On this episode, we talked about how traditional finance and crypto are starting to merge, and why institutional adoption is less about hype and more about market plumbing, settlement, risk, and compliance.

We covered what crypto-native builders often misunderstand about institutional capital, and what traditional institutions still get wrong about blockchain. From there, we broke down the idea of using a public company to support a network strategy, and how a digital asset treasury approach can be positioned as more than just “holding crypto on the balance sheet.”

We also explained the Canton Network at a high level, what problem it’s trying to solve for institutions, and why “institutional-grade” really comes down to privacy plus compliance, not just throughput or branding. A key theme was that privacy is a requirement for real adoption, and the goal is enabling institutions to move assets on shared rails without exposing sensitive information while still meeting regulatory requirements.

Finally, we zoomed out into tokenization and market structure, including why tokenization matters once it’s in production, why treasury tokenization is a major milestone, what still blocks institutions from going fully on-chain, and what signals people should watch for that show institutions are truly committing to on-chain markets over the next few years.

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In today’s episode, we dive deep into one of the most overlooked — yet potentially largest — sectors in all of crypto: market data. Every trade, every protocol, every derivative, every liquidation, every automated decision in DeFi depends on one thing: prices. And the race to deliver those prices with institutional accuracy and sub-second latency is shaping up to be a $100B battle for the future of finance.

Our guest today, Michael James, leads Institutional BD at Pyth Network, one of the fastest-growing real-time oracle networks in the world. With a background spanning Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and electronic trading infrastructure, Michael brings a rare insider view of how Wall Street thinks about data — and why crypto is now demanding the same grade of precision.

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On this episode, we sat down with Driss the CEO and co-founder from YO to talk about how they are building automated yield in DeFi. YO is focused on making yield generation simpler for users by intelligently allocating capital across strategies, while keeping risk management and transparency front and center.

We discussed YO’s vision, how they think about automation versus risk, what separates them from traditional yield aggregators, and how they see the future of DeFi yield evolving as the space matures.

A great conversation for anyone interested in the next phase of automated DeFi.

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