The Crypto Conversation

Gracy Chen is MD at Bitget, a leading crypto copy trading and cryptocurrency exchange platform. Bitget's mission is to inspire individuals to embrace crypto and connect with the future. Why you should listen Gracy joins Andy to talk about 2023, highlighting the key events impacting the crypto industry during that year. Gracy shares her experiences from traveling around the world, meeting people in...

Trent McConaghy is an AI and blockchain expert and the founder of Ocean Protocol, a decentralized data marketplace. Ocean's newest product is Predictoor, a decentralized prediction feed platform.   Why you should listen Trent shares his journey from being raised on a farm to studying electrical engineering and computer science. He talks about his experience in starting companies focused on AI for...

Maksim Hramadtsou is the founder and CEO of GoodCrypto and goodcryptoX - a next-generation non-custodial DEX trading platform that revolutionizes DEX trading with the help of ERC-4337 Account Abstraction and Smart Contract Wallets. Why you should listen Maksim founded 2018 GoodCrypto in 2018, an all-in-one crypto portfolio manager and multi-exchange trading terminal. GoodCrypto supports 35 central...

Gennaro D'Urso is the founder of Pharma Collective and Israel Mirsky is the Director at Pharma Collective. Gennaro has a background in science and entrepreneurship, while Israel comes from the advertising industry and has experience in the pharmaceutical psychedelic space.   Why you should listen Gennaro and Isreal discuss the problems with big Pharma's business model, which focuses on new drug di...

Jasper De Gooyer is the co-founder and CTO at SEDA, a multichain, permissionless protocol connecting real-world data to any network on-chain.   Why you should listen SEDA is a decentralized oracle network designed to bring data from the real world onto the blockchain. It is a multichain, permissionless protocol connecting real-world data to any network on-chain by enabling the integration of exter...

Tanya Petrusenko is the CEO at Bitmedia, a global crypto advertising platform that helps crypto companies find crypto users around the world. Why you should listen Bitmedia started in 2014 to provide advertising opportunities for businesses in the emerging crypto space. Back then, there were few competitors, and most ads were on Bitcoin Talk. The goal was to connect crypto publishers with advertis...

Andy records a video podcast to check in on the current narratives and data points impacting the crypto markets. With approximately 150 days until the 4th Bitcoin Halving, and less than two months until the likely approval of multiple Bitcoin Spot ETFs, the markets are leaning bullish.  Bitcoin has been on an upward trend for the last 4 weeks, gaining over 36% in that time. Solana has outperformed...

Aditya Das is Head of Research at Volcan Capital, a financial services company focused on investment opportunities in El Salvador.    Why you should listen   Aditya has authored a comprehensive research report titled "Invest in El Salvador," which covers various sectors of the country's economy and highlights its emerging opportunities for investors. Volcan Capital has created two investment funds...

Jae Yang is the CEO of Tacen and the Chief Architect of Project TXA. Tacen and Project TXA are sister projects - Project TXA develops the hybrid decentralized exchange protocol (hDEX) and the decentralized settlement layer (DSL), while Tacen develops the world's first hDEX interfaces for traders to use (Tacen Swap and Tacen Exchange). Why you should listen Jae Yang is the CEO of Tacen and the chie...

Collin Woodward is the President and General Counsel of StealthTest. This secure, cloud-based environment enables teams to create their own Ethereum and EVM-compatible test networks for private and secure Web3 development. Why you should listen StealthTest is designed to ensure industry Web3 projects can protect their privacy, compliance, and IP. With a track record including Chainlink, CertiK, an...

Jonathan Bertrand is CEO at D-Central Technologies, a Bitcoin mining company empowering pleb miners to industry giants. D-Central is North America and Europe's one-stop shop for hardware, hosting, and repair. Why you should listen Since its inception in 2016, D-Central has been at the forefront of innovation and development within the Bitcoin mining sector. The company operates a physical and onli...

Riad Wahby is the CEO and co-founder at Cubist, a company focused on key management solutions for Web3. Riad has a background in electrical engineering and computer science, particularly zero-knowledge proofs. Cubist was founded after Riad and the team identified the problem of key security as a major challenge in Web3 applications. Why you should listen Cubist began as a developer of hardware-bac...

Ayush Ranjan is the Co-Founder and CEO at Huddle01, whose mission is to democratize WebRTC and make it more private, secure, and scalable.   Why you should listen Huddle01 is building a decentralized real-time communication network. Developers can leverage their suite of developer-friendly SDKs to enable powerful audio/video experiences on your app with just a quick plug in. Ayush talks about priv...

Justin Flitter is the founder of NewZealand. AI Their mission is to help businesses scale their superpowers with Artificial Intelligence to increase productivity or create new digital experiences. Why you should listen Justin shares his background in marketing and emerging technology, and his involvement with the New Zealand AI community. He talks about starting The AI meetup and organizing events...

Pelli Wang is the Co-Founder and COO of Bracket Labs. Bracket Labs' mission is to democratize financial products for all users, specifically mainstream leveraged structured products within DeFi.  Why you should listen Bracket Labs focuses on building range-bound products for traders in the DeFi derivatives space using web3 technology. The platform is built on Arbitrum and has recently launched a t...

Mayur Relekar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Arcana, a Web3 adoption and integration network. Arcana provides developer tools and SDKs that enable developers to build user-friendly Web3 applications. Why you should listen Akana initially focused on decentralized storage but later shifted to building products for developers in the Web3 space. The three products they have released are Auth, which allo...

Austin Federa is the Head of Strategy at Solana Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in Switzerland that provides grants and supports development on the Solana network. Solana is known for its fast, cheap, and scalable blockchain solution with transactions finalizing in 400 milliseconds and low fees of around $0.00025 per transaction.  Why you should listen Solana first gained adoption due t...

Solo Ceesay is the CEO and co-founder of Calaxy, a social marketplace for creators, built on Hedera Hashgraph. He aspires to bridge the gap between fans and creators that legacy media has created by utilizing the limitless capabilities of distributed ledger technology.   Why you should listen The creator economy is among the fastest-growing sectors of the internet. Calaxy aims to empower the next...

Evan Cheng is the Co-Founder and CEO at Mysten Labs building Sui, an innovative, decentralized Layer 1 blockchain that redefines asset ownership. Evan previously spent time at Apple and Meta.   Why you should listen Sui aims to make Sui the most accessible smart contract platform, empowering developers to create great user experiences in web3.  To usher in the next billion users, Sui empowers deve...

Dr. Marco Krohn and Dr. Anthony Jefferies are co-authors of a new book - Decrypting Money - A Comprehensive Introduction to Bitcoin. The book provides a high-level overview of Bitcoin's properties, decentralization, mining, and its role in the larger context of money. Why you should listen In Decrypting Money, cryptocurrency experts Marco Krohn, Anthony Jefferies, Marco Streng, and Zoran Balkic pu...

Riyaz Faizullabhoy and Nassim Eddequiouaq, are the former Chief Technology Officer and Chief Security Officer of a16z Crypto, and the founders of Bastion. Bastion is an enterprise-focused web3 orchestrator enabling companies to seamlessly integrate web3 infrastructure into enterprise technologies through a compliant, white-label platform.  Why you should listen Bastion, founded by the former Chief...

Rekt Capital is a cryptocurrency trader and technical analyst. In this episode, Andy and Rekt discuss the historical patterns and tendencies leading up to the Bitcoin halving, including pre-halving periods, retracements, and post-halving rallies.  Why you should listen Rekt Capital suggests that the next 140 days present an opportunity for dollar-cost averaging and accumulation before potential pr...

Marc Taverner is the CEO and co-founder of XEROF, a financial services provider for crypto assets. Marc says the idea for XEROF stemmed from a recognition of the friction between traditional finance and crypto assets. XEROF aims to provide compliance-first solutions that bridge this gap for high net-worth individuals, businesses, corporates, web3 companies, asset managers, and family offices globa...

Andrew Smith is the founder of Versatus Labs. Versatus is building a decentralized compute stack to make it easier for developers to build on blockchains. Their vision is similar to cloud compute providers like AWS, but for blockchain technology. They aim to reduce the language barrier and provide tools for developers to build applications on any chain. They believe that attracting more developers...

Billy Sullivan is the COO, and Arran Potter is the founder at Grease Monkey Games, a Melbourne games studio building immersive community-driven games for fans of Motorsport. Billy and Arran are Motorsport and car culture enthusiasts IRL and in the digital realm.    Why you should listen Founded in 2013, Melbourne-based Grease Monkey Games is the developer of Torque Burnout and Torque Drift, both a...