Efficient Frontier BD Associate Andrew Tu discussed the macro impact on crypto markets with host Teana Baker-Taylor. He pointed out how the biggest change in macro in the last month has been the rise of the new administration in the United States. Now that the…

James Bennett, CEO of ByteTree, discussed on-chain insights and observations over the past week. Prices have surged more than 20% in the past week, as Tesla directed USD 1.5 billion of its Treasury to bitcoin. Tesla CEO Elon Musk then tweeted about it, even putting…

Simon Cowell, co-founder and CEO of Zebedee, a payments platform for virtual worlds, joined host Paul Gordon for the Coinscrum Meet the Founders Series. Simon is a traditional finance alum where his previous role involved working with venture capitalists. That’s how he became familiar with…

Matthieu Jobbe-Duval, head of financial products at CoinList, joined Coinscrum host Teana Baker-Taylor to discuss the crypto markets with a focus on the Flow blockchain, DeFi, ETH and institutional investors. Flow is a well-known project in crypto and it was built by the folks who…

Crypto markets are charging forward yet again, and not even a hack on a leading Decentralised Finance (DeFi) project has been able to dampen this week’s party-like atmosphere. Bitcoin came within shouting distance of $39,000 earlier this week, and ETH continues setting new record highs,…

Jake Yocom-Piatt, co-founder and project lead at Decred, spent some time with host Nick Gregory to discuss the project’s latest release, v1.6. Decred is an attempt to iterate upon the insights of Bitcoin and do it in a way that evolves over time. Put another…

Stop the Game Masters All’s fair in love and war, but even the stock market has rules. So, when the Masters of the Universe can so easily change those rules to squash a Peasant’s Revolt, we know that something is going very badly wrong with…

Wendy Harrison, founder and CEO at 1st Idea, and James Burnie, partner at Gunnercooke, joined host Ian Taylor to discuss a crypto asset taxonomy system. Wendy has been in the financial markets for the past 20 years and has been investing in the crypto space…

Arnab Naskar is the co-founder and business lead at STOKR, a securities token issuance platform. He spoke with host Paul Gordon for the Coinscrum Meet the Founders Series to discuss the latest developments at the company and the current state of the industry. STOKR was…

Many people may think that decentralized finance (DeFi) and know-your-customer (KYC) standards are not compatible. They would be mistaken. Protocols must include the capability to run as DeFi but also potentially with KYC along with know-your-transaction (KYT) included. Adam Vaziri, CEO of Blockpass, and Ankitt…

With the cryptocurrency markets starting off the year strong, institutional interest is starting to materialize as expected. Yoann Turpin, co-founder and head of business development at Wintermute, and Constantin Kogan, managing director of Wave Financial and partner at BitBull Capital, joined host Teana Baker-Taylor to…

To use an old saying – “there are moments that define a person’s whole life…” – and for digital assets, this moment was supposed to have been the adoption of Bitcoin and other tokens  by institutional market participants. While this development (which only gathered momentum…