Crypto Coin Show

Crypto Coin Show

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.

  1. 3 days ago

    Half of internet traffic is bots — and XION just rebuilt itself to fix that. Anthony Anzalone, Founder & CEO of Verona

    Half of web traffic is already synthetic, and neither platforms nor enterprises have a reliable way to tell humans from AI agents at scale. VERIFICATION INFRASTRUCTURE is what Verona is building — and the rebrand from XION, announced June 17 alongside an $18.5M raise for flagship consumer app EarnOS and $30M in brand spend, is the moment that becomes a public priority. Anthony Anzalone, Founder and CEO of Verona, joins Ashton Addison on Blockchain Interviews for his third appearance on the show. Anthony breaks down exactly what the XION-to-Verona shift changes — and what stays the same. The Cosmos SDK, CometBFT, and CosmWasm stack that powered walletless, gasless consumer crypto now underpins a decentralized network of verified information designed for AI agent commerce. From how Ero, the new consumer app from EarnOS, lets users earn from verified activity without ever exposing raw data, to how 115+ global brands including Uber, Amazon, Nike, and BMW already use this infrastructure for 69 million verified interactions across 3 million users — this is the clearest look at what a verification and intelligence layer for AI agents actually does. You'll learn: What changed and what didn't in the XION-to-Verona rebrand — how years of walletless, gasless infrastructure maps onto a new identity as a verification layer for AI agentsHow Ero works: what verified activity without exposing raw data means in practice, and what the $18.5M EarnOS raise is fundingWhy $VERONA's value is designed to track network revenue and usage rather than raw gas — and who's actually paying for the abstracted, gas-sponsored user experience🔗 https://verona.dev🔔JOIN OUR FREE NEWSLETTER FOR 100X GAINS🔔: https://cryptocoinshow.substack.com/subscribe

    24 min
  2. 20 Jun

    Most blockchains were built for humans. NEAR is building for AI agents — and quantum-proof wallets are just the start. Illia Polosukhin, Co-

    AI agents are already executing financial transactions autonomously — but the infrastructure they're running on was never designed for them. NEAR Protocol is building the settlement layer for the agentic economy: a blockchain where agents can express outcomes, route cross-chain transactions, and operate with built-in privacy guarantees — without a human in the loop for every step. Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder of NEAR Protocol and co-author of Google's "Attention Is All You Need" — the 2017 paper that introduced the Transformer architecture behind ChatGPT, Gemini, and every major LLM running today — joins Ashton Addison on Blockchain Interviews. Illia breaks down how NEAR Intents lets agents express desired outcomes and have the protocol handle routing, bridging, and gas automatically; how IronClaw enables persistent, privacy-preserving AI agents with controlled access to user assets; and why NEAR just shipped a quantum-proof wallet upgrade at a moment when most of the industry isn't thinking about post-quantum security at all. You'll learn: How NEAR Intents works and why expressing an outcome rather than specifying a route changes what's possible for AI agents in financial workflowsWhat IronClaw adds to the NEAR AI stack — persistent autonomous agents with privacy safeguards and controlled asset access — and who that's built forWhy NEAR shipped a quantum-proof wallet and what the post-quantum threat actually means for crypto infrastructure timelines🔗 https://www.near.org 🐦 https://x.com/NEARProtocol 🔔JOIN OUR FREE NEWSLETTER FOR 100X GAINS🔔: https://cryptocoinshow.substack.com/subscribe

    31 min
  3. 14 Jun

    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

    26 min
  4. 13 Jun

    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

    26 min
  5. 2 Jun

    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

    24 min

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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.