Mikhil Pandey is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Persistence Labs, building Persistence One a purpose built Layer 1 on a mission to maximize yield and security through Liquid Staking & Restaking. Why you should listen Persistence One is one of the first Cosmos app chains and has been relentlessly building at the edge of the Proof-of-Stake landscape since 2019. Ehile staking attracts a large number of participants in their pursuit to earn rewards and provide better network...

Jan Gorzny is the co-founder of Zircuit, a fully EVM-compatible zero-knowledge rollup powering the limitless potential of web3. Why you should listen Backed by pioneering L2 research, the network’s unique hybrid architecture combines battle-tested infrastructure with zero-knowledge proofs to give developers the best of both worlds.  With cutting-edge performance and security at the sequencer level, users can explore new frontiers with faster transactions, and reduced fees. Zircuit is in...

Bill Heyn is the CEO of SOMA.finance. SOMA is building finance for the future by uniting DeFi and TradFi.  SOMA aims to be the first DEX-style trading platform that is legal and compliant in the US, and the rest of the world.     Why you should listen The non-custodial SOMA.finance platform aims to be the world's first compliant hybrid decentralized exchange and launchpad. SOMA was founded to build the technology and systems required for a platform for the issuance and purchase and sale of...

Nick Sainato is the co-founder at Gamma, a Bitcoin creator launchpad and NFT marketplace. Why you should listen Nick from Gamma joins Andy to discuss Bitcoin, the halving, memecoins, Runes, and Ordinals. Ordinals are Bitcoin NFTs you can mint directly on the Bitcoin blockchain. Each sat (the smallest unit of Bitcoin) can be inscribed with data, such as JPGs, GIFs, PDFs and more, creating a Bitcoin Ordinal Inscription. Thanks to Ordinal Theory (which references the ordering of individual...

Emmanuel Quezada is the CEO & Co-Founder of U-topia, a Web3 entertainment company innovating with IP Licensing in GameFi, AI Music, and Video Entertainment, backed by NFT provenance.    Why you should listen U-topia is a Web3 entertainment company that brings the convergence of innovative IP Licensing in GameFi, AI Music, and Video Entertainment, backed by NFT provenance. They recently received an investment from GDA Capital. U-topia powers a gamified multiverse that leverages IP from...

John Patrick Mullin is the CEO and co-founder of MANTRA, the Layer 1 blockchain for RWA tokenization. Why you should listen The Mantra team saw that the Cosmos ecosystem lacked a chain specifically designed to provide regulatory compliance across a wide range of real-world assets (RWA) and tokenized assets. They feel that a “chain of regulated digital assets” will create a forward-thinking protocol that attracts users from diverse backgrounds, many of whom may not be current participants...

Sid Gandhi is the founder and CEO at Polybase Labs, building Payy - to bring fast, free, private payments to the world.  Why you should listen Consider that 15 years into the blockchain era - we still don't have a simple private solution for fast, private, global payments. Using zero-knowledge cryptography, Payy aims to solve global payments.  Payy is a payments network built as a ZK roll-up for USDC transactions. Sid says there are four interesting things that Payy does that no one else...

HM Rawat is a Co-Founder and CEO at Lingo, a gamified, RWA-powered rewards token to onboard the next billion in Web3. Why you should listen Blockchain adoption is growing 2x faster than the internet in the 90s, making it the fastest technological adoption in history. Today, the tech is easy. Applications aren't hard to write, but they’re really hard to market, and really hard to persuade big communities to use them, in volume. Lingo is cracking that code. They’re leveraging blockchain...

Tony Saliba is a professional trader, a “Market Wizard” and CEO at Liquid Mercury, a professional crypto trading platform.   Why you should listen Tony Saliba is a Master trader at CBOE where he also served on Board of Directors. He was the only options trader to be featured in the seminal book “Market Wizards” showcasing the world’s best pro traders. Tony founded LiquidPoint in 1999, and the company (sold to Bank of New York ConvergEX in 2007) is currently #3 in highest overall execution...

Norman Wooding is co-founder and CEO of SCRYPT, a leading Swiss financial service provider specializing in crypto assets.  Why you should listen SCRYPT acts as a trusted partner for institutions by building and providing infrastructure that delivers digital assets and services in a robust regulatory framework. SCRYPT's product line is designed to cover every institution’s crypto needs, removing the complexity of crypto finance with technology and innovative products.  As a Swiss-regulated...

Bezalel Eithan Raviv, a former member of Israel’s IDF Cyber Unit 8200, is the CEO and founder of Lionsgate Network, a digital platform that specializes in providing professional fund recovery services for participants in the crypto ecosystem. Why you should listen Lionsgate Network is a digital platform that specializes in providing professional recovery services for investors navigating the uncertain financial landscape of digital currencies. The proliferation of scams and frauds has...

Frank Cheng is co-founder and loremaster at the Fonnie Magus game studio. They are developing Apeiron, part of a new wave of token-driven, play-and-earn NFT games.  Why you should listen Apeiron is part of a new wave of token-driven, play-and-earn NFT games. Our tri-token system utilizes governance, play-to-earn, and alliance tokens in tandem to create a dynamic economy that mirrors the real world, while our NFTs - in the form of Planets, Stars, and Relics - puts the ownership in the...

Richard Parris is a co-founder at Saito - a self-sufficient Layer 1 Blockchain designed for devs that provides the foundation for building open and scalable web applications.   Why you should listen Saito is a new type of layer-1 blockchain that powers peer-to-peer applications. Saito delivers a new economic model for blockchain. Saito Consensus aligns incentives for all participants, paying nodes for scale while remaining open. Saito is designed to create a real economy running on this...

Nick Zaldastani is Chairman and Co-Founder at CESS, a blockchain-powered decentralized storage and content delivery network infrastructure.   Why you should listen CESS is a blockchain powered decentralized storage and content delivery network infrastructure. Users and creators alike use the platform for on-chain data sharing, whilst builders can develop and deploy DApps. Offering the most optimal Web3 solution for storing and retrieving high-frequency dynamic data, CESS reshapes the value...

Aditya Das is a researcher and analyst across the Techemy Group. He joins Andy to discuss the current Memecoin mania that has gripped the crypto markets. Why you should listen Bitcoin has led the crypto market’s move into bull market territory, but it is meme coins that have captured the altcoin zeitgeist, with many investors ignoring the fundamentals in favor of the memes. Welcome to Financial Nihilism. Memecoins are blockchain-based tokens that are based on popular pieces of internet...

Felix Xu is the Co-Founder of ARPA Network, a decentralized computation network based on threshold cryptography and its use cases   Why you should listen Randcast is ARPA’s first product, an on-chain verifiable random number generation service with an easy-to-use Smart Contract SDK that can be directly integrated into DApps to provide out-of-the-box functionalities like rolling dice, shuffling an array, generating in-game item attributes based on probability, generating random in-game maps...

Tim Kravchunovsky is the founder and CEO of Chirp. Chirp is a trailblazing DePIN network founded by a team of Telecommunications experts with decades of experience. Tim Kravchunovsky has over 20 years of experience as a network engineer, having held a position as a Consulting Engineer at the World Bank, Comacast and Chemonics International. Tim founded Chirp in January 2021 to connect the world through groundbreaking, accessible technology that has the potential to transform the way we all...

Brett Herskope aka Eliherf is head of growth at Gamma, the open marketplace for Bitcoin Ordinals. Brett and Andy discuss Bitcoin’s recent all-time high, Gamma and Bitcoin Ordinals, and The Three-Body Problem. One of the most popular answers to the very famous Crypto Conversation Hot Take Round Sci-Fi question, The Three-Body Problem is a trilogy by Chinese science fiction author Liu Cixin. A Netflix adaptation by David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, and Alexander Woo is expected to premiere on Netflix...

Connor O’Shea is the CEO of Bril Finance, a cutting edge DeFi UX for seamless access to professional-grade portfolio management algorithms and yield strategies. Why you should listen Bril is a sophisticated decentralized finance (DeFi) tool that actively optimizes and manages portfolio strategies in a secure, non-custodial manner. The dapp allows users to deposit tokens into single-asset vaults, which drive yield based on automated liquidity strategies- giving everyone professional-grade...

Pradeep Goel is the Chief Executive Officer at the Solve Care Foundation. Solve Care is a blockchain platform for digital health networks. Why you should listen Solve Care is a global healthcare platform that redefines care coordination, improves access to care, reduces benefit administration costs, and helps reduce fraud and waste across the healthcare sector globally. Solve Care’s decentralized healthcare model, ensures all stakeholders, from the patient, physician, insurance companies,...

Dr. K is the Co-Founder of Quai Network, a new Layer 1 network of blockchains designed to scale to handle all human commerce while maintaining true decentralization.  Why you should listen Quai Network is an EVM compatible, highly scalable, secure Layer 1 blockchain, designed for fast, low cost, high-throughput transactions, complemented by programmable smart contracts. It emphasizes swift finalization, steadfast censorship resistance, and robust resilience against adversarial threats. The...

Matt Liu is the co-founder of Origin Protocol, an Ethereum-powered platform for NFTs, DeFi, Liquid Staking, and Restaking. Why you should listen Origin has a stablecoin, the Origin Dollar (OUSD) to support users as they passively earn yield on OUSD held in wallets – as opposed to being staked or locked up in a protocol. Ethereum restaking has become one of 2024’s most disruptive narratives. The thriving sector is teeming with innovation, offering new opportunities for builders and users...

Lark Davis is a cryptocurrency investor, influencer, YouTuber, and founder of weekly crypto newsletter, Wealth Mastery. He shares his top crypto narratives for 2024, and why it's better to be an investor than a trader.  Why you should listen Lark Davis began creating cryptocurrency content in 2017, starting on the Steam blockchain and then transitioning to YouTube. His Wealth Mastery newsletter combines insider insights and market analysis to offer cryptocurrency investors opportunities to...

Peter Curk is the CEO of ICONOMI, an advanced crypto investment and portfolio platform that makes it easy for beginners and for power users to choose from hundreds of Crypto Strategies and copy them with a single click.   Why you should listen ICONOMI is a cryptocurrency portfolio management platform. Offering a suite of tools and infrastructure, ICONOMI enables experienced traders to create and manage their own Crypto Strategies, with advanced features to align strategy with market...