Most crypto wallets are still just storage. Trust Wallet just added tokenized US stocks, perpetual futures, and prediction markets — all non-custodial, all on mobile. SELF-CUSTODIAL TRADING is no longer a contradiction, and Trust Wallet's General Counsel breaks down exactly what changed. Shehram Khattak, General Counsel at Trust Wallet, joins Ashton Addison on Blockchain Interviews. Trust Wallet has surpassed 220 million downloads across 100+ blockchains, hit $1 billion in perp volume within 40 days of launching on Hyperliquid, and became the #2 builder by volume on the network in its first weeks. Shehram explains how Trust Wallet integrated Hyperliquid's HIP-4 prediction markets as the first major wallet to do so, what bStocks means for someone who wants to trade tokenized NVDA, TSLA, and SPCXB 24/7 with dividends handled automatically onchain, and why the Trust Wallet Agent Kit — which lets AI agents execute trades on a user's behalf — is the next frontier for self-custody.
You'll learn:

• How Trust Wallet hit $1B in perp volume in 40 days and became #2 by volume on Hyperliquid — what's actually driving demand for self-custodial leverage trading on mobile
• What bStocks are and what it means to trade tokenized US equities like NVDA and TSLA 24/7 with dividends and splits handled automatically onchain — versus just holding the stock in a brokerage
• How HIP-4 prediction markets work and why Trust Wallet was first to integrate them — including how the team thinks about availability across different global jurisdictions

🔗 https://trustwallet.com
🐦 https://x.com/TrustWallet

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Most AI training data flows through centralized providers like Scale AI and Appen — expensive, slow, and controlled by a handful of platforms. DECENTRALIZED DATA INFRASTRUCTURE is what Perceptron is building, and it's already serving 700,000+ nodes and generating real revenue.n Peter Anthony, Co-Founder of Perceptron Network, breaks down how a mesh of user-run nodes delivers AI training data at 92% lower cost than legacy providers, why the Data Questing Platform is the next frontier for distributed micro-tasking, and how the $10M AI Data Fund is accelerating teams with free data access. Perceptron has 700K+ nodes, 300K daily active users, and live client contracts — and they're about to launch the infrastructure that turns the community into the AI economy's labeling backbone. The decentralized data mesh works because you cut out the middleman; the Data Questing Platform does distributed precision labeling with incentive alignment that Scale AI and Mechanical Turk can't; and the $10M AI Data Fund matters because teams get access with no pre-funding, reshaping how AI training data is sourced.
🔗 https://perceptrons.xyzn
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Africa's crypto adoption is accelerating faster than almost any region on earth, but the infrastructure to serve 1.7 billion people across 54 countries, multiple currencies, and remittance costs averaging 7 to 8% is still being built. SELF-CUSTODY CRYPTO EXCHANGE INFRASTRUCTURE is what VALR is building at continental scale — and a new FSCA OTC Derivatives Provider licence just expanded what it can offer.
Farzam Ehsani, Co-Founder and CEO of VALR, joins Ashton Addison on Blockchain Interviews. VALR is Africa's largest crypto exchange by trade volume, backed by Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, and Fidelity's F-Prime Capital, serving over 1.7 million registered users and 1,800 corporate clients. Farzam previously served as Blockchain Lead at Rand Merchant Bank and the FirstRand Group and was the inaugural Chairperson of the South African Financial Blockchain Consortium — making him one of the most credentialed voices on African crypto regulation alive. He breaks down what South Africa's draft capital flow management regulations actually say and why they represent an opportunity more than a threat, how the Onafriq integration gives users across the continent access to mobile money in local currencies, and what a VALR partnership with the DHL Stormers and helicopter campaigns flying "Crypto For Everyone" banners says about where mainstream crypto adoption is heading on the continent.
🔗 https://www.valr.com
🐦 https://x.com/VALRcom

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Selling Bitcoin to access liquidity means a taxable event, losing your position, and missing whatever comes next. CRYPTO-BACKED LENDING is the alternative — and Arch Lending lets borrowers use Bitcoin and digital assets as collateral to access cash without ever selling their holdings. Himanshu, CTO of Arch Lending, joins Ashton Addison on Blockchain Interviews to break down how crypto-backed loans actually work, how Arch protects borrower collateral when Bitcoin prices move sharply, and what a margin call looks like in practice. One of Arch's clients — Tyler Martin, a business owner and former sailing captain — used a Bitcoin-backed loan to buy a blue-water yacht and now sails the Caribbean with his wife while running his business remotely. He kept his Bitcoin. He got the cash. Himanshu explains the mechanics, the risk model, and who these loans are actually built for — from high-net-worth holders to everyday crypto investors who have accumulated and don't want to sell.

🔗 https://archlending.com

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Bitcoin has been promised as a payment layer for 15 years, but merchants still don't use it. Transaction finality, custody concerns, and merchant UX have kept Bitcoin commerce stuck in theory. NON-CUSTODIAL BITCOIN PAYMENTS are now live, and GoMining's GoBTC Pay is bringing debit-card UX to actual Bitcoin settlement.n
Mark Zalan, CEO of GoMining, launches the GoBTC Pay Gen1 SDK and API — opening Bitcoin payments to merchants, wallets, and ecosystem partners across his top-10 mining operation serving 5 million users. Mark walks through how GoBTC Pay settles directly on Bitcoin with users keeping control of their private keys, why a 0.2% fee split between wallets and miners aligns everyone's incentives, and how the 15 EH/s private mempool powered by Stratum V2 gives merchants the reliability Bitcoin payment layers have promised but never delivered. From tokenized hashrate making mining accessible to retail, to payments bringing Bitcoin into everyday commerce, this is what a fully integrated Bitcoin ecosystem looks like.n

You'll learn:
- How GoBTC Pay achieves non-custodial Bitcoin settlement with merchant-friendly UX — and why previous attempts at Bitcoin commerce never broke throughn
- Why a 0.2% fee with splits between wallet providers and miners is the incentive structure that makes Bitcoin payments actually work at scalen
- How GoMining's 15 EH/s mempool and Stratum V2 infrastructure guarantee transaction priority and reliability — what that means for merchants adopting GoBTC Payn
🔗 https://gomining.comn
🐦 https://x.com/GoMiningn

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Sleep data is collected by Oura, Whoop, and Apple Watch every night — but the value flows to the platforms, not the user. GAMIFIED SLEEP DATA is the model Sleepagotchi is building, and it just evolved from a Sleep-to-Earn app into what the team calls "The Intelligence Layer for the Wellness Economy." Kenny Wood, CEO of Sleepagotchi, joins Ashton Addison on Blockchain Interviews. Kenny brings over two decades in AAA game development — including chart-topping franchises like Transformers, Bionicle, and Formula 1 — into a platform that turns sleep into permissioned data value, NFTs, and $SLEEP tokens. We cover how wearables including Whoop, Oura, and Apple Watch feed real-time biometric pipelines into chained AI agents, how the Telegram LITE mini-app hit 2 million users without any sleep tracking at all, and what $6.5M raised and over $100K in three-week beta revenue says about whether this is a health product or a rewards product.
You'll learn:

• How Sleepagotchi turns a night of sleep into an NFT or $SLEEP — what's actually being measured and what the gamification mechanics do that a free sleep app doesn't
• What "The Intelligence Layer for the Wellness Economy" means in the product: which AI agents are live today — starting with the AI Sleep Coach — and what's still on the roadmap
• Why permissioned data value is the model that makes this work — what a user can actually do with their biometric data on Sleepagotchi that they can't do on Oura or Whoop

🔗 https://www.sleepagotchi.com/

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Most tokenized real world assets still take 60 to 180 days to redeem. Most restaking protocols lock capital in silos that can't work across chains. COLLATERAL MARKETS INFRASTRUCTURE is what fixes both — and Symbiotic is building the layer that credit, insurance, and RWA liquidity are already running on. Misha Putiatin, Co-Founder and CEO of Symbiotic, breaks down why the restaking label undersells what Symbiotic is actually building, how Core V2's capital facilities let committed capital stay enforceable while earning yield between settlement events, and why immutable, permissionless infrastructure is the only design that institutions can actually trust. From how Symbiotic Instant Liquidity enables T+0 atomic settlement for tokenized assets with no pre-funded inventory, to why Cap Labs, Nexus Mutual, and Midas are all building on the same shared infrastructure — this is a clear look at what collateral markets actually mean for DeFi in 2026.
You'll learn:

• Why Symbiotic moved beyond restaking to collateral markets — and what that distinction changes for builders and capital allocators
• How Core V2 capital facilities work: vault capital that stays enforceable while deployed to Morpho and Euler, automatically recalled when obligations trigger
• How Symbiotic Instant Liquidity solves the RWA redemption problem — T+0 settlement with no idle capital and no pre-funded inventory
• Why immutable core contracts are a feature, not a limitation — and what it forces you to get right before you ship

🔗 https://symbiotic.fi
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Half of web traffic is already synthetic, and neither platforms nor enterprises have a reliable way to tell humans from AI agents at scale. VERIFICATION INFRASTRUCTURE is what Verona is building — and the rebrand from XION, announced June 17 alongside an $18.5M raise for flagship consumer app EarnOS and $30M in brand spend, is the moment that becomes a public priority. Anthony Anzalone, Founder and CEO of Verona, joins Ashton Addison on Blockchain Interviews for his third appearance on the show. Anthony breaks down exactly what the XION-to-Verona shift changes — and what stays the same. The Cosmos SDK, CometBFT, and CosmWasm stack that powered walletless, gasless consumer crypto now underpins a decentralized network of verified information designed for AI agent commerce. From how Ero, the new consumer app from EarnOS, lets users earn from verified activity without ever exposing raw data, to how 115+ global brands including Uber, Amazon, Nike, and BMW already use this infrastructure for 69 million verified interactions across 3 million users — this is the clearest look at what a verification and intelligence layer for AI agents actually does.

You'll learn:

• What changed and what didn't in the XION-to-Verona rebrand — how years of walletless, gasless infrastructure maps onto a new identity as a verification layer for AI agents
• How Ero works: what verified activity without exposing raw data means in practice, and what the $18.5M EarnOS raise is funding
• Why $VERONA's value is designed to track network revenue and usage rather than raw gas — and who's actually paying for the abstracted, gas-sponsored user experience
• 🔗 https://verona.dev

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AI agents are already executing financial transactions autonomously — but the infrastructure they're running on was never designed for them. NEAR Protocol is building the settlement layer for the agentic economy: a blockchain where agents can express outcomes, route cross-chain transactions, and operate with built-in privacy guarantees — without a human in the loop for every step. Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder of NEAR Protocol and co-author of Google's "Attention Is All You Need" — the 2017 paper that introduced the Transformer architecture behind ChatGPT, Gemini, and every major LLM running today — joins Ashton Addison on Blockchain Interviews. Illia breaks down how NEAR Intents lets agents express desired outcomes and have the protocol handle routing, bridging, and gas automatically; how IronClaw enables persistent, privacy-preserving AI agents with controlled access to user assets; and why NEAR just shipped a quantum-proof wallet upgrade at a moment when most of the industry isn't thinking about post-quantum security at all. You'll learn:

• How NEAR Intents works and why expressing an outcome rather than specifying a route changes what's possible for AI agents in financial workflows
• What IronClaw adds to the NEAR AI stack — persistent autonomous agents with privacy safeguards and controlled asset access — and who that's built for
• Why NEAR shipped a quantum-proof wallet and what the post-quantum threat actually means for crypto infrastructure timelines

🔗 https://www.near.org 🐦 https://x.com/NEARProtocol

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Retail traders are structurally disadvantaged on every traditional order book exchange — stop hunting is real, the spread is a hidden tax, and most platforms give institutions tools that retail will never see. FAIR EXECUTION is what Ouinex is building, and it starts by removing the CLOB entirely.
Ilies Larbi, CEO of Ouinex, breaks down how the exchange's Fair Execution Engine eliminates the front-running and stop hunting that bleeds retail traders dry on most platforms. Ouinex is already live and regulated across 5+ entities, has raised $9M+ from over 5,000 community investors with zero VCs, and offers 500x leverage across crypto, stocks, indices, forex, commodities, and gold — all in a single platform. With TGE set for mid-June 2026 at $0.1334 and over 50% of $OUIX tokens already staked under a 3-year cliff, Ilies explains how the $OUIX flywheel works, why every trade on every asset class generates buyback pressure on a single token, and what it means to build an exchange that was financed, built, and optimized by traders.

You'll learn:
- What stop hunting is, why it keeps happening on traditional order book exchanges, and how Ouinex's Fair Execution Engine structurally removes it
- How the $OUIX flywheel works — why revenue from crypto, stocks, forex, commodities, and indices all feed into a single buyback mechanism
- What 50%+ of tokens already staked under a 3-year cliff means for supply dynamics heading into the mid-June TGE
🔗 https://ouinex.com

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