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Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Talking Tokens is StrataMedia’s flagship podcast and newsletter, delivering two episodes a week to a growing global audience of crypto-native and traditional finance professionals. The award-nominated show features conversations with the founders, investors, market makers, and leaders shaping the onchain economy. Hosted by Jacquelyn Melinek, founder & CEO of StrataMedia and former senior crypto reporter at TechCrunch. Subscribe: https://talkingtokens.beehiiv.com/ Follow on X: @_TalkingTokens
Episodes
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Ira Auerbach | Building the Palantir of Blockchains
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Ira Auerbach, head of Tandem – the partner studio and venture capital arm by Offchain Labs. We…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Kain Warwick | Creating DeFi Apps People Actually Want to Use
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Kain Warwick, founder of Synthetix and Infinex. They discuss Kain’s founder journey, how he looks at…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Anthony Anzalone | Bringing Institutions to Blockchains
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with the CEO and Founder of XION Anthony Anzalone, also known as Burnt Banksy. They discuss why he…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Armani Ferrante | How Backpack Is Revolutionizing Crypto Exchanges
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Armani Ferrante, Backpack and Mad Lads cofounder and CEO. They discuss Ferrante’s journey from Apple…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Miles Fuller | How To File Your 2025 Crypto Taxes
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Miles Fuller, head of government solutions at TaxBit. Miles was previously at the IRS for 15 years…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Scaling The Avalanche Blockchain In 2025
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn interviewed GoGoLabs Founder Steven Gates, Avant Founder Rhett Shipp and Ava Labs Senior Ecosystem Growth…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Erik Voorhees | Bitcoin OG Is Solving AI’s Biggest Risk
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Erik Voorhees, founder of Venice.AI. They discuss how Erik got into bitcoin back in 2011, his…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
The Future of Aptos: Ecosystem Scaling, Stablecoins & DeFi
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Ash Pampati, head of ecosystem at Aptos. They discuss Ash’s core principles for growth, how he looks…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Hart Lambur & Nam Chu Hoa | Fixing Ethereum’s Interoperability with Open Intents Framework
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Hart Lambur, co-founder of Across Protocol, and Nam Chu Hoai, the co-founder of Hyperlane. We dive…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Xin Yan | The Truth About Memecoins: Hype, Celebrity Launches & More
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Xin Yan, CEO and co-founder of Sign. Sign is a token-distribution platform backed by former Binance…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Bhaji Illuminati | What Asset Managers and Investors Want to Tokenize
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…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Humayun Sheikh | How AI Agents Will Transform Crypto
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…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Luca Netz | The Genius Marketing Behind Pudgy Penguins
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…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Rachel Conlan | Binance CMO Shares Plan To 4X Its Users To 1 Billion
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…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Tom Schmidt | How Smart Money is Investing in Crypto Right Now
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…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Eric Chen & Mirza Uddin | Injective Is Changing The Game For DeFi
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…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Jack Melnick | Explaining Berachain's Big Bet on Proof of Liquidity
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…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Ilja Moisejevs & Richard Wu | How Tensor Pivoted its Entire Business and 10x'd Revenue with Vector
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…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Ogle | Trump’s Crypto Project Advisor Talks $TRUMP, Security, Hackers & Glue
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…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Avery Ching | Aptos New CEO Shares 2025 Outlook
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…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Qiao Wang | How To Build A Great Crypto Startup
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…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Sam McIngvale | Optimism Q1 Update: Superchain's 2025 Roadmap
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…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Avalanche Q1 Update | Avalanche9000 Upgrade: Impact on Developers, Users, & The Ecosystem
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…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Michael Heinrich | Why AI Agents Will Change Everything
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…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Julian Holguin | Doodles Is Making NFTs Mainstream
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…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Mike Giampapa | What’s Next for Crypto in 2025? Payments, Investments, & Beyond
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Mike Giampapa, general partner at Galaxy Ventures. They talked about crypto payments, emerging…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Nicolas Pouard | How Ubisoft Is Shaping The Future of Web3 Gaming
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…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Austin King & Tyler Tarsi | Omni Mainnet Wants to Unite All Chains
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…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Rennick Palley | Investment Case for Memecoins
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…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Alix Musset | How Aptos Builds Its Ecosystem
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…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Nate Holiday | Building a Decentralized Data Warehouse
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Nate Holiday, the co-founder, president and CEO at Space and Time. We discuss Space and Time’s role in…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Brad Garlinghouse | Ripple CEO On Why XRP Is Taking Over
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, we're sharing a fireside chat with Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse. Jacquelyn recorded this conversation with Brad on stage at…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Jason Zhao | Story is Building A Blockchain To Monetize Your IP
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Jason Zhao, co-founder of Story. They discuss the origin of Story, why IP is so important for…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Antonio Juliano | DYDX Founder: DeFi Will Rule The World
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Antonio Juliano, the CEO of dYdX. They dive into Antonio’s journey as a founder and CEO, how the…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Adrian Brink | Building a Blockchain to Survive WWIII
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Adrian Brink, co-founder ofAnoma and Namada. They discuss building decentralized technology that can…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Mert Mumtaz | Why Developers Choose Solana
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Mert Mumtaz, CEO of Helius Labs. They discuss why Mert left Coinbase to start a Solana-focused…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Vijay Chetty | Eclipse Launches Mainnet: The First Ethereum L2 On Solana
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Vijay Chetty, Eclipse CEO. They talk about Eclipse’s recent mainnet launch, how it’s bringing Solana…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Rebecca Rettig | Post Election: Polygon Exec Talks Crypto Policy Outlook After Trump Win
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Polygon’s Chief Legal and Policy Officer Rebecca Rettig. They dive into the current state of…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Hayden Adams & Hart Lambur | Unichain Wants To Unite All of Ethereum
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sat down with Hayden Adams, CEO of Uniswap Labs, and Hart Lambur, co-founder and CEO of Across. They dive into…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Tristan Frizza | Zeta Markets Wants To Make Solana Even Faster
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Tristan Frizza, founder of Zeta Markets. They talk about what traders want more of on DeFi trading…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Stani Kulechov | The Future of Stablecoins and Tokenization of Assets
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, we're sharing a fireside chat Jacquelyn moderated with Stani Kulechov, founder and CEO of Avara (formerly Aave), in Buenos…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Michael Martin, Marc Villafuerte, Anish Lathker, Kainoa Kanter | Building Prediction Markets In Web3 Accelerators
For this week’s Thursday's episode, we’re sharing an episode I recorded last week in a podcast studio near the Avalanche Summit, in Buenos Aires, Argentina…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Emin Gün Sirer | AVAX Breakthroughs: Avalanche9000, Off The Grid & Institutional Adoption
On today's talking tokens episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Ava Labs co-founder and CEO Emin Gün Sirer. We recorded this during the Avalanche Summit in Buenos…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Raza Zaidi & Sandy Peng | A Blockchain For Fast Finality
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Scroll’s Co-founder Sandy Peng and Head of Growth Raza Zaidi. They talk about building an L2 in a…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Asher Genoot | The Future of Bitcoin Mining
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Asher Genoot, CEO of Hut 8.They talk about Hut 8 being publicly traded, IPOs, bitcoin mining needing a…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
David Nage | Crypto Investing In 2024 Market and Beyond
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn interviewed David Nage, venture capital PM at Arca and the host of the Base Layer Podcast. They talk about David’s…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Alexei Zamyatin | The Case For Building On Bitcoin
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Alexei Zamyatin, cofounder of Build on Bitcoin (BOB). They talk about hybrid layer-2 blockchains, BoB…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Chiente Hsu | Here's What It's Like To Build a Bitcoin DEX
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Chiente Hsu, co-founder and CEO of Alex, a Bitcoin DeFi-focused platform. They talk about her journey…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Michael Sonnenshein | Former Grayscale CEO on Bitcoin ETF, Crypto IPOs & Future Outlook
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, we’re sharing a fireside chat Jacquelyn moderated with Michael Sonnenshein, former CEO of Grayscale and long-time crypto…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Philip Martin | Coinbase Plans To Keep Your Crypto Safe
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Coinbase Chief Security Officer Philip Martin. Jacquelyn and Philip talk about security in…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Dan Reecer & Robinson Burkey | Wormhole’s Era3 Upgrade & Future Roadmap
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Wormhole Foundation cofounders Dan Reecer and Robinson Burkey. They talk about Wormhole’s…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Avery Ching on Tips To Scale Blockchains & 2025 Aptos Outlook
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, we’re resharing an in-person fireside chat Jacquelyn Melinek did with Avery Ching, the co-founder and CTO of Aptos Labs…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Michael Kong on Sonic Labs’ Big Bet on Airdrop & Mainnet Launch
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Michael Kong, CEO and CIO of Sonic Labs (previously Fantom). Jacquelyn and Michael talk about…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Rushi Manche | Movement Labs Wants Facebook's Move Programming In All Blockchains
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Rushi Manche, the co-founder of Movement Labs.Jacquelyn and Rushi talk about his journey into…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
John Nahas & Luigi D'Onorio DeMeo on Avalanche's Network Upgrade, Gaming, Institutions & Future Outlook | Q3 Update
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, we’re sharing the Avalanche quarterly webinar with Token Relations and Ava Labs Chief Business Officer John Nahas and COO…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Alisia Painter | Building on Bitcoin & DeFi Evolution
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Alisia Painter, Botanix Labs co-founder and COO. Jacquelyn and Alisia talk about building on…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Paolo Ardoino on USDT’s EXPLOSIVE Year, Tether, & Stablecoin Use Cases
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether and CTO at Bitfinex. Jacquelyn and Paolo talk about USDT’s…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Anthony Scaramucci on Bitcoin, Institutional Adoption, & Crypto Regulation
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Anthony Scaramucci, founder and managing partner of SkyBridge and founder and chairman of…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Ben Rubin | The New Digital Town Square
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Ben Rubin, CEO and co-founder of Here Not There Labs and Towns, an onchain messaging…
- Talking Tokens: Crypto, Onchain Finance, Investing
Steven Goldfeder | Offchain Labs CEO on Growing Arbitrum & Scaling ETH
On today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn Melinek is joined by Steven Goldfeder, CEO and co-founder of Offchain Labs (the team building Arbitrum and Prysm)…