The blocmates Podcast

Jedi speaks to Darius on the journey less travelled from the Terra Luna crash and how Vertex had to dig deep to arrive at Arbitrum and now a year later they will be launching their token off the back of a very successful year of building. A perps DEX that is poised to take on the biggest and the best on-chain. They are now looking to reward their loyal community with a token that incentivises and rewards.Vertex enables you to trade multiple different tokens with cross-margin all the while being 100% in control of your assets. With the way that the DEX space in DeFi is slowly but surely stealing market share from its centralised counterparts like Binance, Coinbase and OKX we look forward to seeing the rise of Vertex.Now the Vertex Protocol liquidity bootstrapping auction (LBA) for the VRTX token will go live on the 13th of November until the 20th.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

And we are back on the blocmates podcast and this time Dan is joined by PintSwap Max, the Co-Founder of PintSwap, an OTC platform for small to midcap cryptocurrency tokens. In today's interview, we talk about Max's origin stories into crypto, how he survived the darkest crypto winter ever and go in-depth into the whats, whys and hows of the PintSwap protocol.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

Grant, Mike and Alex round up the week in crypto, including the big news that the SEC's window for approving all Bitcoin ETFs is now in motion. Over the next seven days, all applications will likely be approved. We chat about what this means for the industry and why it's net positive for the space, despite being almost counterintuitive to what Bitcoin was created for. Our pal Gary Gensler has been back at it, claiming FTX could be set for a revival, there's big news coming out of the web3 gaming sector and drama is surrounding the Arbitrum DAO, consultants demanding some seriously high salaries.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

After three weeks away, the team are back with plenty to discuss. The Bitcoin and overall market pump has been welcomed, with some other big winners such as Solana and the entire SOL ecosystem, as Grant has long predicted. Plus, all of our friends and family are now primed to be our exit liquidity. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

Jedi invited Chris to discuss exactly why summer.fi really does bring the best of DeFi onto one app. Summer.fi has teamed up with a few protocols like Ajna, an “Oracle-less, Permissionless, zero-governance protocol, AAVE, MakerDAO, SparkDAO (a subDAO associated with MakerDAO), and more to come, to create a giant of a money market with the best interest rates you possibly could find across DeFi.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

Jedi has a catchup call with 0xNic the founder of Unstoppable. They discuss all the progress that has been made with Unstoppable and the big news that they are building out a mobile wallet that will allow normies to access the DEX effortlessly and without all the usual burdens of DeFi. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

Grant is joined by Luigi D'Onorio Demeo, Head of DeFi & Dev Rel at Ava Labs for the latest instalment of Still Early. In a varied chat, the two discuss everything from the beginnings of the Avalanche rush, how it felt to be a part of and how it came to be. We dig into Stars Arena and SocialFi, why the onboarding process has been net positive for crypto, why people are becoming more excited to build on Avalanche and the difficulties around user and developer acquisition. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

Jedi sits down Robbie Ferguson, co-founder of Immutable, a game-changer for web3 gaming. A robust ecosystem that simplifies the process of building Web3 games on Ethereum, allowing developers to focus on what truly matters which is creating fun and compelling games. It achieves this by providing a tech stack consisting of two layers: rollup and platform. While the former serves as the foundational infrastructure of Immutable, the latter is more focused on equipping games with the right tools.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

Grant sits down for a chat with Derek Lim, Head of Ecosystem Research at Mantle. Mantle is an Ethereum Layer 2 that utilises EigenDA for its data availability. The two discuss Liquid Staking Derivatives, DeFi, Consumer apps and gaming. On this channel, we will talk about Bitcoin, Ethereum, BTC, ETH and many altcoins including Arbitrum ARB, Solana SOL, Avalanche AVAX, Optimism OP tokens etc. We will discuss how to get your hands on the latest crypto airdrops, yield farming strategies, new DeFi projects and much more crypto news.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

Jedi and Dan are back, this time featuring the incredible team from HashFlow who have released the HashVerse, one of the best battle royales to hit the crypto space this year.Andrew, Varun and Thibault, the brains behind the game, sit down with us to discuss what the HashVerse actually is, the mechanics behind and most importantly how to WIN!--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message