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Building Zcash to Last a Hundred Years
October 7, 2026 · 38 minMark Henderson, Engineering Manager at Shielded Labs, shares what it looks like to build privacy infrastructure on a hundred-year time horizon. He also breaks down two of Shielded Labs' most significant technical bets: the Network…
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The Barista Knows Your Salary: The Hidden Cost of On-Chain Payments
September 30, 2026 · 36 minHoward Wu, CEO of Provable and Shield Wallet, makes the case that full, on-chain transparency was never a design principle—it was a limitation that mainstream finance cannot build on. He draws a direct line from the internet's switch from…
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The Fund Structure That Could Replace the ETF
September 23, 2026 · 28 minJuan Leon, Senior Investment Strategist at Bitwise Asset Management, returns to the show to share how much the convergence of traditional finance and on-chain infrastructure has accelerated since our last conversation—and what the data…
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Why Meta Threw Out the Interviewing Playbook
September 16, 2026 · 24 minDanit Nativ Navon, Senior Software Engineering Manager at Meta, unpacks how the company became the first major tech firm to build AI-enabled coding interviews. She breaks down the process of rethinking what engineering interviews actually…
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How a Solana NFT Project Landed on Amazon Prime
September 9, 2026 · 41 minAndrew Pelekis (CEO of HEEBOO) and Nicholas Cabana (Co-Founder of Claynosaurz and Chief Creative Officer at HEEBOO), break down how a Solana-based digital collectibles brand and a small team of Hollywood animators grew into an…
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Beyond the Yield: What Staking Is Really About
September 2, 2026 · 24 minDavid Kinitsky, Chief Corporate Development Officer at Everstake, shares what distinguishes this cycle of enterprise crypto adoption from every previous one, and why the shift matters. He explains why staking is a foundational…
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Why Non-Dollar Stablecoins Might Strengthen the Dollar
August 26, 2026 · 34 minNavin Vethanayagam, Chief Brain of IQ and Co-founder of KRWQ, unpacks his "Stablewoods" theory: why non-dollar stablecoins like KRWQ, the first Korean won stablecoin, may end up reinforcing dollar dominance rather than challenging it. He…
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What Binance.US Is Betting on Next in American Crypto
August 19, 2026 · 20 minSteve Gregory, CEO of Binance.US, shares what it actually takes to bring a compliant crypto exchange product to market in the US. He explains how his background as a compliance lawyer shapes the way he leads product decisions; why the US…