OI 023
Building an Exchange That Wins With Its Traders: Justin Ma and John Lee on Vest
Justin Ma · Vest
27 min
The route · First stop · TOKEN2049 Singapore
Recorded in
Singapore.
Season 1 was recorded in Singapore alongside TOKEN2049: founders and funds, one conversation at a time.
Season 1, co-sponsored by Kraken and Codex.
23 conversations from Singapore
OI 022
Turning Trading Fees Into a Treasury: DeFi Dave on United Founders Group
DeFi Dave · United Founders Group
14 min
OI 021
Bringing Ethereum Apps to Canton: Heslin Kim on Building Zenith
Heslin Kim · Zenith
“I like to call it corpo punk though, because we're embedding a bit more Ethereum into Canton, a bit more Canton into the Ethereum side.”
30 min
OI 020
Bringing Preferred Shares On-Chain: Parker White on Building Apyx
Parker White · Apyx
“You can stroll into the McDonald's of credit here and you can get different menu items.”
29 min
OI 019
An Agent of Record: Chris Zhu on Building Donut's Personal Trading Agent
Chris Zhu · Donut
“We think of a personal trading agent as kind of an agent of record.”
23 min
OI 018
Charles Lin on What Monad Foundation Looks for in Founders
Charles Lin · Monad Foundation
“You should be delusionally optimistic about your building, but at the same time, you'd have good judgment about execution.”
16 min
OI 017
The Law of One Price Is Broken: Chris Kim on Axis, USDx and Arbitrage Yield On-Chain
Chris Kim · Axis
“The law of one price has been broken due to tokenization and all these crypto venues.”
12 min
OI 016
Gacha Is the Entry Point, Not the Product: Kiet on Chance, Co-op Rips and the Pokémon TCG
Kiet · Chance
“We treat gacha as the byproduct to get you into the real product, which is the community.”
8 min
OI 015
From APY Data to vaults.fyi: Ryan Rodenbaugh on How DeFi Vaults Work
Ryan Rodenbaugh · vaults.fyi
“You look at a vault and it's like, what is a vault? A vault is just a composition of markets and other strategies underneath it.”
19 min
OI 011
Fast Is Not Enough: Enzo Coglitore on Turning GTE Into an AI Trading Co-Pilot
Enzo Coglitore · GTE
“The AI is waiting for you to tell it what your ideas are, to make money and validate it for you.”
25 min
OI 005
From BitGo to BNB Chain: Thomas Chen on What Institutions Really Want
Thomas Chen · BNB Chain
“Not every institution wants to be first in this, but none of them want to be last.”
13 min
OI 014
The Stablecoin Is the Wedge: Drake Evans on Agora, AUSD and a National Trust Bank Charter
Drake Evans · Agora
“Getting a license is not a token problem. Building software is a token problem.”
11 min
OI 010
From Accenture to Anseta: Brett Hornung on Institutions Going On-Chain and Agentic Payments
Brett Hornung · Anseta
“They're not asking as much like, what is blockchain? How does it work? What should I be doing? But rather, they're asking, kind of like, hey, here's my use case.”
14 min
OI 013
Building Solana's Liquid Staking Layer: FP Lee on Sanctum, Buybacks and Playing the Long Game
FP Lee · Sanctum
“Buybacks are a capital allocation decision, they should be made in a considered and discretionary manner.”
25 min
OI 009
From Zcash to Aleo: Howard Wu on Why Confidentiality Is Crypto's Last Mile
Howard Wu · Aleo
“Crypto can't go mainstream until confidentiality is a default. And that, I believe, is actually the last mile.”
20 min
OI 012
SOL vs HYPE: Forward Industries and Hyperion DeFi Debate the Treasury Company Playbook
Garrison and Hyunsu · Forward Industries + Hyperion
32 min
OI 006
From Coinbase Prime to Definitive: Jai Prasad on Agentic Trading
Jai Prasad · Definitive
“While we build a terminal and mobile app, which everyone uses, and that's how we make the majority of our money, don't think that will be the case in six months. It will be fully agentic.”
11 min
OI 008
From Investment Banking to Mercuryo: Arthur on the Plumbing Behind Crypto Payments
Arthur Firstov · Mercuryo
“we expected agents to use crypto, and we built for them crypto wallets, programmable payment infrastructure, interoperable infrastructure for the blockchains, and you all see they're just using normal payment stack”
25 min
OI 007
From CyberConnect to Surf: Shiyu Zhang on AI That Can't Hallucinate With Money
Shiyu Zhang · Surf AI
“based on the market data, you don't want the AI to hallucinate and make the wrong choice. That will cost a lot.”
11 min
OI 004
From Private Chains to Public Ethereum: Matthew Dawson on Institutional Adoption
Matthew Dawson · Ethereum Institutional
“I wanted to be on the other side doing the disrupting rather than being disrupted.”
20 min
OI 003
From PayPal to Ethena Pay: Lito Coen on the Crypto Neobank
Lito Coen · Ethena Pay
“what users really want from a financial app is like saving, spending and sending”
23 min
OI 002
From Physics PhD to Curve: Michael Egorov on Real Yield for Bitcoin
Michael Egorov · Curve / YieldBasis
“a logo was made in five minutes, actually.”
27 min
OI 001
From Nine Days of Runway to the Data Behind Crypto | Codex
Mike Rowe · Codex / Defined
“Pretty much if you see a chart or a price on the internet … it's coming from us right now.”
20 min