On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Alisia Painter, Botanix Labs co-founder and COO. Jacquelyn and Alisia talk about building on Bitcoin and the type of users its bringing in, the evolution of DeFi and other sectors on the network, how Bitcoin L2s differ from other blockchains and more.

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On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether and CTO at Bitfinex. Jacquelyn and Paolo talk about USDT’s explosive growth YTD, Tether and Bitfinex’s growth over the years, stablecoins use cases for retail and institutional users, demand for stablecoins backed by other non-USD currencies and more.

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On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Anthony Scaramucci, founder and managing partner of SkyBridge and founder and chairman of SALT. Jacquelyn and Anthony talk about bitcoin, institutional interest in digital assets, SALT’s recent Wyoming Blockchain Symposium, the policy and regulatory situation over the crypto industry and more.

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On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Ben Rubin, CEO and co-founder of Here Not There Labs and Towns, an onchain messaging platform. Jacquelyn and Ben talk about building online communities, the launch of Towns, how onchain messaging can change the way people communicate and more.

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On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Steven Goldfeder, CEO and co-founder of Offchain Labs (the team building Arbitrum and Prysm). Jacquelyn and Steven talk about the evolution of Arbitrum and its role in scaling Ethereum, the recently launched Tandem incubation program, the proliferation of layer-2 blockchains this market cycle and more.

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On today’s Talking Tokens episode, we’re sharing the second quarterly Superchain webinar with Token Relations that Jacquelyn Melinek hosted. She was joined by Optimism Co-Founder and OP Labs CEO Karl Floersch and Skeletor, the co-founder of Wonderland, a core development group for web3. They talk about unifying the Superchain, scaling the ecosystem, interoperability, ZK tech, future outlooks for the Optimism Collective and more.

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On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Anand Iyer, founder and managing partner of Canonical Crypto and venture partner at Lightspeed.  Jacquelyn and Anand talk a lot about Crypto x AI and opportunities he sees in the sector as well as his view on the overall web3 VC space, the type of founder he likes to invest in, how to scale a company and more. 

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On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Yat Siu, chairman and co-founder of Animoca Brands. Jacquelyn and Yat talk about intellectual property rights, owning your content online and how social media inhibits that, the future of web3 and how Animoca’s Mocaverse will play a role in that.

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On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly Capital. Jacquelyn and Tom talk about the current market cycle’s array of crypto startups, sectors he’s watching and interested in investing in, the state of crypto VC, his best investments, advice and more.

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On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Alena Shmalko, ecosystem lead at TON Foundation. Jacquelyn and Alena talk about TON’s explosive growth in 2024, ecosystem developments for tap-to-earn, DeFi and gaming sectors as well as Telegram’s partnership with the chain long term.

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