The Crypto Conversation

Brian Courchesne started his career on Wall Street and became interested in Bitcoin in 2014. He recognized a need for licensed advisors in the space and founded DAIM to provide professional management of crypto assets. DAIM's typical clients are busy business owners looking to make larger allocations to the crypto space. They offer personalized portfolio recommendations and manage assets according...

Ethena Labs - Enabling the Internet Bond   Guy Young is the CEO and Founder of Ethena Labs, the crypto infrastructure company building USDe, the first-ever global internet bond and stablecoin not reliant on existing banking institutions.    Why you should listen Ethena Labs is a decentralized stablecoin protocol built on Ethereum that will provide a crypto-native solution for money not reliant on...

Valio - Next Generation Asset Management Platform   Karlis is the of founder Valio, an asset management platform that connects users to leading traders and digital asset managers. Why you should listen Valio.xyz is a new cross-chain asset management platform that aims to solve the technical challenges that have held back decentralized asset management. It works by allowing investors to allocate th...

Jason Grewal is the Chief Legal Officer at SYS Labs, a company building products and services for Web3. Why you should listen Rollux is SYSLabs' premier product, an EVM rollup platform rooted in Bitcoin's PoW for unparalleled security, scalability, and affordability. Bitcoin is the most secure store of value in blockchain. Its value is protected against malicious actors through its Proof-of-Work p...

Lodewyck Berghuijs is the CEO and co-founder of Delos Digital, the parent company to Kodoma and Pantheon Mining. Lodewyck shares his personal journey into bitcoin mining after facing challenges in the music industry due to COVID-19.  Why you should listen The narrative around Bitcoin's energy consumption is evolving, with a shift towards recognizing its positive impact on driving sustainable energ...

Paul Salisbury is the co-founder of Everlasting, a digital currency hybrid custody initiative founded in New Zealand. Everlasting provides users with sovereignty over their assets while mitigating risks such as hacks or loss of funds. The goal is to offer a robust solution that can cater to individual investors, asset managers, and high-net-worth individuals. Why you should listen Paul Salisbury d...

Corey Caplan and Adam Knuckey are the co-founders of Dolomite, a next-generation money market and margin trading protocol built on Arbitrum.    Why you should listen The decision to build Dolomite on Arbitrum was driven by the need for faster transactions and lower gas fees compared to Ethereum mainnet. Dolomite aims to provide a better decentralized exchange experience by addressing the limitatio...

Fred Thiel is the CEO of Marathon Digital Holdings, one of the largest Bitcoin mining companies on the planet. The company holds 13,000 BTC in its corporate treasury.   Why you should listen Fred Thiel discusses the role of Bitcoin mining in balancing the grid and incentivizing renewable energy. He explains how miners can use stranded energy from solar and wind farms, benefiting both the operators...

Jay White is the co-founder of Space and Time, a decentralized data warehouse. Space and Time can be understood as a web3 native database platform with applications in gaming and DeFi.   Why you should listen Space and Time is (SxT) is a decentralized data warehouse that comes preloaded with indexed blockchain data from major chains. You can join tamperproof on-chain data with your own off-chain d...

Tomer Afek is the CEO and Co-founder of Spacemesh, a layer 1 Proof of Space Time (PoST) protocol. Following mainnet launch on the 14th of July 2023 they have created the "People's Coin" magic internet money, that anyone can mine from home, no special mining gear required.  Why you should listen Spacemesh is a decentralized smart contract platform that uses Proof of Space-Time (PoST) as its consens...

Jett Tang is the executive producer of The Next Crypto Gem, a Reality  TV series that premieres September 7. It's the first crypto-related TV show of its kind. Think Shark Tank meets The Apprentice in Web3. Why you should listen The Next Crypto Gem is a crypto reality TV show starring Brian D. Evans, Layah Heilpern, George Tung as judges. The Next Crypto Gem puts the best projects in the wild worl...

Dermot O'Riordan is the director of Pocket Network. Pocket Network's mission is to build censorship-resistant technology that will lay the foundation for reorganizing the world's institutions toward a more equitable, hyper-connected, interplanetary future. Why you should listen Pocket Network is one of the pioneering projects driving the DePin revolution. Since 2017, it has empowered developers wi...

Yves La Rose is the CEO of the EOS Network Foundation and a modern-day samurai. EOS was the largest ICO and raised over $4 billion in the biggest initial coin offering of all time. With its promise of being more efficient than other cryptocurrencies, EOS gained a reputation as "Ethereum on Steroids." Over time, however, users declined, its token's value declined, and developers left the project. Y...

Boris Alergant is the Head of DeFi at Ripple. He discusses the challenges of institutional adoption in DeFi and the importance of compliance.  Why you should listen Ripple's report, "2023 Crypto Trends in Business and Beyond," explores tokenizing assets, managing them securely, and facilitating asset movement on the XRP ledger. The report also highlights that global finance leaders are increasingl...

Keone Hon is the Co-Founder and CEO of Monad, an EVM-compatible L1 that can process 10k TPS. Keone explains why he decided to move on from Jump Trading and start a new venture with Monad, focusing on building an ultra-high-performance EVM blockchain that improves upon Ethereum's throughput. He highlights the need for pipelining in transaction execution and state access to achieve higher performanc...

There are approximately 281 days until the next Bitcoin halving. In this episode, Andy looks at several data points related to the Bitcoin halving cycle, and the fast-rising odds that suggest not just one, but a group of Bitcoin Spot ETF applications are likely to be approved soon. Plus, what did David Bowie say about the internet in 1999 that was so eerily prescient? Supporting links Coinsbee And...

Raj Brahmbhatt is the co-founder and CEO of Zeebu, a blockchain-based settlement platform for telecom carriers. Zeebu aims to revolutionize the telecom wholesale voice industry by introducing a decentralized ecosystem for voice traffic exchange. Traditional voice traffic exchange is riddled with inefficiencies, opaqueness, and trust issues, which leads to higher costs and remittance delays. Zeebu...

Daniel Dizon is the Founder of Swell, an Ethereum liquid staking protocol, backed by Mark Cuban, Bankless, Framework, Apollo, Maven 11, and more. Daniel is actively involved in the DeFi ecosystem as an early-stage strategic advisor and angel investor. Previously, Daniel founded and exited a software start-up and formerly served in corporate finance advisory roles, including portfolio management fo...

Christopher Brookins is the co-founder of RociFi, a DeFi primitive for on-chain scoring and capital-efficient lending. Why you should listen RociFi enables borrowers with clean EVM-compatible on-chain history and reputation to borrow with collateral while offering lenders a high, stable deposit yield.  In order to borrow on RociFi, users must mint an ERC-1155 token, NFCS (Non-Fungible Credit Score...

Moka Han is the COO at BitKeep Wallet which has been acquired by Bitget and rebranded to the Bitget Wallet. With over 10 years of experience in FinTech, Moka has led BitKeep to achieve several growth milestones and into the largest multi-chain wallet in Asia. Why you should listen Bitkeep's collaboration with the Bitget exchange and brand repositioning as Bitget Wallet was conceptualized from a de...

Jake Claver is the founder of Digital Ascension Group, and a business leader, keynote speaker, and performance expert who helps professionals build wealth and grow their businesses.    Why you should listen Jake services a client list of high-net-worth individuals to help them secure wealth for generations to come. He runs the Beyond Broke Mastermind Group to give individuals affordable access to...

Graham Elwood is a comedian, filmmaker, and podcaster. He has just spent time on the ground in El Salvador exploring the country's Bitcoin adoption. He is producing a new documentary called Bitcoin Saves El Salvador. Why you should listen Graham first learned about Bitcoin when Max Kaiser appeared on his show Political Vigilante. Graham discusses his experience in El Salvador, particularly in Bitc...

Petr Kozyakov is the Co-founder and CEO of Mercuryo, a global payments infrastructure platform. Why you should listen Mercuryo began in 2018 as an onramp solution to help users buy crypto easily and at lower costs. Later, they expanded their services to provide banking solutions, payment solutions, and to act as a bridge between traditional financial institutions and crypto companies. They now wor...

Denis Creighton is the CEO of IMPT, a carbon-offsetting ecosystem designed to connect global retail brands with socially responsible individuals and businesses seeking to reduce their carbon footprint.   Why you should listen Described as the Planet's Loyalty Programme, IIMPT is a carbon-offsetting ecosystem designed to connect retail brands with socially responsible individuals and businesses see...

Micky (Mr. Telecom) Watkins is the CEO at World Mobile, a mobile network owned by the people and built on blockchain technology. Micky shares his background in telecommunications and his passion for connecting the unconnected.  Why you should listen Micky understands the importance of internet access for underserved communities and is focused on providing connectivity. World Mobile started as a pr...