Peeling back Web3 Orange Podcasts

Welcome back after Thanksgiving!

This week we meet Robin, Co-founder of Liquifi.Finance. Liquifi is building token vesting, token cap tables, and the “Carta for crypto / web3” 

We talk about everything from tokenomics, to Liquifi's product roadmap, to the Future of Work. Enjoy!

This week we talk to Berke (Chief Business Officer) and Daniel (Co-founder) at Vela Exchange. 
Vela Exchange is On-chain derivative trading platform, empowering DeFi traders with fast execution, cheap transactions, advanced trading features and self-custody.
We talk about everything from FTX, centralised vs. Decentralised trading platforms and Vela’s product roadmap!

Today's guest is Blake West, Co-founder and CTO of Goldfinch. 

Goldfinch is on a huge mission to expand access to capital by creating a single global debt market. Goldfinch does this through a decentralized credit protocol on Ethereum that allows anyone to be a lender, not just banks. 

In January of this year Goldfinch raised a $25M round led by a16z, with the aim to match the 154x growth the protocol saw in its first year of operation. Over the last year, the protocol crossed over $100M in active loans, reaching over 1M people and businesses across 20+ countries

We get into the detail of Goldfinch’s business model, how the company works and Blake’s candid advice for future crypto founders.

Today's guest is Chandan Lodha, Co-founder of  CoinTracker ($1.3bn), a tool that helps make crypto taxes simple and easy to do. This is a wide ranging conversation and super upbeat.

We talk about everything from how Chandan got into crypto, his experience at Google, his thesis on how the crypto market will evolve, and his advice for anyone looking to jump into founding a company in crypto.

Check out CoinTracker today: www.cointracker.io

This week we talk to Alex Poon, CEO & Co-Founder of Charmerse, a startup building the Web3 version of Notion. We talk about everything from Charmverse's early user adoption, building in Web3 vs. Web2 and Charmverse's roadmap at he intersection of Web3. 

This week we talk to YC OG Chris Castig, Co-founder of Console.xyz.
Console is a crypto-native chat platform for Bitcoin and Ethereum, and a place where decentralized communities go to thrive. We had a particularly interesting conversation on some of the issues with current web3 communication, including widespread security vulnerabilities and how Console is solving this!