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This week, our host Mason sat down with Arie Trouw from XYO Network. XYO Network is a decentralized tech ecosystem connecting the physical and digital worlds. It helps users own and monetize their data through node-based DePIN infrastructure, easily integrated into any Web3 or Web2 product.

Topics Discussed:

• Reality oracle connecting real-world and on-chain data
• Sentinels and Bound Witness for decentralized sensing
• Layer 1 blockchain with private data chains
• Hash-based, scalable storage infrastructure
• Privacy and sovereignty through local data control
• AI automation via diviners and triggers
• Tokenized data marketplace for B2B demand

Follow us on Twitter:

• Tokensoft – @TokensoftInc
• Mason – @masonic_tweets
• XYO Network – @OfficialXYO
• Arie Trouw – @arietrouw

More information about XYO Network:

• Website: https://xyo.network/
• Docs: https://docs.xyo.network/docs/
• Blog: https://xyo.network/blog
• Discord: https://discord.com/invite/officialxyo

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Jacob Phillips from Lombard Finance. Lombard Finance is on a mission to expand the digital economy by transforming Bitcoin’s utility from a store of value into a productive financial tool with LBTC.

Topics Discussed:

• Liquid staking for Bitcoin with LBTC
• Babylon integration for Bitcoin staking yield
• Secure bridge with Cubist key infrastructure
• Validator consortium for decentralized custody
• Integration across DeFi and centralized exchanges
• Platform for Bitcoin-powered financial innovation

Follow us on Twitter:

• Tokensoft – @TokensoftInc
• Mason – @masonic_tweets
• Lombard Finance – @Lombard_Finance
• Jacob Phillips – @JacobPPhillips

More information about Lombard Finance:

• Website: https://www.lombard.finance/
• Docs: https://docs.lombard.finance/
• Blog: https://www.lombard.finance/blog/
• Discord: https://discord.com/invite/2HG7G69twc

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Srinivasan Parthasarathy from Shardeum. Shardeum is an EVM Compatible L1 blockchain that uses dynamic state sharding to keep transaction fees low forever.

Topics Discussed:

• Dynamic state sharding with scalable architecture
• Leaderless consensus with rotating validators
• No block structure enables instant finality
• Decentralized node ops with low hardware needs
• Fully EVM compatible and dev-ready
• Proven scale with 81M testnet transactions

Follow us on Twitter:

• Tokensoft – @TokensoftInc
• Mason – @masonic_tweets
• Shardeum – @shardeum
• Srinivasan Parthasarathy – @srini_shardeum

More information about Shardeum:

• Website: https://shardeum.org/
• Docs: https://docs.shardeum.org/
• Blog: https://shardeum.org/blog/
• Discord: https://discord.com/invite/shardeum

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Lyron Co Ting Keh from Seismic. Seismic is the encrypted blockchain. Seismic’s system lets developers encrypt apps to produce differentiated user experiences.

Topics Discussed:

• Encrypted global state for private app logic
• Protocol-level encryption enables new UX design space
• Dual-memory EVM supports selective data shielding
• Onchain market infrastructure with private positions
• Resistance to economic and MEV-style attacks
• Residency and tools to drive Seismic-native apps

Follow us on Twitter:

• Tokensoft – @TokensoftInc
• Mason – @masonic_tweets
• Project – @SeismicSys
• Lyron Co Ting Keh – @LyronCTK

More information about Seismic:

• Website: https://www.seismic.systems/
• Docs: https://docs.seismic.systems/
• Blog: https://www.seismic.systems/blog

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Dean Tribble from Agoric. Agoric is a blockchain platform that enables seamless multi-chain coordination through orchestration, allowing developers to create long-lived JavaScript smart contracts with native async execution, multi-block workflows, and automated cross-chain interactions.

Topics Discussed:

• JavaScript Smart Contracts for Web3 developers.
• Orchestration Layer automating multi-chain workflows.
• Multi-Block Execution enabling complex smart contracts.
• Cross-Chain Transactions made seamless and efficient.
• Smart Wallet Offers ensuring safety and automation.
• Fast Stablecoin Transfers cutting cross-chain wait times.

Follow us on Twitter:

• Tokensoft – @TokensoftInc
• Mason – @masonic_tweets
• Project – @agoric
• Dean Tribble – @DeanTribble

More information about Agoric:

• Website: https://agoric.com/
• Docs: https://docs.agoric.com/
• Blog: http://agoric.com/blog/

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Chandra and Manoj Duggirala from Portal to Bitcoin. Portal to Bitcoin is a trust-minimized, cross-chain DEX that enables secure, non-custodial atomic swaps between Bitcoin and other blockchains without relying on bridges or intermediaries..

Topics Discussed:

• Trustless swaps eliminate bridge and exchange risks
• HTLC security ensures swaps inherit Bitcoin’s trust model
• Layer 2 swaps enable fast, cheap, trustless cross-chain transactions
• BitScaler scaling supports multi-party liquidity on Bitcoin
• LP incentives provide rewards for cross-chain liquidity
• Portal SDK enables seamless swaps in any wallet

Follow us on Twitter:

• Chandra – @csentropy
• Manoj – @manojduggi
• Portal To Bitcoin – @PortaltoBitcoin
• Tokensoft – @TokensoftInc
• Mason – @masonic_tweets

More information about Portal to Bitcoin:

• Website: https://portaltobitcoin.com/
• Docs: https://docs.portaldefi.com/
• Discord: https://discord.gg/portaltobitcoin

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Fred Hsu from D3. D3 is the first authoritative network built for DomainFi that tokenizes domains as real-world assets for billions of users on the root layer of the internet.

Topics Discussed:

• Tokenizing domains on the DOMA Protocol
• On-chain DNS resolution for Web3 compatibility
• Automated escrow and smart contract trading
• Fractionalized ownership and liquidity solutions
• DeFi integration: borrowing, lending, and trading
• ICANN compliance and institutional adoption
• Scalability with L2s and zk-proofs

Follow us on Twitter:

• Fred Hsu – @heyheyfred
• Project – @D3inc
• Tokensoft – @TokensoftInc
• Mason – @masonic_tweets

More information about D3:

• Website: https://d3.inc/
• Docs: https://docs.d3.app/
• Blog: https://d3.inc/blog/
• Discord: https://discord.gg/tPgDbWdcYP

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Dylan Zhang from Pond. Pond is a crypto-native AI model platform that enables developers to collaboratively create, own, and monetize blockchain-specific AI models by leveraging on-chain data.

Topics Discussed:

• Focusing on on-chain models for trading, risk assessment, and wallet profiling.
• Enabling developers to own, monetize, and improve hosted models using open blockchain data.
• Running competitions, including collaborations with Vitalik, to advance public goods funding and blockchain analytics.
• Addressing the cost of fully on-chain models by optimizing decentralization and efficiency.
• Exploring DeFi, tokenized assets, and AI integrations without becoming a blockchain itself.
• Supporting decentralized, competition-based model development like Kaggle while preserving developer ownership.

Follow us on Twitter:

• Tokensoft – @TokensoftInc
• Mason – @masonic_tweets
• Project – @PondGNN
• Dylan Zhang – @ThinksDylan

More information about Pond:

• Website – https://cryptopond.xyz/ 
• Docs – https://doc.cryptopond.xyz/docs/introducing-pond 
• Model Labs – https://cryptopond.xyz/modellabs
• Model Factory – https://cryptopond.xyz/modelfactory/list 

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Dr K from Quai Network. Quai is transforming the world of blockchain with the first decentralized energy dollar, $Qi, designed to provide predictable value and facilitate seamless transactions on the only scalable and programmable Proof-of-work blockchain.

As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone.

Follow us on Twitter:

Tokensoft – @TokensoftInc

Mason – @masonic_tweets

Quai – @QuaiNetwork

Dr K – @mechanikalk

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Karel from Union. Union is a trustless, hyper-efficient zero-knowledge infrastructure layer enabling fast, secure interchain messaging and asset transfers using ZK cryptography and BLS signatures. 

As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone.

Follow us on Twitter:

Tokensoft – @TokensoftInc

Mason – @masonic_tweets

Karel – @0xkaiserkarel

Union – @union_build

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Bram from Chia Network. Chia's proprietary consensus mechanism Proof of Space and Time drastically reduces energy requirements of Proof of Work based blockchains like Bitcoin.


As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone.


Follow us on Twitter:

Tokensoft – @TokensoftInc
Mason – @masonic_tweets
Bram – @bramcohen
Chia – @chia_project

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Anurag from Avail and Misha from Symbiotic. Avail is the unification layer for Web3, allowing modular execution layers to scale and interoperate in a trust minimized way.

Avail’s recent partnership with Symbiotic is game changing for developers, with streamlined interoperability and shared security.

As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone.

Follow us on Twitter:

Tokensoft – @TokensoftInc 

Mason – @masonic_tweets

Anurag – @anuragarjun

Avail – @AvailProject 

Misha – @Psalom

Symbiotic – @Symbioticfi

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Can from t1 Protocol.  t1 Protocol leverages Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) and user signature verification to generate real-time proofs.

As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone.

Follow us on Twitter:
Tokensoft – @TokensoftInc 
Mason – @masonic_tweets
t1 Protocol – @t1protocol
Can – @kisaguncan

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Robert from Native, the first platform that enables Bitcoin programmability with zero trust architecture.

Topics:

–  ₿  Underserved Bitcoin community   
– 👨‍💻 Multi-party computation (MPC) to program Bitcoin transactions directly
– ✅ Combining the benefits of both L1 and L2 solutions 
– ⏱️ Aiming to achieve block times of 2-3 seconds
– 🚀 Mainnet launch in Q1

As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone.

Follow us on Twitter:
Tokensoft – @TokensoftInc 
Mason – @masonic_tweets
Native – @NativeNetwork
Robert – @RobertZarembaIT

Check us out on the Web:
Tokensoft – https://www.tokensoft.com/ 
Native – https://www.gonative.cc/ 

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Rand from Zama. Zama is an open source cryptography protocol building state-of-the-art fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) solutions for blockchain and AI.

As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone.

Follow us on Twitter:
Tokensoft – @TokensoftInc 
Mason – @masonic_tweets
Zama – @zama_fhe
Rand – @randhindi 

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Arjun from Everclear, the first clearing layer. Everclear coordinates the global settlement of liquidity between chains, solving fragmentation for modular blockchains.

As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone.

Follow us on Twitter:
Tokensoft – @TokensoftInc 
Mason – @masonic_tweets
Everclear – @EverclearOrg
Arjun – @arjunbhuptani  

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Stephanie and Sun of Veda, the first native yield layer for DeFi. Veda tokenizes the most complex DeFi interactions, granting protocols the power to embed yield for a superior UX.

As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone.

Follow us on Twitter:
Tokensoft – @TokensoftInc 
Veda – @veda_labs
Stephanie – @goodstephv
Sun – @sunandr_

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This week, our host Mason sat down with David of Alpen Labs. Alpen Labs is expanding global financial access & individual agency through ZK-enabled infrastructure on Bitcoin.

As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone.

Follow us on Twitter:
Tokensoft – @TokensoftInc 
Alpen Labs – @AlpenLabs 
David – @david_seroy 

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Toby of OrdinalsBot. OrdinalsBot provides accessible tools and resources for inscriptions, token creation, digital collectibles, and more within the Bitcoin ecosystem.

As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone.

Follow us on Twitter:
Tokensoft – @TokensoftInc
OrdinalsBot – @ordinalsbot
Toby – @tobynovum

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Jakob of Hermetica. Hermetica is a DeFi app built on Stacks, allowing users to earn yield on their BTC.

As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone.

Follow us on Twitter:
Tokensoft - @TokensoftInc
Hermetica - @HermeticaFi

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Billy and Andrew of  Intuition. Intuition is a decentralized knowledge graph for web3.

As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone.

Follow us on Twitter:
Tokensoft - @TokensoftInc
0xIntuition - @0xIntuition

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Hart of UMA Protocol. UMA is a long-time DeFi project with many offerings. In this episode, we learned about Oval - an MEV capture technology that wraps price oracles and generates protocol revenue.

As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone.

Follow us on Twitter:
Tokensoft - @TokensoftInc
UMA Protocol - @umaprotocol

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Nika of Hinkal Protocol. Hinkal is an institutional-grade onchain privacy protocol.

As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone.

Follow us on Twitter:
Tokensoft - @TokensoftInc
Hinkal Protocol - @hinkal_protocol

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Omer of dWallet Network. dWallet Network is making Bitcoin natively programmable.

As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone.

Follow us on Twitter:
Tokensoft - @TokensoftInc
dWallet Network - @dwalletnetwork

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This week, our host Mason sat down with Tycho for a deep dive on Zest Protocol. Zest is a DeFi protocol for borrowing and lending $BTC. It's built on Stacks, a leading Layer-2 network on top of Bitcoin.

 brokerage for Ethereum, supporting lending and borrowing up to 20x leverage.
 
As always, we dove deep into the technical side of things. We hope you'll join us in The Fren Zone.

Follow us on Twitter:
Tokensoft - @TokensoftInc
Zest Protocol - @ZestProtocol