The Pirate Pod
The PiratePod is a Web3 focused podcast from Arrington Capital where we set sail into the uncharted waters of Web3 entrepreneurship and those building the at the forefront of crypto. Episodes will celebrate and interview the bold risk-takers and adventurers who dare to defy the norm. These modern-day pirates are founders who lust after the thrill of venturing into the unknown and thrive on the exhilarating web3 startup life itself.
We will dive into new apps, defi, trading, infrastructure, capital markets and more as we put founders first and capture the courage, adventure and spirit of entrepreneurship that we are passionate about in Web3.
Arrington Capital is a thesis-driven firm investing in digital assets and Web3 since 2017.
The views discussed in these podcast conversations across all episodes are the views of the individuals, and not of Arrington Capital. This podcast is provided solely for informational purposes and is not financial, legal, tax or investment advice.
The participants of this podcast are not recommending any particular security, protocol, token, financial instrument, or other tradable asset or any investment strategy and is not offering to sell or soliciting to buy any security or asset.
Episodes
24 episodes
Dynamic State Sharding with Nischal Shetty
In this episode, Shardeum Founder Nischal Shetty chats with Keli Callaghan about a new smart contract platform that linearly scales using dynamic state sharding. Nischal shares his journey into the crypto space, the evolution of the crypto mark...
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19:33
Starting with Scale: Programmable Interoperability with Axelar
In this episode of the Pirate Pod, Keli Callaghan interviews Sergey Gorbunov, CEO of Interop Labs and co-founder of Axelar Protocol, discussing the evolution of blockchain interoperability, the needs of retail (seamless access) and institutions...
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28:45
The Future of AI for Developers: Kluster.Ai
In this episode of the Pirate Pod, Keli Callaghan interviews Julio Vieira, founder and CEO of Kluster.AI, a decentralized platform that enables developers to run and fine-tune large AI models using a global...
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33:29
Nifty Island: Transforming User Generated Content through Decentralized Gaming
In this episode of the Pirate Pod, Keli Callaghan interviews Charles, the founder of Nifty Island, a blockchain-powered UGC gaming platform that allows players to create and customize their own game worlds. Charles shares his background in cryp...
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36:54
A Smarter Future Through AI-Driven Contracts with GenLayer
Albert Castellana, cofounder of GenLayer (https://www.genlayer.com/), chats with Keli Callaghan about his company is revolutionizing smart contracts through the introduction of Intelligent Contracts that ...
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39:33
Portal to Bitcoin: Does the Next Wave of Bitcoin Utility Hinge on Unlocking Cross-Chain Potential?
Chandra Duggirala, founder of Portal to Bitcoin, sits down with Keli Callaghan to discuss the advancements in Bitcoin's ...
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34:36
Humanity Onchain with Holonym
Shady El Damaty, one of Holonym’s co founders, sits down with Keli to explore what privacy-preserving identity means - where every person is empowered with a key that only they can control to unlock rights to their digital person. Shady s...
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45:49
Empowering Content Creators in the AI Era with TrainSpot
In this episode of the Pirate Pod, Michael Arrington (x.com/arrington) and Ron Palmeri (x.com/RonP) discuss TrainSpot, a new AI data marketplace focused on the intersection of content and ownership. They explore the implications of data ownersh...
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40:28
Titan Network: Leveraging Idle Resources for a Future Built on Decentralized Compute Infrastructure
Konstantin Tkachuk chats with Keli Callaghan about the new startup he has recently co-founded: Titan Network, a new incentive layer for global idle resources....
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43:11
Glacis: Routers & Firewalls for Robust Cross-Chain Risk Management
In this episode of the Pirate Pod, Keli Callaghan sits down with Jacob, the founder of Glacis Labs, a company pioneering cross-chain communication to facilitate the seamless exchange of data. Jacob shares his journey into Web3 (via JP Morgan, L...
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30:36
SkyFire's Vision for the Financial Stack of the Future: Empowering AI Agents
In this episode of the Pirate Pod, we sit down with Amir Sarhangi and Craig DeWitt from SkyFire, a payment network for AI agents ...
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32:15
Moonwell: Normalizing Onchain Tools for Everyone
Join us on the Pirate Pod for an exclusive deep dive with Luke Youngblood, founding contributor to Moonwell (https://moonwell.fi). In this episode, we explore the intricacies of Moonwell’s “lending made simple”...
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43:16
Psychology for Founders with Pathwise: Personality Styles, Being Present & the Evolution of Identification that Impacts High-Functioning Teams
In slight a deviation from our norm, Todd Hollow-Bist joins the Pirate Pod from Pathwise Leadership (https://pathwiseleadership.com/), a graduate-level psychology program for teams and business leaders. Todd joins Keli (Arrington Capital) to di...
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50:52
Are Intent Centric Swapping Protocols Superior?
The founders of Intensity Labs join the Pirate Pod to talk about Shogun, an intent-centric project that aims to provide a superior trading experience by focusing on user-friendly interfaces and cross-chain trading. Their approach includes a pee...
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31:45
Evolution of Web3 Security: Going Beyond Smart Contract Audits
Founders from Drosera (www.drosera.io, @DroseraNetwork) and Lockchain(www.lockchain.ai, @...
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43:58
Arthur Hayes and Michael Arrington: Geopolitics, Macroeconomics, Investment Trends and Founder Advice
Arthur Hayes joins Michael Arrington for a discussion on the current geopolitical arrangement and his prediction on the coming shift to a new system. The episode covers the interconnectedness of volatility and Bitcoin, how the macro world revol...
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49:05
Subquery: Empowering Developers of Web3
James Bayly from Subquery joins the Pirate Pod to discuss the journey of Subquery and its role in empowering developers in the Web3 ecosystem. Subquery provides a data indexing layer for developers to easily access and query blockchain data, im...
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32:04
MyPrize: Revolutionizing the Online Casino to Bringing Content Creators & Communities Together
MyPrize recently launched as the first online crypto casino that enables novel multiplayer experiences, bringing content creators and influencers closer to their communities. Second time founder (pirate) Zach Bruch brings his background i...
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28:55
QED: Horizontally Scalable Layer2 on Bitcoin & Ethereum
As if we needed another reason to be bullish on Bitcoin in 2024, QED is poised to catapult Bitcoin to a new level of utility. Carter Feldman joins the Pirate Pod to discuss QED and the promise it brings to the future of Bitcoin-based applicatio...
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39:08
Tanssi: Easily Deployable Appchains over Rollups & L2s
Coming on the heels of a new $6M fundraising round, Tanssi's co-founder Francisco Agosti joins the Pirate Pod to dicusss why Tanssi appchains are changing the game and argulable are better than existing L2s and rollups when it comes to decentra...
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32:57
Superstate: Modernizing the Infrastructure of Traditional Finance
Superstate is modernizing investing by offering investment products that benefit from the speed, programmability, and compliance advantages of blockchain tokenization. This exclusive episode comes on the heels of a recently announced Superstate...
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40:35
Delegate: Connectedness with Crosschain Name Service, Secure Onchain Identity & More
Foobar and Munam Wasi, the founders of Delegate, discuss their vision to tackle the challenges of simplification and cross-chain integration across crypto, motivated by personal experience of clunky and risky setups for managing various wallets...
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BBO Exchange: Unique Decentralized Derivative Trading with OEV
Ray, the founder of BBOX (BBO Exchange), sits down to share his vision for what he sees as the ultimate derivative trading platform. As the first perpetual DEX to utilize Oracle Extractable Value in its liquidation process, BBOX has pioneered a...
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34:09
Esprezzo's No-code Data Automation: A Convo About Enabling Web3 with Real-time Smart Contract Data
Remy Carpinito, a second time pirate (founder), has built Esprezzo with a strong understanding of the underlying power of the intense amount of data that is being created with blockchain - and growing exponentially. In this episode, he discusse...
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