The Crypto Conversation

By Brave New Coin

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Brave New Coin’s Crypto Conversation talks to the key people creating the Bitcoin, blockchain, and cryptocurrency future. Hosted by Andy Pickering, learn how this rapidly evolving industry is reshaping the world as we move towards decentralized finance, NFTs and Web3.

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The Crypto Conversation episodes:

04.26.2024
Cove - Next-Gen DeFi Portfolio Management
Sunil Srivatsa is the founder and CEO of Storm Labs, an open-source software development studio. They help build and maintain infrastructure for decentralized protocols like Cove. Why you should listen Storm Labs is an open-source software development studio that builds...
04.20.2024
Persistence One - Cosmos Liquid Staking & Restaking
Mikhil Pandey is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Persistence Labs, building Persistence One a purpose built Layer 1 on a mission to maximize yield and security through Liquid Staking & Restaking. Why you should listen Persistence One is one...
04.18.2024
Zircuit - An AI-Enabled ZK Rollup
Jan Gorzny is the co-founder of Zircuit, a fully EVM-compatible zero-knowledge rollup powering the limitless potential of web3. Why you should listen Backed by pioneering L2 research, the network’s unique hybrid architecture combines battle-tested infrastructure with zero-knowledge proofs to give...
04.18.2024
SOMA Finance - The Best of DeFi & TradFi
Bill Heyn is the CEO of SOMA.finance. SOMA is building finance for the future by uniting DeFi and TradFi. SOMA aims to be the first DEX-style trading platform that is legal and compliant in the US, and the rest of...
04.16.2024
Gamma - Bitcoin, Runes, & Ordinals
Nick Sainato is the co-founder at Gamma, a Bitcoin creator launchpad and NFT marketplace. Why you should listen Nick from Gamma joins Andy to discuss Bitcoin, the halving, memecoins, Runes, and Ordinals. Ordinals are Bitcoin NFTs you can mint directly...
04.15.2024
U-topia - Web3 IP
Emmanuel Quezada is the CEO & Co-Founder of U-topia, a Web3 entertainment company innovating with IP Licensing in GameFi, AI Music, and Video Entertainment, backed by NFT provenance. Why you should listen U-topia is a Web3 entertainment company that...
04.11.2024
MANTRA - The Layer 1 for RWA Tokenization
John Patrick Mullin is the CEO and co-founder of MANTRA, the Layer 1 blockchain for RWA tokenization. Why you should listen The Mantra team saw that the Cosmos ecosystem lacked a chain specifically designed to provide regulatory compliance across a...
04.09.2024
Payy - Fast, Free, Private Payments
Sid Gandhi is the founder and CEO at Polybase Labs, building Payy - to bring fast, free, private payments to the world. Why you should listen Consider that 15 years into the blockchain era - we still don't have a...
04.07.2024
Lingo - The Gamified, RWA-Powered Rewards Token
HM Rawat is a Co-Founder and CEO at Lingo, a gamified, RWA-powered rewards token to onboard the next billion in Web3. Why you should listen Blockchain adoption is growing 2x faster than the internet in the 90s, making it the...
04.05.2024
Liquid Mercury - Professional Crypto Trading
Tony Saliba is a professional trader, a “Market Wizard” and CEO at Liquid Mercury, a professional crypto trading platform. Why you should listen Tony Saliba is a Master trader at CBOE where he also served on Board of Directors....
04.04.2024
SCRYPT - A Swiss Financial Service Provider for Crypto
Norman Wooding is co-founder and CEO of SCRYPT, a leading Swiss financial service provider specializing in crypto assets. Why you should listen SCRYPT acts as a trusted partner for institutions by building and providing infrastructure that delivers digital assets and...
04.02.2024
Lionsgate Network - Recover Your Lost Crypto
Bezalel Eithan Raviv, a former member of Israel’s IDF Cyber Unit 8200, is the CEO and founder of Lionsgate Network, a digital platform that specializes in providing professional fund recovery services for participants in the crypto ecosystem. Why you should...
03.28.2024
Apeiron - The Next Wave of Web3 Gaming
Frank Cheng is co-founder and loremaster at the Fonnie Magus game studio. They are developing Apeiron, part of a new wave of token-driven, play-and-earn NFT games. Why you should listen Apeiron is part of a new wave of token-driven, play-and-earn...
03.24.2024
Saito - A Paradigm Shift in Blockchain Applications
Richard Parris is a co-founder at Saito - a self-sufficient Layer 1 Blockchain designed for devs that provides the foundation for building open and scalable web applications. Why you should listen Saito is a new type of layer-1 blockchain...
03.21.2024
CESS - Decentralized Storage and Delivery
Nick Zaldastani is Chairman and Co-Founder at CESS, a blockchain-powered decentralized storage and content delivery network infrastructure. Why you should listen CESS is a blockchain powered decentralized storage and content delivery network infrastructure. Users and creators alike use the...
03.18.2024
Memecoins and the Rise of Financial Nihilism
Aditya Das is a researcher and analyst across the Techemy Group. He joins Andy to discuss the current Memecoin mania that has gripped the crypto markets. Why you should listen Bitcoin has led the crypto market’s move into bull market...
03.15.2024
Randcast - On-Chain Verifiable Randomness
Felix Xu is the Co-Founder of ARPA Network, a decentralized computation network based on threshold cryptography and its use cases Why you should listen Randcast is ARPA’s first product, an on-chain verifiable random number generation service with an easy-to-use...
03.11.2024
Chirp - DePIN for Global IOT and Mobile
Tim Kravchunovsky is the founder and CEO of Chirp. Chirp is a trailblazing DePIN network founded by a team of Telecommunications experts with decades of experience. Tim Kravchunovsky has over 20 years of experience as a network engineer, having held...
03.07.2024
Bitcoin ATH, Ordinals, & The Three Body Problem
Brett Herskope aka Eliherf is head of growth at Gamma, the open marketplace for Bitcoin Ordinals. Brett and Andy discuss Bitcoin’s recent all-time high, Gamma and Bitcoin Ordinals, and The Three-Body Problem. One of the most popular answers to the...
03.05.2024
Bril Finance - The New Era of DeFi
Connor O’Shea is the CEO of Bril Finance, a cutting edge DeFi UX for seamless access to professional-grade portfolio management algorithms and yield strategies. Why you should listen Bril is a sophisticated decentralized finance (DeFi) tool that actively optimizes and...
03.04.2024
Solve Care - Blockchain for Digital Health Networks
Pradeep Goel is the Chief Executive Officer at the Solve Care Foundation. Solve Care is a blockchain platform for digital health networks. Why you should listen Solve Care is a global healthcare platform that redefines care coordination, improves access to...
02.29.2024
Quai Network - Energy-based Money for the 21st Century
Dr. K is the Co-Founder of Quai Network, a new Layer 1 network of blockchains designed to scale to handle all human commerce while maintaining true decentralization. Why you should listen Quai Network is an EVM compatible, highly scalable, secure...
02.26.2024
Prime Staked: Liquid Restaking
Matt Liu is the co-founder of Origin Protocol, an Ethereum-powered platform for NFTs, DeFi, Liquid Staking, and Restaking. Why you should listen Origin has a stablecoin, the Origin Dollar (OUSD) to support users as they passively earn yield on OUSD...
02.25.2024
Lark Davis - Crypto Narratives 2024
Lark Davis is a cryptocurrency investor, influencer, YouTuber, and founder of weekly crypto newsletter, Wealth Mastery. He shares his top crypto narratives for 2024, and why it's better to be an investor than a trader. Why you should listen Lark...
02.22.2024
ICONOMI - An Advanced Crypto Portfolio Platform
Peter Curk is the CEO of ICONOMI, an advanced crypto investment and portfolio platform that makes it easy for beginners and for power users to choose from hundreds of Crypto Strategies and copy them with a single click. Why...
02.20.2024
eBTC - stETH Backed BTCLoans
Spada₿oom is the founder of BadgerDAO, a Bitcoin-focused DeFi protocol. The team is working on eBTC – a groundbreaking new synthetic asset that capitalizes on the evolution of ETH staking to create the most transparent and capital-efficient borrowing facility for...
02.19.2024
NFTStudio24 - The Decentralized Media Platform
Hinza Asif is the CEO of NFTStudio24, a decentralized media platform based in Japan that's empowering journalists and reporters worldwide. Why you should listen Traditional media involves lengthy editorial processes, where journalists may spend weeks on a story, only to...
02.18.2024
CoinRoutes - Algorithmic Trading Strategies and Execution
Dave Weisberger is the co-founder and CEO of CoinRoutes, a leading provider of algorithmic trading strategies and execution management. Why you should listen CoinRoutes has an extensive algo suite and market data plant specifically designed around crypto market structure and...
02.14.2024
Secure Digital Markets - The Institutional Choice
Mostafa Al-Mashita, is co-founder, and Yacine Ouldchikh is a Senior Trader at Secure Digital Markets (SDM), a digital asset brokerage firm that offers institutional, high net worth, and corporate clients access to spot trading, derivatives, and lending services. Why you...
02.13.2024
Tari - the Freedom Enhancing Protocol
Naveen Jain and Riccardo Spagni are contributors at Tari Labs, building Tari. Tari is a new open-source, decentralized protocol that reimagines the future of digital assets. Tari is being architected as a merge-mined sidechain of Monero and will inherit its...
02.12.2024
Lantern Finance - Illuminate Your Staking Journey
Prince Jindal and Jung Won Kim are co-founders at Lantern Finance, a US-based staking platform built for the everyday crypto investor. Why you should listen Lantern Finance is for crypto beginners, crypto OGs, and everyone in-between, offering a seamless Ethereum...
02.08.2024
Arcanum Capital - Early Investments in Web3
James McDowall is the founding partner of Arcanum Capital, a venture capital firm focused on supporting enterprising and forward-thinking teams that are establishing decentralized networks and applications for the global blockchain ecosystem. Why you should listen Arcanum Capital has just...
02.07.2024
Rho Protocol - On-chain Interest Rate Derivatives
Alex Ryvkin is the CEO of Rho Labs, building Rho Protocol, an interest rate derivatives protocol and the first institutional grade on-chain rates market. Why you should listen Rho Protocol is a new institutional-grade decentralized marketplace on Arbitrum that allows...
02.06.2024
Conflux Network -The Hybrid Blockchain Without Barriers
Dr. Fan Long is the co-founder of Conflux Network, a PoW/PoS Hybrid Blockchain. Dr. Fan Long graduated from Tsinghua University Yao Class, and he holds Ph.D of Computer Science from MIT. His research interests include systems security, programming languages, and...
02.01.2024
Subsquid Network - The Web3 Data Lake
Dr. Dmitry Zhelezov is the Co-Founder and CEO and Marcel Fohrmann is the Co-Founder and CFO of Subsquid, a decentralized data lake and query engine that offers developers permissionless, cost-efficient access to on-chain data from over 100 chains and is...
01.31.2024
Nine Chronicles - A Web3 Game by Planetarium Labs
JC Kim is the CEO of Planetarium Labs, a community driven, Web3 gaming company founded in South Korea and backed by Animoca. They create games where users can create, share, own, and earn. Why you should listen Planetarium Labs has...
01.29.2024
Bitcoin IRA - Helping Americans Retire
Chris Kline is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Bitcoin IRA, a crypto IRA platform for investing in cryptocurrencies with self-directed IRAs. Why you should listen In 2015, Chris launched Bitcoin IRA, the world’s first company allowing U.S. investors...
01.23.2024
Summer.fi - DeFi Made Easy
Chris Bradbury is the CEO at Summer.fi, a DeFi front end that enables users to deploy capital into DeFi, using best-in-class UI/UX. Why you should listen Summer.fi is a DeFi front end that enables users to deploy capital into DeFi,...
01.21.2024
Nayms - the Crypto Native Insurance Marketplace
Danielle Wall Elliott is the COO at Nayms, the crypto native insurance marketplace. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink sees tokenization of RWA as the next big unlock. Why you should listen Nayms is the world’s leading, fully regulated marketplace for...
01.17.2024
Leather - The Bitcoin Wallet for the Bitcoin Economy
Mark Hendrickson is the General Manager of Leather, the Bitcoin wallet for the fast-emerging Bitcoin Economy. Why you should listen Mark explains the importance of Ordinals on Bitcoin and their potential for storing different types of data securely on-chain. He...
01.15.2024
PowerLoom - The Decentralized Data Layer for Web3
Swaroop Hegde is a co-founder at PowerLoom - a decentralized Data Layer for Web3 that is scaling trustless data and building on-chain data primitives. Why you should listen The Powerloom Protocol is a decentralized data protocol designed to meet the...
01.11.2024
Crown Token - Taking IPs to the Metaverse
Pan Lorattawut is the CEO of VUCA Digital, the blockchain consulting firm behind the CROWN Token Project. Prior to VUCA Digital, Pan was Senior VP at Meketa Investment Group, a full-service investment consulting and advisory firm with $1.4 trillion-plus in...
01.10.2024
Gary Said Yes - Bitcoin Spot ETFs Approved!
In a historic move, the SEC today announced that it has approved eleven Bitcoin Spot ETFs. U.S. investors will now be able to gain exposure to Bitcoin when trading begins tomorrow. Andy marks the historic occasion by recapping the days...
12.21.2023
The Sandbox - Play, Create, & Own Virtual LAND
Sebastien Borget is the co-founder and Chief Operations Officer of The Sandbox a virtual world that leverages blockchain technology to empower users to create, build, buy, and sell digital assets in the form of a game. Why you should listen...
12.20.2023
Trust Machines - Building the Bitcoin Economy
Rena Shah is a former petroleum engineer turned Bitcoin strategist at Trust Machines. Trust Machines has the goal of onboarding 1 billion people into Bitcoin. Why you should listen Trust Machines is building the largest ecosystem of Bitcoin applications to...
12.19.2023
Eclipse Fi - A Launch and Liquidity Protocol on Cosmos
Simon Chadwick is Co-founder and CEO at Eclipse Fi, a modular launch and liquidity protocol on Cosmos. Eclipse Fi aims to revolutionize token launches, and support innovation across Cosmos and up-and-coming Layer2s. Why you should listen Simon says that the...
12.17.2023
Mimo - Building the Kuma and Parallel Protocols
Claude Eguienta is the Chief Executive Officer at Mimo Capital, a company that creates protocols providing tokenized real-world assets. So far, it has created the Kuma and Parallel protocols. Kuma is a DeFi protocol that provides tokenized real-world assets. The...
12.13.2023
Haven1 - Bringing Traditional Finance to Web3
Jeff Owens is co-founder of Haven1 - an EVM-compatible layer 1 blockchain designed to offer a secure, trusted environment to drive the mass adoption of on-chain finance. DeFi with training wheels. Why you should listen Incubated by the team...
12.12.2023
OneSafe - Global Crypto Banking for Web3 Startups
Chris Shei is the founder and CEO of OneSafe, a financial technology company that partners with crypto-friendly banks to provide banking services for web3 startups. Why you should listen Chris shares his personal history with cryptocurrencies, including being debanked in...
12.11.2023
Cartesi - Building Next-Gen Apps
Gabriel Barros is a Developer Advocate at Cartesi, an app-specific rollup protocol with a virtual machine that runs Linux distributions. At Cartesi, he delivered its Proof of Stake pool staking system, and now is working on Developer Relations, fostering the...

What's The Crypto Conversation about?

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The Crypto Conversation episodes:

Cove - Next-Gen DeFi Portfolio Management

Persistence One - Cosmos Liquid Staking & Restaking

Zircuit - An AI-Enabled ZK Rollup

SOMA Finance - The Best of DeFi & TradFi

Gamma - Bitcoin, Runes, & Ordinals

U-topia - Web3 IP

MANTRA - The Layer 1 for RWA Tokenization

Payy - Fast, Free, Private Payments

Lingo - The Gamified, RWA-Powered Rewards Token

Liquid Mercury - Professional Crypto Trading

SCRYPT - A Swiss Financial Service Provider for Crypto

Lionsgate Network - Recover Your Lost Crypto

Apeiron - The Next Wave of Web3 Gaming

Saito - A Paradigm Shift in Blockchain Applications

CESS - Decentralized Storage and Delivery

Memecoins and the Rise of Financial Nihilism

Randcast - On-Chain Verifiable Randomness

Chirp - DePIN for Global IOT and Mobile

Bitcoin ATH, Ordinals, & The Three Body Problem

Bril Finance - The New Era of DeFi

Solve Care - Blockchain for Digital Health Networks

Quai Network - Energy-based Money for the 21st Century

Prime Staked: Liquid Restaking

Lark Davis - Crypto Narratives 2024

ICONOMI - An Advanced Crypto Portfolio Platform

eBTC - stETH Backed BTCLoans

NFTStudio24 - The Decentralized Media Platform

CoinRoutes - Algorithmic Trading Strategies and Execution

Secure Digital Markets - The Institutional Choice

Tari - the Freedom Enhancing Protocol

Lantern Finance - Illuminate Your Staking Journey

Arcanum Capital - Early Investments in Web3

Rho Protocol - On-chain Interest Rate Derivatives

Conflux Network -The Hybrid Blockchain Without Barriers

Subsquid Network - The Web3 Data Lake

Nine Chronicles - A Web3 Game by Planetarium Labs

Bitcoin IRA - Helping Americans Retire

Summer.fi - DeFi Made Easy

Nayms - the Crypto Native Insurance Marketplace

Leather - The Bitcoin Wallet for the Bitcoin Economy

PowerLoom - The Decentralized Data Layer for Web3

Crown Token - Taking IPs to the Metaverse

Gary Said Yes - Bitcoin Spot ETFs Approved!

The Sandbox - Play, Create, & Own Virtual LAND

Trust Machines - Building the Bitcoin Economy

Eclipse Fi - A Launch and Liquidity Protocol on Cosmos

Mimo - Building the Kuma and Parallel Protocols

Haven1 - Bringing Traditional Finance to Web3

OneSafe - Global Crypto Banking for Web3 Startups

Cartesi - Building Next-Gen Apps