Podcast

Austin Diamond is the Co-Founder & CEO of Alongside. Backed by a16z Crypto, Coinbase, Franklin Templeton, & more, Alongside has created the first fully backed on-chain broad-based crypto market index. In this episode we discuss the history of index funds, earliest insights that led to their unique methodology of token selection for AMKT, the biggest mistakes institutions make when broadening their exposure to digital asset markets, and much more. WAGMI Ventures is an investor in Alongside.

Luis Schliesske is the Co-Founder at Gelato. Backed by Dragonfly Capital, ParaFi Capital, IDEO CoLab Ventures, & more, Gelato is web3’s cloud platform, enabling developers to deploy custom chains with cutting-edge web2 UX, while also facilitating seamless integrations with all your favorite web3 tools & services. In this episode we talk about their Rollup-as-a-Service capabilities, how they think about differentiation in the market, how to think about team composition for creating a technical vision from scratch, the state of crypto these days, and much more.

Foobar is the Founder & CEO of Delegate. Delegate is all about securing your on-chain identity—enabling you to keep your vaulted NFTs and ERC20s safe by linking wallets together, plus claim airdrops, prove token ownership, and more from your hot wallet. In this episode we talk about unexpected challenges of semi-pseudonymity on the internet, Foobar’s present outlook on the crypto space writ large, the interesting product evolution of Delegate (formerly Delegate Cash), Foobar’s thoughts and work around Friend.tech, and much, much more.

Dima Romanov & David Cao are the Co-Founders of Layer N, and Patricia Xiang is the Head of Growth at Layer N. Backed by Founders Fund, Amber Group, Kraken Ventures, & more, Layer N is a hyperperformant rollup network designed to scale financial applications on Ethereum. In this episode we chat about why blockchain scalability is so important, the market dynamics of their particular space, earliest challenges and surprises in building Layer N, what crypto’s getting right (and wrong) in 2023, & much more.

Fabio Berger is the Co-Founder & CEO at Blowfish. Backed by Paradigm, Uniswap, Dragonfly, & Hypersphere, Blowfish enables proactive defense for web3 wallets: making it easy to identify & stop fraud before it happens, with 10+ chains supported. In this episode we talk about his journey into crypto, what got Fabio to conviction on the Blowfish concept, their product evolution over time, what piques his interest/curiosity the most right now across web3, & much more.