In Early Podcast

In Early Podcast

Speaking to those at the forefront of the digital assets and technology sectors, telling real life stories, considering the growth and growing pains of the industry, and exploring how blockchain and other technology has made an impact on people’s lives. With guests including household names like BitGo, Coincover, Grant Thornton, Lockton and Crystal Blockchain, to more specialised enterprises like fractional mining farms for NFTs, to authors, artists and developers, from stable coin issuers backed by real estate, to Web3 gaming and sports projects, specialist insurance providers, and academics to those in finance and law, the In Early podcast is a dialogue with those servicing, developing and implementing technology before wider adoption. Hosted by Matt Green, director and Head of Blockchain & Digital Assets and Technology Disputes at Lawrence Stephens, and produced by Luke Carey.

Episodes

May 19, 2025 45 mins

This week Matt speaks to Dr Ann Sofie Cloots, Senior Policy Advisor at Coinbase and Affiliate Lecturer on AI, DLT and Web3 at the University of Cambridge. 

They speak about:

- Coinbase's position in the market, the role of Senior Policy Advisor and the role it plays in shaping Coinbase's global strategy;

- The company's response to then Financial Stability Board's Global Regulatory Framework for Crypto Asset Activities, designed to...

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This episode features Scott Pounder, Founder and CEO of Prometheus Insights https://prometheus-insights.com/About/

Formerly of the Met Police, Head of Investigations at Crystal Intelligence, then at FTI Consulting as a director, Scott now runs his own operation, providing expert reports for crypto investigations and blockchain analytics, asset recovery and insolvency support, as well as cybercrime intelligence and wealth verificat...

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This episode features Rachel Wolcott, a founding editor of Compliance Corylated, writing on financial fraud, market abuse, and of course cryptocurrency.

This episode covers both (i) the state of industry onboarding, including know-your-client and anti-money laundering checks and well as (ii) fraud repayment initiatives.

 

Matt and Rachel speak about:

 

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This episode features Dr Lisa Cameron, a Member of Parliament between 2015 and 2024, and previous chair of the Crypto and Digital Assets All Parliamentary Group. Now the founder of Global Legislators Forum in Digital Assets, this episode explores:

- Dr Cameron’s tenure whilst an MP, including previous governments' appetite for promoting this sector and the comradely between those representing more regional seats;

- The creation of ...

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This week Matt speaks to both Marcin Zarakowski and Roman Bieda, of Token Recovery, a Swiss outfit specialising in "combining technical expertise, legal proficiency and a swift, discreet, end-to-end process devised to get your property back”.

Matt asks them about their backgrounds at BSV and Coinfirm respectively, and more about the operation, how Token Recovery take on victims of fraud where crypto assets are lost following a hack...

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This episode features Professor Sarah Green who has just finished a four year tenure as Law Commissioner for Common and Commercial Law.

During that time Sarah’s law reform work included the Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023, Advice to the Government on Smart Contracts, updating the Arbitration Act 1996, scoping reforms to the law of Intermediated Securities and drafting guidance and a bill to ensure that English Law is well suite...

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August 27, 2024 42 mins
This episode features Marco Morazzoni, the Founder and CEO of Semoto, a market place for service providers in blockchain, from natives and tokenisation experts, to more traditional services like law, insurance, banking and consulting, looking to service this nascent industry. Previously a sales director at Elliptic, a leader in blockchain analytics, and with experience at Britannia Global Markets, IBP Markets and Valbury Capital, ...
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January 11, 2024 51 mins
This week Matt speaks to Rob Moore, the director and founder of blockchain and open source investigations firm Arrowsgate. Rob, previously of the British army, talks about his move from jumping out of planes into open battlefields to chasing criminals laundering money through blockchain analytics and helping victims of fraud get their money back. They speak about the state of play including the sad instances of human trafficking, a...
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January 8, 2024 49 mins
ORIGINALLY RELEASED 10/12/23 This week I speak to Jennifer Zegel a trust and estate practitioner, member of STEP’s Digital Assets Special Interest Group’s Steering Committee, an attorney at Kleinbard LLC, author of “Digital Asset Entanglement: Unraveling the Intersection of Estate Laws & Technology” and creator and host of the Digital Planning Podcast. We speak about digital assets beyond merely crypto and the role STEP is play...
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January 8, 2024 61 mins
ORIGINALLY RELEASED 31/10/23 This episode features Bob Williams, the Vice President for Fintech, Digital Assets and Blockchain Technologies at Lockton, the world’s largest independent insurance brokerage. We speak about how to insure crypto assets, the types of coverage needed to cover all bases, the LEAP team's development of a custody policy and what role that plays in the wider market, and why insuring tokenised real world asset...
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January 8, 2024 74 mins
ORIGINALLY RELEASED 13/09/23 Episode 19 features Jonny Fry, the Crypto AM Influencer of the year 2022. With a wealth of knowledge in this sector, Jonny runs Digital Bytes, which creates and distributes a weekly roundup of the biggest stories in the world of digital assets and is the CEO of Team Blockchain. Matt and Jonny speak about a huge array of topics, from how the technology helps regulated markets with transparency and securi...
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January 8, 2024 38 mins
ORIGINALLY RELEASED 02/08/23 This week’s episode features Korby Hayre the founder of House of Block, a boutique event agency that caters for Web3, Blockchain and crypto currency. Korby, a veteran event organiser, speaks to Matt about her journey in the space, some of the events that she's worked on and how to engage sponsors and delegates in the Blockchain industry.
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January 8, 2024 65 mins
ORIGINALLY RELEASED 12/07/23 This week’s episode features Nanda Khiara, a fine art and NFT artist, who has been featured at the UNESCO Paris 2022, the World Economic Forum 2023, and at NFT.NYC 2023. We speak what NFTs are, about the value of art as NFTs, both to the artist and to the buyer, and why some fine art purchasers ado not want the corresponding the NFT version. We also look at copyright, ownership and authorship, and looki...
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ORIGINALLY RELEASED 27/06/23 This week’s guest is Erica Stanford, the best-selling author of “Crypto Wars: Faked Deaths, Missing Billions and Industry Disruption”. We look at the history of crypto scams, from initial coin offerings to collapses of entire exchanges like Mt Gox, and hear her thoughts on where we are today, with recent SEC actions in the industry to what might happen next and the future of scams, like murder for hire....
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January 8, 2024 60 mins
ORIGINALLY RELEASED 13/06/23 This week’s episode features Katharine Wooller the Business Unit Director at Coincover, a market leader in protecting cryptocurrency from hackers and human error, providing services like key retrieval and re-access to crypto assets, which has led to a partnership with hard wallet storage solution provider Ledger. We talk about what Coincover does, as well as how it can play a key role in ongoing US liti...
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ORIGINALLY RELEASED 29/05/23 This episode features Paul Densley the Director of Sales at both (1) Crypto Lock, an initiative that helps customers prevent, and if necessary detect and recover misappropriate assets; and (2) Policy Dock, a platform as a service to automate insurance. We speak about how Crypto Lock provides a full service to protect digital assets from hacks and thefts as well as how data gathering and APIs play a key ...
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January 8, 2024 48 mins
ORIGINALLY RELEASED 04/05/23 This week Matt speaks to Bijan Burnard, the CEO of Lattice Labs, a studio helping clients scale in the web3 space. They speak about the Lattice Network, described as a network-as-a-service and what that means, as well its proof of vote consensus which utilises artificial intelligence to ensure proactivity in running the protocol, and a commitment to an eco focused blockchain.
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January 8, 2024 62 mins
ORIGINALLY RELEASED 19/04/23 Episode 11 features Amit Rathore, the Founder and CEO of the Football Fan App, which looks to disrupt the football industry with Web3 and provide genuine, long term engagement between real fans and clubs. We talk about his journey, listing of the Fan Coin and how the App provides users with confidence, as well as key partnerships and his long term vision of where Web3 and sports generally met.
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January 8, 2024 49 mins
ORIGINALLY RELEASED 04/04/23 This week episode features Peter Shekleton, a director of sales at BitGo, a regulated provider of (i) custody, (i) financial services and (i) core infrastructure for investors and builders alike. We talk about what holders of crypto assets should consider, why BitGo, have been making positive headlines for safekeeping funds previously held by FTX and associated with Mt Gox, as well as the role of custod...
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ORIGINALLY RELEASED 14/03/23 This week Matt speaks to Aidan Larkin the Co-Founder and CEO of Asset Reality, a tech stars backed firm providing digital asset recovery as a service, to both the private and government agencies alike. Aidan and Matt have known each other for some years and have worked together to assist parties trace, locate, ringfence, freeze, return and realise their crypto funds and know that when done properly, the...
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