• Building a tooling hub for the Arweave ecosystem
• Raising money as a young founder
• Betting on the right products to build and building quickly

This week we learn about Islamic Finance and its potential for DeFi disruption with IMANPay and Umma Finance founder Mark Zubov.

Mark talks us through some of the experiments that he and his team have applied in trying to provide financial access for 700 million young, digitally connected Muslims.

Listen to Mark talk about his experiences:

1) Educating customers while acquiring them;

2) Creating DeFi native experiences from a traditional FinTech base; and

3) Using Community to Enhance Trust in New Products

This week we were joined by Lukas Weniger of Youba.

Youba is bringing sleek design and consumer friendliness to cold storage. Listen in to learn how Youba has:

1) Onboarded major retail & consumer institutions to selling their products;

2) Navigated the ever-changing crypto regulatory landscape; and

3) Improved the user experience of consumers' first crypto interactions.

Join us as we talk with web3 OG Griff Green (formerly of The DAO, Token Engineering Commons, White Hat Group & much more) about new models for funding public goods, mutually beneficial philanthropy and thoughts about the future of DAOs interrelations with government in service provision.

Tune in as we discuss Minke's mission to provide access to stablecoins to fight inflation in the developing world at the consumer level.

We talk with Josh about taking regulated crypto products to market, delivering a global product from day one, building trust in crypto and his thoughts on growth playbooks for companies at the intersection of Centralised & Decentralised Finance.

Redstone Finance and Warp Smart Contracts Founder Jakub Wojciechowski discusses building the first oracle for Arweave, designing performant smart contracting languages with Warp smart contracting platform from scratch,

This week, Analyst Archie Whitford sits down with Bundlr COO Amelia Guertin to discuss Bundlr's mission to bring masses of data on-chain at minimal cost through their bundled storage solution.

Listen in to hear more about how Bundlr intends to use persistent storage facilitation to act as a source of truth for data, how on-chain storage represents a paradigm shift from incumbent solutions like Snowflake and Amelia's vision for web3 5 years from now.

In this week’s episode, Archie chats with Fluidcoins CEO Lanre Adelowo about the story of Fluidcoins and its future in the context of self-custodied banking in Africa.

Lanre Adelowo is the CEO of Fluidcoins, a startup focusing on APIs to enable businesses to support crypto payments. Fluidcoins recently announced its latest product, wallet-as-a-service, which will enable, businesses to offer crypto-powered financial services/products to customers using stablecoins.