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  Xavier will undoubtedly break the trend of gracing a Crypto Forbes Magazine cover without a proper visit to Frederick Fekkai. With his devastatingly charming accent and endless knowledge of every single protocol to have ever come into existence, it is clear why he has developed a cult like following of gen and degen crypto founders and VCs alike. 

Not only does he indulge my Real housewives of Crypto in Gstaad meets the Bell Curve wrapped in an unchained blended mix of call her daddy where’s my bank line of questions, he educates me in the Je ne Sais Quoi of what staking actually is beyond cute rewards and network security.  His explanation is high level enough that it would satisfy my psychiatrist’ Bessel van der Kolking lack of understanding, yet low level enough that it is undoubtedly Vitalik Buterin approved 

Xavier hails from the great Continent of Adelaide Australia, and then was aristocratically classically educated in FinAnce in Milan post fascism.  He then traveled the globe and found himself at an existential crisis:  Shall I become a Wall Street wanker or dive deep head first into the throws of blockchain and decentralized finAncE et cetera ad nauseum.  He found himself connecting with the mysterious and glamorous Felix Lutsch, the former Chief Commercial Officer of Chorus One, who has since left to pursue Low  Fashion in High places and vice versa. Xavier stopped at nothing to join this unique, elegant, and what could only be described as a crypto native think thank that’s operates validator node infrastructure and produces unstoppable MEV research for exchanges, custodians, wallets, foundations, VCs, Hedgefunds and UHNwI’ alike. He joined as a Research Analyst before becoming Head of Research and then eventually crowned Chief Investment Officer where he is responsible for its multi milly dollar fund. 
Xavier and I have had a deeply complicated relationship. We first met for a candlelight dinner at the Core Club during a balmy night in DeFi Summer.

 It was here I laid my vapid attempt to convince him of my deep expertise in the Cosmos ecosystem, tokenized perpetual derivatives and of my elite DAO memberships of which I forged using my Nigerian Passport. Over a shared beef tartare, a 1984 bottle of Malbec and a side order of my mushed up Lexapro and vegemite, he appeared not the least bit convinced of my questionable skillset and resume covered in blood in sequins to illustrate a dark yet exciting work ethic. Nevertheless, Xavier, with his unpretentious intelligence comparable to a young John Stuart Mill and a keen eye to recognize obvious talent, was intrigued at what kind of dealflow I could bring him. I happened to not casually mention my wide circle of dear friends of Sultans and low tier Sequoia Analysts investing in web un deux et trois during all courses. 

Our (working) relationship has not been without the occasional screaming mascara tear streaked fight, replete with some blue in the face light foaming at the mouth. Yet we always come to an EIP resolution and he has tolerated my antics with the elegance of His Majesty. After all I do (mostly) deliver.  Alas, I must zkrollup my sleeves ,save my histrionics for the stage and recognize the opportunity I have been hashtag blessed with.  Xavier is a critical thinker, and a writer, of which well be seeing more of in the New Year. He is a sharp communicator, unique in the crypto space. His analyses of projects are not filled with nonsensical buzzwords and lack of substance, but instead with real examination from bottom of the blockchain. He is most bullish on Avalanche subnets, liquid staking, and Cosmos, and optimistically convinced he could shill the royal family on indulging some light Osmosis trading in between pheasant hunting. Xavier is the loveliest, the coolest, the smartest, and is going to set this next bull market ablaze. Enjoy

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New episode. The Glitter Ledger. My guest today is Dean Skurka, CEO Of WonderFi.

 He is Under 40 replete with a Wall Street slick back American Psycho head of hair and a Canadian disposition, place of birth and residence. Before you get too jazzed, this episode was cut slightly short to my unpaid bills on my now free zoom account as I spent all my money on Diet Coke, Solana and an Ocelot this week. Luckily, we talk fast and the major points of general malaise mixed in with an impending bull market coupled with regulation and how to run a public company without going insane are all covered.  On the topic of zoom, the company itself has an unusually strong financial footing. This unusually strong financial footing leads me to be bullish on the company reminiscent of the 2020 Gamestop era. I advise against my own financial advice considering that most of my retirement portfolio consists of a mélange of Lightcoin, Volkswagen, and Nigerian based ETFs. 

I digress,  and enough about me. WonderFi provides investors diversified exposure across the global digital asset ecosystem most notably, through leading trading platforms (Bitbuy and Coinsquare), B2B Crypto Payments (SmartPay), and though a Canadian Qualified Custodian (Tetra Trust). Dean has solid tips for navigating relationships with regulators as well as how to get bps of customers. He is one of the few leaders with solid business acumen coupled with legitimate crypto knowledge. Even though he stood me up twice, so did my husband so third time is the charm in a podcast guest, in a marriage, and hopefully for Ark’s filing for a Bitcoin ETF. And by the way Dean and I are really cool as he sent me and a handwritten cursive note both on telegram and snail expressing his deepest regrets. As such, as soon as I gain dual citizenship, and Glitter Ledger Headquarters opens its second location in #Montremblant consider my Eth custodied under the Wonderfi family. 

#TheGlitterLedger #WonderFi #BitBuy #FromSeaToSea

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On this episode of #TheGlitterLedger I interview Parker Jay-Pachirat, of  FinTech Collective and not co-founder but founding member of Boys Club. We immediately bonded over being brunette born and bred New Yorkers, with deep appreciation for our city’s delicious salad of culture, religion, politics, food and subway observances . Her experience growing up in the Fin-aNce capital of the world involved less of wine tasting varietals at Nutcracker intermissions and swimming lessons in the shallow end of the Four season’s pool  -

 and more  late night readings with her contemporaries about deep fakes and 3D printers and brain machine interfaces. Like true New Yorkers, we marveled in our starkly contrasting formative pre-teen years with respect and admiration.  

We discussed Parker’s highly accomplished career at FinTech Collective, a global, early stage venture capital firm who’s investments includes notable fun to say names like #GogoPool #Playgrounds, and #Rainbow, who actually have a TAM and PMF and DTF- alongside her eloquent musings on what it takes to be an insightful and successful VC. Note. It is beyond a magic 8 ball and an enviable roster of founders building cool things, though both help. 

We also delve into the Boys Club, not be confused with a group of Post Harvard MBA fraternity brothers who sit in the jacuzzi with cigars and discuss their genius puts on Luna circa 2022 and High Frequency Uranium Trades. Non. This Boys Club is the online social collective community that educates the masses about crypto in the form of unhinged memes, newsletters, discords and parties for the vapid  intellectual crypto curious bi curious sober curious capitalist curious socially awkward folk of our time who are also attractive, well educated, well dressed and nowhere in between. The content informative an and hilariously entertaining. Parker does not subscribe to titles, but given the high standard she holds herself to coupled with her deeply successful initiatives,  the club's  respected media coverage, and waitlisted side events, she is likely the CCO, and the DAO architect. 

Parker and I then get extremely politically, religiously and romantically deep, most of which was removed from this episode on account of the fact that I did not speak enough.

 #IpsoFacto, the number of listeners decreases significantly should the episode be longer than 45 minutes thereby inhibiting my potential investors ( the entire C suite of #Enron guys) from sponsoring further should my listener count decrease. All the more reason to have this incredibly interesting, deeply bright and passionate woman on again to revisit topics above as well as the importance of diversifying  information diets, dating out of your political persuasion, (shudder) and cultivating positive impacts on the world through on, off, under and next to the #blockchain.  #TheGlitterLedger #womenincrypto #BoysClub

FinTech Collective: https://fintech.io/
DeFi Fund @ FinTech Collective: https://fintech.io/defi
Boys Club - Website: boysclub.vip Boys Club - Twitter: twitter.com/BoysClubWorld
GLIF is a protocol deploying tens of hundreds of separate staking pools to Filecoin, creating a simple and flexible way for storage providers on to utilize the network and borrow from multiple capital providers without fracturing liquidity. (https://www.glif.io/en)
GoGoPool is a liquid staking protocol that is optimized for the Avalanche blockchain ecosystem. GoGoPool makes the creation of Subnets faster and cheaper for ecosystem participants.

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On this episode of the Glitter Ledger, I interview Rob Hadick, General Partner at Venture Capital Firm DragonFly. Rob gives insight in today's most pressing geopolitical and macroeconomic news, as well as tells his career story of rising in the ranks at traditional prestigious tradfi firms as the crypto guy. Rob’s long career in traditional finance provides critical analysis of the VC crypto world that is backed by numbers and complicated charts and parabolas.  Financial due diligence of crypto projects in a bear market almost makes me wish the time to build would go on for eternity. Just kidding. 

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On this episode of the Glitter Ledger, I sit down at Glitter Ledger Headquarters with the great Kelly Greer, Vice President of Institutional Trading at Galaxy Digital, who dabbles in Socrates and telepathy. Kelly gives me a light overview of OTC equity derivatives and her thoughts on a variety of topics  from bringing real world assets on chain to the descrepancies between JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley. Her daily responsibilities of  facilitating trading spot, derivatives and financing liquidity for hundreds of institutional clients and counterparties may lead one to believe that she has no time for other intellectual and creative pursuits, but this a drastic misunderstanding.  She uses her spare time to telepathically communicate with her twin brother,  a tradfi trader, and engage Chat GPT in deeply entrenched philosophical debates influenced most recently by Socrates and Fredrich Nietzche.  She is most recently a founder of a venture capital pitch deck model dating app, which can be found at PITCHME (pitchmedemo.com). Take a look if you’d like a blockchain sophisticated dating app and take a listen if you’d like to get to know the coolest woman trending on chain. 

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On this episode, I interview former NYPD Detective and Private Investigator Scott Prendergast. We delve into his career in the NYPD as a narcotics and homicide detective, before becoming the CEO of Cornelius Investigations, a private and executive detective agency. Scott started his private investigative career long before crypto, and is well versed in solving crimes involving stalking, kidnapping, fraud, theft, murder and infidelity. Now with the emergence of crypto permeating the finance and fraud scene, a new wave of investigations have required Scott's services. Scott provides key ways in which the highest profile crypto owner to the basement degen can take make measures to protect themselves and their digital wallets and stay safe. 

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On this episode of the Glitter Ledger, I interview Jake Bruhkman, founder and CEO of Coinfund, one of the world's first crypto-native investment firms. I delve into Jake's background as a math major, as a technologist and quant hedge fund research developer  before his founding of Coinfund.  We discuss Worldcoin, Urbit, the intersections of web3 and Ai,  and why raising the first million remains the hardest. 

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Like all great genesis stories it begins with Atom. On this episode of the Glitter Ledger, I interview the Great Meher Roy, Father, Husband, Biochemical Engineer, Writer, Podcast Host, Boss and Co-Founder and Chief Technology officer of Chorus One. 

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My guest today is Jack McDonald. The California Cool CEO of Polysign, Jack drops critical knowledge and advice about leadership, integrity, and growing employee culture gleaned from a 20 plus career history in TradFi. Jack has a voluminous outlook on the future of tokenized assets and how this will fundamentally shape the crypto ecosystem. 

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In this episode, I interview Ashley Ramos. Ashley is the founder of C8W3, former Head of Partnerships at Gemini's Nifty Gateway, indicted Forbes Business Council  and has a casual spread in Harper Bazaar Vietnam. 

 Ashley and I discuss her work at Nifty Gateway and transition into becoming a founder of a web3 consulting agency. Her experience shows a track record of successfully impacting business growth from working with high profile A-list clients. Ashley has significant unique insight on brand growth in the web3 space that made for a powerful and exceptionally Glittery conversation. 

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