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Web3 with Sam Kamani

"Web 3.0 with Sam Kamani" is all about Web 3 and how it is going to change the world. If you are interested in learning more about the 4th Industrial revolution then this podcast is for you. Web 3.0 or Web 3 is often hailed as the technology that will usher in the 4th industrial revolution. This revolution is going to affect every industry, business, government and person on this planet. Web 3.0 is a collection of technologies that are going to change how we collaborate with each other and interact

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00:19:25

291: From TradFi to ZIGChain — RWAs, Private Credit &...

Web3 with Sam Kamani ·

2025/09/03

Live from Bali at Coinfest and ZIGChain Connect, Abdul (co-founder, ZIGChain) shares how he went from Standard Chartered → early crypto investor → co-founder of Zignaly → now launching a purpose-built L1 focused on wealth generation and access for the Global South.We get into: why bootstrapping a chain (no massive grant spigot) can work, backing independent founders (10+ dApps at mainnet), and why private credit will be the next breakout RWA after stablecoins. Abdul explains DIFC fund tokenization,

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00:36:14

290: ChangeNOW’s Pauline — Building a Simple,...

Web3 with Sam Kamani ·

2025/09/01

Pauline (CMO, ChangeNOW) joins Sam in Bali to unpack how ChangeNOW carved a distinct niche from big CEXs by serving retail users and wallets with instant, account-free swaps (flash custody, fixed/floating rates). She explains the B2B engine behind their growth (wallets, casinos, travel, payments), why direct traffic + brand beats blunt ads, and how LLM-SEO is changing discovery.They cover CEX vs DeFi UX, security tradeoffs, meme coin mania, stablecoin rails, and what Binance/Coinbase did right in

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00:31:25

289: Internet from Orbit – Tae Oh on Spacecoin,...

Web3 with Sam Kamani ·

2025/08/29

Tae Oh, founder of Gluwa and Spacecoin, joins Sam to share his vision of bringing internet and banking access to the unconnected billions. Tae explains how Spacecoin combines blockchain, telecommunications, and satellites to build a decentralized global network that enables lifeline services like financial transactions and messaging, even in regions without internet.He discusses the challenges of launching satellites, the cost breakthroughs driven by SpaceX, and why decentralization matters in

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00:22:01

288: From Vienna to Dubai — Farbod’s Journey with The...

Web3 with Sam Kamani ·

2025/08/27

Farbod, founder of TheBlock, joins Sam to talk about tokenization, RWAs, and building Dubai’s first retail hub for virtual assets. He shares his journey from Europe to the UAE, how TheBlock helps projects with issuance, compliance, and liquidity, and why Dubai is emerging as a global crypto hub. Farbod also breaks down the misconceptions around tokenization, lessons for founders on transparency and retention, and his roadmap to expand TheBlock to 10 countries.Key Timestamps[00:00:00] Introduction:

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00:26:49

287: Competing with Giants — How Kava Builds...

Web3 with Sam Kamani ·

2025/08/25

Tony Pham, Head of Marketing & Growth at Kava.io, joins Sam to share lessons on building and scaling in Web3. He explains how Kava combines Cosmos scalability with Ethereum compatibility, their push into decentralized AI, and why community-first marketing beats massive budgets. Tony also weighs in on what’s overhyped (meme coins) and underrated (wallets), plus Kava’s roadmap into DePIN and AI.Key Timestamps[00:00] Intro: Tony Pham joins to discuss growth, Kava, and industry trends.[00:01]

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00:29:20

286: idea-L’s AI + Web3 Platform to Take Startups...

Web3 with Sam Kamani ·

2025/08/22

Daniel Mueller from idea-L joins Sam to discuss how their AI + Web3 platform helps founders go from idea to live company. He explains how idea-L acts as a “co-founder in your pocket,” validates ideas with feasibility scoring, provides funding through a decentralized VC model, and helps prevent founder burnout. Daniel also shares insights on Web3 trends, AI’s overlooked potential, and bad startup advice to avoid.Key Timestamps[00:00] Intro: Helping founders validate ideas & grow from zero to

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00:34:27

285: Marc from Algorand — Roadmap, Mainstream...

Web3 with Sam Kamani ·

2025/08/20

Marc from Algorand joins Sam to unpack their 2025 roadmap, the push for mainstream adoption, and lessons he brings from his time at Google and Android. He explains Algorand’s unique developer-friendly features, its work on quantum security, and how AI integration will accelerate the next wave of blockchain applications.Key Timestamps[00:00] Intro & Marc’s journey: from Google/Android to Algorand.[00:03] The trilemma solved? Algorand’s verifiable random functions & instant finality.[00:04]

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00:29:47

284: Linea, Consensys & The Largest Ecosystem Fund in...

Web3 with Sam Kamani ·

2025/08/18

Declan Fox from Consensys joins Sam to discuss Linea — Ethereum’s zkEVM rollup with the largest ecosystem fund in Web3. He shares his journey from private blockchains to launching Linea, the chain’s unique tokenomics, native yield, and burn mechanism, and why distribution (not just tech) will define the winners in the L2 race.Key Timestamps[00:00] Declan’s journey from driverless cars → private chains → Consensys & Linea.[00:04] Linea’s mission: gateway to Ethereum for users, institutions &

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00:41:24

283: Powering Ethical AI with Web3 — D-GN’s...

Web3 with Sam Kamani ·

2025/08/15

DescriptionRichard and Johanna from Data Guardians Network (D-GN) join Sam to discuss building a decentralized data infrastructure for AI training. They explain how D-GN turns human input into high-quality, traceable datasets, pays contributors in stablecoins, and solves the cost, quality, and bias problems plaguing AI. They also dive into scaling challenges, community building, and the future of AI + Web3.Key Timestamps[00:00] Intro & founders’ journeys into Web3 + AI.[00:03] What D-GN is:

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00:36:00

282: How Spheron is Powering the Next Generation of...

Web3 with Sam Kamani ·

2025/08/14

Prashant from Spheron Network joins Sam to discuss building a decentralized compute marketplace at the intersection of AI and Web3. He explains Spheron’s demand-driven model, why compute is the next scarce digital commodity, and how microtransactions will power AI agents. They also cover DePIN challenges, token economics, and Spheron’s global growth strategy.Key Timestamps[00:00] Prashant’s journey from software dev to crypto via curiosity.[00:04] Spheron’s pivot to decentralized compute; lessons

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00:32:34

281: Supercharging DEXs — How Orbs Adds CeFi-Level...

Web3 with Sam Kamani ·

2025/08/12

Ran Hammer from Orbs joins Sam to break down how Layer 3 can give DeFi the same advanced execution tools as CeFi. He explains Orbs’ role powering advanced orders, liquidity aggregation, and intent-based perpetuals for major DEXs — plus his take on the biggest problems in DeFi today and where Orbs is going next.Key Timestamps[00:00:00] Intro & Ran’s journey from tech lawyer to Orbs’ business lead.[00:03:00] What “Layer 3” means: functionality beyond L1/L2 scaling.[00:05:00] Liquidity Hub: solving

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00:34:19

280: Hollywood on the Blockchain — Riaz Mehta’s...

Web3 with Sam Kamani ·

2025/08/08

Riaz Mehta, founder of Ritestream, joins Sam to talk about disrupting Netflix with a decentralized, fan-funded streaming platform. He explains how Ritestream empowers creators, shares revenue with viewers, and uses NFTs and tokens to bring transparency to film financing — plus the role AI will play in reshaping media.Key Timestamps[00:00:00] Intro: Riaz Mehta shares how Ritestream is reinventing film funding and streaming[00:02:00] Journey into Web3: From early Bitcoin exposure to a Vitalik meetup

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00:32:10

279: Crypto VC Advice You Need — Laura on Web2 to...

Web3 with Sam Kamani ·

2025/08/07

Laura from Gate Ventures joins Sam to share what founders need to succeed in today's crypto VC landscape. She discusses her investing journey, current thesis (stablecoins, RWAs, DeSci, and robotics), key founder traits, and how to pitch VCs the right way.Key Timestamps[00:00:00] Intro: Sam introduces Laura and her dual role at Gate Ventures and Gate.com.[00:03:00] Laura's Journey: From college Bitcoin curiosity to ICO marketing to angel investor and VC.[00:05:00] Gate Ventures Thesis:

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00:43:24

278: Scaling Trust in Web3 — Bruno Maia on Cartesi’s...

Web3 with Sam Kamani ·

2025/08/05

In this episode of Web3 with Sam Kamani, Bruno Maia, Head of Growth at Cartesi, shares his journey from telecom to Web3, his early ICO days, and how he joined Cartesi to help expand Ethereum’s design space with verifiable computation.Cartesi is building a Stage 2 optimistic rollup infrastructure with a fully verifiable Linux-based VM, enabling developers to write dApps in any language using familiar tools — without sacrificing decentralization or Ethereum security guarantees.Whether you're

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00:46:24

277: Why Web3 Needs AI Agents That Remember — Jan on...

Web3 with Sam Kamani ·

2025/08/01

Jan, founder of OpenMind, joins Sam to discuss how they're building a memory layer for AI agents in Web3.They cover the limitations of stateless agents, OpenMind’s modular memory architecture, and how developers can build “smart, sovereign agents” that persist across time, dApps, and chains. Jan also shares insights on use cases across DeFi, NFTs, and DAOs, and how OpenMind is designing for both developers and end users.If you're exploring the future of AI x Web3, this episode is packed with

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00:25:29

276: Building GOAT Gaming: Web3 Gaming, Amy the AI...

Web3 with Sam Kamani ·

2025/07/29

Simon Davis, founder of GOAT Gaming and Mighty Bear Games, joins Sam to unpack how they’re using Telegram, AI agents, and meme culture to scale Web3-native games.He breaks down their AI-powered assistant “Amy,” the technical challenges of building engaging agents, and how GOAT reached 6M+ users with Telegram-first distribution. They also discuss player retention, designing social-first games, and why the future belongs to AI-native studios using crypto as the default payment layer.Whether you're

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00:37:41

275: From TikTok to Binance: James on Gen Z, Bitcoin...

Web3 with Sam Kamani ·

2025/07/27

James Quinn Kumar from Binance ANZ joins Sam to explore how Binance reached over 280 million users in just 8 years. He shares the lessons from Facebook and TikTok that helped Binance thrive in B2C, the role of liquidity in institutional adoption, and how Gen Z sees Bitcoin as a new path to wealth in a world of rising property prices.They also dive into AI-generated content, digital ownership, the rise of stablecoins, Bitcoin’s latest ATHs, and why Binance is betting on Web3 wallets, creators, and

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00:33:17

274: Scaling Bitcoin DeFi — Charlie on Bitlayer, BTR...

Web3 with Sam Kamani ·

2025/07/23

In this episode, Charlie, co-founder of Bitlayer, shares how they are building a Bitcoin rollup and trust-minimized BVM bridge to unlock BTC liquidity for DeFi while maintaining Bitcoin-level security.Backed by Franklin Templeton and top mining pools like F2Pool, Bitlayer is enabling yield-bearing BTC (YBTC), partnerships with Sui and Solana, and preparing for the launch of its BTR governance token.If you’re curious about Bitcoin’s future beyond payments — from miner incentives to cross-chain DeFi —

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00:32:31

273: AI agents need open money — Matthew Graham on...

Web3 with Sam Kamani ·

2025/07/23

What happens when an emerging‑markets banker, lifelong Reddit degen, and early Ethereum believer builds a global crypto fund focused on AI? Meet Matthew “Matty” Graham, Managing Partner at Ryze Labs.Matty shares how a pizza post pulled him into Bitcoin, why the Ethereum whitepaper was his “drop everything” moment, and how Ryze helps founders reach 2B+ users across emerging markets through its “global + local” team model.We dig into the big ideas: AI agents as economic actors that must transact on

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00:30:52

272: Privacy on demand — Shahaf on COTI’s quest to...

Web3 with Sam Kamani ·

2025/07/16

In this episode, COTI Network CEO Shahaf Bar-Geffen joins Sam to unpack why privacy + scalability are the two missing pillars holding crypto back from mass, institutional adoption. Shahaf recounts COTI’s journey from 2017 payment rails to today’s garbled-circuit EVM, explains “privacy on demand” for any chain, and reveals how AI trading agents and a perp DEX called ProX are already running on the stack. Topics include: why transparent ledgers threaten business strategy, how private computation

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