Masters of Web3

What will it take to get to 1 billion crypto adopters? 

That’s the question that keeps Gwendolyn Regina, Investment Director at BNB Chain, sitting down for countless panels, TV interviews, and print articles. Gwendolyn's role is particularly exciting in that she leads the $100M Binance Smart Chain Accelerator Fund, an investment incubator for the most promising new blockchain projects. 

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• What the future fo...

One of the largest decentralized applications on the Etherium blockchain with widespread adoption is the Maker Protocol. Soft-pegged to the US dollar, Dai boasts a resilience to inflation because of its low volatility. 

When Sam MacPherson, Lead Developer at MakerDAO, started his journey to the organization, it was because he had “some free time”. For Sam, that meant deciding to learn about solidity and challenging himself to make ...

Console, a private Discord-like platform co-founded by Chris Castig, Co-founder at Console.xyz, is giving Web3 communities a place to call home. We break down the tech used to make this platform a reality including decentralized identity and autonomous communities. 

In this episode, Chris, Megan, and Sami discuss what to expect in the fast-approaching shift to Web3. Join us as we discuss:

• Why Console started with decentralized ...

When Rahul Sethuram, CTO at Connext Labs Inc., set out to create an easier way for users to acquire tokens and on-ramp to crypto, he didn’t realize they were developing technology for cross-chain interoperability. Rahul laughingly admits that this made the company’s name, Connext, make more sense than it had when they began.

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• How Rahul’s Silicon Valley upbringing prepared him web3 startup life
• The Connext ...

Let’s be honest. Crypto has a compliance problem. Blockchain is a global, permissionless, borderless digital technology that expands beyond geography. Yet, regulatory bodies exist in every nation, state, and locality — making it hard for industry players to know what’s legal and what’s not.  

That’s why the work of people like James Young, Head of Compliance & MLRO at Transak, is so important.  

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• The h...

After witnessing political volatility and moving to the U.S. from Moscow in the early 1990s, Anastasia decided as a child that she wanted to create world change through technology.  

That led to an undergraduate degree in political science, a varied career in media, and a six-year period in Rwanda bringing education and tech to East African citizens. 

Then the Cambridge Analytica data scandal happened, and Anastasia knew she wanted...

There are not enough hours in the day for Marek Olszewski. As co-founder and CTO of cLabs and president of Valora, Marek, along with partners, are developing a crypto ecosystem (Celo) that is not only profitable but of service to people.

Marek and cLabs are making it easier and cheaper for people to send money with fewer fees at a faster rate.

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• The synergy between Marek’s values and t...

Like many platforms in the blockchain space, Ambire was created out of necessity. The founders wanted to monetize their content and also have transparency in the supply chain management of ad sales.

Vanina Ivanova is the Chief Marketing Officer of Ambire, navigating the company through the convolution of the ad tech world. Vanina is using her experience to maximize the profits of clients through ad tech.

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The cryptocurrency market has taken quite a nose dive recently. But while the market is down, new innovations are happening with blockchain so that DeFi may one day be widely adopted.

Luigi D’Onorio is the Head of DeFi at Ava Labs on the Avalanche ecosystem. Luigi and his team are building new protocols, products, and applications in the DeFi space so that institutional adoption of DeFi will be a thing of the ...

Since first investing in Bitcoin, Aziz Zainuddin aka Atticus has always had an interest in cryptocurrency. But given his traditional financial background, he saw practical limitations for developing crypto products within traditional corporate structures.

However, Atticus and his partners saw early that decentralized models scaled through automation had the potential to experience faster growth and fewer scaling issues. So they fou...

While the web3 space is a fairly new and exciting space, it does have room for improvement and creativity.

Mark Dawson, along with his partner Daniel Stratton, saw that there was a need for artists to be able to sell their work on Optimism, where a NFT marketplace did not exist.

In light of this need in the marketplace, Mark Dawson became the Co-Founder, along with Daniel Stratton, of Quixotic, which is the fi...

The complexity of blockchain scalability is one of the biggest barriers to adoption. Yan Martins, the CEO of Hathor Labs, along with his partners are working to solve this issue.

Yan Martins used the experience he obtained from his previous internet startup company to properly identify issues within blockchain, assess the market, and find his niche in the web3 space with Hathor Labs.

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• The barriers to enter...

What started out as a school project at Princeton University, became Arbitrum, an Ethereum scaling solution platform that allows you to make low cost but highly secure transactions.

Harry Kalodner is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Offchain Labs, leading the engineering team that is developing Arbitrum.

Harry gives us insight and how he and his team began to develop Arbitrum and how e...

Kadena which is a scalable layer one smart contract blockchain. As more adoption is occurring in the crypto world, businesses are becoming weary because of congestion. Kadena believes that they have solved the scalability problem within crypto.

Anatasia Bez is the Director of Operations at Kadena. She is celebrating her fourth year with Kadena coming from a background as a civil liberties researcher.

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When it  comes to investing in cryptocurrency, or anything for that matter, you should fundamentally know what you are investing in. Beefy Finance helps make that initial researching process and investing a little bit easier by simplifying DeFi yields.

Weso, who once worked at a Fortune 50 company, is the lead developer and strategic partnerships coordinator for Beefy Finance. Listen to our conversation with Weso as we d...

With the financial climate being relatively uncertain to many, people are turning to cryptocurrency. Sandeep Nailwal and his partners predicted this turn back in 2016 when they started Polygon Technology.

Originally known as Matic Network, Polygon has become the most widely adopted Layer 2 scaling solution for the Ethereum blockchain. The goal of Polygon is to provide a scalability platform which has very low transaction fees,

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Crypto is a field for visionaries, but unfortunately, buying and transferring cryptocurrency can be a complicated process. Thankfully, there are plenty of new Web3 teams, DAOs, and blockchain companies working to make the crypto onramp process easier. So, twice a month, we’re going to talk to them. 

In this introductory episode, the co-hosts share an informal conversation about the show and what the audience can come to expect from...