Open Frontier – The Coalition for Fair Crypto

Open Frontier Executive Director Erik Balsbaugh and board member Amanda Wick join Andy Pickering for a wide-ranging conversation on crypto, politics, and the future of digital finance. The discussion explores why digital assets are too important to be left to partisan trench warfare, and why the real promise of crypto has less to do with speculation and more to do with reducing fees, expanding access, and breaking the grip of extractive financial intermediaries. Erik and Amanda make the case that this is ultimately a fight about fairness, affordability, and who the financial system is built to serve.

Andy Pickering|2026-02-25T13:16:24+13:0025 Feb 2026|Podcasts|

Transak – The Crypto On-Ramp

Andy Werner is VP of Partnerships and Strategy at Transak, one of the world’s leading fiat-to-crypto on-ramp providers. Werner shares his journey through fintech — from big banks to startups — and explains how Transak is building the compliance and payments infrastructure that quietly powers hundreds of crypto platforms globally. While the company operates in what he jokingly calls the “boring” side of crypto, Werner argues that boring is exactly what payments infrastructure should be: seamless, reliable, and invisible to the end user.

Andy Pickering|2026-02-09T10:39:05+13:009 Feb 2026|Podcasts|

Veera – The OnChain Neobank

Andy sits down with SB, CEO and co-founder of Veera, to unpack a bold attempt at one of crypto’s oldest and most stubborn problems: making it usable for normal people. From launching BlackBerrys and building early mobile ad tech, to challenging Netflix with an Asian streaming platform and exiting a travel startup, SB’s winding entrepreneurial path now lands squarely in on-chain finance. The conversation traces how Veera is positioning itself as a true crypto neobank — not just a wallet with a card — and why user experience, not yield or hype, will decide whether crypto ever really breaks into the mainstream.

Andy Pickering|2026-01-29T14:59:19+13:0029 Jan 2026|Podcasts|

New Book – The Intelligent Crypto Investor

John Hargrave, CEO of Media Shower and author of The Intelligent Crypto Investor, joins the show to unpack a radically calm, Buffett-inspired approach to crypto investing. From wiring money to Belarus to buy Bitcoin in 2013 to nearly losing his business in the 2018 crypto winter, John shares how hard-earned wisdom led him to a disciplined, diversified strategy that blends traditional assets with a carefully sized slice of high-quality crypto — and why this model has quietly outperformed traditional portfolios over the past several years.

Andy Pickering|2026-01-20T16:22:42+13:0020 Jan 2026|Podcasts|

OpenTrade – Stablecoin Infra & Yield for Financial Services

Andy sits down with Dave Sutter, CEO and co-founder of OpenTrade, to unpack why stablecoins are rapidly becoming the most important financial primitive in crypto — and arguably the missing link between digital assets and traditional finance.

Andy Pickering|2026-01-09T10:26:11+13:009 Jan 2026|Podcasts|

SecondSwap – The Dex For Locked Tokens

Andy sits down with Kanny Lee, CEO and co-founder of SecondSwap, to explore one of crypto’s most under-discussed structural problems: liquidity for locked and vested tokens. With a background spanning two decades in Big Four forensic accounting and early institutional crypto OTC trading in Hong Kong, Kanny brings a rare blend of TradFi discipline and on-chain realism to the conversation.

Andy Pickering|2026-01-07T11:40:36+13:007 Jan 2026|Podcasts|

Tria – Live Free, Bank Freer

Vijit Katta is the CEO and co-founder at Tria, a self-custodial neobank that unifies spending, trading, and earning across all chains — without bridges, gas, or custodians.

Andy Pickering|2025-12-22T09:51:05+13:0022 Dec 2025|Podcasts|

Pixion Games – The Next Generation of Play

Kam Punia is the Founder and CEO of Pixion Games, the London based studio behind Fableborne and the $POWER gaming ecosystem.

Andy Pickering|2025-12-19T11:15:08+13:0019 Dec 2025|Podcasts|

Vision: Bringing Retail and Institutions On-chain

Florian Klein is the Commercial Lead at Bitpanda’s Web3 team. Bitpanda, one of Europe’s most regulated digital asset platforms (7M+ users, multiple MiCA licences), is expanding into Web3 through Vision ($VSN), its ecosystem token for compliant tokenisation and DeFi infrastructure.

Andy Pickering|2025-12-18T08:14:05+13:0018 Dec 2025|Podcasts|

Canopy Network – Limitless Infra for Appchains

Andrew Nguyen is the Co-Founder and CTO of Canopy Network, which powers the peer-to-peer launchpad for new application-specific chains. Built on a recursive architecture, applications bootstrap each other into independence, forming an unstoppable web of utility and security.

Andy Pickering|2025-12-16T14:17:40+13:0016 Dec 2025|Podcasts|

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