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|

Perceptron Network – A Thousand Eyes, One Vision for Decentralized AI Data

Peter Anthony is the co-founder of Perceptron Network, a decentralised data infrastructure purpose-built for AI. A crypto native since 2019, Peter also runs The House of Crypto — one of the fastest-growing crypto YouTube channels — where years of speaking with founders convinced him that the next wave of blockchain projects would be defined by real revenues, real users, and real-world utility. Perceptron, which merged with the 700,000-node BlockMesh network in mid-2025, is his bet on what he sees as AI's biggest unsolved bottleneck: access to high-quality, affordable, real-time data.

Andy Pickering|2026-04-23T09:33:40+12:0023 Apr 2026|Podcasts|

Coins.ph – Building the Stablecoin Economy

Wei Zhou is the CEO of Coins.ph, the largest crypto-native fintech platform in the Philippines, which he acquired in 2022. A former CFO of Binance and long-time finance executive — Wei has been rebuilding Coins.ph as a fully regulated on-ramp between fiat, crypto and stablecoins for Filipino users and businesses, while extending the playbook globally through Coins.xyz.

Andy Pickering|2026-04-21T08:34:05+12:0021 Apr 2026|Podcasts|

Tok-Edge – The Crypto Hedge Fund with a Token

Raees Chowdhury is the co-founder and chief investment officer of Tok-Edge, a London-based regulated DeFi hedge fund built around a novel cryptoasset structure called the Redemption Token. With a career spanning senior roles at BCG and Bain Capital, a managing partner position at Revolt Ventures — a fund sitting beneath a $10 billion AUM vehicle — and deep roots in on-chain markets dating back to the ICO era of 2016–17, Raees brings rare dual fluency in institutional finance and DeFi to one of crypto's most ambitious new fund structures.

Andy Pickering|2026-06-26T08:55:21+12:0015 Apr 2026|Podcasts|

MovitOn – The Next Uber for Delivery

Marco Kowalewski is the managing partner at MovitOn, a Dubai-headquartered startup building what it describes as the Uber for delivery. Originally from Germany, Marco spent years in management roles and as a business lecturer before diving into blockchain around eight years ago. He is a three-time author on topics spanning cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and tokenisation, and joined the MovitOn team roughly eight months ago after an advisory relationship evolved into a leadership role.

Andy Pickering|2026-04-13T08:32:35+12:0013 Apr 2026|Podcasts|

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