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Jon Trask is the CEO and Founder of Dimitra and has been working with blockchain since 2017. Prior to founding Dimitra, Jon had an extensive career building and developing enterprise software solutions to revolutionize supply chain processes and improve immutable traceability.

A recognized expert in his field, Jon is also Founder and CEO of Blockchain Guru and a Partner with the Blockchain Training Alliance. Jon’s mission now is to increase farming connectivity, particularly with those disenfranchised across the globe, and to leverage the power of innovative technologies to bridge farming and technology.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Web3 tech for agriculture
- IoT Avocado Quality Meters
- Blockchain Training Alliance
- Growing up on a farm
- Challenges in the agricultural sector
- AI, IoT, and blockchain in farming
- Traceability
- Founding story of Dimitra

Dimitra
Website: dimitra.io
X: @dimitratech
Telegram: t.me/dimitraofficialgroup

Jon Trask
LinkedIn: Jon Trask

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Kenny Li is the Co-Founder of p0x Labs and Core Contributor for Manta Network. Prior to this, Kenny received an MBA from MIT in 2020. Whilst at MIT, he was a teaching assistant for several courses, mainly blockchain-based, and worked with the Digital Currency Initiative (DCI). As a successful entrepreneur, Kenny has started, advised, and invested in startups for over a decade.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The future of modularity
- 3 tenets of blockchain: decentralization, scalability, and security
- Simplifying adoption for widespread impact
- Pioneering modularity in 2024
- Revolutionizing cross-chain interoperability
- zk-enabled applications
- Cross-chain functionality
- p0x Labs
- Manta Network
- Work culture at Manta

Manta Network
Website: manta.network
X: @MantaNetwork
Telegram: t.me/mantanetworkofficial

Kenny Li
X: @superanonymousk

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Dr. Steven 'SEVEN' Waterhouse is an active investor and builder in the crypto / web3 space with 11 years of experience. Dr. Waterhouse is currently CEO and co-founder of Orchid Labs, advisor to various projects including RiscZero and Squid Router, and is CEO and co-founder of Nazare Ventures, a new fund focused on crypto and AI, highlighting his ambition to contribute towards the digital landscape of the future. He was recently CTO & Venture Partner at Fabric Ventures and was previously a partner at Pantera Capital from 2013 to 2016. He served on the board of Bitstamp during this period.

Dr. Waterhouse holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from Cambridge with a focus on speech recognition and machine learning. At Cambridge, Dr. Waterhouse received the Isaac Newton Prize for outstanding Ph.D. research and represented Cambridge in the rowing and water polo teams.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Introduction to Orchid Protocol
- Ensuring decentralisation as AI and Web3's convergence grows
- DePINs
- Technology and innovation
- Privacy in the digital age
- Building blocks for a freer internet
- Integrating on-chain privacy
- The fight for internet freedom
- Probabilistic nano-payments
- The role of Digital Resource Networks (DRNs)
- Sensorship

Orchid
Website: www.orchid.com
X: @OrchidProtocol
Discord: discord.gg/GDbxmjxX9F

Dr. Steven Waterhouse
X: @deseventral
LinkedIn: Steven W.

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Rob Solomon is the Co-Founder of DIMO, an open-connected vehicle platform. Rob’s background is in finance, investing, and organizational design. Most recently, he worked at Consensys, the largest Ethereum-focused development company, focusing on finance, internal economics, and decentralizing the organization. Prior to that, he was at Vroom, a pioneer in the online used-car marketplace sector. He started his career at the Downtown Project in Las Vegas (a spinoff of Zappos.com), working on corporate finance and investments and implementing Holacracy.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- DePIN
- DIMO - building the future of mobility
- 2024 trends
- DAOs
- The peer-to-peer economy
- Internal economies
- $DIMO
- Ethereum's death has been greatly exaggerated
- Polygon Zk-tech
- Working at Zappos
- Holacracy
- Building a blockchain for consumers

DIMO
Website: dimo.zone
X: @DIMO_Network
Discord: chat.dimo.zone

Rob Solomon
X: @robmsolomon
LinkedIn: Rob Solomon

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Alex Svanevik is the CEO and Co-founder of Nansen. He has a background in artificial intelligence, with 10+ years of experience as a data scientist and management consultant before co-founding Nansen in 2019. Alex is also one of the initial DAO members of Lido Finance and PleasrDAO and serves on the board of WalletConnect.

With an academic background in artificial intelligence and machine learning, Alex is also an entrepreneur with strong opinions on data-driven insights in cryptocurrency and blockchain. Alex has secured over $88.2 million in funding during his tenure. He has an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh as well as a BSc in Cognitive Science from the University of Bergen (UiB).

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Launch of Nansen query
- Launch of Nansen 2
- Nansen’s Plans for 2024
- Life in Singapore
- The founding story of Nansen
- How Nansen uses AI
- Deepening data moats
- Less input, more output
- Signals - gold nuggets in a simple feed
- The four C’s - Cute, Community, Content, CEO

Nansen
Website: www.nansen.ai
X: @nansen_ai
Telegram: t.me/nansen_announcements

Alex Svanevik
X: @ASvanevik
LinkedIn: Alex Svanevik

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Bobby Zagotta is the US CEO & Chief Commercial Officer at Bitstamp. He came to Bitstamp from Kraken, where he served as Chief Commercial Officer responsible for strategy, business development, marketing, M&A, research and analytics, and global growth initiatives. Before that, he was a Senior Managing Director, Strategy & Execution and a member of the Executive Team for CME Group Inc., a global, publicly traded financial exchange.

As CEO for the Americas and Global Chief Commercial Officer at Bitstamp, Bobby is responsible for strategy and growing our presence and business globally, as well as overseeing day-to-day operations in the Americas.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Bitcoin ETF
- 2024 predictions
- The halving
- Bitcoin block reward will fall from 6.25 to 3.125 bitcoins
- Present state of bitcoin
- Bitstamp 101
- Crypto in Latin America
- DeFi for capital markets
- The on-going wealth transfer
- Cenotes

Bitstamp
Website: www.bitstamp.net
Twitter: @Bitstamp
LinkedIn: Bitstamp

Bobby Zagotta
Twitter: @BobbyZagotta
LinkedIn: Bobby Zagotta

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Vince Yang is Co-founder of zkLink, the company building the first multi-rollup Layer 3 to solve liquidity fragmentation on Ethereum Layer 2 rollups—pioneering more liquid, secure, customizable DeFi trading experiences. A former engineer, Yang began his experience in crypto with Bitcoin mining. This evolved into a deeper exploration of areas, including blockchain's potential for financial applications and zk Proofs.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- What are L3s
- Layer 3 ecosystem
- Boosting liquidity in the blockchain ecosystem
- Unifying the L1 and L2 ecosystem
- Zk proofs
- $ZKL token
- Ethereum
- DeFi
- Security and interoperability
- Bitcoin ETF
- Modular solutions
- Account Abstraction

zkLink
Website: zk.link
X: @zkLink_Official
Discord: discord.gg/zklink

Vince Yang
X: @zkVinceReal

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Dean Tribble is CEO of Agoric OpCo, the software development company supporting Agoric, the JavaScript smart contract platform, and Proof of Stake (PoS) blockchain. Dean drives the vision to build a safe and composable JavaScript smart contract platform to onboard the next 14M+ developers into Web3.

An OG Cypherpunk and pioneer in distributed systems and smart contract technology, Dean, co-designed the negotiation process and contract for the first smart contracting system, AMiX. As a Principal Architect at Microsoft, he co-designed the Midori distributed object-capability operating system. As founder and CTO for Agorics (acquired by Microsoft), he architected the brokerage information system for Schwab’s active traders and the WebMart electronic contract system for SunLabs. He was CTO of VerifyValid and VP of Deluxe, where his echeck systems have carried billions of dollars.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Hardened JavaScript
- MetaMask Snaps
- Building the first smart contract in 1989
- History of distributed systems
- Getting acquired by Microsoft
- Babylon integration for bitcoin time stamping
- Agoric partnership with BitGo
- $BLD and $IST
- Institutional adoption of DeFi

Agoric
Website: agoric.com
X: @agoric
Telegram: t.me/agoricsystems

Dean Tribble
X: @DeanTribble
LinkedIn: E. Dean Tribble

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Matthew Graham is the Managing Partner of Ryze Labs and one of the key drivers of the firm's long-term strategic vision and mission. Matthew founded Ryze in 2015, initially as a sell-side tech investment banking platform focusing on representing international technology companies for strategic partnership and investment in emerging markets. Matthew has been involved in the blockchain industry since 2013 and has supported many great entrepreneurs and companies through good and bad times.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- BTC ETF was a huge success, even though the price of BTC didn’t rise
- BTC CME Futures open interest
- Analysis of ETF flows
- 2024 investment narratives
- ETH ETF
- Celsius’ overhang on assets like ETH
- Asia versus Western Markets
- VC investing strategy
- Ordinals being far more popular in China vs the West
- The secret sauce of making a pitch deck

Ryze Labs
Website: www.ryzelabs.io
X: @RyzeLabs
Instagram: @ryzelabs

Matthew Graham
X: @mattyryze

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Greg Magadini, Director of Derivatives at Amberdata, spent over a decade as a professional trader in traditional finance markets with proprietary firms such as SMB Capital, Chopper Trading, and DRW before co-founding and working as CEO of Genesis Volatility, a leading crypto options insights provider. Genesis Volatility was acquired by Amberdata in 2022 to grow their options data analytics capabilities for their roster of institutional clients such as Citi, NASDAQ, Franklin Templeton, and more.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Bitcoin ETF
- Crypto derivatives
- Choosing which ETF to invest in
- Data gathering
- Differences between volatility and implied volatility
- ETF news driving the market
- DEX pool data
- Buy the rumor, sell the news
- On-chain data
- 2024 trends

Amberdata
Website: www.amberdata.io
X: @Amberdataio
LinkedIn: Amberdata

Greg Magadini
X: @genesisvol
LinkedIn: Greg Magadini, CFA

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