Show Me The Crypto

On this special year-end episode of Show Me The Crypto, co-hosts Wade and Ulf check in to see who on their 2025 year-end bet, and make a few bold predictions for 2026! --   Follow us on the socials:   X: @showcrypto TikTok: @showmethecrypto Instagram: @showmethecryptopodcast   --   *Wade and Ulf are holders of the coins mentioned on this episode. None of this is financial advice. *Any financial co...

Samantha Yap is Founder + CEO of YAP Global. With a background in broadcast journalism, Samantha discovered crypto in 2017 and quickly fell down the rabbit hole. After chatting with founders and realizing most struggled to communicate what they were building, Samantha launched YAP Global in 2018 with the goal of translating crypto jargon and helping projects effectively tell their stories. -- Foll...

Cecilia Hsueh is Co-Founder and CEO of Morph. Over the past 13 years, Cecilia has founded five startups and sold services and products to more than five million users. Cecilia entered the crypto space in 2019 and founded Morph in 2023. Morph enables real consumer applications, powering everyday transactions for everyday people. -- Follow Cecilia on X: @ceciliahsueh Follow Morph on X: @MorphLayer -...

Jason Goldberg is Founder and CEO of Airstack, which is responsible for developing the Moxie Protocol. Jason has been an entrepreneur for more than two decades, but his career started when he dropped out of college to work on Bill Clinton’s campaign before going on to work at the White House for six years. Jason’s first company, Social Median, created the first social media newsfeed. Today, his fo...

Jake Gallen is CEO of Emblem Vault. Born and raised in Las Vegas, and with a decade of experience working in the club scene on the strip, Jake discovered crypto in 2016 and made a bunch of money. But then, perhaps with the Vegas influence, he put it all into an ICO at the peak of the market in early 2018 and lost everything. Despite that setback, Jake’s crypto conviction never wavered. Today, Jake...

Cooper Scanlon is co-founder of Movement Labs. Cooper and his co-founder, Rushi, launched Movement Labs from their college dorm room in late 2022. From selling his car to afford engineer salaries to raising more than $45 Million in private venture funding for Movement builders, Cooper has accomplished a lot in a short timeframe. In December 2024 the team successfully launched Movement Mainnet Beta...

With a background building products in the crypto space for nine years, Ejaaz decided to go back to his crypto roots of degen research and investing about a year ago, which led him to set up a liquid fund focused on investing in tokens with an edge on emerging sectors. Since then, he has been in the weeds understanding the intersection of AI and crypto, and he currently educates the Bankless audie...

David Sneider is Co-Founder of Lit Protocol. What started as a teenage passion for astronomy led David onto a website called Hacker News, which, in turn, educated David on the concept of Bitcoin. In 2013, David began building a SaaS company that eventually got acquired by LinkedIn, but he simultaneously kept an eye on developments in the blockchain space. Lit Protocol is a key management network f...

On this special year-end episode of Show Me The Crypto, co-hosts Wade and Ulf give their 2025 Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and Doge price predictions, as well as the month they predict each will peak. Who do you think will win!? Let us know... --   Follow us on the socials:   X: @showcrypto TikTok: @showmethecrypto Instagram: @showmethecryptopodcast   --   *Wade and Ulf are holders of the coins menti...

Jasper Zhang is CEO and Co-founder of Hyperbolic. Jasper completed his PhD in mathematics at UC Berkeley in just two years, making him the fastest person to finish a PhD in Berkeley's history. He's won multiple gold medals in international math competitions and previously worked at Citadel Securities and Ava Labs. Today, he's building what he calls an "open-access AI cloud" through Hyperbolic, whi...

Karel Vuong is Co-Founder of Treasure, which is striving to build the decentralized Nintendo. Karel is a lifelong gamer whose passion blossomed while waiting for games to download on LimeWire in the early days of dial-up internet. With an eagerness to build, Karel dropped out in his third year of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. His early love for gaming, eagerness to build and backg...

Vugar Usi Zade is Chief Operating Officer at Bitget. Prior to joining Bitget, Vugar held senior positions at notable companies such as Facebook, Carlsberg, Sony and BeInCrypto. With 25 million registered users, Bitget empowers the future of finance by ensuring secure, efficient and smart digital transactions. -- Follow Vugar on X: @usithetalk Follow Bitget on X: @bitgetglobal --   Follow us on the...

Matt Katz is CEO and Co-Founder of Caldera. Matt is a self-proclaimed “Crypto OG without the net worth to show for it.” Perhaps that has to do with the fact he discovered Bitcoin at the age of 12, while in Middle School. Matt’s interest in technology led him to study Computer Science at Stanford before he dropped out to Co-Found Caldera. Caldera is a rollup deployment platform that allows develope...

Dr. Steven Waterhouse (aka Seven) is Co-Founder and CEO of Orchid Labs. With multiple Stevens on the team in Orchid’s early days, Steven dropped the “t” and the nickname “Seven” was born. Beyond being a strong advocate for internet privacy and decentralization, Seven has been involved in the crypto scene since 2013. Orchid’s vision is to enable secure access to the internet for everyone, everywher...

Rachel Lin is Co-Founder and CEO of SynFutures. With a career that has spanned from traditional finance to Fintech to CeFi to DeFi, Rachel began her journey with Deutsche Bank’s global markets division, specializing in derivatives. In 2020, Rachel co-founded SynFutures, which is a decentralized platform that aims to make crypto derivatives more accessible by allowing permissionless listing and tra...

Returning guest Alex Masmej was the first person to tokenize himself in 2020 (with the $ALEX token). He then launched Showtime in 2021, which was a social platform for displaying NFTs. If Showtime was the Instagram for NFTs, Alex’s current focus is building the TikTok for onchain social, which is a platform that goes by the name of Drakula. -- Follow Alex on Twitter: @AlexMasmej Follow Alex on Dra...

Returning guest Cooper Turley is the founder of Coop records, which is a hybrid between a Web3 venture fund, a record label and an incubator. Cooper is focused on revolutionizing the music industry by bringing artists onchain and empowering them to keep control and ownership of their work. His bio currently reads: onchain is the new online. -- This episode of Show Me The Crypto is brought to you b...

Sean Ren is CEO and Co-Founder of Sahara AI. An Associate Professor at USC’s Computer Science Department, Sean has received several awards recognizing his research and innovation in the AI space, including Samsung AI Researcher of the Year, MIT TR Innovators Under 35 and Forbes Asia 30 Under 30. Sahara is a decentralized AI network that unlocks fair and universal success to global knowledge capita...

Tess Rinearson is Head of Emerging Products with OP Labs. Tess got into crypto backwards. While most start as hobbyists before migrating their careers to the space, Tess made crypto her career straight away by landing a job with a Bitcoin API company called Chain in 2015. Tess went on to work with Interstellar, Cosmos and lead Twitter’s Crypto team before joining OP Labs in February 2023. Optimism...

Anthony Sassano is our first guest to make a 3rd appearance on Show Me The Crypto. Almost every single day, Anthony creates a 30-minute video/podcast called The Daily Gwei to help educate the masses about the latest happenings in the Ethereum ecosystem. When he’s not busy researching or producing educational content, he enjoys shitposting and calling out haters on Twitter. -- Follow Anthony on Twi...

Bobby Lee is Founder/CEO of Ballet. Born in Ivory Coast, Bobby’s early tech career intertwined with IBM, Microsoft, Yahoo! and Dell before he first discovered Bitcoin in early 2011. Later, Bobby went on to Co-Found China’s first Bitcoin exchange, BTCChina. Today, Bobby is driving global adoption of Bitcoin through his company, Ballet, his book, “The Promise of Bitcoin,” as well as his role as a Me...

Sonali Giovino is Global Head of Ecosystems at De. Fi. Born and raised in Toronto, Sonali discovered the crypto space in 2017 and became fascinated by the technology. She began hosting her own crypto workshops in Vancouver before joining DeFiYield in early 2022. De. Fi is on a mission to make the DeFi space safer for everyone through its fully automated smart contract security scanner and unique c...

For this special year-end episode of Show Me The Crypto, Wade and Ulf compete in a 2024 Alt Coin Portfolio Challenge. The rules: Pick 5 coins to spend $100 each on (two have to be top 50 cap; two have to be 51-100 cap; one is a low cap gem). The better performing portfolio as of Dec. 31, 2024 wins! Who do you think will win? Let us know. --   Follow us on the socials:   Twitter: @showcrypto TikTok...

Kenny Li is Co-Founder of Manta Network. Kenny is a serial entrepreneur who has started, advised and invested in startups for more than a decade. While running a company in the cloud computing space in 2013, Kenny discovered Bitcoin mining as a way to offset server costs. In 2014 he held an advisory role for a Bitcoin options trading platform in 2014 and went on to be a teaching assistant for bloc...

Joël Valenzuela is a libertarian content creator who has been living solely on crypto for the past eight years. From being brought up on a cattle farm to working at the White House to moving to New Hampshire for the Free State Project, Joël’s diverse background led him to the blockchain space where he has become a respected journalist and educator. Through this conversation we’re hoping to underst...