For episode 592 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Mike Collins, CEO of Alumni Ventures.

Alumni Ventures is one of the most active venture firms in the world, making startup investing more accessible for individuals and empowering Founders with strategic capital and support. They back bold innovation and believe that venture is for more than just institutions, but also for people who want to shape the future.

⏳ Timestamps:

(0:00) Introduction

(1:05) Who is Mike Collins? 

(10:17) Alumni Ventures explained

(21:02) Compound Investing

(25:28) Bitcoin as an asset

(31:38) Token deals vs equity

(36:05) Regulations & Policy

(38:44) Alumni Ventures website & contact

🎙 Alumni Ventures & Mike Collins Links:

🔗 Website: https://www.av.vc/
🔗 Web3 Fund: https://www.av.vc/funds/blockchain 

🔗 X: https://x.com/alumniventures 

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/alumniventures 

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-collins-362100 

📢 Disclaimer:

None of our content constitutes, nor is intended to act as financial advice. It’s important to always do your own research and due diligence before making any investment decision. Digital Assets and Cryptocurrencies are highly volatile and carry a considerable amount of risk.

For episode 591 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Violet Abtahi, Founder & CEO of Platonic.

Violet Abtahi is a serial entrepreneur and investor with over two decades of experience in finance and blockchain technology. Under her leadership, Platonic is building enterprise-grade Layer‑1 blockchain infrastructure that bridges traditional and public blockchain ecosystems to enable secure, scalable issuance and distribution of real-world assets. 

She also co-founded Enya Labs and Boba Network and has been recognized on Forbes’ 40 Under 40 list for her impact in fintech. Violet is passionate about creating inclusive, privacy-first global financial systems that unlock abundance and human connection.

Learn more about how Platonic is shaping the future of blockchain infrastructure and real-world asset tokenization by visiting platonic.io and connecting on X ( https://x.com/Platonic_io).

⏳ Timestamps:

(0:00) Introduction

(0:56) Who is Violet Abtahi?

(5:26) Connecting Humanity with Infrastructure

(7:00) What is Platonic?

(12:52) Tokenizing Real World Assets

(25:36) Platonic Use-cases

(34:04) Platonic Roadmap

(35:58) Platonic website, socials & community

🎙 Platonic Links:

🔗 Website: https://platonic.io 

🔗 X: https://x.com/Platonic_io 

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/platonic-io/ 

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/violet-abtahi 

📢 Disclaimer:

None of our content constitutes, nor is intended to act as financial advice. It’s important to always do your own research and due diligence before making any investment decision. Digital Assets and Cryptocurrencies are highly volatile and carry a considerable amount of risk.

For episode 590 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Jeff Handler, CCO of OpenTrade, an institutional-grade platform delivering real-world asset-backed yield on USDC, USDT, and EURC.

⏳ Timestamps:

(0:00) Introduction

(1:08) Who is Jeff Handler?

(4:12) Importance of Yield-based Stablecoins

(7:10) Typical clients

(11:03) Stablecoin Yield use-cases in Colombia

(15:22) Impact of the Genius Act

(17:47) Future of RWAs in Finance

(21:54) Onboarding for Clients

(24:18) APIs & GraphQL

(24:37) OpenTrade Roadmap

(26:28) Events & Conferences

(27:12) OpenTrade website & socials

🎙 OpenTrade & Jeff Handler Links:

🔗 Website: https://www.opentrade.io/ 

🔗 X: https://x.com/opentrade_io 

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/opentrade-io 

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreyhandler 

📢 Disclaimer:

None of our content constitutes, nor is intended to act as financial advice. It’s important to always do your own research and due diligence before making any investment decision. Digital Assets and Cryptocurrencies are highly volatile and carry a considerable amount of risk.

For episode 589 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Co-founder Matt Carr for a part 2 discussion on QCI Partners, an investment advisory firm specializing in alternative investments and digital assets. 

⏳ Timestamps:

(0:00) Introduction

(1:03) Launch of Hedge Fund

(3:22) Derivatives & Options in Crypto

(6:58) Published Pricing Model

(11:33) Treasury Companies buying Crypto

(14:40) Yield-bearing Digital Assets

(18:40) Crypto in Retirement Portfolios

(20:08) Crypto Legislation & Policy

(22:26) Will institutions change Crypto market dynamics?

(28:15) Crypto in Las Vegas

(30:26) QCI Roadmap & Website

🎙 QCI Partners Links:

🔗 Website: https://www.qcipartners.com 

🔗 X: https://x.com/QCI_GP 

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/qci-partners-llc 

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattacarr 

📢 Disclaimer:

None of our content constitutes, nor is intended to act as financial advice. It’s important to always do your own research and due diligence before making any investment decision. Digital Assets and Cryptocurrencies are highly volatile and carry a considerable amount of risk.

For episode 588 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Joël Valenzuela, core member of Dash DAO. We discuss the objectives of Dash DAO and Dash Pay in 2025, the future of crypto payments, the Digital Cash Network, Free State Project and much more!

⏳ Timestamps:

(0:00) Introduction

(1:12) Who is Joël Valenzuela?

(5:50) Dash in 2025

(10:06) Living off Dash and Crypto

(12:02) Future of Crypto payments

(17:33) Digital Cash Network

(27:50) Free State Project

(38:28) Dash DAO Roadmap

(42:15) Joël & Dash on social media

🎙 Dash DAO & Joël Links:

🔗 X: https://x.com/TheDesertLynx 

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jo%C3%ABl-valenzuela-9b912ba 

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dash---digitalcash-cryptocurrency- 

📢 Disclaimer:

None of our content constitutes, nor is intended to act as financial advice. It’s important to always do your own research and due diligence before making any investment decision. Digital Assets and Cryptocurrencies are highly volatile and carry a considerable amount of risk.

For episode 587 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Bryce Ferguson, Co-founder & CEO of Turnkey.Turnkey provides secure, scalable, and programmable crypto infrastructure for embedded wallets and onchain transaction automation. Turnkey provides low-level wallet infrastructure primitives that can be mixed, matched, and configured for any use case.

⏳ Timestamps:

(0:00) Introduction

(1:03) Who is Bryce Ferguson?

(3:56) What is Turnkey?

(7:16) Modernization of Crypto Wallets

(10:12) Turnkey Solutions

(13:23) Use-cases

(14:50) AI Agents & Crypto Wallets

(18:26) Crypto Policy

(25:05) Turnkey Roadmap

(27:02) Contact Turnkey

🎙 Turnkey & Bryce Ferguson Links:

🔗 Website: https://www.turnkey.com 

🔗 X: https://x.com/turnkeyhq 

🔗 X: https://x.com/sadbryce 

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/turnkeyhq 

📢 Disclaimer:

None of our content constitutes, nor is intended to act as financial advice. It’s important to always do your own research and due diligence before making any investment decision. Digital Assets and Cryptocurrencies are highly volatile and carry a considerable amount of risk.

For episode 586 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Daniel Morosan, Business Development Director at Massa. 

Massa is a new Layer 1 that takes decentralization further than most blockchains, from the contract logic to the frontend.

⏳ Timestamps:

(0:00) Introduction

(0:55) Who is Daniel Morosan?

(2:52) What is Massa?

(5:27) Evolution of Decentralization

(10:25) How does DeWeb work?

(11:48) DeWeb process

(12:57) Autonomous Dapps

(15:23) Will everything get Decentralized?

(18:42) Risks of Web3 becoming more Centralized

(21:28) $MAS Token

(22:26) Use-cases

(24:03) Massa Roadmap

(25:56) Massa website, socials & community

🎙 Massa Links:

🔗 Website: https://www.massa.net/ 

🔗 X: https://x.com/massachain 

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielgmorosan 

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/massa-labs 

🔗 Discord: https://discord.com/invite/massa 

📢 Disclaimer:

None of our content constitutes, nor is intended to act as financial advice. It’s important to always do your own research and due diligence before making any investment decision. Digital Assets and Cryptocurrencies are highly volatile and carry a considerable amount of risk.

For episode 585 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by David Byrne, Founder of Daiko, a Web3-powered pet-tech platform combining real-world pet care with blockchain rewards.

⏳ Timestamps:

(0:00) Introduction

(0:55) Who is David Byrne?

(6:23) Daiko App

(9:00) How does the Daiko Leash work?

(10:58) Daiko Token

(13:19) Future Tech for Pet Interaction

(14:43) Gamification

(18:58) Daiko community

(19:55) Daiko App & Leash launch coming

(23:54) Events & Conferences

(25:14) Daiko website, socials & community

🎙 Daiko Links:

🔗 Website: https://daikodog.com 

🔗 X: https://x.com/Daikodog 

🔗 Discord: https://discord.com/invite/daiko 

🔗 Pitch Deck: Link

📢 Disclaimer:

None of our content constitutes, nor is intended to act as financial advice. It’s important to always do your own research and due diligence before making any investment decision. Digital Assets and Cryptocurrencies are highly volatile and carry a considerable amount of risk.

For episode 584 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Péter W. Szabó, Founder of Tengr.ai, an image generation AI, which is now developing sophisticated AI systems that serve as professional partners for business and creative applications with a privacy-by-design approach.

⏳ Timestamps:

(0:00) Introduction

(1:08) Who is Péter W. Szabó?

(10:25) What makes Tengr AI unique?

(14:18) Tengr AI use-cases

(17:14) Capital raise plans

(19:38) Pricing tiers

(27:20) Future of Gen AI

(34:42) Tengr AI roadmap

(36:00) AI events & conferences

(37:19) Website, socials & community

🎙 Tengr Links:

🔗 Website: https://tengr.ai 

🔗 X: https://x.com/Tengrai_com 

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wszabopeter 

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tengrai 

🔗 Discord: https://discord.com/invite/8HePQbaes7 

📢 Disclaimer:

None of our content constitutes, nor is intended to act as financial advice. It’s important to always do your own research and due diligence before making any investment decision. Digital Assets and Cryptocurrencies are highly volatile and carry a considerable amount of risk.

For episode 583 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Stefan Avram, Co-founder and CCO of WunderGraph, the world’s most widely adopted open-source GraphQL Federation solution. 

⏳ Timestamps:

(0:00) Introduction

(0:55) Who is Stefan Avram?

(2:59) Tinder for Founders

(3:26) What is Wundergraph?

(5:20) GraphQL

(5:52) Use-cases

(7:44) Typical Customer

(10:33) Expansion plan for Wundergraph

(11:56) Tips & Advice to Founders

(16:02) Wundergraph Roadmap

(20:49) Wundergraph website, socials & community

🎙 WunderGraph Links:

🔗 Website: https://wundergraph.com 

🔗 X: https://x.com/wundergraphcom 

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefan-avram-62696713a 

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wundergraph 

🔗 Discord: https://discord.com/invite/Jjmc8TC 

📢 Disclaimer:

None of our content constitutes, nor is intended to act as financial advice. It’s important to always do your own research and due diligence before making any investment decision. Digital Assets and Cryptocurrencies are highly volatile and carry a considerable amount of risk.