The AllinCrypto Podcast

Circle debated building its own blockchain for more than four years before it built Arc. Gagan Mac, VP Product at Circle, explains why Arc is designed as an economic operating system for the internet, and why stablecoins could give anyone online the same access to a wallet, a currency and global assets. Then the conversation turns to AI, and why trust may become the real bottleneck when intelligen...

Binance was hit by what was called the biggest hack in internet history, and Bitcoin fell only about 6%. What does that resilience say about who holds crypto now, and how close are crypto-native instruments to becoming regulated products for everyday investors? Jasmin Muelhaupt is Head of Product at 21shares. The conversation opens with the US midterms and whether they threaten crypto and AI, then...

For years, tokenization inside banks was stuck in pilots that never shipped. Ami Ben David, Founder & CEO of Ownera, explains why that is changing, why the real gatekeeper is the bank's risk department and not the technology, and why he thinks the long-term future is public chains. • From Spice VC to Securitize: tokenizing a fund in the ICO era, and why it's okay to be early as long as you're...

What happens when a public company's treasury doesn't just hold tokens, but puts them to work? With over 14 million AVAX staked for native yield and operating businesses built around the network, this conversation tests whether the 'DAT 2.0' label is more than a rebrand. Pete Wylie joins the conversation as interim CEO. The conversation unpacks the 'DAT 2.0' model: a Nasdaq-traded digital asset tr...

Is the traditional tech stack already at its breaking point? From AI-driven hacking to drones hitting data centers, this conversation makes the case for tamper-proof, unstoppable code and a serverless cloud built the internet way. Dominic Williams is the Founder of the DFINITY Foundation. • From Smart Drives in the late 1990s and the 2014 Pebble paper to the Internet Computer as a world computer •...

Geopolitical fragmentation, a shifting monetary order and the rise of AI are not slowing blockchain adoption down. They are speeding it up. SMQKE joins AllInCrypto to make that case, tracing a line from BRICS payments outside SWIFT to the ISO 20022 altcoins expected to lead the next wave. • BRICS building a payment network outside SWIFT, India pushing back on Chinese CBDC dominance, and why a frag...

What if the biggest threat to traditional banking isn't Bitcoin, but stablecoins? In this episode of AllInCrypto, Rupert Pickering sits down with Sid Powell, CEO & Co-Founder of Maple Finance, to explore how cryptocurrency could fundamentally reshape the global financial system. With over $25 billion in loans originated, Maple is at the forefront of institutional crypto lending. But according...

What happens to global finance when countries stop trusting each other? This episode makes the case that every major crisis has pushed crypto forward, from the 2008 bank bailouts that led to Bitcoin to the COVID money printing that led to DeFi. Now the breakdown of trust between nations is putting crypto forward as a neutral system the world can transact on. Johann Eid is the Chief Business Office...

Could stablecoins make Visa and Mastercard obsolete? And could blockchain become the essential infrastructure behind AI agents and the next generation of global finance? Antony Welfare, former Ripple CBDC advisor who worked with more than 30 central banks and founder of TrustCBRC, joins AllInCrypto to explain why the real blockchain revolution goes far beyond cryptocurrency speculation. From the f...

When a clearing system that handles about two trillion dollars a day picks its blockchain operating system, what does that mean for the token behind it? After recent announcements pushed QNT from about $61 to about $350, this conversation asks whether Quant is the layer that lets the old financial world merge with the new one. Apex Crypto Insights joins AllInCrypto to break down the Quant Network...

What happens when the US has to roll over its debt with 10-year yields above 5%? For Geoffrey Kendrick, that pressure is part of the Bitcoin case, and part of why he argues crypto is back and the low is in. The bigger shift may sit underneath Bitcoin: stablecoins, tokenization and protocols whose fees keep growing while their tokens stay cheap. Geoffrey Kendrick is Global Head of Digital Assets Re...

What if TPS is the wrong way to measure a blockchain's scale? Arbitrum began as a Princeton research project nicknamed the "Professor Coin," and today Robinhood runs its own chain on the Arbitrum stack. So why does market sentiment still lag behind what institutions are actually building? Steven Goldfeder is the co-founder and CEO of Offchain. The conversation follows Arbitrum from its academic ro...

Could Solana become the foundation of a new financial system — one capable of competing with Nasdaq and bringing global capital markets on-chain? Nick Almond, Head of Governance at the Jito Foundation and co-author of the Solana Constitution, joins Rupert Pickering on AllInCrypto to explore Solana’s future, Jito’s growing role in the ecosystem, and the changing economics of cryptocurrency. Nick ex...

What do 16 major investment banks really think about crypto and tokenization? Rupert Pickering is joined by Anthony Ralphs, Founder of Nova Modus and formerly at Ripple, and Chris Ostrowski, Founder & CEO of SODA, to explore what banks actually want from blockchain and why adoption at scale remains so difficult. Drawing on SODA’s research with 16 major investment banks, we discuss the real-wor...

William Herkelrath, the new CEO of Algorand, joins AllInCrypto for an exclusive conversation on the future of the network and the broader direction of crypto. We discuss why security could become one of Algorand’s biggest opportunities, how AI may represent a more immediate cybersecurity threat than quantum computing, and why post-quantum infrastructure could become increasingly important across W...

What happens when trillions of dollars in traditional finance start moving onchain? Christopher Perkins, Head of Franklin Crypto at Franklin Templeton, joins AllInCrypto to explain why institutional adoption may be far further along than most people realize. We discuss why public blockchains could become the infrastructure for 24/7 financial markets, what a potential $160 trillion onchain shift co...

Francis Hunt, The Market Sniper, returns to AllInCrypto to break down why he believes the crypto bottom may already be in. We discuss Bitcoin’s market structure, the rotation from gold into crypto and altcoins, his $2,100 Zcash technical target, the risk of one final market flush, the global debt crisis, and why privacy could become one of the biggest themes in the next financial system. A wide-ra...

Are altcoins dying, is the traditional crypto cycle breaking down, and could the next phase of crypto look completely different from the last? Gracy Chen, CEO of Bitget, one of the world’s leading crypto exchanges, breaks down where she believes the market is heading, why institutional capital is changing the game, and which parts of crypto could actually matter in the years ahead. In this episode...

David Busch, CFA®, Chief Investment Officer at Trajan Wealth, joins AllInCrypto to discuss the AI investment boom, pressure on the US consumer, the future of the dollar, Bitcoin, stablecoins and the tokenization of global markets. He explains: ■ Why massive AI spending could pressure Big Tech earnings ■ How sanctions could accelerate alternatives to the US dollar ■ Why Bitcoin could evolve into a...

Doomberg believes World War III has already started just not in the way most people imagine. In this wide-ranging conversation, Doomberg joins Rupert Pickering to explore how geopolitical conflict is increasingly being fought through finance, sanctions, industrial capacity, critical resources and technology. They discuss the growing tensions between the US, China, Russia and Iran, the strategic im...

What happens when millions of AI agents start transacting 24/7? As AI moves beyond chatbots and begins making decisions, buying data, accessing compute and executing transactions autonomously, the infrastructure behind the digital economy may need to change with it. In this episode of the AllInCrypto Podcast, we sit down with Will Beaumont, Chief Product Officer at the Algorand Foundation , to exp...

Could AI become a bigger opportunity than Bitcoin and what happens if Bitcoin miners start choosing AI instead? In this episode of AllInCrypto, Rupert sits down with Charles Edwards , investor, founder of Capriole Investments and creator of Bitcoin’s Hash Ribbons model, for a wide-ranging discussion on Bitcoin, AI, quantum computing, macro markets and the future of crypto. Charles explains why he...

What happens when the infrastructure powering artificial intelligence is controlled by only a handful of companies? In this episode of the AllInCrypto Podcast, we sit down with Gaurav Sharma, CEO & CTO of io.net , to explore the rapidly growing battle over GPUs, AI compute and the infrastructure that could shape the next generation of the internet. Gaurav argues that in an AI-driven economy, t...

In this episode of AllInCrypto, we sit down with Yoni Assia, Founder & CEO of eToro , for a deep conversation about AI agents, Bitcoin, DeFi, tokenization and the transformation of global financial markets. Yoni explains why he believes AI and crypto are a “pair made in heaven” — and shares his own experience asking an AI agent to open an Ethereum wallet, only to discover it could interact wit...

AI agents may soon need their own wallets and BitGo is already working on the infrastructure that could make it possible. In this episode of the AllInCrypto Podcast, we sit down with Jody Mettler, Chief Operating Officer of BitGo and President of BitGo Bank & Trust , to explore how digital assets are evolving from speculative investments into real financial infrastructure. After spending 22 ye...