Impact investing has become one of the fastest-growing areas in finance, but the industry still faces major challenges around transparency, accountability and measurable outcomes. In this episode, we discuss how decentralized technologies and blockchain infrastructure could reshape the future of social impact investing.

Kula is building a decentralized impact investment model focused on bringing transparency and measurable results to sectors that have traditionally struggled with inefficiencies and administrative waste. We also discuss how blockchain and smart contracts can improve trust and visibility in industries like natural resources and community-driven investments.

In this episode, we discuss:

- The difference between impact investing and traditional charity

- Why Kula focuses on investments that generate both returns and local impact

- How blockchain and DLT improve transparency in social impact ecosystems

- The role of smart contracts in historically opaque industries

- Why accountability and measurable outcomes matter in impact investing

- How decentralized technologies may reshape the future of social impact finance

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By crypto compliance professionals. For crypto compliance professionals.

Crypto compliance is entering a new era driven by AI, automation, DeFi and autonomous systems. As crypto exchanges evolve into full financial infrastructure platforms, compliance teams are being forced to rethink everything from suspicious activity reporting and fraud detection to deepfakes, AI agents and unhosted wallets.

In this episode, we discuss:

- Why crypto compliance is moving toward "Compliance 2.0"

- How AI may replace large parts of manual compliance work

- Why Kraken is heavily investing in automation and regtech

- The future role of compliance officers in an AI-driven world

- How AI systems are improving fraud detection and investigations

- Why explainability and auditability remain critical for regulators

- The growing compliance challenges around DeFi and unhosted wallets

- Why AI agents and autonomous trading systems create new risks

- The impact of deepfakes and identity fraud on financial crime

- Why compliance teams must better understand blockchain technology

- How crypto firms are converging with traditional financial services

- Why younger generations may use crypto platforms as their primary financial account

As AI, crypto and financial infrastructure continue converging, the future of compliance may look radically different from today. This conversation explores how compliance teams, regulators and crypto firms are preparing for that future.

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By crypto compliance professionals. For crypto compliance professionals.

Crypto markets are becoming faster, more fragmented and increasingly automated.

But as AI agents, prediction markets and autonomous trading systems grow, a major question is emerging: Who is watching the market manipulators? From spoofing and wash trading to insider trading in prediction markets, the next generation of financial crime may look very different from what regulators and compliance teams are used to.

In this episode, we discuss:

- Why market manipulation in crypto is becoming harder to detect

- How spoofing and layering evolved across exchanges and blockchains

- Why prediction markets create entirely new compliance risks

- The growing role of AI agents in autonomous trading

- How bad actors coordinate across platforms, wallets and social networks

- Why regulators are focusing heavily on insider trading in prediction markets

- The challenge of monitoring cross-chain and cross-platform activity

- Why legacy compliance systems are struggling with alert fatigue

- How AI-powered compliance agents may become the future of surveillance

- The balance between innovation, regulation and consumer protection

- Why the future of finance is increasingly moving on-chain

As crypto, prediction markets and AI converge, the attack surface for fraud and manipulation is expanding rapidly. This conversation explores what the next era of market surveillance and crypto compliance may look like.

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Do you believe in self custody, but hate that one mistake or one lost phrase can wipe everything out?

BRON is a self custody wallet built by the team behind Copper, designed to work the way people actually use crypto. Your balances stay private, not visible on public blockchain explorers. You can swap across chains with fees as low as 5 to 10 basis points. And if something happens, built in inheritance makes sure your assets do not disappear forever.

Instead of seed phrases, BRON uses MPC encryption and trusted Guardians you choose, so recovery is possible without sacrificing control. BRON is for people who want self custody without stress, and features usually reserved for institutions.

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Featuring Gary Liu, Co-Founder and CEO of Terminal 3, former CEO of the South China Morning Post, and a leader with experience across Google and Spotify. AI agents are no longer a future concept.

They are already here, acting, transacting and making decisions. But there is a fundamental problem. We do not fully understand how they operate. And yet, we are rapidly integrating them into financial systems, enterprise workflows and digital infrastructure. This is not just a technology shift. It is a trust, identity and compliance challenge in the making.

In this episode, we discuss:

- Why identity is the biggest unsolved problem in an AI agent world

- How agents can impersonate and misuse credentials

- Why current fraud and compliance frameworks are not designed for AI behavior

- The role of cryptography, decentralized identity and verifiable credentials

- Why stablecoins and blockchain may become the backbone of agent commerce

- The risks of data leakage and privacy breaches

- Why enterprises need guardrails for AI agents AI agents do not think in terms of ethics or legality. They optimize for outcomes. And that changes everything.

This podcast is sponsored by BRON

Do you believe in self custody, but hate that one mistake or one lost phrase can wipe everything out?

BRON is a self custody wallet built by the team behind Copper, designed to work the way people actually use crypto. Your balances stay private, not visible on public blockchain explorers. You can swap across chains with fees as low as 5 to 10 basis points. And if something happens, built in inheritance makes sure your assets do not disappear forever.

Instead of seed phrases, BRON uses MPC encryption and trusted Guardians you choose, so recovery is possible without sacrificing control.

BRON is for people who want self custody without stress, and features usually reserved for institutions. Learn more through the link: https://go.bron.org/henriarslanian09

In this Consensus Hong Kong 2026 panel discussion, we break down what's really driving the rise of Real World Assets (RWA) in crypto — and whether everything is about to be tokenized.

From tokenized T-Bills and private credit to AI portfolio agents and DeFi looping risks, this conversation explores the next evolution of on-chain finance.

- Why tokenized Treasuries became the breakthrough moment

- How institutional adoption is changing DeFi dynamics

- Will RWA yields become crypto's new risk-free rate?

- AI agents managing portfolios on-chain

- The UX challenge holding crypto back

- The biggest risk facing crypto right now

- Are institutions preparing to dump on retail?

As TradFi and DeFi converge, we may be entering a new era where markets never sleep, liquidity is 24/7, and volatility moves faster than ever. The future of finance is being built in real time.

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Featuring:

• Sidney Powell – CEO, Maple Finance

• Teddy Pornprinya – Co-Founder, Plume

• Marcin Kaźmierczak – Co-Founder, RedStone

• Moderated by Henri Arslanian

Stablecoins are rapidly moving from a crypto niche to global financial infrastructure. In this conversation, Jonathan Wood explains why stablecoins are increasingly used by payment companies, global businesses, and international workforces, and how regulation is accelerating adoption across regions. We discuss how stablecoins are transforming cross-border payments, payroll, treasury management, and global commerce.

- Why stablecoin adoption is accelerating with new regulation in Europe, the UAE, and the US

- The industries already using stablecoins including payments, trading platforms, and e-commerce

- Why stablecoins solve major problems in regions with unstable or depreciating currencies

- How global workers are increasingly getting paid in stablecoins

- Why cross-border payments are the strongest early use case

- How companies are building wallets, cards, and spending layers on top of stablecoins

- Why Visa and major payment networks are integrating stablecoin settlement

- Why most crypto transaction volume today is actually stablecoins

- How stablecoins could eventually become a global spending currency

Stablecoins are increasingly becoming the blockchain version of the dollar, enabling faster payments, global payroll, and new financial services for businesses and individuals worldwide.

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We discuss how crypto security is evolving as attacks become more sophisticated—and why the next generation of defense will be driven by AI, automation, and machine-led monitoring.

- Why DeFi hacks are shifting from smart contract exploits to operational infiltration

- How attackers are targeting Web2 infrastructure like developer laptops and company networks

- What really happened during the Bybit hack and why it was so difficult to prevent

- The growing role of state-backed cyber groups in crypto attacks

- Why the human element remains one of the biggest security vulnerabilities

- How automated risk matrices and circuit breakers can protect crypto platforms

- Why AI is becoming essential for detecting malicious on-chain patterns

- The concept of a "digital immune system" for DeFi protocols

- How machine-led defense could help prevent billions in future crypto losses

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My interview with the CMO of the ADI Foundation, on how the UAE and the broader GCC region are accelerating stablecoin adoption.

We discuss how central banks and regulators in the region are moving fast, why banks are now actively exploring stablecoins, and whether "cash, card, or crypto" could soon become reality.

- Why stablecoin adoption in the UAE and GCC is accelerating

- How government-led regulation is shaping the ecosystem

- Why major crypto firms are setting up in Abu Dhabi and Dubai

- Will banks launch their own stablecoins or form consortiums?

- Payments, remittances, and retail adoption in the region

- Could users hold multiple ecosystem-based stablecoins in one wallet?

- The balance between transparency and privacy in stablecoin transactions

- How data sovereignty and regulatory clarity are driving institutional adoption

A sharp look at how stablecoins are moving from theory to real-world infrastructure across the Middle East.

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We discuss how decentralised finance is evolving from a crypto-native experiment into an infrastructure layer for institutional finance—and why the convergence between DeFi and traditional finance is accelerating.

- Why investors see DeFi as an uncorrelated portfolio strategy

- The massive liquidity opportunity created by thousands of new DeFi protocols

- Why liquidity providers are becoming the "banks" of the DeFi ecosystem

- The biggest challenge for new protocols: distribution and market access

- How institutions evaluate DeFi risk similarly to credit risk in traditional finance

- Why tokenized funds, real-world assets, and blockchain settlement are accelerating institutional adoption

- How traditional asset managers and banks are entering DeFi

- Why the future may involve two parallel systems: regulated blockchain finance and open DeFi innovation

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We explore how institutional-grade MPC technology is finally migrating to retail, why seed phrases are a massive vulnerability, and whether self-custody can evolve to meet the realities of security, privacy, and regulation.

- Why institutional custody standards never reached retail — until now

- The real risks of seed phrases, wrench attacks, and physical crime

- How MPC (multi-party computation) changes self-custody forever

- Inheritance, recoverability, and protecting users from themselves

- Privacy in crypto: is blockchain too transparent?

- Full homomorphic encryption and the future of on-chain privacy

- Should self-custody wallets face regulatory oversight?

- How AI + blockchain could reshape compliance frameworks

In this Consensus Hong Kong 2026 panel, we dive into the next chapter of on-chain finance: the convergence of DeFi and CeFi — and why crypto prime brokerage may become the infrastructure layer for institutional trading.

From portfolio margin across venues and capital efficiency, to stablecoin balance sheets, oracle risk, and the one threat everyone keeps coming back to… counterparty risk. We break down how prime brokers are bridging siloed liquidity pools, enabling cross-collateral, and rethinking risk management for a world of 24/7 markets.

- DeFi vs CeFi: why convergence is accelerating now

- Prime brokerage in crypto: the "missing layer" for hedge funds

- Portfolio margin across exchanges + on-chain venues (cross-venue risk engines)

- Capital efficiency: moving beyond over-collateralization in DeFi

- Counterparty risk vs smart contract risk — what institutions actually fear

- Off-exchange settlement & custody: what works, what doesn't

- Interest rate models & "dynamic spread": sharing upside with lenders

- Oracles, pricing, liquidation: the two hard problems in DeFi risk management

- The crypto "risk-free rate": SOFR, Treasuries, staking — where does it converge?

- Tokenized markets (RWA): why crypto-native prime brokers may have an edge

As TradFi and DeFi collide, the winners will be the platforms that deliver capital efficiency + transparency + accountability — without blowing up.

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🎙 Featuring:

• Sam MacPherson - CEO and co-founder at Spark

• Serhii Tyshchenko - CEO and co-founder of Arkis

• Oleksandr Proskurin - Co-founder/CPO at Arkis

• Moderated by Henri Arslanian