Crypto Coin Show

Perps are where most traders blow up — and copy trading can either amplify that risk or make it manageable. Loki from OdinBot breaks down how perps copy trading works in plain English, why Odin started on Jupiter, and what guardrails matter most when you are mirroring someone else’s leverage. Get a clear view of what to look for when picking a trader to copy, how to think about liquidation risk, a...

Fixed-income yield onchain sounds simple — until you realise most "yield" products in crypto either hide the risk or require constant manual management to capture it. Dan Hillery, Head of Treasury at Buck, breaks down how Buck is building the first SavingsCoin backed by Strategy's Bitcoin-collateralized perpetual preferred stock (STRC), targeting 10% APY with automated reward distribution and no m...

We speak with Shresth Agrawal, CEO and Co-Founder of Pod Network, about building fair, high-performance decentralized markets. Today’s prediction markets and on-chain trading systems often suffer from latency, MEV extraction, and information asymmetry that can disadvantage retail traders. Shresth explains how Pod Network is approaching market design differently to create systems that are faster, f...

 In this episode of Blockchain Interviews, Ashton Addison sits down with Shady El Damaty, Co-Founder of human.tech, to explore how privacy preserving digital identity is being built for Web3 at global scale. The conversation dives into Human Passport, proof of humanity systems, zero knowledge cryptography, and how decentralized identity can enable fair governance, Sybil resistance, and secure toke...

RWA infrastructure is easy to hype and hard to ship — and most teams underestimate what institutions actually need to move real assets onchain. Wish Wu, Co-Founder & CEO of Pharos Network, breaks down how Pharos is building an EVM-compatible Layer 1 designed for RWAs and cross-chain liquidity, with deep-parallel architecture aimed at scalable, real-time apps. Get a clear view of where tokeniza...

Moving money is still messy in 2026 — and most companies do not realize where the real bottlenecks are until settlement breaks. Lux Thiagarajah, Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at OpenPayd, breaks down what “financial infrastructure” actually means behind the scenes, and how modern businesses scale accounts, payments, FX, and reconciliation across geographies. Get a practical view of where global p...

Crypto news is infinite — and most investors still start the day with noise instead of signal. Ian Balina, Founder & CEO of Token Metrics, breaks down how an AI-powered AI Crypto Morning Briefing turns scattered markets, headlines, and on-chain data into actionable judgment across email, podcast, YouTube, and X. You’ll learn: How Token Metrics pivoted from charts to a daily briefing product Ho...

A pro-planet economy is easy to talk about and hard to coordinate and most marketplaces still do not have a real incentives layer for behavior change. Claus Fischer, Founder at SanTerris One, explains how SanTerris is building what it calls the operating system for the pro-planet economy connecting a marketplace, social layer, affiliate engine, and academy into a single coordination stack. Learn h...

Global commodity trade runs on slow settlement and trust gaps — and most teams have no way to prove provenance without adding friction. Mike Weeks, Executive Chairman & Co-Founder of SAGINT, breaks down how SAGINT is building a compliant commodity exchange and settlement stack designed to digitize the lifecycle of critical minerals. Learn how tokenization can reduce fraud, improve auditability...

Privacy onchain is still broken — and most builders do not realize how many apps quietly leak sensitive user and trading data. Guy Itzhaki, Co-Founder & CEO of Fhenix, explains what Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) makes possible for smart contracts, and what “compute on encrypted data” actually means in practice. Get a clear mental model for FHE, how it compares to alternatives like zk proo...

Canopy Network Co-Founder & CEO Adam Liposky joins Ashton Addison (Crypto Coin Show) to break down Canopy’s thesis: make launching a chain feel like shipping an app. We talk about what “Replit for Web3” actually means for builders, and why the next wave of teams may choose app-specific L1s once the tooling, security, and interoperability are handled out of the box. We also cover what Canopy is...

Cloud compute is expensive, centralized, and full of hidden trust assumptions — and most builders do not have a real alternative. Alessandro De Carli, Founder of Acurast, breaks down how Acurast turns everyday smartphones into a decentralized compute network, and why trusted execution environments (TEEs) let real workloads run with confidentiality and verifiability. Understand what “confidential c...

Chris O’Brien, Partner and Head of the Crypto Practice at Venable LLP, joins Ashton Addison (Crypto Coin Show) for a practical, high-level conversation on what’s changing in US crypto regulation and what that means for builders in 2026. We cover how Web3 companies can engage with regulators without freezing innovation, the most common misconceptions founders have about “being compliant,” and the h...

We sit down with Muriel Médard, Co-Founder & CEO of Optimum, to break down one of blockchain’s most overlooked scaling bottlenecks: data propagation. While most discussions focus on execution, consensus, or data availability, Muriel explains why the propagation layer is actually the ceiling for everything above it — and what happens when it starts to struggle under real-world load. From redund...

We sit down with Toby Gilbert, Co-Founder & CEO of PACT SWAP, to explore the future of decentralized finance without bridges or wrapped tokens. As the industry matures, structural flaws in traditional cross-chain infrastructure are becoming impossible to ignore—especially for institutions preparing for the next wave of adoption in 2026. Toby breaks down how PACT SWAP is building the world’s fi...

We sit down with Sukhdeep Bhogal, Co Founder and CEO of Veera, to explore what it really means to build a global neobank onchain. Veera is bringing earning, investing, borrowing, and spending into one self custodial experience powered by passkey secured wallets and multichain infrastructure. We discuss why the traditional financial stack feels fragmented today, how Veera simplifies it, and what ma...

In this episode of Blockchain Interviews, Ashton Addison sits down with Staci Warden, CEO of the Algorand Foundation, to explore where Algorand is headed and how blockchain infrastructure is evolving from experimentation toward foundational status. The conversation covers the Foundation’s relocation back to the United States, shifting regulatory dynamics, and why this moment could signal a more co...

In this episode of Blockchain Interviews, Ashton Addison speaks with Solve Maxwell from Rip.xyz about building institutional-grade vault strategies on Hyperliquid and HyperEVM. Rip is positioning itself as an on-chain hedge fund structure, giving users tokenized exposure to premium ecosystem assets like Hypurr NFTs while leveraging 24/7 market opportunities across crypto and emerging TradFi instru...

In this episode of Blockchain Interviews, Ashton Addison sits down with Daniel Marin, CEO of Nexus Labs, to explore why today’s blockchains fall short for real-world finance and how Nexus is building purpose-built Layer 1 infrastructure for verifiable markets. The conversation breaks down execution uncertainty, fragmented liquidity, and auditability gaps, and explains what “verifiable finance” act...

In this episode of Blockchain Interviews, Ashton Addison speaks with Sean Ren, CEO and Co-Founder of Sahara AI, about Sorin — an AI-powered trading copilot designed to assist traders in real market conditions. Rather than chasing full autonomy, Sorin focuses on bridging the gap between insight and execution, helping users think through scenarios, manage risk, and act with greater clarity. We break...

In this episode of Blockchain Interviews, Ashton Addison sits down with Jeff Handler, COO and Co Founder of OpenTrade, to discuss the rapid rise of stablecoins, on chain yield, and how digital assets are reshaping financial services. The conversation explores why stablecoin yield infrastructure is becoming critical for fintechs, neobanks, and exchanges, and how OpenTrade is enabling financial apps...

In this episode of Blockchain Interviews, Ashton Addison speaks with Sina Yamani, Founder and CEO of Action Model, about the rise of Large Action Models and the shift from AI that generates content to AI that can take real actions online. The conversation explores how AI is evolving from chat and generation into execution, including systems that can click, type, scroll, and complete real digital w...

In this episode of Blockchain Interviews by the Crypto Coin Show, Ashton Addison sits down with Micky Watkins, Founder & CEO of World Mobile, to explore how decentralized infrastructure is moving from theory to real-world scale. Micky shares how World Mobile is building the world’s first community-owned mobile network, expanding connectivity across underserved regions in Africa and the U.S., a...

In this episode of Blockchain Interviews, Ashton Addison sits down with Markus Levin, Co-Founder of XYO Network and XYO Layer One, to explore why verifiable data is becoming critical infrastructure for AI, robotics, and autonomous systems. As AI moves out of controlled digital environments and into the physical world, data integrity becomes a safety issue, not just a technical one. Markus breaks d...

In this episode of Blockchain Interviews, host Ashton Addison sits down with Michael Terpin, early Bitcoin investor and author of Bitcoin Supercycle, to break down where Bitcoin stands in the four-year halving cycle and why he believes 2026 could be a defining bear-market year. Terpin explains his “Four Seasons” framework for Bitcoin, why bull markets historically peak in Q4 after a halving, and h...