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Ownership 13 Episodes Jul 20, 2026

Ownership is a podcast from a media company focused on the Ownership industry. It covers podcasts, X Spaces, live pitching, and roundtables, featuring insights from industry leaders. The show is powered by MetaDAO and Blockformer.

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Ownership Podcast S1 E12: Tony (Epicentral) Jul 20, 2026 00:44:36 Tony from Epicentral on bringing American style options onchain, the Solana Options Standard, and why options are the biggest gap in DeFi.We cover why options have never scaled in crypto, how option pools replace the order book with onchain Black-Scholes pricing, why you can write options without putting up 100 SOL of collateral, and why he calls options the original prediction market. Plus binary

Ownership Podcast S1 E11: Shrii (Credible) Jul 13, 2026 00:38:58 Shrii from Credible Finance on instant settlement for high-risk payments, raising on MetaDAO, and building a Stripe for the businesses traditional gateways won't touch.We cover why Stripe can't follow him into this market, what T+0 settlement means for gaming and prediction market platforms sitting on cash flow risk, how the open payment stack lets teams self onboard and spin up their own

Ownership Podcast S1 E10: Ranga (Solomon Labs) Jul 13, 2026 01:20:09 Ranga from Solomon Labs on building a productive dollar, raising on MetaDAO, and why USDv is the stablecoin you default to instead of the one you chase yield for.We cover why the old token playbook is dead, the 100M raise and the Cloudflare outage that nearly derailed it, how YaaS makes monetary policy programmable so USDv can stay liquid and always earning, the pivot off the basis trade into a Tr

Ownership Podcast S1 E9: Hunter (Laso) Jun 29, 2026 00:47:41 Hunter from Laso Finance on private crypto prepaid cards, raising on MetaDAO, and the case for agentic commerce.We cover privacy at the point of spend, how Laso stays compliant with no ID upload, why the 4% of volume from AI agents may matter more than the 96% from humans, and why he's building agents to start businesses rather than to ease shopping. Plus Bitrefill, x402, and the on-chain endg

Ownership Podcast S1 E8: Arad (Lightcone) May 25, 2026 00:51:43 Arad, founder of Lightcone, makes the case for impact markets — permissionless decision markets that don't require the questions or assets to be ones you control.We cover Polymarket's origins as an "information markets" platform, why futarchy fails when proposals lack information, the two-universe mental model behind Lightcone's settlement, and why Arad believes the Oracle pr

Ownership Podcast S1 E7: Proph3t (MetaDAO) Apr 22, 2026 00:58:06 Proph3t, founder of MetaDAO, breaks down futarchy from first principles — a governance system where prediction markets, not token holders, decide what a protocol does.The conversation moves fast: from the origin story of MetaDAO to ownership coins, liquidating failing projects as a feature, insider trading risks in onchain governance, and buybacks as value accrual. Then it zooms out — Proph3t'

Ownership Podcast S1 E6: Maushish (Paystream) Mar 30, 2026 00:48:21 Maushish, founder of Paystream, comes back 5 months after raising $750K through MetaDAO to give a honest account of what building post-raise actually looks like.He covers his early skepticism about futarchy, how the Omnipair and Umbra raises convinced him, what the Ranger liquidation proved about the mechanism, and why Paystream has since pivoted from LPing to funding rate arbitrage on perps.The b

Ownership Podcast S1 E5: Sheldon (P2P.me) Mar 23, 2026 00:47:25 Sheldon from P2P joins 8bitpenis to explain why a startup backed by Multicoin and Coinbase Ventures chose MetaDAO over another VC round.The answer is about regulatory survival. P2P operates in India, Brazil, Argentina, and Indonesia — markets without clear regulatory frameworks for crypto on/off ramps. Decentralizing ownership to 50,000+ token holders across 50 countries isn't ideological. It&

Ownership S1 E4: Chris (Loyal) Mar 16, 2026 01:08:05 In this episode of Ownership, Chris, founder of Loyal, joins 8bitpenis to discuss the chaotic reality of communication in crypto.Most teams coordinate through Telegram, but the platform was never designed for managing large volumes of sensitive information. Loyal is building a privacy-first layer that helps knowledge workers in crypto navigate conversations, extract insights, and maintain confiden

Ownership S1E3: Kru (Umbra) Mar 4, 2026 01:01:39 In this episode of Ownership, 8bitpenis sits down with Kru, founder of Umbra, to unpack a different approach to building in DeFi.We explore how Umbra launched, the decision to go through MetaDAO, and what it means to rethink capital formation in crypto after the ICO era collapsed.Kru shares his journey from early crypto cycles to building Omnipair, why traditional fundraising models feel broken, a

Ownership S1E2: rakka (Omnipair) Feb 27, 2026 01:09:52 In this episode of Ownership, 8bitpenis explores the deeper mechanics of crypto governance, token design, and capital formation in DeFi.We unpack what’s broken in current token models, why most governance systems fail, and what it actually means to build sustainable ownership structures in crypto.This conversation touches on:• Why token confidence is broken• Futarchy vs traditional governance• Own

Ownership S1E0: 8bitpenis (Ownership) Feb 20, 2026 00:12:13 Welcome to Ownership.In this intro episode, 8bitpenis lays the foundation for the series - why Ownership exists, what problems it explores, and why capital formation in crypto needs a rethink.This episode covers the breakdown of traditional token models, the failures of capital allocation in Web3, and the emerging ideas shaping the next generation of crypto-native ownership.Season 1 will focus on

Ownership S1 E1: Anas (FlashTrade) Feb 19, 2026 00:54:17 In this episode of Ownership, 8bitpenis sits down with Anas from FlashTrade to unpack one of the most interesting experiments in crypto governance — the transition from futarchy to ownership coins.They cover how Flash bootstrapped without venture capital, funded early growth through NFTs, and why they rejected the traditional VC route entirely. The conversation dives deep into futarchy vs token go

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