Talking Tokens Podcast
@_TalkingTokens • 5,070 subscribers
Award-nominated host @JacqMelinek interviews the most consequential leaders in onchain finance, on the record. Twice a week. Brought to you by @StrataMedia_
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Today’s pod is with CZ 🔶 BNB founder and former CEO of Binance to discuss: - What Binance got right during its launch and how it climbed to the top (and stayed there) - Why CZ was surprised by stablecoin’s sticking power - Where AI is going next both in and outside of crypto TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - AI, Crypto, and the Future of Payments 00:33 - Building Binance in 2017 and Moving Faster 03:44 - How Binance Reached the Top 05:48 - Building a Community-Driven Platform 08:27 - Creating Products People Return To 10:31 - Crypto as Foundational Technology 11:33 - Where AI and Crypto Intersect 14:26 - Using AI as a Productivity Tool 18:37 - The Next Opportunities in Crypto 21:21 - Building at the Intersection of Skills and Value 21:53 - The Future of Traditional and On-Chain Finance Watch below or on X:
Talking Tokens Podcast414,257 views • 1 month ago
Today’s episode with Paul Frambot 🦋, cofounder and CEO of Morpho 🦋, dives into: - What it takes to build a global, open credit network - How the arrival of real distribution changed the calculus for institutions - Why he thinks the onchain credit market will balloon from $30B to $200T TIMESTAMPS: 00:47 The Evolution of On-Chain DeFi Lending 02:15 Building Morpho: Challenges and Philosophy 04:07 Early DeFi Traction and Growth Strategies 05:59 Morpho: Positioning as an Open Credit Network 07:46 Vetting Ecosystem Builders and Developers 09:47 Robinhood Earn Partnership & Mainstream Adoption 15:07 Institutional vs. Retail Strategies 16:40 The Apollo Asset Management Partnership 17:35 How Institutions Evaluate DeFi Risks 19:48 Navigating SEC Regulation and Compliance 27:02 Security Strategies: Addressing Lazarus Group Threats 31:56 Morpho’s Future Roadmap & 5-Year Vision 37:01 Core Principles for Thriving in the Crypto Industry Watch below or on X:
Talking Tokens Podcast11,150 views • 10 days ago
Today's Solana Sessions is with Ben Reynolds, SVP and head of Big Business Banking at SoFi While at Solana Events Accelerate, we discuss launch of SoFiUSD on Solana, why stablecoin liquidity is less mature than people think, and SoFi's vision to become the stablecoin liquidity hub. Links below
Talking Tokens Podcast17,099 views • 3 months ago
Today's pod is with Morgan Krupetsky, VP of Onchain Finance at Ava Labs 🔺 breaks down where institutional adoption of Avalanche🔺 actually stands right now. We discuss the embedded finance stack she's seeing resonate across global markets, why private credit and asset-backed finance are better suited for blockchain rails than equities, and how stablecoins, tokenization and more will impact the future of finance. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - The Shift in Institutional Crypto Adoption 10:08 - Understanding Institutional Strategies 20:22 - Tokenization and Its Impact on Financial Markets 30:07 - Stablecoins: The Gateway to OnChain Finance 40:54 - Future Innovations in OnChain Finance Watch below or on X:
Talking Tokens Podcast13,659 views • 2 months ago
NEW Solana Sessions dives into Harmonic’s plan to bring Nasdaq onchain Its cofounder Ben ⌛ explains how it’s creating an open, competitive marketplace on Solana with plans to scale to 1M TPS Timestamps 00:00 – Intro: Solana’s progress & how Temporal fits in 01:03 – Creating an “onchain Nasdaq” for Solana 02:15 – Ben’s background: from math & CS student to interning at Citadel 03:19 – What drew him from traditional finance to crypto 04:11 – First impressions of Solana’s speed and performance 05:25 – Why Ben left HFT firms to build in decentralized finance 06:20 – Problems with centralized markets and the appeal of DeFi transparency 07:04 – How Solana achieved real efficiency and low fees 08:50 – Understanding more about Harmonic 10:15 – Why sequencing and inclusion latency matter for DeFi apps 11:35 – Standardizing Solana’s transaction rules with ACE (Application Controlled Execution) 13:13 – Why open sequencing helps apps like DEXs and liquidators 14:04 – Bringing predictability and competition to Solana’s block production 15:32 – How multiple builders competing improves network throughput 16:51 – The goal: Solana reaching 10 to 100x throughput with stability 18:06 – Long-term potential can be 1 million TPS and sustainable decentralization 19:22 – How open sequencing improves inclusion, latency and efficiency 20:57 – Building trust between validators, builders, and applications 22:13 – Preventing toxic block-building practices 23:46 – Why transparency and fairness increase validator revenue 25:04 – What “success” looks like for Solana developers and apps 26:33 – Why Solana’s user and institutional adoption is accelerating 28:10 – The role of liquidity providers and market competition 29:12 – Institutional capital, DeFi adoption & network maturity 31:04 – Advice from Ben: ignore short-term noise, keep building 32:33 – Closing thoughts & future of open blockchain design Watch on X:
Talking Tokens Podcast23,219 views • 9 months ago
Today's pod is with , the new head of institutional growth at We talk about institutional adoption, how liquid staking tokens provide capital efficiency, why crypto companies will take territory from banks, and the industry’s branding problem that still persists. Links below
Talking Tokens Podcast11,742 views • 3 months ago
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