CryptoNews Podcast

Dominic Law is the Chief Metaverse Officer of Neopets Metaverse, a community-driven, Web3 game built for generations of Neopets players: past, present, and future. Building on the nostalgia of the hit online site, Neopets Metaverse allows players to interact with their beloved Neopets in both classic and new ways.  Dominic has a passion for community building & consumer technology, joined NetD...

RUNNER is a media3 NFT project of a futuristic world where speed is the currency of power and four nations compete for this power by becoming the fastest in the ultimate race - the Omega Race.  Blaise Hemingway, Bryan Unkeless and Bryce Anderson are the Co-Creators of RUNNER. Bryan is a producer and founder of Clubhouse Pictures that has a track record of producing high-quality content such as Bir...

Catheon Gaming’s Voyage in Paradise ‘VIP’ project is the world's first "Listen-to-earn" model. VIP is a collection of VIP NFTs granting holders members-only benefits with the associated artists.  Rave Republic is Asia's biggest DJ duo. Founded by Stas Madorski who left the Fortune 500 company, P&G, to start his entrepreneurial project. Stas is one of the most eclectic and a...

Austin MVG Hells is Active Duty Military specializing in cyber security. Hells also does professional discord and community management for NFT projects like Ecotars and Heroes of the MetaVerse. Hells has been in IT for 12 years and loves working on systems. In this conversation, we discuss: - Military life - Stories from the military - Journey into crypto - Ecotars NFTs - Discord - How to become a...

Anna Trinh is the Chief Compliance Officer of Aquanow and also brings over 15 years of legal experience providing advice and counsel to technology startups in all areas of corporate and securities law - with a particular focus on regulatory compliance. She received her Bachelor of Commerce degree in Finance, and her Bachelor of Laws from the University of British Columbia - and plans to complete t...

Hang Zhang is the interim Chief Marketing Officer at Catheon Gaming and Co-CEO of Seoul Stars. Prior to his time at Catheon, Hang has led operations and scaled various growth technology companies. He has extensive experience leading strategy departments in major financial services organizations. He was previously also a Manager at McKinsey, the leading global management consulting firm. Hang studi...

Brendan O'Flaherty, or as he is known in NFT circles, “Bread”, is a Web3 developer and smart contract author. Living in Colorado with his wife and 5 year old son, Bread quickly garnered attention from various blockchain based startups with his ability to incorporate complex blockchain based concepts to solve Web2 problems and reduce points of friction for various companies. In this conversati...

Dan Reitzik is the Chief Executive Officer of Terrazero. Dan was the Co-Founder and CEO of DMG Blockchain Solutions (TSXV-DMGI) from 2016 until March 2021 when he left DMG to launch TerraZero Technologies. When Dan founded DMG, cryptocurrency was in its infancy, and at that time, while most people didn’t understand crypto currency, Dan knew that it would eventually change how many people would tra...

Charles Stanton is the CMO at Forj (formerly Bondly), which is the parent brand of MetaPrints and PolkaPet World. Charles has years of experience leading digital marketing and campaigns for some of the biggest brands in the UK including KPMG, The National Lottery, BUPA and British Gas. Recognized through multiple awards including the Social Media Marketing Awards UK, and an international award for...

Clayton Roche is the Head of Community Development at UMA (Universal Market Access). He has been working in DeFi since 2019, well before that term made the cover of The Economist magazine. He was also a country ambassador for MakerDAO, community manager for a DAI wallet called Mosendo, and started a DeFi community called DeFi Nation. In this conversation, we discuss: - CoinMarketCap Online Confere...

William Wu is the Founder of Catheon Gaming, a team of 200+ people, behind a number of GameFi projects including SolChicks, SeoulStars and Angrymals. SolChicks became the #1 play-to-earn game on Solana within 3 months of launch, raising $55m and listing at a peak diluted market capitalization of $8 billion. Prior to his ventures, he was a Vice President at Oaktree Capital, $120 billion asset manag...

Koh Kim is the Head of Ecosystem Partnerships and Marketing at Mysten Labs, a Web 3.0 infrastructure company. Previously, she was part of the Google Play Games Business Development team where she led international market strategy and industry influencer outreach. As one of the key early members of the team since the platform’s rebranding in 2012, she helped expand Google Play’s reach and relations...

Derek Yoo is CEO & Founder of Moonbeam , a layer-1 blockchain providing native interoperability and prioritizing secure cross-chain integration solutions. Previously, Derek co-founded and served as CTO of Fuze, where he led the product and engineering teams in the creation of a global Unified Communications-as-a-Service cloud platform. As a professional tech entrepreneur with over two decades...

Ganesh Swami is a serial entrepreneur, adventurer, and speaker. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of Covalent – a venture-funded blockchain data analytics startup based out of Vancouver, BC. He has over a decade of experience with database technology and bringing new products to market. His current focus with Covalent is to solve the big problems inhibiting blockchain's mainstream adopti...

Tracy Leparulo is the Founder of Untraceable Events and Founder of the Blockchain Futurist Conference. Since 2013, Tracy  has been at the forefront of building communities for leading blockchain projects including Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Polymath. In 2017, she organized Ethereum’s largest Hackathon ETH Waterloo, where Cryptokitties launched while also witnessing their NFT’s crash the Ethereum Netwo...

Mattias Tengblad is the co-founder and CEO of CORITE. He is a Universal Music Group and MTG alumni and an experienced entrepreneur with over 20 years of unique management, business development, and marketing experience from telecom and gaming to music and media – industries that have all been through radical transformations into digital. In this conversation, we discuss: - Strengthening the commun...

Paul Zehetmayr , LimeWire CEO, is an entrepreneur with a proven track record in business, and a background in programming and economy. Him and his brother Julian co-founded Stack Holdings, a Vienna-based SaaS portfolio company, including eversign, invoicely and ZeroSSL, used by over one million B2B customers worldwide. His previous company, apilayer, was acquired by the Texan company Idera in 2021...

Ethan Song is the co-founder of RareCircles and was previously the co-founder and CEO of Frank And Oak, a leading direct-to-consumer brand that won the Technology Fast 50 and Fast Company’s Most Innovative Company in Retail. Ethan is a thought leader and active angel investor in Web3, the creators economy and commerce enablement space. In this conversation, we discuss: - Origin story of Frank and...

Kadan Stadelmann is a blockchain developer, operations security expert, and Chief Technology Officer of Komodo, Komodo a leader in blockchain interoperability and atomic swap technology. Its flagship technology and end-user application is AtomicDEX - a mobile and web-compatible non-custodial multi-coin wallet and atomic swap-powered DEX rolled into one dApp. In this conversation, we discuss: - How...

Yossi Hasson is the Co-founder and CEO of Metaversal. He is a venture-backed tech entrepreneur, gamer, an early adopter of blockchain, and has invested in over 60 startups and crypto protocols. Formerly Hasson served as the Managing Director of Techstars Blockchain and a Co-founder of SYNAQ. He sits on the board of WeThinkCode_ and hosts the podcast Goats and the Metaverse. In this conversation, w...

David is a Certified Public Accountant who specializes in taxation of digital assets (cryptocurrencies) and is currently serving as the U.S. Tax Specialist Product Manager at accointing.com, a company that provides tracking, consolidation, tax and compliance solutions for crypto investors. Before joining Accointing, David spent his career across various roles in public accounting as well as corpor...

Alan Chiu is the CEO/Founder Boba Network, a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 Optimistic Rollup scaling solution. Alan has over two decades worth of experience building and investing in enterprise startups. Before founding Boba Network, Alan held a variety of roles in the tech/software realm including partner at XSeed Capital - an investment firm specializing in fintech, Director of Product Manage...

Kayla Kroot is the Creative Director and Co-founder of Koii Network. Kayla is driven by a desire to enhance the experiences of modern digital consumers as they navigate the new internet. Her mission to bridge the gap between user experience and art began during her experience working with the Israeli Opera as a Prop and Set Designer. Prior to co-founding Koii Network, she was a freelance UX/Graphi...

Hart Lambur is Co-Founder of UMA, a decentralized financial contracts platform where he leads a team of financial contract and oracle design researchers. He is also Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Risk Labs, the entity behind the UMA protocol.  Prior to this, Lambur served as the Chief Executive Officer of Openfolio, a personal finance tracking platform he co-founded in 2013. He also wor...

Gwen Regina heads BNB Chain (previously Binance Smart Chain) which is a $1Billion fund. Launched in 2021, the BNB Chain fund aims to bring 1 billion crypto users onboard, boosting the adoption of BNB Chain and the wider blockchain industry. Her main responsibilities include streamlining processes around deal sourcing, investment strategy, portfolio management and growth. As a part of her role she...