Talking Tokens

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Polygon’s Chief Legal and Policy Officer Rebecca Rettig. They dive into the current state of policymaking in crypto, the impact the US Presidential Election has on the industry, her regulatory and policy outlook after President Trump retakes office, the SEC and more. ======================= Follow Rebecca: https://x.com/RebeccaRettig1 Foll...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Hayden Adams, CEO of Uniswap Labs, and Hart Lambur, co-founder and CEO of Across. They dive into Unichain, Uniswap’s new L2 chain built on the OP stack, Across being a bridging partner for the chain and why it’s important to have easy access for cross-chain swaps, scaling Ethereum, DeFi and more. ======================= Follow Hayden: http...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Tristan Frizza, founder of Zeta Markets. They talk about what traders want more of on DeFi trading platforms, why Zeta is building a layer-2 on top of Solana, how it will scale the network and more. ======================= Follow Tristan: https://x.com/tristan0x Follow Zeta Markets: https://x.com/ZetaMarkets Follow Jacquelyn: https://twitter...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, we're sharing a fireside chat Jacquelyn moderated with Stani Kulechov, founder and CEO of Avara (formerly Aave), in Buenos Aires, Argentina. While on stage at the Avalanche Summit LATAM, they discuss the current state of stablecoins, tokenization of real world assets (RWAs), and opportunities to drive mass adoption through Latin America and other regions. =======...

For this week’s Thursday's episode, we’re sharing an episode I recorded last week in a podcast studio near the Avalanche Summit, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Our guests include Michael Martin, director of Codebase at Ava Labs, and Inertia co-founders Marc Villafuerte, Anish Lathker and Kainoa Kanter. Codebase is an Avalanche-focused web3 accelerator program and Inertia is a community-led prediction...

On today's talking tokens episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Ava Labs co-founder and CEO Emin Gün Sirer. We recorded this during the Avalanche Summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina. They dive into the latest developments on Avalanche in the past quarter, the Avalanche-based Off The Grid game seeing explosive success, what the Avalanche9000 upgrade really means, his outlook on Latin America, institutional...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Scroll’s Co-founder Sandy Peng and Head of Growth Raza Zaidi. They talk about building an L2 in a competitive landscape, growth metrics and how the chain has evolved since its mainnet in 2023, ZK technology’s role in the broader ecosystem and more. ======================= Follow Sandy: https://x.com/sandyzkp Follow Raza: https://x.com/razaco...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Asher Genoot, CEO of Hut 8.They talk about Hut 8 being publicly traded, IPOs, bitcoin mining needing a new name, data centers and the role AI can play in them, among other topics. ======================= Follow Asher: https://x.com/ashergenoot Follow Hut 8: https://x.com/Hut8Corp Follow Jacquelyn: https://twitter.com/jacqmelinek Follow Talki...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn interviewed David Nage, venture capital PM at Arca and the host of the Base Layer Podcast. They talk about David’s extensive career in the digital asset world, his VC outlook, how he views the market as a long-term investor, whether or not AI is overhyped, how NFTs can be useful in the future and more. ======================= Follow David: https://x.com...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Alexei Zamyatin, cofounder of Build on Bitcoin (BOB). They talk about hybrid layer-2 blockchains, BoB using the OP Stack, what role the chain wants to play in merging Ethereum and Bitcoin ecosystems, the current state of DeFi on Bitcoin and more. ======================= Follow Alexei: https://x.com/alexeizamyatin Follow BoB: https://x.com/bu...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Chiente Hsu, co-founder and CEO of Alex, a Bitcoin DeFi-focused platform. They talk about her journey from TradFi to DeFi, building a Bitcoin-focused DEX, how institutions and traditional market players are entering the space and more. ======================= Follow Chiente: https://x.com/RuleBasedInvest Follow ALEX: https://x.com/ALEXLabBTC...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, we’re sharing a fireside chat Jacquelyn moderated with Michael Sonnenshein, former CEO of Grayscale and long-time crypto veteran, at Messari Mainnet. They discuss his 10+ years at Grayscale, his outlook on spot bitcoin ETFs, institutional adoption, the IPO market for crypto, and what he’s up to now. ===================== Follow Michael: https://x.com/sonnenshein...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Coinbase Chief Security Officer Philip Martin. Jacquelyn and Philip talk about security in crypto, the most common – and uncommon – scams and how to avoid them, what Coinbase is doing to stay safe and more. ======================= Follow Philip: https://x.com/securityguyphil Follow Coinbase: https://x.com/coinbase Follow Jacquelyn:...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Wormhole Foundation cofounders Dan Reecer and Robinson Burkey. They talk about Wormhole’s focus on interoperability, its latest Era3 upgrade and what it means for developers, enterprise businesses, institutions and DeFi, as well as the team’s long term road map. ======================= Follow Dan: https://x.com/danreecer_ Follow Rob...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, we’re resharing an in-person fireside chat Jacquelyn Melinek did with Avery Ching, the co-founder and CTO of Aptos Labs. During the Aptos Experience event in Seoul, South Korea, Jacquelyn and Avery talked about what infrastructure is important when building and scaling a blockchain, creating and finding new use cases within the Aptos ecosystem and its future outl...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Michael Kong, CEO and CIO of Sonic Labs (previously Fantom). Jacquelyn and Michael talk about Sonic’s rebrand and upcoming chain launch, what developers want, how it plans to bring in more users, its upcoming airdrop and more. ======================= Follow Michael: https://x.com/michaelfkong Follow Jacquelyn: https://twitter.com/ja...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Rushi Manche, the co-founder of Movement Labs. Jacquelyn and Rushi talk about his journey into the crypto space, what it’s like to operate as a younger founder, Movement’s integration into Aptos, the AggLayer and other ecosystems, as well as its future plans. ======================= Follow Rushi:  https://x.com/rushimanche Follow Mo...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, we’re sharing the Avalanche quarterly webinar with Token Relations and Ava Labs Chief Business Officer John Nahas and COO Luigi D’Onorio DeMeo. They discuss developments within the Avalanche ecosystem this past quarter, the Avalanche9000 network upgrade, stablecoins, institutional adoption and future outlooks. ======================= Follow John:  https://x.com/J...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Alisia Painter, Botanix Labs co-founder and COO. Jacquelyn and Alisia talk about building on Bitcoin and the type of users its bringing in, the evolution of DeFi and other sectors on the network, how Bitcoin L2s differ from other blockchains and more. ======================= - Follow Alisia: https://x.com/alipaints - Follow Botanix...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether and CTO at Bitfinex. Jacquelyn and Paolo talk about USDT’s explosive growth YTD, Tether and Bitfinex’s growth over the years, stablecoins use cases for retail and institutional users, demand for stablecoins backed by other non-USD currencies and more. ======================= Follow Paolo: https://x.com/p...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Anthony Scaramucci, founder and managing partner of SkyBridge and founder and chairman of SALT. Jacquelyn and Anthony talk about bitcoin, institutional interest in digital assets, SALT’s recent Wyoming Blockchain Symposium, the policy and regulatory situation over the crypto industry and more. ======================= Follow Anthony:...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Ben Rubin, CEO and co-founder of Here Not There Labs and Towns, an onchain messaging platform. Jacquelyn and Ben talk about building online communities, the launch of Towns, how onchain messaging can change the way people communicate and more. ======================= Follow Ben: https://x.com/benrbn Follow Towns: https://x.com/towns...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Steven Goldfeder, CEO and co-founder of Offchain Labs (the team building Arbitrum and Prysm). Jacquelyn and Steven talk about the evolution of Arbitrum and its role in scaling Ethereum, the recently launched Tandem incubation program, the proliferation of layer-2 blockchains this market cycle and more. ======================= - Foll...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, we’re sharing the second quarterly Superchain webinar with Token Relations that Jacquelyn Melinek hosted. She was joined by Optimism Co-Founder and OP Labs CEO Karl Floersch and Skeletor, the co-founder of Wonderland, a core development group for web3. They talk about unifying the Superchain, scaling the ecosystem, interoperability, ZK tech, future outlooks for t...

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Anand Iyer, founder and managing partner of Canonical Crypto and venture partner at Lightspeed.  Jacquelyn and Anand talk a lot about Crypto x AI and opportunities he sees in the sector as well as his view on the overall web3 VC space, the type of founder he likes to invest in, how to scale a company and more.  =====================...