The most important milestone in crypto, argues Nic Roberts-Huntley, will be the one that goes completely unnoticed. In this episode of Exponential, the founder and CEO of Blueprint Finance sits down t...

Nexus founder and CEO Daniel Marin appeared on the Exponential podcast this week to address the company's decision to pull back from its March 17th milestone campaign and to lay out his views on AI, agentic finance, and what he sees as the defi...

In this episode of Exponential, Laszlo Szabo, co-founder and CEO of Kiln, joins to talk about one of the most important developments quietly happening in crypto today: the evolution of yield in digital assets. As Laszlo explains, yi...

In this episode of Exponential, Jin Kwon, co-founder of saga.xyz, explains how blockchain infrastructure will disappear into the background.Saga began as what Jin calls “a chain to launch chains.” The original thesis was simple:...

In this episode of Exponential, Joao Reginatto joins to discuss the future of digital money and the role M0 is playing in making stablecoins more customizable, composable, and interoperable. As Reginatto explains, M0 is building “an op...

In this episode of Exponential, Kevin Lehtiniitty, CEO of Borderless, shares how his team is building a new kind of financial network — one where stablecoins move across global corridors just as easily as traditional money, but with fa...

In this episode of Exponential, Zohar Bronfman, co-founder and CEO of Pecan AI, unpacks the role of predictive AI in today’s business landscape — and why it’s quickly becoming indispensable.At...

In this episode of Exponential, Wucklace, a self-taught developer and creator of Exhibition DeFi, shares his path from fashion design to building onchain — and why he’s working a new kind of platform on Nexus.His journey started...

In this episode of Exponential, Oliwer Nastaziak, chief growth officer at Fren.One, shares what it’s like to build and moderate internet-native communities — and why those communities matter more than ever.Oliwer has been deep in the tre...

In this episode of Exponential, Joseph Zhang, co-founder and CEO of CatchBack, explains how a side hustle flipping Pokémon cards evolved into a full-stack collectibles trading platform. Combining lessons from crypto infrastructure with...

In this episode of Exponential, Aisling Connolly, Chief Strategy Officer at TACEO, joins the show to unpack the deeper technical and philosophical motivations behind verifiable finance. With a background...

In a world where AI can generate realistic images in seconds, Faust founder and CEO, Kosuke July Hata, who goes by July, is building a new kind of camera — one that proves a photo was actually taken by a human, on a specific device, at a specif...

In Episode 16 of Exponential, Alec James from the Nexus product team introduces a major new release: the Nexus DEX Alpha, a core protocol component designed to deliver deep liquidity and high-performance trading from the ground up....

In this episode of Exponential, Dylan Kawalec, Head of Developer Relations at Phala Network, breaks down how Phala is building verifiable compute infrastructure using trusted hardware and open-source tooling. The goal: pri...

In this episode of Exponential, Genzio Media co-founder and CEO Zack shares his perspective on the maturing Web3 landscape — and why the next wave will look very different from the last.A crypto native since 2011, Zack launched ...

In episode 13 of Exponential, Nexus founder and CEO Daniel Marin outlines near-term roadmap and long-term ambitions. With Testnet III reaching more than three million participants, Nexus is preparing for its most significant milestone ...

For Dynamic co-founder and CEO Itai Turbahn, the future of crypto is in infrastructure. His company, Dynamic, builds wallet tooling designed to disappear behind the apps we already use. In this episode of Exponential, Itai lay...

In a digital world saturated with manipulated media and synthetic imagery, trust is no longer a given. Photojournalist David Butow has spent his career documenting real events — from the war in Iraq to protests in Washington — and he’s now at t...

In Episode 10 of Exponential, AI Seer founder and CEO Dennis Yap and AI Seer CTO Shahruj Rashid join to discuss their mission: building AI systems that can detect and dismantle misinformation at internet scale.You can find more ...

In Episode 9 of Exponential, Jim Nasr, CEO of Acoer, joins us to tackle one of the most broken but vital systems in modern life: healthcare data. His story starts where many do — with a personal experience that revealed just how fragme...

In a space that moves at the speed of Twitter and trades on memes, launching a print magazine about crypto feels almost radical. But for veteran journalists Zack Seward and Joon Ian Wong, that’s exactly the point. Their new project, Use Cas...

In Episode 7 of Exponential, Grigore Roșu — professor, computer scientist, and founder of Pi Squared — joins the show to explore a bold thesis: blockchains as we know them are only a first step.The future of web3, Grigore argues...

In Episode 6 of Exponential, Dylan Zhang, co-founder and CEO of Pond, joins us to unpack a fast-emerging frontier: helping early-stage AI startups launch, scale, and find product-market fit through a new kind of internet-native capital...

As the Web3 space matures, projects are rethinking how to grow and sustain communities. In Episode 5 of Exponential, Zach Heerwagen, co-founder and CEO of Snag, joined us to explore how “questing” is emerging as a powerful mechanism fo...

In the fourth episode of Exponential, Samuel Judson — head of zkVM engineering at Nexus — joins the show to unpack the science, strategy, and systems thinking behind zero-knowledge cryptography. Sam brings a rare combinatio...