CoinDesk Podcast Network

Lu Yin, Head of APAC at the Solana Foundation, leads regulatory outreach and developer growth across Asia. She discusses scaling Solana for Internet Capital Markets. Short takes cover navigating APAC regulations, attracting 3,000+ builders with tooling and education, and bringing tokenized real-world assets and Wall Street products to Asia.

Meta is reportedly plotting a stablecoin comeback and seeking payment partners to handle integration. The show revisits Libra/Diem’s regulatory fall and how new partnerships might smooth a relaunch. Coverage also includes a sudden stablecoin depeg incident and a lawsuit accusing trading firms of profiting from Terra’s collapse.

Amanda Fabiano, COO of Nakamoto Holdings and former Head of Mining at Galaxy, discusses shifting from mining to building diversified Bitcoin operating businesses. She outlines why Nasdaq-listed firms need recurring revenue and how BTC Inc., UTXO management, and advisory services form a complementary operating model. The conversation covers capital tools, bitcoin-backed debt, and strategies to restore market confidence.

Jason Atkins defends market makers as the backbone preventing catastrophic volatility and keeping institutional capital deployable. He breaks down how recent liquidity breakdowns exposed systemic risks and why exchanges must harden systems. The conversation compares on-chain venues with centralized exchanges and makes a case for Hong Kong as the gateway for Western capital into Eastern markets.

Shady El Damaty, co-founder and CEO of Holonym — building zero-knowledge identity and wallet infrastructure. He warns against giving AI full private keys and explains safer approaches like key sharding. He discusses agentic workflows, the shift from retail speculation to utility, and a future of AI-driven, vertically integrated crypto super apps.

Mark Zalan, CEO of GoMining building Bitcoin payment rails, argues Bitcoin must become a spendable currency. He challenges the digital gold label. He outlines infrastructure hurdles, layer solutions, and GoMining’s 2026 rollout to enable payments that compete with Visa and Mastercard. He highlights merchant adoption cycles and why Asia-Pacific matters for payments innovation.

Trade-war tariff news rattles markets and pushes Bitcoin down to about $66K. U.S. searches for 'bitcoin zero' spike as retail anxiety climbs. Experts debate quantum computers threatening Bitcoin keys and how engineering fixes might respond. Vitalik sells portions of ETH to fund open-source development, with details on amounts and remaining holdings.

Jay (Lygos), a Bitcoin lending and custody specialist; Matt (CoinShares), institutional mining and capital strategist; and Kaan (Luxor), mining markets and hash rate analyst. They discuss a historic 14% difficulty spike and weather-driven miner curtailments. They unpack hedging outperforming spot mining post-halving and Ledn’s Triple B rated Bitcoin-backed bond and its securitization structure.

Joy Pathak, former CalPERS quant who ran large fixed-income books, and Anthony Scaramucci, Skybridge Capital founder and markets commentator, explore on-chain leverage, decentralized exchanges, and risk management in crypto. They discuss how 24/7 liquidity, visible multi-billion-dollar positions, and institutional skepticism shape a new era of market transparency and growth.

Giorgia Pellizzari, Chief Product Officer at Hex Trust, leads regulated custody, staking, and multi-chain product issuance. She discusses Bitcoin’s shift into a yield-bearing asset. She explains wrapped XRP as a 1:1 custody-backed bridge to high-velocity DeFi. She outlines multi-chain support and what remains for real-world asset tokenization to scale.