Crypto Hipster

This is the eighteenth episode in the Crypto Hipster's Curtain Calls Series, which includes 3–4-minute clips from Seasons 6-8. This compilation draws upon my conversations with: Mr. Blue, developer and a founder @ LEVR.bet (8/27/2024, Season 8) Kyle "Post Master", developer @ Karate Kombat (6/15/2024, Season 7) Peter Argerakis, CEO & Co-founder @ Six Sigma Sports (9/24/2023, Seas...

This is the seventeenth episode in the Crypto Hipster's Curtain Calls Series, which includes 3–4-minute clips from Seasons 6-8. This compilation draws upon my conversations with: Carlos Balbin, Venture Partner (3/10/2024, Season 6) Niklas Kunkel, Founder @ Chronicle (5/31/2025, Season 8) Graeme Moore, Head of Tokenization @ Polymesh Association (9/13/2024, Season 8) Chris Yin, CEO & Co-fou...

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About  informed.now⁠ informed.now is your news concierge to beat information overload. It provides minimal, concise, and factual daily news briefings via SMS to keep you informed without the influence of bias, sensationalism, or advertisements. Know more, read less. Get  www.informed.now About Kira Shishkin Kira Shishkin is the CEO of  informed.now , the news concierge service to beat information...

This is the sixteenth episode in the Crypto Hipster's Curtain Calls Series, which includes 3–4-minute clips from Seasons 6-8. This compilation draws upon my conversations with: David Schwartz, Board Director @ Litecoin Foundation (3/30/2025, Season 8) Alon Muroch, CEO and Founder @ SSV Labs (5/2/2025, Season 8) Ganesh Swami, co-founder @ Covalent (10/1/2024, Season 8) Spring Dunn, Director of...

Gleb Kurovskiy, Luminary Chief Digital Officer (PhD) Gleb Kurovskiy is a leading fintech innovator and Chief Digital Officer at  Luminary Bank , specializing in blockchain, AI, and payments. With 8 years of experience in finance, including a tenure as Lead Economist at the Central Bank, and a PhD from EPFL, one of the world’s top technical universities, Gleb combines deep academic expertise with h...

Gleb Kurovskiy, Luminary Chief Digital Officer (PhD) Gleb Kurovskiy is a leading fintech innovator and Chief Digital Officer at  Luminary Bank , specializing in blockchain, AI, and payments. With 8 years of experience in finance, including a tenure as Lead Economist at the Central Bank, and a PhD from EPFL, one of the world’s top technical universities, Gleb combines deep academic expertise with h...

Chris Kim is the Co-Founder and CEO of Axis. Prior to Axis, Chris co-founded Alphanonce in 2018, growing it into a leading quantitative hedge fund with $400 million in AUM. Chris entered the digital asset industry as the first hire at QCP Capital, where he ran the firm’s most profitable arbitrage book, specializing in cross-currency arbitrage strategies. He was a leading early market maker for sta...

Chris Kim is the Co-Founder and CEO of Axis. Prior to Axis, Chris co-founded Alphanonce in 2018, growing it into a leading quantitative hedge fund with $400 million in AUM. Chris entered the digital asset industry as the first hire at QCP Capital, where he ran the firm’s most profitable arbitrage book, specializing in cross-currency arbitrage strategies. He was a leading early market maker for sta...

Ivan co-founded Fortytwo, a planetary-scale intelligence network designed for next-generation AI applications and services. Fortytwo connects nodes running on consumer hardware with small AI models that collectively can outperform the reasoning capabilities of frontier AI (e.g.,centralized large models by OpenAI and Anthropic), creating a permissionless, scalable layer of community-driven intellig...

Ivan co-founded Fortytwo, a planetary-scale intelligence network designed for next-generation AI applications and services. Fortytwo connects nodes running on consumer hardware with small AI models that collectively can outperform the reasoning capabilities of frontier AI (e.g.,centralized large models by OpenAI and Anthropic), creating a permissionless, scalable layer of community-driven intellig...

Justin Hughes serves as the General Manager of Shareland, bringing deep expertise in fintech and real estate technology to the project. As a co-founder of  RealtyMogul.com , he helped build one of the world's first and largest real estate crowdfunding platforms, pioneering digital access to the asset class. At Shareland, Justin leverages this background to oversee operations and product strate...

Justin Hughes serves as the General Manager of Shareland, bringing deep expertise in fintech and real estate technology to the project. As a co-founder of  RealtyMogul.com , he helped build one of the world's first and largest real estate crowdfunding platforms, pioneering digital access to the asset class. At Shareland, Justin leverages this background to oversee operations and product strate...

William Vogt is a subject matter expert in China affairs. Heis a former Senior Fellow at the Digital Economist, a technology-centered policy think tank, where he produced timely research on the AI market in today’s China. He has worked as a consultant supporting government andinsurance companies with insights related to Beijing’s domestic and foreign policies. He is the author of Foundations of th...

William Vogt is a subject matter expert in China affairs. Heis a former Senior Fellow at the Digital Economist, a technology-centered policy think tank, where he produced timely research on the AI market in today’s China. He has worked as a consultant supporting government andinsurance companies with insights related to Beijing’s domestic and foreign policies. He is the author of Foundations of th...

Joris Delanoue is the CEO and co-founder of Fairmint. He builds programmable-equity infrastructure for private markets, extending beyond cap-table software to connect ownership, compliance, and capital formation on smart-contract rails. An 18-year builder, he previously founded and sold Nexteem and has launched multiple SaaS and marketplace products. He has managed and mentored large engineering t...

Joris Delanoue is the CEO and co-founder of Fairmint. He builds programmable-equity infrastructure for private markets, extending beyond cap-table software to connect ownership, compliance, and capital formation on smart-contract rails. An 18-year builder, he previously founded and sold Nexteem and has launched multiple SaaS and marketplace products. He has managed and mentored large engineering t...

Joseph Onorati is CEO of Defi Development Corp (DFDV), the first Solana treasury company listed on NASDAQ. DFDV was the best performing US stock in 2025. Previously, Joseph was Chief Strategy Officer at Kraken, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges, where he worked for nearly 9 years. He started working in the crypto space in 2013, when he joined CaVirtEx, the first bitcoin exchange in Canad...

Joseph Onorati is CEO of Defi Development Corp (DFDV), the first Solana treasury company listed on NASDAQ. DFDV was the best performing US stock in 2025. Previously, Joseph was Chief Strategy Officer at Kraken, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges, where he worked for nearly 9 years. He started working in the crypto space in 2013, when he joined CaVirtEx, the first bitcoin exchange in Canad...

This is the fifteenth episode in the Crypto Hipster's Curtain Calls Series, which includes 3–4-minute clips from Seasons 6-8. This compilation draws upon my conversations with: Jonathan Padilla, CEO and co-founder @ Snickerdoodle Labs (5/11/2024, Season 7) Jerry Li, CEO and co-founder @ Artela Network (6/24/2024, Season 7) Dr. Alan Tominey, Director of Product and Technology @ Gorki (12/24/202...

Dave Borsh is the Founder & CMO of Giga-Mint, a Michigan-based startup making NFTs simple and accessible for everyday people. With 25+ years of experience in IT operations supporting automotive, finance, and retail customers, he brings a customer-first mindset to Web3. Dave is focused on redefining NFTs as personal digital keepsakes—not speculation—through Giga-Mint’s easy-to-use minting platf...

Dave Borsh is the Founder & CMO of Giga-Mint, a Michigan-based startup making NFTs simple and accessible for everyday people. With 25+ years of experience in IT operations supporting automotive, finance, and retail customers, he brings a customer-first mindset to Web3. Dave is focused on redefining NFTs as personal digital keepsakes—not speculation—through Giga-Mint’s easy-to-use minting platf...

Deep Shah is leading the consumer business at Gnosis and is part of the Founding team at Gnosis Pay, where he led distribution ahead of the product passing $50 million in payment volume in its first year of operation.   Founded in 2015, Gnosis has evolved into a full-stack ecosystem bridging decentralised technology with everyday finance. Gnosis’ mission is to empower every person with greater fin...

Deep Shah is leading the consumer business at Gnosis and is part of the Founding team at Gnosis Pay, where he led distribution ahead of the product passing $50 million in payment volume in its first year of operation.   Founded in 2015, Gnosis has evolved into a full-stack ecosystem bridging decentralised technology with everyday finance. Gnosis’ mission is to empower every person with greater fin...

Art Abal is co-founder of Vana. Art is an expert in data systems, with a career dedicated to unlocking the value of human data across AI, governance, and global supply chains. He holds a Master in Public Policy from Harvard, where his research at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs focused on human data collection in corporate supply chains. At Appen, one of the world’s largest...