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Wallfacer Podcast
Wallfacer Podcast: Conversations with the builders, operators, and investors shaping crypto's future. We explore the strategies, technical innovations, and market insights that go beyond the headlines
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Wallfacer Podcast#37: Arpan Gautam, Noon | Underwriting Credit Across TradFi & DeFi
Episode Description Today’s guest is Arpan Gautam, founder of Noon Capital. We discuss how Noon underwrites private credit alongside DeFi lending, why he…
Wallfacer Podcast#36: Meet Patel & Ravi Shah, Otus | An AI Wealth Manager in Your Pocket
Episode Description Today’s guests are Meet Patel and Ravi Shah, co-founders of Otus, a mobile savings app where each account is an agent that deploys your…
Wallfacer Podcast#35: Jerome de Tychey | EIP-8363, the 50% staking line, and Ethereum's issuance fight
Today’s guest is Jérôme de Tychey, president of Ethereum France, founder of EthCC, and a co-author of EIP-8363. He makes the case that Ethereum’s issuance…
Wallfacer Podcast#34: corn (Yearn) & Connor Flanagan (Birch Hill) | What even is a vault?
Today’s guests are corn, who works on growth at Yearn, and Connor Flanagan, COO and co-founder of Birch Hill. We get into why the word “vault” stopped meaning…
Wallfacer Podcast#33: Ivo Georgiev & Dimo Stoyanov, Ambire & heyAura | Building for the Chronically On-Chain
Episode Description Today’s guests are Ivo Georgiev and Dimo Stoyanov, co-founders of Ambire and heyAura, who have been building together for 13 years, from…
Wallfacer Podcast#32: David Reising, Lotus Protocol | Tranched Lending and the Missing Middle in DeFi Credit
Episode Description Today’s guest is David Reising, founder and CEO of Lotus Protocol. Ryan and David get into why isolated lending markets keep converging on…
Wallfacer Podcast#31: Joey Isaacson, Nook | Building a DeFi Savings App for Non-Crypto Users
Episode Description Today’s guest is Joey Isaacson, co-founder and CEO of Nook, a consumer savings app that connects everyday users to DeFi lending markets on…
Wallfacer Podcast#30: TezDev: Beyond Crypto-Natives: The Next Era of Earn w/ Tezos, Meria, and Hanji
Episode Description Today’s guests are Arthur Breitman (co-founder of Tezos), Owen (Hasheur) Simonin (CEO of Meria), and Dmitriy Kovalevskiy (founder of…
Wallfacer Podcast#29: Jeremiah Smith, OpenCover | Why 99.95% of DeFi Is Uninsured
Today’s guest is Jeremiah Smith, co-founder and CEO of OpenCover. Jeremiah explains why less than 0.05% of DeFi TVL is insured, walks through how OpenCover’s…
Wallfacer Podcast#28: Octave Mesnard, Jumper | A consumer hub vision, building for prosumers & multi-chain myths
EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Today’s guest is Octave Mesnard, Head of Strategy and Consumer Products at Jumper Exchange. We discuss Jumper’s evolution from a thin…
Wallfacer Podcast#27: Sebastien Derivaux, Steakhouse Financial | Building Steakhouse, MakerDAO's RWA Legacy, and DeFi risk management
Today’s guest is Sébastien Derivaux, co-founder of Steakhouse Financial. We discuss the evolution of real-world assets in DeFi from MakerDAO’s pioneering…
Wallfacer Podcast#26: Andrew Keys, The Ether Machine | Why DATs beat ETFs & The $654M Ethereum Bet
Today's guest is Andrew Keys, co-founder and chairman of The Ether Machine and managing partner of DARMA Capital. We discuss why crypto treasury companies…
Wallfacer Podcast#25: Rob Montgomery, InfiniFi | How InfiniFi Hit $120M TVL & bringing tradFi onchain
Today's guest is Rob Montgomery, co-founder and CEO of InfiniFi. We discuss how fractional reserve banking principles can revolutionize DeFi yields, the…
Wallfacer Podcast#24: John Morrow & Holt Butler, Gauntlet | Vault Curation, gtUSDa, & The New DeFi Landscape
Today's guests are John Morrow, COO and Co-founder of Gauntlet, and Holt Butler, Product Lead for Gauntlet USD Alpha. We discuss Gauntlet's evolution from…
Wallfacer Podcast#23: Ivan Kozlov, Resolv | Yield bearing stables, why tranching works, & "stablecoinizing" everything
Today's guest is Ivan Kozlov, co-founder of Resolv Protocol. We discuss how Resolv has been successful with tranching, their yield-bearing stablecoin…
Wallfacer Podcast#22: @Defi_dad & @Nomaticcap | ETH's path forward, narrative problems, & the user advantage
Today's guests are @DeFi_Dad and @Nomaticcap, co-hosts of The Edge Podcast, authors of The Edge newsletter, and prominent angel investors. We discuss the…
Wallfacer Podcast#21: Dion Chu, Term Finance | Beyond Variable Rates, DeFi's Fixed Income Future
Please like, subscribe, and leave a positive review. It helps us get the show in front of more listeners and viewers (Apple, Spotify , YouTube) Today’s guest…
Wallfacer Podcast#20: Nik Kunkel, Chronicle Labs | Oracle Evolution & Enabling the Tokenization Wave
Today’s guest is Nik Kunkel, the founder and CEO of Chronicle Labs. Nik is a long-time contributor to MakerDAO and an early builder in the oracle space. * Nik…
Wallfacer Podcast#19: Sam MacPherson, Spark | Building DeFi's Liquidity Layer
Today’s guest is Sam MacPherson, co-founder and CEO of Phoenix Labs, the core contributors to the Spark Protocol. Sam is also a long-time contributor to Sky…
Wallfacer Podcast#18: Luca Prosperi, M^0 | Reimagining Money & the Future of Stablecoins
How are stablecoins reshaping the financial stack? Ryan chats with Luca Prosperi about reimagining the financial stack from first principles, why separation…
Wallfacer Podcast#17: Michael Bentley, Euler | Building DeFi’s Global Liquidity Layer
How is Euler Finance becoming DeFi's global liquidity layer? Ryan Rodenbaugh chats with Michael Bentley about reimagining DeFi infrastructure through modular…
Wallfacer Podcast#16: Matt Fiebach, Entropy Advisors | Accelerating the Arbitrum DAO
@RyanRodenbaugh sat down with @MattFiebach of @EntropyAdvisors in our latest podcast! They discussed how the Entropy team is accelerating the @arbitrum DAO…
Wallfacer Podcast#15: @DeFi_Made_Here (DMH), Instadapp | Building Fluid, DeFi’s Liquidity Layer
🎙️ Join @RyanRodenbaugh and @DeFi_Made_Here in our latest podcast. They discussed @0xFluid’s approach to DeFi, @Instadapp’s evolution, and more! Timestamps…
Wallfacer Podcast#14: Facu, Yearn & MOM | Yearn’s evolution & building with Mom
RyanRodenbaugh caught up with @saltyfacu of @yearn/@built_by_mom in our latest podcast! They discussed @yearn's OG culture, its evolution, future direction…
Wallfacer Podcast#13: Thomas Mattimore, Reserve Protocol | Index Products, Stablecoin Growth, & Wider User Adoption
🎙️ In our latest episode, @RyanRodenbaugh talks with @mattimost of @ReserveProtocol. They discuss the appeal of index products in DeFi, growing and governing a…
Wallfacer Podcast#12: Evgeny Yurtaev, Zerion | Building the ZERO Network L2 and the evolution of Zerion
Today’s guest is Evgeny Yurtaev, the Co-Founder and CEO of Zerion. Zerion is a crypto wallet for everything onchain. Zerion has also recently announced that…
Wallfacer Podcast#11: @definikola, DeFi Saver | Building for power users, monetization, and crypto UX layers
In this episode, @definikola from DeFi Saver joins us to discuss balancing quality and quantity, catching blue-chip protocols early, and DeFi Saver's business…
Wallfacer Podcast#10: Sefton Kincaid, Cicada Partners | The past, present and future of onchain credit
In our latest podcast, we sat down with Sefton Kincaid of @cicadacredit! We discussed the past, present and future of onchain credit, as well as Cicada’s…
Wallfacer Podcast#9: Regan Bozman, Lattice | Product-market fit, building moats, & picking winners at seed in crypto
Today’s guest is Regan Bozman. Regan is the co-founder of Lattice, an early-stage crypto venture fund. Regan Bozman: Learn more…
Wallfacer Podcast#8: Wesley Pryor, Acheron Trading - Transparency and the role of crypto market makers
Today's guest is Wesley Pryor, the founder of Acheron Trading, a digital asset market maker. You can learn more about Wesley on X…
Wallfacer Podcast#7: Piotr Szlachciak, L2BEAT
Today’s guest is Piotr Szlachciak, the co-founder of L2BEAT — the Ethereum space’s go-to resource for analytics on L2 scaling solutions. In addition, Piotr has…
Wallfacer Podcast#6: Alan Keegan, Kinto - Building a safer L2
Today’s guest is Alan Keegan. Alan is the co-founder and CSO of Mamori Labs, the company building the Kinto Network. Kinto is a soon-to-be-launched L2 with…
Wallfacer Podcast#5: Getty Hill, GFX Labs - Building at the forefront of DeFi and governance
Getty Hill is the CEO and Co-Founder of GFX Labs, a blockchain research & development company. [0:00] Introduction and Getty's time at Grapefruit Trading…
Wallfacer Podcast#4: @TheSkyHopper, Bastion Trading: Building a trading firm, trading post-FTX, DAO activism/RFV trades
Today's guest is Masa, who many of you may know as TheSkyHopper on Twitter (https://twitter.com/TheSkyhopper). Masa is the co-founder of Bastion Trading and…
Wallfacer Podcast#3: TJ Ragsdale, Entheos Network
[0:00] Introduction, background, joining MakerDAO from Twitter [2:45] Initial spark with crypto [4:45] One-year anniversary of the Unreal Primer on Real World…
Wallfacer Podcast#2: Marcus Leanos, MJL Capital & Adapt3r Digital
Marcus Leanos is the Founder of CIO of MJL Capital (https://twitter.com/MjlCapital) a multi-strategy digital asset hedge fund, and Adapt3r Digital…
Wallfacer Podcast#1: Leslie Tam, GBV Capital
[0:00] Leslie's Background and intro to crypto [10:00] The decision and process to join Binance in the depths of the 2018/2019 bear. [17:00] Early keys to the…
Wallfacer Podcast#0: Intro
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