WAGMI Ventures Podcast
The WAGMI Ventures Podcast features interviews with the most interesting founders, builders, and investors in AI (artificial intelligence) and web3 (crypto, blockchain) from across the world—hosted by Gbenga Omosuyi, with WAGMI Ventures (wagmiventures.io).
Episodes
150 episodes
Creating Blockchains of the Future, with Patrick O'Grady (Commonware)
Patrick O'Grady is Founder and CEO of Commonware, (https://www.commonware.xyz), an open-source set of primitives that developers can use to build and reassemble their applications without resorting to a complicated fork. Patrick s...
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Season 2
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Episode 149
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36:03
Unlocking Stablecoins Full Potential for the Masses, with Ryne Saxe (Eco)
Ryne Saxe is CEO and Co-Founder of Eco, (https://www.eco.com), a network for apps that use stablecoins and stablecoin liquidity, providing a frictionless stablecoin experience that accelerates use...
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Season 2
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Episode 148
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38:15
Creating the Universal Stablecoin, USBD, backed by Bitcoin, with Sid Sridhar (Bima Labs)
Siddarth "Sid" Sridhar is Founder and CEO of BIMA Labs (https://www.bima.money), a decentralized finance platform that enables users to stake assets like Bitcoin and Bitcoin derivatives such as Liquid Staked Tokens...
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Season 2
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Episode 147
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32:04
Establishing the Safest, Theft-Proof, and Institutionally Compliant Trustless Bridge to Bitcoin, with Aki Balogh (iBTC)
Aki Balogh is Founder and CEO of iBTC, (https://www.ibtc.network), a platform that harnesses the power of Discrete Log Contracts (DLCs) to establish the safest, theft-proof, and institutiona...
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Season 2
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Episode 146
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44:36
Building the Most Lightweight and Efficient EVM Proving Engine, with Elias Tazartes (Kakarot)
Elias Tazartes is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Kakarot, (https://www.kakarot.org), a zero-knowledge EVM written in Cairo aiming to allow users to leverage the scaling benefits of validity roll-ups while maintaining compatibility with ...
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Season 2
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Episode 145
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34:32
Unpacking Crypto’s First-Ever 1M TPS (Transactions Per Second) Blockchain, with Jason Li (Solayer Labs)
Jason Li is Co-Founder of Solayer Labs, (https://www.solayer.org), builder of Solayer, the hardware-accelerated blockchain, infinitely scaling the SVM to enable high-throughput, near-zero lat...
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Season 2
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Episode 144
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36:10
On-Chain Community Development, with Eric Won Choi (The Guild)
Eric Won Choi is CEO and Founder of The Guild, a decentralized web3 protocol that combines gig economy elements with social networking, enabling users to monetize their networks and build verified on-chain reputations. Eric shares...
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Season 2
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Episode 143
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38:46
Building the First Institutional On-Chain Swaps Market, with Alex Ryvkin (Rho Labs)
Alex Ryvkin is CEO and Founder of Rho Labs, an institutional grade decentralized crypto native marketplace that allows retail and professional traders to efficiently trade swaps and futures on-chain compliantly. Alex joins us to d...
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Season 2
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Episode 142
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36:11
Early Stage Contrarian Investing in Crypto, with Ash Arora (LocalGlobe)
Ash Arora is Investment Partner at LocalGlobe, one of the leading early stage venture capital firms in Europe, with one of the highest number of unicorns in portfolio, with companies like SoRare, Layer Zero, Robinhood, Figma, Wise...
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Season 2
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Episode 141
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33:24
Building the World's First Blind Computer, with Miguel de Vega (Nillion)
Miguel de Vega is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Nillion, a decentralized infrastructure network based on the use of various privacy enhancing technologies to support private storage and computation of sensitive da...
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Season 2
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Episode 140
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38:32
Bringing EVM Compatible Smart Contracts Architecture to Bitcoin, with Charlie Hu (Bitlayer)
Charlie Hu is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bitlayer, a pioneering Bitcoin security-equivalent Layer 2 solution aimed at overcoming scalability and smart contract limitations of Bitcoin utilizing BitVM paradigm and zero-knowledge proo...
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Season 2
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Episode 139
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38:41
Building the First Decentralized AI Operating System (dAIOS), with Michael Heinrich (0G Labs)
Michael Heinrich is the Co-Founder and CEO of Zero Gravity (0G), the fastest modular AI blockchain, providing unmatched infrastructure to scale both Web3 and AI, future-proofing the massive demands of AI infrastructure. 0G recentl...
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Season 2
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Episode 138
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33:47
Investing to Accelerate the Decentralized Future, with Dmitriy Berenzon (Archetype Fund)
Dmitriy Berenzon is a Partner at Archetype (https://archetype.fund), an early-stage venture fund focused on accelerating the decentralized future, by backing the next generation of crypto foun...
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Season 2
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Episode 137
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46:59
Scaling Onchain Gaming, with Daryl Xu (NPC Labs)
Daryl Xu is Co-Founder of NPC Labs (https://npclabs.org), a core contributor to B3.fun, a game ecosystem built on Base, committed to building a seamless and open game ecosystem to change the owne...
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Season 2
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Episode 136
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22:57
Revolutionizing Ethereum's Performance, Security and Interoperability, with Rushi Manche (Movement Labs)
Rushi Manche is Co-Founder of Movement Labs (https://www.movementlabs.xyz), developer of the Movement Network, an ecosystem of modular Move language based blockchains, creating the Move V...
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Season 2
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Episode 135
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17:10
Redefining Blockchain Architecture with the Decentralized Sequencer Network, with Jordan Oroshiba (Astria)
Jordan Oroshiba is CTO and Co-Founder of Astria (https://www.astria.org), a modular blockchain that allows individuals to deploy their own censorship-resistant rollup without relying on a cent...
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Season 2
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Episode 134
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30:11
Decoding Neutrality and Decentralization in Web3 Today, with Chjango Unchained (Interchain.FM)
Chjango Unchained is host of Interchain.FM (https://interchain.fm), a technical podcast that covers cutting edge crypto projects, and was one of the founding members of Cosmos Network. Actively involved in Cosmos appchains as a validator, inves...
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Season 2
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Episode 133
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43:36
Enabling Permissionless AI Agent Development and Discovery, with Ron Bodkin (TheoriqAI)
Ron Bodkin is CEO and Co-Founder of TheoriqAI (https://www.theoriq.ai), the first on-chain multi-agent system, enabling users to build, deploy, and earn via a community-governed AI agent marketplace, developed under the ChainML AI...
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Season 2
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Episode 132
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35:02
Tokenizing and Deploying Any Real World Asset(s) Onchain, with Chris Yin (Plume Network)
Chris Yin is Co-Founder at Plume Network (https://www.plumenetwork.xyz), a purpose built public layer-2 blockchain and ecosystem optimized for the rapid adoption and demand-driven integration of real world assets (RWAs). Backed by...
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Season 2
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Episode 131
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35:45
Investing at the Edge of Crypto Innovation, with Ani Pai (Dragonfly)
Ani Pai is Partner at Dragonfly (https://www.dragonfly.xyz), one of the largest and most successful global crypto-focused venture capital firms, investing across all stages of blockchain and crypto-native companies, protocols and ...
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Season 2
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Episode 130
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30:25
Powering Smart Contracts with Artificial Intelligence, with Albert Castellana (GenLayer)
Albert Castellana Lluis is CEO and Founder of GenLayer (https://www.genlayer.io), the world’s first intelligent blockchain, enabling smart contracts to use Large Language Models (LLMs) to access the internet’s knowledge to make complex decision...
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Season 2
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Episode 130
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32:13
Simplifying and Securing On-Chain Operations, with Ittai Svidler and Jonah Erlich (Den)
Ittai Svidler and Jonah Erlich are Co-CEOs and Co-Founders of Den (https://www.onchainden.com), a self-custodial, multi-signature wallet for on-chain organizations managing protocols, DeFi and on-chain operations. The duo s...
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Season 2
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Episode 129
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25:00
The Future of Business Banking Powered by Crypto, with Ryan Bozarth (Dakota)
Ryan Bozarth is CEO and Co-Founder of Dakota (https://www.dakota.xyz) a modern, crypto-native banking platform allowing companies to easily accept and make payments in USD or crypto, operate globally, and generate yield automatica...
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Season 2
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Episode 128
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21:18
Reconstructing the Legacy Monetary Stack, with Luca Prosperi (M^0 Labs)
Luca Prosperi is CEO and Co-Founder of M^0 Labs (https://www.m0.org) Backed by Bain Crypto, Pantera Capital, Galaxy Ventures, SCB 10X and others, M^0 democratizes access to money issuance infrastructure, with a decentralized archi...
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Season 2
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Episode 127
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47:30
Revolutionizing Distributed Data Processing (Compute Over Data), with David Aronchick (Expanso)
David Aronchick is CEO and Co-Founder of Expanso (https://www.expanso.io). Backed by General Catalyst, Hetz Ventures, and Array Ventures, Expanso, simplifies data governance with an architecture that streamlines management and con...
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Season 2
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Episode 126
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