The Smart Economy Podcast

Alexis Sirkia, captain of Yellow, joins The Smart Economy Podcast to discuss how decentralized clearing and settlement infrastructure could reshape crypto trading, AI agent economies, and institutional adoption. Sirkia shares his journey from early market making to building Yellow, explains how sta…

Vivek Raman, co-founder and CEO of Etherealize, joins The Smart Economy Podcast to discuss how Ethereum is moving from experimentation to real institutional use. Drawing on his time trading credit on Wall Street, Raman explains why banks are revisiting public blockchains, how tokenization is being …

Greg Osuri, founder of Akash Network and CEO of Overclock Labs, joins The Smart Economy Podcast to discuss decentralized cloud infrastructure, the growing demand for AI compute, and why traditional cloud providers may struggle to keep up. Osuri explains how Akash is building a peer-to-peer marketpl…

George Zeng, chief product officer at the NEAR Protocol, joins The Smart Economy Podcast to discuss the convergence of AI agents, crypto infrastructure, and user-owned intelligence. Zeng explains why decentralized AI matters, how agent-based systems could become the primary interface for the intern…

David Johnston, OSS code maintainer at Morpheus, joins The Smart Economy Podcast to discuss the convergence of AI agents, crypto infrastructure, and open-source intelligence. Johnston explains why owning your own AI agent may become essential in the coming wave of automation, how decentralized infr…

Laszlo Szabo, co-founder and CEO of Kiln, joins The Smart Economy Podcast to explore how staking has evolved into institutional infrastructure and how on-chain vaults, DeFi, and tokenized RWAs are beginning to intersect. Szabo explains why staking often grows during bear markets, how institutions a…