Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders
Episodes
Distribution Advantage: how to set up GTM for your crypto product (without bs)
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Blog post version: https://kanfa.macbudkowski.com/crypto-gtm***If your crypto product is solid but growth feels slow, this episode gives you the clari...
We are back (in a new form)
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Good to be back and happy to chat with you. Learn more and book a slot here: https://kanfa.macbudkowski.com/lets-chat
#48: Henri Stern, Co-Founder & CEO @ Privy | How they built a tool that brings web2-caliber UX to web3 products
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Henri is an ex-research scientist at Protocol Labs. He Co-Founded Privy, which provides web3 projects such as Friend.tech, t2 & Shibuya with seaml...
#47: Anjali Young, Co-Founder & CCO @ Collab.Land | How they built a community management tool used by over 50,000 communities
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Collab.Land is a tool for managing web3 communities and bridging them to Discord and Telegram. It has already been used by 50k+ communities and 8M+ wa...
Support Web3 Talks via Gitcoin grant + info about the new episode
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our Gitcoin Grants page: https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/10/0x2871742b184633f8dc8546c6301cbc209945033e/0x2871742b184633f8dc8546c6301cbc209945033e-...
We are back (+ why there were no episodes for some time)
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Web3 Talks is back! Links I mentioned: Library of web3 startup lessons: https://goldmine3.xyz/ Web3 startup I'm building with my Co-Founder T...
#46: Tim Boeckmann, Co-Founder & CEO @ Mailchain | How they built a privacy-first web3 e-mail protocol that lets you communicate between different blockchains
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mailchain is basically a web3 email. It provides a web app that lets you send your emails as if you used Gmail or Hotmail. But you send your emails vi...
#45: Dee Goens, Co-Founder & COO @ Zora | How they built one of the top NFT platforms used by Coinbase, Gucci, Grimes & thousands of creators
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Zora is one of the most popular web3 tools, used by the biggest creators in the NFT space. What were its early days? How they acquired their first use...
#44: Matt Galligan, Co-Founder & President @ XMTP | Building a web3 native messaging protocol that lets apps integrate DMs, alerts, and announcements
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
XMTP is one of the leading web3 messaging protocols. What were the early days of this project? What web3 native features they developed How they built...
#43: Julien Genestoux, Founder & CEO @ Unlock Protocol | From the first NFT memberships tool in 2018 to a protocol that’s being used by hundreds of projects for ticketing, token-gating & subscription
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Julien has been building tools for membership NFTs since 2018, long before the NFT boom. What were the early days of the NFT market? How dogfooding he...
#42: Stefan George, Co-Founder & CTO @ Gnosis | The OG team, which created Safe & CowSwap and has been building on Ethereum since 2014, working on the #2 most decentralized chain in the space
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Stefan George is one of the most OG builders in the space. How was it building on Ethereum in 2014? Why they pivoted from their initial idea? How an I...
Genesis Talk - Open Edition
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mint "Genesis Talk" here: https://zora.co/collections/0xf66f4e9667edb65fd7306c0711cb8fe66450419e
#40: Alex Salnikov, Co-Founder & CSO @ Rarible | From a napkin MVP in 2019 to one of the leading community-centric NFT marketplaces & protocols
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alex has been building Rarible since 2019, when most people haven't even heard about NFTs. What were the industry's early days? Why slick design helpe...
#39: Ayush Ranjan, Co-Founder & CEO @ Huddle01 | From a hackathon idea to the leading web3 audio & video communication toolkit
17 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Huddle01 quickly became the leading web3 audio/video communication toolkit. How it all started? What helped them acquire 16k+ users? Why they're so ex...
#38: Colin Armstrong, Founder @ Paragraph | How they combined web2 & web3 features to create a Substack alternative that’s already used by over 5k creators
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Colin Armstrong has been in crypto since 2011 and has spent years working at Coinbase and Google. He built Paragraph to create a more neutral and web3...
#37: Olly Wilson, Co-Founder @ SimpleHash | Building a multichain NFT API that’s used by projects such as Phantom & Rainbow
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
SimpleHash is one of the most powerful NFT APIs in the space. It's being used by wallets, portfolio trackers & web3 games. Olly Wilson came to the...
#36: Gilbert Leung, Co-Founder @ 0xFrens | From working in Google to building a tool that leverages the strengths of web3 to develop deeper connections in online communities
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
0xFrens is a matchmaking tool used by web3 communities such as: Developer DAO, Jericho & Skylab. Gilbert - Co-Founder of the project - spent almos...
#35: Josef, Co-Founder @ PWN | How a bank denying him a mortgage inspired them to build a P2P lending platform where you can use any token as collateral
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
PWN is a decentralized pawnshop where you can use any tokens as collateral. But it’s just the beginning. Their ultimate goal is to provide crypto lo...
#34: Evgeny Yurtaev, Co-Founder & CEO @ Zerion | How building in DeFi since 2016 led to launching a wallet that generated 80k+ active users in less than 6 months
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Zerion is one of the OG crypto companies, operating since 2016. It started as a tool to do fundraising through token sales. Then it transformed ...
#33: Ivan Liljeqvist, Co-Founder @ Moralis | From 0 to 90+ employees in less than 2 years - how they've grown web3 infra business
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Moralis joined a pretty crowded web3 infra market in 2020, and it's already become an important player serving projects such as MetaMask and Polygon. ...
Mac Budkowski, Host @ Web3 Talks | How to explain what your web3 product does and convince users to try it [Builder’s Guide]
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hey everyone, today I got the info about something I've been working on for a long time. Twitter link (all Likes & RTs much appreciated!): https:/...
#32: Dan Romero, Co-Founder @ Farcaster | How two Coinbase early employees designed one of the most thriving web3 social networks: product decisions,tech trade-offs & community building tactics
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Romero was employee #20 at Coinbase. After helping to build the company for 5 years, he left Coinbase in 2019 to build an alternative to Twitter w...
#31: Ouriel Ohayon, Co-Founder @ ZenGo | How they built an MPC wallet to get rid of seed phrases and what they did to acquire over 700k users
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
ZenGo has been the pioneer in MPC research and the most popular consumer MPC wallet in the world. Ouriel shares the backstage perspective of their ear...
#30: Leighton, Co-Founder @ PoolTogether | The story behind the OG DeFi protocol which has distributed over $5 million to depositors as a reward for saving money
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/ Po...
#29: Haardik, Co-Founder @ LearnWeb3 | From teaching a friend about web3 development to a developers community with over 50k students
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/ Le...
Quick message to all our listeners about Gitcoin Grant
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We are currently raising a Gitcoin Grant. If you'd like to support the podcast, please Like/Retweet/Donate via our link: https://twitter.com/web3tal...
#28: Pedro Gomes, Co-Founder @ WalletConnect | From wallet improvement idea back in 2018 to one of the most omnipresent web3 communications protocols
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/ Wa...
#27: realfakepicnic & sockdrawermoney, Co-Founders @ Code4rena | Managing a DAO that runs smart contract audit contests for projects such as OpenSea, ENS, Lens, NounsDAO & SushiSwap
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Code4rena is a project that disrupts the way web3 companies do smart contract audits. Their community-driven approach made them so well-known in the s...
#26: BORED, Co-Founder @ Bored Box | Building a blockchain gaming community by curating NFT assets from top games and helping people discover the coolest web3 games
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We welcome Twitter anon legend - Bored Elon Musk - who shares his blockchain/web3 gaming expertise and gives a backstage perspective on his new projec...
#25: Seb Audet, Co-Founder @ Zapper.fi | How Zapper evolved from a DeFi degens' product into a web3 exploration tool with over 1 million users
23 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Zapper is one of the most popular crypto apps. And on Thursday, they published the v2, which transformed Zapper from a portfolio tracker into a web3 e...
#24: Anton Bernstein, Co-Founder @ Pocket Worlds | How they built and grew Metaverse apps with over 3 Million Monthly Active Users
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you're a Metaverse skeptic, this episode might change your mind. I talked with Anton, whose apps have built metaverse since 2016, so long before th...
#23: Dennison Bertram, Co-Founder @ Tally.xyz | Lessons on DAOs from the Co-Founder of the DAO governance tool used by Uniswap, Compound & PoolTogether
04 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dennison has been in crypto for over 10 years. He has been heavily involved in DAOs before most people even heard about them. In this episode, he shar...
#22: Chris Whinfrey, Founder @ Hop Protocol | A bridge that moved over $2.4B worth of tokens between Ethereum & L2s to improve the blockchains' UX
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/ Ho...
#21: Geoist & Levertz, Founders @ IDRiss | Decentralized address book to onboard the next billion users to crypto
16 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Just like ENS lets people link their wallet addresses to .eth domains, IDrIss lets people link their wallet addresses to their phone numbers, e-mails ...
#20: Auston Bunsen, Co-Founder @ QuickNode | Building blockchain infrastructure that operates at the scale of Google Search
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/ Ho...
#19: Rex Hygate, Founder @ DeFi Safety | Adding transparency to DeFi security practices by a company that already reviewed 200+ DeFi projects
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/ De...
#18: Harsh Rajat, Founder @ EPNS | Building a multichain web3 communication protocol that’s pushing notifications for ENS, Uniswap, dYdX, Coindesk, Snapshot & more
08 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/ Ho...
#17: x0r, Founder @ MEV Army | Teaching people about the tech side of crypto through an NFT-gated community
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/ x0...
#16: Ayyan Rahman, Co-Founder @ Gateway | Helping contributors onboard to DAOs & preparing for the Future of Work
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/ Wh...
#15: Gil Hildebrand, Founder @ Gilded | Helping crypto businesses to accept payments, pay team members, and deliver on financial reporting requirements
11 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How has an idea in a New Orleans meetup turned into a product supporting the financial operations of over 120 crypto businesses? Why do they use web2 ...
#14: Raj & Atomic, Meme Lords @ Meme DAO | Behind the scenes of a DAO that makes memes for projects such as Polygon, Graph & Coinbase
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/ 0...
#13: Yawn Rong, Co-Founder @ STEPN | How they build & grow one of the most successful GameFi apps that pay people for walking & running
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Ep.13 Yawn Rong, STEPN Co-Founder tells us: - What they’ve learned from Axie Infinity’s mistakes, - Why you SHOULDN’T hype your project too ...
#12: Austin Griffith, Ethereum Builder & Educator | How to choose an Ethereum project to work on, ship it & promote it to the first users
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this Episode Austin tells us: - What mental models does he use to choose which products to work on, - Where are the biggest gaps in web3 waiting to...
#11: Andre Serrano, Community Lead @ CityCoins | The story behind MiamiCoin & how it helps people invest in & co-create their favorite city
04 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/ In...
#10: Nik Kalyani, Founder & CEO @ Decentology | Helping web2 developers to build web3 dapps without the need to learn how to write smart contracts
27 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/ In...
#9: Szymon Sypniewicz, Co-Founder & CEO @ Ramp Network | Building and growing a crypto payment platform that supports Axie Inifinity, Sorare & Aave
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this Episode Szymon Sypniewicz from RampNetwork tells us: - About Ramp's obsession over UX, - How they got partners such as Axie Infinity, SoRare, ...
#8: Mitchell Cuevas, Head of Growth @ Stacks | How Stacks gives Bitcoin new superpowers and what they’ve been doing to grow their ecosystem
06 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Ep. 8 Mitchell shares: Why Stacks has chosen Bitcoin as a foundation, Why they wanted SEC qualification, How a variety of projects help their ...
#7: Leon Erichsen, Builder Community Manager @ Gitcoin | How Gitcoin has been using crypto to connect developers and provide $50M+ to public good projects
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/ I...
#6: Zakku, Co-Founder @ Coordinape | How DAO contributors get compensated and how it impacts the DAO culture
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/ Z...
#5: Chairman Ape, Founder @ Ludo Labs | Using NFTs to build a football community and connect fans with the world’s top football players
23 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/ I...
#4: Ivona Tau, 1/1 NFT Artist | NFT artist's work and everyday challenges
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/ Iv...
#3: Nitish Reddy, Founder @ Bip.so | Potential & challenges of DAO collaboration and the tool that can make it easier
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you don't want to miss our episodes, subscribe to our Substack and get an e-mail whenever the new one comes out: https://web3talks.substack.com/ ...
#2: Rohit Goyal, Founder @ Mesh Finance | Lessons in building CeFi & DeFi crypto products from a Founder that built both
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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#1: Madhavan Malolan, Founder @ Questbook | Building web3 communities: from almost 0 to 15,000 developers in 2,5 months
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Teaser
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Learn what Web3 Talks will be about