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🎙️ Ep. 754 Uphold | Digital Asset Services, XDC Staking and AI Trends (feat. Marcos Santillana)

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For episode 754 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Marcos Santillana, VP of Digital Asset Services, Institutional at Uphold.

Marcos Santillana is VP of Digital Asset Services at Uphold, a crypto platform licensed across the US, UK and EU. He works directly with crypto foundations and protocol teams on listing, treasury management and wider ecosystem partnerships. With deep exposure to hundreds of blockchain projects assessed through a regulatory, commercial and technical lens, Marcos brings rare cross-jurisdictional fluency across US and UK frameworks.

Layer-1 and Layer-2 protocols and crypto foundations can get in touch with Marcos to discuss the full range of services Uphold offers.

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⏳ Timestamps:

(4:40) What is Uphold Institutional?
(6:54) Client types
(7:26) Uphold launches XDC staking offering
(8:29) Why is this an important milestone?
(9:51) Uphold’s Digital Asset Services Unit
(11:26) Identifying breakout projects
(14:12) Trending projects or narratives
(15:20) AI trends in Web3
(17:26) Where are we in the digital asset adoption cycle?
(18:45) What regulation is important to watch?
(19:54) Uphold Institutional roadmap
(21:08) Conferences & events
(22:10) Uphold website and socials

#BlockHashPodcast #uphold #staking #digitalassets #ai #web3 #podcast @UpholdInc

[CoinMarketCap @CoinMarketCap]

LATEST: 🏦 Sberbank, Russia's largest bank, says it's the first in the country approved by the Bank of Russia to custody Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

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JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Banking giant Wells Fargo in talks with Kraken's parent company to provide crypto trading liquidity.

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Ep. 781 Veldris | Launch of Veldris & Midgard (feat. JB Benjamin)

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For episode 781 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by @jbwb2020, CEO of @veldris_io, to explore the company and its Midgard platform. Midgard is an open-source AI and data platform designed to help organizations run AI on their own infrastructure while retaining control of their data, models, and encryption keys. With local AI, post-quantum encryption, and support for fully offline operation, Veldris is building tools for organizations that prioritize privacy, transparency, and independence.

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⏳ Timestamps:

(8:45) Veldris launch
(10:46) What is Midgard?
(11:45) Cybersecurity landscape in 2026
(18:56) Consumer and business use-cases
(20:50) Privacy tech industry boom
(30:46) Convenience vs Privacy/Data ownership
(32:55) AI human profiling
(37:18) Is Gen X and Millennials doomed?
(43:00) Veldris website and socials

#BlockHashPodcast #veldris #midgard #privacy #data #ai #agenticai #podcast

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 CFTC says it's creating new rules to protect crypto investors from fraud and abuse.

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🎙️ Ep. 780 Beldex | Privacy in the Age of AI (feat. Cris Blanco)

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For episode 780 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Cris Blanco, Chief Strategy Officer for @BeldexCoin, a privacy-first Layer-1 ecosystem that just crossed 1.5 million cumulative installs across its app suite.

Rather than shipping isolated privacy tools, Beldex runs a unified stack: encrypted messaging, a decentralized VPN, a private browser, a name service, and a wallet, all secured by 3,014 masternodes with 30M+ BDX staked.

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⏳ Timestamps:

(5:05) What is Beldex?
(7:22) 1.5M installs and growth
(9:40) Are consumers becoming more conscious of digital privacy?
(11:40) Beldex ecosystem
(16:24) Convenience vs. Privacy
(20:20) Privacy in the age of AI
(24:35) Beldex roadmap
(26:18) Beldex website and socials

#BlockHashPodcast #beldex #privacy #privacytech #ai #agenticai #podcast

[CoinMarketCap @CoinMarketCap]

LATEST: ⚡️ Elon Musk says he will rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, calling SpaceX a "super intelligence company."

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 SEC approves first-ever 3x leveraged Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs.

• The SEC approved Cboe BZX to list six new Volatility Shares ETFs, including 3x Bitcoin and Ether ETFs, along with 3x gold, silver, crude oil, and natural gas ETFs.

• This is the first US approval of 3x leveraged $BTC and $ETH exchange-traded products.

• These are based on CME futures contracts, not spot Bitcoin or Ethereum holdings.

[Brandon Zemp @zempcapital]

Why should private credit move onchain?

🎥: @CapApp

#cap #privatecredit #onchain #crypto #podcast

[THE BLOCKHASH PODCAST @BlockHashPod]

🎙️ Ep. 779 Cap | Bringing Private Credit Onchain (feat. Benjamin Sarquis Peillard)

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For episode 779 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Benjamin Sarquis Peillard, Founder and CEO of @CapApp, an onchain credit marketplace backed by financial guarantees. Throughout the episode, Brandon and Benjamin explore the evolution of stablecoins and onchain credit, how Cap connects institutional borrowers with digital asset markets, the role of underwriting and financial guarantees, and what bringing traditional private credit infrastructure onchain could mean for the future of finance.

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⏳ Timestamps:

(3:06) What is CAP?
(4:42) Why does private credit need to move onchain?
(5:43) How does CAP manage risk in private credit?
(8:19) Blurring of Defi and TradFi
(9:57) Crypto lending lessons learned
(11:50) CAP’s default mechanism
(12:50) CAP token
(13:54) Current market conditions
(15:24) What is driving CAP’s growth?
(16:24) CAP roadmap
(17:24) Events
(17:45) CAP socials

#BlockHashPodcast #cap #onchaincredit #privatecredit #web3 #podcast

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🎙️ Ep. 778 Gonka | Decentralizing the Future of AI Compute (feat. Gleb Morgachev)

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For episode 778 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Gleb Morgachev, Co-Creator of @gonka_ai, an open-source decentralized AI network designed to make high-performance AI compute more accessible and efficient.

Throughout the episode, Brandon and Gleb explore how Gonka turns computational power into useful AI work, its approach to Proof of Compute, how decentralized networks can verify AI inference, where decentralized infrastructure still competes with centralized cloud providers, and what the future could look like when access to GPU compute is coordinated by an open network rather than a single company.

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⏳ Timestamps:

(3:37) What is Gonka?
(5:52) Decentralizing AI like Bitcoin
(9:12) Solving trust issue with AI
(16:36) Contributing compute to Gonka
(17:38) Centralized AI vs Decentralized AI
(24:03) How to make Decentralized AI mainstream
(28:37) GPU server farm influence
(30:18) Gonka roadmap
(34:57) Github and Discord community

#BlockHashPodcast #gonka #AI #agenticai #decentralizedai #GPU #serverfarm #podcast

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🔥 LATEST: SpaceX plans to launch Google AI chips into orbit to advance space-based data centers.

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Congress considers expanding crypto rules to allow banks and credit unions to hold digital assets, issue stablecoins, and use blockchain.

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🎙️ Ep. 777 Moca Network | Online Digital Identity (feat. Kenneth Shek)

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For episode 777 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Kenneth Shek, CEO at @Moca_Network and Managing Director at Animoca Brands.

Kenneth leads the Moca Network, Animoca Brands' identity ecosystem, building decentralized identity infrastructure across a network spanning more than 500 portfolio companies and 700M+ addressable users, and can discuss AI agents and digital identity, the future of online trust, agentic commerce, and why identity will become a foundational layer of the AI-powered internet.

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⏳ Timestamps:

(6:04) What is Moca Network focused on?
(7:27) What is AIR?
(9:17) Digital identity and fixing online identity
(14:56) AIR Kit
(16:40) Do AI Agents need their own identity?
(18:42) Infrastructure needed for businesses to interact with AI Agents
(23:10) Western vs Eastern philosophy on Agentic economy
(25:03) Regulations for AI
(29:23) Roadmap for Moca and AIR

#BlockHashPodcast #mocanetwork #onlineidentity #digitalidentity #aiagents #agenticai #podcast

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

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🎙️ Ep. 776 GoMining | Expanding the Bitcoin Economy (feat. Mark Zalan)

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For episode 776 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Mark Zalan, CEO of @GoMining, an innovative global crypto platform that makes Bitcoin mining accessible and easy through unique digital miners backed by real-world data center infrastructure.

By replacing expensive hardware and complex setups with NFT-based computing power, the ecosystem allows users worldwide to earn daily Bitcoin rewards effortlessly. Today, GoMining continues to expand into a full-scale crypto super app, offering integrated wallets, payment solutions, and community-driven rewards.

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⏳ Timestamps:

(2:59) What is GoMining?
(4:23) GoMining expanding into payments
(11:30) What is GoBTC and how does it work for consumers?
(17:18) Compelling Merchants to accept Bitcoin
(24:52) What a Bitcoin-based economy looks like in the future?
(33:10) GoMining website and socials

#BlockHashPodcast #gomining #gobtc #bitcoin #payments #web3 #podcast

[Kalshi @Kalshi]

JUST IN: IBM will allow banks to move tokenized deposits 24/7

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JUST IN: 🇨🇳🇺🇸 President Xi Jinping calls for the US and China to work together on AI development.

[FV Bank @fvbankus]

What’s next for FV Bank?

In a recent conversation on the @BlockHashPod, FV Bank CEO Miles Paschini (@yolobro) joined host Brandon Zemp to explore the evolving financial infrastructure landscape and what it means for FV Bank.

From Global Managed Accounts and stablecoin invoicing to unified payments infrastructure and the future of agentic payments, Miles shares his perspective on the developments shaping the industry.

🎙️ Watch the full conversation 🔽
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[AMINA Bank @AMINABankGlobal]

The one thing institutional investors may be getting wrong about crypto? The idea that AI and crypto are negatively correlated. ➿

In the latest @BlockHashPod episode with Brandon Zemp @zempcapital, Andreja Cobeljic @chobelya, Head of Derivatives Trading at AMINA Bank, points out that Bitcoin’s strong correlation with software stocks in late 2025 and early 2026 made crypto an easy source of tech beta. As capital rotated into AI, that relationship flipped, but Andreja argues it may be a short-term correlation, not a long-term one.

Andreja also discusses market structure, derivatives, ETF flows, risk management and where he sees the next opportunities across crypto and finance.

🎙️ Watch the full conversation: https://t.co/yuvyVHr6mB

#BlockHash #DigitalAssets #CryptoMarkets #InstitutionalInvestors #Bitcoin #AI #Derivatives #Fintech #AMINA

[THE BLOCKHASH PODCAST @BlockHashPod]

🎙️ Ep. 775 AMINA | Derivatives, Bitcoin ETFs and Agentic Finance (feat. Andreja Cobeljic)

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For episode 775 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Andreja Cobeljic, Head of Derivatives Trading for @AMINABankGlobal, a Swiss-regulated digital asset bank that bridges the gap between traditional fiat banking and the Web3 ecosystem.

Headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, and licensed by FINMA, the institution rebranded from SEBA Bank to expand its global footprint across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. It provides secure custody, trading, and institutional-grade banking services tailored for corporations, private clients, and crypto-native enterprises. By merging conventional finance with digital asset management, it serves as a pioneer in regulated crypto-banking infrastructure.

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⏳ Timestamps:

(6:05) What is AMINA Bank?
(12:04) How market can balance retail and institutional
(16:46) What derivatives can tell us about market dynamics
(22:46) Balancing risk management
(26:42) Bitcoin ETF outflows
(29:35) One narrative institutional investors get wrong
(32:24) Impact of Agentic AI in finance
(33:52) AMINA roadmap and market opportunities
(36:19) Learn more about AMINA

#BlockHashPodcast #aminabank #derivatives #ETFs #bitcoin #crypto #finance #agenticai #podcast