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Hosted by Alex Nwaka · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 30 episodes
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Welcome to High Stakes, the podcast for institutional investors, Web3 founders, SaaS leaders, and anyone serious about the future of technology. Hosted by Validation Cloud CSO Alex Nwaka, we go beyond the hype to explore the real-world adoption of blockchain and AI in enterprise environments. Each episode features unfiltered conversations with operators, investors, and technologists driving change at the frontier. Get direct insight into what’s working (and what’s not) in blockchain infrastructure, from Layer-2 rollups and blockchain interoperability to AI-powered SaaS and zero-knowledge proofs. Discover how legacy systems are adapting to decentralized tech, where asset tokenization is creating new markets, and how autonomous AI agents are reshaping workflows. If you’re tired of trend-chasing and want strategic clarity around risk, regulation, and returns in Web3 and AI, this is your edge. 🎙 Smart, practical, and always human. 🎧
Alex Nwaka hosts High Stakes with Alex Nwaka | Blockchain, Crypto, and Web3, a technology show with 30 episodes published.
Most enterprises assume their current payment systems work well enough to delay adopting digital assets, but this miscalculation ignores the seismic shift already underway. Bam Azizi, who built Mesh into infrastructure f
What happens when a crypto protocol raises serious capital, builds a major ecosystem, and then treats treasury management like a back-office function? In this episode of High Stakes, host Alex Nwaka sits down with Ben Ts
What are enterprises still missing about stablecoins, and why does that matter for the next phase of digital asset adoption? In this episode of High Stakes with Alex Nwaka, Alex sits down with Chunda McCain, Co-Founder a
Why does institutional capital still hesitate on Solana, even as public blockchain infrastructure becomes more credible to banks, asset managers, and payments companies? In this episode of High Stakes, Alex Nwaka sits do
What does crypto have to do before it can truly compete with the legacy financial system? In this episode of High Stakes, Alex Nwaka sits down with Aklil Ibssa, Head of Corporate Development at Coinbase, for a sharp conv
What would it take to move $100 trillion in assets onto blockchain rails? In this episode of High Stakes with Alex Nwaka, Dan Doney, Managing Director at DTCC Digital Assets, breaks down the real infrastructure challenge
What’s holding back real institutional adoption of blockchain? Yuval Rooz, CEO of Digital Asset, joins High Stakes to reveal what institutions really need before moving serious volume on-chain. From tokenized treasuries
What if Ethereum is closer to replacing Wall Street infrastructure than anyone realizes? In this episode of High Stakes, host Alex Nwaka sits down with Vivek Raman, CEO of Etherealize, to explore the deep structural gaps
What if blockchain, not AI, is the biggest disruption in finance? In this episode of High Stakes , host Alex Nwaka sits down with Michael Tannenbaum, CEO of Figure, to explore how blockchain is reshaping capital markets
What if the metaverse was never dead, just misunderstood? Season 2 of High Stakes kicks off with Paul Thomas, CEO of Somnia, in a wide-ranging conversation with host Alex Nwaka about what it really takes to build Web3 in
On this episode of High Stakes, host Alex Nwaka is joined by Lex Sokolin, co-founder of Generative Ventures, for an unfiltered conversation on how AI and blockchain are reshaping economic systems. Lex brings a rare blend
How Blockchain Lending Will Drive Stablecoin Adoption In this episode of High Stakes, host Alex Nwaka sits down with Sidney Powell, CEO of Maple Finance, to explore how blockchain lending is shaping the future of stablec
How Decentralization Is Reshaping the World In this episode of High Stakes , host Alex Nwaka sits down with Yinal Ozkan, Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, to unpack how decentralized technologies, blo
Behind the Rise of Ethereum’s Most Strategic Infrastructure Bet In this episode of High Stakes , host Alex Nwaka is joined by Alon Muroch, CEO and co-founder of SSV Labs, to explore how Ethereum’s most strategic infrastr
In this episode, Alex is joined by Eric Piscini, the CEO of Hashgraph. Eric brings decades of enterprise innovation experience, from launching Deloitte’s blockchain practice to leading AI strategy at IBM Watson Health. T
In this episode of High Stakes, Alex sits down with Brian Mahoney, VP of Business Development at Thesis and Founding Team Member at Mezo, to explore the next evolution of Bitcoin. From Bitcoin mortgages to stablecoins li
Alex Nwaka sits down with Morgan McKenney, former CEO of Provenance Blockchain Foundation, longtime Citi executive, and tech-led global operator, to discuss the convergence of blockchain and AI and what it means for the
Alex Nwaka sits down with Noelle Acheson, crypto-macro analyst and author of Crypto is Macro Now , for a conversation on the intersection of crypto and macroeconomics. With a career spanning traditional finance, entrepre
Alex Nwaka sits with Dan Doney, Managing Director and CTO at DTCC Digital Assets, for a rare and in-depth conversation. With a career spanning the U.S. Navy, the Defense Intelligence Agency, founding the pioneering block
Alex sits down with Toma Heremans, CEO of Obol Association, to explore how distributed validators (DVs) are redefining staking infrastructure, the future of Ethereum resilience, and why institutional adoption is the next
Noelle Acheson
author of “Crypto is Macro Now”
1 appearance on this show
Alex Pruden
Chairman of the Board · Project Eleven
1 appearance on this show
Arthur Hayes
Co-Founder of BitMEX & CIO · Maelstrom
1 appearance on this show
Eric Piscini
Deloitte
1 appearance on this show
Omer Goldberg
Chaos Labs
1 appearance on this show
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