CryptoNews Podcast

Chris Liquin is CEO of Cupcake.com, the social layer of Solana. Chris has been investing in crypto since 2016 and has worked full-time in the space since 2021. Prior to Cupcake, Chris worked for Gary Vaynerchuck at Vayner3, a Fortune 500 Web3 consulting firm, as SVP of Strategy & Operations. During his time at V3, he led over $25M of work with brands like Budweiser, Red Bull, Coinbase, Johnny...

Stefan Kimmel is the CEO at M2, leading the company's mission to establish a world-class global digital currency investment platform. With over 25 years of experience in finance, fintech, and digital innovation, Stefan has a proven track record of delivering products and services to his clients. He specializes in leveraging digital products to optimize the delivery of financial solutions, ens...

Ariel Seidman is the CEO & Co-Founder of Hivemapper, a decentralized mapping community that relies on a network of drivers, AI trainers and advanced technologies to create the world’s freshest map. A seasoned expert in the field, Ariel's journey began over a decade ago at Yahoo! Search and Maps, where he garnered invaluable experience in building maps at scale. Motivated by the inefficien...

Unique Divine is the co-founder and CEO of Nibiru, the user-centric layer-1 super chain that is paving the way to mainstream blockchain adoption through its exceptionally high throughput and parallel optimistic execution approach. Following its $8.5 million seed round in September 2022, co-led by the $1.6B+ AUM firm Tribe Capital, Republic Capital, Original Capital, and NGC Ventures, Nibiru secure...

Josh Fraser is the Co-Founder of Origin Protocol. Prior to Origin, he co-founded three other venture-backed companies: EventVue, Torbit (acquired by Walmart Labs) & Forage. Josh started coding at the age of 10. In this conversation, we discuss: - DeFi industry - Automated Redemption Manager (ARM) - Liquid staking - Transparency and integrity in crypto - Crypto industry's volatility - Stak...

Anurag Arjun, Co-founder of Avail, is a seasoned entrepreneur who has founded several successful startups across diverse industries, ranging from cash flow lending to regulatory tech. With a strategic move into the blockchain space in 2017, he co-founded Matic Network, which has since evolved into Polygon, a platform for scaling Ethereum. In 2020, Anurag spearheaded the development of Avail, an in...

Ethan Buchman is Co-founder of Cosmos, CEO of Informal Systems, and Founder Cycles Protocol Ethan is a leading figure in blockchain technology and has worked at the Interchain Foundation, Tendermint, and his consultancy CoinCulture CryptoConsulting. His academic background in Biophysics from the University of Guelph informs his interdisciplinary approach, evident in his research contributions acro...

Tristan Frizza is the Founder of Zeta Markets. Tristan’s curiosity for crypto was ignited in 2017 when he traded his first cryptocurrency, spurring him to finish his Computer Science degree with an emphasis on distributed systems and PoW blockchain technology. He then worked in AI research and as a data scientist in Silicon Valley, eventually writing his thesis on Generative Adversarial Network fo...

Tomer Pascal is the CEO and co-founder of OwnPlay, a web3 mobile gaming ecosystem that has developed CityVerse Tycoon, a PWA game allowing players to trade, buy, and sell tokenized replicas of real buildings in New York City. Tomer has extensive multi-disciplinary experience in delivering products to their appropriate markets, working with early-stage companies, businesses with new products, and w...

Spencer Farrar is a Partner at Theory Ventures. Spencer was a two-sport athlete at Berkeley (swimming and water polo). He then worked at a Web3 startup, Velocity, which processed more than $150m of volume per day, before joining Bienville, a $4b asset investing in early-stage blockchain companies. In this conversation, we discuss: - The state of Web3 funding - Web3 startups - Venture strategy and...

Eduard Jubany Tur, Founder of ZKX, a decentralized perpetual futures exchange on Starknet. Eduard’s background in tech and finance has led him to tackle some of DeFi’s most pressing challenges, such as accessibility and user engagement. With the goal of making DeFi more approachable and efficient, Eduard has been at the forefront of integrating gamification into trading, enhancing the learning cur...

Armani Ferrante is the founder and CEO of Backpack. The Backpack ecosystem of companies, creators of the Backpack wallet, the Mad Lads NFT collection, the xNFT standard, and Backpack Exchange. Before founding Backpack in April 2022, he was the creator of Anchor, a groundbreaking developer tool that revolutionized programming on Solana.  Anchor has become an integral part of numerous Solana project...

Tascha Punyaneramitdee serves as Core Contributor & Founder of INIT Capital, a Liquidity Hook Money Market designed to enhance liquidity layers. Her prior role in leading Stella, a protocol offering multi-chain leveraged strategies, highlights her significant contributions and expertise in the sector. In this conversation, we discuss: - Liquidity Hook Money Market - Addressing information asym...

Gracy Chen, the Managing Director of Bitget, oversees the growth and expansion of global markets, strategy, execution, business and corporate development of Bitget. She started her journey to the crypto world in 2014, being an investor in the early days of BitKeep (now Bitget Wallet), Asia’s leading decentralized wallet. Gracy was named a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum in 2015. Moreover...

Zach Bruch is the Founder and CEO of MyPrize, an online crypto casino. Zach previously held positions at Kraken and Cumberland Labs, where he ran their sales trading desk. He later created his own trading operation and became one of the most profitable individual traders of all time. Prior to founding MyPrize, Zach served as an advisor at JST Capital, a financial services firm specializing in digi...

Ian Rogers is the Chief Experience Officer (CXO) of Ledger, the world-leading crypto and NFT hardware wallet manufacturer. Ian has spent his career exploring and innovating at intersection of music, artists, and technology. Prior to joining Ledger, he spent five years as Chief Digital Officer at LVMH, where he was responsible for building group-level digital excellence and accelerating digital tra...

Andreas Brekken is the founder of SideShift.ai, a platform offering direct-to-wallet trading. The exchange has processed over $1.25B in volume to date. Andreas first discovered Bitcoin in 2011 and has a deep technical understanding of the cryptocurrency space. In addition to being a long-term supporter of the cryptocurrency space, Andreas has substantial hands-on industry experience. He founded Ju...

Vijay Pravin is the Founder & CEO of bitsCrunch, a Blockchain Analytics and Forensics company focusing on securing the NFT ecosystem. Living in Munich, Germany for the last 10 years, and originally from India. In this conversation, we discuss: - The role of AI/ML in blockchain analytics - Data integrity and transparency in NFT Markets - Navigating the regulatory landscape - Staking mechanisms...

Nikolaj Rosenthal is the Co-Founder and CEO of Myrmidon, a non-custodial staking provider. Nikolaj was a professional hockey player for +10 years and the first athlete to accept Bitcoin as a salary in 2017. He’s been involved with crypto since late 2016, is an investor + entrepreneur, and was the CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Evonax.com. He went to Copenhagen Business School, where he holds a BSc...

Niraj Pant is Co-Founder of Ritual, the decentralized execution layer for AI. Prior to founding Ritual, Niraj spent six years as a General Partner at Polychain, leading investment rounds in startups like Offchain Labs, EigenLayer, and Compound. He began his career as a cryptography researcher in the Decentralized Systems Lab at UIUC. In this conversation, we discuss: - The relationship between cry...

Matt Duea is an entrepreneur and a co-founder of Roobet, a betting brand for the next generation of gamers, and part of the group behind Roobet.fun and Roobet.com. In this conversation, we discuss: - Crypto-based gambling - Advancing the everyday application of cryptocurrencies - Crash gambling game - roobet.fun - the official social casino of the UFC - Future of crypto gambling regulations - Bloc...

Luke Barwikowski is the founder and CEO of Pixels, the largest web3 game by DAU. With over 2.5M total players, Pixels is a social, casual web3 game powered by the Ronin Network, focusing on farming, exploration, and creation in an open world.  As CEO, Luke's mission is to build the biggest Web3 casual games company. Luke's background in software engineering started at 12, and he built an...

Dominic Williams is the Founder and Chief Scientist of the DFINITY Foundation, a major contributor to the Internet Computer (ICP) blockchain. Dominic is a crypto theoretician and entrepreneur who has been involved in the blockchain space since 2013, prior to which he was an engineering entrepreneur who created multiple internet technologies and products. Dominic specializes in distributed computin...

Gerald Heydenreich is the co-founder and Preisdent of EtherMail. He's a seasoned entrepreneur, has consistently demonstrated his ability to innovate and grow businesses across various sectors. Starting at age 25, he founded Portum, the first European B2B reverse online auction and sourcing events platform with more than 1 bn USD trading volume, and later sold it to CapGemini/IBX. He then co-f...

Max Howell is the founder of Tea Protocol, a decentralized technology protocol that enables open-source developers to be adequately rewarded and compensated for their software contributions. Max previously founded Homebrew, a free and open-source package management system that simplifies the installation of software on macOS and Linux. Since its founding in 2009, Homebrew has become one of the mos...