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Bitcoin has been promised as a payment layer for 15 years, but merchants still don't use it. Transaction finality, custody concerns, and merchant UX have kept Bitcoin commerce stuck in theory. NON-CUSTODIAL BITCOIN PAYMENTS are now live, and GoMining's GoBTC Pay is bringing debit-card UX to actual Bitcoin settlement.n Mark Zalan, CEO of GoMining, launches the GoBTC Pay Gen1 SDK and API — opening B...

Sleep data is collected by Oura, Whoop, and Apple Watch every night — but the value flows to the platforms, not the user. GAMIFIED SLEEP DATA is the model Sleepagotchi is building, and it just evolved from a Sleep-to-Earn app into what the team calls "The Intelligence Layer for the Wellness Economy." Kenny Wood, CEO of Sleepagotchi, joins Ashton Addison on Blockchain Interviews. Kenny brings over...

Most tokenized real world assets still take 60 to 180 days to redeem. Most restaking protocols lock capital in silos that can't work across chains. COLLATERAL MARKETS INFRASTRUCTURE is what fixes both — and Symbiotic is building the layer that credit, insurance, and RWA liquidity are already running on. Misha Putiatin, Co-Founder and CEO of Symbiotic, breaks down why the restaking label undersells...

Half of web traffic is already synthetic, and neither platforms nor enterprises have a reliable way to tell humans from AI agents at scale. VERIFICATION INFRASTRUCTURE is what Verona is building — and the rebrand from XION, announced June 17 alongside an $18.5M raise for flagship consumer app EarnOS and $30M in brand spend, is the moment that becomes a public priority. Anthony Anzalone, Founder an...

AI agents are already executing financial transactions autonomously — but the infrastructure they're running on was never designed for them. NEAR Protocol is building the settlement layer for the agentic economy: a blockchain where agents can express outcomes, route cross-chain transactions, and operate with built-in privacy guarantees — without a human in the loop for every step. Illia Polosukhin...

Retail traders are structurally disadvantaged on every traditional order book exchange — stop hunting is real, the spread is a hidden tax, and most platforms give institutions tools that retail will never see. FAIR EXECUTION is what Ouinex is building, and it starts by removing the CLOB entirely. Ilies Larbi, CEO of Ouinex, breaks down how the exchange's Fair Execution Engine eliminates the front-...

AI hallucinations aren't a model problem — they're a data problem. When AI systems have no way to verify what's real in the physical world, they fill the gaps with guesses. And when AI agents act on those guesses autonomously, there's no record of what happened or why. DATA PROVENANCE is the missing layer, and XYO just shipped it. Markus Levin, Co-Founder of XYO, breaks down two major announcement...

The internet is filling up with bots, and nobody has built a reliable way to tell the difference between a human and an AI agent at scale. PROOF OF HUMANITY is what World is building — and its full-stack upgrade just became the identity layer for AI agent commerce. DC Builder, Research Engineer at the World Foundation, joins Ashton Addison on Blockchain Interviews to break down what changed in Wor...

Private credit has a trust problem. Borrowers, lenders, and underwriters operate in silos, incentives are misaligned, and most of the $1.7 trillion sitting in TradFi private credit markets is inaccessible to anyone outside institutional finance. ONCHAIN CREDIT changes that — and Cap is building the infrastructure to make it work. Benjamin Sarquis Peillard, Founder and CEO of Cap, joins Ashton Addi...

Bitcoin has $1 trillion in market cap sitting idle. The infrastructure to put it to work — natively, without bridges or wrapped tokens — has been the missing piece. OP_NET is building it. Samuel Pat, founder of OP_NET, breaks down how his team is bringing genuine DeFi utility to Bitcoin: a native DEX called Motoswap for peer-to-peer swaps and liquidity, a Bitcoin wallet built for the DeFi era, and...

Most people manage their own crypto portfolio the same way they always have — manually, reactively, and without the tools that institutional investors take for granted. Wallet V changes that. Adam Cai from Virgo Group sits down with us live at Consensus Miami 2026 to break down Wallet V and the AI agents being built into it to act as autonomous financial portfolio managers for everyday users. We e...

Centralized AI infrastructure gives a handful of companies control over the data, compute, and models that everyone else depends on — and most builders have no way to verify what's actually happening under the hood. DECENTRALIZED AI is the alternative, and 0G Labs is building the infrastructure layer to make it real. Michael Heinrich, Co-Founder of 0G Labs, joins us live at Consensus Miami 2026 to...

The Graph has processed 1.27 trillion queries and most builders still treat it as a subgraph indexer. After the Horizon upgrade, that's not what it is anymore. Nick Hansen, Team Lead at The Graph Foundation, joins us live from Consensus Miami 2026 to break down what The Graph has become: a modular, multi-service data backbone targeting the $47 billion agentic AI economy. The December 2025 Horizon...

Hudson Jameson, blockchain security veteran, former Ethereum Foundation core dev liaison, SEAL Org member, and CertiK Security Advisor — sits down with us live at Consensus Miami 2026. CertiK controls over 65% of global blockchain auditing, has secured $600B+ in digital assets, uncovered 180,000+ vulnerabilities, and in April 2026 publicly launched its AI Auditor with an 88.6% hit rate across 35 r...

In this episode of Blockchain Interviews, Ashton Addison sits down with David Track, Founder of SOSANA — a Solana-based enforcement layer built to solve one of crypto's most persistent problems: discovery. With thousands of new tokens launching every week and retail investors drowning in noise, SOSANA is building a gated, verifiable community model that replaces trust-based systems with automated,...

Sports bettors lose to the bookmaker before the game even starts. The house sets the lines, pockets the margin, and decides who gets to play — and most people have no idea how much that spread is actually costing them. PRED is a peer-to-peer sports prediction exchange built on Base that removes the middleman entirely. We sit down with the team behind PRED to break down how a decentralized sports p...

Most blockchains are fast enough to transact but can't prove the transaction was valid without trusting someone. That gap — between execution and verifiable proof — is what institutions, AI agents, and regulated finance keep running into. Daniel Marin, CEO of Nexus Labs, breaks down how Nexus is building a zkVM-powered financial network designed to make every computation cryptographically verifiab...

Token launches fail fast when liquidity is fake — and most teams do not know how to measure “good liquidity” until it is too late. Scott Byron, Managing Director at Forgd, breaks down how market making actually works, why RFQ processes mislead founders, and what Liquidity Transparency looks like when market makers are judged on real historical performance. Learn the signals that show liquidity is...

Crypto adoption has stalled at the on-ramp. Most wallets and dApps lose users at the exact moment they try to buy their first token — because the payment flow is slow, the KYC is clunky, and the failure rates are quietly killing conversion. Przemek Kowalczyk, Co-Founder and CEO of Ramp Network, breaks down how Ramp built a global fiat-to-crypto infrastructure layer operating across 150+ countries,...

Big Tech is spending $650B on AI infrastructure and still can't build fast enough. Half of US data centres planned for 2026 are delayed — and centralised compute is showing structural cracks. DECENTRALIZED AI is already running as a viable alternative at a fraction of the cost. Jack Collier, CMO at io.net , breaks down how io.net aggregates idle GPU power from data centres, mining rigs, and consum...

Most Layer One upgrades are incremental. XYO just shipped a throughput jump of two to five times, dual DataLake support in the SDK, and validator and producer stability fixes — all at once — and the full implications for developers and XL1 economics haven't landed yet. Arie Trouw, Co-Founder, CEO, and CTO of XYO, breaks down what actually changed in this infrastructure push: what was bottlenecking...

The travel industry runs on hidden fees and expiring rewards — and most hotel loyalty programs are designed to make points hard to use, not easy. Michael Ros, CEO of Europe at Staynex and founder of [Sleap.io](http://Sleap.io) (recently acquired by Staynex), breaks down how Staynex is building a Web3 travel membership — zero booking commissions for hotels, tokenized travel rights, and a revenue-sh...

Most blockchains were built to be transparent by design. That transparency is now the single biggest reason institutions won't put sensitive data on-chain — and why the Clarity Act, as written, still misses the point. Charles Hoskinson, Co-Founder of Ethereum and Founder and CEO of Input Output Global, joins Ashton Addison to cover the most consequential conversation in crypto right now: why the U...

Most Bitcoin miners are leaving money on the table by using traditional pools — and they don't know it. Right now, buyers on the NiceHash hashrate marketplace are paying nearly 3% above the standard hashprice benchmark, and that premium flows directly to miners. Filip Primec, Director of NiceHash AG and Member of the Management Board, joins Ashton Addison to break down how NiceHash operates the wo...

Cross-border payments have been broken for decades — slow settlement, high fees, and opaque FX spreads quietly draining money that should reach contractors, suppliers, and workers around the world. Teymour Farman-Farmaian, Co-founder and CEO of Higlobe, breaks down how the company built a stablecoin sandwich — bank in, stablecoin in the middle, bank out — that moves funds in under 60 seconds at ne...