Ever wondered why the crypto industry seems to promise much higher yield than TradFi institutions? Alex Mashinsky, CEO of the Celsius Network, gives us an inside look. Traditional yield generation methods like lending, arbitrage, and market making work in tandem with new innovations like coin staking and are further exploitable due to the immense demand and volatility of the crypto industry. Mashinsky shares his journey growing up in several different countries and his experiences that led him to found Celsius. He describes how the Celsius Network has been taking advantage of this environment and how their proprietary CEL token factors in. Mashinsky also weighs in on broader topics such as DeFi, stablecoins, and regulation, specifically addressing the controversial rumors that the SEC issued Celsius with a cease and desist letter. Interviewed by Ash Bennington on October 21, 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Marshall Hayner and his company, Metallicus, are making it easier than ever to buy, sell, and trade crypto. Marshall joins Ash to break down how Metal is building their infrastructure and touches on the future of Web 3.0 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"I had been making far more money trading crypto,” explains Dr. Ray Ng, Alt-Tab Capital co-founder and CIO, “than I ever did in the medical profession." In conversation with Exponential Age Asset Management CIO Moritz Seibert, Ng talks about why he transitioned from medical doctor to full-time crypto trader. He lays out Alt-Tab Capital's multi-strategy approach to investing in digital assets, including its use of DeFi yield farming and dynamic dollar-cost averaging as well as its risk mitigation approach through on-chain and technical analysis. Ng also breaks down a recent successful Avalanche (AVAX) trade, explaining how his team discovered it early. Recorded on April 25, 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s almost as if he tweeted it into reality: Elon Musk's $44 billion, $54.20 per share takeover bid has been approved by Twitter’s board of directors. And, of course, everyone had something to say. The Defiant’s Camila Russo and Robin Schmidt join Real Vision’s Ash Bennington to talk about the crypto community’s reaction to the free speech champion’s big deal. Other hot topics up for discussion during this week’s episode include Akutars’ flawed NFT launch that locked up $34 million of ETH and Optimism’s incoming airdrop of the $OP token for early adopters. Recorded on April 27, 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"For altcoins to do well, we need Bitcoin to go parabolic or… through a bear market," says Ben Cowen, CEO of Into The Cryptoverse. “The best strategy [in those cases]... is just to be heavy Bitcoin." In a wide-ranging discussion with Real Vision's Ash Bennington, Cowen assesses Bitcoin's technical profile using Bitcoin dominance, logarithmic regression analysis, and on-chain data. He also explains how to determine the market cycle phase by watching fair value and the lower bound level of regression bands. Markets breaching certain levels on these measures can indicate the start of a new bear cycle. But Ben remains optimistic because "the undervaluation territory is where all the real money is made." Recorded on April 25, 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Heavyweights like Amazon Web Services dominate the cloud space with centralized databases. But Bluzelle, a decentralized storage network, has quickly established itself as a viable alternative for creators. Bluzelle is producing high-quality games, protecting players’ NFTs, and leveraging DeFi yields with its 10,000 TPS Cosmos-based blockchain. Co-founder and CEO Pavel Bains joins Santiago Velez, co-founder and division lead of R&D at Block Digital, to talk about Bluzelle’s product offerings and its rising profile in the world of GameFi. Recorded on April 18, 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Delphi Digital, and Real Vision CEO and co-founder Raoul Pal reflect on Web 3.0 and community-driven social tokens. Kelly has spoken with several professionals in this adolescent industry such as Cooper Turley of Friends With Benefits, Jack Spallone of HIFI Labs, Jeff Kaufman of Jump, Jeff Sloss of Seed Club, and creators themselves like Micah Johnson. It’s been a memorable learning experience, and his conviction in the promise of social and community tokens is even stronger than when the series began. Pal and Kelly explore the concept of Bitcoin as a social token and ponder what the future of Web 3.0 looks like, taking the lessons learned over the past months as a foundational starting point. Recorded on November 23, 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We continue to see incumbent corporations experimenting with Web 3.0 projects, especially in the NFT space. Jeff Kauffman, founder of Jump, has experience working for one of the largest Web 2.0 social media platforms. However, after having moral disagreements with the prevailing business model, he has transitioned his talents towards the decentralized universe of communities. Kauffman sits down with Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Delphi Digital, to discuss his experience leaving the world of Web 2.0 for the new frontier of Web 3.0. While questions remain concerning whether established tech and finance companies will launch their own decentralized platforms or simply provide seed funding, Kelly and Kauffman speculate on how this anticipated transition will take form. Filmed on October 22, 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Anatoly Yakovenko, CEO and co-founder of Solana, joins Eric Kryski, CEO and co-founder of Bidali, to expound upon the inner workings of Solana, an Ethereum competitor solving for speed and scalability. Yakovenko shares the unexpected journey of how the Solana team came to be and the non-trivial task of developing an entirely new consensus algorithm to differentiate it from typical Proof of Stake chains at the time. Yakovenko and the team pioneered "Proof of History", which involves cryptographic timestamps to accompany each transaction and can be verified internally by the Solana network. This method is combined with Proof of Stake to boost efficiency as well as security. Filmed on August 9, 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Exponential Age Asset Management CIO Moritz Seibert probes the mind of Martin Green, CEO and Co-CIO of Cambrian Asset Management. Moritz and Martin discuss different quantitative investment strategies and their application to the digital asset market, a space like no other. Martin shares how he handles trading in the spot market versus the derivatives market, and he explains how data influences crypto trading generally. It’s a fascinating conversation that breaks down the similarities and the differences between the old school and crypto, highlighting key aspects of market structure. Recorded on April 18, 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices