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What’s indexing this week in crypto, blockchain, and open-source AI? Find out on The Index, where we feature exclusive conversations that go beyond code. Each week, host and entrepreneur Alex Kehaya talks with founders, developers, and investors who are shaping the future of Web3. From startup advice to breakthrough strategies, our guests share their stories and take a deep dive into the decentralized future.
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- 3 weeks ago34 min
Ethan Buchman (Cosmos Co-Founder) on Cycles: The Clearing Protocol Reinventing How the World Settles Debt | The Index Podcast
What if the biggest unlock in crypto isn't moving money faster — it's not having to move it at all? Ethan Buchman, co-founder of Cosmos, CEO of Informal Systems, and founder of Cycles, sits down with Alex Kehaya to explain why 16th-century bankers may have understood finance better than we do today — and how he's bringing their playbook on-chain. From medieval merchant credit networks to a decentralized clearing protocol built for modern crypto market makers, this conversation goes deep into ...
- 3 weeks ago27 min
Matt Van Horn (Lyft) on AI Psychosis & Coding Agents That Never Sleep | The Index Podcast
He almost got scammed by a fake "producer" minutes before this interview even started. Then he told us why he wakes up at 5am hearing phantom AI music. Matt Van Horn, Lyft co-founder and now Founder & CEO of Lyft, has built an army of coding agents that ship dozens of open source PRs a day, and on this episode of The Index he breaks down exactly how. What we cover: 🕵️ The wild near-scam that almost derailed this episode, plus the one phrase that reliably outs North Korean hackers on a cal...
- 3 weeks ago37 min
The Stablecoin Router Everyone Will Use: Ryne Saxe (Eco) on Solana, Visa & the Future of Money
Stablecoins on Solana just hit $15B, and Eco Co-Founder & CEO Ryne Saxe says that number is going to look laughably small in five years. On this episode of The Index Podcast, Ryne breaks down why Solana pulled ahead in the stablecoin race, why Visa and Mastercard are quietly rebuilding their entire plumbing around digital dollars, and how Eco is building the routing layer that ties every chain and every stablecoin together. If you've ever had USDC, USDT, USDG, and a few more scattered acr...
- 3 weeks ago42 min
He Got Into Crypto to Save his Cat. Now He's Building Solana's Biggest Trading Card Game. | Natsuki x Rosentica
He bought her sick cat's medicine with USDT because no bank or pharmacy would touch it. That same "get it done, on-chain" energy is now powering Rosentica, an original multimedia IP turning old, retired trading cards into a full battle economy on Solana. In this episode, Natsuki, Founder & Executive Producer of Rosentica, breaks down how their game One Arena pulled in $3.3M in volume and $1.8M in revenue in just six weeks by turning pack ripping itself into the game. 🎮 What we cover: 🃏 Ho...
- 3 weeks ago1h 1m
Bernardo Brites (Trace Finance) on Building the $10B Stablecoin Rails Connecting Brazil to the World
Brazil banned crypto players from moving big money, so this founder got a bank license instead. Now Trace Finance processes over $10B in cross-border volume and powers the top 4 global payment companies in Latin America. On this episode of The Index Podcast, Bernardo Brites, Co-Founder & CEO of Trace Finance, breaks down how stablecoins plus real bank infrastructure (not stablecoins alone) are quietly becoming the backbone of global money movement, and why the US dollar's dominance might ...
- 3 weeks ago38 min
Bootstrapped to 320K Users, ZERO Funding: Agnese Jaunošāne (COO & Co-Founder, Ajelix) on Open-Source AI's Power Move
She turned "everyone hates spreadsheets" into a 320,000-user, 150-country AI company, without taking a single dollar of outside funding. Agnese Jaunošāne, COO & Co-Founder of Ajelix, sits down to break down why she and her co-founder said no to VC money, bet big on open-source AI, and are now building their own hardware to own their entire intelligence stack. If you care about who actually controls AI, and why that question matters as much as any Web3 debate, this one's for you. What we g...
- 3 weeks ago32 min
Tokenizing Silver on Solana: Mark Tormey (Founder, Dominion) on Bringing Real World Silver On-Chain
Silver is the one commodity everyone forgot to tokenize. Mark Tormey, founder of Dominion, is fixing that: real, vaulted, audited silver, one token per ounce, live on Solana and built to plug straight into DeFi. This episode is a masterclass in what it actually takes to bring a physical asset on-chain without cutting corners on trust. What we cover 🥈 What Dominion actually is: one token = one ounce of real silver, tracking spot price and fully DeFi composable on Solana 🏦 Custody and proof of ...
- 4 weeks ago37 min
Solana's Prediction Market Play: Nass Diba (Founder & CEO, Worm) on Building the Future of Media On-Chain
Prediction markets called the 2024 election before the media did. Now Nass Diba, ex-CPO of Rarible and alum of Aave and Dharma, is betting that permissionless, AI-powered prediction markets on Solana are the next big media format. On this episode of The Index Podcast, we get into why Worm just raised $4.5M, why leverage belongs in prediction markets, and how half a million users learned to trade with zero risk through the Worm Cup. What we cover: Why prediction markets are the "next era of me...
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