AGMI Highlights Local Austin Talent in Web3

AGMI aims to become the premier showcase of America’s most promising crypto city – Austin, TX. Our inaugural event will celebrate the vibrance of Austin’s Web3 Ecosystem by featuring a curated slate of panel conversations with the community’s subject matter experts, promoting the local culture of innovation, and setting a precedent for web3 event accessibility by providing an in-person attendance opportunity.

Bringing a world-class event like AGMI to life requires the generous support, skills, and drive of an entire community: web3 cultural influencers, civic leaders, entrepreneurs, and even investors. In exchange, our event offers a variety of sponsorship opportunities that leverage individual resources and capacities – ultimately ensuring that AGMI exists for the community, by the community.

Networking

Marketing

Alpha

Happy Hour

Venue: Speakeasy

412 Congress Ave. D, Austin, TX 78701

Speakers

Richard Carthon

CEO-Crypto Current / MP-Multiple Crypto Funds

Intro

Richard Carthon is the CEO and host of Crypto Current, an educational platform teaching about bitcoin and blockchain technologies.

What is Richard’s Background?

Back in January of 2018, Richard Carthon worked at an artificial intelligence company. On his first day, his boss at the time asked Richard what he knew about Bitcoin to which Richard asked “what is Bitcoin”?

From there, Richard fell down the rabbit hole and has never come out. The deeper down the hole, the more he realized this technology would change the world as he knew it for the better.

The more Richard researched, the more he realized there was a gap in the market of materials aimed at starting out in crypto. He decided there needed to be more resources on the market for beginners- thus Crytpo Current was born.

The Founding of Crypto Current

Richard went on to start Crypto Current – a podcast and website to help people learn and stay up to date with all things cryptocurrency and blockchain. This was because he saw people struggling to learn and keep up in the crypto and blockchain realm.

Crypto Current’s core values include:

Integrity: Crypto Current brings honesty and transparency to every interaction.
Teamwork: Maximize our collective impact together by uniting around a commitment to inclusivity and taking relentless leadership.
Gratitude: Demonstrating humanity and are always grateful for the journey. We will reflect on where we were and how far we’ve come.
Consistency: The dedication to our purpose is amplified by our passion for problem-solving. It pushes our limits and makes our work shine!
Diligence: We owe our audience a duty of care that empowers and instills confidence.
Set and Crush Goals: Known for our overreaching spirit, we set ambitious goals and constantly push to improve all aspects of our business.

Richard in the Present Day

Richard still hosts the Crypto Current’s podcast– which has over 300 episodes. And the Crypto Current site has a ton of supplemental resources including articles, news, and guides. Currently, Crypto Current has over 10 people on its team that fosters a culture that is high achieving, transparent, and fun!

You can check out Richard being featured on The Today Show– a piece that focuses on a discussion of what cryptocurrency is. Richard has a history of public speaking and it shows through his podcast and a variety of talks including a Non-Fungible People presentation and his TedTalk. Lastly, he aided in creating a variety of valuable resources including Crypto 101 for Beginners.

To book Richard please contact him here.

Alexi Cortez

Community Product Manager-.Erth

BIO

Gamer girl and side hustler. Currently, Alexi is a Community Product Manager at .Erth, a gamified virtual world. Alexi previously helped build the Instant Games platform at Meta and supported growth for over 300 gaming companies; while also building an e-commerce business and boat-party events business on the side. A natural born creator and entrepreneur, it’s no wonder she’s helping build the open Metaverse.

Steven Miller

COO-Crypto Current / MP-SVG Capital

INTRO

Steven Miller is the Chief Operating Officer of Crypto Current, an educational platform teaching about bitcoin and blockchain technologies. This article will outline what Steven does, Steven’s start in crypto, and more about Crypto Current.

What Does Steven Do?

Steven is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Crypto Current. This means he touches almost every aspect of the company. His main focus is on leading the development of Crypto Current’s content strategy, shaping our user experience, managing the people operations, systemizing our internal process, and so much more.

Outside of Crypto Current, he serves as a managing partner of SVG Capital, an NFT Investment Firm specializing in advisory and offering managed portfolio services.

Steven’s Start In Crypto

Back in 2017, Steven found himself disenchanted with our society’s traditional financial system. Due to the multiple failures he experienced while dealing with the traditional financial system. It was then he began to look for other options.

During this time, CryptoCurrency was rising in the heat of the 2017-2018 bull market. This leads him to go down the rabbit hole and explore the world of crypto.

More About Crypto Current

Crypto Current is a podcast and website to help people learn and stay up to date with all things cryptocurrency and blockchain. The main reason for creating Crytpo Current is because the founders saw firsthand the struggle of people to learn and keep up in the crypto and blockchain realm.

To book Steven Miller, please contact Crypto Current here.

Ian Balina

CEO-Tokenmetrics

BIO

Ian is the founder and CEO of Token Metrics, a data analytics platform for crypto that helps investors leverage machine learning to become smarter investors. He has appeared in CNBC, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Business Insider, and Entrepreneur Magazine for his work in analytics, cryptocurrencies, and entrepreneurship.

Michael Johnstone

CEO-Smeisty

BIO

Michael is founder and CEO of web3 studio, Smeisty, Co. Smeisty is building a blockchain based community engagement platform. He’s also co-founder of the Wranglers, an NFT collective based in Austin, Texas.

Michael is an expert in business strategy and operations who partners with CEOs, executives and solopreneurs to grow their companies. He started his career in business Ops consulting. After his second startup was acquired, he joined Mark Cuban Companies where he worked on dealflow, launched 32 products & services, and advised over 150 startups. He joined Google in 2015 to build the strategy and operations model for the Cloud Startup program. More recently, he spent 2 years building a B2B App Compatibility program for Android’s top developers.

Michael is an active mentor with several accelerators, including Techstars, and an advisor to several companies. When he’s not working, he enjoys hiking, coffee, and building furniture.

Sam Padilla

ATX DAO

BIO

Sam Padilla is a Web3 cloud engineer at Google Cloud and one of the core members of ATX DAO.

For Google Cloud, Sam focuses on designing and engineering scalable blockchain architectures using cloud technology, optimizing node topology, etc.

For ATX DAO, Sam helps design the strategy, find partnerships, build community, and lead the public policy efforts.

Sam has written extensively about several philosophic & technological ideas (https://sampadilla.medium.com/) regarding decentralization, DAOs, space exploration, and democracy.

Previous speaking engagements include DeFi Summit on DAOs & DeFi, internal Google talks on blockchain, and youth innovation conferences.

Ben Noble

CEO-Howl.xyz

BIO

Ben Noble is a co-owner of Multiplied Marketing Communications, a premium PR/Marketing agency that specializes in NFTs, metaverse, and blockchain technology. Ben is both a leading communications specialist and a pioneer of NFT/blockchain technology. He’s worked with industry leading names including Gods Unchained, Solana, OneOf, Binance, Steve Aoki, Impact Theory, Quinten Tarantino, Nansen, Aleph.im, and many more…

Ben started his blockchain work and his foray into NFTs in early 2018. His work in play-to-earn gaming, NFT/DeFi mechanics and his general evangelism for the blockchain space laid the groundwork for many of the popular NFTs today. Together with his business partner Ivan Perez, Ben helped create one of the first NFTs as a credit warrant on Teller Finance.

Today, Ben Noble has one of the largest collections of NFTs, currently sitting at roughly 20,000 digital assets. He sits as an advisor for several NFT projects such as 0n1 Force, Midnite Movie Club, SIFT and Clubhouse Archives. Through his company Multiplied, Ben has helped projects raise more than $50 million via NFT sales.

Momin Ahmad

Debt DAO

BIO

Momin Ahmad has been working in web3 since 2018 when he joined Credmark. In the years since, he has split his time between building relationships within the web3 community and building products with Credmark and, most recently, with Debt DAO.

Wayne Marcel

Head of Biz Dev-FIO Protocol

BIO

Wayne has been managing, teaching, and coaching high performing teams for over 20 years. Several years ago his passion for helping and teaching people was merged with his passion for technology as he learned more about cryptocurrency and blockchain projects. Digging deep and learning about the issues with the current legacy financial systems solidified his passion for cryptocurrency and all things related to it. Also, with many predators taking advantage of people with fake cryptocurrency scams and high cost-low value education programs, he decided to make my sole focus around educating and coaching others.

He realized the road to mass adoption must travel through education and user friendly platforms. He also realized over many years of coaching others that education without proper mindset and personal development coaching doesn’t lead to desired results. Through our strategic partners and personalized 1-on-1 coaching and education program, Wayne will give you the right tools and mindset needed to make the right decisions in this space.

Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/blockchainwayne

https://fioprotocol.io/

Chase Mayeux

Head of Operations-Coral Defi

BIO

Chase Mayeux is the Head of Operations at Coral Capital, an alternative investment platform focused on digital assets and decentralized finance applications.

• Chase has over 12 years of sales, operations, and business development experience working with startups and Fortune 500 companies.

• Co-Founder and CEO of OneCussion (2017).

• Marketing and Operations Director of Ronin Forex (2018).

• Director of Investor Relations and Founding Team Member at OnChain Alpha, a DeFi focused alternative asset investment firm (2020).

• Helped Maverick, a decentralized crypto derivatives protocol, raise $8 million in a strategic funding round led by Pantera Capital. (2021)

• Advisory Board Member of Decent DAO (2022).

• Bachelor’s degree with a dual major in Marketing and Management from Texas Tech University, Rawls College of Business.

Email — LinkedIn — Twitter

David Chase

Managing Partner-Crescent City Capital

BIO

David is a Founder at Crescent City Capital. David began successfully trading and mining cryptocurrencies in 2017, after a career in trading and investments.

David is Co-founder of Evolve Energy partners, a crypto mining company and sister company to Crescent City Capital; Evolve was preceded by another mining venture David founded, Coin Bayou.

Prior to his experience in blockchain, David worked for the largest financial natural gas trading firm the U.S., EagleSeven. Hehasworked as a trader at Gelber Group and Tower Hill Trading.

Grant Powell

Founder-Curios

BIO

Grant Powell, founder of Curios, a Web3 platform with easy-to-use tools for every creator and business, no programming required.

Grant Powell is a unique founder (what some would call a unicorn) as he’s both a left-brain and right-brain person. He’s been building technologies in different capacities over the last 20 years, and also has a background in fine arts and graphic design. If you want proof, just check out the Curios website as he’s responsible for everything you see, from programming code and writing content, to the logo and design. Grant built, by himself, the vast majority of the first version of Curios’ technologies and tools that launched in August of 2021.

One of Grant’s first passions was collecting and he’s been doing it as long as he can remember. As a technologist and a collector, he was really excited about how NFTs could power digital collectibles. He tried to purchase his fist NFT and found it to be so difficult he actually abandoned the idea. He immediately saw an opportunity to make the experience easier and more user friendly, and decided to build Curios to do just that.

Curios really is the key to the Metaverse!

Jorge Ortiz

CEO-Powder Keg Collective

BIO

Houston native with a determination to create and implement creative solutions across the sports and tech space. Experienced founder and entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of working in the media, sports, and the technology sector of the start up world. Has a passion for numbers, data, action, and a massive curiosity for the formula that brings ideas to life.

Goal-oriented leader who has worked on building and growing companies from the initial ideation stage through acquisition in the technology space. Jorge has over 6 years of experience across start-up fundraising, business creation, solution selling, product design and implementation, SaaS delivery and product management, including financial planning and go-to-market strategies. His experience demonstrates a deep understanding of what it takes to grow a organization through managing product vision and strategy using business intelligence/data and delivering financial results through customer growth and retention.

Powder Keg Collective

Dustin Byington

CEO-Two12

BIO

I started my career at Goldman Sachs and have led two unicorn fintech companies. One of them is Tendermint, the second most widely used Proof of Stake algorithm in the world; securing $100b+ of assets. The other is Wanchain which built the first generation bridges.

I am currently working on constructing the equity rails that Web2 forgot to build. My goal is to bring digitization, automation, and transparency to the startup asset class. You can sometimes find me on LinkedIn and Twitter.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dbyington/

Cole Enright

Director of Analytics-HBAR Foundation

BIO

Director of analytics at the Hbar foundation, former Twitter product ops analyst, certified Salesforce developer

Patrick Zielbauer

Global Strategic Account-Blockfills

BIO

Patrick joined BlockFills after nearly 2 decades in the futures brokerage and trading space. At BlockFills, Patrick forms and manages relationships with some of the firm’s most strategic partners and active market participants. These include funds, exchanges, brokers, prop groups, and miners. Through a consultative approach, Patrick assists the digital asset community with operational support, lending facilities, and hedging strategies. A Chicagoland native, Patrick moved to Texas 5 years ago and lives in the Austin area with his wife, 2 children, and assortment of animals.

Keifer Jennings

Analyst-Arcade Ventures

BIO

Intro

Keifer Jennings is an analyst at ArcadeVentures. A Web3 focused VC fund targeted at building early stage startups in the interoperability space.

What does Keifer Do?

As a project analyst, Keifer performs Due Diligence on prospective Web3 products built on blockchain to guide investment and tokenomics decisions for early stage startups and projects.

Keifer’s Background

Prior to crypto, Keifer was a project manager in the utility energy space where he oversaw the development and deployment of this nations infrastructure and led investment decision making and due diligence for utility scale infrastructure developments.

Keifer got his start in crypto in the spring/early summer of 2020 when some very good friends of his convinced him not to buy a sports car and to instead buy some bitcoin and ethereum. Keifer had always been disenchanted with the centralized nature of financial markets (you can read his assessments of this and its failings on his substack), and found himself becoming more and more interested with what could be built within the crypto space and the potential for users to have access to freer, fairer, faster, and more transparent financial utilities, and the bull market of 2021 was when he started to really fall into the rabbit hole of DeFi.

Where can I find Keifer?

Keifer’s primary presence online is on his substack, where he writes a minimum of 8 times a month about central bank policy, the price of money, and how this impacts the crypto markets. He has been writing since late 2021.

Ryan McNutt

Co-Founder-SphereOne

BIO

Ryan McNutt is the Co-founder of SphereOne. They believe the future of is tokenized. This means cross chain payments will be an essential part of the mass adoption of Web3. SphereOne is building the payment rails to allow users to pay with any token across any chain, with any crypto wallet (in less than ten seconds).

Quin Weidner

President-Node Providers

BIO

Quin is an expert on incentive structure and system architecture for crypto and defi projects. He helped launch the first decentralized TOR routed EVM alongside partners like Galaxy Digital, Binance, and WorldPay FIS. He bridges the gap between highly technical cryptographers and mainstream fintech businesses.

Quin dropped out of UVA engineering to focus on commercial scale bitcoin mining, importing machines, and consulting on mining business and operations. He consulted in infrastructure scale energy development and investments with clients such as Blackstone and Vistra. Quin is a serial entrepreneur and focuses on being first to market with new products and systems.

Quin is concerned about the prevalence of a few cloud computing giants hosting the majority of crypto infrastructure. He built the team at Node Providers to create truly decentralized infrastructure for the growing defi world.

Links

Nodeproviders.com