The most important milestone in crypto, argues Nic Roberts-Huntley, will be the one that goes completely unnoticed. In this episode of Exponential, the founder and CEO of Blueprint Finance sits down to discuss how his firm is building the infrastructure for institutional-grade DeFi yield — and why the endgame is a world where the underlying mechanics of onchain finance quietly power everything from savings accounts to credit card rewards without anyone realizing it. Blueprint Finance operates...

Nexus founder and CEO Daniel Marin appeared on the Exponential podcast this week to address the company's decision to pull back from its March 17th milestone campaign and to lay out his views on AI, agentic finance, and what he sees as the defining infrastructure opportunity of the decade. The conversation covered ground ranging from how AI is reshaping startup competition to why Daniel believes blockchain infrastructure needs to be designed for autonomous agents — not just human users.

In this episode of Exponential, Laszlo Szabo, co-founder and CEO of Kiln, joins to talk about one of the most important developments quietly happening in crypto today: the evolution of yield in digital assets. As Laszlo explains, yield is becoming the bridge between traditional finance and the onchain economy, opening the door to new financial products and new participants. Kiln operates what Laszlo describes as an "onchain yield platform," providing the infrastructure that exchanges, c...

In this episode of Exponential, Jin Kwon, co-founder of saga.xyz, explains how blockchain infrastructure will disappear into the background. Saga began as what Jin calls “a chain to launch chains.” The original thesis was simple: make block space more accessible for builders. But while the early bottleneck in crypto was scarce block space, today the challenge is different. There is more capacity available, yet building and operating a chain remains complex. “The technical complexity is mostly...

In this episode of Exponential, Joao Reginatto joins to discuss the future of digital money and the role M0 is playing in making stablecoins more customizable, composable, and interoperable. As Reginatto explains, M0 is building “an operating system for digital money” — a platform that allows institutions and application developers to create their own tailored forms of stablecoins, all while inheriting a shared set of interoperable standards. “The premise is that money is plural,” Reginatto s...

In this episode of Exponential, Kevin Lehtiniitty, CEO of Borderless, shares how his team is building a new kind of financial network — one where stablecoins move across global corridors just as easily as traditional money, but with far less friction. Lehtiniitty brings deep experience to the problem. He helped launch TrueUSD, one of the earliest U.S.-based fully reserved stablecoins, and now leads Borderless, which he describes as the first stablecoin payments network. Unlike individua...

In this episode of Exponential, Zohar Bronfman, co-founder and CEO of Pecan AI, unpacks the role of predictive AI in today’s business landscape — and why it’s quickly becoming indispensable. At its core, predictive AI estimates the likelihood of future events using massive amounts of data. Zohar explains: “In very general terms, it’s the ability to make some form of a statistical likelihood estimation of any type of future event.” He contrasts this with the limitations of human decision...

In this episode of Exponential, Wucklace, a self-taught developer and creator of Exhibition DeFi, shares his path from fashion design to building onchain — and why he’s working a new kind of platform on Nexus. His journey started with crypto trading and quickly deepened. “I love the concept of total ownership,” he says, recalling his first experience with non-custodial wallets. “There is no restriction, no permission. I can do anything I like with the wallet. That got me curious.” That ...

In this episode of Exponential, Oliwer Nastaziak, chief growth officer at Fren.One, shares what it’s like to build and moderate internet-native communities — and why those communities matter more than ever. Oliwer has been deep in the trenches of community operations for years, first as a Telegram moderator and now helping lead Fren.One, a firm he describes as “a community operating system.” The FriendOne team works to manage everything from real-time support to scam prevention, all whi...

In this episode of Exponential, Joseph Zhang, co-founder and CEO of CatchBack, explains how a side hustle flipping Pokémon cards evolved into a full-stack collectibles trading platform. Combining lessons from crypto infrastructure with firsthand experience in collectibles, CatchBack introduces a new model for how real-world assets can trade online. “Crypto taught me about liquidity,” Joseph says. “In collectibles, things move slowly. Our goal was to bring the efficiency of crypto tooling to p...