Empire

Empire features interviews with top crypto founders to get the real stories that aren’t shared elsewhere. Empire is your look behind the curtain of the crypto industry. We release two episodes per week: guest interviews on Monday and a weekly roundup on Friday.

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Every guest on Empire

314 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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   Lyn Alden

   Should Bitcoin Embrace New Use Cases? | Lyn Alden, Jordi Alexander · May 2023

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   Mike Cagney

   Figure Co-Founder: How Figure Became A $10B Business | Mike Cagney · May 2026

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   Mike Novogratz

   The Art of Trading and Galaxy’s Next Chapter | Mike Novogratz · 2 episodes

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   Raoul Pal

   How to Trade Crypto Cycles with Raoul Pal · 2 episodes

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   Thomas Braziel

   Distressed Crypto Investing: Buying Claims for Cents on the Dollar | Thomas Braziel · Nov 2022

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   Alyse Killeen

   Why You Should Only Own Bitcoin | Alyse Killeen · Sep 2021

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   Anatoly Yakovenko

   Solana 2024: Fee Markets, SVM Economics, and Saga Phone | Anatoly Yakovenko & Ben Sparango · 5 episodes

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   Brett Winton

   Uniswap Fee Debate, ARK’s Investment Thesis, DAO Governance | Roundup with Brett Winton · Jul 2022

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   Don Wilson

   Quadrillions: Unlocking Quadrillions | Don Wilson & Yuval Rooz · 2 episodes

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    Hayden Adams

    Uniswap Is Building The Liquidity Network For Everything | Hayden Adams · Aug 2026

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    Jim Bianco

    Why DeFi Will Overtake TradFi | Jim Bianco · Mar 2022

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    Joseph Wang

    Signature Bank's Demise: Who's Next? | Joseph Wang · Mar 2023

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    Meltem Demirors

    Arbitraging Culture in Size | Meltem Demirors · Oct 2022

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    Michael Selig

    CFTC Chair Michael Selig On Perps, Prediction Markets & Crypto In The U.S · Jun 2026

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    Roshun Patel

    No, We Have Not Topped Featuring Roshun Patel | Weekly Roundup · Aug 2025

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    Tom Schmidt

    How The DeFi Ecosystem Grows | Tom Schmidt & Tarun Chitra · Feb 2022

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    Alex Blania

    Why Proof-of-Humanity Matters in an AI Future | Alex Blania · May 2023

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    Do Kwon

    Do Kwon: Why Terra is Buying $10 Billion Bitcoin · Mar 2022

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    Illia Polosukhin

    Chain Abstraction is NEAR | Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder · 2 episodes

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    Mike Dudas

    Mike Dudas on Uptober and the Continued Bull Market · 2 episodes

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    Arjun Sethi

    Kraken’s 10 Year Plan With Arjun Sethi · Sep 2025

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    Ben Forman

    The Crypto Treasury Playbook With Ben Forman & Josh Solesbury From ParaFi Capital · 5 episodes

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    Diogo Monica
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    Eric Peters

    Why Institutions Are Bullish With Eric Peters · 3 episodes

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    Michael Sonnenshein

    The Bitcoin ETF: What Everyone Missed | Michael Sonnenshein, Grayscale CEO · Jan 2024

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    Seth Ginns

    What Liquid Funds Are Buying Featuring Seth Ginns & Cosmo Jiang · Aug 2025

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    Dan Morehead

    Phase II of the Bull Market | Dan Morehead · Sep 2025

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    Jan van Eck

    Why a $76B Asset Manager is Unlocking Onchain Yield to Institutions | Jan van Eck & Martin Leinweber · Oct 2023

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    Matt Hougan

    Institutional Flows Will Overpower the 4-Year Cycle | Matt Hougan · 4 episodes

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    Peter Johnson
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    Samara Cohen

    Making Tokenization a Reality: Bringing Assets Onchain | Samara Cohen · 2 episodes

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    AJ Warner

    How Arbitrum Landed Robinhood With A.J. Warner & Steven Goldfeder · Jul 2025

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    Amy Wu

    FTX’s Gaming Strategy | Amy Wu, FTX · Feb 2022

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    Andrew Koller

    The Real Reason Kraken Built an L2 | Andrew Koller & Hilmar Orth · Oct 2024

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    Andrew Steinwold

    Why Everything Will Become an NFT | Andrew Steinwold and John Crain · Dec 2021

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    Antonio Juliano

    The Founder’s Journey (And Return) | Antonio Juliano, dYdX · 2 episodes

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    Arthur Hayes

    The Future of Stablecoins & Synthetic Dollars | Arthur Hayes & Guy Young (Ethena) · Mar 2024

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    Austin Federa

    Inside Baseball of Building a Crypto Brand | Austin Federa & Ekram Ahmed · Nov 2024

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    Ben Fisch
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    Ben Jones

    Optimism Co-Founders: What Happened to the L2s? Ben Jones & Karl Floersch · 2 episodes

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