Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Dermot O’Riordan, director at the POKT Network Foundation. Jacquelyn and Dermot talk about the evolution of decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN) and what’s needed to expand the sector in web3. They also discuss building demand for DePIN protocols, POKT Network’s long term plan and what types of use cases Dermot is following.

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- POKT Network: https://x.com/poktnetwork?s=21&t=k-ieQKq46lAvyT8saL8vhg

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On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Robbie Ferguson, co-founder and president of Immutable. Jacquelyn and Robbie talk about all things in web3 gaming: how the industry is evolving, what types of games he expects to succeed in the near term and major developments on Immutable’s platform.

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- Follow Robbie: https://x.com/0xferg

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

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

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On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Antoni Zolciak, co-founder of Aleph Zero. Jacquelyn and Antoni dive into the importance of privacy on blockchains, how the sector has evolved over the years, A0’s new private decentralized exchange, Common, and which areas could see the most growth with ZK technology.

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On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Denelle Dixon, CEO Stellar Development Foundation. Jacquelyn and Denelle dive into Stellar’s 10 year journey, Soroban’s roadmap since launching on mainnet, real world utility for web3-based payments, DeFi and more.

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On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Scott Shapiro, senior director of product management at Coinbase.

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Nikil Viswanathan, co-founder and CEO of Alchemy. Jacquelyn and Nikil dive into Alchemy’s origin story, what it’s like to scale a business and maintain a culture, which blockchains developers are focused on today and how crypto and blockchain technology can impact all businesses in the long term.

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On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Alex Felix, the managing partner and chief investment officer of CoinFund. They dive into how Alex entered the crypto space from a TradFi background, how competitive the investor landscape is today, what projects he’s most interested in, Telegram’s deeper dive into the crypto space and the crypto venture capital market heating up.

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On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Qiao Wang, founding member of Alliance DAO, a web3 accelerator program. Its most recent cohort All12 had its demo day showcasing its 12 graduates on May 2. Startups that take part in the program receive a $350,000 investment from Alliance as well as introductions to VCs and mentorship from some of the industry’s biggest leaders. Jacquelyn and Qiao dive into how Alliance picks startups for its cohorts, what successful projects have in common, the struggles and successes through bull and bear markets and what he’s following in the market.

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On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Zhuoxun ‘Zedd’ Yin, co-founder of the NFT marketplace Magic Eden. At the time of our podcast recording, Yin shared Magic Eden's Runes platform volume was $12 million, so it has increased 366% in less than a week to $56 million at the time of publication, signaling extremely strong demand for Runes infrastructure through the marketplace. They dive into Magic Eden’s strategy, building out an NFT marketplace in a competitive space, how to manage risk in a volatile NFT market and what he thinks is the next big thing for the sector.

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On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Anthony Pompliano, a long-time entrepreneur and investor. The two recently co-founded Token Relations, a firm focused on connecting blockchains and crypto projects with their ecosystems and token holders. They dive into why they created Token Relations, how the business fits into the industry and what blockchains and crypto projects can do to shift their focus and better engage their ecosystems.

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