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Michael del Castillo (working with Proof of Talk)

Michael del Castillo (working with Proof of Talk)

@DelRayMan

Former senior editor at Forbes, senior writer at Fortune. Founder Media Luna Creations, Knight-Bagehot Fellow, writing about borderlessness, learning to farm.

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Raphaël Bloch 🐳
Raphaël Bloch 🐳@Raph_Bloch·
From Reuters to The Big Whale See you in June in my hometown 🇫🇷🇫🇷 It’ll be wild!
Proof of Talk@proofoftalk

JUST IN: Raphaël Bloch @Raph_Bloch, Co-Founder and CEO of @TheBigWhale_, joins the Content Council. We announced the council this week. Today we complete it. Most journalists covered crypto from a safe distance. @Raph_Bloch got close enough to build something. For a decade at @Reuters and @LesEchos he tracked the full arc. Banks. Financial markets. The quiet decisions that move capital at scale. And alongside it, every phase of crypto's evolution from the ICO boom to the moment institutions stopped dismissing it. By 2022 he had seen enough from the outside. He co-founded @TheBigWhale_. Not another crypto news site. Intelligence infrastructure for the institutions now taking the space seriously. Today 150+ banks, asset managers, fintechs, and major corporates rely on it to understand where European digital asset markets are actually moving. @TheBigWhale_ didn't grow by chasing retail traffic. It grew because serious capital needed a source that matched its standards. The journalist who became a builder. The builder institutions actually call. As a Content Council member, @Raph_Bloch joins the team engineering two days of dialogue at the Louvre Palace. He brings what few others on the global stage can: the European institutional perspective built from the inside. You don't want to miss: bit.ly/3Pj1dEU

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Chris Barrett ⬡ cbone 🎖️
Good to see our friend @TomZschach, Chief Innovation Officer at Swift, at the DC Blockchain Summit. Important moment for U.S. leadership in financial innovation with Swift, Chainlink, and policymakers all at the same event shaping the next generation of finance.
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John Collison
John Collison@collision·
Just sent money to a friend with @tempo. (Try it at wallet.tempo.xyz) Truly instantaneous blockchains are the most surprise-and-delight product experience since Waymo.
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Raphaël Bloch 🐳
Raphaël Bloch 🐳@Raph_Bloch·
The co-founder of the most successful payments company of the past decade says blockchain payments are one of the most surprising and delightful product experiences. Probably nothing.
John Collison@collision

Just sent money to a friend with @tempo. (Try it at wallet.tempo.xyz) Truly instantaneous blockchains are the most surprise-and-delight product experience since Waymo.

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Proof of Talk
Proof of Talk@proofoftalk·
JUST IN: Raphaël Bloch @Raph_Bloch, Co-Founder and CEO of @TheBigWhale_, joins the Content Council. We announced the council this week. Today we complete it. Most journalists covered crypto from a safe distance. @Raph_Bloch got close enough to build something. For a decade at @Reuters and @LesEchos he tracked the full arc. Banks. Financial markets. The quiet decisions that move capital at scale. And alongside it, every phase of crypto's evolution from the ICO boom to the moment institutions stopped dismissing it. By 2022 he had seen enough from the outside. He co-founded @TheBigWhale_. Not another crypto news site. Intelligence infrastructure for the institutions now taking the space seriously. Today 150+ banks, asset managers, fintechs, and major corporates rely on it to understand where European digital asset markets are actually moving. @TheBigWhale_ didn't grow by chasing retail traffic. It grew because serious capital needed a source that matched its standards. The journalist who became a builder. The builder institutions actually call. As a Content Council member, @Raph_Bloch joins the team engineering two days of dialogue at the Louvre Palace. He brings what few others on the global stage can: the European institutional perspective built from the inside. You don't want to miss: bit.ly/3Pj1dEU
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Tempo
Tempo@tempo·
Agent payments will soon overtake human payments on the internet. The Machine Payments Protocol (@mpp) is a new open standard co-authored by @stripe and @tempo. It’s designed to be extensible and payment-method agnostic, already supporting stablecoins, cards, and more.
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Cuy Sheffield
Cuy Sheffield@cuysheffield·
Excited to share Visa CLI, the first experimental product from Visa Crypto Labs. Check it out and request access here visacli.sh
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Proof of Talk
Proof of Talk@proofoftalk·
Building out @TheBlockCo's Newsroom. Advising Dozens of Startups. Hosting The Scoop. Long before digital assets dominated traditional finance, Frank Chaparro @fintechfrank was breaking the stories that defined the industry. As founding reporter and Editor-at-Large at @TheBlockCo, @fintechfrank didn't just cover the crypto ecosystem, he architected how it was covered. Through his flagship podcast, The Scoop, he extracted critical insights from the space's most powerful executives. Today, as Head of Content and Special Projects at @GSR_io, @fintechfrank bridges the gap between high-level journalism and global capital markets. His commanding market commentary makes him a highly sought-after voice across major networks like @CNBC and @FoxBusiness. Having advised and invested in dozens of early-stage companies, he directly shapes the go-to-market narratives of Web3's next generation. Standing among an elite few, @fintechfrank is joining as one of the editorial architects driving the @proofoftalk content council to dictate the conversations that actually move markets. Step into the room where the industry's next chapter is written → bit.ly/3Pj1dEU
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Tim Copeland
Tim Copeland@Timccopeland·
'“They’re all pussies,” says Meltem Demirors, an early crypto investor who now runs her own firm, Crucible Capital, of her panicked peers. She is layered in diamond crosses and wearing a black sweatsuit with her firm’s slogan—“Believe in Something”—bedazzled across the ass. For the first time in years, she is buying Bitcoin again.'
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Frank Chaparro
Frank Chaparro@fintechfrank·
Big news from GSR. We have acquired Autonomous and Architech. The timing is interesting. Bear market has been in full swing. Tokens are down and the launch window has shut. That is exactly when you build. Most teams are flying blind when it comes to some of the most thorny questions founders in this sector face. When to launch a token. How to get attention from real capital. Where to list. How to manage a treasury. What podcasts should you actually go on? With Autonomous and a supercharged advisory capability, we can help answer those questions and bring an end to end platform that combines institutional trading, white glove advisory and go to market support. Excited to welcome the team to GSR.
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Diogo Mónica
Diogo Mónica@diogomonica·
Today @Mastercard acquired @BVNKFinance for $1.8B. The payments industry has decided it cannot afford to not own these rails.
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Ben Schiller
Ben Schiller@btschiller·
Excited for @proofoftalk in June alongside these other fine people.
Proof of Talk@proofoftalk

Defining Web3's future requires the voices that wrote its history. Backed by 1,000+ CEO interviews and 15+ years in crypto journalism. These are the leaders who have dismantled, analyzed, and influenced the entire evolution of crypto from the newsrooms of @Bloomberg, @FoxBusiness, @Forbes, @Reuters, @CNBC, @propublica, @CoinDesk, and the halls of UK Parliament. The Proof of Talk Content Council is here to shape the 2026 Agenda. No pay to speak. Only quality conversations from the C-levels actively building in the space. With us: Shaping the frontier of zero-knowledge innovation, Ben Schiller @btschiller, former @CoinDesk managing editor, now drives strategy at @0xMiden, an @a16z-backed @0xPolygon Labs spinout. Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting anchors the stage. Christine Lee @christinenews brings insights forged across @Bloomberg, @Reuters, and @propublica. Breaking market-moving news before it trends, @EleanorTerrett brings her Fox Business pedigree to the Crypto in America @CryptoAmerica_ podcast. CNBC regular and former founding reporter at @TheBlockCo, Frank Chaparro @fintechfrank, now leads Content and Special Projects at @GSR_io. Covering crypto since its earliest cycles, Michael del Castillo @DelRayMan, Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University. @Forbes, @FortuneMagazine, @CoinDesk, now Media Luna, charting the industry's evolution since 2011. Conducting the industry's most rigorous archival work is Bitcoin historian Pete Rizzo @pete_rizzo_, now leading @BTCtreasuries, the data engine tracking institutional capital flowing into Bitcoin. The narrative of Web3 is being written at the Louvre Palace. Secure your seat alongside the architects of the industry. bit.ly/3Pj1dEU

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amanda.eth
amanda.eth@amandacassatt·
I love Paris and can't wait for this summer
Proof of Talk@proofoftalk

42+ million lifetime views. These voices have been behind some of the most influential conversations in Web3. We bet you know them. Asking the hard questions, breaking down complex ideas, and interviewing the founders building this industry week after week. This year, the Podcast Power House steps into the Proof of Talk Media Room. @amandacassatt built @serotonin_hq into one of Web3's most respected strategy firms. Now she hosts Endgame, where culture, marketing, and Web3 collide. @andyyy hosts @therollupco. One of the most recognized podcasts dedicated to @ethereum and the builders pushing the technology forward. ~4M views since 2020. Kevin Follonier @KevinWSHPod leads When Shift Happens. 160+ episodes. 500K-1M views. Kevin has sat across from the founders of Ethereum and @0xPolygon, the CEOs of @Bitwise and @JupiterExchange, unpacking the technological and economic shifts shaping crypto's future. Marc Baumann @marcb_xyz runs 51 Insights @fiftyonexyz. 200-500K views. Featuring conversations with entrepreneurs, investors, and operators building the next generation of Web3 companies. Michaël van de Poppe @CryptoMichNL hosts @new_era_finance, speaking with voices navigating digital asset evolution. 25-35M lifetime views across 500+ videos. Market insights and macro analysis that move the conversation. Your best chance to be in the spotlight of the most respected podcast houses in the space. Be there. bit.ly/3Pj1dEU

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azeem
azeem@azeemk·
My team asked me to start writing some weekly reflections, so this is the first one. This is from last week, but going forward I'm going to be doing my best to publish these on Friday. There won't be any particular theme, but will mostly go off two things. First one being what I'm hearing and seeing on all the calls/meetings I'm having. And then second will be just simple assessment of the industry on a week to week basis.
azeem@azeemk

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Frank Chaparro
Frank Chaparro@fintechfrank·
Excited to join the Content Council for @ProofOfTalk in Paris this June. We're approaching programming differently, trying to make real narratives and stories come alive on stage. Not the usual paid panels, shilling, or corporate boxed talking points. DM me if you're interested in joining us.
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Marc Baumann 🌔
Marc Baumann 🌔@marcb_xyz·
I met this team for the first time 4 years ago in Paris, just before they launched the 1st edition. This is @proofoftalk 💥 And they've built it into one of the top digital asset conferences of the year. Excited that @fiftyonexyz is an official research partner of this years Proof of Talk. 2 & 3 of June, Louvre Palace. Attend it in person or hear it from the news. We'll see us there. bit.ly/3Pj1dEU
Proof of Talk@proofoftalk

You've listened to their podcasts on your commute. You've read their bylines at midnight. Now imagine being in the same room. (MUST READ) @btschiller served as Managing Editor at CoinDesk through the most defining years this industry has ever seen. @christinenews is a Pulitzer Prize winner from Bloomberg, Reuters, and ProPublica. @EleanorTerrett from Crypto in America doesn't just follow the story. She breaks it, especially when it matters in Washington. @fintechfrank now sits at GSR at the intersection of media and markets. Nobody understands both sides of the table like Frank. @DelRayMan spent years at Forbes putting the most powerful people in crypto on the record. If it mattered, Michael wrote it down. @pete_rizzo_ is the Bitcoin Historian. Nobody has documented this industry's origins and battles with more depth or integrity. Together they carry 15+ years of digital asset history. And then our Podcast PowerHouse heard by more than 42 Million globally. @amandacassatt from Endgame helped build it. One of the clearest strategic minds on where Web3 is actually going versus where people think it's going. @andyyy from @therollupco has been breaking down the most complex corners of Web3 into the trends that actually matter. @KevinWSHPod from When Shift Happens Podcast has made a career out of finding the moments right before everything changes. @marcb_xyz from 51 Insights cuts through the noise with the kind of precision that makes you reconsider everything you thought you knew about digital assets. @CryptoMichNL from New Era Finance needs no introduction. Millions trust his market read. Now you'll hear it live and unfiltered. 2 & 3 of June, Louvre Palace. Attend it in person or hear it from the news. bit.ly/3Pj1dEU

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