CryptoNews Podcast

Adam Reeds is the Co-Founder and CEO of Ledn, a global company regulated in the Cayman Islands that focuses on building financial products to help people save in bitcoin and digital assets. Prior to co-founding Ledn, Adam spent ten years at Dream Asset Management, where he developed, built, and financed a $1.5 billion portfolio of renewable power projects. It was Bitcoin's connection with the energy that brought Adam into Bitcoin mining, where he and his co-founder identified a gap in financing digital assets. Today, Ledn is a broad financial services platform with clients in over 130 countries. Adam is a graduate of the HBA program at the Richard Ivey School of Business and also holds a Bachelor of Engineering Science from the University of Western Ontario.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Crypto loans vs. traditional loans
- The future of crypto lending
- Why Bitcoin Makes Great Collateral
- How Ledn survived the lending crisis of 2022
- Ledn's new products (DCNs and Growth Accounts)
- Investing in the energy sector
- Bitcoin mining in Canada
- Canada’s energy consumption
Ledn
Website: ledn.io
X: @hodlwithLedn
Instagram: @ledn.io
Adam Reeds
X: @adamreeds
LinkedIn: Adam Reeds

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Elena Nadolinski is a computer scientist and software engineer, and the CEO of the Iron Fish Foundation, the organization supporting the Iron Fish network, a dedicated privacy layer for Web3 with built-in compliance solutions.

Prior to founding Iron Fish in 2017, Elena worked as a software engineer at companies including Microsoft, Tilt, and Airbnb. Elena is a Forbes 30 under 30 alum, and has been honored with awards from both the White House and the Central Intelligence Agency for her outstanding achievements.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Iron Fish 101 & Iron Fish’s recent Mainnet launch
- Making crypto accessible (making it easy to run nodes, mine tokens, etc.)
- Zero-knowledge proof technology and applications
- Proof-of-work vs. Proof-of-stake
- The importance of privacy in Web 2.0 + Web3
- Merging privacy and compliance in Web3
- The world of L2s
- Stories from working at Microsoft, Tilt, and Airbnb
- Living in SF
Iron Fish
Website: ironfish.network
X: @ironfishcrypto
Telegram: t.me/ironfishcryptochat
Elena Nadolinski
X: @leanthebean
LinkedIn: Elena Nadolinski
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Charlie Schumacher, VP Corporate Communications of Marathon Digital Holdings (NASDAQ:MARA), a digital asset technology company that mines cryptocurrencies with a focus on the blockchain ecosystem and the generation of digital assets. From 2018 to 2021, Charlie worked at Gateway Investor Relations, first as an Analyst and later as an Associate, specializing in investor relations. Then, in 2021, they joined Marathon Digital Holdings as the Director of Corporate Communications before being promoted to VP of Corporate Communications in January 2022. Charlie Schumacher has a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Boston University.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Some changes from the last halving cycle that miners are focused on
- How do miners survive with their revenue being cut in half?
- Macro trends that will affect miners going forward
- Bitcoin ETF - what will this entail?
- How Marathon is preparing for a bull market
- How the Bitcoin ETF will affect miners
- Investor relations and corporate communications
- Utilization of AI
- Using methane to mine bitcoin

Marathon Digital Holdings
Website: www.mara.com
X: @MarathonDH
Instagram: @marathondigitalholdings
Charlie Schumacher
X: @charlieschu
LinkedIn: Charlie Schumacher
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Chris Liquin is CEO of Cupcake.com, the social layer of Solana. Chris has been investing in crypto since 2016 and has worked full-time in the space since 2021. Prior to Cupcake, Chris worked for Gary Vaynerchuck at Vayner3, a Fortune 500 Web3 consulting firm, as SVP of Strategy & Operations. During his time at V3, he led over $25M of work with brands like Budweiser, Red Bull, Coinbase, Johnny Walker, Crocs, and KFC as they explored the frontier of the internet. He holds an MBA from Chicago Booth, spent his non-crypto career at KPMG and Google Cloud, and lives in Chicago with his wife and their crazy cat named Bunny.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- What is CultureFi?
- The intersection of finance and culture
- The founding story of Cupcake
- Web3 vs Web2 engagement
- Stories from working with Gary V
- Onboarding Fortune 500 brands to web3
- Why celebrating culture is the future of crypto = CultureFi
- Digital self vs. physical self
- Fractionalizing assets
- Solana ecosystem
- The future of social media
Cupcake
Website: www.cupcake.com
X: @cupcakeprotocol
LinkedIn: Cupcake
Chris Liquin
X: @chrisliquin
LinkedIn: Chris Liquin

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Michael Kong is an influential thought leader and developer concentrated on the expansion of blockchain technology and CEO and CIO of Sonic Labs (previously Fantom). Before Sonic, Kong served as CTO of myStake, Digital Currency Holdings, and Liberté & Co. He has been a part of the ETH community since 2013.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Rebranding from Fantom to Sonic Labs
- Everyone launching a coin after November U.S election
- Sonic Boom: ~200M $S airdrop to spur adoption of the network
- $FTM to $S Token Merge - how to take advantage and get your tokens
- DeFi applications within the Sonic ecosystem
- Upcoming launch of Sonic Mainnet
- Stories from testnet and timeline for Mainnet (Dec 1)
- Sonic’s bridge to ETH
- Cross-chain communication + interoperability
- Outlook for the next few months before testnet
- Sonic’s insanely high TPS
Sonic Labs
Website: www.soniclabs.com
X: @0xSonicLabs
Telegram: t.me/Sonic_English
Michael Kong
X: @michaelfkong
LinkedIn: Michael Kong

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