Show Me The Crypto

Vugar Usi Zade is Chief Operating Officer at Bitget. Prior to joining Bitget, Vugar held senior positions at notable companies such as Facebook, Carlsberg, Sony and BeInCrypto. With 25 million registered users, Bitget empowers the future of finance by ensuring secure, efficient and smart digital transactions.

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Matt Katz is CEO and Co-Founder of Caldera. Matt is a self-proclaimed “Crypto OG without the net worth to show for it.” Perhaps that has to do with the fact he discovered Bitcoin at the age of 12, while in Middle School. Matt’s interest in technology led him to study Computer Science at Stanford before he dropped out to Co-Found Caldera. Caldera is a rollup deployment platform that allows developers to launch high performance, customizable, application-specific rollups.

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Dr. Steven Waterhouse (aka Seven) is Co-Founder and CEO of Orchid Labs. With multiple Stevens on the team in Orchid’s early days, Steven dropped the “t” and the nickname “Seven” was born. Beyond being a strong advocate for internet privacy and decentralization, Seven has been involved in the crypto scene since 2013. Orchid’s vision is to enable secure access to the internet for everyone, everywhere.

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Rachel Lin is Co-Founder and CEO of SynFutures. With a career that has spanned from traditional finance to Fintech to CeFi to DeFi, Rachel began her journey with Deutsche Bank’s global markets division, specializing in derivatives. In 2020, Rachel co-founded SynFutures, which is a decentralized platform that aims to make crypto derivatives more accessible by allowing permissionless listing and trading of futures contracts on any assets.

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Returning guest Alex Masmej was the first person to tokenize himself in 2020 (with the $ALEX token). He then launched Showtime in 2021, which was a social platform for displaying NFTs. If Showtime was the Instagram for NFTs, Alex’s current focus is building the TikTok for onchain social, which is a platform that goes by the name of Drakula.

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Returning guest Cooper Turley is the founder of Coop records, which is a hybrid between a Web3 venture fund, a record label and an incubator. Cooper is focused on revolutionizing the music industry by bringing artists onchain and empowering them to keep control and ownership of their work. His bio currently reads: onchain is the new online.

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Sean Ren is CEO and Co-Founder of Sahara AI. An Associate Professor at USC’s Computer Science Department, Sean has received several awards recognizing his research and innovation in the AI space, including Samsung AI Researcher of the Year, MIT TR Innovators Under 35 and Forbes Asia 30 Under 30. Sahara is a decentralized AI network that unlocks fair and universal success to global knowledge capital.

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Tess Rinearson is Head of Emerging Products with OP Labs. Tess got into crypto backwards. While most start as hobbyists before migrating their careers to the space, Tess made crypto her career straight away by landing a job with a Bitcoin API company called Chain in 2015. Tess went on to work with Interstellar, Cosmos and lead Twitter’s Crypto team before joining OP Labs in February 2023. Optimism is a Collective of companies, communities and citizens working together to reward public goods and build a sustainable future for Ethereum.

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Anthony Sassano is our first guest to make a 3rd appearance on Show Me The Crypto. Almost every single day, Anthony creates a 30-minute video/podcast called The Daily Gwei to help educate the masses about the latest happenings in the Ethereum ecosystem. When he’s not busy researching or producing educational content, he enjoys shitposting and calling out haters on Twitter.

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Bobby Lee is Founder/CEO of Ballet. Born in Ivory Coast, Bobby’s early tech career intertwined with IBM, Microsoft, Yahoo! and Dell before he first discovered Bitcoin in early 2011. Later, Bobby went on to Co-Found China’s first Bitcoin exchange, BTCChina. Today, Bobby is driving global adoption of Bitcoin through his company, Ballet, his book, “The Promise of Bitcoin,” as well as his role as a Member of the Bitcoin Foundation Board of Directors.

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