Podcast

Aki Balogh is Founder and CEO of iBTC, a project that harnesses the power of Discrete Log Contracts (DLCs) to establish the safest, theft-proof, and institutionally compliant trustless bridge between Bitcoin, Etherum and other chains. Aki shares his journey into entrepreneurship and crypto, discusses his vision of how DLC can unlock BTCFi, the mechanics of iBTC fka dlcLink, and his thoughts on the exploding Bitcoin L2 ecosystem.

Elias Tazartes is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Kakarot, a zero-knowledge EVM written in Cairo aiming to allow users to leverage the scaling benefits of validity roll-ups while maintaining compatibility with the Ethereum ecosystem. Elias shares on the emergence of verifiable computing and how Kakarot is innovating applied Zero Knowledge Proof (ZKP) to transform the blockchain industry securing billions of transactions. Elias dives deep into Kakarot’s evolution as it crosses its two-year anniversary, discussing the challenges ahead, the ambitious goals for 2025 and beyond, and how Kakarot is delivering Ethereum-compatible block proving in real-time. He also sheds light on the larger vision of ZK's role in evolving Ethereum and the broader digital ecosystem.

Jason Li is Co-Founder of Solayer Labs, builder of Solayer, the hardware-accelerated blockchain, infinitely scaling the SVM to enable high-throughput, near-zero latency use cases. Jason returns this season to share the latest on this revolutionary innovation in blockchain, which enables a mind-blowing 100 Gbps throughput while maintaining an atomic state. He walks us through Solayer's vision of a world where billions of people can process USDC transactions, game in real-time, stream 8K videos, and trade at lightning speed—all within the Solayer blockchain ecosystem.

Eric Won Choi is CEO and Founder of The Guild, a decentralized web3 protocol that combines gig economy elements with social networking, enabling users to monetize their networks and build verified on-chain reputations. Eric shares about his crypto and founder journeys, key insights on on-chain community development, why he is innovating in the on-chain community space, growing the blockchain ecosystem in Korea, the future of web3 communities, and the work behind building the world’s first fully on-chain multi-tier, multi-level affiliate program, a key part of the Guild protocol's stack.

Alex Ryvkin is CEO and Founder of Rho Labs, an institutional grade decentralized crypto native marketplace that allows retail and professional traders to efficiently trade swaps and futures on-chain compliantly. Alex joins us to discuss his journey in traditional finance and crypto, building the first crypto interest rates derivatives exchange, an asset class currently valued at over $500 trillion, opportunities for investors and traders given the broader risk-off sentiment, and the road ahead for Rho Labs.