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For episode 752 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Varun Choudhary, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of ORO. Varun is an IIT graduate and entrepreneur with a proven track record of building and scaling ventures across global markets. At ORO, he leads the company’s strategic vision, product direction, and growth architecture, bringing a rare combination of technical depth, market instinct, and execution rigor. 🔗 Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/7hcw58kk

For episode 751 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Quinten van Welzen, leading growth at Zano. Zano is an open-source cryptocurrency and ecosystem with enterprise-grade privacy, security, and scalability that operates as a robust foundation for confidential assets and decentralized applications (dApps). 🔗 Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/3e4kfxrv 🔗 Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/4dpj2yu4 🔗 YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/rfhktfbk 📣 This episode is b

For episode 750 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Aigerim Omarbekova, the Head of Ecosystem at Fasset, a banking and investment platform focused on financial inclusion in emerging markets. At Fasset, Aigerim leads the platform’s full stakeholder and community ecosystem, spanning investor relations, regional market development across Southeast Asia and MENA, and outreach to global Muslim investor bases through Fasset’s Shariah-compliant finance programs.

For episode 749 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Chris Loeffler, CEO & Co-founder of Caliber Wealth Management. 🔗 Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/nhbrf6ha 🔗 Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/2s4xbdnf 🔗 Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/2p3hyz56 🔗 YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/2p8xbfmb 📣 This episode is brought to you by Sumsub. Sumsub is a leading full-cycle verification platform purpose-built for the crypto industry, chosen by 8 out of 10 of th

For episode 748 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Brian Oakes, an IT escalation engineer, early crypto miner, and author of Undermined, a gripping firsthand account of losing over $150 million in cryptocurrency through a devastating SIM swap attack. Since his last appearance on BlockHash, Brian has been targeted in a second hack that wiped him out of crypto entirely—adding an even darker and more urgent chapter to his story. Through raw honesty, sharp

In this episode, we discuss the state of the AI market and what to expect heading into July of 2026. 🔗 Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/mvb96ny7 🔗 Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/9wnare9t 🔗 Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/bp5yrymk 🔗 YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/5ebyk2nf 📣 This episode is brought to you by Sumsub. Sumsub is a leading full-cycle verification platform purpose-built for the crypto industry, chosen by 8 out of 10 of the biggest global exchanges. It help

For episode 747 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Bret Kenwell, a US Investment and Options Analyst at eToro. eToro is a retail brokerage platform offering access to crypto and traditional asset classes to 40 million users globally. They allow users to trade diverse financial assets like stocks, cryptocurrencies, and ETFs. 🔗 Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/mr4bp9yn 🔗 Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/yk93rtee 🔗 Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/56cx

For episode 745 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Ilies Larbi, CEO of Ouinex, a next-generation financial trading platform designed to bridge the gap between decentralized and institutional finance. Before founding Ouinex, Ilies was Managing Director and Head of Global Partnerships at one of the world's leading brokerages. There, he managed global capital markets, regulatory strategy, and institutional deal-making across multiple jurisdictions. 🔗 Spoti

For episode 744 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Sebastian Salomon, CGO and Co-Founder of oneBanking, one of Europe's most exciting fintech ventures (est. 2024), and co-founder of oneBots, an AI-powered automation platform making intelligent banking accessible to everyone. 🔗 Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/jfeevmm5 🔗 Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/2ffnjbrs 🔗 Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/vm3usyju 🔗 YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/3cpk8kuk 📣

For episode 743 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Andrej Bencic, CEO and Co-Founder of Tenderly, the simulation company for onchain institutions. An engineer by background, he co-founded Tenderly in 2018 and has spent the last eight years building it into the operational layer beneath crypto's most sophisticated protocols, enabling engineering, finance, and risk teams to model every onchain action against the live system before any capital or customer i

For episode 742 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Chi Zhang, co-founder and CEO of Kite, which is building the base layer for the agentic internet. Chi's extensive background encompasses AI, big data, and product management. Chi successfully spearheaded data engineering product development at Databricks and played a key role as a founding AI leader at dotData, an Automated Machine Learning platform. Chi got a Ph.D. in ML/AI (Statistics) and M.A. in Econ

For episode 741 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Keith Zubchevich, President and CEO of Conviva. Keith Zubchevich is president and CEO of Conviva, where he helps digital businesses understand what their customers actually experience — not just what dashboards say is happening. He leads Conviva’s work at the intersection of agentic AI, real-time analytics, and customer experience, with a focus on measuring outcomes, friction, and risk once AI is deploye

For episode 740 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Kenny Wood, CEO of Sleepagotchi, a next-generation AI health data platform that started with sleep and is rapidly expanding into the broader wellness economy. The company just closed a $6.5M raise backed by Sfermion, Inception, 6th Man, and 1kx and launched its first personalised AI Sleep Coach on 19 May. Before joining Sleepagotchi, Kenny was CTO at Moonlander, a next-generation game creation studio suc

For episode 739 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by David Lucatch, the Chair of nGRND, the Gold Protocol that converts stranded in-ground gold into liquid, reward-bearing digital assets, without extraction or environmental cost. David brings 40+ years of global entrepreneurial experience to this moment. He was an early architect of eCommerce payment infrastructure in Canada during Web1, built an AI/ML-powered engagement platform used by over 200 million p

For episode 738 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Sergii Gerasymovych, the Co-Founder and CEO of EZ Blockchain, a bootstrapped data center and computing infrastructure company he founded in 2017. He pioneered flare gas Bitcoin mining, invented the world's first mobile immersion cooling mining container, and is now transitioning his infrastructure to power AI workloads. Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe. Speaker at Bitcoin 2021 and 2022 Conferences. Featured in

For episode 737 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Jesse Shrader, CEO & Co-founder of Amboss, where they are building the backbone for enterprise Lightning adoption and decentralized finance through several key initiatives. 🔗 Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/45yx74e8 🔗 Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/2p9p3j44 🔗 Amazon Music: https://tinyurl.com/4ysyndzm 🔗 YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/3zwmxk6m 📣 This episode is brought to you by Sumsub. Sumsub is

For episode 736 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Beau Turner, CEO of Abundant Mines, a vertically integrated, U.S. based Bitcoin mining and hosting company built on transparency, uptime, and investor trust. They help individual investors, high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and business owners transform their portfolios through Bitcoin-denominated cash flow, with full ownership of their hardware, institutional-grade reporting, and the same tax

For episode 735 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Bobby Shell of Voltage, an enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure platform that specializes in "Lightning-as-a-Service" (LaaS). It allows businesses, fintechs, and financial institutions to easily set up, manage, and scale Bitcoin and Lightning Network nodes without the burden of maintaining physical servers. 🔗 Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/2t8fjmts 🔗 Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/mrxcayay 🔗 Ama

For episode 734 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Morgan Lekstrom, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman at Streamex. He is a seasoned mining executive and corporate strategist with over 17 years of experience building and transforming resource companies. As Chairman and Co-Founder of Streamex, he brings deep expertise in capital markets, strategic M&A, and commodities to guide the company's vision of tokenizing real-world assets. Morgan recently served as

For episode 733 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Wasim Ahmad, CEO of Vault12. Vault12 is a non-custodial crypto security and digital inheritance platform. It enables cryptocurrency owners to protect and back up their wallet seed phrases, private keys, and digital assets (like NFTs) by distributing encrypted data shards across a decentralized network of trusted friends, family, and devices. 🔗 Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/dd6ekxzc 🔗 Apple Podcasts:..