Democratizing Investing with Web3 Technology — On the latest Crypto Driven, I got to sit down with Ian Lee, Co-Founder of Syndicate. Syndicate is a decentralized investing protocol and social network. Syndicate’s first product, Investment Clubs, transforms any Ethereum wallet into a powerful investing DAO. In less than a year since launching Investment Clubs, Syndicate has…

NFTs: Past, Present, and Future — On the latest Crypto Driven, I had the pleasure of interviewing Chris Maddern, co-founder and CEO of Floor. Floor is a mobile app that aims to make NFTs more accessible and understandable. Floor offers NFT portfolio tracking, real-time price alerts, live activity for collections, and multi-wallet support, and recently launched…

Decentralized Identity and Reputation — I had so much fun sitting down with Evin McMullen to chat about her Web3 startup, Disco. Disco is building a trustless and portable identity and reputation system with decentralized identifiers and verifiable credentials — like a personal data backpack that travels with you across Web3. Disco has raised venture…

The Future of Social Tokens — I recently had the chance to interview Bradley Miles, Co-founder and CEO of Roll. Roll is a social token infrastructure platform that enables creators to mint, send, and use social tokens to build their communities. Roll launched in 2019 and has since grown to 500+ creators on the platform and…

Building the Social Layer for NFTs — I recently had the chance to interview Mike Wen, Co-founder and CEO of Gallery. Gallery is the premier gallery experience for NFTs, enabling users to curate and share their NFTs through an on-chain social platform. Gallery launched just last year, but has already attracted top NFT collectors and artists to…

Last year, NFTs took the world by storm. Trading volume of NFTs topped $13 billion in 2021 — an enormous 43,000% increase compared to year before. We saw a dizzying pace of adoption from consumers, creators, brands, and even governments. Like many other NFT enthusiasts, I was captivated by NFTs…

Crypto-Powered Music Streaming — I recently had the chance to interview Roneil Rumburg, Co-founder and CEO of Audius. Audius is a decentralized music streaming platform that is democratizing the music industry by giving more control and ownership back to artists and their communities. Audius launched in 2019 and has since grown to 7M+ users…

Building Web3 Talent Infrastructure — I recently had the chance to interview Tina He, Co-founder and CEO of Station. Station is a startup building the talent marketplace and infrastructure for Web3 and has raised venture capital from top investors, including Union Square Ventures, Pace Capital, TCG Crypto, Archetype, and BoxGroup. We covered a bunch of…

Some thoughts on community evolution from Web2 to Web3 — To say that there has been a lot of excitement around Web3 lately would be an understatement. If you live in New York like I do, you may have noticed that the city was absolutely buzzing with activity (read: parties) last week around NFT.NYC. It certainly feels like we are…