The blocmates Podcast

After three weeks away, the team are back with plenty to discuss. The Bitcoin and overall market pump has been welcomed, with some other big winners such as Solana and the entire SOL ecosystem, as Grant has long predicted. Plus, all of our friends and family are now primed to be our exit liquidity. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

Jedi invited Chris to discuss exactly why summer.fi really does bring the best of DeFi onto one app. Summer.fi has teamed up with a few protocols like Ajna, an “Oracle-less, Permissionless, zero-governance protocol, AAVE, MakerDAO, SparkDAO (a subDAO associated with MakerDAO), and more to come, to create a giant of a money market with the best interest rates you possibly could find across DeFi. --...

Jedi has a catchup call with 0xNic the founder of Unstoppable. They discuss all the progress that has been made with Unstoppable and the big news that they are building out a mobile wallet that will allow normies to access the DEX effortlessly and without all the usual burdens of DeFi. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

Grant is joined by Luigi D'Onorio Demeo, Head of DeFi & Dev Rel at Ava Labs for the latest instalment of Still Early. In a varied chat, the two discuss everything from the beginnings of the Avalanche rush, how it felt to be a part of and how it came to be. We dig into Stars Arena and SocialFi, why the onboarding process has been net positive for crypto, why people are becoming more excite...

Jedi sits down Robbie Ferguson, co-founder of Immutable, a game-changer for web3 gaming. A robust ecosystem that simplifies the process of building Web3 games on Ethereum, allowing developers to focus on what truly matters which is creating fun and compelling games. It achieves this by providing a tech stack consisting of two layers: rollup and platform. While the former serves as the foundational...

Grant sits down for a chat with Derek Lim, Head of Ecosystem Research at Mantle. Mantle is an Ethereum Layer 2 that utilises EigenDA for its data availability. The two discuss Liquid Staking Derivatives, DeFi, Consumer apps and gaming. On this channel, we will talk about Bitcoin, Ethereum, BTC, ETH and many altcoins including Arbitrum ARB, Solana SOL, Avalanche AVAX, Optimism OP tokens etc. We wil...

Jedi and Dan are back, this time featuring the incredible team from HashFlow who have released the HashVerse, one of the best battle royales to hit the crypto space this year. Andrew, Varun and Thibault, the brains behind the game, sit down with us to discuss what the HashVerse actually is, the mechanics behind and most importantly how to WIN! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotif...

Grant sat down with Willem the founder of Botanix Labs a novel chain that is building an Ethereum equivalent network on top of Bitcoin... Yes, you read that correctly. Botanix will enable all your favourite applications to launch with the composability of the EVM whilst benefiting from the security of the Bitcoin Network. Users will pay for each transaction in BTC which will take some getting used...

Welcome to the first episode of Still Early a new weekly podcast from the blocmates team. Still Early is a podcast dedicated to uncovering the hottest emerging trends in crypto, before they happen. We will cover all areas of the crypto, DeFi, NFT and gaming markets to bring you the information before anyone else. In this podcast, we will interview founders, investors, builders and operators to get...

Grant and 563 were joined by Henri from Privy to discuss their infrastructure that is enabling new SocialFi apps such as Friend Tech and many more crypto and web3 applications across DeFi, NFTs, Real-world assets and more. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

Grant and Alex welcome comedian David Boyle from the I'm Quitting Alcohol podcast back to roast the ludicrous side of the crypto industry. We're chatting all things Bitcoin, the nerd crowd at TOKEN2049, and digging deep into the world of meme coins, how they work and how to find them. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

This is a 10-15 minute Podcast every Tuesday and Thursday Morning filling you in on the latest market moves in the crypto space. We will cover the Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) Prices, The fear and greed index, What are the biggest winners and losers in the altcoin markets and why these tokens are performing the way they are. We will also cover any overnight crypto news that you will need to be...

Do you want to maximise yields with your NFTs as your weapons of choice? ZooDAO is a no-loss yield farming game that allows you to leverage your future yields and take on more risk for potentially maximised returns by winning your opponent’s yield, all in the safety of a no-loss environment. ZooDAO is a fun way for the gamification of fighting for your opponent's yields while taking crypto PV...

This is a 10-15 minute Podcast every Tuesday and Thursday Morning filling you in on the latest market moves in the crypto space. We will cover the Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) Prices, The fear and greed index, What are the biggest winners and losers in the altcoin markets and why these tokens are performing the way they are. We will also cover any overnight crypto news that you will need to be...

Jedi took some time out with the founders of Arcton, Merens and Francesco, in order to look at how Real World Assets can practically be a part of blockchain efficiency. With clear regulatory compliance and a method to raise capital, startups can now access liquidity through efficient crowdfunding through a platform like Arcton. Arcton is a crowd-investing platform where securities can be issued cr...

Grant and 563 are back again, this time discussing their thought process when thinking about tokenomics, and token design and how this affects their decision when making an investment in specific crypto projects. In the early days, there was Bitcoin. Then came Ethereum and ETH which enabled a wave of new altcoins in DeFi to experiment with inventive ways to reduce volatility and increase user ince...

This is a 10-15 minute Podcast every Tuesday and Thursday Morning filling you in on the latest market moves in the crypto space. We will cover the Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) Prices, The fear and greed index, What are the biggest winners and losers in the altcoin markets and why these tokens are performing the way they are. We will also cover any overnight crypto news that you will need to be...

This is a 10-15 minute Podcast every Tuesday and Thursday Morning filling you in on the latest market moves in the crypto space. We will cover the Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) Prices, The fear and greed index, What are the biggest winners and losers in the altcoin markets and why these tokens are performing the way they are. We will also cover any overnight crypto news that you will need to be...

Grant, Dan and Jedi sat down for the weekly catch-up discussing everything that happened at Token2049, some bold ETH price predictions from Jedi, laughing at known scammers in the industry and much more. Join 9,416 others trying to stay ahead in the crypto, DeFi, NFT and Web3 space but subscribing to our free newsletter. Get ahead in less than 5 minutes, 2 times a week. --- Send in a voice message...

This is a 10-15 minute Podcast every Tuesday and Thursday Morning filling you in on the latest market moves in the crypto space. We will cover the Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) Prices, The fear and greed index, What are the biggest winners and losers in the altcoin markets and why these tokens are performing the way they are. We will also cover any overnight crypto news that you will need to be...

Jedi spends quality time with Penny from Mori finance discussing the uniqueness of Mori finance’s approach to reinventing the way we view Stablecoins. We’ve previously covered Mori finance on blocmates.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

This is a 10-15 minute Podcast every Tuesday and Thursday Morning filling you in on the latest market moves in the crypto space. We will cover the Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) Prices, The fear and greed index, What are the biggest winners and losers in the altcoin markets and why these tokens are performing the way they are. We will also cover any overnight crypto news that you will need to be...

In this exclusive interview, we sit down with Dan Albert The Head of the Solana Foundation to discuss some of the most exciting recent developments in the Solana ecosystem, including:The Solana x Visa announcement: Solana is partnering with Visa to enable global merchants to accept Solana payments through the Visa network. This is a major step forward for Solana's adoption and usability. Sola...

Account Abstraction is a term that gets thrown around the crypto space quite a lot but what does Account Abstraction actually mean? Grant and 563 talk about all the basics and the latest developments in an area of crypto and DeFi that will enable the next 1 billion users. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

Jedi invited Gareth, the head honcho architect at Tenet to the podcast. Tenet Protocol is an EVM-compatible, Layer 1 public blockchain. Their primary goal is to bring liquidity and yield opportunities to LSDs across DeFi. Tenet Protocol isn’t just riding the wave of LSD protocols meteoric rise in DeFi – they’re crafting their own tsunami with a groundbreaking solution that’s got the potential to f...