Ethan Buchman (Cosmos Co-Founder) on Cycles: The Clearing Protocol Reinventing How the World Settles Debt | The Index Podcast
What if the biggest unlock in crypto isn't moving money faster — it's not having to move it at all? Ethan Buchman, co-founder of Cosmos, CEO of Informal Systems, and founder of Cycles, sits down with ...
30 Elo 34min
Matt Van Horn (Lyft) on AI Psychosis & Coding Agents That Never Sleep | The Index Podcast
He almost got scammed by a fake "producer" minutes before this interview even started. Then he told us why he wakes up at 5am hearing phantom AI music. Matt Van Horn, Lyft co-founder and now Founder &...
29 Elo 27min
The Stablecoin Router Everyone Will Use: Ryne Saxe (Eco) on Solana, Visa & the Future of Money
Stablecoins on Solana just hit $15B, and Eco Co-Founder & CEO Ryne Saxe says that number is going to look laughably small in five years. On this episode of The Index Podcast, Ryne breaks down why Sola...
28 Elo 37min
He Got Into Crypto to Save his Cat. Now He's Building Solana's Biggest Trading Card Game. | Natsuki x Rosentica
He bought her sick cat's medicine with USDT because no bank or pharmacy would touch it. That same "get it done, on-chain" energy is now powering Rosentica, an original multimedia IP turning old, retir...
27 Elo 42min
Bernardo Brites (Trace Finance) on Building the $10B Stablecoin Rails Connecting Brazil to the World
Brazil banned crypto players from moving big money, so this founder got a bank license instead. Now Trace Finance processes over $10B in cross-border volume and powers the top 4 global payment compani...
26 Elo 1h 1min
Bootstrapped to 320K Users, ZERO Funding: Agnese Jaunošāne (COO & Co-Founder, Ajelix) on Open-Source AI's Power Move
She turned "everyone hates spreadsheets" into a 320,000-user, 150-country AI company, without taking a single dollar of outside funding. Agnese Jaunošāne, COO & Co-Founder of Ajelix, sits down to brea...
25 Elo 38min
Tokenizing Silver on Solana: Mark Tormey (Founder, Dominion) on Bringing Real World Silver On-Chain
Silver is the one commodity everyone forgot to tokenize. Mark Tormey, founder of Dominion, is fixing that: real, vaulted, audited silver, one token per ounce, live on Solana and built to plug straight...
24 Elo 32min
Solana's Prediction Market Play: Nass Diba (Founder & CEO, Worm) on Building the Future of Media On-Chain
Prediction markets called the 2024 election before the media did. Now Nass Diba, ex-CPO of Rarible and alum of Aave and Dharma, is betting that permissionless, AI-powered prediction markets on Solana ...
23 Elo 37min
