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Wyre Talks
by Wyre
Wyre talks to the brightest minds in crypto to go beyond the hype in bitcoin, ethereum, and other cryptocurrency topics.
Episodes
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Ep 55, Secure Autonomous Earnings Through Staking and Defi—With Tim Ogilvie of Staked
DeFi and staking are classified as two different animals. And yet, both facilitate a protocol-level interaction with a smart contract that pays a yield over time. For that reason, Tim Ogilvie and the team at Staked are playing in both arenas, helping customers put their idle crypto to use. Tim is...
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Ep 54, Creating the Censorship-Resistant Standard for Global Free Speech —With Brad Kam of Unstoppable Domains
Imagine having the capacity to build a website that only you can put up or take down. A website that doesn’t require you to answer to any government or powerful company. A truly censorship-resistant website created on a decentralized registry. Brad Kam is the Cofounder and Head of Business...
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Ep 53, Hashflow — Bringing Financial Market Structure to Crypto with Varun Vruddhula and Lawson Baker
Scalability. Interoperability. Liquidity. Any number of projects in the crypto space are working to tackle these problems. But just one is solving for all three at the same time and leveraging cashflow incentives to encourage participation in the network. Varun Vruddhula is the Founder of…
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Payments Evolved — Announcing Wyre V2 and the Future of Payments in Crypto with Michael Dunworth and Jack Jia of Wyre
Here at Wyre, we’re in a unique market position, serving as a bridge from the traditional payments ecosystem to the Wild West that is cryptocurrency. And we spend a lot of time on the podcast getting granular about innovative crypto projects and blockchain technology, but we have yet to focus our...
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Ep 51, An Early Technologist’s Perspective on Investing —with Joey Krug of Augur & Pantera Capital
It’s no surprise that Joey Krug is a fan of taking calculated risks. After all, he was betting on horse races (and winning) in middle school and eventually created a mechanism for making bets on the blockchain. As an early crypto developer, Joey had the opportunity to meet a lot of promising...
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Ep 50, Gnosis - The Full-Stack Predictions Market with Stefan George, Co-Founder, and CTO
GNOSIS is a pioneer in the Ethereum ecosystem, creating the first implementation of both the multisig and smart contract wallets. Their pivotal technology served as the backbone for many ICOs, and the GNOSIS team was the first to leverage the Dutch auction for trading. So, how did the team at...
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Ep 49, Value Accrual in Nascent Token Economies — with Lasse Clausen of 1kx Capital
If you ask Lasse Clausen, tokenized networks are better than free. And that’s why he has created a crypto investment fund around a token maximalist philosophy. A fund that capitalizes on permissionless innovation and declining trust in companies and governments. The 1kx thesis is flexible enough…
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Ep 48, The Smart Contract Wallet Bringing DeFi to the Mainstream —with Itamar Lesuisse & Julien Niset of Argent
The most powerful financial tools available live on the blockchain. The problem is, only crypto aficionados currently have access to these decentralized financial protocols like Kyber, Uniswap, Maker, and Compound. So, how can we serve the investing, trading and borrowing needs of non-crypto…
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Ep 47, Announcing tBTC with James Prestwich and Matt Luongo of Cross-Chain Group
It goes without saying that DeFi is better with Bitcoin as collateral. And there is an appetite among BTC holders for ways to actively apply our money. But as of yet, there is no way to bring Bitcoin onto Ethereum that is censorship-resistant and adheres to the #1 principle of BTC: No printing...
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Ep 46, Navigating the Crypto Investment Universe with Investor, Haseeb Qureshi
Crypto is a different animal. Investors who play in the blockchain space are putting their money on a science experiment rather than a company with a business plan. And the pace and complexity of the ecosystem make it impossible to have a depth of knowledge in any one area. So, the best crypto...
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Ep 45, The DAG Ledger Powering Wasm Smart Contracts—with Cofounders Kenta Iwasaki & Dorjee Sun of Perlin
The creators of Perlin still hold the long-term vision of developing a revenue-generating distributed ledger system that closes the wealth gap. But until smartphones are powerful enough and broadband speeds are fast enough, the team has expanded its scope to include Wavelet, a DAG ledger that...
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Ep 44, Powering Exchange - 0x Roadmap Update, with Founders Will Warren and Amir Bandeali
The ZRX token was created to facilitate governance for 0x as a public piece of infrastructure. It gave the community voting rights and was baked into the settlement layer as a way to collect fees. The idea was to get the token into the hands of the platform’s users. But soon after launch, the…
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Ep 43, Wyre Mid Year Recap - with Mike, Thomas, and Louis
Today, we're looking back at the first six months of 2019 to review the most important developments in crypto. We start with the launch of LIBRA, discussing its ambition to own the financial infrastructure in the developing world. We introduce the evolving narrative around Bitcoin and explore...
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Ep 42, Investing in Sci-Fi with Adam Draper, Managing Director of Boost VC
How do you develop a venture fund that invests in future tech like jetpacks and exoskeletons? According to Adam Draper, you start by branding yourself as the VC interested in ‘anything that gets me closer to an Ironman suit.’ This attracts the demented builders and deal flow of wild things you…
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Market Protocol: Bring Any Market to Ethereum Using Synthetic Assets —with Seth Rubin, Co-Founder, and CEO
Seth Rubin is the cofounder and CEO of MARKET Protocol, a framework for creating synthetic assets represented as tokens that allows users to gain exposure to a variety of assets without leaving the Ethereum network. Today, he joins us to discuss the launch of the MARKET Protocol Exchange (MPX)…
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Ep 40, Hummingbot - Community Driven Market Making with Michael Feng, Co-Founder, and CEO
Michael Feng was looking for a problem to solve, so he spent September of 2018 talking to everyone he could in the crypto space. The notion of liquidity kept coming up, and without knowing exactly what the solution might be, he and his team set out to answer the question: How do you create the...
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Ep 39, Omniex - Priming for Institutional Entry with Co-Founder, John Burnett
John Burnett is the Cofounder and Head of Business Development and Strategy at Omniex, an institutional operating platform for investment managers and active traders focused on crypto assets. Today, he joins us to explain how Omniex is priming the crypto market for institutional entry, describing...
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Ep 38, UMA - The Primitive for Tokenized Financial Exposure with Co-Founders, Hart Lambur and Allison Lu
Today, we’re joined by the cofounders of UMA, COO Allison Lu and CEO Hart Lambur. Allison and Hart explain how UMA facilitates bilateral derivatives by allowing the short side to be levered and collateralizing the long side at 100%, and they describe how the tokenized derivative smart contract...
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Ep 37, Owning the Newcomer Experience - Wallet Panel with Itamar Lesuisse (CEO, Argent), Aaron Lasher (CSO, BRD) and Tom Teman (CEO, Portis)
Crypto wallets come in a variety of shapes and sizes. What the team stands for has an influence on who they serve, what services they offer, and how they address security. The architecture of the wallet itself is, in fact, shaped by each project’s core values. Curious how the co-founders of three...
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Ep 36, Uniswap - Liquidity by Virality with Founder, Hayden Adams
Hayden Adams is the founder of Uniswap, the decentralized exchange that affords users a simple smart contract interface for trading ERC-20 tokens, a formalized model for pooling liquidity reserves, and an open-source front-end for traders and liquidity providers. Today, Hayden joins us to offer...
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Ep 35, Rethinking the Blockchain Structure with Solana Co-founder and CEO Anatoly Yakovenko
Anatoly Yakovenko is the co-founder and CEO of Solana, a venture to rebuild the blockchain for scale. The Solana team is designing new architecture focused on high throughput with the goal of facilitating up to 700K transactions per second on a 1Gb network—without data partitioning. Today…
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Ep 34, Groundbreaking Asset Management Models with Set Protocol's Felix Feng and Inje Yeo
Felix Feng is the CEO and Inje Yeo is the CPO of Set Protocol, the first functional asset-management protocol on the Ethereum blockchain. The team’s ultimate goal lies in bringing wealth-creation tools to a global user base. Today, Felix and Inje join us to discuss the flexibility of the Set...
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Ep 33, Q1 Wrap-Up: Facecoin/ZuckBucks, Bitwise Report & DeFi —with Michael Dunworth, Louis Aboud-Hogben & Thomas Scaria
Today, we’re looking back on Q1 to explore the most important headlines in crypto. We start with a discussion of Facebook’s motivation to enter the space and how the introduction of ZuckBucks might impact the ecosystem as a whole. Michael shares his take on the Bitwise report, explaining why it...
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Ep 32, The Future of Margin Lending in Crypto with Tom Bean & Kyle Kistner of bZx
By definition, margin lending is not fully collateralized. Some sort of mechanism is necessary to ensure that lenders receive their full principal, with interest, even under unforeseen circumstances. In crypto, one way to handle this is with tokens. So, what would that look like? Why are some...
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Ep 31, DeFi the Odds: Growing an Open Financial System with Clay Robbins (0x), Brendan Forster (Dharma) and Calvin Liu (Compound)
Of the 7.5 billion people in the world, 40 million have used cryptocurrency. 2 million possess non-custodial service wallets, but only tens of thousands are engaged in using DeFi services, specifically. So, how do we get more people interested in decentralized finance? Will there be one principal...
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Ep 30, The Scoop on Trends in Token Sales with Andy Bromberg of CoinList
Andy Bromberg is the Cofounder and President at CoinList, the trusted resource for digital asset companies to manage their token sales, airdrops and online hackathons. Andy was also a founding research scientist at the Stanford Bitcoin Group. Today, he joins us to explain how the idea for…
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Ep 29, Building the Foundation for Private Finance with Loong Wang CTO of Ren
Loong Wang is the CTO of Ren, a project working to create an ecosystem for unstoppable privacy. The protocol allows users to transfer tokens in zero-knowledge, trustlessly swap between blockchains, and trade on a dark pool. Today, Loong joins us to explain how the need for a decentralized…
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Ep 28, Creating Stability out of Chaos - Advanced Maker Topics with Rune Christensen, Founder of MakerDAO
Rune is the cofounder and CEO of MakerDAO, the originator of Dai, the world’s first stablecoin built on the Ethereum blockchain. Dai serves to eliminate volatility through a system of smart contracts designed to respond to market dynamics. Today, Rune joins us to discuss the imminent launch of...
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Ep 27, Dharma - The Easiest Place to Borrow and Lend Cryptocurrency—with Nadav Hollander
Nadav is the Founder and Project Lead at Dharma, a decentralized protocol for globally accessible lending products built on Ethereum. Today, he joins us to discuss the current audience for the Dharma Lever product and share his long-term ambitions for the platform. Nadav explains how he thinks...
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Ep 26, Unifying Blockchains Elegantly via Cross-Chain Solutions — with James Prestwich and Matthew Hammond of Summa
James Prestwich and Matthew Hammond are two of the three cofounders of Summa, a startup working to provide high-impact financial tools for the new economy. At present, the team is leveraging their expertise in blockchain architecture to create contracts that link assets across chains. Today…
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Ep 25, How Digital Scarcity is Revolutionizing Gaming -- with Devin Finzer of Open Sea
Devin Finzer is the co-founder of OpenSea, the world’s largest digital marketplace for crypto collectibles. He graduated from Brown in 2013 and worked as a software engineer at Pinterest before getting into the startup space. Devin’s finance app, ClaimDog, was acquired by Credit Karma in 2016…
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Ep 24, Delivering Crypto to the Masses with Erik Voorhees, CEO of ShapeShift and Taylor Monahan, CEO of MyCrypto.
We’ve come a long way, baby. In fact, it’s mindboggling to consider the progress cryptocurrency has made, as an industry, since the introduction of Bitcoin in 2009. But we’re still a long way from mass adoption. So, how can improvements in UX lower the barrier to entry? Who are the players…
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Ep 23, Decentralization's Trojan Horse - CODA Protocol with Evan Shapiro, Co-Founder and CEO
Today, Evan joins us to discuss the immense resources required to verify cryptocurrency and how Coda is tackling the problem. He shares the fundamentals of Coda Protocol and its side project, Snarky, explaining why they use functional programming and how the team is dealing with scalability...
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Ep 22, The One Stop Shop for Decentralized Liquidity — with David Bleznak of Totle
David Bleznak is the founder and CEO of Totle, the world’s first on-chain order routing solution. By aggregating the liquidity of the top decentralized exchanges, Totle’s software solution makes crypto investing and asset management easy. David began his career investing in the real estate space...
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Ep 21, Navigating the Regulatory Landscape in the Blockchain Space—with Crypto Lawyer Ryón Nixon
Ryón Nixon is General Counsel at MyCrypto and Founding Partner of Horizons Law & Consulting Group, a boutique crypto and blockchain corporate and litigation law firm. Ryón’s interest in working with startups led him to Boost VC, where his exposure to entrepreneurs in the blockchain space afforded...
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Ep 20, Designing for Liquidity — with Alex Wearn, CEO of IDEX (Aurora)
Today, Alex joins us to discuss Aurora’s mission to recreate the financial stack through a hybrid decentralized exchange and the company’s plans to decentralize over time. We ask Alex about AURA staking, and he speaks to the current return for running a node. He also offers insight around why…
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Ep 19, MakerDAO, Novel Paradigms for Risk Management with Steven Becker, President and COO
In this Wyre Talks, we are excited to host Steven Becker COO and President of MakerDAO. Having spent his career at various trading desks on Wall Street banks and high stakes hedge funds, Steven is no stranger to managing risk. However, a new challenge arose as he was tapped to run the…
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Ep 18, Fetch, Evolving a wallet into a financial services firm with Co-Founder and CEO Hansmeet Seethi.
Fetch is a wallet with trade execution capabilities. Fetch is evolving into a financial services firm by pursuing the appropriate regulations to offer securities trading to their users. This will allow them to market US securities internationally and bring international securities to US citizens....
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Ep 17, Lessons learned from 2018 and predictions for 2019
What an eventful year at Wyre and in the crypto ecosystem. Outsiders will look at the price/headlines and think the whole industry is in crisis. We don’t think that’s the case at all. Infact, we welcome the negative press since it chruns the non-believers out of the space so that the true...
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Ep 16, Compound — Yield Opportunities in Crypto with Robert Leshner, Founder and CEO
Less is more - keep it simple. That's the elegance of the Compound protocol. Compound has created a liquid, on-chain lending market. By keeping loan terms identical and utilizing a cohesive rate interest model, Compound has created a deep liquidity in a floating rate money market. With a…
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Ep 15, CarpeNoctom, Inside the mind of a full-time Bitcoin trader with Josh Olszewicz
Overview: Josh’s trading style as it pertains to risk management, sizing, instruments, The mindset and habits of a winning trader. A profile of the early Bitcoin trading community. The impact on the derivative markets in crypto on underlying spot markets. The relationship between information...
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Ep 14, Alchemy: A Leading Blockchain Intelligence and Infrastructure Platform - with Nikil Viswanathan CEO and Joe Lau CTO
In this episode of Wyre Talks, we're excited to have Joe Lau (cofounder & CTO) and Nikil Viswanathan (cofounder & CEO) of Alchemy, join us for the show. Alchemy, the world's leading blockchain intelligence and infrastructure company, powers the top hedge funds managing billions of dollars. In…
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Ep 13, Dan Held — Bitcoin: Where we started and where we are now.
You can follow the hosts on Twitter! Thomas Scaria (host): @tomscaria Louis Aboud (co-host): @louAboudHogben
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Ep 12, dYdX - Decentralized margin trading for the average user, with Antonio Juliano and Zhuoxun Yin.
You can follow the hosts on Twitter! Thomas Scaria (host): @tomscaria Louis Aboud (co-host): @louAboudHogben
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Ep 11, Paradigm Market - Aggregated Liquidity: The Bumpy Road to Trading Nirvana with Liam Kovatch and Henry Harder
You can follow the hosts on Twitter! Thomas Scaria (host): @tomscaria Louis Aboud (co-host): @louAboudHogben
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Ep 10, Trade any asset in the world using Ethereum: Seth Rubin, founder and CEO of Market Protocol
You can follow the hosts on Twitter! Thomas Scaria (host): @tomscaria Louis Aboud (co-host): @louAboudHogben
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Ep 9, The scalable DEX built on plasma with Andrew Gazdecki, Founder and CEO of Altcoin.io
You can follow the host on Twitter! Thomas Scaria: @tomscaria
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Ep 8, How traditional VC money is changing crypto with John Evans CEO and founder of Decision CFO.
You can follow the host on Twitter! Thomas Scaria: @tomscaria
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Ep. 7, Fixing the Lehman Problem with Crypto: John Piotrowski, Founder and CEO of The Ocean
In this Wyre Talks, our guest is John Piotrowski, founder and CEO of The Ocean. John has a past life in political campaigning and traditional finance, but made the pivot to cryptocurrency and founded the Ocean in 2017. The Ocean provides wallet-to-wallet trading on a high performance,...
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Ep. 6, Powering the Decentralized Exchange Ecosystem: Tom Schmidt and Alex Xu, 0x protocol
In this special live edition of Wyre Talks, we host Tom Schmidt, Product Manager, and Alex Xu, Director of Operations, of 0x protocol. In this episode, we discuss: Operational hurdles with setting up a decentralized project in early 2017 Why does 0x not have any partnerships? Fat protocol thesis...
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