Mined with CoinFund

Web3 is comprised of some of the most advanced technological innovation to date.  But gamers don’t care to interact with it, at least today. According to Gunzilla Games’ Director of Web3 Theodore Agranat, in order to onboard the next billion people to the industry, web3 user experiences need to mimic the ease of opening and closing an iPhone app.  Theodore and Ava Labs SVP of Corporate Development...

What’s one thing in crypto that no one is talking about, but should be paying attention to?  According to Alex Gluchowski, Co-Founder and CEO of Matter Labs – the company behind zkSync – it’s that ZK is the only technology that enables trust automation, and no other technologies can accomplish full transaction verifiability.  Alex joins Mined with CoinFund hosts David Pakman and Jake Brukhman to c...

One of the most non-consensus narratives in AI today is decentralized training.  While some claim it will never work, others believe that open-source innovation is the key to democratizing AI.  CoinFund CEO and Founder Jake Brukhman sits down with Bagel Founder and CEO Bidhan Roy, Gensyn COO Jeff Amico, Kiva Founder and CEO Ahmed Rashad, Pluralis CEO and Founder Alex Long, and Prime Intellect Co-F...

In 2021, hundreds of creators launched NFT collections, with plans to build robust brands around digitally-native IP.  Today, only a handful of projects have been able to do so, and one colony of penguins has taken the lead in bringing unique IP to consumers on and offchain. Luca Netz, CEO of Pudgy Penguins, joins CoinFund's Head of Venture Investments David Pakman on Mined with CoinFund to d...

Since 2020, CoinFund’s investment thesis in World – formerly Worldcoin – has been driven by the idea that biometric proof of personhood is critical for identity verification.  While World was met with criticism in the summer of 2023 for its iris-scanning orbs, today, it’s become clear that amid the rapid expansion of AI, identifying who’s human and who’s not will play an important role in payments...

Web3 has attracted some of the most technical developers across the world, finding innovative ways to leverage blockchain framework. But often, builders tend to forget that crypto’s nomenclature problem can alienate consumers from seeing the true value of a decentralized technology. What gets lost in translation?  It’s just one of the challenges developers face in solving some of the hardest probl...

It’s commonly known in crypto that if you’re launching a Layer 1 blockchain, you should ensure it has absolutely zero bugs. To accomplish this, you need a thorough security audit that carefully combs through your code and pinpoints all vulnerabilities.  While there’s plenty of demand for these services, Zellic Co-Founder and CEO Luna Tong believes that in the age of AI and automation, only humans...

While crypto may be considered insular, AI is already a global phenomenon demonstrating Web 2.0-sized scale and implications. As large machine learning companies rapidly release new applications, their valuations have soared, partnering with legacy technology companies to distribute their tools to the masses.  What people aren’t talking enough about, according to Decentralized AI Society Chairman...

One of the core narratives around decentralization is that anyone in the world can create, contribute to, or interact with a protocol. But when looking at regional and vertical adoption, it’s clear that crypto is still too insular to truly be a global technology. Coinbase Ventures Investor and CoinFund’s first employee Ryan Yi joins Mined with CoinFund hosts Alex Felix and Jake Brukhman to chat ab...

Institutional adoption is regarded as one of the most important milestones for crypto. Between ETF approvals, big banks being bullish, and wall street traders making bets on digital currency, it seems like those at the helm of the global financial system determine crypto’s fate.  For Jeremy Allaire, CEO and co-founder of Circle – the issuer of stablecoin USDC – crypto adoption is surprisingly driv...

In order to have a sustainable economy onchain, you need takers – and makers – to be profitable over time. In the world of DeFi, Logan Jastremski, co-founder and Managing Partner of Frictionless Capital, thinks that long-term market maker profits will ultimately derive from order flows.  Logan joins Mined with CoinFund hosts Jake Brukhman and David Pakman to discuss these nuances within trading, a...

It’s our most controversial episode yet. The tokens are broken and have destroyed the consumer playbook too, according to Icebreaker co-founders Dan Stone and Jack Dillé. What if we put less things onchain and leveraged crypto to build trust and serendipity where it really matters? Dan and Jack join Mined with CoinFund hosts Jake Brukhman and Alex Felix to discuss the current problems facing socia...

Crypto is plagued by incomprehensible buzzwords. Does anyone really know what ‘non-fungible’ means in the context of NFTs?  Ridhima Kahn, VP at Dapper Labs, argues that the crypto industry must cater to the audience it's trying to reach – we need to drop the jargon.  Ridhima joins Mined with CoinFund hosts David Pakman and Jake Brukhman to discuss NFT development amid quieter markets, leverag...

It’s no secret that zero knowledge is a highly technical realm of the web3 space. How do you deliver novel value while working to onboard the masses?  That’s the biggest issue in ZK right now, according to Stasia Carson (@etainos), co-founder of Sindri.  Stasia joins Mined with CoinFund hosts David Pakman (@pakman) and Jake Brukhman (@jbrukh) to discuss the usability problem, and how ZK must foste...

What’s that one thing in crypto that not enough people are talking about?  For Marvin Ammori (@ammori), most recent Chief Legal Officer at Uniswap Labs, it’s that progressives have yet to embrace crypto.  In this episode, Marvin joins Mined with CoinFund hosts David Pakman (@pakman) and Jake Brukhman (@jbrukh) to discuss crypto’s policy narrative in the summer ahead of the November’s Presidential...

What’s one big idea in crypto that everyone is missing?  Time to dig in: Introducing Mined with CoinFund.  Mined is a weekly show that explores the unearthed narratives within the crypto space. There’s so much noise across the echo chamber of crypto culture. What’s something people aren’t talking enough about?  At CoinFund, we pride ourselves on being early with precision. As a team of early stage...