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Patrick O'Grady is Founder and CEO of Commonware, (https://www.commonware.xyz), an open-source set of primitives that developers can use to build and reassemble their applications without resorting to a complicated fork. Patrick shares his journey into crypto, building in the early days at Coinbase and thereafter joining Ava Labs, where he left to pursue his passion for simplifying blockchain development with the founding of Commonware. He discusses the importance of application specific blockchains, the modularity of Commonware and how it is being designed to be "the best verticalized stack" for building blockchain applications.
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Ryne Saxe is CEO and Co-Founder of Eco, (https://www.eco.com), a network for apps that use stablecoins and stablecoin liquidity, providing a frictionless stablecoin experience that accelerates user onboarding and streamlines money movement onchain. Ryne is quite the polymath, sharing his journey as a physicist, coder, lawyer, turned technology founder. He shares his unique perspective on the evolution of payments technology over the last decade, its embrace of crypto, stablecoins as crypto's killer use case, and insights into building Eco to a platform that maximizes money’s value, with seamless user experience, especially as his second run as Eco’s CEO.
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Siddarth "Sid" Sridhar is Founder and CEO of BIMA Labs (https://www.bima.money), a decentralized finance platform that enables users to stake assets like Bitcoin and Bitcoin derivatives such as Liquid Staked Tokens (LST), to borrow USBD, a stablecoin pegged to the US Dollar. Sid talks about his journey from being a Draper-backed investor at 19 years old to being a crypto founder in the BitcoinFi space, the role of USDB plays in social impact by promoting financial inclusion, why over-collateralization is crucial for stability in the USBD model, how USBD differs from other traditional stablecoins - and insights on how BIMA's stablecoin, the USBD, fits into the broader financial ecosystem.
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Aki Balogh is Founder and CEO of iBTC, (https://www.ibtc.network), a platform that harnesses the power of Discrete Log Contracts (DLCs) to establish the safest, theft-proof, and institutionally compliant trustless bridge between Bitcoin. Aki shares his journey into entrepreneurship and consequently crypto, discusses his vision of how Discrete Log Contracts (DLCs) can unlock BTCFi, the mechanics of iBTC fka dlcLink, and his thoughts on the exploding Bitcoin Layer 2 ecosystem.
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Elias Tazartes is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Kakarot, (https://www.kakarot.org), a zero-knowledge EVM written in Cairo aiming to allow users to leverage the scaling benefits of validity roll-ups while maintaining compatibility with the Ethereum ecosystem. Elias shares on the emergence of verifiable computing and how Kakarot is innovating applied Zero Knowledge Proof (ZKP) to transform the blockchain industry securing billions of transactions. Elias dives deep into Kakarot’s evolution as it crosses its two-year anniversary, discussing the challenges ahead, the ambitious goals for 2025 and beyond, and how Kakarot is delivering Ethereum-compatible block proving in real-time. He also sheds light on the larger vision of ZK's role in evolving Ethereum and the broader digital ecosystem.
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Jason Li is Co-Founder of Solayer Labs, (https://www.solayer.org), builder of Solayer, the hardware-accelerated blockchain, infinitely scaling the SVM to enable high-throughput, near-zero latency use cases. Jason returns this season to share the latest on this revolutionary innovation in blockchain, which enables a mind-blowing 100 Gbps throughput while maintaining an atomic state. He walks us through Solayer's vision of a world where billions of people can process USDC transactions, game in real-time, stream 8K videos, and trade at lightning speed—all within the Solayer blockchain ecosystem.
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Eric Won Choi is CEO and Founder of The Guild, a decentralized web3 protocol that combines gig economy elements with social networking, enabling users to monetize their networks and build verified on-chain reputations. Eric shares about his crypto and founder journeys, key insights on on-chain community development, why he is innovating in the on-chain community space, growing the blockchain ecosystem in Korea, the future of web3 communities, and the work behind building the world’s first fully on-chain multi-tier, multi-level affiliate program, a key part of the Guild protocol's stack.
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Alex Ryvkin is CEO and Founder of Rho Labs, an institutional grade decentralized crypto native marketplace that allows retail and professional traders to efficiently trade swaps and futures on-chain compliantly. Alex joins us to discuss his journey in traditional finance and crypto, building the first crypto interest rates derivatives exchange, an asset class currently valued at over $500 trillion, opportunities for investors and traders given the broader risk-off sentiment, and the road ahead for Rho Labs.
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Ash Arora is Investment Partner at LocalGlobe, one of the leading early stage venture capital firms in Europe, with one of the highest number of unicorns in portfolio, with companies like SoRare, Layer Zero, Robinhood, Figma, Wise, and Twitter (X). Ash, also a Strategic Partner and member of WAGMI Ventures family, leads the B2B, AI and web3 practice of LocalGlobe. She shares insights gathered over her illustrious career journey as an investor, intricacies of investing through different cycles of crypto, philosophy on evaluating winners, and investing in the current global macro market dynamics.
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Miguel de Vega is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Nillion, a decentralized infrastructure network based on the use of various privacy enhancing technologies to support private storage and computation of sensitive data, while seamlessly connecting to existing blockchain infrastructure. Miguel discusses his journey into crypto, his extensive background in AI, how Nillion seeks to provide decentralized privacy and compute solutions leveraging multi-party computation and fully homomorphic encryption, the importance of decentralization, and ethics and responsibility in AI.
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Charlie Hu is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bitlayer, a pioneering Bitcoin security-equivalent Layer 2 solution aimed at overcoming scalability and smart contract limitations of Bitcoin utilizing BitVM paradigm and zero-knowledge proofs. Charlie shares his journey in the Bitcoin ecosystem, Bitlayer's approach to scaling and enabling a more programmable and secure Bitcoin ecosystem, the road ahead for Bitlayer, and how this innovation is redefining the decentralized finance landscape.
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Michael Heinrich is the Co-Founder and CEO of Zero Gravity (0G), the fastest modular AI blockchain, providing unmatched infrastructure to scale both Web3 and AI, future-proofing the massive demands of AI infrastructure. 0G recently closed a $40 million seed round and secured another $250 million in liquid funds for its blockchain-based decentralized AI infrastructure. Michael shares his interesting journey into crypto, personal story on what drives him, how 0G achieves high data availability through its unique architecture separating data storage and data publishing, AI as a public good, and his takes on the future of AI x Crypto.
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Dmitriy Berenzon is a Partner at Archetype (https://archetype.fund), an early-stage venture fund focused on accelerating the decentralized future, by backing the next generation of crypto founders disrupting the status quo. Dmitriy drives research, investments, portfolio support and fund strategy at Archetype. He shares his extensive experience as a crypto investor through the different phases of crypto development and adoption, the investment philosophy at Archetype, and his insightful thoughts across DePIN v DeVIN, verifiable compute, and the massive network effect of stablecoins.
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Daryl Xu is Co-Founder of NPC Labs (https://npclabs.org), a core contributor to B3.fun, a game ecosystem built on Base, committed to building a seamless and open game ecosystem to change the ownership and incentive model of gamers and developers, as well as provide web2 gaming developers the necessary infrastructure to transition on-chain and to create an engaging user experience with casual and hyper-casual games. Backed by Pantera Capital, Makers Fund, Hashed, Collab+Currency, Mirana Venture among others, Daryl discusses his experience building at Coinbase, the vision and creation of NPC Labs, challenges building an ecosystem of chains, managing strong user engagement, and the potential for blockchain to revolutionize the gaming industry.
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Rushi Manche is Co-Founder of Movement Labs (https://www.movementlabs.xyz), developer of the Movement Network, an ecosystem of modular Move language based blockchains, creating the Move Virtual Machine Layer 2 for Ethereum, that enables developers to launch high-performance Move-VM rollups easily, bridging Move and EVM ecosystems. Backed by Polychain, Hack VC, Placeholder, Archetype, Aptos Labs, among others, Rushi discusses the limitations of monolithic blockchains, and how Move-VM, through parallelization of execution threads addresses Ethereum's shortcomings.
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Jordan Oroshiba is CTO and Co-Founder of Astria (https://www.astria.org), a modular blockchain that allows individuals to deploy their own censorship-resistant rollup without relying on a centralized sequencer, easily allowing many rollups to share a single decentralized network of sequencers that’s simple and permissionless to join. Jordan shares his thoughts on the modular blockchain ecosystem, issues Astria addresses across data availability and sequencing, and how Astria is re-inventing the space post mainnet.
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Chjango Unchained is host of Interchain.FM (https://interchain.fm), a technical podcast that covers cutting edge crypto projects, and was one of the founding members of Cosmos Network. Actively involved in Cosmos appchains as a validator, investor, and advisor, Chjango is a long standing crypto evangelist, community builder, and specialist on Layer 1 consensus protocols. She shares about her journey from NASA Jet Propulsion Labs to being an early crypto builder and adopter, the evolution of crypto from 2017 to present day, building out the multichain vision, barriers to entry for building in crypto today, and her macro narrative on true decentralization.
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Ron Bodkin is CEO and Co-Founder of TheoriqAI (https://www.theoriq.ai), the first on-chain multi-agent system, enabling users to build, deploy, and earn via a community-governed AI agent marketplace, developed under the ChainML AI agent research and development platform. Ron has held pioneering AI roles at the world's most innovative tech companies, shares his journey from Google to founding TheoriqAI, his passionate commitment to community governed AI, the role of decentralization in ensuring safe and ethical AI, and his reflections on data economy creation as a use case.
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Chris Yin is Co-Founder at Plume Network (https://www.plumenetwork.xyz), a purpose built public layer-2 blockchain and ecosystem optimized for the rapid adoption and demand-driven integration of real world assets (RWAs). Backed by Haun Ventures, Galaxy Ventures, Superscrypt, Reciprocal Ventures and others, Chris passionately shares about his founder to investor to founder journey, how Plume Network is transforming the RWA/RWAfi space, building fullstack RWA infrastructure to deploy any asset onchain compliantly, and managing their fast growing ecosystem.
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Ani Pai is Partner at Dragonfly (https://www.dragonfly.xyz), one of the largest and most successful global crypto-focused venture capital firms, investing across all stages of blockchain and crypto-native companies, protocols and tokens. Ani discusses his journey as an investor, Dragonfly's contrarian and long term approach to investing, the due diligencing framework that continues to deliver winning projects, rate cuts and its impact on investing into 2025, and his view on the current venture capital cycle.
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