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Most AI training data flows through centralized providers like Scale AI and Appen — expensive, slow, and controlled by a handful of platforms. DECENTRALIZED DATA INFRASTRUCTURE is what Perceptron is building, and it's already serving 700,000+ nodes and generating real revenue.n Peter Anthony, Co-Founder of Perceptron Network, breaks down how a mesh of user-run nodes delivers AI training data at 92% lower cost than legacy providers, why the Data Questing Platform is the next frontier for distributed micro-tasking, and how the $10M AI Data Fund is accelerating teams with free data access. Perceptron has 700K+ nodes, 300K daily active users, and live cl...

Africa's crypto adoption is accelerating faster than almost any region on earth, but the infrastructure to serve 1.7 billion people across 54 countries, multiple currencies, and remittance costs averaging 7 to 8% is still being built. SELF-CUSTODY CRYPTO EXCHANGE INFRASTRUCTURE is what VALR is building at continental scale — and a new FSCA OTC Derivatives Provider licence just expanded what it can offer.
Farzam Ehsani, Co-Founder and CEO of VALR, joins Ashton Addison on Blockchain Interviews. VALR is Africa's largest crypto exchange by trade volume, backed by Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, and Fidelity's F-Prime Capital, serving over 1.7 million registered users and 1,800 corporate clients. Farzam pr...

Selling Bitcoin to access liquidity means a taxable event, losing your position, and missing whatever comes next. CRYPTO-BACKED LENDING is the alternative — and Arch Lending lets borrowers use Bitcoin and digital assets as collateral to access cash without ever selling their holdings. Himanshu, CTO of Arch Lending, joins Ashton Addison on Blockchain Interviews to break down how crypto-backed loans actually work, how Arch protects borrower collateral when Bitcoin prices move sharply, and what a margin call looks like in practice. One of Arch's clients — Tyler Martin, a business owner and former sailing captain — used a Bitcoin-backed loan to buy a blue-w...

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 Bitcoin payments to merchants, wallets, and ecosystem partners across his top-10 mining operation serving 5 million users. Mark walks through how GoBTC Pay settles directly on Bitcoin with users keeping control of their private keys, why a 0.2% fe...

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 two decades in AAA game development — including chart-topping franchises like Transformers, Bionicle, and Formula 1 — into a platform that turns sleep into permissioned data value, NFTs, and $SLEEP tokens. We cover how wearables including Whoop, Oura, and Ap...

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 what Symbiotic is actually building, how Core V2's capital facilities let committed capital stay enforceable while earning yield between settlement events, and why immutable, permissionless infrastructure is the only design that institutions can actually trust. From how Symbiotic Instant Li...

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 and CEO of Verona, joins Ashton Addison on Blockchain Interviews for his third appearance on the show. Anthony breaks down exactly what the XION-to-Verona shift changes — and what stays the same. The Cosmos SDK, CometBFT, and CosmWasm stac...

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, Co-Founder of NEAR Protocol and co-author of Google's "Attention Is All You Need" — the 2017 paper that introduced the Transformer architecture behind ChatGPT, Gemini, and every major LLM running today — joins Ashton Addison on Blockchain Interviews. Illia breaks down how NEAR Intents lets agents express...

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-running and stop hunting that bleeds retail traders dry on most platforms. Ouinex is already live and regulated across 5+ entities, has raised $9M+ from over 5,000 community investors with zero VCs, and offers 500x leverage across crypto, stocks, in...

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 announcements: Data Lakes — now live at xyo.network/data-lakes — and a partnership with Theta Network that pairs XYO's verifiable on-chain data infrastructure with Theta's decentralized media and delivery layer. Markus explains why AI halluc...

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 World ID's full-stack proof of human upgrade, how the AgentKit launch with Coinbase puts verified human identity at the core of AI agent transactions, and whether proof-of-humanity is possible without putting an ir...

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 Addison to break down how Cap brings private credit markets onchain with principal protection backed by Franklin Templeton. Benjamin previously scaled QiDAO from $0 to $400M in TVL and started his career in investment banking at Citi — a rare combination of TradFi cred...

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 an ecosystem being assembled on the world's most trusted chain. We dig into the velocity of money on Bitcoin — why BTC that can move through DeFi protocols creates compounding value versus BTC that j...

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 explore what it actually means for an AI agent to manage a portfolio — making decisions, allocating assets, executing strategies — without the user needing to intervene. Adam explains how this levels the playing field between retail...

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 break down why AI needs its own blockchain, what the Apollo launchpad is unlocking for AI-native projects, and how 0G's open-source infrastructure gives developers, agents, and communities real ownership over data and compute. From why existing ch...

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 upgrade didn't just improve the protocol — it transformed it. Six new data services are now live or in deployment: Subgraphs, Substreams, Token API, Tycho for DeFi solvers, Amp for institutions, and JSON-RPC. We get into how AI agents wi...

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 real-world Web3 incidents. Hudson brings a rare perspective that spans Ethereum's earliest governance battles, Flashbots, Polygon, and now the front lines of AI-powered security. We dig into what AI can and can't catch, why cross-chain bridges remain the hardest attack surface to secure, how Skynet monitors th...

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, transparent execution. David breaks down how the platform's community-driven voting reward system works, why enforced rules — not suggestions — are the only way to protect users, and how the bi-weekly "Safe from SOSANA" list is turning chaotic community sentiment into structured, accountable signal. A time...

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 prediction exchange works, why betting peer-to-peer changes the economics for bettors, and what it takes to build a regulated, on-chain alternative to the sportsbook model. From how PRED's matching engine wo...

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 verifiable at scale. After Testnet III hit 3M+ users and 5M+ nodes, Mainnet launches with validators, provers, and oracles already live — not a blank canvas — plus enshrined financial applications built directly into the protocol rather than bolted on as smart contracts. We get into wha...

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.
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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, supporting cards, bank transfers, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Pix, and more — all embedded directly into the apps users already have. From the root causes of failed onboarding (it's not what most teams think) to the just-announced Ramp...

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 consumer devices into a single decentralised compute marketplace at up to 70% less than AWS or Google Cloud. We cover the IDE — io.net's new economic model that replaces inflation-driven tokenomics by paying suppliers in doll...

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 throughput before, what the DataLake SDK unlocks for builders working with real-world data, and why stability at the validator layer matters more than most people realize. We also get into where verifiable data infrastructure fits in the...

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-sharing model for members ahead of the April 23 TGE. From why the [Sleap.io](http://Sleap.io) acquisition happened to what $STAY token holders can actually do with it, this is a practical look at what...

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 US regulatory framework needs a full overhaul, not just amendments, what the fourth generation of blockchain actually solves, and why privacy infrastructure is the unlock that brings real-world adoption at scale. We also go live on a demo of...

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 world's largest hashrate marketplace, what RTPPS means for your daily earnings versus a standard FPPS pool, and why demand for on-demand hashrate is surging in 2026. From the EasyMining story — a solo miner who turned a $70 package into a $2...

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 near-zero cost, without requiring any API integration or crypto knowledge from the business using it. From the 2021 insight that made this viable (marginal cost collapses to near zero when you remove the netting model) to how Higlobe monetizes without charging for transf...

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, and what it takes to drive real volume without paying for hype.
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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 manual claims. From designing the protocol's fee structure to managing flow-of-funds across DeFi lending markets and DEX liquidity pools, Dan explains what it takes to bridge traditional fixed-income mechanics into on-chain infrastructure — and why the timing matters now as institutional capital looks for...

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, fairer, and capable of reaching NASDAQ-scale performance while remaining decentralized.We explore what’s broken in current prediction markets like Polymarket and other on-chain trading venues, why latency and finality are critical to fair trading, and how Pod’s architecture aims to eliminate structural advant...