Base Layer

Join us for Episode 8 with Spencer Noon, an investor at Doggie Tail Capital, a fund backed by a family office. Spencer is an impressive investor in crypto, highly knowledgeable about the technology and especially Ethereum. We discuss ETH's current role, it's innovation with Serenity, smart contracts, scaling, zero knowledge proof and much more.

Guest Matthew Walsh joins Base Layer on Episode 007. Matthew and his partner Nic Carter spent the last 4 years at Fidelity before launching Castle Island on a team tasked with doing scenario planning, looking at what future technologies could do to the financial sector and beyond. You'll hear the phrases like frictonless capital markets, how they tested bitcoin and wallets in realtime at Fidelity and much. We discuss STO's, the current crypto markets and crypto infrastructure.

On Episode 6 of Base Layer we have Matt Galligan, CEO & Co-founder, Picks & Shovels which is building critical infrastructure in portfolio management of cryptoassets. We discuss data quality in crypto, M&A activity and what the future of crypto infrastructure looks like in 2019.

Every Sunday folks in crypto are treated to the work of someone part man, part machine who curates all the weeks top news, research and thoughts from the cryptosphere - his name: Nathaniel Whittemore. Nathaniel's work has become a crucial part of crypto's information infrastructure - we had a wide ranging conversation on narratives at play, Web 1.0 to 3.0 and much more. Enjoy!

Episode 4 has Will Peets, CIO of Passport Digital, join Base Layer to discuss a host of topics including, but not limited to: portfolio risk management in the context of crypto, the global economy as it relates to the crypto markets, valuations and much more.

On episode 3 of Base Layer we had a great conversation with Anatoly Yakovenko, founder & CEO of Solana which is addressing the transactions per second issue in blockchain. Anatoly has an impressive career from Qualcomm where he and his team built the CDMA of the flip phones we all used to spending time at Dropbox. What Solana is building could be critical infrastructure for blockchain to scale.

In our second episode we are lucky enough to air a special one hour discussion with some of the best investors and practitioners in crypto today. We discussed capitulation, macro trends, the regulatory landscape and some thoughts on 2019. Not to be missed!

Base Layer is a new podcast aimed at providing education to Family Offices/HNW and investors who are trying to understand cryptoassets and the underlying technology. We will be bringing founders who are creating the building blocks of the asset class and technology, from file storage to interoperability and more. In addition you'll hear from other family offices and investors who are active in the asset class to get a peer perspective.