Mehdi and Driss are the founders of Exponential, an investment platform that makes it easy to discover, assess, and invest in decentralized finance (DeFi) yield opportunities. Why you should listen DeFi enables anyone to become a lender or market maker. When individuals have the power to grow their wealth exponentially, financial freedom is within …

Dmitry Meshkov is Founder and CEO of QUEX Tech. Quex are launching a next-gen Oracle which will be an alternative to Chainlink and sets the security standard for DeFi, RWA, and Prediction Markets. Why you should listen Quex is revolutionizing blockchain oracles by integrating hardware-level cryptographic security to provide secure, decentralized da…

Avi Zurlo is the new CEO at =nil; Foundation building an Ethereum L2 powered by zkSharding. =nil; Foundation is rolling out Testnet v1 for its Ethereum Layer 2 solution, powered by zkSharding. This launch marks a major step on their roadmap after the initial Devnet release in July. With zkSharding, =nil; Foundation’s new L2 combines the efficiency …

Siwon Kim is the Co-Founder and CEO of Botanika, a hyper-scalable, hyper-efficient decentralized data storage platform. Why you should listen In this conversation, Siwon Kim, co-founder and CEO of Botanica, discusses the importance of decentralized data storage and how Botanica aims to address the growing demand for data storage solutions. He expla…

Incubated by Nvidia Inception VC Alliance, Compute Labs leverages its self-developed Compute Tokenization Protocol to financialize AI, enable direct exposure to compute assets, and create compute derivates, empowering investors to effortlessly yield from compute, the currency of the future Why you should listen Compute Labs believes that compute wi…

Fabian is the co-founder of Illuminodes, guiding the development of the SALUD Protocol, which aims to give individuals control over their health data. Fabian shares insights on the challenges of managing health data, the collaboration with local hospitals in El Salvador, and the integration of global standards in health data management. Why you sho…

Sam Williams is the founder of Arweave. The Arweave network is like Bitcoin, but for data: A permanent and decentralized web inside an open ledger. The Arweave protocol is stable, mature and widely adopted. Why you should listen Permanent storage has many applications: from the preservation of humanity's most important data, to the hosting of truly…

Michael Stroev is the CEO of Venga, a universal crypto app aimed at bridging decentralized finance and traditional banking. Why you should listen Venga is a versatile crypto app designed to simplify how users navigate the world of Web3 and decentralized finance (DeFi). Launched with a mission to bring blockchain technologies closer to mainstream us…

Dr. Himanshu Tyagi is a Core Contributor at Sentient, a blockchain project enabling community-built open AGI He’s a researcher in information theory, applying its principles to solve real-world problems. Currently, he's a Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Why you should listen Sentient is an AI research organization fostering…

Leanid Palkhouski is the Head of Ecosystem at Network3, helping AI developers efficiently train and validate models using Network3’s AIoT Layer 2 technology. Why you should listen Network3 builds a dedicated AI Layer2, enabling AI developers worldwide to efficiently train, validate, and optimize models at scale through advanced techniques like AI m…

Roy Hui is the Co-Founder and CEO of LightLink, a Layer 2 blockchain company that lets dApps and enterprises offer users instant, gasless transactions. Roy also founded Pellar, a Web3 builder of blockchain solutions for government and enterprises. Why you should listen LightLink is an Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain platform designed to offer fast, gas…

Tim Kravchunovsky is the founder and CEO of Chirp. Chirp is a DePIN network founded by a team of Telecommunications experts. Tim Kravchunovsky has over 20 years of experience as a network engineer, having held a position as a Consulting Engineer at the World Bank, Comacast and Chemonics International. Tim founded Chirp in January 2021 to connect th…

Curvance is a modular liquidity management protocol designed to optimize the use of yield-bearing assets and ERC-20 tokens. Curvance DeFi aims to be the “everything app” for lending and borrowing, designed to help address fragmentation across chains and protocols. Why you should listen Curvance is a chain-agnostic reward and utility layer for yield…

Albert Castellana is the Co-Founder and CEO at Yeager AI, building GenLayer, a decentralized blockchain platform designed to integrate artificial intelligence directly into smart contracts. By combining blockchain and AI, GenLayer opens up a range of use cases, such as intelligent oracles, prediction markets, decentralized governance, parametric in…

Tyler Sloan is a Product Manager at ANKR, the leading Web3 infrastructure company. It has a set of different products for building, earning, gaming, and more — all on blockchain. Why you should listen Ankr is a decentralized infrastructure platform designed to simplify access to Web3 services, making it easier for developers and enterprises to buil…

Mathias Beke is Co-Founder and CTO at Kairon Labs, an advisor and crypto market maker for digital asset issuers. Why you should listen Kairon Labs is a player in digital asset trading and liquidity provision, offering a wide range of services designed to optimize liquidity management for crypto projects and exchanges. Established as a leading marke…

Aaron Krowne is Partner & Practice Group Lead Blockchain & Corporate, at Industria Business Lawyers (IBL Partners) a technology-forward distributed law firm. Why you should listen Since its founding in 2018, IBL Partners has leveraged versatility and technology to deliver professional and sophisticated legal services for innovators in the twenty-fi…

Mario F. Pazos is the marketing lead at the memorably named GOAT Network, the first BTC L2 to offer a sustainable yield. Why you should listen BTC serves as a store of value, offering fewer opportunities for yield generation compared to other cryptocurrencies, like Ethereum or stablecoins. This limited utility in DeFi applications has resulted in l…

Jesse Beller is the co-founder and CEO at Terrace, the all-in-one trading terminal and portfolio management system for everything and everyone. Why you should listen Terrace is a multi-wallet, non-custodial crypto trading terminal designed for both institutional traders and crypto enthusiasts. We offer best price routing, advanced order types, synt…

Fran Stranar is the founder of Techemy Group and a core contributor to Stabull Labs, shepherding Stabull Fiance, the capital-efficient Web3 Money Market. Stabull’s mission is to democratizē the multi-trillion dollar FX and Commodities markets on-chain. Why you should listen Stabull Finance is a decentralized exchange (DEX) that specializes in facil…

Grant Robertson is the founder of Three Protocol, creating a series of decentralised marketplaces to open digital commerce to the world, including the unbanked, debanked, and those who value privacy. Why you should listen Three Protocol aims to establish a network of autonomous marketplaces using blockchain technology. These marketplaces aim to fac…

Mitchell Weijerman is the founder of Epic Mining. Epic Mining makes Bitcoin mining easy, accessible, and profitable for investors worldwide. Utilizing green energy and cutting-edge technology, Epic Mining provides a seamless, automated mining experience with real-time performance tracking and daily payouts. Why you should listen Epic Mining offers …

Uri Ferruccio is co-founder of Concordia, the first Adaptive Risk Layer that mitigates market risk for all of DeFi, and Tabiya Capital, a VC fund for next-gen data technologies. Why you should listen Concordia aims to improve blockchain technology by infusing it with artificial intelligence, and the mission is to create an intelligent layer that ac…

Greg Osuri is the co-founder and CEO of Akash Network, an open network that lets users buy and sell computing resources securely and efficiently. The network is purpose-built for public utility. Why you should listen Akash Network is a decentralized cloud computing platform that provides an open-source and decentralized marketplace for computing re…

Tory Green is the co-founder & CEO at IO.net, the Internet of GPUs for large-scale AI startups. Why you should listen io.Net is a decentralized GPU network designed to give unlimited computing power to ML applications by making computing more scalable, accessible, and efficient. Their mission is to unlock fair access to computing power by assemblin…