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Roham Gharegozlou

CEO & Founder, Dapper Labs

Search every verified Roham Gharegozlou interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Roham Gharegozlou, CEO of Dapper Labs, has been discussing the company's pivot toward consumer decentralized finance (DeFi) and the integration of its products with mainstream platforms. In a December 2025 interview, he stated that Dapper Labs is building infrastructure for "consumer finance of the future" that is "built for everybody," describing a new product called Peak Money that aims to make DeFi accessible to a broad audience. He also noted that the company has products including NBA Top Shot, NFL All Day, and Disney Pinnacle, which he said have tens of thousands of active users each. Gharegozlou has emphasized that Dapper Labs' mission is to build products that drive mainstream adoption of crypto, and he has pointed to regulatory changes under the current U.S. administration as enabling the company to pursue a wider range of products. Gharegozlou has also spoken about the evolution of digital collectibles and the role of blockchain in digital ownership and identity. He has described the technology as enabling "digital ownership, digital identity, and control in digital systems," and has argued that in an AI-driven world, open blockchain systems are important for ensuring users have control over their digital assets. He has cited partnerships with the NBA, NFL, and Disney as examples of brands integrating digital collectibles into fan experiences, and has said that the company is seeing growth in user acquisition and retention. Gharegozlou has also discussed the relaunch of CryptoKitties and the development of the Flow blockchain's EVM compatibility, which he said allows Ethereum-based applications to work on Flow.

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“So we want Top Shot not just to be uh a site, but kind of an ecosystem, a currency that can spread among the entire NBA ecosystem.”

“The inflation on the network has been a source of sell pressure on the token, and fixing that is a very important part of making sure that activity on the network drives value to the token economy.”

“The first enshrined protocol we're developing is called Flow Credit Markets — it's a lending protocol with automation built into the smart contract that lets borrowers go much higher in LTV while minimizing the risk of liquidation, and our papers show that across crypto crashes over the last 10 years the system would have avoided liquidations.”

“We're very happy to have reached a settlement that says these NBA Top Shots are not securities — they're digital trading cards.”

“The process of tokenizing doesn't make something that's not a security into a security; just because it's a token on a blockchain doesn't mean that it's automatically somehow worse than anything else.”

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