The Crypto Conversation

Chris Bradbury is the CEO at Summer.fi, a DeFi front end that enables users to deploy capital into DeFi, using best-in-class UI/UX. Why you should listen Summer.fi is a DeFi front end that enables users to deploy capital into DeFi, via three main products, advanced automation features, and various strategies, from basic to very sophisticated. Summer.fi (previously Oasis.app) began as one of the first projects by MakerDAO, even before Single Collateral Dai, in 2016. Summer.fi, became a standalone entity after the full decentralization of Maker. The Summer.fi mission is to build the most trusted app to deploy capital in DeFi, using best-in-class UI/UX. Supporting links Bitget Bitget Academy Bitget Research Bitget Wallet Summer.fi 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.

Danielle Wall Elliott is the COO at Nayms, the crypto native insurance marketplace. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink sees tokenization of RWA as the next big unlock. Why you should listen Nayms is the world's leading, fully regulated marketplace for on-chain insurance. They are paving the way in providing a new digital asset risk market that allows regulated brokers and underwriters to find digital asset capital providers to share in the premium and liability covering digital asset risk. Nayms' traceable smart contract is built on a trustless system, meaning insurance brokers can place a contract between market participants in a limitless number of areas and share in the future value of such open trade. At Nayms, marketplace users are the product. These users are digitally native brokers, new-age carriers and investors fit for the world of digital assets. Nayms isn't new technology for old companies, it's new technology for the insurance participants of the future, who deserve the back-end infrastructure capable of conducting truly digital insurance with the market, for the benefit of coverholders. Nayms recently launched the first institutional tokenized (re)insurance marketplace on Base. Nayms introduces insurance as an asset class and users can earn yield on real world assets by committing capital onto their marketplace. Supporting links Bitget Bitget Academy Bitget Research Bitget Wallet Nayms 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.

Mark Hendrickson is the General Manager of Leather, the Bitcoin wallet for the fast-emerging Bitcoin Economy. Why you should listen Mark explains the importance of Ordinals on Bitcoin and their potential for storing different types of data securely on-chain. He emphasizes that Leather is a Web3 wallet for Bitcoin users and highlights the value proposition of Bitcoin as a foundation for building a new digital economy. With the surge of interest in Ordinals in 2023, Leather had impressive growth metrics for the year, and they expect this to continue in 2024. Leather has Ledger integration, and is working on an app-based wallet for this year. The Leather vision is to be the gold standard among Bitcoin wallet brands, built to last so that users can explore Bitcoin Web3 knowing that they have a reliable hub to come back to. Mark says a complete Bitcoin wallet user experience involves best-in-class UX, code health, and content geared toward user needs, and being a responsible steward, helping usher in the next generation of Bitcoiners. Supporting links Bitget Bitget Academy Bitget Research Bitget Wallet Leather Gamma 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.

Swaroop Hegde is a co-founder at PowerLoom - a decentralized Data Layer for Web3 that is scaling trustless data and building on-chain data primitives. Why you should listen The Powerloom Protocol is a decentralized data protocol designed to meet the growing data requirements of smart contract-based applications, including DeFi, games, and other user-centric platforms. It incentivizes participating peers to achieve consensus on state transitions and event emission observations across multiple smart contracts. By utilizing data compositions on smaller, consensus-reached data units, Powerloom stands as a peer-validated and accurate information source, empowering rich data applications such as dashboards, bots, aggregators, and insights trackers. Powerloom in a nutshell: Powerloom acts as a decentralized library catalog for blockchain data, providing verified and up-to-date information from multiple chains. Powerloom has a snapshot-driven approach to data retrieval, which allows for efficient scaling and trust in the results. Supporting links Bitget Bitget Academy Bitget Research Bitget Wallet PowerLoom 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.

Pan Lorattawut is the CEO of VUCA Digital, the blockchain consulting firm behind the CROWN Token Project. Prior to VUCA Digital, Pan was Senior VP at Meketa Investment Group, a full-service investment consulting and advisory firm with $1.4 trillion-plus in assets under advisement in the United States. Why you should listen CROWN Token (CROWN) is issued by Vega Investment Group, an affiliated company of T&B Media Global, a global IP management and entertainment investment company, and is developed and managed by the VUCA Digital team. T&B Media Global manages, produces, and invests in live-action and animated feature films and TV series that are distributed globally. Through this network CROWN can leverage a portfolio of intellectual properties (IPs) to expand into adjacent businesses both in the physical and digital world. CROWN aims to be a token for the entertainment industry by bridging traditional IPs with blockchain technology to enhance the core business and create additional value to both IP owners and the community. With CROWN, the audience can become part of the story. Through their proprietary ADOT platform, token holders can vote to select a film's direction, character designs and art concepts, or content that T&B and partners will produce. Supporting links Bitget Bitget Academy Bitget Research Bitget Wallet Pan's LinkedIn Pan's Twitter CROWN Token Project CROWN Token Project Twitter VUCA Digital's LinkedIn T&B Media Global 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.

In a historic move, the SEC today announced that it has approved eleven Bitcoin Spot ETFs. U.S. investors will now be able to gain exposure to Bitcoin when trading begins tomorrow. Andy marks the historic occasion by recapping the days events and looking forward to what happens next for Bitcoin. Why you should listen Finally, after a multi-year effort by the Bitcoin community, all eleven much-anticipated Bitcoin Spot ETFs have been approved by the SEC and will begin trading tomorrow. Bitcoin's journey has been a strange and wild ride. Exactly 14 years ago today, Hal Finney tweeted that he was "Running bitcoin." In the years afterward, Bitcoin's creator Satoshi Nakamoto disappeared, and Bitcoin began its slow journey from a curious collectible for cypherpunks and cryptographers, to a payment mechanism for the dark web, to a speculative bet, to a means of outpacing inflation, and today, to a full embrace from the traditional financial system. Supporting links Bitget Bitget Academy Bitget Research Bitget Wallet The Sandbox 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.

Sebastien Borget is the co-founder and Chief Operations Officer of The Sandbox a virtual world that leverages blockchain technology to empower users to create, build, buy, and sell digital assets in the form of a game. Why you should listen Players, brands and companies can create worlds and experiences with the game's built-in tools. The Sandbox has a native currency SAND, alongside a variety of in-game NFTs.The Sandbox is empowering a global community of players, creators, and owners to participate in an emerging digital economy. Players can own virtual LAND and launch their own Experiences, own SAND to earn passive income and participate in governance of The Sandbox metaverse, purchase unique avatars and equipment to make gameplay experience more fun, and use catalysts and gems to create assets for players and Experience builders. Supporting links Bitget Bitget Academy Bitget Research Bitget Wallet The Sandbox 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.

Rena Shah is a former petroleum engineer turned Bitcoin strategist at Trust Machines. Trust Machines has the goal of onboarding 1 billion people into Bitcoin. Why you should listen Trust Machines is building the largest ecosystem of Bitcoin applications to maximize the value of the Bitcoin network. They are Bitcoin layer agnostic and currently use Stacks, Lightning, DLCs and are always open to exploring other tools. Trust Machines are building applications that focus on real-world utility that brings users deeper into web3 through the lens of decentralization only Bitcoin provides. Products include Console, a web3 messaging app for online communities that lets users retain privacy and own their identity, and Leather, a premium self custody Bitcoin wallet for Web3. Supporting links Bitget Bitget Academy Bitget Research Bitget Wallet Trust Machines 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.

Simon Chadwick is Co-founder and CEO at Eclipse Fi, a modular launch and liquidity protocol on Cosmos. Eclipse Fi aims to revolutionize token launches, and support innovation across Cosmos and up-and-coming Layer2s. Why you should listen Simon says that the goal of Eclipse Fi is to align quality projects with users by providing a platform for launching tokens that attracts users into the ecosystem and builds a community. Simon discusses the concept of a launch pad and how it is evolving into something more meta. He talks about bringing different types of launch and distribution mechanisms to align early communities of projects. Recognising a substantial market gap for a dependable launch platform, the team established Eclipse Fi as a go-to primitive launch platform for DeFi and Web3, addressing multiple issues related to launchpads and token launches. Eclipse Fi aims to become the hub for GTM, launches, and liquidity bootstrapping. A place where builders and the community can get involved and help to innovate and shape the future of token launches sustainably. They chose the Cosmos ecosystem with Neutron as an initial home base due to the lack of adequate launch solutions, the high quality of projects and chains being developed, the strong focus on quality DeFi, and the cross-chain interoperable nature of IBC. Supporting links Bitget Bitget Academy Bitget Research Bitget Wallet Eclipse Fi 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.

Claude Eguienta is the Chief Executive Officer at Mimo Capital, a company that creates protocols providing tokenized real-world assets. So far, it has created the Kuma and Parallel protocols. Kuma is a DeFi protocol that provides tokenized real-world assets. The Parallel protocol is a lending platform for overcollateralized stablecoin loans. Why you should listen Kuma is a DeFi protocol that provides tokenized real-world assets in various forms. The Parallel protocol is a lending platform for overcollateralized stablecoin loans. It allows users to mint price-stable tokens backed by various currencies after depositing collateral. Claude explains that Kuma aims to provide sustainable returns within the crypto world by tokenizing assets like treasury bills (T-bills). The Kuma protocol is designed to provide a balanced portfolio by combining tradfi and crypto. Claude says the industry is gradually moving towards tokenizing riskier assets with higher yields, which would offer better commissions and differentiated products. The Parallel protocol was created to solve the problem of providing a euro stablecoin in a cost-effective way. It allows users to deposit volatile assets as collateral and borrow stablecoins against them. Supporting links Bitget Bitget Academy Bitget Research Bitget Wallet Mimo 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.