CoinJournal Podcast

Alex Kim, BNB Chain's Business Development Manager, joins the podcast to chat all things BNB Chain.

See on CoinJournal here.
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Find BNB Chain on Twitter: @BNBChain
Find out more at www.bnbchain.org

Avalanche is a newcomer even within the young industry of crypto, having been launched in late 2020.  Despite this, it is already among the biggest projects in the space.  John Nahas, Vice President of Business Development at Ava Labs, the creator behind Avalanche, joins the podcast to discuss why he thinks Avalanche has solved the blockchain trilemma,  regulation, launching amid the bull market, the subsequent bear market and more.

Head over to Dan's article on CoinJournal here
Reach out to us on Twitter: @DanniiAshmore & @CoinJournal
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Find Avalanche on Twitter: @AvalancheAvax
Find Ava Labs on Twitter: @AvaLabsOfficial
Find out more at www.avax.network/community
Find John on Twitter: @SJohn_Nahas

Elijah Tan worked in trad-fi for years. On this episode, he talks leaving Goldman Sachs for crypto after 7 years, where he worked for Binance and is now the VP of Operations at Philippines-based exchange Coins.ph

Head over to Dan's article on CoinJournal here
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Follow Coins.ph: @Coinsph
Find out more at www.coins.ph
Follow Eli on LinkedIn here

Our host Dan Ashmore interviews Sam MacPherson of MakerDAO, the DAO behind the world's largest decentralised stablecoin, DAI. The duo chat about its future, and the stablecoin market as a whole, following the shocking story that BUSD will be gradually shut down amid an SEC crackdown.

Head over to Dan's article on CoinJournal here
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Follow @MakerDAO on Twitter
Find out more at www.makerdao.com
Find Sam MacPherson on Twitter: @hexonaut

Crypto has pulled back massively recently, with mass layoffs and cratering volumes in the industry. Despite this crypto exchange Bitget is not only avoiding redundancies, but it is hiring. We chat with Managing Director Gracy Chen on how this is the case, her journey into crypto, the bear market, the future and more. 

• Listen on Spotify here
• Other platforms and podcast homepage here
• Reach out to Dan on Twitter: @DanniiAshmore
• Follow Gracy's Twitter: @GracyBitget
• Get the latest on Bitget: www.bitget.com
• Follow Bitget on Twitter: @bitgetglobal

A serial entrepreneur, Corey Wilton tells me his story. A kid from the Gold Coast in Australia, he failed to get into University. Today, he runs a metaverse company, Mirai Labs, out of Vietnam with 75 employees, and has some great tales from the hysteria of the last few years. 

• Head over to Dan's article on CoinJournal here
• Watch on YouTube here
• Reach out to Dan on Twitter here: @DanniiAshmore and @CoinJournal
• Follow Corey on Twitter @RealCoreyWilton
• Get the latest on Mirai Labs: @TheMiraiLabs
• Get the latest on Pegaxy: @PegaxyOfficial

We chat all things DeFi, Polygon and Ethereum with Polygon's Head of DeFi & Labs, Hamzah Khan. 

Read up on Polygon: https://polygon.technology/

• Head over to Dan's article on CoinJournal here
• Watch on YouTube here
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• Read more on Polygon: https://polygon.technology/

IOTA has been around quite a while in cryptocurrency terms.

They do things a little differently than most, the self-proclaimed "blockchainless blockchain".

CoinJournal's Dan Ashmore sits down with IOTA's Christian Saur this week to chat all things IOTA, following the launch of the Shimmer network. Beyond Shimmer, the duo also chat DeFi, the bear market, the contagion that toppled so much of CeFi this summer, and more.

Head over to Dan's article on CoinJournal here: https://coinjournal.net/news/podcast-chatting-all-things-iota-with-iotas-christian-saur/
Watch on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/NRHDdMCWd74

Reach out to Dan on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/DanniiAshmore
Get the latest on IOTA's Twitter: https://twitter.com/iota
Get started with IOTA: https://www.iota.org/

Venture capitalism and crypto are a pair who have not been married for long, but the results have been explosive.

Of course, like everything, it has taken a turn for the worst this week. Dan speaks with longtime VC David Siemer, CEO of Wave Financial, about all things VC and crypto.

David was a VC for the dot com bubble and the GFC in 2008, so he has seen these scenes before in the trad-fi market. Having been sent 50 bitcoins in 2010, and being a self-proclaimed risk-taker, he is now in the crypto space - so how is VC getting on through all this?

Is there a dark side to VC in crypto? Where is the bear market going? Why could now be an interesting time to invest? What about the macro situation?

This and a lot more on this week's episode.

Head over to Dan's article on CoinJournal here
Watch on YouTube

Read up on Wave Financial

The phrase "crypto lending" is seen as a dirty one now in the post-Celsius world, as a wave of contagion spreading through the industry caused many firms to go under in a very high-profile manner.

Today Dan speaks with Rafael Cosman, the co-founder and CEO of TrustToken, the firm behind the world's fifth biggest stablecoin, TrueUSD, and also the pioneers in uncollaterised lending.

So, is uncollaterised lending really possible, having seen what happened the last few months? Or is the capital inefficiency that overcollaterised lending brings just a necessary evil?

We also discuss the Tether reserves situation and how it compares to USDC and TrueUSD, compare CeFi vs DeFi and much more.

Head over to the article on CoinJournal here.
Watch on YouTube here. 

Get started with TrueFi: https://TrueFi.io
Read the Litepaper: https://bit.ly/truefiblog
Get the latest on Twitter: https://Twitter.com/TrueFiDAO
Join the community on Discord: http://bit.ly/truefichat