SmarterMarkets™

Abaxx Technologies Inc.
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SmarterMarkets™ brings you the entrepreneurs, icons, and executives of commodities, capital markets, and technology to rant on the inadequacies of our systems and riff on ideas for how to improve them. Our weekly episodes explore how technology can be leveraged to redesign and improve markets to meet society’s biggest challenges, including climate change and the energy transition.

  1. 13H AGO

    Setting Course 2026 Episode 4 | Robert Friedland, Executive Co-Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines & Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO of I-Pulse and Jeff Currie, Chief Strategy Officer of Energy Pathways, Carlyle

    We wrap up Setting Course 2026 this week with part two of our conversation with Robert Friedland and Jeff Currie. Robert is Executive Co-Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines and Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO of I-Pulse. Jeff Currie is Chief Strategy Officer of Energy Pathways at Carlyle.   David Greely sits down with Robert and Jeff to discuss what's happening at Davos, what the revenge of the miners and the real economy means for copper and other commodity prices, and the other big themes that Jeff is seeing for 2026 and beyond.   We'll pick up with last week's conversation as Jeff discusses how the need to build out infrastructure for AI data centers is leading traditionally asset-light big tech companies to become asset-heavy.

    57 min

  2. JAN 24

    Setting Course 2026 Episode 3 | Robert Friedland, Executive Co-Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines & Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO of I-Pulse and Jeff Currie, Chief Strategy Officer of Energy Pathways, Carlyle

    This week on Setting Course 2026, we bring you part one of a two-part conversation with Robert Friedland and Jeff Currie. Robert is Executive Co-Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines and  Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO of I-Pulse. Jeff Currie is Chief Strategy Officer of Energy Pathways at Carlyle. David Greely sits down with Robert and Jeff to discuss what's happening at Davos, what the revenge of the miners and the real economy means for copper and other commodity prices, and the other big themes that Jeff is seeing for 2026 and beyond.

    45 min

  3. JAN 17

    Setting Course 2026 Episode 2 | Arjun Murti, Partner at Veriten & Publisher of "Super-Spiked" on Substack

    We continue our Setting Course series this week by welcoming Arjun Murti back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Arjun is Partner at Veriten and Publisher of "Super-Spiked" on Substack. David Greely sits down with Arjun to discuss the big themes he sees in energy for 2026, including the electrical power super cycle.

    43 min

  4. JAN 10

    Setting Course 2026 Episode 1 | Rob Dannenberg, Former Senior Official, CIA

    This week, we kick off our new series Setting Course 2026 by welcoming Former Senior CIA Official Rob Dannenberg back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. David Greely sits down with Rob to discuss the inflection point being created by the Russian war in Ukraine, the capture by the United States of Venezuelan President Maduro, and the potential implications of this widening of the range of acceptable behavior by great powers as we move into 2026.

    38 min

  5. JAN 3

    Holiday Special 2025: The Year in Review | Part 2

    We begin the new year on SmarterMarkets™ with Part Two of our Holiday Special 2025: The Year in Review.   This week, we’re continuing to revisit the conversations with our guests that helped us understand and articulate the themes that would come to define 2025.    It was the year in which we discovered that this was not the energy transition that we were expecting; and the year in which a new geopolitical reality emerged and old geopolitical concerns resurfaced. It was the year featuring a tale of two carbon markets and the need for new weather markets to manage the risks posed by reliance on renewable power. And 2025 was the year in which there was both a new gold rush and a rush into tokenization.   We hope you’ll sit back, relax, and enjoy Part Two of our Holiday Special 2025: The Year in Review.   Our guests in order of appearance:   Josh Crumb – Founder & CEO, Abaxx Technologies SM229 – 5.3.2025 – Gold for the 21st Century   Steve Lowe – Strategic Advisor for Precious Metals, Abaxx and Former Managing Director, Co-Head of Global Base and Precious Metals, Scotiabank  SM231 – 5.17.2025 – Gold for the 21st Century   Sunil Kashyap – Managing Director at FinMet Pte Ltd., Singapore SM224 – 3.29.2025 – Gold for the 21st Century   Wade Brennan – CEO & Co-Founder, Kilo Capital SM225 – 4.5.2025 – Gold for the 21st Century   Thom McMahon – Co-Founder, Abaxx Technologies SM235 – 6.14.2025 – Gold for the 21st Century   Albert Cheng – CEO, Singapore Bullion Market Association (SBMA) SM240 – 7.19.2025 – Summer Playlist 2025   Ian Forester – Head of Product, Abaxx Technologies SM254 – 10.25.2025 – Re-engineering Tokenization   Riley Hughes – Co-Founder & CEO, Trinsic SM258 – 11.22.2025 – Re-engineering Tokenization   Carrie Jaquith – Global Head of Digital Product, Abaxx Technologies SM257 – 11.15.2025 – Re-engineering Tokenization   Leah Wald – Digital Title Lead, Abaxx Technologies SM261 – 12.13.2025 – Re-engineering Tokenization   Walt Lukken – President & CEO, FIA SM262 – 12.20.2025 – Re-engineering Tokenization   Josh Crumb – Founder & CEO, Abaxx Technologies SM253 – 10.18.2025 – Re-engineering Tokenization

    1h 14m

  6. 12/27/2025

    Holiday Special 2025: The Year in Review | Part 1

    We close out the year on SmarterMarkets™ with Part One of our Holiday Special 2025: The Year in Review.   2025 has been a big year full of big months here at Abaxx and at SmarterMarkets™, and we’re closing out 2025 by revisiting the conversations with our guests that helped us understand and articulate the themes that would come to define the year.    2025 was the year in which we discovered that this was not the energy transition that we were expecting; and the year in which a new geopolitical reality emerged and old geopolitical concerns resurfaced. It was the year featuring a tale of two carbon markets and the need for new weather markets to manage the risks posed by reliance on renewable power. And 2025 was the year in which there was both a new gold rush and a rush into tokenization.   We hope you’ll sit back, relax, and enjoy Part One of our Holiday Special 2025: The Year in Review.   Our guests in order of appearance:   Andy Home – Senior Metals Columnist, Thomson Reuters SM213 – 1.18.2025 – The State of Play in Battery Metals   Andrea Hotter – Special Correspondent, Fastmarkets SM214 – 1.25.2025 – The State of Play in Battery Metals   Peter Zaman – Partner, HFW Singapore SM218 – 2.22.2025 – Carbon Frontiers 2025   Nobuo Tanaka – Executive Director Emeritus, International Energy Agency (IEA) SM246 – 8.30.2025 – Summer Playlist 2025   Helima Croft – Managing Director & Global Head of Commodity Strategy, RBC Capital Markets SM245 – 8.23.2025 – Summer Playlist 2025   Dave Ernsberger & Mark Eramo – Co-Presidents, S&P Global Commodity Insights SM251 – 10.4.2025 – Catching Up On Climate   Rene Velasquez – Managing Partner, Valitera SM219 – 3.1.2025 – Carbon Frontiers 2025   Mark Lewis – Partner & Managing Director, Climate Finance Partners LLC and Former Head of Research, Andurand Capital SM216 – 2.8.2025 – Carbon Frontiers 2025   Hannah Hauman – Global Head of Carbon Trading, Trafigura SM250 – 9.27.2025 – Catching Up On Climate   Theresa Kammel & Pierre Buisson – Originator & Senior Structurer, Weather & Agro Zurich, Munich Re SM241 – 7.26.2025 – Summer Playlist 2025

    1h 13m

  7. 12/20/2025

    Re-engineering Tokenization Episode 10 | Walt Lukken, President & CEO, FIA

    We close out our Re-engineering Tokenization series this week with Walt Lukken, President & CEO of the FIA and Former Acting Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. David Greely sits down with Walt to discuss the state of the conversation on tokenization in the cleared derivatives industry – and what the next steps are towards bringing tokenized assets into the mainstream.

    31 min

  8. 12/13/2025

    Re-engineering Tokenization Episode 9 | Leah Wald, Digital Title Lead, Abaxx Technologies

    This week on Re-engineering Tokenization, we welcome Leah Wald, Digital Title Lead at Abaxx Technologies, into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. David Greely sits down with Leah to discuss her experiences and insights from a career working at the intersection of DeFi and traditional finance – and how she's working with Abaxx to re-engineer tokenization through the introduction of Abaxx Private Digital Title.

    40 min
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SmarterMarkets™ brings you the entrepreneurs, icons, and executives of commodities, capital markets, and technology to rant on the inadequacies of our systems and riff on ideas for how to improve them. Our weekly episodes explore how technology can be leveraged to redesign and improve markets to meet society’s biggest challenges, including climate change and the energy transition.

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  • Creator
    Abaxx Technologies Inc.
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    269
  • Rating
    Clean
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    Copyright 2024 © Abaxx Technologies Inc. (www.abaxx.tech) All Rights Reserved
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