Mined with CoinFund

Since 2015, Jake Brukhman and Erik Voorhees have contributed greatly to blockchain innovation as early adopters, founders, and champions of crypto’s core tenets of decentralization, autonomy, and privacy. It's not surprising that they've both found their way to decentralized AI, an emerging approach to machine learning that preserves these ideals. We brought them together to discuss their insights on deAI, share their alpha on adoption, and help us understand why privacy in the agentic age is so important.

Don’t miss the latest episode of Mined with CoinFund, where Jake and Erik dig into why privacy and decentralization are just as important today in AI as they were a decade ago in crypto. 

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The rise of Bitcoin DeFi has created an abundance of new opportunities to earn yield on the asset. And at the forefront of this innovation is our portfolio company Neutron, whose Bitcoin Summer Vaults campaign has allowed users to bootstrap the ecosystem and earn income on their BTC. 

Hadron Labs Co-Founder & CEO Avril Dutheil joins CoinFund Co-Founder, CIO and Managing Partner Alex Felix and Partner Einar Braathen on the latest episode of Mined with CoinFund to discuss Neutron’s approach to DeFi, early findings from the Bitcoin Summer Vaults campaign, and the biggest challenges that face BTCFi adoption. They cover: 

• Modular DeFi infrastructure (2:18) 
• Passive market making (11:21) 
• DeFi’s target audience (23:54) 
• Bringing maxBTC to market (34:09) 
• Challenges to attract supply & demand (43:20) 

Don’t miss the full episode, available to download on Apple and Spotify. 

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In 2016, while interviewing for the role of CMO at Consensys, Amanda Cassatt declared she wanted to make Ethereum a “household name” like Starbucks and the MLB. Nearly a decade later, she’s one of the most influential voices in crypto marketing – and from leading marketing at Consensys to founding Serotonin, she firmly believes that it’s impossible to bypass identifying fundamentals or product-market fit when bringing an idea to the masses. 

Amanda joins CoinFund Founder, CEO and Managing Partner Jake Brukhman on Mined with CoinFund to discuss her background in marketing early Ethereum-based projects, how she’s observed adoption shift in recent years, and why she’s passionate about helping companies position themselves to optimize for longevity. They cover: 

• Media & crypto's ideological contrast (2:34) 
• Contextualizing the virtual machine (11:44) 
• The state of dApp adoption (17:49) 
• Building community to bring Ethereum to market (21:11) 
• Looking beyond decentralized money (35:49) 
• Why fundamentals and product-market fit truly matter (44:55) 

Don’t miss the full episode of Mined with CoinFund, available on Apple or Spotify. 

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Over the last 10 years as a crypto journalist, Laura Shin has observed many different trends in the industry, from ICOs to NFTs, come and go. But what has stuck through each cycle is the speed that money moves over blockchains, which she believes will contribute to crypto’s “tipping point." 

Unchained host Laura Shin joins CoinFund Founder, CEO and Managing Partner Jake Brukhman on Mined with CoinFund: The Builders’ Decade to chat about her transition from a personal finance reporter to a full time crypto journalist, her experience writing The Cryptopians following the DAO hack, and how she’s witnessed media consumption in crypto shift since launching Unchained. They cover: 

• Diving down the rabbit hole as a reporter, and writing The Cryptopians (2:39) 
• Revisiting The DAO hack (13:36) 
• Building an audience in crypto media (21:36) 
• Framing the narratives of the current cycle (41:08) 
• Takeaways from the last 10 years (48:20) 

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Robert Leshner is one of the most experienced founders in DeFi. From launching Compound to co-founding Superstate, his biggest takeaway from his years in the industry is that the most popular crypto networks and applications once stemmed from simple proofs of concepts. 

Robert joins CoinFund Founder and CEO Jake Brukhman and Managing Partner and Head of Venture Investments David Pakman on Mined with CoinFund for the first episode in our new series The Builders’ Decade, where we commemorate our tenth anniversary by interviewing founders on their observations from the past ten years in the industry. They cover: 

• The birth of smart contracts & early DeFi (4:26) 
• Building one of the first borrow-lend protocols (16:20) 
• DeFi Summer’s parallels to today (26:08) 
• Bringing traditional assets onchain (35:59) 
• Biggest takeaway from the last decade in crypto (48:31) 

Be sure to download the full episode of Mined with CoinFund: The Builders' Decade on Apple and Spotify. 

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Telegram is the leading messaging platform in crypto, and behind it is The Open Network – a flourishing ecosystem of developer activity that has leveraged Telegram for distribution to onboard new consumers to web3. 

TON Foundation Head of Growth Martin Masser and STON.Fi CMO & CBDO Andrey Fedorov join Managing Partner and CIO Alex Felix and Partner Einar Braathen on the latest episode of Mined with CoinFund to chat about the most popular applications on TON, growing DeFi activity on the network, and how users are continuing to onboard to crypto through the platform. They cover: 

• TON’s leading user activity (3:51) 
• DeFi adoption on TON (14:30)
• Virality & application scaling (24:22) 
• Bringing degens to the network (27:25) 

Don’t miss the latest episode of Mined with CoinFund, available where you listen to your podcasts. 

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Stablecoin Summer is here, and we’re witnessing a profound shift in how value moves across the internet. It’s one of the reasons we’re excited to lead Dakota’s $12.5M Series A, a business banking platform that allows teams to operate between crypto and fiat rails. 

Dakota Co-Founder and CEO Ryan Bozarth joins CoinFund Managing Partner and CIO Alex Felix and Investor George Christopher on the latest episode of Mined with CoinFund to chat about the fundraise news, how Dakota is bringing stablecoins to businesses, and why global finance should live onchain. They cover: 

• Bringing crypto rails to banking (3:01)
• The transition from fiat to stablecoins (15:56) 
• Scaling Dakota during Stablecoin Summer (24:12) 
• The road ahead for stablecoin adoption (33:56)

Tune into the full episode of Mined with CoinFund on Apple, Spotify and YouTube. 

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At CoinFund, we believe that onchain finance should be accessible to everyone. It’s one of the many reasons why we’re proud to lead Veda’s $18M Series A funding round, a platform that’s democratizing access to DeFi. 

On this special episode of Mined with CoinFund, Veda Co-Founders Sun Raghupathi and Stephanie Vaughan join Partner and Director of Research Evan Feng and Investor Kavan Canekeratne to chat about the fundraise announcement, why vaults are one of the most innovative technologies in DeFi, and how crypto and TradFi will converge with onchain finance primitives. They cover: 

• The journey to building Veda (2:23) 
• Vaults & the BoringVault standard (8:04) 
• Veda’s roadmap (22:14) 
• Advice for fellow crypto founders (39:56) 

Don’t miss the full episode of Mined with CoinFund, available on Spotify and YouTube. 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mined-with-coinfund/id1758988850

 https://open.spotify.com/show/1ZxUQqsbsjLvtjyyTxHoNR

Circle’s IPO and the GENIUS Act are paving the way for these next few months to go down as Stablecoin Summer. 

But there’s a darker reality that concerns Rho Labs Founder Alex Ryvkin -- what happens if the infrastructure behind some of the most popular dollar-denominated assets collapses? 

Alex joins Mined with CoinFund hosts Jake Brukhman and Christopher Perkins to chat about the risks associated with stablecoins, building an onchain rates exchange, and the convergence of DeFi and TradFi. They cover: 

• The biggest risks behind stablecoins (2:03) 
• Rho’s crypto rates market (7:08) 
• Closing the gap between TradFi and DeFi (20:35) 

Don’t miss the latest episode of Mined with CoinFund on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mined-with-coinfund/id1758988850

https://open.spotify.com/show/1ZxUQqsbsjLvtjyyTxHoNR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mfEDN0gwqs

Mobile-first experiences have the opportunity to onboard millions more users to crypto. According to Hello Moon CEO and Founder Walker Guffey, we’re still in the desktop era, but mobile applications like Telegram will help accelerate web3 adoption. 

Walker joins Mined with CoinFund hosts David Pakman and Einar Braathen to chat about the mobile adoption of crypto, Telegram and the TON ecosystem’s mobile-first approach, and Solana’s growth and institutional playbook. They cover: 

• Telegram & mobile crypto applications (2:03) 
  
  
• Solana’s long tail (13:56) 
  
  
• The parallel evolution of Web 2.0 and web3 mobile apps (24:34) 
  
  
• Institutional adoption of Solana (32:40) 
  
  

Listen to the full episode of Mined with CoinFund on Apple or Spotify, and watch the full video on YouTube. 

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