Bobby Lee is the Founder and CEO of Ballet, the cryptocurrency company behind the innovative REAL Series Cold Storage. This physical cold storage was launched in 2019 as the world’s first-ever non-electronic cold storage card with multicurrency support that requires zero setup to use. Ballet aims to bring true global adoption to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency by making it easy, safe, and reliable for everyday people to store and manage their digital assets.

Bobby Lee has been a leading entrepreneur and expert in the crypto industry since 2011. He is also the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller “The Promise of Bitcoin.” Prior to founding Ballet, Lee was the CEO and co-founder of the first Bitcoin exchange established in China, BTC China (later renamed BTCC), which was acquired by a Hong Kong-based investment firm in January 2018.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Mining and buying Bitcoin back in 2011
- The relation between gold and bitcoin
- Bitcoin ETF
- Bitcoin regulatory landscape in USA and China
- Future of Bitcoin
- What is Ballet? The easiest and most efficient cold storage crypto solution
- BIP38 private key encryption
- Bitcoin ownership and custody
- The importance of self-custody + cold storage
- Trump + JD Vance being pro-crypto

Ballet
Website: www.ballet.com
X: @BalletCrypto
Telegram: t.me/BalletCrypto

Bobby Lee
X: @bobbyclee
LinkedIn: Bobby Lee

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Sunil Srivatsa is the founder and CEO of Storm Labs, the creators of the Cove Protocol, the first onchain portfolio manager.

Previously, Sunil founded Saddle, the premier open-source StableSwap with $2.2B+ in volume, and was a senior software engineer at Uber where he worked on infrastructure security, self-driving cars in the Advanced Technologies Group (ATG), and real-time analytics.

Before Uber, Sunil was an early member of the data engineering team at Square. He is also a founding partner at eGirl Capital. Sunil earned his B.S. in Computer Science with a double major in Finance from Washington University in St. Louis.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Stories from working at Uber
- When company names come verbs … sky is the limit
- What is Storm Labs?
- The importance of onchain portfolio manager
- Current global DeFi landscape
- Automated market makers in crypto
- Loss Versus Rebalancing
- Yield farming, re-staking + points programs
- Tips to deal with slippage
- AI-powered investment tools in crypto

Cove
Website: www.cove.finance
X: @cove_fi
Discord: discord.gg/fvxc4p6gB2

Sunil Srivatsa
X: @devops199fan
LinkedIn: Sunil Srivatsa


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Three years ago, Burnt Banksy’s act of burning a physical Banksy ignited global discourse on NFTs and Web3, exposing the industry's flaws. The story was covered by leading publications including Bloomberg, CoinDesk, GQ, CoinTelegraph, BBC, CBS, and is often cited as the catalyst of the NFT revolution. Now, through the XION blockchain, founder Burnt Banksy leads a mission to democratize Web3 to the masses, making ownership accessible to all by removing unnecessary barriers and complications through chain abstraction.

Burnt Banksy can provide valuable insights into a range of topics, especially as they relate to chain abstraction and crypto abstraction in general—making blockchain technology easier to use for a larger audience. Burnt Banksy can also speak to ecosystem interoperability and related topics of making crypto more adoption-friendly.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- The decision behind burning a Banksy painting
- State of the market — why create another L1?
- Solving UX & fragmentation
- Mass adoption - is it just a pipe dream or can crypto fully go mainstream?
- Long tail crypto thesis
- What is chain abstraction?
- EarnOS with Uber, Baskin Robins, Sunglass Hut, The North Face, etc
- Mass adoption = chain abstraction
- Creating a wallet-less L1 chain
- The power of micropayments

XION
Website: xion.burnt.com
X: @burnt_xion
Discord: discord.gg/burnt

Burnt Banksy
X: @BurntBanksy


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Sid Coelho-Prabhu is the Senior Director of Product Management for Coinbase Wallet, the self-custody wallet that serves as a gateway to the onchain ecosystem. He joined Coinbase in 2017 with a goal of helping to build a more open financial system. Prior to joining Coinbase, he was the CEO and co-founder of Savvy Investments, an online investment advisory and management service.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Republican Party to implement crypto in official party platform
- Working at Coinbase
- Creating a trustworthy brand
- The importance of self-custody
- The evolution of crypto wallets
- Building on base
- Coinbase Wallet web app launch
- One-stop destination to explore, manage, and engage with the blockchain
- Coinbase’s Smart Wallet
- Adoption of decentralized applications
- On-chain summer
- Payments in crypto is vastly underrated

Coinbase
Website: www.coinbase.com
X: @coinbase
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Coinbase

Sid Coelho-Prabhu
X: @sid_coelho
LinkedIn: Siddharth Coelho-Prabhu

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Will Fan is the CEO and Head of School at NewCampus, a challenger business school designed for emerging markets.

As a partner at Open Campus, a pioneering Web3 foundation, he is deeply involved in financing groundbreaking education and future of work initiatives.

His work is driven by a blend of education, community building, and exploring new industries. Over the past decade, his experiences have spanned from China and the Middle East to Southeast Asia.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Price action’s correlation to attention
- Overview of Open Campus
- Integrating crypto and blockchain education into curriculums
- Bridge between Web3 and education
- Blending nodes of education problems into solutions
- The future of education
- Launching a new L3 on Arbitrum
- Verifying education problems on-chain
- Web3 financing as the catalyst for moving the needle

Open Campus
Website: www.opencampus.xyz
X: @opencampus_xyz
Discord: discord.gg/opencampus

Will Fan
X: @hellowillfan
LinkedIn: Will Fan 🕊️

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Matthijs de Vries is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for blockchain technology, as well as its role in the future of data and AI. He is currently building the collaborative smart data ecosystem and decentralized data infrastructure provider, Nuklai. With extensive experience in DeFi and Web3, Matthijs is also one of the co-founders of tokenization infrastructure expert, Nexera (fka AllianceBlock), DeFi trading strategy software provider Nuant, and a strategic advisor for the smart wallet project Brillion.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Why the current market sell-off
- Germany and Mt. Gox market implications
- How blockchain and AI work together
- The future of crypto and AI
- AI needing traceability, hence the need for blockchain
- AI agents
- Data monetization
- The problem of fragmented data
- Enterprise data sharing insights
- Successful data collaboration initiatives
- 2024 H2 predictions

Nuklai
Website: www.nukl.ai
X: @NuklaiData
Telegram: t.me/NuklaiOfficial

Matthijs de Vries
X: @MatthijsDeVries
LinkedIn: Matthijs de Vries

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Shant Kevonian is the Founder and CEO of EtherMail. He is responsible for setting the company’s strategy, directing its product vision, developing company culture, and managing its agendas. A technical founder with a love of computer programming from a young age, Shant left university early to join the Barcelona startup scene. He joined hospitality startup ByHours as an intern and was promoted to CTO within six months, leading a 20-strong team.

Shant has developed high-performance, proprietary algorithms for several startups in his decade-long career as a CTO. He was a senior technical advisor for the interactive virtual concert platform SoundStage.fm, acquired by Audius in 2022. He is an enthusiastic gamer with a preference for RTS and RPGs, and his interests include dabbling in new technologies, entrepreneurship, and good comedies.

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- Why the future of email is web3
- The secret sauce of launching a token
- 320 billion emails are sent every day
- EVM compatibility
- Building on Ethereum
- Purpose and tokenomics of $EMT
- GDPR nonsense
- Getting incentivized for your data
- Elite gaming setups
- FOMO in crypto
- The killer use case in crypto will be a consumer app

EtherMail
Website: ethermail.io
X: @ethermail_io
Telegram: t.me/ethermail_official

Shant Kevonian
LinkedIn: Shant Kevonian

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Arjun Bhuptani is a co-founder of Everclear, the first clearing layer for the web3 ecosystem. He is also a co-creator of Moloch DAO, the earliest and one of the most frequently used Decentralized Autonomous Organization frameworks meant to help individuals and institutions coordinate around shared resources in a fair and transparent manner.

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- Connext’s decision to launch a new protocol and rebrand to Everclear
- Clearing layers in web3
- Crypto UX and liquidity fragmentation across chains
- ENS names
- Web3 branding
- Chain Abstraction’s dirty Secret: scalability was only possible through centralization
- Why bridges alone can't solve cross-chain interactions
- Solving Ethereum’s scalability issues
- What is netting?
- Rebalancing liquidity
- H2 predictions
- What is a rollup?

Everclear
Website: www.everclear.org
X: @EverclearOrg
Discord: discord.gg/everclear

Arjun Bhuptani
X: @arjunbhuptani
LinkedIn: Arjun Bhuptani

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