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Jay Kurahashi-Sofue
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11AM w/ Seed Club
Jay Kurahashi-Sofue, CMO of Eco, on 11AM w/ Seed Club
đą Investing in early stage consumer crypto companies: https://seedclub.com/đŹ Broadcasting live: https://x.com/seedclubhqđ° Subscribe for updates: https://paragraph.com/@seedclubhq/subscribeSeed Club's daily show on the business of crypto. Hosted by Jess Sloss & Josh Cornelius.Join us live every weekday at 11AM eastern.đ https://x.com/seedclubhq đ
2025-09-06
13 min
11AM w/ Seed Club
Jay Kurahashi-Sofue, CMO of Eco Inc., July '25
Jay Kurahashi-Sofue is the CMO of Eco Inc, a blockchain company building software that maximizes moneyâs value. They're the founding contributor to Eco Protocol, a protocol simplifying stablecoin usage, and builders of Bend, a free payments app that allows anyone to easily send money worldwide. đą Investing in early stage consumer crypto companies: https://seedclub.com/ đŹ Broadcasting live: https://x.com/seedclubhq đ° Subscribe for updates: https://paragraph.com/@seedclubhq/subscribe Seed Club's daily show on the business of crypto. Hosted by Jess Sloss & Josh Cornelius. Join us live every weekday at 11AM eastern. đ https://x.com/seedclubhq đ
2025-09-01
00 min
Myosin.xyz
Why Stablecoins Are the Final Boss of UX in Crypto
For EP32 of Chain Reactions, we sat down with Jay Kurahashi-Sofue, longtime crypto marketer, former head of marketing at Avalanche, and now CMO at Eco, all to unpack why stablecoins might just be the real unlock for mainstream crypto adoption⌠if we can fix the UX mess first.From his early days running a music blog during the Bloghouse era, all to way to helping launch Circle before USDC even existed, building Avalancheâs brand from the ground up, and now reimagining how we use stablecoins with Eco, Jay shares what he's learned leading crypto marketing through mult...
2025-06-24
57 min
The DCo Podcast
Ep 39 â Aggregating the Trillion Dollar Stablecoin Market with Ryne and Jay
Stablecoins are cryptoâs biggest product-market fitâ$230B and growing. But the pipes that move them? Broken.In this episode, Saurabh speaks with Jay Kurahashi-Sofue (CMO) and Ryne Sachs (CEO) of Eco, who are building something surprisingly rare in crypto: infrastructure that actually works. Not another stablecoinâbut a liquidity layer that coordinates capital intelligently across chains.We dive into:⢠Fragmented across venues and pools⢠How Ecoâs âcrowd liquidityâ model lets users earn yield without impermanent loss⢠Eco's GTM and incentive mechanismsđď¸ Guests:Ryne Saxe â CEO, Eco Inc.
2025-04-23
47 min
WAGMI Ventures Podcast
How to Think About Marketing in Crypto, with Jay Kurahashi-Sofue (Ava Labs)
Jay Kurahashi-Sofue is the VP Marketing @ Ava Labs (https://www.avalabs.org). Backed by Polychain Capital, a16z, & more, Ava Labs is the creator of Avalanche, the fastest smart contracts platform in the blockchain industry, as measured by time-to-finality. Avalanche is blazingly fast, low cost, and eco-friendly. In this episode we discuss Jayâs advice on biggest marketing pitfalls to avoid for protocols, what it will take for crypto to move past the bad actors into new frontiers, what Ava Labs is focused on right now, & much more.Recorded Tuesday February 27, 2024.
2024-03-11
29 min
When Shift Happens Podcast
E46: Avalanche CMO: Crypto and music are connected!
Jay Kurahashi-Sofue is the CMO at Avalanche (Ava Labs), a professional street photographer, and a previous electronic music DJ and music festivals organizer. In this episode, we talk about: - The Evolution of the Electronic Industry - The Power of Focused Efforts - How to go from Nerd to Marketing Guru - How Crypto can be bridged with Daily Life - Understanding the True Value of Money - Avalanche Product Roadmap - Decentralization and Web3 - The Future of Finance Sponsor: We are proud to partner with Coinsilium, a focused Web3 investor and venture builder supporting innovative startups building...
2023-10-25
43 min
Finality Crypto Podcast
Where Avalanche ($AVAX) goes next - with Jay Kurahashi-Sofue
What exciting developments are occurring in the Avalanche ecosystem and where will it go next? We sat down with Jay Kurahashi-Sofue, VP of Marketing at Ava Labs, discussing these questions, similarities with the Cosmos ecosystem, scalability and interoperability of subnets, how Avalanche boards big players from Web2 and traditional finance, and much more! - - - - - - Catch up with FRENS VALIDATOR: đť WEBSITE: https://frens.army đ˛ FOLLOW ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/frensvalidator đ FOLLOW JURI: https://twitter.com/jurimaibaum - - - - Timestamps 0:00 - 1:35 Intro 1:3...
2023-07-17
27 min
Finality Crypto Podcast
Where Avalanche and $AVAX go next! - with Jay Kurahashi-Sofue
What does the future of Avalanche and $AVAX look like? The Avalanche ecosystem always has had strong synergies with the Cosmos ecosystem - the concept of subnets is very similar to Cosmos' appchains. But where do the ecosystem differ from each other? What's next for Avalanche and $AVAX? What is Avalanche doing to drive mass adoption? This and much more is what we discussed with Jay Kurahashi-Sofue, VP of Marketing at Ava LAbs. - - - - - Catch up with FRENS VALIDATOR: đť WEBSITE: https://frens.army đ˛ FOLLOW ON...
2023-05-08
28 min
Subnet Show
Marketing in Web3 with Ava Labs VP of Marketing Jay Kurahashi-Sofue
This week the team is joined by Ava Labs VP of Marketing Jay  Kurahashi-Sofue. They talk about Jay's crypto journey and ending up at Ava Labs. They also talk about many of the great projects that Jay and/or his team have launched including  * Lisbon Avalanche House * Barcelona Avalanche Summit * Berlin Tempelhof Avalanche House * Seoul Avalanche House  Support Subnet Show:  X-Chain: X-avax1r4zp7pxa8hjjkkc5rutwqw6peqvx68m7zzllu9 C-Chain: 0xa155c6ec8c7d974453f3453f04216bf60a35220d Follow Gabriel on twitter: https://t...
2022-09-12
47 min
Deus Ex DAO
The Unsung Heroes of Crypto - A Marketer's Round Table
In this episode we are very excited to have on as our guests the head of Marketing for Maple Finance, Charlotte Dodds, Chief Marketing Officer of the Fantom Foundation, Simone Pomposi, and Vice President of Marketing for Ava Labs, Jay Kurahashi-Sofue. Together with our hosts, CryptoHerc and 0xKepler, these marketing gurus come together to discuss how they went about building an audience during the early days of their respective protocols and the pros and cons of launching a project in a bull/bear market. Because each protocol began it's marketing strategy during different phases of the last market cycle...
2022-06-08
1h 06
The Brave Technologist
Experiential Marketing and Making Crypto Events More Memorable
Jay Kurahashi-Sofue, VP of Marketing at Ava Labs, discusses how his team disrupted the traditional event experience with their recent Avalanche Summit in Barcelona, along with some of the risks they took that really paid off. He also shares the biggest opportunities for crypto marketers across all stages of the funnel. In this episode we discuss: How optimizing for speed and cost impacts blockchain adoption and attracting crypto traders The challenges crypto marketers face when advertising on social media channels Upper funnel activations and ways marketers can get more comfortable going horizontal with their channels how user research ca...
2022-04-18
35 min
The Bad Crypto Podcast
Is Avalanche the Worldâs Fastest Smart Contract Blockchain?
Is Avalanche the Worldâs Fastest Smart Contract Blockchain? Jay Kurahashi-Sofue, VP Marketing, Ava Labs Continuing our series of exploring other blockchains, we stick to the beginning of the alphabet to check out one of the newer players on the scene, Avalanche. And while still relatively new, the AVAX token has broken into the Coin Gecko Top 10. In episode 593, we visit with Jay Kurahashi-Sofue, VP of Marketing at Ava Labs, to challenge their assertion that Avalanche is the worldâs fastest smart-contract blockchain. Donât worry, we arenât confrontational, but we do have questions. Ques...
2022-03-07
51 min
Based Space
EP28: Avalanche Rush Deep Dive w/ Ava Labs VP of Marketing & Director of DeFi
Avalanche is the fastest smart contracts platform in the blockchain industry, as measured by time-to-finality. This is an interview with Jay Kurahashi-Sofue, VP of Marketing, and Luigi DâOnorio DeMeo, Director of DeFi, at Ava Labs, where we discuss everything related to Avalanche Rush including partnerships, NFTs, DeFi Summer, lending, institutional adoption and more.
2021-12-25
1h 32
Based Space
EP10: VP of Marketing for Ava Labs $AVAX Jay Kurahashi-Sofue @jayksy17
Ava Labs is empowering people to build an open, simple, and democratic internet of finance. Topics discussed in this episode: Crypto, Avax, Blockchain, 3 blockchain tech, Marketing, Avalabs, working in crypto.
2021-12-25
1h 18
Social Listening for Cryptocurrency
LunarCrush Live! with Avalanche
LunarCrush welcomes back Jay Kurahashi-Sofue, VP, Marketing of Ava Labs. We'll be chatting all things Avalanche with updates since the team's last visit to LunarCrush Live! in February 2021. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lunarcrush/support
2021-10-29
1h 00
The Edge of Show
John Nahas and Jay Kurahashi-Sofue of Avalanche, Plus: TikTok's Messy NFT Gambit, FTX Solana-NFTs, NFT Rentals, And More...
As the digital world evolves, NFTs become an ever more serious investment option within a decentralized online community. This savvy community craves open-source solutions that are fast and accurate. Enter Avalanche, the first decentralized smart contacts platform built for the scale of global finance with near-instant transaction finality. Avalancheâs John Nahas and Jay Kurahashi-Sofue join Jeff Kelley, Eathan Janney, and Josh Kriger to talk about the various projects they are working on, especially their collaboration with Topps Baseball Cards. John and Jay delve into their mission to make NFTs more accessible through incentive programs. They also discuss various ho...
2021-10-25
1h 04
The Novum Insightful
Jay Kurahashi-Sofue
Jay Kurahashi-Sofue is VP of Marketing at Ava Labs - the creators of the Avalanche (AVAX) blockchain. This week, Jay sits down with Toby to discuss ETH's gas-fee issues and how the speed of Avalanche's proof-of-stake protocol seeks to build the future of finance.Head to https://novuminsights.com/ or check out Ava Labs here: https://www.avalabs.org/
2021-10-20
00 min
Playing Injured
EP 66: Time Optimization w/ Jay Kurahashi-Sofue & Mason
Join us for this amazing chat between Mason and Jay Jay Kurahashi-Sofue.Jay is a VP of Marketing for Ava Labs, Marketing Advisor for Crypto & Fintec, Angel Investor, and Music Photographer.Contact UsSupport the showWant to be a guest on Playing Injured? Send Joshua Dillingham a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/playinginjured
2021-10-08
30 min
The Rollup
DeFi By Design EP48: DeFi for Everyone w Avalanche Rush
The #Rush is here. Avalanche is the Layer 1 blockchain competing alongside Ethereum for liquidity in DeFi. With billions of dollars in TVL, Avalanche is one of the most trusted sources for consistent DeFi transactions. Jay Kurahashi-Sofue, co-founder of Avalanche, unpacks his multichain thesis for why Avalanche is poised for long-term success. Despite all the recent interest around Avalanche protocols, the RUSH is only getting started. Avalanche Rush is a $180 million incentive program fueling top DeFi projects (Curve, AAVE, etc) to launch liquidity solutions on the Avalanche Network. ...
2021-09-09
48 min
Tomorrow Explored
How to build a leading DeFi brand â Avalanche, with Jay Kurahashi-Sofue of Ava Labs
Avalanche is a highly scalable blockchain platform for decentralized applications and enterprise blockchain deployments, and in our view, one of the benchmarks in blockchain marketing. Their channels offer a delightful stream of content serving both enterprises as well as the developer community. Leading these marketing efforts is Jay Kurahashi-Sofue, and itâs our pleasure to have him as our guest on this episode. Jay is the VP of Marketing at Ava Labs, the blockchain organisation building Avalanche. Ava Labs is on a mission to empower people to build an open, simple, and democratic internet of finance.Jay is a...
2021-05-19
49 min
Social Listening for Cryptocurrency
LunarCRUSH Live! with Avalanche
Joe and Jon go live with Avalanche ($AVAX)! Come hang with the Avalanche team as we discuss project details, community insights, social strategies, and answer your questions.   Jay Kurahashi-Sofue, VP of Marketing, Avalanche + Patrick Sutton, Director of Communications, Avalanche  https://lunarcrush.com/coins/avax/avalanche https://info.avax.network/ https://www.avalabs.org/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lunarcrush/support
2021-02-10
55 min
Crypto and Muay Thai Podcast with Chris Brookins
Can Avalanche ($AVAX) Become A Player in DeFi and Layer1?
Jay and I chat about how Avalanche ($AVAX) fits into DeFi, interoperability with Ethereum, NFTs, and much more!  Jay Kurahashi-Sofue is the VP of Marketing at Ava Labs, the company behind Avalanche, a blockchain platform built for decentralized applications and interoperability.   Avalanche Resources: Website: https://avax.network Twitter: https://twitter.com/avalancheavax Discord: https://chat.avax.network Telegram: https://t.me/avalancheavax  Jayâs Social: Twitter: https://twitter.com/jayks17 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayksofue/ Instagram: https://www.instagram...
2020-10-13
50 min