The FTX Podcast - Builders and Innovators in the Cryptocurrency Industry

Welcome to the 124th episode of the FTX podcast with special returning guest Anand Gomes and your host Tristan Yver!Anand is co-founder and CEO of Paradigm & was previously a guest on episode 13. Their company mission is simple: on-demand liquidity for traders, anytime and anywhere without compromising on trading preferences, execution costs and immediacy. Anand explains exactly what that means in this episode. Let's dive in!Paradigm is just over three years old. They are known for options - they typically account for 30% of the world's option trading volume on any given day. At this point: they are the largest & fastest growing liquidity network in crypto with about 2,500 institutions on the platform. They just launched their futures business with FTX and it is off to an explosive start!

Welcome to the 123rd episode of the FTX Podcast featuring special guest Crypto Kaleo and your host Tristan Yver!Crypto Kaleo is a renowned “Crypto Twitter” personality; sharing his journey in the space through insights, memes, thoughts on different setups and trades. Just this past year he became an official FTX partner. On this podcast episode we hear his crypto genesis story, first bear market round trip experience, lessons he learned the hard way (so you don't have to), what he's excited about in the space moving forward & more!This is a great conversation about the reality of being a trader in a new space with volatile markets. There's lots to be gained from his candid takes & how he maneuvered from some really tough pinch points to being back on top (and better for it)!Thanks for joining us on the podcast @CryptoKaleo; your time, energy & insights are appreciated!

Welcome to the 122nd episode of the FTX Podcast with the man Sam Bankman-Fried and your host Tristan Yver!This episode is a milestone, the 3rd of 3 for the series started two years ago! In this episode SBF shares about his recent focus on building regulatory framework, USA margin & futures unlock, his lessons as leader, new favorite game and more!For newcomers: Samuel Bankman-Fried, also known by his initials SBF, is an American entrepreneur, billionaire, and investor. He is the founder and CEO of FTX, a cryptocurrency exchange, and FTX.US, its U.S. affiliate. As of February 2022, the exchange averages $10 billion of daily trading volume and has over one million users.Thanks for coming on the podcast SBF! Your time, energy & insight is appreciated!

Welcome to the 121st episode of the FTX Podcast with special guest Sam Trabucco and your host Tristan Yver!This is a great episode for aspiring traders to get an inside look at Trabucco's personal approach to the markets & finding work-life balance. He recently stepped down from his position of co-CEO at Alameda after a very intense & rewarding amount of time. In this episode he shares great insight on arbitrage opportunities, market events over the last several years & the inner-workings of Alameda.Thanks for coming on the show Trabucco! Your time, energy & insight is appreciated!

Welcome to the 120th episode of the FTX Podcast with special guest Nathaniel Whittemore and your host Tristan Yver!Early in his career he was the Founder of the Center of Global Engagement at Northwestern, which guides undergraduate students who want to make an impact on international issues. He was working at Blockfolio when it was acquired by FTX - he is now our Head of Marketing. He leads the charge on brand narrative, storytelling and the advertising side of things. He is the host of The Breakdown; the world's largest daily crypto podcast with analysis of macroeconomics, bitcoin, geopolitics and big picture power shifts. You can find him on all social networks: @NLW. Thanks for coming on the show Nathaniel! Your time, energy & insight is appreciated! 

Welcome to the 119th episode of the FTX Podcast with special guest Sina Nader and your host Tristan Yver!We dive in behind-the-scenes with Sina, the Head of Partnerships at FTX, to learn how he has helped cultivate relationships with world-renown ambassadors to bring validation and expansion to the company. Sina shares how it's been partnering with stars like Tom Brady, Stephen Curry & Larry David. Prior to FTX Sina co-founded one of the first fund-to-funds in the crypto space, worked on Wall St at Morgan Stanley, and was the first Head of Crypto at Robinhood. With his experience and positive vision, Sina is helping create change with and through FTX.Thanks for coming on the show Sina! Your time, energy & insight is appreciated!

Welcome to the 118th episode of the FTX Podcast with special guest Joe Bankman and your host Tristan Yver!What an opportunity it is to have a conversation with Sam's father! After graduating Yale Law School in 1980 and then working at a Law Firm for four years, Joe became a professor at USC. Joe's career has given him a unique inside look at the mechanics of social change in the USA and positioned him to be at the heart of business transactions - with his specialty in the field of tax. Joe's accumulation of knowledge, networking, and expertise has great utility for FTX's charitable initiatives and navigating regulatory relations for the crypto industry.Thank you so much Joe! Your time, energy, and insight are appreciated!

Welcome to episode 117 of the FTX Podcast with special guest Austin Federa and your host Tristan Yver!Austin is Head of Communications at Solana Foundation and a central figure to the Solana ecosystem in its entirety.Thank you for your time, energy & insight Austin!

Welcome to episode 116 of the FTX Podcast featuring special guests Kaveh Aasaraai & Rahul Maganti with your host Tristan Yver!In this episode we dive back in with Jump to explore ZKs and hardware optimization! As some of you are familiar with by now: Jump Crypto is the crypto arm of Jump Trading Group that is home to builders, partners and traders working towards the next frontier in crypto infrastructure.Kaveh works at the Research Department for Jump with a Ph.D. in computer engineering from the University of Toronto. Kaveh's research interests include computer architecture, soft processors, low-power designs and now the utility of hardware for crypto.  Rahul is Vice President at Jump Crypto Venture and a leader on the applied ZK team.Kaveh & Rahul have found a synergistic link in working together through combining their respective strengths. An off-chance meet up at a crypto conference has set them on a path to utilize Kaveh's breadth of hardware knowledge with Rahul's groundbreaking work on ZKs. Tune in to learn how these two fields complement each other and the potential for future utility. The team over at Jump Crypto is on a mission to bring the ecosystem together through cross-chain interoperability and streamlining transactional verification proofs across blockchains. Kaveh has an extensive history working with hardware components - this is proving to be a key part to Rahul's ZK mission; as custom optimized hardware provides computational power needed to generate realtime proofs on the blockchain.

Welcome to episode 115 of the FTX Podcast with special guests Hendrik Hofstadt & Kanav Kariya with your host Tristan Yver!Kanav is President of Jump Crypto, the crypto arm of Jump Trading Group; home to builders, partners and traders working towards the next frontier in crypto infrastructure.Hendrik co-founded and served as CEO for Certus One, a blockchain infrastructure company, which was acquired by Jump Crypto in 2021. Certus One is the premier validator for distributed ledger technology (DLT). Hendrik currently serves as a Director of the Wormhole Foundation; with a mission to bridge communication between different public blockchains utilizing the Wormhole protocol. Thank you Hendrick & Kanav for your time, energy and insight!

Welcome to episode 114 of the FTX Podcast with special guest Shaquille O'Neal and your host Tristan Yver!Shaquille is a family man, basketball superstar, businessman, TV personality, music artist, crypto project entrepreneur, role model & humanitarian. Join us for this episode to get a real, genuine heartfelt feel expressed by Shaq throughout the conversation & insight to how/why he approaches life & business the way he does. Shaq also shares about his crypto project ‘Astrals' he has with his son & their partnership with Solana!Thank you Shaq for your time, energy and insight!

Welcome to episode 113 of the FTX Podcast with special guest Valdez K. Russell and your host Tristan Yver!Valdez is VP of FTX Digital Markets. He was raised on Grand Bahama, the northernmost island of the Bahamas archipelago.  Valdez has grown to be a fantastic ambassador promoting Bahamian excellence. Valdez's warm hearted passion for humanity, his action oriented modus operandi and creative approach to networking are key components to building strong communities. Valdez has done fantastic work fostering beneficial relationships in the Bahamas that are facilitating the growth of both FTX and the Bahamian people. Thank you Valdez, for your time, energy and insight!

Welcome to episode 112 of the FTX Podcast with special guest Hester M. Pierce and your host Tristan Yver!Hester M. Peirce is an American lawyer who serves as a Commissioner on the Securities and Exchange Commission. She previously served as the director of the Financial Markets Working Group at George Mason University's Mercatus Center.Thank you Hester for your time, energy and insight!

Welcome to episode 111 of the FTX Podcast: Bahamas Edition with special returning guest Evgeny Gaevoy and your host Tristan Yver!Evgeny is based in London Area, United Kingdom and is CEO & Cofounder of Wintermute; a top 3 proprietary trading crypto market maker that provides liquidity solutions across digital asset eco-systems. Evgeny was previously a guest on episode 68 of the FTX podcast.Thank you for your time, energy and insight Evgeny!

Welcome to episode 110 of the FTX Podcast: Bahamas edition with special guest Kanav Kariya and your host Tristan Yver! Jump Crypto is the crypto arm of the Jump Trading Group. They are builders, partners and traders working towards the next frontier in crypto infrastructure to help shape the future of the industry. Thank you for your time, energy & insight Kanav!

Welcome to episode 109 of the FTX Podcast: Bahamas edition with special returning guest Jeremy Allaire and your host Tristan Yver!Jeremy Allaire is Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Circle, a global financial technology firm that enables businesses of all sizes to harness the power of stable coins and public blockchains for payments and commerce. Founded in 2013, Circle is the pioneer of USD Coin (USDC), the fastest growing, fully-reserved, and regulated dollar digital currency. 

Welcome to episode 108 of the FTX Podcast: Bahamas edition with special guest Kevin O'Leary and your host Tristan Yver!Kevin is a world renown entrepreneur, author, politician and TV presence that has been making headway in the crypto/blockchain space.Thank you for your time, energy and insight Kevin!

Su Zhu's mic died at the beginning of the show - luckily we fixed it at the 8:11 mark.  Welcome to episode 107 of the FTX Podcast: Bahamas edition with special returning guest Su Zhu and your host Tristan Yver!Three Arrows Capital Ltd. is a hedge fund established in 2012 and focused on providing superior risk-adjusted returns, founded by Su Zhu and Kyle Davies. Landing page: www.threearrowscap.com/Thanks for joining us again Su! Your time, energy and insight is appreciated!

Welcome to episode 106 of the FTX Podcast with special guest Thomas Uhm and your host Tristan Yver.Thomas works for Jane Street doing Crypto Institutional Sales & Trading. Jane Street Capital, typically referred to as Jane Street, is a global proprietary trading firm with over 1,700 employees. The company is one of the world's largest market-makers, trading more than $17 trillion worth of securities in 2020.Thanks for your time, energy & insight Thomas!

Welcome to ep 105 of the FTX Podcast with special guest Tushar Jain and your host Tristan Yver.Tushar cofounded Multicoin Capital with Kyle Samani, a previous podcast guest (ep 25 & 78). Multicoin is a thesis-driven investment firm that invests in cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain companies reshaping trillion-dollar markets. Website: https://multicoin.capital/Thank you for your time, energy & insight Tushar!

Welcome to Ep 104 of the FTX Podcast with the Co-Founders of Magic Eden and your host Tristan Yver!Jack, Sidney and Zhuoxun are 3 of the 4 co-founders representing Magic Eden; a leading NFT Marketplace on Solana. Join us for this podcast episode to see the interconnectedness of these individuals manifested into a home for next generation digital creators! Thanks for the great conversation and good energy gentlemen! 

Welcome to Ep 103 of the FTX Podcast with special guest Tristan Frizza and your host Tristan Yver.Tristan Frizza is the Co-Founder & CEO of Zeta Markets. Zeta is an options trading platform built on Solana & powered by Serum; enabling users to effectively hedge risk against crypto market movement and events.

Welcome to episode 102 of the FTX Podcast with special guests: Matt Nass, Matt Place & Luis of Storybook Brawl and your host Tristan Yver!Developed by a team of veteran designers from Magic: The Gathering, Hearthstone and Elder Scrolls Legends: Storybook Brawl is a lighthearted card-based autobattler game featuring characters from beloved fairy tales and myths. While the game is easy to jump into and simple to play, its wide variety of cards offers opportunities for deep strategy and accommodates different play styles. 

Welcome to episode 101 of the FTX podcast with special guests Kalos and Mrgones, hosted by Tristan Yver!Parallel is a Sci-Fi Trading Card Game (TCG) utilizing the power of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) to give players ownership of their cards and other game assets. The cards can be used to build a deck and play in an online client / mobile game which is currently in development. Parallel's landing page: https://parallel.life/

Welcome to episode 100 of the FTX podcast with special guest Sandeep Nailwal and your host Tristan Yver!Sandeep is the co-founder of Polygon Studios (formerly known as Matic) with a focus of on-boarding decentralized applications on to their network to achieve scalability and faster transactions with long term network velocity. Currently, all Ethereum top protocols have a larger number of users on Polygon than on the Ethereum main chain.Thank you Sandeep for your time, energy & insight!

Welcome to episode 99 of the FTX podcast with returning special guest Yat Siu and your host Tristan Yver!Yat Siu is a Hong Kong based entrepreneur and angel investor who was born and raised in Vienna, Austria. At a very young age Yat Siu worked for Atari in Germany. Fast forward - Yat Siu is CEO & Founder of the game-company Outblaze & co-founder of Animoca Brands. 

Welcome to episode 98 of the FTX Podcast with special guest Aaron Jones and your host Tristan Yver!Aaron is an NFL running back for the Green Bay Packers. He's had back-to-back 1000+ rushing yard seasons, was selected for the 2021 Pro Bowl, and is now an  FTX investor and ambassador - thanks for joining us Aaron!

Welcome to episode 97 of the FTX Podcast with special guest Jay, a Project Serum Core Dev Contributor, and your host Tristan Yver!Jay was previously an engineer at Google and Alameda Research. He is now building Project Serum, a decentralized exchange software built on Solana where cryptocurrencies can be bought and sold by traders. Also, Serum offers cross-chain support, meaning that traders can trade tokens built on other platforms.

Welcome to episode 96 of the FTX Podcast with special guest Tyler Hobbs and your host Tristan Yver.Tyler is a visual artist from Austin, Texas who works primarily with algorithms, plotters, and paint. His artwork focuses on computational aesthetics, how they are shaped by the biases of modern computer hardware and software, and how they relate to and interact with the natural world around us. Tyler develops and programs custom algorithms that are used to generate visual imagery. Often, these strike a balance between the cold, hard structure that computers excel at, and the messy, organic chaos we can observe in the natural world around us.Tyler's work has been shown internationally, and has been collected in more than a dozen countries around the world.

Welcome to episode 95 of the FTX Podcast with special guest Michelle Bond and your host Tristan Yver.Michelle is the CEO of ADAM (Association for Digital Asset Markets). Michelle is a lawyer with a background in regulation & policy; formerly employed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission amongst other high profile regulatory jobs.

Welcome to episode 94 of the FTX Podcast with special guest Michael Cahill and your host Tristan Yver.Michael is the Head of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa for Jump Trading.

Welcome to episode 93 of the FTX Podcast with special guest Mark Wetjen and your host Tristan Yver.Mark now joins FTX US as Head of Policy and Regulatory Strategy; bringing with him more than twenty years of experience in the practice of law, policy making, regulatory strategy and exchange operations. He most recently held the position of CEO at MIAX Futures, where he focused on crypto-derivative products and strategic initiatives. Mark also previously served as a commissioner and acting chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and was a member of the board of directors at LedgerX.Thank you for your time, energy & insight Mark!

Welcome to episode 92 of the FTX Podcast with special guest Anil Lulla and your host Tristan Yver. Anil is the Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer at Delphi Digital. After completing a major in finance and a minor in entrepreneurship at Rutgers Business School he worked with Bloomberg as a corporate bond analyst for two years before moving to Deutsche Bank where he worked on structuring leveraged finance products. Anil left the bank alongside two other colleagues to found Delphi Digital; a high-end digital-asset research firm that provides credible, actionable analysis for the crypto industry. It has since launched a venture arm and a consulting wing for the decentralized finance sector.

Welcome to episode 91 of the FTX podcast for part two of a three part series, with the Founder of FTX & Alameda Research - Sam Bankman-Fried and your host Tristan Yver!

Welcome to episode 90 of the FTX podcast with special guest Raj Gokal and your host Tristan Yver.Raj is the co-founder of Solana and COO; working to decentralize finance, gaming, social media, payments, media and more!

Welcome to episode 89 of the FTX podcast with special guest Michelle Bailhe and your host Tristan Yver!Michelle is a partner at Sequoia Capital. Michelle was previously employed at Google; focusing on technology development alongside designers, engineers and filmmakers to bring products to fruition as fast as possible. Transitioning to investment scouting - Michelle now works alongside founders, focused on team growth across the gaming, fintech and software sectors.

Welcome to episode 88 of the FTX Podcast with Larry Cermak, VP of Research for News at the Block, with your host Tristan Yver. Larry is the Director of Research and Analysis at The Block where he manages a 30 person team. He has a vision to bring rationality to the cryptocurrency and blockchain space. He focuses on macro developments in Bitcoin, Ethereum and DeFi. Previously, he was the Head of Analysis at Diar and received a Master's degree in International Finance in Austria.

Welcome to episode 87 of the FTX Podcast with special guest Ryan Salame, CEO of FTX Bahamas, and host Tristan Yver.FTX Digital Markets is establishing a substantial presence in The Bahamas as FTX continues to expand its global presence. Ryan Salame, former Head of OTC at Alameda Research has been appointed as the CEO of FTX Digital Markets and will be responsible for leading their local initiatives.

Frank Chaparro covers the intersection of financial markets and cryptocurrency as Director of News. Since joining the publication in 2018 as its first reporter, he has played a key role in building The Block into a leader in financial journalism and research. He leads special projects, including The Block's flagship podcast, The Scoop. Prior to The Block, he held roles at Business Insider, NPR, and Nasdaq. Frank writes about investments, security tokens and mergers & acquisitions.

Welcome to episode 85 of the FTX Podcast with special guests Vishal Gupta and Kayvon Pirestani of Coinbase with host Tristan Yver.Coinbase is an American company that operates a cryptocurrency exchange platform founded in 2012. Coinbase offers products for both retail and institutional cryptocurrency investors, as well as other related cryptocurrency products.Vishal is Head of Exchange at Coinbase and Kayvon is Coinbase's head of institutional sales for the APAC region.

Welcome to episode 84 of the FTX Podcast with special guest Amy Wu, an investment partner at Lightspeed Ventures, with host Tristan Yver.Amy has enjoyed being on both sides of the table as investor and operator, joining Lightspeed in 2019 as an early member of the growth team to lead gaming and growth-stage consumer and enterprise business investing.

Welcome to episode 83 of the FTX Podcast with featured guest Calvin Chu, the core builder of Impossible Finance, and host Tristan Yver.Impossible Finance is a multi-chain incubator, launchpad, and swap platform which offers a robust product-first ecosystem that supports top-tier blockchain projects to targeted user audiences.

Welcome to episode 82 of the FTX Podcast with guests Tommy & Taylor Johnson, the founders of Psyoptions, with host Tristan Yver.PsyOptions is an American style options protocol built on the Solana blockchain. The principles that have guided the architecture and development of the core protocol are flexibility and composability. PsyOptions strives to be the most community oriented DeFi protocol. 

Welcome to episode 81 of the FTX Podcast with returning guest Sam Williams, founder of Arweave, and host Tristan Yver.Arweave makes information permanence sustainable. It is a new type of storage that backs data with sustainable and perpetual endowments, allowing users and developers to truly store data forever.The protocol matches people who have hard drive space to spare with those individuals and organizations that need to store data or host content permanently. This is similar to how Uber connects drivers with people who need transport. This is achieved in a decentralized network and all data stored is backed by a sustainable endowment ensuring it is available in perpetuity.Thanks for coming on to speak again Sam!

Welcome to episode 80 of the FTX podcast with special guest Yat Siu, founder and CEO of Animoca Brands, with host Tristan Yver.Yat Siu is a Hong Kong based entrepreneur and angel investor who was born and raised in Vienna, Austria. He has an absolutely incredible story and reassuring perspectives. Come and enjoy the show!Thank you for sharing your time Yat! 

Welcome to ep 79 of the FTX Podcast with special guest Max Boonen, co-founder & director of B2C2, hosted by Tristan Yver and cohost Zane Tackett.Max left his job as a fixed income trader at Goldman Sachs to start B2C2, one of the big success stories in crypto trading, having changed the landscape from 2016 with its groundbreaking single dealer platform. B2C2 now counts over 40 employees in the UK, US and Japan.

Kyle is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Multicoin Capital, a thesis-driven investment firm with a global footprint that invests exclusively in the crypto ecosystem. Multicoin Capital manages several billion in assets across hedge funds and venture funds. The funds' LPs include university endowments, fund of funds, world class-technology investors, storied venture capital funds, and family offices. Kyle holds degrees in Finance and Management from the NYU Stern School of Business.

Jeff Jiho, Co-founder of Axie Infinity, joins host Tristan Yver as the guest for episode 77 of the FTX Podcast.Axie Infinity is a NFT-based online video game developed by Sky Mavis studio. It's the most played and valuable blockchain game in the world with over 1m daily active users. Sky Mavis uses blockchain and incentive design to build games where you can live, work, and play. At Sky Mavis, Jeff spearheads the growth of products through messaging, community empowerment, and incentive design.

Crypto OG ‘Loomdart' is our special guest for FTX podcast ep 76 with Tristan Yver. Strap in for  a unique perspective on the expanding crypto space from Loom; including his launch of ‘Loomlock' - a product experiment in willpower.

Welcome to episode 75 of the FTX Podcast with Tristan Yver featuring Michael Wagner, the CEO & co-founder of Star Atlas. Star Atlas is a metaverse introducing a unique gaming experience by harnessing the power of the traditional core game and blockchain mechanics to create a personalized and attractive game play - and more. Michael and his team have big plans in store. Star Atlas is proud to announce that it has selected Solana as the protocol to build its blockchain driven massively-multi player metaverse. 

Welcome to FTX Podcast ep 74 with Tristan Yver featuring Charles d'Haussy, the Managing Director APAC at ConsenSys and author of the recently released book “Block Kong”.ConsenSys is a leading global blockchain & digital assets company. Prior to joining ConsenSys, Charles was the Head of Fintech with the Hong Kong government (InvestHK).