Podcast

Toby Saunders is the Co-Founder & CEO at Cathedral Studios, creators of The Bornless. Backed by Hartmann Capital, Cathedral Studios is a next-generation web3 game studio and creators of The Bornless, a first- person PvP/PvE horror-themed game. In this episode we discuss what makes a game great (and how to think about creating great games as a team), why it may take longer than commonly expected for web3 to fully deliver within gaming, what the future of gaming (and especially gaming within web3) looks like, and his insights into what building a remarkable game studio looks like in 2023.

Adi Sideman is the Co-Founder & CEO of Revel. Backed by Union Square Ventures, Polygon, Dragonfly Capital, & more, Revel is a social trading game that recently debuted as #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt. In this episode we discuss where social networking is heading in the future, interesting possibilities for generative AI in the social networking space, what it’s been like fine-tuning the game economics of Revel, and much more. WAGMI Ventures is an investor in Revel.

Antoine Scalia is the Founder & CEO of Cryptio. Backed by Draper Associates, Point Nine, & more, Cryptio offers enterprise-grade accounting, audit, and tax software for your digital assets. They work with top organizations like Aave, SuperRare, Bankless, Metamask, & more. In this episode, we discuss the importance of their work for broader institutional adoption, what insights made the biggest product difference, what they’re excited about in the pipeline, and much more.

This episode is with Amit Gajjala (Founder & CEO) and Antonio Morales (Head of Ecosystem + Community) at Stader Labs. Backed by Pantera, Coinbase Ventures, Jump Capital, Accel, & more, Stader Labs is a multichain liquid staking platform. In this episode we discuss their earliest insights about the market that led to Stader Labs, their product roadmap (and how they continue to evolve), what it was like getting $150m TVL on day one of launch, the Terra/Luna collapse (and how they worked past it), comments on Coinbase’s recently-announced liquidity staking derivative cbETH, & much more.

Harrison Wang is the Co-Founder & CEO at Unblocked. Backed by Tiger Global, Marcy Venture Partners (Jay-Z’s venture fund), Dapper Labs, and more, Unblocked is at the forefront of producing blockchain-backed collectibles for your favorite communities. In this episode we discuss the virtues of “digital collectibles” vs. “NFTs” (in terms of name approachability), what’s attracting major brands/artists to the digital collectible space (and how Unblocked powers that work), and what FTX means for the broader space over the coming months (in terms of funding availability and mainstream perception/adoption).