Podcast

Tyler Williams is the Head of Policy at Galaxy Digital. Galaxy is a company that offers solutions to the digital asset and blockchain industry, such as global markets, asset management, and digital infrastructure. In this episode, we discuss the posture of market regulators and the executive branch toward crypto, key legislative battles on the horizon (and how crypto fits), whether crypto self-defeats in policy discussions, what material progress could look like for policy related to the crypto space, and much more.

Alex Salnikov is the Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer at Rarible. Backed by Coinbase Ventures, CoinFund, & more, Rarible is a leading blue-chip NFT company that powers both established and emerging brands and creators. Through a multi-chain, aggregated marketplace for NFTs, a self-serve marketplace builder tool, and a white-glove service for custom marketplaces, their products help brands and creators achieve success at every stage of their NFT journey. In this episode, we cover the verticalization of NFT marketplaces, their experience decentralizing Rarible, the NFT royalties debate, & much, much more.

Ismael Hishon-Rezaizadeh is the Co-Founder & CEO at Lagrange Labs. Backed by 1kx, Daedalus, Maven 11 Capital, & more, Lagrange Labs enables seamless interaction between chains with cryptographically secure state proofs, not opaque intermediaries. Developers can now run expressive and dynamic distributed ZK computation at a Big Data scale on top of multi-chain contract states. In this episode we chat through what they’re building (in its fullness), their recent collaboration with EigenLayer, biggest surprises thus far in creating Lagrange Labs, best advice for crypto founders, & much more.

Ittai Svidler and Jonah Erlich are Co-CEOs and Co-Founders of Den, a self-custodial, multi-signature wallet for on-chain organizations managing protocols, DeFi and on-chain operations. The duo share behind the scenes takes on their viral hit project, ConstitutionDAO, and how it led them to the journey of building Den's suite of multi-signature tools that make it easier for crypto projects to move their operations fully on-chain, addressing key coordination challenges.

Matt Katz is CEO and Co-Founder of Caldera. Caldera specializes in building high-performance, customizable, and application-specific layer-two and layer-three blockchains. In this episode, Matt shares his thoughts on the modular blockchain ecosystem, how Caldera is enabling the growth and development of modular blockchains, and the Metalayer: Caldera's innovative interoperability ecosystem.