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#188: Susie Batt on Privacy, Security and Web3 Browsing Dec 19, 2022

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Susie Batt is the Crypto Ecosystem Lead at Opera, a web browser with a built-in and free VPN, ad blocker and crypto wallet. Susie has been spearheading Opera's Web3 strategy since joining the global company back in 2020, joining from her previous role at ConsenSys.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Susie’s journey into crypto/web3 and her background at ConsenSys
- Reading about blockchain in 2017
- Power skating and hockey
- Landing your dream job
- Opera's crypto ecosystem
- Switching browsers from Chrome to Opera
- Opera's recent announcement with Alteon – instant NFT minting
- NFTs + Music
- Social Graphs
- Layer Zero = people layer
Opera
Website: opera.com
Twitter: @opera
LinkedIn: Opera
Susie Batt
Twitter: @susiebattgirl
LinkedIn: Susie Batt
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#187: Alex Connolly, CTO of Immutable, on Onboarding 3.5 Billion People to Web3 Gaming Dec 15, 2022

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Alex Connolly is the CTO and Co-Founder of Immutable. Alex has been passionate about in-game assets his entire life. At 9, he wrote scripts to gather pricing data from the Runescape grand exchange. At 13, he was the top contributor to the largest TF2 item pricing website in the world. Alex invented the most scalable system for creating NFTs ever designed, which has been used to create millions of Gods Unchained cards with no network impact on Ethereum.

Alex graduated high school as the equal-highest-ranked student in Australia. A couple of years later, he joined Immutable after dropping out of a combined Computer Science & Law degree at the University of Sydney, where he was building a blockchain-agnostic programming language for smart contract VMs.

Alex believes that virtual worlds built using blockchain assets will be better, fairer, and more just than current digital economies. In fact, he thinks programmable assets will be ‘realer’ than physical assets.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Partnership with GameStop and Tiktok
- How ImmutableX is powering digital asset ownership
- Powering Web3 games
- Importance of layer2's
- ImmutableX's suite of products that allows Web3 games to scale
- IMX token
- ImmutableX in the future
- How we can onboard the next million gamers to Web3
- Gaming economies
- Runescape in-game economy
ImmutableX
Website: immutable.com
Twitter: @Immutable
Discord: discord.gg/immutablex
Alex Connolly
Twitter: @0xConnolly
LinkedIn: Alex Connolly

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#186: Mark van Rijmenam on the Need for an Open Metaverse and AI Dec 12, 2022

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Dr Mark van Rijmenam is The Digital Speaker. He is a leading future tech strategist who thinks about how technology changes organisations, society and the metaverse. Dr Mark van Rijmenam is an international keynote speaker, 4x author and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Datafloq and the author of the book on the metaverse: Step into the Metaverse: How the Immersive Internet Will Unlock a Trillion-Dollar Social Economy.

Dr Van Rijmenam is one of the leading voices in technology and known for his candid, educated and balanced views on how technology can benefit but also threaten society. Van Rijmenam's mission is to help large organisations and governments benefit from innovative emerging technologies, while ensuring that it is done ethically and responsibly. Recently, he founded the Digital Futures Institute, which focuses on ensuring a fair digital future for everyone. The research institute uses innovative storytelling to deliver a deep understanding of digital technology and its long-term implications for all levels of society.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- The need for an open metaverse
- Why crypto will make the metaverse go round
- Why NFTs are so revolutionary
- The dangers of the metaverse
- Crypto specific AI use cases
- Public speaking tips + tricks
- Metaverse = the next iteration of the internet
- Being in the internet vs being on the internet
- AI and GPT-3
The Digital Speaker
Website: thedigitalspeaker.com
Dr. Mark van Rijmenam
Twitter: @VanRijmenam
LinkedIn: Dr Mark van Rijmenam

#185: Varun Kumar, CEO of Hashflow, on Decentralized Exchanges, AI, and the Future of ETH Dec 08, 2022

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Varun Kumar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Hashflow, a decentralized exchange designed for users to trade seamlessly across chains while offering zero slippage, improved pricing, and MEV-protection. Varun Kumar is the brains behind Hashflow, having previously served as an aerospace engineer.

Founded in 2019, Hashflow aims to connect institutional market makers to traders using a request-for-quote (RFQ) model as opposed to automated market makers (AMM). In turn, traders and liquidity providers gain enhanced efficiency, security, valuation and products previously impossible in DeFi.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- AI censorship
- Current state of crypto
- Bad actors leaving the industry
- Making DEXs look like CEXs
- User Experience is paramount to success
- NO KYC = huge value prop for DEXs
- HashFlow - a decentralized exchange with less slippage
- Sandwich attacks
- Story telling; less is more
- Building beautiful websites
- ETH - what’s next? was the merge successful?
Hashflow
Website: hashflow.com
Twitter: @hashflow
Discord: discord.gg/hashflow
Varun Kumar
Twitter: @GandalfTheBr0wn
LinkedIn: Varun Kumar
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#184: Frédéric Chesnais on NFTs and the AlphaVerse Dec 05, 2022

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Frédéric Chesnais is the Founder and CEO of AlphaVerse. He was the CEO of Atari Interactive and brings experience in investments, executive production, budgeting, financing and management of intellectual property rights, with a strong background in video games and interactive entertainment. He has successfully completed financial transactions in excess of $1 billion in the interactive entertainment space. He left Atari in 2021 to focus on blockchain and metaverses, with the creation of Crypto Blockchain Industries.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Semi-Fungible Tokens
- The Alphaverse: A metaverse hub
- Developing and shipping games
- Knowing when to kill a game
- Creating a popular game
- Web2 games built on Web3 tech
- Friends in the game = not leaving the game
- Emergence of streaming

AlphaVerse
Website: alphaverse.com
Twitter: @AlphaVerseGame
Telegram: t.me/Alphaversegame
Frédéric Chesnais
Twitter: @FredChesnais
LinkedIn: Frederic Chesnais
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#183: Marina Guryeva on FTX’s Relationship with Solana and Neon Labs Dec 01, 2022

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Marina Guryeva is the Founder and CEO of Neon Labs and the developer behind Neon EVM, the gateway for Ethereum-based applications to access the scalability and liquidity of Solana without changing its codebase. Actively involved in the blockchain space since 2015, she was the Director of CyberFund, a platform that invested in blockchain startups. She joined Commun, a blockchain-based social network, as Director in 2019 to spearhead blockchain-based social networking run by self-governed communities. In 2021, Marina founded Neon Labs to bring Solana's scalability and low transaction costs to the Ethereum ecosystem.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Solana breakpoint in Lisbon
- Solana ($SOL)
- Scaling ETH on Solana blockchain
- Live on mainnet on December 12th
- FTX relationship with Solana
- User experience over costs
- Invalidating the Solana “Ethereum killer” thesis
- Ethereum’s high gas fees and low throughput
- Solidity vs. Rust
- Learning Rust
- A day in the life of Marina

Neon Labs
Website: neon-labs.org
Twitter: @neonlabsorg
Telegram: t.me/Neonlabsorg
Marina Guryeva
Twitter: @mariaveirug
LinkedIn: Marina Guryeva
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#182: Jake Yocom-Piatt on Blockchain Fixing Political Voting, Campaign Spending and Privacy Nov 28, 2022

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Jake Yocom-Piatt is the Co-Founder & Project Lead for Decred (www.decred.org). He is a cryptocurrency pioneer who has been using, funding, and directing the creation of open-source software for 10+ years and has been featured as an expert source for a variety of publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Coindesk, and many more. Prior to Decred, Jake funded and oversaw the creation of btcsuite, an alternative full-node Bitcoin implementation written in go, whose source code has been used in several other notable projects, e.g. Lightning Network (lnd), Ethereum, and Factom. He also is a co-creator of ZKC, a high-security asynchronous chat system.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Crypto project management
- Political donations
- Blockchain to improve the voting process
- Privacy-focused voting
- Tracking campaign spending
- Middle managers in Silicon Valley
- Decred: Money Evolved
- Bitcoin didn’t want to evolve
- NGU - Number Go UP
- Tracking political donations in the 2020 municipal Brazil elections
- DCR Time Stamp
- Fake volume on centralized exchanges
- Tether ($USDT)

Decred
Website: decred.org
Twitter: @decredproject
Telegram: t.me/Decred
Jake Yocom-Piatt
Twitter: @behindtext
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#181: James and Anjali Young on Collab.Land and Token Gated Communities Nov 24, 2022

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James and Anjali Young are the Co-Founders of Collab.Land, a digital concierge for tokenized communities.
James, the CEO of Collab.Land, has founded and grown web-based companies since the early 2000s and was the first developer for Meta’s (formerly Facebook) game Farmville, and worked in previous roles as a software and flash developer. An early member of the crypto community, James co-wrote a white paper on token-curated registries in 2017, was a co-creator of the Moloch DAO framework, and co-summoner of MetaCartel. James is proud to be involved in the evolution of the Internet by empowering individuals through digital ownership. In 2019, he co-founded Abridged, a parent company of Collab.Land, supporting collaborative economies with access to seamless blockchain UX.
Anjali, the CCO of Collab.Land, has been participating in and leading online communities since 1993, as both a member and a moderator. She worked as a lawyer, an adjunct professor, and in the tech startup industry for 20 years. As Anjali’s interest in crypto and passion for web2 inclusion grew, she looked to build an equitable system for all of humanity. In addition to her interest in web3 community collaboration, Anjali is an artist who has a passion for NFTs and creativity and is an advocate for all artists.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Developing Farmville
- Token Gating
- Growth during the 2021 NFT bull run
- Building out digital communities
- Providing a safe space for token holders
- The importance of a pro-social moment within web3 users
- Future of AI and crypto
- Power of social media
- Tools for community building
- What is success

Collab.Land
Website: collab.land
Twitter: @Collab_Land_
James Young
Twitter: @jamesyoung
LinkedIn: James Young
Anjali Young
Twitter: @damaderoca
LinkedIn: Anjali Young
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#180: Brycent on Web3 Gaming, Content Creation and Loot Bolt Nov 21, 2022

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Brycent is a Web3 Gaming Creator, Partnered Twitch Streamer and the CEO of venture-funded startup Loot Bolt. Brycent is a web3 gaming OG and the biggest influencer in the space.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Road to becoming the biggest web3 gaming influencer in the space
- Play-to-earn is dead
- Disciplines on streaming platforms
- Content creation
- Signing with VaynerSports
- Types of Web3 games
- Creating content outside of Twitter
- LootBolt
- Elon on buying Twitter at $44bn is a discount
Brycent
Twitter: @brycent_
Twitch: twitch.tv/brycent
Youtube: youtube.com/c/brycent
Loot Bolt
Website: lootbolt.com
Twitter: @LootBolt
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#179: Tony Saliba on Trading Tips and Pioneering Options Trading Nov 17, 2022

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Tony Saliba is the CEO of Liquid Mercury. He is an internationally renowned business leader, multi-faceted serial entrepreneur, option trading pioneer, master trader and board member of the Chicago Stock Exchange, author, shareholder, operator, and investor in nearly 100 companies. Tony has been the founding member of key companies in the trading and tech industries such as Efficient Capital Management, International Trading Institute, Liquid Point, Fortify Technologies, and more. He currently maintains a global team of staffers in offices around the US, UK, India, and China helping companies achieve high rates of growth, and identifying initiatives to unlock exponential value.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Providing crypto trading powered by OTC liquidity to retail traders
- Becoming an option trading pioneer
- Trading discipline
- Butterfly technique in options trading
- Journal, journal, and more journal
- Necessity is the mother of invention
- Thesis and risk-reward basis
- Liquid Mercury - providing liquidity to retail traders
- Tony’s story of getting into crypto
- Liquid Mercury’s new partnership with Gemini
- FTX situation - how will this affect us moving forward
- Options trading over standard equities trading
- Managing risk and upsizing returns
- “Staying spread is staying alive”

Liquid Mercury
Website: liquidmercury.com
Twitter: @powerprocrypto
LinkedIn: Liquid Mercury
Tony Saliba
Twitter: @ajsmarketwizard
LinkedIn: Anthony Saliba
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