The Crypto Conversation

Dave Weisberger, co-founder and CEO of CoinRoutes, dives into the world of algorithmic trading in crypto. He discusses how their advanced strategies lower execution costs and enhance liquidity. Dave shares insights on the transformative potential of Bitcoin ETFs for mainstream adoption and outlines the risks of transparency and market trust post-FTX. He expresses concerns about the current regulatory climate and emphasizes the need for a supportive environment for crypto innovation while revealing CoinRoutes' plans for DeFi solutions and international expansion.

Mostafa Al-Mashita, is co-founder, and Yacine Ouldchikh is a Senior Trader at Secure Digital Markets (SDM), a digital asset brokerage firm that offers institutional, high net worth, and corporate clients access to spot trading, derivatives, and lending services. Why you should listen Mostafa and Yacine from Secure Digital Markets discuss the market structure and deeper trends driving the crypto markets in 2024. They analyze the impact of the spot Bitcoin ETFs and the potential for an Ethereum ETF. They highlight the growing interest from institutional investors and financial advisors in cryptocurrencies. They mention their focus on building a global financial services ecosystem at Secure Digital Markets, with plans to release a mobile app and expand their presence internationally. SDM offers comprehensive liquidity and settlement solutions that generate efficient crypto asset exposure. SDM bridges the gap between institutional balance sheets and Web3 by offering highly liquid onramps into the digital currency market. SDM accommodates the unique execution needs of its clients through multiple technology solutions including GUI (SDM.Live), API, and RFQ. Supporting links Bitget Bitget Academy Bitget Research Bitget Wallet Secure Digital Markets SDM Crypto Report SDM Twitter Andy on Twitter Brave New Coin on Twitter Brave New Coin If you enjoyed the show please subscribe to the Crypto Conversation and give us a 5-star rating and a positive review in whatever podcast app you are using.

Naveen Jain and Riccardo Spagni are contributors at Tari Labs, building Tari. Tari is a new open-source, decentralized protocol that reimagines the future of digital assets. Tari is being architected as a merge-mined sidechain of Monero and will inherit its security model. Why you should listen Tari is an open-source blockchain protocol built in Rust. Tari is architected as a merge-mined sidechain with Monero. Tari aims to provide programmable privacy and composable confidentiality. Tari's philosophy is to normalize privacy in the crypto space and offer a spectrum of confidentiality options for users. Privacy is treated as a spectrum rather than a binary outcome. Tari's protocol allows developers to build applications with varying degrees of confidentiality, meeting user expectations and complying with regulatory requirements when necessary. It allows developers to build applications on top of it, such as NFT marketplaces, DeFi platforms, and more. The Tari protocol has a live testnet available for users to explore and participate in mining. Interested individuals can download the Tari Aurora wallet from the App Store and start mining on the testnet. The team is working towards the mainnet launch soon. Supporting links Bitget Bitget Academy Bitget Research Bitget Wallet Tari Andy on Twitter Brave New Coin on Twitter Brave New Coin If you enjoyed the show please subscribe to the Crypto Conversation and give us a 5-star rating and a positive review in whatever podcast app you are using.

Prince Jindal and Jung Won Kim are co-founders at Lantern Finance, a US-based staking platform built for the everyday crypto investor. Why you should listen Lantern Finance is for crypto beginners, crypto OGs, and everyone in-between, offering a seamless Ethereum staking experience for all experience levels. Lantern's robust security measures are supported by BitGo, an industry leading US-based, qualified crypto custodian. Lantern charges 15% of staking rewards, allowing you to keep more of your rewards. Lantern is the first consumer crypto app to offer USD loans against staked ETH. This revolutionary product allows users to take out loans that pay themselves off (i.e. self-paying loans). When you borrow against your staked crypto, it means you are still earning staking rewards. These staking rewards can be used to offset your loan's interest payment, creating an automatic, self-repaying loan. Imagine you bought a house with several bedrooms and decided to live in one of them. Every month you have to pay for the mortgage on the house out of your own pocket. This is like paying for your loan while your assets are unstaked. Lantern is registered with FinCEN as a Money Services Business (MSB) and has robust KYC and AML processes in place. Every client has direct access to the Lantern team for support including by telephone. Supporting links Bitget Bitget Academy Bitget Research Bitget Wallet Lantern Finance PH Lantern: (415) 365-0100 Andy on Twitter Brave New Coin on Twitter Brave New Coin If you enjoyed the show please subscribe to the Crypto Conversation and give us a 5-star rating and a positive review in whatever podcast app you are using.

James McDowall is the founding partner of Arcanum Capital, a venture capital firm focused on supporting enterprising and forward-thinking teams that are establishing decentralized networks and applications for the global blockchain ecosystem. Why you should listen Arcanum Capital has just announced its second fund, the Arcanum Luganodes Fund. The new fund is focused on further early-stage investments, as well as more established growth-stage investments at higher valuations, with this made possible by Arcanum's collaboration with Luganodes a leading 'staking services' provider. Luganodes is a Swiss-operated, institutional-grade, non-custodial staking provider born out of the Lugano Plan B Program, an initiative driven by Tether and the City of Lugano. The partnership with Luganodes will help Fund II gain access to some of the most sought-after Layer 1 and Layer 2 investment opportunities in the space and enable us to add even more value to our portfolio networks. Supporting links Bitget Bitget Academy Bitget Research Bitget Wallet Arcanum Capital Andy on Twitter Brave New Coin on Twitter Brave New Coin If you enjoyed the show please subscribe to the Crypto Conversation and give us a 5-star rating and a positive review in whatever podcast app you are using.

Alex Ryvkin is the CEO of Rho Labs, building Rho Protocol, an interest rate derivatives protocol and the first institutional grade on-chain rates market. Why you should listen Rho Protocol is a new institutional-grade decentralized marketplace on Arbitrum that allows retail and professional traders to efficiently exchange rate risk via on-chain swaps and futures in a secure, efficient, and compliant manner. Rho Protocol's first family of products are fixed-to-floating interest rate swaps on a diverse set of index rates. In TradFi, this product comprises over 60% of the total outstanding interest in interest rate derivatives. The protocol is currently in beta with big expansion plans for new products planned for 2024. Rho raised $2.2m in a pre-seed funding round late last year. Supporting links Bitget Bitget Academy Bitget Research Bitget Wallet Rho Protocol Andy on Twitter Brave New Coin on Twitter Brave New Coin If you enjoyed the show please subscribe to the Crypto Conversation and give us a 5-star rating and a positive review in whatever podcast app you are using.

Dr. Fan Long is the co-founder of Conflux Network, a PoW/PoS Hybrid Blockchain. Dr. Fan Long graduated from Tsinghua University Yao Class, and he holds Ph.D of Computer Science from MIT. His research interests include systems security, programming languages, and blockchain. Why you should listen Conflux is a public blockchain with superior performance, a unique consensus mechanism, and an innovative dual-space design. These features enable Conflux to deliver a fast, secure, and decentralized platform that is well-suited for various applications, including decentralized finance and Web3. Conflux employs a hybrid consensus mechanism, combining Proof of Work (PoW) and Proof of Stake (PoS), ensuring high security, throughput, and decentralization. Conflux's PoW consensus leverages the Tree-Graph ledger structure and GHAST algorithm, delivering a high transaction throughput of up to 3,000 TPS and confirmation latency within 1 minute, while maintaining the same level of decentralization as Bitcoin Fan explains Conflux's unique features such as its hybrid proof-of-work/proof-of-stake blockchain, the tree graph ledger structure, and its compliance with Chinese regulations. Fan explains China's stance on blockchain and cryptocurrency regulation, highlighting their concerns about capital outflow and support for technology development. Fan Long shares some use cases of Conflux Network, including NFTs being used as marketing tools in China and collaborations with China Telecom to develop a blockchain SIM card that allows easy access to web3 assets. Future plans for Conflux include an upcoming hard fork to enhance performance and compatibility with Bitcoin layer two solutions. Supporting links Bitget Bitget Academy Bitget Research Bitget Wallet Conflux Network Andy on Twitter Brave New Coin on Twitter Brave New Coin If you enjoyed the show please subscribe to the Crypto Conversation and give us a 5-star rating and a positive review in whatever podcast app you are using.

Dr. Dmitry Zhelezov is the Co-Founder and CEO and Marcel Fohrmann is the Co-Founder and CFO of Subsquid, a decentralized data lake and query engine that offers developers permissionless, cost-efficient access to on-chain data from over 100 chains and is integrated into a large ecosystem of Web2- and Web3-native developer tools. Why you should listen Subsquid Network is a decentralized query engine optimized for batch extraction of large volumes of data. It currently serves historial on-chain data ingested from 100+ EVM and Substrate networks, including event logs, transaction receipts, traces and per-transaction state diffs. In the future, it will additionally support general-purpose SQL queries and an ever-growing collection of structured data sets derived from on- and off- chain data. Supporting links Bitget Bitget Academy Bitget Research Bitget Wallet Subsquid Andy on Twitter Brave New Coin on Twitter Brave New Coin If you enjoyed the show please subscribe to the Crypto Conversation and give us a 5-star rating and a positive review in whatever podcast app you are using.

JC Kim is the CEO of Planetarium Labs, a community driven, Web3 gaming company founded in South Korea and backed by Animoca. They create games where users can create, share, own, and earn. Why you should listen Planetarium Labs has created Nine Chronicles, the first-ever Web3 RPG game. The game combines blockchain technology with immersive gameplay. The game is a fantasy MMORPG powered by the players, set in a world that can never be shut down. Infinitely moddable and owned by the community, Nine Chronicles invites you to aid the goddess Freya in her eternal struggle against an evil ravaging the land. Nine Chronicles is the first-ever fully on-chain, open-source RPG. All of the transactions are recorded on-chain, which means there isn't a traditional server like traditional RPGs. Anyone can access the code and create different versions of the game utilizing the IP, giving the community and the players true ownership of the game. In addition to enjoying the gameplay, players can contribute to the game's ecosystem and content and get involved in ways that they would not be able to in traditional RPG games. Supporting links Bitget Bitget Academy Bitget Research Bitget Wallet Nine Chronicles Planetarium Labs Andy on Twitter Brave New Coin on Twitter Brave New Coin If you enjoyed the show please subscribe to the Crypto Conversation and give us a 5-star rating and a positive review in whatever podcast app you are using.

Chris Kline is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Bitcoin IRA, a crypto IRA platform for investing in cryptocurrencies with self-directed IRAs. Why you should listen In 2015, Chris launched Bitcoin IRA, the world's first company allowing U.S. investors to purchase Bitcoin for their IRA and 401(k) retirement accounts. He developed the process and partnerships to create a full-service, turnkey solution allowing investors to capitalize on the rapidly growing digital currency market space for their retirement portfolio while maintaining full IRS compliance. Under his direction, the company has grown to over $100 million in assets under custodianship. Bitcoin IRA was the world's first platform that allowed clients to open, fund and trade their retirement accounts with digital assets, firstly Bitcoin, and now a multitude of different digital assets. Supporting links Bitget Bitget Academy Bitget Research Bitget Wallet Bitcoin IRA Bitcoin IRA ph: 877-936-7175 Andy on Twitter Brave New Coin on Twitter Brave New Coin If you enjoyed the show please subscribe to the Crypto Conversation and give us a 5-star rating and a positive review in whatever podcast app you are using.