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The Contango Podcast

Mike Grantis

24 episodes

3 months ago

Follow Contango: @ContangoDigital Follow Mike: @MikeGrantis Follow Don: @DonNorbury Follow Shrapnel: @playShrapnel Shrapnel is the world's first blockchain based triple A first person shooter game. It's built on avalanche and represents really a step change in quality from anything we've seen in the blockchain gaming space today. The team behind shrapnel has led productions on games like Call of Duty, BioShock, Halo, Star Wars and much more. The team is also building an equally interesting ...

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Follow Contango: @ContangoDigital Follow Mike: @MikeGrantis Follow Don: @DonNorbury Follow Shrapnel: @playShrapnel Shrapnel is the world's first blockchain based triple A first person shooter game. It's built on avalanche and represents really a step change in quality from anything we've seen in the blockchain gaming space today. The team behind shrapnel has led productions on games like Call of Duty, BioShock, Halo, Star Wars and much more. The team is also building an equally interesting ...

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Episodes (20/24)

The Contango Podcast

#23| Shrapenl: the World's First AAA Blockchain First-Person Shooter

Follow Contango: @ContangoDigital Follow Mike: @MikeGrantis Follow Don: @DonNorbury Follow Shrapnel: @playShrapnel Shrapnel is the world's first blockchain based triple A first person shooter game. It's built on avalanche and represents really a step change in quality from anything we've seen in the blockchain gaming space today. The team behind shrapnel has led productions on games like Call of Duty, BioShock, Halo, Star Wars and much more. The team is also building an equally interesting ...

1 year ago

38 minutes

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#22 | Arcade: Unlocking GameFi Rewards with Mission Pools

Follow Contango: @ContangoDigital Follow Josh: @JoshField Follow Josh Poole: @MissonPoole Follow Arcade: @Arcade2Earn Today's guest is Josh Poole, CEO at Arcade. Arcade is a GameFi platform that offers users the opportunity to earn rewards from web3 games through their mission pools architecture. Crypto.com Capital, KuCoin ventures, Merit Circle, and yours truly Contango digital assets. Most recently, Arcade had their ARK utility token listed on KuCoin. And now they're back to buildi...

1 year ago

38 minutes

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#21 | Bittensor Guru: Dynamic TAO & Cellular Automata

Follow Contango: @ContangoDigital Follow Mike: @MikeGrantis Follow Keith: @KeithSingery

1 year ago

52 minutes

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#20 | Mog Machine: Bittensor, Corcel, Taostats & the Future of Incentivized A.I.

Follow Contango: @ContangoDigital Follow Mike: @MikeGrantis Follow Mog Machine: @MogMachine Follow Corcel: @Corcel_X Follow TaoStats: @taostats

1 year ago

56 minutes

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#19 | Ethena: Creating a New Era in Stablecoin with USDe

Follow Contango: @ContangoDigital Follow Mike: @MikeGrantis Follow Ethena: @Ethena_Labs Follow Conor: @ConorRyder Hey, everyone. I'm excited to share with you my conversation with Connor Ryder, head of research at Ethena Labs. Ethena is solving one of the most pressing issues in Defi right now. They're developing a decentralized yield bearing stablecoin backed by Ethereum liquid staking token derivatives. Unlike Fiat backed stablecoins like USDC and USDT with opaque reserves, 0% yield sharing...

2 years ago

27 minutes

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#18 | Energi: Elevating Blockchain Security with Unyielding Defense-in-Depth

Follow Contango: @ContangoDigital Follow Mike: @MikeGrantis Follow Energi: @Energi Follow Tommy: @TommyWorldPower Hey, everyone. I'm excited to share with you my conversation with Tommy Rostami , the founder of Energi. Energyi is an EVM compatible L1 protocol built with security at its core. It uses a security mechanism called Defense in Depth and has managed to remain hack free over the last three years. They've recently recorded over 1 million in stolen user funds that have been mi...

2 years ago

36 minutes

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#17 | Quai Network: Decoding the Future of Money Beyond Fiat & Bitcoin

Follow Contango: @ContangoDigital Follow Mike: @MikeGrantis Follow Quai Network: @QuaiNetwork Follow Alan: @AlanOrwick I'm excited to share with you my conversation with Alan Orwick, co-founder at Quai Network. Quai Network is an incredibly ambitious project, looking to create a new crypto based global monetary system. There a proof of work blockchain aiming to improve on many of the paradigms invented by Bitcoin and by creating a more scalable monetary system without compromising on...

2 years ago

43 minutes

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#16 | Kakarot: Zero Knowledge, Limitless Potential with Ethereum VM on Cairo

Follow Contango: @ContangoDigital Follow Mike: @MikeGrantis Follow Kakarot: @KakarotZkEvm Follow Elias: @ETazou I'm excited to share with you my conversation with Elias Tazartes founder at Kakarot. Kakarot is a zero knowledge, Ethereum Virtual Machine implementation built on the Cairo coding language. It's designed to work out of the box with all developer tools and wallets built on Ethereum, and they've been open source since day one and will soon be implemented on Starknet Layer 2 and Lay...

2 years ago

22 minutes

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#15 | Polemos: Leveling Up Blockchain Games

Follow Contango: @ContangoDigital Follow Mike: @MikeGrantis Follow Polemos: @Polemos_io Follow Sascha: @SaschaZeehee Hey, everyone. I'm excited to share with you my conversation with Sassha, the founder and CEO of Polemos. Polemos is an all in one platform for gamers looking to enter the blockchain gaming space. They are an information and education provider as well as an asset rental platform and a community of gamers voyaging into the world of blockchain games. Polemos is very mu...

2 years ago

37 minutes

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#14 | Eclipse: Transforming the DApp Landscape with Customizable Roll-Ups

Follow Contango: @ContangoDigital Follow Mike: @MikeGrantis Follow Eclipse: @EclipseFND Hey, everyone. I'm excited to share with you my conversation with Veronica Buron and Grant Gerber of Eclipse. Eclipse is a customizable roll up provider for developers building decentralized applications. Their unique architecture allows developers unmatched customization, superior speeds and security when deploying their applications. Their testnet is already live and has over 30 applications building o...

2 years ago

26 minutes

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#13 | EthSign: Decentralizing Electronic Agreements & Capital Management

Follow Contango: @ContangoDigital Follow Mike: @MikeGrantis Follow EthSign: @EthSign Follow Xin: @RealYanXin I'm excited to share with you my conversation with Xin Yan founder and CEO at EthSign. It's projects like this that make me extremely bullish about the evolution of Web3 in our everyday lives. They're building critical infrastructure that feels like a logical leap forward for our online identities and our online ownership. EthSignis an all in one contract signing platform for ...

2 years ago

37 minutes

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#12 | AltLayer: Reimagining Web3 Scalability with Roll-Up as a Service

Follow Contango: @ContangoDigital Follow Mike: @MikeGrantis Follow Alt Layer: @Alt_Layer Follow Amrit: @Maqstik I'm excited to share with you my conversation with Amrit Kumar, Chief Operating Officer at AltLayer. AltLayer is a roll up as a service or RAAS provider. You might have heard of SAAS software as a service. This is roll up as a service and it's allowing teams to build and scale powerful web3 applications at a fraction of the cost. Their flexible deployment solutions allow fo...

2 years ago

40 minutes

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#11| ChainFlip: Building the Future of Cross-Chain DEX's & Asset Swaps

Follow Contango: @ContangoDigital Follow Mike: @MikeGrantis Follow ChainFlip: @ChainFlip Follow Simon: @SimonAHarman Hey, everyone. I'm excited to share with you my conversation with Simon Harman, founder and CEO at ChainFlip. Chain Flip is building a cross-chain decentralized exchange using just-in-time liquidity to facilitate native cross-chain swaps. The chain flip protocol maximizes capital efficiency to enable trades at an extremely competitive price with low slippage through their d...

2 years ago

50 minutes

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#10| De.Fi: Empowering Web3 Users with a One-Stop Crypto Super App

Follow Contango: @ContangoDigital Follow Mike: @MikeGrantis Follow De.Fi: @DeDotFi Follow Micheal Rosmer: @MichaelRosmer I'm excited to share with you my conversation with Michael Rosner, founder at De.Fi. Not the industry sector, but the crypto super app detoxify formerly known as Defi Yield. This is in all definitions of the word a super app. It's meant for defi power users all the way down to beginners alike. The app can track and aggregate your wallets centralized and decentralized so...

2 years ago

41 minutes

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#9 | Kado: Fostering Web3 Adoption with Frictionless On/Off Ramp Solutions

Follow Contango: @ContangoDigital Follow Mike: @MikeGrantis Follow Kado: @Kado_Money I'm excited to share with you my conversation with Emory Andrew, co-founder and CEO at Kado. The team at Kado is building Web3 native on ramping an off ramping infrastructure on Cosmos. Kado's product offering is regulatory compliance and speed and frictionless ability to onboard. They've even developed an easy to use hybrid API that allows developers to integrate Kado's onramp infrastructure directly into...

2 years ago

36 minutes

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#8 | Archway: The Cosmos Layer-1 Solution Transforming Developer Incentives

Follow Contango: @ContangoDigital Follow Mike: @MikeGrantis Follow Griffin: @Andergri Follow Archway: @ArchwayHQ The following is my conversation with Griffin Anderson, CEO of Phi Labs and the founder of the Archway Protocol. Archway is a layer-1 protocol built on Cosmos that's designed to reward the developers building on top of it. Unlike traditional L1’s which only pay miners and validators for keeping the network secure, Archway also shares a portion of its fees generated with the devel...

2 years ago

31 minutes

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#7 | Coinweb: Making Blockchain Accessible with a Revolutionary Cross-Chain Ecosystem

Follow Contango: @ContangoDigital Follow Mike: @MikeGrantis Follow Coinweb:@CoinwebOfficial Follow Toby: @TobyCoinweb Hey, everyone. I'm excited to share with you my conversation with Toby Gilbert, founder and CEO at Coinweb. The team is building an innovative cross-chain computation platform that solves some of Blockchain's biggest challenges. But most importantly, they're building usable blockchain technology that's accessible for everyone. Their cross-chain layer2 allows users to...

2 years ago

47 minutes

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#6 | Andromeda Protocol: Redefining Web3 with Easy, No-Code Blockchain Development & Multi-chain OS

Follow Contango: @ContangoDigital Follow Mike: @MikeGrantis Follow Andromeda: @AndromedaProt The following is my conversation with Mant Hawkins and Brendan Cooper. They've built a no code smart contract developer based on modular smart contract blocks called ADOs or Andromeda Digital Objects. These ADOs can be connected together to create complex, smart contracts via their easy to use drag and drop UI. Multiple ADOs can be composed into single or multi-chain and can be used to solve ...

2 years ago

50 minutes

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#5 | IQ Protocol: Forging the Future of NFT Rentals in Web3

Follow Contango: @ContangoDigital Follow Mike: @MikeGrantis Follow IQ Protocol: @IQLabs_official Follow Tom: @TirmanTom IQ Protocol is expanding what's possible with Web3 by building the world's first ever NFT rental marketplace. The platform offers gasless rentals, non collateralized rentals, automatic expiry and even fungible token rentals as well. As NFT has gained prominence in sectors like gaming, subscriptions, tickets and events bookings, tokenization of real world assets and more....

2 years ago

31 minutes

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#4 | Fluent Finance: Reinventing Stablecoin Infrastructure for a New Financial Era

Follow Contango: @ContangoDigital Follow Mike: @MikeGrantis Follow Fluent Finance: @FluentDAO Hey, everyone. I'm excited to share with you my conversation with Bradley Allgood, founder and CEO at Fluent Finance, Fluent provides a two way bridge between traditional finance and distributed ledgers via their groundbreaking Stablecoin protocol with real-time proof of reserves, a consortium of global banking partners on board on chain onboarding, and one-click conversions from Fiat to Stablecoins...

2 years ago

27 minutes