The DeadCaitBounce Experience

This week’s guest is Dan Krewson. As Market President and Director of Specialty Lending at Huntingdon Valley Bank, Krewson is building commercial and specialty lending divisions as well as leading the development of several new products including a crypto stablecoin funded participation facility.

Dan and I discuss how HVB, a now publicly traded company and broker-dealer that has provided traditional consumer and commercial banking ...

This week’s guests are Grant and Jerry from Blocmates.com. Blocmates is in the business of education, helping to make cryptocurrency accessible to everyone via their guides, tutorials, reviews, and a free weekly newsletter with the latest crypto analysis. It’s so simple your grandparents could follow it, and let me tell you…the crypto industry needs more of what they’re doing.

As a whole, crypto content creation today is in despera...

This week’s guest is Simon Grunfeld. Simon is Head of Web3 at Cogni, a banking platform that eliminates the friction between Web2 and Web3 via a seamless on-and-off ramp to help accelerate mass adoption. After all, that’s what this entire podcast is about - bridging the gap between Web2 and Web3.

The key differentiator in what Simon and Cogni are building is access. Unlike major crypto exchanges, Cogni gives users complete control ...

Crews Enochs is the Ecosystem Growth Lead at Index Cooperative, where he is responsible for marketing communications & off-chain partnerships for their portfolio of on-chain structured products. Index Cooperative democratizes access to complex crypto strategies, making it simple to create a custom index of tokens using smart contracts. Think of these as, say, the next-generation ETFs. Index Cooperative is an early mover on what i b...

This week’s guest is George Harrap, Co-Founder of Step Finance. George has been in the crypto world for 12 years having been an early bitcoin miner in 2011 to co- founding the first crypto remittance company in 2014, later going on to cofound Step Finance in early 2021 with the goal of onboarding the next billion people in crypto.

He is passionate about sovereign money systems and the benefits cryptocurrencies can bring to the worl...

This week’s guest is Anthony Scaramucci.

Anthony is the founder and managing partner of SkyBridge, a global alternative investment firm, and founder and chairman of SALT, a global thought leadership forum and venture studio.

Prior to founding SkyBridge in 2005, Scaramucci co-founded investment partnership Oscar Capital Management, which was sold to Neuberger Berman in 2001. Earlier, he worked in Private Wealth Management at Goldman...

This week’s guest is Teddy Fusaro. Teddy is the President of Bitwise Asset Management, a company focused on bringing crypto education and investment products to professional investors. Prior to Bitwise, Teddy was an executive at multiple alternative and start-up ETF issuers that brought pioneering products to market in regulated wrappers. In his role at IndexIQ, Teddy focused on hedge-fund replication strategies and at Direxion Sha...

In this week’s episode I spoke with Dante Disparate and Alex McDougall. Dante Disparte is Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy at Circle, responsible for overseeing company strategy, communications, policy and public affairs. Since joining Circle in 2021, his leadership in driving market expansion, regulatory engagement, and more have been integral in furthering the company’s mission to raise global economic prosperity ...

The biggest news in Crypto's history happened this week, and it's really not good. The news about Binance’s non-binding offer to purchase FTX during the midst of a liquidity crunch has sucked up all the oxygen in capital markets. Since this was announced on Tuesday, November 8, 2022, so much more information has come out, and yet, we still feel like we know very little. I needed to Hash it Out with Thomas Braziel and Producer Bobby...

This week’s guest is Frank Chaparro. Frank is an industry leader covering the intersection of financial markets and cryptocurrency as Editor-at-Large at The Block. 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, Frank held ro...

This week’s guest is.. Me. (and my producer Bobby Kraft) We’re shaking things up with the first edition of Hash It Out, a regular DCBE feature where we field questions from our listeners and cover the biggest breaking news across the crypto industry to make sure you stay up to date. We want to hear from you - nothing is offlimits, and, as we well know, there is never a shortage of crypto news to dive into. So with that, sit back, r...

Mount Gox… Voyager… Celsius… Three Arrows Capital.. Terra / LUNA… Since crypto’s inception, these are some of the most highly publicized scandals in and around the crypto space. But what actually happened? Where did things go wrong? Most importantly… What were the results and how do we learn from these scenarios?

Historically speaking, many leaders across the space have shied away from talking about these things. If we bring these ...

This week’s guest is the ONE AND ONLY DeFi Dad. As you might've inferred from his name, DeFi Dad is an early DeFi super-user, educator, investor, and host of the DeFi Talks with DeFi Dad… Now A Partner at 4RC (Fourth Revolution Capital) investing early stage DeFi, Web3 media, and Web3 gaming projects, DeFi Dad and I discuss what a beginners need to know about, well, DeFi… Decentralized Finance is a term used ad nauseum in the crypt...

WisdomTree… Blackrock… Vanguard… PIMCO.. Invesco… Oppenheimer… The global asset management industry encompasses trillions of dollars in assets under management. But how are they engaging and innovating when it comes to crypto?  I spoke with Jeremy Schwartz and Will Peck of WisdomTree, a European based 80 billion dollar asset management firm, to find out.

Jeremy Schwartz is the Global Chief Investment Officer at WisdomTree, leading ...

This week’s guest is Adam Blumberg. He is Co-Founder of Interaxis, Co-Founder and Lead Curriculum Developer of the CDAA or Certified Digital Asset Advisor designation, and Co-Founder of PlannerDAO.

A certified financial planner who has been in Financial Services for over 12 years, Adam created and launched a company dedicated to educating financial professionals about Digital Assets, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, and other alternativ...

This week’s guest is Jill Gunter. Jill is cofounder and chief strategy officer at Espresso Systems, which is building privacy and scalability solutions for Web3. Previously, she invested in crypto, blockchain, and fintech with SF-based VC fund Slow Ventures and served as an advisor to a range of projects and institutions from the IMF to startups like Zcash and Algorand. She started her career as a bond trader at Goldman Sachs in NY...

Brett Harrison is at the helm of one of crypto’s goliaths, and a firm that I believe will be largely responsible for onboarding the next million crypto users. He is the President of FTX US, a US-regulated cryptocurrency exchange. Prior to joining FTX US, Brett was Head of Semi-SystematicTechnology at Citadel Securities, where he managed technology for the firm’s Options, ETF, OTC, and ADR trading globally. He began and spent the ma...

The emerging world of crypto and DeFi is riddled with developer speak, unnecessary jargon, and seemingly complex solutions that leave newcomers’ heads spinning. While much of what’s been created thus far may appear to be smoke and mirrors, crypto, DeFi, blockchain technology and the like are not going away. As a TradFi transplant myself, I understand that the learning curve is steep in this nascent space and am making a concerted e...