Onchain, Honestly!
Onchain, Honestly is a podcast where Kaisa and Alenka talk with the operators actually building crypto companies. They speak with founders and leaders about the practical side of turning protocols and products into real businesses, covering go-to-market, hiring, revenue, traction, and other topics often left out of pitch decks. The show avoids hype and focuses on honest conversations about what works, what doesn't, and what it really takes to build onchain.
Episodes
Onchain, Honestly! Ep. 20 ft. Centrifuge - When Legal Becomes Product Strategy
What happens when the legal team helps design the product instead of just signing it off?In this episode of Onchain, Honestly!, Kaisa and Alenka speak with Eli Cohen, Chief Legal Officer at Centrifuge, about the operational realities of building onchain.Eli explains why legal sits at the table from day one in crypto, how much of today’s "regulatory uncertainty" is real, and why some produ
Onchain, Honestly! ep. 19 ft. Paxos - The Business Decisions Behind a Global Stablecoin
How much is regulatory predictability worth when you’ve already invested in building a business?In this episode of Onchain, Honestly!, we speak with Nick Gersh, Senior Regulatory Counsel at Paxos, about the practical work behind issuing stablecoins and choosing where to operate.Nick explains why he values Europe’s regulatory certainty despite his frustrations with MiCA. His account of iss
Onchain, Honestly! Ep. 18 ft. Tempo - How To Win In Institutional Adoption
What makes stablecoins worth the investment for a bank? In this episode of Onchain, Honestly!, Kaisa and Alenka speak with Ninad Nirgudkar, who leads Tempo’s work with traditional financial institutions, about turning institutional interest in blockchain into products customers can use.We explore how Tempo helps institutions move from a business case to a live product, and what motivates
Onchain, Honestly! Ep.17 ft. AVAT - DATs, Avalanche & Real Institutional Use Cases
Can a digital asset treasury build value beyond the tokens it holds? In this episode of Onchain, Honestly!, Kaisa and Alenka speak with Laine Litman, COO of Avalanche Treasury Co. (AVAT), about AVAT’s strategy and the business case for institutional blockchain adoption.We discuss AVAT’s approach to holding and staking AVAX, its ambitions for broader involvement in the Avalanche ecosystem,
Onchain, Honestly! Ep.16 - What summer 2026 told us about the market: Onchain, Honestly! recap
This episode of Onchain, Honestly! is a little different. We look back at summer 2026 and the developments that made institutional adoption more tangible.We explore the growing importance of viable operating models, the evolving US regulatory framework, and tokenization’s move from issuing assets to building the markets around them.From Tether’s first full financial statement audit and th
Onchain, Honestly! Ep.15 ft. Matthew Snider - What Still Creates an Edge in Digital Asset Investing?
AI can analyze market data, test strategies, and produce investment analysis at a speed once available only to larger teams. As these capabilities become widely accessible, what still creates an edge for an asset manager?In this episode we speak with Matthew Snider, CEO and co-founder of Block3 Strategy Group, about how AI is changing investment analysis and what that could mean for asset
Onchain, Honestly! Ep.14 ft. Pareto Credit & M11 Credit - How Blockchain Upgrades Private Credit
Putting private credit onchain can shorten settlement and reduce servicing overhead. It does not remove the need for underwriting, legal protections, monitoring, or a plan for defaults.In this episode we speak with Matteo Pandolfi, co-founder and CEO of Pareto Credit, and Thibault Labidi, Director of M11 Credit, about what changes when institutional credit moves onchain.They explain how P
Onchain, Honestly! Ep.13 ft. David Newns - From Pilots to Onchain Adoption
In this episode, David Newns, Director of Axiology, Founder of Substrate Advisory, and ex-CEO of SIX Digital Exchange, discusses what institutional adoption of blockchain actually requires and why the technology itself is rarely the hardest part.We cover how blockchain infrastructure must connect with the systems, licences, and legal frameworks institutions already use, why collateral mob
Onchain, Honestly! Ep.12 ft. Ava Labs - The Real Business of RWAs
In this episode, Olivia Vande Woude, who leads tokenization at Ava Labs, discusses what is driving real-world asset adoption on Avalanche and where the strongest opportunities are emerging across tokenized treasuries, private credit, equities, and asset-backed finance.We cover why distribution is becoming just as important as issuance, how business models differ across the tokenization st
Onchain, Honestly! Ep. 11 ft. TronDAO - Is CLARITY Act Crypto’s Big Win in Washington?
In this episode, Adrien Wall, Senior Director of U.S. Policy at TRON DAO and Managing Director of the Digital Sovereignty Alliance, discusses how crypto policy is shaped in Washington and what the GENIUS Act and CLARITY Act mean for stablecoins, token issuers, decentralized networks, exchanges, and the broader digital asset market.We cover why stablecoin regulation became a priority in th
Onchain, Honestly! Ep. 10 ft. Aptos - Are Generalized Blockchains Dead?
In this episode, Ashwin Pampati, Senior Vice President at Aptos Foundation, discusses how Aptos is evolving from generalized blockchain infrastructure into a more focused ecosystem built around trading, stablecoin movement, and AI-related infrastructure.We cover how the foundation thinks about building and incubating products and why financial applications in crypto now require a much hig
Onchain, Honestly! Ep. 9 - Inside Symbiotic’s Pivot: From Restaking to an RWA Liquidity Layer
In this episode, Henrique Sousa Dias, Product Lead for Liquid Lane at Symbiotic, discusses why liquidity has become one of the biggest bottlenecks for tokenized assets and what it will take for RWAs, credit, and on-chain finance to scale.We cover how Symbiotic is expanding beyond restaking into a broader capital efficiency layer, how Liquid Lane aims to make tokenized assets more liquid a
Onchain, Honestly! Ep. 8 ft. Zerion - Does the Fat Wallet Thesis Still Stand? Zerion’s Next Bets
In this episode, Abi Dharshan, Head of Product at Zerion discusses how they evolved from a DeFi portfolio tracker into a wallet infrastructure company powering both consumer and B2B crypto experiences.We cover why wallets remain one of the most important interfaces in crypto, how Zerion thinks about the wallet as distribution and data as the business, and why high-quality interpreted wall
Onchain, Honestly! Ep. 7 ft. Figure - Can Real-World Credit Scale Through DeFi?
In this episode, Aaron Kong, Director of Decentralized Finance at Figure, discusses how they are building capital markets infrastructure to make real-world credit faster, cheaper, and more accessible onchain.We cover how Figure became one of the largest non-bank HELOC originators in the US and how much blockchain rails help reduce origination costs and improve loan execution.We also discu
Onchain, Honestly! Ep.6 ft. Theo - How To Scale Tokenized Finance?
In this episode, Iggy Ioppe, Chief Investment Officer at Theo, discusses how Theo is building a 3.0 generation of RWA products designed to make traditional financial markets usable onchain.We cover why tokenization alone is not enough, how much of today’s financial infrastructure still runs on outdated rails, and why many early RWA products have struggled to move beyond tokenization theat
Onchain, Honestly! Ep.5 ft. Gauntlet - Is This DeFi´s Last Summer?
In this episode, Nicholas Cannon, Chief Business Officer at Gauntlet, discusses how data-driven risk curation is helping DeFi become safer, more resilient, and easier to access at scale.We cover how wallets, neo-banks, and enterprise integrations are becoming key distribution channels for onchain strategies, why Gauntlet currently sets performance fees at zero as part of a growth-first ap
Onchain, Honestly! Ep.4 ft. Serotonin - Onchain Credit: What´s Real And What´s Next?
In this episode, Patryk Krasnicki, Director of Research at Serotonin, discusses the evolving onchain credit landscape and how crypto credit markets are moving beyond short-term, crypto-native lending.We cover the main categories shaping the space, including credit issuance, capital allocation, infrastructure, and risk management, as well as why overcollateralized lending, tokenized instit
Onchain, Honestly! Ep.3 ft. Miden - Launching a Privacy Blockchain In 2026
In this episode, we sit down with Azeem, Co-founder of Miden, to talk about what it actually takes to build a privacy-focused blockchain from the ground up.We get into what Miden is building, how its Guardian feature works, the common misconceptions people still have about privacy in crypto, and how Miden stacks up against others in the space.Featuring:Azeem — Co-founder of MidenChapters0
Onchain, Honestly! Ep.2 - Where Crypto Is Now: Native Builders Meet Institutions
In this episode, we use EthCC in Cannes as a starting point of where the crypto industry is right now. We talk about the current mar
Onchain, Honestly! Ep.1 ft. Polygon - How Blockchains Make Money Today: Polygon Labs´s FinTech Pivot
In this episode, Aishwarya Gupta, the Global Head of Business at Polygon Labs, gives a deep dive into how Polygon Labs is building a sustainable enterprise business.We cover Polygon’s full-stack strategy across wallets, stablecoins, interoperability, compliance, enterprise APIs, and ZK infrastructure, and why the next generation of blockchain ecosystems will be judged by real customers, r
Welcome to Onchain, Honestly!
This podcast explores what actually works in the onchain economy as a business.We are long-term believers in the space, but we also believe it needs more honest conversations about how it works in practice.That means looking beyond narratives and focusing on business models, incentives, and outcomes — what drives value today, and what it really takes to operate behind the scenes.Have a li
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