Dr. Julian Hosp is the CEO and Co-Founder of Cake DeFi. Cake DeFi is a fully transparent, highly innovative fintech platform dedicated to providing easy access to decentralized financial services and applications by enabling users to generate returns from their crypto and digital assets. Julian was also one of the original Co-Founders of DeFiChain, the worl ... Show More
Nov 24
#494: Santiago Roel Santos, CEO of Inversion, on Crypto’s Valuation Problem, Mental Models, and the Current State of Crypto
<p>Santiago Roel Santos is the founder and CEO of Inversion a crypto-native holding company that acquires and transforms traditional businesses using blockchain technology. He is among the most active investors in crypto, having backed over 150 startups and many industry leaders ... Show More
47m 59s
Nov 20
#493: Ben Nadareski, CEO of Solstice Labs, on Building the Yield Engine for Solana’s Next Chapter
<p>Ben Nadareski is the CEO and Co-Founder of Solstice Labs, where he’s redefining how yield is generated in DeFi. Backed by Deus X Capital, Solstice Labs pioneers permissionless, institutional-grade strategies on Solana, making sophisticated trading approaches and sustainable yi ... Show More
32m 58s
Nov 17
#492: Jon Trask, CEO and Founder of Dimitra, on Using Blockchain for Farming, Challenges in the Agricultural Sector, and The Future of Farming
<p>Jon Trask is 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 r ... Show More
30m 18s
Dec 2021
How DeFi Works: Inside the DeFi Vending Machine
On today's show, Marcelo M. Prates, a CoinDesk columnist, central bank lawyer and researcher, looks at how Decentralized Finance (DeFi) kind of works like a vending machine but that's leading traditional finance to the point of mass-market automation.
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7m 14s
Jun 2021
Bitcoin News Roundup for June 9, 2021
With BTC in recovery mode, and one entrepreneur's take on how universal basic income paired with technologies like AI and crypto can alleviate human drudgery, CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup.
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9m 9s
Apr 2022
A Spot Bitcoin ETF Still Seems Unlikely
On today’s show, CoinDesk's managing editor for global policy and regulation, Nikhilesh De, takes a look at the prospects for a bitcoin ETF that actually holds bitcoins. The short version is, not good.
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9m 3s
May 2022
Crypto Update 5/5/22 | Otherside and the Future of NFT Consolidation
With the dollar's recovery keeping bitcoin under $40,000, a deeper dive into Wednesday’s Fed policy announcement and a look at what a bunch of apes can tell us about the NFT market, CoinDesk’s "Markets Daily" is back with the latest news roundup.
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15m 31s
Mar 2024
Crypto Update | Upcoming Halving Will Be 'Most Symbolic' One Bitcoin Will Ever Have: Kraken Head of Strategy
The latest price moves and insights with Jennifer Sanasie and Kraken Head of Strategy Thomas Perfumo.
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On "Markets Daily," Kraken Head of Strategy Thomas Perfumo joins CoinDesk with insights on recent movements in the crypto mark ... Show More
11m 19s