The Pomp Podcast

Nolan Bauerle is the Director of Research at CoinDesk, an early proponent of Bitcoin. In this conversation, Nolan and Anthony Pompliano discuss Canada's past investigations into the global financial crisis, how Ethereum's ERC standards shook the world, and why humans will use math to talk with Aliens. ----- This show is sponsored by The Grove: thegrove.co/pomp Your branding and website are the fir...

CZ is the Founder and CEO of Binance, a company with 400 employees, and hundreds of millions of dollars in profit. In this conversation, CZ and Anthony Pompliano discuss what he understood that many others didn't when he started the company, how he scaled, and what their future plans are. ----- This show is sponsored by The Grove: thegrove.co/pomp Your branding and website are the first things you...

Robert Habermeier is a Co-Founder of Polkadot, and a former core developer for Parity. In this conversation, Habermeier and Anthony Pompliano discuss Ethereum, the scalability issues, Oracles, layer two scaling solutions, and why the best people in early crypto didn't care about the money. ----- This show is sponsored by The Grove: thegrove.co/pomp Your branding and website are the first things yo...

Jesse Lund is the Head of Blockchain Solutions at IBM. In this conversation, Jesse and Anthony Pompliano discuss enterprise blockchains, how IBM is using the technology, what their customers are saying, and what Jesse sees as the most important things for the future of crypto. ----- This show is sponsored by The Grove: thegrove.co/pomp Your branding and website are the first things your customers...

Sam Cassatt is the CSO of ConsenSys. In this conversation, Sam and Anthony Pompliano discuss the history of ConsenSys, Sam's perspective of foreign governments' views on liquid crypto, why Maker is so interesting, and the current scalability conversation around Ethereum. ----- This show is sponsored by The Grove: thegrove.co/pomp Your branding and website are the first things your customers will s...

Talal Tabbaa is the Co-Founder and COO of Jibrel Network. In this conversation, Talal and Anthony Pompliano discuss how he convinced the Saudi prince to buy crypto, what the regulatory and startup environment is like in the Middle East, and how tokenized debt will likely become more popular moving forward. ----- Join the Off the Chain newsletter. Pomp's daily email analyzes the crypto market for i...

Jarrod Dicker is the former CEO of Po.et. In this conversation, Jarrod and Anthony Pompliano what's wrong with the media today, what potential solutions may be, how censorship and free speech are constantly tested ideas, and how foreign governments like China will deal with un-censorable content on a blockchain. ----- Join the Off the Chain newsletter. Pomp's daily email analyzes the crypto market...

David Bleznak is the founder and CEO of Detroit based Totle. In this live recording, Bleznak and Anthony Pompliano discuss tokenization of assets, the current regulatory environment, future financing mechanisms, and fundraising in today's bear market. This episode of Off the Chain was recorded at CUT by Wolfgang Puck. Totle’s B2B platform provides crypto-to-crypto exchange at the best prices. Simi...

Nikhil Kalghatgi is a founding Partner at CoVenture Crypto. In this conversation, Nikhil and Anthony Pompliano discuss Nikhil's work at SoftBank, how to apply Moonshot Investing to digital assets, and what CoVenture is currently excited about as the crypto industry continues to mature. ----- Join the Off the Chain newsletter. Pomp's daily email analyzes the crypto market for institutional investor...

Ateet Ahluwalkia is a managing director at Coventure. In this conversation, Ateet and Anthony Pompliano discuss Quant Trading, the challenges with finding great data in crypto, and what the future of active management may look like. ----- Join the Off the Chain newsletter. Pomp's daily email analyzes the crypto market for institutional investors. Simply, it’s the best crypto newsletter delivered t...

Eduardo Gómez is the head of support at Purse.io, a native Venezuelan who has been working to expand adoption and awareness of Bitcoin throughout his country. In this conversation, Gómez and Anthony Pompliano discuss the current political issues in Venezuela, the hyper inflation of the bolívar, the creation of the petrodollar, the rapid adoption of Bitcoin, and he explains what's actually going on...

Tom Shaughnessy is the founder of the institutional crypto research platform 51Percent. In this conversation, Shaughnessy and Anthony Pompliano discuss what equity research is, how information is gathered in crypto, and how institutions are thinking about the space. ----- Join the Off the Chain newsletter. Pomp's daily email analyzes the crypto market for institutional investors. Simply, it’s the...

Roy Niederhoffer has been a quantitative hedge fund manager for over 25 years. In 1993, Roy founded R. G. Niederhoffer Capital Management, which invests in global public equity, fixed income, currency, and commodity markets. Roy's fund, which manages over 900 million dollars today, has annualized returns of approximately 12%, out performing the S&P and most other money managers. ----- Join the Off...

Matt Galligan is the founder and CEO of The Picks and Shovels Company. In this conversation, Galligan and Anthony Pompliano discuss crypto custody, crypto data, trading, and what needs to happen for crypto to continue progressing. ----- Join the Off the Chain newsletter. Pomp's daily email analyzes the crypto market for institutional investors. Simply, it’s the best crypto newsletter delivered to...

Sergey Nazarov is the CEO of Chainlink, one of the most interesting companies in the smart contract space. He's been building blockchain smart contracts since 2011, and this is definitely the most in-depth we've gone on the topic. Sergey is a firm believer that crypto has the ability to change the way societies distribute wealth, enforce contracts, and share critical information. ----- Join the Of...

Halsey Minor is one of the biggest internet and tech pioneers of our day. In 1993 he co-founded CNET, which would eventually be sold to CBS for 1.8 billion dollars. In 1999 he helped Marc Benioff co-found Salesforce. Today, Halsey is working on a bunch of projects, including Videocoin, and in this conversation, Anthony Pompliano and Halsey cover everything from distributed computing, crypto curren...

Rahul Sood is the CEO of Unikrn, an E-Sports startup backed by the likes of Mark Cuban, Tim Draper, Brock Pierce, and Pantera Capital. In this conversation, Rahul and Anthony Pompliano discuss Rahul's experience selling his first company to HP, his time launching and leaving Microsoft's VC arm, and why E-Sports will be bigger than traditional sports. ----- BlockFi BlockFi allows you to keep your c...

Pascal Gauthier is the President of Ledger, one of the most well known crypto hardware wallets, and the creator of the Ledger Vault for institutions. In this conversation, Gauthier and Anthony Pompliano discuss his past experience building a data company that Yahoo bought for over 500 million dollars, his time in venture capital, and the importance of cold storage and why you should care about it....

Ari Paul is the CIO of BlockTower, one of the best known crypto investment firms. In this conversation, Paul and Anthony Pompliano discuss his previous work at a university endowment, what Ari thinks about the current state of crypto, and how he sees digital assets performing during a global financial crisis. ----- Join the Off the Chain newsletter. Pomp's daily email analyzes the crypto market fo...

Howard Lindzon is one of the best FinTech investors in the world. His portfolio speaks for itself. In this conversation, Lindzon and Anthony Pompliano discuss what Lindzon looks for in great founding teams, and the trends he's excited about moving forward. ----- Join the Off the Chain newsletter. Pomp's daily email analyzes the crypto market for institutional investors. Simply, it’s the best crypt...

Ali Hamed is the founder of CoVenture. In this conversation, Hamed and Anthony Pompliano discuss crypto currency, blockchain, Bitcoin, direct lending, alternative asset management, and why Bitcoin is like Kim Kardashian. ----- BlockFi BlockFi allows you to keep your crypto, put it up as collateral, and receive a USD loan funded directly to your bank account. They do loans ranging from $2,000 to $1...

Josh Stein is the CEO of Harbor. In this conversation, Stein and Anthony Pompliano discuss tokenized securities, the future of finance, and why they both believe every stock, bond, currency, and commodity will be digitized in the future. BlockFi BlockFi allows you to keep your crypto, put it up as collateral, and receive a USD loan funded directly to your bank account. They do loans ranging from $...

Matt Jennings is the founder and CEO of Kingdom Trust, the first regulated financial institution to offer custody of digital assets, making them the first qualified custodian in the digital asset industry. ----- Join the Off the Chain newsletter. Pomp's daily email analyzes the crypto market for institutional investors. Simply, it’s the best crypto newsletter delivered to your inbox every morning....

Ken Nguyen is the founder and CEO of Republic. In this conversation, Nguyen and Anthony Pompliano discuss working at AngelList, the variations of securities law, building a startup in a highly regulated market, and why tokenization could eradicate global poverty.

Ryan Selkis is the founder of Messari, an open data library and curation tool that helps researchers, investors, and regulators make sense of the crypto industry. In this conversation, Selkis and Anthony Pompliano discuss macro-crypto trends, the importance of data transparency and disclosures, and how to go viral on Twitter.