The Smart Economy Podcast

The Smart Economy Podcast

The Smart Economy Podcast features interviews with some of the most interesting people within the blockchain industry, working to make the new smart economy a reality.

Recent Episodes

July 3, 2025

Why Everything Will Be Tokenized: Spark's Path to Mainstream DeFi Adoption

In this episode of The Smart Economy Podcast, host Dylan Grabowski is joined by Sam MacPherson, CEO and co-founder of Phoenix Labs, the R&D company behind the multi-chain DeFi platform Spark. What you’ll learn: How Spark Liqu...
June 19, 2025

The Pseudonymous Team That Saved THORChain: Aaluxx Myth on Maya Protocol and the TCY Rescue

In this episode of The Smart Economy Podcast, host Dylan Grabowski is joined by Aaluxx Myth, co-founder of Maya Protocol, a decentralized liquidity solution enabling native L1-to-L1 token swaps. What you’ll learn: How Maya Pr...
June 5, 2025

From Wall Street to Web3: How Plaza Finance is Bringing TradFi Sophistication to DeFi

In this episode of The Smart Economy Podcast, host Dylan Grabowski is joined by Ryan Galvankar, the founder of Plaza Finance, a platform built on Base that is specializing in programmable derivatives. What you’ll learn: How t...
May 22, 2025

Scaling Stablecoins Without Banks: Inside M0’s Complexity Abstraction Machine

In this episode of The Smart Economy Podcast, host Dylan Grabowski is joined by Gregory Di Prisco, co-founder and Chief Architect at M0, a platform that aims to empower builders of application-specific stablecoins. What you’l...
May 8, 2025

Are Stablecoins the Future of Money? Telcoin’s eUSD and becoming a Digital Bank with Paul Neuner

In this episode of The Smart Economy Podcast, host Dylan Grabowski is joined by Paul Neuner, the Founder and CEO of Telcoin, acompany leveraging blockchain technology to provide low-cost DeFi products for mobile phone users globally, to explore how their Nebraska-based digital asset bank charter is…
April 24, 2025

Are Stablecoins Crypto's Achilles' Heel? Quai Network's Energy-Backed Alternative with Alan Orwick

In this episode of The Smart Economy Podcast, host Dylan Grabowski is joined by Alan Orwick, the CEO of Dominant Strategies, a development entity creating tooling and applications on the Quai Network. What You’ll Learn: Why ...