Base Layer

Ryan joins us on Base Layer to discuss his company, FOAM, a project we've been watching for some time. The team created the Proof of Location protocol which empowers a permissionless and autonomous network of radio beacons, offering secure location services independent of external centralized sources such as GPS. We discuss their roll-out, their ability to work with other protocols and much more.

Dan Held from Interchange joins us on Base Layer for our "Bitcoin Classic" edition. Dan has years of experience with Bitcoin and talks at length about it's history, it's evolution and it's importance. If you're trying to learn more about Bitcoin this one is a good one to listen to. We also hit on Signal to Noise, talking to Dan about the news of the day. Great conversation!

Ryan Selkis joins us on Base Layer, an investor and builder in cryptoassets for the last 5 years. Ryan founded Messari which aims to provide Institutional Investors research, transparency and tools to better understand crypto from a fundamental standpoint. This was a great chat and also introduced our Signal to Noise segment addressing the news of the week to see what's "signal" and what's "noise".

Sharon brings over a decade of expertise in network security and cryptography. She is also an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Boston University, where her research focuses on securing the protocols that provide many of the global internet’s core functions. In light of the Quadriga scandal this conversation is incredibly important since Arwen's technology would have potentially prevented coin loss. This is sometimes a technical conversation, especially about atomic swaps, but Sharon breaks down complex issues brilliantly.

Jake Brukhman, Founder at Coinfund joins us on Base Layer for our twelfth episode to discuss generalized mining, the scalability issues in blockchain, what a future Facebook on blockchain could look like and the infrastructure needed, staking as a service and much more.

Arianna Simpson joins us on Base Layer today; formerly at Facebook and BitGo, Arianna is a powerhouse in crypto. She is incredibly sought after as someone with knowledge of networks and the technology as well as an investor who's been focusing on crypto infrastructure before it became a narrative. This episode is one not to miss.

Andy Bromberg, President of CoinList, drops by Base Layer in this episode to discuss the state of token sales, governance, the evolution of private deals that look more like traditional venture but also have tokeneconomics cooked in, STO's, his matrix for Taxonomy of cryptoassets, what he's reading and why and much more.

Craig Burel from Reciprocal Ventures joins us for a conversation around the early days of investing in crypto infrastructure (0x, Radar Relay, Augur and much more) to STO's. He also shares with our listeners his thoughts on valuation, a topic many people in the ecosystem are grappling with daily. Craig has experience from Wall Street to start up's and now crypto - a lot to learn from this one!

Marc & Kevin joined us on Base Layer, the founding team over at Tagomi which is building key infrastructure for the trading of digital assets. The team is incredibly strong which backgrounds from Union Square Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Citadel, Virtu and more. We discussed why they built Tagomi, how they are helping clients "get off zero", M&A activity in the space and much more.

Join us for Episode 8 with Spencer Noon, an investor at Doggie Tail Capital, a fund backed by a family office. Spencer is an impressive investor in crypto, highly knowledgeable about the technology and especially Ethereum. We discuss ETH's current role, it's innovation with Serenity, smart contracts, scaling, zero knowledge proof and much more.

Guest Matthew Walsh joins Base Layer on Episode 007. Matthew and his partner Nic Carter spent the last 4 years at Fidelity before launching Castle Island on a team tasked with doing scenario planning, looking at what future technologies could do to the financial sector and beyond. You'll hear the phrases like frictonless capital markets, how they tested bitcoin and wallets in realtime at Fidelity and much. We discuss STO's, the current crypto markets and crypto infrastructure.

On Episode 6 of Base Layer we have Matt Galligan, CEO & Co-founder, Picks & Shovels which is building critical infrastructure in portfolio management of cryptoassets. We discuss data quality in crypto, M&A activity and what the future of crypto infrastructure looks like in 2019.

Every Sunday folks in crypto are treated to the work of someone part man, part machine who curates all the weeks top news, research and thoughts from the cryptosphere - his name: Nathaniel Whittemore. Nathaniel's work has become a crucial part of crypto's information infrastructure - we had a wide ranging conversation on narratives at play, Web 1.0 to 3.0 and much more. Enjoy!

Episode 4 has Will Peets, CIO of Passport Digital, join Base Layer to discuss a host of topics including, but not limited to: portfolio risk management in the context of crypto, the global economy as it relates to the crypto markets, valuations and much more.

On episode 3 of Base Layer we had a great conversation with Anatoly Yakovenko, founder & CEO of Solana which is addressing the transactions per second issue in blockchain. Anatoly has an impressive career from Qualcomm where he and his team built the CDMA of the flip phones we all used to spending time at Dropbox. What Solana is building could be critical infrastructure for blockchain to scale.

In our second episode we are lucky enough to air a special one hour discussion with some of the best investors and practitioners in crypto today. We discussed capitulation, macro trends, the regulatory landscape and some thoughts on 2019. Not to be missed!

Base Layer is a new podcast aimed at providing education to Family Offices/HNW and investors who are trying to understand cryptoassets and the underlying technology. We will be bringing founders who are creating the building blocks of the asset class and technology, from file storage to interoperability and more. In addition you'll hear from other family offices and investors who are active in the asset class to get a peer perspective.