THE BLOCKHASH PODCAST

🎙️ Ep. 754 Uphold | Digital Asset Services, XDC Staking and AI Trends (feat. Marcos Santillana)

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For episode 754 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Marcos Santillana, VP of Digital Asset Services, Institutional at Uphold.

Marcos Santillana is VP of Digital Asset Services at Uphold, a crypto platform licensed across the US, UK and EU. He works directly with crypto foundations and protocol teams on listing, treasury management and wider ecosystem partnerships. With deep exposure to hundreds of blockchain projects assessed through a regulatory, commercial and technical lens, Marcos brings rare cross-jurisdictional fluency across US and UK frameworks.

Layer-1 and Layer-2 protocols and crypto foundations can get in touch with Marcos to discuss the full range of services Uphold offers.

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⏳ Timestamps:

(4:40) What is Uphold Institutional?
(6:54) Client types
(7:26) Uphold launches XDC staking offering
(8:29) Why is this an important milestone?
(9:51) Uphold’s Digital Asset Services Unit
(11:26) Identifying breakout projects
(14:12) Trending projects or narratives
(15:20) AI trends in Web3
(17:26) Where are we in the digital asset adoption cycle?
(18:45) What regulation is important to watch?
(19:54) Uphold Institutional roadmap
(21:08) Conferences & events
(22:10) Uphold website and socials

#BlockHashPodcast #uphold #staking #digitalassets #ai #web3 #podcast @UpholdInc

Ep. 790 OpenPayd | Bridging Traditional Banking and Digital Assets (feat. Michael Treacy)

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For episode 790 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Michael Treacy, Director of Marketing and Business Development at @OpenPayd, a financial infrastructure company providing businesses with access to global payments, banking services, and digital asset connectivity through a unified platform.

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⏳ Timestamps:

(2:36) What is OpenPayd?
(4:43) Why is a global payments network important?
(5:47) OpenPayd use-cases?
(6:40) Navigating global regulations in payments industry
(7:41) What policy change do we need?
(8:59) Global network to support RWAs
(10:05) Stablecoins and Agentic commerce
(12:55) Identification for AI agents
(13:53) Which technologies will have the biggest impact on the payments industry?
(14:50) Openpayd roadmap
(15:45) Openpayd website & socials

#BlockHashPodcast #openpayd #stablecoins #agentic #ai #money2020 #podcast

Ep. 789 Prove | The Future of Digital Identity & Stablecoin Adoption (feat. Fernando Castellanos)

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For episode 789 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Fernando Castellanos, Global Head of Digital Assets and Sponsor Banks at @ProveIdentity, a leading digital identity verification and authentication platform helping businesses prevent fraud and establish trust across financial services. Throughout the episode, Brandon and Fernando explore how digital identity is becoming essential to the adoption of stablecoins, tokenized assets, and blockchain-based financial infrastructure.

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⏳ Timestamps:

(6:38) Importance of identity verification for AI
(8:12) Achieving continuous identity
(10:19) What needs to change in AI regulations?
(13:01) Need for a new identification layer in agentic age
(16:30) Future of payments in the near future?
(20:38) Will AI use stablecoins more than humans?
(23:40) Contact Prove

#BlockHashPodcast #prove #ai #agentic #identity #stablecoins #money2020 #podcast

Ep. 788 Sumsub | Fighting AI Fraud & the Future of Digital Identity (feat. Ilya Brovin)

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For episode 788 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Ilya Brovin, Chief Growth Officer at @sumsub, a leading global verification platform helping businesses prevent fraud, streamline compliance, and securely onboard customers.

Throughout the episode, Brandon and Ilya explore how artificial intelligence is transforming the landscape of financial crime, the growing threat of deepfakes and AI-powered identity fraud, and how financial institutions and crypto exchanges are adapting to increasingly sophisticated cybercriminals. They also discuss the evolution of Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance, the rise of reusable digital identities, the challenges of balancing security with user experience, and what the future holds for identity verification as AI agents become more prevalent across the digital economy.

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⏳ Timestamps:

(3:35) Trust online is disappearing
(6:12) Detecting Bot vs. Human
(6:50) Transitioning to AI for Merchants and Consumers
(9:06) Identity verification for Agentic AI
(11:14) Where AI is heading over next few years
(13:46) Intersection on Crypto and AI
(15:50) Use-cases around reusable credentials
(16:47) Most common client questions
(18:07) Sumsub’s focus for end of 2026
(19:22) Sumsub at Money2020
(20:04) Contact Sumsub

#BlockHashPodcast #sumsub #ai #crypto #agenticai #identity #money2020 #podcast

Ep. 787 BoBe | Making Algorithmic Trading Accessible to Everyone (feat. Denis Kurilchik)

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For episode 787 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Denis Kurilchik, Founder of @BobeApp, an algorithmic trading engine designed to make automated trading more accessible to everyday crypto holders without requiring them to become professional traders.

Throughout the episode, Brandon and Denis explore how BoBe's automated trading engine works, how holders of the $BOBE token can receive cashback, and what makes the platform different from traditional copy-trading services. They also discuss BoBe's spot-only trading approach, which avoids the liquidation risks associated with leveraged positions, and the project's reported performance after more than 10 months of operation, including $24.9 million in cumulative spot trading volume. Denis also shares his vision for the future of automated trading and how algorithmic strategies could become more accessible to the broader digital asset community.

Learn more at bobe.app!

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⏳ Timestamps:

(8:45) What is BoBe?
(11:28) Combining retail and algo trading
(14:40) What makes the BoBe platform function?
(21:26) Biggest advantages to automated trading for retail
(28:43) Problems with trading leveraged
(36:47) Trading education
(45:40) Robots replacing jobs
(47:06) Bobe website & socials

#BlockHashPodcast #bobe #algotrading #trading #investing #podcast