Ouinex – Getting Retail Out of the Shark Tank

Ilies Larbi is the founder and CEO of Ouinex, a multi-asset trading platform built to fuse crypto and traditional markets in a single account while shielding retail traders from the structural disadvantages of conventional order books. A nearly fifteen-year veteran of New York-based forex broker FXCM, where he climbed from sales associate to Managing Director for Europe and a seat on the executive committee, the Paris-based Larbi stepped into crypto in 2022 — late by bull-run standards, as he admits, but with a clear view of the gap he wanted to fill.

Andy Pickering|2026-06-23T09:59:00+12:0023 Jun 2026|Podcasts|

oneBanking – The AI App For Finance

Sebastian Salomon is the CGO and co-founder of oneBanking, a Malta-registered fintech building an all-in-one app that fuses everyday banking, crypto, and an AI assistant designed to save users money. A 31-year-old German serial entrepreneur, Sebastian started his first company, an e-commerce sports-nutrition business, straight out of his studies in 2016, then co-founded a business-coaching venture that he says has worked with thousands of founders and small companies, giving him a broad read on where technology and money are heading next.

Andy Pickering|2026-06-22T09:51:58+12:0022 Jun 2026|Podcasts|

Cherry Servers – Building Decentralized Cloud Infrastructure

Lili Hellriegel is head of enterprise solutions at Cherry Servers, a Lithuania-based bare metal cloud provider that pitches itself as a sovereign, Web3-friendly alternative to the US hyperscalers. Before joining Cherry, Lili was head of infrastructure at staking firm Blockdaemon, where she built out data center partnerships, network architecture and the server specs behind validation workloads — work that left her unusually fluent in what crypto teams actually need from their infrastructure.

Andy Pickering|2026-06-16T12:39:10+12:0016 Jun 2026|Podcasts|

Mitrade – Trading the Great Convergence

Cam Darlington is Global Strategy Expert at Mitrade, the Australian-founded CFD trading platform regulated by ASIC in Australia and CySEC in Europe, offering forex, commodities, indices, shares, and crypto from a single account. A Nova Scotia native based in Hong Kong for the past eight years, Cam brings a dual perspective: a traditional finance background working with brokers expanding across Asia, and recent experience as co-founder and COO of easy.fun, a social trading app built on Solana and Hyperliquid.

Andy Pickering|2026-06-12T11:30:49+12:0012 Jun 2026|Podcasts|

nGRND – The Gold That Pays You to Leave It in the Ground

Professor Lisa Wilson is CEO, Director GRND, BVI & Canada, and Global Head of Strategic Partnerships Carbon Capital Corporation, Australia, London, Luxemburg, Paris, New York, Singapore. nGRND is a gold protocol indirectly linked to verified in-ground gold resources. An Australian who holds a South African professorship and lives in France, Wilson is a mining insider — she has written operational and hazard-standards systems for the likes of Rio Tinto and BHP — with a parallel career in blockchain, where she helped list the world's first actively managed certificates for investment-grade carbon assets.

Andy Pickering|2026-06-18T08:17:09+12:008 Jun 2026|Podcasts|

Chainlink – Connecting Wall Street to Web3

Charlie Durkin is Principal Solutions Lead at Chainlink Labs, where he works directly with the world's largest banks, asset managers, and market infrastructures on bringing capital markets onchain. A decade at Citigroup – five years in investment banking and debt capital markets, then five more in product management building the actual rails – gives him an unusually grounded view of the gap between TradFi reality and crypto's promises, and what it will take to close it.

Andy Pickering|2026-06-05T08:03:49+12:005 Jun 2026|Podcasts|

Sleepagotchi – The Intelligence Layer for the Wellness Economy

Kenny Wood is the newly appointed CEO of Sleepagotchi, the Solana-based platform building what it calls the intelligence layer for the wellness economy.

Andy Pickering|2026-06-02T08:05:16+12:002 Jun 2026|Podcasts|

RootstockLabs – Making Bitcoin Productive Collateral

Richard Green is Director of Institutional and Ecosystem at RootstockLabs, a core contributor to Rootstock, the Bitcoin sidechain that has been quietly running for eight years and now anchors a growing slice of institutional Bitcoin DeFi. Based in London, Green came to crypto through fifteen years in traditional finance — a decade at Bloomberg working with banks and high-frequency trading desks, followed by a stint at Circle building out the European stablecoin business — before going further down the Bitcoin rabbit hole when emerging-market clients made clear they wanted something more than a dollar wrapper.

Andy Pickering|2026-05-28T09:08:35+12:0025 May 2026|Podcasts|

MyEtherWallet – The Next Decade of On-Chain Finance

Kosala Hemachandra is the founder and CEO of MyEtherWallet (MEW), one of crypto's true OG products and a wallet that has been onboarding users to Ethereum since the network's mainnet launch. Eleven years, three million users, and a team of more than twenty later, MEW is positioning itself as a self-custodial home not just for crypto but for tokenized stocks, bonds, and the broader real-world asset economy now arriving on-chain.

Andy Pickering|2026-05-18T11:22:50+12:0018 May 2026|Podcasts|

Gridmatic – AI-Powered Energy for Flexible Loads

Kise Shannon is VP of Business Development at Gridmatic, an AI-first power company helping Bitcoin miners and other flexible loads turn energy market volatility into opportunity. Drawing on more than 20 years in the US energy industry – starting in Texas the moment the state deregulated – Kise has built her career across both global energy majors and startups, and now leads Gridmatic's push into the Bitcoin mining vertical from her base in Houston.

Andy Pickering|2026-05-12T13:13:52+12:0012 May 2026|Podcasts|

Company

Contribute

Content, News & Insights