CryptoNews Podcast

Grace “Ori” Kwan is a programmer, designer, illustrator, and Co-Founder of Orca. Her specialty is creating simple, human-centered interfaces for deeply technical fields. Upon graduating from Stanford with a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science, she started her career as a software engineer at Coursera in the Bay Area. After that, she became an Interaction Designer at IDEO's Tokyo studio, which g...

Markus Levin co-founded XYO Network in 2018, establishing it as the first people-powered decentralized project to connect data from the real physical world directly with blockchain smart contracts and other digital realities. Markus is a blockchain pioneer and an industry visionary regarded for his integral role in shaping the entrance and growth of oracle blockchain technology. He is also the Hea...

Jack O'Holleran is the Co-Founder of SKALE. Jack's passion for decentralized systems and blockchain led him to join efforts with Stan Klad-ko to solve the blockchain scalability problem. Jack is a veteran Silicon Valley technology entrepreneur with a deep background in machine learning/AI technologies, and blockchain. His resume includes Co-Founder of Aktana, Co-Founder IncentAlign, and...

Zak Manhire is the Co-Founder & Chief Revenue Officer at Fr0ntier X. Zak is a true partnership expert and led Costa Coffee’s commercial strategy and was Commercial Director for EMEA at Monster Energy closely working alongside TCCC. Most recently, he was Chief Commercial Officer for a portfolio company within The Foresight Group. Zak has experience with an endless list of major brands such as A...

Joel Dietz is the Founder of MetaMetaVerse and is a serial entrepreneur & intellectual historian who helped found several key initiatives in the cryptocurrency space, including Ethereum, MetaMask, the first smart contract educational channel, and the first academic work on cryptoeconomics. His research interests focus on the confluence of blockchain network topologies and swarm intelligence, e...

John deVadoss is the Head of Development at Neo Blockchain. John worked in Microsoft for 16 years as Managing Director before moving to crypto and choosing Neo in his mission to make it the go-to blockchain for developers for creating dApps. John believes that adding functionality to the chain and growing its DeFi ecosystem is the best way to get more mainstream users on the protocol. In this conv...

Christopher Sheehan is the Founder of Spritz Finance. He is an MIT Computer Scientist and repeat fintech entrepreneur. Chris's previous company, WorldCover, was an international insuretech funded by Y Combinator, Index Ventures, Greylock and other global VC investors. The company developed parametric insurance products and software, and its IP assets were acquired in 2021. In this conversatio...

Harsh Rajat is the Founder and Creator of Ethereum Push Notification Service (EPNS), the native communication protocol for Web3. Harsh is the Project Lead and looks at driving the protocol to build the product and its tech and is the core of the project of all gets shipped on the product front. In this conversation, we discuss: - Intro to crypto - EPNS - The power of notifications - Chatting to no...

Matthew Niemerg, Ph. D., is the co-founder and president of Aleph Zero Foundation —a Swiss non-profit offering a new infrastructure layer with a scalable plug-and-play privacy solution leveraging zero-knowledge proofs (zk-SNARKs) and Secure Multiparty Computation (sMPC). Mathew is also a Ph. D. in Mathematics in the area of numerical algebraic geometry, a Simons-Berkeley Fellow, and an IBM Center...

Sebastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of The Sandbox. Together with Arthur Madrid, he has co-founded 3 companies, 2 of which have been acquired. Sebastien has more than 10 years in mobile gaming, running production and marketing for top-grossing titles. His work was awarded the nomination for 2 consecutive years of The Sandbox in App Store Best Games of 2012 and 2013!  Sebastien also became t...

Evgen Verzun is the Founder of Kaizen Finance. He is also an inventor, serial entrepreneur and expert in cybersecurity, real-time systems, networking, and interdisciplinary technology. Evgen has around twenty years of experience in professional communications, developing security systems for mission-critical projects in the United States, Europe and the Middle East.  In this conversation, we discu...

Jacob Robinson is the host of the Law of Code podcast, Director of Operations at the DAO Research Collective, and an incoming associate in the FinTech group at McCarthy Tétrault LLP. In this conversation, we discuss: - Brock University - University Exchange programs - Crypto law - Recent undertakings from Canadian exchanges - Canadian web3 council - NFTs being securities - NFT contracts regarding...

Wayne Marcel is the Head of Business Development for the Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO). Wayne has been managing, teaching, and coaching high performing teams for over 20 years. In 2016, his passion for helping and teaching people was merged with his passion for technology as he dove into learning about cryptocurrency and blockchain. He published a book in 2018 called “From No Crypto...

Josh Katz is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of YellowHeart , the premiere NFT marketplace for ticketing, music, and community tokens. With upwards of 25 years of experience in the music industry, Josh began his career at Arista Records and Jive Records, working with breakthrough artists like the Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears. In 2004, Josh founded El Media Group, a company providing...

Saro McKenna is the Co-Founder of Alien Worlds, one of the world’s most popular blockchain games. She has bridged traditional business practices with decentralized communities and concepts since the early days of cryptocurrency. Prior to this, Saro spent more than four years in M&A at Rothschild in London and has represented equity on Boards of Directors. Saro also holds an MA Hons from Oxford...

Paolo Ardoino is the CTO of Bitfinex and Tether, who also recently launched Keet.io , a Peer-to-Peer Chat App, built with the Holepunch platform that allows anyone to create apps that don’t use any servers. Paolo is also a certified meme-lord and has one of the best accounts on crypto Twitter. In this conversation, we discuss: - Visiting Italy - Keet.io - DHT - Distributed Hash Table - Holepunch -...

Jesse is the Founder of Guru SEO and Web Design, a digital marketing agency based in Canada that has successfully helped organizations rank at the top of Google. Jesse also leads the innovative IT Intelligent Automation team at Alberta Health Services (Canada's 5th largest organization). He is an IT leader with 20 years of experience and his background is focused on automation (robotic proces...

Sakhib Waseem is Chief Technology Officer and Chief Innovation Officer of Astra Protocol as well as a board member and Chief Innovation Officer for the technology group Proof of Trust and is an active thought leader in the blockchain sector. Throughout his career, he worked with a number of top-tier financial institutions leading technology-driven projects from inception including; Bank of America...

Jesse Knutson is Head of Operations at Bitfinex Securities, a regulated security token platform offering issuers and traders access to capital and tokenized securities.  Jesse started his career in traditional finance having worked at global investment banks including Barclays and Macquarie. Prior to joining Bitfinex Securities, Jesse was VP of Financial Products at Blockstream where he worked on...

Ledger Enterprise is a global technology provider empowering organizations to participate in the digital asset ecosystem securely and at scale.  Alex Zinder became the Head of Ledger Enterprise in March 2021 after almost two decades in capital markets technology. He brings more than 15 years of experience in driving the adoption of emerging technologies in major financial services organizations. A...

Thibault Perreard is an expert in the DeFi and StakeFi field, driving the strategy of the top cross-chain liquid staking solution: Bifrost . Working closely with Kusama and Polkadot, Thibault and his team launched liquid derivatives of assets such as KSM, DOT, MOVR, and more, whilst their Slot Auction Liquidity Protocol has already helped secure 10 Polkadot and 11 Kusama parachian slots for variou...

Nayana Singh is the General Manager of Product at ConsenSys. She is responsible for the development strategy for NFTs. Before ConsenSys, she worked at Microsoft for 10+ years in Product Management and Product Planning where she was also one of the first product managers focused on developing blockchain services focused on Tokens. She has nearly two decades of experience in product management and s...

Michael Rubinelli is the Chief Gaming Officer at WAX Studios. He's a technology & gaming leader with 15+ years of progressive experience in executive leadership, product development, and continual revenue growth and is renowned for his success at top corporations (including Disney, THQ, and Electronic Arts). Michael has now turned his attention to Play-to-Earn games and spends most of his...

David Shin is the Head of Global Adoption for Klaytn, the blockchain arm of Kakao - Korea’s Internet technology giant. He is a dynamic Entrepreneur and a successful Investment Banker (IB) turned Blockchain Evangelist. He has helped establish numerous nonprofits across Asia - facilitating conversations between local entities and governments around the cryptocurrency/blockchain topic. David is also...

Richard Levin is the VP of Global Sales at cryptonews.com, one of the largest global crypto media organizations. Richard is also the Founder of seedsecure.io . In this conversation, we discuss: - Building in a bear market - Growing cryptonews.com into a top 10 media outlet - Getting paid in crypto - Growth of USDT TRC-20 - Crypto events - DeFi still buzzing - 3AC founders going missing - Celsius a...