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Alex Shevchenko is the Co-Founder of Aurora & Defuse, pioneering next-gen UX with Intents and Chain Signatures for an agentic, user-first future. Defuse Labs develops NEAR Intents to enable seamless cross-chain interactions in an automated world, connecting AI, services, and financial applications. Alex is on a mission to make blockchain invisible, creating seamless, secure, and intuitive crypto experiences for everyday users.In this conversation, we discuss:- In crypto, we have investors, not users - AI & Intents - User-owned AI - Building Rainbow Bridge and Aurora - Decentralized Confidential Machine Learning (DCML) - The AI LLM lifecycle - How AI agents will power the crypto economy - The importance of chain abstraction - NEAR intents are unlocking autonomous finance - Creating intuitive automated agent workflows - AI agents that can transact, adapt, and execute cross-chainAurora Labs Website: auroralabs.devX: @auroraisnearDiscord: discord.gg/auroralabsAlex ShevchenkoX: @AlexAuroraDevLinkedIn: Alex Shevchenko---------------------------------------------------------------------------------This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.  PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions. Code: CRYPTONEWS50 This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below: PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

MacBrennan Peet, Founder of Project 0 and co-founder of MarginFi, shares insights on creating the first DeFi-native prime broker on Solana. He explains how users can borrow against their entire DeFi portfolio, simplifying fragmented liquidity across multiple venues. MacBrennan draws parallels to traditional finance and discusses the significant advancements in on-chain credit markets. He also highlights emerging trends in entertainment finance and emphasizes how on-chain prices are increasingly more accurate.

Czhang Lin, a seasoned crypto investor with traditional finance expertise, serves as Head of LBank Labs and Partner at LBank Exchange. Transitioning to crypto in 2017 after honing macro strategies, he led investments as Director at PreAngel and Partner at JRR Crypto, driving over 100 successful projects.As Head of LBank Labs, Czhang leads a global Web3 venture capital platform with over $100 million AUM, dedicated to early-stage investments in compliant blockchain infrastructure, regulated DeFi applications, AI integration, and scalable decentralized solutions—supporting founders and scaling innovation into real-world impact.In this conversation, we discuss:- Living in China - Chinese super apps - LBank - Crypto exchange founders are working 24/7 - LBank’s Global Blockchain Forum at Korea National Assembly - Crypto market outlook - The ongoing competition among stablecoins - CEXs launching their own Layer 2 solutions - PayFi (payment solutions) LBank Labs Website: lbanklabs.comX: @LBankLabsLinkedIn: LBank LabsCzhang Lin X: @Czhang_LBankLinkedIn: Czhang Lin---------------------------------------------------------------------------------This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.  PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions. Code: CRYPTONEWS50 This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below: PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Joseph Chalom joined SharpLink as Co-Chief Executive Officer, bringing with him over 20 years of institutional leadership at the intersection of traditional finance and digital assets. As former Managing Director and Head of Strategic Ecosystem Partnerships at BlackRock, Joseph was instrumental in driving the firm’s global strategy across digital assets, fintech innovation, and blockchain infrastructure. In this conversation, we discuss:- The Ethereum long-term investment thesis - Ethereum DATs - SBET is not just an investment - Explaining Ethereum to TradFi - The history of ETH in public markets - Staking ETH - Co-competition it great for Ethereum DATs - Generating revenue in ETH - DAT financing structures - The importance of mNAV in DATs - Institutions care about 2 things = security & liquidity SharpLink Website: sharplink.com X: @SharpLinkGamingLinkedIn: SharpLink (SBET)Joseph Chalom X: @joechalomLinkedIn: Joseph Chalom---------------------------------------------------------------------------------This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.  PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions. Code: CRYPTONEWS50 This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below: PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Alexander Cutler is a Core Contributor at Aerodrome Finance, the largest decentralised exchange on Base with over $600m TVL. He also serves on the core team at Velodrome Finance, a leading decentralised exchange on the Optimism network. Before entering decentralised finance, Alex built experience across politics, technology, and consulting. His work is driven by a belief in democratising access to liquidity, governance, and ownership opportunities. In this conversation, we discuss:- How Aerodrome started - Bootstrapping growth to become the largest DEX on Base without VC funding - Community ownership and governance through veAERO - What does the Syndicate community-first launch on Aerodrome signal for the future of token launches - DEXs vs CEXs - The distribution rails of the onchain economy - The future of DeFi - Liquidity fragmentation is one of the biggest challenges in DeFi - Long-term ambition for Aerodrome - The case for DeFi on Base and why it’s a unique ecosystem - DeFi maturing beyond speculation toward sustainable financial infrastructure Aerodrome Website: aerodrome.financeX: @AerodromeFiDiscord: discord.gg/aerodromeAlexander Cutler X: @wagmiAlexander---------------------------------------------------------------------------------This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.  PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions. Code: CRYPTONEWS50 This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below: PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Ian Rogers, the Chief Experience Officer at Ledger, shares insights from his extensive background in digital innovation and luxury brands. He discusses the evolution of hardware wallets and the promising future of user-friendly security solutions in crypto. The conversation touches on the rise of corporate-issued stablecoins and the merging worlds of traditional finance and blockchain. Rogers emphasizes the need for seamless consumer experiences and how value, identity, and AI will shape our digital landscapes. Living in the future, he suggests, is the ultimate advantage.

Robinson Burkey is the Co-Founder of the Wormhole Foundation. With an impressive track record spanning nearly a decade, Robinson has consistently excelled in leading growth and go-to-market strategies for startups, making a significant impact in the crypto industry since 2021. Prior to joining the Wormhole Foundation, Robinson held a key position at Acala, where he spearheaded Business Development and Ecosystem efforts within the Polkadot ecosystem. As a co-founder, Robinson is dedicated to accelerating the foundation's growth trajectory and fostering the widespread adoption of Wormhole as the leading interoperability platform powering multichain applications and bridges at scale. Wormhole provides developers, institutions, and users seamless connectivity between over 40 leading blockchain networks. The wider Wormhole network is trusted and used by teams like BlackRock, Apollo Global, VanEck, Google Cloud, Circle, and Uniswap. To date, the platform has enabled over $60 billion in all-time multichain volume, the most of any protocol in the world. In this conversation, we discuss:- NYC is the Silicon Valley of crypto - Interoperability - Wormhole connecting 30+ blockchains with 1B+ messages processed - Fixing the liquidity fragmentation issue - Cross-chain communication - Wormhole’s Native Token Transfer (NTT) - Routing liquidity - Current ecosystem around DATs - Securing the most value between all blockchains - Stablecoins are still crypto’s killer use case WormholeWebsite: wormhole.comX: @wormholeTelegram: t.me/wormholecryptoRobinson BurkeyX: @robinsonLinkedIn: Robinson Burkey---------------------------------------------------------------------------------This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.  PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions. Code: CRYPTONEWS50 This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below: PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Dan Rysk is the co-founder of Rysk, a DeFi protocol building options strategies as a new financial primitive. He has been focused on options and structured products in DeFi since 2020, beginning with Opyn, one of the first options protocols. Before that, he worked in investment banking at BofAML and founded and exited a web2 startup in online education. In this conversation, we discuss:- The inception story of Rysk - Trading Options on Hyperliquid - What is ‘options trading’ in tradfi? - Options provide volatility exposure, whereas perps do not - DeFi Options Vaults (DOVs) - Volatility yield = the missing yield layer in DeFi - Why Hyperliquid is the right place for Rysk and options to work at scale - What’s next: roadmap, integrations, and how Rysk expands from here RyskWebsite: app.rysk.financeX: @ryskfinanceDiscord: discord.gg/ZH34Fc3D5SDan RyskX: @DanDeFiEdTelegram: @DanDeFiEd---------------------------------------------------------------------------------This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.  PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions. Code: CRYPTONEWS50 This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below: PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Lorenzo R. is an active leader in the Tether ecosystem with five years of experience in cross-chain liquidity and stablecoin infrastructure. He is currently the co-founder & USDT0, a unified liquidity framework for USDT, allowing for connectivity across blockchain ecosystems without friction. He is also the Co-Founder of Everdawn Labs and a contributor to multiple DeFi DAOs.Previously, Lorenzo spearheaded Alloy by Tether, a groundbreaking Tethered Asset designed to track reference asset prices using Tether Gold (XAU₮) as collateral. This innovation introduces a new level of stability and value to digital assets, with its first token, aUSD₮, serving as a USD-denominated Tethered Asset backed by gold. His passion fuels his commitment to shaping the future of financial interoperability across Web3 ecosystems.In this conversation, we discuss:- USDt0 Stats and Growth - Top 3 on DeFiLlama bridges, $6B+ in volume in 6–8 months - Challenges USDt0 Solves - Lorenzo’s Journey to USDT0 - Do we need more stablecoins? - $1B in Plasma deposits to USDT0 - USDT0’s growth on Hyperliquid - Eliminating third-party bridges - USDT0’s XAUt0, the omnichain evolution of Tether Gold (XAUt) - Omnichain Fungible Tokens USDT0Website: usdt0.toX: @USDT0_toLinkedIn: USDT0Lorenzo R.X: @zeroloreLinkedIn: Lorenzo R---------------------------------------------------------------------------------This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT.PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.  PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions. Code: CRYPTONEWS50 This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below: PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50

Rekt is the Founder of HyperStrategy. He is a builder and yield farmer with 11 years of experience in crypto. Previously, Rekt was in trad-fi. In this conversation, we discuss:- Why Hyperliquid is the best ecosystem in crypto - HIP-3 - Capturing part of the perp-flow - Hyperliquid’s ecosystem flywheel - What is HyperStrategy? - Onchain treasury protocol on HyperEVM - Acquiring and looping as much HYPE as possible - How do Onchain Convertible Bonds work - HyperStrategy vault - The Hyperliquid looping effect HyperStrategy Website: Hyperstrategy.com X: @Hyper_StrategyTelegram: t.me/Hyper_StrategyRektX: @Iam_rekt_ Telegram: @iam_rekt---------------------------------------------------------------------------------This episode is brought to you by EMCD.EMCD is a trailblazer in the Web3 fintech space, committed to redefining finance with a human-centered approach. For seven years, EMCD has been building tools that empower a diverse community of miners, traders, investors, digital nomads, and entrepreneurs. What started as a determined startup mining pool has grown into a global force, once ranking among the top 10 Bitcoin mining pools worldwide. Today, EMCD’s mission is broader and bolder: creating innovative Web3 financial solutions that make wealth-building accessible to everyone, no matter where they are. Their platform enables users to grow assets without the stress of chasing volatile market trends or timing every dip and spike. By prioritizing purpose over hype, EMCD is crafting a future where finance serves individuals, not just markets. Dive into their vision and explore their cutting-edge tools at emcd.io.