Our guest today is Alexander Lange, GP & Co-Founder of Inflection.xyz - venture capital firm out of Berlin, which he launched after abandoning career in ‘big law’ and joining Google as an Entrepreneur in Residence and Data Protection Commissioner. Alex spent his time also in well-established venture firms like Earlybird VC and Index Ventures. — Follow Inflection’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/inflectionxyz Follow Alexander’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlexLangeVC Follow Alexander’s Link...

Our guest today is Nischal Shetty, co-founder of Shardeum, an autoscaling EVM-based blockchain. He is also the Founder, and CEO of WazirX, India's largest crypto exchange by volume with over 12 Million users. Nischal is a well-known entrepreneur with over a decade of experience building and scaling global products out of India. A software engineer by education, he has also founded Crowdfire, a social media management product with over 20 Million users in the past. Nischal has also been featur...

Our guest today is Alex Cheema, Founding Member of HomeDAO, researching and building in the intersection of AI and Crypto. Previously, Alex took care of the DeFi side at Portofino Technologies and led the Oxford Blockchain Society as its president. — Follow Alex’s Twitter: https://x.com/ac_crypto Follow Piotr’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Piotr_Saczuk Follow Piotr’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/piotr-saczuk-0347521bb/ Subscribe on Apple: shorturl.at/IY019 Subscribe on Spotify: short...

Dirk is the esteemed Head of Web3 Infrastructure & Solutions at Telekom MMS, a fully-owned subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom. Dirk is an avid Bitcoin enthusiast, actively disseminating blockchain knowledge since 2016. Additionally, his diverse background includes managing product placement for Audi and BMW and the foundation of two IT start-ups. — Follow Dirk’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/droeder72/ Follow Piotr’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Piotr_Saczuk Follow Piotr’s LinkedIn: h...

Our guest today is Luffi who is working on flexible capital solutions at Zee Prime Capital. — Follow Luffi’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/luffistotle Follow Piotr’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Piotr_Saczuk Follow Piotr’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/piotr-saczuk-0347521bb/ Subscribe on Apple: shorturl.at/IY019 Subscribe on Spotify: shorturl.at/fqxZ8 Subscribe Lightnode’s Website: https://www.saczukpiotr.xyz Subscribe Lightnode’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lightnode-...

Our guest today is Danish Chaudhry, GP & Co-Founder of a new seed stage-focused fund, Paper Ventures. Danish is a seasoned professional and experienced operator who previously worked at EY & BlackRock before joining web3 full-time as Managing Director of Bitcoin.com. — Follow Paper Ventures’ Twitter: https://twitter.com/papervc Follow Danish’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/djchaudhry_?lang=en Follow Danish’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/djchaudhry/?originalSubdomain=uk Follow ...

Kenzi, co-founder of Symbolic Capital, joins us to discuss venture capital in the blockchain space. A seasoned entrepreneur and investor, he's a core contributor at Beacon Accelerator & Founding Partner at Symbolic Capital and formerly served as Vice President at Huobi Global. With roots in NEA-backed Traction and experience from multiple VC funds, including Borderless Capital, we'll dive into Kenzi's insights on blockchain investments, accelerators, and his rich journey in the crypto wor...

Our guest today is Sachi Kamiya - a Wall Street credit trader turned Web3 investor. As a founding member of Polygon Ventures, she leads the 100M ecosystem fund and was responsible for setting the initial framework for investing and growing the team. Sachi also spearheaded and closed the 500MM Polygon raise. Besides that, she’s an angel investor and Venture Partner at Symbolic Capital. She has lived in four different countries and speaks three languages. — Follow Sachi's Twitter: https://twitt...

Welcome back to the third season of the Lightnode Podcast. We'll be embarking once again with our host, Piotr Saczuk, on a journey into the world where Web3 and venture capital cross paths. The first episode of this brand-new season is a meeting with Heartcore Capital's Yacine Ghalim, who reveals the ethos and ideas behind Heartcore, his journey into Web3, and how he leverages his Web2 experience when investing in novel decentralized projects. — Follow Yacine’s Twitter: https://twitter....

In today's episode, we are talking with Anna George, co-founder and CEO of CoW Swap. This meta-DEX aggregation protocol acts as a batch settlement layer on top of all other AMMs & DEX aggregators. CoW Protocol is a spin-off from Gnosis DAO that launched in February 2021. It aims to achieve better prices than other exchanges and protect from MEV. — Follow Anna's Twitter: https://twitter.com/AnnaMSGeorge Follow Anna's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annamgeorge/ Follow Pio...

In today's episode, we are talking with Andreas Dittrich, CTO at Finoa - a regulated custodian for crypto assets, servicing professional investors with custody and staking, where he also launched a staking unit - Finoa Consensus Services. Previously, Andreas spent more than six years at the European telecom giant - T-systems, where he led their blockchain efforts as a Head of the Blockchain Solutions Center. — Follow Andreas’ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreas-dittrich-eu/ Follow ...

In today's episode, we are talking with Evin McMullen, Co-Founder and CEO of Disco.xyz - a tool that enables users to enjoy a nuanced web3 reputation associated with public identifiers across chains and web2 while maintaining privacy and user autonomy. — Follow Evin’s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evin-mcmullen/ Follow Evin’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/provenauthority Follow Piotr’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Piotr_Saczuk Follow Piotr’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedi...

In today's episode, we are talking with Reinis Znotins, Managing Director of The Latvian Blockchain Association, co-founder of Your Move, and ex-deputy minister and member of the parliament in Latvia, where he worked on passing startups friendly laws in the region. — Follow Reinis’ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reinis-znotins-45093048/ Follow Reinis’ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ReinisZnoo Follow Piotr’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Piotr_Saczuk Follow Piotr’s LinkedIn: https://ww...

In today's episode, we are talking with Dima Zhelezov, the founder and CEO of Subsquid, a new Web3 data extraction and transformation standard. Subsquid allows building indexers that sync at thousands of blocks per second and enable advanced aggregations of on-chain and off-chain data. — Follow Dima’s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmitry-zhelezov-23766217/ Follow Dima’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/dizhel?s=21&t=bJMFTvPeSb75tIsaohncng Follow Piotr’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/...

In today's episode, we are talking with Altan Tutar, Partner Engineer at NEAR Foundation, which is contracting protocol maintainers, funding ecosystem development, and shepherding core governance of the NEAR Protocol, proof of stake layer1 blockchain. In his job, Altan helps the Business Development team with partnership acquisitions and technical insights and helps NEAR partners integrate with its blockchain. Before this role, Altan was the first employee turned entrepreneur-in-residence at ...

In today's episode, we are talking with Heinrich Tessendorf, Community and Marketing Manager at Molecule, where biotech meets web3, building the infrastructure to fund early-stage biopharma research using blockchain. Heinrich was supporting VitaDAO community-owned collective funding early-stage longevity research - at its early phase, taking care of Community & Awareness. — Follow Heinrich’s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heintess/ Follow Heinrich’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/H...

In today's episode, we are talking with Leo, a doctoral candidate in Accounting at London Business School, which selects only two candidates worldwide. He previously served as a Research Partner to Fabric Ventures. Leo combines his expertise in deep learning, distributed databases, and knowledge of asset pricing, as well as portfolio optimization, to build, invest in, and provide advice to start-ups. — Follow Leo’s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/advait-leo-j-21b465bb/ Follow Leo’s Twi...

In today's episode, we are talking with Cyn, Co-Founder and CEO of Dtravel, empowering hosts to book directly with guests and take on-chain payments without an intermediary, where community members get to vote on different initiatives and drive the future of the venture. — Follow Cyn’s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cynthiajhuang/ Follow Cyn’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/cynb3ar Follow Piotr’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Piotr_Saczuk Follow Piotr’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com...

In today's episode, we are talking with Edgars Laimite - investor, algorithmic trader, and co-founder of Gravity Team, a crypto market maker trading 1% of the world's crypto spot volume across 25+ centralized spot and derivative crypto exchanges. — Edgars Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edgars-laimite-4594a2a5/ Edgars Twitter: https://twitter.com/edgars_laimite Follow Piotr’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Piotr_Saczuk Follow Piotr’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/piotr-saczuk-034...

In today's episode, we are talking with Geoist and Levertz, founders of IDriss - a tool with a mission to give a wallet address to every human on Earth. The first product in the suite of IDriss tools is a decentralized mapping of emails, phone numbers, and Twitter usernames to crypto wallet addresses. IDriss has recently expanded its features with a shortcut for online creators to get paid in crypto on Twitter and other platforms. — Follow Levertz Twitter: https://twitter.com/levertz_ Follow...