

Talking Tokens
Jacquelyn Melinek, Token Relations
Talking Tokens is a podcast focused on interviewing the best crypto leaders, startups, market players and up-and-coming founders that are changing the industry.
Join Jacquelyn Melinek, an award-nominated host and seasoned crypto journalist-turned-entrepreneur, to dive into the best talks in crypto in an easy-to-understand way.
The episodes will air every Tuesday and Thursday on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, X and more.
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Join Jacquelyn Melinek, an award-nominated host and seasoned crypto journalist-turned-entrepreneur, to dive into the best talks in crypto in an easy-to-understand way.
The episodes will air every Tuesday and Thursday on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, X and more.
For more updates, subscribe to the Talking Tokens newsletter here: https://talkingtokens.beehiiv.com/
Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/_TalkingTokens
Episodes
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Nov 7, 2024 • 34min
Rebecca Rettig | Post Election: Polygon Exec Talks Crypto Policy Outlook After Trump Win
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Polygon’s Chief Legal and Policy Officer Rebecca Rettig. They dive into the current state of policymaking in crypto, the impact the US Presidential Election has on the industry, her regulatory and policy outlook after President Trump retakes office, the SEC and more.
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Nov 5, 2024 • 43min
Hayden Adams & Hart Lambur | Unichain Wants To Unite All of Ethereum
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Hayden Adams, CEO of Uniswap Labs, and Hart Lambur, co-founder and CEO of Across. They dive into Unichain, Uniswap’s new L2 chain built on the OP stack, Across being a bridging partner for the chain and why it’s important to have easy access for cross-chain swaps, scaling Ethereum, DeFi and more.
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Oct 31, 2024 • 39min
Tristan Frizza | Zeta Markets Wants To Make Solana Even Faster
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Tristan Frizza, founder of Zeta Markets. They talk about what traders want more of on DeFi trading platforms, why Zeta is building a layer-2 on top of Solana, how it will scale the network and more.
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Oct 29, 2024 • 30min
Stani Kulechov | The Future of Stablecoins and Tokenization of Assets
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, we're sharing a fireside chat Jacquelyn moderated with Stani Kulechov, founder and CEO of Avara (formerly Aave), in Buenos Aires, Argentina. While on stage at the Avalanche Summit LATAM, they discuss the current state of stablecoins, tokenization of real world assets (RWAs), and opportunities to drive mass adoption through Latin America and other regions.
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Oct 24, 2024 • 48min
Michael Martin, Marc Villafuerte, Anish Lathker, Kainoa Kanter | Building Prediction Markets In Web3 Accelerators
For this week’s Thursday's episode, we’re sharing an episode I recorded last week in a podcast studio near the Avalanche Summit, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Our guests include Michael Martin, director of Codebase at Ava Labs, and Inertia co-founders Marc Villafuerte, Anish Lathker and Kainoa Kanter. Codebase is an Avalanche-focused web3 accelerator program and Inertia is a community-led predictions market. We discuss what accelerator programs are like into today’s market, why Inertia chose to build on Avalanche, the state of prediction markets and more.
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Oct 22, 2024 • 36min
Emin Gün Sirer | AVAX Breakthroughs: Avalanche9000, Off The Grid & Institutional Adoption
On today's talking tokens episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Ava Labs co-founder and CEO Emin Gün Sirer. We recorded this during the Avalanche Summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina. They dive into the latest developments on Avalanche in the past quarter, the Avalanche-based Off The Grid game seeing explosive success, what the Avalanche9000 upgrade really means, his outlook on Latin America, institutional adoption and more.
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Oct 17, 2024 • 44min
Raza Zaidi & Sandy Peng | A Blockchain For Fast Finality
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Scroll’s Co-founder Sandy Peng and Head of Growth Raza Zaidi. They talk about building an L2 in a competitive landscape, growth metrics and how the chain has evolved since its mainnet in 2023, ZK technology’s role in the broader ecosystem and more.
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Oct 15, 2024 • 39min
Asher Genoot | The Future of Bitcoin Mining
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Asher Genoot, CEO of Hut 8.They talk about Hut 8 being publicly traded, IPOs, bitcoin mining needing a new name, data centers and the role AI can play in them, among other topics.
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Oct 10, 2024 • 53min
David Nage | Crypto Investing In 2024 Market and Beyond
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn interviewed David Nage, venture capital PM at Arca and the host of the Base Layer Podcast. They talk about David’s extensive career in the digital asset world, his VC outlook, how he views the market as a long-term investor, whether or not AI is overhyped, how NFTs can be useful in the future and more.
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Oct 8, 2024 • 44min
Alexei Zamyatin | The Case For Building On Bitcoin
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Alexei Zamyatin, cofounder of Build on Bitcoin (BOB). They talk about hybrid layer-2 blockchains, BoB using the OP Stack, what role the chain wants to play in merging Ethereum and Bitcoin ecosystems, the current state of DeFi on Bitcoin and more.
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