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The Fintech Blueprint — 203 episodes

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Inside the $1B-a-Day Stablecoin Market Maker for 1,500 Institutions, with B2C2's Cactus Raazi

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How Marqeta Built the $400B Modern Card Issuing Platform, with CEO Mike Milotich

3

The $6B Decentralized AI Network, with Yuma CRO Evan Malanga

4

Inside Mercury's $650M Revenue Machine, with CEO Immad Akhund

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How Polygon Became the Payments Chain Moving $2.3T in Stablecoins, with CEO Marc Boiron

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Building Privacy Infrastructure for 35+ Global Financial Institutions, with Matter Labs CEO Alex Gluchowski

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How Alpaca built the API brokerage for 300+ global fintechs across 45 Countries, with CEO Yoshi Yokokawa

8

Building the $3B Ethereum Treasury Company, with SharpLink CEO Joseph Chalom

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The Quiet Fintech Behind $85 Billion in Transactions, with Payoneer CEO John Caplan

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Building DeFi's $25B Liquidity Engine, with Curve Founder Michael Egorov

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Building a Top 5 Global Crypto Exchange with 120M Users, with Bitget CEO Gracy Chen

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From $12.5M ICO to $100B+ in On-Chain Infrastructure, with Gnosis Co-Founder Friederike Ernst

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Building the $500MM+ Binance-based Digital Asset Treasury, with BNB Network CEO David Namdar

14

How WalletConnect Became the $400B Web3 Connectivity Layer, with CEO Jess Houlgrave

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How Tandems/SigFig became a $60B Wealth AI platform, with CEO Mike Sha

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Managing $2B+ in On Chain Assets, with KPK Co-Founder Marcelo Ruiz de Olano

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Building the $130B global payments platform, with Airwallex’s Ravi Adusumilli

18

How to Invest in the best Crypto Funds, with Matthew Le Merle CEO of Blockchain Coinvestors

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How the Central Bank of Brazil built Pix, powering 6 billion monthly transactions

20

Building the €8 Billion neobank, with Bunq CEO Ali Niknam

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Growing to $45B in volume on Zerohash crypto infra, with CEO Edward Woodford

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Tokenizing $3.6T of real world assets on Canton Network, with CEO Yuval Rooz

23

Forty Billion Reasons to Trust the Future of DeFi, with Aave Founder Stani Kulechov

24

Inside the Platform Powering +$171B in Private Capital, with AngelList CEO Avlok Kohli

25

400 Startups Building the Post-Web Economy, with Outlier Ventures Founder Jamie Burke

26

The $500MM Startup Making Payroll Painless, with Gusto Co-Founder Joshua Reeves

27

Reinventing Traditional Services through Modern Platforms, with David Snider CEO of Harness Wealth

28

How Metronome is Building the Revenue Engine for AI, with CEO Scott Woody

29

Building a Trustless Supercomputer for Web3 and AI, with Arweave's Founder Sam Williams

30

The Virtual Card Revolution Powering $7 Billion in Transactions, with Extend CEO Andrew Jamison

31

How Sei is Breaking Ethereum's Limits with Co-Founder Jayendra Jog

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Protecting 2,700 Customers Across 100 Million Transactions, with Socure's CTO Arun Kumar

33

Curve’s Big Bet Reinventing Payments and Wallets, with CEO Shachar Bialick

34

The Decentralized AI Revolution with 0G Labs CEO, Michael Heinrich

35

Coinbase view on the future of crypto, with VP of International Policy Tom Duff Gordon

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Scaling Dynasty to 2,5k Monthly Signups using TikTok, with CEO Alessandro Chesser

37

What really happened at Synapse according to Founder Sankaet Pathak

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Brigit's journey to $100MM+ revenue and $1B in fees saved, with CEO Zuben Mathews

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Building a 800,000 device DePIN blockchain, with Peaq Founder Till Wendler

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Pipe's Pivot from Revenue Exchange to Digital Lending, with CEO Luke Voiles

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Embedding Insurance in digital lending, with Danielle Sesko of TruStage

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How Provenance blockchain tokenised $10B+ of Real World Assets, with Provenance Foundation CEO, Anthony Moro

43

What makes a successful AI investor, with Fusion Fund Founder Lu Zhang

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The rise, fall, and turnaround of Better Mortgage, with CEO Vishal Garg

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The AI-led digital wealth revolution, with Origin CEO Matt Watson

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Building Artificial Intelligence we can trust using ZK Proofs, with EZKL CEO Jason Morton

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How Affirm built the Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) industry, with President Libor Michalek

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Betterment's path to $45B and beyond, with CEO Sarah Levy

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Powering $2.5T of Private Equity, with Carta Head of Policy Anthony Cimino

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How NVIDIA is accelerating financial services into the AI age, with NVIDIA Global Head of Financial Services Industry Malcom deMayo

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The promise behind investing in private credit, with Percent CEO Nelson Chu

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Saving DeFi from financial hacks, with Quantstamp CEO Richard Ma

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Building on Bitcoin Lightning Network and Lessons from Libra, with Lightspark Chief Strategy Officer Christian Catalini

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How AI is generating and digitizing documentation across financial services, with Arteria AI CEO Shelby Austin

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The evolution of derivates from structured products to decentralized perpetuals, with SynFutures CEO Rachel Lin

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Investing in frontier capital markets, from Eastern Europe to ICOs, and tokenized securities, with TenSquared Capital Managing Partner Stan Miroshnik

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Building modern digital lending across Capital One, Barclaycard, Funding Circle, and TRIVER, with TRIVER CEO Jerome Le Luel

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Understanding Autonolas, the $2B autonomous agent network running on blockchain, with Valory CEO David Minarsch

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The state of Fintech and the sector's biggest opportunities, with FT Partners CEO Steve McLaughlin and Fintech Meetup CEO Jon Lear

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Advancing Bitcoin with Lightning, Inscriptions, and L2s, with Blockstream's Chief Product Officer Jeff Boortz

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How Animoca Brands built an empire at the intersection of Gaming and Finance, with Animoca Brands Chairman Yat Siu

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Can open banking power AI-based finance?, with Bud CEO Ed Maslaveckas

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Bringing MetaMask to the next billion users, with Agoric CEO Dean Tribble and MetaMask Co-Founder Daniel Finlay

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Modernizing private investment infrastructure, with Templum CEO Christopher Pallotta

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How Legalist, a $770MM litigation finance investment firm, uses tech and data analytics to deliver alpha, with Co-Founder Eva Shang

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Engineering the Dollar from ETH and Perpetuals, with Ethena Labs founder Guy Young

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Using AI to digitize financial documents at scale, with Ocrolus CEO Sam Bobley

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Embedding lending and credit into the fintech value proposition, with Canopy CEO Matt Bivons

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Embedding Web3 infrastructure into Web2 platforms, with Bastion Co-Founders Nassim Eddequiouaq and Riyaz Faizullabhoy

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Mastering fintech from public to private investments, with Portage CEO Adam Felesky

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Applying artificial intelligence to investing and finance, with Auquan CEO Chandini Jain

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How to build a $60B volume global payments platform, with Rapyd CEO Arik Shtilman

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MoneyLion's evolution from neobank to financial education marketplace, with CMO Cynthia Kleinbaum Milner

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The Techstars Web3 thesis and advice on building companies, with Pete Townsend Managing Director at Techstars

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Modernizing the entire banking system, with Caitlin Long, CEO of Custodia Bank

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How AI-enriched data aggregation is empowering the next generation of financial institutions, with Envestnet's Farouk Ferchichi

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Deconstructing fintech innovations, valuations, and exit strategies,with Royal Park Partners Managing Partner Aman Behzad

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A glimpse into stablecoin Tether and crypto exchange Bitfinex, with CTO Paolo Ardoino

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How to be a great fintech venture capital investor, with Vintage Investment Partners General Partner Asaf Horesh

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From gift cards to a global payments network of digital value, with Runa CEO Aron Alexander

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Visa's network-of-networks strategy and vision for Web3 commerce, with Visa Europe's SVP Emma Kerr

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How to build an investment fintech with over 3 million members, with Public Founder Leif Abraham

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How embedded finance leader Synapse grew to powering 10MM+ consumers, with CEO Sankaet Pathak

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Revolutionizing Web3 identity with lessons from IBM and Amazon

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Using macroeconomic and fundamental analysis to understand crypto markets, with Arca CIO Jeff Dorman

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From mobile credit to autonomous accounting using financial data and AI, with Puzzle CEO Sasha Orloff

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The role of USDC and tokenized cash in Decentralized Commerce, with Teana Baker-Taylor, Circle VP of Policy and Regulatory Strategy EMEA

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Exploring Stripe's growth in embedded finance, with Stripe Head of Startups for Banking-as-a-Service, Ashwin Kumar

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Exploring Nigeria's payments landscape and CBDC eNaira's adoption, with Remita's Alisa Chinedu

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The success of crypto payment processing in eCommerce, with Triple-A CEO Eric Barbier

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Investing in technology platform shifts, from Fintech to Generative AI, with A16z General Partner Anish Acharya

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Building an $800MM blockchain infrastructure company with Quicknode COO, Jackie Kennedy

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Value of digital identity in fintech and crypto, with Plaid Head of Identity Alain Meier

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Data aggregation for small businesses across banking, accounting, and commerce, with Codat CTO David Hoare

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Building a decentralized exchange and appchain for perpetual contracts, with dYdX CEO Antonio Juliano

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Modern Wealthtech for complex balance sheets, with Masttro CEO Padman Perumal

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The psychology of entrepreneurship and reimagining collaboration behind Web3 analytics, with Flipside Crypto CEO Dave Balter

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Building a sovereign, privacy-first, programmable, economic infrastructure, with Anoma CEO Christopher Goes

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Predicting the market using a machine learning competition built on a decentralized science platform, with CrunchDAO CEO Arnaud Castillo

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Diving into Ethereum Restaking and DeFi, with Calvin Liu Chief Strategy Officer of EigenLayer

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Reinventing the credit card as a Fintech super app

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Modern spend management systems for CFOs and employees, with Payhawk CEO Hristo Borisov

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How DAOs and Web3 organizations scale financial operations, with Utopia Labs CEO Kaito Cunningham

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Integrating smartphone behavioural data to manage credit risk and fraud, with Credolab CSO Michele Tucci

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Creating a B2C fintech marketing strategy

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Software contracts and composability unlocking economic growth, with Agoric CEO Dean Tribble

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Powering the AI revolution from DeepDream to Dall-E, with Lambda Labs CEO Stephen Balaban

108

Combining payments infrastructure for merchants, digital lending, and DeFi, with Stronghold CEO Sean Bennett

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The $100B fintech custodian powering digital investing, with CEO of Apex Bill Capuzzi

110

The Fintech Blueprint guide to designing your 2023 business model

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Building digital assets into roboadvisor strategy, with Betterment VP of Crypto Investing Jesse Proudman

112

Scaling a core ledger for neobanks, processors, brokerages, and payment providers, with Twisp CEO Jarred Ward

113

The emerging problems in banking-as-a-service, with Lex Sokolin and Will Beeson

114

How to blow up a $32B crypto exchange, with Binance Labs MD of Token Engineering, David Shuttleworth

115

Adam Nash, Daffy CEO & former Wealthfront CEO, on using technology to improve people's financial lives

116

Embedded custody services and crypto IRAs using fintech APIs, with Prime Trust CEO Tom Pageler

117

Metaverse-native virtual artists and their financial ecosystem, with Hume CEO David Beiner

118

AI-based underwriting of small business insurance, with Coterie CEO David McFarland

119

Lex Sokolin's 2022 investing and building thesis -- the evolutionary relationship between Tech, Finance, and Web3

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Creating the neobank and embedded finance industry, with Sila CEO and Simple Co-Founder Shamir Karkal

121

How Binance is investing $1B in the BNB ecosystem, with BNB Chain Investment Director Gwendolyn Regina

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Growing an AI-powered digital lender to $850MM in revenue, with Upstart's SVP of Business Development Jeff Keltner

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Eliminating payments fraud from Fintech and Web3 using AI, with Sardine CEO Soups Ranjan

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Transforming art, private equity, and securities into tokenized assets on chain, with Securitize's CEO Carlos Domingo

125

Implications of the Ethereum Merge for Web3, with Justin Drake of The Ethereum Foundation

126

Podcast Conversation: Building Dave, the neobank saving users $1B in overdraft fees, with Dave Founder and CEO, Jason Wilk

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Teaching financial AI to be ethical and fair, with Fairplay CEO Kareem Saleh

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How virtual worlds, vast communities, and traditional entertainment are shaping the $200B Web3 gaming sector, with Mark Aubrey of Catheon Gaming

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Connecting 500,000+ small businesses to digital working capital, with Fundbox CEO Prashant Fuloria

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Combining AI and DeFi to underwrite Web3 risks, with RociFi Co-Founder Chris Brookins

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Eliminating payday loans and overdraft fees for 2.5MM employees, with Matt Kopko of DailyPay

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What is GameFi and the $1B+ fractal DAO building it, with BitDAO Head of Product Strategy Jacobc.eth

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Navigating the macro environment and crypto financial crisis, with the ConsenSys Cryptoeconomics team

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The strategy behind Revolut's merchant acquiring and paytech growth, with Simon Taylor, Head of Strategy & Content at Sardine.ai

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Powering a BNPL platform with a global lender network, with ChargeAfter CEO Meidad Sharon

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Embedding financial workflow automation in digital banking platforms, with Monite CEO Ivan Maryasin

137

Growing startups through revenue-based funding, with Arc Co-founder Nick Lombardo

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Were we wrong about neobanks and B2C fintech? With 2x digital bank founder Will Beeson

139

Building the income and employment data layer for financial services, with Pinwheel CEO Kurtis Lin

140

Helping DeFi and Web3 developers integrate crypto onramps in 125 countries with Sami Start of Transak

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Scaling Ethereum and Web3 using Arbitrum optimistic rollups, with Offchain Labs CEO Steven Goldfeder

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NEAR Foundation CEO Marieke Flament on building USDC issuer Circle, business neobank Mettle, and growing the NEAR ecosystem

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Building a $200MM DeFi asset manager and DAO treasury management tools, with Mona El Isa of Enzyme

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25 years of cypherpunk innovation in money, privacy, and music, with Chia Network COO Gene Hoffman

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Launching protocols, DAOs, and NFTs in media and finance, with CEO of Palm NFT studio Dan Heyman

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Aggregating Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and structuring a DAO, with Sergej Kunz of 1inch

147

Building an insurtech platform that scales from Fintech to DeFi, with Cover CEO Karn Saroya

148

Stablecoins, Curve Wars, and Olympus as Reserve Currency, with DeFi Researcher Luca Prosperi

149

Perpetual futures in DeFi and seeing frontier technology, with Perpetual Protocol Co-Founder Yenwen Feng

150

Embedding crypto assets into fintech footprints, with Zero Hash CEO Edward Woodford

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Investing in Web3 and fintech for CFOs, with Redpoint's Urvashi Barooah

152

The Embedded finance revolution in cards and payments, with Highnote founder John MacIlwaine

153

Rebuilding banking starting with Teens, with Current CTO Trevor Marshall

154

Building an investment platform with a risk management heart, with Riskalyze CEO Aaron Klein

155

Powering billions of API-first payment operations, with Modern Treasury's CEO & Founder Dimitri Dadiomov

156

Distributing €1.4 trillion of investment funds on blockchain, with Allfunds' Ruben Nieto

157

Modernizing $25B of assets with retirement wealthtech, with Vestwell CEO Aaron Schumm

158

Upgrading DeFi market-making and liquidity programs, with Carson Cook of Tokemak

159

Solving climate change through financial services, with Aspiration CEO Andrei Cherny

160

Building the world’s most powerful blockchain development suite, with Michael Godsey of Infura

161

Pioneering Crypto ETPs to $3B in assets in 3 years, with 21Shares CEO Hany Rashwan

162

Investing in real estate, crypto, and startups using your retirement account, with Rocket Dollar CEO Henry Yoshida

163

Origins of Metamask's 20 million Web3 users, with co-founder Dan Finlay

164

Powering the FX behind Africa's trillion-dollar growth, with Aza CEO Elizabeth Rossiello

165

Digitizing banks with better BNPL, Underwriting, and Anti-Fraud Tech, with Amount CEO Adam Hughes

166

DAOs 101, with SharkDAO, PartyDAO, and Juicebox contributor Nicholas

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Building a $15B+ embedded loan management platform, with LoanPro CEO Rhett Roberts

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Chainlink Co-Founder Sergey Nazarov on building the global decentralized oracle network powering DeFi and Web3

169

How China is winning the race in Fintech, Payments, and CBDCs, with Fintech expert Richard Turrin

170

Scaling Web3 with the $10B+ Polygon protocol, with COO Sandeep Nailwal

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CEO of Yield App, Tim Frost, on integrating DeFi Yield products into a regulated Fintech company

172

Robinhood's order flow disrupting equities and crypto market structure, with Paul Rowady of Alphacution

173

What's next in Web3? Tachyon Accelerator's MD Gabriel Anderson on early stage in NFTs, DeFi, & Crypto

174

Artificial intelligence, big data, and the future of financial services with Kevin Levitt of NVIDIA

175

Art Blocks CEO Erick Calderon on Generative Art, Blockchains, and the NFT movement

176

Metaverse 101 with Lex Sokolin and Cris Sheridan, Sr. Editor of Financial Sense

177

Altruist CEO Jason Wenk on WealthTech, financial planning, advice, and generally improving financial health

178

Treasury Prime CEO Chris Dean on Banking-as-a-service, embedded finance, and the evolution of FinTech API infrastructure

179

Sheila Warren of the World Economic Forum on the 4th Industrial Revolution, the role of Law, Government, and DAOs, and the Creator Economy

180

Step CEO CJ MacDonald on building the leading Gen-Z bank, TikTok influencers, and culture

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eToro CEO Yoni Assia on the purpose of investing, crypto assets, and building a $10B fintech

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Fintech venture investing after a career in the US treasury and Wall St equity research, with Patrick Pinschmidt of MiddleGame Ventures

183

Building the best payments fiat to crypto onramp, with Ivan Soto-Wright of MoonPay

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Inspiring creativity, collaboration, and visual conversation by harnessing decentralized tech, with Beatriz Helena Ramos of DADA.art

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From ecommerce to a million+ global financial community, with Maximilian Rofagha of Finimize

186

Developing regenerative finance using memes for the public good, with Kevin Owocki of Gitcoin

187

The software stack powering Capital Markets and its coming transformation, with Horacio Barakat of Broadridge

188

Rob Leshner of Compound on creating a multi-billion DeFi lending protocol, and innovation under constraint

189

Digital banking opportunities across geographies and generations, with Will Beeson of Bella

190

Decentralized Identity and the Metaverse, with Michael Sena of The Ceramic Network

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Scaling B2B cross-border payments and the competition between global payment rails, with Marwan Forzley of Veem

192

Building the foundational money DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) in DeFi, with Rune Christensen of Maker Foundation

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Building global paytech companies and communities with Anil Aggarwal of TxVia, Money2020, and Fintech Meetup

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Building blockchain money and sustainable economies, with former Supervisory Board Chairman of the Icelandic Central Bank and Co-founder of Monerium, Jon Egilsson

195

Camila Russo of The Defiant and author of The Infinite Machine discusses crypto journalism, writing about Ethereum's inception, $69M NFTs, and building a DeFi community

196

Joe Lubin, ConsenSys CEO and Ethereum co-founder discusses AI, macroeconomics, philosophy, and the future of the $200 billion Ethereum network

197

How a moment on the NYC 6 train turned into using NFTs in the $74T supply chain industry before NFTs were cool, with Tyler Mulvihill of EulerBeats

198

$60B digital capital markets, crypto law and regulation, and Ethereum Layer 2 scaling, with Pat Berarducci

199

Matt Low of InveniumX discusses the $250M of non-fungible tokens and the $200MM crypto neo-cyberpunk art market for digital objects (e.g., Beeple, NBA Top Shots), with emerging financial features

200

How M1 Finance's $3B AUM super-app is outcompeting Wealthfront, Robinhood, and Schwab, with CEO Brian Barnes

201

The path from institutional finance (Goldman) to enterprise blockchain (PwC) to the $26B edge of DeFi innovation (Aave) with Ajit Tripathi

202

Embedded Finance as a $7 trillion market opportunity for banks in the business of suffering, with Simon Torrance

203

Who wins and loses in the Plaid/Visa divorce, and the $10 Billion in new Fintech SPACs (Bakkt and SoFi)