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Eduard Jubany Tur, Founder of ZKX, a decentralized perpetual futures exchange on Starknet.

Eduard’s background in tech and finance has led him to tackle some of DeFi’s most pressing challenges, such as accessibility and user engagement. With the goal of making DeFi more approachable and efficient, Eduard has been at the forefront of integrating gamification into trading, enhancing the learning curve with innovative solutions. Beyond that, Eduard and ZKX are also leveraging Starknet for scalability, advancing trading with security and transparency, and fostering community governance. This multifaceted approach highlights his commitment to not only making DeFi fun and accessible, but also robust, secure, and inclusive.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Perpetual futures trading
- DeFi’s growth in Asia + crypto in Asia
- The potential of DeFi to democratize finance
- Starknet
- Account abstraction
- Challenges of achieving widespread adoption
- Appchains
- Incentivizing engagement while ensuring accessibility
- Onboarding the masses
- The explosion of L1s and L2s

ZKX
Website: zkx.fi
Z: @zkxprotocol
Telegram: t.me/zkxcommunity

Eduard Jubany Tur
X: @0xEduard
LinkedIn: Eduard Jubany Tur
 
 
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Armani Ferrante is the founder and CEO of Backpack. The Backpack ecosystem of companies, creators of the Backpack wallet, the Mad Lads NFT collection, the xNFT standard, and Backpack Exchange. Before founding Backpack in April 2022, he was the creator of Anchor, a groundbreaking developer tool that revolutionized programming on Solana.  Anchor has become an integral part of numerous Solana projects and protocols, and bonding its commitments to simplifying the developer experience. Armani graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Computer Science and before dedicating all his effort into crypto and web3, he used to work for Apple as a software engineer.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Super Apps in crypto
- Growth of the Solana ecosystem
- Hill climbing business mindset
- Backpack
- Mad Lads NFT collection
- Anchor developer tools
- Solana vs Ethereum
- Multi-threaded and parallel blockchains - the future of web3
- Speed, security, applications - the 3 things people care about
- The future of consumer crypto

Backpack
Website: backpack.app
X: @Backpack
Discord: discord.gg/backpack

Armani Ferrante
X: @armaniferrante
 
 
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Tascha Punyaneramitdee serves as Core Contributor & Founder of INIT Capital, a Liquidity Hook Money Market designed to enhance liquidity layers. Her prior role in leading Stella, a protocol offering multi-chain leveraged strategies, highlights her significant contributions and expertise in the sector.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Liquidity Hook Money Market
- Addressing information asymmetry
- Better management of liquidity
- Innovating DeFi’s architecture
- Crypto scene in Thailand
- Point farming in crypto
- 2024 trends
- Creating new liquidity streams
- Memecoins
- RWA, DePIN, AI
- Bitcoin L2s

INIT Capital
Website: init.capital
X: @InitCapital_
LinkedIn: INIT Capital

Tascha Punyaneramitdee
X: @tascha_panpan
LinkedIn: Tascha P. 
 
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Gracy Chen, the Managing Director of Bitget, oversees the growth and expansion of global markets, strategy, execution, business and corporate development of Bitget. She started her journey to the crypto world in 2014, being an investor in the early days of BitKeep (now Bitget Wallet), Asia’s leading decentralized wallet. Gracy was named a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum in 2015.
Moreover, Gracy has been selected as delegate to attend the recent UN Women CSW68 conference , an event where the UN member states representative and social organizations get together to raise and discuss critical issues impacting gender equality and women’s rights in New York, and address poverty and diversity problems and strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Post Bitcoin halving update
- Memecoin mania
- How coins get listed on exchanges
- AI tokens outpacing Bitcoin
- Immersive NFTs
- Augmented reality (AR) technology in art and entertainment
- The big picture of this current bull market
- Life in Boston
- Are we getting a rate cut?
- Predictions for AI-focused crypto assets for 2024

Bitget
Website: bitget.com
Twitter: @bitgetglobal
LinkedIn: Bitget
Telegram: t.me/bitgetEN

Gracy Chen
Twitter: @GracyBitget
LinkedIn: Gracy Chen

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Zach Bruch is the Founder and CEO of MyPrize, an online crypto casino. Zach previously held positions at Kraken and Cumberland Labs, where he ran their sales trading desk. He later created his own trading operation and became one of the most profitable individual traders of all time. Prior to founding MyPrize, Zach served as an advisor at JST Capital, a financial services firm specializing in digital asset markets.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Working at Kraken and Cumberland Labs
- The power and future of streaming
- Stories from institutional trading desks
- The evolution of crypto trading
- Zach being FTX’s largest individual creditor
- The next evolution of crypto casinos
- MyPrize has the highest-ever pre-launch valuation for an online casino of $140M
- Crypto casinos onboarding normies to web3
- Creating multiplayer experiences in web3
- Bringing community to web3 casinos
- Community drives everything on the internet

MyPrize
Website: myprize.com
X: @myprizecom

Zach Bruch
X: @ZachBruch
LinkedIn: Zach Bruch

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Ian Rogers is the Chief Experience Officer (CXO) of Ledger, the world-leading crypto and NFT hardware wallet manufacturer. Ian has spent his career exploring and innovating at intersection of music, artists, and technology.

Prior to joining Ledger, he spent five years as Chief Digital Officer at LVMH, where he was responsible for building group-level digital excellence and accelerating digital transformation for LVMH maisons. Ian is also renowned for his work in the music industry, where he was the CEO of Beats Music and GM of Music at both Apple and Yahoo!.

Ian Rogers also built some of the earliest music-related websites in the early 90s, including Winamp.com, and has been working with Beastie Boys since 1993.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Self custody
- Ledger Stax launch
- New generation of hardware wallets
- The need for clear signing
- Increasing ease of use
- The upcoming bull market, and what's different this time around
- Ledger's transactional business
- Launching Apple Music
- Working at LVMH
- Identifying trends + culture

Ledger
Website: www.ledger.com
X: @Ledger
Discord: discord.gg/ledger

Ian Rogers
X: @iancr
LinkedIn: ian rogers


 
 
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