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. Jul 5

    Bitcoin payment layer just got real — GoBTC Pay is non-custodial, instant, and open to merchants today. Mark Zalan, CEO of GoMiningn

    Bitcoin has been promised as a payment layer for 15 years, but merchants still don't use it. Transaction finality, custody concerns, and merchant UX have kept Bitcoin commerce stuck in theory. NON-CUSTODIAL BITCOIN PAYMENTS are now live, and GoMining's GoBTC Pay is bringing debit-card UX to actual Bitcoin settlement.n Mark Zalan, CEO of GoMining, launches the GoBTC Pay Gen1 SDK and API — opening Bitcoin payments to merchants, wallets, and ecosystem partners across his top-10 mining operation serving 5 million users. Mark walks through how GoBTC Pay settles directly on Bitcoin with users keeping control of their private keys, why a 0.2% fee split between wallets and miners aligns everyone's incentives, and how the 15 EH/s private mempool powered by Stratum V2 gives merchants the reliability Bitcoin payment layers have promised but never delivered. From tokenized hashrate making mining accessible to retail, to payments bringing Bitcoin into everyday commerce, this is what a fully integrated Bitcoin ecosystem looks like.n You'll learn: - How GoBTC Pay achieves non-custodial Bitcoin settlement with merchant-friendly UX — and why previous attempts at Bitcoin commerce never broke throughn - Why a 0.2% fee with splits between wallet providers and miners is the incentive structure that makes Bitcoin payments actually work at scalen - How GoMining's 15 EH/s mempool and Stratum V2 infrastructure guarantee transaction priority and reliability — what that means for merchants adopting GoBTC Payn 🔗 https://gomining.comn 🐦 https://x.com/GoMiningn 🔔JOIN OUR FREE NEWSLETTER FOR 100X GAINS🔔: https://cryptocoinshow.substack.com/subscribe

    35 min
  2. Jul 4

    Most sleep trackers give your data to the platform. Sleepagotchi built the economy that pays you for it instead — Kenny Wood, CEO

    Sleep data is collected by Oura, Whoop, and Apple Watch every night — but the value flows to the platforms, not the user. GAMIFIED SLEEP DATA is the model Sleepagotchi is building, and it just evolved from a Sleep-to-Earn app into what the team calls "The Intelligence Layer for the Wellness Economy." Kenny Wood, CEO of Sleepagotchi, joins Ashton Addison on Blockchain Interviews. Kenny brings over two decades in AAA game development — including chart-topping franchises like Transformers, Bionicle, and Formula 1 — into a platform that turns sleep into permissioned data value, NFTs, and $SLEEP tokens. We cover how wearables including Whoop, Oura, and Apple Watch feed real-time biometric pipelines into chained AI agents, how the Telegram LITE mini-app hit 2 million users without any sleep tracking at all, and what $6.5M raised and over $100K in three-week beta revenue says about whether this is a health product or a rewards product. You'll learn: How Sleepagotchi turns a night of sleep into an NFT or $SLEEP — what's actually being measured and what the gamification mechanics do that a free sleep app doesn'tWhat "The Intelligence Layer for the Wellness Economy" means in the product: which AI agents are live today — starting with the AI Sleep Coach — and what's still on the roadmapWhy permissioned data value is the model that makes this work — what a user can actually do with their biometric data on Sleepagotchi that they can't do on Oura or Whoop🔗 https://www.sleepagotchi.com/ 🔔JOIN OUR FREE NEWSLETTER FOR 100X GAINS🔔: https://cryptocoinshow.substack.com/subscribe

    23 min
  3. Jul 2

    Restaking was just the beginning. Symbiotic's co-founder on building the collateral markets layer that RWAs, credit, and insurance all run o

    Most tokenized real world assets still take 60 to 180 days to redeem. Most restaking protocols lock capital in silos that can't work across chains. COLLATERAL MARKETS INFRASTRUCTURE is what fixes both — and Symbiotic is building the layer that credit, insurance, and RWA liquidity are already running on. Misha Putiatin, Co-Founder and CEO of Symbiotic, breaks down why the restaking label undersells what Symbiotic is actually building, how Core V2's capital facilities let committed capital stay enforceable while earning yield between settlement events, and why immutable, permissionless infrastructure is the only design that institutions can actually trust. From how Symbiotic Instant Liquidity enables T+0 atomic settlement for tokenized assets with no pre-funded inventory, to why Cap Labs, Nexus Mutual, and Midas are all building on the same shared infrastructure — this is a clear look at what collateral markets actually mean for DeFi in 2026. You'll learn: Why Symbiotic moved beyond restaking to collateral markets — and what that distinction changes for builders and capital allocatorsHow Core V2 capital facilities work: vault capital that stays enforceable while deployed to Morpho and Euler, automatically recalled when obligations triggerHow Symbiotic Instant Liquidity solves the RWA redemption problem — T+0 settlement with no idle capital and no pre-funded inventoryWhy immutable core contracts are a feature, not a limitation — and what it forces you to get right before you ship🔗 https://symbiotic.fi 🐦 https://x.com/symbioticfi 🔔JOIN OUR FREE NEWSLETTER FOR 100X GAINS🔔: https://cryptocoinshow.substack.com/subscribe

    23 min
  4. Jun 24

    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
  5. Jun 20

    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
  6. Jun 14

    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
  7. Jun 13

    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

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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.