The Crypto Conversation

Adam Bergman is the founder of IRA Financial, is a U.S.based fintech company specializing in self-directed retirement accounts, offering a platform for individuals to invest their retirement funds in alternative assets.  Why you should listen Founded by Adam Bergman, a former tax and ERISA attorney, IRA Financial empowers individuals to take control of their retirement funds through self-directed...

Ivo Georgiev is the CEO & founder of Ambire Wallet, the Web3 wallet that just works. As the CEO of Ambire Wallet, Ivo leads a team of skilled developers and designers in building innovative products for the blockchain space. Why you should listen Ambire Wallet is a self-custodial smart wallet designed to simplify and enhance your Web3 experience. Built on the principles of account abstraction, it...

Ming Wu is the founder of RabbitX, a global, permissionless perpetual futures exchange for the next generation of traders. RabbitX aims to redefine market access by combining speed, transparency, and zero fees. The platform offers deep liquidity across 100+ markets, up to 50x leverage, and low-latency execution, available 24/7 with no account restrictions.  Why you should listen Ming Wu, founder o...

Kee Jefferys and Chris McCabe are the co-founders of Session - an encrypted messaging application which minimises the collection of user metadata. Session is an end-to-end encrypted messenger that protects your personal data. Take back control with a messaging app designed, built, and operated by a global community of privacy experts. Why you should listen Session is a privacy-focused messaging ap...

Jon Kol is a Co-founder at Hyperlane, the open interoperability framework to connect anywhere onchain. Why you should listen Hyperlane is the "open interoperability framework" that lets any blockchain—whether an L1, rollup, app‑chain, or VM—talk to any other, permissionlessly. Think of it as the universal plumbing for cross‑chain apps, assets, and arbitrary messages, already live on 140+ chains an...

Bobby Gray has manufactured gold, silver, and copper coins for the past sixteen years. In 2012, he created the original Bitcoin coin–the same year he testified as an Expert Witness for the US House Financial Services subcommittee regarding "Parallel Currencies: the Roadmap to Monetary Freedom". Now, Bobby is the founder of TEXITcoin, a Made-in-America and community-driven cryptocurrency. Why you s...

Harrison Seletsky is Director of Business Development at SPACE ID, a universal name service network that connects and coordinates people, assets, and dApps across blockchains.  Why you should listen SPACE ID is a Web3 identity platform that simplifies the process of discovering, registering, trading, and managing digital identities across multiple blockchains. It offers a one-stop solution for use...

Philip Blazdell is CEO at Fedrok AG, a Swiss-based blockchain company focused on enhancing transparency and trust in the carbon credit market. Why you should listen Fedrok AG is a Swiss blockchain company focused on combating climate change by transforming the carbon credit market. Their mission is to make Bitcoin mining environmentally friendly, unify the carbon credit market, and integrate block...

Jason Brink is the CEO and co-founder of Datagram, a decentralized real-time communication (RTC) infrastructure platform that leverages underutilized network resources to provide secure, scalable, and cost-effective communication solutions.  Why you should listen Datagram is a decentralized real-time communication (RTC) infrastructure platform that leverages underutilized resources to provide scal...

Kevin Rusher is the Founder and CEO of RAAC, a protocol that enables real estate tokenization, lending, and borrowing. It connects DeFi with real-world assets (starting with real estate), allowing users to tokenize properties, use them as collateral, and participate in DeFi activities. Why you should listen RAAC (Regnum Aurum Acquisition Corp.) is a next-gen DeFi platform that fuses real-world ass...

Harsehaj Singh is the CEO and co-founder of Avantis, an on-chain exchange for trading and market-making cryptocurrencies, forex, and commodities. Why you should listen Built on Coinbase's Layer 2 chain, Base, Avantis is designed to offer traders permissionless access to crypto, forex, metals, and real-world commodities—all directly from their wallet. It's backed by serious players like Pantera Cap...

Srini Parthasarathy is the CTO of Shardeum - an EVM-based autoscaling blockchain. Shardeum's architecture addresses the blockchain trilemma of decentralization, scalability, and security. Why you should listen ​Shardeum is an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain designed to tackle the blockchain trilemma—scalability, decentralization, and security—without compromise. Utilizing dynamic state sharding,...

Ciarán Murray is the founder and CEO of Olas, an open protocol for sharing, interrogating, and aggregating trustworthy information. Why you should listen Olas is an ambitious open protocol aiming to revolutionize how we produce, verify, and consume information online. Unlike traditional media platforms driven by advertising and subscriptions, Olas operates as a decentralized, ownerless network des...

Constantine Zaitcev is CEO at dRPC.org - a new generation web3 infrastructure and data service that combines the advantages of distributed systems with first-class UX and support. Why you should listen ​dRPC (decentralized Remote Procedure Call) is a protocol designed to facilitate secure and efficient communication between decentralized applications (dApps) and blockchain networks. It enables dAp...

Ryan is the Head of Product at Stabull Finance, a Stablecoin and tokenized RWA DEX on Ethereum and Polygon. Stabull Finance is the new home for non-USD, fiat-backed stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets, providing crypto and forex traders with access to 24/7/365 FX markets. Why you should listen Stabull is a next-generation Decentralized Exchange (DEX) built to become the central source of l...

Barna Kiss is a co-founder of Malda, a decentralized lending protocol for individuals, institutions, and protocols to access financial services. Why you should listen Malda is a Unified Liquidity Lending protocol on Ethereum and Layer 2s, delivering a seamless lending experience through global liquidity pools, all secured by zkProofs. Malda is the first DeFi protocol built on a zkCoprocessor techn...

Boris Bohrer-Bilowitzki is the CEO of Concordium, a secure, scalable, regulatory-ready blockchain designed for real-world applications. With its built-in ID layer, predictable fees, and high-performance smart contracts, developers can build with confidence while ensuring compliance and privacy. Why you should listen Concordium is a public Layer 1 blockchain platform that integrates identity verifi...

Jens Willemen is a Partner & Co-Founder at Kairon Labs, an advisor and crypto market maker for digital asset issuers. Why you should listen In this conversation, Jens Willemen, co-founder of Kiron Labs, discusses the evolution of market-making in the crypto space, emphasizing the importance of ethical practices and the challenges faced by new token launches. He shares insights on market sentiment,...

Josh Bowen is the founder of Astria, the easiest way to deploy decentralized rollups. Why you should listen In this conversation, Josh Bowen, co-founder of Astria, discusses the evolution and significance of decentralized sequencing in the blockchain ecosystem. He shares insights on the current state of rollups, the impact of regulatory changes, and the future of decentralized finance (DeFi). Josh...

Seek Protocol is a cutting-edge ecosystem on Solana at the intersection of AI, augmented reality (AR), geolocation, and GameFi. Why you should listen Don Reijke is the Founder and CTO of Seek Protocol, and Lukas Novotny is COO of Seek Protocol. Seek Protocol is a technology initiative dedicated to blending cutting-edge innovation with human experience.  At the crossroads of Augmented Reality (AR),...

Steve Merry is the co-founder of Scenario Protocol, a game-changing alerts platform that empowers users with control over the information that matters.  Why you should listen ​Scenario Protocol is a decentralized platform designed to deliver user-specific notifications by achieving on-chain consensus for topics of interest, encompassing both Web3 events and real-world occurrences. Users specify th...

Patrick Young is head of ecosystem for Galxe / Gravity. Galxe is onboarding the world to Web3 by enabling seamless web3 experiences through a suite of AI, digital identity, and blockchain solutions. Why you should listen ​Galxe is a decentralized super app and the largest on-chain distribution platform in Web3, offering a suite of AI, digital identity, and blockchain solutions to enhance user expe...

Chris Chung is CEO and co-founder of Titan, a DEX Aggregator and Meta aggregator on the Solana blockchain. Titan has just announced their mainnet launch plans.  Why you should listen In this conversation, Chris Chung, CEO and co-founder of Titan, discusses the innovative features of Titan as a DEX aggregator on the Solana blockchain. He shares insights into the evolution of the Solana ecosystem, t...

Brandon Goh is Co-Founder & CEO of Treehouse. Focused on building the fixed income layer for digital assets, Treehouse introduces innovative fixed income products and primitives.  Why you should listen Treehouse Finance is carving out a niche in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space by focusing on fixed income solutions for digital assets. Treehouse introduces Treehouse Assets (tAssets) and Decen...

David Iseminger is CEO of IronWeave, a public blockchain with unscannable privacy. IronWeave is redefining blockchain, data storage, AI, and payments with its patented multi-blockchain fabric platform, which surpasses existing solutions in scalability (over 1 million TPS), privacy, security, and cost-efficiency. Why you should listen IronWeave is redefining blockchain infrastructure with its paten...