Jonas Simanavicius is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Syntropy, the data layer for Web3.

Syntropy is a decentralized oracle and data network that uses patented technology to stream data in real-time from 12+ blockchains, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Base, Osmosis, and more. Syntropy has 40+ SDKs for instant deployment and full composability.

When compared to other providers, Syntropy is up to 5 times faster (due to streaming), up to 95% more efficient (no persisted data), decentralized and trustless.

The platform operates on a Gas-for-Data principle and provides rewards for community publishers and builders. Consumers have the option to subscribe to validated publications or create their own private streams.

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Gracy Chen is MD at Bitget, a leading crypto copy trading and cryptocurrency exchange platform. Bitget’s mission is to inspire individuals to embrace crypto and connect with the future.

Gracy joins Andy to talk about 2023, highlighting the key events impacting the crypto industry during that year. Gracy shares her experiences from traveling around the world, meeting people involved in Web3 projects, discussing regulatory frameworks with government officials in Singapore, being part of a TV reality show called Killer Whale in Los Angeles, and exploring innovation in Dubai.

Gracy says there are two major trends anticipated by institutional investors: Bitcoin Spot ETFs and US interest rate decreases. These, along with the Bitcoin Halving are seen as strong potential catalysts for a new crypto bull market and a possible Bitcoin Super Cycle.

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Trent McConaghy is an AI and blockchain expert and the founder of Ocean Protocol, a decentralized data marketplace. Ocean’s newest product is Predictoor, a decentralized prediction feed platform.

Trent shares his journey from being raised on a farm to studying electrical engineering and computer science. He talks about his experience in starting companies focused on AI for chip design and exploring the creative uses of AI through his PhD. 

Trent has always been ahead of the curve and has been publishing thought pieces on tokens, blockchain, big data, AI, solarpunk, nfts, Moore’s law, transhumanism, UBI, human actualisation, life on mars, and Dyson spheres over the two decades. Trent focuses his work at the intersection of AI, blockchain, and data.

Ocean Protocol aims to connect the dots and envision future possibilities by focusing on interpolation rather than extrapolation. They have been building decentralized data marketplaces since 2017. Their core team has been divided into three sub-teams to pursue different traction hypotheses in data and AI. 

One of the projects is Predictoor, which focuses on time series prediction using accurate prediction feeds and data coordination. The goal of Ocean Protocol is to create an open data economy where individuals and organizations can easily make money by adding value to data through AI models, predictions, actions, and revenue generation loops.

Ocean Protocol is now focused on allowing people to make money in the Ocean ecosystem, particularly through DeFi. 

Predictoor is a two-sided marketplace where predictors submit predictions and traders buy those predictions. The predictions are made every five minutes for various cryptocurrencies and traders can purchase them for a straightforward price of $1 per feed per day. The accuracy of the predictions determines whether users can make money, taking into account fees and slippage. Predictions can be made using AI ML models based on historical data. This crowdsourced approach allows data scientists to practice their skills while providing accurate prediction feeds to users. The goal is to have thousands or even millions of accurate prediction feeds available in different domains such as weather forecasts, traffic congestion, digital asset prices, etc., benefiting various industries and normal people alike.

For example, accurate predictions for energy demand and price are crucial at both individual and national levels to avoid issues like brownouts or blackouts. Predictions are closely linked with intelligence and can be applied across various industries. Trent emphasizes the importance of accurate predictions through crowdsourcing combined with skin-in-the-game incentives on-chain, where custody is decentralized. 

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Maksim Hramadtsou is the founder and CEO of GoodCrypto and goodcryptoX - a next-generation non-custodial DEX trading platform that revolutionizes DEX trading with the help of ERC-4337 Account Abstraction and Smart Contract Wallets.

Maksim founded 2018 GoodCrypto in 2018, an all-in-one crypto portfolio manager and multi-exchange trading terminal. GoodCrypto supports 35 centralized exchanges and has grown to over 200k registered users and over $3B of trading volume.

Following the launch of Uniswap v2 in 2020, Maksim and his team have looked at integrating DEXs in the app to provide DEX traders with the same UX and trading tools they are accustomed to when trading on CEXs. 

They believe that DEX trading should be fully non-custodial - anything less that that directly contradicts the whole point of decentralized trading

The recent adoption of ERC-4337 Account Abstraction has provided the opportunity to create a fully non-custodial feature-rich DEX trading platform - this is goodcryptoX.

goodcryptoX creates a smart contract wallet that only the user controls. It is tied to your social login or an existing Metamask wallet. That smart contract wallet issues ’session keys’ - a kind of on-chain API key to your wallet that allows our platform to trade on your behalf within the smart contract-enforced limits that you set.

This allows goodcryptox to bring to DEXs most of the features of CEX trading: from trailing stop order and stop-loss/take-profit combos to DCA and Grid trading bots and trading on technical indicators and TradingView webhooks.

Besides CEX functionality, smart contract wallets allow goodcryptoX to also offer a number of unique DeFi-specific features: from the ability to pay gas fees in any ERC-20 token and automated buying of gas tokens when they are cheap and using them when the network becomes congested to automatically bridging your tokens to an L2 chain like Arbitrum, running your bots there to save on gas fees and auto-bridging them back after.

goodcryptoX will support all leading DEXs on all EVM-compatible blockchains.

GOOD token is the native utility token of goodcryptoX. GOOD provides revenue share, governance, and swapping fee discounts.

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Gennaro D'Urso is the founder of Pharma Collective and Israel Mirsky is the Director at Pharma Collective. Gennaro has a background in science and entrepreneurship, while Israel comes from the advertising industry and has experience in the pharmaceutical psychedelic space.

Gennaro and Isreal discuss the problems with big Pharma's business model, which focuses on new drug discovery rather than affordable medications that meet public health needs. They propose building an ecosystem to manufacture essential drugs or repurpose existing ones for broader use.

Gennaro discusses the mission of Pharma DAO, which is to develop affordable drugs and combat the monopoly of big pharma. By involving the community in identifying needs and participating in trials, Pharma DAO aims to establish a sustainable economic model through royalties received from for-profit companies. Israel highlights potential strategies such as repurposing off-patent drugs and supporting manufacturing to address drug shortages. Collaboration with small pharmaceutical companies is crucial, as they play a significant role in manufacturing essential medications. However, these smaller companies face challenges due to profit margins and outdated technologies. The goal is to create funding models that support projects between millions and hundreds of millions of dollars, filling the gap where traditional funding falls short. Licensing agreements rather than investments are pursued with for-profit companies, allowing Pharma DAO to receive royalties for self-sustainability. This model has been successful before with organizations like the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

They emphasize the importance of decentralization, community involvement, and equal voting rights. 

The next steps include a proper launch, raising awareness, setting up efficient mechanisms, and involving the community in decision-making. They believe that decentralized technologies can have a significant impact on public health and encourage people to join as members to make a difference.

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Jasper De Gooyer is the co-founder and CTO at SEDA, a multichain, permissionless protocol connecting real-world data to any network on-chain.

SEDA is a decentralized oracle network designed to bring data from the real world onto the blockchain. It is a multichain, permissionless protocol connecting real-world data to any network on-chain by enabling the integration of external data and events into smart contracts.

Jasper says the SEDA team made the conscious decision to build the 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑙𝑒. This is absolutely core to the design. It means that just as any user can interact with Ethereum to perform deterministic computation, any contract can interact with the Seda Protocol to perform deterministic computation on non-deterministic data.

SEDA has launched its first testnet, with mainnet coming in Q1, 2024.

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Tanya Petrusenko is the CEO at Bitmedia, a global crypto advertising platform that helps crypto companies find crypto users around the world.

Bitmedia started in 2014 to provide advertising opportunities for businesses in the emerging crypto space. Back then, there were few competitors, and most ads were on Bitcoin Talk. The goal was to connect crypto publishers with advertisers and enable monetization through ads.

Bitmedia has grown over the years and currently has around 120 team members. Despite challenges during bear markets when budgets are tight, they continue to attract advertisers preparing for future growth. They also explore other niches like gaming to diversify their offerings.

The Bitmedia engine is a self-serve platform where advertisers can easily set up ad campaigns based on their preferences such as target audience or ad format. The system tracks various metrics for performance evaluation. Account managers help guide advertisers who may be unfamiliar with digital advertising processes.

In terms of building brand loyalty in the crypto space, Bitmedia collaborates closely with brands to craft unique campaigns that resonate with their target audience.

Tanja explains that her company works with various established companies to help them with advertising, specifically branding campaigns. They utilize performance tracking and aim for brand recognition. They also engage in PRS and KOL marketing, creating stories and publishing them on top crypto media outlets while promoting businesses to key opinion leaders. Tanja discusses their previous efforts to use blockchain for advertising but mentions that they are currently focusing on building their own DSP (Demand-Side Platform) for buying traffic and ads from different media outlets. She also mentions plans for a decentralized ad exchange using smart contracts to combat ad fraud. 

In terms of the future of crypto advertising, Tanja believes that traditional advertising technologies should be prioritized over blockchain-based solutions at this point because the technology is not yet mature enough in the crypto market. However, she envisions AI playing a role in future developments within the industry.

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Andy records a video podcast to check in on the current narratives and data points impacting the crypto markets.

With approximately 150 days until the 4th Bitcoin Halving, and less than two months until the likely approval of multiple Bitcoin Spot ETFs, the markets are leaning bullish. 

Bitcoin has been on an upward trend for the last 4 weeks, gaining over 36% in that time. Solana has outperformed Bitcoin and most other assets, gaining 190% in the last four weeks alone.

Andy looks at all this, and much more in today’s market sentiment report.

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Aditya Das is Head of Research at Volcan Capital, a financial services company focused on investment opportunities in El Salvador. 

Aditya has authored a comprehensive research report titled "Invest in El Salvador," which covers various sectors of the country's economy and highlights its emerging opportunities for investors. Volcan Capital has created two investment funds, that are tokenized on the Bitcoin Blockchain. The funds are, the El Salvador Real Estate Investment Trust Fund and the El Salvador Technology Venture Fund.

El Salvador has made significant progress in the last decade, particularly in addressing its issues with gang violence and improving safety. The government-implemented measures have been controversial but effective in reducing crime rates. El Salvador has successfully managed its fiscal deficit and restructured its debt, leading to improved credit ratings and increased foreign investment. President Nayib Bukele is seen as a populist leader who has embraced progressive financial policies and actively communicates with the public through social media platforms like Twitter. 

El Salvador became the first country to make Bitcoin legal tender in 2021. This decision was driven by the need for an alternative currency since El Salvador uses US dollars as its primary currency but lacks monetary sovereignty. Bitcoin offers benefits for remittances and acts as a hedge against potential devaluation or economic instability caused by external factors.

El Salvador has set up legislation and a regulatory framework for Bitcoin service providers, which has attracted prominent exchanges like Bitfinex and Binance. The country offers a separate company registry and clear language in its regulations to support Bitcoin-related companies. El Salvador's embrace of Bitcoin as legal tender also provides a ready-made base of users for these companies. Additionally, the country has created a separate framework for digital asset service providers, embracing digital assets other than Bitcoin. El Salvador's use of geothermal energy from volcanoes for Bitcoin mining adds to its appeal as an innovative hub.

Volcan Capital is ready to assist international capital looking for a geopolitical hedge or growth prospects in this emerging market: in other words, the Singapore or Dubai of 40 years ago.

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Jae Yang is the CEO of Tacen and the Chief Architect of Project TXA. Tacen and Project TXA are sister projects - Project TXA develops the hybrid decentralized exchange protocol (hDEX) and the decentralized settlement layer (DSL), while Tacen develops the world’s first hDEX interfaces for traders to use (Tacen Swap and Tacen Exchange).

Jae Yang is the CEO of Tacen and the chief architect of Project TXA, an open-source project that aims to build a cross-chain settlement network. Tacen is a commercial entity building an exchange on top of the TXA settlement network. 

Both projects were inspired by Jae's frustrations with traditional crypto exchanges including custody issues, lack of transparency in proof of reserves, and centralization. Project TXA seeks to address these issues by providing fast cross-chain transactions and noncustodial exchanges. 

The target audience is experienced traders looking for secure and low-cost options beyond centralized exchanges. Jae Yang also emphasizes compliance with regulations while maintaining user privacy. Tacen Exchange is live on multiple networks with various crypto pairs available for trading. Interested individuals can learn more through technical documentation, code repositories, joining Discord, or visiting the exchange website.

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