Amhaz

18 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode, I speak with Soona Amhaz of Volt Capital. Soona saw the value of crypto from very close when her family lost most of their s...

"Having Legal Tender in a Currency You Cannot Control Means You Cannot Print Problems Away:" Mariano Conti

11 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode I speak with Mariano Conti, the former head of smart contracts at MakerDAO. Mariano knows the value of having permissionless ...

"Everyone Can be Rich in Crypto; There are no Divine Rights:" Terry Crews

04 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode, I speak with Terry Crews, a legit star. He was a professional football player, has starred in multiple Hollywood films and c...

"The Bull Market is Intact for the Next 10 to 20 Years; We are in a Secular Shift:" Arca's Jeff Dorman

28 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode, I interview Jeff Dorman, chief investment officer at Arca, an investment management firm focusing on digital assets. Jeff ha...

"Blockchains are Adding Property Rights to the Internet:" Kayvon Tehranian

21 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode I interview Kayvon Tehranian, founder & CEO of Foundation, a platform for minting, buying and selling non-fungible tokens...

"Ethereum is About Six Months Away from Proof-of-Stake:" Preston Van Loon

14 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In today’s episode, we interview Preston Van Loon. Preston co-founded Prysmatic Labs, one of the main teams building Ethereum 2.0, and has been lead...

"Identity is The One Vulnerability Being Exploited Across All Systems. It’s the Mother of All Battles:" Santiago Siri

10 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s podcast we interview Santiago Siri, who has been working on improving the way democracy works for over a decade. He started from the ...

"We Said Let's Start With Uniswap and See What We Can Unbundle:" Pranay Mohan of Hashflow

30 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode, we talk with Varun Kumar and Pranay Mohan from Hashflow, a new decentralized exchange that wants to unbundle Uniswap. What t...

"We're Lifting Barriers For Outside Users; If You Allocate Capital in a Vacuum, It's Kind of Meaningless:" Terra's Do Kwon

16 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode, we interview Do Kwon, cofounder of the Terra ecosystem which includes a payments network, a stablecoin, a lending protocol a...

"It's Not About Fighting for People Already in DeFi, But About Bringing More People In:" SushiSwap's 0xMaki

09 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's episode we interview 0xMaki, an anonymous DeFi developer contributing to SushiSwap and Yearn Finance protocols. We talk about growing S...

"Collector DAOs Are Going to be a Game-Changer For The NFT Space:" pplpleasr

02 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode we talk with the DeFi artist of the moment. Pplpleasr got into DeFi drawn in by the crazy yields but really stayed when she r...

"I Try to Tell People About DeFi; It Will Come Here and Completely Flatten You:" Jim Bianco

26 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jim Bianco has decades of experience as a macro markets researcher. He's been leading his firm Bianco Research since 1990 and was at UBS and Lehman Br...

"People Are Seeing The Writing on The Wall; DEXs Will Rule Crypto:" dYdX's Antonio Juliano

19 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode we speak with Antonio Juliano, founder and CEO of dYdX, one of the biggest decentralized exchanges on Ethereum, focusing on d...

"I Don't Think We're in a Bubble. We Had a Bubble in ‘17; Now We're in a Movement:" Mike Novogratz

12 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode we speak with Mike Novogratz, the CEO of Galaxy Digital. He started his career at Goldman Sachs and then led a macro hedge fu...

"We Were Idiots and We Were Poor; Then From Mid 2020 to Now, Suddenly, We're Right: " Ameen Soleimani

05 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode I interview Ameen Soleimani, one of the most prolific builders in Ethereum. He’s the CEO of SpankChain, a blockchain-based ...

"We Haven't Seen Anything Yet, So Hold Your Long-Term Bag:" Qiao Wang

19 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s podcast episode, we speak with long-time crypto investor Qiao Wang. Wang is a partner at the DeFi Alliance and former head of product...

Mark Cuban: "ETH Has an Advantage Over BTC as a Store of Value"

12 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode, we speak with Mark Cuban, Dallas Mavericks owner, billionaire investor and Shark Tank star. It’s been hard to pin down if ...

"For the First Time, You Can Buy a Piece of the Art, and a Piece of the Gallery:" MetaKovan

06 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s podcast episode we interview MetaKovan, the pseudonymous investor who holds the largest known NFT collection in his Metapruse fund, w...

Crypto Devs Are "Building a Life Raft For The World After Fiat Falls Apart:" Erik Voorhees

29 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In today’s episode, I speak with Erik Voorhees, long-time crypto advocate and founder and CEO of ShapeShift. In this interview, he talks about how h...

"I'm Imagining a World Where Every Song Has an Investable Layer:" DJ 3LAU

15 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Justin Blau, better known as 3LAU, is a DJ who frequently plays at all the major festivals, he produces his own successful tracks, as well as remixes ...

"I'm a Strong Believer in Blockchain; This is Just the Beginning:" Atari CEO Fred Chesnias

08 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode I interview Fred Chesnias, the CEO of Atari.  The video game company now has a token and plans to release a wallet and e...

"Bitcoin is the Most Honest Form of Money We've Ever Had:" Robert Sharratt of CrescoFin

23 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode, I speak with Robert Sharratt, managing director at CrescoFin, a Swiss-regulated crypto firm which wants to become a bank alt...

"We Took Lessons From the Food Festival to Level Up the DeFi Experience," Bloq's Jeff Garzik

14 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In today’s episode I talk with Jeff Garzik, the Bitcoin core developer turned DeFi builder.  Jeff comes from leading Bloq, a blockchain infrast...

"The Only Thing Where I Probably Agree With Arca is That GNO is Under-appreciated:" Gnosis' Stefan George

07 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode I speak with Stefan George, the cofounder and CTO of Gnosis. Gnosis is one of the OG Ethereum projects. It was founded in 201...

"This Boom Feels Organic; Traffic's Not Coming Out of The Blue Like With ICOs in 2017:" Infura's EG Galano

30 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode I speak with E.G. Galano, cofounder of Infura, an infrastructure provider for Ethereum and other blockchains. Many Ethereum a...

"You Can Wake Up With an Idea for a Fund and Deploy it in Minutes:" Melon's Mona El Isa

23 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This weeks podcast episode is with Mona El Isa, the co-founder of Melon, a decentralized asset management protocol. Mona tells the story of how she st...

"I Do Believe Ethereum Will Flip Bitcoin in the Next Four Years:” Balancer's Fernando Martinelli

16 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode, I speak with Illia Polosukhin, cofounder of the Near Protocol and Fernando Martinelli, co-founder and CEO of Balancer Labs. ...