Around The Coin

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Kenton Prescott, who is the Co-founder & CEO of Sense, a decentralized permissionless  fixed income protocol, where teams can build and develop new yield primitives for DeFi, such as fixed income assets and yield curves. Kenton comes from MakerDAO where he was a part of its integration team and graduated from the University of Florida in Aerospace Engineering.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mike Cagney is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Figure, where he leads corporate strategy and development. Mike brings decades of experience in the financial industry to his leadership of the company, previously serving as CEO, chairman and co-founder of SoFi, a leading marketplace lender providing student loan refinancing, mortgages, and personal loans, as well as a range of wealth management services.He is also co-founder and managing member of Cabezon Investment Group, a global macro hedge fund, in addition to serving as a non-executive chairman of ReFlow. Before Cabezon, Mike founded was CEO and then vice chairman and chief architect of Finaplex, a leader in wealth management software that was sold to Broadridge (NYSE: BR). Prior to Finaplex, Mike was Senior Vice President and head trader for the proprietary trading and financial products group at Wells Fargo Bank. Mike holds an M.S. management degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was a Sloan Fellow. He also holds an M.S. in Applied Economics and a B.A. in Economics from UC Santa Cruz.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Simon Yu, CEO and Co-Founder of StormX, a mobile app and browser extension that allows anyone to earn Crypto Cashback when they shop online in the form of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, DAI, and StormX's native token (STMX). Simon is an entrepreneur and crypto expert who has 10+ years of experience building products in the crypto industry. His entrepreneurial journey started when due to financial constraints he, unfortunately, had to drop out of college, where he started a Korean Taco business to make ends meet. Eventually, after graduating from the University of Washington in 2014, he participated in the Berkley Blockchain Xcelerator held by the University of California in 2020. He co-founded StormX in 2014 and has raised $30M+ to date, from notable investors such as Plug and Play Ventures. The StormX app and extension are free to use and have over 4.5M installs worldwide and to date have paid out USD 5.6M+ rewards in crypto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Darren Camas who is the CEO of IPOR Labs. Darren has been a blockchain entrepreneur since 2011 across exchanges, payments, protocol, and investments in Latin America, Asia, and Europe. He was formerly Sr. Advisor for the Cardano blockchain venture wing Emurgo and led business development for one of the world's first multi-currency crypto exchanges TradeHill in 2011. He is also an active advisor and angel investor.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

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

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

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

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

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