We begin the new year on SmarterMarkets™ with Part Two of our Holiday Special 2025: The Year in Review.

This week, we’re continuing to revisit the conversations with our guests that helped us understand and articulate the themes that would come to define 2025. 

It was the year in which we discovered that this was not the energy transition that we were expecting; and the year in which a new geopolitical reality emerged and old geopolitical concerns resurfaced. It was the year featuring a tale of two carbon markets and the need for new weather markets to manage the risks posed by reliance on renewable power. And 2025 was the year in which there was both a new gold rush and a rush into tokenization.

We hope you’ll sit back, relax, and enjoy Part Two of our Holiday Special 2025: The Year in Review.

Our guests in order of appearance:

Josh Crumb – Founder & CEO, Abaxx Technologies

SM229 – 5.3.2025 – Gold for the 21st Century

Steve Lowe – Strategic Advisor for Precious Metals, Abaxx and Former Managing Director, Co-Head of Global Base and Precious Metals, Scotiabank 

SM231 – 5.17.2025 – Gold for the 21st Century

Sunil Kashyap – Managing Director at FinMet Pte Ltd., Singapore

SM224 – 3.29.2025 – Gold for the 21st Century

Wade Brennan – CEO & Co-Founder, Kilo Capital

SM225 – 4.5.2025 – Gold for the 21st Century

Thom McMahon – Co-Founder, Abaxx Technologies

SM235 – 6.14.2025 – Gold for the 21st Century

Albert Cheng – CEO, Singapore Bullion Market Association (SBMA)

SM240 – 7.19.2025 – Summer Playlist 2025

Ian Forester – Head of Product, Abaxx Technologies

SM254 – 10.25.2025 – Re-engineering Tokenization

Riley Hughes – Co-Founder & CEO, Trinsic

SM258 – 11.22.2025 – Re-engineering Tokenization

Carrie Jaquith – Global Head of Digital Product, Abaxx Technologies

SM257 – 11.15.2025 – Re-engineering Tokenization

Leah Wald – Digital Title Lead, Abaxx Technologies

SM261 – 12.13.2025 – Re-engineering Tokenization

Walt Lukken – President & CEO, FIA

SM262 – 12.20.2025 – Re-engineering Tokenization

Josh Crumb – Founder & CEO, Abaxx Technologies

SM253 – 10.18.2025 – Re-engineering Tokenization