Wyre Talks

In this Wyre Talks, Louis and I are joined by Josh Olszewicz also known as @carpenoctem. Perhaps you already know Josh from when he was on the other side of that trade you got rekted on. A self-taught trader, Josh is widely respected by the community for his no nonsense commentary and excellent analytical ability. it was our pleasure to host him.

In this episode of Wyre Talks, we're excited to have Joe Lau (cofounder & CTO) and Nikil Viswanathan (cofounder & CEO) of Alchemy, join us for the show. Alchemy, the world's leading blockchain intelligence and infrastructure company, powers the top hedge funds managing billions of dollars. In this session they share their background - how they met TAing the largest database class in the world at Stanford, built the #1 Social App in the App Store (featured on front page of the New York Times), were honored as Forbes 30 Under 30, and started Alchemy. They share their analysis of the crypto hedge fund industry and provide insights into the product development secrets they use to build a best in class product.

In this Wyre Talks, we are very excited to have friend of Wyre, crypto realist and thought leader Dan Held on the show. Dan’s on his forth company in crypto since being lured into the space in 2012. Dan co-founded ZeroBlock in 2013 and sold it to Blockchain, Inc. in 2014. Dan took a crypto break to work as a product manager at Uber. At Uber he learned some critical lessons in scaling and gaining international adoption in the midst of a grey regulatory environment. Dan returned to crypto in 2017 and co-founded Pick n Shovels, a company focused on outfitting institutional crypto asset investors with mission-critical tools.

In this Wyre Talks, our guests are from dYdX, an open-source protocol for decentralized margin trading and derivatives. We are joined by the Founder and CEO, Antonio Juliano, and Head of Operations, Zhuoxun Yin.

In this weeks episode of Wyre Talks, we speak with the founders of Paradigm Markets Liam Kovatch and Henry Harder on the bumpy road of creating aggregated liquidity.

In this weeks episode of Wyre talks, we take a deep dive into the ways you can trade any asset using Ethereum with Seth Rubin, founder and CEO of Market Protocol.

In this episode, we have Andrew Gasdecki, founder and CEO of altcoin.io, join to discuss his approach to scalable decentralized trading with the use of plasma.

In this episode of Wyre Talks, we welcome John Evans the CEO and founder of Decision CFO to describe how traditional VC money is changing the world of crypto.

In this Wyre Talks, our guest is John Piotrowski, founder and CEO of The Ocean.

John has a past life in political campaigning and traditional finance, but made the pivot to cryptocurrency and founded the Ocean in 2017. The Ocean provides wallet-to-wallet trading on a high performance, institution-grade, decentralized platform that provides more liquidity with less risk. They also strive to create an intuitive trading experience, while maintaining a safe exchange with KYC/AML performed on their users.

In this episode, we also discuss:

- How is the New York financial scene different from the SF crypto scene?

- With a team in Krakow, Poland, what are the challenges in building a distributed team? How do you address them?

- Transitioning from a career in political campaigning to being a VP at Goldman Sachs

- How is the Ocean more than just a 0x relayer?

- What led to the decision to build the infrastructure layer using the 0x protocol?

- Why create an onboarding flow instead of just sticking with Metamask?

- Why is verification and KYC so important to what the Ocean does?

- Why does the Ocean choose to focus on the U.S. market when you could move to a country that supports your business?

- What are the critical ingredients needed for institutional entry into the crypto space?

- What's the purpose of the OCEAN token?

In this special live edition of Wyre Talks, we host Tom Schmidt, Product Manager, and Alex Xu, Director of Operations, of 0x protocol.

In this episode, we discuss:

- Operational hurdles with setting up a decentralized project in early 2017

- Why does 0x not have any partnerships?

- Fat protocol thesis and why open protocols are so popular

- What are relayers?

- Building an ecosystem that is all about incentivizing relayers

- Can ethereum handle a successful 0x protocol?

- Why has governance been the key purpose of the ZRX token?