Talking Tokens

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Luca Netz, CEO of Pudgy Penguins. They discuss why he diversified Pudgy Penguins into a business bigger than NFTs, the recent launch of Abstract Chain and how it wants to make consumer apps fun, creating brand awareness and more. ====================== Follow Luca: https://x.com/LucaNetzFollow Pudgy Penguins: https://x.com/pudgypenguinsFol...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Rachel Conlan, Binance CMO. They discuss her role in growing the world’s largest crypto exchange, marketing the platform to 250 million users, its growth plans to grow to 1 billion users, what it takes to build a strong community and more. ======================= Follow Rachel: https://x.com/rachelconlanFollow Binance: https://x.com/Binanc...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly Capital. Tom came on the show in August 2024 and has joined us again for a refresher on the state of crypto VCs, how investors are positioned in the market right now, what he’s interested in, investing in, his opinions on the Ethereum Foundation, L2 chains, $TRUMP and more. =================...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Injective Labs Co-Founder, CEO Eric Chen, and Head of BD Mirza Uddin. They discuss Injective’s plans to democratize finance onchain, bringing DeFi to institutional investors, its progress on the AI front and what the Helix AI Indices means for investors. They also dive into Injective’s new rebrand and plans to integrate EVM support...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Jack Melnick, also known as Cap'n Jack Bearow, the head of DeFi at Berachain. They talk about the importance of building a community, why anonymity can be important, his DeFi strategy for Berachain, the chain’s mainnet launch plans, the state of L1 blockchains in 2025 and more. ======================= Follow Jack: https://x.com/capnjac...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Ilja Moisejevs and Richard Wu, the co-founders of Tensor and Vector. They discuss what it takes to build breakout consumer apps that people want to use, why they pivoted to Vector and how it’s bringing a social aspect to trading, their founder journey, wins, mistakes, lessons and more. ======================= Vector  is invite-only right n...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Ogle, co-founder of Glue and advisor to World Liberty Financial. Ogle is also an onchain sleuth that has helped exploited, or hacked, projects recoverover $500 million – all pro bono. We talk about what’s important when it comes to crypto security and projects, chains and users protecting themselves. We also discuss his advisory work on th...

Today’s guest is Avery Ching, the co-founder and CEO of Aptos Labs. This episode is a part of the quarterly webinars that Token Relations does with Aptos - so it was fun to catch up again with Avery, a few months after they last spoke in Seoul during Aptos Experience. They discuss what Avery hopes to accomplish in his first year as CEO, ecosystem growth for the network in 2025, DeFi opportunities...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Qiao Wang, founding member of Alliance, a web3 accelerator program. Qiao came on the show back in May – but a lot has changed since then. They discuss how Alliance looks for breakout startups, Pump.fun’s journey to hitting $100M revenue in 6 months and what makes a great crypto founder – and investor. Qiao also shared his thoughts on the c...

For this week’s Tuesday episode, we’re sharing the Optimism Quarterly Webinar that Jacquelyn hosted with OP Labs Head of Product Sam McIngvale. This conversation dives into new UI/UX possibilities and innovations that are coming to Ethereum for developers and users through L2 chains — like the 40+ chains within the Superchain ecosystem. They discussed the Superchain’s 2025 product roadmap, which i...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, we are airing the Avalanche Quarterly Webinar that Jacquelyn hosted live earlier this week with three Ava Labs Engineers Stephen Buttolph, Aaron Buckwald and Michael Kaplan. The panel discussion focused on Avalanche9000, the network’s largest upgrade to date that went live in mid December. They also talked about what it means for the Avalanche ecosystem, develope...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Michael Heinrich, co-founder of Zero Gravity Labs, also known as 0G Labs. Zero Gravity Labs is building a decentralized AI Operating System (dAIOS) and has over 200 investors across its $40 million seed round and $35 million pre-seed round. Jacquelyn and Michael discuss into the importance of creating decentralized AI systems, the popularity...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Julian Holguin, CEO of Doodles. We discuss how Julian transitioned from being the president at Billboard to CEO of Doodles, the NFT collection expanding its brand beyond crypto and creating valuable partnerships with companies like McDonalds, Crocs, Adidas and more. ======================= Follow Julian: https://x.com/jholguin Follow Doodl...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Mike Giampapa, general partner at Galaxy Ventures. They talked about crypto payments, emerging opportunities in different regions, what he’s watching as an investor and his outlook for 2025. ======================= Follow Mike: https://x.com/mgiampapa1 Follow Jacquelyn: https://twitter.com/jacqmelinek Follow Talking Tokens: https://twitter...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Nicolas Pouard, VP of Ubisoft’s Strategic Innovation Lab. Ubisoft is one of the largest video game publishers that created Assassin’s Creed, Just Dance and many other games. It has forayed into the web3 gaming space and Nicolas is one of the individuals internally helping expand operations on that front. We talk about Ubisoft’s crypto gaming...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Omni CEO Austin King and CTO Tyler Tarsi. We dive into why they co-founded Omni, its recent mainnet launch and how the network wants to help fix Ethereum and chain fragmentation. We also talk about what it’s like building a crypto business in the US and their 2025 outlook. ======================= Follow Austin: https://x.com/0xASK Follow T...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Rennick Palley, founding partner at Stratos. They talk a lot about Stratos’ early investment in memecoins like Dogwifhat and GOAT, what can make a good meme into a successful memecoin, as well as his crypto VC outlook, investing in crypto founders, building in the US and more. ======================= Follow Rennick: https://x.com/rennickpa...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Alix Musset, Aptos Labs’ Ecosystem Success Manager. They discuss how Alix got into web3 (and worked with famous musician The Weeknd), her growth strategy for expanding the Aptos ecosystem, what other blockchains are getting right and wrong when it comes to ecosystem engagement and more. ======================= Follow Alix: https://x.com/ap...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Nate Holiday, the co-founder, president and CEO at Space and Time. We discuss Space and Time’s role in indexing data across a number of blockchains like Ethereum, Bitcoin, Polygon, Avalanche, Sei and Aptos. We also dive into why AI integration into blockchain technology is important, how Nate sees the sector evolving and more. ==============...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, we're sharing a fireside chat with Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse. Jacquelyn recorded this conversation with Brad on stage at Korea Blockchain Week about 3 months ago. But, we thought it would still be timely since Ripple’s XRP token is the talk of the town right now, as it is up over 80% in the past seven days and 440% in the last month. Although the crypto market...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Jason Zhao, co-founder of Story. They discuss the origin of Story, why IP is so important for content creators, users and businesses to own, how the blockchain plans to play a role in that post-mainnet and more. ======================= Follow Jason: https://x.com/jasonjzha Follow Story: https://x.com/storyprotocol Follow Jacquelyn: https:/...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Antonio Juliano, the CEO of dYdX. They dive into Antonio’s journey as a founder and CEO, how the DeFi and crypto derivatives market has changed since 2017, what the US election means for traders, his outlook for 2025 and more. ====================== Follow Antonio: https://x.com/AntonioMJuliano Follow dYdX: https://x.com/dYdX Follow Jacque...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Adrian Brink, co-founder ofAnoma and Namada. They discuss building decentralized technology that can withstand catostrophic disasters, the importance of privacy through blockchain technology and the impact it has on national defense. ======================= Follow Adrian: https://x.com/adrianbrink Follow Jacquelyn: https://twitter.com/jacq...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Mert Mumtaz, CEO of Helius Labs. They discuss why Mert left Coinbase to start a Solana-focused developer platform, how he looks at Solana compared to other blockchains, the impact of the US Presidential Election on crypto, founder life and more. ======================= Follow Mert: https://x.com/0xmert_ Follow Jacquelyn: https://twitter.co...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Vijay Chetty, Eclipse CEO. They talk about Eclipse’s recent mainnet launch, how it’s bringing Solana and Ethereum together, the types of builders coming into its ecosystem, DeFi opportunities and more. ======================= Follow Vijay: https://x.com/0xLitquidity Follow Eclipse: https://x.com/EclipseFND Follow Jacquelyn: https://twitter.c...