Steven Goldfeder, CEO of Offchain Labs, is a key blockchain innovator who developed Arbitrum—the largest and most advanced Ethereum tech stack—authored "Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies," and pioneered multi-party computation, shaping the future of blockchain interaction for consumers and institutions alike.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The founding story of Arbitrum
- Building a decentralized future for the internet
- Future of Layer 2 Solutions
- In-depth review of current L2s
- Arbitrum has more features and a more expansive developer kit than Ethereum
- The speed, scalability, and innovation of Arbitrum
- Unifying trad-fi and defi … it will simply be called “finance” in the future
- Making blockchain go mainstream
- Arbitrum's position in the DeFi space
- Stylus — allowing web2 devs to create web3 code

Offchain Labs
Website: www.offchainlabs.com
X: @OffchainLabs
LinkedIn: Offchain Labs

Steven Goldfeder
X: @sgoldfed
LinkedIn: Steven Goldfeder

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Antonio Juliano is a software engineer and Founder/CEO of the world's leading decentralized exchange for cryptocurrencies, dYdX. After obtaining a computer science degree at Princeton University in 2015, Antonio started working at Coinbase as a software engineer, where he learned about cryptocurrency and the world of blockchain.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Antonio’s return as CEO of dYdX and his vision for the company’s future
- dYdX Unlimited
- Instant market listings and enhanced liquidity
- Derivative market instant listings for the first time ever
- DEXs vs CEXs
- The future of crypto
- Unique novel products are a huge needle mover for defi
- Soaring markets and the impact of a new administration
- What's to come from prediction markets post-election
- Growing institutional interest in crypto and DeFi
- Crypto industry heading into 2025 and beyond
- Bull markets are characterized by the main product or character

dYdX
Website: www.dydx.foundation
X: @dydxfoundation
Discord: discord.gg/dydx

Antonio Juliano
X: @AntonioMJuliano
LinkedIn: Antonio Juliano 
 
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Veronica McGregor has served as Chief Legal Officer of Exodus since January 2022. Prior to joining Exodus, Veronica was the chief legal officer of ShapeShift from 2018 to 2021, where she managed in-house legal and compliance functions, global legal strategy, governmental relations, and regulatory affairs. Prior to that, she was a partner at Goodwin Proctor from 2016 to 2018 and Hogan Lovells from 2014 to 2016, where she specialized in assisting companies navigate state and federal laws and regulations related to digital assets, among other things.

Veronica has a Juris Doctor from the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from San Francisco State University.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Regulatory Reform as a Bipartisan Imperative
- Institutionalizing Crypto Education for Legislative Clarity
- Establishing the U.S. as a Global Blockchain Hub
- Crypto’s influence proved pivotal in shaping election outcomes
- Crypto Sentiment and Outlook Post-Election
- BTC all-time high
- The SEC’s stance on crypto; will it ever change?
- Crypto - the only industry that asks to be regulated
- Changing the negative narrative of crypto
- Exodus’s $1.3M donation to Stand with Crypto
- The power of self custody

Exodus
Website: www.exodus.com
X: @exodus_io
Discord: discord.gg/exodus

Veronica McGregor
X: @vkm1
LinkedIn: Veronica McGregor

 
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Alan Orwick is the Co-Founder of Quai Network, the only fully scalable and programmable Proof-of-Work Layer 1 designed for global commerce. He also serves as the CEO of Dominant Strategies, the development behind Quai Network devoted to building blockchain tooling and infrastructure. Previously an Apple software engineer, Alan is committed to continuing to innovate the Quai Network with his engineering skills. His passion for blockchain technology began while he was a student at the University of Texas at Austin, where he founded Texas Blockchain, a student-led blockchain club.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Quai’s Proof-of-Work mechanism doubles as an economic oracle, linking token value directly to real-world energy costs and demand
- Energy-tied stablecoin model
- Creating a more efficient stablecoin
- Proof-of-Work consensus mechanisms
- L1s own the whole end-to-end tech stack
- Mainstream political engagement
- Educating lawmakers on Crypto
- Technology vs. Politics
- Polymarket’s power in future elections
- Founding Texas Blockchain Club
- Quai’s Final Testnet Launch - 32,000 GPUs online mining Quai
- The intersection of crypto + AI + DePIN

Quai Network
Website: qu.ai
X: @QuaiNetwork
Telegram: t.me/QuaiNetwork

Alan Orwick
X: @0xalank
LinkedIn: Alan Orwick

 
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Solo Ceesay is CEO and Co-Founder at Calaxy. Before co-founding Calaxy with his business partner, Brooklyn Nets star Spencer Dinwiddie, Solo held the position of Securitization Investment Banker at Citi after graduating from the Wharton School of Business. As a 30-year-old tech founder, Solo has successfully spearheaded over $33.5 million in private funding for Calaxy. He was named one of Variety’s Hollywood’s New Leaders of 2022, and has brought his financial expertise to many mainstream audiences including Nasdaq, CNBC, and Cheddar News, as well as on his own video podcast New Money.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Democratizing the internet
- The rise of super apps and how SocialFi will enable cryptocurrency adoption
- Future of decentralized media and the creator economy
- The benefits of decentralization & giving users control over data
- The global impact of the U.S. election on crypto and the wider economy
- The true power of Polymarket
- Decentralized identity
- Making Web3 technology accessible to both creators and fans
- Calaxy’s new integration with Solana
- Creating dApps and decentralized communities in one minute
- Calaxy Worlds

Calaxy
Website: calaxy.com
X: @CalaxyApp

Solo Ceesay
X: @SoloCeesay
LinkedIn: Solo Ceesay

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Georgios Vlachos, Co-Founder of Axelar protocol and director at Axelar Foundation. Georgios received his BSc and MS Eng. in computer science at MIT. After graduation, he became part of the Algorand founding team, where he worked on the design and development of the consensus protocol and other core components. While in high school, Georgios became the first Greek to win a gold Medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The financial crisis in Greece and current day economy in Argentina
- The power of crypto in countries without Robust banking systems
- Early days of Algorand
- Why Cross-chain Bridges Fall Short - True interoperability demands collaboration across projects, not just patched-together solutions.
- AI agents will be the biggest users of blockchains
- Could there be a world where every human has their own blockchain?
- RWAs and DePIN need interoperability
- Connecting on-/off-chain systems
- Deploying your token on many chains with a couple of clicks
- Crypto needs more applications and less infrastructure
- How AI will impact crypto

Axelar Foundation
Website: www.axelar.network
X: @axelar
Telegram: t.me/axelarcommunity

Georgios Vlachos
X: @yorgosv_
LinkedIn: Georgios Vlachos

 
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Jason Zhao is the Chief Protocol Officer and Co-founder of Story, the world’s IP blockchain. Jason was the youngest ever Product Manager at DeepMind focused on productionizing Google’s cutting-edge artificial intelligence models across industrial and enterprise applications. He is an active angel investor in frontier technology startups. Jason served as the founding Editor-in-chief of Stanford Rewired, a magazine focused on the intersection of storytelling and technology. As a Design Fellow at IDEO, Jason created and taught a course at Stanford’s d.school. Jason received both a Bachelor’s in Philosophy and a Master’s in Computer Science at Stanford University.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Tokenizing the multi-trillion-dollar intellectual property (IP) market
- $80 million raise
- Programming the terms behind your IP & content
- Turning code into law via smart contract
- Building the world’s largest IP library
- IP Lego blocks are the future of blockchain
- Creating more demand for money (or crypto)
- Story's Proof of Creativity protocol
- The relationship between art and tech
- Blockchain was driven by human and political behaviour
- How blockchains will eat the world
- Solving the problem of AI intellectual property

Story
Website: www.story.foundation
X: @StoryProtocol
Discord: discord.gg/storyprotocol

Jason Zhao
X: @jasonjzhao
LinkedIn: Jason Zhao 

 
 
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Vugar is an award-winning senior manager and communications expert with 15 years of progressive hands-on experience spanning Fortune 500 giants to dynamic startups, currently serving as Chief Operating Officer at Bitget.

A stalwart in the Web3 and blockchain arena, Vugar previously assumed the role of Chief Marketing Officer at Beincrypto, leaving an indelible mark on the industry. His journey extends to co-founder and board levels, where he adeptly crafted brands and ushered in compelling products, contributing to the success of a "unicorn" MarTech startup. Vugar held senior positions at renowned brands such as Carlsberg, Facebook, Danone, Coca-Cola, Twitter, SONY, and more, showcasing his versatility and strategic insight. Having also lent his expertise as a senior consultant at Bain & Company, Vugar focused on Web3, blockchain technologies, and private equity, further solidifying his standing as a seasoned professional in the field.

An Edward S. Mason Fellow, Vugar holds a master's degree from Harvard University and a post-graduate degree in Economics from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Vugar passionately hosts a popular crypto podcast, the "Usi Talk," delving into technology, Web3, AI, and Blockchain.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Canada = top 20 countries for crypto adoption and top 10 by on-chain value
- Canada was the first country in the world to approve the spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs almost 4 years ago
- The current state and future of cryptocurrency in Canada
- Educating Canadians on crypto
- Creating a smooth and efficient onboarding process
- The mindset behind a traditional Canadian investor
- Bitget’s copy trading platform
- Pre-market opportunities on Bitget
- $30mm investment into the TRON ecosystem
- Bread and butter of crypto = CEXs and Stablecoins
- Bitget’s multi-million dollar partnership with LaLiga

Bitget
Website: bitget.com
X: @bitgetglobal
LinkedIn: Bitget
Telegram: t.me/bitgetEN

Vugar Usi Zade
X: @usithetalk
LinkedIn: Vugar Usi Zade

 
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Jeff Garzik is the co-founder and CEO of Bloq and leader of the Hemi Network project. He has long been at the center of developing and commercializing open-source software related to Bitcoin and blockchain technology. Previously, he spent five years as a Bitcoin core developer and ten years at Red Hat.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The Future of Bitcoin
- Bridging Bitcoin and Ethereum
- Proof-of-Proof (PoP)
- Micro Nations and Network States
- Praxus raising $550mm
- Bitcoin is bomb proof
- Crypto’s two MVPs: Bitcoin and Stablecoins
- The limitations of building on bitcoin
- Bitcoin is censorship-resistant

Hemi Network
Website: hemi.xyz
X: @hemi_xyz
LinkedIn: Hemi Labs

Jeff Garzik
X: @jgarzik
LinkedIn: Jeff Garzik


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Jeff Garzik is the co-founder and CEO of Bloq and leader of the Hemi Network project. He has long been at the center of developing and commercializing open-source software related to Bitcoin and blockchain technology. Previously, he spent five years as a Bitcoin core developer and ten years at Red Hat.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Network states - the next big trend
- The power of Linux
- Jeff’s story about getting into Bitcoin in 2010 (before it was even traded)
- Working with Satoshi
- Creating ASIC mining software for bitcoin
- Satoshi’s anonymity was CIA-level - a true pro
- The founding story of Bitcoin
- Present day Bitcoin
- Future of Bitcoin
- Power Law
- The internet was started to survive nuclear war
- Pros and cons of the lightning network
- Getting on-chain is still the biggest challenge
- Going back to our peer-to-peer roots

Hemi Network
Website: hemi.xyz
X: @hemi_xyz
LinkedIn: Hemi Labs

Jeff Garzik
X: @jgarzik
LinkedIn: Jeff Garzik

 
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