Beyond Cosmoverse

Charles d'Haussy spent 20 years in Hong Kong building a company, leading FinTech for the Hong Kong government at Invest Hong Kong, co-organizing Hong Kong FinTech Week, and helping build the first iterations of Project mBridge with BIS and ConsenSys. He then moved to Dubai, wrote Arabian Crypto documenting the rise of the UAE's digital asset ecosystem, and now leads the dYdX Foundation as...

Florian Spiegel trained as a forester in the Austrian mountains before becoming the founder and CEO of EVIDENT, one of Hong Kong's most advanced tokenized private markets platforms. In this episode, he traces that path, from reading the Bitcoin whitepaper as a PhD student in Vienna to building a licensed platform that runs 100% of its volume on blockchain rails, and serving on the SFC's Fi...

Euro-denominated stablecoins account for less than 1% of global stablecoin volume. For the world's second largest currency that is a structural problem. Erwin Voloder, Director for Research and Strategy at Blockchain for Europe and co-author of the "Reforming MiCA for Euro Stablecoins" report with former ECB Director Dr. Ulrich Bindseil, joins the show as the European Commission'...

BCG started getting blockchain projects in 2018. By 2024, it had become a full practice. Bernhard Kronfellner, Partner and Associate Director at BCG and the firm's Web3 lead for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, has been at the centre of that shift, advising the world's largest financial institutions, regulators in Austria and Qatar, and co-authoring reports with Ripple, IBM, Dfns, and...

Vodafone has 187 million connected devices. David Palmer, Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of Pairpoint by Vodafone, has spent 25 years building the infrastructure underneath them—from 3G and 4G to enterprise blockchain, and now a live platform that gives IoT devices a cryptographic identity anchored in the SIM card. In this episode, he walks through what it actually takes to build production-...

In this special episode of Beyond Cosmoverse, Michael Cito (known as CryptoCito), the founder of Cosmoverse and co-founder of Stakecito traces the full arc: from Crypto Mondays in Shanghai to building one of the longest-running conferences in the digital asset space, and what it actually takes to survive in this industry. Topics covered: how a tweet asking "what is Cosmos?" changed the c...

Bosch started exploring distributed ledger technology in 2015, before the retail wave, before the ICO boom, before most enterprises had even heard the term. In this episode, Peter Busch, Global Product Owner DLT at Bosch and Co-Founder of the Fetch.ai Foundation, walks through what it actually took to build the case for decentralized infrastructure inside one of the world's largest engineering...

Serbia adopted its digital asset act in 2021, three years before MiCA. In this episode, Anina Milanović, who helped build that framework at the Securities Commission of Serbia and now works at the World Bank on capital market digitalization, shares what it took, what they got wrong, and where emerging markets stand today. Topics Serbia's Digital Asset Act, how it compares to MiCA, tokenized bo...