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Crypto Hipster

Making sense of the digital economy—through the people building it. Where builders talk freedom, not price. The Crypto Hipster Podcast features conversations with founders, entrepreneurs, and independent creators shaping what comes next. This is not a traditional interview show. These are perspective-driven conversations focused on insight, conviction, and the realities of building in a rapidly changing world. We go beyond headlines, beyond hype, and beyond price—to explore ownership, freedom,

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00:34:50

Why Crypto Options and Structured Products Can Help...

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2024/11/22

Georgii Verbitskii is the Founder of TYMIO, a Web3, non-custodial platform designed for crypto investors seeking portfolio protection tools. Built for simplicity, TYMIO offers structured products that make it easy to manage risk and grow wealth in the dynamic world of crypto. With a mission to empower investors of all levels, TYMIO provides innovative solutions like TYMIO Yield and the newly launched TYMIO Protect, catering to shield assets from market volatility. Before TYMIO, Georgii served as the

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00:33:15

How to Best Empower Users to Manage Their...

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2024/11/04

Zhen Yu, CEO & Co-Founder, Web3Auth Zhen Yu Yong is the CEO and co-founder of Web3Auth, the leading non-custodial auth infrastructure that enables Web3 wallets and applications to provide a seamless user login experience to both mainstream and native Web3 users. Prior to Web3Auth, Zhen worked on various Ethereum Foundation projects as a researcher for off-chain scalability — where he built one of the first cross-chain bridges called The Peace Bridge, between ETH and ETC. He met Vitalik

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00:36:36

How to Drive Innovative Breakthroughs in the...

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2024/11/01

Building in the blockchain space since 2017, Harrison Seletsky is the Director of Business Development at SPACE ID, a universal identity and domain name platform, and the largest multi-chain web3 domain name service by users and registrations. Harrison leads the ecosystem growth, partner expansion, and partnership success at SPACE ID, and is charged with many of the forward-facing and strategic aspects of the SPACE ID identity platform, driving its innovation in the decentralized identity space

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00:32:54

Designing the First Genuinely Global Tokenized...

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2024/10/30

Miguel Buffara, Lead Financial Engineer at RACEAs Lead Financial Engineer at RACE, Miguel blends his technical acumen with financial expertise to build the infrastructure that supports investor onboarding, designs effective governance structures, and models tokenomics structures. Miguel's introduction to the finance industry began as a credit research analyst for Banco BOCOM BBM in 2019, which served as a springboard into investment management. He later honed his skills in managing investments and

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00:33:47

Building the Next Generation, Cross-Chain,...

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2024/10/28

Benedetto Biondi is the CEO of Folks Finance, a premier cross-chain DeFi protocol that delivers a comprehensive suite of services, including lending, borrowing, trading, and liquid staking for digital assets. Driven by a passion for innovation, Benedetto serves as a mentor in Techstars Web3 and various other accelerator programs, where he nurtures emerging talent in the blockchain space. He is also a DeFi advisor at Climatecoin and shares his extensive knowledge as a lecturer on DeFi in the

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00:35:25

How to Simplify Sophisticated DeFi Strategies for the...

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2024/10/24

Kurapika, Founder & CEO of [Factor](https://factor.fi/), has been channeling his passion into changing the way we view on-chain asset management. Under his leadership, Factor is realizing his vision by abstracting complexities to simplify sophisticated DeFi strategies for the Web3 world. With a career spanning over a decade in fintech and crypto, Kurapika’s expertise includes developing ML-based analysis solutions for stock exchanges, hedge funds, government agencies and other financial

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00:39:35

How to Architect a Decentralized Global Data...

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2024/10/18

Brendan Playford is the co-founder of Masa, a leading innovator in decentralized AI and blockchain technology. With a dynamic background in the tech industry, Brendan has founded multiple successful ventures, including Constellation Labs, where he served as CEO, and Pngme, where he was the co-founder and CEO. He also held significant roles at The Bureau, a blockchain incubator, and DroneDeploy, where he led demand generation. Brendan’s journey into web3 began with a personal exploration of Bitcoin

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00:35:10

Leading the Charge to Safeguard and Enhance...

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2024/10/01

Ganesh Swami is a co-founder of Covalent – the leading modular on-chain data infrastructure network. He has been leading the Covalent Network to build the most robust organization, improving data accessibility and empowering blockchain innovation since 2019. With a background in building protein simulation algorithms to solve cancer, Ganesh is a serial entrepreneur and has over a decade of experience in big data analytics.Ganesh's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ganswami/ Ganesh's

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00:38:36

How to Discover Market-Redefining Opportunities and...

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2024/09/30

Jameel Qeblawi is Founder & Chief Architect at myqubator. Jameel is a visionary leader in the startup ecosystem with a proven track record of founding, scaling, and successfully exiting multiple businesses across diverse sectors. As the Founder and ChiefArchitect of myqubator, Jameel specializes in nurturing early-stage ventures by providing strategic guidance, refining go-to-market strategies, and delivering market value. His extensive experience in ideation, development, and execution ensures

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00:31:21

Why NFTs May Still Just Be the Catalyst That Brings...

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2024/09/28

AKA LEUNG Regional Director MENA Bitget Crypto Exchange Aka Leung is an accomplished professional with extensive experience in the cryptocurrency industry. With a background in operations and business development, Aka has played a pivotal role in driving growth and expanding market reach for leading digital asset platforms. Previously, Aka served as the Senior Operations Manager at Bitget, a prominent cryptocurrency exchange. In this role, Aka demonstrated exceptional leadership and strategic

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00:31:25

How to Revolutionize the Ride Sharing Economy Through...

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2024/09/27

Firdosh Sheikh is Founder and CEO of DRIFE, an industry-disrupting decentralized ride-hailing platform built on the principles of Web3 technology. Firdosh believes it has been an incredible journey leading the charge in the DePin space, shaping DRIFE into a game-changer with an engaged user base of over 300,000 riders and a network of more than 30,000 drivers using the innovative DRIFE application.Being at the helm of the first decentralized ride-hailing company has been both an honor and a

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00:30:47

Leveraging Crypto to Dissolve Barriers That Have...

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2024/09/26

KATHY ROBERTS is CEO of Switch Reward Card - a blockchain finance ecosystem. Kathy started her career with Sears and then transferred over as an early executive (or Dawner as they called them) when Sears started Discover Card. Kathy went on to become the President of Discover Bank and served as the first female Chair of the Delaware Bankers Association. Current member of Salt Lake Chamber’s Board of Governors. Kathy Roberts’ charitable endeavors include but in no way are limited to the following

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00:33:25

Onboarding the Next Wave of Developers into Web3 and...

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2024/09/16

Johnny is founder and lead developer at Empyreal SDK. He is a seasoned Systems Engineer with a wealth of experience in enterprise-level technology. Prior to starting Empyreal, Johnny worked as a Software Engineer at a FAANG company. He brings a strong passion for programming, particularly in Rust, Python, and Functional Programming.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crypto-hipster-podcast/support

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00:31:36

Overcoming the Challenges of Tokenizing and...

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2024/09/13

Graeme Moore is the Head of Tokenization at the Polymesh Association, a not-for-profit dedicated to the growth of the Polymesh blockchain ecosystem. He is also the author of B is for Bitcoin, the first ever ABC book about Bitcoin. Prior to Polymesh, Graeme was the first employee at Polymath; the creative director at Spartan Race; and an associate at Canada’s largest independent investment advisory firm. --- Support this podcast:

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00:33:02

Smart Contracts, Programmable Money, and Building an...

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2024/09/09

Dr. Weijia Zhang is the Regional Head of China at Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) and Vice President of Engineering at Wanchain. He has extensive engineering experience in Blockchain, as well as research and development (R&D), cognitive sciences, mental modeling, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), software modeling, computer technologies and industrial standards. Weija has published over thirty research and technical papers, and is named as an inventor for over twenty patents (granted and

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00:30:29

Building the World’s First Layer-One Programmable...

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2024/09/07

Josh Benaron is the Founder & CEO of Irys, the first L1 programmable datachain. Seeing firsthand that the existing data infrastructures weren’t built for scalability, Josh created Bundlr, an L2 solution on Arweave that gained early success scaling Arweave from 15k transactions per day to 15 million. Bundlr evolved into what is now Irys to become the first truly programmable datachain. As a builder with a background in database architecture, Josh is committed to driving the adoption of

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00:30:21

How to Unify and Enhance Accessibility of Blockchain...

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2024/09/04

“Bunny is the Co-Founder and CEO of DORA, a multichain search engine designed to unify and enhance the accessibility of blockchain data across various networks. Known as the "Infinite Discovery Engine," Dora aims to simplify the user experience by integrating search and action functionalities across multiple blockchains and virtual machine ecosystems. Bunny possesses considerable knowledge and deep insights on the evolution of Multichain and MultiVM block explorers, enhancing blockchain

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00:31:48

How to Design the Most Flexible and Efficient Staking...

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2024/09/03

Michael Repetny is the Core Contributor at Marinade, the leading liquid staking protocol on Solana. Michael has been leading Marinade’s efforts to make Solana more secure, stable, and censorship-resistant through responsible SOL staking since 2021. Coming from an e-commerce background, Michael is passionate about promoting a decentralized future and financial freedom.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crypto-hipster-podcast/support

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00:31:50

Leveraging Distributed Ledger Technology to Create...

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2024/09/02

Andrew Forson is the Head of Ventures and Investments at The Hashgraph Association where he is responsible for working with portfolio companies to develop and execute strategic vision. Andrew leads capital raising for the Hashgraph Ventures Fund as well as structure instrument development. Andrew focuses on enabling SMEs, enterprises, and governments to leverage Hedera-powered solutions. Andrew is a Director of DeFi Technologies. In the past, Andrew was the Head of Quantitative Analytics and Risk at

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00:31:04

The Critical Importance of Building a Cloudless,...

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2024/09/01

Tom Trowbridge is an accomplished business builder and web3 focused entrepreneur, and the Co-Founder & CEO of Fluence Labs which is building the Cloudless internet; a decentralized serverless computing network and protocol that offers low cost, resilient and verifiable compute. Before Fluence, Tom helped found Hedera Hashgraph (HBAR) where he was president from inception. He is a board member at Stronghold Digital Mining (NASDAQ: SDIG), and is an early investor in leading DePIN projects and

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