The blocmates Podcast

The blocmates Founder and CEO Grant rattles through 13 of the best learnings he's taken from multiple cycles in the crypto market. With coins moving and liquidity increasing, the signs look good for a 2024 crypto bull run. But how do set yourself up for success?If you're new to the market, or trading in general, Grant runs through some of the things he wishes he knew earlier and offers insight you can potentially take note of. This is not financial advice and you should do your own research before making any financial decisions. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

Grant and 563 are back. This time they both took turns to go through some unreleased crypto projects that are set to either go live or launch their project token in the coming months. Funnily enough, a lot of these revolved around the DEX landscape with the odd curve ball there. Both Grant and 563 are full-time researchers in DeFi so naturally, all these projects fall under that category. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

Luca Netz joins Dan for a catch up on all-things Pudgy Penguins and how the brand is revolutionising the way retail views NFTs and the blockchain. The two chat about the brilliant marketing move to use toys as a trojan horse for blockchain technology and crypto, by simplifying the UI experience for the public. Scan a QR code and enter the world of blockchain, without even knowing. Genius. Also covered is the decision to use zkSync, the roll-ups and why Pudgy Penguins felt it was the right choice. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

Grant and 563 sat down to go through a brief history of blockchains and how their purpose and use cases have changed over the years. From a standard peer-to-peer electronic cash system which is Bitcoin, to Ethereum and the EVM, smart contracts and DeFi. Now we are entering the next paradigm shift in how blockchain technology reaches the masses. Is this through a hyper-scalable blockchain with ultra-high performance like Solana? Or, does something like a modular blockchain that uses Celestia for data availability become the preferred design of choice?--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blocmates/message

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