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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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25:50

Most exchanges take a cut on every trade before it...

Crypto Coin Show ·

2026/06/14

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

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25:36

AI agents are making decisions with no audit trail....

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2026/06/13

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

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25:08

The internet can't tell humans from AI agents at...

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2026/06/12

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

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24:26

Private credit is a 1.7 trillion market — and it's...

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2026/06/02

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

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22:15

Bitcoin DeFi is already here. Samuel Pat (OP_NET)...

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2026/06/01

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

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12:49

AI in YOUR crypto wallet. Adam Cai of Virgo Group on...

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2026/05/31

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

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13:10

Ethereum and Solana weren't built for AI. 0G Labs...

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2026/05/30

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

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19:07

1.27 TRILLION queries and The Graph is just getting...

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2026/05/29

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

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16:39

The AI That Audits Smart Contracts CertiK's Hudson...

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2026/05/28

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

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20:22

Fixing Crypto Discovery David Track of SOSANA on...

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2026/05/27

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

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29:13

Sportsbooks are taking your cut. PRED is building the...

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2026/05/17

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

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23:09

Most blockchains can't prove what happened. Nexus is...

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2026/05/12

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,

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40:05

Liquidity Transparency for Token Launches — Forgd on...

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2026/05/06

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.Learn the signals that show liquidity is fragile, how fragmentation and post-launch incentives punish weak launches, and what founders should track

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26:53

Most crypto apps lose users before the first...

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2026/04/24

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

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34:36

AWS charges 70% more than it needs to....

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2026/04/23

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

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36:39

XYO Layer One just got 2–5x faster — and most crypto...

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2026/04/21

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

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28:55

Your hotel loyalty points expire. Your OTA takes 20....

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2026/04/20

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

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84:51

Privacy isn't a feature — it's the missing...

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2026/04/19

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

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33:02

Bitcoin miners are earning a premium right now —...

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2026/04/18

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

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38:39

Sending money across borders still costs 6 and takes...

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2026/04/17

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

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