Uri Ferruccio is co-founder of Concordia, the first Adaptive Risk Layer that mitigates market risk for all of DeFi, and Tabiya Capital, a VC fund for next-gen data technologies. Why you should listen Concordia aims to improve blockchain technology by infusing it with artificial intelligence, and the mission is to create an intelligent layer that ac…

Greg Osuri is the co-founder and CEO of Akash Network, an open network that lets users buy and sell computing resources securely and efficiently. The network is purpose-built for public utility. Why you should listen Akash Network is a decentralized cloud computing platform that provides an open-source and decentralized marketplace for computing re…

Tory Green is the co-founder & CEO at IO.net, the Internet of GPUs for large-scale AI startups. Why you should listen io.Net is a decentralized GPU network designed to give unlimited computing power to ML applications by making computing more scalable, accessible, and efficient. Their mission is to unlock fair access to computing power by assemblin…

Jon Hargreaves is the Global Head of growth at Elastos, a public blockchain project building modern Internet infrastructure that provides protection for privacy and digital asset ownership. Why you should listen ELA (Elastos) is a digital asset and part of a broader ecosystem aimed at creating a secure, decentralised internet. It benefits from merg…

Vincent Gramoli is the founder and CTO of the Redbelly Network, a public purpose-built Real-World Asset Tokenisation Network. Why you should listen Redbelly was born at the University of Sydney when Prof. Vincent Gramoli set out to see if he could build a fork-proof blockchain. Through a rigorous scientific development process and in partnership wi…

Felipe Argento is co-founder at Cartesi and an advisor at the Cartesi Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the Cartesi technology and the decentralization of the Cartesi ecosystem. Why you should listen ​​Cartesi is a blockchain platform designed to bridge the gap between traditional software development and blockchain tech…

Nikita Ovchinnik is the co-founder of Barter DeFi, a prominent swap system handling on-chain volume of over 5 billion. Why you should listen Barter is a decentralized protocol and solver system that provides transparent trade routes across liquidity providers like CoW Swap and UniswapX, minimizing costs and maximizing efficiency. Barter has over $5…

Reagan Cook is an Accounting Subject Matter Expert at TaxBit, the leading enterprise provider for digital assets tax and accounting technology. Why you should listen TaxBit is a premium end-to-end compliance and reporting solution for the Digital Economy. Their single API-powered platform for tax and accounting reduces manual work improving operati…

Chris Feng is a co-founder and COO of Chainbase, the world’s largest omnichain data network designed to integrate all blockchain data into a unified ecosystem. Chainbase is building a decentralized data economy with advanced AI capabilities where anyone can participate, contribute, and be incentivized. Why you should listen Chris Feng, co-founder a…

Ezra Strauss, the Head of Partnerships at Portal, has a background in technology and gaming, previously working at Immutable and focusing on partnerships and business development. He joins Andy to discuss Portal, Portal Coin and the new Portal Pay payment solution. Why you should listen Portal Pay, developed by Portal, is a new payment solution aim…

James Bayly is COO and a cofounder at SubQuery, building fast, flexible, and scalable web3 infrastructure. Subquery is an infrastructure company that started as a data index and has now expanded to include RPCs and AI inference hosting. Why you should listen Subquery is expanding its infrastructure services to include AI inference hosting, aiming t…

Carrie Kellar is the co-founder and CTO of BAXUS, a global marketplace for the world’s most collectible spirits. Why you should listen Collectible wines and spirits are one of the most rapidly expanding and lucrative asset classes with the global luxury wines and spirits market forecasted to surge from $250 billion to $470 billion by 2032. However,…

Daren Hebold (Founder, CEO) and Michael Seymour (Director of Sales) run Luxolo Financial, a Portland-based service company that ensures clients have access to warm, professional, and timely service and support as they enter the digital assets space. Why you should listen Luxolo is dedicated to making digital assets more accessible to everyone. As t…

Labhesh Patel is the CEO and Co-Founder of Autonomys. Formerly known as Subspace, Autonomys (pronounced as “autonomous”) has created a decentralized identity protocol named Autonomys ID (Auto ID). Why you should listen The convergence of human and artificial intelligence is redefining every aspect of our lives. As we navigate this transformative er…

Mark Smargon is co-founder and CEO at Fuse a leading web3 platform for business and finance, powered by a performant zkEVM tailor-made to get millions of consumers on-chain. Why you should listen Fuse Network is a blockchain platform focused on simplifying Web3 payments and making blockchain technology more accessible to businesses and developers. …

Jeroen Develter is the Chief Operating Officer at Persistence Labs. Persistence One aims to become the gateway for Bitcoin Interoperability, powered by Intents, secured by Bitcoin. The solution ensures seamless movement of BTC with fast, zero slippage, cross-chain swaps. Why you should listen Persistence One is developing a Bitcoin interoperability…

Alon Muroch is the Founder of SSV Labs, a globally distributed team of developers, researchers, and ETH enthusiasts working to ensure Ethereum becomes fail-proof for many years to come. SSV.network is a decentralized, open-source ETH staking network, based on Secret Shared Validator (SSV) technology. Why you should listen SSV is also known as DVT, …

Stardust is a $35M funded web3 gaming infrastructure and user acquisition service provider's Wallets-as-a-Service (WaaS) product and provides game development tools to build and scale blockchain games. Stardust’s Wallets-as-a-service (WaaS) is used by more than 90 active game studios. Why you should listen Stardust’s platform offers game developers…

Brian Fanzo is a digital futuirst who is helping out the dev team from PepeCoin, the OG meme coin community working to unlock utility and innovation to grow Web3 adoption. There is much, much more to Pepecoin than a fun meme, listen and learn. Why you should listen Pepecoin was originally launched in 2016 by a group of crypto OGs. Originally it was…

Ben Rose is the General Manager of Binance Australia and New Zealand. Binance is the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange platform by volume and has been instrumental in shaping the global crypto landscape since its inception in 2017. Ben joined Binance in 2022. Why you should listen Binance has close to 200 million users globally and trades aro…

Jason Dehni is CEO and co-founder at Credbull, the first licensed on-chain private credit fund. Through its on-chain fund, Credbull allocates capital to established Lending Originators offering loans to creditworthy small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) such as working capital, trade receivables, and invoice factoring. In return, the Fund’s liquidity …

Burt Rock is the marketing lead at Kwenta, a derivatives marketplace with multiple integrations, meaning you can trade multiple DeFi venues from the Kwenta platform. Why you should listen Kwenta is a decentralized derivatives trading platform leveraging the Synthetix protocol, optimized for trading perpetual futures on the Optimism layer. It's desi…

Luke Barwikowski is the founder and CEO of Pixels, the largest web3 game by DAU. With over 2.5M total players, Pixels is a social, casual web3 game powered by the Ronin Network, focusing on farming, exploration, and creation in an open world. Why you should listen Pixels is a Web3 social gaming platform on the Ronin Network, blending farming, explo…

Jassem Osseiran, the founder of PlaysOut, discusses bringing Web3 to the gaming industry. PlaysOut is an SDK and standalone app that allows game developers to transition from traditional gaming to the Web3 space. Why you should listen PlaysOut aims to solve the problem of monetizing global audiences and integrating with Web3 ecosystems. PlaysOut ha…

Serhii Kravchenko is the CEO at DeXe, the solution for creating and governing DAOs, projects, tokens, and NFTs through a seamless, no-code interface. Why you should listen DAOs can remove human error by automatically executing the community’s decisions. DAOs also make distributing roles, voting power, treasury funds, and more quicker, simpler, and …