The Encrypted Economy

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Jenil Thakker, CEO of Coinvise. Coinvise is dedicated to the creation of Ethereum-based financial infrastructures for personal and community-owned capital. Jenil gives his insight on the discovery of social graphs, social tokens, easing the process of connecting communities through DAOs, and other topics in our conversation about increasing collabora...

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is crypto analyst Jonathan Wu. With skills gained through a decade of consulting, private equity, and founding organizations in several different spaces, Jonathan analyzes the developments of stablecoins in the crypto ecosystem. Join us this week to strengthen your understanding of stablecoins and how they maintain consistent prices in an incredibly vol...

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Uri Klarman, CEO of bloXroute Labs. BloXroute Labs is a layer zero solution to the scalability issues that inhibit blockchain’s global adoption. If you are interested in scalability solutions or extracting value from the blockchain, this episode is for you. Be sure to subscribe to The Encrypted Economy for more insight on the infrastructure solutions...

This week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy is dedicated to the discussion of the current legal environment and relevant news regarding decentralized autonomous organizations, or DAOs. Decentralized Autonomous Organizations aim to reduce human inputs to zero, drastically reducing labor costs and optimizing processes, unlike anything we have ever seen before. Join us this week to explore the conce...

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Research Scientist Thomas Attema, a cryptographer from the Netherlands-based applied research institute TNO. TNO works to bridge the gap between academia and industry to implement sustainable competitive innovation that enhances the well-being of society. Thomas sheds light on utilizing developments in tech to tackle some of the most pressing issues...

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guests are Daniel Uribe, CEO of Genobank and Christian Rodriguez, CTO of SomosAncestria. Genobank and Somos work together to ensure users retain control and complete ownership of their genetic data through a decentralized wallet. Daniel and Christian give us their perspective on the applications for NFTs in genomic testing and creating a decentralized biobank...

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Riana Pfefferkorn, Research Scholar at Stanford’s Internet Observatory Lab. Stanford Internet Observatory is a cross-disciplinary program dedicated to studying the developments in information technologies and policy engagement, with focus on social media. If you are interested in the encryption debate overtaking the technology ecosystem, this episode...

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Richard Yan, COO of Vite Labs. Vite Labs is a technology company that seeks to innovate decentralized systems and create solutions for developers. Designed to bridge the gap between blockchains while remaining decentralized, Vite Labs utilizes a toolkit that emphasizes the roles of universality and trustlessness in data transfers.  Topics Covered: ·...

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Dave Jevans, CEO of CipherTrace. CipherTrace was founded in 2015 and provides anti-money laundering compliance solutions to the world of cryptocurrency. With deep expertise in blockchain, payment systems, and cybersecurity, David sheds light on the developments in the space and what they mean for the future of the crypto economy.  Topics Covered: · I...

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guests are Jeanine Hightower and Corey Wendling, CEO and CTO of Atomyze LLC. Atomyze utilizes blockchain technologies to revolutionize the commodities marketplace, seeking to ease the process of digitizing and investing in physical assets. With extensive experience working in FinTech and various architectures across multiple industries, Jeanine and Corey give...

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is James Putra, Vice President of TradeStation Crypto. Trade Station Crypto is a trading platform for cryptocurrencies, offering one of the first true online brokerage models to self-directed traders. With over a decade and a half of experience managing trading services, James gives his insight on the evolution from traditional portfolio structure and t...

Follow The Encrypted Economy on your favorite platforms!  Twitter   LinkedIn   Instagram   Facebook   This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Sasa Milic, a Co-Founder of API3. API3 is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DA0), providing decentralized API’s to blockchain projects that overcome the Oracle Problem. For any listener with an interest in how outside information is brought in...

Follow The Encrypted Economy on your favorite platforms!  Twitter   LinkedIn   Instagram   Facebook   This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Marc Boiron, General Counsel for dYdX. Marc has established himself as a respected name in Crypto Law, and it was a pleasure to have him on the show. We took a deep dive into the regulatory state of the industry, covering DAOs, NFTs, and the impacts...

Follow The Encrypted Economy on your favorite platforms! Twitter LinkedIn Instagram Facebook This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Rand Hindi, the CEO of Zama. AI. Any previous listeners of the podcast will know that the potential of privacy-enhancing technologies like homomorphic encryption has been a central focus of mine. We have had the privilege of interviewing innovative researcher...

Follow The Encrypted Economy! Twitter LinkedIn Instagram Facebook This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Mark Wetjen, the CEO of MIAX Futures. Mark’s career in finance has had many influential stops in both the public and private sectors, and it was a privilege to have his voice on the podcast. In Washington DC, Mark started in Harry Reid’s office and rose all the way up to the Chairmansh...

Follow The Encrypted Economy on your favorite platforms! Twitter   LinkedIn   Instagram   Facebook   This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Reuben Bramanathan. Reuben is a true innovator in the crypto space, and our conversation was an insightful one. After starting at Coinbase in 2015, he has gone on to lead initiatives aimed at changing crypto for the better with organizations like IDEO...

On this week’s episode of The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Shari Noonan, the CEO, and Co-Founder of Rialto Markets. Rialto is a registered Broker-Dealer, operating an Alternative Trading System focused on private securities, but their intrigue comes from the way that they tie these traditional operations with the world of digital assets. Shari is a true innovator when it comes to the future of p...

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Nigel Smart, a Co-Founder of Unbound Security and Professor at the University of Leuven in Belgium. Nigel’s reputation as a cryptography expert is well known, and our conversation delivered one of the most in-depth episodes we’ve had on the podcast to date. Nigel is a leading researcher on Elliptic-Curve Cryptography, and his current work at Unbound...

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Scott Purcell, the Founder, and CEO of Prime Trust. Despite the industry-shaping disruption that Prime Trust has brought to financial infrastructure, don’t be fooled into thinking that this episode is just about the company and its accomplishments. Scott’s resume is unmatched in his prior experience and current efforts, and this episode is truly abou...

This episode of The Encrypted Economy is a unique one, coming to you outside our normal publishing schedule.  We will still air our weekly interview with a new guest on Monday, but I wanted to release this special content for you, the listener. In this episode, I review the goals of The Encrypted Economy, and detail all of the great content we have coming up over the next several weeks. If you are...

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest in Nick Neuman, the CEO of Casa. Nick's company provides a one-of-a-kind private key management platform aimed at the self-custody of Bitcoin. Casa offers solutions utilizing anywhere from one to five keys to ensure that you can maintain true ownership of your bitcoin without losing it all due to a lost key or stolen device. Because Casa’s services...

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Kevin McCarthy, Vice President of Business Development at Inpher. Inpher is another major player in the privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) space, continuing The Encrypted Economy’s quest to shine a light on technologies like Homomorphic Encryption, Secure-Multiparty Computation, and many other PETs. We have talked to lead researchers in the field...

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Donna Redel. She is an Angel Investor on the board of New York Angels, and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University.  Donna has a long professional history at the cutting edge of finance, which made our conversation incredibly value. We touch on Crypto, DeFi, NFT’s, and the burdens of interpreting it all from the perspective of an investor,...

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is John Verry. John is the Founder of Pivot Point Security, as well as the host of his own podcast called The Virtual CISO. He helps organizations of all shapes and sizes become certified in accordance with leading security frameworks like ISO 27001, and the new CMMC standard. John also specializes in reading the tea leaves when it comes to the futures...

This week on The Encrypted Economy, my guest is Matt Hougan, the CIO of Bitwise Asset Management. Bitwise was founded in 2017 and brought investors the first cryptocurrency index fund. Now they are one of the key players in the push for a Bitcoin ETF, and as of last week they became the provider of the first index based DeFi fund. Matt and Bitwise are leading the charge on rule-based exposure to t...