MoneyNeverSleeps is a weekly show where smart people bring one big idea, and Pete Townsend breaks it down in under 15 minutes. Featuring founders, operators, and investors shaping crypto, fintech, AI, and onchain finance. After 300+ long-form episodes, the show has evolved into a sharper, faster format built for a world where insights need to travel quickly.
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Nov 13, 2026 · 19:35
Dr Ian Hunt spent around 40 years on the buy side and was the design authority behind FundAdminChain, the first distributed ledger-based funds platform to go live in the UK. His…
Oct 30, 2026 · 14:17
This week nearly half the companies on the OKX-ICE tokenized stock list opted out, and in the same week DTCC went live on Canton with JPMorgan signed up. That had me questioning…
Oct 19, 2026 · 14:56
Alejandro Gutierrez of Superteam Ireland is back to take on Matt Walsh's challenge: are tokenized funds a new kind of asset, or the same fund on new rails? Off the back of…
Oct 2, 2026 · 15:17
Pete Townsend is joined by Eoghan Powell, who runs WorkIQ, a new innovation centre for founders and early-stage companies in Tallaght, on the edge of Dublin. This is Part 2 of a…
Sep 25, 2026 · 13:11
Pete Townsend is joined by Derek O'Doherty, founder of West x West, the two-day tech, venture and culture festival in Castlebar, Mayo that brings Irish founders together with…
Sep 18, 2026 · 15:21
Steve Whyman spent 20 years trading fixed income at Bear Stearns, ABN AMRO, and BlackRock, then ran digital assets and tokenization inside Fidelity International, before leaving…
Sep 4, 2026 · 14:40
Justin Swart, Partner at BITKRAFT Ventures, joins Pete Townsend to make the case that tokenization is doing to finance what the shipping container did to global trade…
Aug 21, 2026 · 15:25
Andrea Miele is co-founder and CEO of Beezie , a gamified commerce platform Pete Townsend backed through Techstars in 2024, joins Pete to talk about why the "TCG" label never…
Aug 7, 2026 · 14:44
James McCann, CEO and founder of Everhaze , joins Pete Townsend to talk about the 80/20 problem breaking PR agency economics, how an agentic layer turns hundreds of daily…
Jul 14, 2026 · 15:08
Elaine Deehan is back on MoneyNeverSleeps for her third appearance, and this one has been a long time coming. As Ireland Country Manager of Monzo Bank Europe, Elaine is doing…
Jul 14, 2026 · 14:04
You Can't Code Your Way Out | Amor Sexton, Blockdaemon In the last few weeks, Drift and Kelp lost $577 million between them. Neither one was a code exploit. Both were operational…
Jul 3, 2026 · 14:40
Sheila Lynch has been in the room for three of the biggest financial shocks of the last five years — COVID at CQS, the Russian invasion of Ukraine at BlackRock with live Eastern…
Jun 26, 2026 · 11:55
How can you use the world's most powerful AI models without ever exposing your sensitive data? Rami Akeela has spent twenty years building privacy and cryptographic…
Jun 22, 2026 · 14:43
Citi Institute's "Tokenization 2030: Wall Street OnChain" puts a number on it: $5.5 trillion in tokenized assets by 2030. Alejandro Gutierrez, who leads Solana Superteam Ireland…
Jun 5, 2026 · 11:56
Martin Watkins is CEO of Montis Group , which is building a blockchain-native central securities depository — the settlement and issuance layer that makes tokenized assets work…
Jun 3, 2026 · 26:11
Pete Townsend is joined by Eric Ries, author of the New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup and founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, for a conversation about the invisible…
Jun 3, 2026 · 14:35
Pete Townsend is joined by Sal Ternullo, CEO of SVRN and Managing Partner at A100x Ventures, for a conversation about how to tell the difference between a token that represents…
May 1, 2026 · 12:30
Dan Gold is founder and CEO of Stratiphy, and as far as anyone knows, the only platform offering tax-efficient crypto exposure to UK retail investors right now. The path got…
Apr 24, 2026 · 14:48
Tokenization has a perception problem. The industry keeps selling it as an efficiency play — less friction, more transparency, better infrastructure. But if tokenization doesn't…
Apr 17, 2026 · 15:07
Brian McNulty has been building toward this moment for a decade. When he co-founded the Post Trade Distributed Ledger Group with the London Stock Exchange back in 2015, he was…
Apr 3, 2026 · 12:04
Who's watching the agent? That's the question at the heart of this episode — and it's one that's going to define the next decade of finance. Rob Viglione spent his career…
Mar 27, 2026 · 14:52
Talent is equally distributed. Opportunity is not. John Hill, VP of Story at Whop, has spent his career watching founders in Cape Town, Lagos, and Medellín build something real —…
Mar 20, 2026 · 11:34
Markets don't close when the exchange does. They just move somewhere else. In this episode of MoneyNeverSleeps, Pete Townsend speaks with Alex Pollak of 21Shares about why crypto…
Mar 13, 2026 · 14:04
DeFi transparency means every onchain trade is visible. Which means the moment a strategy works, the market can copy it. In this episode of MoneyNeverSleeps , Pete Townsend…
Mar 6, 2026 · 14:13
Money doesn’t become digital overnight. It becomes digital when the rails of finance begin to change. In this episode of MoneyNeverSleeps , Pete Townsend speaks with Emma…
Feb 2, 2026 · 14:01
Money doesn’t become geopolitical overnight. It becomes geopolitical when the rails start to change. In this episode of MoneyNeverSleeps, Pete Townsend is joined by Sean Lee for…
Jan 26, 2026 · 11:45
Scaling human expertise isn’t a technology problem — it’s a trust problem. In this episode of MoneyNeverSleeps , Pete Townsend speaks with Joni Pirovich , founder of Crystal aOS…
Jan 19, 2026 · 14:18
Surviving the hard days of startup life isn’t about working more - it’s about building the right support around you. In this episode of MoneyNeverSleeps, Pete Townsend speaks…
Jan 5, 2026 · 12:59
Crypto doesn’t win in 2026 by being louder - it wins by becoming boring.In this episode of MoneyNeverSleeps, Pete Townsend is joined by Alejandro Gutierrez for a sharp set of…
Dec 12, 2025 · 13:46
Why are stablecoins suddenly a geopolitical issue? Pete Townsend and Garrett Cassidy break down dollar dominance, EU pushback, AI’s role in digital money, and the future of…
Oct 10, 2025 · 1:28:16
Hey there, I’m Pete Townsend, and this is MoneyNeverSleeps - where we look inside the minds of entrepreneurs and at the crossover of startups, enterprise, finance, technology,…
Sep 16, 2025 · 38:32
Alejandro Gutierrez joins me to talk Solana in Ireland, stablecoins, and tokenized securities - plus I share the launch of Norio Ventures Fund I and what’s ahead for Episode 300.…
Jul 29, 2025 · 1:00:41
This week, we're doing something different on MoneyNeverSleeps. You're coming inside the room for the Techstars Web3 Demo Day 2025 , recorded live at Civic Hall in NYC during NY…
Jun 23, 2025 · 52:51
This week, I caught up with Jesse Phillips, co-founder and CEO of Trustware , and one of the most quietly determined founders I’ve ever backed. I invested in Jesse and his…
Jun 13, 2025 · 50:42
This week, I sat down with my longtime Techstars colleague and friend Allard Luchsinger, Managing Director of the ABN AMRO + Techstars Future of Finance Accelerator in Amsterdam.…
May 30, 2025 · 48:14
This week, I’m joined by Scott Ashmore and Rob Halligan , co-founders of Shuttle - a platform giving individuals access to venture capital deals that have traditionally been…
May 23, 2025 · 30:37
This week, I’m joined once again by Alejandro Gutierrez, now officially leading Solana Superteam Ireland, a new initiative powered by the Solana Foundation to accelerate Web3…
May 9, 2025 · 37:52
Simon Brown joins me to share how his role at Consensys has evolved since his last appearance in January 2024 and why he’s now leading the charge on the Consensys Network State.…
May 2, 2025 · 35:50
This week, I’m welcoming back Ollie Walsh, formerly the co-founder and CEO of Pipit Global, and now, the President of Qenta , following Qenta’s recent acquisition of Pipit. This…
Apr 18, 2025 · 44:48
This week, I had the absolute pleasure of sitting down with Fergal McGovern , founder and CEO of VisibleThread , for one of the most enlightening founder chats I’ve had in a…
Apr 11, 2025 · 38:59
This week, I sat down with Yev Broshevan, co-founder and Chief Business Development Officer at Hacken , a leading blockchain security firm focused on making Web3 a safer, more…
Apr 4, 2025 · 41:50
This week, I’m joined by the ever-insightful and gloriously unfiltered Laura Walsh for a whirlwind spin through the crypto-political multiverse. From BlackRock’s Larry Fink…
Mar 28, 2025 · 50:30
Anthony Rose is the co-founder and CEO of SeedLegals, the #1 platform for startup funding and legals in the UK. But long before he was helping tens of thousands of founders raise…
Mar 21, 2025 · 26:58
In this week’s episode, I’m joined by my good friend and returning guest co-host Alejandro Gutierrez, and we get into the thick of what I like to call “worlds colliding” — the…
Mar 18, 2025 · 7:28
In this episode, we’re announcing the Techstars Web3 Accelerator Class of 2025 featuring founders from the six web3 startups that Techstars are investing in and accelerating in…
Feb 21, 2025 · 41:28
This week, we’re taking a look back at some of my favorite moments from the past year—the conversations that stuck with me long after we hit stop on the recording. If you missed…
Feb 17, 2025 · 44:14
Alejandro Gutierrez joins me once again to dive into some of the biggest conversations in crypto right now, including: The fallout from Operation Chokepoint 2.0 and the debanking…
Jan 31, 2025 · 37:07
This week, we’re tapping into the intersection of hip-hop, technology, education and startups with a true pioneer—Arabian Prince. If you know your rap history, you know Arabian…
Jan 24, 2025 · 42:19
Laura Walsh returns this week to help me unpack the whirlwind of events shaking up crypto, finance, and politics—from Trump’s memecoin antics to regulatory shifts and the…
Jan 17, 2025 · 47:04
Brian McDonald is a partner at Bay Advisory , a corporate finance firm helping founders navigate funding, scaling, and exiting their businesses. Brian first joined the show in…
Jan 5, 2025 · 50:07
In this special year-end episode, Pete Townsend is joined by returning guest co-host Alejandro Gutierrez for a wide-ranging conversation about what the future may hold in 2025.…
Dec 13, 2024 · 44:41
This week, I interviewed serial entrepreneur Nigel Eccles. Known for his role as co-founder and former CEO of FanDuel , Nigel shares his incredible journey of launching and…
Dec 6, 2024 · 38:43
This week, I’m joined by the brilliant Mai Santamaria for a far-ranging discussion inspired by Ian Goldin’s concept of The Butterfly Defect — a thought-provoking take on the…
Dec 1, 2024 · 51:00
This week. I sat down with Timo Lehes and Philipp Pieper, the co-founders of Swarm , the RWA (or Real World Assets) platform that brings unique digitization and trading solutions…
Nov 22, 2024 · 44:22
This week, we’ve got an exclusive interview with Manu, the founder and CEO of Sponstar, the fractional sponsorship marketplace that’s leveling the playing field for small and…
Nov 8, 2024 · 25:32
We're diving deep into the fundamentals of fundraising for Web3 startups and early-stage ventures navigating their first capital raise. Fundraising is always challenging, but in…
Nov 3, 2024 · 53:03
René Pinnell is the founder of Artizen , a match-funding platform for human creativity, helping creators match fund new projects at the frontier of art, science, technology and…
Oct 25, 2024 · 43:48
Niall Dennehy is an Irish entrepreneur and the co-founder and COO of AID:Tech, who are bringing traceability and transparency to the flow of funds for governments, NGOs and…
Oct 18, 2024 · 35:06
Luca Franchi is the CEO and a co-founder of Ambient , a decentralized network of air quality sensors. Luca brings to Ambient over two decades of leading growth at several…
Oct 6, 2024 · 42:54
Luis Ramirez is the Founder and CEO of Mawari , a pioneer in cloud rendering and streaming technology. The Mawari team got started in Tokyo in 2017, and since then, the team has…
Sep 29, 2024 · 49:57
Linda Jeng is the Founder and CEO of Digital Self Labs, and she joins me in exploring the evolving landscape of stablecoins. Our discussion focuses on our key takeaways from…
Sep 20, 2024 · 35:22
Alejandro Gutierrez, CEO of npayme Labs and co-founder of ETH Dublin joins me again as guest co-host this week. In this episode, we recap our recent panel on ‘Finding Web3…
Sep 13, 2024 · 40:09
Garvan Callan is the founder of OneZero1, a company that’s redefining how startups and enterprises alike can navigate the complex world of digital strategy and transformation.…
Sep 13, 2024 · 47:16
Mark McLaughlin is an Irish entrepreneur who has been at the forefront of the ticketing industry since 2006. Mark is the co-founder and CEO of Coras, a company that's been…
Aug 30, 2024 · 50:39
Returning from our summer hiatus, Laura Walsh joins the show again this week as guest co-host as we dive into Crypto Politics by unpacking Donald Trump's campaign promises…
Jun 28, 2024 · 40:54
Pranav Kanade, Portfolio Manager of VanEck's Digital Assets Alpha Strategy joins the show this week. VanEck is an American investment management firm headquartered in New York…
Jun 21, 2024 · 49:22
Rita Martins joins the show to discuss her new book, Web3 in Financial Services , which explores how blockchain, digital assets, and cryptocurrency are disrupting traditional…
Jun 10, 2024 · 33:30
This week, we dive into decentralization with Kenny Ezeji-Okoye and Stella Dyer from Millicent , Ilya Orlov from FileMarket , alongside Rita Martins, author and Techstars Web3…
May 31, 2024 · 47:55
Alejandro Gutierrez, CEO of npayme Labs and co-founder of ETH Dublin joins me again as guest co-host this week. We start with Alejandro's Token2049 Dubai ‘tsunami-in-a-yacht’…
May 24, 2024 · 42:12
This week, we dive into Aleph Zero, a privacy-enhancing layer one blockchain renowned for prioritizing scalability, security and speed, with co-founder Antoni Zolciak and Head of…
May 17, 2024 · 38:28
This week, I’m joined by guest co-host Mai Santamaria, the head of the financial advisory unit for the Department of Finance in Ireland. We delve into the world of digital…
May 10, 2024 · 31:51
I’m joined by three of the founders from the Techstars Web3 class of 2024 to help me identify the mainstream adoption path for blockchain technology, including Andrea Miele,…
May 3, 2024 · 40:53
Gray Webb is co-founder and CTO at Liquibit Capital , and we kick things off with a look at what’s happened with BTC since the latest bitcoin halving. Gray and I then riff on the…
Apr 18, 2024 · 1:05:25
This week, I’m sharing an episode of the ‘ Venture with Hesus ’ podcast that I recorded recently with the unstoppable Hesus Inoma, as he interviews me on lessons learned from…
Apr 12, 2024 · 34:27
I’ve brought together 4 of the founders from the Techstars Web3 class of 2024 to help me dispel some of the common misconceptions about web3 with the general public, including…
Apr 7, 2024 · 42:50
In this Money Talks segment, Paul Smyth and I kick things off with a look at Sam Bankman-Fried’s 25-year sentence before jumping to the brighter side of things with BlackRock’s…
Apr 7, 2024 · 45:52
Niall Mackey, the Commercial Director at Topsec Cloud Solutions , joins the show this week as we take an inside look at how businesses cope in the aftermath of a hack. Niall is a…
Mar 22, 2024 · 36:49
Joaquim Matinero Tor joins the show this week as guest co-host as we look at the likely paths to the adoption of CBDCs (or Central Bank Digital Currencies) in the different…
Mar 15, 2024 · 11:11
This episode features an introduction to the 12 founding teams that form the Techstars Web3 accelerator class of 2024, with each of their founder/CEOs giving you a quick look…
Mar 8, 2024 · 46:05
Laura Walsh joins the show again this week as guest co-host as we explore the potential link between digital identity and decentralized social media through the lens of the…
Mar 1, 2024 · 42:56
Brian Zwerner is the President and Founder of W3 Studio, and a VC and Founder of Beyond the Game Network. As the President and Founder of W3 Studio, a 501c3 non-profit venture…
Feb 23, 2024 · 57:35
This week’s guest is Connor Murphy, the CEO of Bridge. I met Connor at a Techstars event in Dublin in 2019 as he was just getting his latest venture off the ground in Bridge, and…
Feb 16, 2024 · 1:01:18
We've remastered and packaged up two of our most popular episodes from 2023 that were originally going to be one episode looking at the venture capital mantra of ‘investing in…
Feb 9, 2024 · 54:24
Mai Santamaria joins me once again as guest co-host as we riff on the intersection of digital ID, digital wallets, blockchain, CBDCs, and how the political regime under which an…
Feb 1, 2024 · 39:47
Evan Miyazono is founder and CEO of Atlas Computing , a non-profit formed late last year to help scale human control over risky AI capabilities. I seem to be falling into a…
Jan 19, 2024 · 48:36
Blockchain ecosystem advisor and researcher Simon Brown from Consensys joins me as guest co-host this week. Consensys is a leading blockchain and web3 software company whose…
Jan 12, 2024 · 52:52
Alejandro Gutierrez and I recorded this episode 10 hours before the SEC finally approved Spot Bitcoin ETFs, so we start with a quick update on what happened over the last few…
Dec 15, 2023 · 42:45
I’m joined this week by two of the wonderful people I met at the Solana Breakpoint conference in Amsterdam last month, Amira Valliani who is the Head of Policy at the Solana…
Dec 8, 2023 · 49:29
Paul Smyth joins me as guest co-host this week, and he is a specialist executive recruiter and executive coach within the fintech industry. As a founder of two startups, Paul has…
Dec 1, 2023 · 44:10
This week I’m joined by guest co-host Mai Santamaria, who is the Head of the Financial Advisory Unit for the Department of Finance in Ireland. Mai and I met in February 2018 at a…
Nov 24, 2023 · 52:07
This week’s episode is from a session Pete Townsend hosted with Alex Tapscott, author of ‘ Web3: Charting the Internet's Next Economic and Cultural Frontier’ (Harper Collins) .…
Nov 17, 2023 · 21:26
Pete Townsend introduces an insightful line-up of entrepreneurs and investors who share their thoughts on web3. Opinions are gathered around what aspects they hope to see web3…
Nov 10, 2023 · 50:00
Sean Lee is the senior advisor at the Crypto Council for Innovation, which is a global alliance of crypto industry leaders advocating for responsible and healthy regulations in…
Nov 3, 2023 · 25:06
Lou Kerner is the founder of the Crypto Oracle Collective , a decentralized web3 advisory firm, and also the DAO for Crypto Mondays , which is the largest crypto meetup in the…
Oct 27, 2023 · 38:10
My discussion with Somi Arian is a deep dive into the entrepreneur's dilemma of solving problems vs. fulfilling desires, customer discovery, product building and pivots, all…
Oct 20, 2023 · 45:52
Arry Yu is a 23+ year emerging technology industry veteran, serial founder and strategic operator with expertise in scaling business from "zero to one" with a consistent track…
Oct 13, 2023 · 42:24
Joining Pete as guest co-host this week is Pet Berisha from Sporting Crypto , the number one Web3 Sports business exploring the intersection alongside 3000+ subscribers from the…
Oct 6, 2023 · 38:49
We’ve got a special crossover episode this week courtesy of our friends at the Irish VC podcast, with a big shout-out to Finn Hatherell for producing the initial episode on the…
Sep 29, 2023 · 29:58
Eva Lawrence is the Head of EMEA for Figment, the leading provider of blockchain infrastructure, providing staking solutions for institutions. In this episode, we get into Eva’s…
Sep 22, 2023 · 40:51
Alejandro Gutierrez joins the show as guest co-host in this Money Talks segment. Alejandro is the CEO of Defactor Labs , providing all the required technological and financial…
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