Our guest today is Ken Li, Investment Director at Binance Labs.  Binance Labs is the venture capital and incubation arm of Binance, one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges with over $20bn average daily trading volume.  Binance Labs is a chain-agnostic investor and incubator focused on supporting the broader crypto ecosystem by investing in, engaging with and supporting the projects and entrepreneurs that have the greatest potential to shape the future of the decentralized web. Prior to...

Our guest today is David Gan, Founder and General Partner of OP Crypto.  OP Crypto invests in digital assets out of two funds - the OP Venture Fund and OP Fund of Funds.  Prior to founding OP Crypto in 2021, David served as a senior executive at crypto exchange Huobi Global where he managed their principal investment strategy, and also has experience at qiming Venture Partners and Morgan Stanley China.  David received recognition for Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia in 2019. -----   This...

Our guest today is Stephen Chou, Principal at Translink Capital leading web3 and gaming investments. Translink is a traditional early-stage venture capital fund based in Palo Alto and has over $800 million in assets under management. Translink started investing in crypto in 2018 and was an early backer in Terra, Klaytn, Quantstamp, and Forte. Prior to crypto investing at Translink, Stephen was an investment banker at Credit Suisse and part of the investment team at Cisco Investments. ...

Our guest today is Joshua Lim, Managing Director and Head of Derivatives at Genesis Trading. Genesis Trading is a digital currency prime brokerage that allows market participants to trade, borrow, lend and custody digital assets.  Josh previously managed the spot and derivatives trading desk at Galaxy Digital and prior to that built the treasury and OTC trading desk at Circle. Before crypto, Josh traded equity options at Goldman Sachs and UBS.  Josh received his B.S. in Mathematics and...

Remember to rate, review and subscribe to the Podcast!   Our guest today is Shiliang Tang, the Chief Investment Officer of LedgerPrime.  LedgerPrime is a multi-strategy quant fund in digital assets. Shiliang spent most of his career as a quantitative trader on proprietary trading desks at UBS and Merrill Lynch, where he focused on equities and commodities algorithmic and volatility trading. Prior to LedgerPrime, Shiliang was also a co-founder of global fintech startup WorldCover. Shiliang...

Remember to Rate and Review Our Podcast! Today we flip the script and interview one of our co-hosts, Cosmo Jiang.  Cosmo is currently a Deal Lead with GCR. He also serves in a strategy role with a stealth defi startup and is an active web3 investor personally.  Over the last 7 years, Cosmo has been a Managing Director at Hitchwood Capital, a multi-billion dollar public equities hedge fund, where we has responsible for the consumer, internet and media investments.  Prior to that, he also...

Remember to Rate and Review Our Podcast! Our guest today is Miko Matsumura, General Partner at Gumi Cryptos Capital - a blockchain focused early stage venture firm with offices in Silicon Valley and Japan.  It was founded in 2018 and its debut fund returned >25x, with some early-stage investment home runs like Opensea, Yield Guild Games, Vega Protocol, Celsius Network, 1Inch and more. Gumi Cryptos Capital just announced their second fund with $110mm of capital commitments. Miko is...

Remember to Rate and Review Our Podcast! For the show today, we held a live interview in the Global coin research Discord. The GCR Discord Community hosts events such as live interviews with founders, learning workshops and provides access to the best deals in the crypto space. Join today at GCR.community   For the show today, we are thrilled to have Manasi and Medha of Komorebi DAO.  Manasi is the VP of Strategy and Ops at Skynet Labs. Prior to this role, Manasi conducted research at...

Remember to Rate and Review Our Podcast! For the show today, I'm thrilled to share with you a special replay of my interview with Commissioner Hester Peirce during the UPenn Blockchain conference. Hester Peirce is the Commissioner on the Securities and Exchange Commission, she oversees many of the crypto regulations and have been often dubbed as cryptomom. In our conversation, we talk about the latest developments with the SEC around the crypto framework, how Covid affected the SEC, the...

-This podcast is sponsored by Global Coin Research. Global Coin Research is community of crypto readers, writers, and investors with direct access to high quality content and deals. Global Coin Research is doing media mining right now, and writers who write on GCR will earn 250 GCR when their articles are approved. Check it out on GlobalCoinResearch.com -Please remember to rate and review our podcast! Daniel Hwang does protocol research and governance at Stakefish. He is also a founding...

This podcast is sponsored by Global Coin Research. Global Coin Research is a community of crypto readers, writers, and investors with direct access to high-quality content and deals. Global Coin Research is doing media mining right now, and writers who write on GCR will earn 250 GCR when their articles are approved. Check it out on GlobalCoinResearch.com Bobby Cho joins us as a Partner at CMS Holdings. CMS is a principal investment firm focused on crypto assets. In our conversation, Bobby...

Please remember to rate and review our podcast! Peter Pan joins us from 1kx. Peter shares his journey of how he broke his way into the crypto space, his learnings from building Metacartel and Venture DAO, his advice for community builders, and how 1kx thinks about investing in the space. Topics we've discussed include: - what do you spend most of your time on at 1kx? - you had a pretty atypical investor journey, what are the top 3 learnings that helped you become a better investor...

Please remember to rate and review our podcast! Qiao Wang is a Partner at The Defi Alliance. Qiao previously started building a crypto asset information platform at Messari to educate the general public and to assist investors in making better decisions. He is a former quant trader who turned over trillions of dollars worth of equities and futures. In this episode, I talk to Qiao about the thesis and thought behind the creation of the Defi Alliance, the lessons of running an accelerator,...

For the show today, I'm thrilled to welcome Aaron Wright, co-founder of OpenLaw. OpenLaw conceived LAO and Flamingo DAO, which are the most successful DAOs in the crypto space today. In our conversation, Aaron shares the new Neptune DAO that was just launched this week, the current challenges and opportunities with DAOS, and how he believes DAOs will take over Silicon Valley and Wall Street. Other topics we've discussed: 1) LAO's new DAO that was just launched this week- NeptuneDAO 2)...

Join our telegram community and share your favorite crypto art! https://t.me/joinchat/ROZYvMlDh-LCrodz Maple leaf Capital is an anonymous account that is dedicated to investing and building into Web3. In our conversation, we talk about how Maple thinks about defi investing, his experience and criteria for evaluating projects from both East and West, his advice for founders on token distribution and more.  Topics we've discussed include: 1) How Maple Leaf Capital (MLC) stays plugged into...

Join our telegram community and share your favorite crypto art! https://t.me/joinchat/ROZYvMlDh-LCrodz Jeff started his high-frequency trading career in 2009 at Getco in Chicago and Singapore where he traded on electronic exchanges in all three major time zones, all four asset classes (equities, fixed income, commodities and FX) and three instrument types (cash, futures, and options). He then started his own trading firm Serenity Capital with some friends that focused on Asian traditional...

Join our telegram community and share your favorite crypto art! https://t.me/joinchat/ROZYvMlDh-LCrodz Richard Chen is a partner at 1Confirmation. Richard Chen is also the creator of Cryptoart.io and an avid crypto art collector. In our conversation, Richard shares how he believes NFT will bring mass adoption to the blockchain, how Richard thinks about buying and collecting Crypto art, how to put a value on these crypto art NFTs and how crypto funds are increasingly looking at cryptoart. ...

Please remember to rate and review our podcast! Join our Telegram group and chat about crypto investing! https://t.me/joinchat/H7EaO8wnjvzCrodz   Topics we've discussed include:   1) What's Parafi's portfolio allocation right now? 2) How does Parafi invest in defi in real time data? 3) Santiago's advice to think about building for institutions vs crypto native whales? 4) Opportunities and innovations for where the new inflow of institutional money is going? 5) The disconnect between...

Please remember to rate and review our podcast! Stani Kulechov is the CEO of Aave and also an active angel investor. We talk about how Stani started angel investing, his advice for founders on how to fundraise and hire, how to avoid early startup mistakes, how to inspire teams and where he thinks the crypto space is going. Topics we've discussed include: 1) How did Stani started investing? 2) How should founders think about who to have on the cap table when fundraising? 3) What common...

Baek Kim is the head of US at Hashed. We talk about how Hashed is pushing in the forefront of blockchain, crypto and fintech in Asia, Hashed's investment strategy for their new LP fund, the type of entrepreneurs they look for in the space and more. Topics we've discussed include: 1) How is Hashed thinking about crypto, fintech and blockchain? 2) Where is the current investment opportunities in Korea and Asia? 3) How does Hashed get involved in its crypto investments? 4) What are some...

Please remember to rate and review our podcast! Ian Lee and Reuben Bramanathan are both part of IDEO Colab Ventures. Ian is the managing director at IDEO Colab Ventures and has been there since 2017, and Reuben recently joined IDEO as a general partner in January and has previously been active in the crypto space as an advisor and angel investor. We talk about IDEO Colab Ventures' founding story, the team's investment style, IDEO's mission to redesign and rethink web3 with founders, Ian and...

Please remember to rate and review our podcast! Thank you :)  Dmitriy Berenzon is a research partner at Bollinger Investment Group. He shares his journey as an investor, his learnings from his previous time at Coinfund. We also hear tips from Dmitriy for entrepreneurs to avoid making costly decisions, thoughts on the algorithmic stablecoins and constant function market makers, and more. Topics we've discussed include: 1) How to do diligence on a project and evaluate their discord channels...

Please remember to rate and review our podcast! For the show today, Regan Bozman and Mike Zajko from FreeCo, (short for Free company) came on to discuss how FreeCo came about, how to angel invest and get crypto founders to take small checks, Mike and Regan's growth journey as angel investors and more. Topics we've discussed include: 1) How did Mike and Regan make their first investment? 2) How can operators or individuals make angel investments in crypto? 3) What is FreeCo and how does...

Please remember to rate and review our podcast! Maria Shen is a partner at Electric Capital. Maria shares the top takeaways from the Electric Capital 2020 Developer Ecosystem Report, highlights the biggest surprises to her, Electric Capital's investment thesis, how Maria uses her past experience as an entrepreneur to make investment decisions and more.

Please remember to rate and review our podcast! Tarun Chitra is a partner at Robot Ventures. Tarun talks about how Robot Ventures came about, his thoughts on how Aave achieved its astronomical growth by identifying a new market of users, what Tarun looks for in an entrepreneur, along with stablecoins, Compound chain and more.