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Exploring the ideas and stories of crypto moguls from around the world. Learn more at cryptonews.com
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Xenia Soborova is a Web3 business development leader and Head of BD at Tramplin.io, a Solana-native premium staking app that redistributes network’s inflationary rewards among users to make staking profitable even with a small amount of SOL. Previously, she worked at the Avalanche Foundation on ecosystem growth and founder success and has also held roles across major Web3 teams, including Binance, RARI Foundation, and SQD.ai. She has co-founded BD in Web3, the largest Telegram community for W...
Matt Ober is a Managing Partner at Social Leverage, an early stage venture capital firm focused on investing in fintech and enterprise SaaS. The firm is best well know for being early investors in Robinhood, Etoro, Alpaca, & Kustomer which was acquired by Meta. Mat was most recently the Chief Data Scientist at Third Point. Prior to joining Third Point, Matt was the Head of Data Strategy at WorldQuant and part of the WorldQuant Ventures founding team focused on private investments in finte...
Bhaumik (“Bhau”) Kotecha is the Co-Founder and Head of Paxos Labs, a startup spun out from Paxos in 2025 to empower institutions and developers with enterprise-grade infrastructure for on-chain financial products. At Paxos Labs, he leads the mission to remove the complexity of decentralized finance so partners can seamlessly embed trusted products—such as custom stablecoins, DeFi yield strategies, and tokenized assets—into their platforms. His vision blends the regulatory rigor and infrastruc...
Sun Raghupathi is the CEO of Veda, the leading DeFi vault platform, enabling crypto applications, asset issuers, and protocols to build consumer-grade cross-chain yield products. Veda's technology already powers many of DeFi's largest vault products and power more than $4B in deposits. Sun is also the co-founder of Seven Seas Capital, a premier quantitative DeFi investment strategist, offering institutional-grade funds and non-custodial yield vaults through proven market making and risk-mitig...
Austin Campbell is a finance and risk management professional with two decades of experience spanning trading, portfolio management, executive leadership, and academia. He is the Managing Partner and Founder of Zero Knowledge Consulting and serves as an Acting CFO at Glueti, having recently held the role of Acting CEO at WSPN Ltd. He has taught as an adjunct professor at both NYU Stern and Columbia Business School, specializing in finance and markets. Previously, Austin was Chief Risk Officer...
Jesse Knutson is Head of Operations at Bitfinex Securities, a regulated security token platform offering issuers and traders access to capital and tokenized securities. Jesse started his career in traditional finance having worked at global investment banks including Barclays and Macquarie. In addition to his role as Taiwan Head of Equity Capital Solutions, Jesse was also a founding member of Macquarie’s digital asset working group, and deal lead on the firm’s first equity investment into the...
Matt O’Connor is the Co-founder of Legion, a platform for compliant and merit-based public token offering that enables teams to select investors based on criteria such as onchain history, social clout, and developer contributions. He is the former lead algorithmic engineer for Bridgewater Associates; tokenomics researcher for the Stacks Foundation (SEC qualified 2019 ICO); and token economics lead for Status (2017 ICO). His open source book, Tokenomics for Builders, has been positively review...
Nic Roberts-Huntley is the CEO and Co-Founder of Blueprint Finance, leveraging his unique background spanning medicine, economics, and finance. A former surgeon who practiced at prestigious institutions, including Oxford University Hospitals and The Royal Marsden, Nic pivoted to finance after completing his MBA and Master's in Evidence-Based Policy Evaluation & Economics at Oxford University. His career trajectory includes roles as Vice President at Point72, Venture Architect at Virtual V...
Irina Chuchkina is the Chief Growth Officer at Wallet In Telegram. Irina is an accomplished leader in crypto and fintech with over 18 years of experience building world-class brands at the intersection of payments and technology, across Europe and Asia. Currently, Irina is leading Wallet's global expansion strategy with a target of 15 new countries in the next 2 years. Previously, she was CMO at Volt, driving their brand and global marketing strategy. She was also part of Southeast Asia super...
Carlos Lei, CEO of Uplink, one of the leading DePIN players, operates as a connectivity marketplace using existing Wi-Fi routers to help telecom companies save millions of dollars. In this conversation, we discuss: - 2026 will be the year of DePIN - Insights from building in connectivity since 2015 - The future of connectivity - Mesh networks - Sharing connectivity using existing infrastructure - There isn’t enough infra to connect devices in the future&nbs...
A treasury company pioneer, Marco launched the very first altcoin treasury on the Nasdaq. Prior to joining Solmate as CEO he was a partner at Pantera Capital, where he helped to structure some of the industry’s best-performing treasuries. A trained attorney, Marco was once dubbed the "Dean of Digital Currency Lawyers" by the Editor-in-Chief of American Banker. He was the Chief Legal Officer at Kraken, one of the world's largest digital asset exchanges, for five years. Prior to Kraken, Marco w...
Kyle Okamoto is the Chief Technology Officer at Aethir: the leading decentralized enterprise-grade cloud computing network. With over 20 years of experience in cloud and edge computing, digital media, IoT and AI, Kyle's leadership has been pivotal in scaling growth businesses and driving technological innovation at Aethir. Before joining Aethir, Kyle served as the General Manager of Aeris Communications and Ericsson’s enterprise businesses, overseeing Internet of Things, Security, and Connect...
Tom Trowbridge is an entrepreneur and business builder; he is a co-founder of Fluence Labs, and Hedera Hashgraph (HBAR) where he was President from Inception. He hosts the DePIN Day conference series and the DePINed podcast and is an investor in leading DePIN projects and crypto funds. Tom is an advocate for decentralized systems and distributed ledger/blockchain technology and believes these open source tools provide the best opportunity to build fairer, more transparent, and higher-function...
Austin King, Founder of Nomina, is a Harvard-trained computer scientist, is a proven entrepreneur with a record of building and scaling high-impact ventures. He sold his first company to Ripple, where he co-authored a new payment protocol with CTO David Schwartz and led its go-to-market strategy. Today, Austin draws on his combined expertise in engineering and business development to drive growth and innovation in the next generation of financial infrastructure. In this conversation, w...
Dr. Rand Hindi is an entrepreneur and deeptech investor. He is the Founder and CEO at Zama and an investor in over 50 companies across privacy, AI, blockchain, and medtech. Rand started coding at the age of 10, founded a Social Network at 14, and started a PhD at 21. He then created Snips, a privacy-centric AI startup that was acquired by Sonos. Rand holds a BSc in Computer Science and a PhD in bioinformatics from UCL. In this conversation, we discuss: - Banks won’t use stablecoins if ...
Ken Miyachi is the Co-founder of BitMind, a company at the forefront of developing pioneering deepfake detection technology and decentralized AI applications. Prior to founding BitMind, Ken served as a Senior Software Engineer at leading organisations such as NEAR Foundation, Amazon, and Polymer Labs, where he honed his expertise in scalable technology solutions. In this conversation, we discuss: - Bittensor - The escalation of AI-driven crypto scams - Deepfakes - Why ...
Anurag Arjun is the Co-founder of Avail, a unified foundation for rollups to scale horizontally, share liquidity, move assets trustlessly, communicate permissionlessly along with a multi-token economic security. He entered the blockchain industry in 2017, founding Matic Network, which evolved into Polygon Labs. By 2020, he launched Avail within the Polygon ecosystem, utilizing his background in research, economics, and engineering. In March 2023, he spun out Avail as an independent project.&n...
Michael Sena is the CSO and Co-Founder of Recall, a decentralized skill market for AI where communities fund, rank, and discover the AI solutions they need. Michael started in crypto in 2016, helped scale ConsenSys from 30 to 1,800 people, co-founded uPort, the first decentralized identity protocol, and 3Box Labs where he led development of Ceramic Network. At Recall, Michael focuses on growing the world’s largest AI competitions and giving the community the power to shape and accelerate the ...
Arthur Breitman, the co-founder of Tezos, is a computer scientist and entrepreneur. Arthur has a background in mathematics and computer science, and prior to the Tezos project, he worked in quantitative finance at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, and as a research engineer at Google and Waymo. Arthur graduated from the École Polytechnique and the Courant Institute of NYU where he studied applied mathematics. Arthur is a member of the Tezos Foundation Council and is also a director at Trilite...
Lucas Bruder is the CEO of Jito Labs and a founding contributor of the Jito Network, a suite of Solana-based protocols that enhance network efficiency and support high-performance DeFi infrastructure. A Carnegie Mellon-educated electrical engineer, Lucas brings deep expertise in high-performance distributed systems and firmware development. Prior to Jito Labs, he served as Technical Lead at Built Robotics, where he led teams developing autonomous construction equipment, and specialized in LiD...
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