Show Me The Crypto

Sean Ren is CEO and Co-Founder of Sahara AI. An Associate Professor at USC’s Computer Science Department, Sean has received several awards recognizing his research and innovation in the AI space, including Samsung AI Researcher of the Year, MIT TR Innovators Under 35 and Forbes Asia 30 Under 30. Sahara is a decentralized AI network that unlocks fair and universal success to global knowledge capital. -- Follow Sean on Twitter: @xiangrenNLP Follow Sahara AI on Twitter: @SaharaLabsAI -- Follow us on the socials: Twitter/X: @showcrypto TikTok: @showmethecrypto Instagram: @showmethecryptopodcast -- *Any financial compensation we receive will always be clearly identified as an advertisement or sponsored content. We don't accept payment to feature guests, and we don't accept payment to influence the coins/projects we discuss on Show Me The Crypto. Any ads will be clearly identified during the show, and information on our partners will be featured in the show notes.

Tess Rinearson is Head of Emerging Products with OP Labs. Tess got into crypto backwards. While most start as hobbyists before migrating their careers to the space, Tess made crypto her career straight away by landing a job with a Bitcoin API company called Chain in 2015. Tess went on to work with Interstellar, Cosmos and lead Twitter’s Crypto team before joining OP Labs in February 2023. Optimism is a Collective of companies, communities and citizens working together to reward public goods and build a sustainable future for Ethereum. -- Follow Tess on Twitter: @_tessr Follow OP Labs on Twitter: @OPLabsPBC -- Follow us on the socials: Twitter/X: @showcrypto TikTok: @showmethecrypto Instagram: @showmethecryptopodcast -- *Any financial compensation we receive will always be clearly identified as an advertisement or sponsored content. We don't accept payment to feature guests, and we don't accept payment to influence the coins/projects we discuss on Show Me The Crypto. Any ads will be clearly identified during the show, and information on our partners will be featured in the show notes.

Anthony Sassano is our first guest to make a 3rd appearance on Show Me The Crypto. Almost every single day, Anthony creates a 30-minute video/podcast called The Daily Gwei to help educate the masses about the latest happenings in the Ethereum ecosystem. When he’s not busy researching or producing educational content, he enjoys shitposting and calling out haters on Twitter. -- Follow Anthony on Twitter: @sassal0x Follow The Daily Gwei on Twitter: @thedailygwei -- Follow us on the socials: Twitter: @showcrypto TikTok: @showmethecrypto Instagram: @showmethecryptopodcast -- *Any financial compensation we receive will always be clearly identified as an advertisement or sponsored content. We don't accept payment to feature guests, and we don't accept payment to influence the coins/projects we discuss on Show Me The Crypto. Any ads will be clearly identified during the show, and information on our partners will be featured in the show notes.

Bobby Lee is Founder/CEO of Ballet. Born in Ivory Coast, Bobby’s early tech career intertwined with IBM, Microsoft, Yahoo! and Dell before he first discovered Bitcoin in early 2011. Later, Bobby went on to Co-Found China’s first Bitcoin exchange, BTCChina. Today, Bobby is driving global adoption of Bitcoin through his company, Ballet, his book, “The Promise of Bitcoin,” as well as his role as a Member of the Bitcoin Foundation Board of Directors. -- Follow Bobby on Twitter: @bobbyclee Follow Ballet on Twitter: @balletcrypto -- Follow us on the socials: Twitter: @showcrypto TikTok: @showmethecrypto Instagram: @showmethecryptopodcast -- *Any financial compensation we receive will always be clearly identified as an advertisement or sponsored content. We don't accept payment to feature guests, and we don't accept payment to influence the coins/projects we discuss on Show Me The Crypto. Any ads will be clearly identified during the show, and information on our partners will be featured in the show notes.

Sonali Giovino is Global Head of Ecosystems at De.Fi. Born and raised in Toronto, Sonali discovered the crypto space in 2017 and became fascinated by the technology. She began hosting her own crypto workshops in Vancouver before joining DeFiYield in early 2022. De.Fi is on a mission to make the DeFi space safer for everyone through its fully automated smart contract security scanner and unique crypto asset management dashboard. -- Follow Sonali on Twitter: @SonaliGio Follow De.Fi on Twitter: @DeFi -- Follow us on the socials: Twitter: @showcrypto TikTok: @showmethecrypto Instagram: @showmethecryptopodcast -- *Any financial compensation we receive will always be clearly identified as an advertisement or sponsored content. We don't accept payment to feature guests, and we don't accept payment to influence the coins/projects we discuss on Show Me The Crypto. Any ads will be clearly identified during the show, and information on our partners will be featured in the show notes.

For this special year-end episode of Show Me The Crypto, Wade and Ulf compete in a 2024 Alt Coin Portfolio Challenge. The rules: Pick 5 coins to spend $100 each on (two have to be top 50 cap; two have to be 51-100 cap; one is a low cap gem). The better performing portfolio as of Dec. 31, 2024 wins! Who do you think will win? Let us know. -- Follow us on the socials: Twitter: @showcrypto TikTok: @showmethecrypto Instagram: @showmethecryptopodcast -- *Wade and Ulf are (obviously) holders of the coins mentioned on this episode. None of this is financial advice. *Any financial compensation we receive will always be clearly identified as an advertisement or sponsored content. We don't accept payment to feature guests, and we don't accept payment to influence the coins/projects we discuss on Show Me The Crypto. Any ads will be clearly identified during the show, and information on our partners will be featured in the show notes.

Kenny Li is Co-Founder of Manta Network. Kenny is a serial entrepreneur who has started, advised and invested in startups for more than a decade. While running a company in the cloud computing space in 2013, Kenny discovered Bitcoin mining as a way to offset server costs. In 2014 he held an advisory role for a Bitcoin options trading platform in 2014 and went on to be a teaching assistant for blockchain courses at MIT. Manta Network is the multi-modular ecosystem for Zero Knowledge Applications. -- Follow Kenny on Twitter: @superanonymousk Follow Manta Network on Twitter: @MantaNetwork -- Follow us on the socials: Twitter: @showcrypto TikTok: @showmethecrypto Instagram: @showmethecryptopodcast -- *Any financial compensation we receive will always be clearly identified as an advertisement or sponsored content. We don't accept payment to feature guests, and we don't accept payment to influence the coins/projects we discuss on Show Me The Crypto. Any ads will be clearly identified during the show, and information on our partners will be featured in the show notes.

Joël Valenzuela is a libertarian content creator who has been living solely on crypto for the past eight years. From being brought up on a cattle farm to working at the White House to moving to New Hampshire for the Free State Project, Joël’s diverse background led him to the blockchain space where he has become a respected journalist and educator. Through this conversation we’re hoping to understand what it takes to truly live off of crypto. -- Follow Joël on Twitter: @TheDesertLynx -- Follow us on the socials: Twitter: @showcrypto TikTok: @showmethecrypto Instagram: @showmethecryptopodcast -- *Any financial compensation we receive will always be clearly identified as an advertisement or sponsored content. We don't accept payment to feature guests, and we don't accept payment to influence the coins/projects we discuss on Show Me The Crypto. Any ads will be clearly identified during the show, and information on our partners will be featured in the show notes.

Sicco Naets is Director of Technical Operations with Moonbeam Foundation. Sicco is an experienced software development leader with a background in tech, politics, history and sociology. His technical expertise includes blockchain, distributed microservices architecture, messaging middleware and cloud deployments. Moonbeam is a smart contract platform for cross-chain connected applications that unites functionality from Ethereum, Polkadot and beyond. -- Follow Sicco on Twitter: @sicconaets Follow Moonbeam on Twitter: @MoonbeamNetwork -- Follow us on the socials: Twitter: @showcrypto TikTok: @showmethecrypto Instagram: @showmethecryptopodcast -- *Any financial compensation we receive will always be clearly identified as an advertisement or sponsored content. We don't accept payment to feature guests, and we don't accept payment to influence the coins/projects we discuss on Show Me The Crypto. Any ads will be clearly identified during the show, and information on our partners will be featured in the show notes.

Toby Cunningham is a Nazaré Big Wave Surfer and Co-Host of Crypto Tips. If riding waves is the commonality on the Venn Diagram of surfing and crypto, Toby has been doing so expertly for many years. In the water, Toby began surfing big waves at the age of 16 and earned the XXL Biggest Paddle Award in 2003 for successfully taking on a 56ft swell. On the blockchain, Toby got orange-pilled in 2012 and has successfully ridden through waves of FUD and “We’re All Gonna Make It” rhetoric to survive the last three bull markets and two (or maybe even three) bear markets. -- Follow Toby on Twitter: @sircryptotips Follow Heidi on Twitter: @blockchainchick -- Follow us on the socials: Twitter: @showcrypto TikTok: @showmethecrypto Instagram: @showmethecryptopodcast -- *Any financial compensation we receive will always be clearly identified as an advertisement or sponsored content. We don't accept payment to feature guests, and we don't accept payment to influence the coins/projects we discuss on Show Me The Crypto. Any ads will be clearly identified during the show, and information on our partners will be featured in the show notes.

Alan Scott is Co-Founder of Railgun. Dubbed by the Railgun DAO as “the janitor,” based on his ability to tackle any non-code-writing tasks, Alan has worked in the financial sectors of Tokyo and the US, and considers himself a staunch advocate of privacy. Railgun is a smart contract system that enables zero-knowledge privacy for Ethereum and EVMs. -- Follow Alan on Twitter: @tsu_kareta Follow Railgun on Twitter: @RAILGUN_Project Follow Web3 Privacy Now: @web3privacy Blockchain Privacy Paper referenced by Alan : https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4563364 -- Follow us on the socials: Twitter: @showcrypto TikTok: @showmethecrypto Instagram: @showmethecryptopodcast -- *Any financial compensation we receive will always be clearly identified as an advertisement or sponsored content. We don't accept payment to feature guests, and we don't accept payment to influence the coins/projects we discuss on Show Me The Crypto. Any ads will be clearly identified during the show, and information on our partners will be featured in the show notes.

Ishan Bhaidani is Chief Revenue Officer and Co-Founder of Web3 Marketing Agency, Scrib3. A year ago, long before most had concerns about Sam Bankman-Fried, Ishan Tweeted: "I’m taking all of my capital out of FTX and going to short $FTT… something shady is going on at FTX." Now, with the SBF trial under way, we figured the timing was perfect to chat with the guy who called the chaos early. -- Our first Podcast NFT Collection, "The First 100," has launched! Official Secondary Link: ⁠⁠https://opensea.io/collection/show-me-the-crypto-the-first-100⁠ -- Follow Ishan on Twitter: @Ishanb22 Follow Scrib3 on Twitter: @scrib3_co -- Follow us on the socials: Twitter: @showcrypto TikTok: @showmethecrypto Instagram: @showmethecryptopodcast -- *Any financial compensation we receive will always be clearly identified as an advertisement or sponsored content. We don't accept payment to feature guests, and we don't accept payment to influence the coins/projects we discuss on Show Me The Crypto. Any ads will be clearly identified during the show, and information on our partners will be featured in the show notes.

Mathew Sweezey is Chief Strategy Officer of Smart Token Labs. A pioneer of the marketing automation space, Sweezey is author of several books including The Context Marketing Revolution. With more than a decade of experience at Salesforce, he co-founded Salesforce Web3 Studio in 2021 before going on to join Smart Token Labs in May of this year. Outside of Web3, Sweezey describes himself as an adventurer, trend spotter and “good” furniture maker. -- Our first Podcast NFT Collection, "The First 100," has launched! Official Secondary Link: ⁠⁠https://opensea.io/collection/show-me-the-crypto-the-first-100⁠ -- Follow Sweezey on Twitter: @msweezey Follow Smart Token Labs on Twitter: @SmartLayer -- Follow us on the socials: Twitter: @showcrypto TikTok: @showmethecrypto Instagram: @showmethecryptopodcast -- *Any financial compensation we receive will always be clearly identified as an advertisement or sponsored content. We don't accept payment to feature guests, and we don't accept payment to influence the coins/projects we discuss on Show Me The Crypto. Any ads will be clearly identified during the show, and information on our partners will be featured in the show notes.

Mauricio Di Bartolomeo is Co-Founder and CSO at Ledn Inc. Born and raised in Venezuela, Mauricio experienced double-digit inflation throughout his entire life, but discovered Bitcoin thanks to his younger brother. Once Mauricio understood how Bitcoin could transact in a hostile environment, he immediately grasped the use case. Mauricio co-founded Ledn in 2017 with the conviction that digital assets have the power to democratize access to the global economy. -- Our first Podcast NFT Collection, "The First 100," has launched! Official Secondary Link: ⁠⁠https://opensea.io/collection/show-me-the-crypto-the-first-100⁠ -- Follow Mauricio on Twitter: @cryptonomista Follow Ledn on Twitter: @hodlwithLedn -- Follow us on the socials: Twitter: @showcrypto TikTok: @showmethecrypto Instagram: @showmethecryptopodcast -- *Any financial compensation we receive will always be clearly identified as an advertisement or sponsored content. We don't accept payment to feature guests, and we don't accept payment to influence the coins/projects we discuss on Show Me The Crypto. Any ads will be clearly identified during the show, and information on our partners will be featured in the show notes.

Brandon Da Silva is CEO of AI Arena; Wei Xie is COO of AI Arena. Wade + Ulf recently caught up with Brandon and Wei at the Blockchain Futurist Conference in Toronto, Canada. -- Our first Podcast NFT Collection, "The First 100," has launched! Official Secondary Link: ⁠⁠https://opensea.io/collection/show-me-the-crypto-the-first-100⁠ -- Follow Brandon on Twitter: @sihing_guppy Follow Wei on Twitter: @Eeazy_Weezy Follow AI Arena on Twitter: @aiarena_ -- Follow us on the socials: Twitter: @showcrypto TikTok: @showmethecrypto Instagram: @showmethecryptopodcast -- *Any financial compensation we receive will always be clearly identified as an advertisement or sponsored content. We don't accept payment to feature guests, and we don't accept payment to influence the coins/projects we discuss on Show Me The Crypto. Any ads will be clearly identified during the show, and information on our partners will be featured in the show notes.

Dean Skurka is President + CEO of WonderFi. Wade + Ulf recently caught up with Dean at the Blockchain Futurist Conference in Toronto, Canada. -- Our first Podcast NFT Collection, "The First 100," has launched! Official Secondary Link: ⁠⁠https://opensea.io/collection/show-me-the-crypto-the-first-100⁠ -- Follow Dean on Twitter: @bitbuy_dean Follow WonderFi on Twitter: @WonderFi -- Follow us on the socials: Twitter: @showcrypto TikTok: @showmethecrypto Instagram: @showmethecryptopodcast -- *Any financial compensation we receive will always be clearly identified as an advertisement or sponsored content. We don't accept payment to feature guests, and we don't accept payment to influence the coins/projects we discuss on Show Me The Crypto. Any ads will be clearly identified during the show, and information on our partners will be featured in the show notes.

Michele Romanow is Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Clearco, as well as a Dragon on Canada's Dragons' Den. Wade + Ulf recently caught up with Michele at the Blockchain Futurist Conference in Toronto, Canada. -- Our first Podcast NFT Collection, "The First 100," has launched! Official Secondary Link: ⁠⁠https://opensea.io/collection/show-me-the-crypto-the-first-100⁠ -- Follow Michele on Twitter: @MicheleRomanow Follow Clearco on Twitter: @getclearco -- Follow us on the socials: Twitter: @showcrypto TikTok: @showmethecrypto Instagram: @showmethecryptopodcast -- *Any financial compensation we receive will always be clearly identified as an advertisement or sponsored content. We don't accept payment to feature guests, and we don't accept payment to influence the coins/projects we discuss on Show Me The Crypto. Any ads will be clearly identified during the show, and information on our partners will be featured in the show notes.

(*Note: Wade's + Ulf's audio isn't the best in this episode... we were having mic issues. Our apologies! Thankfully, our guest, Mark, sounds great!) Mark Greenberg is Kraken's Managing Director for Canada. Wade + Ulf recently caught up with Mark at the Blockchain Futurist Conference in Toronto, Canada. -- Our first Podcast NFT Collection, "The First 100," has launched! Official Secondary Link: ⁠https://opensea.io/collection/show-me-the-crypto-the-first-100 -- Follow Mark on Twitter: @marklg Follow Kraken on Twitter: @krakenfx -- Follow us on the socials: Twitter: @showcrypto TikTok: @showmethecrypto Instagram: @showmethecryptopodcast -- *Any financial compensation we receive will always be clearly identified as an advertisement or sponsored content. We don't accept payment to feature guests, and we don't accept payment to influence the coins/projects we discuss on Show Me The Crypto. Any ads will be clearly identified during the show, and information on our partners will be featured in the show notes.

Dan Kim is VP of Business Development and Head of Listings with Coinbase. Wade + Ulf recently caught up with Dan at the Blockchain Futurist Conference in Toronto, Canada. -- Our first Podcast NFT Collection, "The First 100," has launched! Official Secondary Link: ⁠https://opensea.io/collection/show-me-the-crypto-the-first-100 -- Follow Dan on Twitter: @DANKIMdigital Follow Coinbase on Twitter: @coinbase -- Follow us on the socials: Twitter: @showcrypto TikTok: @showmethecrypto Instagram: @showmethecryptopodcast -- *Any financial compensation we receive will always be clearly identified as an advertisement or sponsored content. We don't accept payment to feature guests, and we don't accept payment to influence the coins/projects we discuss on Show Me The Crypto. Any ads will be clearly identified during the show, and information on our partners will be featured in the show notes.

*Note: The audio is poor for the first couple minutes, but it gets better! Our mic was temporarily off... sorry! Scot Johnson is President and CEO of Digital Shovel, which helps businesses scale crypto-mining operations with turn-key mobile units. Wade + Ulf recently caught up with Scot at the Blockchain Futurist Conference in Toronto, Canada. -- Our first Podcast NFT Collection, "The First 100," has launched! Official Secondary Link: ⁠https://opensea.io/collection/show-me-the-crypto-the-first-100 -- Follow Digital Shovel on Twitter: @Digital_Shovel -- Follow us on the socials: Twitter: @showcrypto TikTok: @showmethecrypto Instagram: @showmethecryptopodcast -- *Any financial compensation we receive will always be clearly identified as an advertisement or sponsored content. We don't accept payment to feature guests, and we don't accept payment to influence the coins/projects we discuss on Show Me The Crypto. Any ads will be clearly identified during the show, and information on our partners will be featured in the show notes.