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#518: Chris Yin, CEO of Plume Network, on Optimizing Looping, RWAs, Onchain Asset Management, and Nest vaults on Solana

Chris Yin is CEO/Co-Founder of Plume Network, the first permissionless, full-stack blockchain built for real-world asset finance (RWAfi). He spearheads the team shaping the infrastructure and policy standards to accelerate the development of onchain capital markets. Chris has an accomplished track record as a founder and investor in the enterprise software space, with tenures at Scale Venture Partners, Rainforest QA, and Xpenser (acquired by Coupa, IPO 2016).  In this conversation, we discuss: - Current price action is just short term pain  - What to expect from RWAs in 2026  - DeFi opportunities in RWAs  - Plume's differentiator  - Regulatory developments in RWAs  - Optimizing Looping  - Onchain asset management  - This history of technology  - Nest vaults on Solana  - Building Key TradFi partnerships  - User experience is everything  Plume Network X: @plumenetwork [https://x.com/plumenetwork] Website: www.plume.org [https://plume.org/] Telegram: t.me/plumenetwork_community [https://t.me/plumenetwork_community] Chris Yin X: @chriseyin [https://x.com/chriseyin?lang=en] LinkedIn: Chris Yin [https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisyin/] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT [https://primexbt.com/]offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance.  Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.    PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast.  After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.   Code: CRYPTONEWS50   This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:   PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50 [https://primexbt.com/id/sign-up?click_id=605bf29098cccc0001c33d53&pid=396&offer_id=12&sub1=&sub2=&sub3=&sub4=&sub5=&sub6=&sub7=&sub8=] Follow Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/cryptonews-podacst/id1559291408] Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/6FXQYmW6kFqGcOWfLz7Mox] Amazon Music [https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9cf743bf-2ee0-4f6a-8b5b-c6733d59f1e8] RSS Feed [https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1735660.rss]See All [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1735660/follow]

#517: Kirill Avery, CEO of Alien, on Decentralized Identity Networks, Continuous Human Verification Protocol (CHVP), and The Future of AI & Crypto

Kirill Avery is the Founder and CEO of Alien. Serial founder, self-taught coder since age 11, built Europe's largest consumer social app at 16 (15M users). Youngest engineer at [VK.com](http://vk.com/ [http://vk.com/]) and youngest solo founder accepted into Y Combinator. Expertise in high-load systems (100M+ users), consumer UX, and mobile viral distribution.  In this conversation, we discuss: - Privacy-first decentralized identity network  - Social graph APIs  - “Proving humanness”  - Continuous Human Verification Protocol (CHVP)  - The role of secure hardware (TEEs)  - Tradeoffs between transparency and confidentiality in identity systems  - The future of AI, Identity and Crypto  - Trust systems are needed for the future  Alien X: @alienorg [https://x.com/alienorg] Website: www.alien.org [https://alien.org/] Telegram: t.me/aliendotorg [https://t.me/aliendotorg] Kirill Avery X: @kirillzzy [https://x.com/kirillzzy?lang=en] LinkedIn: Kirill Avery [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirillzzy/] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT [https://primexbt.com/]offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance.  Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.    PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast.  After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.   Code: CRYPTONEWS50   This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:   PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50 [https://primexbt.com/id/sign-up?click_id=605bf29098cccc0001c33d53&pid=396&offer_id=12&sub1=&sub2=&sub3=&sub4=&sub5=&sub6=&sub7=&sub8=] Follow Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/cryptonews-podacst/id1559291408] Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/6FXQYmW6kFqGcOWfLz7Mox] Amazon Music [https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9cf743bf-2ee0-4f6a-8b5b-c6733d59f1e8] RSS Feed [https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1735660.rss]

#516: Xenia Soborova, Head of BD at Tramplin, on The Solana Ecosystem, Solana Staking, and Business Development in crypto

Xenia Soborova is a Web3 business development leader and Head of BD at Tramplin.io, a Solana-native premium staking app that redistributes network’s inflationary rewards among users to make staking profitable even with a small amount of SOL. Previously, she worked at the Avalanche Foundation on ecosystem growth and founder success and has also held roles across major Web3 teams, including Binance, RARI Foundation, and SQD.ai [https://l.jumpto.es/l/2c31415f2bc0b5a33ca8cdcb10d13f05c0a119fe?u=13536195]. She has co-founded BD in Web3, the largest Telegram community for Web3 founders, BDs, and growth hackers.  In this conversation, we discuss: - Working with different crypto ecosystems  - Solana is the people’s chain  - Staking innovation  - Community-oriented reward redistribution  - Solana staking  - Solana’s native economics  - Long-term DeFi engagement  - Keeping SOL Secure  - BD in crypto  - Solana staking  Tramplin.io X: @Tramplin_io [https://x.com/Tramplin_io] Website: www.tramplin.io [https://tramplin.io/] Telegram: t.me/Tramplin_io [https://t.me/Tramplin_io] Xenia Soborova X: @cryptophilienne [https://x.com/cryptophilienne] LinkedIn: Xenia Soborova [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ksenia-soborova/] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT [https://primexbt.com/]offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance.  Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.    PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast.  After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.   Code: CRYPTONEWS50   This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:   PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50 [https://primexbt.com/id/sign-up?click_id=605bf29098cccc0001c33d53&pid=396&offer_id=12&sub1=&sub2=&sub3=&sub4=&sub5=&sub6=&sub7=&sub8=] Follow Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/cryptonews-podacst/id1559291408] Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/6FXQYmW6kFqGcOWfLz7Mox] Amazon Music [https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9cf743bf-2ee0-4f6a-8b5b-c6733d59f1e8] RSS Feed [https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1735660.rss]

#515: Matt Ober, Managing Partner at Social Leverage, on Prediction Markets, Consumption-based Data Models, Stablecoins, Tokenization, Identifying Trends, and The Degenerate Economy

Matt Ober is a Managing Partner at Social Leverage, an early stage venture capital firm focused on investing in fintech and enterprise SaaS. The firm is best well know for being early investors in Robinhood, Etoro, Alpaca, & Kustomer which was acquired by Meta. Mat was most recently the Chief Data Scientist at Third Point. Prior to joining Third Point, Matt was the Head of Data Strategy at WorldQuant and part of the WorldQuant Ventures founding team focused on private investments in fintech, data, and technology companies. Matt is the founder of InitialDataOffering.com [http://initialdataoffering.com/] which is the largest community of data buyers and data vendors. Matt holds a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designation and sits on the board of governors for his alma mater, California State University Chico.  In this conversation, we discuss: - Identifying trends  - Prediction Markets allowing people to monetize their niche  - The degenerate economy & financial nihilism  - Never been a better time to build a business  - Tokenization of all assets  - Stablecoins  - Consumption-based data models  - Early-stage investing  - How wealth management technology is changing  - How AI is influencing all startups  Social Leverage X: @SocialLeverage [https://x.com/SocialLeverage] Website: www.socialleverage.com [https://www.socialleverage.com/] LinkedIn: Social Leverage [https://www.linkedin.com/company/socialleverage/] Matt Ober X: @obermattj [https://x.com/obermattj?lang=en] LinkedIn: Matt Ober [https://www.linkedin.com/in/obermattj/] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT [https://primexbt.com/]offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance.  Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.    PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast.  After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.   Code: CRYPTONEWS50   This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:   PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50 [https://primexbt.com/id/sign-up?click_id=605bf29098cccc0001c33d53&pid=396&offer_id=12&sub1=&sub2=&sub3=&sub4=&sub5=&sub6=&sub7=&sub8=] Follow Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/cryptonews-podacst/id1559291408] Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/6FXQYmW6kFqGcOWfLz7Mox] Amazon Music [https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9cf743bf-2ee0-4f6a-8b5b-c6733d59f1e8] RSS Feed [https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1735660.rss]

#514: Bhau Kotecha, Co-Founder of Paxos Labs, on Stablecoin Adoption, USDG, Omnichain Architecture, and Privacy Focused Stablecoins

Bhaumik (“Bhau”) Kotecha is the Co-Founder and Head of Paxos Labs, a startup spun out from Paxos in 2025 to empower institutions and developers with enterprise-grade infrastructure for on-chain financial products. At Paxos Labs, he leads the mission to remove the complexity of decentralized finance so partners can seamlessly embed trusted products—such as custom stablecoins, DeFi yield strategies, and tokenized assets—into their platforms. His vision blends the regulatory rigor and infrastructure expertise of Paxos with the agility and innovation of Web3, making it easier for financial services and fintech firms to adopt blockchain-based solutions at scale. Before launching Paxos Labs, Kotecha built his career at the intersection of product strategy and go-to-market execution. At Paxos, he led product strategy for the Tokenization team after driving growth, analytics, and operations for the firm. He previously spent nearly six years at Block (formerly Square), where he directed go-to-market efforts for Cash App and Square. Beyond his leadership at Paxos Labs, Kotecha is an active angel investor and advisor in the fintech and Web3 ecosystem, and he has recently spoken on the importance of open, developer-friendly stablecoin infrastructure—highlighting proposals like Paxos Labs’ work on Hyperliquid’s USDH stablecoin, which prioritizes accessibility, liquidity, and sustainable token economics. In this conversation, we discuss: - Difference between Paxos and Paxos Labs  - Stablecoin adoption & liquidity  - Infrastructure for custom-branded stablecoins  - Tools for tokenized yield strategies & structured digital assets  - The economics and interoperability of stablecoins  - USDG and USDG0  - Off-platform dollar economics  - Integrating yield, stablecoins, payments directly into existing apps  - Enterprise grade security  - Privacy-preserving stablecoins  - PAXG - Paxos tokenized gold  Paxos Labs X: @paxoslabs [https://x.com/paxoslabs] Website: www.paxoslabs.com [https://paxoslabs.com/] LinkedIn: Paxos Labs [https://www.linkedin.com/company/paxos-labs/] Bhaumik (“Bhau”) Kotecha X: @bhau___ [https://x.com/bhau___] LinkedIn: Bhaumik Kotecha [https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhau-kotecha/] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT [https://primexbt.com/]offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance.  Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers.    PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast.  After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions.   Code: CRYPTONEWS50   This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below:   PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50 [https://primexbt.com/id/sign-up?click_id=605bf29098cccc0001c33d53&pid=396&offer_id=12&sub1=&sub2=&sub3=&sub4=&sub5=&sub6=&sub7=&sub8=] Follow Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/cryptonews-podacst/id1559291408] Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/6FXQYmW6kFqGcOWfLz7Mox] Amazon Music [https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9cf743bf-2ee0-4f6a-8b5b-c6733d59f1e8] RSS Feed [https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1735660.rss]