CryptoNews Podcast

Dirk Lueth, is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Uplandme, Inc. Based in Silicon Valley, Dirk is a serial entrepreneur and an early adopter of blockchain and related technologies. In addition to being the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Uplandme, Inc., Dirk co-founded and is chairman of the Open Metaverse Alliance for Web3 (OMA3). He is the author of the bestselling book, Navigating the Metaverse: A Guide to Limitless Possibilities in a Web 3.0 World (Wiley, 2022) and the official Metaverse ambassador of the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC).Previously, Dirk co-founded European and US-based FinTech and digital media companies, including the Financial Times Deutschland and Forbatec, which SunGard acquired (today NYSE:FIS). Dirk mentored over 30 startups through his work at international startup accelerators in Silicon Valley and is a frequent speaker/panelist focusing on topics about the metaverse, blockchain, and platform economics. He studied Business Administration in Frankfurt and Paris and earned a Ph.D. from the European Business School in Germany, where he wrote his doctoral thesis about private and state-controlled currencies.In this conversation, we discuss:- In-game currencies & economies- Upland ‘Cafes’- Expanding to new cities- SuperApps- Web3 gaming- Navigating the metaverse- Importance of the community- Upland’s partnership with FIFA Women’s World Cup- State of the Metaverse- Why the future will and most be openUplandWebsite: www.upland.meTwitter: @UplandMeDiscord: discord.gg/umwJEYzPeRDirk LuethTwitter: @DirkLuethLinkedIn: Dirk Lueth   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.  PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.  PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.  Code: CRYPTONEWS50  This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:  PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50 

Bobby Zagotta, US CEO & Chief Commercial Officer at Bitstamp. He came to Bitstamp from Kraken, where he served as Chief Commercial Officer responsible for strategy, business development, marketing, M&A, research and analytics, and global growth initiatives. Before that, he was a Senior Managing Director, Strategy & Execution and a member of the Executive Team for CME Group Inc., a global, publicly traded financial exchange.As CEO for the Americas and Global Chief Commercial Officer at Bitstamp, Bobby is responsible for strategy and growing our presence and business globally, as well as overseeing day-to-day operations in the Americas.In this conversation, we discuss:- Navigating regulation- Bitstamp growth- Current crypto market- Web3 innovation- Banking crisis- Training for triathlons- Regulation/American Adoption- US debt ceiling- XRP ruling- Stories from growing CME and the parallels to present-day crypto- Journey from trad-fi to cryptoBitstampWebsite: www.bitstamp.netTwitter: @BitstampLinkedIn: BitstampBobby ZagottaTwitter: @BobbyZagottaLinkedIn: Bobby Zagotta   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.  PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.  PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.  Code: CRYPTONEWS50  This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:  PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50 

Rudy Koch is the co-founder of Fenix Games, which is based out of UAE. He is also the co-founder of Web 3 unicorn Mythical Games, which has raised $270M and is valued at $1.25B. Rudy has over 15 years of game development experience shipping some of the most prolific games in the industry: 5 Call of Duty games, 2 World of Warcraft expansions, 1 Disney MMO, and a handful of #1 mobile games. He is currently exploring the intersection between blockchain technology and games.In this conversation, we discuss:- Partnership with Immutable- Making money playing games- Shipping famous games like Call of Duty and World of Warcraft- Shift of gaming: pay-to-play > free-to-play > web3- Inviting players in as stakeholders- Game-specific DAOs- Gaming as a career path- Web3 allowing gamers to participate in gaming economies- Biggest advantages/features of web3 gaming compared to web2 gaming- The biggest roadblocks stifling the mass adoption of web3 gamingFenix GamesWebsite: www.fenixgames.comTwitter: @playfenixgamesLinkedIn: Fenix GamesRudy KochTwitter: @rudykochLinkedIn: Rudy Koch   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.  PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.  PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.  Code: CRYPTONEWS50  This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:  PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50 

Paolo Ardoino is the CTO of Bitfinex and Tether, who also recently launched Keet.io, a Peer-to-Peer Chat App, built with the Holepunch platform that allows anyone to create apps that don’t use any servers. Paolo is also a certified meme-lord and has one of the best accounts on crypto Twitter.In this conversation, we discuss:- Tether ($USDT) FUD- Having $72.5B overall exposure in US T-Bills- Tether Excess reserves at $3.3B- Binance + Justin Sun FUD - Banking collapse- Current pressure on exchanges- Tether’s Diversification into Energy- Partnership with Government of Georgia- Tether fostering the use of P2P technology- What’s next for Tether?- Keet.io- Bitfinex P2P trading- Trade finance - the next trend in cryptoTetherWebsite: tether.toTwitter: @Tether_toTelegram: t.me/OfficialTetherPaolo ArdoinoTwitter: @paoloardoinoLinkedIn: Paolo Ardoino    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.   PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.  PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.  Code: CRYPTONEWS50  This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:  PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50 

Daniel Paez is Executive Producer at Immutable Game’s flagship trading card game, Gods Unchained. As a developer of data-driven business strategies, Daniel focuses on bridging the gap between insights from a variety of players in the industry. These include linking information from business intelligence teams to key decision makers, product designers to commercial strategists, and brand management heads to social media influencers. Daniel uses a scientific approach to challenge assumptions and then to build a data-supported knowledge-base that influences business organizations, from the bottom up. Before joining Immutable, Daniel worked as the Director of Monetization for both Worldspark Studios and Big Time Studios. He also worked as the Senior Manager of Commercial Finance and Operations at Activision, and previously held several positions at gaming company, Blizzard Entertainment, most recently as Senior Manager of Publishing Intelligence.In this conversation, we discuss:- Elevating the player experience- Gods Unchained recent roadmap updates- The future of web3 gaming- New Content Creator Program- Making AAA games is more difficult than making movies- Making games vs. publishing games- Regulation for web3 gaming- New Pack Opening Experience- $GODS token- Immutable Games- Staking in web3 gaming- Season 2 + mobile soft launchGods UnchainedWebsite: godsunchained.com Twitter: @GodsUnchained Discord: discord.gg/godsunchainedDaniel PaezTwitter: @_Papalicious_LinkedIn: Daniel Paez ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.  PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.  PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.  Code: CRYPTONEWS50  This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:  PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50 

Sid Gandhi is a technology leader, entrepreneur, and investor, currently CEO of web3 infrastructure company Polybase.In the past, he led product and technical strategy for simulation at Cruise, co-founded Hmatix Cybersecurity, built AR tools for the US Navy at Moback, and wrote software for iOS at Apple.In this conversation, we discuss:- Story of Polybase- Polybase Modular Architecture- Polybase Private mainnet- How is Polybase different from Ceramic & Tableland- Leveraging ZK proofs for security and scalability- Building self-driving cars at Cruise- Building AR tools for the US Navy- Writing software for iOS at Apple- Building developer databases- Sid’s $100k burritoPolybaseWebsite: polybase.xyzTwitter: @polybase_xyzLinkedIn: PolybaseSid GandhiWebsite: sidhantgandhi.comTwitter: @sidgandhi_xyzLinkedIn: Sid G. 3rd    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.  PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.  PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.  Code: CRYPTONEWS50  This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:  PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50 

Lomesh Dutta is Vice President of Growth at DFINITY. Lomesh holds over 17 years of experience in building and scaling startups. Before DFINITY, he was the Head of Growth and Marketing at the crypto banking service, Abra. He has also served as the Vice President of Growth at Paytm, the largest fintech in India. He has previously founded and successfully sold two separate startups and is passionate about tackling innovative and unique problems. Lomesh has also been a TEDx speaker at Delhi Technological University, and in 2012 he was Awarded the title of India's Hottest Young Entrepreneurs by Business World.In this conversation, we discuss:- Internet Computer- Bitcoin-based DeFi- ckBTC- Bitfinity Wallet- Building and selling startups- DFINITY Foundation- Autonomous cloud- The “public everything stack”- Crypto in India- AI on the blockchain- Twitter rebrand to “X”DFINITYWebsite: dfinity.orgTwitter: @dfinityLinkedIn: DFINITYLomesh DuttaTwitter: @lomeshduttaLinkedIn: Lomesh Dutta ∞  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.  PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.  PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.  Code: CRYPTONEWS50  This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:  PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50 

Andrew Smith is the Founder of VRRB Labs, a decentralized protocol that is developing the VRRB Layer 1 blockchain, an innovative blockchain that will make it easy and financially sustainable for developers to build user-friendly applications. Andrew founded VRRB Labs in 2020 after experiencing the challenges inherent in many blockchains, including a lack of scalability and developer-focused resources. Prior to founding VRRB Labs, Andrew served as co-founder and Chief Data Scientist of OWL ESG, a tech-driven ESG data provider. Andrew began his career as Chief Product Strategist of the investment firm New Millennium Macro. In this conversation, we discuss:- Replacing the legacy financial system- Nurturing developer communities- State of blockchains- The language barrier in developer tooling- Metaverses should not be built on the blockchain- The future of AI and Web3- Creating more stable market makers- AI interacting with on-chain programs- AI use-casesVRRB Labs Website: vrrb.ioTwitter: @VRRBLabsLinkedIn: VRRB Labs, IncAndrew SmithTwitter: @VRRBFounderLinkedIn: Andrew Nicholas Smith, CAIA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.  PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.  PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.  Code: CRYPTONEWS50  This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:  PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50 

Liam is leading the go-to-market strategy for a new NFT company which is currently in stealth mode. He previously worked with BasedAF, Blur, and DeSo, and his NFT trading journey began in January 2021 with NBA Top Shot.Before getting into NFTs, Liam worked at a startup accelerator called On Deck. He graduated from the Ivey School of Business at Western University and played four years of professional junior hockey.You can follow him on Twitter (@liamherbst_), where he posts informational threads on the NFT market.In this conversation, we discuss:- The most important metric in NFTs (Blur lending outstanding volume)- How new NFT trading instruments like futures will make the market more efficient- Why ETH will outperform virtually every NFT- Nike’s NFT project .SWOOSH for virtual apparel- How the NFT trading landscape will change- Dr Disrespect’s NFT game- NFT lending against real watches- Liam’s investing approach now: buying early art from top 10 NFT artists- OG PFP projectsLiam HerbstTwitter: @liamherbst_ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.  PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.  PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.  Code: CRYPTONEWS50  This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:  PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50 

Alex Shevchenko is the CEO of Aurora Labs, a bridge and EVM scaling solution for Ethereum built on top of NEAR Protocol as a smart contract. Alex has a Ph.D. in physics & math, has been an entrepreneur and blockchain enthusiast since 2015, and developed Bitfury's Exonum, blockchain-as-a-service solution.In this conversation, we discuss:- Building the Biggest L2 on Near Foundation (1/2 of Near's TVL comes from Aurora)- $NEAR- Aurora's Customized Enterprise Blockchain Solution- Aurora's Native Wallet- Frictionless Blockchain Experience for Developers- Crypto folks living in Lisbon- EVM gas vs. Near gas on Aurora- Gaming on Aurora- Aurora Cloud- Fast rainbow bridge- EthereumAurora LabsWebsite: aurora.devTwitter: @auroraisnearTelegram: t.me/auroraisnearAlex ShevchenkoTwitter: @AlexAuroraDevLinkedIn: Alex Shevchenko   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.  PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.  PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.  Code: CRYPTONEWS50  This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:  PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50