Tech It or Leave It

Episode 28 – Chetan Karkhanis on institutional adoption, tokenization, and blockchain in TradFi

In this episode of Tech It or Leave It, Sebastien Marque, VP of Strategy at Luna PR, sits down with Chetan Karkhanis, Senior Vice President at Franklin Templeton. Chetan shares how institutions are moving toward blockchain driven products, from tokenized funds to new operational models. The conversation explores early adoption, common misconceptions around digital assets, and how blockchain can improve efficiency and reduce costs across financial systems. They also discuss the long term role of decentralized infrastructure in supporting institutional use cases. This episode is for builders, investors, and financial operators focused on tokenization and the evolution of financial infrastructure.

Episode 27 – Christian Rau on digital assets, stablecoins, and the future of payments

In this episode of Tech It or Leave It, Sebastien Marque, VP of Strategy at Luna PR, sits down with Christian Rau, Senior Vice President of Digital Assets at Mastercard. Christian shares how blockchain and digital assets are being integrated into traditional payment systems, improving settlement efficiency and expanding how users interact with financial products. The conversation explores the role of stablecoins, the importance of security and regulatory alignment, and how bridging digital assets with fiat systems is key to mainstream adoption. They also discuss why mass adoption will come when the technology becomes invisible to the end user. This episode is for builders, investors, and financial operators focused on payments infrastructure and the evolution of digital assets.

Episode 26 – Paul Brody on enterprise blockchain, stablecoins, and the future of payments

In this episode of Tech It or Leave It, Sebastien Marque, VP of Strategy at Luna PR, sits down with Paul Brody, Global Blockchain Leader at EY and Chairman of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. Paul shares insights into how large enterprises are approaching blockchain adoption, with stablecoins, cross border payments, and tokenized assets emerging as key use cases. The conversation explores how regulation is accelerating adoption by providing the clarity institutions need, and why policy developments are enabling broader deployment across financial systems. They also discuss the future of payments, including streaming money and the opportunity to improve efficiency across the broader economic stack. This episode is for builders, investors, and financial operators focused on enterprise adoption, stablecoins, and the evolving infrastructure of global finance.

Episode 25 – Peter Bidewell on institutional adoption, onchain privacy, and hybrid infrastructure

In this episode of Tech It or Leave It, Sebastien Marque, VP of Strategy at Luna PR, sits down with Peter Bidewell, Head of Product at Rayls. Peter breaks down the scale of the institutional opportunity, where trillions in global financial assets remain largely disconnected from blockchain infrastructure, and why adoption still represents only a fraction of what is possible. The conversation explores why early institutional approaches using private and permissioned networks failed to scale, and how hybrid infrastructure models are emerging to bridge internal systems with public blockchain networks. They also dive into the role of privacy in institutional adoption, with confidential transactions and selective disclosures for regulators, as well as how combining onchain and offchain data can unlock new forms of automation. This episode is for builders, investors, and financial operators focused on institutional adoption, onchain privacy, and the infrastructure required to bring real capital onchain.

Episode 24 – Moshe Cohen on private DeFi, AI agents, and the future of trading

In this episode of Tech It or Leave It, Hamed Faqirzai, Vice President of Global Development at Luna PR, sits down with Moshe Cohen, CEO of PriveX. Moshe breaks down the core limitation of DeFi today, where full transparency can prevent institutional participation due to the exposure of trading strategies and positions. The conversation introduces PriveX, a private perpetual decentralized exchange that uses garbled circuits, a high-performance, ZK-adjacent encryption method, to enable confidential trading without sacrificing decentralization or execution speed. They also explore the rise of agentic AI, where autonomous agents can analyze data, make decisions, and execute trades on behalf of users, shifting trading from manual execution to AI-driven systems. The discussion touches on the broader role of AI, its impact on productivity, and the long-term outlook toward AGI, including its potential to drive major breakthroughs while remaining guided by human intent. This episode is for traders, builders, and financial operators exploring the intersection of privacy, DeFi, and AI-driven markets.