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Zach Bruch is the Founder and CEO of MyPrize, an online crypto casino. Zach previously held positions at Kraken and Cumberland Labs, where he ran their sales trading desk. He later created his own trading operation and became one of the most profitable individual traders of all time. Prior to founding MyPrize, Zach served as an advisor at JST Capital, a financial services firm specializing in digital asset markets.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Working at Kraken and Cumberland Labs
- The power and future of streaming
- Stories from institutional trading desks
- The evolution of crypto trading
- Zach being FTX’s largest individual creditor
- The next evolution of crypto casinos
- MyPrize has the highest-ever pre-launch valuation for an online casino of $140M
- Crypto casinos onboarding normies to web3
- Creating multiplayer experiences in web3
- Bringing community to web3 casinos
- Community drives everything on the internet

MyPrize
Website: myprize.com
X: @myprizecom

Zach Bruch
X: @ZachBruch
LinkedIn: Zach Bruch

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Ian Rogers is the Chief Experience Officer (CXO) of Ledger, the world-leading crypto and NFT hardware wallet manufacturer. Ian has spent his career exploring and innovating at intersection of music, artists, and technology.

Prior to joining Ledger, he spent five years as Chief Digital Officer at LVMH, where he was responsible for building group-level digital excellence and accelerating digital transformation for LVMH maisons. Ian is also renowned for his work in the music industry, where he was the CEO of Beats Music and GM of Music at both Apple and Yahoo!.

Ian Rogers also built some of the earliest music-related websites in the early 90s, including Winamp.com, and has been working with Beastie Boys since 1993.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Self custody
- Ledger Stax launch
- New generation of hardware wallets
- The need for clear signing
- Increasing ease of use
- The upcoming bull market, and what's different this time around
- Ledger's transactional business
- Launching Apple Music
- Working at LVMH
- Identifying trends + culture

Ledger
Website: www.ledger.com
X: @Ledger
Discord: discord.gg/ledger

Ian Rogers
X: @iancr
LinkedIn: ian rogers


 
 
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Andreas Brekken is the founder of SideShift.ai, a platform offering direct-to-wallet trading. The exchange has processed over $1.25B in volume to date. Andreas first discovered Bitcoin in 2011 and has a deep technical understanding of the cryptocurrency space. In addition to being a long-term supporter of the cryptocurrency space, Andreas has substantial hands-on industry experience. He founded Justcoin.com, a Norway-based cryptocurrency exchange in 2013 (later acquired by ANX INTL), and then worked at Kraken as a software engineer in 2015 and 2016. He is also the founder of Shitcoin.com, a wide-reaching crypto content platform.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Meme coins
- When will meme coin mania end?
- Interacting with crypto exchanges
- ETH Dencun upgrade
- Eigenlayer mainnet launch
- The impact of Bitcoin halving on asset liquidity
- Balancing short-term optimization with long-term scalability
- Meme coin trading’s impact on the limits of current protocols
- How we reached the era of ‘peak degeneracy'
- Which blockchain network to build meme coins on
- Discovering Bitcoin back in 2011

SideShift.ai
Website: sideshift.ai
X: @sideshiftai
Telegram: t.me/sideshift

Andreas Brekken
X: @abrkn
LinkedIn: Andreas B.
 
 
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Vijay Pravin is the Founder & CEO of bitsCrunch, a Blockchain Analytics and Forensics company focusing on securing the NFT ecosystem. Living in Munich, Germany for the last 10 years, and originally from India.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The role of AI/ML in blockchain analytics
- Data integrity and transparency in NFT Markets
- Navigating the regulatory landscape
- Staking mechanisms
- Solana integrating bitsCrunch
- Sustainable economies
- Network security and anti-fraud
- NFT data insights and forensics tools
- Token 2049 in Dubai
- Wash trading

bitsCrunch
Website: www.bitscrunch.com
X: @bitsCrunch
Discord: discord.gg/bitscrunch-official

Vijay Pravin
X: @VijayPravinM
LinkedIn: Vijay Pravin
 
 
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Nikolaj Rosenthal is the Co-Founder and CEO of Myrmidon, a non-custodial staking provider. Nikolaj was a professional hockey player for +10 years and the first athlete to accept Bitcoin as a salary in 2017. He’s been involved with crypto since late 2016, is an investor + entrepreneur, and was the CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Evonax.com. He went to Copenhagen Business School, where he holds a BSc. Business Administration and Service Management, and Msc. Organizational Innovation & Entrepreneurship.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Being the first athlete to accept Bitcoin as salary in 2017
- Non-custodial staking
- Beaconchain, London fork, Merge, Shanghai/Capella & DenCun hardfork
- DVT (Distributed validator technology)
- ETH ETF
- What’s going on with Ethereum?
- Solo-home staking
- Staking as a service
- Pooled staking
- Centralized staking
- How to pick the right staking provider?

Myrmidon Staking
Website: myrmidonstaking.com
X: @Myrmidonstaking
Discord: discord.gg/kwE9EGnz96

Nikolaj Rosenthal
Instagram: @nikolajrosenthal
Facebook: @nikolaj.rosenthal
LinkedIn: Nikolaj Rosenthal
 
 
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Niraj Pant is Co-Founder of Ritual, the decentralized execution layer for AI. Prior to founding Ritual, Niraj spent six years as a General Partner at Polychain, leading investment rounds in startups like Offchain Labs, EigenLayer, and Compound. He began his career as a cryptography researcher in the Decentralized Systems Lab at UIUC.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The relationship between crypto and AI
- The future of AI and crypto
- Building autonomous worlds and games
- Applying ML to DeFi
- Smart Agents
- Building decentralized AI infrastructure
- Story Protocol
- Exciting developers
- AI-based DApps
- GPU as a service

Ritual
Website: ritual.net
X: @ritualnet
Discord: discord.ritual.net

Niraj Pant
X: @niraj
LinkedIn: Niraj Pant
 
 
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