The FTX Podcast - Builders and Innovators in the Cryptocurrency Industry

UpBots seeks to build the one-stop trading stop. In this episode, Benjamin Duval walks me through the ropes of the platform he's building with Bloomberg ambitions in mind.

Su Zhu founder of Three Arrows Capital, primarily a crypto hedgefund breaks down some interesting topics such as: the differences between FX and crypto markets. How to adapt strategies when needed. Risk vs EV in the crypto markets and several other alpha filled subjects.

Camila Russo transitioned from traditional financial market reporting into the depths of cryptocurrency. Her story is great and shows the twists and turns that characterize many of the player's entrance to this space. We dove into her book "The Infinite Machine" and she shared stories of meeting many of the founding members of Ethereum and how she tied all the threads together to write a narrative of how the denominated world computer was built.

I have a lot of respect for Stani, his team is one of the few that really sat down during the bear market and worked non-stop to create the highest value product they could and it shows. One of the DeFi projects that will stand the test of time and continue to be one of the foremost lending platforms in the space. 

One of the longer-term builders in the DeFi space Kyle Kistner and Tom Bean have been working on bZx since 2017. In some ways, these guys started this DeFi race of TVL, until they had a contract breach, which for a second had them lose hope. Staying to their ethos of transparency and creative thinking they have found a way to make everyone whole again and are re-launching their applications that empower lenders, borrowers, and traders with a flexible decentralized finance protocol on Ethereum.

Dan's been in the space for years. Actively part of the industry since the early days and as such has seen pretty much everything within the space. When he talks it's a good idea to listen because there's alpha in his words. 

Apologies for some connectivity issues in this podcast. Wifi wasn't fully cooperating.

Institutional and OTC traders have to navigate various chats and channels to get their trades done. Paradigm seeks to minimize this and bring everything to one simple to use multi-purpose trading messaging application. Keep an eye on these guys because they are making strides in the industry!

https://www.paradigm.co/

Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led the development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. Notwithstanding the man loves to surf and for someone as intelligent as he is, he's remarkably easy to speak with.

Vietnam continues to be a strong presence in the crypto ecosystem, I believe in large part thanks to these two gentlemen Loi Luu and Long Vuong the founders of Kyber and Tomochain.

Fernando Martinelli is the CEO and founder of Balancer Labs, he's a serial entrepreneur whose creative mind has him continue down the path of launching innovative businesses into different industries.