On The Brink with Castle Island

On The Brink with Castle Island

Hosts Matt Walsh and Nic Carter of Castle Island Ventures explore news and deals in the public blockchain space and talk to some of the leading experts in the industry. Learn more and stay up to date at CastleIsland.vc and follow on twitter @CastleIslandVC

794 episodes On The Brink with Castle Island Updated 2026-05-25
794 episodes in On The Brink with Castle Island
2020-09-14

Gabriel Shapiro (BSV Law) on compatibility between blockchains and the l…

Gabriel Shapiro, partner at BSV Law (no relationship to the coin), joins…
2020-09-11

Weekly News Roundup 09/11/20 (Crypto penetration by country, DeFi moats …

Matt and Nic return for deals and news of the week. In this episode:  t…
2020-09-09

Ruben Galindo (Airtm) on distributing USD to Venezuelan healthcare worke…

Ruben Galindo, cofounder and CEO of Airtm, joins the show. Recently, Air…
2020-09-07

Avichal Garg and Curtis Spencer (Electric Capital) on developer communit…

Avichal Garg and Curtis Spencer, founding partners of Electric Capital, …
2020-09-04

Weekly News Roundup 09/04/20 (Armageddon II, Activist token investors, …

Nic and Matt return with deals and news of the weak. In this episode:  …
2020-09-02

Kyle Davies (Three Arrows Capital) on finding value in DeFi (EP.120)

Kyle Davies, co-founder of Three Arrows Capital, joins the show. In this…
2020-08-31

Aditya Palepu and Frédéric Fortier (DerivaDEX) on aspiring to a fully de…

Aditya Palepu and Frédéric Fortier, the cofounders of DerivaDEX, join th…
2020-08-28

Weekly News Roundup 08/28/20 (Fidelity's Bitcoin fund, is whisky a SoV, …

Nic and Matt cover news and deals of the week. In this episode:  FTX ac…
2020-08-26

Zachary Kelman (Kelman Law) on the FATF, Bitcoin, and the International …

Zachary Kelman, managing partner at Kelman Law PLLC, joins the show to s…
2020-08-24

Dick Bove (Odeon Capital) on the banking sector and the future of dollar…

Dick Bove, senior research analyst at Odeon Capital Group joins the show…
2020-08-21

Weekly News Roundup 08/21/20 (Another Bitcoiner in the Senate, Kraken pu…

Nic and Matt cover deals and the news of the week. In this episode:  Ha…
2020-08-20

Zac Prince on growing BlockFi through a pandemic (EP. 114)

Zac Prince, CEO and Founder of crypto lender BlockFi, joins the show onc…
2020-08-17

Kyle Powers (LibertyPay) on building remittances on Bitcoin (EP.113)

Kyle Powers is the cofounder and CEO of LibertyPay, a Boston business th…
2020-08-14

Weekly News Roundup feat. Lucas Nuzzi 08/14/20 (Asteroid gold mining, Mi…

Coin Metrics network data product lead Lucas Nuzzi joins the show to hel…
2020-08-10

James Lovejoy on detecting and mitigating double-spends (EP.111)

James Lovejoy, recent MEng MIT grad and former graduate researcher at th…
2020-08-07

Weekly News Roundup 08/07/20 (Microstrategy's Bitcoin position, Square's…

Nic and Matt cover deals and the news of the week. In this episode: Are…
2020-08-05

Ray Youssef (Paxful) on building the world's largest Bitcoin p2p market …

Ray Youssef, founder and CEO of Paxful, joins the show to talk his journ…
2020-08-03

How Canaccord Genuity is approaching the cryptoasset market (EP.108)

Michael Graham and Pat McEvoy of Canaccord Genuity join the podcast to d…
2020-07-31

Weekly News Roundup 07/31/20 Feat. John Collins of FS Vector (The OCC le…

Matt and Nic review the stories of the week, featuring John Collins, par…
2020-07-27

Jesse Walden (Variant) on the Crypto Ownership Economy (EP.106)

Jesse Walden, founder of Variant joins the show. In this episode we disc…
2020-07-24

Weekly News Roundup 07/24/20 (the bombshell OCC letter, the custodian go…

Matt and Nic review the stories of the week. Covered in this episode: W…
2020-07-22

Sam Wyner and Sal Ternullo (KPMG) on making blockchain data intelligible…

Sam Wyner and Sal Ternullo, cryptoasset services co-leads at KPMG, join …
2020-07-20

Nate Maddrey (Coin Metrics) on the rise of stablecoins (EP.103)

Nate Maddrey, senior research analyst at Coin Metrics, joins the show to…
2020-07-17

Weekly News Roundup 07/17/20 feat. Alex Treece (Twitter is hacked, socia…

Matt and Nic review the stories of the week, featuring special guest Ale…