Welcome to LunarCrush Live! Today we’ll be joined by the Co-Founder & CEO of Pinata, Kyle Tut, and the VP of Product, Justin Hunter. We’ll dive into their past experiences and how that led to creating Pinata, a media management solution for builders and creators in web3!

Originally aired on Nov 25, 2023

In this episode, Alex and Shimon discuss the following:
* The recent ripple effects from the interest rate increases
* The large hit that crypto took
* The FTX saga – using customer funds to gamble with
* FTX valuation drivers and why they weren’t reliable
* Lack of due diligence by traditional VCs
* Effective altruism and it’s possible terrible consequences
* DeFi yield and where it comes from* Is punitive regulation coming?

Welcome to LunarCrush Live! Today we will host Jeff ‘Jihoz’ Zirlin from Sky Mavis, a technology-focused game studio. Sky Mavis creates virtual worlds, marketplaces, and infrastructure, enabling its products to reach millions of players worldwide. Most notably, they are known for their flagship game, Axie Infinity.

Originally aired on Nov 30, 2022

Jesse and Priscilla talk with the all-star team of physicists and technologists making traversing wormholes possible, and their discovery helps confirm String theory. These quantum pioneers include Maria Spiropulu, the senior investigator at CERN who oversaw the discovery of the Higgs boson particle.

Read more about the fascinating work this team is doing in the articles below:

Pat Gerleman, Chief Revenue Officer, and Keith Wagner, Chief Marketing Officer at AlterVerse, discuss the upcoming Multiverse gaming platform. Multiverse aims to provide worldwide infrastructure for a Metaverse hybrid gaming platform with customizable servers for games, cities, associations, and more. They explain how AlterVerse aims to solve the issues of connecting wallets or identities to games in a Web3 world by offering free-to-play experiences. Additionally, they touch on their first native game offering, SkyCity, and its various features, such as shopping, racing, flying, shooting, and crafting.

Sanjay Raghavan, head of Web3 Initiative at Roofstock, and Geoff Thompson, Chief Blockchain Officer at Roofstock, discuss how they have developed a legal and tax structure to turn rental properties into NFTs, streamlining the property acquisition process. They share their unique backgrounds and how they’ve combined their expertise to create a new way of transacting real estate, making homeownership more accessible through the use of blockchain and Web3 technology.

Benedetto Biondii is the CEO of Folk Finance, a lending protocol built on the Algorand blockchain that offers efficient governance-focused finance. Folks Finance aims to provide low-cost transactions, making it profitable for anyone, even those with only a few dollars of investment, to use the protocol. Developed by a software house in Milan, which is a global partner of Algorand, Folk Finance is designed to be different from other lending protocols found on Ethereum. The incentive system is built on a cash-back model for loans, making it more sensible and cost-effective for users.

Exclusive Interviews from Bitcoin Miami Conference with Major Dream Williams, Max Kordek, Dr. Lene Martin, Josh Kriger and more.

Scott Dykstra is the CTO of Space and Time, a decentralized data warehouse for Web3. Space and Time aims to build the data backbone for Web3, aggregating terabytes of data and connecting it to smart contracts on every major blockchain. The company stands out as the only enterprise-scale, terabyte-scale data warehouse in the space. They target DEFI gaming, enterprises, and web companies moving into Web3, enabling new use cases that wouldn’t be possible without Space and Time. As a blockchain-interoperable platform, it connects to major chains like Ethereum, Avalanche, Polygon, and Binance Smart Chain.

Patrick O’Meara, Chairman and CEO of Inveniam Capital Partners, explains how Inveniam serves as the data layer for decentralized finance, providing auditable and traceable data to understand and value private market assets. He discusses the company’s clientele, which includes large sovereign wealth funds, asset managers, and banks. By ensuring accurate data on asset performance, Inveniam aims to facilitate global secondary market trading for private market assets and reduce data asymmetry, thereby allowing decentralized finance to play a larger role in the financial system.

Medha Parlikar is the CTO and one of the co-founders of Casper Labs, a blockchain protocol designed to onboard the next 100 million users to blockchain technology. She shares her journey from building computers in her basement with her father to becoming a software engineer during the dot-com boom. Casper Labs aims to collaborate with enterprises and enable them to adopt blockchain technology, believing that consumer adoption will occur through products and services that use blockchain on the backend. Medha enjoys listening to feedback and learning about what features and functionality excite people in the blockchain space.

Grant VanWyk is the Chief Technology Officer of BABB, a financial services platform that aims to serve underbanked and unbanked people worldwide. Utilizing innovative technologies such as blockchain and AI, BABB provides access to basic financial services through a mobile app. They focus on areas with more significant financial exclusion, such as Africa and Asia, where many people have mobile devices but limited access to financial services. BABB has regulatory approvals in the UK and Europe and is working on expanding its reach globally. By partnering with local governments and offering traditional financial services alongside crypto options, BABB aims to help boost economies and promote financial inclusion.

Boris Richard is the Senior Managing Director at J.S. Held, a global consulting company with over 1,500 employees and a strong presence in the United States, Europe, and other parts of the world.  J.S. Held works in multiple sectors, providing data analytics, helping insurance and construction companies handle claims investigations, and working with financial institutions on compliance issues. Fisher leads the crypto advisory and digital assets economic disputes sector, offering a deep understanding of blockchain technology, smart contracts, DeFi protocols, and consensus protocols. With strong data analytics capabilities, industry experience, and knowledge of digital assets, J.S. Held effectively addresses its clients’ needs.

Amyli McDaniel, the CEO of MINtangible Services, discusses her background as an IP lawyer and her involvement in digital innovation, including e-books and open source. She shares her journey into the world of NFTs and how MINtangible Services focuses on solving the issue of missing rights in NFTs, transforming tokens into digital assets. Intangible Services aims to provide a safe and trustworthy platform for IP brand owners, creators, artists, and companies to enter Web3, separating them from scams and copycats in the marketplace.

Jesse and Priscilla talk to the man behind Scam School, Hacking the System, The Modern Rogue, and The World’s Greatest Con, Brian Brushwood, about social engineering, magic, comedy, and the art of the con.

Alex Miller from Hiro Systems at the LA Blockchain Summit on how Hiro is building systems for the future!

Shimon and Alex discuss the fallout from the FTX debacle and next steps for Crypto and Bitcoin.

In today’s episode Alex and Shimon welcome back Representative Margaret Croke. Representative Croke represents the 12th District in Illinois and has been a big crypto proponent. Representative Croke talks to us about the future of crypto regulation, what would it take to get sensible regulation passed, governments adopting blockchain technology and much more. If regulation + crypto is important to you (and it should be!) don’t miss this!

Premiered on Nov 11, 2022

The founder of Gnars Dao, Gami, tells us what Gnars DAO is and how they support extreme athletes in this new web3 way.

Alon Goren is one of the founders of Draper Goren Holm, a venture studio focusing on early-stage investments in the blockchain space. In this interview, Alon discusses his journey from being a serial entrepreneur to becoming an investor in the blockchain space, partnering with Tim Draper and Joseph Holm. Draper Goren Holm was initially involved in crowdfunding before transitioning into the crypto and blockchain world. Alon emphasizes the importance of a strong team, persistence, and community involvement for success in the industry.