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Chris Liquin is CEO of Cupcake.com, the social layer of Solana. Chris has been investing in crypto since 2016 and has worked full-time in the space since 2021. Prior to Cupcake, Chris worked for Gary Vaynerchuck at Vayner3, a Fortune 500 Web3 consulting firm, as SVP of Strategy & Operations. During his time at V3, he led over $25M of work with brands like Budweiser, Red Bull, Coinbase, Johnny Walker, Crocs, and KFC as they explored the frontier of the internet. He holds an MBA from Chicago Booth, spent his non-crypto career at KPMG and Google Cloud, and lives in Chicago with his wife and their crazy cat named Bunny. In this conversation, we discuss: - What is CultureFi? - The intersection of finance and culture - The founding story of Cupcake - Web3 vs Web2 engagement - Stories from working with Gary V - Onboarding Fortune 500 brands to web3 - Why celebrating culture is the future of crypto = CultureFi - Digital self vs. physical self - Fractionalizing assets - Solana ecosystem - The future of social media Cupcake Website: www.cupcake.com X: @cupcakeprotocol LinkedIn: Cupcake Chris Liquin X: @chrisliquin LinkedIn: Chris Liquin --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers. PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions. Code: CRYPTONEWS50 This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below: PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Stefan Kimmel is the CEO at M2, leading the company's mission to establish a world-class global digital currency investment platform. With over 25 years of experience in finance, fintech, and digital innovation, Stefan has a proven track record of delivering products and services to his clients. He specializes in leveraging digital products to optimize the delivery of financial solutions, ensuring optional outcomes for his clients. Stefan has held prominent executive roles in the fintech industry, including positions such as Chief Commercial Officer at Kraken MENA, Chief Operating Officer of the Commercial Bank of Dubai, and leadership roles at PWC, IBM, and Oliver Wyman Middle East. His extensive expertise and unwavering commitment to innovation make him a respected thought leader in the industry, driving M2 towards its goal of becoming the leading global digital investment platform. In this conversation, we discuss: - How crypto exchanges can offer 10% yields - ETF’s impact on credibility - Impact of potential SEC approval of ETH ETF (Time-dependent) - Status of crypto adoption in UAE and MENA generally - Why M2 sees the UAE as the springboard to building an exchange with global reach - Regulatory comparison between UAE and US - Broad adoption of crypto via institutional investors - Real World Assets (RWA) - Fractionalized assets via tokenization M2 Website: www.m2.com X: @M2Exchange Telegram: t.me/M2Community Stefan Kimmel X: @M2Stefan LinkedIn: Stefan Kimmel --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers. PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions. Code: CRYPTONEWS50 This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below: PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Ariel Seidman is the CEO & Co-Founder of Hivemapper, a decentralized mapping community that relies on a network of drivers, AI trainers and advanced technologies to create the world’s freshest map. A seasoned expert in the field, Ariel's journey began over a decade ago at Yahoo! Search and Maps, where he garnered invaluable experience in building maps at scale. Motivated by the inefficiencies of traditional methods, he embarked on a mission to revolutionize global mapping. Prior to Hivemapper, Ariel founded Gigwalk, a pioneering location-based data collection firm that transformed mobile devices into lucrative tools for data gathering, earning recognition from Fast Company as a Top 10 Mobile Innovation Company. With his extensive background and unwavering commitment to innovation, Ariel continues to shape the future of mapping technology. In this conversation, we discuss: - The difficulties of building digital maps - Google vs. Yahoo maps in early 2000s - Maps are clear sources of truth - Decentralized maps - AI in crypto - Creating the world's freshest global map - Building AI models to train date and perform map QA - Getting paid to drive with a dash-cam - DePIN - touching real markets and industries - Hivemapper has already mapped 20% of the world Hivemapper Website: hivemapper.com X: @Hivemapper Instagram: @hivemapper Ariel Seidman X: @aseidman LinkedIn: Ariel Seidman --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers. PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions. Code: CRYPTONEWS50 This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below: PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Unique Divine is the co-founder and CEO of Nibiru, the user-centric layer-1 super chain that is paving the way to mainstream blockchain adoption through its exceptionally high throughput and parallel optimistic execution approach. Following its $8.5 million seed round in September 2022, co-led by the $1.6B+ AUM firm Tribe Capital, Republic Capital, Original Capital, and NGC Ventures, Nibiru secured an additional $12 million from venture firms, including Kraken Ventures, ArkStream, Tribe Capital, and others. Unique’s expertise in decentralized financial services, blockchain, and smart contracts is preceded by a professional background primarily in applied machine learning, where he consulted as an AI engineer for startups and Fortune 500 companies with Insight Softmax. Unique financed his Physics and Computer Science degrees at Columbia University through earnings generated from algorithmic trading, combining transformers for processing historical sequences and reinforcement agents to make trading decisions. Following graduation, he worked as a data scientist for IBM before helping develop Sommelier, the blockchain protocol for executing automated trading strategies on-chain, where he was in charge of the team’s data science division and led the development of DeFi trading strategies. In this conversation, we discuss: - Creating a new L1 - L1 ecosystems - Fundraising for L1s - tough to find a niche - Increasing throughput - High-level overview of Nibiru — a new L1 blockchain valued at $100 million - 2024 Roadmap: Parallel Optimistic Execution, EVM-compatibility - Strategic expansion into the APAC region - Developing Sommelier for IBM - Hands on ecosystem - Venture-arms within the ecosystem - The integration of CeFi and DeFi Nibiru Website: nibiru.fi X: @NibiruChain Telegram: t.me/nibiruchain Unique Divine X: @DivineNibirun LinkedIn: Unique Divine --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers. PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions. Code: CRYPTONEWS50 This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below: PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Josh Fraser is the Co-Founder of Origin Protocol. Prior to Origin, he co-founded three other venture-backed companies: EventVue, Torbit (acquired by Walmart Labs) & Forage. Josh started coding at the age of 10. In this conversation, we discuss: - DeFi industry - Automated Redemption Manager (ARM) - Liquid staking - Transparency and integrity in crypto - Crypto industry's volatility - Staking and Ethereum - Learning to code at age 10 - Getting better yields in crypto - The future of yield is multi-chain Origin Protocol Website: www.originprotocol.com X: @OriginProtocol Telegram: t.me/originprotocol Josh Fraser X: @joshfraser LinkedIn: Josh Fraser --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers. PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions. Code: CRYPTONEWS50 This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below: PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Anurag Arjun, Co-founder of Avail, is a seasoned entrepreneur who has founded several successful startups across diverse industries, ranging from cash flow lending to regulatory tech. With a strategic move into the blockchain space in 2017, he co-founded Matic Network, which has since evolved into Polygon, a platform for scaling Ethereum. In 2020, Anurag spearheaded the development of Avail, an innovative solution within the Polygon ecosystem that empowers developers to create fast, efficient, and scalable applications. As a pioneer with a background spanning research, economics, and engineering, Anurag's unique skill set has been invaluable in creating Avail and the broader blockchain community. In March 2023, he and co-founder Prabal Banerjee spun off Avail from Polygon to embark on a journey to empower rollup and application blockchain communities with the development of a unification layer that enables modular execution layers to scale and interoperate in a trust-minimized way. With an unwavering commitment to realizing the full potential of modular blockchain technology, Anurag is excited to leverage this cutting-edge approach to maximize Avail's impact. His expertise and vision continue to drive Avail's success and position the company at the forefront of the blockchain revolution. In this conversation, we discuss: - Founding Polygon in 2020 - Why a unification layer is needed - Present day L2s - Avail ecosystem: Gaming , AI, Bitcoin L2's, DeFi, Wallet & Infra - Modular blockchains - Avail’s mainnet launch - $27mm raise, led by Founders Fund and Dragon Fly - The future of L2s and roll-ups - L1s as tribes - Web3 infrastructure Avail Website: www.availproject.org X: @AvailProject Telegram: t.me/AvailCommunity Anurag Arjun X: @anuragarjun LinkedIn: Anurag Arjun --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers. PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions. Code: CRYPTONEWS50 This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below: PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Ethan Buchman is Co-founder of Cosmos, CEO of Informal Systems, and Founder Cycles Protocol Ethan is a leading figure in blockchain technology and has worked at the Interchain Foundation, Tendermint, and his consultancy CoinCulture CryptoConsulting. His academic background in Biophysics from the University of Guelph informs his interdisciplinary approach, evident in his research contributions across institutions like the University of California, San Francisco. Ethan's innovative mindset and expertise continue to drive advancements in decentralized systems. In this conversation, we discuss: - Blockchains' killer app is money - What is money? To denominate and discharge debt - The history of money and blockchain - Cycles protocol - The inception of Cosmos ecosystem - Community computers - the ethos of blockchain - Collaborative Finance, blockchain's missing promise - Money isn't just about storing value; it's about accounting and exchange - Traditional banking's power lies in clearing debts - Clearing more debt with less money - Crypto in Canada and Ethereum in Toronto Cosmos Website: cosmos.network X: @cosmos Telegram: t.me/cosmosproject Ethan Buchman X: @buchmanster LinkedIn: Ethan Buchman --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers. PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions. Code: CRYPTONEWS50 This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below: PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Tristan Frizza is the Founder of Zeta Markets. Tristan’s curiosity for crypto was ignited in 2017 when he traded his first cryptocurrency, spurring him to finish his Computer Science degree with an emphasis on distributed systems and PoW blockchain technology. He then worked in AI research and as a data scientist in Silicon Valley, eventually writing his thesis on Generative Adversarial Network for Image Super-Resolution for which he received First Class Honours. Motivated by a passion for open-source software and the potential to democratize finance, Tristan co-founded Zeta. His venture aimed to introduce transparency and accessibility to the financial sector, drawing on his deep technological expertise and vision for the future of global markets. The turning point came in 2021 when Tristan and his team triumphed in a Solana hackathon, outshining over 13,000 participants, which catalyzed the transformation of their proof of concept into a prominent decentralized exchange. Today, Zeta is a testament to Tristan’s ambition and innovation, having processed over $5 billion in trading volume. His journey from a crypto enthusiast to a trailblazer in decentralized finance illustrates the impact of perseverance, hard work, and conviction in blockchain technology in reshaping the financial landscape. In this conversation, we discuss: - Perpetual trading - Solana’s DeFi Layer 2 plans & Ecosystem - 2024 DeFi summer - $Z token -New $5M Strategic Round led by @ElectricCapital - The future trajectory of DeFi - The role of enhanced staking mechanisms - Fostering a robust and secure trading environment - Innovative tokenomics - Solana congestion issues - Ethereum vs. Solana Zeta Markets Website: www.zeta.markets X: @ZetaMarkets Discord: discord.gg/Xn9HCJaDZd Tristan Frizza X: @Tristan0x LinkedIn: Tristan Frizza --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers. PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions. Code: CRYPTONEWS50 This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below: PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Tomer Pascal is the CEO and co-founder of OwnPlay, a web3 mobile gaming ecosystem that has developed CityVerse Tycoon, a PWA game allowing players to trade, buy, and sell tokenized replicas of real buildings in New York City. Tomer has extensive multi-disciplinary experience in delivering products to their appropriate markets, working with early-stage companies, businesses with new products, and well-established organizations. He combines his tech mindset, ability to create effective marketing technology platforms, and business capabilities to help companies monetize their products and achieve growth. Before founding OwnPlay, Tomer held several positions, including Chief Revenue Officer at Mohawk Group, Inc., where he focused on driving revenue and holistic growth; Chief Executive Officer at OMG Studios, where he served as a corporate strategist and worked on digital media and customer engagement; and General Manager of the Perion Lightspeed Division at Perion, overseeing the GrowMobile mobile advertising platform. With his diverse skill set and experience, Tomer leads OwnPlay in its mission to innovate in the mobile gaming industry using web3 technology. In this conversation, we discuss: - What is a PWA game? - CityVerse Tycoon = Monopoly GO + Zillow - Trade, buy, and sell tokenized replicas of real buildings - The opportunity that mobile offers for web3 gaming - Challenges of creating and operating a mobile web3 game - Mobile offering unparalleled accessibility - The "David and Goliath" struggle between crypto apps and centralized app stores - Apple and Google’s Appstore Duopoly - Building the game as a PWA rather than a traditional mobile app - PWA’s influence on distribution and monetization for mobile gaming CityVerse Tycoon Website: cityversetycoon.com X: @CityVerseTycoon Discord: discord.gg/cityversetycoon Tomer Pascal X: @TomerPascal LinkedIn: Tomer Pascal --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers. PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions. Code: CRYPTONEWS50 This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below: PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Spencer Farrar is a Partner at Theory Ventures. Spencer was a two-sport athlete at Berkeley (swimming and water polo). He then worked at a Web3 startup, Velocity, which processed more than $150m of volume per day, before joining Bienville, a $4b asset investing in early-stage blockchain companies. In this conversation, we discuss: - The state of Web3 funding - Web3 startups - Venture strategy and liquid strategy in crypto - AI-based Web3/blockchain companies - Go-to-market strategy - Influencers becoming VCs - Swimming and water polo - Working in trad-fi - Similarities between VC and PE - Supporting portfolio companies - Web2 vs. Web3 sales Theory Ventures Website: theory.ventures X: @Theoryvc LinkedIn: Theory Ventures Spencer Farrar X: @SpencerFarrar LinkedIn: Spencer Farrar --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers. PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions. Code: CRYPTONEWS50 This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below: PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Eduard Jubany Tur, Founder of ZKX, a decentralized perpetual futures exchange on Starknet. Eduard’s background in tech and finance has led him to tackle some of DeFi’s most pressing challenges, such as accessibility and user engagement. With the goal of making DeFi more approachable and efficient, Eduard has been at the forefront of integrating gamification into trading, enhancing the learning curve with innovative solutions. Beyond that, Eduard and ZKX are also leveraging Starknet for scalability, advancing trading with security and transparency, and fostering community governance. This multifaceted approach highlights his commitment to not only making DeFi fun and accessible, but also robust, secure, and inclusive. In this conversation, we discuss: - Perpetual futures trading - DeFi’s growth in Asia + crypto in Asia - The potential of DeFi to democratize finance - Starknet - Account abstraction - Challenges of achieving widespread adoption - Appchains - Incentivizing engagement while ensuring accessibility - Onboarding the masses - The explosion of L1s and L2s ZKX Website: zkx.fi Z: @zkxprotocol Telegram: t.me/zkxcommunity Eduard Jubany Tur X: @0xEduard LinkedIn: Eduard Jubany Tur --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers. PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions. Code: CRYPTONEWS50 This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below: PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Armani Ferrante is the founder and CEO of Backpack. The Backpack ecosystem of companies, creators of the Backpack wallet, the Mad Lads NFT collection, the xNFT standard, and Backpack Exchange. Before founding Backpack in April 2022, he was the creator of Anchor, a groundbreaking developer tool that revolutionized programming on Solana. Anchor has become an integral part of numerous Solana projects and protocols, and bonding its commitments to simplifying the developer experience. Armani graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Computer Science and before dedicating all his effort into crypto and web3, he used to work for Apple as a software engineer. In this conversation, we discuss: - Super Apps in crypto - Growth of the Solana ecosystem - Hill climbing business mindset - Backpack - Mad Lads NFT collection - Anchor developer tools - Solana vs Ethereum - Multi-threaded and parallel blockchains - the future of web3 - Speed, security, applications - the 3 things people care about - The future of consumer crypto Backpack Website: backpack.app X: @Backpack Discord: discord.gg/backpack Armani Ferrante X: @armaniferrante --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers. PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions. Code: CRYPTONEWS50 This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below: PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Tascha Punyaneramitdee serves as Core Contributor & Founder of INIT Capital, a Liquidity Hook Money Market designed to enhance liquidity layers. Her prior role in leading Stella, a protocol offering multi-chain leveraged strategies, highlights her significant contributions and expertise in the sector. In this conversation, we discuss: - Liquidity Hook Money Market - Addressing information asymmetry - Better management of liquidity - Innovating DeFi’s architecture - Crypto scene in Thailand - Point farming in crypto - 2024 trends - Creating new liquidity streams - Memecoins - RWA, DePIN, AI - Bitcoin L2s INIT Capital Website: init.capital X: @InitCapital_ LinkedIn: INIT Capital Tascha Punyaneramitdee X: @tascha_panpan LinkedIn: Tascha P. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers. PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions. Code: CRYPTONEWS50 This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below: PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Gracy Chen, the Managing Director of Bitget, oversees the growth and expansion of global markets, strategy, execution, business and corporate development of Bitget. She started her journey to the crypto world in 2014, being an investor in the early days of BitKeep (now Bitget Wallet), Asia’s leading decentralized wallet. Gracy was named a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum in 2015. Moreover, Gracy has been selected as delegate to attend the recent UN Women CSW68 conference , an event where the UN member states representative and social organizations get together to raise and discuss critical issues impacting gender equality and women’s rights in New York, and address poverty and diversity problems and strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective. In this conversation, we discuss: - Post Bitcoin halving update - Memecoin mania - How coins get listed on exchanges - AI tokens outpacing Bitcoin - Immersive NFTs - Augmented reality (AR) technology in art and entertainment - The big picture of this current bull market - Life in Boston - Are we getting a rate cut? - Predictions for AI-focused crypto assets for 2024 Bitget Website: bitget.com Twitter: @bitgetglobal LinkedIn: Bitget Telegram: t.me/bitgetEN Gracy Chen Twitter: @GracyBitget LinkedIn: Gracy Chen --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers. PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions. Code: CRYPTONEWS50 This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below: PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers. PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions. Code: CRYPTONEWS50 This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below: PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers. PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions. Code: CRYPTONEWS50 This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below: PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers. PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions. Code: CRYPTONEWS50 This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below: PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers. PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions. Code: CRYPTONEWS50 This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below: PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers. PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions. Code: CRYPTONEWS50 This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below: PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers. PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions. Code: CRYPTONEWS50 This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below: PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50