For Episode 24 of Crypto Market Wizards, I am joined by Kain Warwick, founder of Infinex and Havven/Synthetix. He shares what it was like growing up with a father who was a professional athlete. He discusses his fascination with entrepreneurship and what led to the Havven (now SNX) ICO in 2017. He shares his "lunatic" stories as a founder and what his vision is for Infinex.

At the end, he opens up about his drug addiction and what he learned after two full years being sober.

Guest's Twitter: https://x.com/kaiynne
Check out Infinex: https://infinex.xyz/

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Taiki is the founder of Humble Farmer Army, a community-driven research company founded in 2021 with a mission to create high-quality, digestible content that helps separate signal from noise for DeFi enthusiasts.

Timestamps:
0:00 Kain's Token2049 Experience
0:57 Kain's Childhood
8:17 Importance of Money & Circumstance
13:09 Playing in a Band for 5 Years
17:13 Foray into Tech Entrepreneurship
19:50 Finding Bitcoin & Ethereum
28:06 Raising $30M ICO for Havven (now SNX)
32:51 Surviving the 2018-19 Bear Market
38:01 Having a Chip on Your Shoulder
41:15 The State of DeFi
46:45 What Vitalik Gets Wrong
51:04 Advice to Younger Self
53:29 Taking down Binance
1:00:02 Walking Away from Crypto
1:02:19 Drug Addiction