CopperCasts

Episode 19 of CopperCasts welcomes DeFi entrepreneur, Mona El Isa , who joins us at our London office to discuss her popular on-chain asset management protocol, Enzyme Finance. Enzyme empowers individuals to set up, manage and invest in customised on-chain investment vehicles. According to DeFi Pulse , the protocol currently has over $138m in assets committed to the platform. CopperCasts are split...

Episode 18 of CopperCasts welcomes Nate Hindman, Head of Growth at Bancor. Bancor is an on-chain liquidity protocol that enables automated, decentralised exchange on the Ethereum network. Bancor is perhaps most famous for pioneering the world's first blockchain-based automated liquidity pool, or automated market maker (AMM). CopperCasts are split into two parts. The first is a short (2min) video i...

In somewhat of a departure from our regularly scheduled programming, we bring you a unique episode of Coppercasts with our special guest, award-winning actress Rebecca Ferguson. Copper recently released its first foray into the world of television advertising, with a 30 sec exclusive spot on Bloomberg. In this episode we speak to our leading lady about her star-studded career, growing up in Sweden...

Welcome to episode 16 of CopperCasts. This interview is with Jakob Palmstierna, partner at GSR. Founded in 2013, GSR is a leading global market maker for cryptocurrency spot and crypto derivative markets. In this conversation, CopperCasts host Tyler Kenyon and Jakob go into detail about the expansion of the crypto derivatives and options markets. Jakob also sheds lights on derivatives within the D...

Many people think of Bitcoin as a 'finished product’ that does not require technical improvements. This couldn’t be further from the truth. Today, it is estimated that there are around 20-30 developers fixing bugs, improving performance and adding new features to Bitcoin.  Episode 15 of CopperCasts welcomes  John Newbery , one such developer who for over five years has been working on enhancing th...

The latest CopperCasts episode welcomes Philip Gradwell, Chief Economist at Chainalysis , the blockchain analysis company. In this conversation, you’ll get a glimpse of how difficult it is to link a wallet address to real identities, how privacy coins such as Monero work, Chainalysis’ plans in DeFi, the true scale of illicit activity occurring on the network, and buying socks with Bitcoin (which P...

Welcome to another episode of CopperCasts, where we recently had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Hugo Philion , CEO and co-creator of Flare Network . CopperCasts are split into two parts. The first is a short (2min) video in which our guest shares with us something they find unusual or inspiring about the digital asset space. The second half is a traditional audio-only podcast, which you...

Welcome to episode 12 of CopperCasts, where we're joined by Stani Kulechov, the founder and CEO of Aave. Unless you've been living under a rock for the past year, you'll know that Aave is a wildly popular decentralised finance (DeFi) platform for lending and borrowing assets. In August 2020, it became the second DeFi protocol to hit $1 billion in total value locked (TVL). Six months later, this fi...

In episode 11 we speak with David Marsh, a financial specialist, author and commentator on political, economic and monetary issues.  David Marsh worked for more than 20 years as a reporter for outlets including Reuters and the Financial Times. He then turned to a career in investment banking. Currently he serves as Chairman of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum ( OMFIF ), an in...

This week's Coppercast comes to you from the Finnish seaside city of Helsinki, where we met with the dynamic Yichen Wu, CEO and co-founder at Tesseract Investment . Tesseract is a forerunner in the rapidly growing digital asset lending market, enabling individuals or institutions to earn passive income on their cryptocurrency assets. CopperCasts are split into two parts. The first is a short (2min...

In the hot seat this week is Konstantin Anissimov, Executive Director of  CEX.IO , one of the oldest and most established cryptocurrency exchanges. CopperCasts are split into two parts. The first is a short (2min) video in which our guest shares with us something they find unusual or inspiring about the digital asset space. The Show & Tell segment sees Konstantin outlines the factors driving the g...

If you consider yourself an avid networker, chances are you are already familiar with our latest Coppercasts guest. The eighth episode welcomes Erica Stanford, founder of the popular Crypto Curry Club – the UKs no 1 rated networking lunches and educational events for leaders in blockchain, crypto and emerging tech. In her Show & Tell segment, Erica presents a passionate argument for how 2.5 billio...

It’s easy to read about institutional investment in crypto, but what’s it like to live it? For episode seven of CopperCasts we speak with Michael Hall, the co-founder and CIO of Nickel Digital. One of the most successful crypto hedge funds going. In his Show & Tell segment , Michael gave us a sneak peak of their recently launched Digital Factors Fund, a multi-strategy approach for startup funds th...

Layer one protocols are at the heart of everything in our industry, which is why it was such a pleasure to speak with Iain Wilson, the CFO of the NEM Project, for episode 6 of CopperCasts. In his Show & Tell segment, which you can catch on Youtube, Iain talks about the tokenisation of the world and what the projected market cap of tokenised assets could be before the decade is out In our longer co...

With artificial intelligence only becoming more pervasive in our lives, in CopperCasts episode 5 we welcome the globally-recognised innovation specialist and author, David Shrier. In his Show & Tell segment, which you can find on our YouTube channel, the Oxford and MIT futurist highlights the astonishing adoption rate of crypto vs the adoption rate of the internet and 150 years of technological ad...

In episode 4 we speak with Piers Ridyard, the CEO of Radix DLT In his Show & Tell segment, which you can find on our YouTube channel, Piers highlights the insane growth of assets locked into DeFi projects, and the impact that is having on Ethereum, the primary layer one protocol DeFi projects are currently built on. In this part of the podcast, Piers digs deep into the big topics: What is DeFi? Wh...

In episode 3 we speak with Jeff Hancock, an IT Security expert turned crypto startup founder.  In his Show & Tell segment, which you can find on our YouTube channel, Jeff looks at how pound cost averaging (or dollar cost averaging) can make investing in digital assets easier over the long run.   Specifically he looks at how this strategy would have served a FTSE100 investor and a BTC investor over...

In episode 2 we speak with Geoff White, an experienced tech reporter who has been covering information security and crypto for more than a decade. In his short Show & Tell segment, which you can find on our YouTube channel, Geoff explores the correlation between ransomeware attacks and the global Covid-19 pandemic.  He asks, has there been more cyber crime during lockdown? Has it been more success...

Does Bitcoin live in its own universe? How does it respond to central bank liquidity? Where is it correlated? To gold? To the S&P500? Or should it be viewed as an internet stock? In this first episode of CopperCasts, we speak with Charlie Morris, the founder and CIO of ByteTree.com about how he got into Bitcoin, where he sees it in the market now, where it’s headed, and why it’s desperately needed...