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Talking Tokens — 234 episodes

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1

Is OUSD Really Just Stripe's Stablecoin? | Alex Beaudry, Strata Research

2

Binance Founder CZ on what it took to build the world's largest crypto exchange and stay #1

3

Why Franklin Templeton Has Been Eyeing Tokenization for a Decade and What Comes After Money Funds | Roger Bayston

4

A 117-Year-Old Asset Manager Goes “Fully Native,” Seeing Tokenization as OS upgrade | Theo Golden

5

Why Plasma Bet Everything on USDT When Nobody Believed in Stablecoin Chains | Zaheer Evtakar, Plasma

6

Tapping a Credit Card to Buy Coffee With Bitcoin Is…Kinda Wrong | Strata Research

7

Evernorth Has 473 Million XRP And An Argument to Why Idle Capital Should Not Exist | Asheesh Birla

8

Why Aave V4 Is Built Like a Central Bank for DeFi | Stani Kulechov

9

Why MoneyGram Built Its Own Stablecoin Instead of Using Someone Else's | Anthony Soohoo, MoneyGram

10

Why Every Institution Should Be Staking ETH | Kean Gilbert, Lido

11

From the Federal Reserve to Circle: What Most People Are Getting Wrong About Onchain Finance | Gordon Liao

12

Taking Crypto Mainstream with Nostalgia & Creative Marketing | Dakota Campbell, Collector Crypt

13

What the Last Decade of Fintech Got Wrong | A Look Into Crypto Neobanks

14

Why Institutional FOMO Is Now the Biggest Force in Crypto | Morgan Krupetsky, Ava Labs

15

Are Tokenized Stocks the Next Big Catalyst? | Brett Redfearn

16

Why Focusing on Tailored Approaches in Emerging Markets is the Move | Torab Torabi

17

What Wall Street Actually Wants from Crypto | Bart Smith & Laine Litman

18

The 4 Things That Need to Happen Before AI Agents Can Actually Spend Money | An Agentic Payments Explainer

19

USDT0's Co-Founder on Moving $90B Cross-Chain, the Agent Economy, and Tether's Untouchable Moat

20

What You Need To Know About x402 And How It Impacts Payments | Erik Reppel

21

What goes on behind $30B in tokenized assets | Jason Barraza

22

SoFi Wants to Be the Stablecoin Liquidity Hub for Banks | Ben Reynolds

23

What Risk Frameworks are Needed for Institutional Adoption | Mike Silagadze & Joseph Chalom

24

What's Overhyped, Underhyped, and Actually Happening in Crypto Right Now

25

How Crypto Is Slowly Taking Over Wall Street Territory | Kevin Beardsley

26

Tokenization Will Eat Capital Markets. Here's How. | Xin Song

27

Talking Tokenization EXCLUSIVE: BlackRock Digital Assets Director Shares Strategy for Tokenization, Bitcoin Stablecoins, and More | Max Stein

28

Inside PayPal’s Bet on Stablecoins | May Zabaneh

29

Why Crypto Token Launches Are Broken and How to Fix Them | Shane Molidor

30

Most RWAs Are Built Wrong | Ayyan Rahman

31

Crypto Is Built on a Broken Internet | Tom Warner

32

Why Bitcoin Really Exists | Matt Luongo and Arthur Hayes

33

How Sky Is Building the Future of Stablecoin Yield With USDS | Rune Christensen

34

Why AI Agents Will Manage Your DeFi Portfolio Before You Do | Vik Arun

35

How RockawayX Is Building the Actively Managed DeFi Vault | Samantha Bohbot

36

Why Public Markets Are About to Move Onchain | Michael Tannenbaum

37

Framework Ventures Is Deploying $2.5 Billion Into Institutional-Grade Yield | Parker Edwards

38

Why Getting Money Into Blockchains Is Still Broken | Dan Mottice

39

Bitcoin to $1,000,000 by 2030? | Muneeb Ali

40

Why RWAs and Tokenized Stocks Are Unlocking DeFi for Institutions | Jonathan Han

41

Why Across Wants to Turn its ACX Token into Equity

42

Banks are Ditching Old Databases for Blockchains | Scott Dykstra

43

How Tokenized Money Market Funds Hit $10B | Will Peck

44

Palmer Luckey Just Built a Bank for Crypto, AI and Defense | Diogo Mónica

45

Why VC Consolidation Signals Crypto Maturation | Mason Nystrom & Daniel Marin

46

How Stablecoins Can Export U.S. Capital Markets to the World | Nick van Eck

47

Why Bitcoin-Backed Lending Will Reach $200 Billion | Sid Powell

48

Why Price Discovery Will Move Onchain Within 3 Years | Saeed Badreg

49

Why Bitcoin’s Price Isn’t Affecting Institutional Interest in Tokenization | Thomas Cowan

50

How Vaults Become the Next Stablecoin Narrative | Sun Raghupathi

51

Why Onchain Vaults Are Following Stablecoins Everywhere | Hunter Horsley

52

How ReserveOne Plans to Shake Up the Crowded DAT Market | Jaime Leverton

53

Inside Securitize's $1.25B Nasdaq SPAC and Pacific Stock Transfer Acquisition | Billy Miller

54

Building Payment Rails That Banks & Fintech Actually Want to Use | Marc Boiron

55

Why AI and Crypto Are Two Halves of the Same Coin | Nikil Viswanathan

56

Why 50% of DeFi Projects Are Just TradFi Backdoors | Ben Nadareski

57

Making Ethereum 240x Faster: From 12 Seconds to 50ms | Kevin Lepsoe

58

Why a Team of Seasoned Finance Veterans Launched a Hyperliquid DAT | David Schamis

59

How Private Credit Comes Onchain | Mary Gooneratne

60

How DATs Could Become The New Banks | DFDV’s Parker White

61

How ChooseRich Nick Masters Going Viral | Nick O’Neill

62

Mert Explains How Solana Becomes the Internet Capital Markets Chain

63

Why DeFi Needs Onchain Prime Brokerage | MacBrennan Peet

64

Talking Tokenization: Why Every Internet Company Must Tokenize in 2026 | Yat Siu

65

How Solmate Is Merging Treasury Scale with Real Infrastructure | Marco Santori

66

How Solana Becomes the Home for Kalshi | Nitesh Nath

67

Why Bitcoin Collateral Is Going Mainstream | Matt Luongo & Nathan McCauley

68

Talking Tokenization: Why the Media Loves Stablecoins (Should We Be Worried?) | Greg Di Prisco

69

What Most People Get Wrong About Web3 | Amanda Cassatt

70

How Public Are Blockchains Really? | Azeem Khan

71

Why Your Crypto Tokens Keep Dumping | David Phelps

72

Monad’s Airdrop Strategy Explained | Eunice Giarta

73

How Avalanche Approaches Scaling, Tokenization & Institutional Growth | John Nahas

74

How Harmonic Solved Solana's Biggest Problem | Ben Coverston

75

Talking Tokenization: How Robinhood Plans to Bring Stocks Onchain | Johann Kerbrat & AJ Warner

76

How Movement Plans to Move on From Market Maker Token Mishap

77

Why 70% of Token Launches Fail and How Forgd Is Changing That | Shane Molidor

78

Stablecoins, AI, and Building the Next Generation of Crypto Startups | Qiao Wang

79

Talking Tokenization: Carlos Domingo on Securitize’s $1.25B IPO & Tokenized Fund with BNY

80

Ethereum ETFs, Tokenization & The Future of Digital Treasuries | Joseph Chalom

81

Generative Finance: AI x Crypto's Next Trillion Dollar Opportunity | Diogo Mónica

82

How Aerodrome Dominated DeFi on Base: The Zero VC Approach with Alexander Cutler

83

Talking Tokenization: Why Tokenizing Stock Beats Traditional Shares | Maja Vujinovic

84

Talking Tokenization: Why Tokenizing Stock Beats Traditional Shares | Maja Vujinovic

85

How dYdX’s President is Building the Future of Decentralized Trading

86

Bitcoin ETFs & The Next Decade of Crypto Investing | Hong Kim

87

Inside World Liberty Financial: USD1, Governance, and Building Trust in Crypto

88

Why Bitcoin Adoption is a Once-in-a-Generation Financial Revolution | American Bitcoin

89

Talking Tokenization: Bringing Wall Street to Ethereum | Vivek Raman

90

PayPal Just Made a HUGE Crypto Move | Matt Tabbiner

91

Introducing Talking Tokenization : The Future of Finance Tokenizing Wall Street

92

Tokenize Everything? The Real World Asset Debate in 2025

93

Solana Genius Behind Mad Lads & Backpack | Armani Ferrante

94

Why Solflare Thinks the Bear Market Is an Advantage | Vidor Gencel

95

Why Your Data Gets Hacked Every Week (And How ZK Proofs Fix It) | Shiv Shankar

96

Fireblocks Network for Payments is Building the Future for Stablecoins | Michael Shaulov

97

What’s Next for Stablecoins, Banks, and Instant Settlement | Farooq Malik

98

Why Staking Is Becoming the “Savings Account” for Wall Street | Lorien Gabel

99

Inside the Wyoming Conference Where Fed Officials Met Crypto Leaders | John Darsie

100

Hart Lambur on Solana Expansion, Open Intents and Fast Bridging

101

How Digital Asset Treasuries Outperform: DeFi Dev Corp’s Strategy | Joseph Onorati

102

Arianna Simpson on web3, Stablecoins & Global Adoption

103

Why Is Robinhood Building on Arbitrum | AJ Warner

104

SKR to Airdrops: Everything You Need To Know About Solana Seeker | Emmett Hollyer

105

Gracy Chen on BGB Token, Wallets & AI Agent for Bitget

106

Can Bitcoin Earn You Yield Without Leaving Your Wallet? | Hong Sun

107

Inside Telegram's Gaming Revolution | TON Foundation x Mighty Bear | Simon Davis & Martin Masser

108

What Stripe’s Crypto Play & Acquiring Privy Really Means | Henri Stern

109

Real World Assets Are the Big Crypto Narrative — Here’s Why | Chris Yin

110

Why Token Standardization Will Power the Next Crypto Boom | Stephen Hess

111

Tokenized Whiskey Is Real — And You Can Borrow Against It | Tzvi Wiesel

112

TradFi, Tokenization & DeFi Are Finally Converging — Here's What That Looks Like | Annelise Osborne

113

Why This Crypto Fund Is Doubling Down While Others Panic | Jonas Kristensen

114

Symbiotic Team Quietly Raised $29M and then Went Live on 16 Chains | Misha Putiatin

115

How This Chain Is Redesigning Crypto for AI + Stablecoins

116

Jay-Z and Jack Dorsey Backed This — Here’s What Happened

117

Kevin Boon | Why Sui’s Core Team Rejected the ETH Rollup Model

118

MC Lader | How Uniswap Is Building the Full Crypto Stack

119

Mary Gooneratne | Why DeFi Credit Markets Are Being Rebuilt From Scratch

120

Amir Haleem | How Helium’s Crypto Infrastructure Is Quietly Replacing Mobile Networks

121

Muneeb Ali | Why Bitcoin Layer 2s Are Suddenly Getting Interesting

122

Chris Maurice | The $90 Bank Fee That Launched a $200M Crypto Company

123

Tomer Weller | You Can Move Millions Without a Bank. He Already Did.

124

Gabe Otte | Why Tokenized Stocks Could Revolutionize the Global Economy

125

Stani Kulechov | Inside Aave’s New Plan to Scale DeFi Beyond Billions

126

Chris Pavlovski | Tether’s $775M Bet on Rumble: The Future of Free Speech & Bitcoin

127

Chris Osborn | This Solana Startup Is Finally Making Crypto Easy to Use

128

Pranav and Wyatt | Inside VanEck’s Crypto Playbook: From Liquid Funds to Tokenized IPOs

129

Anthony Scaramucci Thinks Bitcoin Is Going to $500K

130

Michael Sonnenshein | Securitize's COO Shares Why Institutions Like BlackRock Are Tokenizing

131

Rubail Birwadker | How Visa Will Dominate Crypto Payments

132

Nathan Allman | Is 2025 the Year Everything Gets Tokenized?

133

Ansem Says The Solana Bull Run Will Warm Back Up

134

Jeff Zirlin | What Web3 Games Get Wrong (And How Ronin Plans to Fix It)

135

Ben Leventhal | Ex-Resy Co-Founder Explains Why He's Building Blackbird on Web3

136

Dylan Abruscato | Crypto The Game Is Going Viral

137

Lucas Bruder | How Jito Generated $1.1B in Solana Rewards

138

Sandy Carter | How Digital Identity is Changing the Future

139

Lavande | How Crypto Decisions Get Made

140

Tiffany Fong Talks Sam Bankman Fried, Elon Musk, Celsius and Internet Fame

141

Dan Tapiero | Bitcoin Could Reach $180k This Cycle

142

Ira Auerbach | Building the Palantir of Blockchains

143

Kain Warwick | Creating DeFi Apps People Actually Want to Use

144

Anthony Anzalone | Bringing Institutions to Blockchains

145

Armani Ferrante | How Backpack Is Revolutionizing Crypto Exchanges

146

Miles Fuller | How To File Your 2025 Crypto Taxes

147

Scaling The Avalanche Blockchain In 2025

148

Erik Voorhees | Bitcoin OG Is Solving AI’s Biggest Risk

149

The Future of Aptos: Ecosystem Scaling, Stablecoins & DeFi

150

Hart Lambur & Nam Chu Hoa | Fixing Ethereum’s Interoperability with Open Intents Framework

151

Xin Yan | The Truth About Memecoins: Hype, Celebrity Launches & More

152

Bhaji Illuminati | What Asset Managers and Investors Want to Tokenize

153

Humayun Sheikh | How AI Agents Will Transform Crypto

154

Luca Netz | The Genius Marketing Behind Pudgy Penguins

155

Rachel Conlan | Binance CMO Shares Plan To 4X Its Users To 1 Billion

156

Tom Schmidt | How Smart Money is Investing in Crypto Right Now

157

Eric Chen & Mirza Uddin | Injective Is Changing The Game For DeFi

158

Jack Melnick | Explaining Berachain's Big Bet on Proof of Liquidity

159

Ilja Moisejevs & Richard Wu | How Tensor Pivoted its Entire Business and 10x'd Revenue with Vector

160

Ogle | Trump’s Crypto Project Advisor Talks $TRUMP, Security, Hackers & Glue

161

Avery Ching | Aptos New CEO Shares 2025 Outlook

162

Qiao Wang | How To Build A Great Crypto Startup

163

Sam McIngvale | Optimism Q1 Update: Superchain's 2025 Roadmap

164

Avalanche Q1 Update | Avalanche9000 Upgrade: Impact on Developers, Users, & The Ecosystem

165

Michael Heinrich | Why AI Agents Will Change Everything

166

Julian Holguin | Doodles Is Making NFTs Mainstream

167

Mike Giampapa | What’s Next for Crypto in 2025? Payments, Investments, & Beyond

168

Nicolas Pouard | How Ubisoft Is Shaping The Future of Web3 Gaming

169

Austin King & Tyler Tarsi | Omni Mainnet Wants to Unite All Chains

170

Rennick Palley | Investment Case for Memecoins

171

Alix Musset | How Aptos Builds Its Ecosystem

172

Nate Holiday | Building a Decentralized Data Warehouse

173

Brad Garlinghouse | Ripple CEO On Why XRP Is Taking Over

174

Jason Zhao | Story is Building A Blockchain To Monetize Your IP

175

Antonio Juliano | DYDX Founder: DeFi Will Rule The World

176

Adrian Brink | Building a Blockchain to Survive WWIII

177

Mert Mumtaz | Why Developers Choose Solana

178

Vijay Chetty | Eclipse Launches Mainnet: The First Ethereum L2 On Solana

179

Rebecca Rettig | Post Election: Polygon Exec Talks Crypto Policy Outlook After Trump Win

180

Hayden Adams & Hart Lambur | Unichain Wants To Unite All of Ethereum

181

Tristan Frizza | Zeta Markets Wants To Make Solana Even Faster

182

Stani Kulechov | The Future of Stablecoins and Tokenization of Assets

183

Michael Martin, Marc Villafuerte, Anish Lathker, Kainoa Kanter | Building Prediction Markets In Web3 Accelerators

184

Emin Gün Sirer | AVAX Breakthroughs: Avalanche9000, Off The Grid & Institutional Adoption

185

Raza Zaidi & Sandy Peng | A Blockchain For Fast Finality

186

Asher Genoot | The Future of Bitcoin Mining

187

David Nage | Crypto Investing In 2024 Market and Beyond

188

Alexei Zamyatin | The Case For Building On Bitcoin

189

Chiente Hsu | Here's What It's Like To Build a Bitcoin DEX

190

Michael Sonnenshein | Former Grayscale CEO on Bitcoin ETF, Crypto IPOs & Future Outlook

191

Philip Martin | Coinbase Plans To Keep Your Crypto Safe

192

Dan Reecer & Robinson Burkey | Wormhole’s Era3 Upgrade & Future Roadmap

193

Avery Ching on Tips To Scale Blockchains & 2025 Aptos Outlook

194

Michael Kong on Sonic Labs’ Big Bet on Airdrop & Mainnet Launch

195

Rushi Manche | Movement Labs Wants Facebook's Move Programming In All Blockchains

196

John Nahas & Luigi D'Onorio DeMeo on Avalanche's Network Upgrade, Gaming, Institutions & Future Outlook | Q3 Update

197

Alisia Painter | Building on Bitcoin & DeFi Evolution

198

Paolo Ardoino on USDT’s EXPLOSIVE Year, Tether, & Stablecoin Use Cases

199

Anthony Scaramucci on Bitcoin, Institutional Adoption, & Crypto Regulation

200

Ben Rubin | The New Digital Town Square

201

Steven Goldfeder | Offchain Labs CEO on Growing Arbitrum & Scaling ETH

202

Superchain Update | Decentralization, Scaling Ethereum, ZK Tech & Future Outlook

203

Anand Iyer | Investors Outlook on Crypto and AI

204

Yat Siu on The Future Of Content Ownership

205

Tom Schmidt | Evaluating & Finding Opportunities in Crypto Startups

206

Alena Shmalko | TON’s Betting on Telegram’s 950M Users

207

Vance Spencer & Michael Anderson | Masterclass on Crypto VC, AI, Blockchains, & ETH ETFs

208

Jesse Pollak | Base Creator on Bringing Billions of People On-Chain

209

Rich Rines | Core’s Big Bet on Bitcoin Yield

210

John Linden | Mythical Games CEO Reveals Web3 Gaming Strategy

211

Deana Burke | Making Crypto Easy To Understand

212

Will Nuelle | Galaxy Investor Taps Into The Blockspace Business

213

Matty Taylor | Building The Best Solana Hackathon

214

Keone Hon | Taking Ethereum To The Next Level

215

Marshall Hayner | Crypto OG talks Dogecoin and Building Metallicus

216

Mo Shaikh on Aptos Q2 Update | Growth, DeFi, Partnerships, & Future

217

Guy Young | Building a BTC, ETH Backed Stablecoin

218

Anthony Moro on Building a Blockchain for Financial Services

219

Matej Zak | Helping Millions Secure Their Crypto

220

Austin King | Uniting The Ethereum Ecosystem

221

Harry Zhang | The Defi Super App For 20 Million Users

222

Johann Kerbrat | Robinhood's Crypto Strategy

223

Ryan Wyatt & Dee Goens | Optimism Q2 Update: The Latest on the Superchain

224

John Wu | Avalanche Q2 Update: What You Need To Know

225

Dermot O’Riordan | Making Crypto Open & Decentralized

226

Robbie Ferguson | Crypto Is Changing Gaming Forever

227

Antoni Zolciak | Your Crypto Is Not Private Enough

228

Denelle Dixon | Making Crypto Accessible To The World

229

Scott Shapiro | Coinbase Director On Building The World's Crypto App

230

Nikil Viswanathan | Building A Crypto Platform For 1 Billion Users

231

Alex Felix | Inside The Mind Of A Long-Time Crypto VC

232

Qiao Wang | Alliance DAO Founder Explains Crypto Success Through Bull vs Bear Markets

233

Zedd Yin on Magic Eden's Bitcoin Bet: Runes Platform Hits $56M Volume!

234

Anthony Pompliano | Launching Token Relations: A Breakdown of Why We Created This