Stephen Sargeant interviews Natalya Thakur, CEO and founder of Knova, about how traditional financial institutions are transitioning into digital assets. Thakur recounts her early exposure to blockchain at BlackRock, where she supported initial Bitcoin ETF work and later promoted digital-asset education for women. She explains Knova’s B2B infrastructure software, which runs on-prem or cloud-agnostic inside client environments to unify traditional and tokenized assets via patented “digital twins,” standardized asset representations, and transaction templates that turn complex multi-system workflows into single API calls and a unified dashboard. The discussion covers scaling, privacy, interoperability at the asset level, integrations such as Canton, common institutional hesitations like vendor lock-in and short-term pilots, and longer-term themes including assets converging into one ecosystem, rebundling fragmented services, and AI shifting from reactive reporting to proactive risk and opportunity guidance.

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Stephen Sargeant interviews Alex Svanevik, CEO and co-founder of Nansen, on how the company evolved from NFT-era analytics into an AI-native, full-stack on-chain trading product that combines real-time intelligence, execution, and portfolio tracking in one self-custodial experience. Alex discusses his AI background, Nansen’s “New Way 2030” pillars, and how agentic workflows are changing engineering and other roles. They cover Nansen’s address-labeling at scale for smart-money tracking, the shift to a conversational interface, and “vibe trading” with a trust ladder from copilot research to greater automation. Alex also addresses Nansen’s positioning as a technology provider (not a custodial exchange), revisits his viral Singapore PR rejection story, explains the NXA8 tokenized Layer-1 index with OpenDelta, and shares his view that tokenization and agents will reshape finance and software.

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Join host Stephen Sargeant on a special edition of the Around The Coin Podcast as he sits down with top industry voices to unpack the biggest crypto trends of 2025 and what’s ahead for 2026. Featuring Mouloukou Sanoh, CEO and co-founder of Mansa, the conversation explores how stablecoin infrastructure is transforming global payments, enabling instant cross-border settlement, and driving adoption across emerging markets. Mouloukou shares insights on regulation, interoperability between fiat and digital assets, geopolitical demand, and bold predictions on the future of stablecoins and banking.

In the second segment, Tara Annison, Chief Product Officer at Rhino.fi, breaks down the evolving narrative around institutional adoption, why stablecoins have moved from hype to real utility, and how major financial players are cautiously entering the space. She also dives into the realities behind the current market cycle, the commercialization of on-chain finance, and what builders and institutions must understand as crypto infrastructure matures.

From the rise of crypto crime and AI-powered scams to the growing importance of privacy, regulation, and security, this episode delivers a comprehensive look at the forces shaping the future of digital assets. If you want sharp insights on stablecoins, global payments, institutional strategy, and the next wave of blockchain innovation, this is a must-watch conversation for anyone following the future of money.

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