The Crypto Conversation

Andy sits down with Dave Sutter, CEO and co-founder of OpenTrade, to unpack why stablecoins are rapidly becoming the most important financial primitive in crypto — and arguably the missing link between digital assets and traditional finance. Why you should listen Dave traces his journey from building early Bitcoin wallets and launching one of the first dollar-backed stablecoins, through years work...

Andy sits down with Kanny Lee, CEO and co-founder of SecondSwap, to explore one of crypto's most under-discussed structural problems: liquidity for locked and vested tokens. With a background spanning two decades in Big Four forensic accounting and early institutional crypto OTC trading in Hong Kong, Kanny brings a rare blend of TradFi discipline and on-chain realism to the conversation. Why you s...

Vijit Katta is the CEO and co-founder at Tria, a self-custodial neobank that unifies spending, trading, and earning across all chains — without bridges, gas, or custodians. Why you should listen Vijit explains Tria's core vision as building both a protocol layer and a consumer layer that abstracts away blockchain complexity for users and businesses. He describes how the fragmentation of chains, ga...

Kam Punia is the Founder and CEO of Pixion Games, the London based studio behind Fableborne and the $POWER gaming ecosystem.  Why you should listen In this episode, Kam Punia, founder and CEO of Pixion Games, shares his background as a long-time game industry veteran and explains how that experience shaped the studio's approach to building competitive, mobile-first games. He reflects on lessons le...

Florian Klein is the Commercial Lead at Bitpanda's Web3 team. Bitpanda, one of Europe's most regulated digital asset platforms (7M+ users, multiple MiCA licences), is expanding into Web3 through Vision ($VSN), its ecosystem token for compliant tokenisation and DeFi infrastructure. Why you should listen Vision is Bitpanda's unified Web3 ecosystem designed to make decentralised technologies accessib...

Canopy Network powers the peer-to-peer launchpad for new application-specific chains. Built on a recursive architecture, applications bootstrap each other into independence, forming an unstoppable web of utility and security. Why you should listen Canopy Network is a blockchain project designed to help teams build their own independent blockchains that are connected to a wider network. Instead of...

James Ashton is a former Chelsea FC and Premier League footballer turned gamer. He is the Founder & CEO of Planet-X  and Core Contributor to Gallaxia. Why you should listen Gallaxia is a gaming and entertainment studio built on its own blockchain infrastructure, designed so that gamers, creators, and community members can hold shared ownership in the ecosystem. The project positions this model as...

Haven is a blockchain ecosystem based on the foundations of anonymity and authenticated ownership. Using real and continuous biometric authentication it verifies that the user is the true authenticated owner at all times. It protects users from fraud, loss, and impersonation by making your face the ultimate key. No passwords, no seed phrases, no risks of theft. Why you should listen Haven is build...

Bill Dafflon is Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Wondera. AI, an AI music company backed by leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms. Bill is currently an investor in WebX, the world's first Bitcoin Accumulation Company (BAC). Why you should listen WebX International Holdings Limited began its journey in manufacturing — transforming raw materials into value. Today, that same spirit of...

Harvey Liu is the CEO at LeveX, a crypto exchange built by traders who believe that sharing strategies and successful trades builds a stronger community where everyone wins. Why you should listen ​​LeveX is a centralized cryptocurrency exchange that launched in 2023. It offers a wide array of trading options — spot and perpetual futures — across hundreds of coins and trading pairs to serve both ca...

Jack Cameron is the co-founder of CreatorFi, a unified platform for creative capital, partnerships, and growth enablement to help the world's best creators Why you should listen CreatorFi is a financing platform developed by the team behind Insomnia Labs, designed to provide working capital to digital creators across categories such as YouTube, music, and user-generated gaming platforms like Roblo...

The PlayAI Network is the orchestration network and interface for users and developers for seamless communication and coordination between tools, agents, applications, and data sources. Acting as the backbone of the agentic ecosystem, it addresses the challenges of fragmented AI systems by creating an interconnected environment where tasks can flow seamlessly across different platforms and context...

Wish is the Co-Founder and CEO of Pharos Network, a Programmable Open Financial Layer 1 For RWAs & Cross-Chain Liquidity. Wish leads the development of its decentralized protocol stack and drives key industry partnerships. Formerly CSO at ZAN, Ant Group's Web3 arm, he specialized in security architecture and vulnerability management. Why you should listen Pharos Network is a next-generation layer-...

Fidelity began researching Bitcoin and developing blockchain solutions in 2014. After seeing demand from its clients, Fidelity developed a dedicated business, Fidelity Digital Assets. Today, it services hundreds of institutions globally. Why you should listen Chris Kuiper is VP of Research, Fidelity Digital Assets. In this conversation, Chris Kuiper discusses the unpredictable nature of technologi...

John Woods is CTO at the Nillion Association, a secure computation network that decentralizes trust for high-value data in the same way that blockchains decentralized transactions. Why you should listen John Woods is the Chief Technology Officer of the Nillion Association, where he's leading the development of a decentralized privacy compute network known as the "Blind Computer." Previously, John...

Jan Warmus is the director across Europe at EMCD — one of Europe's fastest-growing crypto super apps with over 400,000 verified users. EMCD is positioning itself as a "Web2.5" bridge, offering fiat ramps, staking, and other retail-friendly crypto services in a highly compliant, accessible format. Why you should listen EMCD is a full-spectrum crypto ecosystem. You'll find their mining pool (one of...

DEIN, short for Decentralized Insurance Network, is a platform that offers permissionless, decentralized, and DAO-managed discretionary risk coverage. It is designed to provide insurance for smart contracts, stablecoins, centralized exchanges, and other vital services within the DeFi ecosystem. Why you should listen DEIN allows users to purchase coverage for their funds, enabling them to safeguard...

Why you should listen Uplink is building a decentralized network that connects people, devices, and businesses through shared internet infrastructure. It allows individuals and organizations to contribute their existing Wi-Fi routers and other connectivity devices to a global network, turning unused bandwidth into an asset. Participants can earn rewards for providing connectivity or verifying that...

Wojtek Kaszycki is the Founder and Chairman of BTCS S.A. a technology company that builds and manages validation infrastructure for leading blockchain networks. Why you should listen BTCS S.A. is a publicly listed company based in Warsaw, Poland, founded in 2010. It operates on the Warsaw Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol BTF. The company's headquarters are located at Plac Powstańców Warszawy...

Maximiliano Stochyk is Head of Sales at CoinTerminal — a fundraising platform helping DeFi and Web3 founders raise millions transparently while giving retail investors a fair chance to participate. Why you should listen CoinTerminal lets you buy into the best new tokens before they list on exchanges. Just like your favorite leading funds. Buy presales at the lowest cost before they hit exchanges....

Toby Gilbert is a Co-Founder at PACT Swap, a cross-chain DEX built on Coinweb. Pact Swap enables trading of native Bitcoin, TRON, and other assets across incompatible chains - without bridges, wrapped tokens, or external validators. Why you should listen PactSwap is a decentralized exchange (DEX) built on the Coinweb PACT framework that enables cross-chain swaps of digital assets without using tra...

Xin Yan is the Co-founder and CEO of Sign, a blockchain technology company leading the industry in token distribution and verifiable credentials, now focused on building blockchain infrastructure for nations and enterprises. He began his career as a hardware engineer before becoming a crypto venture capitalist, and now leads Sign's vision to build national-scale blockchain infrastructure. Why you...

Tony Pham is the CMO at Kava, a decentralized blockchain that combines the speed and interoperability of Cosmos with the developer power of Ethereum. Tony Pham lives in New York City and is a fractional CMO for various crypto and AI startups, including Kava and Superlayer portfolio companies.  Why you should listen The Kava Network is the first Layer-1 blockchain to combine the speed and scalabili...

Cole Chapman is the Co-Founder of Global Gold.  Cole is leading the tokenization of gold, creating a global liquidity layer that enables fractional ownership, on-chain liquidity, and collateralized lending. Why you should listen Global Gold is a blockchain-based financial protocol focused on bridging traditional gold markets with decentralized finance (DeFi). It enables the creation of digital tok...

Mitchell Nicholson is the founder of Sierra Labs. The SIERRA Liquid Yield Token (LYT) is built to deliver the best user experience across DeFi, CeFi, and TradFi. Why you should listen Sierra Protocol is the issuer of SIERRA, a liquid yield token (LYT) that offers the best risk-adjusted yield in a freely tradeable ERC20 token on Ethereum and Avalanche. SIERRA enables holders to earn passively accru...