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![One of India’s last standing cryptocurrency exchanges—WazirX’s Nischal Shetty [INTERVIEW]](https://cryptoslate.com/wp-content/themes/cryptoslate-2017/imgresize/xtimthumb.php,qsrc=https,3A,_,_cryptoslate.com,_wp-content,_uploads,_2019,_09,_indian-exchange-thumb.jpg,aw=200,ah=200,aq=75.pagespeed.ic.dKy-KdHkIn.jpg)
Nischal Shetty, founder of WazirX, shares his story building one of the only crypto exchange left standing in a country hostile to cryptocurrency. By engineering the first auto-matching P2P engine he was able to dodge... 4 min read →
![Everipedia co-founder Sam Kazemian is building a better stablecoin with Frax [INTERVIEW]](https://cryptoslate.com/wp-content/themes/cryptoslate-2017/imgresize/xtimthumb.php,qsrc=https,3A,_,_cryptoslate.com,_wp-content,_uploads,_2019,_09,_sam-kazemian-interview-thumb.jpg,aw=200,ah=200,aq=75.pagespeed.ic.T-ixBU7lJ1.jpg)
Everipedia co-founder Sam Kazemian talks about changing DeFi, stablecoins, and banking through his latest startup, Frax. Sam Kazemian is an Iranian-American software engineer, entrepreneur, and cryptocurrency enthusiast. He co-founded Everipedia, the first decentralized online... 2 min read →
![Litecoin will have succeeded when it doesn’t need Charlie Lee [INTERVIEW]](https://cryptoslate.com/wp-content/themes/cryptoslate-2017/imgresize/xtimthumb.php,qsrc=https,3A,_,_cryptoslate.com,_wp-content,_uploads,_2019,_04,_charlie-lee-litecoin-prediction-thumb.jpg,aw=200,ah=200,aq=75.pagespeed.ic.zm6-UmyVsW.jpg)
In the end, Charlie Lee says Litecoin will have succeeded when it doesn’t need him anymore. Here’s what this means for the Litecoin Foundation. Litecoin’s origin story In an exclusive interview with CryptoSlate, Charlie... 3 min read →
![Wei Zhou, CFO of Binance: “We want the institutions to come in” [INTERVIEW]](https://cryptoslate.com/wp-content/themes/cryptoslate-2017/imgresize/xtimthumb.php,qsrc=https,3A,_,_cryptoslate.com,_wp-content,_uploads,_2019,_09,_binance-city-thumb.jpg,aw=200,ah=200,aq=75.pagespeed.ic.qTh-bNXhfD.jpg)
A year after becoming top brass at the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, Binance CFO Wei Zhou says his firm wants to “grow the pie bigger” and opening up an exchange in... 3 min read →
![Genesis Capital CEO: institutional lending, crypto credit bubbles, and why nobody’s shorting Bitcoin [INTERVIEW]](https://cryptoslate.com/wp-content/themes/cryptoslate-2017/imgresize/xtimthumb.php,qsrc=https,3A,_,_cryptoslate.com,_wp-content,_uploads,_2019,_09,_skyscrapers-thumb.jpg,aw=200,ah=200,aq=75.pagespeed.ic.2ySDXF3Mp0.jpg)
Genesis Capital, the lending arm of institutional OTC cryptocurrency firm Genesis Trading, just might be the biggest champion of the 2018 bear market, having built a multi-billion-dollar business off the back of Bitcoin’s 70... 5 min read →
![Charlie Lee: Bitcoin and Litecoin are the best forms of money ever seen [INTERVIEW]](https://cryptoslate.com/wp-content/themes/cryptoslate-2017/imgresize/xtimthumb.php,qsrc=https,3A,_,_cryptoslate.com,_wp-content,_uploads,_2019,_09,_charlie-lee-bitcoin-litecoin-thumb.jpg,aw=200,ah=200,aq=75.pagespeed.ic.6Ab3MZbzxJ.jpg)
In an exclusive interview with CryptoSlate, Charlie Lee shares his vision for how Bitcoin and Litecoin can fundamentally challenge governments and revolutionize how people transact. Ultimately, he argues that cryptocurrency is the best form... 5 min read →
![An inside look at a ConsenSys-funded web 3.0 accelerator [INTERVIEW]](https://cryptoslate.com/wp-content/themes/cryptoslate-2017/imgresize/xtimthumb.php,qsrc=https,3A,_,_cryptoslate.com,_wp-content,_uploads,_2019,_09,_ethereum-space-thumb.jpg,aw=200,ah=200,aq=75.pagespeed.ic.lttBZRFxyB.jpg)
We interviewed Gabriel Anderson, the Managing Director of Tachyon, an accelerator for startups utilizing blockchain and web 3.0 technologies, funded by ConsenSys. Tachyon is a 12-week program that helps founders rapidly validate and grow their... 5 min read →
![Director of MTG Arena is joining Ethereum’s Gods Unchained [Interview]](https://cryptoslate.com/wp-content/themes/cryptoslate-2017/imgresize/xtimthumb.php,qsrc=https,3A,_,_cryptoslate.com,_wp-content,_uploads,_2019,_08,_godsunchained-thumb.jpg,aw=200,ah=200,aq=75.pagespeed.ic.mZeMfsyp8i.jpg)
The former director of Magic the Gathering: Arena, Chris Clay, is joining the Ethereum-based TCG Gods Unchained. Clay worked with Wizards of the Coast, the makers of MTG, since 2016. Just two months after... 4 min read →
We interviewed Tim Coulter, the founder and CEO of Truffle, an Ethereum development environment, testing framework, and asset pipeline. On August 2nd, at the Microsoft Campus outside of Seattle, the company will host its... 5 min read →
Ripple and its associated cryptocurrency XRP are often conflated. Yet, partnerships announcements and updates from Ripple, even when unrelated to the token, impact the price. We interviewed a Ripple employee to better understand the... 5 min read →
John deVadoss—development lead for NEO based in Seattle, former general manager at Microsoft, and a computer scientist with a focus in machine learning and neural networks—shared his insights from analyzing and testing Facebook’s Libra.... 3 min read →
Smartwatch users can now receive bitcoin lightning payments in seconds thanks to the new BlueWallet app. Developed by BlueWallet, the app allows users to generate a QR code on their watch which someone else... 2 min read →
ArcBlock has recently released the next milestone in its roadmap—ABT Node, which combines the worlds of cloud computing and decentralized blockchains. CEO Robert Mao and marketing lead Matthew McKinney describe the new update in... 3 min read →
Last week Seattle saw one of its most successful blockchain conferences to date. TF Blockchain 3 was sold out, attracting renowned speakers from around the US and packing the top-floor of the Columbia Tower.... 3 min read →
Weiss Ratings, an investment rating agency, published their first list of cryptocurrency ratings in Jan. 2018. A little over a year later, CryptoSlate interviewed Dr. Martin Weiss, founder and chairman of Weiss Group, on the... 3 min read →
TF Blockchain is bringing its blockchain conferences across North America with new chapters in Vancouver (BC), Seattle (WA), Portland (OR), and Austin (TX). CryptoSlate interviewed Preet Deol, the Vancouver chapter director, to determine what... 4 min read →
CryptoSlate conducted an interview with Stephen McKeon, chief strategy advisor to Security Token Academy and associate professor at the University of Oregon. McKeon anticipates that a Bitcoin ETF will give institutional investors greater access... 4 min read →
CryptoSlate interviewed Kadan Stadelmann, chief technical officer at Komodo Platform, on why atomic swaps could transform how cryptocurrency is exchanged. The interview also covered how the Komodo team is surviving the down market and... 4 min read →
CryptoSlate conducted an interview with Patrick Larsen, CEO and co-founder of ZenLedger.io—a cryptocurrency tax software company. He describes his outlook on web 3.0, data privacy, crypto-economics, and the Fortune 50’s outlook blockchain. Background on... 3 min read →
TomoChain founder and CEO Long Vuong joined CryptoSlate for an interview to discuss how he is building a smart contract platform with high transaction throughput, low latency, and “near-zero” fees. He also elaborates on the... 1 read →
