The Amberdata Podcast

In this episode of the Amberdata Podcast, Izzie Henderson, Senior PMM and Amberdata interviews Annelise Osborne, CBO of Kadena and author of the critically acclaimed book "From Hoodies to Suits: Innovating Digital Assets for Traditional Finance." In this episode, they discuss Annelise's book, how culture and language is shifting in tech and TradFi, and the technology that is transforming our modern financial systems....

Chris Martin, Director of Research at Amberdata interviews Ryan Rassmussen, Head of Research at Bitwise Asset Management. In this podcast, we talk about the state of the Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs, the adoption of crypto by retail and institutional investors, and the positive outlooks in the industry.

In addition, we recap Bitwise's 2024 predictions and shed some light on how the rest of 2024 is likely to play out.

In this episode of the Amberdata Podcast, we sit down with Michael Kong, CEO of Sonic Labs, the team behind Sonic Chain (formerly Fantom). Sonic is committed to building the fastest EVM-compatible chain with seamless integration into the Ethereum network, offering true 1-block finality.

We explore Michael's journey, from the early days of Sonic in 2019—when alternative Layer 1s were emerging—to where they stand today....

In this podcast, Amberdata Director of Research Chris Martin interviews founder and CEO of Dakota Ryan Bozarth. Prior to founding Dakota, Ryan was the CEO of Coinbase Custody and Head of Product at Anchorage. In this interview, we discuss the enterprise use cases of stablecoins and the future for these real world assets, and get an inside look into Dakota – a modern, crypto-native bank for businesses.

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In this episode of the Amberdata Podcast, we interview Ian LeViness, DAO Lead and Head of Grants at Push Protocol and its DAO, Push DAO. Push is a web3 native communication layer, allowing users to stay updated on events across the entire ecosystem. Push covers everything from notification, chat, video and spaces. Push Protocol has over 650+ integrations and over 200 institutional partnerships helping to drive visibility and commun...

In this episode discuss Liquid Staking, Restaking and Eigenlayer with Zack Pokorny, Blockchain Researcher at Galaxy Digital. Zack walks us through liquid staking and restaking. We discuss the journey it took for the restaking landscape to come into existence. We cover Ethereum's move from proof of stake, the growth of liquid staking, and new opportunities for the new restaking primitive.

Website: https://www.galaxy.co...

In this episode we are joined by Eclipse CEO, Vijay Chetty. Eclipse is an innovative Layer 2 solution that is using the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) to help scale Ethereum. We dive in to how the SVM can be used to help scale the Ethereum Layer 2 Ecosystem and how it is working to become the backbone of high throughput applications while still leveraging Ethereum's security. 

Vijay has extensive experience working wit...

In this episode, we dive deep into the world of physical real-world asset tokenization with Sean Parsons, CEO and Co-Founder of Kettle Finance. Kettle Finance focuses on tokenizing high-value items, starting with luxury watches, to unlock liquidity and provide new financial opportunities. Kettle Finance has already done over $20,000,000 in trade volume and $6,000,000 since its 2024 launch. 

Join us as we explore: 

 • The concept of r...

In this episode of the Amberdata Podcast, Amberdata Researcher Pat Doyle interviews Founder of Nexus Mutual, Hugh Karp. Nexus Mutual is a decentralized insurance alternative that allows members to join and share risk. The Nexus Mutual protocol is built on Ethereum and provides the infrastructure for members to buy cover, underwrite risk, assess claims, and build risk management businesses.

We discuss Hugh's background...

In this episode of the Amberdata Podcast, Amberdata Researcher Pat Doyle interviews Superstate Co-Founder and COO Reid Cuming. Superstate is at the forefront of innovative investing, specializing in tokenized real-world financial products. Their first product, USTB, has already amassed over $90 million in assets under management. Reid brings a wealth of experience from the fintech world and a pioneering role in decentralized financ...

Welcome to the Amberdata Podcast! Join Amberdata's Director of Research, Chris Martin, and the Amberdata research team, Pat Doyle and Christian Manaog, as they dive into the nuances of Uniswap v2, v3, and the upcoming v4.

Explore the differences in liquidity management, impermanent loss, and innovative features like Uniswap hooks, providing insights for liquidity providers navigating various pool types, including stab...

Amberdata's Head of Research Chris Martin is joined by Eleni Steinman and Shane van Coller, co-founders of Loop Crypto. Loop Crypto is changing the face of payment processing in the crypto industry, introducing pull mechanisms and bringing the industry closer to traditional payment services. This podcast focuses on how payments work and the benefits of pull mechanisms to reduce fraud and chargebacks. In addition, Eleni and Sha...

Amberdata's  Head of Research Chris Martin interviews Theo Powers, CEO and founder of Merkle. The pair discusses everything MEV and mempools, including how mempools and private mempools work, why MEV is important, and the key difference between good and bad MEV.

For more information on Merkle, go to https://merkle.io/. 

Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only. Nothing here is trading advice or solici...

Colton Conley, Founder and CEO of Prime Protocol, joins Amberdata's Head of Research Chris Martin to discuss how DeFi can enable traditional financial markets, emerging L2s and chain trends, and the present and future of Prime Protocol.

Prime Protocol is a decentralized prime brokerage of the future that offers stablecoin loans backed by a user's portfolio. As the first natively cross-chain prime brokerage, Prim...

Elias Simos, Co-Founder and CEO of Rated, joins Amberdata's Chris Martin to discuss founding Rated, the use cases of validator ratings, applying inequality metrics like Gini coefficients to staking on Ethereum, and the future of Rated. 

Rated is building a reputation for machines, starting with Ethereum validators. Their mission is to instill greater transparency and rich context in Web3 infrastructure data. Elias als...

Soups Ranan, CEO of Sardine, joins Amberdata's Director of Analytics Chris Martin to discuss the history and founding of Sardine, how FinTech uses fraud programs to combat attackers and improve user experiences, and how to avoid scams in the crypto space. 

Sardine enables companies to improve risk management with fraud detection, compliance within financial services, and instant settlement for crypto and NFT transacti...

Nakul Gupta, Head of Business for Brine, joins Chris Martin and discusses Brine Fi, metrics and learning across the DeFi/web3 space, and investing in web3 startups. Nakul is also the author of Cryptechie, a blog on all things crypto which covers insights and perspectives on crypto, product management, finance, and growth investing in the  United States and emerging markets. Brine is a decentralized cross-chain order book exchange a...

Amberdata's Analytics Engineer Christopher Martin is joined by Peter Wang, CEO and Founder of 57blocks. This episode follows the development side of crypto and explores the engineering aspects of building new projects in Web3.

57blocks is a Venture Studio investing and supporting engineering teams around the world, providing R&D services and accelerating product launches. Peter has supported the development of products...

Jamie Holmes, content manager at Perpetual Protocol, joins Chris Martin, Amberdata's Principal Analytics Engineer, to talk about Perpetual Protocol and current trends across decentralized exchanges. Jamie's extensive experience in the crypto industry as a researcher and content strategist began as a reporter and Editor in Chief for BTC Manager. Jamie also previously wrote for Bitcoin Magazine and has a deep background as ...