Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Marshall Hayner, CEO and co-founder of Metallicus and board member at The Dogecoin Foundation. Jacquelyn and Marshall talk about his journey into the crypto space over a decade ago, why he launched Metallicus and its banking-focused layer-2 blockchain Metal and his role at the Dogecoin Foundation and the growth of Dogecoin and memecoins in general.

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For this week’s Tuesday episode, we’re sharing our Aptos quarterly webinar that was with Mo Shaikh, the co-founder and CEO of Aptos Labs. Aptos had a very eventful quarter, with a peak total daily transactions surpassing 154M last month, making it the highest metric across any platform. We discuss growth, DeFi: ecosystems & developers, partnerships, and the future of Aptos. There was also Q&A from the audience.

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Developer Education and Opportunities: Aptos Developers Portal

Also for the upcoming Aptos Experience Festival in Seoul this September, we have a promo code that we can share with the audience. Use the special code APTOSMOVES for 20% off tickets to the event.

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On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Guy Young, founder of Ethena Labs. Jacquelyn and Guy talk about how Ethena Labs came to be, the launch of its USDe stablecoin and $ENA token as well as its near-term roadmap and tokenomics for both digital assets.

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On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Anthony Moro, CEO of the Provenance Blockchain Foundation and ProvLabs. Jacquelyn and Anthony talk about his career shift from TradFi to the blockchain world, how institutions are looking at blockchain technology, the launch of its SaaS and blockchain development company ProvLabs and the future of tokenization and use cases onchain.

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On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Matej Zak, CEO of the hardware crypto wallet Trezor. Jacquelyn and Matej talk about the 10-year evolution of Trezor and its new Safe 5 product, why self custodying is important, how the security space is evolving and where he sees the company going in the future.

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Austin King, co-founder of Omni Network. Jacquelyn and Austin talk about the Omni Network and the journey to building out the blockchain and its community, how it plans to integrate applications across Ethereum, its plans for scaling the network and its ecosystem and more.

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On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Harry Zhang, co-founder of Galxe and the podcast’s newest sponsor! Jacquelyn and Harry talk about Galxe’s suite of web3 products, its new layer-1 blockchain Gravity, the importance of user accessibility and the company’s road map ahead.

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Today’s episode is brought to you by Gravity, the layer-1 blockchain created by Galxe for mass adoption and an omnichain future. Ready to elevate your web3 journey? Discover how Galxe and Gravity can propel you forward by clicking here. 

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On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Johann Kerbrat, general manager of crypto at Robinhood. Jacquelyn and Johann talk about Robinhood’s $200 million acquisition of crypto exchange Bitstamp, the company’s European expansion and long term plans in the digital asset space.

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- Follow Robinhood: https://x.com/RobinhoodApp

- Follow Jacquelyn: https://twitter.com/jacqmelinek

- Follow Talking Tokens: https://twitter.com/_TalkingTokens

- Follow Token Relations: https://twitter.com/Token_Relations

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For this week’s Thursday episode, we’re sharing our Optimism quarterly webinar that was with Optimism’s chief growth officer Ryan Wyatt and Zora co-founder Dee Goens, one of the networks built on the open-source OP Stack and is maintained by the Optimism Collective.We discuss the Superchain’s growth in Q2 and how big it wants to become long term, as well as the process for funding ecosystem players and Ryan and Dee's outlook for the rest of 2024. There was also Q&A from the audience.

For this week’s Tuesday episode we’re airing the Token Relations’ quarterly webinar focused on the Avalanche ecosystem and featuring Ava Labs president John Wu.

The current bull market is rubbing off positively on Avalanche as the network surpassed $1 billion in total value locked this quarter, for the first time since November 2022. Avalanche has also seen substantial growth in sectors like web3 gaming, tokenization, loyalty programs and NFTs this quarter. Its partnership with Coachella and OpenSea brought in over 55,000 ‘quests’ at the music festival and other initiatives like Re, a real world asset platform, debuted this quarter with its tokenized reinsurance fund on Avalanche. 

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