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

697 episodes On The Brink with Castle Island Updated 2026-08-20
697 episodes in On The Brink with Castle Island
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…
2020-07-13

Caitlin Long (Avanti Financial Group) on Bitcoin banks and the Wyoming S…

Caitlin Long, founder and CEO of Avanti Financial Group, joins the show.…
2020-07-10

Weekly News Roundup 07/10/20 (More cryptodollars, the FATF explained, Co…

Matt and Nic cover the top stories of the week. In this episode:  Nic's…
2020-07-06

Tim Rice and Ben Celermajer (Coin Metrics) on a new measure of cryptoass…

Tim Rice, Coin Metrics CEO, and Ben Celermajer, index manager at Coin Me…
2020-07-03

Weekly News Roundup 07/02/20 (Zimbabwe re-dollarization, Bitcoin's GINI …

Matt and Nic cover the top stories of the week. In this episode:  The M…
2020-06-30

Dave Balter on Leadership, Humility and the Startup Journey (EP.97)

Dave Balter, the cofounder and CEO of Flipside Crypto, a business intell…
2020-06-29

Lyn Alden on debt, the dollar, and Bitcoin (EP.96)

We host Lyn Alden, equity research and investment strategist focusing on…
2020-06-26

Weekly News Roundup 6/26/20 (Paypal rumors, Telegram settles with the SE…

Matt and Nic cover the top stories of the week. In this episode:  More …
2020-06-24

Pat Larsen on making taxes easy for cryptoassets (Ep.94)

Pat Larsen, cofounder and CEO of ZenLedger joins the show. In this episo…
2020-06-22

Noah Buxton and Jeremy Nau (Armanino LLP) on Proof of Reserves: the view…

Noah Buxton, director and co-lead of Armanino's blockchain practice and …
2020-06-19

Weekly News Roundup 6/19/20 (River Financial, Microsoft ION launches, a …

Matt and Nic cover the top stories of the week. In this episode:  An up…
2020-06-17

David Nage (Arca) on how family offices are engaging with cryptoassets (…

David Nage, Principal and Head of Strategic Relations at Arca joins the …