GRTiQ Podcast: 88 Eric Chen

Today I’m speaking with Eric Chen, Co-Founder and CEO at Injective Labs, a research and development company focused on creating decentralized finance solutions. Prior to co-founding Injective Labs, Eric worked in traditional finance as an investment analyst and also as a researcher at NYU Blockchain Labs. As you will hear, Eric is a brilliant person …

GRTiQ Podcast: 87 Nico Vergauwen

Today I’m speaking with Nico Vergauwen, Founder at Tenderize, a liquid staking solution for Web3 middleware. Prior to launching Tenderize, Nico worked as a protocol engineer at Livepeer, launched Livepool (a precursor to Tenderize), and worked as a consultant. Tenderize has garnered a lot of attention recently within The Graph ecosystem and throughout Web3. As …

GRTiQ Podcast: 86 Chris Castig

Today I’m speaking with Chris Castig, Co-Founder at Console, a crypto-native chat platform for Bitcoin and Ethereum. In addition to his work at Console, Chris has an interesting background that includes working at Trust Machines, teaching at Columbia Business School, and founding One Month, an online video learning platform. My conversation with Chris covers a …

GRTiQ Podcast: 85 Tachi

Today I’m speaking with Tachi, Co-Founder and CEO at Playgrounds Analytics, a data solutions platform built upon The Graph that provides serverless on-chain data infrastructures and services for data teams, analysts, and engineers. This is a remarkable conversation for several reasons. First, Tachi’s perspective as a control systems engineer provides several unique insights about The …

GRTiQ Podcast: 84 David Mihal

Today I’m speaking with David Mihal, a blockchain engineer who has worked on several well-known projects in the crypto space, including Crytpo Fees and CryptoStats. David also did some early work on burner wallets, often used at industry events, and some cool projects for both the Ethereum Foundation and Maker Foundation. I’m speaking with David …

GRTiQ Podcast: 83 Anne Connelly and Chief Nyamweya

Today I’m speaking with Anne Connelly and Chief Nyamweya, Wave 4 grants recipients and authors of the new graph novel titled Trust – a story about how the power of blockchain technology can save community and transform the future. During this interview, I talk to Anne and Chief about how they became interested in blockchain …

GRTiQ Podcast: 82 Roneil Rumburg

Today I’m speaking with Roneil Rumburg, Co-founder and CEO at Audius, a Web3 dapp that connects fans directly with artists with the mission to empower a new generation of artists on the decentralized web. As is made clear throughout this interview, Roneil’s entrepreneurial journey and the success of Audius are both perfect examples of what’s …

GRTiQ Podcast: 81 Chika Uwazie

Today I’m speaking with Chika Uwazie, Co-founder of Afropolitan, a Digital Nation to enable all Africans to build abundant lives. As you will hear during this interview, Afropolitan is another clear example of how Web3 is enabling innovation in how people can build and form communities – and potentially even new nations – throughout the …

GRTiQ Podcast: 80 Ryan Selkis and Vincent Wen

Today is a unique episode of the podcast – a two-interviews-in-one episode! As you already know, one of the big announcements from Graph Day 2022 was that Messari, an industry-leading market intelligence platform, would be joining The Graph ecosystem as the first-ever Core Subgraph Developer. And as you heard in a previous episode, I was …

GRTiQ Podcast: 79 Special Edition: Becoming an Indexer at The Graph

Today is a special edition of the podcast. On August 25, 2022, The Graph Foundation announced the launch of the MIPs program, which stands for Migration Infrastructure Providers. Similar to Mission Control, which was the initial testnet that launched The Graph Network in July 2020, and introduced the first generation of Indexers to the ecosystem, …