Tech It or Leave It

In this episode of Tech It or Leave It, Sebastien Marque, VP of Strategy at Luna PR, sits down with Nenter Chow, Global CEO of BitMart Exchange. Nenter discusses how the cryptocurrency exchange industry is evolving as digital assets move from a retail-driven market to one increasingly shaped by institutions, financial infrastructure, and long-term adoption. The conversation explores BitMart's transformation from a high-growth exchange known for token listings into a broader financial ecosystem. Nenter shares why BitMart is expanding beyond spot and derivatives trading to become a financial super app offering wealth management products, credit cards, prediction markets, and other financial services. They also discuss the growing importance of trust in user acquisition and retention, how investor behavior is maturing beyond speculative assets, and why exchanges should focus on expanding access to underserved frontier markets rather than competing for the same users. The discussion touches on the future of digital identity, the role of online reputation in unlocking on-chain credit products, and why financial literacy will be critical to the next phase of crypto adoption. This episode is for builders, investors, founders, and financial operators interested in digital assets, exchange infrastructure, financial innovation, and the future of global finance. Follow us on our socials: TikTok: @techitorleaveitpodcast Instagram: @techitorleaveitpodcast X: @TIOLIofficial SoundCloud: Tech It Or Leave It Apple Podcasts: Tech It Or Leave It Spotify: Tech It Or Leave It

In this episode of Tech It or Leave It, Sebastien Marque, VP of Strategy at Luna PR, sits down with Chetan Karkhanis, Senior Vice President at Franklin Templeton. Chetan shares how institutions are moving toward blockchain driven products, from tokenized funds to new operational models. The conversation explores early adoption, common misconceptions around digital assets, and how blockchain can improve efficiency and reduce costs across financial systems. They also discuss the long term role of decentralized infrastructure in supporting institutional use cases. This episode is for builders, investors, and financial operators focused on tokenization and the evolution of financial infrastructure.

In this episode of Tech It or Leave It, Sebastien Marque, VP of Strategy at Luna PR, sits down with Christian Rau, Senior Vice President of Digital Assets at Mastercard. Christian shares how blockchain and digital assets are being integrated into traditional payment systems, improving settlement efficiency and expanding how users interact with financial products. The conversation explores the role of stablecoins, the importance of security and regulatory alignment, and how bridging digital assets with fiat systems is key to mainstream adoption. They also discuss why mass adoption will come when the technology becomes invisible to the end user. This episode is for builders, investors, and financial operators focused on payments infrastructure and the evolution of digital assets.

In this episode of Tech It or Leave It, Sebastien Marque, VP of Strategy at Luna PR, sits down with Paul Brody, Global Blockchain Leader at EY and Chairman of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. Paul shares insights into how large enterprises are approaching blockchain adoption, with stablecoins, cross border payments, and tokenized assets emerging as key use cases. The conversation explores how regulation is accelerating adoption by providing the clarity institutions need, and why policy developments are enabling broader deployment across financial systems. They also discuss the future of payments, including streaming money and the opportunity to improve efficiency across the broader economic stack. This episode is for builders, investors, and financial operators focused on enterprise adoption, stablecoins, and the evolving infrastructure of global finance.

In this episode of Tech It or Leave It, Sebastien Marque, VP of Strategy at Luna PR, sits down with Peter Bidewell, Head of Product at Rayls. Peter breaks down the scale of the institutional opportunity, where trillions in global financial assets remain largely disconnected from blockchain infrastructure, and why adoption still represents only a fraction of what is possible. The conversation explores why early institutional approaches using private and permissioned networks failed to scale, and how hybrid infrastructure models are emerging to bridge internal systems with public blockchain networks. They also dive into the role of privacy in institutional adoption, with confidential transactions and selective disclosures for regulators, as well as how combining onchain and offchain data can unlock new forms of automation. This episode is for builders, investors, and financial operators focused on institutional adoption, onchain privacy, and the infrastructure required to bring real capital onchain.

In this episode of Tech It or Leave It, Hamed Faqirzai, Vice President of Global Development at Luna PR, sits down with Moshe Cohen, CEO of PriveX. Moshe breaks down the core limitation of DeFi today, where full transparency can prevent institutional participation due to the exposure of trading strategies and positions. The conversation introduces PriveX, a private perpetual decentralized exchange that uses garbled circuits, a high-performance, ZK-adjacent encryption method, to enable confidential trading without sacrificing decentralization or execution speed. They also explore the rise of agentic AI, where autonomous agents can analyze data, make decisions, and execute trades on behalf of users, shifting trading from manual execution to AI-driven systems. The discussion touches on the broader role of AI, its impact on productivity, and the long-term outlook toward AGI, including its potential to drive major breakthroughs while remaining guided by human intent. This episode is for traders, builders, and financial operators exploring the intersection of privacy, DeFi, and AI-driven markets.

In this episode of Tech It or Leave It, Sebastien Marque, VP of Strategy at Luna PR, sits down with Shahaf Bar-Geffen, CEO of COTI Group. Shahaf breaks down why privacy is a fundamental requirement for blockchain adoption, particularly for institutions that need to protect sensitive data such as trading strategies, balances, and financial activity. The conversation explores the concept of programmable privacy, and how COTI is building infrastructure that enables confidential decentralized applications, positioning itself as a privacy layer for Ethereum. They also discuss real-world applications, including private perpetual DEXs designed to prevent front-running, AI-powered trading agents that execute strategies without emotional bias, and future use cases such as confidential DAO voting and private payment systems. The episode touches on the intersection of privacy and AI, and how COTI is driving ecosystem growth by educating developers and enabling new products to be built on its stack. This episode is for builders, investors, and operators focused on privacy as the next major unlock in blockchain infrastructure.

In this episode of Tech It or Leave It, Hamed Faqirzai, Vice President of Global Development at Luna PR, sits down with William Wu, CEO of Altuva Group. William introduces capital recycling, a strategy focused on transforming undervalued capital into higher-performing assets. The conversation explores inefficiencies in public markets, where trillions of dollars in capital continue to trade below intrinsic value, and how Altuva identifies and acquires these opportunities across sectors including biotech, real estate, and industrials. They break down how this approach differs from traditional distressed investing, shifting focus from fixing operations to monetizing balance sheet assets and reallocating capital into stronger-performing assets such as Bitcoin. The discussion also touches on how capital recycling compares to digital asset treasury models, and why this model is designed to be more fundamentally accretive rather than reliant on yield-based flywheels. This episode is for investors, operators, and financial strategists looking at new approaches to capital allocation and the emergence of capital recycling as a potential new asset class.

In this episode of Tech It or Leave It, Sebastien Marque, VP of Strategy at Luna PR, sits down with Melvis Langyintuo, Head of Foundation at Canton Network. Melvis explains how Canton is designed as a public, permissionless blockchain built specifically for institutional finance, combining configurable privacy with interoperability to support real-world financial workflows. The conversation explores the evolution of real-world assets, from early experimental phases to today’s more mature, institutionally driven landscape shaped by better infrastructure, integrated systems, and increasing regulatory clarity. They also discuss how Canton enables institutions to operate private applications while remaining interoperable across a shared network, and break down its token model, which is built without pre-mines or pre-allocations and rewards participants based on network contribution. This episode is for builders, investors, and financial operators focused on bridging traditional finance and blockchain infrastructure.

In this episode of Tech It or Leave It, Clark Alexander, Chief AI Officer at Argentum AI, joins Hamed Faqirzai, VP of Global Development at Luna PR, for a deep dive into the future of AI infrastructure. Clark shares how Argentum AI is building a decentralized compute marketplace, where users can buy and sell excess GPU power through an AI-driven auction system designed to reduce costs and improve efficiency. The conversation explores Project Saturn, a bold initiative challenging teams to make AI compute dramatically more efficient, alongside the growing energy demands of modern AI models and what that means for the future of the industry. They also discuss the limitations of quantum computing today, the continued dominance of GPUs in real-world applications, and the rise of “GPU entrepreneurs” earning from idle compute through decentralized networks. This episode is for builders, investors, and operators focused on AI, infrastructure, and the intersection of Web3 and compute markets.

In this episode of Tech It or Leave It, Sebastien Marque, VP of Strategy at Luna PR, sits down with Jessica Wu, Head of APAC at Bitpanda. Jessica shares how Bitpanda has evolved from a European digital asset broker into a B2B infrastructure provider enabling banks, fintechs, and neobanks to offer trading and custody through their existing systems. The conversation explores Bitpanda’s expansion into APAC, a region defined by rapid fintech adoption, diverse regulatory environments, and growing demand for digital asset access. This episode is for builders, investors, and financial operators focused on the convergence of traditional finance and digital asset infrastructure.

In this episode of Tech It or Leave It, Nikita Sachdev, Founder of Luna PR, sits down with Christoph Koster, CEO of Ruya, at the Future Blockchain Summit. Christoph shares his journey from European banking and crisis-era restructuring to launching Ruya, a fully digital, 100 percent Sharia-compliant Islamic bank built for the UAE’s fintech and Web3 ecosystem. The conversation explores how Ruya is building core banking and banking-as-a-service infrastructure for startups, fintechs, and crypto platforms, why access to banking remains a bottleneck for founders, and how stablecoin rails and digital assets are being integrated into regulated financial systems. They also discuss the alignment between Islamic finance principles and digital assets, and what it takes to bridge traditional banking with crypto-native infrastructure at scale. This episode is for founders, fintech operators, Web3 builders, and investors focused on the future of banking, Islamic finance, and digital asset infrastructure.

On this episode of Tech It or Leave It, Sebastien Marque, VP of Strategy at Luna PR, sits down with Michael Heinrich, Co-Founder & CEO of 0G Labs and Executive Chairman of Zero Stack. Michael shares his journey from enterprise tech and strategy roles at SAP, Microsoft, Bain & Company, and Bridgewater Associates to building 0G Labs - a decentralized infrastructure designed to make AI a public good. The conversation explores why AI must be verifiable and incentive-aligned as it becomes embedded in mission-critical systems, how blockchain enables decentralized AI through provenance and slashing conditions, and the real infrastructure challenges behind scaling decentralized compute. They also dive into 0G’s breakthrough in training the first fully decentralized 107B-parameter AI model, the roadmap following the Aristotle mainnet, and the growing role of Digital Asset Treasuries (DATs) as an institutional vehicle for token exposure - drawing parallels to treasury-led models popularized by firms like MicroStrategy. This episode is for builders, investors, and operators focused on decentralized AI, Web3 infrastructure, and institutional crypto adoption. Follow us on our socials: TikTok: @techitorleaveitpodcast Instagram: @techitorleaveitpodcast X: @TIOLIpodcast SoundCloud: Tech It Or Leave It

In this episode, we sit down with Marta Adamczyk, Head of BD at SubQuery, to break down the real infrastructural gaps slowing Web3’s path to mass adoption. From decentralized indexing to why wallet data needs to load in under a second, Marta explains the performance, developer experience, and trust challenges most teams underestimate. We also dive into the balance between innovation and regulation, the shortage of long-term developers in the ecosystem, and how AI agents are transforming the way builders access and interpret blockchain data. If you want a clear view into the tools powering tomorrow’s dApps - and what it will take to onboard millions - this conversation is for you. Follow us on our socials: TikTok: @techitorleaveitpodcast Instagram: @techitorleaveitpodcast X: @TIOLIpodcast SoundCloud: Tech It Or Leave It

Innovation changes the world only when people can reach it. We caught up with Filecoin Foundation’s Clara Tsao at Hack Seasons Cannes to talk about keeping the web useful as #AI-generated content explodes. This #TechItOrLeaveIt episode explores how open access and trustworthy information can turn “elite” knowledge into everyday opportunity - across borders and backgrounds. Streaming on all platforms now. #Crypto #Blockchain

#Web3 is growing past launch-day headlines and into everyday value. In this #TechItOrLeaveIt episode, Ricardo Kanaan from iExec talks about building for real demand, turning privacy into a simple choice users understand, and earning adoption that survives market noise.

Recorded on the floor at @HackSeasons by Metaverse Post in #Dubai during @TOKEN2049. We sit down with Amar Bedi, founder/ceo? of Tashi, for a chat about turning players’ PCs into part of the network, reshaping the cost of online worlds, and what a trust layer could mean for the next wave of DePIN projects. Press play for a behind‑the‑scenes story that blends founder perspective with a glimpse at how Web3 might power tomorrow’s gaming infrastructure.

Coming in from @HackSeasons by Metaverse Post in Dubai, on the sidelines of TOKEN2049. In this episode, we sit down with Scott Sigel, CEO of Helium Foundation, to explore the real-world impact of DePIN and the growing role of tokenized infrastructure. From powering decentralized wireless networks to unlocking the potential of RWAs, Scott breaks down what’s next for the Helium Foundation ecosystem and why it matters for the future of connectivity. Hit play for a conversation packed with insight, innovation, and a glimpse at where Web3 meets the physical world.

Coming live from @HackSeasons by Metaverse Post in Dubai, on the sidelines of TOKEN2049. In this episode, we sit down with Kevin Lee of Gate.io as he pulls back the curtain on where crypto trading is headed next. From lightning-fast spot markets to entirely new ways to earn, this sneak peek sets the stage for insights you will not want to miss.

In this episode, we sit down with Sergey Kunz, co-founder of 1inch, one of the most prominent decentralized exchange aggregators in the Web3 space. Sergey shares the origin story behind the name 1inch, the wild early days of building during hackathons, and why he chose to settle in Dubai, one of the fastest-growing crypto hubs in the world. Coming live from @HackSeasons by Metaverse Post in Dubai, on the sidelines of TOKEN2049. We also dive into his personal journey from software engineer to Web3 pioneer and hear his take on where blockchain is heading, what’s broken in DeFi, and how 1inch plans to lead the next wave of innovation.

Coming live from ‪HackSeasons‬ by Metaverse Post in Dubai, on the sidelines of TOKEN2049. Whether you're a crypto founder, investor, or curious builder, this episode dives deep into the future of Web3 innovation. Join us for a bold conversation with Yat Siu, co-founder of Animoca Brands, as he reveals how improbable ideas turn into billion-dollar results. From DeFi-powered student loans to gaming, digital identity, and on-chain education, discover the fringe ideas and personal journey that made Animoca what it is today.

Join us for an inspiring conversation with Dave Catudal, Co-Founder of Lyvely, a groundbreaking social media app with a Web3 twist. In this episode, we dive deep into the intersections of mental and physical wellness, the highs and lows of entrepreneurship, and the unique experience of building a tech company in Dubai. Whether you're interested in tech, health, or the future of social media, this is a conversation you won't want to miss!

Ep. 3 "You Need to Find the Ying to Your Yang in Business" with Phillip Lord by Luna Media Corporation

Welcome to Tech It or Leave It! In our second episode, we sit down with the legendary Alex Chehade, Former GM at Binance MENA and Founder of Redefined. Alex shares insights on his decision to leave Binance, the milestones achieved during his time there, and his new venture in the crypto space with Redefined. Thank you for tuning in! If you enjoyed this episode, don’t forget to hit the follow button and subscribe.

Welcome to the first episode of Tech It or Leave It! In this first episode, we sit down with the remarkable Nikita Sachdev, CEO & Founder of Luna Media Corporation (and yes, our boss!). We dive deep into her entrepreneurial journey, exploring the challenges she faced, the triumphs she celebrated, and yes, even some behind-the-scenes tea. Nikita also shares the story of how she met her husband, Phillip Lord, and offers insights into balancing relationships while navigating the demanding world of entrepreneurship. Thank you for tuning in! If you enjoyed this episode, don’t forget to hit follow and subscribe.