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#198: Marc Seal, CEO of Sortium, on Creating Web3 Games, Crypto/Metaverse Trademarks, and AI Jan 23, 2023

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Marc Seal is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sortium. With over a decade of experience in the technology industry, Marc has a proven track record of successful product builds and team leadership while partnering with major industry leaders, such as Marvel, Fox, Lucasfilm, Toho, MLB, and more.
Marc’s early exposure to game consoles and the film industry sparked his initial interest in how entertainment experiences were created, an interest that would lead to his entrance into the industry. He went on to work with the Topps Company, building their NFT business, and working with top-tier brands like Disney, which introduced him to the right partners and technological access to help launch his latest company, Sortium.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Living in El Salvador
- Expanding access and ownership to build digital worlds
- The rise in Crypto/Metaverse Trademarks
- CosmoGene - AI with web3-reinforced synthetic DNA
- Tokenizing simulated live gameplay
- The future of web3 gaming
- Themes and trends of 2023
- Hot takes
Sortium
Website: sortium.com
Twitter: @Sortium
LinkedIn: Sortium
CosmoGene
Website: cosmogene.com
Twitter: @CosmoGene
Discord: discord.gg/cosmogene
Marc Seal
Twitter: @Kurcide
Instagram: @kurcide
LinkedIn: Marc Seal
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#197: Sasha Tityanko, CEO of Sensorium, on The Concept of Virtual Beings and The Next Iteration of the Internet Jan 19, 2023

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Sasha Tityanko serves as Deputy CEO and Art Director at Sensorium. With over 15 years of experience in the international entertainment industry, Sasha is behind the virtual creations and product marketing campaigns of Sensorium Galaxy — a next-generation social metaverse developed in collaboration with the world’s top artists, producers, and media partners.
Before joining the company, Sasha represented global music superstars, including Eurovision winner Dima Bilan and internationally-acclaimed duo t.A.T.u. She’s also worked with top music labels EMI Music and Interscope / Universal Music to collaborate with performers from the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Latin America. Sasha also has extensive experience in marketing and PR, having led major international projects in Russia and abroad, including the Mikhail Gorbachev Prize and the Gorby 80 in the United Kingdom.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Concept of virtual beings
- The next iteration of the internet
- Social AI
- AI-powered functionalities
- Unique traits
- Moving from traditional art to web3
- Virtual artists
- Photorealism
Sensorium
Website: sensoriumxr.com
Twitter: @SensoriumGalaxy
Instagram: @sensorium_galaxy
Sasha Tityanko
Twitter: @santasasha5
Instagram: @santasasha
LinkedIn: Sasha Tityanko

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#196: Tony Cheng, Managing Partner at Foresight Ventures, on Crypto Venture Capital, Investing in 2023, and Investing in China Jan 16, 2023

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Tony Cheng is a Managing Partner at Foresight Ventures, where he covers Web3 investments for the firm while also acting as Head of Corporate Development at Bitget Exchange. Formerly an investor at Sequoia Capital China and 3G Capital, Tony is well-versed in both traditional and crypto VC. Tony has also worked as a consultant at Oliver Wyman after earning his business degree from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Investing around the world
- Managing investment size and portfolio construction
- Working with Bitget
- Vetting founders
- Importance of conviction
- Investing in the West vs. China
- First-mover advantage
- Strength of a community
- Investment trends of 2023
- Various ways where the VC landscape changed in 2022
- Navigating different bear and bull market cycles
- Day in the life of a VC
Foresight Ventures
Website: foresightventures.com
Twitter: @ForesightVen
LinkedIn: Foresight Ventures
Tony Cheng
Twitter: @tcheng_100
LinkedIn: Tony (Wenji) Cheng, CFA

#195: Mara Schmiedt, CGO of Alluvial, on Liquid Staking and The Future of Staking Jan 12, 2023

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Mara Schmiedt is the Chief Growth Officer at Alluvial. Mara focuses on advancing industry participation and adoption of Liquid Collective, seeking out world-class partnership opportunities, and overseeing Business Development, Sales, and other strategic functions. Mara recently joined Alluvial as Chief Growth Officer from Coinbase, where she served as the Head of Sales for Coinbase Cloud, the leading developer platform for blockchain-based infrastructure products and APIs. She expanded Cloud's staking business, supporting large-scale organizations, enterprises, and institutional investors. Prior to joining Coinbase, she managed Business Development at Bison Trails, a leading provider of blockchain-based infrastructure acquired by Coinbase in February 2021. Mara also served as Strategy Manager at ConsenSys, where she supported the strategic development of Codefi, the blockchain application suite for Web3 Commerce and Finance.

Mara is passionate about open-source technology and has published research multiple research reports and papers on liquid staking, such as The Internet Bond and Ethereum 2.0 Staking Ecosystem Report.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- What it takes to grow a Web3 organization
- Security and decentralization trade-offs
- Working at Coinbase
- Coinbase cloud
- Liquid collective - enterprise grade standard for liquid staking
- The impact of liquid staking on the ecosystem as a whole
- Centralized bad actors
- Alluvial
- The future of staking
- Operational security
Alluvial
Website: alluvial.finance
Twitter: @alluvialfinance
LinkedIn: Alluvial
Mara Schmiedt
Twitter: @MaraSchmiedt
LinkedIn: Mara Schmiedt
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#194: Nick Saponaro, CEO of Divi Project, on 2023 Predictions, Bitcoin, and Altcoins Jan 09, 2023

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Nick Saponaro is the CEO of Divi Project and its Fintech Innovation Centre, Divi Labs. Nick is also an entrepreneur, crypto enthusiast, investor and keynote speaker who is regularly featured in the media talking about crypto related issues.

Nick started investing in cryptocurrencies in 2013, however, his crypto career really began straight out of high school when he started a custom PC business that built rigs for gaming and Bitcoin mining.
He joined the Divi Project in 2017 as a full-stack developer and was invited to become a co-founder of the fledgling business. Soon after, he took on responsibility for building and maintaining all of Divi’s web services, client-facing apps, and protocol development for Divi Core.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- 2022 review
- Looking forward to 2023 and the opportunity for DeFi to fill the void
- 2023 predictions
- The challenges of DEXs
- CBDCs
- Bitcoin
- Altcoins
- Divi's Patent
- vSaaS
- ZK Proofs
- Chat GPT
Divi Project
Website: diviproject.org
Twitter: @DiviProject
Telegram: @diviproject
Nick Saponaro
Twitter: @NSapProductions
LinkedIn: Nick Saponaro

#193: Max Krupyshev, CEO of CoinsPaid, on 2023 Crypto Trends and Crypto Payment Ecosystems Jan 05, 2023

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Max Krupyshev is the Co-Founder & CEO of the crypto payment ecosystem CoinsPaid, which is a market leader in terms of transaction volume. He is a serial entrepreneur with long-standing experience in developing fintech and crypto projects. Having entered the world of crypto in 2013, Max stood at the origins of this market in Ukraine, launching a Bitcoin Foundation to promote crypto adoption in the country. As the CEO of CoinsPaid, he sets the goal for the company to become the connecting link between crypto and traditional businesses.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- 2022 crypto year in review
- Trends to expect in 2023
- The immense popularity of crypto payments
- Countries that may become leaders in crypto adoption
- Steps for your business to accept crypto
- Ukraine
- Timing and predicting the market
- Regulation and transparency - the narrative for 2023
- Tokenization of assets
CoinsPaid
Website: coinspaid.com
Twitter: @coinspaid
LinkedIn: CoinsPaid
Telegram: t.me/CoinsPaid_Official
Max Krupyshev
Twitter: @maxkrupyshev
LinkedIn: Max Krupyshev
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#192: Brad Kam, Co-Founder of Unstoppable Domains, on Web3 Domains and Owning Your Data Jan 02, 2023

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Brad Kam is the Co-Founder of Unstoppable Domains, a Web3 domain name provider working to onboard the world onto Web3. Prior to Unstoppable Domains, he co-founded Talkable, a marketing tech company backed by Y Combinator. Brad holds a B.A. in Political Science from Emory University.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Walking and talking w/ Paul Graham from YC
- Walking meetings
- The importance of where you live
- Web3 domain name is your identity on the internet - you own it and control it
- Owning and controlling your data on the internet
- Digital profile = user controls the data
- The true value of your data
- ENS Domains
- Building in a bear market
Unstoppable Domains
Website: unstoppabledomains.com
Twitter: @unstoppableweb
LinkedIn: Unstoppable Domains
Discord: discord.gg/unstoppabledomains
Brad Kam
LinkedIn: Bradley Kam

#191: Oliver Gale, CEO of Panther Protocol, on Fundraising and Privacy in Crypto Dec 29, 2022

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Oliver is a serial entrepreneur, CBDC pioneer, investor, advisor, and global advocate of distributed ledger technology. He currently serves as the Founder and CEO of Panther Protocol, an end-to-end privacy protocol for digital assets that can be deployed compliantly on any public blockchain. Oliver also serves as Founder and Chairman of Elemental, a web 3.0 credit lending platform focused on democratizing affordable credit for underserved communities. Oliver has been a leading global advocate, championing policy-making discussions and thought leadership at central banks, government entities, and organizations, including the UN, International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Commonwealth Secretariat, Caribbean Development Bank, MIT, Columbia University, and the IMF. Outside of work, Oliver is also an award-winning international reggae and hip-hop artist.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Fundraising / raising money in crypto
- 2023 - The year of regulated DeFi
- Panther's v0.5
- Roadmap to v1
-Privacy and Compliance in DeFi
- What’s new in Privacy tech? Privacy hardware? Any new and noteworthy tools?
- What’s happening next year
- Educating Panther Product
- Contributing to open-source software
- Building CBDCs, payment systems, and compliance tools
- zID’s and zVOTES
- Can privacy be sexy?

Panther Protocol
Website: pantherprotocol.io
Twitter: @ZkPanther
Oliver Gale
Twitter: @OriginalOlii
LinkedIn: Oliver Gale
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#190: Darren Glover, VP of Gaming at VaynerSports, on Web3 Gaming and Content Creation Dec 26, 2022

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Darren Glover is the VP of Gaming at VaynerSports (Gary and AJ Vaynerchuk’s sports agency), where he oversees gaming talent representation and web2 / web3 gaming consultation.

Darren is a lifelong marketing and brand-building innovator. He’s obsessed with understanding today's consumers and finding the most valuable ways to talk with them. His experience comes from working with professional athletes, Fortune 500 consumer brands, live streaming platforms, gaming publishers, and gaming content creators.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Staying culturally relevant
- How the current e-sports model is broken
- Finding new ways to innovate and reach consumers
- The dairy industry is the most successful marketing campaign ever
- Fortnite new chapter launches
- Each social media platform has its own language
- NBA, NFL talk
- Championship predictions
VaynerSports
Website: vaynersports.com
Twitter: @vaynersports
LinkedIn: VaynerSports
Darren Glover
Twitter: @ThisIsDglove
Instagram: @thisisdglove

#189: Ingo Rübe, CEO of KILT, on Blockchain Identity Protocol and Digital Identification Dec 22, 2022

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Ingo Rübe is the founder and CEO of KILT Protocol, a blockchain identity protocol for issuing self-sovereign and verifiable credentials. He leads a team in Berlin that develops enterprise and consumer services “built on KILT" which protect digital identity across financial services and accounting, health care, IoT, media, energy, and gaming. Earlier in his career, he was the CTO of Hubert Burda Media and also served on the Board of Directors of the Drupal Association.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Digital identification in government
- Polkadot Alliance
- Blockchain’s identity problem
- Identity vs. Identification
- Gaming identifiers
- KILT - the infrastructure layer of identity
- How can we fix digital identity
- Ethereum Killers
- EU’s Digital Identity Program
- CBDCs
KILT Protocol
Website: kilt.io
Twitter: @Kiltprotocol
Discord: discord.gg/HztRqvzbhG
Ingo Rübe
Twitter: @ingoruebe
LinkedIn: Ingo Ruebe
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