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Jamil Hasan
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Mar 4, 2025 • 28min

Creating the First and Largest Liquid Staking and Re-staking Protocol in the Modular Ecosystem, with Josie Leung @ MilkyWay (Audio)

Josie Leung is COO and Co-Founder of MilkyWay, the first and largest liquid staking and restaking protocol for the modular ecosystem. Previously in her career, Josie led product efforts at Crypto.com during DeFi Summer, supported ecosystem growth at Tendermint, and held roles at Composable Finance and LinkedIn. Her experience spans product development, business development, and community engagement, ensuring MilkyWay's operations and market presence align with its goals. Outside of work, Josie is a certified scuba dive master and yoga instructor.
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Mar 3, 2025 • 31min

Why Public Blockchain Wallets Are Dead and Privacy Matters Most, with Georgi Koreli @ Hinkal (Audio)

Georgi Koreli is a remarkable athlete-turned-entrepreneur, Stanford GSB alumnus, and the visionary founder behind Hinkal, a leading privacy infrastructure company, with $250m+ private transactions processed in 2024.- 2x Stanford alum- 5 years in banking and hedge funds- Icons founder- Sambo 2x World Champion
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Mar 3, 2025 • 31min

: Why Public Blockchain Wallets Are Dead and Privacy Matters Most, with Georgi Koreli @ Hinkal (Video)

Georgi Koreli is a remarkable athlete-turned-entrepreneur, Stanford GSB alumnus, and the visionary founder behind Hinkal, a leading privacy infrastructure company, with $250m+ private transactions processed in 2024.- 2x Stanford alum- 5 years in banking and hedge funds- Icons founder- Sambo 2x World Champion
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Feb 28, 2025 • 48min

Lessons and Insights from Helping Private Clients Invest in Crypto Successfully, with Marc Walton @ Forex Mentor Pro (Audio)

Marc Walton, Forex Mentor, retired from trading for clients in spring 2020. He now focuses on running Forex Mentor Pro, his passion. Marc takes on a few private clients each year who wish to fast-track their trading progress.Marc trades forex, crypto and actively invests in metals and mining stocks.Marc sold his successful business in the UK in 2000, then invested in property to create income & emigrated with his wife & young kids to the Canary Islands. He lived out his dream to be a singer & guitarist in a band for the first few years and on the side was trying to learn how to trade (badly!).After losing over $20k in trades and spending another $10k on wonder systems, Marc was on the verge of quitting. He needed to make a drastic change.After working privately with a mentor, Marc managed to turn things around and became a consistently profitable trader. He then was introduced to a fund in the US where he began trading their client funds while living in a beautiful part of the world, trading for just a few hours a day.No boss, no staff, no commute, no hassles.Marc earned more money from trading than when he employed over 20 people + all the stress that went with it.https://www.forexmentorpro.com/
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Feb 28, 2025 • 48min

Lessons and Insights from Helping Private Clients Invest in Crypto Successfully, with Marc Walton @ Forex Mentor Pro (Video)

Marc Walton, Forex Mentor, retired from trading for clients in spring 2020. He now focuses on running Forex Mentor Pro, his passion. Marc takes on a few private clients each year who wish to fast-track their trading progress.Marc trades forex, crypto and actively invests in metals and mining stocks.Marc sold his successful business in the UK in 2000, then invested in property to create income & emigrated with his wife & young kids to the Canary Islands. He lived out his dream to be a singer & guitarist in a band for the first few years and on the side was trying to learn how to trade (badly!).After losing over $20k in trades and spending another $10k on wonder systems, Marc was on the verge of quitting. He needed to make a drastic change.After working privately with a mentor, Marc managed to turn things around and became a consistently profitable trader. He then was introduced to a fund in the US where he began trading their client funds while living in a beautiful part of the world, trading for just a few hours a day.No boss, no staff, no commute, no hassles.Marc earned more money from trading than when he employed over 20 people + all the stress that went with it.https://www.forexmentorpro.com/
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Feb 27, 2025 • 43min

Helping Retail Consumers Thrive by Transforming Web3 Ecosystems to Adopting an Inclusive Economic Model Instead of a Player-versus-Player Trap, with Cyrus Taghehchian @ Aces.Fun (Audio)

Cyrus Taghehchian, ranked #7 on Entrepreneur's "Top Entrepreneurs Under 40," has engineered two successful exits totaling $300M during his strategic two-decade tech career. His pioneering work spans blockchain architecture, token economics, fintech innovation, and agile implementation. Cyrus excels at transforming ambitious concepts into market-redefining solutions that challenges industry conventions while delivering measurable results. Driven by intellectual curiosity and strategic foresight, he builds next-generation technologies that anticipate market evolution. His signature blend of visionary thinking and disciplined execution continues to establish new benchmarks across the digital landscape. In his latest venture, Aces.fun, Cyrus is launching a platform that monetizes real-world assets through derivative markets.
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Feb 27, 2025 • 43min

Helping Retail Consumers Thrive by Transforming Web3 Ecosystems to Adopting an Inclusive Economic Model Instead of a Player-versus-Player Trap, with Cyrus Taghehchian @ Aces.Fun (Video)

Cyrus Taghehchian, ranked #7 on Entrepreneur's "Top Entrepreneurs Under 40," has engineered two successful exits totaling $300M during his strategic two-decade tech career. His pioneering work spans blockchain architecture, token economics, fintech innovation, and agile implementation. Cyrus excels at transforming ambitious concepts into market-redefining solutions that challenges industry conventions while delivering measurable results. Driven by intellectual curiosity and strategic foresight, he builds next-generation technologies that anticipate market evolution. His signature blend of visionary thinking and disciplined execution continues to establish new benchmarks across the digital landscape. In his latest venture, Aces.fun, Cyrus is launching a platform that monetizes real-world assets through derivative markets.
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Feb 27, 2025 • 30min

How to Design Decentralized Infrastructures That Make Artificial Intelligence Agents Reliable, with Karan Sirdesai @ Mira Network (Audio)

Karan Sirdesai is the Co-Founder and CEO of Mira Network. Previously an investor at Accel, he helped deploy over $250 million in crypto and AI investments, backing companies now worth over $5 billion. Before that, he was a consultant at BCG, advising global conglomerates.A self-taught programmer, Karan has built and sold multiple crypto trading products. Under his leadership, Mira Network serves over 500,000 users with nearly 250,000 AI inference requests daily. Mira's decentralized verification network powers AI applications for leading institutions like Aethir, io.net, and Hyperbolic, enabling trustless verification of AI outputs at scale.Karan is a thought leader in AI and blockchain, frequently speaking on AI agents, Decentralized Finance AI (DeFAI), Web3 adoption, bringing web2 users into web3 and the future of autonomous systems. His vision is to make AI infrastructure trustless and reliable, ensuring unbiased and secure development for the next wave of AI innovation.X: https://x.com/karansirdesaiLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karansirdesai/
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Feb 27, 2025 • 30min

How to Design Decentralized Infrastructures That Make Artificial Intelligence Agents Reliable, with Karan Sirdesai @ Mira Network (Video)

Karan Sirdesai is the Co-Founder and CEO of Mira Network. Previously an investor at Accel, he helped deploy over $250 million in crypto and AI investments, backing companies now worth over $5 billion. Before that, he was a consultant at BCG, advising global conglomerates.A self-taught programmer, Karan has built and sold multiple crypto trading products. Under his leadership, Mira Network serves over 500,000 users with nearly 250,000 AI inference requests daily. Mira's decentralized verification network powers AI applications for leading institutions like Aethir, io.net, and Hyperbolic, enabling trustless verification of AI outputs at scale.Karan is a thought leader in AI and blockchain, frequently speaking on AI agents, Decentralized Finance AI (DeFAI), Web3 adoption, bringing web2 users into web3 and the future of autonomous systems. His vision is to make AI infrastructure trustless and reliable, ensuring unbiased and secure development for the next wave of AI innovation.X: https://x.com/karansirdesaiLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karansirdesai/
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Feb 18, 2025 • 30min

Building the Web3 Generation of “Amazon Web Services” through Cloud Service Providers, with Sebastian Pfeiffer @ Impossible Cloud Network (Audio)

Sebastian Pfeiffer, Managing Director @ Impossible Cloud NetworkSebastian Pfeiffer is the Senior Director of web3 Growth at Impossible Cloud Network, where he is responsible for developing and implementing the company's growth strategy. His focus includes designing decentralized business architecture, tokenomics, legal frameworks, and stakeholder alignment.Before joining Impossible Cloud, Sebastian was a Consultant at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), specializing in strategy development and execution for globally recognized companies across various industries, with a focus on social impact and industrial goods. He holds dual Master of Science degrees in Strategy and Corporate Development from Aalto University and Universität zu Köln.LinkedIn:⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastian-pfeiffer/

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