Podcast

Raj Parekh is the Co-Founder & CEO at Portal . Backed by Haun Ventures, Chapter One, Slow Ventures, & more, Portal enables you to launch a powerful and secure offering with a single integration for all of Web3 that gives your users direct access to the world of DeFi, NFTs, blockchain-based gaming, and more. In this episode we discuss Raj’s perspective on user experience in web3 given his background at Visa, his thoughts on the future of multi-party-computation and account abstraction, commentary on TradFi adoption and movement toward web3, interesting frontiers within the crypto space from his vantage point, and much more.

Timur Csillik (Co-Founder & CEO at Nabu) and Diederik Kruijssen (Chief Data Officer at Nabu) join us on today’s episode. Backed by Founders Factory, Nabu is building the most trusted NFT valuation engine, to increase transparency in Web3 and enable the universal adoption of NFTs as an asset class. In this episode we discuss Nabu’s approach of leveraging machine learning and AI to ascertain NFT prices, perspectives on upcoming growth drivers within web3, the frontier space of NFTs in particular and web3 in general, and much, much more.

Michael Hiles is the Founder & CEO of 10XTS. Backed by LOUD Capital, 10XTS builds compliant, programmable digital securities and interoperable web3-powered capital markets infra solutions. In this episode we discuss a law-centric approach for the blockchain industry, the importance of a solid legal regime for global capital markets (and integrating well), the state of crypto regulation in the US and abroad, & much more.

John Crain is the Co-Founder and CEO of SuperRare Labs. Backed by Sound Ventures, Collaborative Fund, and angels like Naval Ravikant and Mark Cuban, SuperRare is an NFT marketplace for curated cryptoart—a new art market for artists, collectors, and curators. In this episode we discuss the fascinating origin of SuperRare, $RARE and their progressive decentralization into a DAO, interesting recent collabs and how those come to exist, the exciting future of cryptoart (and SuperRare’s unique position to enable that future), and much more.

Nick Emmons is the Co-Founder & CEO at Upshot. Backed by Polychain and Blockchain Capital, Upshot is building financial infrastructure for NFTs, including industry-leading NFT appraisals and other financial tools that provide deep insight into NFT markets and unlock a wave of new DeFi possibilities. Upshot is currently providing accurate, real-time appraisals for 104M+ NFTs from over 87k collections. In this episode we discuss Nick’s narration of the NFT space’s history and future trajectories, the intersection of NFTs and DeFi, the frontier space of NFTs, his take on the outlook for crypto in the medium-term, & much more.