
The Smart Economy Podcast: Real-World Blockchain Applications with Crypto, DeFi, NFTs, and DAOs
The Smart Economy Podcast features interviews with some of the most interesting people within the blockchain industry, working to make the new smart economy a reality.
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The Pseudonymous Team That Saved THORChain: Aaluxx Myth on Maya Protocol and the TCY Rescue
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,

From Wall Street to Web3: How Plaza Finance is Bringing TradFi Sophistication to DeFi
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
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.

Are Stablecoins the Future of Money? Telcoin’s eUSD and becoming a Digital Bank with Paul Neuner
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

Are Stablecoins Crypto's Achilles' Heel? Quai Network's Energy-Backed Alternative with Alan Orwick
In this episode of The Smart Economy Podcast, host Dylan Grabowski is joined by Alan Orwick, the CEO of Dominant Strategies, a development entity creating tooling and applications on the Quai Network. Together, they discuss the future of stablecoins, PoW innovation, and how the Quai Network is developing a new type of

Trust vs. Truth: Redesigning Digital Identity for the Decentralized Web with Ingo Ruebe
In this episode of The Smart Economy Podcast, host Dylan Grabowski is joined by Ingo Ruebe, the founder of Kilt Protocol, a decentralized digital identity solution serving enterprises, governments, and consumers, to explore the critical yet often overlooked world of decentralized digital identity.