The Amberdata Podcast

Welcome to the Amberdata Podcast! Join Amberdata's Director of Research, Chris Martin, and the Amberdata research team, Pat Doyle and Christian Manaog, as they dive into the nuances of Uniswap v2, v3, and the upcoming v4.

Explore the differences in liquidity management, impermanent loss, and innovative features like Uniswap hooks, providing insights for liquidity providers navigating various pool types, including stab...

Amberdata's Head of Research Chris Martin is joined by Eleni Steinman and Shane van Coller, co-founders of Loop Crypto. Loop Crypto is changing the face of payment processing in the crypto industry, introducing pull mechanisms and bringing the industry closer to traditional payment services. This podcast focuses on how payments work and the benefits of pull mechanisms to reduce fraud and chargebacks. In addition, Eleni and Sha...

Amberdata's  Head of Research Chris Martin interviews Theo Powers, CEO and founder of Merkle. The pair discusses everything MEV and mempools, including how mempools and private mempools work, why MEV is important, and the key difference between good and bad MEV.

For more information on Merkle, go to https://merkle.io/. 

Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only. Nothing here is trading advice or s...

Colton Conley, Founder and CEO of Prime Protocol, joins Amberdata's Head of Research Chris Martin to discuss how DeFi can enable traditional financial markets, emerging L2s and chain trends, and the present and future of Prime Protocol.

Prime Protocol is a decentralized prime brokerage of the future that offers stablecoin loans backed by a user's portfolio. As the first natively cross-chain prime brokerage, Prim...

Elias Simos, Co-Founder and CEO of Rated, joins Amberdata's Chris Martin to discuss founding Rated, the use cases of validator ratings, applying inequality metrics like Gini coefficients to staking on Ethereum, and the future of Rated. 

Rated is building a reputation for machines, starting with Ethereum validators. Their mission is to instill greater transparency and rich context in Web3 infrastructure data. Elias als...

Soups Ranan, CEO of Sardine, joins Amberdata's Director of Analytics Chris Martin to discuss the history and founding of Sardine, how FinTech uses fraud programs to combat attackers and improve user experiences, and how to avoid scams in the crypto space. 

Sardine enables companies to improve risk management with fraud detection, compliance within financial services, and instant settlement for crypto and NFT transacti...

Nakul Gupta, Head of Business for Brine, joins Chris Martin and discusses Brine Fi, metrics and learning across the DeFi/web3 space, and investing in web3 startups. Nakul is also the author of Cryptechie, a blog on all things crypto which covers insights and perspectives on crypto, product management, finance, and growth investing in the  United States and emerging markets. Brine is a decentralized cross-chain order book exchange a...

Amberdata's Analytics Engineer Christopher Martin is joined by Peter Wang, CEO and Founder of 57blocks. This episode follows the development side of crypto and explores the engineering aspects of building new projects in Web3.

57blocks is a Venture Studio investing and supporting engineering teams around the world, providing R&D services and accelerating product launches. Peter has supported the development of products...

Jamie Holmes, content manager at Perpetual Protocol, joins Chris Martin, Amberdata's Principal Analytics Engineer, to talk about Perpetual Protocol and current trends across decentralized exchanges. Jamie's extensive experience in the crypto industry as a researcher and content strategist began as a reporter and Editor in Chief for BTC Manager. Jamie also previously wrote for Bitcoin Magazine and has a deep background as ...

Chris Martin, Amberdata's Principal Analytics Engineer, interviews Blake West, CTO and Co-Founder of Warbler Labs and Co-Founder of Goldfinch. Warbler Labs is building the tools and technology for crypto to reshape the global economy and expand access to capital worldwide and is behind the core development team supporting the growth and success of the Goldfinch protocol. Goldfinch's mission is to expand access to capital ...

Chris Martin, Amberdata's Principal Analytics Engineer, interviews Bryce Ferguson on Turnkey and private key management. Bryce is the co-founder of Turnkey, a simple API for developers to securely manage their private keys. He was previously the head of crypto at Trade Republic in Berlin, bringing crypto trading to millions of consumers across Europe. Before that, he was the first product manager on Coinbase Custody, where he ...

Amberdata's podcast host and Principal Analytics Engineer, Chris Martin interviews David Duong on the state of DeFi. David leads cryptocurrency research efforts for institutional clients of Coinbase as Head of Institutional Research. He was previously the Head of Latin America FX Strategy and Research at HSBC managing the research coverage for Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Argentina coordinating with the economics teams ...

Our first-ever guest is Amberdata’s Director of Derivatives Greg Magadini. Greg is the founder of AD Derivatives (formerly Genesis Volatility) and the host of the AD Derivatives podcast. 

In our debut episode, Greg speaks about how he founded AD Derivatives, trends he noticed in the market during the FTX collapse, and resources for those interested in options trading. Greg also offers a deep dive into his own journey through crypto...