The Pirate Pod

James Bayly from Subquery joins the Pirate Pod to discuss the journey of Subquery and its role in empowering developers in the Web3 ecosystem. Subquery provides a data indexing layer for developers to easily access and query blockchain data, improving the user experience of Web3 applications. The team has recently launched a decentralized network where individuals can run nodes and provide data in...

MyPrize recently launched as the first online crypto casino that enables novel multiplayer experiences, bringing content creators and influencers closer to their communities.  Second time founder (pirate) Zach Bruch brings his background in web3 to a new vision that allows creators to engage with their audiences. This interview comes on the heals of a massive fundraise and the onboarding of tens o...

As if we needed another reason to be bullish on Bitcoin in 2024, QED is poised to catapult Bitcoin to a new level of utility. Carter Feldman joins the Pirate Pod to discuss QED and the promise it brings to the future of Bitcoin-based applications by supporting all dApps (such as AMMs, stable coins, and more) but also horizontally scalable applications and what that means. The conversation explores...

Coming on the heels of a new $6M fundraising round, Tanssi's co-founder Francisco Agosti joins the Pirate Pod to dicusss why Tanssi appchains are changing the game and argulable are better than existing L2s and rollups when it comes to decentralization, security and more. With a maniacal focus on the developer experience, Tanssi has empowered dozens of organizations with solutions that accele...

Superstate is modernizing investing by offering investment products that benefit from the speed, programmability, and compliance advantages of blockchain tokenization. This exclusive episode comes on the heels of a recently announced Superstate Industry Council as the team focuses on building reliable, compliant products. Jim Hiltner and Reid Cuming join the Pirate Pod to share their vision and pl...

Foobar and Munam Wasi, the founders of Delegate, discuss their vision to tackle the challenges of simplification and cross-chain integration across crypto, motivated by personal experience of clunky and risky setups for managing various wallets across web3. With over $1B worth of assets secured across nearly 200k wallets, Delegate has had significant traction in its early days - thanks to a consum...

Ray, the founder of BBOX (BBO Exchange), sits down to share his vision for what he sees as the ultimate derivative trading platform. As the first perpetual DEX to utilize Oracle Extractable Value in its liquidation process, BBOX has pioneered an innovative auction mechanism that capitalizes on the inherent latency in oracle price updates - a feature that enables liquidity providers to concentrate...

Remy Carpinito, a second time pirate (founder), has built Esprezzo with a strong understanding of the underlying power of the intense amount of data that is being created with blockchain - and growing exponentially. In this episode, he discusses the importance of data automation in Web3 an the need for no-code automation tools for non-technical team members.  Esprezzo is creating value by building...