92: Block the Crypto Scammers | Tristen Larsen, CEO of Blockem AI

Billion Moonshots

Tristen Larsen is the founder and CEO of Blockem AI, an advanced anti-scam detection software for Ethereum wallets.

We talked about how trust percentages are calculated, losing $20K in a crypto scam, origin story of Blockem, why web3 UX sucks, how their team flagged FTX wallets 2 months before the whole fiasco and much more.

SPONSORS

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GUEST LINKS

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Suited_ETH

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suited/

LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/tristen-larsen-%F0%9F%93%B2-1a953a114/

CONNECT

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OUTLINE

(00:00) - How is the Trust Percentage calculated?

(02:50) - Scams in Crypto

(4:24) - Losing $20,000 in a scam

(9:47) - Origin story of Blockem

(14:31) - Product Insights

(20:07) - Web3 UX sucks

(23:04) - What does the Trust Percentage mean?

(27:10) - Red flags in Smart Contracts

(31:39) - Ideal user experience of Blockem

(36:33) - Creative new scams in the industry

(39:00) - Flagged FTX 2 months before the whole fiasco !!

(42:54) - Story of coming up with the name

(47:11) - Remote culture

(52:31) - Reading 15 books per month

TOP EPISODES

87: Shane Mac, President of XMTP Labs

77: Shashank Kumar, Founder of Razorpay [Hindi]

75: Kyla Scanlon

74: Adam Jackson, Co-founder of Braintrust

68: Natalie Brunell, Host of Coin Stories Podcast

62: Suumit Shah, CEO of Dukaan [Hindi]

Past guests of Billion Moonshots include Shane Mac, Shashank Kumar, Suumit Shah, Natalie Brunell, Kyla Scanlon, Adam Jackson, Tyler Denk, Anshul Rustaggi, Danielle Strachman, Chirag Taneja, Suhas Motwani, Aditya Mohanty, Jan-Philipp Peters, Mo Islam, Peer Richelsen, Justin Nguyen, Paul Griffiths, Gautam Gupta, Sang Le, Rahul Rana, Grace Ling, Joseph Choi and many more.