Chain Reaction

TechCrunch, Yashad Kulkarni, Maggie Stamets, Kell Keller, Jacquelyn Melinek

There are constantly new tokens, DeFi projects, NFTs collections and DAOs being launched – but how can you make sense of everything...more

Space and Time wants to help LLMs and AI agents get on-chain (w/ Scott Dykstra)

For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Scott Dykstra, CTO and co-founder of Space and Time.

Before diving into web3, Scott...more

28 Mar 2024 · 36 minutes

Whoever rules the data rules the world (w/ Tegan Kline)

For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Tegan Kline, the CEO and co-founder of Edge & Node.

The company is focused...more

21 Mar 2024 · 24 minutes

Blockchain tech is working to combat AI-based deepfakes (w/ Melody Hildebrandt and Mike Blank)

For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Melody Hildebrandt, CTO of Fox Corporation and Mike Blank, COO at Polygon Labs.

Why these...more

14 Mar 2024 · 35 minutes

Blockchain could be the answer to getting AI artists paid (w/ Dee Goens)

For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Dee Goens, the co-founder of Zora.

Zora is a platform and protocol that helps developers...more

07 Mar 2024 · 40 minutes

Looking back on the NFT marketplace Magic Eden (w/ Jack Lu)

For this week’s episode, we’re resharing a conversation I had in June 2023 with Jack Lu, CEO and co-founder of...more

29 Feb 2024 · 26 minutes

Starbucks Odyssey’s community lead expects NFT brand building to expand this year (w/ Steve Kaczynski)

For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Steve Kaczynski, co-author of the book “The Everything Token,” and co-host of a web3...more

22 Feb 2024 · 37 minutes

Web3 brands and NFTs are on a global race for adoption (w/ Yat Siu)

For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Yat Siu, co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands.

Yat co-founded Animoca in 2014...more

15 Feb 2024 · 48 minutes

OpenSea’s CEO sees greater opportunity for NFT use cases to grow (w/ Devin Finzer)

This year, Chain Reaction is doing monthly series diving into different topics and themes in crypto. To start things off,...more

08 Feb 2024 · 32 minutes

SEC Commissioner sees a need for a new Token Safe Harbor Proposal (w/ Hester Peirce)

This week we have a bonus episode with Hester Peirce, commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Jacquelyn moderated...more

07 Feb 2024 · 34 minutes

Read Write Own this episode with a16z’s crypto partner (w/ Chris Dixon)

For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Chris Dixon, general partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

Chris has been at...more

01 Feb 2024 · 44 minutes