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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Luca Netz
Luca Netz on the Pudgy Penguin Airdrop | Roundup · 2 episodes

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Marek Olszewski
Celo: An L1 Focused On Real World Use Cases | Marek Olszewski, Rene Reinsberg · Mar 2023

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Martin Carrica

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Matt Cutler
Wallets and MEV: Decoding Ethereum’s Supply Chain | Matt Cutler, Blocknative · Sep 2023

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Michael Ippolito
What To Expect from Crypto in 2022 | Mike Ippolito · Dec 2021

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Michael Mosier

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Mike Belshe
Why BitGo Went Public | Mike Belshe · 3 episodes

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Mike Silagadze

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Miller Whitehouse-Levine

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Muneeb Ali
Ordinals Will Spark Bitcoin's Application Era | Muneeb Ali · 2 episodes

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Nick White
Building Modular Move Networks on Ethereum | Nick White, Rushi Manche & Avery Ching · Nov 2023

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Paul Frambot
Morpho Is Coming For The $200 Trillion Credit Market | Paul Frambot · Aug 2026

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Qiao Wang
Claude Opus 4.5’s Breakout Moment & Investing in 2026 with Qiao Wang · 7 episodes

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Ram Ahluwalia
Why DCG is Crypto's Enron Moment | Ram Ahluwalia · Nov 2023

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Raul Jordan

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Rebecca Rettig
DC Crypto Week Takeaways With Rebecca Rettig & Alexander Grieve · 8 episodes

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Richard Teng
Binance's CEO on the New Binance Vision | Richard Teng · Jan 2025

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Richard Wu
How to Make an NFT Market for Traders | Richard Wu & Ilja Moisejevs · Dec 2023

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Rob Hadick
Don’t Overtrade The Retail Cycle With Jason Yanowitz & Rob Hadick | Weekly Roundup · 4 episodes

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Robbie Ferguson
How to Build Crypto’s First Breakout Game | Robbie Ferguson · Dec 2023

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Robert Leshner
Superstate: Unlocking On-Chain RWAs | Rob Leshner · 2 episodes

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Rune Christensen
MakerDAO's Endgame: The Boldest Gamble in Crypto History | Rune Christensen · May 2023

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Rushi Manche
Movement Labs' Token Launch & Ecosystem Strategy | Rushi Manche · 2 episodes

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Ryan Berckmans

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Ryan Watkins
The Bull Case For Hyperliquid | Ryan Watkins · Jun 2026

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Ryan Wyatt

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Sam Kazemian
Frax: Building the DeFi Trinity | Sam Kazemian · Feb 2023

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Sam MacPherson
MakerDAO’s Growth Strategy | monetsupply and Sam MacPherson · Aug 2022

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Sandeep Nailwal
Polygon’s Comeback & Katana’s Impact On The Agglayer Featuring Sandeep Nailwal And Marc Boiron · Jun 2025

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Simon Jones
DeFi's Interest Rate Opportunity | Simon Jones · Dec 2022

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Smokey The Bera
Crypto's Next Layer 1 With Smokey The Bera | 1000x · Jul 2024

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Spencer Bogart
Blockchain Capital's $580M Dollar Bet on Crypto | Spencer Bogart & Aleks Larsen · Oct 2023

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Sreeram Kannan
How EigenLayer Unlocks Infrastructure Innovation | Sreeram Kannan, Calvin Liu · Jan 2023

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Stani Kulechov
How KelpDAO's $290M Exploit Nearly Killed DeFi | Stani Kulechov & Mike Silagadze · 4 episodes

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Steven Goldfeder
Why Layer 3s are Inevitable | Steven Goldfeder, Co-founder at Offchain Labs · 4 episodes

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Sunny Aggarwal
The Case for Sovereign Blockchains | Sunny Aggarwal, Dmitriy Berenzon · 2 episodes

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Tarun Chitra

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Travis Kling
Bull Case for ETH 2.0 Merge | Travis Kling · Apr 2022

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Uri Kolodny

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Vance Spencer

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