Still Early Podcast

In today’s episode Grant sits down with Initia’s Co-Founders Ezaan Mangalji, who goes by “Zon” and Stan Liu. Together they cover everything from; Initia's infrastructure and L1 migration to backwards compatibility,incentive structures, the future of Application collaboration, Initia's fundraising & cap table, and a whole lot more. This isn’t one to miss so stick around — and make sur...

Grant was joined by Su Zhu, previously of 3 Arrows Capital and now of Ox.fun, to discuss the current market happenings. This conversation covers why meme coins are running so hard, will the Bitcoin all-time high this early in the cycle affects the length of the cycle, and some of Su's portfolio allocations, including his token and NFT picks.

In this episode Grant sits down with the man, the myth, the legend—SalsaTekila. Salsa is an absolute force to be reckoned with in the world of crypto trading. Here Grant and Salsa look back at Salsa’s early beginnings, getting started without Technical Analysis, Salsa’s trading fundamentals, risk tolerance, where we’re at in the current cycle, BTC L2’s, and much, much more!

On Today’s episode Grant talks with LayerZero Labs Co-Founder and CEO Bryan Pellegrino to discuss all things V2, and the evolution of Decentralized Verifier Networks! They kick things off by discussing Executors and LayerZero’s battle-tested crypto philosophy before diving deep into the implications of execution on throughput and the future of building on LayerZero — plus much more. Enjoy!

Grant sat down with OnChain Wizard for a conversation about the tricks of the trade regarding on-chain crypto trading. If you ever wondered, "How do these guys always buy before me?" or "How do I find coins early?" and want to learn how professionals trade on-chain, this is the one for you. Onchain Wizard has crafted his trade tracking on-chain movements to give an edge into wh...

Grant sat down with Avery Bartlett, the mastermind behind Avalanche Crocs. In this conversation, Grant and Avery discussed crypto marketing and some of the tactics projects will use to grab your attention. Avery is a self-confessed Swiss army knife at Ava Labs who churns out some of the best video content this space has to offer. The conversation leads to how crypto projects can properly use YouTu...

Grant sat down with Jordi Alexander, the founder and chief investment officer at Selini Capital, one-quarter of the Steady Lads and Alchemist at Mantle. In this conversation, you will hear Jordi explain his predictions on where the hot ball of money will flow following the Bitcoin ETF, how market-making firms are positioning in the Bitcoin spot ETF world, the development process behind one of the...

Grant welcomes dedicated DeFi disciple Patrick Scott to Still Early, co-founder of CoinBeats and Dynamo DeFi to discuss one of our favorite topics - building a media business. With new content creators popping up all the time in this industry, cutting through the noise is tough if you’re looking for information. And if you’re set on starting your own content channel - where do you even start? But...

Grant was joined by Noah from NodeKit to discuss a topic that not a lot of Ethereum maximalists want to discuss... how do we decentralize the L2s and sequencers? A lot of concern is floating around the crypto and DeFi space due to the centralization of specific aspects of a lot of Layer 2 scaling solutions on Arbitrum, Optimism and other popular chains. NodeKit is developing the SEQ chain which al...

Grant was joined by Corey from Mirai Labs, a Web3 gaming studio that is focused on bringing users games they actually want to play... who would have thought?!Their initial game, Pegaxy, was one of the first GameFi projects that took the industry by storm during the days in which Axie Infinity was all the rage. Now, they have regrouped and begun to push out some seriously impressive games, such as...

Grant sat down with Cooper from Movement Labs to chat about one of the most exciting crypto narratives the industry is about to discuss: Move... Move is a programming language created during Facebook's (Meta) expansion into crypto with Lybra and Diem. This project faced immense backlash due to the size of Facebook and its potential influence when controlling its own currency. From there, two...

Grant sat down with Emin Gün Sirer, the founder of Ava Labs, to chat about how the Avalanche and AVAX ecosystems are scaling. The avalanche subnet architecture is extremely impressive when it comes to bespoke blockchain deployment for any use case. Recently we have seen a wide range of applications such as JP Morgan tokenizing funds on their on Subnet, Shrapnel and Off The Grid releasing their gam...

Grant was joined by Theodore Agranat from Gunzilla Games who are the creative studio behind the highly anticipated Off The Grid. For those unaware Off The Grid is potentially THE Web3 game that everyone has been waiting for. The all-star team with an extremely impressive pedigree have worked on previous games and movies including; District 9, Elysium and Warface. As you may have guessed by now we...

Grant sat down with Breevie from GoGoPool a Subnet infrastructure services provider on Avalanche. Subnets are a core component of scaling the Avlanache network and with the likes of Shrapnel, Gunzilla, TSM, DeFi Kingdoms and even JP Morgan deploying their own subnets, it is worth keeping an eye on how this develops. Aside from that the pair discussed some of the bear market pain that Breevie endur...

Grant and Matt of TapiocaDAO sit down for a chat about the shortcomings of many DeFi protocols and how Tapioca seeks to address them, including issues with liquidity mining, airdrops without purpose, and excessive spending on incentives. The two discuss Matt’s ‘Death of Liquidity Mining’ articles, parts 1 and 2, and deliver some valuable insights as they explore LayerZero, Chainlink, Celestia and...

Grant was joined by Ava Labs' VP of Growth Garrison aka 0xHushky to chat about all things happening in the Avalanche ecosystem. If you have been watching our previous episodes on Still Early you will have seen us cover different areas of the Avalanch ecosystem including web3 gaming, DeFi protocols, Social applications SoFi, NFTs and more... Being on the inside of Ava Labs Garrison gets to wor...

Grant sat down with Brando the founder of Dokyo World to discuss one of the most interesting NFT projects that has recently come to market. Dokyo World is a creative studio that brings ideas to life. They are aiming to disrupt multiple boring incumbents by empowering their community of NFT holders... Tune in to uncover the first incredible idea these guys are set to launch very soon! Pudgy Penguin...

In this episode, Grant was joined by Coop who is the growth and marketing lead at Avalanche (AVAX). The pair discussed how Avalanche is leading the charge regarding AAA Web3 gaming primarily down to the AVAX subnet infrastructure and developer tooling. We got into why some of the most promising games about to come onto the market are choosing Avalanche, what are the best Web 3 gaming projects to w...

Grant was joined by Avalanche head of NFTs and Arts Dominic Carbonaro to chat about the current and future state of NFTs? Are NFTs dead? Are they coming back? Is the NFT bottom in? Well, all these questions and more are answered in this episode. Dominic has some interesting takes on what will happen to your profile picture NFTs but the conversation isn't just limited to JPEGs. The NFT world i...

Grant is joined by Luigi D'Onorio Demeo, Head of DeFi & Dev Rel at Ava Labs for the latest instalment of Still Early. In a varied chat, the two discuss everything from the beginnings of the Avalanche rush, how it felt to be a part of and how it came to be. We dig into Stars Arena and SocialFi, why the onboarding process has been net positive for crypto, why people are becoming more excite...

Shrapnel is a first-person shooter (FPS) game built on the Avalanche blockchain. It is a skill-based competitive game with a rich set of player-creation tools, combining combat, creation, curation, and connection into a community where players own the platform and decide its future. Shrapnel is set in a near-future world where a mysterious substance called Shrapnel has changed the balance of power...

Welcome to the first episode of Still Early a new weekly podcast from the blocmates team. Still Early is a podcast dedicated to uncovering the hottest emerging trends in crypto, before they happen. We will cover all areas of the crypto, DeFi, NFT and gaming markets to bring you the information before anyone else. In this podcast, we will interview founders, investors, builders and operators to get...