High Stakes with Alex Nwaka | Blockchain, Crypto, and Web3
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High Stakes with Alex Nwaka | Blockchain, Crypto, and Web3

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Welcome to High Stakes, the podcast for institutional investors, Web3 founders, SaaS leaders, and anyone serious about the future of technology. Hosted by Validation Cloud CSO Alex Nwaka, we go beyond the hype to explore the real-world adoption of blockchain and AI in enterprise environments.


Each episode features unfiltered conversations with operators, investors, and technologists driving change at the frontier. Get direct insight into what’s working (and what’s not) in blockchain infrastructure, from Layer-2 rollups and blockchain interoperability to AI-powered SaaS and zero-knowledge proofs. Discover how legacy systems are adapting to decentralized tech, where asset tokenization is creating new markets, and how autonomous AI agents are reshaping workflows.


If you’re tired of trend-chasing and want strategic clarity around risk, regulation, and returns in Web3 and AI, this is your edge.


🎙 Smart, practical, and always human.
🎧 Listen in and stay ahead of the mainstream noise. New episodes every Tuesday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.

Learn more here: https://sholink.to/validationcloudio 

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English
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36 episodes
since June 25, 2024
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What It Takes to Move Tokenization From Pilot to Production Now ft. Marc Hegen | High Stakes Ep. 36

What It Takes to Move Tokenization From Pilot to Production Now ft. Marc Hegen | High Stakes Ep. 36

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Tokenization and regulated capital markets: Marc Hegen, CTO at 21X, explains what it will take to move from experiment to mainstream adoption.21X is the first company to obtain a regulated DLT trading and settlement system license in the EU. Marc explains how atomic on-chain matching eliminates cle…
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The Hidden Cost of Treating Crypto Security as an Afterthought ft. Raz Niv | High Stakes Ep. 35

The Hidden Cost of Treating Crypto Security as an Afterthought ft. Raz Niv | High Stakes Ep. 35

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Raz Niv, Co-Founder and CTO of Blockaid with a background in cyber intelligence and cybersecurity, joins High Stakes with Alex Nwaka to explore why security is becoming a critical enabler of institutional crypto adoption as more value, transactions, and financial infrastructure move on chain.Raz ex…
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Why Ignoring Regulated Finance Costs You Credit Markets First ft. Marcos Viriato | High Stakes Ep. 34

Why Ignoring Regulated Finance Costs You Credit Markets First ft. Marcos Viriato | High Stakes Ep. 34

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Crypto founders and bank executives building digital asset strategy will learn why dismissing regulated finance as too slow is costing them first-mover position in credit markets.Marcos Viriato, CEO of Parfin, processed over a billion dollars a month in stablecoin volume for banks before most insti…
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Why Token Issuers Who Stop at Market Making Fall Behind Fast ft. Xin Song | High Stakes Ep. 33

Why Token Issuers Who Stop at Market Making Fall Behind Fast ft. Xin Song | High Stakes Ep. 33

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Web3 founders and token issuers will hear how GSR grew from crypto market maker to full-lifecycle financial partner across 600 token issuers.Xin Song, CEO of the 13-year-old firm, explains how listening to founders drove that expansion and why a FINRA broker-dealer license changes what GSR can offe…
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Why Bad Data Provenance Will Make AI Labs Walk Away for Good ft. Andrea Muttoni and Avi Patel | High Stakes Ep. 32

Why Bad Data Provenance Will Make AI Labs Walk Away for Good ft. Andrea Muttoni and Avi Patel | High Stakes Ep. 32

AI’s next infrastructure bottleneck may not be compute or model architecture at all, but proving that training data is real, legal, and trustworthy, a problem Andrea Muttoni, CEO of the Data Foundation and former Amazon Alexa builder, and Avi Patel, founder of Cloud and chief data officer at the Da…
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Why Copying MicroStrategy's Debt Model Destroys Your ETH Strategy ft. Joseph Chalom | High Stakes Ep. 31

Why Copying MicroStrategy's Debt Model Destroys Your ETH Strategy ft. Joseph Chalom | High Stakes Ep. 31

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Ethereum treasury strategy for public company founders: Joseph Chalom explains why copying MicroStrategy's debt model for ETH destroys the core structural advantage.Chalom built BlackRock's fastest-growing ETF to $50 billion before leaving retirement after six weeks to run Sharplink, now …
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Why Delaying Blockchain Adoption Costs Enterprises Trillions | High Stakes Ep. 30

Why Delaying Blockchain Adoption Costs Enterprises Trillions | High Stakes Ep. 30

Most enterprises assume their current payment systems work well enough to delay adopting digital assets, but this miscalculation ignores the seismic shift already underway. Bam Azizi, who built Mesh into infrastructure for blockchain payments after selling a cybersecurity company with 2,000 integra…
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Why Passive Treasury Management Destroys Long-Term Protocol Value | High Stakes Ep. 29

Why Passive Treasury Management Destroys Long-Term Protocol Value | High Stakes Ep. 29

What happens when a crypto protocol raises serious capital, builds a major ecosystem, and then treats treasury management like a back-office function?In this episode of High Stakes, host Alex Nwaka sits down with Ben Tsai, Co-Founder and President of Wave Digital Assets, to unpack why passive treas…
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Why Most Enterprises Get Stablecoins Wrong (And What Comes Next) | High Stakes Ep. 28

Why Most Enterprises Get Stablecoins Wrong (And What Comes Next) | High Stakes Ep. 28

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What are enterprises still missing about stablecoins, and why does that matter for the next phase of digital asset adoption? In this episode of High Stakes with Alex Nwaka, Alex sits down with Chunda McCain, Co-Founder at Paxos Labs, to unpack how stablecoins are moving from simple issuance into a …
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Why Institutional Capital Still Hesitates on Solana ft. Catherine Gu | High Stakes Ep. 27

Why Institutional Capital Still Hesitates on Solana ft. Catherine Gu | High Stakes Ep. 27

Why does institutional capital still hesitate on Solana, even as public blockchain infrastructure becomes more credible to banks, asset managers, and payments companies?  In this episode of High Stakes, Alex Nwaka sits down with Catherine Gu, Head of Product for Digital Assets at Solana, former lea…
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