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Around the Coin

Stephen Sargeant and Mike Townsend

The mission behind Around The Coin podcast is to offer entrepreneurs an alternative perspective for growing their business in and around the payment industry.

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58:38

The Future Of Cross-Border Payments - Ruben Galindo...

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2023/07/24

Episode 490: Ruben Galindo Steckel, CEO of AirTM In this captivating episode of Around The Coin, join host Mike Townsend as he delves into the world of financial services with the visionary CEO of AirTM, Ruben Galindo Steckel. Discover how AirTM, a leading online platform that provides financial services to users around the world. With cheaper, faster, and easier transactions, AirTM is at the forefront of the global south's financial landscape. Tune in to gain profound insights into the future

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51:00

Why Secondary Markets are Taking Over? - Ziv Keinan |...

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2023/07/07

Episode 489: Ziv Keinan, Founder & CEO of Simetria Are you ready to dive into the world of secondary markets and discover the groundbreaking solution brought to you by Simetria? Join us on this exhilarating episode of Around The Coin as Mike Townsend sits down with Ziv Keinan, the visionary founder and CEO of Simetria. Together, we explore the inner workings of public markets, the complexities of international regulations, and the explosive growth of the secondary market in the face of a

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45:45

"Crypto Has Been Like Covid For Money" - Claude...

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2023/06/28

Episode 488: Claude Eguienta, CEO of Mimo Capital In this eye-opening episode, Claude Eguienta shares insights on Mimo Capital's innovative protocol called Kuma. Witness how they bridge the gap between traditional financial systems and the crypto world, enabling users to experience the benefits of real-world asset investments without leaving the crypto ecosystem. Prepare to be captivated by their vision of financial inclusivity, the power of decentralized education, and the potential of

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50:50

Solving Self-Custody Problem | Aleksei Zakharov

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2023/06/14

Episode 487: Aleksei Zakharov, CEO of Ottr Finance 🔥 Don't miss our exclusive podcast episode with Aleksei Zakharov, the visionary CEO of Ottr Finance! Join us as we dive deep into the world of Web3 mobile wallets and discover how Ottr Finance is revolutionizing the way we make USD payments on the blockchain. This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in fintech innovation, as Aleksei shares his insights on why they chose Solana as their backend blockchain and how they're making

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42:47

Akbar Thobhani, Co-founder & CEO at SFOX

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2023/05/29

In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews Akbar Thobhani, the co-founder and CEO at sFOX, the leading digital asset prime broker and custodian, who today announced new comprehensive bankruptcy protections for its clients’ assets under custody in the SAFE Trust Company digital asset custody platform, sFOX SAFE, revolutionizing the standard for an acceptable level of digital asset security and enabling all investors to secure their investments by offering custody free of charge up to $250,000 of

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42:50

Des Martin, Chief Marketing Officer at Outlier Ventures

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2023/04/26

In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews Des Martin, Chief Marketing Officer at Outlier Ventures where he sets marketing goals and objectives for the business, driving change and growth across the organization. Des joined Outlier Ventures from Brave, where he served as VP of Growth and Marketing for almost three years. Responsible for growing their daily active users from 800k to 11M, Des was key in positioning Brave as a breakthrough Web3 project. Prior to this, Des led marketing teams at two

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55:25

Michael Safai, Managing Partner of Dexterity Capital

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2023/04/18

In this episode, Mike Townsend chats with Michael Safai, Managing Partner of Dexterity Capital, a quantitative trading firm focused on solving the hardest problems in finance. By combining brilliant people, world-class technology, and rich proprietary datasets, Dexterity has built an algorithmic execution engine that trades billions of dollars every day. Dexterity Capital specializes in market-neutral strategies. That means they thrive regardless of whether the bulls or bears are winning. With

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55:54

Thomas Mattimore & James Glasscock, Head of Platform...

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2023/04/12

In this episode, Mike Townsend chats with Thomas Mattimore & James Glasscock, Head of Platform (Protocol) and Head of Ecosystem at Reserve. Thomas Mattimore is Head of Platform (Protocol) at Reserve, a protocol and application that helps people fight inflation with stable currencies. The platform enables anyone to create asset-backed currencies that fight inflation, share revenue, are censorship-resistant, yield-bearing, and have proof of reserves on-chain, 24/7. Thomas has a decade of

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59:42

Stephany Kirkpatrick, Founder & CEO of Orum

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2023/03/29

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Stephany Kirkpatrick the founder and CEO of Orum, the simplest API integration for instant payouts. A digital executive and seasoned entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in companies across a variety of industries, from startups to Fortune 100 corporations, Stephany founded Orum in 2019 on the belief that consumers should have immediate access to their money. A CFP by training, Stephany has spent the last decade of her career building technology to

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55:21

Alex Harris, Founding Partner of Fiat Ventures & Fiat...

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2023/03/22

In this episode, Mike Townsend chats with Alex Harris, Founding Partner of Fiat Growth and General Partner at Fiat Ventures. Prior to Fiat, Alex led paid growth and partnerships at Chime, flexing his innovation skills and data-driven approach. His deep knowledge of the Fintech market provides superior marketing, business development, and growth strategies for Fiat’s clients.

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52:45

MacLane Wilkison, Contributor to Threshold Network

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2023/03/21

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with MacLane Wilkison, Contributor to Threshold Network, the home of tBTC, the only decentralized and permissionless Bitcoin bridge to Ethereum. He is a co-founder of NuCypher, which combined with Keep Network in the first-ever decentralized network merger to form Threshold.

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56:32

Scott Dykstra, CTO of Space and Time & Purandar Das,...

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2023/03/17

In this episode, Mike Townsend chats with Scott Dykstra, CTO and Co-Founder of Space and Time, and Purandar Das, CEO and Co-Founder of Sotero. Microsoft-backed Space and Time is the first decentralized data warehouse. Scott also serves as a Strategic Advisor to Sotero and was formerly the VP of Cloud Solutions at Teradata. Sotero is a Web2 data security platform that ensures your sensitive data is never left unprotected. Purandar previously served as CTO at Infogroup and CTO at Epsilon.

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61:58

Miles Parry & Cat Le-Huy, Co-founders of MPCH Labs

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2023/03/14

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Miles Parry & Cat Le-Huy, Co-founders of MPCH Labs, the team behind Fraction. Miles Parry has extensive experience building highly secure solutions to protect sensitive data and assets. Miles has worked as a trusted consultant for a variety of government organizations, such as the Ministry of Defense, the Financial Conduct Authority, and the Foreign Commonwealth Officer. Before MPCH, Miles founded and built Vo1t (now Genesis), a high-security service

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57:23

Eric Shoykhet, CEO of Link Financial Technologies

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2023/03/08

In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews Eric Shoykhet, Founder of Link Financial Technologies and Atom Finance, venture-backed software companies that collectively have raised $100mm. Previously, he was an investor at Governors Lane, an event-driven hedge fund. At Governors Lane, Eric worked on investments across a variety of sectors including industrials, financials, technology, and consumer staples. Prior to this, he worked in the Restructuring and Reorganization group at Blackstone. Eric

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60:23

Justin Rice, VP & Head of Ecosystem at Stellar...

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2023/03/06

Justin Rice is the Vice President of Ecosystem at the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF), a non-profit organization that supports the development and growth of Stellar, an open-source network that connects the world's financial infrastructure. In this role, he represents developers building on the Stellar network and coordinates members of the Stellar ecosystem, with an ultimate focus on the growth, development, and ongoing health of that system. Prior to his current role, Justin worked in

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50:19

Ramani 'Ram' Ramachandran, CEO of Router Protocol

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2023/02/09

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Ramani 'Ram' Ramachandran, CEO of Router Protocol, an infrastructure layer enabling communication between blockchains. After graduating from MIT with an MBA from the Sloan School of Management, Ramani worked at Deloitte, Moody’s, and Schlumberger before moving into crypto in 2014. He built and ran Asia’s earliest crypto fund, returning 4x. Built Fordex - the world’s first stablecoin DEX and Qume, an institutional-grade crypto exchange. He also

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84:13

Adam Hofmann, Founder & CEO of Nimble Decentralized...

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2022/12/09

In this episode, Mike Townsend, speaks with Adam Hofmann, Founder & CEO of Nimble Decentralized Insurance.Adam is forever a creative, but shifted his professional trajectory away from music and built a 22-year career in the insurance industry playing all the roles - service, sales, marketing, risk advisor, operations, and owner.Adam took his innate creativity, learned practicality and the thrill of building with a big vision, and became the founder of Nimble.Nimble is a decentralized and

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67:44

Hugo Philion, Co-founder & CEO of Flare Network

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2022/12/09

In this episode, Mike Townsend chats with Hugo Philion, Co-founder & CEO of Flare Network. They aim to be the interoperability chain connecting all smart contract chains, non-smart contract chains, & web2 APIs together.As a former commodity derivatives portfolio manager & a Master's in Machine Learning, Hugo is uniquely qualified to speak about the past, present, & future of DeFi - both on a financial fundamentals basis, as well as the tech driving it.Learn more about your ad

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67:03

Darius Tabatabai, Co-Founder of Vertex Protocol

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2022/12/07

In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews Darius Tabatabai, co-founder of Vertex Protocol, a cross-margined, order book DEX built on Arbitrum. Darius comes from an extensive background in TradFi, including as the former Global Head of Metals Trading at BAML and CS and former Head of Trading at Crosstower and JST Capital. Darius and Vertex co-founder, Alwin Peng, decided to build Vertex as a vertically integrated DEX that could compete with centralized exchanges in both features and performance.Learn

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61:20

Alan Chiu, Co-founder and CEO of Enya Labs

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2022/12/07

In this episode, Mike Townsend chats with Alan the co-founder and CEO of Enya Labs, a core contributor to Boba Network. With more than 20 years of experience in building and investing in enterprise and fintech startups, he leads the efforts at achieving Boba Network’s goal of bringing Ethereum to the next billion users worldwide.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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