Crypto Coin Show

Every Bitcoin you buy on an exchange is tied to your name, your ID and your address, and anyone can follow it on-chain from there. Bitcoin privacy is not built in, but tools like Silent Payments, Monero and Zcash are making it simple for everyday users, not just cypherpunks.

Vik Sharma, Founder and CEO of Cake Wallet, breaks down what exchanges and analytics firms actually know about you, whether Satoshi meant Bitcoin to be this transparent, and how Cake grew to more than 1.7 million users without collecting any user data. He explains how Silent Payments keep Bitcoin addresses...

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When AI can fake almost anything, what can we still prove? Arie Trouw, Co-Founder, CEO and CTO of XYO, joins Ashton Addison on the Crypto Coin Show to talk about why deepfake detection is losing, how XYO's network of 10 million+ phones and devices witnesses real-world data, and what that means for AI agents, AGI and the year ahead.

We also get into AI and jobs, how kids should learn now, whether AI is getting cheaper or more expensive, open source and sovereign AI, keeping...

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Can onchain credit fund Hollywood? Benjamin Sarquis Peillard, Founder and CEO of Cap, returns to Blockchain Interviews to explain how Cap is financing Wake, a comedy drama starring Cole Sprouse, Penelope Ann Miller, Riki Lindhome and Chris Parnell, by advancing cash against the film's tax credits. Cap has done more than $4 billion in cumulative volume, holds over $400 million in deposits, and is backed by Franklin Templeton and IMC Trading.

Benjamin breaks down why every Cap loan needs an underwriter who puts their own Bitcoin or gold...

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Most creators wait months to see a cut of what their work earns, and fans who back a project rarely see any of it. IPX wants to change that by routing real revenue, from box office to brand deals, into a project's own checking account, sweeping it from USD into USDC, and using it to buy back and burn tokens or fund a rewards pool for holders.

Jordan Schlosser, co-founder and CTO of IPX, breaks down how the Fetty Wap docuseries pays fans, why every...

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$6.3 billion left Binance in about 20 minutes, the biggest hack in history. Ashton Addison and co-host Golden Yogi break down the money trail (FBI, Tornado Cash, Bybit hack funds), why Bitcoin barely moved, plus tampered hardware wallets, Trezor's warning and how to do real cold storage.

Bitcoin's white paper turns 18, so they cover quantum risk and Bitcoin address types, then a lightning round on Zcash, Flop Labs, 0G and NEAR Intents.

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Verona, the network formerly known as XION, launched verUSD: a dollar stablecoin built for AI agents, with more than $100 million in launch commitments. On his fourth time on Crypto Coin Show, founder and CEO Anthony Anzalone explains why a network built to verify data decided to create its own money, after being the first chain to use USDC as gas.

Anthony covers why every company should have its own stablecoin after the GENIUS Act, why he tells people not to hold verUSD, how USDC and USDT...

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Every worthwhile democracy uses a secret ballot, and every fair sealed-bid auction needs an auctioneer nobody can bribe. On chain, someone usually still has to see the inputs to count them. The Interfold, built by Gnosis Guild, spreads that trust across a network using fully homomorphic encryption, threshold decryption and zero knowledge proofs, so votes and bids stay secret while the result can still be verified.

Auryn Macmillan, co-founder of Gnosis Guild, explains why ZK proofs alone cannot make a vote receipt-free, how running the MACI coordinator...

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Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR Protocol, joins Ashton Addison on the Crypto Coin Show to break down everything NEAR has shipped since June: privacy by default across trading, confidential perps, IronClaw for AI agents, tokenized stocks through NEAR Intents, quantum-safe signing on mainnet, and the new Bitwise NEAR ETF.

We also cover the shield that stopped Bitget hack funds from moving through NEAR Intents, why liquidity is the key to tokenized stocks, the NEAR distribution for early confidential intents users, and what the team wants...

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Software is solved, hardware is different. Martin El-Khouri of peaq argues that the next wave of builders is moving from software to machines, because a moat built only on software is getting hard to defend. He explains why robots, cars and sensors need the same boring basics humans rely on, an identity, a wallet and a credit history, before a real machine economy can work.

Martin El-Khouri, Head of Ecosystem and Business Development at peaq, walks through peaq's bet on the machine economy, the Audi and...

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Luke Davis argues that tech and the hyperscalers have carried the whole index in 2026 while most other sectors stalled, and that the fourth quarter of a midterm year has historically been the strongest stretch of the four-year cycle. He also explains why he sees OpenAI and Anthropic priced like hyper-growth companies, and why he would rather own the chip, memory and hyperscaler names they spend their money with.

Luke Davis, Founder and Chief Market Strategist of Bull Market Blueprint, walks through how he runs a self-managed...

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Crypto data is only useful if it is complete, fast and right, and Birdeye covers thousands of data sources across the world's chains with no venture funding behind it. The company started as a website for tracking token price, volume and trading venues, then grew into data infrastructure that now serves over 5,000 enterprise clients, including wallets, decentralized exchanges and analysts.

Kha Nguyen, co-founder and CEO of Birdeye, explains how Birdeye keeps thousands of data sources in sync, how it decides which chains to support, and...

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Most credit runs on trust: banks, BNPL apps and suppliers all price in the risk that you won't pay. Anvil flips that. It lets you lock up the crypto you already hold as a guaranteed promise to pay, without selling it and without handing it over, so the other side never has to trust you.

Max Schwartz, CEO of Anvil Research Labs, joins Ashton Addison on the day Anvil announces its new SDK to explain why digital assets make better collateral than houses or cars, how...

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AI agents can browse, write and code, but most of the web still treats them as intruders: CAPTCHAs, logins built for humans and payment flows that assume a person with a card. Daski is built to give agents a way through, with tools they can use directly and a way to pay for what they use.

Pawel Mastalerz, founder of Daski, joins Ashton Addison the week Daski launched to explain where AI agents stand today, what agent-friendly tools look like (MCP, ERC-8004 reputation, crypto...

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Banks look slow on blockchain, but most of the work is happening where nobody can see it. Institutions are running RFPs, testing tokenized deposits and certificates of deposit, and lining up for regulatory clarity, because a bank that waits for a green light can lose 18 to 24 months of build time. Tokenizing an asset is the easy part. The hard part is liquidity, custody, settlement and connecting it all to core banking.

Dr. Jordan Knecht, Head of Strategic Integrations at Kresus, breaks down what it means to be...

A trading-signals company says it raised $1 million for a fund that will spend half its realized profits buying its own token, TTP, off the market and burning it. The fund has not started trading yet, and the performance figures so far come from a backtest, not a live track record. The TTP token launched on Solana with no presale and no team or investor allocation, a setup Nick says can be checked on-chain.

Nick Nechanicky, founder and CEO of TrendTrader Pro, explains how his buy and sell signals work across more than 1,000 markets, what he means by market...

Robinhood already lets millions of people trade stocks and crypto, so why build its own blockchain? Robinhood Chain is the answer: a chain Robinhood controls end to end, launched July 1, that has since crossed $1.6 billion in total value locked, with most major exchanges and wallets integrated by August. Owning the chain lets Robinhood set compliance rules for every jurisdiction it launches in, keep gas fees low, and bring tokenized stocks onchain with 24/7 trading.

Johann Kerbrat, SVP and General Manager of Crypto at Robinhood, breaks down how Robinhood keeps fees high enough to stop spam but low enough for...

Decentralized social keeps failing for the same reason: Farcaster, Lens and every Twitter clone built an app-specific data model, so nothing composes and no network effect forms. KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS are the missing piece, and Geo Debates, launched today, is the first consumer product built on one. Two people who disagree on a specific claim argue it on video in timed turns, the clip drops into a swipeable short-form feed, the audience votes on who made the stronger case, and every claim stays on the record where it can be challenged later. Yaniv Tal, founder of Geo and co-founder of The...

Robinhood already lets millions of people trade stocks and crypto, so why build its own blockchain? Robinhood Chain is the answer: a chain Robinhood controls end to end, launched July 1, that has since crossed $1.6 billion in total value locked, with most major exchanges and wallets integrated by August. Owning the chain lets Robinhood set compliance rules for every jurisdiction it launches in, keep gas fees low, and bring tokenized stocks onchain with 24/7 trading.

Johann Kerbrat, SVP and General Manager of Crypto at Robinhood, breaks down how Robinhood keeps fees high enough to stop spam but low enough for...

EMQQ Global's Kevin T. Carter joins Ashton Addison to make the case that the valuation gap between US and Chinese AI companies is closing faster than most investors realize. Kevin walks through TGRZ, the China AI Tigers LLM ETF built around DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax and Z.ai, and AICH, the new full-stack China AI ETF that launched the same morning as this interview. Kevin explains why open models are catching up to closed ones faster than expected, why he thinks the US distillation warning against Chinese AI labs is overblown, what's actually driving profitability at these companies, and why...

Brave has grown into a privacy-first browser with 120 million-plus users and 50 million-plus daily actives, but only a sliver of that audience actually touches crypto today. SELF-CUSTODY PAYMENTS is how Brave is closing that gap, and Roadmap 4.0 is the plan to turn the world's biggest privacy browser into a Venmo-like, self-custody wallet anyone can use.
Luke Mulks, VP of Business Operations at Brave and host of the Brave Technologist podcast, joins Ashton Addison on Blockchain Interviews to break down Brave Pay, the GENIUS Act-compliant Brave Rewards Card, and x402 support for AI-agent stablecoin payments. Luke explains how the new wallet...

AI is racing toward a moment where verifying data isn't the hard problem anymore — proving an autonomous agent or robot actually did what it claims becomes the harder one. PROOF OF ACTION is the frontier XYO is pushing toward next, moving past its original data-provenance thesis into a bigger question: when an AI makes a decision or a robot acts in the physical world, how do you actually prove it happened the way it says it did? Arie Trouw, Co-Founder, CEO, and CTO of XYO, joins Ashton Addison on Blockchain Interviews for his second appearance on the show. Arie breaks do...

AI agents are already making financial decisions, coordinating logistics, and acting autonomously on behalf of users — but there is no reliable record of what they did, why they did it, or whether the data they acted on was real. DATA PROVENANCE is the missing accountability layer, and XYO has been building it since before the industry knew it needed it. Markus Levin, Co-Founder of XYO, joins Ashton Addison on Blockchain Interviews for his second appearance on the show. Markus breaks down what 90 days of real adoption looks like since Data Lakes launched at xyo.network/data-lakes, how the XYO AI SD...

Most crypto companies structure themselves in the wrong jurisdiction — or no jurisdiction at all — and find out what that means when it's too late to fix it. Dave Rodman, Founder and Managing Partner of The Rodman Law Group, breaks down the three offshore structures he recommends to crypto founders: the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, and Panama. He explains how each one works, what the tradeoffs are, how the regulatory environment has shifted under the new administration, and what the Clarity Act actually does and doesn't fix. Rodman also covers AI agent liability, token launch landmines, IP risk in Web3...

Most RWA projects tokenize the asset and forget the token. ZIGChain is building the full stack: regulated onchain infrastructure for institutional-grade real-world assets, with $ZIG's value tied directly to platform revenue through a discretionary buyback program — not a separate speculative layer bolted on top. REVENUE-BACKED TOKENOMICS built on a purpose-built Layer 1 is what separates ZIGChain from the noise in an increasingly crowded RWA market. Abdul Rafay Gadit, Co-Founder of ZIGChain, joins Ashton Addison on Blockchain Interviews. ZIGChain is the next evolution of Zignaly — a platform with 600,000 registered users and $10 billion in trading volume — rebuilt as a Cosmos SDK Layer 1 with EVM co...

Crypto prop trading is a broken model: most firms quietly change the rules the moment a trader starts winning. TRANSPARENT ONCHAIN CRYPTO PROP TRADING is what Propr is building — and two months in, they have $1M in revenue, 5,000+ active traders, and 300+ AI agents already trading with funded capital. Louis Régis, Founder of Propr, joins Ashton Addison on Blockchain Interviews. Louis is a former Credit Suisse quant who ran the crypto desk at Rothschild & Co and now codes Propr live on Twitch daily. He breaks down how every challenge, rule, and payout on Propr is settled onchain and publicly verifiable — no bl...

Most crypto wallets are still just storage. Trust Wallet just added tokenized US stocks, perpetual futures, and prediction markets — all non-custodial, all on mobile. SELF-CUSTODIAL TRADING is no longer a contradiction, and Trust Wallet's General Counsel breaks down exactly what changed. Shehram Khattak, General Counsel at Trust Wallet, joins Ashton Addison on Blockchain Interviews. Trust Wallet has surpassed 220 million downloads across 100+ blockchains, hit $1 billion in perp volume within 40 days of launching on Hyperliquid, and became the #2 builder by volume on the network in its first weeks. Shehram explains how Trust Wallet integrated Hyperliquid's HIP-4 prediction markets as the first major wa...

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...