In this episode, we spoke with Cleo Martins, Finance Product Lead at the Cardano Foundation, to explore the journey behind Reeve — a new blockchain-powered platform designed to bring trust and transparency to financial reporting. Cleo shares how her 20 years in accounting shaped Reeve’s vision, why immutable on-chain data can transform auditing, and how organizations can balance transparency with legitimate privacy needs. The discussion also highlights upcoming use cases, early auditor reactions, and why blockchain-enabled accountability may soon become the new standard for NGOs, governments, and enterprises alike.
Learn more about Reeve: https://reeve.technology
In this episode, we speak with Jonathan Mathai, Director at G20 Strategies, to unpack how market making works across crypto, DeFi, and traditional finance. Jonathan explains the role of market makers, how liquidity is created in both order book and AMM-based markets, and why uptime, slippage, and volume matter for healthy market structure. The conversation also explores yield generation, risk management, hedging strategies, and how market makers navigate volatility, MEV, and emerging tools like AI as crypto markets continue to mature.
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.
In this episode, we speak with André Vanyi-Robin, Founder and CEO of Plastiks, together with Ana Aguilar Meca, COO, and Delfina Achinelly, Head of Methodology and Verification, about how blockchain can support transparent plastic recovery systems. The discussion explores how Plastiks verifies recycling data, issues digital recovery certificates, and anchors environmental evidence on the Cardano blockchain.