Ever wonder how the leading crypto businesses and protocols were built? In this show, we have conversations with the founders, operators, and investors behind the most interesting businesses in crypto.Hosted by Reverie
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Ivo Crnkovic-Rubsamen, founder, Pascal
Jul 10, 20261 hour
In this episode, we sat down with Ivo, the co-founder of Pascal, a new prediction markets venue. We started off by discussing the state of prediction markets today and why existing venues are still far from the reliability, performance, and capital efficiency of mature exchanges. We also cover how prediction markets could evolve from gambling-adjacent products into tools for real risk transfer and how Pascal’s OTC desk will play a role in this. Lastly, we dig into Ivo’s time at dYdX, the role of small specialist trading firms in new markets, and how Pascal is building toward becoming a major venue for price discovery. ----- Altitude – the global business account with stablecoin and fiat bank transfers, free on-and off-ramps, 5% APY, corporate cards, bill pay, and more. ------ Questions or feedback? Email us at archivepodcasthost@gmail.com Website: https://thearchivepod.com Twitter: https://x.com/Archive_Pod ------ Timestamps (0:00) Intro (1:10) Intro and the state of prediction markets today (4:44) Prediction markets for real risk transfer (15:07) Event contracts are capital inefficient (18:46) The story behind Pascal (21:58) The different players trading on prediction markets (32:16) The life cycle of new markets (38:23) Pascal's OTC desk (44:25) Meeting Matt at dYdX and learnings from working there (51:24) the dYdX mafia (54:16) Pascal's roadmap
Dan Guido is the co-founder and CEO of Trail of Bits, one of the most respected security research firms in crypto, government, and software infrastructure. In this episode, we trace Dan’s path from hacking his high school’s computer systems to working at the NSA, the Federal Reserve incident response team and eventually building Trail of Bits. We dive into how North Korean hackers became some of the most sophisticated attackers in the world, what DARPA is, and how trail of bits works with government contracts. Finally, Dan shares his views on AI and cybersecurity, why defense may benefit more than offense, and what happens when agents dramatically increase the attack surface of the internet. ----- Altitude – the global business account with stablecoin and fiat bank transfers, free on-and off-ramps, 5% APY, corporate cards, bill pay, and more. ------ Questions or feedback? Email us at archivepodcasthost@gmail.com Website: https://thearchivepod.com Twitter: https://x.com/Archive_Pod ------ Timestamps ((0:00) Intro (0:23) Altitude (1:14) What is Trail of Bits and how did it get started (6:49) Dan's upbringing and developing a passion for computer science and hacking (16:25) Working at the NSA (22:51) North Korean hacks on crypto (28:22) The incident response team at the Fed (33:05) The motivation behind Trail of Bits, and DARPA's role (47:23) Starting Trail of Bits (58:22) Government shutdown, losing all revenue, and surviving with 1 paycheck (1:04:36) Hiring people for mastery and building a high agency team (1:15:34) Bitcoin post-quantum cryptography (1:20:12) The culture and expectation at Trail of Bits (1:38:42) Mythos and AI's role in cybersecurity (2:05:48) San Bernardino iPhone incident, and Dan's proudest moments (2:12:12) Learning to become a CEO (2:19:59) Peiter "Mudge" Zatko
Lucas is the co-founder of Jito, the leading infrastructure provider and LST provider on Solana. In this episode, we dive into how Lucas went from running MEV bots on Ethereum to betting early on Solana. We explore what drew Lucas to Solana, how Jito scaled from ~3% to ~90% validator adoption, and the hard decisions that Jito had to make around MEV on Solana. Finally, Lucas shares his perspective on where crypto is headed, why trading is the killer use case for blockchains, and what Solana needs to win long term. ----- Altitude – the global business account with stablecoin and fiat bank transfers, free on-and off-ramps, 5% APY, corporate cards, bill pay, and more. ------ Questions or feedback? Email us at archivepodcasthost@gmail.com Website: https://thearchivepod.com Twitter: https://x.com/Archive_Pod ------ Timestamps (0:00) Altitude(1:23) What is Jito(10:18) Why Solana stood out early (16:06) Starting Jito (22:58) FTX fallout and doubling down on Solana (30:54) MEV politics and shutting down the mempool (36:20) Memecoins (38:59) Finding PMF and scaling to >90% of validators (41:27) Jito airdrop and token launch strategy (51:40) Expanding beyond infra to user facing apps (59:12) The Solana ecosystem and what it needs (1:16:00) Jito’s presence in DC and crypto policy
Michael Shaulov is the co-founder and CEO of Fireblocks, the leading infrastructure platform powering digital asset operations for institutions. In this episode, we trace Michael’s journey from growing up in Israel and serving in Unit 8200 to building and selling his first company, and ultimately founding Fireblocks after uncovering critical security flaws in early crypto markets. We also dive into how Fireblocks found product-market fit by obsessing over a narrow set of customers, and how the company scaled through DeFi, market crashes, and hypergrowth. ----- Altitude – the global business account with stablecoin and fiat bank transfers, free on-and off-ramps, 5% APY, corporate cards, bill pay, and more. ------ Questions or feedback? Email us at archivepodcasthost@gmail.com Website: https://thearchivepod.com Twitter: https://x.com/Archive_Pod ------ Timestamps (0:00) Intro (0:34) Altitude (1:31) Growing up in Israel, learning programming, and starting internet businesses (7:49) Unit 8200 and the mindset it teaches (16:05) First startup, mentorship, and early lessons (20:20) Discovering crypto through exchange hacks (28:18) Finding product-market fit with Fireblocks (37:11) Enterprise-first vs bottom-up GTM strategy (42:53) DeFi moment and catching the Compound wave (51:24) Surviving Terra, 3AC, FTX (1:08:44) What is fireblocks doing today “At the end of the day as a small startup your goal is not to actually boil the ocean, your goal is not to promise everything to everyone, your goal is find the narrowest MVP that will appeal for a systematically well defined category of customers”
fomo’s Se Yong Park: Building a user-friendly trading app
Apr 1, 20261h 44mS1
Se is the co-founder of fomo, a social trading platform. In this episode, we discuss Se’s journey from Yale to dYdX, how he built product intuition, and the early insights that led to him starting fomo. We also dive into the product philosophy, why crypto UX has historically failed mainstream users, and what fomo is doing to fix this. Finally, we explore the long-term vision around the “speculation graph” and how speculation might become the next form of social identity. ----- Altitude – the global business account with stablecoin and fiat bank transfers, free on-and off-ramps, 5% APY, corporate cards, bill pay, and more. ------ Questions or feedback? Email us at archivepodcasthost@gmail.com Website: https://thearchivepod.com Twitter: https://x.com/Archive_Pod ------ Timestamps (0:00) Intro (0:22) Altitude (1:13) Early life. Jersey and Yale (7:03) Working on product at dYdX and meeting Paul (14:06) The genesis of fomo, early team formation (33:42) Product-first philosophy and obsession with UX (46:24) User-led growth and getting to know your customers (59:48) Raising Series A from Benchmark (1:06:22) Where fomo is heading; the speculation graph era (1:21:49) Building a social product to match its growth (1:28:58) Memecoins as a category (1:40:35) Which teams does Se look up to?
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