John Divine is a financial markets professional focused on structured products, derivatives, lend, borrow and spot market execution for digital assets. John began his career as a market maker for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Intercontinental Exchange-listed derivatives, specializing in precious metals, interest rates, energies, and forward volatility curves. John has also operated within environmental product markets, listed, and OTC for compliance and voluntary participants. John...

Dan Gunsberg is the Co-Founder of Hxro Network, a fully composable, on-chain derivatives primitive that provides core exchange, risk and settlement infrastructure for professional-grade financial applications. Dan has over 25 years of financial market experience both as a trader and in trade operations. Prior to co-founding Hxro, Dan co-founded Gordian Block Capital, a multi-strategy cryptocurrency hedge fund, and served as the Chief Operating Officer at DV Trading from 2011-2017. Recorded on...

Marc Nichols is a Product Director at Arbor Digital , a subsidiary of registered investment advisory firm Arbor Capital. Marc is a Certified Investment Management Analyst CIMA® and Wealth Management Certified Professional WMCP®, and holds a Certificate in Blockchain and Digital Assets®. Marc started his career as a professional tennis player and coach before transitioning to financial services as an associate advisor with Merrill Lynch in Princeton, NJ. Marc went on to start an advisory...

Steven Chen is a Non-Executive Partner at Clarendon Arbitrage Fund, an absolute-return focused hedge fund. He has two decades of experience in institutional grade trading and specializes in trading index futures as well as commodity and currency options. Most recently, Steven was named Joint CEO & General Partner at CAF Digital Asset Management, the fund’s crypto investment arm to focus on trading crypto derivatives to generate yield for passive capital investors.

Michael is the co-founder and CEO of Hummingbot, a platform that allows users to run their own high-frequency market making bot and automate crypto trading. Recorded on April 21, 2022.

This is Part 3 of our 3-part Stablecoin War episode, where Mark Lamb and I go through the different categories of stablecoins, looking at their attributes and risks, and do a deep dive on the ongoing Terra stablecoin (UST) depegging incident. Recorded on May 10, 2022.

This is Part 2 of our 3-part Stablecoin War episode, where Mark Lamb and I go through the different categories of stablecoins, looking at their attributes and risks, and do a deep dive on the ongoing Terra stablecoin (UST) depegging incident. Recorded on May 10, 2022.

This is Part 1 of our 3-part Stablecoin War episode, where Mark Lamb and I go through the different categories of stablecoins, looking at their attributes and risks, and do a deep dive on the ongoing Terra stablecoin (UST) depegging incident. Recorded on May 10, 2022.

James Quinn is the Managing Director of Q9 Capital, a full-service digital asset platform serving private wealth individuals, family offices and corporates. James is a seasoned leader and entrepreneur having led financial services businesses and new ventures across multiple asset classes in Asia, North and South America.

Ori Cohen is the Founder and Head of Research at eFrontier, a leading research and algorithmic trading firm for digital assets.

Justin English is the CEO of Salt Lending, the first cryptocurrency lender in the crypto industry.

Ming Wu is the Founder of Strips Finance, an interest rate derivatives platform with the aim to build an open platform to trade, create and invest in fixed interest products. Formerly, Ming was an options trader for Ingensoma Trading Group and an OTC trader at Paxos and Hehmeyer Trading. This episode was recorded on February 11, 2022.

This is a recast of an interview I guest hosted on Real Vision on February 16, 2022 featuring Haouk Lee, Founder and Non-Executive Chairman of Trinity Investment Holdings, a global family investment office. He is now the CIO of Trinity Digital Assets. Previously, Haouk was with OCHA, a direct investment firm and International Finance Corporation, the private sector investment arm of the World Bank Group.

Lucy Gazmararian is the Founder of Token Bay Capital, a fully regulated venture fund manager investing in early-stage digital assets & blockchain companies across Asia Pacific. Prior to founding Token Bay, Lucy was a senior leader of PwC’s Global Crypto team in Hong Kong, where she advised entrepreneurs, start-ups and financial institutions on their crypto and blockchain projects. She spent 16 years in banking with Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, Schroders and Kleinwort Benson. She was...

Matt Lohstroh and Brent Whitehead are co-founders of Giga Energy, a vertically integrated natural gas bitcoin mining company based in Texas aka Bitcoin Country.

This is a recast of an interview I guest hosted on Real Vision on February 8, 2022 featuring Shashi Menon and Nick Gonzalez, Co-Founders of UNXD, a curated marketplace for digital luxury and culture. They are the team behind Dolce and Gabbana’s debut NFT drop and the latest NFT collection with luxury watchmaker Jacob & Co. called Astronomia Metaverso.

Roshun Patel is the VP of Lending at Genesis Trading, a leading crypto prime brokerage.

This is a recast of an interview I guest hosted on Real Vision in January 2022 featuring Charli Cohen, a London-based fashion designer and founder of the eponymous CHARLI COHEN and digital fashion wear company RSTLSS.

Mark Lamb, CoinFLEX CEO, joins the pod to explain reasons behind the recent crypto market downturn and shares 3 big questions he has about the future of the crypto markets.

Johnnie Walker Blue aka @JWBlue212 is a long time Crypto Twitter member who's quitting traditional banking to join crypto full-time.

This is a recast of an interview I guest hosted on Real Vision in December 2021 featuring Daniella Loftus, digital fashion expert and founder of This Outfit Does Not Exist.

Paul Kremsky is the Global Head of Business Development at Cumberland, the Chicago-based cryptocurrency trading unit of DRW Holdings LLC.

Max Boonen is Founder of B2C2, one of the largest cryptocurrency liquidity providers and the leader in electronic OTC trading.

This is a recast of a recent interview I guest hosted on Real Vision featuring Darius Sit, co-founder and managing partner of QCP Capital.