The AllinCrypto Podcast

What happens to global finance when countries stop trusting each other? This episode makes the case that every major crisis has pushed crypto forward, from the 2008 bank bailouts that led to Bitcoin to the COVID money printing that led to DeFi.

Now the breakdown of trust between nations is putting crypto forward as a neutral system the world can transact on. Johann Eid is the Chief Business Officer at Chainlink.

The conversation breaks down Chainlink as the 'invisible center' of crypto: CCIP for moving value across chains, data that underpins DeFi, and CRE for bringing legacy infrastructure like DTCC on chain. It covers why governments and financial institutions are racing to adopt crypto, and how stablecoins and DeFi open up finance to people without reliable access. It also explores why Chainlink complements layer 1s, why auditability makes crypto essential for trustworthy AI, and why billions of mostly private chains are coming.

Could stablecoins make Visa and Mastercard obsolete?

And could blockchain become the essential infrastructure behind AI agents and the next generation of global finance? Antony Welfare, former Ripple CBDC advisor who worked with more than 30 central banks and founder of TrustCBRC, joins AllInCrypto to explain why the real blockchain revolution goes far beyond cryptocurrency speculation.

From the future of payments and the XRP Ledger to tokenization, AI agents and institutional adoption, this conversation explores how blockchain could reshape the systems behind our everyday lives. Antony draws on his experience at Ripple, Oracle and DXC Technology to explain why legacy financial institutions face growing pressure to adapt, why stablecoins could dramatically reduce payment costs, and why public and private blockchains will likely coexist.

The discussion also explores TrustCBRC, an AI-powered platform designed to evaluate real-world blockchain projects and issue verifiable certificates using the XRP Ledger.

When a clearing system that handles about two trillion dollars a day picks its blockchain operating system, what does that mean for the token behind it? After recent announcements pushed QNT from about $61 to about $350, this conversation asks whether Quant is the layer that lets the old financial world merge with the new one.

Apex Crypto Insights joins AllInCrypto to break down the Quant Network thesis. The conversation covers the sandboxes said to use Quant, from the ECB digital euro to Project Rosalind, and why license fees owed only once projects go live could lock up QNT. It moves through the three-layer model for new money, the claim that most CBDCs run on private versions of the XRP Ledger, and a theory about Satoshi.

Then come QNT valuation scenarios set against Solana, Ethereum and Bitcoin, a look at Bretton Woods, the Triffin dilemma and XRP as a neutral bridge asset, and a closing take on Chainlink versus Quant and the outlook for 2027.

What happens when the US has to roll over its debt with 10-year yields above 5%? For Geoffrey Kendrick, that pressure is part of the Bitcoin case, and part of why he argues crypto is back and the low is in. The bigger shift may sit underneath Bitcoin: stablecoins, tokenization and protocols whose fees keep growing while their tokens stay cheap.

Geoffrey Kendrick is Global Head of Digital Assets Research at Standard Chartered. The conversation covers why Geoffrey believes crypto has bottomed, and how US debt, Treasury intervention and the Fed shape the Bitcoin case.

It then turns to stablecoins, where transactions doubled while supply stalled at about $300 billion, and why that is a massive use case for Ethereum and for protocols like Uniswap, Aave, Morpho, Chainlink and Arbitrum. It also covers the SEC exemption for tokenized US equities and why AI agents will need blockchain rails. It closes with price targets to 2030 and why Bitcoin dominance could edge lower as crypto moves from speculation to revenue.

What if TPS is the wrong way to measure a blockchain's scale? Arbitrum began as a Princeton research project nicknamed the "Professor Coin," and today Robinhood runs its own chain on the Arbitrum stack. So why does market sentiment still lag behind what institutions are actually building? Steven Goldfeder is the co-founder and CEO of Offchain.

The conversation follows Arbitrum from its academic roots at Princeton to a platform that runs from Arbitrum One to custom chains like Robinhood Chain.

It covers the license that sends 10% of on-chain revenue from chains not settling on Arbitrum One to the Arbitrum DAO, why perps and DeFi took off on Arbitrum One, and why gas per second says more than TPS. It also covers Web2-style privacy for institutions, the gap between market sentiment and institutional adoption, and why US crypto laws need to be made durable.

Could Solana become the foundation of a new financial system — one capable of competing with Nasdaq and bringing global capital markets on-chain?

Nick Almond, Head of Governance at the Jito Foundation and co-author of the Solana Constitution, joins Rupert Pickering on AllInCrypto to explore Solana’s future, Jito’s growing role in the ecosystem, and the changing economics of cryptocurrency.

Nick explains why Solana is moving beyond memecoins towards becoming serious financial infrastructure, how Jito is building the network’s market layer through JitoSOL, BAM and JTX, and why institutional adoption depends on more than just transaction speed.

The conversation also covers SOL staking and inflation, JTO token economics, MEV and sandwich attacks, decentralized governance, and the potential convergence of AI and blockchain.

Can Solana become the backbone of 24/7 global finance and what role will Jito play in building it?

Join us for a conversation about the future of crypto, capital markets and digital finance.

What do 16 major investment banks really think about crypto and tokenization?

Rupert Pickering is joined by Anthony Ralphs, Founder of Nova Modus and formerly at Ripple, and Chris Ostrowski, Founder & CEO of SODA, to explore what banks actually want from blockchain and why adoption at scale remains so difficult.

Drawing on SODA’s research with 16 major investment banks, we discuss the real-world potential of tokenized collateral, intraday repo and cross-border payments, alongside the legacy systems holding traditional finance back.

We also explore public vs private blockchains, SODA’s work with MIT on interoperability standards, and whether crypto-native companies could gain an advantage over traditional financial institutions.

A conversation about what it will really take for tokenization to transform global finance.

William Herkelrath, the new CEO of Algorand, joins AllInCrypto for an exclusive conversation on the future of the network and the broader direction of crypto.

We discuss why security could become one of Algorand’s biggest opportunities, how AI may represent a more immediate cybersecurity threat than quantum computing, and why post-quantum infrastructure could become increasingly important across Web3.

William also shares his thoughts on institutional tokenization, stablecoins, enterprise adoption, crypto maximalism, validator economics, product-market fit and Algorand’s strategy for creating more real-world value.

We also explore why he believes blockchain adoption may already be much further along than many people think and what success could look like for Algorand heading into 2027.

A wide-ranging discussion on AI, security, tokenization and the next chapter for Algorand.

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What happens when trillions of dollars in traditional finance start moving onchain?

Christopher Perkins, Head of Franklin Crypto at Franklin Templeton, joins AllInCrypto to explain why institutional adoption may be far further along than most people realize.

We discuss why public blockchains could become the infrastructure for 24/7 financial markets, what a potential $160 trillion onchain shift could mean for native crypto tokens, and why Perkins believes those tokens could eventually become strategic commodities.

We also explore Bitcoin’s advantages over gold, Franklin Templeton’s involvement in blockchain infrastructure, stablecoins, tokenized collateral, US crypto regulation and one of Perkins’ most contrarian ideas: quantum computing may ultimately accelerate crypto adoption rather than destroy it.

A wide-ranging conversation on what happens when crypto stops being an alternative financial system and starts becoming part of the infrastructure behind global markets.

Not financial advice.

Francis Hunt, The Market Sniper, returns to AllInCrypto to break down why he believes the crypto bottom may already be in.

We discuss Bitcoin’s market structure, the rotation from gold into crypto and altcoins, his $2,100 Zcash technical target, the risk of one final market flush, the global debt crisis, and why privacy could become one of the biggest themes in the next financial system.

A wide-ranging conversation on what could come next for crypto and global markets.