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For episode 783 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Sandy York, host of The Power of Connection podcast and Founder of The Vegas Connection, to discuss entrepreneurship, networking, and the importance of building meaningful relationships in Las Vegas. Throughout the episode, Brandon and Sandy explore her entrepreneurial journey, the inspiration behind The Vegas Connection, how...

Caius and Julius kick off the week with Monday's biggest emerging-tech stories. Amazon is reportedly in talks to acquire AI startup Decart for up to $7 billion, a bet on chip-portability software as compute scarcity deepens. Broadcom CEO Hock Tan says capital — not memory chips — is the biggest bottleneck in AI growth, Bitcoin stabilizes near $84K as ETF outflows slow ahead of Wednesday's...

Host Brandon Zemp is joined by Janae McGiboney, Rental Arbitrage Coach and The Womanaire, to discuss entrepreneurship, financial independence, and building a business through short-term rentals. Throughout the episode, Brandon and Janae explore how rental arbitrage allows entrepreneurs to generate income from properties they don't own, the opportunities and challenges of operating short-term r...

BlockHash Morning Brief — October 8, 2026 | Mistral's Trillion-Parameter Le Chonk, US Government's $770M Bitcoin Move, ASOS Breach Fallout Caius and Julius break down Thursday's tech news: Mistral releases its one-trillion-parameter Large 4 model with open weights coming in three weeks, Anthropic's Claude pushes a Riemann hypothesis bound from 41.6% to 67.2% as math becomes the new...

For episode 781 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by JB Benjamin, CEO of Veldris, to explore the company and its Midgard platform. Midgard is an open-source AI and data platform designed to help organizations run AI on their own infrastructure while retaining control of their data, models, and encryption keys. With local AI, post-quantum encryption, and support for fully offlin...

BlockHash Morning Brief — October 6, 2026 | Ethereum's Glamsterdam Upgrade, CFTC Crypto Rules, Denmark's Record Breach   Caius and Julius break down Tuesday's biggest tech stories: Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade activates on the Sepolia testnet this morning, the CFTC proposes landmark crypto trading rules after the CLARITY Act's collapse, Denmark confirms the biggest cyberattack in its...

BlockHash Morning Brief — October 5, 2026 (Premiere) | AI Compute Futures, Token Week Singapore   Caius and Julius launch the BlockHash Morning Brief — your daily tech breakdown brought to you by BlockHash. Today: CME's AI compute futures go live, Token Week Singapore opens, the Crypto King trial begins, Ethereum's Glamsterdam testnet lands Tuesday, plus the weekend's biggest stor...

For episode 780 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Cris Blanco, Chief Strategy Officer for Beldex, a privacy-first Layer-1 ecosystem that just crossed 1.5 million cumulative installs across its app suite. Rather than shipping isolated privacy tools, Beldex runs a unified stack: encrypted messaging, a decentralized VPN, a private browser, a name service, and a wallet, all secu...

For episode 779 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Benjamin Sarquis Peillard, Founder and CEO of Cap, an onchain credit marketplace backed by financial guarantees. Throughout the episode, Brandon and Benjamin explore the evolution of stablecoins and onchain credit, how Cap connects institutional borrowers with digital asset markets, the role of underwriting and financial guar...

For episode 778 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Gleb Morgachev, Co-Creator of Gonka, an open-source decentralized AI network designed to make high-performance AI compute more accessible and efficient.    Throughout the episode, Brandon and Gleb explore how Gonka turns computational power into useful AI work, its approach to Proof of Compute, how decentralized net...

For episode 777 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Kenneth Shek, CEO at Moca Network and Managing Director at Animoca Brands. Kenneth leads the Moca Network, Animoca Brands' identity ecosystem, building decentralized identity infrastructure across a network spanning more than 500 portfolio companies and 700M+ addressable users, and can discuss AI agents and digital identity,...

For episode 776 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Mark Zalan, CEO of GoMining, an innovative global crypto platform that makes Bitcoin mining accessible and easy through unique digital miners backed by real-world data center infrastructure.    By replacing expensive hardware and complex setups with NFT-based computing power, the ecosystem allows users worldwide to...

For episode 775 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Andreja Cobeljic, Head of Derivatives Trading for AMINA Bank, a Swiss-regulated digital asset bank that bridges the gap between traditional fiat banking and the Web3 ecosystem.    Headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, and licensed by FINMA, the institution rebranded from SEBA Bank to expand its global footprint across...

For episode 774 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Louis Régis, Founder & CEO of Propr, a prominent, crypto-native online retail prop firm that launched in mid-2026.    Developed by XBorg and backed by SwissBorg (one of Europe's largest crypto wealth platforms), Propr specifically targets decentralized finance (DeFi) and crypto-centric traders. Unlike tra...

For episode 773 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Abdul Rafay Gadit, Co-founder of ZIGChain. ZIGChain is a permissionless Layer 1 blockchain, explicitly optimized for decentralized wealth management and the tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs).    📣 This episode is brought to you by Sumsub.   Sumsub is a leading full-cycle verification platform purpose-bu...

For episode 772 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Duncan Reucassel, CIO of Triton Liquid Fund to discuss Hypercall and onchain options. Hypercall is a permissionless, onchain options protocol built on top of Hyperliquid by the team behind Synapse Protocol. It is designed to bring professional-grade options markets on-chain by utilizing Hyperliquid's deep perpetual futures li...

For episode 771 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Waseem Salim, CEO of Valdora Finance, ZIGChain’s liquid staking layer. Stake $ZIG and receive stZIG, a liquid, yield-bearing position you can use across the ecosystem. They’re building toward Liquid Everything: vault-based strategies that turn staking into a foundation for broader, structured market access over time.   📣 Thi...

For episode 770 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Jeff Lunglhofer, CSO of Coinbase. As Chief Security Officer, Jeff leads Coinbase’s global cyber strategy, operations, engineering, and trust & safety efforts across both retail and institutional businesses, including Web3 and DeFi security through Coinbase’s Blockchain Security and Unit 0x research teams. Prio...

For episode 769 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Michael Steuer, President & CTO of Casper Network. Casper is the Layer 1 infrastructure for regulated real-world assets and machine commerce. On Casper, institutions can bring assets onchain under enforceable rules, while autonomous systems can operate through their own accounts and participate in financial activity as ec...

For episode 768 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Miles Paschini, Chief Executive Officer for FV Bank. FV Bank is a regulated global digital bank and qualified digital asset custodian headquartered in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The financial infrastructure platform serves global fintechs, enterprises, and individual freelancers by vertically integrating traditional banking servi...

For episode 767 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Ryan Louvar, Chief Legal Officer of WisdomTree. WisdomTree is a global financial innovator and asset management firm that bridges traditional finance (TradFi) and blockchain technology through a dedicated focus on digital assets and tokenized real-world assets (RWAs).   📣 This episode is brought to you by Sumsub.   Sumsub is...

For episode 766 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Elisa Lu, COO and Co-founder of Memoket, an AI hardware company building the context layer between the physical world and AI. Before Memoket, she spent nearly a decade in brand commercialization and marketing leadership at Anker Innovations, where she grew brand revenue 6x in three years. At Memoket, she leads international o...

For episode 765 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Alladan Flinn, the founder of Based Trading Cards, a California-based premium collectibles company built around Bitcoin culture, original art, nostalgia, education, transparency, and true scarcity.    Through Based Trading Cards, he has created limited-run releases that combine collector-first print runs, rare chase cards, sp...

For episode 764 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Joe Vollono the Chief Commercial Officer at STBL, where he leads global commercial strategy to scale the STBL Protocol and its RWA-backed financial ecosystem.   Previously, Joe led Business Development for central banking and stablecoin (RLUSD) at Ripple, advising commercial banks, central banks, and finance ministries on dig...

For episode 763 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by David Wei Liang from the Conflux Network, where they are building the L1 infrastructure for seamless payments, global remittances, and decentralized finance.   📣 This episode is brought to you by Sumsub.   Sumsub is a leading full-cycle verification platform purpose-built for the crypto industry, chosen by 8 out of 10 of the...