Podcast

Michael Hiles is the Founder & CEO of 10XTS. Backed by LOUD Capital, 10XTS builds compliant, programmable digital securities and interoperable web3-powered capital markets infra solutions. In this episode we discuss a law-centric approach for the blockchain industry, the importance of a solid legal regime for global capital markets (and integrating well), the state of crypto regulation in the US and abroad, & much more.

John Crain is the Co-Founder and CEO of SuperRare Labs. Backed by Sound Ventures, Collaborative Fund, and angels like Naval Ravikant and Mark Cuban, SuperRare is an NFT marketplace for curated cryptoart—a new art market for artists, collectors, and curators. In this episode we discuss the fascinating origin of SuperRare, $RARE and their progressive decentralization into a DAO, interesting recent collabs and how those come to exist, the exciting future of cryptoart (and SuperRare’s unique position to enable that future), and much more.

Nick Emmons is the Co-Founder & CEO at Upshot. Backed by Polychain and Blockchain Capital, Upshot is building financial infrastructure for NFTs, including industry-leading NFT appraisals and other financial tools that provide deep insight into NFT markets and unlock a wave of new DeFi possibilities. Upshot is currently providing accurate, real-time appraisals for 104M+ NFTs from over 87k collections. In this episode we discuss Nick’s narration of the NFT space’s history and future trajectories, the intersection of NFTs and DeFi, the frontier space of NFTs, his take on the outlook for crypto in the medium-term, & much more.

Max Howell is the Founder and CEO of Tea. Backed by Acuitas Group Holdings, Betaworks Ventures, & more, Tea is unified packaging infrastructure—and through that packaging infrastructure, they have plans of leveraging blockchain to help remunerate devs for their contributions to OSS. In this episode we discuss Max’s illustrious history within the open-source movement as creator of Homebrew, how blockchains uniquely enable what web2 technologies can’t in the quest to remunerate open source contributors, Max’s best and most generalizable advice for building in web3, and much, much more.

Max Galka is the Founder and CEO of Elementus. Backed by Gemini, Lightspeed, & more, Elementus puts the democratization of quality blockchain data at the forefront of everything we do in order to transform industries at web3 scale. In this episode we chat about his tradfi experience during the financial crisis, the quest for enabling quality data at-scale, what’s got Max excited at Elementus these days (and looking toward the future), and much more.