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At the Crypto Coin Show, we interview investors, startups, and leading minds in the blockchain industries. Our team has been involved in blockchain since the early days of Ethereum in 2013, following the markets from the 2014 to 2021 Bull Runs and future ones! Our founder and CEO, Ashton Addison, is a thought leader in the industry, with over 1200 interviews including John McAfee, Roger Ver, Charles Hoskinson, and more. He is also a public speaker who has spoken in 10 countries on everything in Web3. We publish new videos multiple times per week. Follow us on Twitter, LBRY, Minds.com, and SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER for the best of it all: https://bit.ly/100CCS We syndicate our content to financial publications, such as Reuters Insider financial network, Investment Pitch, and Fintech News Network. For inquires, contact ashton@cryptocoinshow.com. Join us on our journey to explore the world of blockchain and cryptocurrency and learn how to succeed in this rapidly evolving industry.

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August 18, 202631 min

AI agents are acting autonomously with no audit trail. XYO built the accountability layer — Markus Levin, Co-Founder

AI agents are already making financial decisions, coordinating logistics, and acting autonomously on behalf of users — but there is no reliable record of what they did, why they did it, or whether the data they acted on was real. DATA PROVENANCE is the missing accountability layer, and XYO has been building it since before the industry knew it needed it. Markus Levin, Co-Founder of XYO, joins Ashton Addison on Blockchain Interviews for his second appearance on the show. Markus breaks down what 90 days of real adoption looks like since Data Lakes launched at xyo.network/data-lakes , how the XYO AI SDK lets developers add cryptographic proof to agent decisions in days not months, and why the "proof of work for robots" vision — where machines prove they did what they said they did before they get paid — is closer to shipping than most of the industry realizes. From why XYO Layer One is the first blockchain built specifically for data and not financial transactions, to how machine-to-machine payments only work when the data underneath them is verifiable, to what real AI agent adoption looks like in logistics, DePIN, and autonomous systems — this is the accountability infrastructure conversation the AI industry can no longer avoid. 🔗 https://xyo.network 🐦 https://x.com/OfficialXYO 🔔JOIN OUR FREE NEWSLETTER FOR 100X GAINS🔔: https://cryptocoinshow.substack.com/subscribe

August 12, 202638 min

Most crypto founders pick the wrong jurisdiction. Dave Rodman on BVI, Cayman, and Panama

Most crypto companies structure themselves in the wrong jurisdiction — or no jurisdiction at all — and find out what that means when it's too late to fix it. Dave Rodman, Founder and Managing Partner of The Rodman Law Group, breaks down the three offshore structures he recommends to crypto founders: the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, and Panama. He explains how each one works, what the tradeoffs are, how the regulatory environment has shifted under the new administration, and what the Clarity Act actually does and doesn't fix. Rodman also covers AI agent liability, token launch landmines, IP risk in Web3, and what moving fast while staying compliant looks like in practice. The Rodman Law Group handles incorporation and full setup in all three jurisdictions. 🔗 https://www.rodman.law 🔔JOIN OUR FREE NEWSLETTER FOR 100X GAINS🔔: https://cryptocoinshow.substack.com/subscribe

August 2, 202631 min

Tokenized assets are a $16 trillion opportunity — and most crypto projects are missing the token economics entirely. Abdul Rafay Gadit, Co-F

Most RWA projects tokenize the asset and forget the token. ZIGChain is building the full stack: regulated onchain infrastructure for institutional-grade real-world assets, with $ZIG's value tied directly to platform revenue through a discretionary buyback program — not a separate speculative layer bolted on top. REVENUE-BACKED TOKENOMICS built on a purpose-built Layer 1 is what separates ZIGChain from the noise in an increasingly crowded RWA market. Abdul Rafay Gadit, Co-Founder of ZIGChain, joins Ashton Addison on Blockchain Interviews. ZIGChain is the next evolution of Zignaly — a platform with 600,000 registered users and $10 billion in trading volume — rebuilt as a Cosmos SDK Layer 1 with EVM compatibility, purpose-built for regulated, institutional-grade investment onchain. Rafay breaks down the $5 billion RWA pipeline including partnerships with Apex Group ($3.4T AUM) and Ellington, the Beehive integration tokenizing UAE SME private credit loans, and the ADI Chain partnership unlocking receivables financing and PayFi infrastructure. He explains why the Shariah compliance certification opens a $5+ trillion Islamic finance market that most crypto projects have never touched, how ZIG 2.0's governance-gated buyback program is structurally different from the fixed-revenue buyback models that broke down in 2026, and what it actually takes to move capital across MiCA, FINMA, MAS, and US regulatory frameworks simultaneously. 🔗 https://zigchain.com 📺 Refinitiv TV: https://lseg.group/4x7G5Cd 🔔JOIN OUR FREE NEWSLETTER FOR 100X GAINS🔔: https://cryptocoinshow.substack.com/subscribe

July 29, 202630 min

Crypto prop trading is broken Propr built the onchain alternative. Louis Régis, Founder

Crypto prop trading is a broken model: most firms quietly change the rules the moment a trader starts winning. TRANSPARENT ONCHAIN CRYPTO PROP TRADING is what Propr is building — and two months in, they have $1M in revenue, 5,000+ active traders, and 300+ AI agents already trading with funded capital. Louis Régis, Founder of Propr, joins Ashton Addison on Blockchain Interviews. Louis is a former Credit Suisse quant who ran the crypto desk at Rothschild & Co and now codes Propr live on Twitch daily. He breaks down how every challenge, rule, and payout on Propr is settled onchain and publicly verifiable — no black boxes, no hidden consistency rules, no scaling tiers. Louis explains why Hyperliquid was the only infrastructure that could make crypto prop trading on Hyperliquid work at this level, how the 80% profit split was designed, why AI agents are already a serious trader category on the platform, and what it means that Propr is expanding to Polymarket — becoming the first platform to bring funded capital to crypto prop trading on prediction markets. 🔗 https://www.propr.xyz 🐦 https://x.com/louisregis 🔔JOIN OUR FREE NEWSLETTER FOR 100X GAINS🔔: https://cryptocoinshow.substack.com/subscribe

July 21, 202637 min

Self-custody crypto just got stock trading, perps, and prediction markets — and your keys never left your wallet. Shehram Khattak

Most crypto wallets are still just storage. Trust Wallet just added tokenized US stocks, perpetual futures, and prediction markets — all non-custodial, all on mobile. SELF-CUSTODIAL TRADING is no longer a contradiction, and Trust Wallet's General Counsel breaks down exactly what changed. Shehram Khattak, General Counsel at Trust Wallet, joins Ashton Addison on Blockchain Interviews. Trust Wallet has surpassed 220 million downloads across 100+ blockchains, hit $1 billion in perp volume within 40 days of launching on Hyperliquid, and became the #2 builder by volume on the network in its first weeks. Shehram explains how Trust Wallet integrated Hyperliquid's HIP-4 prediction markets as the first major wallet to do so, what bStocks means for someone who wants to trade tokenized NVDA, TSLA, and SPCXB 24/7 with dividends handled automatically onchain, and why the Trust Wallet Agent Kit — which lets AI agents execute trades on a user's behalf — is the next frontier for self-custody. You'll learn: How Trust Wallet hit $1B in perp volume in 40 days and became #2 by volume on Hyperliquid — what's actually driving demand for self-custodial leverage trading on mobile What bStocks are and what it means to trade tokenized US equities like NVDA and TSLA 24/7 with dividends and splits handled automatically onchain — versus just holding the stock in a brokerage How HIP-4 prediction markets work and why Trust Wallet was first to integrate them — including how the team thinks about availability across different global jurisdictions 🔗 https://trustwallet.com 🐦 https://x.com/TrustWallet 🔔JOIN OUR FREE NEWSLETTER FOR 100X GAINS🔔: https://cryptocoinshow.substack.com/subscribe

July 20, 202626 min

AI data is centralized and expensive — Perceptron built the decentralized mesh that cuts costs by 92%. Peter Anthony, Co-Founder

Most AI training data flows through centralized providers like Scale AI and Appen — expensive, slow, and controlled by a handful of platforms. DECENTRALIZED DATA INFRASTRUCTURE is what Perceptron is building, and it's already serving 700,000+ nodes and generating real revenue.n Peter Anthony, Co-Founder of Perceptron Network, breaks down how a mesh of user-run nodes delivers AI training data at 92% lower cost than legacy providers, why the Data Questing Platform is the next frontier for distributed micro-tasking, and how the $10M AI Data Fund is accelerating teams with free data access. Perceptron has 700K+ nodes, 300K daily active users, and live client contracts — and they're about to launch the infrastructure that turns the community into the AI economy's labeling backbone. The decentralized data mesh works because you cut out the middleman; the Data Questing Platform does distributed precision labeling with incentive alignment that Scale AI and Mechanical Turk can't; and the $10M AI Data Fund matters because teams get access with no pre-funding, reshaping how AI training data is sourced. 🔗 https://perceptrons.xyzn 🐦 https://twitter.com/PerceptronLabsn 🔔JOIN OUR FREE NEWSLETTER FOR 100X GAINS🔔: https://cryptocoinshow.substack.com/subscribe

July 19, 202628 min

Africa is processing crypto at 52% growth year-over-year — and the continent's largest exchange just got an OTC derivatives licence. Farzam

Africa's crypto adoption is accelerating faster than almost any region on earth, but the infrastructure to serve 1.7 billion people across 54 countries, multiple currencies, and remittance costs averaging 7 to 8% is still being built. SELF-CUSTODY CRYPTO EXCHANGE INFRASTRUCTURE is what VALR is building at continental scale — and a new FSCA OTC Derivatives Provider licence just expanded what it can offer. Farzam Ehsani, Co-Founder and CEO of VALR, joins Ashton Addison on Blockchain Interviews. VALR is Africa's largest crypto exchange by trade volume, backed by Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, and Fidelity's F-Prime Capital, serving over 1.7 million registered users and 1,800 corporate clients. Farzam previously served as Blockchain Lead at Rand Merchant Bank and the FirstRand Group and was the inaugural Chairperson of the South African Financial Blockchain Consortium — making him one of the most credentialed voices on African crypto regulation alive. He breaks down what South Africa's draft capital flow management regulations actually say and why they represent an opportunity more than a threat, how the Onafriq integration gives users across the continent access to mobile money in local currencies, and what a VALR partnership with the DHL Stormers and helicopter campaigns flying "Crypto For Everyone" banners says about where mainstream crypto adoption is heading on the continent. 🔗 https://www.valr.com 🐦 https://x.com/VALRcom 🔔JOIN OUR FREE NEWSLETTER FOR 100X GAINS🔔: https://cryptocoinshow.substack.com/subscribe

July 18, 202625 min

Most Bitcoin holders sell when they need cash. Arch Lending built the loan that lets them keep both

Selling Bitcoin to access liquidity means a taxable event, losing your position, and missing whatever comes next. CRYPTO-BACKED LENDING is the alternative — and Arch Lending lets borrowers use Bitcoin and digital assets as collateral to access cash without ever selling their holdings. Himanshu, CTO of Arch Lending, joins Ashton Addison on Blockchain Interviews to break down how crypto-backed loans actually work, how Arch protects borrower collateral when Bitcoin prices move sharply, and what a margin call looks like in practice. One of Arch's clients — Tyler Martin, a business owner and former sailing captain — used a Bitcoin-backed loan to buy a blue-water yacht and now sails the Caribbean with his wife while running his business remotely. He kept his Bitcoin. He got the cash. Himanshu explains the mechanics, the risk model, and who these loans are actually built for — from high-net-worth holders to everyday crypto investors who have accumulated and don't want to sell. 🔗 https://archlending.com 🔔JOIN OUR FREE NEWSLETTER FOR 100X GAINS🔔: https://cryptocoinshow.substack.com/subscribe

July 5, 202635 min

Bitcoin payment layer just got real — GoBTC Pay is non-custodial, instant, and open to merchants today. Mark Zalan, CEO of GoMiningn

Bitcoin has been promised as a payment layer for 15 years, but merchants still don't use it. Transaction finality, custody concerns, and merchant UX have kept Bitcoin commerce stuck in theory. NON-CUSTODIAL BITCOIN PAYMENTS are now live, and GoMining's GoBTC Pay is bringing debit-card UX to actual Bitcoin settlement.n Mark Zalan, CEO of GoMining, launches the GoBTC Pay Gen1 SDK and API — opening Bitcoin payments to merchants, wallets, and ecosystem partners across his top-10 mining operation serving 5 million users. Mark walks through how GoBTC Pay settles directly on Bitcoin with users keeping control of their private keys, why a 0.2% fee split between wallets and miners aligns everyone's incentives, and how the 15 EH/s private mempool powered by Stratum V2 gives merchants the reliability Bitcoin payment layers have promised but never delivered. From tokenized hashrate making mining accessible to retail, to payments bringing Bitcoin into everyday commerce, this is what a fully integrated Bitcoin ecosystem looks like.n You'll learn: - How GoBTC Pay achieves non-custodial Bitcoin settlement with merchant-friendly UX — and why previous attempts at Bitcoin commerce never broke throughn - Why a 0.2% fee with splits between wallet providers and miners is the incentive structure that makes Bitcoin payments actually work at scalen - How GoMining's 15 EH/s mempool and Stratum V2 infrastructure guarantee transaction priority and reliability — what that means for merchants adopting GoBTC Payn 🔗 https://gomining.comn 🐦 https://x.com/GoMiningn 🔔JOIN OUR FREE NEWSLETTER FOR 100X GAINS🔔: https://cryptocoinshow.substack.com/subscribe

July 4, 202622 min

Most sleep trackers give your data to the platform. Sleepagotchi built the economy that pays you for it instead — Kenny Wood, CEO

Sleep data is collected by Oura, Whoop, and Apple Watch every night — but the value flows to the platforms, not the user. GAMIFIED SLEEP DATA is the model Sleepagotchi is building, and it just evolved from a Sleep-to-Earn app into what the team calls "The Intelligence Layer for the Wellness Economy." Kenny Wood, CEO of Sleepagotchi, joins Ashton Addison on Blockchain Interviews. Kenny brings over two decades in AAA game development — including chart-topping franchises like Transformers, Bionicle, and Formula 1 — into a platform that turns sleep into permissioned data value, NFTs, and $SLEEP tokens. We cover how wearables including Whoop, Oura, and Apple Watch feed real-time biometric pipelines into chained AI agents, how the Telegram LITE mini-app hit 2 million users without any sleep tracking at all, and what $6.5M raised and over $100K in three-week beta revenue says about whether this is a health product or a rewards product. You'll learn: How Sleepagotchi turns a night of sleep into an NFT or $SLEEP — what's actually being measured and what the gamification mechanics do that a free sleep app doesn't What "The Intelligence Layer for the Wellness Economy" means in the product: which AI agents are live today — starting with the AI Sleep Coach — and what's still on the roadmap Why permissioned data value is the model that makes this work — what a user can actually do with their biometric data on Sleepagotchi that they can't do on Oura or Whoop 🔗 https://www.sleepagotchi.com/ 🔔JOIN OUR FREE NEWSLETTER FOR 100X GAINS🔔: https://cryptocoinshow.substack.com/subscribe