Rehash: A Web3 Podcast

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Eshita, Head of Strategy at Astria, about the current state of crypto infra, why developer tooling is lagging, and we get to the bottom of what shared sequencers are. After spending a couple of years researching the crypto ecosystem, Eshita started to feel like a bystander and wanted to become more of an active participant in the ecosystem, so she rec...

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Julia Lipton, Founder and General Partner at Awesome People Ventures, about unlocking latent potential in humans, finding product market fit in web3 communities, and the most important things happening in the global landscape right now. In many ways it’s surprising that it took us until Season 7 to bring Julia on the podcast because she has actually p...

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with 13yearoldvc, Ecosystem Lead at Eigenlayer, about how she studied 50 projects a day to identify trends as a VC, why she now enjoys building more than investing, and what it is about Eigenlayer that she believes makes it a really special one of a kind project. “If you can’t explain it to a 10 year old in 2 minutes or less, don’t own it.” -Peter Lynch Fe...

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Gabriel, founder of Mochi, a coordination game for autonomous worlds. AI and blockchain are two buzzwords anyone operating remotely adjacent to the tech space has heard a lot of in recent years, but we haven’t heard much of the two concepts operating together. Gabriel believes there’s actually a strong case for AI and blockchain to operate together, a...

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Birb aka Chairman Birb Bernanke aka bonecondor on Twitter all about the new Bitcoin ETF and best security practices in crypto. Birb started her career in TradFi and was a product manager for a number of years before joining OtterSec, a blockchain security audits company. We start out by talking about the Bitcoin ETF, and Birb patiently answers a lot o...

On our first episode of Season 7, we’re speaking with DeFi Beats aka Johnny Gabriele about how to not get rekt in crypto, why WAGMI is not dead, and his best pieces of advice for newcomers to the crypto and blockchain space. DeFi Beats is an advisor, investor, DeFi power user, good listener, and self admittedly terrible speller. He initially had his sights set on getting his PhD and becoming a pro...

On this bonus episode of Season 6, we bring back some of your favorite Rehash guests from the past to share their perspectives on what happened in 2023 and what they are most bullish on moving forward to 2024. Hudson Jameson (S6 E5), Sirsu (S5 E1), Maya Bakhai (S5 E3), and Stefen Deleveaux (S2 E11) join us to wrap up the year from a wide array of perspectives, including DAOs, gaming, technical, an...

On our final episode of Season 6, we’re speaking with Dan Hunt, co-founder of Foster, about deliberately developmental organizations, how we can help individuals within an organization grow individually while also growing together, and some practical strategies for overcoming common challenges faced in decentralized organizations. Foster is a collaborative organization for editorial and writing su...

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with David Phelps, co-founder of JokeRace, about fun ways to gamify governance and his biggest takeaways from recent conferences he attended on the current state of crypto and what we should be focusing on in this space in the near future. This is David’s second appearance on Rehash and will be a bit of a sequel to the first one, so if you’re not familiar...

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Ravi Bakhai, founder of Hypeshot, about why livestreaming is a compelling medium across so many industries, what a crypto-enabled live streaming platform unlocks for creators, and future livestreaming trends we can expect to see in the next five years.  Even though livestreaming has technically been around since the early 1990s, with the very first li...

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Brennan Mulligan, DAO Program Manager at SuperRare Labs, about effective leadership strategies in DAOs, new spins on progressive decentralization, and Brennan’s new ultrarunning career. If you’re a DAO operator or a facilitator or manager in any organization, you’ll really enjoy this episode and learn something new from Brennan. He shares so many insi...

On this episode of Rehash, we speak with Magenta Ceiba, Principal Systems Architect at Bloom Network, about how we can use blockchain tech to empower local communities in their grassroots ecological efforts, where Magenta sees the future of regenerative finance going, and how to best organize communities in a decentralized yet still well managed and organized way. Bloom Network is a community netw...

On this episode of Rehash, we speak with Luca Netz, CEO of Pudgy Penguins, about how to take crypto to the mainstream, strategies for building for longevity, and Luca shares some alpha on the biggest mistake crypto founders make that results in the demise of their project. Pudgy Penguins is an NFT pfp project on Ethereum that was launched in July 2021 and purchased by Luca in April 2022 for 750 ET...

On this episode of Rehash, we speak with Ethereum OG, Hudson Jameson, about his experiences and learnings from actively working in the Ethereum ecosystem since 2015, as well as his personal story of experiencing burnout and his journey with mental health. Hudson is a developer who first learned about Bitcoin in 2011 and went on to create and launch the blockchain program at USAA in 2014 and join t...

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with María Paula Fernández, co-founder of JPG and a true OG in the NFT space, about living through another bear market, how to be a good web3 art curator, and new blockchain art projects that should be on your radar. We catch up on what MP's been up to since our last recording together and how she’s been feeling amidst yet another crypto bear market - and...

On this episode of Rehash, we speak with Steph Alinsug, founder of VESSEL, the launchpad for onchain media. We talk about what onchain media is, how we can rethink advertising, and what companies can do with more relevant information on their users. Steph is one of the few repeat guests we’ve had on Rehash. The first time she was on the podcast was almost exactly one year ago in November of last y...

On this episode of Rehash, we speak with Laura Jaramillo, CEO and co-founder of SONA, about helping artists build a more sustainable revenue, designing fail proof protocol incentives, and using music to onboard the next billion users to crypto.  Like many of us, Laura’s journey into crypto was a winding one with many seemingly mismatched pieces that somehow all came together and are contributing t...

On our first episode of Season 6, we have the privilege of speaking with Maz and Eiman, co-founders of Crowdmuse, a platform for multiplayer collaboration on fashion drops and digital IP rights. Maz and Eiman explain what digiphysical goods are, not just in the context of fashion, but as it relates to any physical item with a digital counterpart, or vice versa. They do an excellent job of explaini...

Season 6 of Rehash: A Web3 Podcast starts on Thursday, October 5, 2023 with new episodes every Thursday until December 21, 2023. Season 6 will be pretty heavily focused on consumer crypto and creators, with a couple of more technical episodes sprinkled in there as well. Some names you might recognize are Luca Netz from Pudgy Penguins, Steph Alinsug, a repeat guest who’s now working on a new projec...

On our final episode of Season 5, we’re speaking with Raz about a variety of topics ranging from building games for his siblings as a child to starting his own business at age 14 to forming anonymous relationships online and so much more. Raz is the CEO and co-founder of Guild, a membership management tool that helps you automate requirements, roles, and rewards for your community. We start off by...

On this episode of Rehash, we speak with Yancey Strickler about the problems he sees with the creator economy and why onchain release clubs are a better framing for creative and collaborative work, and we discuss what a post-capitalist world might look like. Yancey is the co-founder of Metalabel and Kickstarter.  We start by envisioning what a post-capitalist world might look like and discussing h...

On this episode of Rehash, we speak with Thomas Scaria, co-founder and CEO of one of our sponsors this season, Lore, about the intersection of the crypto economy and the creator economy, why now is not the time to dismiss consumer crypto, and social experiences that can only be enabled by crypto. As you’ve probably heard me say in past episodes, Lore is the co-ownership platform where you can seam...

On this episode of Rehash, we speak with Rebecca Rettig, Chief Legal and Policy Officer at Polygon Labs, about the current state of crypto regulation around the world. This is the first legal and policy focused conversation we’ve had on Rehash in over a year - the last conversation we had on crypto regulation was with Katherine Wu from Archetype and Crypto Council for Innovation all the way back i...

On this episode of Rehash, we are dissecting identity, reputation, and truth with Billy Luedtke, founder of Intuition, a full stack solution that allows anyone to claim anything about anything . If that sounds cryptic to you, you’ll want to brace yourself because Billy and I go down countless esoteric rabbit holes in this episode about what our true identity is, how we know something to be true, a...

On this episode of Rehash, we speak with fellow podcaster, Nick Hollins, about the creator economy, web3 communities, and building a collectively curated onchain radio at UFO. Nick is the creator of UFO and co-founder of Apollo, the creative lab that produces UFO. The creator economy has grown in leaps and bounds since the early 2000s with the introduction of blogging, to Youtube’s emergence, to s...