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...
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Sportsbooks are taking your cut. PRED is building the exchange that cuts them out - Crypto Coin Show
Sports bettors lose to the bookmaker before the game even starts. The house sets the lines, pockets the margin, and decides who gets to play — and most people have no idea how much that spread is actually costing them. PRED is a peer-to-peer sports prediction exchange built on Base that removes the middleman entirely.<br />We sit down with the team behind PRED to break down how a decentralized sports prediction exchange works, why betting peer-to-peer changes the economics for bettors, and what it takes to build a regulated, on-chain alternative to the sportsbook model. From how PRED's matching engine wo...
Most blockchains can't prove what happened. Nexus is building the infrastructure that fixes Daniel - Crypto Coin Show
Most blockchains are fast enough to transact but can't prove the transaction was valid without trusting someone. That gap — between execution and verifiable proof — is what institutions, AI agents, and regulated finance keep running into. Daniel Marin, CEO of Nexus Labs, breaks down how Nexus is building a zkVM-powered financial network designed to make every computation cryptographically verifiable at scale. After Testnet III hit 3M+ users and 5M+ nodes, Mainnet launches with validators, provers, and oracles already live — not a blank canvas — plus enshrined financial applications built directly into the protocol rather than bolted on as smart contracts. We get into wha...
Liquidity Transparency for Token Launches — Forgd on Market Making, RFQs, and Real Performance - Crypto Coin Show
Token launches fail fast when liquidity is fake — and most teams do not know how to measure “good liquidity” until it is too late.<br />Scott Byron, Managing Director at Forgd, breaks down how market making actually works, why RFQ processes mislead founders, and what Liquidity Transparency looks like when market makers are judged on real historical performance.<br />Learn the signals that show liquidity is fragile, how fragmentation and post-launch incentives punish weak launches, and what founders should track 60 days pre-launch to avoid negotiating traps.<br />🔗 https://www.forgd.com/<br />🐦 https://x.com/Forgd_<br /><br />🔔JOIN OUR FREE NEWSLETTER...
Most crypto apps lose users before the first transaction. Ramp Network fixed that Przemek Kowalczyk - Crypto Coin Show
Crypto adoption has stalled at the on-ramp. Most wallets and dApps lose users at the exact moment they try to buy their first token — because the payment flow is slow, the KYC is clunky, and the failure rates are quietly killing conversion.<br />Przemek Kowalczyk, Co-Founder and CEO of Ramp Network, breaks down how Ramp built a global fiat-to-crypto infrastructure layer operating across 150+ countries, supporting cards, bank transfers, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Pix, and more — all embedded directly into the apps users already have. From the root causes of failed onboarding (it's not what most teams think) to the just-announced Ramp...
AWS charges 70% more than it needs to. [io.net](http://io.net)'s CMO on why decentralised compute is ready now (Jack Collier, [io.net](http:
Big Tech is spending $650B on AI infrastructure and still can't build fast enough. Half of US data centres planned for 2026 are delayed — and centralised compute is showing structural cracks. DECENTRALIZED AI is already running as a viable alternative at a fraction of the cost. Jack Collier, CMO at io.net, breaks down how io.net aggregates idle GPU power from data centres, mining rigs, and consumer devices into a single decentralised compute marketplace at up to 70% less than AWS or Google Cloud. We cover the IDE — io.net's new economic model that replaces inflation-driven tokenomics by paying suppliers in doll...
XYO Layer One just got 2–5x faster — and most crypto investors still haven't noticed Arie Trouw, XYO
Most Layer One upgrades are incremental. XYO just shipped a throughput jump of two to five times, dual DataLake support in the SDK, and validator and producer stability fixes — all at once — and the full implications for developers and XL1 economics haven't landed yet. Arie Trouw, Co-Founder, CEO, and CTO of XYO, breaks down what actually changed in this infrastructure push: what was bottlenecking throughput before, what the DataLake SDK unlocks for builders working with real-world data, and why stability at the validator layer matters more than most people realize. We also get into where verifiable data infrastructure fits in the...
Your hotel loyalty points expire. Your OTA takes 20. Staynex built a different model - Crypto Coin Show
The travel industry runs on hidden fees and expiring rewards — and most hotel loyalty programs are designed to make points hard to use, not easy.<br />Michael Ros, CEO of Europe at Staynex and founder of [Sleap.io](http://Sleap.io) (recently acquired by Staynex), breaks down how Staynex is building a Web3 travel membership — zero booking commissions for hotels, tokenized travel rights, and a revenue-sharing model for members ahead of the April 23 TGE. From why the [Sleap.io](http://Sleap.io) acquisition happened to what $STAY token holders can actually do with it, this is a practical look at what...
Privacy isn't a feature — it's the missing infrastructure. Charles Hoskinson on Midnight - Crypto Coin Show
Most blockchains were built to be transparent by design. That transparency is now the single biggest reason institutions won't put sensitive data on-chain — and why the Clarity Act, as written, still misses the point. Charles Hoskinson, Co-Founder of Ethereum and Founder and CEO of Input Output Global, joins Ashton Addison to cover the most consequential conversation in crypto right now: why the US regulatory framework needs a full overhaul, not just amendments, what the fourth generation of blockchain actually solves, and why privacy infrastructure is the unlock that brings real-world adoption at scale. We also go live on a demo of...
Bitcoin miners are earning a premium right now — here's why (NiceHash, Filip Primec) - Crypto Coin Show
Most Bitcoin miners are leaving money on the table by using traditional pools — and they don't know it. Right now, buyers on the NiceHash hashrate marketplace are paying nearly 3% above the standard hashprice benchmark, and that premium flows directly to miners. Filip Primec, Director of NiceHash AG and Member of the Management Board, joins Ashton Addison to break down how NiceHash operates the world's largest hashrate marketplace, what RTPPS means for your daily earnings versus a standard FPPS pool, and why demand for on-demand hashrate is surging in 2026. From the EasyMining story — a solo miner who turned a $70 package into a $2...
Sending money across borders still costs 6 and takes 5 days. Higlobe fixed that — Teymour Farman - Crypto Coin Show
Cross-border payments have been broken for decades — slow settlement, high fees, and opaque FX spreads quietly draining money that should reach contractors, suppliers, and workers around the world. Teymour Farman-Farmaian, Co-founder and CEO of Higlobe, breaks down how the company built a stablecoin sandwich — bank in, stablecoin in the middle, bank out — that moves funds in under 60 seconds at near-zero cost, without requiring any API integration or crypto knowledge from the business using it. From the 2021 insight that made this viable (marginal cost collapses to near zero when you remove the netting model) to how Higlobe monetizes without charging for transf...
