Brian Fabian Crain

Brian Fabian Crain is a co-founder and longtime host of Epicenter, a podcast interviewing the builders and researchers behind cryptocurrencies and decentralized systems since 2013. He co-founded the proof-of-stake infrastructure provider Chorus One and served as its CEO before its acquisition by Bitwise in February 2026, joining in an advisory role. His work spans staking infrastructure, blockchain entrepreneurship and early-stage investing.

84 talks by Brian Fabian Crain

• Yield Basis: Disrupting Defi & Bitcoin Yield - Michael Egorov. Ep 623
• Staking Rewards: Is Crypto Staking Killing Decentralisation? - Mirko Schmiedl & Tobias Jung. Ep. 602
• Celestia: 1Gb Blocks, Rollup Interoperability & Lazy Bridging. Ismail Khoffi & Mustafa Al-Bassam 567
• PsyDAO: Decentralising Psychedelic Research - Dima Buterin & Paul Kohlhaas. Ep. 550
• Gil Binder & Yair Cleper: Lava Network – Decentralising RPC and Node Providers. Ep. 536
• Epicenter - 10-Year Anniversary Livestream. Ep. 527
• Epicenter – Looking Back on 10 Years of Crypto. AI Doom & Gloom? SPECIAL #500
• Gary Lieberman & Ted Blackman: Urbit – Decentralized Computing Platforms #475
• Epicenter Hosts – The Bear Is Back: Recollections From 2022 #473
• Anastasiya Belyaeva & Luis Cuende: Nation3 – Creating a Sovereign Cloud Nation #469
• ATOM ONE Constitution with Jae Kwon
• Ethan Buchman & Zaki Manian: ATOM 2.0 – Deep Dive #466
• Stephane Gosselin & Vasiliy Shapovalov: MEV-Boost – Preparing for the Merge #455
• Epicenter Hosts – Is the Ethereum Roadmap the Right Path for Eth Holders? #454
• Ed Felten: Arbitrum – The Layer 2 Scaling Solution Increasing Speed and Reducing Fees #448
• Felix Lutsch: Chorus One – On Proof-of-Stake, Interoperability & Crypto Markets #439
• Adrian Brink & Christopher Goes: Anoma – The Blockchain 'Undefining Money' #438
• Alex Skidanov & Illia Polosukhin: NEAR Protocol – Scaling Blockchain to a Billion Users #431
• Harry Halpin & Jaya Klara Brekke: Nym – The Next Generation of Global Privacy #426
• Epicenter – The Hosts Look Back on 2021 #421
• Mike Novogratz: Galaxy Digital – Bridging Crypto and Institutional Worlds #407
• ZKPodcast: The Early Days of Cosmos, Chorus One & Epicenter with Brian Crain
• Cassidy Daly & Lucas Vogelsang: Centrifuge – Introducing Real-World DeFi #398
• Alexis Sellier & Ele Diakomichalis: Radicle – The Decentralized Platform for Code Collaboration #378