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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   Avi Felman

   Building the Perfect Crypto Portfolio | Avi Felman & Roshun Patel · 3 episodes

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   Byron Gilliam
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   Jonah Van Bourg

   Crypto’s Liquidity Engine, OTC Desks and CEXs | Jonah Van Bourg & Genia Mikhalchenko · Aug 2022

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   Pranav Kanade
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   Fred Thiel

   Bitcoin Mining in 2024 | Fred Thiel, CEO at Marathon · Feb 2024

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   Harry Sudock
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   Ivan Soto Wright

   Crypto Meets Cards: Shaping the Future of Commerce Featuring Ivan Soto-Wright & Sherri Haymond | Permissionless IV Fireside Chat | Bonus Episode · Jul 2025

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   Jarrod Dicker

   Web3 Will Change Media Forever | Jarrod Dicker · Apr 2022

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   Joe Lallouz

   The AWS Of Crypto | Joe Lallouz · May 2022

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    Marty Bent

    Cleaning up the energy grid with Bitcoin mining | Marty Bent & Harry Sudock · Sep 2021

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    Michael Weisz

    Kamino's Plan To Make Tokenized Assets Actually Useful | Michael Weisz · Oct 2026

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    Pete Rizzo

    Inside Bitcoin’s Early Days | Pete Rizzo and Charlie Shrem · Mar 2024

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    Adrian Cachinero Vasiljevic

    How To Make DeFi Great Again | Adrian Cachinero Vasiljevic & Luca Prosperi · Apr 2026

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    Aidan Larkin

    The US is NOT selling $6.5B Bitcoin | Aidan Larkin, Asset Reality · Jan 2025

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    Alex Botte

    ETH's Modular Bet Will Work | Alex Botte & Alexander Pack · Dec 2024

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    Alex Dolesky

    Making Nuclear Markets Work Onchain | Alex Dolesky, Uranium Digital · Feb 2025

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    Allen Ng

    What the West Misunderstands about Crypto in Asia | Allen Ng, Everest Venture Group · Sep 2024

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    Alok Tayi

    Patients, Not Profits, Should Drive Drug Discovery | Vibe Bio, Alok Tayi · Jun 2022

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    Andrawes Bahou
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    Anil Kumar

    Unlocking Modular Solana: The End of L2 Tradeoffs? | Anil Kumar · Aug 2024

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    Anil Lulla

    How to get started in DeFi | Anil Lulla · Jul 2021

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    Armani Ferrante

    Solana's Crypto Native Next-Gen CEX | Armani Ferrante · Jun 2024

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    Aurora Harshner
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    Avery Akkineni
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    Bam Azizi
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    Ben Sparango
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    Bobby Ong

    Bootstrapping CoinGecko: The Fastest Growing Crypto Data Platform, with Bobby Ong · Apr 2021

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    Brandon Curtis

    Behind the Scenes of Restaking | Brandon Curtis & Myles O'Neil · Apr 2024

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    Brett DiNovi

    MegaETH in 2026 & Ethereum's L2 End Game | Brett DiNovi & Lei Yang · Feb 2026

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    Brooks Brown

    What P2E Games Get Wrong | Brooks Brown · Apr 2022

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    Calvin Liu
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    Camilla McFarland

    Every Brand Will Have A Web3 Strategy | Camilla McFarland, Avery Akkineni · Feb 2023

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    Carl Vogel
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    Cassie Clifton

    Bitcoin Miner Capitulation | Cassie Clifton & Kevin Zhang · Jul 2022

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    Charles Yoo-Naut

    How Rain Grew To A $2B Company | Charles Yoo-Naut · Feb 2026

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    Christine Moy

    Why Apollo Created Their Onchain Credit Fund | Christine Moy, Carlos Domingo & Tarun Chitra · May 2025

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    Colleen Sullivan

    10 Investment Themes from Brevan Howard | Colleen Sullivan, Peter Johnson · 2 episodes

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    Dan Matuszewski

    Building a Crypto Portfolio for 2025 | Dan Matuszewski & Roshun Patel · 3 episodes

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    Daniel Shorr
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    David Kalk

    Cycles Don’t End Before They Start | David Kalk & Pranav Kanade · 2 episodes

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