The Index Podcast

The Index Podcast

What's indexing this week in crypto, blockchain, and open-source AI? On The Index, host and entrepreneur Alex Kehaya talks with founders, developers, and investors shaping the future of web3.

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Ethan Buchman (Cosmos Co-Founder) on Cycles: The Clearing Protocol Reinventing How the World Settles Debt | The Index Podcast

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Ethan Buchman (Cosmos Co-Founder) on Cycles: The Clearing Protocol Reinventing How the World Settles Debt | The Index Podcast

August 30, 2026

Ethan Buchman (Cosmos Co-Founder) on Cycles: The Clearing Protocol Reinventing How the World Settles Debt | The Index Podcast

What if the biggest unlock in crypto isn't moving money faster — it's not having to move it at all? Ethan Buchman, co-founder of Cosmos, CEO of Informal Systems, and founder of Cycles, sits down with Alex Kehaya to explain why 16th-century bank...

Matt Van Horn (Lyft) on AI Psychosis & Coding Agents That Never Sleep | The Index Podcast

August 29, 2026

Matt Van Horn (Lyft) on AI Psychosis & Coding Agents That Never Sleep | The Index Podcast

He almost got scammed by a fake "producer" minutes before this interview even started. Then he told us why he wakes up at 5am hearing phantom AI music. Matt Van Horn, Lyft co-founder and now Founder & CEO of Lyft, has built an army of codin...

The Stablecoin Router Everyone Will Use: Ryne Saxe (Eco) on Solana, Visa & the Future of Money

August 28, 2026

The Stablecoin Router Everyone Will Use: Ryne Saxe (Eco) on Solana, Visa & the Future of Money

Stablecoins on Solana just hit $15B, and Eco Co-Founder & CEO Ryne Saxe says that number is going to look laughably small in five years. On this episode of The Index Podcast, Ryne breaks down why Solana pulled ahead in the stablecoin race, ...

He Got Into Crypto to Save his Cat. Now He's Building Solana's Biggest Trading Card Game. | Natsuki x Rosentica

August 27, 2026

He Got Into Crypto to Save his Cat. Now He's Building Solana's Biggest Trading Card Game. | Natsuki x Rosentica

He bought her sick cat's medicine with USDT because no bank or pharmacy would touch it. That same "get it done, on-chain" energy is now powering Rosentica, an original multimedia IP turning old, retired trading cards into a full battle economy ...

Bernardo Brites (Trace Finance) on Building the $10B Stablecoin Rails Connecting Brazil to the World

August 26, 2026

Bernardo Brites (Trace Finance) on Building the $10B Stablecoin Rails Connecting Brazil to the World

Brazil banned crypto players from moving big money, so this founder got a bank license instead. Now Trace Finance processes over $10B in cross-border volume and powers the top 4 global payment companies in Latin America.On this episode o...

Bootstrapped to 320K Users, ZERO Funding: Agnese Jaunošāne (COO & Co-Founder, Ajelix) on Open-Source AI's Power Move

August 25, 2026

Bootstrapped to 320K Users, ZERO Funding: Agnese Jaunošāne (COO & Co-Founder, Ajelix) on Open-Source AI's Power Move

She turned "everyone hates spreadsheets" into a 320,000-user, 150-country AI company, without taking a single dollar of outside funding. Agnese Jaunošāne, COO & Co-Founder of Ajelix, sits down to break down why she and her co-founder said n...

Tokenizing Silver on Solana: Mark Tormey (Founder, Dominion) on Bringing Real World Silver On-Chain

August 24, 2026

Tokenizing Silver on Solana: Mark Tormey (Founder, Dominion) on Bringing Real World Silver On-Chain

Silver is the one commodity everyone forgot to tokenize. Mark Tormey, founder of Dominion, is fixing that: real, vaulted, audited silver, one token per ounce, live on Solana and built to plug straight into DeFi. This episode is a masterclass in...

Solana's Prediction Market Play: Nass Diba (Founder & CEO, Worm) on Building the Future of Media On-Chain

August 23, 2026

Solana's Prediction Market Play: Nass Diba (Founder & CEO, Worm) on Building the Future of Media On-Chain

Prediction markets called the 2024 election before the media did. Now Nass Diba, ex-CPO of Rarible and alum of Aave and Dharma, is betting that permissionless, AI-powered prediction markets on Solana are the next big media format. On this episo...

🚀 Sports Cards Meet Solana: Hadi (Founder of Gacha Sports) on Turning a $15B Collectibles Market On-Chain

August 22, 2026

🚀 Sports Cards Meet Solana: Hadi (Founder of Gacha Sports) on Turning a $15B Collectibles Market On-Chain

Sports cards just found their liquidity engine and it's built on Solana. This week on The Index, Alex sits down with Hadi, founder of Gacha Sports, the platform letting fans rip digital packs and pull real, graded sports cards live on-chain. Fr...

Brian Huang (Co-Founder and CEO, Glider) on Stocks On-Chain, Copyable Portfolios and AI Advisors

August 21, 2026

Brian Huang (Co-Founder and CEO, Glider) on Stocks On-Chain, Copyable Portfolios and AI Advisors

Most of the world cannot buy a single share of Nvidia. Brian Huang, co-founder and CEO of Glider, returns to The Index to explain how tokenized stocks change that, and why capital is quietly rotating out of crypto and into equities.Glide...

🔥 Solana Insider Turned Founder: How Shimon Newman Is Rethinking Private Banking with Moto

August 20, 2026

🔥 Solana Insider Turned Founder: How Shimon Newman Is Rethinking Private Banking with Moto

Ever tried explaining to your private banker why your money is spread across three countries, two exchanges, and a crypto wallet? Shimon Newman, former Director of Research at Squads and now Founder & CEO of Moto, is building the card that ...

Tokenizing the $360B Domain Industry on Solana 🌐 w/ Inder Singh (VP Product/Tech, D3 / Doma Protocol)

August 19, 2026

Tokenizing the $360B Domain Industry on Solana 🌐 w/ Inder Singh (VP Product/Tech, D3 / Doma Protocol)

Domains are the most entrenched, least liquid asset class on the internet, and it's about to change forever. Inder Singh, VP of Product & Tech at D3 (the team behind Doma Protocol), joins The Index Podcast to break down how a $360B+ industr...

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