Unblock'd

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Unblock’d is your gateway into the dynamic world of investors and entrepreneurs, featuring insightful conversations at the intersection of entrepreneurship, tokenisation, and Web3. Hosted by Dr. Jemma Green, co-founder and Chairman of Powerledger, this podcast delves into the current market landscape and explores future trends. Each episode provides a unique perspective on investors and entrepreneurs journeys, offering valuable insights for how companies approach their business and those seeking to raise capital or already navigating the investment landscape along with how investors approach investing in the market. Join us as we uncover the stories behind investing and innovations doing good and doing well.

  1. 4d ago

    Crypto Solved Liquidity. Infrastructure Is Next.

    Annabelle Huang, co-founder of Altius Labs, explains why Robinhood, Stripe and Circle buy blockchain infrastructure instead of building it, and what AI pulling young talent out of crypto means for DeFi. Annabelle spent a decade moving from Deutsche Bank's FX options desk to AirSwap on early Ethereum to co-founding Amber Group, and now builds full stack, high performance chains for crypto applications at scale through Altius Labs. Dr. Jemma Green asks her where blockchain infrastructure still trails traditional finance, and Annabelle says the gap is risk management and how chains connect to the players in financial markets. Topics covered: - Why large companies partner or acquire instead of building a chain in-house, and how that cuts time to market from years to weeks or months - Tokenized AMC stock versus options: venues, margin rules and offshore wrappers - Why perp DEX failures trace back to oracles and liquidation engines more than chain speed - Privacy, transparency and decentralization after a decade of building - Nasdaq's move toward near 24 hour trading, prediction markets and what stays on-chain - Women in crypto, conviction and management style ........................................................................... About the guest: Annabelle Huang is co-founder of Altius Labs, which builds full-stack blockchain infrastructure for applications that want to own their chain. Altius Labs: https://www.altiuslabs.xyz/ Annabelle on X: https://x.com/_annabellehuang ................................................................................................. Unblock'd podcast with Dr. Jemma Green For more information on Dr. Jemma Green Visit: https://www.powerledger.io/ Or connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jemmagreen/

    Crypto Solved Liquidity. Infrastructure Is Next.

  2. Oct 1

    The Future of Crypto Is Invisible.

    Aya Kantorovich on Institutional DeFi, Tokenized Assets and Raising a Seed Round the Week FTX Collapsed | Unblock'd Aya Kantorovich co-founded August and Upshift, which give institutions access to DeFi with counterparty risk they can underwrite. Her seed round closed the same week FTX collapsed. In this episode, Dr. Jemma Green talks with her about institutional DeFi, tokenized real world assets, stablecoins, DeFi security and what it takes to run two companies as a new mother. Aya explains why she left FalconX to build on-chain, why DeFi still has no true prime brokerage, and how Upshift vaults now sit inside Kraken's qualified custody so institutions can earn yield on idle Bitcoin and ETH without leaving the platform. She also covers composability, tokenized treasuries as collateral, why market makers matter for tokenization, and why she thinks accredited investor rules are out of date. In this episode How Hack VC doubled down after FTX, and why Aya calls FTX an opsec failure rather than a blockchain failure Why DeFi still lacks true prime brokerage, and how Morpho, Aave and Kamino are closing the gap Kraken's kBTC receipt token and how bankruptcy-remote qualified custody limits hack risk Build or partner: why exchanges buy readiness instead of spending 12 months on vault infrastructure Stablecoin vaults for remittances, payments and treasury management Composability, explained with tokenized money market funds as collateral Why accredited investor thresholds miss the point, and what AI agents mean for them The Drift hack, human attack surfaces and delayed settlement as a security layer Motherhood, AI agents and running two companies Upshift as the first major vault provider on Solana The bets Aya is making that the market thinks are too early: regulated crypto infrastructure and AI everything About guest: Aya Kantorovich is co-founder of August and Upshift. Know more here. https://www.upshift.finance/ Unblock'd podcast with Dr. Jemma Green For more information on Dr. Jemma Green Visit: https://www.powerledger.io/ Or connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jemmagreen/

    The Future of Crypto Is Invisible.

  3. Aug 27

    Self-Disrupt or Be Disrupted: AI bubble, one-person unicorns, and automating human workflow

    Lisa Emme spent a decade in finance and private equity before co-founding Frontier AI lab Inversion. In this episode of Unblocked, she breaks down why the real AI conversation has already moved past chatbots into architecture, control, and autonomous agents. Emme explains why bolting AI onto workflows built for humans produces no real ROI, and why the next shift, from multi-agent systems to fully autonomous AI, will restructure entire departments rather than individual tasks. She argues Europe's dependence on foreign frontier models is a strategic risk, points to the model access restrictions under the Trump administration as proof, and calls for the continent to build its own foundational AI infrastructure before the gap becomes unclosable. Topics covered: Why enterprise AI adoption is stuck at the surface level, and what AI-native restructuring actually requiresThe shift from agentic to autonomous AI, and what it means for finance, procurement, and marketing functionsWhy Emme believes the AI infrastructure buildout is a bubble, and which layer she expects to pop firstThe case for Europe building sovereign AI models instead of depending on US and Chinese labsWorld models, defensibility, and why frontier labs eating the application layer is a five-year risk for most AI startupsCareer advice for professionals with only a few reskilling cycles left before AI reshapes their industry Guest: Lisa Emme, co-founder, Inversion Lab Unblock'd podcast with Dr. Jemma Green For more information on Dr. Jemma Green Visit: https://www.powerledger.io/ Or connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jemmagreen/ ------------------------------------------------------------- Produced by: Podcasts Done For You View this episode on YouTube @PodcastsDoneForYou_clients

    Self-Disrupt or Be Disrupted: AI bubble, one-person unicorns, and automating human workflow

  4. Jul 30

    Telco's AWS Moment Is Already Happening

    Telco is quietly having its AWS moment. For decades, wireless carriers have carried the full weight of building coverage themselves: towers, real estate, hardware, maintenance, tens of billions of dollars a year in capex per carrier. Helium Foundation CEO Scott Sigel joins Unblock'd to explain how a tokenized, community-built network is turning that fixed cost into usage-based infrastructure, and why it's already partnering with AT&T, T-Mobile. We get into how HNT tokenomics actually work, why Helium walked away from token buybacks, and why the network's biggest win might be that a major part of 3.5 million daily users have no idea a blockchain is involved at all. Scott also breaks down how AI-driven data surges could bring Uber-style dynamic pricing to wireless, what's next as Helium expands into Mexico, Brazil, and the UK, and the emergency deployment that got thousands of phones connected after a hurricane knocked out power on the US East Coast. Visit here to know more about Helium: https://www.helium.foundation/ https://www.helium.com/ ...................................................................... Unblock'd podcast with Dr. Jemma Green For more information on Dr. Jemma Green Visit: https://www.powerledger.io/ Or connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jemmagreen/ -------------------------------------------------------------

    Telco's AWS Moment Is Already Happening

  5. Jul 2

    AI Is a College Student Who Thinks It Knows Everything

    AI already sounds exactly as convincing as a lawyer or a financial analyst, whether it's right or not. Ahmed Rashad, founder of Perle AI, spends his career finding where it breaks before someone trusts it with a decision that matters. Jemma Green sits down with him to unpack model collapse, preference collapse, and why he flatly rejects the AI industry's bet that humans eventually become optional. Highlights: Why he calls today's AI a college freshman who just finished a survey course and thinks they understand everything Why Perle pays its global contributor network in stablecoins and runs on blockchain, and how that flips the industry's usual overhead-to-contributor revenue split Why OpenAI shutting down Sora proves that model capability alone doesn't protect a company against better-distributed competitors What building Perle has cost him personally, and why his only strategy is "build and sell" To learn more about Perle AI, visit. https://www.perle.ai/ Unblock'd is hosted by Dr. Jemma Green, founder of Powerledger, one of the world's leading blockchain-based energy trading platforms. Subscribe for conversations at the intersection of Web3, crypto, AI, and the real economy. For more information on Dr. Jemma Green Visit: https://www.powerledger.io/ Or connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jemmagreen/

    AI Is a College Student Who Thinks It Knows Everything

  6. Jun 22

    The Internet's Solar Panel Moment

    Neil Chatterjee built Andrena from a Princeton rooftop into a wireless ISP serving 4m+ users across. Now he's scaling that model globally with Dawn, a decentralized wireless protocol on Solana that lets anyone beam high-speed internet from a single antenna to a quarter million homes for $10K. In this episode, Dr Jemma Green and Neil dig into why fiber's three-to-five year payback period collapses to one-to-two years with wireless, how new 6GHz spectrum unlocked by the FCC is bigger than what gave us Wi-Fi and Bluetooth combined, and why the tokenization of physical infrastructure is headed toward RWA-style financial engineering rather than inflationary rewards. They also cover how Dawn complements Starlink in emerging markets, why building owners are starting to treat internet like tap water, and what capital formation through DePIN actually looks like when you tighten the loop between deployment and yield. ............................................................ Neil Chatterjee founded Andrena out of Princeton University to compete with Comcast and Verizon using wireless technology. He then built Dawn, a Solana-based protocol turning internet bandwidth into a decentralized, tradeable commodity covering 4 million+ households across the US, Ghana, and Latin America. Learn more about Dawn Internet here. https://www.dawninternet.com/ ........................................................................................ Unblock'd podcast with Dr. Jemma Green For more information on Dr. Jemma Green Visit: https://www.powerledger.io/ Or connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jemmagreen/

    The Internet's Solar Panel Moment

  7. May 18

    Why TradFi Has to Come to Crypto, Not the Other Way Around, with Richard Brown from R3 Labs

    Richard Brown is the CEO of R3, the company behind the Corda blockchain, one of the most widely deployed permissioned blockchains in institutional finance. In this episode, Richard explains why R3 has pivoted from private enterprise blockchain to building on-chain distribution infrastructure for real-world assets, and why Solana is where that bet is being placed. We cover: Why $300 billion in stablecoins are earning near-zero yield, and what's actually blocking the fix How Corda enables private institutional networks to connect to permissionless chains The Corda protocol: what "packaging off-chain yield for on-chain investors" actually means in practice Why Solana has overtaken Ethereum in RWA growth rate The compliance-first approach to RWA distribution, and why the gray-area strategy doesn't work for R3 The "mustard problem": how curation, not choice, will decide who wins RWA distribution Digital Asset Treasuries (DATs), what MicroStrategy-style vehicles actually are, and where the model breaks What it means that banks are finally treating crypto as a normal business line Richard has been in this space since before most institutions were allowed to say the word Bitcoin in a meeting. His perspective on how much has changed, and how much hasn't, is one of the most grounded takes you'll hear. R3: https://r3.com Unblock'd podcast with Dr. Jemma Green Unblock'd is hosted by Dr. Jemma Green, founder of Powerledger, one of the world's leading blockchain-based energy trading platforms. Subscribe for conversations at the intersection of Web3, crypto, AI, and the real economy. For more information: Visit: https://www.powerledger.io/ Or connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jemmagreen/

    Why TradFi Has to Come to Crypto, Not the Other Way Around, with Richard Brown from R3 Labs

  8. May 8

    What is the point of this technology? | Arnold Lee, CEO of Sphere Labs

    In 2022, Terra Luna collapsed and billions left the crypto ecosystem overnight. For most builders, it was the end. For Arnold Lee, it was a forcing function: if this technology has a point, what is it? His answer was Sphere Labs, a B2B cross-border payments platform that uses stablecoins as internal settlement infrastructure while keeping the experience invisible to end users. Today Sphere processes billions in annual volume across 60 people, serving fintechs and trade finance companies in markets where traditional correspondent banking fails. In this conversation with Jemma Green, Arnold covers: Finding Bitcoin in middle school, farming online surveys for gift cards, and why he thought it was a loyalty points system tied to a website How Sphere differs from Stripe, Circle, and every other stablecoin payments company, and why the distinction matters for the $40 trillion B2B cross-border market Why stablecoins are not a crypto product, they are a payments product that happens to use crypto rails The systemic risk nobody is modeling: dollar-denominated stablecoins expanding globally as a vampire attack on local monetary sovereignty Why AI agents exploiting each other in adversarial onchain environments is not a hypothetical, it is an engineering problem happening now What the GENIUS Act actually changes versus what the industry thinks it changes The "slowly then all at once" dynamic in frontier payments markets that will be obvious in twelve months and is invisible today Arnold Lee is a CEO of Sphere Labs, a fintech infrastructure company building stablecoin‑powered global payments rails for institutions and fintechs. Unblock'd is hosted by Dr. Jemma Green, co-founder and CEO of Powerledger. For more information, visit: https://www.powerledger.io/ Or connect the host on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jemmagreen/

    What is the point of this technology? | Arnold Lee, CEO of Sphere Labs
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Unblock’d is your gateway into the dynamic world of investors and entrepreneurs, featuring insightful conversations at the intersection of entrepreneurship, tokenisation, and Web3. Hosted by Dr. Jemma Green, co-founder and Chairman of Powerledger, this podcast delves into the current market landscape and explores future trends. Each episode provides a unique perspective on investors and entrepreneurs journeys, offering valuable insights for how companies approach their business and those seeking to raise capital or already navigating the investment landscape along with how investors approach investing in the market. Join us as we uncover the stories behind investing and innovations doing good and doing well.

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  • Creator
    Dr Jemma Green
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    39
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2026 Dr Jemma Green
  • Show Website
    Unblock'd