Since first investing in Bitcoin, Aziz Zainuddin aka Atticus has always had an interest in cryptocurrency. But given his traditional financial background, he saw practical limitations for developing crypto products within traditional corporate structures.

However, Atticus and his partners saw early that decentralized models scaled through automation had the potential to experience faster growth and fewer scaling issues. So they founded StellaSwap, one of the first automated market-making DEXs for Moonbeam.

Join us as we discuss:

• What made Atticus and Sami go “all-in” on crypto

While the web3 space is a fairly new and exciting space, it does have room for improvement and creativity.

Mark Dawson, along with his partner Daniel Stratton, saw that there was a need for artists to be able to sell their work on Optimism, where a NFT marketplace did not exist.

In light of this need in the marketplace, Mark Dawson became the Co-Founder, along with Daniel Stratton, of Quixotic, which is the first NFT marketplace for Optimism, an Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution.

Join us as we discuss:

• Whether crypto and web3 communities are ready for mainstream NFT adoption

The complexity of blockchain scalability is one of the biggest barriers to adoption. Yan Martins, the CEO of Hathor Labs, along with his partners are working to solve this issue.

Yan Martins used the experience he obtained from his previous internet startup company to properly identify issues within blockchain, assess the market, and find his niche in the web3 space with Hathor Labs.

Join us as we discuss:

• The barriers to enterprises adoption of crypto

What started out as a school project at Princeton University, became Arbitrum, an Ethereum scaling solution platform that allows you to make low cost but highly secure transactions.

Harry Kalodner is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Offchain Labs, leading the engineering team that is developing Arbitrum.

Harry gives us insight and how he and his team began to develop Arbitrum and how even when issues came along the way, he and his team continued to forge forward doing what they loved to do.

Join us as we discuss:

• How every Arbitrum transaction is an Ethereum transaction

Kadena which is a scalable layer one smart contract blockchain. As more adoption is occurring in the crypto world, businesses are becoming weary because of congestion. Kadena believes that they have solved the scalability problem within crypto.

Anatasia Bez is the Director of Operations at Kadena. She is celebrating her fourth year with Kadena coming from a background as a civil liberties researcher.

Join us as we discuss:

• What intrigued Anatasia about Kadena, blockchain, and cryptocurrency

When it  comes to investing in cryptocurrency, or anything for that matter, you should fundamentally know what you are investing in. Beefy Finance helps make that initial researching process and investing a little bit easier by simplifying DeFi yields.

Weso, who once worked at a Fortune 50 company, is the lead developer and strategic partnerships coordinator for Beefy Finance. Listen to our conversation with Weso as we discuss:

• How transferable business skills create better DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations)

With the financial climate being relatively uncertain to many, people are turning to cryptocurrency. Sandeep Nailwal and his partners predicted this turn back in 2016 when they started Polygon Technology.

Originally known as Matic Network, Polygon has become the most widely adopted Layer 2 scaling solution for the Ethereum blockchain. The goal of Polygon is to provide a scalability platform which has very low transaction fees,

Hear our conversation with Sandeep Nailwal, Co-Founder of Polygon Technology about:

• How Polygon come into existence

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Crypto is a field for visionaries, but unfortunately, buying and transferring cryptocurrency can be a complicated process. Thankfully, there are plenty of new Web3 teams, DAOs, and blockchain companies working to make the crypto onramp process easier. So, twice a month, we’re going to talk to them. 

In this introductory episode, the co-hosts share an informal conversation about the show and what the audience can come to expect from Transak’s new podcast, Masters of Web3.  

Hear our co-hosts’ conversation:

• Sami’s crypto origin story

More information about the co-hosts and today’s topics:

• LinkedIn Profiles:https://www.linkedin.com/in/samistart/#experience https://www.linkedin.com/in/megandematteo/

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