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Web3 Talks: Stories & Tips from the Builders

Web3 Talks is a web3 podcast where founders of top crypto projects share the backstage perspective of their work and the lessons they learned along the way. Join 1,500+ web3 founders, devs & operators who subscribe to Web3 Talks. Hosted by Mac Budkowski.

Distribution Advantage: how to set up GTM for your crypto product (without bs)

73 hours 6 mins; December 23, 2025

We are back (in a new form)

6 mins; December 01, 2025

#48: Henri Stern, Co-Founder & CEO @ Privy | How they built a tool that brings web2-caliber UX to web3 products

69 hours 7 mins; October 27, 2023

#47: Anjali Young, Co-Founder & CCO @ Collab.Land | How they built a community management tool used by over 50,000 communities

60 hours 34 mins; August 23, 2023

Support Web3 Talks via Gitcoin grant + info about the new episode

40 secs; August 22, 2023

We are back (+ why there were no episodes for some time)

3 mins; August 07, 2023

#46: Tim Boeckmann, Co-Founder & CEO @ Mailchain | How they built a privacy-first web3 e-mail protocol that lets you communicate between different blockchains

62 hours 35 mins; May 01, 2023

#45: Dee Goens, Co-Founder & COO @ Zora | How they built one of the top NFT platforms used by Coinbase, Gucci, Grimes & thousands of creators

65 hours 52 mins; April 19, 2023

#44: Matt Galligan, Co-Founder & President @ XMTP | Building a web3 native messaging protocol that lets apps integrate DMs, alerts, and announcements

59 mins; April 14, 2023

#43: Julien Genestoux, Founder & CEO @ Unlock Protocol | From the first NFT memberships tool in 2018 to a protocol that’s being used by hundreds of projects for ticketing, token-gating & subscription

54 mins; April 04, 2023

#42: Stefan George, Co-Founder & CTO @ Gnosis | The OG team, which created Safe & CowSwap and has been building on Ethereum since 2014, working on the #2 most decentralized chain in the space

64 hours 44 mins; March 27, 2023

#41: Nat Emodi, Co-Founder & CEO @ Highlight | Building a tool that lets creators easily launch NFT collections and design token-gated experiences on their websites

51 mins; March 15, 2023

Genesis Talk - Open Edition

1 min; March 01, 2023

#40: Alex Salnikov, Co-Founder & CSO @ Rarible | From a napkin MVP in 2019 to one of the leading community-centric NFT marketplaces & protocols

50 mins; February 24, 2023

#39: Ayush Ranjan, Co-Founder & CEO @ Huddle01 | From a hackathon idea to the leading web3 audio & video communication toolkit

52 mins; February 17, 2023

#38: Colin Armstrong, Founder @ Paragraph | How they combined web2 & web3 features to create a Substack alternative that’s already used by over 5k creators

59 mins; January 24, 2023

#37: Olly Wilson, Co-Founder @ SimpleHash | Building a multichain NFT API that’s used by projects such as Phantom & Rainbow

32 mins; January 16, 2023

#36: Gilbert Leung, Co-Founder @ 0xFrens | From working in Google to building a tool that leverages the strengths of web3 to develop deeper connections in online communities

41 mins; December 21, 2022

#35: Josef, Co-Founder @ PWN | How a bank denying him a mortgage inspired them to build a P2P lending platform where you can use any token as collateral

40 mins; December 12, 2022

#34: Evgeny Yurtaev, Co-Founder & CEO @ Zerion | How building in DeFi since 2016 led to launching a wallet that generated 80k+ active users in less than 6 months

48 mins; December 01, 2022

#33: Ivan Liljeqvist, Co-Founder @ Moralis | From 0 to 90+ employees in less than 2 years - how they've grown web3 infra business

47 mins; November 22, 2022

Mac Budkowski, Host @ Web3 Talks | How to explain what your web3 product does and convince users to try it [Builder’s Guide]

3 mins; November 13, 2022

#32: Dan Romero, Co-Founder @ Farcaster | How two Coinbase early employees designed one of the most thriving web3 social networks: product decisions,tech trade-offs & community building tactics

59 mins; October 25, 2022

#31: Ouriel Ohayon, Co-Founder @ ZenGo | How they built an MPC wallet to get rid of seed phrases and what they did to acquire over 700k users

68 hours 55 mins; October 18, 2022

#30: Leighton, Co-Founder @ PoolTogether | The story behind the OG DeFi protocol which has distributed over $5 million to depositors as a reward for saving money

44 mins; October 10, 2022

#29: Haardik, Co-Founder @ LearnWeb3 | From teaching a friend about web3 development to a developers community with over 50k students

56 mins; September 28, 2022

Quick message to all our listeners about Gitcoin Grant

58 secs; September 21, 2022

#28: Pedro Gomes, Co-Founder @ WalletConnect | From wallet improvement idea back in 2018 to one of the most omnipresent web3 communications protocols

41 mins; September 19, 2022

#27: realfakepicnic & sockdrawermoney, Co-Founders @ Code4rena | Managing a DAO that runs smart contract audit contests for projects such as OpenSea, ENS, Lens, NounsDAO & SushiSwap

68 hours 11 mins; August 24, 2022

#26: BORED, Co-Founder @ Bored Box | Building a blockchain gaming community by curating NFT assets from top games and helping people discover the coolest web3 games

48 mins; August 16, 2022

#25: Seb Audet, Co-Founder @ Zapper.fi | How Zapper evolved from a DeFi degens' product into a web3 exploration tool with over 1 million users

53 mins; July 23, 2022

#24: Anton Bernstein, Co-Founder @ Pocket Worlds | How they built and grew Metaverse apps with over 3 Million Monthly Active Users

58 mins; July 18, 2022

#23: Dennison Bertram, Co-Founder @ Tally.xyz | Lessons on DAOs from the Co-Founder of the DAO governance tool used by Uniswap, Compound & PoolTogether

52 mins; July 04, 2022

#22: Chris Whinfrey, Founder @ Hop Protocol | A bridge that moved over $2.4B worth of tokens between Ethereum & L2s to improve the blockchains' UX

38 mins; June 22, 2022

#21: Geoist & Levertz, Founders @ IDRiss | Decentralized address book to onboard the next billion users to crypto

46 mins; June 16, 2022

#20: Auston Bunsen, Co-Founder @ QuickNode | Building blockchain infrastructure that operates at the scale of Google Search

28 mins; June 02, 2022

#19: Rex Hygate, Founder @ DeFi Safety | Adding transparency to DeFi security practices by a company that already reviewed 200+ DeFi projects

40 mins; May 16, 2022

#18: Harsh Rajat, Founder @ EPNS | Building a multichain web3 communication protocol that’s pushing notifications for ENS, Uniswap, dYdX, Coindesk, Snapshot & more

45 mins; May 08, 2022

#17: x0r, Founder @ MEV Army | Teaching people about the tech side of crypto through an NFT-gated community

48 mins; May 02, 2022

#16: Ayyan Rahman, Co-Founder @ Gateway | Helping contributors onboard to DAOs & preparing for the Future of Work

51 mins; April 17, 2022

#15: Gil Hildebrand, Founder @ Gilded | Helping crypto businesses to accept payments, pay team members, and deliver on financial reporting requirements

44 mins; April 11, 2022

#14: Raj & Atomic, Meme Lords @ Meme DAO | Behind the scenes of a DAO that makes memes for projects such as Polygon, Graph & Coinbase

51 mins; March 30, 2022

#13: Yawn Rong, Co-Founder @ STEPN | How they build & grow one of the most successful GameFi apps that  pay people for walking & running

61 hours 34 mins; March 22, 2022

#12: Austin Griffith, Ethereum Builder & Educator | How to choose an Ethereum project to work on, ship it & promote it  to the first users

57 mins; March 14, 2022

#11: Andre Serrano, Community Lead @ CityCoins | The story behind MiamiCoin & how it helps people invest in & co-create their favorite city

39 mins; March 04, 2022

#10: Nik Kalyani, Founder & CEO @ Decentology | Helping web2 developers to build web3 dapps without the need to learn how to write smart contracts

38 mins; February 27, 2022

#9: Szymon Sypniewicz, Co-Founder & CEO @ Ramp Network | Building and growing a crypto payment platform that supports Axie Inifinity, Sorare & Aave

42 mins; February 14, 2022

#8: Mitchell Cuevas, Head of Growth @ Stacks | How Stacks gives Bitcoin new superpowers and what they’ve been doing to grow their ecosystem

40 mins; February 06, 2022

#7: Leon Erichsen, Builder Community Manager @ Gitcoin | How Gitcoin has been using crypto  to connect developers and provide $50M+ to public good projects

64 hours 50 mins; January 25, 2022

#6: Zakku, Co-Founder @ Coordinape | How DAO contributors get compensated and how it impacts the DAO culture

46 mins; January 19, 2022

#5: Chairman Ape, Founder @ Ludo Labs | Using NFTs to build a football community and connect fans with the world’s top football players

46 mins; December 23, 2021

#4: Ivona Tau, 1/1 NFT Artist | NFT artist's work and everyday challenges

51 mins; December 20, 2021

#3: Nitish Reddy, Founder @ Bip.so | Potential & challenges of DAO collaboration and the tool that can  make it easier

33 mins; December 02, 2021

#2: Rohit Goyal, Founder @ Mesh Finance | Lessons in building CeFi & DeFi crypto products from a Founder that built both

31 mins; November 22, 2021

#1: Madhavan Malolan, Founder @ Questbook | Building web3 communities: from almost 0 to 15,000 developers in 2,5 months

28 mins; November 16, 2021

Teaser

34 secs; November 10, 2021

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