

Around The Coin
Stephen Sargeant and Mike Townsend
Around The Coin is a podcast exploring finance, fintech, and the future of money. Hosted by industry experts, it features deep dives into payments, crypto, banking, and disruptive innovations shaping the global economy.
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Jul 11, 2022 • 1h 13min
Leon Lee, Founder of Only1
Leon Lee is the founder of Only1 - the first web3 social platform on Solana, backed by Alameda Research and Animoca Brands. He was a genetic engineer and have entered the blockchain space since 2017, now he aims to revolutionise the creator economy through NFTs and DeFi.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 8, 2022 • 1h 16min
Luke Johnson, Chief Marketing and Experience Officer
Luke was responsible for building the products that now supports enterprise business. He spends his time working with clients and stakeholders gathering critical feedback that can improve HFD's products and message.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 7, 2022 • 1h 15min
Ganesh Swami, CEO & Co-founder of Covalent
Ganesh is a co-founder of Covalent – a blockchain data indexing company. Covalent is indexing all of the world's blockchain information and making it queryable via a simple API. Ganesh is a serial entrepreneur and has over a decade of experience in big data analytics. He started his career in building protein simulation algorithms to solve cancer.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 6, 2022 • 1h 13min
Deepak Nuli, Founder and CEO of Kresko
Deepak is on a mission of Building long-term investing tools for mission-oriented degens. He is a rare combination of Web3 native, community builder, and cybersecurity expert -- all traits that are essential in building a successful DeFi platform.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 5, 2022 • 1h 9min
Joe Roets, Founder and Architect of Dragonchain
Joe has over 20 years of experience in software architecture focusing on security and scalability. He has created and led multiple technology startups since the mid 1990s. He is a visionary and thought leader in blockchain technology having led or contributed to projects in the space since 2010 at companies such as Overstock, Coinbase, Lockheed Martin, & the Walt Disney Company.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 4, 2022 • 1h 12min
Sebastian Bürgel, Founder of HOPR
Sebastian builds technical solutions that empower the individual. As founder of the private data exchange infrastructure HOPR, he contributes to establishing full stack privacy for the web3.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 1, 2022 • 1h 9min
Mark Paul, CEO of Itheum
Mark has over 20 years of experience building large-scale data, AI, blockchain, and distributed software initiatives for the government, enterprise, and tech startup sectors. He founded Itheum 2 years ago to build technology that empowers personal data sovereignty with a focus now on making Itheum the core personal data protocol for the Metaverse era.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 30, 2022 • 1h 11min
Suji Yan, Founder of Mask Network
Suji Yan, founder, and CEO of Dimension & Mask Network. Dropped out of UIUC (the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Computer Engineering Department to start a business. Former independent reporter of Qdaily & Caixin Media, former engineer of the autonomous driving company; currently a mentor of RadicalxChange Fellowship; co-authored articles by amateur and “Radical Market” / RadicalxChange, and other economists and legal scholars; once published by Wired, South China Morning Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times and so on. At present, individuals mainly focus on open source, encryption, and privacy protection (product: mask.io ).(for company logo: https://dimensiondev.github.io/Mask-VI/ )Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 29, 2022 • 1h 13min
Mance Harmon, Co-Founder of Hedera & Swirlds Labs
Mance is an experienced technology executive and entrepreneur with more than 20 years of strategic leadership experience in multi-national corporations, government agencies, and high-tech startups, and is Co-founder and CEO of Hedera. His prior experience includes serving as the Head of Architecture and Labs at Ping Identity, Founder and CEO of two tech startups, the senior executive for product security at a $1.7B revenue organization, Program Manager for a very-large scale software program for the Missile Defense Agency, the Course Director for Cybersecurity at the US Air Force Academy, and research scientist in Machine Learning at Wright Laboratory. Mance received a MS in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts and a BS in Computer Science from Mississippi State University.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 28, 2022 • 1h 10min
David Hanson, CEO of Ultra
David Hanson is the founder and CEO of Ultra, a next-generation gaming and entertain platform powered by blockchain. David has decades of experience founding companies, including operating as CEO for a 100+ million dollar game console project that was later acquired by Kingsoft.His latest project, Ultra, has been in development since 2017 and the platform has been designed to bridge the gap between blockchain capabilities and the mainstream games industry. Ultra's ecosystem is made up of various apps that allow players to enhance their gaming experience at every turn. Notable apps in the ecosystem include Ultra Games, a games distribution platform, the Uniq Marketplace, an advanced NFT marketplace that offers zero transaction fees, and the Ultra Wallet, Ultra's very own cryptocurrency wallet.Ultra is partnered with the likes of AMD, Ubisoft, Atari, and more to provide players and game developers with the tools to widen their gaming experience like it has never been done before.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices