Charlie Shrem

Charlie Shrem

Bitcoin Foundation and BitInstant Founder Charlie Shrem dives deep into the lives and personal histories of some of crypto’s most influential leaders. A focus on personal stories weaves together a nuanced, untold narrative of how the bitcoin, crypto and web3 movements truly came to be.

Recent Episodes

March 19, 2025

Real-World Assets and Institutional Crypto: The Next Evolution of DeF…

In this episode, I sit down with Joe Flanagan, the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Maple Finance, a leading institutional lending platform in DeFi. With nearly $6 billion in loans issued, Maple is one of the few crypto companies bridging the gap between traditional finance (TradFi) and decentr…

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March 17, 2025

Fixing Ethereum: Hart Lambur on Cross-Chain Intents & the Future of I…

In this episode, I sit down with Hart Lambur, the co-founder of Risk Labs, the team behind UMA and Across Protocol, two projects solving some of the biggest challenges in crypto—cross-chain interoperability and on-chain data verification. Ethereum has scaled, but in the process, it’s fragmented in…

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March 13, 2025

Why Privacy is the Next Big Thing in Crypto – Midnight CEO Eran Barak…

In this episode, I sit down with Eran Barak, the CEO of Midnight, a groundbreaking new privacy-focused blockchain incubated by IOHK (Input Output, the team behind Cardano). Eran has an incredible background—before diving into Web3, he built the financial world’s digital plumbing at Symphony, a secu…

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March 11, 2025

The Missed Opportunity of Tokenization – What Comes Next? Tezos Found…

In this episode, I sit down with my longtime friend Arthur Breitman, the co-founder of Tezos, one of the OG blockchains that has been innovating since 2018. We dive deep into the evolution of tokenization, why the first wave fell short, and how the next iteration can unlock real value. Arthur also …

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Feb. 13, 2025

Mastering Global Talent: Andy Hilliard on Scaling Software Developmen…

In this episode of The Charlie Shrem Show, Charlie Shrem is joined by Andy Hilliard, CEO of Accelerance and author of Synergea: A Blueprint for Building Effective, Globally Distributed Teams in the New Era of Software Development. Andy draws on over two decades of experience in outsourcing and glob…

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Feb. 10, 2025

Unlocking the Future of Web3 with Gravity: Charles Wayn

Charlie Shrem is joined by Charles Wayn, co-founder of Galxe, to discuss the groundbreaking launch of Gravity, a new high-performance blockchain that's set to revolutionize Web3 and cross-chain interoperability. In this episode, Charles breaks down how Gravity solves major issues in decentralized p…

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