Podcast

Mriganka Pattnaik is the Co-Founder and CEO of Merkle Science. Backed by Kraken Ventures, Beco Capital, and others, Merkle Science is a predictive Web3 risk & intelligence platform offering risk mitigation, compliance, and forensics for crypto-native businesses, DeFi participants, financial institutions & government agencies. In this episode we discuss some of the history of risk mitigation in crypto, the possibilities for risk mitigation in the future, and the tradeoffs between privacy and KYC (“know your client”) as part of the bigger conversation about what mainstream adoption of crypto may require (from a regulatory standpoint).

Aaron Rafferty and Martin Simms are the Co-Founders of StandardDAO. StandardDAO is all about supercharging, scaling, and securing the 3rd generation of the internet. In this episode we learn more about StandardDAO, discuss big-picture trends across web3, and hear advice for builders in web3.

Michael Marra is the Founder & CEO of Entre. Backed by Kube VC & angels like Dharmesh Shah (Co-Founder/CTO @ HubSpot), Entre is the fastest-growing online professional network of web3 professionals in the world. In this episode we discuss what’s missing with existing online professional networks like LinkedIn, how Entre bridges the gap between web2 and web3 for professionals, and how generosity and authenticity drives relationships and projects forward in web3.

Darshan Vaidya is the Co-Founder & CEO at Credora. Backed by Paradigm, Coinbase Ventures, WAGMI Ventures, & more, Credora is building infrastructure for institutional credit—with its complete lending platform, counterparty credit ratings, & more. In this episode we discuss the advantages of data-driven lending relative to relationship-driven lending, the early challenges to adoption (and how they’ve successfully solved for those challenges), the promise of crypto’s potential for disintermediation (rather than decentralization), and much more.

Raullen Chai is the Co-Founder of IoTeX Network. Backed by Samsung Next, IoTeX is the leading decentralized network to power billions of machines at scale via machine economy (MachineFi) applications. In this episode we discuss the possibilities unlocked by bringing the Internet of Things (IoT) on-chain, their $100m fund working to back over 1,000 decentralized machine economy startups, and the broader MachineFi philosophy and how it’s concretely translated into their work.