Crypto Hipster

Join the Crypto Hipster every Friday for Crypto Policy and Regulatory News, Insights, Analysis, and Commentary Around the World, with your host Jamil Hasan

Software engineer turned entrepreneur David Bchiri has participated in building Tech communities in Paris and San Francisco over the last 15 years and is a blockchain enthusiast. Life-long learner, people over technology, cares about Impact. Superpowers: bridge-builder, personable community organizer, will fix anything with food. www.xrpl-commons.org https://twitter.com/xrpl_commons https://www.in...

Joy Schoffler is a global communications, investor relations, and business growth strategist with decades of experience building and scaling hyper-growth technology brands from start-up to thriving growth to exit. Joy has played a vital role in developing messaging strategies shaping national policy, advising foreign economic ministries, and educating markets on cutting-edge technology—helping to...

Join the Crypto Hipster every Friday for Crypto Policy and Regulatory News, Insights, Analysis, and Commentary Around the World, with your host Jamil Hasan

" I am a First Principles Engineer. I like to know how things work under the hood. I lead the following companies: Ugarsoft, Xend Finance, Wicrypt, Quiva Games (a video game company) and an e-commerce company (Ogwugo.com). I love building things and solving complex problems regardless of the domain that can move the human race forward. I strongly believe in R&D and I feel there is so much...

Caitlin Moore , Sustainability Data Partnerships Manager at  Filecoin Green  - a sustainability initiative for the world’s largest decentralized storage network, Filecoin. Filecoin Green aims to measure the environmental impacts of Filecoin and verifiably drive them below zero, building infrastructure along the way that allows anyone to make transparent and substantive environmental claims. Caitli...

TJ Chang is a highly accomplished serial entrepreneur and early-stage investor with a remarkable 12-year track record of success in operations and sales. He is an alumnus of prestigious institutions such as Merrill Lynch and Equinox Corporate, and has founded more than 8 companies, helping guide numerous Web3 startups to market. As a prominent leader in the Web3 space, Chang has demonstrated his e...

Join the Crypto Hipster for Crypto Policy and Regulatory News, Insights, Analysis, and Commentary Around the World, with your host Jamil Hasan.

World-renowned professional trader and “Market Wizard” Tony Saliba has been powering professional trading for the last 30 years. Tony founded LiquidPoint in 1999, and the company (sold to Bank of New York ConvergEX in 2007) is currently #3 in highest overall execution volumes behind Citadel Securities and Susquehanna. Matrix Executions, founded in 2018 by Tony, is now #5 in the overall execution v...

Justin Banon  is the Co-founder of  Boson Protocol  — Web3’s decentralized commerce layer. Boson Protocol enables the tokenization, transfer, and trade of any physical thing as a redeemable NFT; and has been awarded World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer status. He previously blitzscaled the Priority Pass Group to a $1Bn per annum revenue global rewards platform. With an academic background in ph...

Join the Crypto Hipster every Friday for Crypto Policy and Regulatory News, Insights, Analysis, and Commentary Around the World, with your host Jamil Hasan.

Sean Mackay has been building and improving businesses over the past 15 years in industries ranging from events and entertainment to real estate and digital marketing. In 2016, he discovered cryptocurrency and blockchain and has been an advocate ever since. In 2018, he joined forces with CoinPayments to help further the adoption of cryptocurrency and bring it mainstream. Sean’s background in engin...

Tyler Adams  is Co-Founder and CEO at  COZ , a Web3 software development community pioneering blockchain application. As a pioneer in the space, Tyler has nucleated and scaled a product team of over 30 SMEs to deliver the retail customer and developer experience for an $8BN market cap blockchain platform. Tyler was instrumental in establishing the accessibility of the  NEO  ecosystem through a gro...

Jon Trask  Chief Executive Officer and Founder Jon is CEO and Founder of Dimitra and has been working with blockchain since 2017. Prior to founding Dimitra, Jon had an extensive career building and developing enterprise software solutions to revolutionize supply chain processes and improve immutable traceability. A recognized expert in his field, Jon is also Founder and CEO of Blockchain Guru and...

Join the Crypto Hipster every Friday for Crypto Policy and Regulatory News, Insights, Analysis, and Commentary Around the World, with your host Jamil Hasan.

Konstantin Andriotis : Chief Operating Officer at Hexens, Konstantin implements considerable experience from several industries, including  software R&D , cybersecurity, B2C marketing, and  politics , to ensure leadership, growth and success for the company. He previously spearheaded product marketing for one of Europe’s largest financial institutions, Sberbank. Konstantin is laser-focused on...

Ramon Recuero is currently a cofounder at Kinto, the first KYC'ed Layer 2 capable of supporting both modern financial institutions and decentralized protocols. Previously, he founded Babylon.finance, a DeFi protocol that reached more than $50M in AUM. Long ago, and worked at Y Combinator, building products and helping founders. Before that, he built apps and games for Moz, Google and Zynga. In...

Join the Crypto Hipster each and every Friday for Crypto Policy and Regulatory News, Insights, Analysis, and Commentary Around the World, with your host Jamil Hasan.

Adam Helfgott is a serial entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience building tech companies in media and Web 3.0. Prior to co-founding Valence, he co-founded, built, and sold marketing technology companies eCamp.net and Lookbooks.com and is the current Executive Chairman of the Board of Madhive, an adtech company. Adam is the founder of the non-profit consortium Ledger Alliance, home of AdLedger,...

Join the Crypto Hipster for his rebranded X-Factor, focusing on Crypto Policy and Regulatory News, Insights, Analysis, and Commentary from Around the World, with your host Jamil Hasan. Starting the week of October 16th, 2023, the X-Factor will focus exclusively on content relating to regulatory and policy news globally, while two new shows, the C-Factor and the H-Factor will focus on metaverse/NFT...

About Seamus Rocca As CEO of Xapo Bank, Seamus has been instrumental in making Xapo the first crypto company in the world to obtain a Banking License and one of the first crypto program issuers at Mastercard. Banking is in his DNA. Before joining Xapo as the Group CFO in 2017, he spent a decade at Standard Chartered Bank as the Group Head of Liquidity and Funding Risk. During his tenure the bank t...

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Marc Mercuri, Chief Blockchain Officer Marc Mercuri is Chief Blockchain Officer at Shrapnel, a AAA first-person extraction shooter, with a creator ecosystem that empowers players to own their creations and shape the future of the game. He is a 29-year tech industry veteran with 26 patents issued or pending, and four published books. Prior to joining Shrapnel, Marc spent 18 years at Microsoft where...

Join the Crypto Hipster every Friday for weekly news, insights, analysis and commentary from around the world of crypto and blockchain.

Mr. Peter Argerakis, CEO, Co-Founder, Six Sigma Sports.  Mr. Argerakis has spent 18 years in institutional finance roles. He started his career working as a trader on the investment team for the institutional asset manager, Goldentree Asset Management, before taking up roles as a market makerfocused on sub-investment grade debt at Citigroup and later Jefferies, where he handled order flow for vari...