Best Face To Face With The Most Important People In Digital Assets Podcasts (2025)

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Circle CTO: Why We Built Our Own Payment Chain with Nikhil Chandhok 28:18

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Stablecoins are becoming the foundation of global finance, but scaling them requires purpose-built infrastructure. In today's episode, we sit down with Nikhil from Circle to explore why they're building Arc, their dedicated payments chain for USDC and the competitive landscape of stablecoin infrastructure. Let's get into it. The Rollup Website: htt…

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The Rollup TV: Our Next Chapter 2:48:04

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Inside Hyperliquid's Stablecoin Showdown: Vance Spencer Breaks Down the USDH Fight 36:17

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The stablecoin wars have arrived at Hyperliquid, and $200 million in annual profits hangs in the balance. Today, we sit down with Vance Spencer from Framework Ventures to break down the USDH ticker battle. With $5.5 billion of USDC in Hyperliquid's bridge, teams are competing for crypto's most valuable stablecoin partnership. We explore Sky's propo…

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The Rollup TV: Newton, Open World, Aptos 1:48:23

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Why The Crypto Land Grab Is Intensifying Now with Ryan Watkins 37:00

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Crypto is entering its practical era, and the land grab is intensifying. Ryan Watkins breaks down how Hyperliquid is bundling exchanges, stablecoins, and smart contracts under one token while most teams compete in narrative wars. We explore the USDA stablecoin proposals, why Ethena's funding rate arbitrage positions it for rate cuts, and why the ne…

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The Rollup TV: Arc, CAP Money, Centrifuge, Hyperliquid 2:21:18

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How REKT Drinks Sold 1 Million Cans Using A Brand Token with OSF 36:38

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Brand coins are the next frontier in crypto – but most companies will fail spectacularly. We sit down with OSF, founder of REKT drinks, to explore how they've sold nearly a million cans in 12 months powered by their token. OSF breaks down why traditional companies can't just launch tokens and the path to $100M revenue with crypto-native brands. Let…

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Hyperliquid USDH Special Day 2 3:04:01

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Agora vs Paxos vs Frax: The Ultimate Stablecoin Stewardship Battle 1:30:32

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The stablecoin wars have arrived at HyperLiquid's doorstep. In today's episode, we dive into the USDA showdown that took over crypto Twitter this weekend. HyperLiquid opened up their native stablecoin ticker to community proposals, triggering a fierce competition between major players. We sit down with three key contenders: Nick from Agora, Bo from…

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The Rollup TV: Hyperliquid USDH Stablecoin Special 2:55:41

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ETFs vs DATs Explained with Steven McClurg & Eric Chen 41:14

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The ETF floodgates are about to open. Today we sit down with Steven McClurg from Canary Capital and Eric Chen from Injective Protocol to explore the next wave of crypto ETFs hitting institutional markets. Steven breaks down his October timeline for generic listing standards and why we could see 20-50 crypto ETFs approved this year. We cover staking…

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ETF Flows, Predition Markets and DeFi VC with Steven McClurg and Eric Chen 58:43

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How Plasma Plans to Overtake Ethereum and Tron with Jacob Wittman 29:52

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The stable chain wars are officially here and Plasma is leading the charge. In today's episode, we sit down with Jacob, General Counsel at Plasma, to explore how stable chains are reshaping global payments. From Tether's 400 million users to emerging markets in Turkey and Syria, Jacob breaks down why dedicated stablecoin infrastructure is becoming …

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The Rollup TV: Plasma, Veda, Sei, XION 2:10:30

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What It's Like Running Ethereum When Institutions Take Over with Tomasz K. Stańczak 35:54

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Institutions now hold more ETH than the Ethereum Foundation itself. How does this shift power dynamics? We sit down with Tomasz, co-executive director of the Ethereum Foundation, to explore institutional adoption's impact on Ethereum's governance and future. We cover massive ETH accumulation by companies like MicroStrategy, the Foundation's three s…

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The Rollup TV: Ethereum Is Based 3:30:49

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What Happens When Treasury Products Flood The Market? with Aya Kantorovich and Shiliang Tang 36:10

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DAT fever is cooling, but institutions aren't slowing down. We sit down with Ilya from August and Shiliang from Monarq to explore what happens when treasury products saturate the market and Asian capital floods later-stage DATs. We cover whether buying call options instead of spot is becoming the new institutional playbook and the systemic risks lu…

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Premia Labs’ Alpha, Monad’s Next Chapter, Markets, ETF Flows and DeFi Yields with Aya Kantorovich, Shiliang Tang, Kevin McCordic and Cozy 1:54:42

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How Treasury Companies Will Drive Crypto's Next Bull Run with Michael Anderson 39:44

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We're in the first inning of digital asset treasury companies reshaping institutional crypto adoption. Today we sit down with Michael Anderson from Framework Ventures to explore how MicroStrategy's playbook is spreading. With Ethereum ETFs trading below NAV and treasury companies preparing debt issuance once they hit $10 billion, we're seeing early…

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Inside the Stargate Acquisition Battle with Robinson Burkey 30:40

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How should crypto acquisitions be handled? In today's episode, Robinson from Wormhole explains why they countered Layer Zero's Stargate bid with $120 million in USDC. With less than 1% voter turnout and a 96-hour timeline that made due diligence impossible, Robinson argues the process was fundamentally broken. We cover the messy reality of DAO gove…

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The Rollup TV: Thursday, August 28th 1:51:22

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JZ’s Departure From Story Explained with S.Y. Lee 1:11:50

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In today's episode, we sit down with S.Y. Lee of Story Protocol to cover: -The Real Reason Behind Jason's Departure -Token Unlock Misconceptions Debunked -Why Story's Revenue Numbers Look So Low -The $80 Trillion IP Market Vision -Major Korea Announcements Coming Soon -Building Consumer-First Crypto Infrastructure Let's jump in The Rollup 𝗪𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝘂…

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The Rollup TV: Wednesday, August 27th 1:48:02

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How Transparent Leverage Is Reshaping Crypto with Lorenzo Valente 32:08

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DeFi is growing up, and the numbers tell a different story than the hype suggests. In today's episode, we sit down with Lorenzo Valente from ARK Invest to explore how institutional capital is quietly reshaping crypto infrastructure. Lorenzo breaks down why this cycle feels different. From transparent on-chain leverage versus 2021's hidden risks to …

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The Rollup TV: The Truth Behind Story Protocol 1:35:43

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The Hidden Truth About Prediction Market Fatigue with Rob Hadick 32:33

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The DAT meta is everywhere, but is it sustainable? We sit down with Rob Hadick from Dragonfly to cut through the noise. Rob breaks down why he thinks we're hitting exhaustion on digital asset treasury companies, where the real institutional capital is coming from, and why traditional founders are finally making the jump into crypto. We dive into pr…

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Crypto Cycles, AI Alpha, ARK’s Bets and DATs Trading with Grant Shears, Lorenzo Valente and Rob Hadick 1:49:04

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Former Yahoo Music Executive on Crypto's Inevitable Centralization Points with Ian Rogers 28:00

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Every crypto cycle, someone tells you to compromise on security to "onboard the masses." It always blows up. In today's episode, we sit down with Ian Rogers from Ledger to explore why "storytelling plus time equals value" - and why self-custody will always matter. Ian breaks down how we're witnessing the digitization of all value, not just informat…

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What Happens When Celebrity Coin Launches Stop Working? with Altcoin Sherpa 22:00

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In today's episode, AltcoinSherpa to explore: - Why Traditional Boom-Bust Patterns Might Be Dead - The Era of Mini-Cycles: 1-3 Months Action, Months of Chop - Why YZY Launch Flopped vs Trump's Meteoric Rise - Sherpa's Late-Cycle Strategy & Death of Narrative Rotations - How Institutional Money Altered Crypto's Rhythm Let's jump into it. The Rollup …

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Kanye Coin, Token Mill’s Flywheel, Monad’s Next Chapter with Josh Benaron, Dima Zhelezov, Kevin McCordic, Ian Rogers and Altcoin Sherpa 2:03:55

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Onboarding 100 Million Users to Crypto with Steven Goldfeder and Derek Chiang 25:20

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The UX problem is the only thing standing between Arbitrum and mainstream adoption. In today's episode, Stephen Goldfeder from Offchain Labs and Derek Chiang from ZeroDev discuss their acquisition and what it means for the Arbitrum ecosystem. While Arbitrum solved scaling, UX fragmentation remains. Their collaboration will deliver gasless transacti…

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ICOs, Regulation & Fair Token Launches, Offchain Founders on The Smart Account Future, Building DeFi’s Yield Hub and Extended’s Starknet Leap with Derek Chiang, Steven Goldfeder 2:02:24

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Why Chainlink Is Actually Beating XRP in the Institutional Race with Zach Rynes 29:24

25d ago29:24

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In today's episode, we sit down with Zach Rynes to explore: Why Chainlink Is Actually Flipping XRP The Link Reserve: First Ever Off-Chain Revenue Buyback Program Swift, JP Morgan, UBS: Who's Really Working With Who? XRP's NDA Narratives vs. Chainlink's Public Partnerships What To Expect at the Upcoming Swift Conference The Infrastructure Play That'…

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Hyperliquid, Tokenization, Chainlink, CCIP & Tokenized Finance with Luke Cannon, Graham Ferguson and Zach Rynes. 1:33:52

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We Asked an RWA Expert About Asset Tokenization. Here's What We Learned with Ian De Bode 25:04

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Imagine taking the best of stablecoins and applying it to stocks. That’s what Ondo Global Markets is doing. In today's episode, we chat with Ian from Ondo Finance about their new Ondo Global Markets platform. Basically, it lets you wrap any publicly traded stock into a token you can mint or burn instantly, just like a stablecoin. We explore why tok…

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The GRID & Open AGI Future, Digital Asset Treasury, Borderless Markets & Ondo Chain, Trump, and $500K BTC with Himanshu Tyagi, David Hsu, Ian De Bode and Les Borsai 2:13:20

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How Arkham Built Crypto's Most Trusted Intelligence Platform with Miguel Morel 22:14

1M ago22:14

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On-chain intelligence is eating the world. In today's episode, we sit down with Miguel from Arkham Intelligence to explore how they've transformed blockchain analytics from raw transaction hashes into human-readable intelligence. We dive into how Arkham identifies treasury companies buying hundreds of millions in ETH and why they're giving away wha…

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Why Everything You Think You Know About Crypto Tops Is Wrong with NotSoFast 27:43

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ETH hits $4,500 and suddenly everyone's a believer again. Funny how that works. In today's episode, we take a trip back to crypto's wild west with NotSoFast, one of the OG speculative miners from 2016. Before PumpFun – there was spec mining and rescuing $2 million worth of PIVX from a dusty storage locker. His take on today's treasury company mania…

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Mining, Bags, Bets, ZK & The Proving Race, Arkham, AI, Onchain Intel , IP World and The Future of Meme Coins with Notsofast, Maya Dotan, Miguel Morel and Red 1:56:14

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How Sovereign Is Solving Crypto's Throughput Problem with Preston Evans 39:36

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How would you launch an application in crypto today? Why do we need more than one CLOB? In today's episode, we sit down with Preston Evans, CTO of Sovereign Labs, to explore how builders can escape the throughput prison that's held crypto back for years. We cover why CLOBs need sub-100 millisecond response times, how Bullet leverages their infrastr…

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Crypto Privacy Shifts, Sovereign's stack, and Reviewing The Signal with Sid Gandhi, Preston Evans, and Shiv Shankar 2:03:54

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How Austin Barack Separates Signal From Noise in DeFi 18:07

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It looks like the gap between DeFi hype and sustainable revenue is finally starting to close. In today's episode, we sit down with Austin Barack, founder of Relayer Capital, to explore how smart money separates signal from noise in DeFi. Austin has backed some of the current most exciting protocols like GTE and Vedae. We cover how to identify genui…

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The New Era Of Distribution with Ram Kumar & Eowyn Chen 33:30

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In today's episode, we explore AI and crypto wallets with Ram Kumar from Open Ledger and Eowyn from Trust Wallet. As AI reshapes wallet interfaces, we discuss the "fat wallet thesis" and more:-How Trust Wallet Plans to Integrate AI Without Compromising Self-Custody-The Security Risks of AI-Powered Wallets-OpenLedger's Vision for Rewarding Data Cont…

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Why 2025 Is DeFi's Institutional Breakout Year with Corey Caplan from Dolomite 33:04

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DeFi is getting its second wind, and this time it's different. Revenue sharing, buybacks, and actual value accrual are replacing the empty promises of DeFi summer. In today's episode, we sit down with Corey from Dolomite to explore how money markets are evolving into full-service prime brokerages and why protocols need unique efficiencies to surviv…

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I founded WonderFi Then Built A Crypto Treasury Vehicle - Karia Samaroo 31:52

2M ago31:52

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In today's episode, we sit down with Karia Samaroo, founder of WonderFi, which Robinhood is in the process of acquiring. He now has founded xTAO, to explore how AI tokens can bridge retail hype and institutional adoption. After WonderFi, Karia is tackling Bittensor's mainstream potential.Let's get into it.The Rollup ------ Website: https://therollu…

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Macro Moves, Bittensor, Chains and Rollups with Kyle Reidhead, Karia Samaroo and Matt Katz 1:37:39

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The 9-Figure EtherFi Revenue Machine with Mike Silagadze 28:58

2M ago28:58

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More infrastructure won’t bring everyday users into crypto. Apps that actually matter to people will. In this episode, we chat with Mike Silagadze, CEO of Ether.fi, about how he raised funds for infrastructure and then pivoted to focus on building consumer-facing apps. Ether.fi is looking to become a DeFi bank where developers can build tools like …

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The Real Story Behind Everclear's Growth with Arjun Bhuptani 29:31

2M ago29:31

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ETH treasury companies are quietly driving billions in cross-chain volume, and most people are missing it. In today's episode, we sit down with Arjun Bhuptani, founder of Everclear, to explore how institutional ETH flows are creating massive opportunities in cross-chain infrastructure. We cover how Everclear crossed a billion dollars in volume by b…

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John Adler On Proof Of Goverance, TIA Staking, and New Tokenomics 41:29

2M ago41:29

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Proof of stake might not be the endgame we thought it was. In today's episode, we sit down with John Adler from Celestia to explore his controversial "proof of governance" proposal that's been ruffling feathers in crypto Twitter. John argues staking creates fake yield through inflation while creating unfair validator economics. His solution? Skip s…

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Proof Of Governance, Storm on Ownership and Institutional Adoption with Arjun Bhuptani, John Adler and JJ 1:42:32

2M ago1:42:32

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