FINNOVATORS

Bitcoin staking? On Proof of Stake chains?? Find out how Stanford professor David Tse and his team at Babylon Chain have found the way for PoW and PoS chains to coexist in a mutually beneficial way. We discuss this oxymoron, Mr Marconi, slashing,  blockchain security, extractable one-time signatures, EigenLayer, and more. Make sure to tune in!


https://twitter.com/dntse
https://twitter.com/babylon_chain
https://www.babylonchain.io/

In an increasingly digital and AI-driven world, proof of authenticity and online privacy and safety are extremely important. Nick and his team at Dock.io are creating  tools for organizations to issue digital credentials and certificates that are automatically and instantly verifiable, fraud-proof and auditable. We discuss the need for decentralization and web3, self sovereign identity, zero-knowledge proofs and the use cases in education, health, defi and traditional financial services. Make sure to tune in! 

https://twitter.com/N1ckLambert
https://www.dock.io/
https://twitter.com/docknetwork

Interested in knowing more about some of the hottest long/short narratives in crypto? Huf (not his real name) talks about rage-quitting investment banking, porting his skills to defi, first as an actively managed yield platform and then pivoting to Pear, a composable pair-trading protocol. We discuss the importance of  pseudonymity, the use cases for pair trading, trending long-short narratives,  trading positions as NFTs, DAO economics,  integrating off- and on-chain liquidity, double capital efficiency, building on Arbitrum, and Vitalik in the bedroom... Make sure to tune in!

https://twitter.com/hufhaus9
https://www.pear.garden/

The affable Harsh Rajat describes how being liquidated on a defi protocol inspired him to launch Push Protocol (previously EPNS), a cross-chain notification and messaging protocol for web3.  We discuss the need for web3-native communication, some interesting use cases, the upcoming node decentralization, and his move to Dubai to take Push to the next level. 

https://twitter.com/harshrajat
https://push.org/

What will drive the next million (billion?) users to web3? Convenient non-custodial ramps are crucial to bridge the gap with mainstream finance and web2. George and his team at Wert have developed a smart NFT & crypto checkout solution with industry-beating transaction success rates. We discuss how the devil is in the details, seamless UX, utility NFT's, Ebay, and future developments. Make sure to tune in! 

Which Real World Assets will become big on-chain first? Piyush and his team at PolyTrade are betting on the multi-trillion market for Trade Finance. Having recently completed their funding round, they're ready to expand from their base in Dubai to the US and Asia. We talk about factoring, the UAE, India,  Polygon and trade finance yield potential in DeFi. Give it a listen!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/piyush-polytrade/
https://twitter.com/Polytrade_fin

Privacy as a moral right, or a pragmatic need for institutions. Whatever the use case, Elena and her team at Iron Fish are bringing privacy-as-a-utility to the digital asset ecosystem.  We discuss honest computation, zkp applications IRL, the Apple of blockchains, regulatory compliance, PoW, blake3, emission curves & inflation, stablecoins and private Bitcoin. Coming to mainnet on 4/20 (!)  Don't miss out!

https://twitter.com/leanthebean
https://ironfish.network/

Trust in institutions and the current global financial system is at historically low levels. Philippe explains how Islamic Finance is based on society-oriented principles of fairness, transparency and risk sharing and argues that it is a truly capitalist alternative to an overleveraged, fractional banking, short-termist, boom and bust financial system. We talk about the role of blockchain, building a governance layer on top of Stellar, gold tokens and deflationary ecosystem tokenomics. Make sure to tune in!

Are you looking to pay your staff (partially) in crypto? Franklin offers a fully-compliant hybrid cash & crypto payroll service that enables streaming salary payments and automated tax services. Eric and I discuss market demand, stablecoins & CBDC, token table management, regulations and privacy. Make sure to tune in! 

https://twitter.com/0xEricBrown
hellofranklin.co
https://twitter.com/franklinpayroll

Sam is the congenial brand-new CEO of Discreet Labs, the team behind programmable privacy solution Findora.  From a chilly Eth Denver, he defines privacy as your ability to create relationships with anybody.  We discuss his relationship with Satoshi, triple masking, DeFi,  Weapons of Mass Surveillance, Kindereggs and Christian singles. Make sure to tune in to this fun episode! 


https://twitter.com/samuelpharrison
https://findora.org/
https://twitter.com/findora