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🎙️ Ep. 687 Certik | Web3 Threat Landscape in 2026 (feat. Yuannan Yang)

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For episode 687 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Yuannan Yang, Security Engineer at @CertiK, the largest Web3 security services provider.

CertiK offers a wide range of products and services to support the Web3 industry, project teams, and users alike. CertiK's products and services span the entire lifecycle of project development, from incubation and early stages, to growth and maturity. CertiK is one of the most globally recognized companies in the Web3 industry, serving users across 150 countries/regions.

Yuannan Yang, based in Washington, DC, US, is currently a Security Engineer at CertiK. Yuannan Yang brings experience from previous roles at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, Tsinghua University and Red Hat. Yuannan Yang holds a 2019 - 2020 Master's degree in information security @ Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering.

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⏳ Timestamps:

(3:33) What is Certik?
(4:57) New attack vectors in Crypto
(6:56) Who are bad actors targeting in Crypto?
(8:10) What new tools & solutions does Certik have?
(11:21) Certik at ETHDenver
(12:33) Certik roadmap
(15:33) Certik website & socials

#BlockHashPodcast #certik #cryptoaudits #cryptothreats #blockchainthreats #cryptosecurity #blockchainsecurity #podcast

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🎙️ Ep. 741 Conviva | Consumer-Facing AI Agents (feat. Keith Zubchevich)

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For episode 741 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Keith Zubchevich, President and CEO of
@conviva.

Keith Zubchevich is president and CEO of Conviva, where he helps digital businesses understand what their customers actually experience — not just what dashboards say is happening. He leads Conviva’s work at the intersection of agentic AI, real-time analytics, and customer experience, with a focus on measuring outcomes, friction, and risk once AI is deployed in production.

Learn how Conviva gives AI agents context at https://t.co/sM4ATpLRhb

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⏳ Timestamps:

(5:52) What is Conviva?
(8:25) Agentic AI has a context issue
(12:54) Conviva use-cases
(15:07) Industries where Agentic AI will have the biggest impact
(19:53) Agentic AI in 5 years
(24:28) Likelihood of AGI
(25:38) Conviva roadmap
(30:29) Conviva website & socials

#BlockHashPodcast #conviva #agenticai #ai #podcast

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Could the the AI economy be decoupling the U.S. from oil shocks?

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JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Trump says "with a great Jobs Report...stocks should go up, not down."

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🎙️ Ep. 740 Sleepagotchi | Sleep, Agentic & the Wellness Economy (feat. Kenny Wood)

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For episode 740 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Kenny Wood, CEO of @sleepagotchi, a next-generation AI health data platform that started with sleep and is rapidly expanding into the broader wellness economy.

The company just closed a $6.5M raise backed by Sfermion, Inception, 6th Man, and 1kx and launched its first personalised AI Sleep Coach on 19 May. Before joining Sleepagotchi, Kenny was CTO at Moonlander, a next-generation game creation studio successfully acquired by Alpha 3D. His career began in AAA games, shipping chart-topping franchises including Transformers (#1 in the UK console charts), Formula 1, and World Rally Championship.

A builder and technologist with rare breadth, spanning AAA studios, R&D labs, defence simulation, and applied AI, Kenny brings a perspective on behaviour change and AI-driven systems that most founders in the wellness space simply don't have.

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⏳ Timestamps:

(6:51) What is Sleepagotchi?
(7:51) Sleep is a foundational health metric
(8:34) How sleep data connects to your overall health
(9:51) Gamification of sleep
(13:34) Building the wellness economy with data
(17:56) Future of the wellness economy
(19:15) Sharing your data with a doctor
(20:22) Sleepagotchi roadmap

#BlockHashPodcast #sleepagotchi #sleep #wellness #ai #agentic #podcast

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the CLARITY Act could pass the Senate this summer, with the White House targeting a July 4 signing.

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🎙️ Ep. 739 nGRND | Tokenizing Unmined Gold (feat. David Lucatch)

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For episode 739 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by David Lucatch, the Chair of @nGRND_io, the Gold Protocol that converts stranded in-ground gold into liquid, reward-bearing digital assets, without extraction or environmental cost.

David brings 40+ years of global entrepreneurial experience to this moment. He was an early architect of eCommerce payment infrastructure in Canada during Web1, built an AI/ML-powered engagement platform used by over 200 million people in Web2, and has spent Web3 at the intersection of blockchain, digital identity, and real-world asset tokenisation. He's a Forbes Business Council member, Rolling Stone Culture Council member, NY Emmy-nominated Executive Producer, and part of a team that holds a Guinness World Record in the online space.

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⏳ Timestamps:

(6:13) What is nGRND?
(8:34) Tokenization process & regulators
(10:36) How much Gold is unmined?
(14:09) Does the resource sector like tokenization?
(16:28) Focusing on Gold tokenization
(18:20) Dual-yield solution
(20:05) How to own the nGRND token?
(21:34) Gamification
(25:30) Future of the Gold market & Gold as money
(28:17) nGRND website & socials
(29:05) nGRND roadmap

#BlockHashPodcast #nGRND #tokenized #gold #web3 #crypto #podcast

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NEW: Trump signs executive order directing federal agencies to develop ⁠cybersecurity standards for advanced AI models.

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🎙️ Ep. 738 EZ Blockchain | Energy Infrastructure for Web3 & AI (feat. Sergii Gerasymovych)

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For episode 738 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Sergii Gerasymovych, the Co-Founder and CEO of @ez_blockchain, a bootstrapped data center and computing infrastructure company he founded in 2017. He pioneered flare gas Bitcoin mining, invented the world's first mobile immersion cooling mining container, and is now transitioning his infrastructure to power AI workloads. Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe. Speaker at Bitcoin 2021 and 2022 Conferences. Featured in Bitcoin Magazine and CoinDesk.

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⏳ Timestamps:

(3:55) What is EZ Blockchain?
(4:50) Pioneering Flare Gas for Bitcoin Mining
(6:09) Flare Gas for AI & compute
(7:14) Can the electric grid support mining and AI demand?
(9:00) Energy infrastructure & new energy sources
(10:24) Bad stigma around Nuclear energy
(14:47) Future impact of demand in 5 years
(17:13) Microchips will continue getting more efficient
(22:15) AI vs. Blockchain
(25:42) EZ Blockchain roadmap
(26:37) Bitcoin Mining continues to grow
(27:47) Events & conferences
(28:09) EZ Blockchain website & socials

#BlockHashPodcast #ezblockchain #energy #infrastructure #AI #blockchain #podcast

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🔥 JUST IN: Anthropic has confidentially filed with the SEC for an IPO.

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🎙️ Ep. 737 Amboss | Enterprise Backbone for Lightning Network (feat. Jesse Shrader)

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For episode 737 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Jesse Shrader, CEO & Co-founder of @ambosstech, where they are building the backbone for enterprise Lightning adoption and decentralized finance through several key initiatives.

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⏳ Timestamps:

(3:50) What is Amboss?
(5:50) Yield on lightning network
(6:47) Use-cases on lightning network
(7:25) Trading
(8:38) How to interact with lightning network
(10:56) How to run a lightning node
(11:54) What has held the lightning network back?
(13:32) Resurgence of privacy tech
(15:09) Amboss at Bitcoin 2026
(16:23) State of the crypto market
(17:39) Amboss website & socials

#BlockHashPodcast #amboss #lightningnetwork #bitcoin #podcast

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JUST IN: 🇺🇸 SEC Chair Paul Atkins says he is confident Congress will pass crypto market structure legislation and President Trump will sign it into law.

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🇺🇸 JUST IN: CFTC Chairman Mike Selig said the agency has approved the listing of a Bitcoin perpetual contract on a CFTC-registered exchange, bringing crypto perpetuals into the U.S. regulatory framework.

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JUST IN: JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says he is not happy with the crypto Clarity Act and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is "full of shit."

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🎙️ Ep. 736 Abundant Mines | BTC Mining Industry Trends (feat. Beau Turner)

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For episode 736 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Beau Turner, CEO of @AbundantMines, a vertically integrated, U.S. based Bitcoin mining and hosting company built on transparency, uptime, and investor trust.

They help individual investors, high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and business owners transform their portfolios through Bitcoin-denominated cash flow, with full ownership of their hardware, institutional-grade reporting, and the same tax benefits that used to be reserved for insiders and specialists.

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⏳ Timestamps:

(5:14) What is Abundant Mines?
(7:53) Demographic of clients
(9:27) Existing miners as clients
(12:10) Abundant Mines at Bitcoin 2026
(13:26) Bitcoin mining only
(14:17) Trends in Bitcoin mining & impact on markets
(16:37) Is AI mutually beneficial for Bitcoin & crypto mining
(19:16) Thoughts on Agentic AI’s impact on payments industry
(20:40) Abundant Mines website & socials

#BlockHashPodcast #abundantmines #bitcoin #mining #btc #podcast

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LATEST: 💰 Grayscale says SpaceX's expected IPO could make it the largest public Bitcoin holder, boosting investor visibility into corporate BTC treasury strategies.

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🔥 LATEST: Ondo’s tokenized stock TVL has reached a new all-time high above $1.17B, with total volume nearing $20B.

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🎙️ Ep. 735 Voltage | Diversifying Lightning Network (feat. Bobby Shell)

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For episode 735 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Bobby Shell of @voltage_cloud, an enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure platform that specializes in "Lightning-as-a-Service" (LaaS). It allows businesses, fintechs, and financial institutions to easily set up, manage, and scale Bitcoin and Lightning Network nodes without the burden of maintaining physical servers.

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⏳ Timestamps:

(4:08) What is Voltage?
(5:15) Lightning Network benchmark report
(6:32) Diversifying Lightning Network across web3
(7:25) Use-cases today around Lightning Network
(10:00) iGaming, Neobanks and other verticals for Lightning Network infrastructure
(10:52) AI Agents
(12:10) How payments will continue to evolve
(14:15) Impact on emerging markets
(15:34) Voltage at Bitcoin 2026
(16:55) Voltage roadmap
(18:05) Voltage website

#BlockHashPodcast #voltage #lightningnetwork #bitcoin #podcast

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🇺🇸 SEC: FINANCIAL MARKETS WILL MOVE ONCHAIN WITHIN 2 YEARS.

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