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Bitcoin.com News InterviewsLorien Gabel, CEO of Figment | Powering 8% of Solana and 5% of Ethereum: Inside Institutional Staking & the Future of Crypto Infrastructure | Bitcoin.com News PodcastLorien Gabel (@loriengabel), Co-Founder and CEO of Figment, joins Frederick Munawa (@FrederickMunawa) on the Bitcoin.com News Podcast to uncover the unseen backbone of blockchain infrastructure — institutional staking.With Figment responsible for 7–8% of Solana blocks and nearly 5% of Ethereum blocks, Gabel reveals what it really takes to secure the world’s leading proof-of-stake networks. He shares insights from four decades in tech, beginning with Canada’s first ISPs to now running one of the largest crypto infrastructure companies in the world.The conversation dives deep into how institutional staking operates, what’s next for U.S. regulat...
2025-09-0721 min
Talking TokensWhy Staking Is Becoming the “Savings Account” for Wall Street | Lorien GabelOn today’s Talking Tokens episode, Jacquelyn sits down with Lorien Gabel, co-founder and CEO of Figment, a leading non-custodial staking provider supporting over a thousand institutional clients. Figment works with asset managers, custodians, exchanges, foundations, and wallets, helping institutions securely access crypto yield.Lorien shares his journey from building internet infrastructure companies to founding Figment in 2018. They discuss how staking has evolved, why distribution is Figment’s moat, what institutions want from staking, and how regulation is reshaping the industry. Lorien also breaks down misconceptions about custody, the rise of liquid staking, global adoption trends, and why staking may...
2025-08-2830 min
The FuturistLeading Innovation in Institutional Staking with Lorien Gabel #iankhan #consensus2025 #FigmentMeet Lorien Gabel, CEO & Co-Founder of Figment, a leading independent staking provider trusted by over 700 institutional clients worldwide, including top asset managers, custodians, and exchanges.About Lorien Gabel:Lorien Gabel brings over 30 years of experience in building and scaling global technology companies. As CEO and Co-Founder of Figment, Lorien leads one of the largest independent staking providers, serving more than 700 institutional clients such as asset managers, custodians, exchanges, foundations, and wallets. Figment was recently valued at $1.4 billion following investment from major firms including Thoma Bravo, Morgan Stanley’s Counterpoint Global, Franklin Templeton, and Fidelity’s Avon Vent...
2025-06-1709 min
On The Brink with Castle IslandLorien Gabel (Figment) Latest Developments in the Staking MarketLorien Gabel, the founder and CEO of Figment joins the show. In this episode we discuss: The latest developments at Figment. Post-election impact on the general crypto markets and the staking category. How Figment is approaching the institutional staking market opportunity. Staking in the context of investment products. Evolving ecosystems like Eigen Layer, Babylon and Bitcoin Layers 2s. The stablecoin market. To learn more about Figment visit www.figment.io
2024-12-0330 min
SALT TalksBuilding Crypto's Layer-1 Future with Figment's CEO | SALT Talks #308Lorien Gabel is founder and CEO of Figment, a crypto infrastructure company that provides comprehensive staking solutions for 250+ institutional clients. Gabel joined Anthony Scaramucci and John Darsie to discuss his eclectic childhood, his path to serial entrepreneurship and his journey to crypto. He explains how irresponsible monetary policy and runaway national debt brought about crypto's inevitable creation, how Figment services the layer-1 ecosystem and Wyoming's role as a home for crypto's future. SALT is a global thought leadership and networking forum encompassing finance, technology, and public policy. To learn more about this episode, including podcast transcripts and...
2024-02-2136 min
Growth Investor with GrowthCap‘s RJ LumbaTech Entrepreneur Polymath: Figment’s Lorien GabelIn this episode, we speak with Lorien Gabel, Co-founder and CEO of Figment, the leading provider of blockchain infrastructure. The company has raised over $150 million and is backed by Thoma Bravo, B Capital, Two Sigma, and other notable investors.
Figment provides comprehensive staking solutions for over 250 institutional clients. The world’s largest asset managers, custodians, exchanges, foundations, and token holders leverage Figment’s infrastructure and APIs to earn staking rewards. Staking is a process in which token holders can earn rewards by helping to secure a blockchain network.
Before Co-Founding Figment, Lorien was both a seri...
2023-10-1819 min
Great Entrepreneurs with RJ LumbaTech Entrepreneur Polymath: Figment’s Lorien GabelIn this episode, we speak with Lorien Gabel, Co-founder and CEO of Figment, the leading provider of blockchain infrastructure. The company has raised over $150 million and is backed by Thoma Bravo, B Capital, Two Sigma, and other notable investors.
Figment provides comprehensive staking solutions for over 250 institutional clients. The world’s largest asset managers, custodians, exchanges, foundations, and token holders leverage Figment’s infrastructure and APIs to earn staking rewards. Staking is a process in which token holders can earn rewards by helping to secure a blockchain network.
Before Co-Founding Figment, Lorien was both a seri...
2023-10-1819 min
The Financial Technology Report with RJ LumbaTech Entrepreneur Polymath: Figment’s Lorien GabelIn this episode, we speak with Lorien Gabel, Co-founder and CEO of Figment, the leading provider of blockchain infrastructure. The company has raised over $150 million and is backed by Thoma Bravo, B Capital, Two Sigma, and other notable investors.
Figment provides comprehensive staking solutions for over 250 institutional clients. The world’s largest asset managers, custodians, exchanges, foundations, and token holders leverage Figment’s infrastructure and APIs to earn staking rewards. Staking is a process in which token holders can earn rewards by helping to secure a blockchain network.
Before Co-Founding Figment, Lorien was both a seri...
2023-10-1819 min
Public KeyEverything You Need to Know About Staking and Crypto Regulations in CanadaEverything You Need to Know About Staking and Crypto Regulations in Canada
With the crypto regulatory climate heating up in the US, Ian Andrews sits down with Dean Skurka (President & Interim CEO, WonderFi), Lorien Gabel (Co-Founder & CEO, Figment) and Jennie Levin (Chief Regulatory Officer, Figment) to discuss Canada’s innovative approach to crypto regulation and staking.
The panel explains what staking as a service (SaaS) is and demystifies the difference between yield and rewards and how this discrepancy impacts custodians, token holders and the risk for regulators around the world.
The conversation jumps int...
2023-06-2741 min
Glitter LedgerStaking is a practice of Stocism with Lorien GabelOn this powerful episode I interview four time founder and CEO Lorien Gabel, where we discuss the origins of the name Figment, adequately and appropriately define protocol staking, ponder whether Marcus Aurelius would have run his own node, men's fashion tips on crypto panels, and why web3 is just simply a better more authentic internet.Support the show
2023-05-2343 minOn The Brink with Castle IslandLorien Gabel and Benjamin Thalman (Figment) on Staking and the Ethereum Shanghai UpgradeLorien Gabel and Benjamin Thalman of Figment join the show. In this episode we discuss: The founding story of Figment and the focus of the firm. The evolution of proof of stake blockchains and how Figment helps their customers with staking. Ethereum, the Shanghai upgrade and the likely impacts of withdrawal functionality on the network. Views on the current regulatory environment and how that impacts proof of stake participants. To learn more about Figment visit their website and follow Lorien and Benjamin on Twitter.
2023-04-0536 min
Crypto Clarified - Investing in the TruthCrypto Clarified: Staking Deep Dive with Lorien GabelIn this episode of Crypto Clarified Ben is joined by Lorien Gabel, CEO and Co-Founder of Figment. Together they are doing a deep dive on staking.
For more info on the latest Crypto news, visit https://www.wisdomtree.eu or https://www.thedefiant.io.
You can also follow our panellists and guests on Twitter at:
Ben: https://twitter.com/benjamindean
Cami: https://twitter.com/CamiRusso
Jason: https://twitter.com/guthriefi
Lorien: https://twitter.com/lorientree
For updates on all thi...
2022-11-1145 min
CopperCastsLorien Gabel – CEO, Figment – Ep030With the Ethereum Merge on the horizon, everybody is talking about staking – a process whereby crypto holders put their digital assets to work and earn passive income without needing to sell them.
Episode 30 of CopperCasts welcomes Lorien Gabel, CEO of one of the most important players in the Proof-of-Stake (PoS) space, Figment.
Founded in 2018, Figment is a Canadian-based PoS infrastructure provider that offers institutional staking and supports various projects with infrastructure and services.
In this conversation, Lorien and CopperCasts host, Tyler Kenyon, discuss all things staking and the misconceptions around it, what the Et...
2022-08-3029 min
The Ledger Podcast#36 Ledger & Figment: how to stake freely and safely ? - with L. Gabel, CEO @ FigmentStaking. This is a word that might sound scary, even if you’re crypto-advanced, either because it is too complex or inaccessible. How much crypto do I need? What is a delegator? How to choose a node? What are the risks, and how to prevent them? This is where Figment comes in. Figment is a blockchain infrastructure and services provider that makes it simple for token holders and enterprises to participate in Proof of Stake. And the good news is - Ledger users will now be able to access Figment’s services directly from within the security of the Ledger ecos...
2022-04-1937 min
Playing With Unicorns#36 Building a Web3 Unicorn with Lorien Gabel (Figment)Lorien Gabel is the Co-Founder of Figment Network. He holds an LLB from Toronto's Osgoode Hall Law School and is a member in good standing with the Ontario Bar. In 1994, at the age of 24, 6 months into practicing law, Lorien quit to help his brother Matt run a bourgeoning internet company, Interlog. Over the next four years, they managed the growth of Interlog to over 150 employees, 65,000 customers and profitability. It was later acquired by a large multinational telecommunications company.
2022-03-2052 min
Binance PodcastStories from the Lab featuring Lorien Gabel, Founder & CEO of FigmentStories from the Lab, a Binance podcast featuring top crypto founders and investors around the world and where you can discover how Binance Labs is building the future of Web 3!Today we have a very exciting guest on our show - Lorien Gabel who is the CEO of Figment. Figment is a Proof of Stake infrastructure company that provides staking services for institutional clients like VCs, Exchanges, Custodians and other investors. Figment also has a newer and growing developer tooling business that supports Web3 engineers from learning through to deployment.
2022-03-0229 min
VenturesWhat is Web 3.0? :: With Tony Sager, Sol Cates, Lorien Gabel, Andrew Cronk, Tony Little, and Spencer GrahamIn this episode of Ventures, we’ve pulled together clips from Episodes 2, 18, 31, and 48 to describe specifically the definition of Web 3.0...what it is, why it’s important, and what the vision is for its future. Along the way we talk about the history of Web 1 & 2, blockchains, scaling trust, and the Web 3.0 stack from the perspective of a Web 3.0 product manager and entrepreneur.Visit https://satchel.works/@wclittle/ventures-episode-52 for detailed notes and links to resources (videos, articles, etc…) mentioned. You can watch this episode via video here.In this episode we cover the followi...
2021-07-1328 min
Che Marville - Let's TalkA Conversation With Lorien GabelOn today's show, Che had the privilege to speak to tech innovator and pioneer Lorien Gabel, CEO & Co-founder of Figment while he was out for a run. At Figment, our mission is to support the adoption, growth and long-term success of the Web 3 ecosystem.This third generation of internet services for websites and applications will focus on using a machine-based understanding of data to provide a data-driven and semantic web. The ultimate goal of Web 3.0 is to create more intelligent, connected and open websites. Lorien has been ahead of this time for the last thirty years, Che...
2021-06-1125 minVenturesBlockchains, the State of the Crypto Ecosystem, Proof-of-Stake, and Figment Networks :: with Lorien Gabel, Andrew Cronk, and Tony LittleIn this episode of Ventures we dive into all-things blockchains, the state of the crypto ecosystem, the evolution of the industry (especially since 2017), the nuances between Proof-of-Work and Proof-of-State, and the suite of services that Figment Networks provides. Guests: Lorien Gabel, Andrew Cronk, and Tony Little. You can watch the video of this episode here. This episode is both an introduction to the blockchain space (for those new), and a deep-dive into nuanced blockchain topics if you are an industry expert. Below is a condensed overview of the topics covered, visit the episode pag...
2020-07-211h 21
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Hosts: Amber MacArthur and Leo Laporte
Guest: Lorien Gabel
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2010-06-2348 min
net@night (Video)pingg.com - Google music, digital ties that virtually bind, socially integrated on-line invitation site pingg, and more.
Google music, digital ties that virtually bind, socially integrated on-line invitation site pingg, and more.
Hosts: Amber MacArthur and Leo Laporte
Guest: Lorien Gabel
Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/natn.
We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes.
For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/night.
2010-06-2348 min