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The crypto native's podcast for DeFi, NFTs, and Web 3. . Jason Choi (@mrjasonchoi), full-time crypto investor since 2018, goes deep into the technology and economics behind crypto projects to dissect trends and themes in a global context. Nothing on this show is financial advice. Blockcrunch and its personnel may hold positions in assets discussed on the show.
Known for providing unparalleled access to the most diverse offering of expert voices in the Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Industry - Crypto Current is bridging the gap between the curious newcomers who are just discovering the space and the thought leaders who are shaping its future. Join us every week to hear from featured guests and learn about all the recent developments and trending stories that impact the future of money.
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Navigating Chaos as a Crypto Trader - Hal Press, North Rock Digital, Ep. 233
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These few weeks have been turbulent for the markets to say the least, with 3 of the largest banks that support crypto winding down, USDC stablecoin de-pegging and more developments happening in real time. Is this the end for crypto, or are we on the cusp of another bull-run? Today we have Hal Press, founder of North Rock Digital who is known on Twi…
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Eric McDonald on trading crypto automatically with Coinlion
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Wes Levitt is Head of Strategy for Theta Labs, where he works on corporate strategy, marketing and press relations, and analytics. He has been a speaker on blockchain topics at conferences like the New York Media Festival, Blockchain Connect, and NAB Streaming Summit among others. Prior to joining Theta Labs, Wes spent 8 years in investment roles i…
USDC Depegged? Close Call *Disclaimer. Richard Carthon is the Founder of Crypto Current. All opinions expressed by members of the Crypto Current Team, Richard or his guest on this podcast are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of Crypto Current. You should not treat any opinion expressed by Richard as a specific inducement to mak…
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Tommaso Sandretto on the future of content creation, distribution and monetization with bcl.xyz
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Tommaso Sandretto is Chief Revenue and Chief Investment Officer of Blockchain Creative Labs (BCL), FOX Entertainment’s Web3 studio, which provides content creators, IP owners and brands end-to-end Web3 solutions to build, launch, manage and sell Non-Fungible Token (NFT) and fungible token content experiences directly to their fanbase and audiences.…
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Coinbase cuts ties with Silvergate? Who's next?
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Coinbase cuts ties with Silvergate? Who's next? *Disclaimer. Richard Carthon is the Founder of Crypto Current. All opinions expressed by members of the Crypto Current Team, Richard or his guest on this podcast are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of Crypto Current. You should not treat any opinion expressed by Richard as a spec…
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Why We're Investing $20M into DAOs - Anthony & Timour, Seed Club Ventures, Ep. 232
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Opinion on DAOs, or decentralized autonomous organizations is split between 2 camps - those that don’t believe that decentralized organizations can be effective, and those that swear its the business model of the future To end the debate, there’s no one better to ask than DAO experts Anthony and Timour, who operate and invest in DAOs at the same ti…
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Alex DaCosta & David Yi on the future of sustainable computing infrastructure with ACDC
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Alex DaCosta is the CEO and a founding member of Aspen Creek Digital Corporation, whose mission is to catalyze the decarbonization of power generation by creating the world’s leading renewable bitcoin mining operator. ACDC couples financial ingenuity with proven renewable energy expertise, delivering carbon transparency, lower power price volatilit…
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“This is the Most Important Thing on Bitcoin in the Past 5 Years” - Stack’s Muneeb Ali on Bitcoin Ordinals, Ep. 231
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Recently, a new phenomenon called Ordinals, known as NFTs on Bitcoin reignited interest in Bitcoin and got people wondering - what else is possible and is this the start of something bigger? At the center of this discussion is Stacks, a smart-contract layer built on Bitcoin that is working to unlock the $500 billion Bitcoin capital via DeFi, NFTs, …
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Mass Adoption Incoming: 20% of Americans Own Crypto
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Mass Adoption Incoming: 20% of Americans Own Crypto *Disclaimer. Richard Carthon is the Founder of Crypto Current. All opinions expressed by members of the Crypto Current Team, Richard or his guest on this podcast are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of Crypto Current. You should not treat any opinion expressed by Richard as a …
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Manghani on how STEPN is a web3 lifestyle app that rewards users for movement
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Shiti Rastogi Manghani is an award-winning business leader with 14 years of experience across 11 countries managing multi-million-dollar projects. Presently, Manghani serves Find Satoshi Lab as its Chief Operating Officer where she oversees all marketing and communications growth initiates for Find Satoshi Lab as well as the brands it oversees. Man…
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Arbitrum: Everything You Need To Know About The Top Layer 2 - A.J. Warner, Offchain Labs, Ep. 230
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Over the past few months, there has been a steady uptick in activity on Arbitrum, an Optimistic Layer 2 scaling solution on Ethereum. Today, Arbitrum is home to popular DeFi dApps and GameFi projects like GMX and Treasure and owns more than 50% of the market share against other Layer 2s like Optimism and Metis. In this Blockcrunch episode, A.J Warn…
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NFT marketplace Blur.io outpreforming Opensea?
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NFT marketplace Blur.io outpreforming Opensea? *Disclaimer. Richard Carthon is the Founder of Crypto Current. All opinions expressed by members of the Crypto Current Team, Richard or his guest on this podcast are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of Crypto Current. You should not treat any opinion expressed by Richard as a speci…
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David Schwed on how Halborn is an award-winning ethical blockchain hackers to secure your stack end-to-end
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David L. Schwed is Chief Operating Officer at Halborn, an award-winning blockchain cybersecurity firm that uses ethical hackers to provide end-to-end cybersecurity advisory services and products to Web2 companies and over 250 Web3 organizations, including Coinbase, Avalanche, and more. Previously, he has held roles at a senior level for BNY Mellon,…
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How This Project Built “Zoom for Web 3” - Ayush Ranjan, Huddle01, Ep. 229
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This is a sponsored episode from our collaboration with Filecoin Huddle01 is a decentralized video-meeting platform built to be scalable and secure from the get-go and features web 3 functions such as NFT-gated meetings and decentralized storage for meeting recordings. In 2022, it hosted over 30,000 meetings that lasted over 500,000 minutes on its …
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Staking Banned? Kraken reaches $30M settlement with SEC
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Staking Banned? Kraken reaches $30M settlement with SEC *Disclaimer. Richard Carthon is the Founder of Crypto Current. All opinions expressed by members of the Crypto Current Team, Richard or his guest on this podcast are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of Crypto Current. You should not treat any opinion expressed by Richard a…
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Austin Federa on bringing blockchain to the people with Solana
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Austin Federa is the Head of Communications for Solana Foundation, where he works across communications, marketing, strategy, and product. Introducing Validated, the weekly podcast focused on expanding discussions with web3 industry leaders to cover a wide range of topics for those who are eager to learn more about blockchain and crypto. In each ep…
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28-Year-Old Billionaire Launches DAO to Fund Health Research - Ryan Breslow, Love, Ep. 228
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Ryan Breslow dropped out of Stanford to found payment startup Bolt, which later on raised $1.3 billion dollars at an $11 billion valuation - making Ryan one of the world’s youngest self-made billionaires (according to Forbes) Now, Ryan is on the mission of improving the health and wellness of the world with alternative medicine like natural remedie…
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Aftershock: FBI seizes $100K from NFT scammer!
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*Disclaimer. Richard Carthon is the Founder of Crypto Current. All opinions expressed by members of the Crypto Current Team, Richard or his guest on this podcast are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of Crypto Current. You should not treat any opinion expressed by Richard as a specific inducement to make a particular investment …
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Alexander Wilke on how Pendulum is the missing link between Fiat and DeFi
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Alex is an entrepreneur and operations executive with more than 18 years industry experience, leading technical and business teams. Prior to SatoshiPay, Alex was an entrepreneur and operations executive leading technical and business teams focusing on payments, mobile and business intelligence. Back in 2013 Alex already started researching Bitcoin …
in this episode, we look at the top stories from the world of Web 3, including Amazon venturing into NFTs, and much more. *Disclaimer. Richard Carthon is the Founder of Crypto Current. All opinions expressed by members of the Crypto Current Team, Richard or his guest on this podcast are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of Crypt…
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It Costs $35 MILLION to Make This Crypto Game - Kieran Warwick, Illuvium, Ep. 227
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Crypto games often face criticism for being unpolished and lacking quality, but Illuvium is unlikely to face this issue. Built by a team of 220 people, $35 million has been reportedly invested over 2 years in building this AAA Sci-Fi game world - and they’re expected to launch their games this year Today, we have Kieran Warwick, Co-Founder of Illuv…
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Sebastian Menge on the world's first burn-to-earn model on Fitburn
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Fit Burn - Burn to Earn. Building a bridge between Crypto and Fitness! https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastian-menge-a43486182 Links: https://linktr.ee/fitburnio https://instagram.com/fitburn.io?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= https://instagram.com/smcrypto?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= *Disclaimer. Richard Carthon is the Founder of Crypto Current. All opinions expressed …
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Everything You Need to Know About Frax in 2023 - Sam Kazemian, Frax Finance, Ep. 226
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Crypto markets are off to a bullish start in the new year, and one of the projects that have renewed a ton of community interest is Frax - the only semi-algorithmic stablecoin that has actually persisted throughout 2022’s thick and thin without depegging. Today, we have Sam Kazemian, Founder of Frax, to share with us: How Frax’s 5 products all tie …
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Robert Quartly-Janeiro on buying, trading, & investing in 700+ cryptos with Bitrue
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Robert Quartly-Janeiro is the Chief Strategy Officer of Bitrue. Robert has experience in investment banking, investment management, strategic advisory & communications. He has worked on different asset classes, investment styles, geographies, and strategic & reputational challenges. He holds Master's degrees in business and finance and Bachelor’s d…
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Building an Interoperable Future with Cole Enright, Ryan McNutt and Dustin Byington at AGMI 2022
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Building an Interoperable Future with Cole Enright, Ryan McNutt and Dustin Byington at AGMI 2022. This panel includes: MODERATOR: Dustin Byington - CEO of Two12 SPEAKER: Cole Enright - Director of Analytics at HBAR Foundation SPEAKER: Ryan McNutt - Co-Founder of SphereOne *Disclaimer. Richard Carthon is the Founder of Crypto Current. All opinions e…
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Finding Edge in Crypto 2023 - Hal Press, North Rock Digital, Ep. 225
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P.S Blockcrunch VIP subs can access exclusive alpha from Hal in our part 2 interview over at http://bit.ly/3iTnsS4 2022 was one of the toughest years to be in crypto with even professional investors suffering from 80-90% losses. However, crypto hedge fund North Rock Digital reportedly navigated 2022's crises nimbly, and its founder quickly rose to …
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Predicting the Future of DAOs with Sam Padilla, Chase Mayeux and Alexi Cortez
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Predicting the Future of DAOs with Sam Padilla, Chase Mayeux and Alexi Cortez. This panel includes: MODERATOR: Alexi Cortez - Community Product Manager at .Erth SPEAKER: Chase Mayeux - Head of Operations at Coral Defi SPEAKER: Sam Padilla - Member of the ATX DAO *Disclaimer. Richard Carthon is the Founder of Crypto Current. All opinions expressed b…
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Ensuring the Survival of DeFi with Keifer Jennings, Momin Ahmad and Michael Johnstone at AGMI 2022
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Ensuring the Survival of DeFi with Keifer Jennings, Momin Ahmad and Michael Johnstone at AGMI 2022. MODERATOR: Michael Johnstone - CEO of Smeisty SPEAKER: Momin Ahmed - Lead at Debt DAO SPEAKER: Keifer Jennings - Analyst at Arcade Ventures *Disclaimer. Richard Carthon is the Founder of Crypto Current. All opinions expressed by members of the Crypto…
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Crypto Narratives For 2023: Why Consumer Apps Will Be Huge - Derek Schloss, Collab+Currency, Ep 224
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Since 2020, the development of the Web 3 space has arguably validated the value propositions of decentralized blockchains. However, Web 3 today primarily serves crypto-natives and exists as a subset of the internet. An up-and-coming vertical of projects known as Consumer Vertical focuses on helping empower the everyday internet user and helping Web…
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Experimentation in the NFT Age with Ben Noble, Grant Powell and Steven Miller at AGMI 2022
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Experimentation in the NFT Age with Ben Noble, Grant Powell and Steven Miller at AGMI 2022 *Disclaimer. Richard Carthon is the Founder of Crypto Current. All opinions expressed by members of the Crypto Current Team, Richard or his guest on this podcast are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of Crypto Current. You should not treat…
