The FTX Podcast - Builders and Innovators in the Cryptocurrency Industry

Andreas entered the crypto ecosystem a long time ago, drawn in by how passionate the people were in the space. It didn't take him long to fall into the rabbit hole and has been in the space since 2011. Founder of several successful businesses including dice sites, several exchanges and now Sideshift.ai and Shitcoin.com. 

The road from physics to ASICs to the cryptocurrency world. How some key concepts of mathematical finance are represented clearly in crypto. Working on distributed systems outside of blockchain and then within this space. Nuances into HFT operations, capital efficiencies, stablecoins and much much more. 

Jeremy Allaire has been building for the future for quite some time. First by founding two internet businesses that were used as building blocks for almost the entire internet at that point in time. After taking those two companies public he decided to leave his position as CEO so that he could begin building within the cryptocurrency space.

Kevin has been in the space for a long time. He used to be the head of trading at Buttercoin (for those that remember it) and then moved on to become head of trading at Kraken. It was great to get trading and quantitative analysis insights from someone with such a breadth of experience. 

Meltem shares how she got into crypto six years ago as an MIT grad and the pathway that has had her on ever since, to her present position of Chief Strategy Officer at Coinshares one of the largest companies in the space. She's witty and has great insights into this industry, I had a great time on this episode. 

I was lucky to have Zane around who has been friends with Roger for quite a while and made for a great co-host. It allowed a great conversation around the history of cryptocurrencies, intelligence agencies, censorship, block sizes and jiujitsu. 

A fun episode recorded a month ago with Weeb creator of yieldfarming.info on DeFi, anonymous development and a breakdown of several of the larger projects. Some good insights into the Chad - Curve debacle. Regulation in DeFi and some other funny thoughts.

Paolo is well known as one of the technical wizards of the cryptocurrency space. It was a pleasure to hear the story of how the man became such a strong developer and acquired the knowledge to change the space to what we know now.

This episode dives into crypto vs. traditional finance, safety within the ecosystem, how Andre adjusts for risk and determines if Yearn wants to integrate with a project, a shift from individual work to collaborative work by integrating his skills in prototyping with those good at taking things into final production. Product launches such as Stablecredit, Yearn Insurance, dynamic swaps, and the index rebase fund. Looking for new yield opportunities to use as downstream services and what impermanent loss is. The interesting new paradigm of bottom-up worth proven team members on Yearn. New primitives that exist and are being built in Crypto. How to consider blockchain as its own region. Forking and the dynamics behind it. Yearn insurance, NFTs, and building carefully. 

Zane's a legend. He took off on his own to China at 18 years of age to create a life for himself in crypto. He's been in several important cryptocurrency companies since the beginning, knows most of the big players, and was a good friend and mentoree of CZ during his time at OKcoin. I had a good time during this chat and look forward to hearing some of the stories that had to remain untold.