In Early: The Crypto Podcast

This episode features Stephanie Ramezan, founder and CEO of The Crypto Collective, which describes itself as "the world's first strategic consultancy firm focused solely on the institutional digital assets space". https://cryptocollective.global Matt and Stephanie consider: - Stephanie's roles at Greengage (https://www.greengage.co) as CTO, as a NED at Coinstone Capital (https://www.coinstonecapit...

This episode features Paul Rossini, CEO of Asset Pass, which offers with a safe and considered way to pass digital assets once someone has passed.  Asset Pass's website is https://assetpass.com Matt and Paul talk about Asset Pass and the issues facing transfer of digital property upon death, including - What "the world's leading digital legacy platform" means and the kinds of assets Asset Pass can...

This episode features Stephanie Larivee, a director at Cork Gully, who deals with, amongst other corporate recovery matters, distributions of crypto assets following insolvency of exchanges and trading platforms. Cork Gully's website is https://corkgully.com In this recording Matt and Stephanie consider: - Liquidator's roles when dealing with insolvent crypto companies and why these outfits often...

This episode features Stephanie Larivee, a director at Cork Gully, who deals with, amongst other corporate recovery matters, distributions of crypto assets following insolvency of exchanges and trading platforms. Cork Gully's website is https://corkgully.com In this recording Matt and Stephanie consider: - Liquidator's roles when dealing with insolvent crypto companies and why these outfits often...

This episode features Ismael Dainehine, co-founder and CEO of EverGive, which enables charitable bitcoin donations. The vision is to ensure funds compound and last forever, creating a reserve of funds for charities with a long term vision. Donations can be made via https://www.evergive.com/ and for more on the project visit the https://www.evergive.com/#faqs, including the How Does This Work Secti...

This episode features Ben Elvidge, Head of Commercial Appliances at Trilitech, which runs https://uranium.io/en  and is behind the xU3O8 token, which represents unenriched uranium, or "yellow cake". This is a genuine use case of tokenisation, and a means by which retail can hold an otherwise remote asset. Following a launch event alongside Figment and Crypto Collective detailing tokenisation, nucl...

This episode features Oliver Tonkin of BCB Group, Europe's leading payment service provider for the digital asset economy. He notes "crypto within FSMA is the right thing to do, it's financial services and investments... I am not convinced about bringing stable coins into the FSMA regime". Having just won "Best Provider of Crypto Innovation" at the Global Crypto Awards, Oliver explained the busine...

This week Matt speaks to Dr Ann Sofie Cloots, Senior Policy Advisor at Coinbase and Affiliate Lecturer on AI, DLT and Web3 at the University of Cambridge.  They speak about: - Coinbase's position in the market, the role of Senior Policy Advisor and the role it plays in shaping Coinbase's global strategy; - The company's response to then Financial Stability Board's Global Regulatory Framework for C...

This episode features Scott Pounder, Founder and CEO of Prometheus Insights https://prometheus-insights.com/About/ Formerly of the Met Police, Head of Investigations at Crystal Intelligence, then at FTI Consulting as a director, Scott now runs his own operation, providing expert reports for crypto investigations and blockchain analytics, asset recovery and insolvency support, as well as cybercrime...

This episode features Rachel Wolcott, a founding editor of Compliance Corylated, writing on financial fraud, market abuse, and of course cryptocurrency. This episode covers both (i) the state of industry onboarding, including know-your-client and anti-money laundering checks and well as (ii) fraud repayment initiatives.   Matt and Rachel speak about:   👉 Why there are so many fines and bad practi...

This episode features Dr Lisa Cameron, a Member of Parliament between 2015 and 2024, and previous chair of the Crypto and Digital Assets All Parliamentary Group. Now the founder of Global Legislators Forum in Digital Assets, this episode explores: - Dr Cameron’s tenure whilst an MP, including previous governments' appetite for promoting this sector and the comradely between those representing more...

This week Matt speaks to both Marcin Zarakowski and Roman Bieda, of Token Recovery, a Swiss outfit specialising in "combining technical expertise, legal proficiency and a swift, discreet, end-to-end process devised to get your property back”. Matt asks them about their backgrounds at BSV and Coinfirm respectively, and more about the operation, how Token Recovery take on victims of fraud where cryp...

This episode features Professor Sarah Green who has just finished a four year tenure as Law Commissioner for Common and Commercial Law. During that time Sarah’s law reform work included the Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023, Advice to the Government on Smart Contracts, updating the Arbitration Act 1996, scoping reforms to the law of Intermediated Securities and drafting guidance and a bill to en...

This episode features Marco Morazzoni, the Founder and CEO of Semoto, a market place for service providers in blockchain, from natives and tokenisation experts, to more traditional services like law, insurance, banking and consulting, looking to service this nascent industry. Previously a sales director at Elliptic, a leader in blockchain analytics, and with experience at Britannia Global Markets,...

This week Matt speaks to Rob Moore, the director and founder of blockchain and open source investigations firm Arrowsgate. Rob, previously of the British army, talks about his move from jumping out of planes into open battlefields to chasing criminals laundering money through blockchain analytics and helping victims of fraud get their money back. They speak about the state of play including the sa...

ORIGINALLY RELEASED 10/12/23 This week I speak to Jennifer Zegel a trust and estate practitioner, member of STEP’s Digital Assets Special Interest Group’s Steering Committee, an attorney at Kleinbard LLC, author of “Digital Asset Entanglement: Unraveling the Intersection of Estate Laws & Technology” and creator and host of the Digital Planning Podcast. We speak about digital assets beyond mere...

ORIGINALLY RELEASED 31/10/23 This episode features Bob Williams, the Vice President for Fintech, Digital Assets and Blockchain Technologies at Lockton, the world’s largest independent insurance brokerage. We speak about how to insure crypto assets, the types of coverage needed to cover all bases, the LEAP team's development of a custody policy and what role that plays in the wider market, and why...

ORIGINALLY RELEASED 13/09/23 Episode 19 features Jonny Fry, the Crypto AM Influencer of the year 2022. With a wealth of knowledge in this sector, Jonny runs Digital Bytes, which creates and distributes a weekly roundup of the biggest stories in the world of digital assets and is the CEO of Team Blockchain. Matt and Jonny speak about a huge array of topics, from how the technology helps regulated m...

ORIGINALLY RELEASED 02/08/23 This week’s episode features Korby Hayre the founder of House of Block, a boutique event agency that caters for Web3, Blockchain and crypto currency. Korby, a veteran event organiser, speaks to Matt about her journey in the space, some of the events that she's worked on and how to engage sponsors and delegates in the Blockchain industry.

ORIGINALLY RELEASED 12/07/23 This week’s episode features Nanda Khiara, a fine art and NFT artist, who has been featured at the UNESCO Paris 2022, the World Economic Forum 2023, and at NFT.NYC 2023. We speak what NFTs are, about the value of art as NFTs, both to the artist and to the buyer, and why some fine art purchasers ado not want the corresponding the NFT version. We also look at copyright,...

ORIGINALLY RELEASED 27/06/23 This week’s guest is Erica Stanford, the best-selling author of “Crypto Wars: Faked Deaths, Missing Billions and Industry Disruption”. We look at the history of crypto scams, from initial coin offerings to collapses of entire exchanges like Mt Gox, and hear her thoughts on where we are today, with recent SEC actions in the industry to what might happen next and the fut...

ORIGINALLY RELEASED 13/06/23 This week’s episode features Katharine Wooller the Business Unit Director at Coincover, a market leader in protecting cryptocurrency from hackers and human error, providing services like key retrieval and re-access to crypto assets, which has led to a partnership with hard wallet storage solution provider Ledger. We talk about what Coincover does, as well as how it can...

ORIGINALLY RELEASED 29/05/23 This episode features Paul Densley the Director of Sales at both (1) Crypto Lock, an initiative that helps customers prevent, and if necessary detect and recover misappropriate assets; and (2) Policy Dock, a platform as a service to automate insurance. We speak about how Crypto Lock provides a full service to protect digital assets from hacks and thefts as well as how...

ORIGINALLY RELEASED 04/05/23 This week Matt speaks to Bijan Burnard, the CEO of Lattice Labs, a studio helping clients scale in the web3 space. They speak about the Lattice Network, described as a network-as-a-service and what that means, as well its proof of vote consensus which utilises artificial intelligence to ensure proactivity in running the protocol, and a commitment to an eco focused bloc...

ORIGINALLY RELEASED 19/04/23 Episode 11 features Amit Rathore, the Founder and CEO of the Football Fan App, which looks to disrupt the football industry with Web3 and provide genuine, long term engagement between real fans and clubs. We talk about his journey, listing of the Fan Coin and how the App provides users with confidence, as well as key partnerships and his long term vision of where Web3...