SALT Talks

John D’Agostino is a Senior Advisor at Coinbase, overseeing strategic partnerships for the business. John brings deep experience with sophisticated private investment vehicles characterized by complex strategies and asset classes, notably derivatives, structured credit, direct lending, high frequency/quant trading and similar strategies.

John discusses his background and journey into the digital asset space, the crypto market outlook and Coinbase’s recent partnerships with BlackRock and Google. Then, he analyses the state of retail and institutional adoption, and the future of regulation.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. Developed, created and produced by SALT Venture Group, LLC.

Lily Liu is the President of the Solana Foundation. She is an entrepreneur and investor focused on the cryptocurrency industry. She has a background as a CFO and operating executive in the US, China, and throughout emerging markets. Lily is the Co Founder of Anagram, and part of the founding team of Osmosis, and an advisor to Brave. Previously, Lily co-founded Earn.com which was acquired by Coinbase in 2018. She was also the CFO of the Chinaco Healthcare Corporation, where she built a 500-bed private hospital in China. Lily also worked at KKR in New York as well as McKinsey in New York and Beijing. Lily received a BA in Economics and International Relations from Stanford and studied East Asian Studies at Harvard.

Lily Liu details her childhood and influences that started her on a journey that led her to Bitcoin and crypto. She then discusses the role Ethereum played in pushing the space forward while also raising issues related to scalability and transaction volume. Liu details how Solana was developed to solve this central problem and offers a glimpse into the future of DeFi while noting there is still much yet developed in the crypto space.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. Developed, created and produced by SALT Venture Group, LLC.

Bill Barhydt is the founder and CEO of Abra, a leading digital asset wealth management platform. Prior to Abra, Bill was CEO of Boom Financial and WebSentric. He was also VP at Goldman Sachs and served as a research engineer at NASA and the CIA. As one of the early team members of Netscape, Bill was involved in building some of the core infrastructure that helped grow the consumer Internet we all use today. Bill is globally recognized as a technology pioneer and as an avid investor in companies across Web 3 and the broader technology ecosystem.

Barhydt explains his journey into digital assets, the crypto ecosystem, use cases and the future of regulation. Then, he discusses Abra Bank, the current macro environment and Bitcoin price predictions.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. Developed, created and produced by SALT Venture Group, LLC.

Jamie Thomson is the CEO of Vulcan Forged, a premium blockchain game studio, dApp incubator and cross-chain NFT marketplace. Vulcan Forged is the creator of popular web3 gaming titles such as VulcanVerse, Forge Arena, Berserk and over 15 other games and dApps with over 200,000 users in the community. In 2021, Vulcan Forged created Elysium, its own proprietary proof-of-stake blockchain that was purpose-built for gaming, dApps and other metaverse activity. Building on the success of their hit web3 gaming titles, they are soon launching a patented metaverse-as-a-service engine, MetaScapes.

Thomson discusses his crypto journey, Vulcan Forged's rapid growth and rabid community, and its recent investment from SkyBridge Capital. Then, he explains the company's key blockchain-powered ecosystems, his perspective on the play-to-earn model and his plan for Vulcan Forged during a bear market.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. Developed, created and produced by SALT Venture Group, LLC.

Lynn Baranski, Managing Director, is the Global Head of Investments for BlackRock Private Equity Partners (PEP) within BlackRock Alternative Investors (BAI). She is a member of the BAI Exco and PEP's Management Committee, Investment Committee, and Valuation Committee.

Baranski discusses the macro environment in the first three quarters of 2022, the state of private equity deal flow and and shifting strategies in response. She then shares her thoughts behind the long-term growth of private equity, democratization of access and retail investors' under-allocation in PE relative to performance.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. Developed, created and produced by SALT Venture Group, LLC.

Dan Morehead is the founder and CEO of Pantera Capital. Dan founded Pantera Capital in 2003 – managing a billion dollars in hedge fund strategies. He previously served as Head of Macro Trading and CFO at Tiger Management with Julian Robertson. Dan began his career as a Collateralized Mortgage Obligation trader at Goldman Sachs. Dan graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a B.S. in Structural Engineering and received the Carmichael Prize for his thesis.

Dan considers the last year in crypto, the market outlook, the Ethereum Merge and bridging a multichain world. Then, he discusses DeFi, institutional adoption, regulatory risk and Pantera Venture.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. Developed, created and produced by SALT Venture Group, LLC.

Akbar Thobhani is the co-founder and CEO of sFOX, a full-service crypto prime broker bringing together liquidity, best price execution, dark pool access, treasury management, custody and settlement services all together in one trading platform and API. Prior to co-founding sFOX, Thobhani served as Head of Growth & Business Development at Airbnb, where he managed payments for over 190 countries.

Thobhani explains his journey into the digital asset space, sFox, the state of crypto and the future of regulation. Then, he discusses his five-year outlook, the need for crypto derivatives and emerging Web3 trends.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. Developed, created and produced by SALT Venture Group, LLC.

David Mercer is the Chief Executive Officer of LMAX Group, a global financial technology company headquartered in the UK, and the leading independent operator of institutional execution venues for FX and crypto currency trading. Following a successful management buyout in 2013, David has built LMAX Group into a key player in both the traditional capital markets and the crypto trading industry. LMAX Group operates 6 exchanges globally and has offices in 9 countries. In 2021 LMAX Group sold a minority stake to J.C. Flowers & Co. A former City banking executive and currency specialist, David is an outspoken industry commentator and a long-term champion of the UK’s technology sector as well as a passionate supporter of entrepreneurship.

David analyzes the last twelve months in crypto markets, the state of institutional adoption, and the five year forecast in the space. Then, he discusses the importance of growing crypto market access, future of crypto regulation and the crucial role of Fed policy.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. Developed, created and produced by SALT Venture Group, LLC.

Hendrik Hofstadt currently serves as a Director of the Wormhole Foundation. The Foundation has a mission of fostering development of the Wormhole protocol, a communication bridge between different public blockchains. Hendrik is also the chairman of the supervisory board at Neodyme AG. Prior to Wormhole, Hendrik co-founded and served as CEO for Certus One, a blockchain infrastructure company, which was acquired by Jump Crypto in 2021. 

Hendrik walks through his crypto journey, cyber-security background and the power of proof-of-stake validators. Then, he explains Wormhole’s mission to bridge public blockchains, the difference between wrapped vs. cross-chain assets, and importance of data sharing. Finally, he discusses Ethereum, Wormhole’s roadmap and cross-chain wallets.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. Developed, created and produced by SALT Venture Group, LLC.

Kerry Healey is President of the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream. Her career spans higher education, elected office, and foreign and domestic policy. Previously, Healey served as Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor where, among her many achievements, was integral in crafting the state’s pioneering health care reform legislation. Healey has been a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Institute of Politics and Center for Public Leadership, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a trustee of the American University of Afghanistan.

In this episode Kerry Healey discusses her background, her work to advance the American Dream, and middle class-based entrepreneurialism. Then, she offers her thoughts on bipartisan solutions, national unity and the life-long impactful work of Michael Milken. Finally, she talks about her view of public service, the dire of state of political institutions, and key policy initiatives.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. Developed, created and produced by SALT Venture Group, LLC.