

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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Jun 10, 2022 • 1h 20min
Uri Klarman, CEO of BloxRoute Labs
Uri Klarman is the Co-Founder and CEO of bloXroute Labs. He earned his PhD in Computer Science at Northwestern University with a focus on interdisciplinary networks research. His work encompasses innovative uses of Computer Networks, disruptive blockchain networking schemes, alternative content distribution networks, trustless peer coordination, and security.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 8, 2022 • 1h 2min
Giorgi Khazaradze, CEO and Co-Founder of Aurox
Giorgi is a Dallas-based entrepreneur leading one of the few fast-growing companies that is navigating the burgeoning world of DeFi trading. Aurox is an all-in-one desktop cryptocurrency trading terminal that integrates data with tailored tools and strategies to help make better trades. Think Bloomberg Terminal for crypto trading. Prior to Aurox, Giorgi served as CEO of WhichAdsWork and Advertising Consultants Inc.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 7, 2022 • 1h 8min
Sathvik Vishwanath, CEO of Unocoin
Sathvik Vishwanath, an MBA from Melbourne Business School, is now a successful entrepreneur and has always put his heart into innovative & disruptive technology! His journey started in 2008 with VentureNext offering scripting services in a virtual world called SecondLife. After being acquainted with bitcoin in 2013, he launched a bitcoin buy/sell service called Unocoin which has now evolved into a Super App for Crypto. The company now serves 2M customers & operates an exchange with 80+ cryptos.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 26, 2022 • 1h 12min
Nick Saponaro, CEO of The Divi Project
Nick Saponaro is a software developer, Speaker, Musician, and blockchain personality. He is the Chief Information Officer and Co-founder of The Divi Porject. He is also a frequent speaker at blockchain conferences.Nick is an entrepreneur, crypto enthusiast, and keynote speaker who is regularly featured in the media talking about crypto-related issues. Media appearances include Cheddar, CNBC, Quartz, Investing.com, Nasdaq.com, and CoinTelegraph.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 25, 2022 • 1h 17min
Joe De Pinto, Co-Founder of Haste Arcade
Joe De Pinto was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. After spending 4 years playing professional baseball in the Chicago White Sox farm system, he co-founded his first venture, Barpay, in 2015 with Daniel Wagner.In January 2021, along with Wagner, he co-founded Haste, the world’s first Instant Leaderboard Payout arcade. De Pinto’s vision for Haste is to have the platform serve as a fun and entertaining visual representation of micro transactions, and how they can empower new business models.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 24, 2022 • 1h 8min
Michael Kong, CEO, Fantom Foundation
Michael Kong is the Chief Executive Officer of Fantom. He has a background in Finance and Information Technology from the University of Sydney, where he published papers on smart contract security. He worked as the first full-time engineer for Block8, a blockchain development company in Sydney, and later founded one of Australia’s first funds in digital assets (now Trovio Group).Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 23, 2022 • 1h 8min
Martin Froehler, CEO of Morpher
Martin Froehler is the Co-Founder and CEO of Morpher. He is a mathematician, veteran quant, and former hedge fund manager. Prior to Morpher, Martin was managing director of a quantitative research firm in Zürich and CEO of a decentralized quantitative hedge fund in Silicon Valley. Martin experienced the numerous inefficiencies of the trading industry first-hand and founded Morpher to democratize investing.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 21, 2022 • 1h
Gabriele Musella, CEO Co-Founder of Coinrule
Entrepreneur and C-Level Product Lead with over 20 years experience in Digital Innovation, Business Design, Entrepreneurship, Product Management, Fintech, Future of Money, Team Leadership, Venture Creation, Growth, CxO, C-Level, Strategy, UX, Agile, Lean, Data, FCA.✔ Serial Entrepreneur, Y-Combinator Alumni, 3x fundraiser, leading teams of 30+✔ Mentor at Google, Startupbootcamp, Zilliqa, TechItalia, Virgin - Advisor at Harvard✔ International professional experience in UK - Finland - Italy - Hungary - Czechia - US✔ Facilitated conferences at MIT - TEDx - DMI - UC Berkeley - OECD✔ Featured Interviewed on Forbes, Guardian, Business Insider, Evening Standards, etc✔ Guest Lecturer at the Business Schools: ESADE (Spain) - ESCP (France)Expertise✔ Startups, PRODUCT leadership, Growth, VENTURE creation, PMF, product STRATEGY✔ Business design, INNOVATION, customer mapping, HCD, Design, PM, Datavis✔ Team leadership, C-Level, CxO, Stakeholders management, OKr, AGILE, Scrum, LeanNotable companies I worked with includeVodafone, Lloyds Banking Group, IBM, Nokia Siemens, HSBC, MoJ, British Government, Native design, Mirum, Coinrule, PayPal, Halifax, WPP, Harvard, Publicis, MIT, Public Health England, NHS, Aviva, MKB FintechLab, UBS BankLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 13, 2022 • 1h 4min
Markus Levin, Co-Founder at XYO
Markus Levin is the Co-Founder of XYO, the world’s first blockchain geospatial oracle network backed with cryptography that anonymously collects and validates data with a geographic component.Markus has more than 15 years experience in building, growing and selling companies in hyper-growth industries around the globe. Markus focuses on maximizing institutional potential through the implementation of innovative data-driven solutions. Markus mined his first Bitcoin in 2013 and has been captivated by blockchain technologies ever since.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 12, 2022 • 2h 25min
Arjun Bhuptani, Founder of Connext
Arjun is one of the founders of Connext, the interoperability protocol for L2 Ethereum. Connext enables moving value and calldata between EVM chains without introducing trust assumptions. It is also leveraged by infrastructure networks like the Graph for ultra-scalable microtransactions.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices