Colors of Web3 & Entrepreneurship

What does it take to move over $150 million in stablecoins across blockchains every single day? In Episode 90 of Colors of Web3 and Entrepreneurship , host Lam sits down with Lorenzo Romagnoli, co-founder of USDT0, the interoperability layer that has quietly become one of the most important pieces of infrastructure in the Tether ecosystem. At just 27, Lorenzo has spent his entire professional life...

In this episode, we sit down with Gabriela Moreira, CEO of Quint company and a passionate advocate for formal methods in software development. Gabriela shares her journey from compiler research and teaching formal methods at university in Brazil to building Quint — a language that makes formal specification accessible to everyday developers. She explains how Quint was born inside Informal Systems...

In this episode, we sit down with Bruce Yang, co-founder and CEO of Agnes AI, a homegrown AI company from Singapore that has already amassed over 6 million registered users and reached $10 million in annual recurring revenue all within less than a year of launching. Bruce shares how his team built a cluster of cost-efficient AI models that deliver near state-of-the-art performance at one-tenth the...

In this episode of Colors of Web3 and Entrepreneurship , Lam Trinh sits down with Ariel Eiberman, the Latin American director at GnosisPay, also known in the industry as "the Stablecoin guy". Ariel share his fascinating journey into the crypto space, which began in 2013 when he used Bitcoin as his primary banking infrastructure to facilitate international payments for polyglot meetups. T...

What happens when a head of growth decides to automate himself out of a job before AI does it for him? You get TheHog, a YC-backed AI go-to-market platform built by Hudson Liao that listens to real buyer conversations across LinkedIn, X, and Reddit to find genuine purchase intent. Hudson joins Lam to break down his path from California firefighter to YC W25 founder, why spray-and-pray outreach is...

What happens when a personal family challenge turns into a national mission-driven business? In Episode 85 of Colors of Web3 and Entrepreneurship, Lam sits down with Nichole Daher, founder of Success on the Spectrum (SOS), the first autism treatment franchise in the United States. Nichole shares how becoming a stepmom to a child with autism pushed her to learn everything she could, and how a painf...

What happens when AI agents stop being “private chatbots” and start acting like actual teammates? In this episode of Colors of Web3 and Entrepreneurship, Lam sits down with Eduardo Gonzalez (Co-founder & CEO of Express AI) a longtime Japan-based builder who’s worked across enterprise AI and deep learning production to unpack what it takes to run agents reliably inside real organizations. Eduar...

In Episode 83 of Colors of Web3 and Entrepreneurship, our host Lam sits down with Dan Rodman, CEO and Co-Founder of CoUnity, a pioneering firm specializing in community strategy for Web3 projects. Dan shares his fascinating journey from mechanical engineering and professional soccer to becoming a leader in Web3 community building. They dive into CoUnity's innovative "Go to Community"...

What if the biggest risk to Bitcoin treasuries isn’t a bear market… it’s the fact that almost none of them are actually hedged like real treasuries? In episode 82, Patrick Wood, President & CEO of DelphX Capital Markets (CSE: DELX | OTCQB: DPXCF), reveals the structured-finance product his team spent years perfecting. The new product is a fully collateralized, transparent, yield-generating dow...

Halliday is building the “plumbing” most Web3 apps don’t have the time (or budget) to build: a unified, self-custodial checkout that lets users deposit from crypto wallets, fiat on/off-ramps, and even centralized exchanges then orchestrates the cross-chain steps under the hood. Griffin Dunaif walks us through the pivot from (Buy Now Pay Later) BNPL-for-NFTs to an intent-centric workflow engine tha...

Tyson Batino has spent 21 years in Japan, built five companies, and helped 30+ clients grow ranging from language schools to SaaS. In this episode, he breaks down Japan’s “longevity over hype” market, why translation ≠ localization, and how he scaled schools to multi-location chains (and even used meme ads to crush CAC). We also dig into Smart Start Japan, his one-stop shop for incorporation, visa...

What happens when 98% of your treasury is in your own token and the market crashes? In this eye-opening episode, Lam Trinh breaks down the critical lessons DAOs need to learn from Traditional Finance and what TradFi can learn from the world of decentralized organizations. From the shocking $77 million Beanstalk hack to treasury diversification strategies that could save DAOs from extinction, this...

What does it take to build hit mini-games inside a billion-user messenger and actually grow them sustainably? In this episode, Koko Amin, Head of Growth & Marketing at Mighty Bear Games (makers of Goat Gaming on Telegram), unpacks her journey from finance → FMCG → TV acting → Web3, and why Telegram mini-apps flipped the distribution game for studios. We dig into community-led growth (Neo Tokyo...

From ICO lessons and a DeFi hack recovery to leading growth at EtherFi, Slater Heil shares how EtherFi’s on-chain cards aim to outcompete banks. We dig into borrow-as-you-swipe, instant cashback, Visa acceptance, Apple/Google wallet support, global availability, and the surprising travel perks crypto folks are raving about. We also cover the business side: interchange economics, staking performanc...

From AAA stints at Cygames, tri-Ace, EA, and more to founding his own studio, Xanthos Vouldis joins Colors of Web3 & Entrepreneurship to unpack how great games are made and why his next title is an invitation-only real-time multiplayer dieselpunk airship battle game. We dive into his design framework, team roles, and why he’s building an invitation-only game community with squad-based online b...

The banking rails we all use were built for the 1970s yet money now moves at internet speed. In this episode of Colors of Web3 & Entrepreneurship, Stables co-founder & CEO Bernie Bilotta explains how his team is building a mobile-first stablecoin bank that lets anyone hold a “digital dollar,” send it globally, and spend it at 140M+ merchants with a card while abstracting away chains, gas,...

In the 75th episode, we sit down with Yusaku Numa, also known as "Nomad" on X to explore his journey from college entrepreneur to founder of Mind Palace , an innovative Web3 platform redefining how we trust information online. Yusaku shares how he was drawn into the crypto space, inspired by information overload and the difficulty of filtering trustworthy sources in Web3 ecosystems. Mind...

In the 74th episode of Colors of Web3 and Entrepreneurship, Heidi Christine, CMO and Head of Community at Pixels, joins us to talk about Pixels vibrant Web3 farming game with over 10 million users. Heidi takes us through her journey from studying electrical engineering to leading one of the most community-driven Web3 games in the space. We dive deep into what makes Pixels unique, how it has cultiv...

In this episode, Taral Gurung, founder and CEO of Soundbeats, shares with us a groundbreaking platform at the intersection of AI, music, gaming, and Web3. Taral’s journey from finance student to serial entrepreneur is anything but ordinary. From launching an education center in Hong Kong to working on metaverse initiatives for Bollywood award shows, his story is filled with resilience, reinvention...

In episode 72 of Colors of Web3 and Entrepreneurship, we chat with Leo Vigna, CEO and Co-founder of Veraswap. Leo shares his incredible journey into Web3, starting from his early days in crypto in 2017, winning third place at ETH Denver 2020, and scaling Chainlink node operations with Vulcan Link. He dives into the technical details of what it means to be a Chainlink node operator, providing criti...

Kevin Rusher, founder and CEO of Regnum Aurum Acquisition Corp (RAAC), joins us in episode 71 of Colors of Web3 and Entrepreneurship. Kevin, a Web3 native with a background in accounting and finance, shares his fascinating journey from writing a fintech paper about Bitcoin to becoming a power user in DeFi and eventually leading RAAC. He recounts his early experiences moonlighting for a crypto exch...

In this episode, we talk with Victor Lee, co-founder and CEO of MAIGA, about his journey from a fintech and banking background into the world of crypto and Web3 since 2018. He shares valuable insights from building machine learning startups, navigating DeFi cycles, and emphasizes the importance of creating monetization models that go beyond hype in Web3. Victor introduces MAIGA, an AI agent for De...

In this 69th episode of Colors of Web3 and Entrepreneurship, we sit down with Joel de Jesus & Naomi Honda to uncover the hidden world of Maximum Extractable Value (MEV) on Solana. MEV is generating hundreds of millions in fees monthly—yet remains elusive and inaccessible to most traders and validators. That’s where Catscope comes in. Naomi and Joel share their unconventional journey into the c...

In Episode 68 of Colors of Web3 & Entrepreneurship, we dive into the Bitcoin ecosystem with Sebastian Guaqueta, software engineer at Rootstock. Sebastian’s story is inspiring—from mechanical engineer in Colombia to game dev, to Web3 hacker, and now helping bring DeFi to Bitcoin through Rootstock. We explore how Rootstock brings smart contract functionality to Bitcoin using an EVM-compatible La...

In the 67th episode of Colors of Web3 and Entrepreneurship, Jon Jones, co-founder and CBO of Supra, shares his fascinating and unconventional journey, starting from his upbringing in upstate New York to a transformative two-year experience in Cameroon, Africa. He recounts how this unique period shaped his perspective and ultimately led him to the dynamic world of Web3.Dive deep into the story behi...