About this podcast
Generation Crypto is focused on how brands and marketers are exploring and building in the Web3 ecosystem to experiment in and potentially transform their businesses. Each week, our hosts Avery Akkineni of Vayner 3 and Sam Ewen from CoinDesk, will dive into how Fortune 500 brands and new start-ups alike are coming to the blockchain and utilizing new technologies, the creator economy and rewriting fandom/ownership to generate attention, gain customers and create value for their bottom line and those of their communities.
Episodes
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- Do Androids Dream of Electric Wallets? · 31 minThe impact of giving synthetic beings a wallet, an identity, and eventually a body. Jansen Teng, Co-Founder of Virtuals Protocol, joins Sam to lay out one of the most ambitious…
- $17 Billion Stolen in One Year: The State of Crypto Crime with Chainalysis · 28 minCrypto scams and how to protect yourself with Chainalysis' Eric Jardine. Eric Jardine, Head of Research at Chainalysis, joins Gen C to break down their latest crypto crime…
- Gary Vaynerchuk on AI, Entrepreneurship and Why Blockchain Is Still Relevant · 45 minDiving deeper on AI with Gary Vaynerchuk. Gary Vaynerchuk, Chairman of VaynerX and CEO and Creator of VeeFriends, joins Gen C to discuss why we are living through the most…
- Raoul Pal on the Most Extraordinary Moment Humanity Has Ever Lived Through · 26 minAn in depth conversation with Raoul Pal from Consensus Miami. Sam sits down with Raoul Pal, founder of Real Vision, fresh off the main stage at Consensus Miami for a…
- Stellar Development Foundation’s CMO on Why Stablecoins Are the Gateway to Tokenizing Everything · 28 minUnpacking the long-game philosophy of SDF's new CMO. Jason Karsh, the new CMO of Stellar Development Foundation, has built his career moving through some of tech and crypto's…
- Finding Satoshi: Did A New Documentary Finally Unmask Nakamoto? · 29 minBitcoin's origin story is the greatest unsolved mystery in financial history and the team behind Finding Satoshi spent years doing what dozens of others couldn't: actually…
- How Ryan Wyatt is Rebuilding the Investment Experience for the Gen Z Audience · 37 min · Season 1 Episode 145Cronos Labs CEO, Ryan Wyatt, reveals the roadmap to fix the "bad taste" crypto left for Gen Z by trading technical jargon for a mobile-first investment engine Ryan Wyatt, CEO of…
- John Nahas on Why One-Size-Fits-All Blockchains are Failing Global Institutions · 30 min · Season 1 Episode 144Avalanche CBO, John Nahas, reveals the roadmap to solve the $100 trillion institutional distribution problem by trading general purpose blockchains for custom L1s. John Nahas…
- Where Did All The Crypto Super Bowl Ads Go? · 10 minSam Ewen breaks down the absence of crypto from the 2026 Super Bowl, comparing today’s silence to the frenzy of 2022. Sam Ewen asks the question: where are all the 2026 Super…
- IOTA’s Karen O'Brien on The $35 Trillion Bet on Industrial Blockchain · 33 min · Season 1 Episode 142IOTA CMO, Karen O’Brien reveals the high-stakes roadmap to transform the $35 trillion global trade industry from archaic paper systems into a frictionless, blockchain-powered…
- Building Autonomous Health Systems in the Age of AI with Bryan Johnson · 29 min · Season 1 Episode 141From building Braintree to launching Blueprint, Bryan Johnson reveals how the systems architecture of FinTech and the philosophy of crypto are powering a new, autonomous roadmap…
- OpenSea’s Vision for a Unified Onchain Home with Adam Hollander · 26 min · Season 1 Episode 140OpenSea, CMO, Adam Hollander reveals the high-stakes roadmap to transform the world’s leading NFT marketplace into a frictionless, universal hub for the entire onchain economy…
- Yorke Rhodes on Why Credible Neutrality is the Safety Net · 48 min · Season 1 Episode 139Yorke Rhodes III, Co-Founder, Blockchain at Microsoft, reveals how Credible Neutrality and the convergence of AI agents and stablecoins are powering the next, decentralized wave…
- Roham Gharegozlou on Flow and Dapper Labs' Mission to Take DeFi Mainstream · 38 min · Season 1 Episode 138Dapper Labs Co-Founder & CEO, Roham Gharegozlou discusses the expansion of the Flow ecosystem into DeFi and how programmable assets and Agentic AI will power the next generation…
- From Cash App to Coinbase: Cat Ferdon on Marketing the Crypto Frontier · 35 min · Season 1 Episode 137Coinbase's CMO, Cat Ferdon, shares the strategy for moving beyond crypto natives, normalizing "internet money," and defining the future of finance through culturally resonant…
- Circle's Vision for Programmable Money with Tim Queenan · 40 min · Season 1 Episode 136Circle's SVP of Marketing, Tim Queenan, shares why stablecoins and the new Arc blockchain are creating the ‘Economic OS for the internet. Tim Queenan, SVP of Marketing, Circle…
- Robinhood's Blueprint for a New Financial System · 32 min · Season 1 Episode 135Johann Kerbrat, SVP and GM of Crypto at Robinhood, shares the company's vision for democratizing finance by prioritizing customer access and education. In this episode of Gen C…
- MoneyGram's Bold Prediction to Onboard "Hundreds of Millions" · 20 min · Season 1 Episode 134MoneyGram’s Anthony Soohoo, discusses how stablecoins are the critical financial innovation that will simplify cross-border payments and drive massive-scale digital adoption for…
- In The Middle of The Before and After with Ariel Wengroff · 41 min · Season 1 Episode 133Ariel Wengroff, EVP, Marketing & Communications, Ledger, explores how media and crypto are converging around transparency, trust, and digital ownership in today’s evolving…
- PayPal’s Path to On-Chain Payments and Financial Inclusion · 28 min · Season 1 Episode 132May Zabaneh, Head of Crypto at PayPal, shares how PYUSD, stablecoins, and AI are powering the next wave of global payments—and why the future of money is happening on-chain. In…
