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#518: Chris Yin, CEO of Plume Network, on Optimizing Looping, RWAs, Onchain Asset Management, and Nest vaults on Solana

2026-02-1636:27

Chris Yin is CEO/Co-Founder of Plume Network, the first permissionless, full-stack blockchain built for real-world asset finance (RWAfi). He spearheads the team shaping the infrastructure and policy standards to accelerate the development of onchain capital markets. Chris has an accomplished track record as a founder and investor in the enterprise software space, with tenures at Scale Venture Partners, Rainforest QA, and Xpenser (acquired by Coupa, IPO 2016). In this conversation, we di...

#517: Kirill Avery, CEO of Alien, on Decentralized Identity Networks, Continuous Human Verification Protocol (CHVP), and The Future of AI & Crypto

2026-02-1227:00

Kirill Avery is the Founder and CEO of Alien. Serial founder, self-taught coder since age 11, built Europe's largest consumer social app at 16 (15M users). Youngest engineer at [VK.com](http://vk.com/) and youngest solo founder accepted into Y Combinator. Expertise in high-load systems (100M+ users), consumer UX, and mobile viral distribution. In this conversation, we discuss: - Privacy-first decentralized identity network - Social graph APIs - “Proving humanness” - Co...

#516: Xenia Soborova, Head of BD at Tramplin, on The Solana Ecosystem, Solana Staking, and Business Development in crypto

2026-02-1025:51

Xenia Soborova is a Web3 business development leader and Head of BD at Tramplin.io, a Solana-native premium staking app that redistributes network’s inflationary rewards among users to make staking profitable even with a small amount of SOL. Previously, she worked at the Avalanche Foundation on ecosystem growth and founder success and has also held roles across major Web3 teams, including Binance, RARI Foundation, and SQD.ai. She has co-founded BD in Web3, the largest Telegram community for W...

#515: Matt Ober, Managing Partner at Social Leverage, on Prediction Markets, Consumption-based Data Models, Stablecoins, Tokenization, Identifying Trends, and The Degenerate Economy

2026-02-0530:15

Matt Ober is a Managing Partner at Social Leverage, an early stage venture capital firm focused on investing in fintech and enterprise SaaS. The firm is best well know for being early investors in Robinhood, Etoro, Alpaca, & Kustomer which was acquired by Meta. Mat was most recently the Chief Data Scientist at Third Point. Prior to joining Third Point, Matt was the Head of Data Strategy at WorldQuant and part of the WorldQuant Ventures founding team focused on private investments in finte...

#514: Bhau Kotecha, Co-Founder of Paxos Labs, on Stablecoin Adoption, USDG, Omnichain Architecture, and Privacy Focused Stablecoins

2026-02-0225:12

Bhaumik (“Bhau”) Kotecha is the Co-Founder and Head of Paxos Labs, a startup spun out from Paxos in 2025 to empower institutions and developers with enterprise-grade infrastructure for on-chain financial products. At Paxos Labs, he leads the mission to remove the complexity of decentralized finance so partners can seamlessly embed trusted products—such as custom stablecoins, DeFi yield strategies, and tokenized assets—into their platforms. His vision blends the regulatory rigor and infrastruc...

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