CryptoNews Podcast
Exploring the ideas and stories of crypto moguls from around the world. Learn more at cryptonews.com
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513 episodes
#513: Sun Raghupathi, CEO of Veda, on Consumer-Grade DeFi, Vaults, Onchain Yield, and The Future of RWAs
Sun Raghupathi is the CEO of Veda, the leading DeFi vault platform, enabling crypto applications, asset issuers, and protocols to build consumer-grade cross-chain yield products. Veda's technology already powers many of DeFi's largest vault pro...
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Episode 513
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28:12
#512: Austin Campbell, Founder of Zero Knowledge, on Stablecoins, The Incentives of Financial Systems, Tokenization, and Economic Realignment
Austin Campbell is a finance and risk management professional with two decades of experience spanning trading, portfolio management, executive leadership, and academia. He is the Managing Partner and Founder of Zero Knowledge Consulting and ser...
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Episode 512
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33:28
#511: Jesse Knutson, Head of Ops at Bitfinex Securities, on Tokenized Securities, Capital Rotation, RWAs, and The Future of Tokenization
Jesse Knutson is Head of Operations at Bitfinex Securities, a regulated security token platform offering issuers and traders access to capital and tokenized securities. Jesse started his career in traditional finance having worked at global inv...
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Episode 511
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28:44
#510: Matt O’Connor, Co-founder of Legion, on ICOs, IPOs, Private SAFT rounds, and Merit-based Compliant Token Offerings
Matt O’Connor is the Co-founder of Legion, a platform for compliant and merit-based public token offering that enables teams to select investors based on criteria such as onchain history, social clout, and developer contributions. He is the for...
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Episode 510
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32:35
#509: Nic Roberts-Huntley, CEO of Blueprint Finance, on DeFi’s Next Frontier, Institutional Yield Generation, and Crypto Vaults
Nic Roberts-Huntley is the CEO and Co-Founder of Blueprint Finance, leveraging his unique background spanning medicine, economics, and finance. A former surgeon who practiced at prestigious institutions, including Oxford University Hospitals an...
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Episode 509
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29:00
#508: Irina Chuchkina, Chief Growth Officer at Wallet In Telegram, on Super-Apps, Wallets, Tokenized Stocks, and Finance Inside Messaging Apps
Irina Chuchkina is the Chief Growth Officer at Wallet In Telegram. Irina is an accomplished leader in crypto and fintech with over 18 years of experience building world-class brands at the intersection of payments and technology, across Europe ...
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Episode 508
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32:18
#507: Carlos Lei, CEO of Uplink, on The Future of Connectivity, Mesh Networks, Building on Avalanche, and DePIN in 2026
Carlos Lei, CEO of Uplink, one of the leading DePIN players, operates as a connectivity marketplace using existing Wi-Fi routers to help telecom companies save millions of dollars. In this conversation, we discuss:- 2026 will be...
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Episode 507
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27:34
#506: Marco Santori, CEO of Solmate, on Inventing The SAFT Framework, Solana, The Infrastructure Flywheel Strategy, and The Geographical Importance of The UAE
A treasury company pioneer, Marco launched the very first altcoin treasury on the Nasdaq. Prior to joining Solmate as CEO he was a partner at Pantera Capital, where he helped to structure some of the industry’s best-performing treasuries. A tra...
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Episode 506
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22:31
#505: Kyle Okamoto, CTO of Aethir, on Compute Becoming an Asset Class, GPUs, and Decentralized Compute
Kyle Okamoto is the Chief Technology Officer at Aethir: the leading decentralized enterprise-grade cloud computing network. With over 20 years of experience in cloud and edge computing, digital media, IoT and AI, Kyle's leadership has been pivo...
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Episode 505
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26:08
#504: Tom Trowbridge, Co-founder of Fluence Labs, on DePIN, DeAI, and Decentralized Storage/Compute
Tom Trowbridge is an entrepreneur and business builder; he is a co-founder of Fluence Labs, and Hedera Hashgraph (HBAR) where he was President from Inception. He hosts the
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Episode 504
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29:12
#503: Austin King, Founder of Nomina, on Funding Rate Arbitrage, Being Delta Neutral, Perp DEXs, and the Future of Financial Advisors
Austin King, Founder of Nomina, is a Harvard-trained computer scientist, is a proven entrepreneur with a record of building and scaling high-impact ventures. He sold his first company to Ripple, where he co-authored a new payment protocol with ...
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Episode 503
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31:43
#502: Rand Hindi, CEO of Zama, on Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), Total Value Shielded (TVS), and The future of Privacy
Dr. Rand Hindi is an entrepreneur and deeptech investor. He is the Founder and CEO at Zama and an investor in over 50 companies across privacy, AI, blockchain, and medtech. Rand started coding at the age of 10, founded a Social Network at 14, a...
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Episode 502
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28:42
#501: Ken Miyachi, Co-founder of BitMind, on Bittensor, The Escalation of AI-Driven Crypto Scams, and Deepfakes
Ken Miyachi is the Co-founder of BitMind, a company at the forefront of developing pioneering deepfake detection technology and decentralized AI applications. Prior to founding BitMind, Ken served as a Senior Software Engineer at leading organi...
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Episode 501
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30:22
#500: Anurag Arjun, Co-founder of Avail, on Interoperability, Liquidity Unification, and The Future of Crypto
Anurag Arjun is the Co-founder of Avail, a unified foundation for rollups to scale horizontally, share liquidity, move assets trustlessly, communicate permissionlessly along with a multi-token economic security.He entered the blockchain ...
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Episode 500
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24:28
#499: Michael Sena, Co-Founder of Recall, on AI’s Impact on Crypto Trading, Measuring AI Agents, and The Future of AI
Michael Sena is the CSO and Co-Founder of Recall, a decentralized skill market for AI where communities fund, rank, and discover the AI solutions they need. Michael started in crypto in 2016, helped scale ConsenSys from 30 to 1,800 people, co-f...
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Episode 499
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32:46
#498: Arthur Breitman, Co-founder of Tezos, on Tokenized Uranium, Quantum’s Threat to Bitcoin, Proof-of-Stake, and The Future of Crypto
Arthur Breitman, the co-founder of Tezos, is a computer scientist and entrepreneur. Arthur has a background in mathematics and computer science, and prior to the Tezos project, he worked in quantitative finance at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanl...
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Episode 498
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28:28
#497: Lucas Bruder, CEO of Jito Labs, on How Jito Gets Yield, Solana DeFi, BAM, and The Future of Robotics
Lucas Bruder is the CEO of Jito Labs and a founding contributor of the Jito Network, a suite of Solana-based protocols that enhance network efficiency and support high-performance DeFi infrastructure. A Carnegie Mellon-educated electrical engin...
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Episode 497
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25:23
#496: Jordan Jefferson, Founder of DogeOS, The Evolution of Dogecoin From Culture to Real Economy, and The Future of Memecoins
Jordan Jefferson is the CEO and Founder of DogeOS, the App Layer for Dogecoin that turns idle DOGE into a productive asset through gaming, yield opportunities, and consumer apps. He also leads MyDoge, the #1 Dogecoin wallet with 500,000+ users....
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Episode 496
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31:05
#495: Alice Liu, Research Lead at CoinMarketCap, on the CMC20 Index, the CMC Fear & Greed Index Hitting Record Lows, and The Current Crypto Market
Alice Liu is the Research Lead at CoinMarketCap, leveraging CMC's data and collaborating with industry leaders to bring unique insight to millions of users. Her work covers market events, innovation analysis, and trending narratives across the ...
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Episode 495
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27:26
#494: Santiago Roel Santos, CEO of Inversion, on Crypto’s Valuation Problem, Mental Models, and the Current State of Crypto
Santiago Roel Santos is the founder and CEO of Inversion a crypto-native holding company that acquires and transforms traditional businesses using blockchain technology. He is among the most active investors in crypto, having backed over 150 st...
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Episode 494
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47:59
#493: Ben Nadareski, CEO of Solstice Labs, on Building the Yield Engine for Solana’s Next Chapter
Ben Nadareski is the CEO and Co-Founder of Solstice Labs, where he’s redefining how yield is generated in DeFi. Backed by Deus X Capital, Solstice Labs pioneers permissionless, institutional-grade strategies on Solana, making sophisticated trad...
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Episode 493
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32:58
#492: Jon Trask, CEO and Founder of Dimitra, on Using Blockchain for Farming, Challenges in the Agricultural Sector, and The Future of Farming
Jon Trask is CEO and Founder of Dimitra and has been working with blockchain since 2017. Prior to founding Dimitra, Jon had an extensive career building and developing enterprise software solutions to revolutionize supply chain processes and im...
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Episode 492
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30:18
#491: Robin Nordnes, CEO of Raiku, on Ethereum vs. Solana, Reserving Block Space, and Solving Predictable Execution
Robin Nordnes is the Founder and CEO of Raiku, the upgrade to Solana enabling instant, predictable, and scalable transactions. As an engineer and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience in fintech and distributed systems, Robin has built ...
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Episode 491
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33:20
#490: Iggy Ioppe, CIO of Theo, on The future of Tokenized Finance, Money-market funds, and Connecting Liquidity Venues
Iggy Ioppe is Chief Investment Officer at Theo, a gateway connecting onchain capital to global markets via institutional-grade trading infrastructure. Previously, Iggy was Co-Head of Polygon Ventures and Managing Partner at Procul Capital, a fi...
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Episode 490
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36:38
#489: Maximiliano Stochyk, Head of Sales at CoinTerminal, on Token Launchpads, Playbook for Early Stage Crypto Growth, and Crypto Fundraising
Maximiliano Stochyk is Head of Sales at CoinTerminal, where he drives B2B sales, fundraising strategy, and go-to-market initiatives for Web3 projects. CoinTerminal’s launchpad serves over 600,000 users, $2.2B in connected assets, and $80M+ in d...
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Episode 489
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30:35