The blocmates Podcast

Jedi was joined by Sam Forman (https://twitter.com/pgpsam) who is the CEO of Sturdy Finance. Sturdy stakes the collateral provided by borrowers into DeFi protocols like Yearn, Convex, and Lido. The staking rewards are used to pay interest to depositors.  With the upcoming launch of Sturdy 1.0, we were curious why it was 1.0 considering that the project has been around for over 6 months.  Follow St...

Jedi sat down with RockawayX's CEO - Viktor Fischer. A $500 million fund that has an extensive portfolio from VC, to infrastructure to money management. Discussions around early entry into Solana, Uniswap and Cosmos. Providing infrstructure validators for ecosystems and being long term investors in crypto.  https://twitter.com/viktorfischer https://twitter.com/Rockaway_X  Like, Share, and Sub...

Grant sat down with OP crypto degen to discuss the current and upcoming narratives in DeFi and web3. Myself and EZ are very much narrative and sentiment-driven investors so it was good to discuss what we think the next big moves will be in the crypto markets.    https://twitter.com/OPCryptoDegen https://twitter.com/OPCryptoVC    Like, Share, and Subscribe for more cryptocurrency, deep dives, and m...

Grant drops in with a fresh lid and an alpha bomb about Trader Joe moving over to Arbitrum before swiftly disappearing into the weekend. Today Dan and Jedi have a recap of what's going on in the markets and why now is the best time to be bullish on crypto from a macro industry point of view.    Like, Share, and Subscribe for more cryptocurrency, deep dives, and market news    Sign up for THE...

Jedi sits with METIS Co- Founder Kevin Liu on what decentralisation looks like from DAC's to soulbound tokens and the future of DeFi and the role that Metis gets to play in this revolution.  Like, Share, and Subscribe for more cryptocurrency, deep dives, and market news    Sign up for THE APE ENCLOSURE - Our free newsletter gives out our personal picks for the week, what trends we are seeing...

Jedi and co founder of Panther Protocol Oliver Gale dive deep into what privacy means, it's importance and how you simply cannot be complacent about it.  Like, Share, and Subscribe for more cryptocurrency, deep dives, and market news    Sign up for THE APE ENCLOSURE - Our free newsletter gives out our personal picks for the week, what trends we are seeing in the crypto space, and front-runnin...

Grant sat down with Arbitrum CMO - Andrew Saunders to chat about all things Off-chain labs, Arbitrum, DeFi, NFTs, Arbitrum Nova, and sneaky marketing tactics good and bad. This was a testament to how great this space can be. Andrew is one of the best marketers in the world in my opinion and his track record shows this. From Amazon, Hollywood and now Arbitrum, it will be a joy to watch his methods...

Grant sat down with OnChain Wizard to discuss the angle of checking the chain to maximise returns. This was a fascinating insight into how using on-chain data can help give key information about who is buying what and how to spot projects early. OnChain Wizard is also launching an analytics tool that makes it easy for anyone to figure out what is happening on-chain without having to trawl through...

We both feel very privileged to have sat down with Ryan Cantering Clark for a 2 part podcast where we discussed the perils of crypto trading and how to properly define what you are good at and how to stick to it. We discussed how discipline is a must, how order flows are pivotal to Ryan's success, missing DeFi and buying terrible NFTS... Of course, we discussed what will happen in the afterma...

We all sat down a little deflated and angry at whats happened the past week. We try to make sense of the recent developments of FTX and SBF. Who knows anymore…   Like, Share, and Subscribe for more cryptocurrency, deep dives, and market news    Sign up for THE APE ENCLOSURE - Our free newsletter gives out our personal picks for the week, what trends we are seeing in the crypto space, and front-run...

Grant and Jedi sat down with one of our favourite founders - Dan Hughes of Radix. We discussed where he has been recently and it is a good one! The future of Radix, scaling, composability and shard were all topics of discussion here. We couldn't be more excited for early next year when the Radix ecosystem will begin to develop!    Like, Share, and Subscribe for more cryptocurrency, deep dives...

Gud bois everywhere... Elon causes a stir with DOGE pumping over 140% from the bottom. Is this the beginning or the end? How much steam will DOGE have? The Twitter takeover is very topical right now and we discussed what it means for BNB and DOGE. On top of that, we had a look at some GMX derivative products that came on the markets recently and have a very low market cap.     Like, Share, and Sub...

https://www.handle.fi/handle.fi is a decentralised beautifully made multi currency stablecoin protocol. The handle protocol allows users to leverage trade, swap, borrow and earn from multi-currency stablecoins.   Current available fxTokens; Australian Dollar (fxAUD) British Pound (fxGBP) Canadian Dollar (fxCAD) Chinese Renminbi (fxCNY) Euro (fxEUR) Japanese Yen (fxJPY) Phillipine Peso (fxPHP) Sing...

The three idiots are back together once more chatting about the current state of the markets, DeFi, regulation and some projects that we encourage everyone to keep an eye on. Arbitrum and Layer Zero projects are coming...     Like, Share, and Subscribe for more cryptocurrency, deep dives, and market news    Sign up for THE APE ENCLOSURE - Our free newsletter gives out our personal picks for the we...

Grant sat down with Jack Niewold who is a good friend within the industry. We had been meaning to have a catch-up for a while and thought it would be fun to record the session. We chatted about the LUNA Expose thread that created a bitter-sweet I told you so moment. Terra and its downfall and what happened in the aftermath. What is next for the crypto pragmatist, where can we go as an industry, le...

Grant is still TKO and we hope he's better next week so wishing him a speedy recovery over the weekend.   Let's jump straight in as Vitalik has officially kicked start the microcap bull run with 2 iconic tweets, the copium is very real as people are printing 6 figures overnight and a deeper look into what's happening in the markets.   With liquidity at an all-time low, what does thi...

This was a community talk around what HXRO is planning for the future.  Jedi had a chat with Gunny on what the vision is around a network that will allow for derivatives trading.  Multiple projects on one networks all centered around trading. Discussion around community importance and the incentives that HXRO will be granting members in the coming weeks. All community members who attended and who...

Grants TKO for today's episode so Jedi and Dan take over the ropes and talk about what's happening in the markets. Are we expecting a short-term relief rally leading into the midterms or is this another scam pump? We also talk about being narrative hunters whale watchers and simply being smart with your trades for the best success.  Plus we rant and rave like normal.  Like, Share, and Su...

Today we dive DEEP into the world of geopolitical game theory and the existing monetary order. We discuss where Bitcoin could fit into the existing power structures, how the current global conflicts could play out, and what tools we can use to gain clarity in these uncertain times.  Like, Share, and Subscribe for more cryptocurrency, deep dives, and market news    Sign up for THE APE ENCLOSURE - O...

Grant, Jedi and Dan sat down to discuss the most pivotal moment in crypto history... the SUSHI Horse saga... We discussed the plans for FTX to go public, what happened with the Coinbase IPO, What happens to BNB when CZ owns a majority share in Twitter, What is Berachain and how it works, Is there really 21m Bitcoin?   Like, Share, and Subscribe for more cryptocurrency, deep dives, and market news...

Grant and Jedi sat down with Magnus a serial builder in the crypto space. Magnus is currently building Protecc an NFTFi market-making protocol which fits our own thesis of where we think the next narratives might take hold. Additionally, he is one of the founders of Redacted Cartel which we have also talked extensively about on this show.     https://twitter.com/___magnus___    Like, Share, and Su...

Happy Friday! Today we talk about whats hot in the news from the BSC bridge hack, Celcius exposing clients' private information and we take a dive into the NFT space featuring the Bear Bongs.  Plus listen to our thoughts on the Elon Twitter takeover and what impact CZ might just have.   Vendor Finance - https://twitter.com/VendorFi   Discord - https://discord.com/invite/XrMMT2YY2q  Like, Shar...

Grant sat down with Vendor Finance a novel lending and borrowing protocol built on Arbitrum which allows anyone to lend directly peer to peer to anyone else. Users can set their rates, expires and desired collateral tokens. We got into where the product could develop and even touched upon isolated NFT lending. This is a very very interesting protocol and not to be missed.    Vendor Finance - https...

The team is back together are 2 weeks of jet-setting around the world, from London to Singapore. We take a look at the hot alpha that came out of Zebu Live and Token 2049, Uptober has begun and we take a look at some of the hottest charts PLUS some accidental insider alpha we found live on stream. Like, Share, and Subscribe for more cryptocurrency, deep dives, and market news    Sign up for THE AP...

Grant was joined by the dYmension team to discuss what RollApps are?! Yup, that is not a typo. We delved into what the current limitations are with all L1s and how application-specific chains can implement the dYmensions stack to increase capacity, latency, throughput and much much more.    Learn more - https://twitter.com/dYmensionXYZ    Like, Share, and Subscribe for more cryptocurrency, deep di...