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

Nov. 27, 2025

From Pixels to Protocols: Sebastien Borget on The Sandbox, SANDchain, & the Creator Economy

Sebastien Borget, co-founder and global ambassador of The Sandbox, joins host Dylan Grabowski to discuss the long road from mobile gaming startup to a leading voice in metaverse. Borget explains why SANDchain, the new L2 for creators, represents the next step in decentralizing digital ownership, ho…
Nov. 6, 2025

The $10B Question: The Graph's Big Bet on Decentralized Data

In this episode of The Smart Economy Podcast, host Dylan Grabowski is joined by Nick Hansen, team lead at The Graph Foundation, an indexing protocol for organizing blockchain data. Together, they unpack The Graph’s mission to...
Oct. 23, 2025

From iOS Developer to Crypto CEO: Building Rails on Kraken's Ink L2

In this episode of The Smart Economy Podcast, host Dylan Grabowski is joined by Satraj Bambra, CEO and co-founder of Rails and managing partner at Round13 Capital. Together, they explore Rails’ hybrid trading model, its colla...
Oct. 9, 2025

From 2017 ICO Mania to $100M Corporate Treasuries: Injective's Path to Wall Street

In this episode of The Smart Economy Podcast, host Dylan Grabowski is joined by Mirza Uddin, head of business development at Injective, a blockchain-based platform building infrastructure for DeFi, aiming to enable truly open...
Sept. 25, 2025

Building Freedom Tools for Digital Money: Ian Rogers on Ledger's Strategy for Mainstream Crypto Adoption

In this episode of The Smart Economy Podcast, host Dylan Grabowski is joined by Ian Rogers, Chief Experience Officer at Ledger, a hardware and software security provider for digital assets and Web3. Together, they explore the...
Aug. 14, 2025

The Darwin Cycles of Crypto: What Survives and Why with Aryan Sheikhalian of CMT Digital

In this episode of The Smart Economy Podcast, host Dylan Grabowski is joined by Aryan Sheikhalian, Head of Research at CMT Digital, a global blockchain and Web3 proprietary trading and venture capital firm focused on early-st...