Alex Kim, BNB Chain's Business Development Manager, joins the podcast to chat all things BNB Chain. See on CoinJournal here. Reach out to us on Twitter: @DanniiAshmore & @CoinJournal Listen to the podcast on various platforms here Find BNB Chain on Twitter: @BNBChain Find out more at www.bnbchain.org ..read more

Avalanche is a newcomer even within the young industry of crypto, having been launched in late 2020.  Despite this, it is already among the biggest projects in the space.  John Nahas, Vice President of Business Development at Ava Labs, the creator behind Avalanche, joins the podcast to discuss why he thinks Avalanche has solved the blockchain trilemma,  regulation, launching amid the bull market, the subsequent bear market and more. Head over to Dan's article on CoinJournal here Reach out to us on Twitter: @DanniiAshmore & @CoinJournal Listen to the podcast on various platf ..read more

Elijah Tan worked in trad-fi for years. On this episode, he talks leaving Goldman Sachs for crypto after 7 years, where he worked for Binance and is now the VP of Operations at Philippines-based exchange Coins.ph Head over to Dan's article on CoinJournal here Reach out to us on Twitter: @DanniiAshmore & @CoinJournal Listen to the podcast on various platforms here Follow Coins.ph: @Coinsph Find out more at www.coins.ph Follow Eli on LinkedIn here ..read more

Our host Dan Ashmore interviews Sam MacPherson of MakerDAO, the DAO behind the world's largest decentralised stablecoin, DAI. The duo chat about its future, and the stablecoin market as a whole, following the shocking story that BUSD will be gradually shut down amid an SEC crackdown. Head over to Dan's article on CoinJournal here Reach out to us on Twitter: @DanniiAshmore & @CoinJournal Listen to the podcast on various platforms here Follow @MakerDAO on Twitter Find out more at www.makerdao.com Find Sam MacPherson on Twitter: @hexonaut ..read more

Crypto has pulled back massively recently, with mass layoffs and cratering volumes in the industry. Despite this crypto exchange Bitget is not only avoiding redundancies, but it is hiring. We chat with Managing Director Gracy Chen on how this is the case, her journey into crypto, the bear market, the future and more.  Listen on Spotify here Other platforms and podcast homepage here Reach out to Dan on Twitter: @DanniiAshmore Follow Gracy's Twitter: @GracyBitget Get the latest on Bitget: www.bitget.com Follow Bitget on Twitter: @bitgetglobal ..read more

A serial entrepreneur, Corey Wilton tells me his story. A kid from the Gold Coast in Australia, he failed to get into University. Today, he runs a metaverse company, Mirai Labs, out of Vietnam with 75 employees, and has some great tales from the hysteria of the last few years.  Head over to Dan's article on CoinJournal here Watch on YouTube here Reach out to Dan on Twitter here: @DanniiAshmore and @CoinJournal Follow Corey on Twitter @RealCoreyWilton Get the latest on Mirai Labs: @TheMiraiLabs Get the latest on Pegaxy: @PegaxyOfficial ..read more

We chat all things DeFi, Polygon and Ethereum with Polygon's Head of DeFi & Labs, Hamzah Khan.  Read up on Polygon: https://polygon.technology/ Head over to Dan's article on CoinJournal here Watch on YouTube here Reach out to Dan on Twitter here: @DanniiAshmore and @CoinJournal Read more on Polygon: https://polygon.technology ..read more

IOTA has been around quite a while in cryptocurrency terms. They do things a little differently than most, the self-proclaimed "blockchainless blockchain". CoinJournal's Dan Ashmore sits down with IOTA's Christian Saur this week to chat all things IOTA, following the launch of the Shimmer network. Beyond Shimmer, the duo also chat DeFi, the bear market, the contagion that toppled so much of CeFi this summer, and more. Head over to Dan's article on CoinJournal here: https://coinjournal.net/news/podcast-chatting-all-things-iota-with-iotas-christian-saur/ Watch on YouTube here: https://youtu.b ..read more

Venture capitalism and crypto are a pair who have not been married for long, but the results have been explosive. Of course, like everything, it has taken a turn for the worst this week. Dan speaks with longtime VC David Siemer, CEO of Wave Financial, about all things VC and crypto. David was a VC for the dot com bubble and the GFC in 2008, so he has seen these scenes before in the trad-fi market. Having been sent 50 bitcoins in 2010, and being a self-proclaimed risk-taker, he is now in the crypto space - so how is VC getting on through all this? Is there a dark side to VC in crypto? Where ..read more

The phrase "crypto lending" is seen as a dirty one now in the post-Celsius world, as a wave of contagion spreading through the industry caused many firms to go under in a very high-profile manner. Today Dan speaks with Rafael Cosman, the co-founder and CEO of TrustToken, the firm behind the world's fifth biggest stablecoin, TrueUSD, and also the pioneers in uncollaterised lending. So, is uncollaterised lending really possible, having seen what happened the last few months? Or is the capital inefficiency that overcollaterised lending brings just a necessary evil? We also discuss the Tether r ..read more