Token for Your Thoughts
🎙️ Token for Your Thoughts is the podcast where we sit down with the people behind the companies shaping Crypto & Web3. Hosted by Lindsey McConaghy, each episode dives into the stories of founders, builders, and innovators creating the future of crypto, blockchain, and decentralized tech.
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Can Your Steps Earn You Money? Oleg Fomenko on Building the Movement Economy
🎙️ Guest: Oleg Fomenko, Co-founder & CEO of Sweat Economy
🕒 Duration: ~50 minutes
Episode Overview
In this episode, host Lindsey McConaghy chats with Oleg Fomenko, co-founder and CEO of Sweat Economy, the company behind Sweatcoin and the broader “movement economy.” Oleg shares how a personal fitness setback inspired the idea, why they started centralized before moving on-chain, and how Sweat Economy is now onboarding millions of people into crypto by simply rewarding them for walking.
They cover:
- Discovering Bitcoin in 2011 and early experiments with blockchain
- Why the first Sweatcoin launched off-chain (and when they switched)
- How Sweat Economy overcame fraud attempts like “phones on dishwashers”
- Barriers that keep people out of crypto, and how Sweat Economy lowers them
- Partnerships with healthcare providers, including the UK’s NHS
- The parallels between the attention economy and the movement economy
- How Sweat Economy’s tokenomics work - from “Grow Jars” to universal gas fees
- Where Oleg sees the next billion people entering Web3
Where to Listen
🔹 Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-your-steps-earn-you-money-oleg-fomenko-on-building/id1799063494?i=1000722159800
🔹 Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/episode/56731Wjs2hHZXHvDRcehvS?si=8e7fdf59407d435f
🔹 YouTube → https://youtu.be/ySw8BC3dr14
Connect with Sweat Economy & Oleg Fomenko
🌐 Website: https://swe.at/
🐦 X (Twitter): @SweatEconomy | @oleg_fem
🔗 LinkedIn: Oleg Fomenko
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