Untangling Web3
by Jack Davies & Alec Burns
#138 Untangling: Bringing Credit Onchain w/ Benjamin Sarquis Peillard
About this podcast
The podcast that simplifies tomorrow's tech, today.
Untangling Web3 dives deep into the world of the next-generation Internet, exploring the groundbreaking technologies, projects, and ideas shaping the future of the Web. Join us as we demystify the concepts behind Web3 and learn how you can be relevant in this radical digital and societal transformation.
This series is hosted and produced by Jack Davies and Alec Burns.
Episodes
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- #138 Untangling: Bringing Credit Onchain w/ Benjamin Sarquis Peillard · 30 min · Season 1 Episode 138Credit is one of the most important foundations of the global financial system, yet traditional lending remains fragmented, opaque, and heavily dependent on intermediaries. As…
- #137 Untangling: Vibe Coding w/ Colin Fitzpatrick · 49 min · Season 1 Episode 137Vibe coding is changing who can build software and how quickly ideas can become real products. With AI, LLMs, and coding agents improving at speed, the barrier between having an…
- #136 Untangling: Privacy Infrastructure w/ Charles Hoskinson · 1 h 9 min · Season 1 Episode 136Privacy is becoming one of the most important infrastructure questions in blockchain. Public ledgers made transactions transparent, verifiable, and trustworthy, but full…
- #135 Untangling: Blockchain Infrastructure w/ Kent Lin · 46 min · Season 1 Episode 135Blockchain infrastructure is becoming the real battleground for institutional adoption. As more capital, assets, and applications move on chain, the question is no longer whether…
- #134 Untangling: DeFi Lending w/ Sam MacPherson · 38 min · Season 1 Episode 134DeFi lending is becoming one of the clearest examples of how blockchain technology can improve financial infrastructure. Stablecoins have created a global base layer for digital…
- #133 Untangling: Hybrid Onchain Institutions w/ Andrej Benčić · 37 min · Season 1 Episode 133As digital assets move from experimentation into live institutional deployment, the challenge is no longer just getting financial products on chain. Banks, asset managers…
- #132 Untangling: The Future of Money w/ Sean Lee · 50 min · Season 1 Episode 132Money is entering a new phase. Stablecoins are moving from crypto-native tools into real financial infrastructure, tokenization is bringing traditional assets on chain, and…
- #131 Untangling: How to Unlock Private Markets w/ Ultan Miller · 34 min · Season 1 Episode 131Private markets have become home to some of the world’s most valuable and transformative companies, from AI and robotics to space technology and fintech. But access to these…
- #130 Untangling: The Future of Finance w/ Pierre Person · 49 min · Season 1 Episode 130Business finance is undergoing a major shift. For years, companies have relied on fragmented tools, manual processes, slow settlement, unpredictable costs, and financial…
- #129 Untangling: Permissionless Commerce w/ Siddharth Menon · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 129As the internet made information global and permissionless, payments have remained trapped behind banks, payment processors, jurisdictional rules, delayed settlements, account…
- #128 Untangling: Verifiable Compute w/ Leo Fan · 45 min · Season 1 Episode 128As AI, cloud infrastructure, and blockchain systems scale, one critical issue remains unresolved: trust in compute. Today, most computation—whether powering AI models or…
- #127 Untangling: Humanoid Robots w/ Peter Corke · 57 min · Season 1 Episode 127Humanoid robots are rapidly moving from science fiction into reality, powered by breakthroughs in robotics, AI, and artificial intelligence. In this episode of Untangling Web3…
- #126 Untangling: The New Space Race · 34 min · Season 1 Episode 126In this week’s episode, we're zooming out - literally - to explore the new space race unfolding before our eyes. With companies like SpaceX leading the charge, and global powers…
- #125 Untangling: The 'AI Bubble' · 44 min · Season 1 Episode 125In this week’s episode of the Untangling Web3 podcast, we tackle one of the biggest narratives dominating tech and global markets right now: the so-called AI bubble. With…
- #124 Untangling: 2025 Review · 1 h 0 min · Season 1 Episode 124In this annual 2025 review special, Alec and Jack take a step back to reflect on one of the most transformative years yet for crypto, AI, LLMs, and digital assets. From Bitcoin’s…
- #123 Untangling: Meta AI Glasses (Review) · 33 min · Season 1 Episode 123In this week’s episode of the Untangling Web3 podcast, we dive into Alec’s hands-on review of the new Meta AI Glasses v2 — Meta’s latest step toward merging AI and AR into…
- #122 Untangling: Restify · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 122In this week’s episode of the Untangling Web3 podcast, the spotlight is on Alec’s latest venture Restify, a Web3 dApp designed to help users reduce their screen time and improve…
- #121 Untangling: Stablecoins & CBDCs w/ Keir Finlow-Bates · 41 min · Season 1 Episode 121In this episode of Untangling Web3, blockchain researcher and educator Keir Finlow-Bates returns to unpack one of the most critical debates in modern finance—the rise of…
- #120 Untangling: Science in a Post-AI World w/ Aragorn Meulendijks · 53 min · Season 1 Episode 120In this episode of Untangling Web3, futurist and returning guest Aragorn Meulendijks explores how artificial intelligence and robotics are redefining science, labor, and the…
- #119 Untangling: Meta Connect · 42 min · Season 1 Episode 119In this episode, we break down the highlights from Meta Connect, where Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the company’s latest innovations in AR glasses, AI, and wearable tech. Once…







