The Smart Economy Podcast: Real-World Blockchain Applications with Crypto, DeFi, NFTs, and DAOs

Building a New Path for Bitcoin Innovation with Paul Sztorc of LayerTwo Labs

In this episode of The Smart Economy Podcast, host Dylan Grabowski is joined by CEO of LayerTwo Labs Paul Sztorc, to discuss why years of attempting to bring Drivechain t

Will Every Financial Asset Move On-Chain? | Anthony Moro of Nuva Labs

In this episode of The Smart Economy Podcast, host Dylan Grabowski is joined by Nuva Labs CEO Anthony Moro to explore how blockchain is changing the infrastructure behind

Beyond Ethereum Scaling: Karl Floersch on Optimism's Push Into Enterprise

In this episode of The Smart Economy Podcast, host Dylan Grabowski is joined by OP Labs Chief Scientist Karl Floersch to discuss the evolution of Ethereum scaling and why

Building On-Chain Alternatives to Fiat Currency with Nevin Freeman of Reserve

In this episode of The Smart Economy Podcast, host Dylan Grabowski is joined by Reserve co-founder Nevin Freeman to discuss the project's long-term goal of creating an as

The Bitcoin Opportunity in Mexico with Maciej Cepnik of Aureo

Maciej Cepnik, chief marketing officer at Aureo, joins The Smart Economy Podcast to discuss what it takes to build Bitcoin financial infrastructure in Mexico. Cepnik expl

How Black Lake Digital Markets Uses Blockchain to Modernize Mortgage Finance | Al Qureshi

In this episode of The Smart Economy Podcast, host Dylan Grabowski sits down with Al Qureshi, CEO and co-founder of Black Lake Digital Markets, to discuss how blockchain

Andrés Salcedo of Etherfuse on Tokenizing Sovereign Bonds for Latin America

Andrés Salcedo, head of business development at Etherfuse, joins The Smart Economy Podcast to explore how tokenized sovereign debt is expanding access to financial servic

Christian St. Louis of Ethereal Ventures on Building Through Crypto’s Quietest Cycle

Christian St. Louis, partner at Ethereal Ventures, joins The Smart Economy Podcast to discuss venture capital, crypto startup investing, AI-driven entrepreneurship, and t

Web4 Explained: Anndy Lian on AI Agents, Blockchain, & Digital Sovereignty

Anndy Lian, author of Web4: The Age of Autonomous Intelligence, joins The Smart Economy Podcast to discuss the convergence of AI and blockchain, why he believes Web3 neve

Illia Polosukhin of NEAR on AI Operating Systems & Blockchain Infrastructure

Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR Protocol, joins The Smart Economy Podcast to discuss AI operating systems, agent harnesses, chain abstraction, and the growing role o

From Market Making to AI Rails: Alexis Sirkia of Yellow

Alexis Sirkia, captain of Yellow, joins The Smart Economy Podcast to discuss how decentralized clearing and settlement infrastructure could reshape crypto trading, AI age

Ethereum as “Productive Money”: Vivek Raman of Etherealize Breaks Down the Institutional Thesis

Vivek Raman, co-founder and CEO of Etherealize, joins The Smart Economy Podcast to discuss how Ethereum is moving from experimentation to real institutional use. Drawing

From AWS to Akash: Greg Osuri on Building a Decentralized Compute Marketplace

Greg Osuri, founder of Akash Network and CEO of Overclock Labs, joins The Smart Economy Podcast to discuss decentralized cloud infrastructure, the growing demand for AI c

The Next Digital Frontier: User-Owned AI, Agents, & Open Infrastructure with George Zeng of NEAR

George Zeng, chief product officer at the NEAR Protocol, joins The Smart Economy Podcast to discuss the convergence of AI agents, crypto infrastructure, and user-owned in

David Johnston of Morpheus on Why Owning Your AI Agent Could Change Everything

David Johnston, OSS code maintainer at Morpheus, joins The Smart Economy Podcast to discuss the convergence of AI agents, crypto infrastructure, and open-source intellige

From Retail Validators to Wall Street: The Institutional Staking Shift with Laszlo Szabo of Kiln

Laszlo Szabo, co-founder and CEO of Kiln, joins The Smart Economy Podcast to explore how staking has evolved into institutional infrastructure and how on-chain vaults, De

Inside Avalanche’s Tokenization Push: Olivia Vande Woude on RWAs, Institutions, & Real Adoption

Olivia Vande Woude, head of tokenization at Ava Labs, joins The Smart Economy Podcast to discuss RWAs, institutional adoption, distribution economics, and how Avalanche i

Making Crypto Feel Normal: Zeymer Montes on MOCA, Payments, & UX That Actually Works

Zeymer Montes, founder of MOCA, joins The Smart Economy Podcast to talk about building crypto products that real people can actually use. From gasless payments and QR-cod

Inside Ethereum’s Next Chapter: Tomasz Stańczak on the EF, L2s, & Institutional Adoption

Tomasz Stańczak, Co-Executive Director at the Ethereum Foundation, joins The Smart Economy Podcast to discuss Ethereum’s leadership evolution, L2 strategy, institutional

Smart, Safe, & Gasless: Inside PistachioFi’s Vision for Everyday DeFi

Brian Smocovich, co-founder of PistachioFi, joins host Dylan Grabowski to explore the challenges facing everyday users in Web3 and how a smart wallet can remove friction