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Talking Tokens

Jacquelyn Melinek, Token Relations

Talking Tokens is a podcast focused on interviewing the best crypto leaders, startups, market players and up-and-coming founders that are changing the industry. Join Jacquelyn Melinek, an award-nominated host and seasoned crypto journalist-turned-entrepreneur, to dive into the best talks in crypto in an easy-to-understand way. The episodes will air every Tuesday and Thursday on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, X and more. For more updates, subscribe to the Talking Tokens newsletter here:

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00:49:58

Bhaji Illuminati | What Asset Managers and Investors...

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2025/02/20

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Bhaji Illuminati, the new CEO – formerly CMO – of Centrifuge. The platform is focused on providing onchain finance to asset managers and investors through tokenized financial products. We talk about the company’s leadership changes and 2025 strategy to bring asset managers onchain, what investors want from tokenized products and RWAs and more.======================Follow Bhaji: https://x.com/itsbhajiFollow Centrifuge:

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00:42:01

Humayun Sheikh | How AI Agents Will Transform Crypto

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2025/02/18

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Humayun Sheikh, CEO and founder of FetchAI. They discuss the general crypto x AI landscape, recent surges of interest in AI agents, what’s possible with the technologies, how anyone can build an app with AI in 10 minutes and more.======================Follow Humayun: https://x.com/HMsheikh4Follow FetchAI: https://x.com/Fetch_aiFollow Jacquelyn: https://twitter.com/jacqmelinekFollow Talking Tokens: https://twitter.com/_TalkingTokensFollow

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00:40:41

Luca Netz | The Genius Marketing Behind Pudgy Penguins

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2025/02/13

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Luca Netz, CEO of Pudgy Penguins. They discuss why he diversified Pudgy Penguins into a business bigger than NFTs, the recent launch of Abstract Chain and how it wants to make consumer apps fun, creating brand awareness and more.======================Follow Luca: https://x.com/LucaNetzFollow Pudgy Penguins: https://x.com/pudgypenguinsFollow Jacquelyn: https://twitter.com/jacqmelinekFollow Talking Tokens:

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00:45:51

Rachel Conlan | Binance CMO Shares Plan To 4X Its...

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2025/02/11

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Rachel Conlan, Binance CMO. They discuss her role in growing the world’s largest crypto exchange, marketing the platform to 250 million users, its growth plans to grow to 1 billion users, what it takes to build a strong community and more.=======================Follow Rachel: https://x.com/rachelconlanFollow Binance: https://x.com/BinanceFollow Jacquelyn: https://twitter.com/jacqmelinekFollow Talking Tokens:

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00:57:21

Tom Schmidt | How Smart Money is Investing in Crypto...

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2025/02/06

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly Capital. Tom came on the show in August 2024 and has joined us again for a refresher on the state of crypto VCs, how investors are positioned in the market right now, what he’s interested in, investing in, his opinions on the Ethereum Foundation, L2 chains, $TRUMP and more.====================== Follow Tom: https://x.com/tomhschmidt Follow Dragonfly: https://x.com/dragonfly_xyz Follow

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00:51:56

Eric Chen & Mirza Uddin | Injective Is Changing The...

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2025/02/04

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Injective Labs Co-Founder, CEO Eric Chen, and Head of BD Mirza Uddin. They discuss Injective’s plans to democratize finance onchain, bringing DeFi to institutional investors, its progress on the AI front and what the Helix AI Indices means for investors. They also dive into Injective’s new rebrand and plans to integrate EVM support to expand the chain into the Ethereum ecosystem.======================== Follow Eric:

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00:52:47

Jack Melnick | Explaining Berachain's Big Bet on...

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2025/01/30

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Jack Melnick, also known as Cap'n Jack Bearow, the head of DeFi at Berachain. They talk about the importance of building a community, why anonymity can be important, his DeFi strategy for Berachain, the chain’s mainnet launch plans, the state of L1 blockchains in 2025 and more.======================= Follow Jack: https://x.com/capnjackbearow Follow Berachain: https://x.com/Berachain Follow Jacquelyn:

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00:48:19

Ilja Moisejevs & Richard Wu | How Tensor Pivoted its...

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2025/01/28

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Ilja Moisejevs and Richard Wu, the co-founders of Tensor and Vector. They discuss what it takes to build breakout consumer apps that people want to use, why they pivoted to Vector and how it’s bringing a social aspect to trading, their founder journey, wins, mistakes, lessons and more.======================= Vector is invite-only right now, but we have a code for the first 500 people who use it. Download the app

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00:53:11

Ogle | Trump’s Crypto Project Advisor Talks $TRUMP,...

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2025/01/23

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Ogle, co-founder of Glue and advisor to World Liberty Financial. Ogle is also an onchain sleuth that has helped exploited, or hacked, projects recoverover $500 million – all pro bono. We talk about what’s important when it comes to crypto security and projects, chains and users protecting themselves. We also discuss his advisory work on the Trump-backed World Liberty Financial project, what it’s like working with some of the Trump family

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00:46:05

Avery Ching | Aptos New CEO Shares 2025 Outlook

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2025/01/21

Today’s guest is Avery Ching, the co-founder and CEO of Aptos Labs. This episode is a part of the quarterly webinars that Token Relations does with Aptos - so it was fun to catch up again with Avery, a few months after they last spoke in Seoul during Aptos Experience. They discuss what Avery hopes to accomplish in his first year as CEO, ecosystem growth for the network in 2025, DeFi opportunities onchain, his long term Aptos outlook and more.==================== Follow Avery:

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00:49:45

Qiao Wang | How To Build A Great Crypto Startup

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2025/01/16

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Qiao Wang, founding member of Alliance, a web3 accelerator program. Qiao came on the show back in May – but a lot has changed since then. They discuss how Alliance looks for breakout startups, Pump.fun’s journey to hitting $100M revenue in 6 months and what makes a great crypto founder – and investor. Qiao also shared his thoughts on the current crypto x AI landscape, 2025 market predictions and why founders should play the “long

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Sam McIngvale | Optimism Q1 Update: Superchain's 2025...

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2025/01/14

For this week’s Tuesday episode, we’re sharing the Optimism Quarterly Webinar that Jacquelyn hosted with OP Labs Head of Product Sam McIngvale. This conversation dives into new UI/UX possibilities and innovations that are coming to Ethereum for developers and users through L2 chains — like the 40+ chains within the Superchain ecosystem. They discussed the Superchain’s 2025 product roadmap, which includes integrating better native interoperability, SuperchainERC20, Ethereum’s upcoming Pectra Upgrade,

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00:50:59

Avalanche Q1 Update | Avalanche9000 Upgrade: Impact...

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2025/01/09

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, we are airing the Avalanche Quarterly Webinar that Jacquelyn hosted live earlier this week with three Ava Labs Engineers Stephen Buttolph, Aaron Buckwald and Michael Kaplan. The panel discussion focused on Avalanche9000, the network’s largest upgrade to date that went live in mid December. They also talked about what it means for the Avalanche ecosystem, developers and users as well as the types of projects they’re interested in seeing built on the blockchain,

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00:37:45

Michael Heinrich | Why AI Agents Will Change Everything

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2025/01/07

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Michael Heinrich, co-founder of Zero Gravity Labs, also known as 0G Labs. Zero Gravity Labs is building a decentralized AI Operating System (dAIOS) and has over 200 investors across its $40 million seed round and $35 million pre-seed round. Jacquelyn and Michael discuss into the importance of creating decentralized AI systems, the popularity of AI Agents and how they can change the way society interacts with the technology, growth

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00:38:05

Julian Holguin | Doodles Is Making NFTs Mainstream

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2025/01/02

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Julian Holguin, CEO of Doodles. We discuss how Julian transitioned from being the president at Billboard to CEO of Doodles, the NFT collection expanding its brand beyond crypto and creating valuable partnerships with companies like McDonalds, Crocs, Adidas and more.======================= Follow Julian: https://x.com/jholguin Follow Doodles: https://x.com/doodles Follow Jacquelyn: https://twitter.com/jacqmelinek Follow Talking Tokens:

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00:41:19

Mike Giampapa | What’s Next for Crypto in 2025?...

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2024/12/31

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Mike Giampapa, general partner at Galaxy Ventures. They talked about crypto payments, emerging opportunities in different regions, what he’s watching as an investor and his outlook for 2025. ======================= Follow Mike: https://x.com/mgiampapa1 Follow Jacquelyn: https://twitter.com/jacqmelinek Follow Talking Tokens: https://twitter.com/_TalkingTokens Follow Token Relations:

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00:42:01

Nicolas Pouard | How Ubisoft Is Shaping The Future of...

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2024/12/19

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Nicolas Pouard, VP of Ubisoft’s Strategic Innovation Lab. Ubisoft is one of the largest video game publishers that created Assassin’s Creed, Just Dance and many other games. It has forayed into the web3 gaming space and Nicolas is one of the individuals internally helping expand operations on that front. We talk about Ubisoft’s crypto gaming strategy, appealing to mainstream gamers, how it overcame previous web3 failures from the last market

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00:43:25

Austin King & Tyler Tarsi | Omni Mainnet Wants to...

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2024/12/17

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Omni CEO Austin King and CTO Tyler Tarsi. We dive into why they co-founded Omni, its recent mainnet launch and how the network wants to help fix Ethereum and chain fragmentation. We also talk about what it’s like building a crypto business in the US and their 2025 outlook.======================= Follow Austin: https://x.com/0xASK Follow Tyler: https://x.com/ttarsi_ Follow Omni: https://x.com/OmniFDN Follow Jacquelyn:

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00:44:27

Rennick Palley | Investment Case for Memecoins

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2024/12/12

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Rennick Palley, founding partner at Stratos. They talk a lot about Stratos’ early investment in memecoins like Dogwifhat and GOAT, what can make a good meme into a successful memecoin, as well as his crypto VC outlook, investing in crypto founders, building in the US and more.======================= Follow Rennick: https://x.com/rennickpalley Follow Stratos: https://x.com/StratosXYZ Follow Jacquelyn: https://twitter.com/jacqmelinek

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00:51:55

Alix Musset | How Aptos Builds Its Ecosystem

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2024/12/10

On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Alix Musset, Aptos Labs’ Ecosystem Success Manager. They discuss how Alix got into web3 (and worked with famous musician The Weeknd), her growth strategy for expanding the Aptos ecosystem, what other blockchains are getting right and wrong when it comes to ecosystem engagement and more.======================= Follow Alix: https://x.com/aptAlix Follow Aptos Labs: https://x.com/AptosLabs Follow Jacquelyn:

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