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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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All Episodes

00:26:10

427: From RWA to AI Agents: How Pharos Is Closing the...

Web3 with Sam Kamani ·

2026/10/07

EPISODE DESCRIPTION I sat down with Wish Wu from Pharos at Korea Blockchain Week to catch up on everything they've been building since we last spoke eight months ago. Pharos has quietly become the largest blockchain for RWA insurance and distribution in APAC, with over $116 million in real-world assets on-chain , and half of those users are coming straight from Web2. Now they're going further. Wish walks me through how Pharos is building agent-native infrastructure, solving the gas

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00:30:19

426: THORChain's Chad on Hacks, AI Threats & the...

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2026/10/05

I sat down with Chad from THORChain , the protocol that literally invented cross-chain liquidity , for a raw, no-fluff conversation about what it really takes to secure a decentralized exchange handling over $125 billion in volume. We dig into why security audits give people false confidence, how AI is supercharging hackers right now, and what THORChain's autonomous halt systems actually do when things go sideways. We also get into the Bitget $350M hack, what it means when funds flow through

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00:50:32

425: Product Market Fit: The Human Psychology Behind...

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2026/10/01

EPISODE DESCRIPTION In this episode, I sit down with Denis from Humea , a product and research company that has catalyzed over $1 billion in ARR for their clients. We go deep on what it actually takes to achieve product market fit, and why most founders are looking in completely the wrong direction. Denis brings a rare dual background in physics and psychology, and he uses it to reveal how human behavior , not technology , is the real driver behind whether a product succeeds or dies. We talk about

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00:31:43

424: Financing the Unbanked: How Sahaj Mobile is...

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2026/09/26

EPISODE DESCRIPTION I sat down with Rafsun, founder of Sahaj Mobile, at Money2020 to unpack one of the most exciting fintech stories I've come across in a long time. Rafsun went from managing billions in asset-backed securities at Guggenheim to building a phone financing company in Bangladesh , a market that has been starved for credit for decades. With over 58,000 customers and millions deployed entirely from their own capital, Sahaj Mobile is proving that emerging markets can outperform the

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00:36:04

423: Tokenizing Everything: Guest speaker Todd Ault...

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2026/09/15

EPISODE DESCRIPTION I sat down with Todd Ault III, founder of Ault.com, a man with 37 years in traditional finance who has seen the future , and it is fully tokenized. Todd walks me through how Ault Markets is being built as a Bloomberg-style platform for Web3, why he borrowed $50 million in DeFi in 20 minutes on Morpho, and why he believes every stock, bond, piece of real estate, and commodity will eventually trade on Web3 rails. We get into stable coins, the dominance of the US dollar, why AI is

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00:44:09

422: The Bridge Between Web2 and Web3 Payments:...

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2026/09/11

EPISODE DESCRIPTION I sat down with Jia Hang from DCS Group, a payments veteran with over two decades of experience at China UnionPay and Alipay, to explore how stablecoins are quietly revolutionising the way the world pays. Jia walks me through why the traditional card and mobile payment waves are giving way to a stablecoin-powered third wave, how DCS is acting as a Web 2.5 bridge so consumers can spend stablecoins at any merchant without the merchant needing to change a thing, and what it really

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00:32:48

421: Hyper-Financialization, Gen Z, and the...

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2026/09/02

EPISODE DESCRIPTION I sat down with Smit Vachhani from Cronos Labs, a fascinating builder who has worked across NVIDIA, LinkedIn, and Optimism before landing at the intersection of crypto, stocks, prediction markets, and AI. We dig into why Gen Z is financially nihilistic right now and why that actually creates a massive opportunity. Smit breaks down the concept of hyper-financialization, explains why retaining Gen Z users is far harder than acquiring them, and shares the raw growth lessons he

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00:44:31

420: From Spreadsheets to Smart Tax Reports: The...

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2026/08/28

EPISODE DESCRIPTION I sit down with Berken, CMO of CoinTracking, the world's first crypto tax platform founded all the way back in 2012 when Bitcoin was under $100. We dig into how they bootstrapped their way to 2.2 million users, why authentic education beats paid placements every time, and how they're navigating AI in a space where a single wrong number could land you in trouble with the IRS. Berken shares what channels are actually moving the needle, why they turned down the idea of

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00:40:06

419: Why One On-Ramp Is Never Enough , OnRamper's...

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2026/08/20

EPISODE DESCRIPTION I sat down with Rick Thomas, co-CEO of OnRamper, to dig into a problem most crypto projects hit eventually: on-ramping is way more complicated than it looks. OnRamper aggregates over 30 on-ramping services into a single API and widget, giving wallets, exchanges, neo banks, and trading apps full global coverage without the headache of managing dozens of integrations. Rick breaks down why the on-ramp market is so fragmented, how their AI-powered routing algorithm maximises success

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00:46:46

418: The Bitcoin Redo: TEXITcoin, NectarPay, and the...

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2026/08/13

EPISODE DESCRIPTION I sat down with Bobby from TEXITcoin, a man who has been manufacturing gold and silver coins since 2008, created the original physical Bitcoin coin in 2012, and testified before US Congress on crypto before most people had ever heard of it. In this episode, Bobby shares why he believes Bitcoin lost its original mission as peer-to-peer digital cash and became digital gold instead, and what he is doing about it. We dig into how he crowdfunded a community mining operation in his

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00:44:13

417: Oil, Blockchain & the Future of Money with guest...

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2026/08/10

EPISODE DESCRIPTION In this episode, I sit down with Baron, a 20-year veteran of the oil and gas industry who started his career as a trader at Petronas and has spent decades working across crude oil, fuel oil, refined petroleum products, and derivatives. Baron is writing a book called The Litro Standard, and his thesis is fascinating: instead of anchoring money to gold or the US dollar, we should be anchoring digital finance to verified energy. We dig into how the current commodity settlement

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00:48:56

416: Bitcoin-Only, Non-Custodial, and Dead Simple:...

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2026/08/07

EPISODE DESCRIPTION In this episode, I sit down with Joao Lobo, founder of Kute Wallet , a Bitcoin-only, non-custodial wallet built for the next generation of crypto users. Joao walks me through his journey from discovering Bitcoin on 4chan forums in 2013, to building a PIX-integrated wallet for Brazil, to now targeting the European market with a product designed to feel as simple as a banking app. We dig into what makes Kute different , from Lightning-powered Polymarket integration to upcoming

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00:42:18

415: The Market Maker's Playbook: What Token Projects...

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2026/08/03

EPISODE DESCRIPTION I sit down with Martin Pokorski from Skynet Trading , one of the earliest market makers in the space, operating since 2019 , to pull back the curtain on what's really happening inside token markets. Martin breaks down what founders consistently get wrong about liquidity, why checking CoinGecko every day is not a liquidity strategy, and what a proper liquidity audit actually reveals that surface-level metrics will never show you. We talk about the infamous "Houdini

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00:59:46

414: Bitcoin, Volatility, and the End of Easy Money...

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2026/08/01

EPISODE DESCRIPTIONI sat down with Rohit, Richard, and Carlos from CAAN , three veterans with decades of experience across Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns, BlackRock, and Deutsche Bank , to break down what is really happening in markets right now. We get into why Bitcoin has gone quiet, where all the volatility has migrated to, and what the bond market breaking down could mean for everyone. More importantly, we dig into what CAAN is building: liquid alternative strategies that give everyday investors

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00:37:42

413: Why Boring Is the New Alpha in Crypto with Guest...

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2026/07/29

EPISODE DESCRIPTION I sat down with John O'Connor from RealFi to dig into one of the most overlooked problems in crypto , the fact that the $350 billion sitting in stablecoins is doing almost nothing for the people who hold it. Tether and Circle pocket the yield while you hold a digital dollar that just sits there. John walks me through exactly how RealFi flips that model, channeling your stable coins directly into real world credit markets and passing the returns back to you. We talk about

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00:44:22

412: From Bots to Real ROI: The KOL Playbook for Web3...

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2026/07/24

EPISODE DESCRIPTION In this episode, I sit down with Evgeny from Disence, one of the leading KOL and Web3 marketing firms in the space. Evgeny has worked with over 500 campaigns and 1,200+ KOLs, and he pulls back the curtain on what projects are getting badly wrong when it comes to influencer marketing. We get into why impressions are a vanity metric, why macro KOLs are largely a waste of budget, how to actually vet a KOL in today's market, and why the best micro KOLs are paradoxically the

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00:37:29

411: How Ground Is Making DeFi Accessible for Banks...

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2026/07/21

EPISODE DESCRIPTION I sat down with Reid, co-founder of Ground, to explore what it actually takes to bring on-chain finance to institutions. Ground is building a non-custodial API platform, think Stripe, but for DeFi, so that banks, neobanks, and financial companies can access yield, lending, liquid staking, and real-world assets without rebuilding their entire stack. Reid shares his journey from Square to Stripe to Chime to founding Superstate and ultimately Ground. We dig into why large

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00:39:52

410: The Hidden Way Exchanges Exploit Retail Traders...

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2026/07/17

EPISODE DESCRIPTION I sat down with Ilies, CEO of Ouinex, a crypto exchange that launched earlier this year with one clear mission: stop retail traders from getting crushed by institutions on unfair playing fields. Ilies breaks down exactly how traditional crypto exchanges are structured in a way that lets market makers and financial institutions exploit everyday traders, and explains the specific model Ouinex uses to fix that. We also dig into why TradeFi instruments on most crypto exchanges cost

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00:45:08

409: How Coins.ph is Turning Stablecoins into...

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2026/07/15

EPISODE DESCRIPTION I sat down with Wei Zhou, CEO of Coins.ph, to dig into how they're building stablecoin infrastructure that's genuinely changing lives in the Philippines and beyond. Wei walked me through his journey from Goldman Sachs to Binance CFO to buying Coins.ph from Gojek in 2022 and rebuilding it from scratch. We talked about why the Philippines has become a global leader in stablecoin adoption, how they slashed payment fees from 4-8% down to near-zero for Filipino freelancers, and why

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00:28:53

408: Sleeping Your Way to Better Health: How...

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2026/07/13

EPISODE DESCRIPTION I sat down with Kenny Wood, CEO of Sleepagotchi, to talk about one of the most underrated pillars of health , sleep. Kenny brings over 20 years of games industry experience, from building Barbie titles in Yorkshire to shipping serious simulations for the Dutch government, and now he's channelling all of that into a product that sits at the crossroads of gaming, AI agents, and wellness. We dig into how Sleepagotchi works, why sleep is the root of everything from longevity to

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