Onchain, Honestly!

Onchain, Honestly is a conversation with the operators actually building crypto companies. Kaisa and Alenka sit down with founders and leaders to talk about what the pitch decks leave out: go-to-market, hiring, revenue, real traction, and the unglamorous mechanics of turning a protocol or product into a business. No hype, no theater. Just honest conversations about what works, what doesn't, and what it actually takes to build onchain.

Onchain, Honestly! is a business podcast hosted by Kaisa & Alenka, with 18 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Kaisa & Alenka hosts Onchain, Honestly!, a business show with 18 episodes published.

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  Episode #18

  Onchain, Honestly! Ep. 18 ft. Tempo - How To Win In Institutional Adoption

  Oct 1, 202641 min

  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 banks to make that investment. Drawing on its previous work and feedback from financial institutions, Ninad explains how customer needs shape what Tempo builds and how the team thinks about measuring success. — Ninad Nirgudkar LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/ninadnirgudkar/ Ninad Nigurdar X: https://x.com/ninadnirgudkar Tempo: https://tempo.xyz/ Alea Research: https://alearesearch.io/ Alea Research X: https://x.com/AleaResearch Spotify: Apple: Alenka X: https://x.com/alenka_on_x Alenka LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alena-shmalko/ Kaisa X: https://x.com/kaisakaisa_ Kaisa LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaisa-k-4aa212194/ — DISCLAIMER: This Content is Provided Solely for Informational and Educational Purposes. It does Not Constitute Financial, Investment, or Legal Advice. — CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction and Tempo’s approach to payments 07:16 From a business case to a live product 10:46 Tempo’s relationship with Stripe and Paradigm 15:20 Where institutions see opportunities onchain 19:00 Why banks are exploring stablecoins 23:15 Deel’s payroll use case 27:03 Bringing traditional finance and crypto expertise together 29:17 Account controls and privacy 34:37 Moving enterprise clients into production 36:59 Measuring customer outcomes 39:50 What’s next for Tempo?

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  Episode #17

  Onchain, Honestly! Ep.17 ft. AVAT - DATs, Avalanche & Real Institutional Use Cases

  Sep 24, 202639 min

  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, and what institutions need to consider before choosing a blockchain. Drawing on examples from California’s DMV, Broadridge, and FIFA, Laine explores how blockchain fits into everyday operations and why early infrastructure choices can create costly migration work later. — Laine Litman LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laine-litman-ab143014/ Laine Litman X: https://x.com/Laine_Litman AVAT: https://www.avat.com/ Alea Research: https://alearesearch.io/ Alea Research X: https://x.com/AleaResearch Spotify: Apple: Alenka X: https://x.com/alenka_on_x Alenka LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alena-shmalko/ Kaisa X: https://x.com/kaisakaisa_ Kaisa LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaisa-k-4aa212194/ — DISCLAIMER: This Content is Provided Solely for Informational and Educational Purposes. It does Not Constitute Financial, Investment, or Legal Advice. — CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction and Laine’s background 07:40 Digital asset treasuries and AVAT’s strategy 13:11 Why Avalanche? 15:02 Institutional adoption in practice 18:58 Blockchain hype, migration costs, and changing attitudes 24:38 Operational barriers to moving onchain 29:12 How the blockchain landscape could evolve 33:58 FIFA, ticketing, and consumer adoption

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  Episode #16

  Onchain, Honestly! Ep.16 - What summer 2026 told us about the market: Onchain, Honestly! recap

  Sep 11, 202640 min

  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 the unresolved CLARITY Act to banks entering stablecoins and new infrastructure for tokenized securities and liquidity, the market is entering a more practical phase. The question is no longer simply whether assets can move onchain, but whether they can trade, settle and be used there at scale. — Alea Research: https://alearesearch.io/reports Alea Research X: https://x.com/AleaResearch Spotify: Apple: Alenka X: https://x.com/alenka_on_x Alenka LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alena-shmalko/ Kaisa X: https://x.com/kaisakaisa_ Kaisa LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaisa-k-4aa212194/ — DISCLAIMER: This Content is Provided Solely for Informational and Educational Purposes. It does Not Constitute Financial, Investment, or Legal Advice.

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  Episode #15

  Onchain, Honestly! Ep.15 ft. Matthew Snider - What Still Creates an Edge in Digital Asset Investing?

  Aug 27, 202640 min

  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 managers, advisors, and their clients. We discuss how digital-asset investing is moving toward revenue and fundamental analysis, why tokenization alone does not create value or liquidity, and how AI could affect both public-market competition and the discovery of private-market opportunities. The conversation also covers institutional custody, portfolio construction, client suitability, and what happens to the asset-management business as more analysis and operational work becomes automated. — Matthew Snider LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewsniderj/ Matthew Snider X: https://x.com/bit_finance_ Block3 Strategy Group: Alea Research: https://www.block3strategy.io/ Alea Research X: https://x.com/AleaResearch Spotify: Apple: Alenka X: https://x.com/alenka_on_x Alenka LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alena-shmalko/ Kaisa X: https://x.com/kaisakaisa_ Kaisa LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaisa-k-4aa212194/ — DISCLAIMER: This Content is Provided Solely for Informational and Educational Purposes. It does Not Constitute Financial, Investment, or Legal Advice. CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction 01:10 Who is Matthew Snider? 02:25 How digital-asset investing is changing 06:34 What qualifies as a digital asset? 08:47 How institutions access digital assets 13:46 Why the investment type comes before the token 15:39 How AI is being used in asset management 18:48 What's the moat for asset managers 21:23 How AI could affect private markets 26:23 Building digital-asset portfolios for clients 33:59 What happens to the asset manager’s role?

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  Episode #14

  How Blockchain Upgrades Private Credit? | Pareto Credit & M11 Credit

  Aug 13, 202658 min

  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 Pareto turns traditional credit agreements into programmable credit infrastructure, while M11 Credit originates, structures, underwrites, and monitors the underlying deals. The conversation follows the full process from borrower selection and legal structuring to administration, distribution, capital efficiency, and default management. We cover: • Why Pareto moved from Idle Finance’s yield-optimization model into private credit. • How same-day drawdowns and repayments compare with T+2 settlement. • Where 50–100 basis points of servicing overhead may be removed. • How lenders can use an onchain credit position as collateral without exiting the underlying exposure. • How Pareto and M11 Credit divide responsibility for infrastructure, underwriting, monitoring, and distribution. • What sits behind FalconX’s $170 million Credit Vault. • Why onchain credit will continue to depend on offchain businesses and legal structures. • How the market should prepare for defaults as it scales. — Matteo Pandolfi LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pandolfimatteo/ Matteo Pandolfi X: https://x.com/pan_teo_ Pareto: https://pareto.credit/ Thibault Labidi LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thibault-labidi/ Thibault Labidi X: https://x.com/Bablidi_Thib M11: https://maven11.com/ Alea Research: https://alearesearch.io/ Alea Research X: https://x.com/AleaResearch Spotify: Apple: Alenka X: https://x.com/alenka_on_x Alenka LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alena-shmalko/ Kaisa X: https://x.com/kaisakaisa_ Kaisa LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaisa-k-4aa212194/ — DISCLAIMER: This Content is Provided Solely for Informational and Educational Purposes. It does Not Constitute Financial, Investment, or Legal Advice.

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