WAGMI Ventures Podcast

David Amor is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Playmint (https://playmint.com). Backed by Bitkraft, 1KX, Cherry Ventures, & more, Playmint is composed of games industry veterans building fully on-chain games (currently working on Downstream, a fully on-chain MMO). In this episode we chat about creating a game world that lives forever and emphasizes digital ownership and composability, early challenges and future possibilities, where games on the blockchain are headed, state-of-the-union thoughts on gaming and Web3, best advice for gaming founders, & much more.

Recorded Friday November 24, 2023.

Annabelle Huang is a Managing Partner at Amber Group (https://www.ambergroup.io). Backed by Sequoia, Dragonfly, Paradigm, Pantera, & more, Amber Group is building the future of digital assets—with $1 trillion in traded volume, 150+ countries supported, 1k institutional clients, and $500m in returns generated for investors worldwide. In this episode we chat through Annabelle’s journey from TradFi into digital assets, how Amber adapted to the bear market, what gets her most excited about the future of Amber Group, her perspective on the evolution of crypto over time, her most generalizable advice for crypto executives, & much more.

Recorded Wednesday November 22, 2023.

Aniket Jindal is the Co-Founder at Biconomy (https://www.biconomy.io/). Backed by Binance, Coinbase Ventures, NFX, Bain Capital Ventures, & more, Biconomy is creating an Account Abstraction toolkit to enable the simplest UX on your dapp or wallet. In this episode we talk about Aniket’s journey from starting the first weekly crypto podcast in the Middle-East to launching Biconomy in 2019, what happens to crypto if UX improves 10x, exciting trajectories for the future of Biconomy, how to think about this current moment in crypto, & much more.

Recorded Tuesday November 21, 2023.

Benny Giang is the Co-Founder & Partner @ Future Primitive (https://futureprimitive.xyz). Future Primitive is a venture studio that builds startups, projects, and technologies for decentralized communities—including projects like token bound accounts (ERC 6551), a new primitive that will give every NFT its own account/wallet address. In this episode we chat through his work as a founding member of CryptoKitties and Dapper Labs, how he determines which projects to back as an angel investor or advisor, the genesis and possibilities of token bound accounts, how to think about learning about your community, his view on the near-term future of crypto, & much more.

Recorded Monday November 13, 2023.

Fabio Berger is the Co-Founder & CEO at Blowfish (https://blowfish.xyz). Backed by Paradigm, Uniswap, Dragonfly, & Hypersphere, Blowfish enables proactive defense for web3 wallets: making it easy to identify & stop fraud before it happens, with 10+ chains supported. In this episode we talk about his journey into crypto, what got Fabio to conviction on the Blowfish concept, their product evolution over time, what piques his interest/curiosity the most right now across web3, & much more.

Recorded Tuesday November 7, 2023.

Luis Schliesske is the Co-Founder @ Gelato (https://www.gelato.network). Backed by Dragonfly Capital, ParaFi Capital, IDEO CoLab Ventures, & more, Gelato is web3’s cloud platform, enabling developers to deploy custom chains with cutting-edge web2 UX, while also facilitating seamless integrations with all your favorite web3 tools & services. In this episode we talk about their Rollup-as-a-Service capabilities, how they think about differentiation in the market, how to think about team composition for creating a technical vision from scratch, the state of crypto these days, and much more.

Recorded Monday November 6, 2023.

Jon Kol is the Co-Founder @ Hyperlane (https://hyperlane.xyz). Backed by Variant, Galaxy Digital, Circle, & more, Hyperlane is the first interoperability layer that enables you to permissionlessly connect any blockchain, out-of-the-box. In this episode we discuss how his past work as an investor at Galaxy Digital helped him reach conviction on the Hyperlane opportunity, why permissionless interoperability is valuable and what it unlocks when widely distributed, how to think about team composition for a complex build, his state-of-the-union on the crypto space these days, and much more.

Recorded November 3, 2023.

Richard Ma is the Founder & CEO @ Quantstamp (https://quantstamp.com). With clients like Binance, SuperRare, Compound, Visa, Ethereum 2.0, & more, Quantstamp’s mission is to secure the decentralized internet, and has protected over $200B in digital asset risk from hackers. More than 500 startups, foundations, and enterprises work with Quantstamp to keep their innovative products safe. In this episode we chat about Richard’s path into crypto, what it’s like working with crypto-native projects vs. less crypto-native ones, what crypto looks like if it gets safer to engage with, the advice he wishes he could impart to his earlier self, & much more.

Recorded Wednesday October 25, 2023.

Alex Kahn is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Econia Labs (https://www.econialabs.com). Backed by Dragonfly, Faction, Lightspeed, & more, Econia is a high-performance on-chain order book for the Aptos blockchain. Built for equitable, global market access and engineered for composability, Econia provides trading infrastructure for Aptos DeFi. In this episode we talk about their Aptos selection process, obstacles to mass crypto adoption, what crypto is getting right (and wrong) in 2023, the advice he most wishes he’d received early-on, and much more.

Recorded Friday October 27, 2023.

Itai Turbahn is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Dynamic (https://www.dynamic.xyz). Backed by a16z Crypto, First Round Capital, Chapter One, & more, Dynamic is a web3-first authentication and authorization platform that lets developers harness the magic of wallet-based interactions in minutes. In this episode we discuss downstream possibilities from Dynamic for crypto at large, reaching early conviction on the authentication and authorization problems they’re tackling, what crypto’s getting right (and wrong) in 2023, & much more.

Recorded Monday October 23rd, 2023.