Crypto Coin Show is the founder interview series from BlockWest. Host Ashton Addison sits down with the founders, investors and builders shaping Bitcoin, crypto, Web3 and AI, with more than 1,500 interviews over 12+ years and a Web3 Influencer Award for Best Interviews (2022 and 2025).Each episode goes deep on one company or idea: Bitcoin and the markets, stablecoins and payments, tokenization and real-world assets, DePIN, AI agents, privacy, DeFi and the infrastructure behind it all.New founder interviews every week, plus CryptoCoin Show Weekly, our news recap with co-host Golden Yogi.Watch the full video interviews on YouTube at @CryptoCoinShow and read...
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Nov 13, 2026 · 25:03
Stock markets are moving toward 24/7 trading, and the funds that trade them want to move money between stocks, futures and crypto without wiring cash across five accounts. After…
Nov 10, 2026 · 32:54
Adam Cai, founder and Group CEO of Virgo Group, is back on Crypto Coin Show to talk about Wallet V, the self-custody mobile wallet where AI agents trade for you while the keys…
Nov 9, 2026 · 39:21
Every Bitcoin you buy on an exchange is tied to your name, your ID and your address, and anyone can follow it on-chain from there. Bitcoin privacy is not built in, but tools like…
Nov 8, 2026 · 46:02
Watch the full video interview: https://youtu.be/2hB2XB8uu5Q When AI can fake almost anything, what can we still prove? Arie Trouw, Co-Founder, CEO and CTO of XYO, joins Ashton…
Nov 8, 2026 · 26:02
Watch the full video interview: https://youtu.be/bUXrGsUpE7o Can onchain credit fund Hollywood? Benjamin Sarquis Peillard, Founder and CEO of Cap, returns to Blockchain…
Nov 8, 2026 · 31:03
Watch the full video interview: https://youtu.be/mge8K4MnOOA Most creators wait months to see a cut of what their work earns, and fans who back a project rarely see any of it.…
Nov 8, 2026 · 36:38
Watch the full video interview: https://youtu.be/6Dbo1d4ei7M $6.3 billion left Binance in about 20 minutes, the biggest hack in history. Ashton Addison and co-host Golden Yogi…
Oct 30, 2026 · 34:05
Watch the full video interview: https://youtu.be/WPRmm_8xdt8 Verona, the network formerly known as XION, launched verUSD: a dollar stablecoin built for AI agents, with more than…
Oct 30, 2026 · 33:31
Watch the full video interview: https://youtu.be/3kfOkvBdUQk Every worthwhile democracy uses a secret ballot, and every fair sealed-bid auction needs an auctioneer nobody can…
Oct 30, 2026 · 24:50
Watch the full video interview: https://youtu.be/HW72mnx34ig Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR Protocol, joins Ashton Addison on the Crypto Coin Show to break down everything…
Oct 13, 2026 · 36:35
Watch the full video interview: https://youtu.be/HRnFNzCf8kI Software is solved, hardware is different. Martin El-Khouri of peaq argues that the next wave of builders is moving…
Oct 9, 2026 · 40:00
Watch the full video interview: https://youtu.be/ncHeYxD0MJg Luke Davis argues that tech and the hyperscalers have carried the whole index in 2026 while most other sectors…
Oct 7, 2026 · 25:10
Watch the full video interview: https://youtu.be/r64b6IpHtpQ Crypto data is only useful if it is complete, fast and right, and Birdeye covers thousands of data sources across the…
Oct 6, 2026 · 37:09
Watch the full video interview: https://youtu.be/otB0vqvTYGk Most credit runs on trust: banks, BNPL apps and suppliers all price in the risk that you won't pay. Anvil flips that.…
Oct 6, 2026 · 24:24
Watch the full video interview: https://youtu.be/K7nQ7hH9EqQ AI agents can browse, write and code, but most of the web still treats them as intruders: CAPTCHAs, logins built for…
Oct 5, 2026 · 30:13
Watch the full video interview: https://youtu.be/tGBxH-G-EBM Banks look slow on blockchain, but most of the work is happening where nobody can see it. Institutions are running…
Oct 2, 2026 · 41:58
A trading-signals company says it raised $1 million for a fund that will spend half its realized profits buying its own token, TTP, off the market and burning it. The fund has…
Sep 30, 2026 · 26:57
Decentralized social keeps failing for the same reason: Farcaster, Lens and every Twitter clone built an app-specific data model, so nothing composes and no network effect forms.…
Sep 29, 2026 · 26:26
Robinhood already lets millions of people trade stocks and crypto, so why build its own blockchain? Robinhood Chain is the answer: a chain Robinhood controls end to end, launched…
Sep 28, 2026 · 33:36
EMQQ Global's Kevin T. Carter joins Ashton Addison to make the case that the valuation gap between US and Chinese AI companies is closing faster than most investors realize.…
Sep 24, 2026 · 24:38
Brave has grown into a privacy-first browser with 120 million-plus users and 50 million-plus daily actives, but only a sliver of that audience actually touches crypto today.…
Sep 18, 2026 · 31:58
AI is racing toward a moment where verifying data isn't the hard problem anymore — proving an autonomous agent or robot actually did what it claims becomes the harder one. PROOF…
Aug 18, 2026 · 31:29
AI agents are already making financial decisions, coordinating logistics, and acting autonomously on behalf of users — but there is no reliable record of what they did, why they…
Aug 12, 2026 · 38:07
Most crypto companies structure themselves in the wrong jurisdiction — or no jurisdiction at all — and find out what that means when it's too late to fix it. Dave Rodman, Founder…
Aug 2, 2026 · 31:04
Most RWA projects tokenize the asset and forget the token. ZIGChain is building the full stack: regulated onchain infrastructure for institutional-grade real-world assets, with…
Jul 29, 2026 · 30:21
Crypto prop trading is a broken model: most firms quietly change the rules the moment a trader starts winning. TRANSPARENT ONCHAIN CRYPTO PROP TRADING is what Propr is building —…
Jul 21, 2026 · 37:14
Most crypto wallets are still just storage. Trust Wallet just added tokenized US stocks, perpetual futures, and prediction markets — all non-custodial, all on mobile.…
Jul 20, 2026 · 26:08
Most AI training data flows through centralized providers like Scale AI and Appen — expensive, slow, and controlled by a handful of platforms. DECENTRALIZED DATA INFRASTRUCTURE…
Jul 19, 2026 · 28:54
Africa's crypto adoption is accelerating faster than almost any region on earth, but the infrastructure to serve 1.7 billion people across 54 countries, multiple currencies, and…
Jul 18, 2026 · 25:51
Selling Bitcoin to access liquidity means a taxable event, losing your position, and missing whatever comes next. CRYPTO-BACKED LENDING is the alternative — and Arch Lending lets…
Jul 5, 2026 · 35:05
Bitcoin has been promised as a payment layer for 15 years, but merchants still don't use it. Transaction finality, custody concerns, and merchant UX have kept Bitcoin commerce…
Jul 4, 2026 · 22:34
Sleep data is collected by Oura, Whoop, and Apple Watch every night — but the value flows to the platforms, not the user. GAMIFIED SLEEP DATA is the model Sleepagotchi is…
Jul 2, 2026 · 23:17
Most tokenized real world assets still take 60 to 180 days to redeem. Most restaking protocols lock capital in silos that can't work across chains. COLLATERAL MARKETS…
Jun 24, 2026 · 23:57
Half of web traffic is already synthetic, and neither platforms nor enterprises have a reliable way to tell humans from AI agents at scale. VERIFICATION INFRASTRUCTURE is what…
Jun 20, 2026 · 30:42
AI agents are already executing financial transactions autonomously — but the infrastructure they're running on was never designed for them. NEAR Protocol is building the…
Jun 14, 2026 · 25:50
Retail traders are structurally disadvantaged on every traditional order book exchange — stop hunting is real, the spread is a hidden tax, and most platforms give institutions…
Jun 13, 2026 · 25:36
AI hallucinations aren't a model problem — they're a data problem. When AI systems have no way to verify what's real in the physical world, they fill the gaps with guesses. And…
Jun 12, 2026 · 25:08
The internet is filling up with bots, and nobody has built a reliable way to tell the difference between a human and an AI agent at scale. PROOF OF HUMANITY is what World is…
Jun 2, 2026 · 24:26
Private credit has a trust problem. Borrowers, lenders, and underwriters operate in silos, incentives are misaligned, and most of the $1.7 trillion sitting in TradFi private…
Jun 1, 2026 · 22:15
Bitcoin has $1 trillion in market cap sitting idle. The infrastructure to put it to work — natively, without bridges or wrapped tokens — has been the missing piece. OP_NET is…
May 31, 2026 · 12:49
Most people manage their own crypto portfolio the same way they always have — manually, reactively, and without the tools that institutional investors take for granted. Wallet V…
May 30, 2026 · 13:10
Centralized AI infrastructure gives a handful of companies control over the data, compute, and models that everyone else depends on — and most builders have no way to verify…
May 29, 2026 · 19:07
The Graph has processed 1.27 trillion queries and most builders still treat it as a subgraph indexer. After the Horizon upgrade, that's not what it is anymore. Nick Hansen, Team…
May 28, 2026 · 16:39
Hudson Jameson, blockchain security veteran, former Ethereum Foundation core dev liaison, SEAL Org member, and CertiK Security Advisor — sits down with us live at Consensus Miami…
May 27, 2026 · 20:22
In this episode of Blockchain Interviews, Ashton Addison sits down with David Track, Founder of SOSANA — a Solana-based enforcement layer built to solve one of crypto's most…
May 17, 2026 · 29:13
Sports bettors lose to the bookmaker before the game even starts. The house sets the lines, pockets the margin, and decides who gets to play — and most people have no idea how…
May 12, 2026 · 23:09
Most blockchains are fast enough to transact but can't prove the transaction was valid without trusting someone. That gap — between execution and verifiable proof — is what…
May 6, 2026 · 40:05
Token launches fail fast when liquidity is fake — and most teams do not know how to measure “good liquidity” until it is too late. Scott Byron, Managing Director at Forgd, breaks…
Apr 24, 2026 · 26:53
Crypto adoption has stalled at the on-ramp. Most wallets and dApps lose users at the exact moment they try to buy their first token — because the payment flow is slow, the KYC is…
Apr 23, 2026 · 34:36
Big Tech is spending $650B on AI infrastructure and still can't build fast enough. Half of US data centres planned for 2026 are delayed — and centralised compute is showing…
Apr 21, 2026 · 36:39
Most Layer One upgrades are incremental. XYO just shipped a throughput jump of two to five times, dual DataLake support in the SDK, and validator and producer stability fixes —…
Apr 20, 2026 · 28:55
The travel industry runs on hidden fees and expiring rewards — and most hotel loyalty programs are designed to make points hard to use, not easy. Michael Ros, CEO of Europe at…
Apr 19, 2026 · 1:24:51
Most blockchains were built to be transparent by design. That transparency is now the single biggest reason institutions won't put sensitive data on-chain — and why the Clarity…
Apr 18, 2026 · 33:02
Most Bitcoin miners are leaving money on the table by using traditional pools — and they don't know it. Right now, buyers on the NiceHash hashrate marketplace are paying nearly…
Apr 17, 2026 · 38:39
Cross-border payments have been broken for decades — slow settlement, high fees, and opaque FX spreads quietly draining money that should reach contractors, suppliers, and…
Apr 12, 2026 · 34:30
Perps are where most traders blow up — and copy trading can either amplify that risk or make it manageable. Loki from OdinBot breaks down how perps copy trading works in plain…
Apr 6, 2026 · 26:55
Fixed-income yield onchain sounds simple — until you realise most "yield" products in crypto either hide the risk or require constant manual management to capture it. Dan…
Mar 30, 2026 · 25:21
We speak with Shresth Agrawal, CEO and Co-Founder of Pod Network, about building fair, high-performance decentralized markets. Today’s prediction markets and on-chain trading…
Mar 27, 2026 · 31:27
In this episode of Blockchain Interviews, Ashton Addison sits down with Shady El Damaty, Co-Founder of human.tech, to explore how privacy preserving digital identity is being…
Mar 25, 2026 · 23:19
RWA infrastructure is easy to hype and hard to ship — and most teams underestimate what institutions actually need to move real assets onchain. Wish Wu, Co-Founder & CEO of…
Mar 24, 2026 · 26:28
Moving money is still messy in 2026 — and most companies do not realize where the real bottlenecks are until settlement breaks. Lux Thiagarajah, Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at…
Mar 23, 2026 · 25:16
Crypto news is infinite — and most investors still start the day with noise instead of signal. Ian Balina, Founder & CEO of Token Metrics, breaks down how an AI-powered AI Crypto…
Mar 20, 2026 · 30:05
A pro-planet economy is easy to talk about and hard to coordinate and most marketplaces still do not have a real incentives layer for behavior change. Claus Fischer, Founder at…
Mar 18, 2026 · 32:44
Global commodity trade runs on slow settlement and trust gaps — and most teams have no way to prove provenance without adding friction. Mike Weeks, Executive Chairman &…
Mar 17, 2026 · 28:26
Privacy onchain is still broken — and most builders do not realize how many apps quietly leak sensitive user and trading data. Guy Itzhaki, Co-Founder & CEO of Fhenix, explains…
Mar 16, 2026 · 26:19
Canopy Network Co-Founder & CEO Adam Liposky joins Ashton Addison (Crypto Coin Show) to break down Canopy’s thesis: make launching a chain feel like shipping an app. We talk…
Mar 15, 2026 · 30:23
Cloud compute is expensive, centralized, and full of hidden trust assumptions — and most builders do not have a real alternative. Alessandro De Carli, Founder of Acurast, breaks…
Mar 14, 2026 · 42:41
Chris O’Brien, Partner and Head of the Crypto Practice at Venable LLP, joins Ashton Addison (Crypto Coin Show) for a practical, high-level conversation on what’s changing in US…
Mar 4, 2026 · 38:42
We sit down with Muriel Médard, Co-Founder & CEO of Optimum, to break down one of blockchain’s most overlooked scaling bottlenecks: data propagation. While most discussions focus…
Mar 2, 2026 · 22:54
We sit down with Toby Gilbert, Co-Founder & CEO of PACT SWAP, to explore the future of decentralized finance without bridges or wrapped tokens. As the industry matures,…
Mar 2, 2026 · 29:56
We sit down with Sukhdeep Bhogal, Co Founder and CEO of Veera, to explore what it really means to build a global neobank onchain. Veera is bringing earning, investing, borrowing,…
Mar 1, 2026 · 38:52
In this episode of Blockchain Interviews, Ashton Addison sits down with Staci Warden, CEO of the Algorand Foundation, to explore where Algorand is headed and how blockchain…
Feb 28, 2026 · 32:27
In this episode of Blockchain Interviews, Ashton Addison speaks with Solve Maxwell from Rip.xyz about building institutional-grade vault strategies on Hyperliquid and HyperEVM.…
Feb 23, 2026 · 29:05
In this episode of Blockchain Interviews, Ashton Addison sits down with Daniel Marin, CEO of Nexus Labs, to explore why today’s blockchains fall short for real-world finance and…
Feb 14, 2026 · 28:25
In this episode of Blockchain Interviews, Ashton Addison speaks with Sean Ren, CEO and Co-Founder of Sahara AI, about Sorin — an AI-powered trading copilot designed to assist…
Feb 10, 2026 · 21:09
In this episode of Blockchain Interviews, Ashton Addison sits down with Jeff Handler, COO and Co Founder of OpenTrade, to discuss the rapid rise of stablecoins, on chain yield,…
Feb 6, 2026 · 28:49
In this episode of Blockchain Interviews, Ashton Addison speaks with Sina Yamani, Founder and CEO of Action Model, about the rise of Large Action Models and the shift from AI…
Feb 2, 2026 · 34:16
In this episode of Blockchain Interviews by the Crypto Coin Show, Ashton Addison sits down with Micky Watkins, Founder & CEO of World Mobile, to explore how decentralized…
Feb 1, 2026 · 35:55
In this episode of Blockchain Interviews, Ashton Addison sits down with Markus Levin, Co-Founder of XYO Network and XYO Layer One, to explore why verifiable data is becoming…
Jan 19, 2026 · 40:33
In this episode of Blockchain Interviews, host Ashton Addison sits down with Michael Terpin, early Bitcoin investor and author of Bitcoin Supercycle, to break down where Bitcoin…
Jan 17, 2026 · 28:34
We sit down with Felipe Argento, Co-Founder of Cartesi, to explore how rollups are evolving beyond the constraints of the EVM and what it takes to scale real-world applications…
Jan 15, 2026 · 43:25
In this episode of Blockchain Interviews, Ashton Addison sits down with Kaloyan Iliev, CEO of NSDQ ETF COIN, to explore one of the most ambitious use cases in tokenization to…
Jan 8, 2026 · 32:58
In this episode of Blockchain Interviews, host Ashton Addison sits down with Loxley Fernandes, co-founder and CEO of Myriad, to explore the rapid rise of on-chain prediction…
Dec 22, 2025 · 42:18
Welcome to CryptoCoin Show Weekly — Episode 1, featuring special guest Golden Yogi. In this kickoff episode, we dive into the Bitcoin price outlook for December 2025 and 2026,…
Dec 21, 2025 · 31:54
We sit down with Scott Dykstra, Co-Founder of Space and Time (SxT), to explore one of the biggest unsolved challenges in blockchain and AI: how to trust and verify data that…
Dec 20, 2025 · 36:56
In this episode of Blockchain Interviews, Ashton Addison (Crypto Coin Show) welcomes back Alexander Rogan, Co-Founder of Abatis, for a deep discussion on why modern cybersecurity…
Dec 13, 2025 · 25:59
We speak with Jake Campton, Head of Communications at VeChain, about one of the most significant milestones in the project’s history: the Hayabusa mainnet launch. We break down…
Dec 7, 2025 · 31:50
In this episode of Blockchain Interviews, we sit down with Zac Williamson and Joe Andrews, co-founders of Aztec Network, the privacy-first Layer 2 on Ethereum. We unpack what a…
Dec 6, 2025 · 32:04
If multichain is the future, Apex Fusion is aiming to become the connective layer that finally makes blockchains work together instead of competing. In this episode of Blockchain…
Dec 2, 2025 · 36:14
In this episode of Blockchain Interviews, Ashton Addison sits down with Mark McKenzie (Founder & CEO, Caesar) and Eli Cohen (Chief Legal Officer, Centrifuge) to discuss the…
Nov 28, 2025 · 39:45
On today's Crypto Coin Show, we're diving deep into Abatis—the Web3 security infrastructure that's reshaping how blockchain handles real-world threats. Our guest breaks down why…
Nov 27, 2025 · 31:47
We sit down with Markus Levin, Co-Founder of XYO Layer One (XL1), to discuss how the team is transforming decentralized data infrastructure. Markus breaks down what’s happened…
Nov 26, 2025 · 40:11
What if AGI was built openly, transparently, and for the benefit of humanity instead of concentrated in a handful of tech companies? Dr. Ben Goertzel, who coined the term AGI…
Nov 25, 2025 · 30:30
Fans have always dreamed of exclusive access to their favorite celebrities—but what if they could actually own it? In this interview, we sit down with DoubleX, Founder and CEO of…
Nov 19, 2025 · 30:40
We speak with Kanny Lee, Co-Founder and CEO of SecondSwap, to discuss how the platform is redefining secondary markets for digital assets. After two decades in regulated finance,…
Nov 18, 2025 · 31:02
In this episode of Blockchain Interviews, Ashton Addison speaks with Edan Yago, Co-Founder of Bitcoin OS (BOS), the ZK-powered operating system built to bring crypto home to…
Oct 22, 2025 · 38:22
We speak with Max Freeman, Founder of Epic Cash, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency built on the Mimblewimble protocol. Freeman dives deep into the philosophy behind privacy coins…
Oct 19, 2025 · 20:22
We speak with Louise from Ryder to explore how the company is tackling one of crypto’s biggest challenges — secure, user-friendly wallet adoption. Ryder is rethinking what it…
Oct 18, 2025 · 33:44
We speak with Dylan Dewdney, Founder and CEO of KUVI AI, about the company’s upcoming launch in just 10 days and its vision for a new era of decentralized, intelligent finance.…
Oct 17, 2025 · 32:58
We speak with Ali Beikverdi, Co-Founder and CEO of HollaEx, the open-source white-label crypto exchange platform that empowers businesses to launch their own digital marketplaces…
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