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Crypto Coin Show

Crypto Coin Show

Crypto Coin Show is the interview-led media brand from BlockWest, covering blockchain, digital assets, and AI. For over 12 years, host Ashton Addison has sat down with founders, investors, and builders shaping the industry, from early Ethereum-era pioneers to today"s startups. Ashton has recorded 1,200+ interviews, including John McAfee, Roger Ver, and Charles Hoskinson, and has spoken on Web3 in 10 countries. New episodes publish multiple times per week. Subscribe to the newsletter for the best of

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30:13

Why banks are building for Web3 in silence: Kresus'...

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2026/10/05

Watch the full video interview: https://youtu.be/tGBxH-G-EBMBanks 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,

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41:58

$1M fund, no presale: Nick Nechanicky on TrendTrader...

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2026/10/02

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

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26:57

The Graph's co-founder went quiet for four years to...

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2026/09/30

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

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26:26

Why a trading app built its own blockchain....

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2026/09/29

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

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33:36

Kevin Carter says China is now favored to win the AI...

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2026/09/28

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

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24:38

Brave has 120M+ users and most never touch crypto....

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2026/09/24

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

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31:58

Proving data isn't enough anymore AI agents need to...

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2026/09/18

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

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31:29

AI agents are acting autonomously with no audit...

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2026/08/18

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

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38:07

Most crypto founders pick the wrong jurisdiction....

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2026/08/12

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

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31:04

Tokenized assets are a $16 trillion opportunity — and...

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2026/08/02

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

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30:21

Crypto prop trading is broken Propr built the...

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2026/07/29

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

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37:14

Self-custody crypto just got stock trading, perps,...

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2026/07/21

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

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26:08

AI data is centralized and expensive — Perceptron...

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2026/07/20

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

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28:54

Africa is processing crypto at 52% growth...

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2026/07/19

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

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25:51

Most Bitcoin holders sell when they need cash. Arch...

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2026/07/18

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

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35:05

Bitcoin payment layer just got real — GoBTC Pay is...

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2026/07/05

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.nMark 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

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22:34

Most sleep trackers give your data to the platform....

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2026/07/04

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,

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23:17

Restaking was just the beginning. Symbiotic's...

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2026/07/02

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

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23:57

Half of internet traffic is bots — and XION just...

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2026/06/24

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

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30:42

Most blockchains were built for humans. NEAR is...

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2026/06/20

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

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