Episodes

  • The Darwin Cycles of Crypto: What Survives and Why with Aryan Sheikhalian of CMT Digital

    The Darwin Cycles of Crypto: What Survives and Why with Aryan Sheikhalian of CMT Digital
    Aug 14 2025
    In this episode of The Smart Economy Podcast, host Dylan Grabowski is joined by Aryan Sheikhalian, Head of Research at CMT Digital, a global blockchain and Web3 proprietary trading and venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments that accelerate the adoption of blockchain technology. Together, they dive into what it really takes to build sustainable decentralized systems.
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    58 mins
  • Why Everything Will Trade 24/7: Pyth’s Mission to Bring TradFi On-Chain

    Why Everything Will Trade 24/7: Pyth’s Mission to Bring TradFi On-Chain
    Jul 31 2025
    In this episode of The Smart Economy Podcast, host Dylan Grabowski is joined by Marc Tillement, Director of the Pyth Data Association, an independent entity pursuing decentralized financial data distribution through the Pyth Network ecosystem. Together, they explore how Pyth Network aims to transform financial data distribution through its oracle network that serves over 100 blockchains.
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    55 mins
  • Crypto Security: Building Open Source Education for Blockchain

    Crypto Security: Building Open Source Education for Blockchain
    Jul 17 2025
    In this episode of The Smart Economy Podcast, host Dylan Grabowski is joined by Josh McIntyre, Chairperson of the CCE Committee at C4, a non-profit organization advancing the understanding and adoption of Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, blockchain technology, and secure private key management. Together, they explore essential blockchain security practices that both newcomers and veterans often overlook.
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    59 mins
  • Why Everything Will Be Tokenized: Spark's Path to Mainstream DeFi Adoption

    Why Everything Will Be Tokenized: Spark's Path to Mainstream DeFi Adoption
    Jul 3 2025
    In this episode of The Smart Economy Podcast, host Dylan Grabowski is joined by Sam MacPherson, CEO and co-founder of Phoenix Labs, the R&D company behind the multi-chain DeFi platform Spark. Together, they dive into how Spark Protocol is aiming to transform multi-chain liquidity management, delivering risk-adjusted yield through stablecoin solutions, and bridging the gap between DeFi and traditional finance.
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    55 mins
  • The Pseudonymous Team That Saved THORChain: Aaluxx Myth on Maya Protocol and the TCY Rescue

    The Pseudonymous Team That Saved THORChain: Aaluxx Myth on Maya Protocol and the TCY Rescue
    Jun 19 2025
    In this episode of The Smart Economy Podcast, host Dylan Grabowski is joined by Aaluxx Myth, co-founder of Maya Protocol, a decentralized liquidity solution enabling native L1-to-L1 token swaps. Together, they discuss building decentralized liquidity solutions, the creation of the TCY token following the THORFi crisis, and the importance of permissionless finance in emerging economies.
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    54 mins
  • From Wall Street to Web3: How Plaza Finance is Bringing TradFi Sophistication to DeFi

    From Wall Street to Web3: How Plaza Finance is Bringing TradFi Sophistication to DeFi
    Jun 5 2025
    In this episode of The Smart Economy Podcast, host Dylan Grabowski is joined by Ryan Galvankar, the founder of Plaza Finance, a platform built on Base that is specializing in programmable derivatives. Together, they discuss how Plaza's innovative bond and leverage products are making sophisticated financial instruments accessible on-chain.
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    55 mins
  • Scaling Stablecoins Without Banks: Inside M0’s Complexity Abstraction Machine

    Scaling Stablecoins Without Banks: Inside M0’s Complexity Abstraction Machine
    May 22 2025
    In this episode of The Smart Economy Podcast, host Dylan Grabowski is joined by Gregory Di Prisco, co-founder and Chief Architect at M0, the stablecoin infrastructure that seeks to enable developers and businesses to build and integrate programmable, interoperable, and secure digitized dollars.
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    57 mins
  • Are Stablecoins the Future of Money? Telcoin’s eUSD and becoming a Digital Bank with Paul Neuner

    Are Stablecoins the Future of Money? Telcoin’s eUSD and becoming a Digital Bank with Paul Neuner
    May 8 2025
    In this episode of The Smart Economy Podcast, host Dylan Grabowski is joined by Paul Neuner, the Founder and CEO of Telcoin, acompany leveraging blockchain technology to provide low-cost DeFi products for mobile phone users globally, to explore how their Nebraska-based digital asset bank charter is reshaping the future of payments, stablecoins, and digital banking infrastructure.
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    51 mins