All Episodes

June 13, 2022

Deep Dive: Blockfills | Managing Risk in a Crypto Bear Market

John Divine is a financial markets professional focused on structured products, derivatives, lend, borrow and spot market execution for digital assets. John began his career as a market maker for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Intercontinental Exchange-listed derivatives, specializing in precious metals, interest rates, energies, and forward volatility curves. John has also operated within environmental product markets, listed, and OTC for compliance and voluntary participants. John moved into the digital asset arena trading as an Execution Specialist for an industry-leading hedge fund before joining BlockFills, where he is currently engaging with institutional participants in digital asset markets on strategy development & execution.

June 03, 2022

Deep Dive: Hxro Network | Building a Generalized Derivatives Protocol for Open Access Trading

Dan Gunsberg is the Co-Founder of Hxro Network, a fully composable, on-chain derivatives primitive that provides core exchange, risk and settlement infrastructure for professional-grade financial applications. Dan has over 25 years of financial market experience both as a trader and in trade operations. Prior to co-founding Hxro, Dan co-founded Gordian Block Capital, a multi-strategy cryptocurrency hedge fund, and served as the Chief Operating Officer at DV Trading from 2011-2017. Recorded on May 3, 2022.

May 28, 2022

Deep Dive: Arbor Digital | How can RIAs use Crypto to Help Clients Build a Multi-Generational Legacy?

Marc Nichols is a Product Director at Arbor Digital , a subsidiary of registered investment advisory firm Arbor Capital. Marc is a Certified Investment Management Analyst CIMA® and Wealth Management Certified Professional WMCP®, and holds a Certificate in Blockchain and Digital Assets®. Marc started his career as a professional tennis player and coach before transitioning to financial services as an associate advisor with Merrill Lynch in Princeton, NJ. Marc went on to start an advisory business serving wealth management clients in the New York and New Jersey market with Charles Schwab. Recorded on May 3, 2022.

May 26, 2022

Deep Dive: CAF Digital | How are Institutions Using Crypto to Diversify Portfolio Risk?

Steven Chen is a Non-Executive Partner at Clarendon Arbitrage Fund, an absolute-return focused hedge fund. He has two decades of experience in institutional grade trading and specializes in trading index futures as well as commodity and currency options. Most recently, Steven was named Joint CEO & General Partner at CAF Digital Asset Management, the fund’s crypto investment arm to focus on trading crypto derivatives to generate yield for passive capital investors.

May 21, 2022

Deep Dive: Hummingbot | How To Democratize Market Making for the Long Tail of Crypto Traders

Michael is the Co-founder of Hummingbot, a platform that allows users to run their own high-frequency market making bot and automate crypto trading. Recorded on April 21, 2022.

May 11, 2022

Stablecoin War (Part 3) | What Happens to UST Holder Confidence from Here?

This is Part 3 of our 3-part Stablecoin War episode, where Mark Lamb and I go through the different categories of stablecoins, looking at their attributes and risks, and do a deep dive on the ongoing Terra stablecoin (UST) depegging incident. Recorded on May 10, 2022.

May 11, 2022

Stablecoin War (Part 1) | Are Stablecoins Facing a Crisis of Confidence?

This is Part 1 of our 3-part Stablecoin War episode, where Mark Lamb and I go through the different categories of stablecoins, looking at their attributes and risks, and do a deep dive on the ongoing Terra stablecoin (UST) depegging incident. Recorded on May 10, 2022.

May 11, 2022

Stablecoin War (Part 2) | The Great UST Depegging and Stablecoin Risks

This is Part 2 of our 3-part Stablecoin War episode, where Mark Lamb and I go through the different categories of stablecoins, looking at their attributes and risks, and do a deep dive on the ongoing Terra stablecoin (UST) depegging incident. Recorded on May 10, 2022.

May 04, 2022

Deep Dive: Q9 Capital | Optimizing for Innovative Crypto Yield Products to Drive Greater Adoption

James Quinn is the Managing Director of Q9 Capital, a full-service digital asset platform serving private wealth individuals, family offices and corporates. James is a seasoned leader and entrepreneur having led financial services businesses and new ventures across multiple asset classes in Asia, North and South America.

April 22, 2022

Deep Dive: eFrontier | A Market Maker's Perspective on Growing Israel's Leading Crypto Algo Trading Firm

Ori Cohen is the Founder and Head of Research at eFrontier, a leading research and algorithmic trading firm for digital assets.

April 11, 2022

Deep Dive: Salt Lending | Why the Crypto-backed Loan Opportunity is So Much Larger Than You Think

Justin English is the CEO of Salt Lending, the first cryptocurrency lender in the crypto industry.

March 31, 2022

Deep Dive: Strips Finance | Building a Decentralized Interest Rate Market for Crypto

Ming Wu is the Founder of Strips Finance, an interest rate derivatives platform with the aim to build an open platform to trade, create and invest in fixed interest products. Formerly, Ming was an options trader for Ingensoma Trading Group and an OTC trader at Paxos and Hehmeyer Trading. This episode was recorded on February 11, 2022.

March 22, 2022

Real Vision Recast: Trinity Investments | What a Top 15 Global Family Office Thinks About Crypto

This is a recast of an interview I guest hosted on Real Vision on February 16, 2022 featuring Haouk Lee, Founder and Non-Executive Chairman of Trinity Investment Holdings, a global family investment office. He is now the CIO of Trinity Digital Assets. Previously, Haouk was with OCHA, a direct investment firm and International Finance Corporation, the private sector investment arm of the World Bank Group.

March 19, 2022

Deep Dive: Token Bay Capital | What Does a Crypto Venture Fund Playbook Look Like?

Lucy Gazmararian is the Founder of Token Bay Capital, a fully regulated venture fund manager investing in early-stage digital assets & blockchain companies across Asia Pacific. Prior to founding Token Bay, Lucy was a senior leader of PwC’s Global Crypto team in Hong Kong, where she advised entrepreneurs, start-ups and financial institutions on their crypto and blockchain projects. She spent 16 years in banking with Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, Schroders and Kleinwort Benson. She was named among the Top 10 Rising Women in Crypto in 2020 (FinTech Times and Wirex) and #22 among the Top 100 Women in FinTech in 2021 (FinTech Magazine). Lucy has worked with many central banks and other regulatory bodies around the world to help formulate their crypto asset policies.

Crypto Investing

March 13, 2022

Deep Dive: Giga Energy | How Two 23 Year Olds are Building a Multimillion Bitcoin Mining Empire

Matt Lohstroh and Brent Whitehead are co-founders of Giga Energy, a vertically integrated natural gas bitcoin mining company based in Texas aka Bitcoin Country.

Mining

February 19, 2022

Real Vision Recast | How the UNXD Team Convinced Dolce & Gabbana and Other Luxury Brands About NFTs

This is a recast of an interview I guest hosted on Real Vision on February 8, 2022 featuring Shashi Menon and Nick Gonzalez, Co-Founders of UNXD, a curated marketplace for digital luxury and culture. They are the team behind Dolce and Gabbana’s debut NFT drop and the latest NFT collection with luxury watchmaker Jacob & Co. called Astronomia Metaverso.

Metaverse

February 12, 2022

Deep Dive: Genesis Trading | Observations from the Frontlines of a $15 Billion Crypto Lending Desk

Roshun Patel is the VP of Lending at Genesis Trading, a leading crypto prime brokerage.

Crypto Trading

February 07, 2022

Real Vision Recast: Charli Cohen | What Does it Take to Bring the Largest IPs into the Metaverse?

This is a recast of an interview I guest hosted on Real Vision in January 2022 featuring Charli Cohen, a London-based fashion designer and founder of the eponymous CHARLI COHEN and digital fashion wear company RSTLSS.

Metaverse

January 27, 2022

Bonus Episode: 3 Big Questions You Should Be Asking About the Crypto Markets

Mark Lamb, CoinFLEX CEO, joins the pod to explain reasons behind the recent crypto market downturn and shares 3 big questions he has about the future of the crypto markets.

Crypto Unstacked Crypto Trading

January 21, 2022

Deep Dive: Johnnie Walker Blue | Why a Senior Executive at One of the World's Largest Banks is Quitting For Crypto

Johnnie Walker Blue aka @JWBlue212 is a long time Crypto Twitter member who's quitting traditional banking to join crypto full-time.

Trader's Edition

January 19, 2022

Real Vision Recast | Why Fashion is the Metaverse's Next Hot Property

This is a recast of an interview I guest hosted on Real Vision in December 2021 featuring Daniella Loftus, digital fashion expert and founder of This Outfit Does Not Exist.

Metaverse