The Real Maxime Podcast

In this episode, we are joined by Martin Green, co-CIO and CEO of Cambrian Asset Management, a quantitative registered investment manager applying a data and software-driven approach to trading cryptocurrencies and digital assets. Cambrian’s investors include founders or principals from notable quantitative, hedge fund, venture capital, and technology firms. Tune in to hear more about Martin's jou...

In this episode, we are joined by Balder Bomans, Chief Investment Officer of Maven11, one of the most respected venture capital firms in the digital asset and blockchain industry. Balder’s confidence and commitment to what he refers to as the digital renaissance remain undeterred. Tune in to hear more about Balder's journey on his way to becoming a leading crypto-native venture investor, from play...

In this episode, we are joined by Michael Schwartz, Founder, CEO and Co-CIO of Arena Digital Capital, a leading multi-strategy investment manager offering broad exposure across the growing digital asset and blockchain sector. Michael is a veteran public and private market investor who spent the bulk of his career in the hedge fund industry. He outlines one of the clearest, most thoughtful and comp...

In this episode, we are joined by Joe Kelly, Co-Founder and CEO of Unchained Capital, the market leader and trusted partner in bitcoin-native financial services that offers comprehensive collaborative custody, trading and lending solutions for bitcoiners globally. Joe is a steadfast proponent of bitcoin's adoption and ability to create sovereign individuals. Tune in to hear more about Joe's journe...

In this episode, we are joined by Morgan McKenney, CEO of the Provenance Foundation, a public proof-of-stake blockchain designed specifically to enable regulated financial services firms to deploy digital assets. Morgan joined Provenance in 2022 to lead its ecosystem expansion. She is passionate about enabling the digital economy, harnessing emerging technology for business value and democratizing...

In this episode, we are joined by Robert Alcorn, Co-Founder and CEO of Clearpool, a highly innovative and composable protocol that enables borrowers to raise unsecured liquidity directly from DeFi markets. Clearpool's founding goal was to solve the problem of over-collateralization, one of the most significant problems facing DeFi borrowers. Rob is an experienced founder with a 25-year career incl...

In this episode, we are joined by Paul Saint Donat, Partner of dlab, a first check discovery venture capital firm providing capital and resources to web3 and crypto projects. Paul and his team are committed to helping founders at the time where they need it the most: the beginning. They share a core belief that web3 will usher in a more open, transparent and participatory world creating an Interne...

In this episode, we are joined by Kyle Downey, CEO and co-founder of Cloudwall, a provider of state-of-the-art risk management infrastructure to a growing base of institutional traders and investors in digital assets. Kyle launched his venture after calling time on his leadership career at Morgan Stanley, where he was a Managing Director in the bank’s automated risk trading department. In our conv...

In this episode, we are joined by Marcus Leanos, founder and Chief Investment Officer of MJL Capital, a fundamentally-driven, research-focused crypto-native hedge fund. Marcus started his career investing in banks and emerging Fintech. He explains to us that what the Internet did for information-transfer, blockchain will do for value-transfer by making all units of value interoperable, programmabl...

In this episode, we are joined by Aryan Sheikhalian, Head of Research and Investor at CMT Digital to discuss the main web3 infrastructure development threads going on at the moment and understand the path towards better scalability, abstraction and interoperability. A blockchain expert, Aryan is uniquely qualified to make sense of recent technology trends and philosophies in the space.

In this episode, we are joined by Sidney Powell, Co-Founder & CEO of Maple Finance who shares his journey from debt capital markets & institutional banking, to taking on the world of private credit by building a leading capital markets platform on the blockchain. He is one of the most impressive DeFi entrepreneurs we have met, with a keen sense for capital formation, organizational develop...

In this episode, we sit down with Ash Ashmawy, CEO & Founder of Kemet Trading, who is leading the effort to provide institutional-grade infrastructure for digital asset derivative trading. Ash is a formidable entrepreneur and trading technologist who knows how to execute when he identifies a problem to solve. Tune in to hear his personal journey, and how he was able to secure funding from an i...

In this episode we welcome Benoit Bosc, Managing Director and Global Head of Product at GSR, who is amongst a pioneering group of accomplished institutional traders and risk managers having made the move into crypto and web3. At GSR Benoit works daily to expand the crypto derivative market and provide innovative solutions to a growing franchise of token-issuing ventures. He brings a unique insight...

In this episode we dive into Karl Cole-Fireman’s unconventional journey as both a lawyer and as an entrepreneur, and learn about the various facets of his cutting-edge fund practice. As the founder and Managing Partner of Cole-Frieman & Mallon LLP, Karl is well-known in the crypto industry for his subject matter expertise and his innovative work with managers who invest in non-traditional asse...

In this episode, Glyn Jones, founder and CEO of Icebreaker Finance, joins us to chat about on-chain lending to Bitcoin miners as a Maple Finance credit pool delegate. An expert in institutional credit risk management, Glyn founded Icebreaker Finance in 2022 with an ambition to leverage blockchain technology to improve the efficiency of capital markets.

In this episode, Cedric Jeannot, Co-Founder of Be Financial Group, joins us to share his vision for achieving financial inclusion in Africa by launching a neo-bank using blockchain infrastructure and DeFi primitives for payments, savings and lending. Tune in to learn about the transformative power of Fintech to increase the standards of living and economic development.

In this episode, Caroline Mauron, Co-Founder of Orbit Markets, talks to us about building a crypto derivatives trading firm from the ground up in less than a year, and how her extensive experience developing and managing structured products and exotic options as a foreign exchange trader since 2005 prepared her and her team for success.

After a difficult 2022, the crypto industry faces heightened criticism and existential questions. Stephen Diehl, author of “Popping The Crypto Bubble” and vocal crypto skeptic joins us to share his views and arguments, as we deconstruct the various crypto narratives that form the industry’s belief system.

This is a limited podcast series focused on the entrepreneurial journey of crypto-native hedge fund founders. Shiliang Tang, Chief Investment Officer of LedgerPrime joins us to share his story and journey prior to setting up his own fund, how his business got started and how initial success was achieved. We also discuss how the current crypto winter is affecting this sector of the blockchain econo...

This is a limited podcast series focused on the entrepreneurial journey of crypto-native hedge fund founders. Peter Kambolin, Chief Executive Officer of Systematic Alpha Management joins us to share his story and journey prior to setting up his own fund, how his business got started and how initial success was achieved. We also discuss how the current crypto winter is affecting this sector of the...

This is a limited podcast series focused on the entrepreneurial journey of crypto-native hedge fund founders. Edmund McCormack, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of DChained Capital joins us to share his story and journey prior to setting up his own fund, how his business got started and how initial success was achieved. We also discuss how the current crypto winter is affecting this sector of the...

This is a limited podcast series focused on the entrepreneurial journey of crypto-native hedge fund founders. Charles Hwang, Chief Investment Officer of Lightning Capital Partners joins us to share his story and journey prior to setting up his own fund, how his business got started and how initial success was achieved. We also discuss how the current crypto deep freeze is affecting this sector of...