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In this episode, I speak with Xin from Sign Global, a company building sovereign blockchain infrastructure for governments — from national stablecoins and CBDCs to digital identity and real-world asset systems.Xin explains why crypto struggles to reach real adoption: we build great tech but rarely solve problems for banks, regulators, or everyday users. Sign Global works directly with governments to modernize payments, identity, and asset rails — aiming to cut international settlement from 1–3 days to 2 minutes and unlock massive economic velocity.We discuss global stablecoin trends, why USD stablecoins won't dominate long term, how sovereign digital ID actually works, and why countries like Kazakhstan and the UAE are moving fastest.A rare, practical look at the future of national-scale blockchain systems.(Nothing here is financial advice.)Key timestamps[00:00:00] Cold Open: Xin on why crypto people don't talk to the real world [00:01:00] Intro: Sam introduces Xin and Sign Global's mission for sovereign infrastructure [00:03:00] Origin Story: Mining, hardware, VC and founding Sign in 2021 [00:05:00] From App to Nations: Pivoting from Web3 contract signing to CBDCs and stablecoins[00:08:00] Crypto vs Real World: Why good tech without real users doesn't create value [00:11:00] Digital ID: Sovereign credentials vs centralized government databases that keep getting hacked [00:15:00] Progressive States: Kazakhstan, UAE and how ambitious governments think about crypto [00:19:00] Future of Stablecoins: Why Xin believes stablecoins win but USD stablecoins won't dominate everyday money [00:24:00] Tokenizing Nations: Governments as gatekeepers for fiat, oil, land and RWA on-chain [00:30:00] Business Model: From government infra contracts to global payment rails [00:33:00] Bandwidth of Money: 1–3 day SWIFT vs 2-minute settlement and the impact on global GDP [00:34:00] Roadmap & Ask: 25+ countries, global payment network and who Xin wants to work withConnecthttps://sign.global/https://www.linkedin.com/company/ethsign/https://www.linkedin.com/in/xin-yan-658545172/https://x.com/ethsignhttps://x.com/realyanxinDisclaimerNothing mentioned in this podcast is investment advice and please do your own research. Finally, it would mean a lot if you can leave a review of this podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and share this podcast with a friend.Be a guest on the podcast or contact us - https://www.web3pod.xyz/

Why do some romance authors build decades-long careers while others vanish after one breakout book? What really separates a throwaway pen name and rapid release strategy from a legacy brand and a body of work you're proud of? How can you diversify with trad, indie, non-fiction, and Kickstarter without burning out—or selling out your creative freedom? With Jennifer Probst. In the intro, digital ebook signing [BookFunnel]; how to check terms and conditions; Business for Authors 2026 webinars; Music industry and AI music [BBC; The New Publishing Standard]; The Golden Age of Weird. This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life, which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system. You can also subscribe to the Kobo Writing Life podcast for interviews with successful indie authors. This show is also supported by my Patrons. Join my Community at Patreon.com/thecreativepenn Jennifer Probst is a New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of over 60 books across different kinds of romance as well as non-fiction for writers. Her latest book is Write Free. You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights, and the full transcript is below. Show Notes How Jennifer started writing at age 12, fell in love with romance, and persisted through decades of rejection A breakout success — and what happened when it moved to a traditional publisher Traditional vs indie publishing, diversification, and building a long-term, legacy-focused writing career Rapid-release pen names vs slow-burn author brands, and why Jennifer chooses quality and longevity Inspirational non-fiction for writers (Write Naked, Write True, Write Free) Using Kickstarter for special editions, re-releases, courses, and what she's learned from both successes and mistakes – plus what “writing free” really means in practice How can you ‘write free'? You can find Jennifer at JenniferProbst.com. Transcript of interview with Jennifer Probst Jo: Jennifer Probst is a New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of over 60 books across different kinds of romance as well as non-fiction for writers. Her latest book is Write Free. So welcome, Jennifer. Jennifer: Thanks so much, Joanna. I am kind of fangirling. I'm really excited to be on The Creative Penn podcast. It's kind of a bucket list. Jo: Aw, that's exciting. I reached out to you after your recent Kickstarter, and we are going to come back to that in a minute. First up, take us back in time. Tell us a bit more about how you got into writing and publishing. Jennifer: This one is easy for me. I am one of those rarities. I think that I knew when I was seven that I was going to write. I just didn't know what I was going to write. At 12 years old, and now this will kind of date me in dinosaur era here, there was no internet, no information on how to be a writer, no connections out there. The only game in town was Writer's Digest. I would go to my library and pore over Writer's Digest to learn how to be a writer. At 12 years old, all I knew was, “Oh, if I want to be a famous writer, I have to write a book.” So I literally sat down at 12 and wrote my first young adult romance. Of course, I was the star, as we all are when we're young, and I have not stopped since. I always knew, since my dad came home from a library with a box of romance novels and got in trouble with my mum and said, basically, “She's reading everything anyway, just let her read these,” I was gone. From that moment on, I knew that my entire life was going to be about that. So for me, it wasn't the writing. I have written non-stop since I was 12 years old. For me, it was more about making this a career where I can make money, because I think there was a good 30 years where I wrote without a penny to my name. So it was more of a different journey for me. It was more about trying to find my way in the writing world, where everybody said it should be just a hobby, and I believed that it should be something more. Jo: I was literally just going back in my head there to the library I used to go to on my way home from school. Similar, probably early teens, maybe age 14. Going to that section and… I think it was Shirley Conran. Was that Lace? Yes, Lace books. That's literally how we all learned about sex back in the day. Jennifer: All from books. You didn't need parents, you didn't need friends. Amazing. Jo: Oh, those were the days. That must have been the eighties, right? Jennifer: It was the eighties. Yes. Seventies, eighties, but mostly right around in the eighties. Oh, it was so… Jo: I got lost about then because I was reminiscing. I was also the same one in the library, and people didn't really see what you were reading in the corner of the library. So I think that's quite funny. Tell us how you got into being an indie. Jennifer: What had happened is I had this manuscript and it had been shopped around New York for agents and for a bunch of publishers. I kept getting the same exact thing: “I love your voice.” I mean, Joanna, when you talk about papering your wall with rejections, I lived that. The only thing I can say is that when I got my first rejection, I looked at it as a rite of passage that created me as a writer, rather than taking the perspective that it meant I failed. To me, perspective is a really big thing in this career, how you look at things. So that really helped me. But after you get like 75 of them, you're like, “I don't know how much longer I can take of this.” What happened is, it was an interesting story, because I had gone to an RWA conference and I had shopped this everywhere, this book that I just kept coming back to. I kept saying, “I feel like this book could be big.” There was an indie publisher there. They had just started out, it was an indie publisher called Entangled. A lot of my friends were like, “What about Entangled? Why don't you try more digital things or more indie publishers coming up rather than the big traditional ones?” Lo and behold, I sent it out. They loved the book. They decided, in February of 2012, to launch it. It was their big debut. They were kind of competing with Harlequin, but it was going to be a new digital line. It was this new cutting-edge thing. The book went crazy. It went viral. The book was called The Marriage Bargain, and it put me on the map. All of a sudden I was inundated with agents, and the traditional publishers came knocking and they wanted to buy the series. It was everywhere. Then it hit USA Today, and then it spent 26 weeks on The New York Times. Everybody was like, “Wow, you're this overnight sensation.” And I'm like, “Not really!” That was kind of my leeway into everything. We ended up selling that series to Simon & Schuster because that was the smart move for then, because it kind of blew up and an indie publisher at that time knew it was a lot to take on. From then on, my goal was always to do both: to have a traditional contract, to work with indie publishers, and to do my own self-pub. I felt, even back then, the more diversified I am, the more control I have. If one bucket goes bad, I have two other buckets. Jo: Yes, I mean, I always say multiple streams of income. It's so surprising to me that people think that whatever it is that hits big is going to continue. So you obviously experienced there a massive high point, but it doesn't continue. You had all those weeks that were amazing, but then it drops off, right? Jennifer: Oh my goodness, yes. Great story about what happened. So 26 weeks on The New York Times, and it was selling like hotcakes. Then Simon & Schuster took it over and they bumped the price to their usual ebook price, which was, what, $12.99 or something? So it's going from $2.99. The day that they did it, I slid off all the bestseller lists. They were gone, and I lost a lot of control too. With indies, you have a little bit more control. But again, that kind of funnels me into a completely different kind of setup. Traditional is very different from indie. What you touched on, I think, is the biggest thing in the industry right now. When things are hot, it feels like forever. I learned a valuable lesson: it doesn't continue. It just doesn't. Maybe someone like Danielle Steel or some of the other big ones never had to pivot, but I feel like in romance it's very fluid. You have genres hitting big, you have niches hitting big, authors hitting big. Yes, I see some of them stay. I see Emily Henry still staying—maybe that will never pause—but I think for the majority, they find themselves saying, “Okay, that's done now. What's next?” It can either hit or not hit. Does that make sense to you? Do you feel the same? Jo: Yes, and I guess it's not just about the book. It's more about the tactic. You mentioned genres, and they do switch a lot in romance, a lot faster than other genres. In terms of how we do marketing… Now, as we record this, TikTok is still a thing, and we can see maybe generative AI search coming on the horizon and agentic buying. A decade ago it might have been different, more Facebook ads or whatever. Then before that it might have been something else. So there's always things changing along the way. Jennifer: Yes, there definitely is. It is a very oversaturated market. They talk about, I don't know, 2010 to 2016 maybe, as the gold rush, because that was where you could make a lot of money as an indie. Then we saw the total fallout of so many different things. I feel like I've gone through so many ups and downs in the industry. I do love it because the longer you're around, the more you learn how to pivot. If you want this career, you learn how to write differently or do whatever you need to do to keep going, in different aspects, with the changes. To me, that makes the industry exciting. Again, perspective is a big thing. But I have had to take a year to kind of rebuild when I was out of contract with a lot of things. I've had to say, “Okay, what do you see on the horizon now? Where is the new foundation? Where do you wanna restart?” Sometimes it takes a year or two of, “Maybe I won't be making big income and I cut back,” but then you're back in it, because it takes a while to write a few new books, or write under a pen name, or however you want to pivot your way back into the industry. Or, like you were saying, diversifying. I did a lot of non-fiction stuff because that's a big calling for me, so I put that into the primary for a while. I think it's important for authors to maybe not just have one thing. When that one thing goes away, you're scrambling. It's good to have a couple of different things like, “Well, okay, this genre is dead or this thing is dead or this isn't making money. Let me go to this for a little while until I see new things on the horizon.” Jo: Yes. There's a couple of things I want to come back to. You mentioned a pen name there, and one of the things I'm seeing a lot right now—I mean, it's always gone on, but it seems to be on overdrive—is people doing rapid-release, throwaway pen names. So there's a new sub-genre, they write the books really fast, they put them up under whatever pen name, and then when that goes away, they ditch that pen name altogether. Versus growing a name brand more slowly, like I think you and I have done. Under my J.F. Penn fiction brand, I put lots of different sub-genres. What are your thoughts on this throwaway pen name versus growing a name brand more slowly? Jennifer: Well, okay, the first thing I'm goign to say is: if that lights people up, if you love the idea of rapid release and just kind of shedding your skin and going on to the next one, I say go for it. As long as you're not pumping it out with AI so it's a complete AI book, but that's a different topic. I'm not saying using AI tools; I mean a completely AI-written book. That's the difference. If we're talking about an author going in and, every four weeks, writing a book and stuff like that, I do eventually think that anything in life that disturbs you, you're going to burn out eventually. That is a limited-time kind of thing, I believe. I don't know how long you can keep doing that and create decent enough books or make a living on it. But again, I really try not to judge, because I am very open to: if that gives you joy and that's working and it brings your family money, go for it. I have always wanted to be a writer for the long term. I want my work to be my legacy. I don't just pump out books. Every single book is my history. It's a marking of what I thought, what I put out in the world, what my beliefs are, what my story is. It marks different things, and I'm very proud of that. So I want a legacy of quality. As I got older, in my twenties and thirties, I was able to write books a lot faster. Then I had a family with two kids and I had to slow down a little bit. I also think life sometimes drives your career, and that's okay. If you're taking care of a sick parent or there's illness or whatever, maybe you need to slow down. I like the idea of a long-term backlist supporting me when I need to take a back seat and not do frontlist things. So that's how I feel. I will always say: choose a long, organic-growth type of career that will be there for you, where your backlist can support you. I also don't want to trash people who do it differently. If that is how you can do it, if you can write a book in a month and keep doing it and keep it quality, go for it. Jo: I do have the word “legacy” on my board next to me, but I also have “create a body of work I'm proud of.” I have that next to me, and I have “Have you made art today?” So I think about these things too. As you say, people feel differently about work, and I will do other work to make faster cash rather than do that with books. But as we said, that's all good. Interestingly, you mentioned non-fiction there. Write Free is your latest one, but you've got some other writing books. So maybe— Talk about the difference between non-fiction book income and marketing compared to fiction, and why you added that in. Jennifer: Yes, it's completely different. I mean, it's two new dinosaurs. I came to writing non-fiction in a very strange way. Literally, I woke up on New Year's Day and I was on a romance book deadline. I could not do it. I'll tell you, my brain was filled with passages of teaching writing, of things I wanted to share in my writing career. Because again, I've been writing since I was 12, I've been a non-stop writer for over 30 years. I got to my computer and I wrote like three chapters of Write Naked (which was the first book). It was just pouring out of me. So I contacted my agent and I said, “Look, I don't know, this is what I want to do. I want to write this non-fiction book.” She's like, “What are you talking about? You're a romance author. You're on a romance deadline. What do you want me to do with this?” She was so confused. I said, “Yes, how do you write a non-fiction book proposal?” And she was just like, “This is not good, Jen. What are you doing?” Anyway, the funny story was, she said, “Just send me chapters.” I mean, God bless her, she's this wonderful agent, but I know she didn't get it. So I sent her like four chapters of what I was writing and she called me. I'll never forget it. She called me on the phone and she goes, “This is some of the best stuff I have ever read in my life. It's raw and it's truthful, and we've got to find a publisher for this.” And I was like, “Yay.” What happened was, I believe this was one of the most beautiful full circles in my life: Writer's Digest actually made me an offer. It was not about the money. I found that non-fiction for me had a much lower advance and a different type of sales. For me, when I was a kid, that is exactly what I was reading in the library, Writer's Digest. I would save my allowance to get the magazine. I would say to myself, “One day, maybe I will have a book with Writer's Digest.” So for me, it was one of the biggest full-circle moments. I will never forget it. Being published by them was amazing. Then I thought I was one-and-done, but the book just completely touched so many writers. I have never gotten so many emails: “Thank you for saying the truth,” or “Thank you for being vulnerable.” Right before it published, I had a panic attack. I told my husband, “Now everybody's going to know that I am a mess and I'm not fabulous and the world is going to know my craziness.” By being vulnerable about the career, and also that it was specifically for romance authors, it caused a bond. I think it caused some trust. I had been writing about writing for years. After that, I thought it was one-and-done. Then two or three years later I was like, “No, I have more to say.” So I leaned into my non-fiction. It also gives my fiction brain a rest, because when you're doing non-fiction, you're using a different part of your brain. It's a way for me to cleanse my palate. I gather more experiences about what I want to share, and then that goes into the next book. Jo: Yes, I also use the phrase “palate cleanser” for non-fiction versus fiction. I feel like you write one and then you feel like, “Oh, I really need to write the other now.” Jennifer: Yes! Isn't it wonderful? I love that. I love having the two brains and just giving one a break and totally leaning into it. Again, it's another way of income. It's another way. I also believe that this industry has given me so much that it is automatic that I want to give back. I just want to give as much as possible back because I'm so passionate about writing and the industry field. Jo: Well, interestingly though, Writer's Digest—the publisher who published that magazine and other things—went bankrupt in 2019. You've been in publishing a long time. It is not uncommon for publishers to go out of business or to get bought. Things happen with publishers, right? Jennifer: Yes. Jo: So what then happened? Jennifer: So Penguin Random House bought it. All the Writer's Digest authors did not know what they were going to do. Then Penguin Random House bought it and kept Writer's Digest completely separate, as an imprint under the umbrella. So Writer's Digest really hasn't changed. They still have the magazine, they still have books. So it ended up being okay. But what I did do is—because I sold Write Naked and I have no regrets about that, it was the best thing for me to do, to go that route—the second and the third books were self-published. I decided I'm going to self-publish. That way I have the rights for audio, I have the rights for myself, I can do a whole bunch of different things. So Write True, the second one, was self-published. Writers Inspiring Writers I paired up with somebody, so we self-published that. And Write Free, my newest one, is self-published. So I've decided to go that route now with my non-fiction. Jo: Well, as I said, I noticed your Kickstarter. I don't write romance, so I'm not really in that community. I had kind of heard your name before, but then I bought the book and joined the Kickstarter. Then I discovered that you've been doing so much and I was like, “Oh, how, why haven't we connected before?” It's very cool. So tell us about the Kickstarters you've done and what you know, because you've done, I think, a fiction one as well. What are your thoughts and tips around Kickstarter? Jennifer: Yes. When I was taking that year, I found myself kind of… let's just say fired from a lot of different publishers at the time. That was okay because I had contracts that ran out, and when I looked to see, “Okay, do we want to go back?” it just wasn't looking good. I was like, “Well, I don't want to spend a year if I'm not gonna be making the money anyway.” So I looked at the landscape and I said, “It's time to really pull in and do a lot more things on my own, but I've got to build foundations.” Kickstarter was one of them. I took a course with Russell Nohelty and Monica Leonelle. They did a big course for Kickstarter, and they were really the ones going around to all the conferences and basically saying, “Hey guys, you're missing out on a lot of publishing opportunities here,” because Kickstarter publishing was getting good. I took the course because I like to dive into things, but I also want to know the foundation of it. I want to know what I'm doing. I'm not one to just wing it when it comes to tech. So what happened is, the first one, I had rights coming back from a book. After 10 years, my rights came back. It was an older book and I said, “You know what? I am going to dip my foot in and see what kind of base I can grow there. What can I do?” I was going to get a new cover, add new scenes, re-release it anyway, right? So I said, “Let's do a Kickstarter for it, because then I can get paid for all of that work.” It worked out so fantastically. It made just enough for my goal. I knew I didn't want to make a killing; I knew I wanted to make a fund. I made my $5,000, which I thought was wonderful, and I was able to re-release it with a new cover, a large print hardback, and I added some scenes. I did a 10-year anniversary re-release for my fans. So I made it very fan-friendly, grew my audience, and I was like, “This was great.” The next year, I did something completely different. I was doing Kindle Vella back in the day. That was where you dropped a chapter at a time. I said, “I want to do this completely different kind of thing.” It was very not my brand at all. It was very reality TV-ish: young college students living in the city, very sexy, very angsty, love triangles, messy—everything I was not known for. Again, I was like, “I'm not doing a pen name because this is just me,” and I funnelled my audience. I said, “What I'm going to do is I'm going to start doing a chapter a week through Kindle Vella and make money there. Then when it's done, I'm going to bundle it all up and make a book out of it.” So I did a year of Kindle Vella. It was the best decision I made because I just did two chapters a week, which I was able to do. By one year I had like 180,000 words. I had two to three books in there. I did it as a hardback deluxe—the only place you could get it in print. Then Vella closed, or at least it went way down. So I was like, “Great, I'm going to do this Kickstarter for this entire new thing.” I partnered with a company that helps with special editions, because that was a whole other… oh Joanna, that was a whole other thing you have to go into. Getting the books, getting the art, getting the swag. I felt like I needed some help for that. Again, I went in, I funded. I did not make a killing on that, but that was okay. I learned some things that I would have changed with my Kickstarter and I also built a new audience for that. I had a lot of extra books that I then sold in my store, and it was another place to make money. The third Kickstarter I used specifically because I had always wanted to do a writing course. I go all over the world, I do keynotes, I do workshops, I've done books, and I wanted to reach new writers, but I don't travel a lot anymore. So I came up with the concept that I was going to do my very first course, and it was going to be very personal, kind of like me talking to them almost like in a keynote, like you're in a room with me. I gathered a whole bunch of stuff and I used Kickstarter to help me A) fund it and B) make myself do it, because it was two years in the making and I always had, “Oh, I've got this other thing to do,” you know how we do that, right? We have big projects. So I used Kickstarter as a deadline and I decided to launch it in the summer. In addition to that, I took years of my posts from all over. I copied and pasted, did new posts, and I created Write Free, which was a very personal, essay-driven book. I took it all together. I took a couple of months to do this, filmed the course, and the Kickstarter did better than I had ever imagined. I got quadruple what I wanted, and it literally financed all the video editing, the books, everything that I needed, plus extra. I feel like I'm growing in Kickstarter. I hope I'm not ranting. I'm trying to go over things that can help people. Jo: Oh no, that is super useful. Jennifer: So you don't have to go all in and say, “If it doesn't fund it's over,” or “I need to make $20,000.” There are people making so much money, and there are people that will do a project a year or two projects a year and just get enough to fund a new thing that they want to do. So that's how I've done it. Jo: I've done quite a few now, and my non-fiction ones have been a lot bigger—I have a big audience there—and my fiction have been all over the place. What I like about Kickstarter is that you can do these different things. We can do these special editions. I've just done a sprayed-edge short story collection. Short story collections are not the biggest genre. Jennifer: Yes. I love short stories too. I've always wanted to do an anthology of all my short stories. Jo: There you go. Jennifer: Yes, I love that for your Kickstarter. Love it. Jo: When I turned 50 earlier this year, I realised the thing that isn't in print is my short stories. They are out there digitally, and that's why I wanted to do it. I feel like Kickstarter is a really good way to do these creative projects. As you say, you don't have to make a ton of money, but at the end of the day, the definition of success for us, I think for both of us, is just being able to continue doing this, right? Jennifer: Absolutely. This is funding a creative full-time career, and every single thing that you do with your content is like a funnel. The more funnels that you have, the bigger your base. Especially if you love it. It would be different if I was struggling and thinking, “Do I get an editor job?” I would hate being an editor. But if you look at something else like, “Oh yes, I could do this and that would light me up, like doing a course—wow, that sounds amazing,” then that's different. It's kind of finding your alternates that also light you up. Jo: Hmm. So were there any mistakes in your Kickstarters that you think are worth sharing? In case people are thinking about it. Jennifer: Oh my God, yes. So many. One big thing was that I felt like I was a failure if I didn't make a certain amount of money because my name is pretty well known. It's not like I'm brand new and looking. One of the big things was that I could not understand and I felt like I was banging my head against the wall about why my newsletter subscribers wouldn't support the Kickstarter. I'm like, “Why aren't you doing this? I'm supposed to have thousands of people that just back.” Your expectations can really mess with you. Then I started to learn, “Oh my God, my newsletter audience wants nothing to do with my Kickstarter.” Maybe I had a handful. So then I learned that I needed longer tails, like putting it up for pre-order way ahead of time, and also that you can't just announce it in your newsletter and feel like everybody's going to go there. You need to find your streams, your Kickstarter audience, which includes ads. I had never done ads either and I didn't know how to do that, so I did that all wrong. I joined the Facebook group for Kickstarter authors. I didn't do that for the first one and then I learned about it. You share backer updates, so every time you go into your audience with a backer update, there's this whole community where you can share with like-minded people with their projects, and you post it under your updates. It does cross-networking and sharing with a lot of authors in their newsletters. For the Write Free one, I leaned into my networking a lot, using my connections. I used other authors' newsletters and people in the industry to share my Kickstarter. That was better for me than just relying on my own fanbase. So definitely more networking, more sharing, getting it out on different platforms rather than just doing your own narrow channel. Because a lot of the time, you think your audience will follow you into certain things and they don't, and that needs to be okay. The other thing was the time and the backend. I think a lot of authors can get super excited about swag. I love that, but I learned that I could have pulled back a little bit and been smarter with my financials. I did things I was passionate about, but I probably spent much more money on swag than I needed to. So looking at different aspects to make it more efficient. I think each time you do one, you learn what works best. As usual, I try to be patient with myself. I don't get mad at myself for trying things and failing. I think failing is spectacular because I learn something. I know: do I want to do this again? Do I want to do it differently? If we weren't so afraid of failingqu “in public”, I think we would do more things. I'm not saying I never think, “Oh my God, that was so embarrassing, I barely funded and this person is getting a hundred thousand.” We're human. We compare. I have my own reset that I do, but I really try to say, “But no, for me, maybe I'll do this, and if it doesn't work, that's okay.” Jo: I really like that you shared about the email list there because I feel like too many people have spent years driving people to Kindle or KU, and they have built an email list of readers who like a particular format at a particular price. Then we are saying, “Oh, now come over here and buy a beautiful hardback that's like ten times the price.” And we're surprised when nobody does it. Is that what happened? Jennifer: Exactly. Also, that list was for a non-fiction project. So I had to funnel where my writers were in my newsletter, and I have mostly readers. So I was like, “Okay…” But I think you're exactly right. First of all, it's the platform. When you ask anybody to go off a platform, whether it's buy direct at your Shopify store or go to Kickstarter, you are going to lose the majority right there. People are like, “No, I want to click a button from your newsletter and go to a site that I know.” So you've got that, and you've got to train them. That can take some time. Then you've got this project where people are like, “I don't understand.” Even my mum was like, “I would love to support you, honey, but what the heck is this? Where's the buy button and where's my book?” My women's fiction books tend to have some older readers who are like, “Hell no, I don't know what this is.” So you have to know your audience. If it's not translating, train them. I did a couple of videos where I said, “Look, I want to show you how easy this is,” and I showed them directly how to go in and how to back. I did that with Kindle Vella too. I did a video from my newsletter and on social: “Hey, do you not know how to read this chapter? Here's how.” Sometimes there's a barrier. Like you said, Joanna, if I have a majority that just want sexy contemporary, and I'm dropping angsty, cheating, forbidden love, they're like, “Oh no, that's not for me.” So you have to know whether there's a crossover. I go into my business with that already baked into my expectations. I don't go in thinking I'm going to make a killing. Then I'm more surprised when it does well, and then I can build it. Jo: Yes, exactly. Also if you are, like both of us, writing across genres, then you are always going to split your audience. People do not necessarily buy everything because they have their preferences. So I think that's great. Now we are almost out of time, but this latest book is Write Free. I wondered if you would maybe say— What does Write Free mean to you, and what might it help the listeners with? Jennifer: Write Free is an extremely personal book for me, and the title was really important because it goes with Write Naked, Write True, and Write Free. These are the ways that I believe a writer should always show up to the page. Freedom is being able to write your truth in whatever day that is. You're going to be a different writer when you're young and maybe hormonal and passionate and having love affairs. You're going to write differently when you're a mum with kids in nappies. You're going to write differently when you are maybe in your forties and you're killing your career. Your perspective changes, your life changes. Write Free is literally a collection of essays all through my 30 years of life. It's very personal. There are essays like, “I'm writing my 53rd book right now,” and essays like, “My kids are in front of SpongeBob and I'm trying to write right now,” and “I got another rejection letter and I don't know how to survive.” It is literally an imprint of essays that you can dip in and dip out of. It's easy, short, inspirational, and it's just me showing up for my writing life. That's what I wish for everybody: that they can show up for their writing life in the best way that they can at the time, because that changes all the time. Jo: We can say “write free” because we've got a lot of experience at writing. I feel like when I started writing—I was an IT consultant—I literally couldn't write anything creative. I didn't believe I could. There'll be people listening who are just like, “Well, Jennifer, I can't write free. I'm not free. My mind is shackled by all these expectations and everything.” How can they release that and aim for more freedom? Jennifer: I love that question so much. The thing is, I've spent so many years working on that part. That doesn't come overnight. I think sometimes when you have more clarification of, “Okay, this is really limiting me,” then when you can see where something is limiting you, at least you can look for answers. My answers came in the form of meditation. Meditation is a very big thing in my life. Changing my perspective. Learning life mottos to help me deal with those kinds of limitations. Learning that when I write a sex scene, I can't care about my elderly aunt who tells my mother, “Dear God, she ruined the family name.” It is your responsibility to figure out where these limitations are, and then slowly see how you can remove them. I've been in therapy. I have read hundreds of self-help books. I take meditation courses. I take workshop courses. I've done CliftonStrengths with Becca Syme. I don't even know if that's therapy, but it feels like therapy to me as a writer. Knowing my personality traits. I've done Enneagram work with Claire Taylor, which has been huge. The more you know yourself and how your brain is showing up for yourself, the more you can grab tools to use. I wish I could say, “Yes, if everybody meditates 30 minutes a day, you're going to have all blocks removed,” but it's so personal that it's a trick question. If everybody started today and said, “Where is my biggest limitation?” and be real with yourself, there are answers out there. You just have to go slowly and find them, and then the writing more free will come. I hope that wasn't one of those woo-woo answers, but I really do believe it. Jo: I agree. It just takes time. Like our writing career, it just takes time. Keep working on it, keep writing. Jennifer: Yes. And bravery, right? A lot of bravery. Just show up for yourself however you can. If “write free” feels too big, journal for yourself and put it in a locked drawer. Any kind of writing, I think, is therapeutic too. Jo: Brilliant. So where can people find you and your books and everything you do online? Jennifer: The best place to go is my website. I treat it like my home. It's www.JenniferProbst.com. There is so much on it. Not just books, not just free content and free stories. There's an entire section just for writers. There are videos on there. There are a lot of resources. I keep it up to date and it is the place where you can find me. Of course I'm everywhere on social media as Author Jennifer Probst. You can find me anywhere. I always tell everybody: I answer my messages, I answer my emails. That is really important to me. So if you heard this podcast and you want to reach out on anything, please do. I will answer. Jo: Fantastic. Well, thanks so much for your time, Jennifer. That was great. Jennifer: Thanks for having me, Joanna.The post Writing Free: Romance Author Jennifer Probst On A Long-Term Author Career first appeared on The Creative Penn.

Crypto News: Silver hits a new all time signaling liquidity roation and the macro bull market is still intact and crypto turn will come. Animoca Brands to focus on stablecoin, RWA in 2026 amid US IPO efforts. Brought to you by ✅ VeChain is a versatile enterprise-grade L1 smart contract platform https://www.vechain.org/ 

Stablecoin yields are returns generated by depositing stablecoins into third-party platforms or protocols, not from the stablecoins themselves. These yields, which typically range from 2% to over 15% APY, are derived from various mechanisms like lending, liquidity pools, or real-world asset (RWA) backing. ~This episode is sponsored by BTCC & Tangem~BTCC 10% Deposit Bonus! ➜ https://bit.ly/PBNBTCCTangem 20% OFF + $10 BTC ➜ https://bit.ly/TangemPBNUse Code: "PBN" for Additional Discounts!00:00 Intro00:08 Sponsor: BTCC00:39 The Year of Stablecoins01:08 Bank Yields Suck01:38 Be Your Own Bank01:56 Bluechip Stablecoins02:32 Free Portfolio Tracker02:50 Sponsor: Tangem Yields with Aave03:26 PYUSD on Aave03:50 RULSD on Aave04:08 RLUSD on Euler & Doppler Finance04:39 USDG on Solana05:04 PYUSD on Kamino05:29 USDC on Sui & Kai Finance Vault05:59 Slush Wallet Vault Monitoring06:28 USDF on Flow & More Markets06:58 USDF on KittyPunch07:50 Avant on Avalanche08:11 Yield Yak Intelligent USD08:33 Farm $SONEX on Soneium09:04 Farm $KAT on Katana09:55 Virtuals & A.I. Agents11:38 Yield Guide Rule List13:36 Wait For Ripple & Crypto Banks?14:14 outro#Crypto #Stalecoin #XRP~Stablecoin Yields Strategy Guide

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This week we're joined by pro wrestler Zeke Mercer, and things get intense quickly. We break down AEW Blood & Guts, praise Marina Shafir's violent performance, discuss AEW's long-term storytelling, and look at WWE's Survivor Series build—including the powerhouse women taking over. We also dive into Hangman Page vs. Swerve Strickland storytelling, AEW Full Gear, the Rey Mysterio animated series, the RWA and Neo Pro weekend shows, and more. Zeke gives a full behind-the-scenes look at the fall of the Matriarchy at 880 Wrestling, why he turned on Paris Sahara, why kids cry when they see him, and why “Fuck you, Zeke” might be the most honest chant in wrestling. Plus: What We Learned This Week, including Ray Mysterio's emotional Eddie Guerrero article, “blobby,” and Zeke admitting the world may not survive an 880 title run.

This week we're joined by pro wrestler Zeke Mercer, and things get intense quickly. We break down AEW Blood & Guts, praise Marina Shafir's violent performance, discuss AEW's long-term storytelling, and look at WWE's Survivor Series build—including the powerhouse women taking over. We also dive into Hangman Page vs. Swerve Strickland storytelling, AEW Full Gear, the Rey Mysterio animated series, the RWA and Neo Pro weekend shows, and more. Zeke gives a full behind-the-scenes look at the fall of the Matriarchy at 880 Wrestling, why he turned on Paris Sahara, why kids cry when they see him, and why “Fuck you, Zeke” might be the most honest chant in wrestling. Plus: What We Learned This Week, including Ray Mysterio's emotional Eddie Guerrero article, “blobby,” and Zeke admitting the world may not survive an 880 title run.

This week we're joined by pro wrestler Zeke Mercer, and things get intense quickly. We break down AEW Blood & Guts, praise Marina Shafir's violent performance, discuss AEW's long-term storytelling, and look at WWE's Survivor Series build—including the powerhouse women taking over. We also dive into Hangman Page vs. Swerve Strickland storytelling, AEW Full Gear, the Rey Mysterio animated series, the RWA and Neo Pro weekend shows, and more. Zeke gives a full behind-the-scenes look at the fall of the Matriarchy at 880 Wrestling, why he turned on Paris Sahara, why kids cry when they see him, and why “Fuck you, Zeke” might be the most honest chant in wrestling. Plus: What We Learned This Week, including Ray Mysterio's emotional Eddie Guerrero article, “blobby,” and Zeke admitting the world may not survive an 880 title run.

Small Cap Breaking News You Can't Miss!Here's a quick rundown of the latest updates from standout small-cap companies making big moves today.XTM – Non-Dilutive Fintech Funding Via RWA Tokenization (CSE: PAID) (OTCQB: XTMIF) (FSE: 7XT)XTM Inc., a North American earned wage access and instant pay fintech, has signed a binding LOI with AGORACOM RWA DBX to tokenize Preferred Shares in its U.S. subsidiary, XTM USA.Key points: • Structure targets non-dilutive capital, with no new common shares issued • XTM USA holds the core AnyDay™ IP and contracts, tied to 150,000+ daily wage earners projected in 2026 • AGORACOM RWA DBX gets a six-month exclusive mandate to design and coordinate the tokenization and listing strategy • Tokens will be backed by Preferred Shares in XTM USA, aiming to tap emerging RWA investors while XTM maintains full operating controlIf successful, this could become a model small-cap RWA financing structure, giving XTM new growth capital while protecting its cap table.Draganfly – Border Security Drone Gains Multi-Agency Attention (CSE: DPRO) (NASDAQ: DPRO) (FSE: 3U8A)Draganfly's Outrider™ Border Drone has completed live mission demos with the Cochise County Sheriff's Office along the U.S.–Mexico border, attracting interest from multiple U.S. law enforcement, federal and military agencies.Highlights: • Outrider is NDAA-compliant and North American–built, a key requirement for U.S. government programs • Heavy-duty profile with up to 100 lb payload and up to 7 hours of flight time • Demonstrated use cases included persistent surveillance, emergency response support, and air–ground coordination • Event generated multi-agency procurement interest, positioning Draganfly in the growing U.S. homeland security and public-safety drone marketThe Cochise County Drone Summit showcases Draganfly as a domestic, mission-ready drone supplier at a time of rising demand for compliant UAS solutions.Midnight Sun Mining – High-Grade Copper Over 1.5 km at Dumbwa (TSX-V: MMA) (OTCQX: MDNGF)Midnight Sun Mining is advancing a promising copper discovery at the Dumbwa target on its Solwezi Project in Zambia's Copperbelt. New results continue to build a picture of a sizeable, high-grade system.Key drill results and momentum: • 1.0% copper over 22 m (DBW-25-010) • 0.98% copper over 15 m and 0.79% copper over 5.25 m (DBW-25-009), plus supporting intervals • Nearly 1.5 km of mineralized strike now defined in a north–south corridor • 51 holes completed, 5 ongoing, and ~75 more holes planned (~15,000 m) to test a further 3 km of strike • Five rigs turning, with a sixth rig expected in early 2026, and drilling to continue through the rainy seasonLocated beside major producing operations in the Zambia–Congo Copperbelt, Dumbwa is shaping up as an emerging copper story with district-scale upside.Pacific Ridge – One of the Best Holes Yet at Kliyul Copper-Gold Project (TSX-V: PEX) (OTCQB: PEXZF) (FSE: PQW)Pacific Ridge Exploration has reported one of its strongest drill holes to date at the Kliyul Main Zone (KMZ) in north-central British Columbia, reinforcing both grade and scale potential at its flagship copper-gold project.2025 drill highlights: • Hole KLI-25-070: • 489.8 m of 0.56% CuEq (0.84 g/t AuEq) from near surface • Including 289.0 m of 0.77% CuEq (1.15 g/t AuEq) • With a higher-grade core of 85.0 m at 1.47% CuEq (2.19 g/t AuEq), including 37.5 m at 2.49% CuEq (3.72 g/t AuEq) • Hole KLI-25-071: • 421.0 m of 0.24% CuEq (0.35 g/t AuEq) • Including 91.0 m of 0.47% CuEq (0.70 g/t AuEq) • KMZ currently hosts an Inferred Resource of 334.1 Mt at 0.33% CuEq, and mineralization has now been extended 110 m to the west within the resource pit shellWith a 6 km underexplored mineralized trend and multiple additional targets to test, Kliyul is emerging as a large-scale copper-gold system in a premier Canadian mining jurisdiction.

Orobit is a Bitcoin Layer 2 protocol that enables decentralized finance (DeFi) capabilities and smart contracts directly on Bitcoin, utilizing its own Simple Contract Language (SCL) and leveraging the Lightning Network for instant payments and scalability.GUEST: Paul Dando, Co Founder CEO of Orobit~This episode is sponsored by Orobit~Orobit website ➜ https://bit.ly/Orobit00:00 Intro00:45 Explain Orobit's mission02:15 What is XRB?04:15 How is Orobit different from Stacks or other Bitcoin-adjacent Layers?06:30 Why is Wrapped Bitcoin (wBTC) not good enough?07:45 Is using Lightning Network an uphill battle?10:00 Stablecoin Liquidity in the Lightening network11:15 Are Bitcoin devs motivated enough to bring DeFi onto Bitcoin?13:50 Quantum-resistant wallet technology?16:00 Roadmap: AI assistance17:50 Parterships20:00 Outro#Bitcoin #ethereum #Crypto~The Rise of Bitcoin DeFi & RWA

This week, we break down the violent selloff across equities and crypto, how real revenue, institutional capital, and RWA-looping are reshaping which assets survive. We also discuss the rise of institutional lending markets, Uniswap's long-awaited fee switch proposal, and why retail-driven tokenomics are dead while fundamentals and sustainable business models take over. Enjoy! -- The Canton Network is the only public, permissionless blockchain built for institutional finance—combining privacy, compliance, and scalability. It enables real-time, secure synchronization and settlement across asset classes on a shared, interoperable infrastructure. It's the link between the promise of blockchain and the power of global finance, making finance flow as it should.  Learn more about the Canton Network here: ⁠https://www.canton.network/?utm_sourc…  -- Follow Michael: https://x.com/im_manderson    Follow Vance: https://x.com/pythianism  Follow Mike: https://x.com/mikeippolito_   Subscribe on YouTube: ⁠https://bit.ly/3R1D1D9 ⁠ Subscribe on Apple: ⁠https://apple.co/3pQTfmD ⁠ Subscribe on Spotify: ⁠https://spoti.fi/3cpKZXH⁠  Get top market insights and the latest in crypto news. Subscribe to Blockworks Daily Newsletter: ⁠https://blockworks.co/newsletter/⁠  -- Timestamps: (0:00) Introduction (2:07) Are Markets Cooked? (8:28) Bell Curve Announcement (11:08) Canton Ad (11:53) On-Chain Lending Markets (18:52) Institutional vs Retail Audience (23:34) The Future of RWAs (27:43) Canton Ad (28:26) Uniswap Fee Switch Proposal (39:05) Are DATs Dead? (41:55) Lessons for the Future (50:40) Final Thoughts -- Disclaimer: Nothing said on Bell Curve is a recommendation to buy or sell securities or tokens. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and any views expressed by anyone on the show are solely our opinions, not financial advice. Mike, Jason, Michael, Vance and our guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed, and our guests may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed.

On August 12th, AGORACOM made history with our first-ever Real World Asset (RWA) Tokenized Financing Webcast, hosted in partnership with BlockRidge, our Dubai-based RWA global partners — and joined by 200+ small cap executives.The response was incredible. The Q&A ran longer than the webcast itself, proving just how much interest and excitement there is around tokenized financing.If you missed it, or want to share it with your team, this is the full replay video on demand. What You'll Learn in This Replay: How RWA tokenization is rewriting the rules of small cap financing Why issuers can finally escape predatory financing models How global blockchain infrastructure opens doors to investors worldwide Insights from active financing discussions already totaling $350M+ The Paradigm Shift Has Begun:SEC launches Project Crypto – opening the door to tokenized markets,Nasdaq proposes tokenized securities trading by Q3 2026, If you're a small cap company looking to raise $20M+ against real world assets ready for commercialization, this webcast is a must-watch. Watch the full replay now and see how tokenization is transforming capital raising for small caps.#Tokenization #SmallCap #AGORACOM #Webcast #Blockchain #RWA

In episode 794 of The Bad Crypto Podcast, the Republic of Bad Cryptopia is going through major life upgrades. Travis has officially moved to Dubai to become Chief Innovation & Web3 Marketing Officer at MultiBank.io, leading their $MBG token, RWA plays, and a wild new partnership with UFC legend Khabib that involves tokenized gyms. Meanwhile, Joel’s getting married in Breckenridge, rebooting his personal YouTube channel, dropping weekly AI for Everyone episodes, and shaping a new book built from decades of entrepreneurial stories. Then we zoom out and ask the big question: where are we really in this market? Bitcoin has dipped back near the $100K line, alts are bleeding, and total crypto market cap has shed nearly a trillion dollars from the peak. Joel argues the classic 4-year cycle is breaking as nation-states, institutions, and a pro-crypto president pile in… while Travis reminds us that crypto has a nasty habit of wrecking your best assumptions (and your dream Mustang) right when you think you’ve figured it out. Volatility, bull-market “top” indicators, and long-term conviction all collide in one brutally honest convo. This episode is a reset: two blockheads, two dudes talking crypto, life, AI, politics, poop, and everything in between — the way the show started, before “no banter” media people tried to tame it. If you’ve ever felt lost in the noise of headlines and just wanted to hang with a couple of over-50 degen uncles trying to figure it out in real time… this one’s for you.

En Capital Intereconomía el Radar Empresarial de hoy se ha centrado en Tesla, la compañía de Elon Musk, que vuelve a estar en el punto de mira del mercado tras su reciente volatilidad en bolsa y las dudas sobre la rentabilidad de su división de vehículos eléctricos frente a la creciente competencia asiática y europea. En la Escuela de Finanzas, el protagonismo ha sido para la renta variable emergente, que recupera impulso tras una década a la sombra de los mercados desarrollados. Ricardo Comín, director comercial de Vontobel para Iberia, ha subrayado el cambio de tendencia que vive este segmento, impulsado por la estabilización de las economías emergentes, la mejora de sus balanzas comerciales y el renovado interés de los inversores por activos con valoraciones más atractivas. Además, en una nueva edición de Cripto Capital, nos hemos trasladado al epicentro mundial de la innovación digital: Dubái, con Jesús Pérez, fundador de Crypto Plaza, y Laura Estefanía, especialista en comunicación Tech & Web3. Ambos destacaron cómo la ciudad se ha convertido en un hub global del ecosistema cripto, gracias a su marco regulatorio estable, su apuesta institucional por la innovación y una comunidad vibrante que favorece la colaboración entre desarrolladores, inversores y startups. Estefanía explicó que Dubái “ha logrado lo que Europa aún persigue: unir agilidad regulatoria, talento y capital en un mismo espacio”, y advirtió que ya se percibe una “fuga de cerebros” cripto desde centros como Londres o Lisboa hacia Emiratos Árabes. En la segunda parte del programa, Luis Gimeno, socio y cofundador de InmoCripto, analizó junto a Jesús Pérez cómo el sector inmobiliario empieza a integrar el uso de criptomonedas en operaciones de compraventa real. Gimeno explicó que “ya se están cerrando operaciones con criptoactivos en mercados como Dubái, Miami o Lisboa”, destacando las ventajas en agilidad y descentralización de pagos, aunque advirtió que todavía existen riesgos regulatorios y de volatilidad. El programa concluyó con una reflexión sobre cómo la tokenización de activos reales (RWA) está creando nuevas vías de inversión y atrayendo al inversor internacional cripto hacia el ladrillo, combinando seguridad patrimonial con innovación digital.

Front Run The Week — Free SignalsGet early signals before they hit headlines. Subscribe free — or upgrade for member rewards — at https://tokentrust.substack.comEvery 18 months, crypto crowns a new narrative — DeFi, GameFi, AI-Fi, RWA — and then pivots away before anything real is finished. It's what Rosie Sargsian calls “sunk-cost maxxing.” Instead of finishing what they start, Web3 builders chase the next hype cycle like college quarterbacks chasing NIL money and transfer portals. We've built a culture that loves the recruiting process but not the program. The wedding but not the marriage. And while everyone else is switching jerseys, Ripple stayed put — quietly executing a decade-long plan that's now peaking with ISO 20022 going live this month. They didn't pivot. They planned. From Ripple Prime (Hidden Road) to Rail and G Treasury, they've been building the rails others will soon be forced to run on. This episode breaks down the cultural sickness behind constant pivoting — and why the real builders, like Ripple, prove that Vaultseason isn't for tourists. Signals — 7-Day Free TrialGet early market signals, macro indicators, and the projects I'm tracking before they trend. Start your free 7-day trial at https://tokentrust.substack.com

Edwin Mata is the CEO and Co-Founder of Brickken, a leading multi-chain tokenization platform that has already pioneered the tokenization of over $300 million in real-world assets across 16 countries. Under his leadership, Brickken was ranked #28 on Sifted's Top 100 Fastest-Growing Startups in France & Southern Europe 2025, one of only two blockchain-native companies featured, proving that Web3 infrastructure is no longer theoretical—it's being built, adopted, and deployed by real institutions.Edwin, a Mexican-Spanish blockchain lawyer, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker, is at the forefront of real-world asset (RWA) tokenization. He has shaped academic and legal programs on emerging technologies and continues to advocate for clear regulatory standards and scalable frameworks across Web3.He was recently recognized by Forbes Argentina as one of the “40 Under 40 Tech Leaders Revolutionizing the Digital Future,” highlighting his role among innovators driving the next wave of technology and finance globally.At Brickken, Edwin is creating compliant Web3 infrastructure that empowers institutions to tokenize, manage, and scale real-world assets efficiently, helping usher in a new era of global liquidity through decentralized finance.

Edwin Mata is the CEO and Co-Founder of Brickken, a leading multi-chain tokenization platform that has already pioneered the tokenization of over $300 million in real-world assets across 16 countries. Under his leadership, Brickken was ranked #28 on Sifted's Top 100 Fastest-Growing Startups in France & Southern Europe 2025, one of only two blockchain-native companies featured, proving that Web3 infrastructure is no longer theoretical—it's being built, adopted, and deployed by real institutions.Edwin, a Mexican-Spanish blockchain lawyer, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker, is at the forefront of real-world asset (RWA) tokenization. He has shaped academic and legal programs on emerging technologies and continues to advocate for clear regulatory standards and scalable frameworks across Web3.He was recently recognized by Forbes Argentina as one of the “40 Under 40 Tech Leaders Revolutionizing the Digital Future,” highlighting his role among innovators driving the next wave of technology and finance globally.At Brickken, Edwin is creating compliant Web3 infrastructure that empowers institutions to tokenize, manage, and scale real-world assets efficiently, helping usher in a new era of global liquidity through decentralized finance.

Welcome to The Chopping Block — where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, Tarun Chitra, and Robert Leshner chop it up about the latest in crypto. This week, Kaledora Linn, Co-founder and “Empress of RWAs” at Ostium, joins to break down the rise of on-chain equity perps, the funding-rate chaos that hit 365%, and why she believes the next wave of tokenized assets won't come from exchanges—but from structured liquidity markets. We dive deep into Ostium's hybrid CFD model that blends TradFi mechanics with on-chain transparency, explore why most retail traders can't stomach perp carry costs, and debate what “safe leverage” could look like in an RWA world. The panel also touches on CZ's presidential pardon and Coinbase's new Echo platform, connecting the dots between political optics, capital formation, and how crypto's product design is evolving beyond speculation. Whether you're building perpetual DEXs, tokenizing RWAs, or just trying to survive the next funding-rate spike, this episode unpacks how market design, UX, and regulation will shape crypto's next trillion-dollar frontier. Show highlights

Neobanks might be the quiet coordination hack that makes Visa optional. David sits down with Frax's Sam Kazemian to map the new payment stack: why cards today settle over Visa yet still onboard users into stablecoins, how Frax USD (payments) pairs with sFRAX USD (savings), and why Ethereum remains the “savings/issuance” base while specialized payment chains battle for flows. Sam unpacks Frax's white-label issuance strategy and RWA plumbing, shares an institutional DD story that highlights reliability over hype, and lays out the metrics that actually matter—card acceptance, bank deposits, chain coverage, and real-world spend. If you're tracking how stablecoins, neobanks, and RWAs converge into an on-chain economy, this one connects the pipes. ---

For episode 619 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Markus Levin, Co-Founder of XYO. After 7+ years on Ethereum, XYO, the first DePIN project established in 2018 and predating the term, is officially launching XYO Layer One, its own L1 blockchain. Designed for DePIN, RWA, AI and other data-heavy industries, this new dual-token blockchain solves the issues holding back blockchain development today. XYO reported a revenue of $8.8M in 2024, and has attracted 80% of its users from outside the crypto space. The decision to migrate from the Ethereum L2 ecosystem was driven by XYO’s own demand for a high-efficiency blockchain after over 7 years of building data-heavy blockchain products for millions of users around the world. The new XYO Layer One blockchain will process large volumes of real-time data with low latency and provide proprietary data validation capabilities for projects that demand performance. XYO will first migrate its own products to the new XYO Layer One blockchain, and be followed by key partners ⏳ Timestamps: (0:00) Introduction(0:54) Who is Markus Levin?(4:50) What is XYO?(6:52) Biggest issues with Data today?(8:05) XYO Solutions(11:25) First Dual-token Layer-1(13:10) Earning XYO Token(16:02) Future of DePIN(19:02) Education resources(20:43) XYO Partnerships(21:10) AI in Data Protection(23:38) XYO roadmap 2025(24:19) Events & Conferences(25:05) XYO website & socials

Sorg and Rizz are joined by commentator Eamon Paton (880 Wrestling / VCW) for a chaotic and hilarious look at the week in pro wrestling and behind the camera.

Sorg and Rizz are joined by commentator Eamon Paton (880 Wrestling / VCW) for a chaotic and hilarious look at the week in pro wrestling and behind the camera.

Sorg and Rizz are joined by commentator Eamon Paton (880 Wrestling / VCW) for a chaotic and hilarious look at the week in pro wrestling and behind the camera.

What's shaking? I'm Rick Jordan, and today we're going ALL IN with someone who's truly redefining what it means to chase the American Dream. My guest, Shayra Melo, is a Colombian-American powerhouse in the world of AI and blockchain—and she's here fresh off the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade, where she just helped ring the bell as her company, Vocodia, went public. We dive deep into what it really takes to build something big—the mindset, the grind, and the unseen work that happens behind the scenes when you're growing 200% year after year. Shayra opens up about her journey from early crypto investor to tech innovator, her mission to bring privacy and protection to AI through blockchain, and how she's turning cutting-edge technology into tools that keep people—and kids—safe.We Meet: Shayra Melo, Colombian CEO & Founder of TouchBrick - Building a Public CompanyConnect:Connect with Rick: https://linktr.ee/mrrickjordanConnect with Shayra: https://www.instagram.com/shayra.me/ Subscribe & Review to ALL IN with Rick Jordan on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RickJordanALLINAbout Shayra: Driven by the revolutionary potential of decentralized technologies, I've been actively involved in the crypto space since 2018. As a seasoned investor, I've successfully advised and built numerous projects across DeFi, SocialFi, and RWA sectors. My expertise lies in crafting innovative token-economic systems that incentivize sustainable value growth.Beyond investments, I'm deeply passionate about building open, decentralized protocols that empower users. This passion led me to co-found TouchBrick, a startup at the forefront of Web3 interaction. With our groundbreaking technology, we're transforming how users engage with the blockchain.Bringing one of my portfolio companies into a successful IPO on the CBOE. This experience provided invaluable insights into scaling and navigating complex financial markets.I'm a firm believer in fostering inclusion and breaking barriers within the tech industry. As a first-generation Latin American woman, I strive to pave the way for others by actively mentoring and supporting diverse talent.

TradFi and DeFi aren't enemies, they're learning from each other in real time.In this episode, we sit down with James Seyffart, Bloomberg's senior ETF analyst, to discuss how institutional crypto and decentralized finance are converging, competing, and influencing each other's evolution.We discuss:- 150+ digital asset ETF filings in the pipeline- Why Bitcoin's four-year cycle might be ending- How institutional capital is dampening volatility- The $1B Huobi Ethereum treasury strategy- TradFi vs DeFi: What each system does better- 9 new crypto ETFs coming before 2026- The debasement trade: Gold vs Bitcoin dynamicsTimestamps00:00 Intro01:22 Downtober: What's Really Driving It02:14 The ETF Landscape & Government Bottlenecks03:47 150+ Digital Asset Filings Waiting for Approval04:42 Treasury Companies vs ETF Hype: Different Strategies06:29 Basket Products & Index ETFs: The Next Evolution08:29 Bitcoin's Four-Year Cycle Might Be Over (Here's Why)10:34 Relay Ad, Talus Ad, Hibachi Ad11:20 How Institutional Money Dampens Volatility (Unexpected Effects)13:31 Huobi's $1B Ethereum Treasury: What It Signals14:05 The Debasement Trade: Gold vs Bitcoin Analysis18:03 Gold-to-Bitcoin Ratio: What History Tells Us19:37 RWA & Tokenization: Where We Actually Are22:17 Leverage in the System: Still a Major Factor25:38 TradFi vs DeFi: What Each Does Better27:25 Alvara Ad, Enso Ad27:52 Regulatory Clarity: The Path Forward30:17 Government Shutdown Impact on Crypto Timeline32:52 Nine New Asset ETFs Coming Before 202634:03 Closing ThoughtsWebsite: https://therollup.co/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1P6ZeYd...Podcast: https://therollup.co/category/podcastFollow us on X: https://www.x.com/therollupcoFollow Rob on X: https://www.x.com/robbie_rollupFollow Andy on X: https://www.x.com/ayyyeandyJoin our TG group: https://t.me/+TsM1CRpWFgk1NGZhThe Rollup Disclosures: https://therollup.co/the-rollup-discl

In this episode of RUNWITHALLI LIVE, I sit down with the powerhouse CEO of JetRockets, an AI-enabled coaching and personal growth platform — a mom of two, RWA-coached athlete, and lifelong learner — to talk about what it really takes to balance leading a company, raising a family, and chasing personal goals through running!You'll hear how Natalie:Structures training as a busy leader and mom Uses running to build resilience and leadership clarity Applies lessons from tough workouts to business challenges Models confidence and balance for her daughters Stays curious through lifelong learning and technology innovation Plus, we wrap up with Natalie's reflections on what running has truly taught her—and why she said YES to being a guest on the RUNWITHALLI LIVE podcast.Tune in for an authentic conversation about resilience, purpose, and the power of running to shape who we are—on and off the course!Listen to the podcast on: Apple Podcasts & Spotify.Follow Natalie Kaminski & JetRockets: WebsiteLinkedInIf you enjoyed this episode, head to Apple Podcasts and tap the +Follow button to stay in the loop. Your support helps me bring more conversations like this to life.Thank you for being here! Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched!Start for FREE Support the show

Sandro, founder of KWARKX, shares how his team is bringing utility-scale solar to chain via NFT membership passes that let anyone participate in project returns—without the usual high minimums. We cover: why Cardano (sustainability, security, decentralization), what on-chain access actually looks like (claimable pools, 10-year participation), and the nuts & bolts of real projects (e.g., a 51 MW Netherlands solar park with 20 MW battery storage powering ~35,000 homes). Sandro explains the surge of RWA interest, grid/storage realities, subsidies vs. open market power sales, and KWARKX's Project Catalyst journey. We also talk expansion (NL, Austria, Italy, Germany), regulation (MiCA & Dubai VARA), and the roadmap: exhibitions, partnerships, and the goal to fund first parks directly on-chain.Timestamps[00:00] Origin story: solar EPC roots → NFTs as access keys[00:02] Problem: Renewable projects require high buy-ins; KWARKX lowers the barrier[00:03] Why Cardano: mission fit, security (no hacks), governance, PoS sustainability[00:05] Reality of renewables: utility-scale builds, storage changes the game[00:06] Case study: 51 MW NL solar + 20 MW battery; ~900M kWh over 20 yrs[00:08] Peak demand patterns; storage & dam “battery” concepts[00:10] Investor access: NFT = membership pass; claimable ADA pool over 10 yrs[00:12] Transparency: on-chain claims, pool visibility, traceability[00:13] Customers: grid entities/governments, NFT community, broader RWA crowd[00:15] Subsidies vs. free-market power sales; cross-border electricity flows[00:16] How big can it get? Launchpad for other assets (real estate tokenization, etc.)[00:18] Challenges: regulation (MiCA, VARA), community growth, filtering bad actors[00:19] Project Catalyst: winning ~300k ADA, milestones, shipping the MVP[00:22] Cardano projects Sandro rates: World Mobile, Minswap, JPEG Store, Catalyst[00:23] Expansion map: Netherlands, Austria, Italy, Germany (+ Asia/Gulf interest)[00:25] Real-world reality: building in mud/rain; site vlogs; “from the trenches”[00:27] Roadmap (18–24 mo): Token2049, global expos, marketing, first on-chain funding[00:29] The ask: smart capital, strategic partners, supplier co-builds, community supportConnecthttps://x.com/sandrokwarxs https://x.com/KWARXSLinktree: https://linktr.ee/kwarxs Be a guest on the podcast or contact us - https://www.web3pod.xyz/DisclaimerNothing mentioned in this podcast is investment advice and please do your own research. Finally, it would mean a lot if you can leave a review of this podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and share this podcast with a friend.

All xStocks are freely transferable tokens. They can be used in lending protocols, on DEXs, or any DeFi app. Hold them in your own wallet, or buy on one venue and sell on another. xStocks are built to be usable.GUEST: Adam Levi, Co-founder of Backed FinancexStocks Website➜ https://xstocks.com/us00:00 Intro00:07 Tradfi vs Tokenization00:37 Ken Griffin Slams Tokenized Stocks00:26 Why Tokenization is superior03:44 xStocks Massive Growth04:52 Access to xStocks05:30 Permissionless stocks is the future06:30 Users vs Volume08:09 Critical Mass Users08:30 Shareholder benefits08:55 Dividends10:05 Ondo & Securitize vs xStocks11:15 Cross-Chain xStocks12:36 Robinhood Tokenized Stocks13:34 Tokenized Silver Coming?14:06 Tesla Popularity15:00 U.S. Regulation16:00 xStocks Token Airdrop?17:15 outro#Crypto #Solana #investing ~Solana Tokenized Stocks vs TradFi

Deezy looks at the ABSOLUTE BEST altcoins under $1! We keep the criteria to top 300 coins by market cap and check severeal sectors. RWA, DeFi, L1's and more! 

Dana Love, founder of PoobahAI (exited 5 companies, PhD in economics), breaks down why Web3 lags mainstream adoption and how AI-built software can unlock the space: “the future of Web3 is coding without coders.” We cover: the zero→one grind, macro shifts (globalization → nationalization), inflation realities, and why blockchains need to drop the barrier to projects, devs, and users. Dana shares Poobah's approach—virtual co-founder, multi-chain no/low-code, pre-audited on-chain digital objects, and real showcases (NFT ticketing, RWA real estate, car auction). We also talk go-to-market (students & exec MBAs), chain partnerships, and their seed round.Timestamps[00:00] Dana's thesis: coding without coders is Web3's future[00:01] Background: exits, policy PhD, AI/ML → crypto since 2011[00:02] Patterns from 5+ exits: first $1 of revenue + investment; hearing “your baby is ugly”[00:04] Macro: globalization → nationalization; inflation dynamics & wages[00:07] Startup stages: 0→1 vs 1→10 vs 10→50—don't over-process the first customer[00:08] Why Web3 adoption lags: tooling, UX, paucity of devs/projects/users[00:10] Public vs private chains; why transparency is a feature for upstarts[00:11] Naming Poobah & the “many hats” founder[00:12] Poobah overview: virtual co-founder, on-chain generation, digital objects (pre-audited contracts)[00:15] Code quality: making no-code generate good code; best-practice RAG/context[00:17] Focus: Web3 first—massive untapped value[00:18] GTM: students, MBAs, exec MBAs → enterprise wedge[00:19] Case: Princeton CS student ships NFT ticketing as a vibe-coder[00:20] B2B: chain licenses to drop coding barrier to near-zero[00:22] The “hackathon circus” & why broadening the builder base matters[00:23] Non-dev creators as founders: fine-arts → sticky NFTs[00:24] The Shopify moment for Web3 (payments/regulatory context)[00:27] RWAs: real estate fractionalization; car auctions; built in weeks[00:30] Will AI replace devs? Senior vs junior leverage; law firm analogy[00:36] Market will rebalance skills & pay; seniors x AI = force multiplier[00:37] Roadmap (6–12 mo): low-code launch → no-code, multi-chain MCP, virtual co-founder[00:38] The ask: chain partnerships, seed syndication, universities & exec MBAsConnecthttps://poobah.ai/https://www.linkedin.com/company/poobahai/https://www.linkedin.com/in/danalove/https://x.com/DanaFLoveDisclaimerNothing mentioned in this podcast is investment advice and please do your own research. Finally, it would mean a lot if you can leave a review of this podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and share this podcast with a friend.Be a guest on the podcast or contact us - https://www.web3pod.xyz/

Crypto News: Visa pilots stablecoin payments for businesses sending money abroad. SEC weighs plan to allow blockchain-based stock trading amid crypto push. Web3 investor Animoca Brands' equity to be tokenized on Solana in RWA deal.Show Sponsor -

Real-world asset (RWA) tokenization company Republic plans to tokenize equity in major Hong Kong-based Web3 investment company Animoca Brands. Tokenization on Solana will allow more investors to access exposure to the company. Animoca is not listed on any public exchange but has invested in more than 600 Web3 projects.Guest: Yat Siu - Co-Founder & Chairman, Animoca Brands Animoca Brands website ➜ https://www.animocabrands.com/00:00 Intro00:25 Major Announcements!00:44 Tokenized Animoca on Solana06:23 Holder Benefits?08:52 $GMEE Gaming Index12:49 SandChain Launch14:35 Sandbox Mobile Coming15:33 EA Games Acquired by Saudi18:46 Animoca Powering Saudi Metaverse20:52 Web3 Gaming Closures24:53 outro#Crypto #Ethereum #solana~Largest Gaming Fund EVER Tokenized on Solana!!

Solana's blockchain is powering the next evolution in capital markets. Solana is simply easier for high-volume trading like tokenized stocks. While Ethereum continues to build and innovate, Solana's actual user engagement is what's carrying it forward right now.~This episode is sponsored by Tangem~Tangem ➜ https://bit.ly/TangemPBNUse Code: "PBN" for Additional Discounts!Guest: Nick Ducoff, Head of Institutional Growth, Solana FoundationSolana Website➜ https://solana.com/solutions/tokenization00:00 intro00:06 Sponsor: Tangem00:34 Tesla xStock on Solana01:02 Solana Potential01:49 Mike Novogratz: Why Tokenize on Solana?03:00 Solana ETF Incoming04:19 Solana vs XRP ETF05:38 Meme Coins on Solana07:01 xStocks vs Institutional Trading08:24 Volume vs Holders10:04 $SBET Tokenizing on ETH & Solana11:22 Solana Wins Everything11:38 Pre-Stocks12:57 Tesla Community = Solana?14:37 Solana Pay 16:44 Why Fintechs are choosing ETH over Solana?18:12 MetaMask vs Phantom20:08 Coinbase favoring ETH over Solana?21:47 Firedancer23:07 Hyperliquid vs Solana24:46 outro#Crypto #Solana #Ethereum~Solana Tokenized Stocks Potential

SWIFT is reportedly testing a stablecoin on Linea. Eco introduces the Permit3 approval contract. Fusaka client releases are out for testnets. And ChinaAMC launches a tokenized fund on Ethereum. Read more: https://ethdaily.io/792 Disclaimer: Content is for informational purposes only, not endorsement or investment advice. The accuracy of information is not guaranteed.

The number of transactions in the network has jumped in to past few weeks, making it one of the fastest growing blockchains. Real-world tokenized assets have also exploded 50% in 30days as wall street veterans like Anthony Scaramucci and South Korea's largest independent asset managers jump onboard.GUEST: Morgan Krupetsky, Vice President of Onchain Finance, Ava LabsInstitutional Avalanche Website➜ https://bit.ly/InstAVAX#avax #crypto #ethereum~Wallstreet Unloads into AVAX

Andrew and Andy of HypurrFi join Keli Callaghan for a conversation on Hyperliquid, a L1 with a focus on retail and professional traders due to the fact that it is one of the most liquid venues for trading perpetuals - made possible with its high throughput and deep liquidity. HypurrFi is a prominent decentralized lending protocol native to Hyperliquid. With fast and organic growth in recent months, HypurrFi is a non-custodial borrow / lend platform with a front row seat to one of the faster growing communities in 2025. Topics covered in this session include: - Founder backgrounds- The quickly accelerating Hyperliquid ecosystem - Sustainable cash flow economics- Innovations in DeFi and the current competitive landscape- Incentives and sustainability - Pokemon collections as the next RWA movement(?)- Future outlook: What private credit and bespoke lending facilities will look likeHypurrFi Website: hypurr.fi HypurrFi on X: https://x.com/hypurrfi Hyperliquid on X: https://x.com/hyperliquidx

On this week's Wrestling Mayhem Show (Ep. 975): • Hosts Sorg & Rizz welcome guest Brandon St. James. • We react to the PWI 500 rankings and highlight our friends making the list. • Full breakdown of AEW's PPV including PAC's return and the marathon Page/Fletcher match. • Wrestlepalooza on ESPN: why Cena vs. Lesnar didn't click, AJ Lee's comeback, women's title match highlights, and the mess of streaming/paywall access. • Brandon shares his experience in a Canadian deathmatch and what he learned about safety gear. • We spotlight indie action from RWA and 880 Wrestling. • Plus, “What We Learned”—the inflatable horse, dinosaurs, women's wrestling, and how Raw looks to a first-time viewer.

On this week's Wrestling Mayhem Show (Ep. 975): • Hosts Sorg & Rizz welcome guest Brandon St. James. • We react to the PWI 500 rankings and highlight our friends making the list. • Full breakdown of AEW's PPV including PAC's return and the marathon Page/Fletcher match. • Wrestlepalooza on ESPN: why Cena vs. Lesnar didn't click, AJ Lee's comeback, women's title match highlights, and the mess of streaming/paywall access. • Brandon shares his experience in a Canadian deathmatch and what he learned about safety gear. • We spotlight indie action from RWA and 880 Wrestling. • Plus, “What We Learned”—the inflatable horse, dinosaurs, women's wrestling, and how Raw looks to a first-time viewer.

什麼是實體資產代幣化（RWA）？ RWA（Real World Asset）是指將現實世界的資產，例如美國國庫債券、黃金或房地產，透過區塊鏈技術進行代幣化（tokenize）。這種代幣作為一種憑證或信物，可在區塊鏈上進行交易，用以記錄資產的所有權或權益。從本質上說，它是一種將資產交易的記錄方式，從傳統的紙張或中央帳簿轉換到更有效率的數位系統。貨幣的本質是什麼？它與代幣有何關係？ 從經濟學角度看，錢或貨幣的本質是一種被社會廣泛接受的「信物」（token）或「憑證」。它代表購買力，其價值並非來自紙張本身，而是源於公眾的共同認可。因此，紙幣、銀行帳戶裡的數字，甚至區塊鏈上的加密貨幣，本質上都是一種信物，只是記錄和交易的方式不同。為什麼房地產是RWA最合理的應用，卻又最難實現？房地產的產權記錄方式（如地契）與區塊鏈的分散式總帳（public ledger）概念極為相似，因此房地產非常適合代幣化。然而，最大的挑戰在於政策和法律層面。政府必須接受這種交易模式的合法性，並將其官方的房地產記錄平台搬到區塊鏈上。但在現行制度下，要由文件為本的模式轉到鏈上，將要極漫長而複雜的程序。為什麼中國政府要叫停香港的RWA與穩定幣業務？有理由相信，中證監叫停相關業務並非因為技術風險，而是出於對資產流向的控制。中國大陸的金融體系是一個「圍牆之內」的內循環，其資產價格與外部市場有所區隔。虛擬資產代幣化被視為可能增加資產流動的渠道，進而影響內外資產價格的穩定，這是監管機構主要擔心的原因。這種做法也反映了他們不願放棄對宏觀經濟的控制手段。香港在虛擬資產領域的處境有何特殊性？香港希望借發展虛擬資產和穩定幣，以鞏固其金融中心地位。然而，由於與中國大陸關係緊密，北京的監管態度直接影響香港的金融界。一方面，香港試圖推動創新，另一方面，中央監管機構又勸喻香港的中資證券行和銀行不要參與相關業務，這使得香港的發展面臨獨特的矛盾和困難。 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit leesimon.substack.com/subscribe

Today's blockchain and cryptocurrency news  Bitcoin is down slightly at $112,956 Eth is up slightly at $4,184 XRP, is down slightly at $2.81 Strategy adds $100M in BTC Crypto markets see 1.7B in liquidations China's regulator hints at RWA pause. mXRP launch B HODL lists Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Midas, in partnership with Interop Labs, today announced the launch of mXRP on Axelar, the first onchain product to offer meaningful yields for XRP holders, offering 6-8% APY with no minimum deposits. The mXRP asset is issued on the new XRPL EVM, through audited smart contracts. The XRP asset is bridged into the protocol via Axelar, the Gateway to Onchain Finance and the first (and currently only) DeFi connector for the XRP Ledger.~This episode is sponsored by Tangem~Tangem ➜ https://bit.ly/TangemPBNUse Code: "PBN" for Additional Discounts!Guests:Georgios Vlanchos - Co-founder of Axelar Protocol & Director at Axelar FoundationAxelar Website ➜ https://bit.ly/aXelaRPDennis Dinkelmeyer, Co-Founder & CEO, MidasMidas website ➜ https://bit.ly/MidasRWa00:00 Intro00:10 Sponsor: Tangem00:40 Axelar crosses $1bil01:20 Announcement: Liquid Staked XRP (mXRP)03:00 Who can use mXRP?04:10 Expected Target yields?04:45 Who's currently using Midas yield tokens?07:00 Yield Vaults integrating mXRP07:50 How will this compare to Flare network XRP vault?10:00 Loans on mXRP?11:30 Will Axelar have a competitive version of OVault? 11:55 Liquidity pool inventives soon for mXRP?14:00 Are institutions or DAT's going to be holding mXRP?15:45 Will this put too much strain on the XRPL?19:00 Outro#XRP #Crypto #Ethereum~Biggest XRP News EVER!!?

Ian De Bode, Chief Strategy Officer at Ondo Finance, joined me to discuss how Ondo is helping institutions tokenize a wide range of assets.Topics: - Ondo Global Markets - How Ondo working with TradFi institutions - Kinexys by J.P. Morgan using Ondo Blockchain - Mastercard partnership - Dynamic between private and public chains- Tokenization market outlook

Tune in to our FINAL EPISODE of the Security Token Show where Herwig Konings, Kyle Sonlin, and guest contributor Nico Pantelis cover the industry leading headlines and market movements, including new this week's IPOs, Broadridge nearing $6T in monthly repo volume, and much more RWA news!  Due to this being our final episode, Herwig and Kyle have chosen their Company of the Year for 2025 and it's none other than Figure - a huge congratulations to Mike Cagney, June Ou, Michael Tannenbaum, and their whole team! Why did they win? Find out on The Security Token Show! Market Movements: Nasdaq Files with SEC to Trade Equities Onchain: https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/09/05/nasdaq-seeks-nod-from-u-s-sec-to-tokenize-stocks    Nasdaq to Invest $50M in Gemini for Custody Services and Distribution, Separate from Friday's IPO: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/09/nasdaq-to-invest-50-million-in-winklevoss-founded-crypto-exchange-gemini.html   Fidelity Launches Tokenized MMF $FDIT, with $202M Backing Ondo's OUSG: https://blog.ondo.finance/fidelity-unveils-onchain-money-market-fund-anchored-by-ondo-finance/    Figure IPOs at $25/Share, Upsizes from Previous Targets and Raises $787M: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/figure-technologys-ipo-pricing-a-sign-of-strong-demand-for-crypto-companys-stock-fef600d4    SEC Chair Paul Atkins Speaks on Onchain Markets Coming “Without Endless Legal Uncertainty.”: https://www.theblock.co/post/370219/sec-chair-atkins-says-onchain-capital-raising-should-come-without-endless-legal-uncertainty?_bhlid=4bb475124521c42108ddee41336376f2d26b2016    Companies in the Token Debrief Include NYC RWA Meetup, St. Cloud Financial Credit Union, Ant Digital, Cantor Fitzgerald, Black Manta Capital Partners, Canton Network, HashKey, Farmway, Solowin, AlloyX, BNP Paribas, HSBC, 21X, IXS, Archax, UBS, DigiFT, Chainlink, Hyperliquid, Ethena, Fireblocks, NexStox, Stablecoin Standard, Particula, Broadridge, Kaiko, Zelle/ Early Warning Services, BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, Binance, SEC, Sifma, Japan Financial Services Agency   ====   TokenizeThis 2025 Conference Review: https://docsend.com/v/k8bn7/tt25  STM Predicts $30-50T in RWAs by 2030: https://docsend.com/view/7jx2nsjq6dsun2b9    More STM.co Reports: https://reports.stm.co/  Join the RWA Foundation and Read the Whitepaper: RWAF.xyz  Learn More About WALLY DAO: WallyDAO.xyz    ====   ⏰ TABLE OF CONTENTS ⏰ 0:00 Introduction 0:16 Welcome 2:12 Market Movements 22:44 RWA Foundation Updates 24:53 Token Debrief 40:40 Company of the Year 2025

Tune in to this episode of the Security Token Show where this week Herwig Konings and Kyle Sonlin cover the industry leading headlines and market movements, including new entrants with live tokenized stocks, investments and acquisitions for RWA infrastructure, U.S. Bank's renewed crypto custody services, and more RWA news.   Company of the Week - Herwig: Galaxy Company of the Week - Kyle: Ondo   Market Movements: Galaxy Natively Tokenizes Their Shares (GLXY) on Solana via Superstate: https://investor.galaxy.com/news/news-details/2025/Galaxy-and-Superstate-Launch-GLXY-Tokenized-Public-Shares-on-Solana/default.aspx Ondo Global Markets Goes Live with Over 100 Tokenized Stocks and ETFs: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ondo-launches-global-markets-100-183506974.html Trump Considers Tokenizing Gaza through “The GREAT Trust” to Rebuild, Citizens to Receive Tokens to Relocate: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/01/gaza-riviera-trump-administration-weighs-post-war-redevelopment-plan.html U.S. Bank Brings Back Bitcoin Custody through Sub-Custodian NYDIG: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-bancorp-revives-institutional-bitcoin-custody-service-2025-09-03/ tZERO Appoints Alan Konevsky as CEO After $BBBY Urges Board to Replace David Goone: https://tzero.com/press-releases/2025-09-04-tzero-announces-leadership-transition/ RedStone Acquires Onchain Credit Ratings Firm Credora: https://blog.redstone.finance/2025/09/04/redstone-acquires-credora-strategic-expansion-into-risk-ratings/ SEC and CFTC Issue Join Statement on Project Crypto-Crypto Sprint: https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/speeches-statements/sec-cftc-project-crypto-090225 SEC Shares Rulemaking Agenda to Reform Crypto Rules: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-sec-unveils-agenda-revamp-crypto-policies-ease-wall-street-rules-2025-09-04/   Companies in the Token Debrief Include NYC RWA Meetup, Backed Finance/xStocks, Raze, Embedded Finance, DEUSS, Shenzhen Futian Investment Holdings, GF Securities (Hong Kong), Seoul City, Japan Post Bank, DeCurret DCP, Thailand, Aurora Optoelectronics, Zerohash, Utila, Red Dot Capital, RWA Inc., EightLends, Finloop, Boerse Stuttgart, StratX, Aria, Polychain, Neoclassic Capital, Story Protocol Foundation, Power Metal Resources, Minestarters, State Street, Apex Fintech Solutions, European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde, European Commission, U.S. Federal Reserve ==== TokenizeThis 2025 Conference Review: https://docsend.com/v/k8bn7/tt25 STM Predicts $30-50T in RWAs by 2030: https://docsend.com/view/7jx2nsjq6dsun2b9 More STM.co Reports: https://reports.stm.co/ Join the RWA Foundation and Read the Whitepaper: RWAF.xyz Learn More About WALLY DAO: WallyDAO.xyz ==== ⏰ TABLE OF CONTENTS ⏰ 0:00 Introduction 0:16 Welcome 1:12 Market Movements 23:20 RWA Foundation Updates 25:07 Token Debrief 37:14 Companies of The Week

Tune in to this episode of the Security Token Show where this week Herwig Konings and Kyle Sonlin cover the industry leading headlines and market movements, including Inveniam's $20M investment into MANTRA, Galaxy tokenizing their GLXY shares on Superstate's Opening Bell,, & more RWA news Company of the Week - Herwig: Inveniam Company of the Week - Kyle: Broadridge   Market Movements: Galaxy Digital to Tokenize GLXY Shares Using Superstate: https://www.theblock.co/post/365662/galaxy-digital-explores-tokenizing-its-own-glxy-shares-stock-falls-on-q2-earnings Inveniam Invests $20M into MANTRA and Partners for RWA and DeFi Infrastructure, Focus on UAE and US: https://www.inveniam.io/resources/inveniam-and-mantra-announce-strategic-partnership-to-build-a-global-institutional-real-world-asset-ecosystem-anchored-in-the-uae-and-united-states Animoca Teams up WIth ProvLabs to Launch NUVA as RWA Vault Marketplace Using YLDS: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250807794274/en/Animoca-Brands-and-ProvLabs-to-Co-Develop-NUVA-to-Accelerate-Access-to-Tokenized-Real-World-Assets-RWAs Figure Announces Draft S-1 Filing Ahead of IPO: https://www.figure.com/newsroom/announcement/figure-announces-confidential-submission-of-draft-registration-statement-for-proposed-ipo/ RealT Update Companies in the Token Debrief Include Exodus, Superstate, Asset Token Ventures, Vertalo, CodexField, EDITH, Assetera, xStocks, Guotai Junan International, HSBC, BB Prime, BounceBit, Franklin Templeton, CaoCao, Anchorage Digital, Standard Chartered, Animoca, HKT, Qatar Financial Center, Kaiko, Canton Network, Kaio, Centrifuge, RealFI, XRP Ledger, IVD Medical, Credefi, Vayana, Credit Agricole, CACEIS, Kriptown, Lise Exchange, HSBC, Broadridge, Ownera, HQLAx, JPMorgan, Davis Commodities, RBA, DFCRC, Stablecoin Standard, State Street ==== TokenizeThis 2025 Conference Review: https://docsend.com/v/k8bn7/tt25 STM Predicts $30-50T in RWAs by 2030: https://docsend.com/view/7jx2nsjq6dsun2b9 More STM.co Reports: https://reports.stm.co/ Join the RWA Foundation and Read the Whitepaper: RWAF.xyz Learn More About WALLY DAO: WallyDAO.xyz ==== ⏰ TABLE OF CONTENTS ⏰ 0:00 Introduction 0:16 Welcome 0:57 Market Movements 15:51 Token Debrief 32:10 RWA Foundation Updates 34:30 Companies of The Week

Tune in to this episode of the Security Token Show where this week Herwig Konings and Nico Pantelis from Blue Bay Ventures cover the industry leading headlines and market movements, including RWA-focused blockchains & more RWA news Market Movements: Circle Introduces Layer 1 Stablecoin Blockchain Called Arc: https://www.circle.com/blog/introducing-arc-an-open-layer-1-blockchain-purpose-built-for-stablecoin-finance Stripe Teams Up with Paradigm VC to Launch Tempo Payments Blockchain: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/08/13/stripe-taps-paradigm-s-matt-huang-to-lead-new-blockchain-tempo-fortune MetaMask Plans mUSD Stablecoin Launch with Blackstone and Stripe: https://coincentral.com/metamask-set-to-launch-dollar-pegged-musd-stablecoin-this-week/ Dinari Launches Avalanche-Based Omnichain Network: Dinari Financial Network: https://dinari.com/blog/dinari-launches-the-dinari-financial-network-an-omni-chain-orderbook-powered-by-avalanche Ripple Positioning Itself for RWA Race: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2025/08/14/ripple-exec-on-why-xrp-ledger-is-uniquely-suited-for-real-world-asset-tokenization SEC's ‘Crypto Mom' Hester Peirce says “Market will sort out winners in tokenization”: https://www.investmentnews.com/alternatives/secs-peirce-says-market-will-sort-out-winners-in-tokenization/261714 ==== TokenizeThis 2025 Conference Review: https://docsend.com/v/k8bn7/tt25 STM Predicts $30-50T in RWAs by 2030: https://docsend.com/view/7jx2nsjq6dsun2b9 More STM.co Reports: https://reports.stm.co/ Join the RWA Foundation and Read the Whitepaper: RWAF.xyz Learn More About WALLY DAO: WallyDAO.xyz  

Tune in to this episode of the Security Token Show where this week Herwig Konings and Kyle Sonlin cover the industry leading headlines and market movements, including Wyoming issuing their own stablecoin, DBS expanding to non-bank clients, and DigiFT raising $25M, tokenized indices coming onchain, and more RWA news   Company of the Week - Herwig: Avalanche Company of the Week - Kyle: Fanable   Market Movements: Wyoming is First State to Launch Stablecoin: Frontier Stable Token (FRNT): https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/08/19/wyoming-state-debuts-u-s-dollar-stablecoin-on-seven-blockchains Anthony Scaramucci's SkyBridge Capital to Tokenize $300M Worth of 2 Funds on Avalanche via Apex Group's Digital 3.0 Platform: https://tokeny.com/skybridge-capital-partners-with-tokeny-to-tokenize-300min-hedge-funds-on-avalanche?hss_channel=lcp-4874605 REtokens Introduces Their Broker-Dealer/ATS: REtokens Capital: https://retokens.com/announcing-retokens-capital-llc-broker-dealer-with-new-secondary-marketplace/ S&P Dow Jones Indices to Tokenize Index Products: https://www.bitget.com/news/detail/12560604915409 Centrifuge's deRWAs Go Live on Base with Tokenized Janus Henderson CLOs: https://crypto.news/centrifuge-launches-tokenized-real-world-assets-on-evm-platforms/ Epic Chain is Getting Into RWAs Through XRP-Based Platform: https://www.livebitcoinnews.com/epic-chain-launches-xrp-based-rwa-platform-to-revolutionize-finance/   Companies in the Token Debrief Include: DBS, ADDX, DigiFT, HydraX, Bitget, Swarm, Hedera, SBI, Bowmore, Avalanche, Valereum/ VLRM Markets, ZIGChain, DigiShares, Zoth, Haven1, Stellar Development Foundation, Archax, RealEstate.Exchange, FraXion, The Legacy, FIS ==== TokenizeThis 2025 Conference Review: https://docsend.com/v/k8bn7/tt25 STM Predicts $30-50T in RWAs by 2030: https://docsend.com/view/7jx2nsjq6dsun2b9 More STM.co Reports: https://reports.stm.co/ Join the RWA Foundation and Read the Whitepaper: RWAF.xyz Learn More About WALLY DAO: WallyDAO.xyz ==== ⏰ TABLE OF CONTENTS ⏰ 0:00 Introduction 0:16 Welcome 1:06 Market Movements 24:10 RWA Foundation Updates 26:24 Token Debrief 38:39 Companies of The Week

Tune in to this episode of the Security Token Show where this week Herwig Konings and Kyle Sonlin cover the industry leading headlines and market movements, including Toyota working with Avalanche, Institutional DeFi lending powered by Aave, OCBC's $1B offering on JPMorgan's Digital Debt Service, and more RWA news.   Company of the Week - Herwig: Horizon/ Aave Company of the Week - Kyle: Toyota Blockchain Lab   Market Movements: Aave Launches Horizon Platform for Institutional Borrowing, Securitize Embeds within Platform as “HyFi”: https://coincentral.com/aave-horizon-platform-launches-with-institutional-stablecoin-borrowing-features/ Toyota Works with Avalanche for Tradable Digital Assets and Vehicle Financing Model: https://beincrypto.com/toyota-blockchain-lab-mon-mobility-trust-networks/ US Department of Commerce puts Economic Data on 10 Chains Using Chainlink: https://blog.chain.link/united-states-department-of-commerce-macroeconomic-data/ World Federation of Exchanges Warns Against “Mimic” Tokenized Stocks: https://www.ledgerinsights.com/world-federation-of-exchanges-says-tokenized-stocks-are-mimics/ Republic Digital Makes Investment into Centrifuge: https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2025/08/248271-republic-invests-in-centrifuge-boosts-tokenization-commitment/ Companies in the Token Debrief Include Seazen, Polkadot, Paradata, Better Use Blockchain, MANTRA, Pyse, BluBird, Arx Veritas, Redbelly, Cronos Chain, Crypto.com, Kraken, SEC, Schroders, Versabank (VBNK), OCBC, Kinexys by JPMorgan, State Street ==== TokenizeThis 2025 Conference Review: https://docsend.com/v/k8bn7/tt25 STM Predicts $30-50T in RWAs by 2030: https://docsend.com/view/7jx2nsjq6dsun2b9 More STM.co Reports: https://reports.stm.co/ Join the RWA Foundation and Read the Whitepaper: RWAF.xyz Learn More About WALLY DAO: WallyDAO.xyz ==== ⏰ TABLE OF CONTENTS ⏰ 0:00 Introduction 0:16 Welcome 1:31 Market Movements 21:30 RWA Foundation Updates 22:53 Token Debrief 36:33 Companies of The Week

Stablecoin-focused blockchains are popping up everywhere. Stripe, Circle, and more are betting they can dominate payments. But are these chains even needed? And will Ethereum ever be ready for real-world assets?  Austin Campbell, NYU professor and founder of Zero Knowledge Consulting, joins Unchained to cut through the hype. From why “the market eventually eats you” to how consumers, not companies, could be the real winners, Campbell unpacks the competitive landscape and warns that the ultimate champion might be someone who isn't even on the field today. Thank you to our sponsors! Walrus Xapo Bank Guest: Austin Campbell, NYU Stern professor and founder and managing partner of Zero Knowledge Consulting Links: Unchained:  Circle to Launch Layer 1 Blockchain ‘Arc' Stripe Is Building Its Own Layer 1 Blockchain: Report Fortune: Top crypto VC Matt Huang to lead Stripe blockchain Tempo as CEO, stay at Paradigm Timestamps: