The Crypto Conversation

Chris Feng is a co-founder and COO of Chainbase, the world's largest omnichain data network designed to integrate all blockchain data into a unified ecosystem. Chainbase is building a decentralized data economy with advanced AI capabilities where anyone can participate, contribute, and be incentivized. Why you should listen Chris Feng, co-founder and COO of Chainbase, discusses the importance of d...

Ezra Strauss, the Head of Partnerships at Portal, has a background in technology and gaming, previously working at Immutable and focusing on partnerships and business development. He joins Andy to discuss Portal, Portal Coin and the new Portal Pay payment solution. Why you should listen Portal Pay, developed by Portal, is a new payment solution aimed at enhancing the blockchain gaming experience,...

James Bayly is COO and a cofounder at SubQuery, building fast, flexible, and scalable web3 infrastructure. Subquery is an infrastructure company that started as a data index and has now expanded to include RPCs and AI inference hosting. Why you should listen Subquery is expanding its infrastructure services to include AI inference hosting, aiming to bring decentralization to the AI space. The Subq...

Carrie Kellar is the co-founder and CTO of BAXUS, a global marketplace for the world's most collectible spirits.  Why you should listen Collectible wines and spirits are one of the most rapidly expanding and lucrative asset classes with the global luxury wines and spirits market forecasted to surge from $250 billion to $470 billion by 2032. However, being predominantly localized, disconnected, and...

Daren Hebold (Founder, CEO) and Michael Seymour (Director of Sales) run Luxolo Financial, a Portland-based service company that ensures clients have access to warm, professional, and timely service and support as they enter the digital assets space. Why you should listen Luxolo is dedicated to making digital assets more accessible to everyone. As the world rapidly adopts digital assets and explore...

Labhesh Patel is the CEO and Co-Founder of Autonomys. Formerly known as Subspace, Autonomys (pronounced as "autonomous") has created a decentralized identity protocol named Autonomys ID (Auto ID).  Why you should listen The convergence of human and artificial intelligence is redefining every aspect of our lives. As we navigate this transformative era, Autonomys is pioneering a path that champions...

Mark Smargon is co-founder and CEO at Fuse a leading web3 platform for business and finance, powered by a performant zkEVM tailor-made to get millions of consumers on-chain. Why you should listen Fuse Network is a blockchain platform focused on simplifying Web3 payments and making blockchain technology more accessible to businesses and developers. It combines features like Account Abstraction, int...

Jeroen Develter is the Chief Operating Officer at Persistence Labs. Persistence One aims to become the gateway for Bitcoin Interoperability, powered by Intents, secured by Bitcoin. The solution ensures seamless movement of BTC with fast, zero slippage, cross-chain swaps. Why you should listen Persistence One is developing a Bitcoin interoperability solution for Bitcoin Layer 2 and related assets,...

Alon Muroch is the Founder of SSV Labs, a globally distributed team of developers, researchers, and ETH enthusiasts working to ensure Ethereum becomes fail-proof for many years to come. SSV.network is a decentralized, open-source ETH staking network, based on Secret Shared Validator (SSV) technology. Why you should listen SSV is also known as DVT, or Distributed Validator Technology, as it provide...

Stardust is a $35M funded web3 gaming infrastructure and user acquisition service provider's Wallets-as-a-Service (WaaS) product and provides game development tools to build and scale blockchain games. Stardust's Wallets-as-a-service (WaaS) is used by more than 90 active game studios. Why you should listen Stardust's platform offers game developers easy access to the most scalable, secure, and com...

Brian Fanzo is a digital futuirst who is helping out the dev team from PepeCoin, the OG meme coin community working to unlock utility and innovation to grow Web3 adoption. There is much, much more to Pepecoin than a fun meme, listen and learn. Why you should listen Pepecoin was originally launched in 2016 by a group of crypto OGs. Originally it was launched using its own proof-of-work blockchain n...

Ben Rose is the General Manager of Binance Australia and New Zealand. Binance is the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange platform by volume and has been instrumental in shaping the global crypto landscape since its inception in 2017. Ben joined Binance in 2022. Why you should listen Binance has close to 200 million users globally and trades around $138 billion USD each day. The mega exchange i...

Jason Dehni is CEO and co-founder at Credbull, the first licensed on-chain private credit fund. Through its on-chain fund, Credbull allocates capital to established Lending Originators offering loans to creditworthy small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) such as working capital, trade receivables, and invoice factoring. In return, the Fund's liquidity providers gain access to the best performing asset...

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...