Fixing Ethereum’s Layer 2 Fragmentation with Former Ripple Employee Austin King

Austin King is the Co-Founder and CEO of Omni Network, the abstraction layer for the Ethereum ecosystem. With a background in computer science from Harvard, Austin began his entrepreneurial journey by creating a payment network that scaled to over 10 billion transactions before being acquired by Ripple. Today, Austin, alongside Co-Founder Tyler Tarsi, is leading Omni's mission to empower application developers to access users and liquidity across the entire Ethereum ecosystem without smart contract upgrades. Get to know Austin: Metaverse theme – Solar Punk, Sci Fi Favorite food – Thai Favorite musician/artist – Boris…

VeChain’s 2025 Strategy Revealed! VeBetterDAO, VeChain Renaissance, & Partnerships With Sunny Lu

Sunny Lu is the co-founder and CEO of VeChain. He joined me to discuss the latest updates with VeChain and 2025 plans. Topics: VeBetterDAO and its mission - $B3TR token and VeWorld wallet VeChain Renaissance technical roadmap to deliver enhanced tokenomics, increased APY, interoperability boost via JSON RPC, EVM equivalence VeChain partnerships - updates on existing and expected new ones in 2025 Boston Consulting Group Decentralized Networks UFC Partnership next steps Crypto Regulations in the US and Global markets Links: https://x.com/sunshinelu24 https://vechain.org/ Watch the interview https://youtu.be/kc39fGJY57c Listen to the interview Timestamps 02:44 VeBetterDAO explained…

Suing the IRS & Treasury Over Their DeFi Broker Rule with Amanda Tuminelli

Amanda Tuminelli is the Chief Legal Officer at the DeFi Education Fund. She joined me to discuss the recent lawsuit against the IRS and Treasury over their DeFi broker rule. Topics: Details of the IRS DeFi dealer rule and lawsuit New SEC Chair Paul Atkins - will non fraud cases be dropped? Updates on other cases: Beba SEC Lawsuit and more Will we see crypto legislation passed this year with a pro crypto congress and president coming into office Links: https://x.com/amandatums https://www.defieducationfund.org/ https://www.defieducationfund.org/_files/ugd/84ba66_b6af3a8d9414462d8a34897cfec39c5e.pdf Watch the interview https://youtu.be/yrZ6daO8NWk?si=bV7QghmcvkcXkC5m Listen to the interview Timestamps 02:27 IRS…

IRS Crypto Safe Harbor Plan! What You Need To Do ASAP! With Clinton Donnelly

Clinton Donnelly is the CEO of CryptoTaxAudit. He joined me to discuss the details of the IRS Crypto Safe Harbor Plan. Topics: IRS Safe Harbor Plan 1099 DA Form Preparing for the 2025 Tax Season Will Trump Remove Taxes from Crypto? Links: https://www.cryptotaxaudit.com/1099 Signup - https://www.cryptotaxaudit.com/guard-dog?afmc=thinkingcrypto Watch the interview https://youtu.be/VpYlJKa8Qno Listen to the interview Timestamps 01:53 CryptoTaxAudit Overview 03:35 IRS Crypto Safe Habor 09:15 Details for snapshot 16:25 Donald Trump Crypto Taxes 20:33 2025 Tax Season prep and 1099 DA Show Sponsor Subscribe To The Free Thinking Crypto Weekly Newsletter!

Earn Crypto With Coinbase AI Agents! with Lincoln Murr & Dan Kim

Lincoln Murr and Dan Kim of Coinbase joined me to discuss leveraging AI Agents to earn crypto. Links: https://docs.fileverse.io/0x0241792d29d6467B64B723B60736A34866dc3C77/4#key=rwYJnCBdwFlYa6dAx-azOZEbF4GDrp4cIigYaLLKLWqTDvEFP-9pIdKGNqvVZACx https://www.coinbase.com/developer-platform Watch the interview https://youtu.be/qHY0xz8WEaA?si=tyAOrPIxHEeXSzUd Show Sponsor Subscribe To The Free Thinking Crypto Weekly Newsletter!

Earn Stablecoin Yield with RLUSD, USDC, & More with Uphold! – Simon McLoughlin

Simon Mcloughlin is the CEO of Uphold. He joined me to discuss the new stablecoin rewards program and RLUSD integration. Topics: Uphold's New Rewards Program RLUSD Stablecoin integration and yield USBC Stablecoin Stablecoin Legislation 2025 Crypto Market Outlook Links: Sign up with Uphold - https://uphold.sjv.io/gbED4X https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-mcloughlin-980361a/ Watch the interview https://youtu.be/FN7EivTpOuU Listen to the interview Timestamps 00:52 New rewards program 05:22 RLUSD timeline 05:40 Where is the yield coming from? 06:50 Adding new stablecoins in the future 08:16 Stablecoin legislation 13:31 Rewards Program Markets 15:38 Rewards process 16:18 2025 Roadmap Subscribe To The Free Thinking…