The Crypto Conversation

Will Peck is Head of Digital Assets at WisdomTree. WisdomTree is a traditional asset manager with crypto exchange-traded products in EU (and a pending filing in the US) that is launching an app for retail investors in the US. Why you should listen WisdomTree has a history as the world's largest, independent ETF sponsor and is now working to bridge the gap between TradFi and DeFi. WisdomTree is lau...

Josef Tetek is an ambassador and analyst at Satoshi Labs and Trezor. Josef is a long-time bitcoiner with a background in Austrian economics and political philosophy. Josef believes that Bitcoin is the next step in mankind's monetary evolution.  Why you should listen Josef is a long-time Bitcoiner with a background in Austrian economics and political philosophy and is the author of two books: Bitco...

João Ferreira founder of Defi Basket - a portfolio management protocol that lets users buy a DeFi portfolio in a single transaction.  Why you should listen DeFi Basket lets users invest with a single transaction in multi-token, multi-protocol strategies that you can create or copy from others. Portfolios are called baskets. For example, The Stablecoins Maxi basket is a portfolio designed to provid...

Tracy Leparulo is the CEO of Untraceable, the Crypto & Blockchain Events company behind the Blockchain Futurist Conference in Toronto.  Why you should listen Since 2013 Tracy and her team have run leading events and marketing campaigns within the blockchain and crypto space. From major conferences to hackathons to launch events. The Untraceable team creates unforgettable experiences that build the...

Stefan Rust is the founder of Laguna Labs, a cutting-edge blockchain development house. It has developed Truflation , an independent, on-chain inflation index that aims to provide cryptographically true information on price inflation using the most recent and accurate real-market data.   Why you should listen Stefan Rust is the founder of Laguna Labs, a cutting-edge blockchain development house, u...

Jadu is an AR platform and narrative layer for Web3 and the metaverse. Jadu is pioneering the functionality of digital assets in AR and the physical world by converting 3D NFTs into playable avatars and objects that can interact with each other in an ever-expanding AR game world. Jadu is minting 11,111 AVAs in August. Why you should listen Asad J. Malik is the founder of Jadu. He has a background...

Kyle Rojas is Edge & Node Business Development and Partnerships at The Graph, a web3 protocol for indexing and querying blockchain data to empower developers to build and give users access to blockchain data in a verifiable and decentralized way. Why you should listen The Graph is working to decentralize data indexing and query services for all public data on all blockchains. What Google did for w...

Christopher Brookins is the co-founder of RociFi, a new DeFi primitive for under-collateralized lending. In order to borrow on RociFi, users must mint an ERC-1155 token, NFCS (Non-Fungible Credit Score). The NFCS proves ownership of the address bundle that the borrower wishes to be credit scored. The NFCS operates as on-chain reputation and credit score. Why you should listen RociFi enables borrow...

Aditya Das is an analyst and researcher at Brave New Coin. With Bitcoin struggling to stay above the key $20,000 price level, investors are bracing for a long crypto winter. Fundamental analysis, however, suggests that Bitcoin is oversold.    Why you should listen   Fundamental analysis examines the internal and external factors that affect the value of a business or commodity. The value of an inv...

Pascal Tallarida is the founder of Jarvis Network, a trading platform to buy, sell and exchange stable and liquid synthetic fiat currencies powered by an on-chain Forex market. Why you should listen Jarvis Network's mission is to bring decentralized finance to everyone. Stablecoins have a key role to play in DeFi adoption. Non-USD stablecoins struggle to be liquid and maintain their peg.  Syntther...

The NZDS is a New Zealand Dollar stablecoin backed 1:1 with physical New Zealand Dollars in cash and cash equivalents. NZDS was launched in March 2021 by Techemynt , a registered New Zealand Financial Services provider, using the FiatToken framework developed by Centre that is the basis for USD-Coin (USDC).  Why you should listen As a blockchain-based stablecoin, NZDS combines the stability and va...

Ari Redbord is Head of Legal and Government Affairs at TRM Labs, the blockchain intelligence company. Ari was previously the Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary and the Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence at the United States Treasury.   Why you should listen   To build a safer financial system, TRM Labs developed the first blockchain intelligence platform that combines cros...

Jack O'Holleran is co-founder and CEO at SKALE Labs, an Ethereum Layer 2 multichain network.  Why you should listen Skale aims to solve the blockchain scalability problem by facilitating processing between blockchains and decentralized applications, helping the ecosystem run hundreds of millions of smart contracts and transactions per second. SKALE is an open-source Web3 blockchain network buil on...

Chris Zhu is the founder of Mirror World, a Game Matrix powered by an interoperability SDK layer that accelerates Web3 game development for Web2 developers. Why you should listen Mirror World is the intersection of NFTs, the metaverse, artificial intelligence, and interoperability. Chris aims to build the 'Nintendo of the Metaverse' by creating digital native beings capable of learning and communi...

Fringe Finance is a decentralized money market designed to unlock the capital spread in crypto assets regardless of their capitalization and supported network. We talk with CTO Brian Pasfield. Why you should listen Fringe Finance is a decentralized money market designed to unlock the capital spread in crypto assets regardless of their capitalization and supported network. With a next-generation De...

Patricia Trompeter is the CEO of Sphere 3D Corp., a net carbon-neutral Bitcoin miner.  Why you should listen Patricia Trompeter is the CEO of Sphere 3D Corp., a net carbon-neutral cryptocurrency miner.   The Company is rapidly growing its industrial-scale mining operation through the capital-efficient procurement of next-generation mining equipment and partnering with data center operators.  Spher...

Will Rush is the founder of Stack, an app that goes where school curricula won't, and educates the next generation about personal finance. It does this by harnessing Gen Z's interest in cryptocurrency to teach them about responsible investing habits.  Why you should listen Stack is going to be the first crypto platform to welcome investors under the age of 18 (thanks to custodial accounts). Stack...

Haste Arcade is the world's first Instant Leaderboard Payout arcade. The arcade enables players globally to earn real-time, peer-to-peer rewards for simply placing on a game's leaderboard. The vision for Haste is to have the platform serve as a fun and entertaining visual representation of micro transactions, and how they can empower new business models.  Why you should listen Joe De Pinto was bor...

Kraken is one of the OG global crypto exchanges, founded in 2011. In 2020 Kraken launched in Australia. Andy speaks to Kraken's Aussie MD, Jonathon Miller.    Why you should listen Jonathon came to Kraken in 2020 as a founder of Australian crypto exchange Bit Trade and was one of the founding members of the Blockchain Association of Australia.   Kraken acquired Bit Trade in 2020 and appointed Jona...

Gamma is the leading marketplace for creators and digital collectors to find, list, and sell NFTs, secured by the Bitcoin blockchain. Gamma also provides a minting platform for creators to launch their NFT collections without any code, and a social platform built to become a hub for the world's web3 social identity, centered around NFTs. Why you should listen Jamil Dhanani is the founder of Gamma,...

Stacked Invest is a simple, easy-to-use platform for crypto investing. Equipped with ready-to-grow, personalized, and professionally managed portfolios, Stacked aims to be the "life jacket" that saves people from the typical pain points of crypto investing. Why you should listen Joel Birch is the CEO of Stacked Invest, a simple, easy-to-use platform for crypto investing. Equipped with ready-to-gro...

Pollen is a DeFi 2.0 asset management protocol that allows communities to curate fully optimized and dynamically rebalanced custom asset pools. Why you should listen Frederico Teixeira is a quant analayst at Pollen. Frederico is a Mathematician and holds a PhD in Computational Modelling from ETH Zurich. He has over 15 years of experience in the numerical solution of differential equations, high-pe...

Michael Brooks is the CEO and founder of goLance, an award-winning online freelance marketplace that's used to recruit, screen, hire, manage, and pay global talent. A fast-growing segment of goLance users transacts using crypto. Why you should listen Michael Brooks is the CEO and founder of goLance, an award-winning online freelance marketplace that's used to recruit, screen, hire, manage, and pay...

Anthony Ng is the Founder and CEO of Metalend, a decentralized lending and borrowing protocol for fiat-backed stablecoins. The future of Defi cannot be built by USD stablecoins alone, users need access to their local currencies to live life. A decentralized lending marketing protocol that supports a wide range of stablecoins is necessary. Why you should listen Metalend Finance is a decentralized o...

Brent Xu is the Founder and CEO of Umee, a Cross Chain DeFi hub designed to operate seamlessly across protocols. Brent has extensive experience in blockchain and venture investments and previously held business strategy roles at ConsenSys and Tendermint and Cosmos. Why you should listen After cutting his teeth working with Tendermint to build Gravity Dex and the Gravity Bridge on the Cosmos networ...