Paul Gordon talked to Andrew Steinwold, managing partner at Sfermion, and Alex Batlin, CEO of Trustology, to explore the potential of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Andrew got involved in bitcoin in 2013. He participated in a few startups in the mid-2010s before launching an NFT fund…

Toby Lewis, CEO at Novum Insights, joined Coinscrum host Oscar Hammond for the latest installment of the Meet the Founders Series. Novum Insights provides data-driven analytics and a dashboard focused on the DeFi space. (1:57) Prior to founding Novum, Toby co-founded another startup that was…

Once upon a time, back in 2013, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke announced that the Fed would reduce the volume of its bond purchases at a future date – this was enough to send traumatic shockwaves through the markets even though no asset sales actually…

With International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month both falling in March, this topic has been a challenge in terms of representation for the crypto industry. Veronica Mihai is an angel investor and co-founder of Bloomwater Capital, a crypto hedge fund. She’s also a community…

Analysing correlations between cryptoassets and traditional asset classes is important when trying to understand the effects of these assets within a portfolio. By analysing cross-sectional relationships and how ‘dense’ the dynamics of returns are, we can understand just how “Risk-on” or “Risk-off” the markets actually…

Paul Gordon talked to Alessio Quaglini, CEO of Hex Trust, and Sean Lee, CEO of the Algorand Foundation, to explore their views on opportunities in Asia Pacific as well as their perspectives on regulation, community participation and the Hex Trust-Algorand collaboration. Hex Trust was created…

Anton Golub, CEO of flovtec, joined Paul Gordon for a weekly review of the markets. Topics ranged from new bitcoin all-time highs, the heat surrounding NFTs, speculation from Mongolia, China and India on potential crypto bans, and governments holding crypto positions. Bitcoin’s All-Time High (again)…

Myths can make men mad. Especially when those myths involve riches. The conquistadors were drawn deep into the impenetrable jungles of South America by the legend of El Dorado – “the golden one” – who, the Spanish believed, ruled over a kingdom where the precious…

Travis Schwab, CEO of Eventus Systems, and David Olsson, global head of institutional distribution at BlockFi, joined host Paul Gordon to discuss their experience between the worlds of traditional finance and crypto. They also discussed the balance between the institutional and retail needs of the…

How should blockchains be governed? Distributed Ledger Technology allows us to experiment with new voting algorithms that are embedded on the blockchain and free from human intervention. In this note, we examine the differences between on-chain and off-chain governance and discuss specific forms that have…

ByteTree’s James Bennett returned to analyze the latest BTC price movements. As of March 9, BTC sits at around USD 53,500. Fees Miner Selling Slows (1:10) As price has consolidated between USD 40,000-50,000, miners have decreased their rate of bitcoin selling. The blue block in…

Leo Wang is co-founder of China-based Crust, a decentralized storage network within the Web 3.0 ecosystem. He joined host Paul Gordon to discuss the issues facing decentralized storage and how Crust differentiates itself from the other players. (00:40) Leo has worked in the IT industry…