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Troy Tsui is the CEO of Swim Protocol - a DeFi Protocol bridging the multichain landscape with user adoption and protocol integration in mind. He was previously a trader at Alameda Research since 2018. Prior to his time at Alameda, Troy was a trader on SIG’s Fixed Income desk, where he designed their municipal bond algorithmic strategy. He graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Engineering Mathematics and Statistics and a minor in Electrical Engineering Computer Science.

Troy Tsui discusses how and why he came into digital assets, what caused him to build a solution to enable liquidity without bridge wrapped assets, and what drove him to build Swim Protocol on Solana. He also described what the ecosystem will look like in the next 5 to 10 years, how Swim Protocol will play a role in that ecosystem, and why a multichain future is more likely than a winner-take-all scenario.

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

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Alan Murray, CEO of Fortune Media, authored his latest book, Tomorrow's Capitalist: My Search for the Soul of Business. Murray also writes a closely read daily newsletter, the Fortune CEO Daily. This follows a long media career that's included leadership positions at Pew Research Center and the Wall Street Journal. 

Murray discusses his journey to becoming CEO of Fortune magazine, his vision for the company and keys to success in a modern economy. He talks business in today’s political system, combatting misinformation, free speech and finding unbiased reliable information. 

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

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Dr. Derar Islim is the COO at Genesis Trading, a digital currency prime broker. He is responsible for managing strategic initiatives, integrating new services, coordinating daily business operations, and executing on Genesis’s global vision to build the world’s preeminent prime brokerage in the digital currency ecosystem. Dr. Islim oversees custody, risk, operations, strategy, product and people departments globally.

Dr. Islim discusses the pros and cons of the institutionalization of the crypto space as well as the biggest obstacles to the institutionalization of digital assets. He dives into US digital asset regulation and how it compares to the rest of the world. Finally, Dr. Islim speaks about his views on stablecoins, their value, and the change they drive in the financial system.

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

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Kristin Smith is the Executive Director of the Blockchain Association, the Washington DC-based trade association representing more than 80 of the industry’s leading companies. Smith serves as a liaison between policymakers and the cryptocurrency industry to assist in the creation of legislation and regulation that promotes the growth of the cryptocurrency ecosystem in the U.S.

Kristen Smith discusses the changing tide around crypto policy in the US among policy makers. Smith lays out some of the next steps in the crypto regulatory roadmap, including crypto spot ETF’s. She explains why education around crypto is the most important tool in converting indifferent politicians and policy makers. 

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

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George Melika is the Co-Founder and CEO of sFOX, a cryptocurrency prime brokerage backed by Social+Capital, Khosla Ventures, and Y Combinator. He is a fintech expert with over 20 years of software development experience building algorithmic, proprietary, and cryptocurrency trading platforms.

Melika details his background as an engineer and how it led to his career in Bitcoin and crypto. He explains how his company, SFOX, aims to unify the fragmented crypto markets and establish a crypto prime brokerage. Melika then predicts what the future of crypto will look like in ten years.

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

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Dan Gunsberg is the co-founder and CEO of Hxro. He's also the co-founder of Hxro Network, a decentralized derivatives protocol built on top of the Solana blockchain. He also serves as the director of the Hxro Foundation. Prior to Hxro, Gunsberg served as the COO of DV Trading, a derivatives-focused principal trading firm.

Gunsberg details how he first came to understand and believe in Bitcoin. He walks through the creation of Hxro and the Hxro network built on the Solana blockchain. Gunsberg then discusses the massive talent migration to crypto-based companies from traditional finance and predicts what the crypto market will look like in ten years.

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

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Asen Kostadinov is the Chief Strategy Officer at Copper, cryptocurrency custody firm. He joined the company from MMC Ventures where he led the blockchain/crypto investment portfolio and also led the fund’s research department. Previously, he spent four years as an equity research analyst at Barclays, covering European media and video and internet gaming. Initially, he worked in the aerospace industry as an engineer the Airbus Flight Physics Division, after completing his engineering degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics. Kostadinov is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

Kostadinov explains Copper's approach to solving the crypto currency custody problem, one of the most important issues in the digital assets space. He lays out the current obstacles to institutional crypto adoption and discusses the infrastructure that will facilitate rapid growth in crypto and Web3 gaming. Kostadinov also offers his thoughts global geopolitical events and their effects on crypto.

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

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Robin Wigglesworth is the FT’s global finance correspondent, based in Oslo, Norway. He focuses on the biggest trends reshaping markets, investing and finance more broadly across the world, with a particular focus on technological disruption and quantitative investing, and writing longer-form features, analyses, profiles and columns. He authored the recently published Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever.

Wigglesworth discusses the past, present and future of index funds and the impact passive investing has had markets around the world. He offers his view on cryptocurrencies and, from Norway, predicts some of the long-term financial effects of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

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

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Orlando Bravo is a Puerto Rican billionaire businessman. He is the co-founder and managing partner of Thoma Bravo, a private equity investment firm that specializes in software and technology-enabled services sectors. The 2019 Forbes 400 listed Bravo as the first Puerto Rican-born billionaire.

Orlando Bravo is a Founder and Managing Partner of Thoma Bravo. He led Thoma Bravo’s early entry into software buyouts and built the firm into one of the top private equity firms in the world. Today, Orlando directs the firm’s strategy and investment decisions in accordance with its principles of partnership, innovation, and performance.

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

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PlanB @100trillionUSD is a former institutional investor with 25 years of experiences in financial markets and has a legal and quantitative finance background. By tapping to both the S2F and the logarithmic regression, PlanB suggested that the primary cryptocurrency will reach $100k by the end of 2023.

PlanB, the anonymous Twitter pseudonym created the Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow (S2F) model where he uses scarcity to quantify Bitcoin value. A year later he introduced the Stock-to-Flow Cross Asset (S2FX) model, which includes gold, silver, diamond and real estate data. He is now primarily focusing on Bitcoin valuation models, on-chain analysis and investment strategies. PlanB refers to an alternative plan for quantitative easing, negative interest rates and currency debasement in general. 100trillionUSD is a reference to the Zimbabwe 100trillion dollar note during the 2008 hyperinflation.

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

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