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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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June 14, 202625 min

Most exchanges take a cut on every trade before it happens. Ouinex built a different model — Ilies Larbi, CEO

Retail traders are structurally disadvantaged on every traditional order book exchange — stop hunting is real, the spread is a hidden tax, and most platforms give institutions tools that retail will never see. FAIR EXECUTION is what Ouinex is building, and it starts by removing the CLOB entirely.Ilies Larbi, CEO of Ouinex, breaks down how the exchange's Fair Execution Engine eliminates the front-running and stop hunting that bleeds retail traders dry on most platforms. Ouinex is already live and regulated across 5+ entities, has raised $9M+ from over 5,000 community investors with zero VCs, and offers 500x leverage across crypto, stocks, indices, forex, commodities, and gold — all in a single platform. With TGE set for mid-June 2026 at $0.1334 and over 50% of $OUIX tokens already staked under a 3-year cliff, Ilies explains how the $OUIX flywheel works, why every trade on every asset class generates buyback pressure on a single token, and what it means to build an exchange that was financed, built, and optimized by traders.You'll learn:- What stop hunting is, why it keeps happening on traditional order book exchanges, and how Ouinex's Fair Execution Engine structurally removes it- How the $OUIX flywheel works — why revenue from crypto, stocks, forex, commodities, and indices all feed into a single buyback mechanism- What 50%+ of tokens already staked under a 3-year cliff means for supply dynamics heading into the mid-June TGE🔗 https://ouinex.com🔔JOIN OUR FREE NEWSLETTER FOR 100X GAINS🔔: https://cryptocoinshow.substack.com/subscribe

June 13, 202625 min

AI agents are making decisions with no audit trail. XYO and Theta just built the fix — Markus Levin, Co-Founder

AI hallucinations aren't a model problem — they're a data problem. When AI systems have no way to verify what's real in the physical world, they fill the gaps with guesses. And when AI agents act on those guesses autonomously, there's no record of what happened or why. DATA PROVENANCE is the missing layer, and XYO just shipped it. Markus Levin, Co-Founder of XYO, breaks down two major announcements: Data Lakes — now live at xyo.network/data-lakes — and a partnership with Theta Network that pairs XYO's verifiable on-chain data infrastructure with Theta's decentralized media and delivery layer. Markus explains why AI hallucinations are fundamentally a data provenance problem, what the absence of an audit trail means as AI agents become financial managers, logistics coordinators, and healthcare decision-makers, and how XYO's AI SDK lets developers add cryptographic proof to agent decisions and model outputs today. From why enterprise regulators are demanding verifiable data to what the XYO x Theta partnership creates that neither network could build alone, this is the accountability infrastructure conversation that AI needs to have.You'll learn:Why AI hallucinations are a data provenance problem — and how XYO's verified physical-world data layer addresses it at the sourceWhat XYO Data Lakes unlocks for enterprises that need auditable, tamper-proof records of real-world operations and AI agent decisionsHow the XYO x Theta partnership combines verifiable data infrastructure with decentralized media delivery — and what that creates for developers building AI applications🔗 https://xyo.network 🐦 https://x.com/OfficialXYO

June 12, 202625 min

The internet can't tell humans from AI agents at scale — and World Foundation's DC Builder - Crypto Coin Show

The internet is filling up with bots, and nobody has built a reliable way to tell the difference between a human and an AI agent at scale. PROOF OF HUMANITY is what World is building — and its full-stack upgrade just became the identity layer for AI agent commerce. DC Builder, Research Engineer at the World Foundation, joins Ashton Addison on Blockchain Interviews to break down what changed in World ID's full-stack proof of human upgrade, how the AgentKit launch with Coinbase puts verified human identity at the core of AI agent transactions, and whether proof-of-humanity is possible without putting an iris scan at the center of it.You'll learn:What the full-stack proof of human upgrade actually changed in World ID — and why it matters specifically because of AI agents, not just bots- How AgentKit uses zero-knowledge proofs to link AI agents to a verified human without exposing any personal data- What the Orb controversy gets wrong — and whether there is a credible path to proof-of-humanity that does not require a biometric scan🔗 https://world.org🐦 https://x.com/dcbuilder 📺 Refinitiv TV: https://lseg.group/4vhetd1🔔JOIN OUR FREE NEWSLETTER FOR 100X GAINS🔔: https://cryptocoinshow.substack.com/subscribe

June 2, 202624 min

Private credit is a 1.7 trillion market — and it's broken. Cap's founder on how to fix it onchain - Crypto Coin Show

Private credit has a trust problem. Borrowers, lenders, and underwriters operate in silos, incentives are misaligned, and most of the $1.7 trillion sitting in TradFi private credit markets is inaccessible to anyone outside institutional finance. ONCHAIN CREDIT changes that — and Cap is building the infrastructure to make it work.Benjamin Sarquis Peillard, Founder and CEO of Cap, joins Ashton Addison to break down how Cap brings private credit markets onchain with principal protection backed by Franklin Templeton. Benjamin previously scaled QiDAO from $0 to $400M in TVL and started his career in investment banking at Citi — a rare combination of TradFi credibility and DeFi execution. We cover how Cap's three-party model aligns borrowers, lenders, and underwriters in a way neither TradFi nor DeFi lending has managed, why this is structurally different from Celsius and the platforms that collapsed, and what happens at the protocol level when a borrower defaults.You'll learn:- How Cap's borrower-lender-underwriter model works and why principal protection changes the risk equation for lenders- Why Celsius, BlockFi, and Voyager collapsed — and the specific structural differences that make Cap's approach fundamentally different- What it took to bring Franklin Templeton in as the principal protection backer, and what that signals about institutional DeFi in 2026- How onchain credit can sit alongside traditional fixed income at institutional scale — and what has to be true for that to happen🔗 https://www.cap.app🐦 https://x.com/CapApp🔔JOIN OUR FREE NEWSLETTER FOR 100X GAINS🔔: https://cryptocoinshow.substack.com/subscribe

June 1, 202622 min

Bitcoin DeFi is already here. Samuel Pat (OP_NET) explains at Consensus 2026 Miami - Crypto Coin Show

Bitcoin has $1 trillion in market cap sitting idle. The infrastructure to put it to work — natively, without bridges or wrapped tokens — has been the missing piece. OP_NET is building it. Samuel Pat, founder of OP_NET, breaks down how his team is bringing genuine DeFi utility to Bitcoin: a native DEX called Motoswap for peer-to-peer swaps and liquidity, a Bitcoin wallet built for the DeFi era, and an ecosystem being assembled on the world's most trusted chain. We dig into the velocity of money on Bitcoin — why BTC that can move through DeFi protocols creates compounding value versus BTC that just sits — and what it actually takes to build financial infrastructure on a chain that wasn't designed for it.🔔JOIN OUR FREE NEWSLETTER FOR 100X GAINS🔔: https://cryptocoinshow.substack.com/subscribe

May 31, 202612 min

AI in YOUR crypto wallet. Adam Cai of Virgo Group on AI agents and Wallet V Consensus Miami 2026 - Crypto Coin Show

Most people manage their own crypto portfolio the same way they always have — manually, reactively, and without the tools that institutional investors take for granted. Wallet V changes that. Adam Cai from Virgo Group sits down with us live at Consensus Miami 2026 to break down Wallet V and the AI agents being built into it to act as autonomous financial portfolio managers for everyday users. We explore what it actually means for an AI agent to manage a portfolio — making decisions, allocating assets, executing strategies — without the user needing to intervene. Adam explains how this levels the playing field between retail and institutional crypto investors, and why the convergence of AI and Web3 wallets is the most practical application of agent technology happening in crypto right now.🔗 https://Virgo.co🔔JOIN OUR FREE NEWSLETTER FOR 100X GAINS🔔: https://cryptocoinshow.substack.com/subscribe

May 30, 202613 min

Ethereum and Solana weren't built for AI. 0G Labs co-founder explains WHY - Crypto Coin Show

Centralized AI infrastructure gives a handful of companies control over the data, compute, and models that everyone else depends on — and most builders have no way to verify what's actually happening under the hood. DECENTRALIZED AI is the alternative, and 0G Labs is building the infrastructure layer to make it real. Michael Heinrich, Co-Founder of 0G Labs, joins us live at Consensus Miami 2026 to break down why AI needs its own blockchain, what the Apollo launchpad is unlocking for AI-native projects, and how 0G's open-source infrastructure gives developers, agents, and communities real ownership over data and compute. From why existing chains like Ethereum and Solana fall short for AI workloads to what verifiable, trustless AI execution actually looks like in practice, this is a clear-eyed look at where decentralized AI infrastructure is headed.You'll learn: Why AI workloads expose the limits of general-purpose blockchains and what 0G was built to fix How the Apollo launchpad works and what kinds of projects are being accelerated on the 0G network What open-source AI infrastructure means for developers who want to build without depending on centralized providers Why decentralized compute and data ownership are the two things that actually determine whether AI stays open🔗 https://0g.ai🐦 https://x.com/0G_labs🔔JOIN OUR FREE NEWSLETTER FOR 100X GAINS🔔: https://cryptocoinshow.substack.com/subscribe

May 29, 202619 min

1.27 TRILLION queries and The Graph is just getting started. Nick Hansen at Consensus 2026 - Crypto Coin Show

The Graph has processed 1.27 trillion queries and most builders still treat it as a subgraph indexer. After the Horizon upgrade, that's not what it is anymore. Nick Hansen, Team Lead at The Graph Foundation, joins us live from Consensus Miami 2026 to break down what The Graph has become: a modular, multi-service data backbone targeting the $47 billion agentic AI economy. The December 2025 Horizon upgrade didn't just improve the protocol — it transformed it. Six new data services are now live or in deployment: Subgraphs, Substreams, Token API, Tycho for DeFi solvers, Amp for institutions, and JSON-RPC. We get into how AI agents will query The Graph and pay per-query with no API keys, why record usage hasn't translated to GRT price performance, and what the missing ingredient is to kick the economic flywheel into gear.🔗 https://thegraph.com🔔JOIN OUR FREE NEWSLETTER FOR 100X GAINS🔔: https://cryptocoinshow.substack.com/subscribe

May 28, 202616 min

The AI That Audits Smart Contracts CertiK's Hudson Jameson on Securing 600B Consensus Miami 2026 - Crypto Coin Show

Hudson Jameson, blockchain security veteran, former Ethereum Foundation core dev liaison, SEAL Org member, and CertiK Security Advisor — sits down with us live at Consensus Miami 2026. CertiK controls over 65% of global blockchain auditing, has secured $600B+ in digital assets, uncovered 180,000+ vulnerabilities, and in April 2026 publicly launched its AI Auditor with an 88.6% hit rate across 35 real-world Web3 incidents. Hudson brings a rare perspective that spans Ethereum's earliest governance battles, Flashbots, Polygon, and now the front lines of AI-powered security. We dig into what AI can and can't catch, why cross-chain bridges remain the hardest attack surface to secure, how Skynet monitors threats in real time when both attacker and defender are AI systems, and what the industry still refuses to take seriously enough. This is the most honest conversation in Web3 security happening at Consensus this year.🔔JOIN OUR FREE NEWSLETTER FOR 100X GAINS🔔: https://cryptocoinshow.substack.com/subscribe

May 27, 202620 min

Fixing Crypto Discovery David Track of SOSANA on Accountability Consensus 2026 - Crypto Coin Show

In this episode of Blockchain Interviews, Ashton Addison sits down with David Track, Founder of SOSANA — a Solana-based enforcement layer built to solve one of crypto's most persistent problems: discovery. With thousands of new tokens launching every week and retail investors drowning in noise, SOSANA is building a gated, verifiable community model that replaces trust-based systems with automated, transparent execution. David breaks down how the platform's community-driven voting reward system works, why enforced rules — not suggestions — are the only way to protect users, and how the bi-weekly "Safe from SOSANA" list is turning chaotic community sentiment into structured, accountable signal. A timely conversation for anyone trying to navigate the crowded crypto landscape.🔔JOIN OUR FREE NEWSLETTER FOR 100X GAINS🔔: https://cryptocoinshow.substack.com/subscribe