The Crypto Conversation

Rena Shah is a former petroleum engineer turned Bitcoin strategist at Trust Machines. Trust Machines has the goal of onboarding 1 billion people into Bitcoin. Why you should listen Trust Machines is building the largest ecosystem of Bitcoin applications to maximize the value of the Bitcoin network. They are Bitcoin layer agnostic and currently use Stacks, Lightning, DLCs and are always open to exp...

Simon Chadwick is Co-founder and CEO at Eclipse Fi, a modular launch and liquidity protocol on Cosmos. Eclipse Fi aims to revolutionize token launches, and support innovation across Cosmos and up-and-coming Layer2s. Why you should listen Simon says that the goal of Eclipse Fi is to align quality projects with users by providing a platform for launching tokens that attracts users into the ecosystem...

Claude Eguienta is the Chief Executive Officer at Mimo Capital, a company that creates protocols providing tokenized real-world assets. So far, it has created the Kuma and Parallel protocols. Kuma is a DeFi protocol that provides tokenized real-world assets. The Parallel protocol is a lending platform for overcollateralized stablecoin loans. Why you should listen Kuma is a DeFi protocol that provi...

Jeff Owens is co-founder of Haven1 - an EVM-compatible layer 1 blockchain designed to offer a secure, trusted environment to drive the mass adoption of on-chain finance. DeFi with training wheels.   Why you should listen Incubated by the team behind digital wealth platform, Yield App, Haven1 incorporates a provable identity framework and robust security guardrails at network level to provide retai...

Chris Shei is the founder and CEO of OneSafe, a financial technology company that partners with crypto-friendly banks to provide banking services for web3 startups. Why you should listen Chris shares his personal history with cryptocurrencies, including being debanked in the early days by JPMorgan and Citibank. He explains that OneSafe is a financial technology company, not a bank, and partners wi...

Gabriel Barros is a Developer Advocate at Cartesi, an app-specific rollup protocol with a virtual machine that runs Linux distributions. At Cartesi, he delivered its Proof of Stake pool staking system, and now is working on Developer Relations, fostering the ecosystem of Cartesian developers.    Why you should listen Cartesi is an app-specific rollup protocol with a virtual machine that runs Linux...

Derek Yoo is CEO at Moonsong Labs, an innovation lab facilitating the development of next-generation protocols and software infrastructure in Web3. Moonbeam is a platform for cross-chain connected applications that unites assets and functionality from many blockchains. Why you should listen Moonbeam is a smart contract platform for building connected applications that can access users, assets, and...

Dan Keene is the Chief Business Officer and on the Founding Team of Portal Foundation. Portal is the universal gaming ecosystem, powered by $Portal. Through market-leading tech products and a world-class network, Portal is bringing blockchain gaming to mainstream audiences.   Why you should listen Portal is a universal gaming platform with a mission to onboard the first billion gamers into Web3. P...

Kai is a core contributor to RAILGUN, a DeFi privacy toolkit powering a rich on-chain Zero-Knowledge privacy ecosystem.   Why you should listen Transactions on public blockchains like Ethereum are viewable on the ledger. Whilst blockchains are a huge technological advancement for financial freedom, they have fundamental shortcomings in protecting the human right of privacy, which is also core to t...

Andrew McFarlane is CTO at Validation Cloud an Institutional Staking-as-a-Service provider and Web3 infrastructure platform. Why you should listen Web3 infrastructure platform Validation Cloud has launched a staking-as-a-service platform for institutions. The platform enables institutions to deploy validators in bulk and earn rewards through smart contract automation. Institutions can stake on-dem...

Jonas Simanavicius is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Syntropy, the data layer for Web3. Why you should listen Syntropy is a decentralized oracle and data network that uses patented technology to stream data in real-time from 12+ blockchains, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Base, Osmosis, and more. Syntropy has 40+ SDKs for instant deployment and full composability. When compar...

Gracy Chen is MD at Bitget, a leading crypto copy trading and cryptocurrency exchange platform. Bitget's mission is to inspire individuals to embrace crypto and connect with the future. Why you should listen Gracy joins Andy to talk about 2023, highlighting the key events impacting the crypto industry during that year. Gracy shares her experiences from traveling around the world, meeting people in...

Trent McConaghy is an AI and blockchain expert and the founder of Ocean Protocol, a decentralized data marketplace. Ocean's newest product is Predictoor, a decentralized prediction feed platform.   Why you should listen Trent shares his journey from being raised on a farm to studying electrical engineering and computer science. He talks about his experience in starting companies focused on AI for...

Maksim Hramadtsou is the founder and CEO of GoodCrypto and goodcryptoX - a next-generation non-custodial DEX trading platform that revolutionizes DEX trading with the help of ERC-4337 Account Abstraction and Smart Contract Wallets. Why you should listen Maksim founded 2018 GoodCrypto in 2018, an all-in-one crypto portfolio manager and multi-exchange trading terminal. GoodCrypto supports 35 central...

Gennaro D'Urso is the founder of Pharma Collective and Israel Mirsky is the Director at Pharma Collective. Gennaro has a background in science and entrepreneurship, while Israel comes from the advertising industry and has experience in the pharmaceutical psychedelic space.   Why you should listen Gennaro and Isreal discuss the problems with big Pharma's business model, which focuses on new drug di...

Jasper De Gooyer is the co-founder and CTO at SEDA, a multichain, permissionless protocol connecting real-world data to any network on-chain.   Why you should listen SEDA is a decentralized oracle network designed to bring data from the real world onto the blockchain. It is a multichain, permissionless protocol connecting real-world data to any network on-chain by enabling the integration of exter...

Tanya Petrusenko is the CEO at Bitmedia, a global crypto advertising platform that helps crypto companies find crypto users around the world. Why you should listen Bitmedia started in 2014 to provide advertising opportunities for businesses in the emerging crypto space. Back then, there were few competitors, and most ads were on Bitcoin Talk. The goal was to connect crypto publishers with advertis...

Andy records a video podcast to check in on the current narratives and data points impacting the crypto markets. With approximately 150 days until the 4th Bitcoin Halving, and less than two months until the likely approval of multiple Bitcoin Spot ETFs, the markets are leaning bullish.  Bitcoin has been on an upward trend for the last 4 weeks, gaining over 36% in that time. Solana has outperformed...

Aditya Das is Head of Research at Volcan Capital, a financial services company focused on investment opportunities in El Salvador.    Why you should listen   Aditya has authored a comprehensive research report titled "Invest in El Salvador," which covers various sectors of the country's economy and highlights its emerging opportunities for investors. Volcan Capital has created two investment funds...

Jae Yang is the CEO of Tacen and the Chief Architect of Project TXA. Tacen and Project TXA are sister projects - Project TXA develops the hybrid decentralized exchange protocol (hDEX) and the decentralized settlement layer (DSL), while Tacen develops the world's first hDEX interfaces for traders to use (Tacen Swap and Tacen Exchange). Why you should listen Jae Yang is the CEO of Tacen and the chie...

Collin Woodward is the President and General Counsel of StealthTest. This secure, cloud-based environment enables teams to create their own Ethereum and EVM-compatible test networks for private and secure Web3 development. Why you should listen StealthTest is designed to ensure industry Web3 projects can protect their privacy, compliance, and IP. With a track record including Chainlink, CertiK, an...

Jonathan Bertrand is CEO at D-Central Technologies, a Bitcoin mining company empowering pleb miners to industry giants. D-Central is North America and Europe's one-stop shop for hardware, hosting, and repair. Why you should listen Since its inception in 2016, D-Central has been at the forefront of innovation and development within the Bitcoin mining sector. The company operates a physical and onli...

Riad Wahby is the CEO and co-founder at Cubist, a company focused on key management solutions for Web3. Riad has a background in electrical engineering and computer science, particularly zero-knowledge proofs. Cubist was founded after Riad and the team identified the problem of key security as a major challenge in Web3 applications. Why you should listen Cubist began as a developer of hardware-bac...

Ayush Ranjan is the Co-Founder and CEO at Huddle01, whose mission is to democratize WebRTC and make it more private, secure, and scalable.   Why you should listen Huddle01 is building a decentralized real-time communication network. Developers can leverage their suite of developer-friendly SDKs to enable powerful audio/video experiences on your app with just a quick plug in. Ayush talks about priv...

Justin Flitter is the founder of NewZealand. AI Their mission is to help businesses scale their superpowers with Artificial Intelligence to increase productivity or create new digital experiences. Why you should listen Justin shares his background in marketing and emerging technology, and his involvement with the New Zealand AI community. He talks about starting The AI meetup and organizing events...