The Crypto Conversation

Burt Rock is the marketing lead at Kwenta, a derivatives marketplace with multiple integrations, meaning you can trade multiple DeFi venues from the Kwenta platform.  Why you should listen Kwenta is a decentralized derivatives trading platform leveraging the Synthetix protocol, optimized for trading perpetual futures on the Optimism layer. It's designed to provide traders with access to a range of...

Luke Barwikowski is the founder and CEO of Pixels, the largest web3 game by DAU. With over 2.5M total players, Pixels is a social, casual web3 game powered by the Ronin Network, focusing on farming, exploration, and creation in an open world.  Why you should listen Pixels is a Web3 social gaming platform on the Ronin Network, blending farming, exploration, and community building in an open-world u...

Jassem Osseiran, the founder of PlaysOut, discusses bringing Web3 to the gaming industry. PlaysOut is an SDK and standalone app that allows game developers to transition from traditional gaming to the Web3 space.  Why you should listen PlaysOut aims to solve the problem of monetizing global audiences and integrating with Web3 ecosystems. PlaysOut has partnered with Tencent to bring casual gaming t...

Serhii Kravchenko is the CEO at DeXe, the solution for creating and governing DAOs, projects, tokens, and NFTs through a seamless, no-code interface. Why you should listen DAOs can remove human error by automatically executing the community's decisions. DAOs also make distributing roles, voting power, treasury funds, and more quicker, simpler, and cheaper than in traditional hierarchical organizat...

Davy Wittock leads the Flux Business Development team. Flux is a decentralized Web3 cloud infrastructure comprised of user-operated, scalable and globally distributed computational nodes.   Why you should listen Flux is a decentralized cloud infrastructure designed to provide scalable and reliable services for blockchain applications and other web services. Built to address the growing need for de...

0xnovachrono is the Founder of Silent Research Labs, building Stripchain, an intent-based interoperability protocol designed to simplify chain abstraction. True interoperability entails seamless interaction with applications. Stripchain is engineered to eliminate developer complexities, making application chains arbitrary.  Why you should listen Stripchain is an intent-based interoperability proto...

Rich Rines is an initial contributor to Core Dao. Why you should listen Core Chain is the first Bitcoin-aligned EVM-compatible Layer-1 blockchain, designed to be Bitcoin's complementary and hyper-scalable smart contract platform. With 50% of Bitcoin mining hash power already contributing to its security model and through the ground-breaking innovation of Non-Custodial Bitcoin staking, Core Chain i...

Ryder Havdale is the CEO and founder of Helios Creators Inc., which aims to revolutionize the music streaming industry by offering fairer compensation and deeper engagement between artists and fans through the Helios platform, using Web3 technologies.  Why you should listen Ryder Havdell, CEO and founder of Helios Creators, discusses the need for fairer engagement and deeper connection between art...

Ben Shyong is the Co-Founder of Anzen Finance, a digital asset platform that issues USDz, a Real World Asset (RWA) backed stablecoin. Why you should listen Anzen Finance is a web3 protocol for minting and staking USDz, a stablecoin backed by a portfolio of private credit assets. USDz is a composable digital asset with utility across different crypto platforms. Token holders can use their USDz to p...

Robert Cartwright is the CEO of AI agent-driven metaverse 2.0 ecosystem. Why you should listen Wondra Protocol aims to create the world's first AI agent-driven metaverse 2.0 ecosystem. Within this ecosystem, user digital twin data, driven by AI agents, will become autonomous inhabitants of the metaverse, possessing independent needs and matching various supply services, forming a self-consistent a...

Aisling Connolly is the General Lead at DFINITY, working on Chain Fusion for the Internet Computer blockchain. Aisling is interested in the intersection of cryptography, information security, and privacy.  Why you should listen Aisling works at the intersection of cryptography, information security, and privacy. Her work focuses on the foundations, design, and provable security of global-scale dat...

Edwin Mata is the CEO and Co-Founder of Brickken, a Tokenisation suite for Real World Assets. From real estate to franchises to IP to business, almost anything can be tokenized via Brickken. Why you should listen Edwin Mata and Andy discuss several critical aspects of the tokenization space, particularly focusing on Brickken, where Edwin is the CEO and co-founder. Brickken is a tokenization suite...

Edison Chen is the co-founder and CEO of CUDIS, a Web 3.0 startup making the world's first AI smart ring that rewards your wellness journey. Why you should listen The CUDIS ring represents a significant leap in the realm of wearable wellness technology. Positioned as a competitor to the Oura ring in the web3 landscape, the CUDIS ring is a Solana-based wearable that discreetly monitors users' physi...

ZTX - A Virtual World for Creators and Communities   Niko Hosn is the CTO of ZTX, an immersive virtual world empowering creators and communities. Open Beta is now live.   Why you should listen ZTX builds upon the foundation and success of ZEPETO, the largest metaverse platform in Asia with over 430M registered users. Prioritizing interoperability and scalability, ZTX harnesses blockchain technolog...

Robert Kao is the co-founder of Plato Protocol. Plato rewards consumers who create and curate content around restaurants. Ready to Eat to Earn? Why you should listen Plato is an on-chain reputation and gamified dining experience, with a mission to revolutionize the food economy. Plato users create a unique dataset around food backed by proof of purchase at restaurants to create personal restaurant...

Sarah McNabb is CMO at GigaStar a next-gen crowdfunding marketplace for YouTube Creators and Investors. Why you should listen GigaStar fuels human creativity by bringing Creators and Investors together. GigaStar provides Creators with an intuitive SEC-registered crowdfunding platform to raise capital from Investors who gain exposure to the Creator Economy while joining a Creator's journey. GigaSta...

Isodoros Passadis is a contributor to the Lido DAO as Master of Validators, while Alon Muroch is the Founder of SSV Labs.     Why you should listen Lido (the biggest LST by TVL on Ethereum) is deploying the new SimpleDVT module. Liquid staking protocols allow users to mint a transferable utility token that can be used in on-chain activities while their stake is locked-up while they continue to get...

Kelsey McGuire is the Chief Growth Officer at Shardeum, the world's first EVM-based L1 blockchain which uses dynamic state sharding to increase TPS with every new node. Or as Shardeum describe themselves, Web3 for Humans. Why you should listen Shardeum is an EVM-based, linearly scalable smart contract platform that maintains true decentralization and solid security through dynamic state sharding....

Chandra Duggirala is the CEO at Portal Finance, a bridgeless interoperability protocol on Bitcoin aiming to to accelerate the arrival of hyperbitcoinization.   Why you should listen Portal Finance brings Native BTC, BRC20s, Ordinals and atomic swaps to any chain. Portal is fostering the Bitcoin Renaissance by building the tools for global financial self sovereignty. Their web scale, serverless, pe...

Peko Wan is co-CEO of Pundi X, which has been deploying their blockchain-based point-of-sale (POS) solution and solidifying partnerships with governments, payment companies, and retailers around the world.   Why you should listen Pundi X is a blockchain payments ecosystem. XPOS is the leading blockchain-based Point-of-Sale solution, enabling merchants to accept crypto payments or sell cryptocurren...

Alvin Kan is the Chief Operating Officer at Bitget Wallet, a comprehensive Web3 ecosystem platform.  Why you should listen In just six years, Bitget Wallet has evolved from a simple wallet to a comprehensive Web3 ecosystem platform.  Bitget Wallet is the ultimate Web3 multi-chain wallet, offering a comprehensive platform with wallet, Swap, NFT Market, DApp Browser, and Launchpad functionality. Sup...

Samir Kerbage is the Chief Investment Officer and Head of Products at Hashdex, a global pioneer in crypto asset management, with ETFs and crypto indexes worldwide. Why you should listen Founded in 2018, Hashdex is a global pioneer in crypto asset management. They are building pathways to prosperity by opening the crypto ecosystem to the world. With extensive experience in digital assets, Hashdex i...

Greg Siourounis is the managing director of the Sui Foundation, advancing and supporting Sui, the layer 1 blockchain designed to make Web3 fast, private, secure, and accessible to everyone. Why you should listen Mysten Labs' objective is to provide the basic architecture for Web3, creating tools for the future of Web3 to make it secure, dependable, and ready for widespread adoption. The Sui Blockc...

Meina Zhou is co-founder and CEO at Native. Native's mission is to improve the web3 user experience by solving fragmented liquidity and capital inefficiency in DeFi. They've built a unified, cross-chain liquidity layer combining on and off-chain liquidity sources using RFQ architecture. Why you should listen Native Labs is building Web3's Liquidity Layer, a protocol built to unify crypto's fragmen...

William Simonin is the c-founder of Ta-da - a data platform for AI. Projected to reach $109B by 2032, the data collection market is primed for disruption. Ta-da offers high-quality data at lower costs, outperforming outsourcing and micro-tasking companies with a hybrid model that ensures quality, cost-effectiveness and scalability.   Why you should listen Data is the new oil. Several growth factor...