4.7 stars on Apple Podcasts
Digital asset investing from a TradFi viewpoint. Industry experts candidly discuss current market trends and crypto concepts to help you better understand the ecosystem.
Former Guests:
● Ben Hunt, Co-Founder of Second Foundation Partners and Creator of Epsilon Theory
● Ashley Ebersole, Former SEC Regulator
● Jake Brukham, CEO CoinFund
About the host: Peter Hans, Chief Strategy Officer at Arca, has over 20 years’ experience leading teams to goal-exceeding organic growth across multiple asset management and capital markets companies. At Arca, he is responsible for all aspects of strategy and management across investor relations, distribution, and strategic relationships. Peter holds an MBA in Finance from Vanderbilt University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Colby College.
Season 2 Episode 19: Ed Vincent, CEO and Founder of FestivalPass
Peter is joined by Ed Vincent, CEO and Founder of FestivalPass, to explore a real-time example of how a business can incorporate blockchain and leverage web3 to improve their business model. They discuss Ed's vision behind FestivalPass enhancing the consumer experience for live events, the importance of community building, and how they're using NFTs.
Season 2 Episode 18: Jeff Dorman, CIO and Co-founder of Arca
Jeff Dorman, CIO and Co-founder of Arca, is back again to discuss the current state of the market. Gain a better understanding of what's driving these quieter times as Peter and Jeff discuss regional bank failures, the trickle down effects of meme coins, and the current regulatory environment. Bonus: CA and TX little league baseball and softball updates!
Season 2 Episode 17: William Szamosszegi, Founder and CEO of Sazminin
Peter is joined by William Szamosszegi, Founder and CEO of Sazmining, for a robust discussion on bitcoin mining including its effects on the power grid and other mainstream narratives. Learn more about bitcoin as an ESG investment, how it can be used to preserve wealth, and the potential for revolutionizing current financial systems.
Season 2 Episode 16: Nick Emmons, Co-founder and CEO of Upshot
Peter is joined by Nick Emmons, Co-founder and CEO of Upshot (upshot.xyz), an NFT appraiser providing insights into NFT markets. Nick and Peter have an interesting discussion around the financialization of NFTs including nuanced problems around custodianship and blockers to further adoption of NFTs in the financial system. Learn about tokenized rewards programs utilized in a crypto native way, tracking grey markets, and the equivalent of a FICO score system for wallets in the NFT ecosystem. Learn more about NFTs from Arca specialists here: https://www.ar.ca/nft
Season 2 Episode 15: Jeff Dorman, CIO and Co-founder of Arca
Jeff Dorman, CIO and Co-founder of Arca, is back with Peter on this week's Between2Chains to provide his insight into the recent market events, what it means for digital assets and the macroeconomy as a whole. Listen to their discussion to learn about tokens as downside protection, a secular shift in thinking, and assigning value to digital and traditional assets.
Season 2 Episode 14: Megan Knab, Co-founder and CEO of Franklin
Season 2 Episode 13: Jeff Dorman, CIO and Co-founder of Arca
Jeff Dorman, CIO and Co-founder of Arca, is back to provide an update on markets and give his take on the current crypto rally. Learn how to invest in this uncertain environment, the effects of broad sweeping versus targeted regulatory actions, and the resiliency of digital assets. Bonus: Peter and Jeff get ready to take on another season of youth baseball and softball.
Season 2 Episode 18: Jeff Dorman, CIO and Co-founder of Arca
Jeff Dorman, CIO and Co-founder of Arca, is back again to discuss the current state of the market. Gain a better understanding of what's driving these quieter times as Peter and Jeff discuss regional bank failures, the trickle down effects of meme coins, and the current regulatory environment. Bonus: CA and TX little league baseball and softball updates!
Season 2 Episode 17: William Szamosszegi, Founder and CEO of Sazminin
Peter is joined by William Szamosszegi, Founder and CEO of Sazmining, for a robust discussion on bitcoin mining including its effects on the power grid and other mainstream narratives. Learn more about bitcoin as an ESG investment, how it can be used to preserve wealth, and the potential for revolutionizing current financial systems.
Season 2 Episode 16: Nick Emmons, Co-founder and CEO of Upshot
Peter is joined by Nick Emmons, Co-founder and CEO of Upshot (upshot.xyz), an NFT appraiser providing insights into NFT markets. Nick and Peter have an interesting discussion around the financialization of NFTs including nuanced problems around custodianship and blockers to further adoption of NFTs in the financial system. Learn about tokenized rewards programs utilized in a crypto native way, tracking grey markets, and the equivalent of a FICO score system for wallets in the NFT ecosystem. Learn more about NFTs from Arca specialists here: https://www.ar.ca/nft
Season 2 Episode 15: Jeff Dorman, CIO and Co-founder of Arca
Jeff Dorman, CIO and Co-founder of Arca, is back with Peter on this week's Between2Chains to provide his insight into the recent market events, what it means for digital assets and the macroeconomy as a whole. Listen to their discussion to learn about tokens as downside protection, a secular shift in thinking, and assigning value to digital and traditional assets.
Season 2 Episode 13: Jeff Dorman, CIO and Co-founder of Arca
Jeff Dorman, CIO and Co-founder of Arca, is back to provide an update on markets and give his take on the current crypto rally. Learn how to invest in this uncertain environment, the effects of broad sweeping versus targeted regulatory actions, and the resiliency of digital assets. Bonus: Peter and Jeff get ready to take on another season of youth baseball and softball.
Season 2 Episode 12: Jeff French, BPX Collective Creator
Jeff French, BPX Collective Creator, is back again to talk all things gaming, NFTs, metaverse, and Web3. Peter and Jeff discuss the changes and advancements Blokpax and the industry have made over the past year, and how they could shape our future. Gain a better understanding of blockchain technology and the investment opportunities it can afford.
Season 2 Episode 11: Featuring Michelle Noyes, Head of Americas at AIMA
Michelle Noyes, Head of Americas at AIMA and Peter agree on a major theme and that is the inevitable convergence of TradFi and the Crypto industry. Listen to their discussion and learn how legacy institutions reacted to the first crypto winter and how recent market events have impacted their interest in digital assets.
Season 2 Episode 10: Featuring Rayne Steinberg and Jeff Dorman
For the first episode of the new year Peter is joined by Arca CEO and Co-founder Rayne Steinberg, and CIO and Co-founder Jeff Dorman to discuss their outlook for digital assets in 2023. Listen to find out how their knowledge and research coupled with anecdotal conversations they've held with Tradfi professionals and crypto natives have shaped their predictions for market opportunities this year.
Season 2 Episode 9: Featuring Byron Gilliam
Season 2 Episode 8: Featuring Alexandre Dreyfus
Alexandre Dreyfus, Founder and CEO of Chiliz and Socios.com, joins Peter to discuss real world use cases for blockchain that go beyond trading or financial services. Learn how Chiliz is using this revolutionary technology to better align the sports fan to the organization through transparency and fairness.
Season 2 Episode 7: Featuring James Healy
Season 2 Episode 6: Featuring James Healy
Peter is joined by James Healy, Professor at USC Marshall School of Business, President at Digital Disbursements, and Economic Advisory Council Member for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, to discuss USC's adoption of blockchain and digital assets in their curriculum. As we see a trend of higher ed institutions offering blockchain and digital asset courses Peter and James touch on the revolutionary solutions this technology can offer and the corresponding interest levels of the younger generation to get involved.
Season 2 Episode 5: Featuring Nick Hotz
Peter sits down with Nick Hotz, Vice President of Research at Arca, to discuss how investors should value Layer 1 tokens and blockchains. Listen to their discussion to understand why traditional valuation methods aren't comparable for these assets including how Layer 1s relate more to currencies than equities.
Season 2 Episode 4: Featuring Jeff Dorman
Learn from Arca's CIO and Co-Founder, Jeff Dorman, about the current macro environment including how we haven't seen similar trends in over 45 years. Additionally, Jeff and Peter discuss the market's reaction to the Ethereum merge and what we can expect in the years to come for blockchain technology and the broader digital asset market.
Season 2 Episode 2: Featuring Jeff Dorman
Season 2 Episode 1: Featuring Raoul Pal
In this episode, Peter is joined by Raoul Pal, CEO, and Co-Founder of The Real Vision Group, for the re-launch of Between2Chains. Learn about the economic measures creating a case for Raoul’s bullish view on the market including interest rates, inflation, peak fear correlations, recency bias, and general misunderstandings of the crypto market.
Featuring Jeff Dorman
In this week’s episode Peter is joined by Arca CIO, Jeff Dorman to discuss the volatile state of traditional financial markets and its impact on the digital asset ecosystem. They discuss the gradual shift to a decentralized exchange and how it could offer protection from geopolitical events we’ve seen unfold over the past couple weeks.
Featuring Jeff Dorman
Featuring Jerald David and Rayne Steinberg
In this week's episode of Between2Chains Rayne Steinberg and Jerald David of Arca join host Peter Hans to discuss digital asset securities and the emergence of the Blockchain Transferred Fund (BTF). They discuss the invention of the mutual fund, the innovation of digital asset securities and how both lend to the newest pooled investment vehicle innovation.
Featuring Rayne Steinberg
Featuring Jeff Dorman and Katie Talati of Arca
Featuring Jeff Dorman
Featuring Jeff Dorman
Featuring Jeff Dorman
In this episode of Between2Chains Peter Hans is joined by Jeff Doorman to talk about where we are in digital assets cycle. They draw parallels to the early 1990s and speculate that digital assets may not be an asset class at all, but rather a technology that will pervade everything, and that calling it an asset class will be equivalent to calling investing in securities an asset class in the future.
Featuring Rayne Steinberg
Rayne Steinberg, CEO at Arca, joins host Peter Hans in this episode to talk about Arca’s perspective on ESG investing. Steinberg touches on some of the environmental implications and recent narratives at play, but focuses the discussion more around the societal and governmental facets of ESG and the challenges and opportunities they present. It’s an interesting conversation that may get you thinking differently about the asset class.
Featuring Jeff Dorman
Jeff Dorman returns to Between2Chains to talk about the crazy market over the past few weeks and the current downcycle in digital assets. During the conversation, he touches on correlations, political and regulatory fears in the market, different types of buyers and the flow of their funds, the forces that shaped the bull market and whether they’re still in play, differentiation among assets, the challenge of exchanges, and more. If you’re wondering where we go from here, you’ll want to listen to his insights.
Featuring Jeff Dorman
Arca CIO Jeff Dorman joins host Peter Hans to talk about the roller coaster ride that has been the past week in crypto. Dorman shares his take on the multiple crashes and quasi-rebounds that have taken place in the digital assets market and dissects some of the events and narratives that took prices down, including Elon Musk, China, and other factors.
Featuring Michael Del Grosso
Senior Research Analyst at Compass Point, Michael Del Grosso, joins this episode to talk about the evolving digital assets ecosystem how it affects the sectors and companies he covers, including fintech, payments, Coinbase, and Silvergate. Del Grosso shares his thoughts about the evolution of some of these industries as well as how he views Defi and the digital assets landscape going forward.
Featuring David Nage
David Nage, Principal at Arca, joins host Peter Hans this episode to explore seed-stage investing across the digital asset landscape. Everything we’ve discussed on Between2Chains thus far has been about liquid public token markets, but David has a history of investing in venture and early-stage companies in digital assets, both professionally and personally. They look at trends, sectors, and company lifecycles, how it all differs from traditional investing, and more.
Featuring Jeff Dorman
Jeff Dorman, CIO and Co-Founder of Arca joins host Peter Hans for a conversation that gets back to their fixed income roots: they’re talking about low-volatility yield. Everyone gets into the crypto and digital assets market because of the upside and the technology, but this episode explores the many ways you can generate safety on a relative basis and earn high single- to low double-digit yields.
Featuring Jake Brukhman
Jake Brukhman, CEO of CoinFund, joins host Peter Hans in this episode to share his perspective as one of the first digital asset managers in the world. Brukhman is incredibly knowledgeable and is great at balancing the potential of blockchain technology with its financial and investable implications. From Bitcoin to defi to venture investing and more, there’s a lot to learn from this conversation with institutional investors in the digital assets space.
Featuring Jeff Dorman
Jeff Dorman, CIO of Arca, joins Peter Hans for a special episode of Between2Chains, which was livecast as part of Finance Podcast Week, presented by Podbean. Dorman and Hans treat the audience to a digital assets primer as a starting point for those interested in getting into the world of crypto. The pair discuss everything from the different types of digital assets to whether Bitcoin will ever become a usable form of currency. It’s an educational conversation every would-be digital assets investor should hear.
Featuring Ash Bennington
Peter Hans, Managing Director at Arca and host of Real Vision’s Between Two Chains podcast, joins Ash Bennington for a special episode. Peter and Ash interview each other, share their individual journeys into the space, talk about the different aspects of being a market participant in this asset class, and much more. If you’ve ever wanted to know more about the personalities behind the podcasts on Real Vision, this is an episode you don’t want to miss.
Featuring Jeff Dorman
Arca CIO Jeff Dorman joins Peter Hans this episode to look at the current events happening in the market. Dorman shares his thoughts about how Grayscale went from a large premium to trading at a discount and what that may mean for the system, especially for leverage in the system. He and Hans also touch upon the recent BlockFi funding spree and how it differs from some of the other capital raises, from Robinhood all the way back to the Knight Capitals of the world during the financial crisis. It’s a thought-provoking conversation that’s sure to challenge your own perspective.
Featuring Sasha Fleyshman
In this episode, Sasha Fleyshman, Trader at Arca, joins host Peter Hans to talk about the latest buzz in the crypto and collectibles space: NFTs. Fleyshman explains the concept behind them, how they work, and why they’re unique, and dives into some of the risks and fascinating opportunities of real-world applications like gaming and digital art.
Featuring Matt Edwards
Matt Edwards, CEO and CIO of Dalpha Capital joins host Peter Hans for a deep-dive discussion about managing volatility in the digital assets space, what migration to the space can look like at scale, Dalpha’s differentiating approach to trading the asset class, and the opportunities he sees for digital assets going forward.
Featuring Ben Hunt
In this episode, Ben Hunt, Co-Founder of Second Foundation Partners and creator of Epsilon Theory, joins host Peter Hans to talk about how investors can make sense of markets that don’t make much sense. Using the lens of game theory, Hunt explores the role of narrative and the market machine, and offers investors a new way of thinking about Wall Street that can revolutionize their investment perspective.
Featuring Andy Jones
Featuring Ashley Ebersole
In this episode, host Peter Hans is joined by Ashley Ebersole, partner in Securities, Digital Assets, and FinTech at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP and Former SEC Enforcement Senior Counsel. Their discussion centers around aligning innovation and regulation in the digital assets space, with Ebersole sharing his inner knowledge of the SEC as it relates to how the commission views the asset class, the difficulty decentralization poses for regulation, how the digital asset space may be affected by the leadership of Gary Gensler, FinHub, safe harbor, custodial rules, regulatory forbearance, and much more. It’s a deep dive discussion that explores many of the challenges and opportunities of imposing regulation in the digital asset space.
Featuring Jeff Dorman
This week, host Peter Hans is joined by Arca CIO Jeff Dorman to explore activist investing. A trend that’s been successful for a long time in the traditional hedge fund management industry, activist investing is just starting to make its way into the digital asset space. Hans and Dorman talk about the significant opportunities to unlock value through balance sheet valuation, helping management teams better think about their token holders and their stakeholders, better structures of companies, and more. The conversation opens up a lot of philosophical discussion, as activist investing in the digital asset space is a green field with no legal precedent. After the podcast, join us on social media to continue the conversation.
Featuring Ryan Watkins
On this episode, host Peter Hans is joined by Ryan Watkins, research analyst at Messari, to talk about stable coins: why they exist, how they work, different types, use cases, and risk scenarios. They also discuss the recent questions surrounding the backing of Tether, and Watkins explains why not all entities issuing stable coins are equal and how investors can think about the relationship between Tether and other digital assets. To wrap up the discussion, Watkins shares his thoughts about where the future of this important part of the ecosystem is headed.
Featuring Ryan Watkins
Host Peter Hans sits down with Ryan Watkins, Senior Research Analyst at Messari, to explore the influence of differing generational perspectives in the digital assets space. Watkins shares his background and worldview as someone on the cusp of Millennial and Gen Z, his take on top-down and bottom-up frameworks for analyzing the space, the idea of Bitcoin as “Gen Z gold,” what’s going on structurally in DeFi, and more.
Featuring Jeff Dorman
In this episode, host Peter Hans is joined by Arca CIO Jeff Dorman to explore some of the investment themes they think will be big in 2021, including NFTs, continued conversation of DeFi, sports, eSports, fan experience, and web 3.0. They also take a look at some of the narratives that are dominating the investment industry in digital assets after an incredible 2020.
Featuring Jeff Dorman
In this episode, Peter Hans is joined by Arca CIO Jeff Dorman to explore decentralized finance: what it is, why it exists, and why Hans believes it is a huge investable opportunity over the next decade. Hans dives into topics like counterparty risk, consumer finance and how defi can neutralize biases in the system before Dorman joins to discuss his view of defi, some of the pros and cons of decentralization from a customer service standpoint, and where he sees the space heading in the future.
On this episode, host Peter Hans take a look at where the digital assets investment landscape stands today and how it compares to investing in the Internet as a technology in the 80s, 90s, and throughout the 2000s. He covers the parallels in types of companies that can be invested in, what they provide, what growth they’ve allowed for into the future, and how both have followed a hope, hype, despair, and rebound lifecycle.
Featuring Jeff Dorman
In this episode, Peter Hans discusses the origins and expansion of blockchain as a technology, including its many investable applications that were highlighted in the original Ethereum white paper first published in 2013. Hans is then joined by Arca Funds CIO Jeff Dorman to dive deeper into what those investable applications look like today.
In the launch episode, host Peter Hans sets the stage for investors who want to learn more about the digital asset ecosystem and hear true fundamental analysis to prepare for this rapidly changing world. Topics include cryptocurrencies, crypto platforms and protocols, asset-backed tokens, utility tokens, and more, all through the lens of an institutional investor.
Season 2 Episode 18: Jeff Dorman, CIO and Co-founder of Arca
Jeff Dorman, CIO and Co-founder of Arca, is back again to discuss the current state of the market. Gain a better understanding of what's driving these quieter times as Peter and Jeff discuss regional bank failures, the trickle down effects of meme coins, and the current regulatory environment. Bonus: CA and TX little league baseball and softball updates!
Season 2 Episode 17: William Szamosszegi, Founder and CEO of Sazminin
Peter is joined by William Szamosszegi, Founder and CEO of Sazmining, for a robust discussion on bitcoin mining including its effects on the power grid and other mainstream narratives. Learn more about bitcoin as an ESG investment, how it can be used to preserve wealth, and the potential for revolutionizing current financial systems.
Season 2 Episode 16: Nick Emmons, Co-founder and CEO of Upshot
Peter is joined by Nick Emmons, Co-founder and CEO of Upshot (upshot.xyz), an NFT appraiser providing insights into NFT markets. Nick and Peter have an interesting discussion around the financialization of NFTs including nuanced problems around custodianship and blockers to further adoption of NFTs in the financial system. Learn about tokenized rewards programs utilized in a crypto native way, tracking grey markets, and the equivalent of a FICO score system for wallets in the NFT ecosystem. Learn more about NFTs from Arca specialists here: https://www.ar.ca/nft
Season 2 Episode 15: Jeff Dorman, CIO and Co-founder of Arca
Jeff Dorman, CIO and Co-founder of Arca, is back with Peter on this week's Between2Chains to provide his insight into the recent market events, what it means for digital assets and the macroeconomy as a whole. Listen to their discussion to learn about tokens as downside protection, a secular shift in thinking, and assigning value to digital and traditional assets.
Season 2 Episode 14: Megan Knab, Co-founder and CEO of Franklin
Season 2 Episode 13: Jeff Dorman, CIO and Co-founder of Arca
Jeff Dorman, CIO and Co-founder of Arca, is back to provide an update on markets and give his take on the current crypto rally. Learn how to invest in this uncertain environment, the effects of broad sweeping versus targeted regulatory actions, and the resiliency of digital assets. Bonus: Peter and Jeff get ready to take on another season of youth baseball and softball.
Season 2 Episode 12: Jeff French, BPX Collective Creator
Jeff French, BPX Collective Creator, is back again to talk all things gaming, NFTs, metaverse, and Web3. Peter and Jeff discuss the changes and advancements Blokpax and the industry have made over the past year, and how they could shape our future. Gain a better understanding of blockchain technology and the investment opportunities it can afford.
Season 2 Episode 10: Featuring Rayne Steinberg and Jeff Dorman
For the first episode of the new year Peter is joined by Arca CEO and Co-founder Rayne Steinberg, and CIO and Co-founder Jeff Dorman to discuss their outlook for digital assets in 2023. Listen to find out how their knowledge and research coupled with anecdotal conversations they've held with Tradfi professionals and crypto natives have shaped their predictions for market opportunities this year.
Season 2 Episode 7: Featuring Jeff Dorman
Season 2 Episode 6: Featuring James Healy
Peter is joined by James Healy, Professor at USC Marshall School of Business, President at Digital Disbursements, and Economic Advisory Council Member for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, to discuss USC's adoption of blockchain and digital assets in their curriculum. As we see a trend of higher ed institutions offering blockchain and digital asset courses Peter and James touch on the revolutionary solutions this technology can offer and the corresponding interest levels of the younger generation to get involved.
Season 2 Episode 3: Featuring Jeremy Parris
Peter is joined by Jeremy Parris of delphi digital, an industry expert on web 3.0, gaming, nfts, and the metaverse. Listen to their discussion as they cover the most frequently asked questions and buzzwords on these top-of-mind industry segments. Learn why adoption is lagging, how financial models are built into games, and common misconceptions.
Featuring Jeff Dorman
In this week’s episode Peter is joined by Arca CIO, Jeff Dorman to discuss the volatile state of traditional financial markets and its impact on the digital asset ecosystem. They discuss the gradual shift to a decentralized exchange and how it could offer protection from geopolitical events we’ve seen unfold over the past couple weeks.
Featuring Jeff Dorman
Featuring Michael Del Grosso
Senior Research Analyst at Compass Point, Michael Del Grosso, joins this episode to talk about the evolving digital assets ecosystem how it affects the sectors and companies he covers, including fintech, payments, Coinbase, and Silvergate. Del Grosso shares his thoughts about the evolution of some of these industries as well as how he views Defi and the digital assets landscape going forward.
Featuring Jake Brukhman
Jake Brukhman, CEO of CoinFund, joins host Peter Hans in this episode to share his perspective as one of the first digital asset managers in the world. Brukhman is incredibly knowledgeable and is great at balancing the potential of blockchain technology with its financial and investable implications. From Bitcoin to defi to venture investing and more, there’s a lot to learn from this conversation with institutional investors in the digital assets space.
Featuring Jeff Dorman
Jeff Dorman, CIO of Arca, joins Peter Hans for a special episode of Between2Chains, which was livecast as part of Finance Podcast Week, presented by Podbean. Dorman and Hans treat the audience to a digital assets primer as a starting point for those interested in getting into the world of crypto. The pair discuss everything from the different types of digital assets to whether Bitcoin will ever become a usable form of currency. It’s an educational conversation every would-be digital assets investor should hear.
Featuring Ryan Watkins
Host Peter Hans sits down with Ryan Watkins, Senior Research Analyst at Messari, to explore the influence of differing generational perspectives in the digital assets space. Watkins shares his background and worldview as someone on the cusp of Millennial and Gen Z, his take on top-down and bottom-up frameworks for analyzing the space, the idea of Bitcoin as “Gen Z gold,” what’s going on structurally in DeFi, and more.
Featuring Jeff Dorman
In this episode, host Peter Hans is joined by Arca CIO Jeff Dorman to explore some of the investment themes they think will be big in 2021, including NFTs, continued conversation of DeFi, sports, eSports, fan experience, and web 3.0. They also take a look at some of the narratives that are dominating the investment industry in digital assets after an incredible 2020.
Featuring Jeff Dorman
In this episode, Peter Hans is joined by Arca CIO Jeff Dorman to explore decentralized finance: what it is, why it exists, and why Hans believes it is a huge investable opportunity over the next decade. Hans dives into topics like counterparty risk, consumer finance and how defi can neutralize biases in the system before Dorman joins to discuss his view of defi, some of the pros and cons of decentralization from a customer service standpoint, and where he sees the space heading in the future.
Season 2 Episode 19: Ed Vincent, CEO and Founder of FestivalPass
Peter is joined by Ed Vincent, CEO and Founder of FestivalPass, to explore a real-time example of how a business can incorporate blockchain and leverage web3 to improve their business model. They discuss Ed's vision behind FestivalPass enhancing the consumer experience for live events, the importance of community building, and how they're using NFTs.
Season 2 Episode 17: William Szamosszegi, Founder and CEO of Sazminin
Peter is joined by William Szamosszegi, Founder and CEO of Sazmining, for a robust discussion on bitcoin mining including its effects on the power grid and other mainstream narratives. Learn more about bitcoin as an ESG investment, how it can be used to preserve wealth, and the potential for revolutionizing current financial systems.
Season 2 Episode 14: Megan Knab, Co-founder and CEO of Franklin
Season 2 Episode 6: Featuring James Healy
Peter is joined by James Healy, Professor at USC Marshall School of Business, President at Digital Disbursements, and Economic Advisory Council Member for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, to discuss USC's adoption of blockchain and digital assets in their curriculum. As we see a trend of higher ed institutions offering blockchain and digital asset courses Peter and James touch on the revolutionary solutions this technology can offer and the corresponding interest levels of the younger generation to get involved.
Season 2 Episode 2: Featuring Jeff Dorman
Featuring Jeff French
In this week’s episode of Between 2 Chains Peter Hans is joined with BlokPax CEO Jeff French talking about his start ups and about BlokPax. Jeff French’s latest venture adds a new twist to the crypto landscape. French and his team are working to tokenize ownership of physical collectibles as NFT’s and expose this traditional asset class to a rapidly growing global audience of potential buyers using cryptocurrency.
Featuring David Nage
David Nage, Principal at Arca, joins host Peter Hans this episode to explore seed-stage investing across the digital asset landscape. Everything we’ve discussed on Between2Chains thus far has been about liquid public token markets, but David has a history of investing in venture and early-stage companies in digital assets, both professionally and personally. They look at trends, sectors, and company lifecycles, how it all differs from traditional investing, and more.
Featuring Jake Brukhman
Jake Brukhman, CEO of CoinFund, joins host Peter Hans in this episode to share his perspective as one of the first digital asset managers in the world. Brukhman is incredibly knowledgeable and is great at balancing the potential of blockchain technology with its financial and investable implications. From Bitcoin to defi to venture investing and more, there’s a lot to learn from this conversation with institutional investors in the digital assets space.
Featuring Jeff Dorman
Arca CIO Jeff Dorman joins Peter Hans this episode to look at the current events happening in the market. Dorman shares his thoughts about how Grayscale went from a large premium to trading at a discount and what that may mean for the system, especially for leverage in the system. He and Hans also touch upon the recent BlockFi funding spree and how it differs from some of the other capital raises, from Robinhood all the way back to the Knight Capitals of the world during the financial crisis. It’s a thought-provoking conversation that’s sure to challenge your own perspective.
Featuring Ryan Watkins
Host Peter Hans sits down with Ryan Watkins, Senior Research Analyst at Messari, to explore the influence of differing generational perspectives in the digital assets space. Watkins shares his background and worldview as someone on the cusp of Millennial and Gen Z, his take on top-down and bottom-up frameworks for analyzing the space, the idea of Bitcoin as “Gen Z gold,” what’s going on structurally in DeFi, and more.
On this episode, host Peter Hans take a look at where the digital assets investment landscape stands today and how it compares to investing in the Internet as a technology in the 80s, 90s, and throughout the 2000s. He covers the parallels in types of companies that can be invested in, what they provide, what growth they’ve allowed for into the future, and how both have followed a hope, hype, despair, and rebound lifecycle.
Season 2 Episode 19: Ed Vincent, CEO and Founder of FestivalPass
Peter is joined by Ed Vincent, CEO and Founder of FestivalPass, to explore a real-time example of how a business can incorporate blockchain and leverage web3 to improve their business model. They discuss Ed's vision behind FestivalPass enhancing the consumer experience for live events, the importance of community building, and how they're using NFTs.
Season 2 Episode 16: Nick Emmons, Co-founder and CEO of Upshot
Peter is joined by Nick Emmons, Co-founder and CEO of Upshot (upshot.xyz), an NFT appraiser providing insights into NFT markets. Nick and Peter have an interesting discussion around the financialization of NFTs including nuanced problems around custodianship and blockers to further adoption of NFTs in the financial system. Learn about tokenized rewards programs utilized in a crypto native way, tracking grey markets, and the equivalent of a FICO score system for wallets in the NFT ecosystem. Learn more about NFTs from Arca specialists here: https://www.ar.ca/nft
Season 2 Episode 12: Jeff French, BPX Collective Creator
Jeff French, BPX Collective Creator, is back again to talk all things gaming, NFTs, metaverse, and Web3. Peter and Jeff discuss the changes and advancements Blokpax and the industry have made over the past year, and how they could shape our future. Gain a better understanding of blockchain technology and the investment opportunities it can afford.
Season 2 Episode 3: Featuring Jeremy Parris
Peter is joined by Jeremy Parris of delphi digital, an industry expert on web 3.0, gaming, nfts, and the metaverse. Listen to their discussion as they cover the most frequently asked questions and buzzwords on these top-of-mind industry segments. Learn why adoption is lagging, how financial models are built into games, and common misconceptions.