Today’s guest on the Fortune Teller Podcast is Jay Fraser, Head of Strategy for BSTX. The goal of BSTX, a regulated exchange, is to make a way for a public exchange that is less tangled and with less resistance. BSTX is powered by tZERO technology and is jointly owned by BOX Digital Markets and tZERO.At the moment, the way to take a company public …

Today’s guest on the Fortune Teller Podcast is Emre Tekisalp, CEO of O(1) Labs. O(1) Labs current projects are Mina, the world’s lightest blockchain, that is powered by participants, and snarky, an Ocaml front-end for writing R1CS Snarks. Snarky is modular over the backend SNARK library, and comes with backends from libsnark. Mina is the world’s li…

In this Twitter Spaces we explore the impact of blockchain and crypto in helping financial systems be resistant to crisis. The speakers include Robbie Heeger, President and CEO of Endaoment, Aleks Larsen, General Partner at Blockchain Capital, and Teller Founder and CEO Ryan Berkun. Hosted by Teller Global Community Lead, Marlon Fuentes.…

Today’s guest on the Fortune Teller Podcast is Ryan Sheftel, CEO of Radkl. Radkl is a new quantitative trading firm bringing institutional-grade experience from Wall Street to the crypto markets by applying quantitative models to digital assets across blockchains. These quantitative methods include sophisticated, high-speed, computerized trading mo…

Today’s guest on the Fortune Teller Podcast is Vaughan Smith, Chief Operating Officer of Bitso. Bitso is a digital exchange system that offers security and allows users to Purchase and Sell Digital Currencies among one another. A user places Buy or Sale orders in the Bitso market, where they are sold to others who wish to Buy or Sell. Bitso Shift i…

Today’s guest on the Fortune Teller Podcast is Ivan Ravlich, Co-Founder and CEO of Hypernet Labs. Hypernet Labs is a cyber infrastructure business creating advanced solutions for both digital commerce, and value transfer. By revolutionizing computer fabric, digital payments, and identities, Hypernet will make increased access to Web 3.0 to both new…

Today’s guest on the Fortune Teller podcast is Robbie Heeger, CEO of Endaoment. Endaoment, which launched in the fall of 2020, is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity providing philanthropic financial services to the crypto space. In 2021, the organization experienced more than 100x growth in donations received and grants distributed, and has rais…

Today’s guest on the Fortune Teller podcast is Josh Rogers, CEO of Minterest. Minterest aims to offer the highest long term yield in DeFi. The Minterest lending protocol passes on all surplus created directly to its users, providing their best interest. By running its own on-chain settlement and buyback mechanisms, the Minterest protocol automatica…

Today’s guest on the Fortune Teller podcast is Nick Rose Ntersas, Founder & CEO of Ethernity. Ethernity is the World’s First Authenticated and Licensed NFT platform, providing well-known name brands and Intellectual Properties in sports, content, collectibles, and technology to the blockchain by providing NFTs utility in Web3 and the Metaverse. In …

The Future of Digital Assets with Jack McDonaldToday’s guest on the Fortune Teller is Jack McDonald, CEO of PolySign. Polysign’s mission is to drive global use of digital assets, creating best-in-class infrastructure to enable institutions to secure and transact in digital assets across the capital markets and payments sectors. PolySign's technolog…

Today’s guest on Fortune Teller is Robert Materazzi, CEO of Lukka. Lukka provides data and software solutions to handle crypto assets on infrastructure built for the future of commerce.Firms like State Street, Polychain, and eToro are among the customers that leverage Lukka’s Enterprise Software and Data to streamline crypto asset data, support NAV…

Today’s guest on Fortune Teller is Jacobo Toll-Messia, CEO of Nahmii. Nahmii is an Ethereum interoperable layer 2 scaling solution. Nahmii offers instant finality, predictable fees, and as well as commercial readiness. Nahmii believes Ethereum will be the foundation for Web3. However, while Ethereum does have many strengths, it does have some major…

Today on Fortune Teller Podcast we are talking with Sergey Gorbunov, Co-Founder of Axelar Network. The Axelar Network brings Decentralized Interoperability to Ethereum, Cosmos Avalanche, Terra, Moonbeam and others, by unlocking cross-chain communications. Blockchain platform builders can plug-in their blockchain ecosystem to all other blockchain ec…

Today on the Fortune Teller Podcast, we are talking with Rafaella Baraldo, Co-Founder of Pods Finance. Pods Finance provides users the opportunity to hedge their BTC, ETH, and other cryptos to protect portfolios from volatility.Pods Finance is a simple way to hedge crypto assets on the Ethereum Network. The Pods Protocol is a decentralized non-cust…

Today on the Fortune Teller Podcast, we are talking with Corey Petty, Chief Security Officer of Status.Status is a protected messaging app, crypto wallet, and Web3 browser created with top of the line technology. All of this is incorporated into a strong app for private and protected communications.The status app incorporates an open-source, peer-t…

Today’s guest on Fortune Teller is Pat Doyle of Genesis Volatility and Pink Swan Trading (DeGen Data). GVol allows for one to manage risks, identify opportunities, analyze and trade activity, providing institutional grade crypto options analytics.To manage risks, use Gvol calculators to assist in estimating probabilities, Black-Scholes pricing, and…

Today on the Fortune Teller podcast, we are talking with Mason Burkhalter, Head of Operations at API3. API3 allows for the creation of trustless applications that interact with Web APIs. Instead of using legacy third-party oracle networks, API3 is moving towards first-party oracle options to provide more security, efficiency, regulatory compliance,…

Today’s guest on The Fortune Teller podcast is Leo Matchett, Co-Founder and CEO of Decentralized Pictures (DCP). Decentralized Pictures is a 501c(3) nonprofit organization with the idea that artistic talent may be discovered innovatively. Through user consensus, Decentralized Pictures has set up a democratic film fund, an online community of creati…

Today on the Fortune Teller podcast we have a very special guest, Robbie Heeger, Co-Founder & CEO of Endaoment. Before we begin, we have a special announcement: “Just yesterday, a group of teens announced they'd be working with Endaoment, the first fully on-chain 501(c)(3), to launch the first-ever DAO-based toy drive, elfDAO.16-year-old Byeongjun …

Today on the Fortune Teller Podcast, we have Anthony Georgiades Co-Founder of Pastel Network. The Pastel Network is a peer-to-peer decentralized platform to securely register, trade, and collect NFTs. One of Pastel’s core features is the Negligible Fees. With the high gas costs on the Ethereum Blockchain, some have to spend $500 worth of ETH to mak…

Today on the Fortune Teller Podcast, we are speaking with Matthijs de Vries, founder and CTO for AllianceBlock.AllianceBlock seamlessly brings DeFi and TradFi together. The future of finance is an integrated system in which the best of both worlds can work together to increase capital flows and technological innovation.The AllianceBlock technology …

Today, we are talking with Philippe Bekhazi, the CEO of XBTO. In 2015, we were the first to provide institutional-grade liquidity to major trading platforms. Since then, we have made significant efforts to create stability in the cryptocurrency markets. We continue to grow and shape the industry through our extensive technical knowledge of market in…

Today on the Fortune Tellers Podcast, we are talking with Alex DiNunzio, CEO of Jambb, a digital marketplace that helps fans acquire epic moments in live comedy as NFTs (Non-fungible Tokens). One of the main buckets is novel content that the audience has not seen before. For example, someone recorded an old show on VHS. One can take it to YouTube, …

Today we are talking with Jan Stockhausen, chief legal architect of Etherisc, a decentralized insurance protocol with products to protect a variety of assets anywhere from crops to crypto wallets. Users of Etherisc also have the capability to request or build an insurance product of their own. Ideas of governance, insurance, financial services comp…

​​Today’s guest is Barron Solomon, the founder of Solo Music, a global music marketplace. Solo Music uses smart contracts and NFTs to create digital music assets and connect artists, fans, and the industry at large. Barron’s background is in the IT space, where he worked to help small to medium-sized businesses migrate from a physical infrastructur…

Today we are talking to the co-founder and CEO of Horizen Labs, Rob Viglione. Horizen Labs is a layer one blockchain-based technology company that focuses on data privacy and security. Horizen Labs was created in 2017, but Rob has been working with cryptocurrency since 2012. He says he first heard about Bitcoin while working and living in Afghanist…

Today we are talking with BTC VIX, admin of both WallStreetBets and SatoshiStreetBets. He describes himself as part of the core libertarian movement, being very skeptical of the Fed and central banks printing money. It was in this movement that he stumbled upon crypto and went down the rabbit hole. BTC VIX says he hasn’t looked back since 2013. He …

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Today we are talking to Rowland Graus, product manager at Agoric. Rowland says while in college, he roomed with 8-10 guys that were really into poker. Bitcoin became big in the poker community, and Rowland was in the perfect place to hear about it. As the years went by, Rowland tracked bitcoin, but didn’t really get pulled in until February 2017. I…

Today we’re talking with Zach Bronstein, the COO of Endaoment, a donor advised fund (DAF) provider in decentralized finance. Endaoments mission is to encourage charitable giving of cryptocurrencies. Before Endaoment, Zach spent five years at Morgan Stanley in the finance department. Before that, he says his life revolved around non-profit involveme…

Today we’re talking to Xochitl Cazador, Head of Ecosystem Growth at Celo Labs. Xochitl considers her background unique, as she came from a small town in Mexico with no running water and no electricity. Coming from a town of 200, she was the first in her family to go to college. From there, she became an executive for a Fortune 500 company. This is …

Today we’re talking to Jake Brukhman, founder and CEO of CoinFund. Jake has always been a computer science and math guy, with a 10-year career in financial technology. He says he learned about bitcoin in 2011 and while he thought it was fascinating, it took him a couple of years to really understand what blockchains were. It was after reading a whi…

Today we’re talking with Humpty Calderon, Head of Community at Ontology, a blockchain for self-sovereign ID and data. They specialize in things like decentralized data exchange, credit based cross chain lending, and more. Before joining Ontology Humpty was introduced to the world of DeFi through bitcoin in 2015. He started digging into conversation…

Today we’re talking with Alan Chiu, co-founder and CEO of Enya which recently launched a L2. Alan says when crypto started taking off last year Enya was still helping to fight Covid. They had developed a distributed crypto symptom tracker that was used by 13 million people. This is when Alan started to see the potential of what he had learned in th…

Today we’re talking with Joe Lallouz, co-founder and CEO of Bison Trails. Joe says his journey into crypto was long but pretty organic. As an engineer, Joe is a very technical person, and it was the technology perspective of crypto that caught his interest early on. He had friends that were more involved in the bitcoin side of things, and they show…

Today we’re speaking with Anastasiya Belyaeva, one of the co-founders of Fabric Ventures. Anastasiya has always had a vision of the world where things work differently and where individuals are free to organize in ways that they like, to set up goals and accomplish them without needing to ask permission to participate in the economy. After graduati…

Today we’re talking to Sid Powell, the co-founder and CEO of Maple Finance, an institutional marketplace for capital built on the Ethereum blockchain. Sid has a traditional finance background, where he worked in banking and mortgage and asset backed securities. He says he was always more fascinated by what it would take to build a business, so he j…

Today we’re talking with Regan Bozman, co-founder of Lattice Capital, an early stage crypto venture fund. Regan says they invest in tokens, equity, NFTs, DeFi, and the like. Four and a half years ago, Regan was working at AngelList when he and some others spun out CoinList. Regan was the first employee to jump over, and he spent three and a half ye…

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