SOON Stack | Build on Solana, Deploy Everywhere with CEO Joanna Zeng
What if you could bring Solana’s speed to every major blockchain—and onboard millions of new users with zero friction? In this new episode of The Index, host Alex Kehaya welcomes back Joanna Zeng, Co-founder & CEO of SOON, for an exciting update on how her team is breaking down the walls between blockchain ecosystems and building the infrastructure for a more unified Web3. Soon is pioneering a decoupled SVM architecture—separating Solana’s execution layer from its consensus layer—to deliv...
15 Jun 28min
Inside Coinbase’s Developer Tools: X402, AI Agents, and Crypto Payments with Nemil Dalal
The future of AI needs a new internet. Coinbase is laying the foundation. In this episode of The Index, host Alex Kehaya talks with Nemil Dalal, Head of Coinbase’s Developer Platform, about how Coinbase is building crypto-native infrastructure to power the next generation of applications, starting with autonomous AI agents. Nemil shares his background in crypto, from meeting Brian Armstrong at Y Combinator to helping scale USDC from $10 million to $1 billion in market cap. Today, he's f...
6 Jun 35min
Universal Staking and Network Security with Symbiotic Co-founder Misha Putiatin
What if launching a decentralized network didn’t require reinventing tokenomics or compromising on trust and security? This week on The Index, host Alex Kehaya sits down with Misha Putiatin, Co-founder of Symbiotic, to explore how their novel approach to universal staking is changing the game for protocol builders. Instead of issuing a new token to bootstrap security, Symbiotic enables networks to leverage existing assets like ETH, providing deep, native trust from day one. What makes Symbiot...
30 Mai 30min
Bitcoin’s Next Frontier, DeFi’s Future & On-Chain Finance | VEDA Co-founder Sun Raghupathi
What does it take to make DeFi yield simple, transparent, and unstoppable? In this episode of The Index, we sit down with Sunand Raghupathi, Co-founder and CEO of VEDA, to explore his journey from leaving a computer science PhD program to building one of DeFi’s fastest-growing platforms. VEDA has grown to $2 billion in assets and 100,000+ users in just over a year, proving there’s massive demand for easy, accessible crypto yield. What sets VEDA apart from failed centralized yield platforms li...
16 Mai 29min
From Bitcoin on Solana to Quantum Vaults | Dean Little, Zeus Network Co-founder
What if blockchains could communicate as easily as APIs? In The Index's Everything SVM episode, Alex Kehaya and Omar Zaki sit down with Dean Little, Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Zeus Network, which is building a seamless way to connect Bitcoin and other major blockchains to the Solana ecosystem. His other work includes cryptography research at Jupiter Research Center, where he focuses on advancing secure blockchain systems. In this episode, Dean unpacks the breakthroughs driving cross-ch...
9 Mai 32min
Building & Training Open AI Intelligence | Prime Intellect Co-founder Vincent Weisser
What if the world’s most powerful AI wasn’t controlled by a handful of tech giants, but was open, accessible, and owned by everyone? In this episode of The Index, we sit down with Vincent Weisser, Co-founder and CEO of Prime Intellect, to explore his groundbreaking vision for democratizing artificial intelligence. Vincent pulls back the curtain on the technical and philosophical innovations behind Prime Intellect, from distributed training systems that harness idle compute power around the wo...
6 Mai 36min
Crypto, Stablecoins & DeFi Strategies with Upshift Co-founder, Alexandre Elkrief
How do we rebuild trust in a decentralized financial system that’s been rocked by collapses and scandals? This week on The Index, host Alex Kehaya sits down with Alexandre Elkrief, Co-founder and CEO of August, to discuss the future of crypto, stablecoins, and DeFi—and how his team is rebuilding trust in the ecosystem with Upshift. Designed to replace blind trust with verifiable transparency, Upshift is a breakthrough protocol that’s redefining the infrastructure of decentralized financ...
25 Apr 27min
Inside the Bybit Hack, Crypto & Blockchain Security | Andres Monteoliva, Range Co-founder
New on The Index— What happens when $1.5B disappears overnight? Host Alex Kehaya chats with Andres Monteoliva, Co-founder and CEO of Range—a blockchain security and intelligence platform—about the high-profile crypto hacks that have exposed major gaps in Web3 and how they’re shaping the future of blockchain security. Together, they unpack the real-world failures behind some of the biggest exploits and explore how Range is using real-time risk modeling to help prevent the next billion-dollar b...
16 Apr 32min
