Bitcoin.com News Interviews

Can decentralized AI really compete with OpenAI and Anthropic? Bittensor co-founder Const joins Alex Richardson at Exploit Summit in Montreal to explain why he believes the future of artificial intelligence should be open, permissionless, and owned by its users rather than controlled by a handful of powerful companies. Const breaks down Bittensor’s vision as a Bitcoin-style network for intelligenc...

Binance just suffered an estimated  $6.3 billion hack , potentially one of the biggest crypto heists ever. But instead of crashing, Bitcoin and the broader crypto market barely reacted. In this episode of  Token Narratives , Graham Stone, Alex Richardson, and  Bitcoin.com  News Lead Jamie Redman unpack what the Binance hack reveals about how much the crypto industry has changed. They explore wheth...

What happens when one of Wall Street's biggest banks goes all in on digital assets? Amy Oldenburg, Head of Digital Asset Strategy at Morgan Stanley , joins  Bitcoin.com  News' Live News Desk at TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026. She explains how the bank passed $1 billion across its crypto ETPs in under six months, why some clients want an ETP while others insist on self-custody, and how its adviso...

What happens when agentic AI produces more work than anyone can check? Will O'Brien, Founder & CEO of Provenonce and a co-founder of BitGo , joins Alex Richardson at Exploit Summit in Montreal. He explains the assurance gap, how a 2014 essay on machine-to-machine commerce became Subnet 87's Proof of Assurance (on testnet), and why he thinks the greater risk with AI is ignorance, not dystopia....

What does it take for a crypto company to earn trust when things go wrong? Tim Stanyakin, Head of Growth at ChangeNOW , joins Matthew Owens at TOKEN2049. He traces ChangeNOW from a 2017 swap service to a crypto super app, and explains why crypto and traditional finance will collaborate rather than compete, and how compliance and security build user confidence. Topics covered: Building a crypto sup...

Could autonomous AI agents become major users of blockchain payments? TRON founder Justin Sun believes machine-to-machine transactions could become a significant source of crypto adoption. In this interview at TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026, Sun joins David Sencil to discuss TRON's position in stablecoin settlement and its plans to introduce tokenized U.S. stocks. They also examine TRON's U.S. e...

Is "crypto" about to disappear into finance? Robbie Klages, co-founder of fintech media channel The Rollup, joins Graham Stone at TOKEN2049 Singapore. He found Bitcoin through online poker, traded altcoins, and now hosts conversations at the point where TradFi and DeFi meet. Klages explains why he thinks the meme coin grift is dying while the useful parts of the industry become everyday...

Tony is Director of Institutional Propositions at RootstockLabs . Antonio brings 20 years of experience at the intersection of capital markets, derivatives, and digital assets, with a focus on Bitcoin monetisation at institutional scale. Before joining RootstockLabs, he served as CIO of a thesis-driven digital asset investment fund, delivering an average Sharpe ratio of ~2 and 80% positive months...

Who actually makes money in the meme coin game? Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly and co-host of The Chopping Block, joins  Bitcoin.com  News' Live News Desk at TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026. He explains why riding launchpad meme coins is a losing game for anyone outside the supply chain, and why celebrity coins do lasting damage to crypto's reputation. He also breaks down why token...

Is crypto more undervalued now than it has ever been? Hunter Horsley, co-founder and CEO of Bitwise, joins David Sencil at TOKEN2049 Singapore. He describes the past 12 months as the best and worst of times: prices fell, but investors and large wealth managers kept leaning in. Horsley explains why he thinks crypto's substance has gotten ahead of its price, what the consolidation of digital ass...

Has Bitcoin already bottomed, and are we entering the next bull market? Bitwise CIO  Matt Hougan  joins Alex Richardson and David Sencil to explain why he believes Bitcoin bottomed in June and has since entered an early-stage bull market, despite potential volatility surrounding the U.S. midterm elections. Hougan breaks down why Federal Reserve rate cuts may matter less than many investors think,...

What if you never had to hold cash in a bank? Dr. Lin Han, founder and CEO of Gate , joins  Bitcoin.com  News' Live News Desk at TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026 on the day of Gate's "One Gate, Everything Money" upgrade. He explains his idea of holding Bitcoin, gold or stocks instead of cash and spending them directly, with the switch to fiat at the point of sale. He also tells how a Bit...

Are crypto exchanges still competing with each other, or with your bank? Alex Kozenko,  WhiteBIT’s Group CMO and Denys Stukalenko , Chief Commercial Officer, join  Bitcoin.com  News' Live News Desk at  TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026. Kozenko says the real rivals now are Robinhood, Revolut and Nubank, and that within a few years users won't see a line between banks, neobanks and Web3 banks. Stuka...

Why do so many good crypto ideas fail the first time? Tom Schmidt, General Partner at Dragonfly , joins David Sencil at Korea Blockchain Week 2026 to talk about timing in venture: what made Polymarket click after years of trying, and why Ethena worked where an earlier version of the same idea didn't. He also shares where he sees perp DEXs and prediction markets heading, why Dragonfly's AI...

Fomo co-founder Se Yong Park joins David Sencil live from Korea Blockchain Week to discuss how fomo grew from a single-chain trading product into a broader platform spanning multiple chains, perps and social features. They cover user growth, first-time traders, crypto’s onboarding problem, education, slippage and cross-chain execution, before moving into fomo’s longer-term vision for tokenized equ...

Three months after launching Robinhood Chain's mainnet, what has Robinhood learned? Johann Kerbrat, SVP and GM of Crypto at Robinhood, joins David Sencil at Korea Blockchain Week to look back on the chain's first months, from its growth in TVL to the meme coins paired with tokenized stocks that even Robinhood didn't see coming. He explains how Robinhood's stock tokens are backed on...

AI was supposed to make startups cheaper to build. So why are founders still raising big rounds? Tobias Bauer, who runs venture fund TBV and events company The Best Event, joins David Sencil at Korea Blockchain Week to explain how AI is changing venture capital. A lot of pitches, he says, now come down to one line: "We need compute." He breaks down how compute costs and huge AI rounds ar...

Is the public internet too slow for the future of finance? Austin Federa, CEO and co-founder of DoubleZero, joins David Sencil at Korea Blockchain Week 2026 in Seoul to talk about building a dedicated high-performance network for blockchains and markets, and why he thinks connectivity needs the same kind of shift the cloud brought to compute. Federa explains how DoubleZero Edge delivers traditiona...

What happens to crypto if the AI boom suddenly breaks? Arthur Hayes joins David Sencil at Korea Blockchain Week 2026 to explain why an AI downturn could ultimately unleash trillions of dollars in new liquidity. Hayes breaks down the financial pressure building around AI data centers, why governments could eventually step in, and what another major liquidity cycle could mean for Bitcoin, Ethereum a...

Could Bitcoin still have one major move higher before markets turn? Henrik Zeberg joins Alex Richardson and David Sencil for Bitcoin.com’s first quarterly check-in to reassess his outlook for Bitcoin, the U.S. economy, and global markets. Zeberg believes risk assets may still have one final explosive phase ahead, with the Nasdaq potentially entering a blow-off move. But beneath the market strength...

Could stablecoins become the default way we hold and move money by 2030? WeFi Chairman Reeve Collins Reeve Collins joins Alex Richardson to discuss what could drive the next phase of stablecoin adoption and why banks may soon have little choice but to participate. Collins explains how the GENIUS Act could give banks and financial institutions a clearer framework to enter the stablecoin market, whi...

The CLARITY Act failed to advance in the U.S. Senate leaving one of crypto’s biggest regulatory questions unresolved. So what happens now for DeFi, crypto companies, developers, and users in the United States? Orest Gavryliak, Chief Legal Officer at 1inch, joins the conversation to break down what happened to the legislation, why the Senate procedural vote mattered, and what options may still rema...

Is the global financial system more vulnerable today than it was before the 2008 financial crisis? Economist and Zang International founder Lynette Zang joins Alex Richardson to examine the growing risks she sees across debt, leverage, derivatives, inflation, and the declining purchasing power of money. Zang explains why she views 2008 as a major turning point in the monetary system and why she be...

Bitcoin mining is no longer just about mining machines and hash rate. It is increasingly becoming a story about energy, infrastructure, AI, and compute . Gwyn Lauber, Vice President of Corporate Affairs at Canaan , joins David Sencil to explore how the Bitcoin mining industry is evolving — and why miners may be sitting on infrastructure that becomes increasingly valuable far beyond Bitcoin itself....

Crypto security isn’t just about protecting wallets from hackers. Increasingly, the person holding the crypto can become the target. In this episode, David Sencil sits down with Dr. Marilyne Ordekian Panossian , incoming Assistant Professor at Durham University Law School and researcher in cryptocurrency cybercrime and regulation, to examine the growing threat of “wrench attacks” — physical attack...