Best Jacquelyn Melinek Podcasts (2024)

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DeFi Decoded - Why Market Strategist Tom Dunleavy Sees Bitcoin Hitting $150,000 This Cycle 40:58

2d ago40:58

40:58

Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3 with special guest Tom Dunleavy, Managing Partner at MV Capital. Listen in as they discuss the impact of BTC selling from Mt. Gox and the German government, the potential buying pressure when FTX claim holders are repaid in Q4, the current market dynamics and future outlook, MV Ca…

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DeFi Decoded - How Web3 Prediction Markets Outsmarted the Experts This Election Season 33:52

8d ago33:52

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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3. Listen in as they discuss the large disparity in U.S. presidential election odds between general pundits in the mainstream media and peer-to-peer prediction markets, its connection to James Surowiecki’s ‘The Wisdom of Crowds’ novel, SX Network’s recent quarterly report and major …

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DeFi Decoded - Why Web3 Mass Adoption is Closer Than We Think with Kendall Cole of Proximity Labs 43:10

15d ago43:10

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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3 and DeFi with special guest Kendall Cole, Founder of Proximity Labs. Listen in as they discuss Kendall’s journey into the space, his key learnings from working at Consensys, Proximity Labs' purpose and mission, NEAR's unique value proposition and its main types of dApps, creating …

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DeFi Decoded - Wall Street Goes All in on Ethereum, Plus Is Token Dispersion Killing Alt SZN? 32:54

24d ago32:54

32:54

Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3 and DeFi. Listen in as they discuss Alex’s key takeaways from Coinbase’s Institutional Summit in New York last week, the evolution of Wall Street’s thinking on Web3, the early days of crypto versus airdrops today, whether an institutional L2 frenzy is on the horizon as Coinbase’s …

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DeFi Decoded - What the Dot Com Era Can Teach Us About the Future of AI, Crypto and More 38:17

1M ago38:17

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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3 and DeFi. Listen in as they discuss what’s going on in the broader market, NVIDIA’s ever-growing dominance and its comparison to Cisco Systems during the dot com era, the pendulum moving from infrastructure to applications with all these newly announced grant programs, which adopt…

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DeFi Decoded - Is the Ethereum ETF Bad for ETH? 35:13

1M ago35:13

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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3 and DeFi. Listen in as they discuss the growing political spotlight on crypto ahead of the upcoming U.S. presidential election in November, how this may influence Canada’s approach on the industry, the net impact that the Ethereum ETFs might have, the strong fundamentals of the Et…

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DeFi Decoded - How Filecoin Helps Scale AI with Molly Mackinlay of Protocol Labs 44:33

1M ago44:33

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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3 and DeFi with special guest Molly Mackinlay, Head of Engineering, Product, & Research Development at Protocol Labs. Listen in as they discuss Molly’s journey from working at Google to in Web3, Filecoin’s origin and where it stands today, core reasons why projects are using it, the…

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DeFi Decoded - Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley on Why Crypto is Bursting into the Mainstream of US Politics & Daily Life 37:45

2M ago37:45

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Join Alex Tapscott as he decodes the world of Web3 and DeFi with special guest Hunter Horsley, Co-Founder and CEO of Bitwise Asset Management. Listen in as they discuss Hunter’s busy week with the Ethereum ETF decision deadline, the accelerating momentum of developing policy around digital assets, the broad bipartisan support for the Financial Inno…

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DeFi Decoded - How Ex-TechCrunch Journalist Jacquelyn Melinek Plans to Solve the Information Gap in Web3 31:27

2M ago31:27

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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3 and DeFi with special guest Jacquelyn Melinek, Co-Founder and CEO of Token Relations. Listen in as they discuss Jacquelyn’s experience as a crypto reporter, the craziest story she ever covered, why she left the world of journalism to become a founder, the current problem with proj…

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DeFi Decoded - Crypto on the Ballot with the Blockchain Association’s Sarah Milby 34:05

2M ago34:05

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Join Alex Tapscott as he decodes the world of Web3 and DeFi with special guest Sarah Milby, Head of Policy at the Blockchain Association. Listen in as they discuss the Blockchain Association’s origin and the progress they’ve made, what good Web3 policy looks like, the current state of stablecoin legislation in the United States, crypto on the ballo…

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DeFi Decoded - Are Airdrops Dead? What's Next for Token Distribution Models 44:47

2M ago44:47

44:47

Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3 and DeFi. Listen in as they discuss a crypto market roundup with this past month being the worst since the FTX collapse, simple explanations of staking and restaking, EigenLayer and its airdrop controversy, the evolution of token distribution models, ideas on how these could look …

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DeFi Decoded - Bitcoin's Second Act: Can The OG Network Lead the Next Era of Web3? 40:16

3M ago40:16

40:16

Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3 and DeFi. Listen in as they discuss Bitcoin’s fourth-ever halving that occurred last Friday, gold’s considerable uptick in recent weeks, the geopolitical neutrality of Bitcoin and whether central banks will adopt it as a reserve asset, the impact of Bitcoin Runes and BRC-20 tokens…

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DeFi Decoded - How MetaMask Institutional is Taking Web3 Mainstream with Daniel Lynch 46:34

3M ago46:34

46:34

Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3 with special guest Daniel Lynch, Head of MetaMask Institutional Partnerships at Consensys. Listen in as they discuss Daniel’s journey from working at SWIFT to Consensys, MetaMask at its core and the role it fulfills, its future integrated functionalities, their strategy and suppor…

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DeFi Decoded - DCG's Bright Future, Plus MONAD Secures the Bag 29:34

3M ago29:34

29:34

Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3. Listen in as they discuss Monad Labs’ $225 million fundraising round led by Paradigm, why developers are excited about Monad, what EVM-compatible blockchains are and how they work, the current chain ecosystem dynamics and how things might look in the future, the FTX estate sellin…

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DeFi Decoded - Is Memecoin Madness Over? Plus: How to Value Base 37:58

3M ago37:58

37:58

Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3. Listen in as they discuss a crypto market recap, which phase of the cycle we’re likely in, whether the recent multi-month memecoin madness could finally be coming to an end, where investors may rotate into next, the series of big raises by crypto VC firms in past weeks, the state…

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Space and Time wants to help LLMs and AI agents get on-chain (w/ Scott Dykstra) 36:26

4M ago36:26

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For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Scott Dykstra, CTO and co-founder of Space and Time. Before diving into web3, Scott spent almost 8 years at the cloud analytics and data platform Teradata and throughout the years he held roles of senior architect, director of cloud solutions and worked his way up to VP of the firm’s global cloud. As f…

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DeFi Decoded - Bringing an Engineer's Mentality to Early Stage VC with Avichal Garg & Ken Deeter of Electric Capital 33:24

4M ago33:24

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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3 with special guests Avichal Garg, Co-Founder and General Partner, and Ken Deeter, General Partner, of Electric Capital. Listen in as they discuss the different phases of crypto adoption, how they think about investing in the space and key areas they’re monitoring, what the future …

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DeFi Decoded - Ethereum's Tim Beiko on how Dencun massively scales Ethereum 46:16

4M ago46:16

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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3 with special guest Tim Beiko, Protocol Support of the Ethereum Foundation. Listen in as they discuss a simple explanation of Ethereum’s Dencun upgrade, the sustainability of lower layer two transaction fees, whether there’s still a need for several different layer two chains, what…

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Whoever rules the data rules the world (w/ Tegan Kline) 24:21

4M ago24:21

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For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Tegan Kline, the CEO and co-founder of Edge & Node. The company is focused on creating and supporting decentralized applications, or dApps, and protocols. It was also the initial team behind The Graph, an indexing and query protocol, or what some have referred to as the Google of Web3, which aims to or…

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Blockchain tech is working to combat AI-based deepfakes (w/ Melody Hildebrandt and Mike Blank) 35:33

4M ago35:33

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For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Melody Hildebrandt, CTO of Fox Corporation and Mike Blank, COO at Polygon Labs. Why these two companies? Well, Polygon Labs, the layer-2 blockchain focused on scaling Ethereum, and Fox Corporation, the well-known media conglomerate, joined forces in January to tackle deepfakes as artificial intelligenc…

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DeFi Decoded - Which country will lead the Web3 Era? With Chris Giancarlo, Former Chairman of the CFTC 44:01

4M ago44:01

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Join Alex Tapscott as he decodes the world of Web3 with special guest Christopher Giancarlo, the thirteenth Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Senior Counsel of Willkie Farr & Gallagher. Listen in as they discuss whether Web3 will be an important agenda topic in upcoming presidential elections, the industry’s ideal regula…

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Blockchain could be the answer to getting AI artists paid (w/ Dee Goens) 40:48

4M ago40:48

40:48

For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Dee Goens, the co-founder of Zora. Zora is a platform and protocol that helps developers and creators bring their ideas on chain and on Ethereum through an open and shared environment. The platform has minted over 4 million NFTs, has over $300 million in secondary sales and about 1 million unique colle…

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DeFi Decoded - Animal Spirits Return! ETH Denver Roundup with Sid Powell of Maple Finance 42:50

4M ago42:50

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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi and Web3 with special guest Sidney Powell, Co-Founder and CEO of Maple Finance. Listen in as they discuss key takeaways from the ETHDenver 2024 conference, the different types of stablecoins, potential lending opportunities that exist with restaking, Maple’s next growth areas, the…

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DeFi Decoded - Revenge of Old School DeFi and Bitcoin’s Reflexivity Explained 46:05

5M ago46:05

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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi and Web3. Listen in as they discuss this past week’s Bitcoin-led market rally, their current takes on the crypto market and what’s next, gaining digital asset exposure through MicroStrategy vs. Bitcoin ETFs, the potential for SEC approval on Ethereum ETFs, the emergence of Bitcoin…

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Looking back on the NFT marketplace Magic Eden (w/ Jack Lu) 26:38

4M ago26:38

26:38

For this week’s episode, we’re resharing a conversation I had in June 2023 with Jack Lu, CEO and co-founder of Magic Eden. When we recorded this episode, NFT sales were down around $640 million at the beginning of the month, compared to today where February 2023 NFT sales volume hit $1 billion, for the first time since February 2023. Looking back o…

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DeFi Decoded - The Bitcoin ETF launch was the most successful ever. Is ETH next? With James Seyffart of Bloomberg 53:13

5M ago53:13

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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi and Web3 with special guest James Seyffart, ETF Research Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. Listen in as they discuss James’ methodology behind the Bitcoin ETF approval odds he set last year, reading between the lines of GBTC and ETHE’s discounts to NAV, the likelihood of Ethereum…

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Starbucks Odyssey’s community lead expects NFT brand building to expand this year (w/ Steve Kaczynski) 37:17

5M ago37:17

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For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Steve Kaczynski, co-author of the book “The Everything Token,” and co-host of a web3 morning show Coffee with Captain. He also co-authored the first Harvard Business Review article about NFTs and outside of that, he consults with agencies and brands about building their web3 strategies including his ro…

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DeFi Decoded - Web3 Gaming. A powerful idea whose time has come…again! With Rebecca Liao of Saga 42:00

5M ago42:00

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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi and Web3 with special guest Rebecca Liao, Co-Founder and CEO at Saga. Listen in as they discuss an update of the past year for Saga, their upcoming $SAGA community genesis airdrop to five different ecosystems, thoughts on crypto loyalty ‘points’ with projects like Blur, the thesis…

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Web3 brands and NFTs are on a global race for adoption (w/ Yat Siu) 48:49

5M ago48:49

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For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Yat Siu, co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands. Yat co-founded Animoca in 2014 and since then it has invested in over 400 web3 projects across a range of sectors like DeFi, education, infrastructure, blockchain gaming and the metaverse. Animoca also has its own NFT collections, blockchain…

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DeFi Decoded - Tether Money Printer Go Brrrrr, Plus when Elon Coin? 33:14

5M ago33:14

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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi and Web3. Listen in as they discuss Tether’s 2023 Attestation Report, GoDaddy’s partnership with Ethereum Name Service to bridge domain names with crypto wallets, FTX’s desire to sell 8% Anthropic stake as part of its liquidation process to help make customers “whole,” Farcaster’s…

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OpenSea’s CEO sees greater opportunity for NFT use cases to grow (w/ Devin Finzer) 32:07

5M ago32:07

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This year, Chain Reaction is doing monthly series diving into different topics and themes in crypto. To start things off, this month we’re focusing on NFTs. For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Devin Finzer, the CEO of NFT marketplace OpenSea. He co-founded OpenSea in 2017 and it quickly climbed to become one of the most well known – and …

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SEC Commissioner sees a need for a new Token Safe Harbor Proposal (w/ Hester Peirce) 34:30

5M ago34:30

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This week we have a bonus episode with Hester Peirce, commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Jacquelyn moderated a fireside chat with Commissioner Peirce at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business alongside Eddie Cullen, a former candidate for New York City Mayor in 2021 and co-founder and CEO of Crescite Innovati…

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DeFi Decoded - Is the Bitcoin Halving the Bull Market’s Next Catalyst? 20:42

6M ago20:42

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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi and Web3. Listen in as they discuss an update on Bitcoin ETF flows after their first two official trading weeks, Bitcoin’s fast-approaching halving in less than 75 days, Bitwise’s decision to publicly disclose their Bitcoin wallet address, Bitcoin ETF issuers’ fee competition and …

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Read Write Own this episode with a16z’s crypto partner (w/ Chris Dixon) 44:49

6M ago44:49

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For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Chris Dixon, general partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Chris has been at the firm since 2012 and founded and leads a16z’s crypto team, which invests in the web3 world through four mega-funds with over $7 billion under management. He’s also an author of the recently released bo…

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Bonus Episode: Worldcoin is going on a race to billions of users “as fast” as it can (w/ Alex Blania) 18:49

6M ago18:49

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This is a bonus episode, where Jacquelyn interviewed Alex Blania, CEO and co-founder of Tools for Humanity, in a fireside chat at a StrictlyVC event in San Francisco. The startup was co-founded by Alex, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Max Novendstern. To date, it has raised about $250 million from investors like a16z, Bain Capital Crypto and others. It is …

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DeFi Decoded - Noble CEO Jelena Juric on Democratizing Dollars and RWAs 40:32

6M ago40:32

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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi and Web3 with special guest Jelena Djuric, Founder and CEO of Noble. Listen in as they discuss an update following Noble’s launch of bringing USDC to Cosmos, key metrics they use to measure their success, dYdX’s impact on the ecosystem, exciting upcoming projects within Cosmos, so…

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Solana Mobile is just getting started (w/ Anatoly Yakovenko) 27:47

6M ago27:47

27:47

For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder of Solana Labs, the technology company that aims to help grow the ecosystem for the layer-1 blockchain Solana. The conversation focused on Solana Mobile and its flagship web3 Android smartphone, Saga, which sold out in mid-December, as well as its new phone, Chapter 2 – wh…

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Ripple president talks XRP Ledger, SEC suits, and 2024 plans (w/ Monica Long) 23:49

6M ago23:49

23:49

For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Monica Long, the president of Ripple, a blockchain-based digital payment network and protocol. Monica has spent the last 10 years at Ripple, working her way up from the director of communications to now, president. Ripple has been around since 2012 and is one of the oldest crypto entities. In recent ye…

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DeFi Decoded - Bull Market Vibes? We Unveil our Top Web3 Predictions for 2024 39:01

6M ago39:01

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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi and Web3. Listen in as they discuss a roundup of the current crypto market post-ETF approval, the potential for a revenge rally from original alternative layer-1 chains, possible attention shift from underlying fundamentals toward growth, the chance of Ethereum ETFs taking longer …

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DeFi Decoded - Bitcoin ETFs Get the Green Light, a Conversation with Osmosis Co-Founder Sunny Aggarwal 38:00

6M ago38:00

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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of Web3 and DeFi with special guest Sunny Aggarwal, Co-Founder of Osmosis. Listen in as they discuss the Bitcoin ETF approvals and their potential implications, the state of Web3 and Osmosis’ role within it, the impact of having native USDC on Cosmos, exciting narratives circulating withi…

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Bitcoin spot ETFs has been approved in the U.S. (w/ Michael Sonnenshein) 20:53

6M ago20:53

20:53

For this week’s bonus episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Michael Sonnenshein, the CEO at Grayscale Investments. Grayscale is a digital asset investment firm that aims to provide products and services to institutional and individual investors, it is well known for its Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) and now, its new bitcoin spot ETF product. The company …

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All roads seem to be leading to a U.S. spot bitcoin ETF approval soon (w/ Fred Thiel) 22:05

6M ago22:05

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For this week’s news episode, Jacquelyn dove back into the latest developments on spot bitcoin ETF applications in the U.S. as anticipation builds. Fred Thiel, the CEO of Marathon Digital Holdings, a digital asset technology company and largest publicly traded bitcoin mining firm, joined to help break down the latest developments on spot bitcoin ET…

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DeFi Decoded - dYdX ditches Ethereum and migrates to Cosmos. Why it matters - with Charles d’Haussy of dYdX 39:02

7M ago39:02

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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi and Web3 with special guest Charles d’Haussy, CEO of the dYdX Foundation. Listen in as they discuss Charles’ journey into crypto, the history of dYdX, the thought process behind and decision to migrate, the reasoning for Cosmos SDK selection, their rare situation and chance at bec…

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You should join a crypto social club w/ Boys Club co-founders (re-release) 33:16

7M ago33:16

33:16

Welcome to a re-released episode of of Chain Reaction, a podcast that unpacks and dives deep into the latest trends, drama and news in crypto with some of the biggest names in the industry to break things down block by block for the crypto curious. For this week’s episode, we're remixing an episode from earlier this year. Jacquelyn interviewed Dean…

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Algorand foundation CEO sees tokenization as key sector to scale crypto (w/ Staci Warden) 28:41

7M ago28:41

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For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Staci Warden, the CEO of the Algorand Foundation, the organization behind the layer-1 blockchain Algorand. Previously, Warden worked at the Milken Institute and oversaw initiatives relating to capital market development, FinTech financial inclusion, cryptocurrencies and blockchain. Before that she was …

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DeFi Decoded - Top Gaming VC Reveals why Web3 will Reinvent Gaming, The Metaverse and More 35:51

7M ago35:51

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Join Alex Tapscott as he decodes the world of Web3 and gaming with special guest Justin Swart, Principal, Investment Team of BITKRAFT Ventures. Listen in as they discuss BITKRAFT’s discovery of Web3 gaming’s potential, the significance of property rights in gameplay and gaming economics, the gaming market’s biggest opportunity moving forward, the ‘…

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DeFi Decoded - Investing in Web3, the Easy Way with ML Tech 34:05

7M ago34:05

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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi and Web3 with special guest Leo Mindyuk, Co-Founder and CEO of ML Tech. Listen in as they discuss an overview of ML Tech, Leo’s trading experience and journey into the crypto space, differentiating features from first-generation firms within the decentralized quant trading movemen…

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Robinhood’s still on a quest to make crypto mainstream (w/ Johann Kerbrat) 23:51

7M ago23:51

23:51

For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Johann Kerbrat, the general manager of crypto at Robinhood. Johann is leading the application's effort to expand its crypto exchange business and make digital assets more accessible to retail investors. Before joining Robinhood, Johann was an engineer at Airbnb and was the head of engineering at Uber a…

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DeFi Decoded - “Silent Rally” Pushes Bitcoin Through $40,000. Where to Next? 26:04

7M ago26:04

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Join Alex Tapscott and Andrew Young as they decode the world of DeFi and Web3. Listen in as they discuss Bitcoin’s ‘silent’ rally beyond $44,000 and its driving forces, crypto market trajectory predictions based on past cycle experiences, interesting metrics regarding retail investor sentiment and Bitcoin supply, the intersection of AI and blockcha…

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Crypto VC space may be on the cusp of recovery (w/ David Pakman) 33:00

7M ago33:00

33:00

For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed David Pakman, managing partner and head of venture investments at CoinFund. Before CoinFund, David spent 14 years at the venture capital firm Venrock. He also led the Series A and B rounds at Dollar Shave Club which was acquired by Unilever for $1 billion. And in 1991, David co-created Apple Music when…

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