Saneel Sreeni is a founding team member at Ritual, a decentralized AI startup. He was previously on the founding team at Alkimiya and a Venture Partner at Accomplice. He's also been around the block in crypto, doing both research at UC Berkeley and working across startups and venture capital firms.

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Jesse Shrader is the co-founder and CEO of Amboss, the leading provider of Bitcoin Lightning Network data and insights. Formerly an engineer, Jesse is focused on supporting the ongoing development of the decentralized and social payments layer for Bitcoin.

We spoke about his upbringing, his time at the Oregon Department of Transportation and the uncanny similarities to mapping the Lightning Network with Amboss and mapping highways and road systems.

Jesse mentioned the Reflex product they have just launched, if you'd like more information on it check out rpo.dev.

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Orchid Labs is a decentralized marketplace and virtual private network (VPN) provider. Steven, who goes by Seven, holds a PhD in Engineering from the University of Cambridge and worked previously at Sun Microsystems. Today, he's an active web3 investor and served as a partner at Pantera Capital, where he focused on blockchain investments. Additionally, he led the Digital Currency Fund at Fortress Investment Group and currently holds the position of CTO and venture partner at Fabric Ventures.

Backed by Polychain, a16z and Sequoia Capital, Orchid initially started as an open-source, decentralized marketplace for bandwidth in 2017, with a strong emphasis on privacy. Under Steven's leadership, the team has since identified new areas for expansion. This month, they are announcing a DePIN initiative.

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Jim is the co-founder of Catalyst, a cross-chain protocol that is going into teting mode in a few months. He was previously held product roles at Aave, Unstoppable Domains and Ripple. We spoke about his childhood in Chicago and then San Diego, California and how a love an early desire to go into education tech eventually led him to web3.

This episode originally aired in April 2023.

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DeFi Dad is a power-user, educator, and investor in all things DeFi and Web3 at 4RC (Fourth Revolution Capital). He has been producing educational content on DeFi since 2019 including a popular YouTube channel and a weekly post in The Defiant called DeFi Alpha. He co-hosts The Edge Podcast where he helps listeners uncover the next generation of DeFi and Web3 protocols in a unique podcast-tutorial format. You can subscribe to his channels and learn from his wide range of content for free at defidad.com!

This episode was released in October 2023.

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Justin joins the show to talk about how brands are approaching the marketing opportunities in web3 worlds as well as centralized games like Roblox. With $600 million spent in "digital worlds" every month, companies like Forever21 and NBC are planting a firm foothold to reach those consumers.

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Eric joins the show to talk about the Chainalysis 2023 Crypto Crime Report. We discussed to overall drop in crime last year as general blockchain-based activity was down. Still, only 0.34% of all blockchain activity is criminal, according to Chainalysis. We also talked about ransomware, dark market and pig butchering activity. You don't want to miss this one!

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We have a special episode today where we held a Twitter Spaces with Ruben Rojas, who is the artist we're featuring on Decential's short film series Decent Days.

In the first film in the series we are proud to be featuring artist Ruben Rojas. In this episode Ruben tells his unflinching story and chronicles the crushing lows that came before the rewarding highs of finally following his passion to make art. Over the years Ruben has seen his work appear on dozens of murals, in fine art galleries around the world and featured in collabs with an impressive list of major brands.  Ruben has also dipped his toes into the Web3 waters with a very successful NFT launch. The Decent Days series will focus on the humans behind the projects that show the positive contributions Web3 has in store for our culture.  Ruben is the epitome of this and we hope you enjoy this film.

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