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DeFi Dave is the Head of Growth at Cap, a decentralized financial (DeFi) credit protocol. As the name suggests, Dave is a seasoned DeFi expert, dedicating most of his daily life to projects in the industry since 2017. In this episode, Dave and I got stuck into the function of credit in the broader economy, what the word 'credit' actually means, the philosophical underpinnings of Cap, and h...

Lauris Zvirbulis is a financial economist, forward deployed philospher, a top graduate of the London School of Economics and a serial founder in the world of open-source finance. In this episode, Lauris and I discussed market and financial economics, specifically focused on his previous academic research on Arrow-Debreu securities, swaps, and event contracts outcomes, including the use of predicti...

Big Trout is one of the sharpest small follower count traders to appear on X (formerly known as Twitter) in the last few 12 months. He has an incredibly in-depth technical and macro knowledge of markets that he turns into actionable trades, funny tweets, and incredible trading content here on YouTube. In this episode, Trout and I conduct an in-depth technical overview of Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (E...

Clouted is the founder of ETH Strategy, an onchain digital asset treasury for Ethereum (ETH). It is a protocol for "generational unliquidatable giga long ETH exposure" and currently holds $21 million in ETH in it's treasury. In this episode, Clouted and I discuss the failings of Ethereum to successfully capture value and reward the developers on its network with price appreciation to the native ET...

Adrian Morris is a founding partner of Bitcoin investment group True North and one of the foremost experts on Bitcoin & Strategy (formerly Microstrategy). It was a pleasure to welcome Adrian back to the show to break down the Strategy ecosystem as it stands today, including an in-depth explanation of STRC (Stretch) and how Strategy's financial product offerings function within the broader ecos...

Austin Federa is the co-founder of Double Zero, a new infrastructure project that’s creating a new, high-speed layer of the internet for crypto. Previously, Austin served as the Head of Strategy at the Solana Foundation for 3 years. In this episode of The NGMI Podcast, Austin breaks down what DoubleZero is, how it all works, why he left the Solana Foundation to pursue a new project, why crypto nee...

Murad Mahmudov is a multi-cycle crypto investor who shot to immense popularity for popularizing the 'memecoin supercycle' market thesis, asserting that memecoins like SPX6900, MOG & POPCAT are capable of running to insane valuations in the absence of traditional valuation metrics. In this episode of The NGMI Podcast, Murad breaks down the genesis of the SPX6900 memecoin, what he means...

Ben Celermajer is the Strategy Seat at Synthetix (SNX), an OG DeFi protocol that is gearing up to release the first-ever perp DEX on Ethereum Mainnet alongside a $1,000,000 top prize trading competition... In this episode, Ben walks me through Synthetix's decision to abandon its L2 roadmap and launch a perp DEX on Ethereum Mainnet despite all of the challenges and runs me through the many less...

Chase Barker is the Head of Developer Growth at Solana Mobile. In this episode, Chase and I discussed how Solana plans to break Apple's stranglehold on crypto apps, why Solana decided to create a mobile phone in the first place, how Solana Mobile intends to revolutionize the world of crypto on phones, why he thinks Solana is the greatest ecosystem in crypto, and more. Chase also offered his though...

Larry Lyu is the founder of a new Layer 1 blockchain network called Dango, which is designed specifically to revolutionize the market of on-chain, spot, DeFi trading. In this episode, Larry and I discussed why he dropped out in the last year of his PHD in Biochemistry to write smart contracts in crypto, why he's building a new blockchain from scratch for DeFi, the most important shifts in bloc...

Bisher Khudeira is the Chief Operating Officer at Stormrake, an Australian crypto brokerage firm based in Melbourne. In this episode, Bisher explains why he believes Bitcoin will reach as high as $220k in the next 18 months and ultimately, a price of $1 million per BTC in the next 5-10 years, and breaks down all of the macro factors that are yet to have an impact on the crypto market. Bisher and I...

Louise Ivan is the co-founder and CEO of Ryder Wallet, a unique new crypto wallet that utilizes recovery tags instead of seed phrases to back up your crypto. In this episode Louise and I spoke about the reasons why he decided to launch a crypto wallet startup in a hyper-competitive market, the story behind Ryder, why seed phrases are completely antiquated and should be done away with, the fundamen...

Chuck Bradford is the co-founder and CEO of Dexari, a new mobile-first trading application built on Hyperliquid. In this episode, Chuck breaks down his mission to deliver a best-in-class user experience for traders in crypto while staying true to the original, cypherpunk mission statement of crypto: sovereignty, self-custody, and self-direction. Having worked previously at BinanceUS, Chuck brings...

Liam O'Doherty is the head of marketing at Binance ANZ. In this episode, Liam breaks down the unconventional relationship that Australians have with Bitcoin, crypto, and property investment, and explains the core themes behind crypto as an asset class in Australia. We also discuss the future of Bitcoin price action in the coming months, why more Australians don't own Bitcoin as a decent allocation...

Ran Yi is the co-founder of Orderly — an omnichain liquidity layer for decentralized exchanges — and also co-founder of the WOO Network, while Ben Yorke is the head of ecosystem at WOO — an ecosystem of crypto trading products and apps. Together on this episode of The NGMI Podcast, Ben and Ran break down the current and future states of on-chain crypto trading activity, they explain how crypto tec...

Clouted is the man responsible for ETH Strategy: the first Ethereum Strategy “company” to be built as a DeFi protocol on the Ethereum network. In this episode, Clouted and I discuss how Ethereum and crypto ‘Strategy’ companies like Bitmine and SBET actually work, how Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy model of offering cheap options to acquire more Bitcoin & crypto functions at a granular level, h...

Ben Simpson is the founder and director of Australia’s fastest-growing crypto research and education platform, Collective Shift. In this episode, Ben explains how he went from running a business in the red for several years to cracking $1 million in monthly revenue, why he wanted to help people learn more about crypto in the early days, the importance of aligning incentives in financial education,...

Matthew Quek is the co-founder and Chief Operations Officer of GRVT, a decentralized crypto exchange that offers a centralized trading experience. In this episode, Matthew and I discussed how he discovered crypto, why he started GRVT, its key points of difference from other competitors in the market, why he opted to pursue a regulation-first approach with GRVT, and he explains in detail why blockc...

Dark Forest is a former analyst at crypto venture capital firm Tangent Ventures who now manages his own capital as a solo prop trader. In this episode Dark and I discussed why macroeconomics exists solely as a field for employing macroeconomists, how to identify the next altcoins that you can hold for a long time, the new meta of traditional financial firms like Robinhood entering into the crypto...

Adrian Morris, a consultant and MicroStrategy expert, comes back on the NGMI Podcast to break down his laundry list of main reasons why he believes the crypto market won't witness an "altcoin season" this time around and offers his price prediction for Bitcoin in this current market cycle. Adrian explains how Bitcoin Treasury Companies and institutional investment into Bitcoin will fundamentally m...

Matt Walrath, the founder and Director of Crypto Tax Made Easy (a specialist accounting firm for crypto assets) breaks down all of the need-to-know information for filing your crypto taxes this financial year. In this episode, Matt shared the most important crypto tax information he wishes everyone knew, the tax implications of airdrops, how Hyperliuqid structured their airdrop to benefit holders,...

Bernardo Bilotta, the founder of crypto payments app Stables Money, offers an industry insider's perspective on the future of stablecoins and how they will replace and revolutionize the financial services sector.  In this episode, Bernie breaks down the primary use cases of stablecoins as they stand today and offers several key insights into the future utility of stablecoins in B2B services, inter...

Pav Hundal, the lead market analyst at Swyftx, breaks down all the factors that could lead to a massive rally in the price of Bitcoin, altcoins, and memecoins in the coming months. In this episode, Pav shares a long list of macro insights that point toward increased global liquidity in the coming months, which could be a boon for crypto assets. Pav and I also spoke about why a roster of new ETFs c...

Daniel Barr, the co-founder of SpaceComputer (the first-ever blockchain launched in outer space) explains how his project is building the financial infrastructure for the future economy in space. Barr and I discuss what kind of industries we can expect to see take off in outer space, what the future "space economy" might look like, how close we are to seeing cypherpunk/science fiction narratives c...

Kain Warwick, the founder of Infinex & Synthetix, and Illia Polosukhin, the founder of NEAR Protocol, explain a new partnership that will see Infinex add support for Bitcoin, XRP, and Dogecoin on the Infinex platform and discuss the profound impact that AI & crypto will have on the world within the next 6 months. Kain and Illia discuss how NEAR 'intents' change the game for permissionlessl...