Fortune Teller Podcast
41 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe Fortune Teller podcast is a discussion between industry leaders in blockchain and financial technologies. The podcast focuses on the development of blockchain-based financial services and outlines the current state of the industry and future predictions for the adoption of decentralized finance. Go to https://www.teller.finance/
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Regulated Exchange with Jay Fraser
April 22, 2022 10:00 - 37 minutes - 52 MBToday’s guest on the Fortune Teller Podcast is Jay Fraser, Head of Strategy for BSTX. The goal of BSTX, a regulated exchange, is to make a way for a public exchange that is less tangled and with less resistance. BSTX is powered by tZERO technology and is jointly owned by BOX Digital Markets and tZERO. At the moment, the way to take a company public is complex and the benefits for small businesses does not always surpass the expenses that are involved with taking the business public. While t...
Smart Contracts Powered by Zero Knowledge with Emre Tekisalp
April 15, 2022 10:00 - 28 minutes - 38.9 MBToday’s guest on the Fortune Teller Podcast is Emre Tekisalp, CEO of O(1) Labs. O(1) Labs current projects are Mina, the world’s lightest blockchain, that is powered by participants, and snarky, an Ocaml front-end for writing R1CS Snarks. Snarky is modular over the backend SNARK library, and comes with backends from libsnark. Mina is the world’s lightest blockchain, at 22kb, letting users quickly and directly access the current state on their smartphone and other blockchains, powered by the...
Teller Twitter Spaces Impact of Crypto in Ukraine and Beyond
April 12, 2022 21:25 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBIn this Twitter Spaces we explore the impact of blockchain and crypto in helping financial systems be resistant to crisis. The speakers include Robbie Heeger, President and CEO of Endaoment, Aleks Larsen, General Partner at Blockchain Capital, and Teller Founder and CEO Ryan Berkun. Hosted by Teller Global Community Lead, Marlon Fuentes.
Proprietary Trading in Digital Assets with Ryan Sheftel
April 08, 2022 10:00 - 18 minutes - 25.1 MBToday’s guest on the Fortune Teller Podcast is Ryan Sheftel, CEO of Radkl. Radkl is a new quantitative trading firm bringing institutional-grade experience from Wall Street to the crypto markets by applying quantitative models to digital assets across blockchains. These quantitative methods include sophisticated, high-speed, computerized trading models for the purposes to invest in cryptocurrencies, digital assets, and the “decentralized finance” sectors. With Radkl, one will be able to use...
Sending and Receiving Money with Vaughan Smith
April 01, 2022 10:00 - 28 minutes - 39.3 MBToday’s guest on the Fortune Teller Podcast is Vaughan Smith, Chief Operating Officer of Bitso. Bitso is a digital exchange system that offers security and allows users to Purchase and Sell Digital Currencies among one another. A user places Buy or Sale orders in the Bitso market, where they are sold to others who wish to Buy or Sell. Bitso Shift is a new option to send, receive, and convert money in different currencies. Your money can cross international borders with the lowest fees. Some...
Screening in Real-Time with Ivan Ravlich
March 25, 2022 10:00 - 32 minutes - 45.2 MBToday’s guest on the Fortune Teller Podcast is Ivan Ravlich, Co-Founder and CEO of Hypernet Labs. Hypernet Labs is a cyber infrastructure business creating advanced solutions for both digital commerce, and value transfer. By revolutionizing computer fabric, digital payments, and identities, Hypernet will make increased access to Web 3.0 to both new and experienced users. For corporate customers, you can have identity and compliance requirements via Hypernet’s Web 3, blockchain-based resoluti...
Raising Money for Charity with Robbie Heeger
March 18, 2022 10:00 - 30 minutes - 41.8 MBToday’s guest on the Fortune Teller podcast is Robbie Heeger, CEO of Endaoment. Endaoment, which launched in the fall of 2020, is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity providing philanthropic financial services to the crypto space. In 2021, the organization experienced more than 100x growth in donations received and grants distributed, and has raised more than $37M for charities across the United States. Endaoment is making it possible for crypto investors to more easily engage with philanthr...
Managing Liquidation Functions Automatically with Josh Rogers
March 11, 2022 11:00 - 38 minutes - 53.4 MBToday’s guest on the Fortune Teller podcast is Josh Rogers, CEO of Minterest. Minterest aims to offer the highest long term yield in DeFi. The Minterest lending protocol passes on all surplus created directly to its users, providing their best interest. By running its own on-chain settlement and buyback mechanisms, the Minterest protocol automatically disperses the worth it acquires from interest rate, flash loan and liquidation fees to the community. It does this via MNT tokens that it buys ...
Ethereum-Compatible Blockchain Networks with Nick Rose Ntersas
March 04, 2022 11:00 - 36 minutes - 50.1 MBToday’s guest on the Fortune Teller podcast is Nick Rose Ntersas, Founder & CEO of Ethernity. Ethernity is the World’s First Authenticated and Licensed NFT platform, providing well-known name brands and Intellectual Properties in sports, content, collectibles, and technology to the blockchain by providing NFTs utility in Web3 and the Metaverse. In addition, Ethernity has announced native mobile apps for iOS and Android. The mobile app will be the first app to offer an omni channel approach to...
The Future of Digital Assets with Jack McDonald
February 25, 2022 11:00 - 28 minutes - 38.6 MBThe Future of Digital Assets with Jack McDonald Today’s guest on the Fortune Teller is Jack McDonald, CEO of PolySign. Polysign’s mission is to drive global use of digital assets, creating best-in-class infrastructure to enable institutions to secure and transact in digital assets across the capital markets and payments sectors. PolySign's technology engine has been designed for securing digital assets. This third generation, proprietary, private blockchain technology is the foundation to th...
Tailoring Business Data Reporting with Robert Materazzi
February 18, 2022 11:00 - 24 minutes - 33.7 MBToday’s guest on Fortune Teller is Robert Materazzi, CEO of Lukka. Lukka provides data and software solutions to handle crypto assets on infrastructure built for the future of commerce. Firms like State Street, Polychain, and eToro are among the customers that leverage Lukka’s Enterprise Software and Data to streamline crypto asset data, support NAV reporting monthly for over 50 crypto hedge funds across the globe. Lukka is the leading crypto asset and crypto asset data management firm t...
Predictable Fees with Jacobo Toll-Messia
February 11, 2022 11:00 - 27 minutes - 38.2 MBToday’s guest on Fortune Teller is Jacobo Toll-Messia, CEO of Nahmii. Nahmii is an Ethereum interoperable layer 2 scaling solution. Nahmii offers instant finality, predictable fees, and as well as commercial readiness. Nahmii believes Ethereum will be the foundation for Web3. However, while Ethereum does have many strengths, it does have some major challenges. These include: Low throughput High, unpredictable fees Latency Delayed finality In order to address these challenges, Nahmii will ...
Blockchain Ecosystems with Sergey Gorbunov
February 04, 2022 11:00 - 26 minutes - 36.2 MBToday on Fortune Teller Podcast we are talking with Sergey Gorbunov, Co-Founder of Axelar Network. The Axelar Network brings Decentralized Interoperability to Ethereum, Cosmos Avalanche, Terra, Moonbeam and others, by unlocking cross-chain communications. Blockchain platform builders can plug-in their blockchain ecosystem to all other blockchain ecosystems. Dapp builders can host their dapps anywhere, as well as lock, unlock, and transfer assets, and speak with dapps on other chains via Axel...
Unlocking a Unique Experience with Rafaella Baraldo
January 28, 2022 11:00 - 21 minutes - 30.1 MBToday on the Fortune Teller Podcast, we are talking with Rafaella Baraldo, Co-Founder of Pods Finance. Pods Finance provides users the opportunity to hedge their BTC, ETH, and other cryptos to protect portfolios from volatility. Pods Finance is a simple way to hedge crypto assets on the Ethereum Network. The Pods Protocol is a decentralized non-custodial Options Protocol, allowing for traders to buy, sell and provide liquidity using our new Options AMM. Buyers begin by choosing a put option....
Protected Messaging with Corey Petty
January 21, 2022 11:00 - 27 minutes - 37.3 MBToday on the Fortune Teller Podcast, we are talking with Corey Petty, Chief Security Officer of Status. Status is a protected messaging app, crypto wallet, and Web3 browser created with top of the line technology. All of this is incorporated into a strong app for private and protected communications. The status app incorporates an open-source, peer-to-peer protocol, as well as end-to-end encryption to secure your messages from third parties. The users control their messages, and can send 1:...
Monitoring Trade Flow with Pat Doyle
January 14, 2022 11:00 - 32 minutes - 44.5 MBToday’s guest on Fortune Teller is Pat Doyle of Genesis Volatility and Pink Swan Trading (DeGen Data). GVol allows for one to manage risks, identify opportunities, analyze and trade activity, providing institutional grade crypto options analytics. To manage risks, use Gvol calculators to assist in estimating probabilities, Black-Scholes pricing, and various implied volatility outputs. In order to identify opportunities, GVol tools help you find pricing fluctuations along with high probabili...
On-Chain Insurance with Mason Burkhalter
January 07, 2022 11:00 - 30 minutes - 41.8 MBToday on the Fortune Teller podcast, we are talking with Mason Burkhalter, Head of Operations at API3. API3 allows for the creation of trustless applications that interact with Web APIs. Instead of using legacy third-party oracle networks, API3 is moving towards first-party oracle options to provide more security, efficiency, regulatory compliance, and simplicity. The API3 data feeds are governed by an open DAO of stakeholders, industry experts and project partners. This lets dAPIs to be ope...
Aspiring Filmmakers with Leo Matchett
December 31, 2021 11:00 - 32 minutes - 45.1 MBToday’s guest on The Fortune Teller podcast is Leo Matchett, Co-Founder and CEO of Decentralized Pictures (DCP). Decentralized Pictures is a 501c(3) nonprofit organization with the idea that artistic talent may be discovered innovatively. Through user consensus, Decentralized Pictures has set up a democratic film fund, an online community of creatives, film-fans, and industry professionals who choose who is most deserving of our support. One can submit their idea, and if the community agrees...
First-Ever DAO-Based Toy Drive with Robbie Heeger
December 24, 2021 11:00 - 32 minutes - 44.8 MBToday on the Fortune Teller podcast we have a very special guest, Robbie Heeger, Co-Founder & CEO of Endaoment. Before we begin, we have a special announcement: “Just yesterday, a group of teens announced they'd be working with Endaoment, the first fully on-chain 501(c)(3), to launch the first-ever DAO-based toy drive, elfDAO. 16-year-old Byeongjun Moon established elfDAO alongside teenage friends and advisors from ConstitutionDAO with the goal of raising $1 million before the end of Decemb...
Negligible Fees with Anthony Georgiades
December 17, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutes - 39.4 MBToday on the Fortune Teller Podcast, we have Anthony Georgiades Co-Founder of Pastel Network. The Pastel Network is a peer-to-peer decentralized platform to securely register, trade, and collect NFTs. One of Pastel’s core features is the Negligible Fees. With the high gas costs on the Ethereum Blockchain, some have to spend $500 worth of ETH to make a single artwork NFT, which ends up excluding most digital artists in the world. The Pastel Network keeps the cost to register an artwork minim...
The Future of Finance with Matthijs de Vries
December 10, 2021 11:00 - 23 minutes - 33 MBToday on the Fortune Teller Podcast, we are speaking with Matthijs de Vries, founder and CTO for AllianceBlock. AllianceBlock seamlessly brings DeFi and TradFi together. The future of finance is an integrated system in which the best of both worlds can work together to increase capital flows and technological innovation. The AllianceBlock technology solutions and product suite solve challenges in the industry, like interoperability, compliance, and access to liquidity. AllianceBlock focuse...
Providing Institutional-Grade Liquidity with Philippe Bekhazi
December 03, 2021 11:00 - 26 minutes - 36.7 MBToday, we are talking with Philippe Bekhazi, the CEO of XBTO. In 2015, we were the first to provide institutional-grade liquidity to major trading platforms. Since then, we have made significant efforts to create stability in the cryptocurrency markets. We continue to grow and shape the industry through our extensive technical knowledge of market infrastructure and investments in market-related blockchain technology companies. XBTO consistently ranks among the leading traders by notional trad...
Acquisition Strategy with Alex Dinuzio
November 26, 2021 11:00 - 26 minutes - 37 MBToday on the Fortune Tellers Podcast, we are talking with Alex Dinuzio, CEO of Jam, a digital marketplace that helps fans acquire epic moments in live comedy as NFTs (Non-fungible Tokens). One of the main buckets is novel content that the audience has not seen before. For example, someone recorded an old show on VHS. One can take it to YouTube, and get many views, but not necessarily generate any real revenue. The return on time invested, for most artists, simply is not there. The second o...
Acquisition Strategy with Alex DiNunzio
November 26, 2021 11:00 - 26 minutes - 37 MBToday on the Fortune Tellers Podcast, we are talking with Alex DiNunzio, CEO of Jambb, a digital marketplace that helps fans acquire epic moments in live comedy as NFTs (Non-fungible Tokens). One of the main buckets is novel content that the audience has not seen before. For example, someone recorded an old show on VHS. One can take it to YouTube, and get many views, but not necessarily generate any real revenue. The return on time invested, for most artists, simply is not there. The secon...
Seeing the Possibilities with Jan Stockhausen
November 19, 2021 11:00 - 27 minutes - 38.1 MBToday we are talking with Jan Stockhausen, chief legal architect of Etherisc, a decentralized insurance protocol with products to protect a variety of assets anywhere from crops to crypto wallets. Users of Etherisc also have the capability to request or build an insurance product of their own. Ideas of governance, insurance, financial services compliance started coming up around 2016, where we realized that this concept of programmable distributed systems was real and could be brought to li...
Breaking Down Barriers with Barron Solomon
November 12, 2021 11:00 - 31 minutes - 43.1 MBToday’s guest is Barron Solomon, the founder of Solo Music, a global music marketplace. Solo Music uses smart contracts and NFTs to create digital music assets and connect artists, fans, and the industry at large. Barron’s background is in the IT space, where he worked to help small to medium-sized businesses migrate from a physical infrastructure to a virtual one. One of his big endeavors was introducing businesses to cloud technology when it first came out. As part of his job, he had ...
Layer One Blockchain-based Technology with Rob Viglione
November 05, 2021 10:00 - 25 minutes - 34.9 MBToday we are talking to the co-founder and CEO of Horizen Labs, Rob Viglione. Horizen Labs is a layer one blockchain-based technology company that focuses on data privacy and security. Horizen Labs was created in 2017, but Rob has been working with cryptocurrency since 2012. He says he first heard about Bitcoin while working and living in Afghanistan, where currency is often unstable. He quickly realized this new currency is needed all over the world. Rob says in the US we’re used to rel...
Synthetic Products You Can Trade with BTC VIX
October 29, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 39.3 MBToday we are talking with BTC VIX, admin of both WallStreetBets and SatoshiStreetBets. He describes himself as part of the core libertarian movement, being very skeptical of the Fed and central banks printing money. It was in this movement that he stumbled upon crypto and went down the rabbit hole. BTC VIX says he hasn’t looked back since 2013. He was part of a group of traders and a community was born out of that. That community then merged into a Telegram group and continues to progre...
Graph Protocol for Blockchain with Pranav Maheshwari
October 22, 2021 10:00 - 38 minutes - 52.4 MBGraph Protocol for Blockchain with Pranav Maheshwari by Fortune Teller Podcast
Parallels Between DeFi and Traditional Finance with Rowland Graus
October 16, 2021 01:23 - 27 minutes - 38.1 MBToday we are talking to Rowland Graus, product manager at Agoric. Rowland says while in college, he roomed with 8-10 guys that were really into poker. Bitcoin became big in the poker community, and Rowland was in the perfect place to hear about it. As the years went by, Rowland tracked bitcoin, but didn’t really get pulled in until February 2017. It was while launching a new product for a startup that Rowland’s business partner spoke to him for hours about Ethereum. Rowland was convinced...
Donor Advised Funds with Zach Bronstein
October 06, 2021 00:00 - 30 minutes - 35.1 MBToday we’re talking with Zach Bronstein, the COO of Endaoment, a donor advised fund (DAF) provider in decentralized finance. Endaoments mission is to encourage charitable giving of cryptocurrencies. Before Endaoment, Zach spent five years at Morgan Stanley in the finance department. Before that, he says his life revolved around non-profit involvement. He found that Endaoment combined those two parts of his life. He was especially excited about decentralized governments and the compatibil...
Democratizing Wealth and Technology with Xochitl Cazador
October 01, 2021 15:30 - 28 minutes - 32.1 MBToday we’re talking to Xochitl Cazador, Head of Ecosystem Growth at Celo Labs. Xochitl considers her background unique, as she came from a small town in Mexico with no running water and no electricity. Coming from a town of 200, she was the first in her family to go to college. From there, she became an executive for a Fortune 500 company. This is where she noticed there was plenty of wealth but a lack of opportunity in a lot of cities outside of Silicon Valley. She says when she discove...
Educated Predictions with Jake Brukhman
September 24, 2021 10:00 - 32 minutes - 37.3 MBToday we’re talking to Jake Brukhman, founder and CEO of CoinFund. Jake has always been a computer science and math guy, with a 10-year career in financial technology. He says he learned about bitcoin in 2011 and while he thought it was fascinating, it took him a couple of years to really understand what blockchains were. It was after reading a white paper on Ethereum that he realized it made a lot of sense to make a new digital asset class. This led him to found CoinFund in 2015 which wa...
Blockchain for self-sovereign ID and data with Humpty Calderon
September 17, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 38.9 MBToday we’re talking with Humpty Calderon, Head of Community at Ontology, a blockchain for self-sovereign ID and data. They specialize in things like decentralized data exchange, credit based cross chain lending, and more. Before joining Ontology Humpty was introduced to the world of DeFi through bitcoin in 2015. He started digging into conversations, joined several local meet ups, and discovered builders through those meetups. As these builders started looking into proof of stake they dec...
Scalability and Affordability with Alan Chiu
September 10, 2021 10:00 - 23 minutes - 32.8 MBToday we’re talking with Alan Chiu, co-founder and CEO of Enya which recently launched a L2. Alan says when crypto started taking off last year Enya was still helping to fight Covid. They had developed a distributed crypto symptom tracker that was used by 13 million people. This is when Alan started to see the potential of what he had learned in the cryptography space. By starting Enya he hoped to restore the balance of power between individuals and centralized entities. The imbalance of...
Tools For Builders With Joe Lallouz
September 03, 2021 10:00 - 25 minutes - 34.5 MBToday we’re talking with Joe Lallouz, co-founder and CEO of Bison Trails. Joe says his journey into crypto was long but pretty organic. As an engineer, Joe is a very technical person, and it was the technology perspective of crypto that caught his interest early on. He had friends that were more involved in the bitcoin side of things, and they showed him how it worked. The idea of programmable money and digital assets was exciting to Joe, so he started messing around with that. In 2016 h...
Opening New Types of Economies with Anastasiya Belyaeva
August 25, 2021 17:23 - 25 minutes - 35.3 MBToday we’re speaking with Anastasiya Belyaeva, one of the co-founders of Fabric Ventures. Anastasiya has always had a vision of the world where things work differently and where individuals are free to organize in ways that they like, to set up goals and accomplish them without needing to ask permission to participate in the economy. After graduating from university Anastasiya joined a venture capital fund. After working for a couple of VC funds and investing in software in general, she go...
Managing Debt and Helping Businesses with Sid Powell
August 20, 2021 10:00 - 31 minutes - 42.6 MBToday we’re talking to Sid Powell, the co-founder and CEO of Maple Finance, an institutional marketplace for capital built on the Ethereum blockchain. Sid has a traditional finance background, where he worked in banking and mortgage and asset backed securities. He says he was always more fascinated by what it would take to build a business, so he joined a FinTech and ran the treasury department. It was at that time that he started learning more about Ethereum. Sid says he started thinking...
Investing in Tokens, Equity, NFT’s & DeFi with Regan Bozman
August 13, 2021 10:00 - 27 minutes - 38 MBToday we’re talking with Regan Bozman, co-founder of Lattice Capital, an early stage crypto venture fund. Regan says they invest in tokens, equity, NFTs, DeFi, and the like. Four and a half years ago, Regan was working at AngelList when he and some others spun out CoinList. Regan was the first employee to jump over, and he spent three and a half years doing coin sales. Now they’re just getting Lattice off the ground and are excited to invest in and work with early stage teams. Regan sa...
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Gateway Between the Real World and Crypto with Evan Shapiro, Co-founder and CEO of Mina Protocol
July 24, 2021 17:25 - 20 minutes - 27.7 MBToday we’re talking with Evan Shapiro, Co-founder and CEO of Mina Protocol. Evan has always been into programming and stumbled upon bitcoin in 2011. He says he was blown away as a programmer what a chain of trust through blockchain could mean for writing a program. He followed the space and was fascinated by the technology. It was in 2017 that an old high school friend started talking to him about cryptocurrency. It was clear to them both that something was technically not in place yet f...