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Chris Yin is CEO/Co-Founder of Plume Network, the first permissionless, full-stack blockchain built for real-world asset finance (RWAfi). He spearheads the team shaping the infrastructure and policy standards to accelerate the development of onchain capital markets. Chris has an accomplished track record as a founder and investor in the enterprise software space, with tenures at Scale Venture Partners, Rainforest QA, and Xpenser (acquired by Coupa, IPO 2016).  In this conversation, we discuss: - Current price action is just short term pain  - What to expect from RWAs in 2026  - DeFi opportunities in RWAs  - Plume's differentiator  - Regulatory developments in RWAs  - Optimizing Looping  - Onchain asset management  - This history of technology  - Nest vaults on Solana  - Building Key TradFi partnerships  - User experience is everything  Plume Network X: @plumenetwork Website: www.plume.org Telegram: t.me/plumenetwork_community Chris Yin X: @chriseyin LinkedIn: Chris Yin --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance.  Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.    PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast.  After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.   Code: CRYPTONEWS50   This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:   PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50 Follow Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music RSS FeedSee All

Kirill Avery is the Founder and CEO of Alien. Serial founder, self-taught coder since age 11, built Europe's largest consumer social app at 16 (15M users). Youngest engineer at [VK.com](http://vk.com/) and youngest solo founder accepted into Y Combinator. Expertise in high-load systems (100M+ users), consumer UX, and mobile viral distribution.  In this conversation, we discuss: - Privacy-first decentralized identity network  - Social graph APIs  - “Proving humanness”  - Continuous Human Verification Protocol (CHVP)  - The role of secure hardware (TEEs)  - Tradeoffs between transparency and confidentiality in identity systems  - The future of AI, Identity and Crypto  - Trust systems are needed for the future  Alien X: @alienorg Website: www.alien.org Telegram: t.me/aliendotorg Kirill Avery X: @kirillzzy LinkedIn: Kirill Avery --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance.  Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.    PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast.  After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.   Code: CRYPTONEWS50   This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:   PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50 Follow Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music RSS Feed

Xenia Soborova is a Web3 business development leader and Head of BD at Tramplin.io, a Solana-native premium staking app that redistributes network’s inflationary rewards among users to make staking profitable even with a small amount of SOL. Previously, she worked at the Avalanche Foundation on ecosystem growth and founder success and has also held roles across major Web3 teams, including Binance, RARI Foundation, and SQD.ai. She has co-founded BD in Web3, the largest Telegram community for Web3 founders, BDs, and growth hackers.  In this conversation, we discuss: - Working with different crypto ecosystems  - Solana is the people’s chain  - Staking innovation  - Community-oriented reward redistribution  - Solana staking  - Solana’s native economics  - Long-term DeFi engagement  - Keeping SOL Secure  - BD in crypto  - Solana staking  Tramplin.io X: @Tramplin_io Website: www.tramplin.io Telegram: t.me/Tramplin_io Xenia Soborova X: @cryptophilienne LinkedIn: Xenia Soborova --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance.  Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.    PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast.  After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.   Code: CRYPTONEWS50   This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:   PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50 Follow Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music RSS Feed

Matt Ober is a Managing Partner at Social Leverage, an early stage venture capital firm focused on investing in fintech and enterprise SaaS. The firm is best well know for being early investors in Robinhood, Etoro, Alpaca, & Kustomer which was acquired by Meta. Mat was most recently the Chief Data Scientist at Third Point. Prior to joining Third Point, Matt was the Head of Data Strategy at WorldQuant and part of the WorldQuant Ventures founding team focused on private investments in fintech, data, and technology companies. Matt is the founder of InitialDataOffering.com which is the largest community of data buyers and data vendors. Matt holds a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designation and sits on the board of governors for his alma mater, California State University Chico.  In this conversation, we discuss: - Identifying trends  - Prediction Markets allowing people to monetize their niche  - The degenerate economy & financial nihilism  - Never been a better time to build a business  - Tokenization of all assets  - Stablecoins  - Consumption-based data models  - Early-stage investing  - How wealth management technology is changing  - How AI is influencing all startups  Social Leverage X: @SocialLeverage Website: www.socialleverage.com LinkedIn: Social Leverage Matt Ober X: @obermattj LinkedIn: Matt Ober --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance.  Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.    PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast.  After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.   Code: CRYPTONEWS50   This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:   PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50 Follow Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music RSS Feed

Bhaumik (“Bhau”) Kotecha is the Co-Founder and Head of Paxos Labs, a startup spun out from Paxos in 2025 to empower institutions and developers with enterprise-grade infrastructure for on-chain financial products. At Paxos Labs, he leads the mission to remove the complexity of decentralized finance so partners can seamlessly embed trusted products—such as custom stablecoins, DeFi yield strategies, and tokenized assets—into their platforms. His vision blends the regulatory rigor and infrastructure expertise of Paxos with the agility and innovation of Web3, making it easier for financial services and fintech firms to adopt blockchain-based solutions at scale. Before launching Paxos Labs, Kotecha built his career at the intersection of product strategy and go-to-market execution. At Paxos, he led product strategy for the Tokenization team after driving growth, analytics, and operations for the firm. He previously spent nearly six years at Block (formerly Square), where he directed go-to-market efforts for Cash App and Square. Beyond his leadership at Paxos Labs, Kotecha is an active angel investor and advisor in the fintech and Web3 ecosystem, and he has recently spoken on the importance of open, developer-friendly stablecoin infrastructure—highlighting proposals like Paxos Labs’ work on Hyperliquid’s USDH stablecoin, which prioritizes accessibility, liquidity, and sustainable token economics. In this conversation, we discuss: - Difference between Paxos and Paxos Labs  - Stablecoin adoption & liquidity  - Infrastructure for custom-branded stablecoins  - Tools for tokenized yield strategies & structured digital assets  - The economics and interoperability of stablecoins  - USDG and USDG0  - Off-platform dollar economics  - Integrating yield, stablecoins, payments directly into existing apps  - Enterprise grade security  - Privacy-preserving stablecoins  - PAXG - Paxos tokenized gold  Paxos Labs X: @paxoslabs Website: www.paxoslabs.com LinkedIn: Paxos Labs Bhaumik (“Bhau”) Kotecha X: @bhau___ LinkedIn: Bhaumik Kotecha --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance.  Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.    PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast.  After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.   Code: CRYPTONEWS50   This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:   PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50 Follow Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music RSS Feed

Sun Raghupathi is the CEO of Veda, the leading DeFi vault platform, enabling crypto applications, asset issuers, and protocols to build consumer-grade cross-chain yield products. Veda's technology already powers many of DeFi's largest vault products and power more than $4B in deposits. Sun is also the co-founder of Seven Seas Capital, a premier quantitative DeFi investment strategist, offering institutional-grade funds and non-custodial yield vaults through proven market making and risk-mitigated strategies. Prior to founding Veda and Seven Seas, Sun was the Head of Research and Development at Sommelier, a protocol for decentralized asset management specializing in actively managed vaults.  In this conversation, we discuss: - Vaults 101  - Onchain yield is a killer use-case in crypto  - DeFi infrastructure and yield products  - The Problem With DeFi Yield Today  - Veda’s Architecture & Design Philosophy  - Consumer-Grade DeFi  - Why yield opportunities are increasingly cross-chain  - The future of RWAs  - The Law of Collateral Inheritance  - How Veda approaches audits and security  - How incentives are aligned across users, builders, and protocols  Veda X: @veda_labs Website: www.veda.tech Telegram: t.me/+GfI_iZQ6wsZlZWNh Sun Raghupathi X: @sunandr_ LinkedIn: Sunand Raghupathi --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance.  Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.    PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast.  After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.   Code: CRYPTONEWS50   This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:   PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50 Follow Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music RSS FeedSee All

Austin Campbell is a finance and risk management professional with two decades of experience spanning trading, portfolio management, executive leadership, and academia. He is the Managing Partner and Founder of Zero Knowledge Consulting and serves as an Acting CFO at Glueti, having recently held the role of Acting CEO at WSPN Ltd. He has taught as an adjunct professor at both NYU Stern and Columbia Business School, specializing in finance and markets. Previously, Austin was Chief Risk Officer and Head of Portfolio Management at Paxos, following senior trading and portfolio management roles at Citi, Stone Ridge, and JP Morgan Chase, where he advanced to Executive Director in Rates Trading. He began his career as a catastrophe risk analyst at Benfield and John B Collins Associates, with early research experience in mathematics at California State University Chico. In this conversation, we discuss: - Open Frontier - Stablecoins - Tokenization of assets - Traditional payment systems vs crypto - Decoupling lending incentives from user incentives - The importance of the Genius Act - Economic realignment that returns power to mainstream - The fragmentation of the financial systems - Composability of blockchains - “smart regulation” - Zero Knowledge Consulting Zero Knowledge Consulting X: @ZKZeroKnowledge Website: www.zero-knowledge.com Newsletter: www.zero-in.beehiiv.com Austin Campbell X: @austincampbell LinkedIn: Austin Campbell --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance.  Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.    PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast.  After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.   Code: CRYPTONEWS50   This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:   PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50 Follow Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music RSS FeedSee All

Jesse Knutson is Head of Operations at Bitfinex Securities, a regulated security token platform offering issuers and traders access to capital and tokenized securities. Jesse started his career in traditional finance having worked at global investment banks including Barclays and Macquarie. In addition to his role as Taiwan Head of Equity Capital Solutions, Jesse was also a founding member of Macquarie’s digital asset working group, and deal lead on the firm’s first equity investment into the Bitcoin mining space. Prior to joining Bitfinex Securities, Jesse was VP of Financial Products at Blockstream where he worked on developing and distributing financial products built on Bitcoin and backed by Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining.  In this conversation, we discuss: - Tokenized securities  - Tokenization is in a position to challenge traditional payment rails  - NYSE going 24/7 trading  - How tokenized stocks work  - The convergence of tradfi > crypto  - Freedom is the killer feature of stablecoins  - Will RWAs be the next boom for tokenization?  - El Salvador Plan B conference  - 4 year crypto cycles will have less impact than before  - Bitfinex Securities  - Capital rotation and fund flows  - The relationship between gold > bitcoin  - Building on Bitcoin  Bitfinex Securities X: @BFXSecurities Website: www.bitfinex.com/securities LinkedIn: Bitfinex Securities Jesse Knutson X: @KnutsonJesse LinkedIn: Jesse Knutson --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance.  Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.    PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast.  After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.   Code: CRYPTONEWS50   This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:   PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50 Follow Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music RSS FeedSee All

Matt O’Connor is the Co-founder of Legion, a platform for compliant and merit-based public token offering that enables teams to select investors based on criteria such as onchain history, social clout, and developer contributions. He is the former lead algorithmic engineer for Bridgewater Associates; tokenomics researcher for the Stacks Foundation (SEC qualified 2019 ICO); and token economics lead for Status (2017 ICO). His open source book, Tokenomics for Builders, has been positively reviewed by founders and VCs from Monad, Placeholder, Tensor, AllianceDAO, Galaxy Digital, and more.  In this conversation, we discuss: - ICOs, IDOs, launchpads, private SAFT rounds  - Merit-based, compliant token offerings  - Why IPO access has deteriorated for retail investors  - How Legion differs from AngelList, Carta, Republic, or SeedInvest  - The convergence of IPOs > ICOs  - Companies with equity holders and token holders  - Tokenomics 101  - Common mistakes when designing tokenomics  - KPI based vesting for founders  Legion X: @legiondotcc Website: legion.cc LinkedIn: Legion | Merit-based Fundraising Matt O’Connor X: @matty_ LinkedIn: Matt O’Connor --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance.  Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.    PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast.  After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.   Code: CRYPTONEWS50   This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:   PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50 Follow Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music RSS FeedSee All

Nic Roberts-Huntley is the CEO and Co-Founder of Blueprint Finance, leveraging his unique background spanning medicine, economics, and finance. A former surgeon who practiced at prestigious institutions, including Oxford University Hospitals and The Royal Marsden, Nic pivoted to finance after completing his MBA and Master's in Evidence-Based Policy Evaluation & Economics at Oxford University. His career trajectory includes roles as Vice President at Point72, Venture Architect at Virtual Ventures, and various surgical fellowships. At Blueprint Finance, Nic oversees two innovative protocols: Concrete, which provides institutional-grade financial services through its Earn, Borrow, and Protect products that optimize yields and offer liquidation protection; and Glow, a Solana-based protocol offering advanced trading, lending, and liquid restaking solutions. His multidisciplinary expertise and quantitative approach position him as a distinctive voice at the intersection of traditional finance and DeFi innovation. In this conversation, we discuss: - Institutional yield generation becomes crypto’s next major unlock  - Nic’s career path: surgeon to trad-fi to crypto  - M&A in digital asset markets accelerates  - DeFi grows up from speculation to infrastructure  - Crypto vaults  - Delta-neutral trading strategies in vaults  - Nic’s critique of “chasing headline APY”  - DeFi’s Next Frontier: Credit, Tokenization & New Markets  - Insurance will unlock the next frontier of crypto  - On-chain credit markets  - Composability across DeFi  Blueprint Finance X: @Blueprint_DeFi Website: blueprintfinance.com Glow Finance X: @GlowFinanceXYZ Website: glowfinance.xyz Discord: discord.gg/glowfinance Concrete X: @ConcreteXYZ Website: concrete.xyz Discord: discord.gg/concretexyz Nic Roberts-Huntley X: @nic_builds LinkedIn: Nic Roberts-Huntley --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance.  Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.    PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast.  After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.   Code: CRYPTONEWS50   This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:   PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50 Follow Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music

Irina Chuchkina is the Chief Growth Officer at Wallet In Telegram. Irina is an accomplished leader in crypto and fintech with over 18 years of experience building world-class brands at the intersection of payments and technology, across Europe and Asia. Currently, Irina is leading Wallet's global expansion strategy with a target of 15 new countries in the next 2 years. Previously, she was CMO at Volt, driving their brand and global marketing strategy. She was also part of Southeast Asia super-app giant, Grab, where she helped to launch GrabPay, Grab’s mobile wallet, and GrabRewards, its loyalty platform across Southeast Asia. In this conversation, we discuss: - Wallet in Telegram  - Difference between Wallet in Telegram vs standalone crypto wallets  - Finance inside messaging apps  - Telegram as a Super-App  - The convergence of messaging, payments, and identity  - Go-To-Market for wallets  - Stablecoins as the backbone of global payments  - 3 pillars of wallets: distribution, utility, simplicity  - The recent launch of xStocks inside TON Wallet  - Why growth in crypto is fundamentally different from Web2 growth  Wallet In Telegram X: @wallet_tg Telegram: t.me/wallet LinkedIn: Wallet In Telegram Irina Chuchkina X: @pogodasuper LinkedIn: Irina Chuchkina --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance.  Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.    PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast.  After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.   Code: CRYPTONEWS50   This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:   PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50 Follow Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music RSS FeedSee All

Carlos Lei, CEO of Uplink, one of the leading DePIN players, operates as a connectivity marketplace using existing Wi-Fi routers to help telecom companies save millions of dollars.  In this conversation, we discuss: - 2026 will be the year of DePIN  - Insights from building in connectivity since 2015  - The future of connectivity  - Mesh networks  - Sharing connectivity using existing infrastructure  - There isn’t enough infra to connect devices in the future  - The connectivity incentive layer  - How ULX and Network Credits work together  - Building on Avalanche  - Network effects in crypto  Uplink X: @uplink_xyz Website: www.uplink.xyz LinkedIn: Uplink Carlos Lei X: @CarlosLeiSantos LinkedIn: Carlos Lei Santos --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance.  Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.    PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast.  After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.   Code: CRYPTONEWS50   This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:   PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50 Follow Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music RSS FeedSee All

A treasury company pioneer, Marco launched the very first altcoin treasury on the Nasdaq. Prior to joining Solmate as CEO he was a partner at Pantera Capital, where he helped to structure some of the industry’s best-performing treasuries. A trained attorney, Marco was once dubbed the "Dean of Digital Currency Lawyers" by the Editor-in-Chief of American Banker. He was the Chief Legal Officer at Kraken, one of the world's largest digital asset exchanges, for five years. Prior to Kraken, Marco was the President of Blockchain.com, as well as a Partner at Cooley LLP, where he led the firm’s global financial technology team. At Cooley, he invented the SAFT Framework and co-authored the SAFT Project Whitepaper, which became a market standard for crypto capital formation. He was an advisor to the International Monetary Fund and an IMF delegate speaker on financial technology in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. In this conversation, we discuss: - Inventing the SAFT Framework  - Stories from being Chief Legal Officer at Kraken  - Crypto in Abu Dhabi and UAE  - The geographical importance of the UAE  - Why Solana  - Solana in 2026  - Raising $300 million  - Planned Acquisition of RockawayX  - The Infrastructure Flywheel Strategy  Solmate X: @Solmate Website: www.solmate.com LinkedIn: Solmate $SLMT Marco Santori X: @msantoriESQ LinkedIn: Marco Santori --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance.  Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.    PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast.  After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.   Code: CRYPTONEWS50   This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:   PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50 Follow Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music RSS FeedSee All

Kyle Okamoto is the Chief Technology Officer at Aethir: the leading decentralized enterprise-grade cloud computing network. With over 20 years of experience in cloud and edge computing, digital media, IoT and AI, Kyle's leadership has been pivotal in scaling growth businesses and driving technological innovation at Aethir. Before joining Aethir, Kyle served as the General Manager of Aeris Communications and Ericsson’s enterprise businesses, overseeing Internet of Things, Security, and Connected Vehicle portfolio companies. He was also the Chief Executive Officer of Edge Gravity, a global edge cloud platform facilitating cloud gaming, AI, and media and entertainment applications. Kyle's extensive experience also includes his tenure as Chief Network Officer of Verizon Media and his role as a founding member of Verizon Digital Media Services, which grew to a multi-billion dollar business before its acquisition by Private Equity. In addition to his work with Aethir, Kyle is an early investor and advisor to Theta Labs, holds board positions in various technology companies and non-profit organizations, and is an active angel investor and advisor in the venture capital and private equity spaces. Kyle holds a Master of Business Administration from New York University and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Stevens Institute of Technology. In this conversation, we discuss: - AI’s growth is now gated by access to compute rather than model quality  - Compute is becoming a financial asset class  - AI demand continues to outpace supply  - GPUs  - Investors are starting to treat compute like infrastructure, not software  - Financial structures are becoming essential to scaling AI infrastructure  - Decentralized compute offers an alternative path during the global GPU shortage - Enterprises are moving toward multi-source compute strategies  - Financing compute  - The financing of compute is as important as the tech side  Aethir X: @AethirCloud Website: www.aethir.com LinkedIn: Aethir Kyle Okamoto LinkedIn: Kyle Okamoto --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance.  Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.    PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast.  After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.   Code: CRYPTONEWS50   This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:   PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50 Follow Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music RSS FeedSee All

Tom Trowbridge is an entrepreneur and business builder; he is a co-founder of Fluence Labs, and Hedera Hashgraph (HBAR) where he was President from Inception. He hosts the DePIN Day conference series and the DePINed podcast and is an investor in leading DePIN projects and crypto funds. Tom is an advocate for decentralized systems and distributed ledger/blockchain technology and believes these open source tools provide the best opportunity to build fairer, more transparent, and higher-functioning societies, government, and business ecosystems. He is passionate about driving education regarding blockchain, Bitcoin and the great promise of distributed systems.  In this conversation, we discuss: - The early days of HBAR  - Decentralized storage/compute  - Difference between decentralized compute vs centralized cloud  - DePIN  - DeAI  - Crypto economic models  - Fiat-linked rewards address crypto reward volatility  - Staking models for cloud DePINs  - DePIN offers a new, sustainable model for value creation  Fluence Labs X: @fluence_project Website: www.fluence.network Telegram: t.me/fluence_project Tom Trowbridge X: @TheTomTrow LinkedIn: Tom Trowbridge --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance.  Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.    PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast.  After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.   Code: CRYPTONEWS50   This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:   PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50 Follow Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music RSS FeedSee All