Risk Management Episodes

In the last few weeks, Drift Protocol and Kelp DAO lost $577 million between them. Neither one was a code exploit. Both were operational and governance failures. That's the conversation Pete sits down with Amor Sexton to have on EP 314 of MoneyNeverSleeps — and it's the conversation the industry isn't having loudly enough. Amor is Chief Operating Officer at Blockdaemon, one of the world's leading institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure providers. She was last on the show in October 2...

DeFi transparency means every onchain trade is visible. Which means the moment a strategy works, the market can copy it. In this episode of MoneyNeverSleeps, Pete Townsend speaks with Matteo Manzi, co-founder and CEO of Orion Finance, about a structural challenge emerging in onchain asset management: the same transparency that makes blockchain markets verifiable can also expose the intellectual property behind trading strategies. Matteo describes this tension with a simple phrase: “transpa...

This week, I sat down with ethical hacker Yev Broshevan, co-founder and Chief Business Development Officer at Hacken, a leading blockchain security firm focused on making Web3 a safer, more trustworthy place for everyone. Even better? Yev’s birthday is the same day this episode drops - happy birthday, Yev!

Niall Mackey, the Commercial Director at Topsec Cloud Solutions, joins the show this week as we take an inside look at how businesses cope in the aftermath of a hack.