The Crypto Conversation

Chris Fortier is VP of Product for Yuga Labs, working across the entire Yuga Labs ecosystem including Bored Ape Yacht Club, Otherside, CryptoPunks, Meebits, and more. Why you should listen The Yuga team want the Otherside Metaverse to be 'Web3-Native Roblox' for Adults, Otherside is a gamified, interoperable metaverse currently under development. The game blends mechanics from massively multiplaye...

Austin Kimm is the Director of Strategy & Investments at Choise.com a new solution that combines elements of centralized and decentralized financial solutions within a single marketplace. Why you should listen Almost one million users take advantage of Choise.com to buy crypto, earn interest on their holdings, or boost their income with attractive earn products and ultimate security. Choise.com is...

Wolfgang Rückerl is the Co-Founder and CEO of Entity web3 launch pad, and Istari Vision, an augmentative growth engine for MultiversX. Why you should listen Wolfgang led the development of the Entity Launchpad, which launches innovative Web3 projects and includes complimentary tools for reward strategies, investment analytics, and crypto taxation compliance. Wolfgang prides himself on being an inn...

Jeff Morris Jr. is the Founder and Managing Partner of Chapter One, a Web3-focused venture capital fund that works with early-stage crypto UX startups. Why you should listen Jeff Morris Jr. is Founder and Managing Partner of Chapter One, a Web3-focused venture capital fund that works with early-stage crypto UX startups. Chapter One provides a full-stack team of product-focused builders to offer ro...

Kurt Hemecker is COO of the Mina Foundation, building on the Mina Protocol to create a privacy and security layer for web3. Kurt is the former Head of Business Operations at Facebook's Diem Association (formerly Libra). Why you should listen Using zero knowledge technology, Mina is creating the infrastructure for a secure, democratic future. Mina's zkApps, smart contracts powered by zero knowledge...

Jacques Swanepoel is CTO at Seal Storage Technology, cloud storage and blockchain experts with over 100 years of experience in enterprise data storage from Seagate, Oracle, Cisco, and more.  Why you should listen Seal provides sustainable, immutable, and affordable data storage. They are stewarding their clients into decentralized cloud storage, and making Web3 an accessible reality for enterprise...

Andy Beal is ecosystem lead at Forta Network, a real-time detection network for security and operational monitoring. Forta protects $36b in TVL including 52% of the top 30 DeFi protocols. Why you should listen Forta is a real-time detection network for security and operational monitoring of blockchain activity As a decentralized monitoring network, Forta detects threats and anomalies on DeFi, NFT,...

Pavel Bains is an entrepreneur, futurist, designer, and investor in exponential technologies. He is the founder of Bluzelle, gamefi for cosmos, and Executive Producer of MixMob. Andy and Pavel talk science fiction, gaming, and pop culture and the intersections with the growing web3 ecosystem. Supporting links Bluzelle Mixmob Andy on Twi tter   Brave New Coin on Twitter Brave New Coin If you enjoye...

Ken Liao is the Founder of Xverse, an advanced Bitcoin wallet for Web3. Xverse is building the world's most advanced Bitcoin Web3 wallet. Founded in 2021, Xverse empowers individuals across the world to access the true potential of Bitcoin for NFTs, DeFi and Decentralized Applications by delivering a beautifully designed, easy-to-use wallet. Available for iOS and Android, the app allows users to s...

Brendan Eich is the creator of JavaScript and the co-founder and CEO of Brave Software, makers of Brave, the Web3 privacy-focused browser. Why you should listen Brendan helped build Web1 and Web2 through his creation of JavaScript and Mozilla – JavaScript's unintended consequences - which Brendan has described as "Frankenstein's monster" led to a toxic digital ecosystem and was a catalyst for the...

Alex Salnikov is the Chief Strategy Officer and co-founder of Rarible, a community-centric NFT marketplace. Rarible has just launched a suite of new features including aggregated listings from more marketplaces and new token rewards for traders. Why you should listen Rarible, a decentralized community-centric NFT marketplace and protocol, has introduced Rarible 2. Rarible 2 brings about new change...

Oleg is Fomenko is the co-founder and CPO of Sweatcoin, and the CEO of Sweat Economy. Are you ready to walk into crypto? Why you should listen Sweat Economy is the network that grows with every step. Products: Sweatcoin (non-crypto) and Sweat Wallet (crypto) reward hundreds of millions of people for their steps. Oleg says that by incentivizing movement, which we know to be associated with health,...

Joshua Scigala is founder of The Standard -  a decentralized stablecoin protocol that enables users to lock up crypto and or physical gold to generate multiple fiat pegged stablecoins.  Why you should listen   Trillions of US Dollars worth of rare assets, like gold and cryptocurrencies, are locked away in vaulting facilities and digital wallets around the world. The Standard.io, a next generation...

Midas Investments is a custodial crypto-investment platform with one mission — provide passive income streams to crypto investors by combining the best features of CeFi and DeFi. Why you should listen Midas Investments is a custodial crypto-investment platform with one mission — provide passive income streams to crypto investors. By combining the simplicity of CeFi with the transparency of DeFi st...

Hugo Philion is the co-founder and CEO of Flare Networks. Flare enables secure interoperability between chains, scaling the use of blockchain by enabling all digital assets and on-chain data to flow freely.  Why you should listen The Flare Network is a new layer-1 blockchain aiming to connect everything, including off-chain data and other layer-1 blockchains through their F-Asset, State Connector...

Tom Norwood is co-founder of Loop Finance, empowering Web 3.0 Communities in the Cosmos ecosystem. Why you should listen Loop originated back in 2017 on the EOS network as Trybe. When EOS user numbers dwindled, the team rebranded to Loop and moved to Terra. After the demise of Terra, Loop Finance is now on the Juno Network and has grown its user base throughout the Cosmos ecosystem. Loop Finance i...

Kyle Fry is the CEO and co-founder of Digital Markets - a platform that connects the world's best assets with global investors through a network of digital securities exchanges.  Why you should listen Digital Markets (DIGTL) connects the world's best assets with global investors through a network of digital securities exchanges and alternative trading venues, allowing issuers to quickly access the...

Dim Niko is the founder of the DimNiko digital marketing agency. Dim is now developing 3Commerce, a suite of solutions and a token ecosystem that enables direct to consumer brands to integrate blockchain technology to increase Customer Lifetime Value (LTV) and decrease Customer Acquisition Costs, at the push of a button.  Why you should listen Dim helps ecommerce brands integrate blockchain to dri...

Nick Swinmurn, Zappos founder and Golden State Warriors co-owner, has turned his attention to Web3 with the NFT-powered sports prediction game, Play Hellebore. Why you should listen Hellebore is an NFT-powered play-and-earn sports prediction game that brings together the features of traditional sports "Pick'em" and player-based fantasy sports leagues on one platform.  Hellebore players can predict...

Marius Ciubotariu is the founder of Hubble Protocol, a DeFi project that is supercharging liquidity on Solana. Hubble is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol built on the Solana blockchain. In Phase 1 of development, Hubble enables you to borrow the stablecoin USDH against multiple assets. Borrowing USDH allows users to access the liquidity in their long-term holding tokens. USDH is a censorshi...

Weso is lead developer at Beefy Finance, a Multi-Chain Yield Optimizer that autocompounds crypto assets for the best APYs. Why you should listen Beefy Finance is a decentralized, multi-chain Yield Optimizer platform that allows its users to earn compound interest on their crypto holdings. Beefy Finance automatically maximizes the user rewards from various liquidity pools (LPs),‌ ‌automated market-...

After spending time at Robinhood, Jay Jog is now co-founder and engineering lead for Sei Network, a L1 blockchain with a built-in orderbook. Sei is the fastest Defi layer 1 and is optimized to give DeFi apps an advantage, enabling entirely new financial products. Why you should listen Most layer 1s fall into a barbell distribution: two extremes with general-purpose chains on one end (Ethereum, Sol...

Max Krupyshev is the Co-Founder and CEO of the crypto payment ecosystem CoinsPaid. CoinsPaid provides cryptocurrency payment services and personal wallets to businesses and individuals. CoinsPaid is one of the world's largest crypto payment providers. Why you should listen Max Krupyshev is a Ukraine entrepreneur with experience in developing fintech and crypto projects. He stood at the origins of...

Alex Zeltcer is CEO & Co-Founder of nSure. AI, which helps businesses to prevent fraud in the crypto and digital goods space by leveraging predictive AI fraud detection - instead of jeopardizing the user experience. Why you should listen nSure.ai is an advanced payment fraud prevention platform that protects sellers of digital goods, Crypto and Fintech businesses with a chargeback guarantee soluti...

Matt Wisniewski is the founder of Satellite IM, a fully-integrated decentralized messaging platform that is tackling today's data ownership and privacy issues. Why you should listen Unlike popular instant messaging apps such as Facebook Messenger and Google Chat, Satellite IM enables users to chat in a decentralized and peer-to-peer way, without any intermediaries storing or tracking users' data....