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Brad Kam is the Co-Founder of Unstoppable Domains, a Web3 domain name provider working to onboard the world onto Web3. Prior to Unstoppable Domains, he co-founded Talkable, a marketing tech company backed by Y Combinator. Brad holds a B.A. in Political Science from Emory University.In this conversation, we discuss:- Walking and talking w/ Paul Graham from YC- Walking meetings- The importance of where you live- Web3 domain name is your identity on the internet - you own it and control it- Owning and controlling your data on the internet- Digital profile = user controls the data- The true value of your data- ENS Domains- Building in a bear marketUnstoppable DomainsWebsite: unstoppabledomains.comTwitter: @unstoppablewebLinkedIn: Unstoppable DomainsDiscord: discord.gg/unstoppabledomainsBrad KamLinkedIn: Bradley Kam ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.  PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.  PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.  Code: CRYPTONEWS50  This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:  PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Oliver is a serial entrepreneur, CBDC pioneer, investor, advisor, and global advocate of distributed ledger technology. He currently serves as the Founder and CEO of Panther Protocol, an end-to-end privacy protocol for digital assets that can be deployed compliantly on any public blockchain. Oliver also serves as Founder and Chairman of Elemental, a web 3.0 credit lending platform focused on democratizing affordable credit for underserved communities. Oliver has been a leading global advocate, championing policy-making discussions and thought leadership at central banks, government entities, and organizations, including the UN, International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Commonwealth Secretariat, Caribbean Development Bank, MIT, Columbia University, and the IMF. Outside of work, Oliver is also an award-winning international reggae and hip-hop artist.In this conversation, we discuss:- Fundraising / raising money in crypto- 2023 - The year of regulated DeFi- Panther's v0.5- Roadmap to v1-Privacy and Compliance in DeFi- What’s new in Privacy tech? Privacy hardware? Any new and noteworthy tools?- What’s happening next year- Educating Panther Product- Contributing to open-source software- Building CBDCs, payment systems, and compliance tools- zID’s and zVOTES- Can privacy be sexy?Panther ProtocolWebsite: pantherprotocol.ioTwitter:  @ZkPantherOliver GaleTwitter: @OriginalOliiLinkedIn: Oliver Gale  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.  PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.  PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.  Code: CRYPTONEWS50  This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:  PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Darren Glover is the VP of Gaming at VaynerSports (Gary and AJ Vaynerchuk’s sports agency), where he oversees gaming talent representation and web2 / web3 gaming consultation.Darren is a lifelong marketing and brand-building innovator. He’s obsessed with understanding today's consumers and finding the most valuable ways to talk with them. His experience comes from working with professional athletes, Fortune 500 consumer brands, live streaming platforms, gaming publishers, and gaming content creators.In this conversation, we discuss:- Staying culturally relevant- How the current e-sports model is broken- Finding new ways to innovate and reach consumers- The dairy industry is the most successful marketing campaign ever- Fortnite new chapter launches- Each social media platform has its own language- NBA, NFL talk - Championship predictionsVaynerSportsWebsite: vaynersports.comTwitter: @vaynersportsLinkedIn: VaynerSportsDarren GloverTwitter: @ThisIsDgloveInstagram: @thisisdglove   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.  PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.  PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.  Code: CRYPTONEWS50  This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:  PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Ingo Rübe is the founder and CEO of KILT Protocol, a blockchain identity protocol for issuing self-sovereign and verifiable credentials. He leads a team in Berlin that develops enterprise and consumer services “built on KILT" which protect digital identity across financial services and accounting, health care, IoT, media, energy, and gaming. Earlier in his career, he was the CTO of Hubert Burda Media and also served on the Board of Directors of the Drupal Association.In this conversation, we discuss:- Digital identification in government- Polkadot Alliance- Blockchain’s identity problem- Identity vs. Identification- Gaming identifiers- KILT - the infrastructure layer of identity- How can we fix digital identity- Ethereum Killers- EU’s Digital Identity Program- CBDCsKILT ProtocolWebsite: kilt.ioTwitter: @KiltprotocolDiscord: discord.gg/HztRqvzbhGIngo Rübe Twitter: @ingoruebeLinkedIn: Ingo Ruebe ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.  PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.  PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.  Code: CRYPTONEWS50  This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:  PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Susie Batt is the Crypto Ecosystem Lead at Opera, a web browser with a built-in and free VPN, ad blocker and crypto wallet. Susie has been spearheading Opera's Web3 strategy since joining the global company back in 2020, joining from her previous role at ConsenSys.In this conversation, we discuss:- Susie’s journey into crypto/web3 and her background at ConsenSys- Reading about blockchain in 2017- Power skating and hockey- Landing your dream job- Opera's crypto ecosystem- Switching browsers from Chrome to Opera- Opera's recent announcement with Alteon – instant NFT minting- NFTs + Music- Social Graphs- Layer Zero = people layerOperaWebsite: opera.comTwitter: @operaLinkedIn: Opera Susie Batt Twitter: @susiebattgirlLinkedIn: Susie Batt ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.  PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.  PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.  Code: CRYPTONEWS50  This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:  PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Alex Connolly is the CTO and Co-Founder of Immutable. Alex has been passionate about in-game assets his entire life. At 9, he wrote scripts to gather pricing data from the Runescape grand exchange.  At 13, he was the top contributor to the largest TF2 item pricing website in the world. Alex invented the most scalable system for creating NFTs ever designed, which has been used to create millions of Gods Unchained cards with no network impact on Ethereum.Alex graduated high school as the equal-highest-ranked student in Australia. A couple of years later, he joined Immutable after dropping out of a combined Computer Science & Law degree at the University of Sydney, where he was building a blockchain-agnostic programming language for smart contract VMs.Alex believes that virtual worlds built using blockchain assets will be better, fairer, and more just than current digital economies. In fact, he thinks programmable assets will be ‘realer’ than physical assets.In this conversation, we discuss:- Partnership with GameStop and Tiktok- How ImmutableX is powering digital asset ownership- Powering Web3 games- Importance of layer2's- ImmutableX's suite of products that allows Web3 games to scale- IMX token- ImmutableX in the future- How we can onboard the next million gamers to Web3- Gaming economies- Runescape in-game economyImmutableXWebsite: immutable.comTwitter: @ImmutableDiscord: discord.gg/immutablexAlex ConnollyTwitter: @0xConnollyLinkedIn: Alex Connolly  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.  PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.  PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.  Code: CRYPTONEWS50  This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:  PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Dr Mark van Rijmenam is The Digital Speaker. He is a leading future tech strategist who thinks about how technology changes organisations, society and the metaverse. Dr Mark van Rijmenam is an international keynote speaker, 4x author and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Datafloq and the author of the book on the metaverse: Step into the Metaverse: How the Immersive Internet Will Unlock a Trillion-Dollar Social Economy.Dr Van Rijmenam is one of the leading voices in technology and known for his candid, educated and balanced views on how technology can benefit but also threaten society. Van Rijmenam's mission is to help large organisations and governments benefit from innovative emerging technologies, while ensuring that it is done ethically and responsibly. Recently, he founded the Digital Futures Institute, which focuses on ensuring a fair digital future for everyone. The research institute uses innovative storytelling to deliver a deep understanding of digital technology and its long-term implications for all levels of society.In this conversation, we discuss:- The need for an open metaverse- Why crypto will make the metaverse go round- Why NFTs are so revolutionary- The dangers of the metaverse- Crypto specific AI use cases- Public speaking tips + tricks- Metaverse = the next iteration of the internet- Being in the internet vs being on the internet- AI and GPT-3The Digital SpeakerWebsite: thedigitalspeaker.comDr. Mark van RijmenamTwitter: @VanRijmenamLinkedIn: Dr Mark van Rijmenam---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.  PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.  PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.  Code: CRYPTONEWS50  This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:  PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Varun Kumar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Hashflow, a decentralized exchange designed for users to trade seamlessly across chains while offering zero slippage, improved pricing, and MEV-protection. Varun Kumar is the brains behind Hashflow, having previously served as an aerospace engineer.Founded in 2019, Hashflow aims to connect institutional market makers to traders using a request-for-quote (RFQ) model as opposed to automated market makers (AMM). In turn, traders and liquidity providers gain enhanced efficiency, security, valuation and products previously impossible in DeFi.In this conversation, we discuss:- AI censorship- Current state of crypto- Bad actors leaving the industry- Making DEXs look like CEXs- User Experience is paramount to success- NO KYC = huge value prop for DEXs- HashFlow - a decentralized exchange with less slippage- Sandwich attacks- Story telling; less is more- Building beautiful websites- ETH - what’s next? was the merge successful?HashflowWebsite: hashflow.comTwitter: @hashflowDiscord: discord.gg/hashflowVarun KumarTwitter: @GandalfTheBr0wnLinkedIn: Varun Kumar  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.  PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.  PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.  Code: CRYPTONEWS50  This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:  PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Frédéric Chesnais is the Founder and CEO of AlphaVerse. He was the CEO of Atari Interactive and brings experience in investments, executive production, budgeting, financing and management of intellectual property rights, with a strong background in video games and interactive entertainment. He has successfully completed financial transactions in excess of $1 billion in the interactive entertainment space. He left Atari in 2021 to focus on blockchain and metaverses, with the creation of Crypto Blockchain Industries.In this conversation, we discuss:- Semi-Fungible Tokens- The Alphaverse: A metaverse hub- Developing and shipping games- Knowing when to kill a game- Creating a popular game- Web2 games built on Web3 tech- Friends in the game = not leaving the game- Emergence of streamingAlphaVerseWebsite: alphaverse.comTwitter: @AlphaVerseGameTelegram: t.me/AlphaversegameFrédéric ChesnaisTwitter: @FredChesnaisLinkedIn: Frederic Chesnais   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.  PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.  PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.  Code: CRYPTONEWS50  This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:  PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Marina Guryeva is the Founder and CEO of Neon Labs and the developer behind Neon EVM, the gateway for Ethereum-based applications to access the scalability and liquidity of Solana without changing its codebase. Actively involved in the blockchain space since 2015, she was the Director of CyberFund, a platform that invested in blockchain startups. She joined Commun, a blockchain-based social network, as Director in 2019 to spearhead blockchain-based social networking run by self-governed communities. In 2021, Marina founded Neon Labs to bring Solana's scalability and low transaction costs to the Ethereum ecosystem.In this conversation, we discuss:- Solana breakpoint in Lisbon- Solana ($SOL)- Scaling ETH on Solana blockchain- Live on mainnet on December 12th- FTX relationship with Solana- User experience over costs- Invalidating the Solana “Ethereum killer” thesis- Ethereum’s high gas fees and low throughput- Solidity vs. Rust- Learning Rust- A day in the life of MarinaNeon LabsWebsite: neon-labs.orgTwitter: @neonlabsorgTelegram: t.me/NeonlabsorgMarina GuryevaTwitter: @mariaveirugLinkedIn: Marina Guryeva  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.  PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.  PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.  Code: CRYPTONEWS50  This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:  PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50