Join us as we speak with Joshua Krüger, Head of Growth at DFX Swiss, alongside Ralph Hofacker, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Brick Towers, about how blockchain payments are being used in everyday retail settings. This episode explores how ada payments are enabled in over 130 Spar supermarkets across Switzerland, including the infrastructure behind Open CryptoPay and how fiat and crypto systems interact in real time. The conversation also covers merchant incentives, user experience challenges, and how blockchain-based payments can support faster transactions, lower fees, and broader adoption in real-world environments.
Igor Mikhalev, Partner and Head of Emerging Technologies Strategy at EY Parthenon, joins us to explore the potential of Web 3.0 to reshape our economic future and move towards the next era of capitalism. This episode examines decentralized ownership, data empowerment, collaborative ecosystems, and building purposeful ventures in the decentralized space.
In this episode, we spoke with Karla McKenna, Christoph Schneider, and Kevin Griffin from GLEIF to explore the future of trusted organizational identity. They explain how the Verifiable LEI (VLEI) builds on the global LEI system, why strong governance is essential for digital trust, and how the KERI and ACDC protocols create a secure, interoperable foundation for high-assurance credentials. The conversation also covers VLEI’s role across industries, insights from GLEIF’s global hackathon, and how emerging threats like AI-driven fraud make verifiable authenticity more critical than ever.
Join us as we speak with Bartek Czerwinski, COO of Bike ID, about how his company is assigning blockchain-based digital identities to bicycles worldwide. This episode explores how NFC tagging and on-chain registration support proof of ownership, theft deterrence, and service history. We also discuss how these tools are helping manufacturers and retailers move toward new business models and recurring revenues across the cycling industry.