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Ep. 661 Pixion Games | Next Gen Web3 Gaming (feat. Kam Punia) Dec 29, 2025

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For episode 661 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Kam Punia, Founder and CEO of Pixion Games, the London based studio behind Fableborne and the $POWER ecosystem. He has more than a decade of experience in the games industry, including leadership roles at Konami where he helped drive Yu Gi Oh across digital, trading card and retail channels in Europe.

Before starting Pixion Games, Kam scaled major gaming IP across digital and physical formats and later built a studio focused on fast session, skill based mobile titles. Under his leadership Pixion has raised funding, shipped multiple products, and hired talent from Riot, Blizzard, King and Ubisoft.

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⏳ Timestamps:

(0:00) Sumsub

(0:44) Introduction

(1:57) Who is Kam Punia?

(5:39) What is Pixion Games?

(9:08) Mobile gaming growth

(15:00) What is Fableborn?

(19:35) Sumsub

(20:19) In-gaming item ownership

(27:31) Pixion Games community

(33:20) Pixion Games roadmap for 2026

(35:13) Download Fableborn on iOS and Google Play

🎙 Pixion Games Links:

🔗 Website: https://pixiongames.com/

🔗 X: https://x.com/pixiongames/

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pixion-games/about/

📢 Disclaimer:

None of our content constitutes, nor is intended to act as financial advice. It’s important to always do your own research and due diligence before making any investment decision. Digital Assets and Cryptocurrencies are highly volatile and carry a considerable amount of risk.

Ep. 660 Luffa | Web3 Social for the Fan Economy (feat. Esra Ozturk) Dec 24, 2025

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For episode 660 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Esra Ozturk, Head of Product at Luffa.

Luffa is a next‑generation social operating system for the fan economy, giving creators ownership over their communities while allowing fans to turn attention into tangible value. The platform unifies wallet, messaging, loyalty, and engagement in a decentralized environment: fans earn rewards for actions like chatting, tipping, minting tokens, joining “SuperGroups,” and completing quests—forming a living fan graph with real‑world worth. Luffa emphasizes privacy and security: it is built with end‑to‑end enc ryption and zero centralized backups, and supports mnemonic‑based registration without requiring phone or email.

Luffa runs on Endless Protocol, a decentralized AI‑enabled Web3 infrastructure. In 2025, Endless Web3 Genesis Cloud raised $110 million, reaching a $1 billion post‑money valuation. In the broader ecosystem, Luffa is positioned as a core application within Endless, helping bring community, creator tools, and interaction to life on top of the protocol.

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⏳ Timestamps:

(0:00) Sumsub

(0:44) Introduction

(3:24) Who is Esra Ozturk?

(5:54) What is Luffa solving?

(9:23) Luffa interface

(10:25 Sumsub

(11:08) Luffa features

(13:06) Visa digital U card

(13:46) Luffa privacy & security

(15:12) Benefits of being powered by Endless Protocol

(16:16) Fan graphs

(16:36) Who is Luffa built for?

(18:22) Crypto earnings on Luffa

(19:09) Luffa roadmap for 2026

(21:09) Download the Luffa app

🎙 Luffa Links:

🔗 Website: https://www.luffa.im/

🔗 X: https://x.com/LuffaMessage

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/luffamessage/

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/esra-ozturk/

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Ep. 659 Tria | The Neobank of Web3 (feat. Vijit Katta) Dec 22, 2025

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For episode 659 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Vijit Katta, CEO & Co-founder of Tria.

Vijit Katta is the CEO and Co-founder of Tria, with over a decade of experience across entrepreneurship, commercial strategy, and early-stage investing. He built Polygon’s in-house accelerator, funding early-stage projects; founded a healthtech startup in Austria, and led commercial strategy for multiple 9-figure portfolios at GSK and AstraZeneca; he holds a CS degree from BITS Pilani and an MBA from INSEAD.

Tria is a self-custodial neobank that unifies spending, trading, and earning across all chains — without bridges, gas, or custodians. Built for both humans and AI, Tria makes money programmable, enabling anyone or any agent to transact natively on-chain. Powered by its interoperability layer, BestPath AVS, Tria abstracts away the complexity of crypto to deliver instant, global, and autonomous finance.

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⏳ Timestamps:

(0:00) Sumsub

(0:44) Introduction

(1:55) Who is Vijit Katta?

(4:55) What is Tria?

(5:44) How does Tria work?

(8:40) What are the Tria cards?

(10:56) Rewards, cashback and perks of Tria

(13:10) Programmable Money & Agentic AI

(17:11) Sumsub

(17:55) How far are we from an Agentic AI world?

(20:07) How to make Web3 less complex

(23:18) Tria roadmap for 2026

(25:38) Website & socials

🎙Tria Links:

🔗 Website: https://tria.so/

🔗 X: https://x.com/useTria

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/usetria/

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vijitkatta/

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Ep. 658 POPOLOGY | Democratizing Internet Broadcasting (feat. Joe Rey & Oliver Fuselier) Dec 19, 2025

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For episode 658 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Joe Rey & Oliver Fuselier of POPOLOGY.

POPOLOGY® is the 21st century approach to media education and Citizen Journalism. A platform to aggregate all of your social portals, into a streaming and monetizable POPcast®, on the blockchain. Democratized internet broadcasting is POPOLOGY® Networks. You can even select your favorite fortune 500 brands to place into your curated media stream, called POPmercial® Sponsorships.

Create, and earn POPtoken™ with a timeline of curated video assets from every indexing platform, up to 25 membership platforms into one robust restful API is the POPsphere™ workspace. Pinpoint your popularity, powered by artificial intelligence, and build a monetizable audience on your self-expression.

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⏳ Timestamps:

(0:00) Sumsub

(0:44) Introduction

(1:47) Who are Joe Rey & Oliver Fuselier?

(6:27) What is POPOLOGY?

(12:00) What is the POPSphere?

(20:08) What is the meaning of Popularity?

(26:04) Sumsub

(26:50) Future of creator economy

(32:44) POPOLOGY roadmap for 2026

(38:00) POPOLOGY website & socials

🎙 POPOLOGY Links:

🔗 Website: https://www.popologist.org/

🔗 X: https://x.com/POPOLOGYNetwork

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/popology-corporation/

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Ep. 657 CreatorFi | Financing the Creator Economy (feat. Jack Cameron) Dec 18, 2025

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For episode 657 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Jack Cameron, Co-founder of CreatorFi.

Jack Cameron is the Chief Business Officer and Chief Growth Officer at CreatorFi, where he leads growth strategy and develops brand partnerships across the creator economy. A serial entrepreneur with experience founding two companies, he brings deep media-industry expertise shaped by his work at WPP Media. Jack’s background in scaling media solutions and navigating complex brand ecosystems informs his role in building CreatorFi’s market presence and shaping its commercial vision.

CreatorFi by Insomnia Labs is a fintech IP platform focused on advancing creative IP holders and unique opportunities for media financiers. By partnering with content creator companies, music catalog owners, and UGC developer studios in Roblox and Fortnite, CreatorFi provides direct access to creative IP cash flows in digital IP platforms such as YouTube, Roblox, Fortnite, and music.

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⏳ Timestamps:

(0:00) Sumsub

(0:44) Introduction

(1:52) Who is Jack Cameron?

(5:07) What is CreatorFi?

(7:36) Gap in lending and creator economy

(9:40) Typical clients

(12:22) Risk profile for creators

(15:30) How capital leads to more brand deals

(18:29) Sumsub

(19:18) Direction of creator economy

(23:15) Creators need more access to capital

(27:02) How to contact CreatorFi and apply

(27:35) CreatorFi roadmap for 2026

(28:52) CreatorFi website & socials

🎙 CreatorFi Links:

🔗 Website: https://creatorfi.finance/

🔗 X: https://x.com/insomnia_labs

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/creatorfi/

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-c-a3252a1aa/

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Ep. 656 Canopy Network | Building the Next Generation of Layer 1 Infrastructure (feat. Adam Liposky) Dec 17, 2025

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For episode 656 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Adam Liposky, Co-Founder and CEO of Canopy Network.

Adam is creating an auto-scaling Layer 1 designed to make launching and growing blockchains as simple as deployment. Before Canopy, Adam helped scale Pocket Network into a top decentralized infrastructure protocol, onboarding 40 plus chains and growing the network to over a billion daily relays.

He previously founded and exited NachoNodes, a high-performance staking operation, and later led ecosystem growth at Moonbeam during one of the toughest market cycles.

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⏳ Timestamps:

(0:00) Sumsub

(0:44) Introduction

(2:00) Who is Adam Liposky?

(10:14) Lessons from Pocket Network

(13:38) What is Canopy Network?

(18:43) Sumsub

(20:04) Future of app ecosystems cross-chain

(26:27) Canopy’s ecosystem

(29:57) Canopy Network 2026 roadmap

(34:09) Canopy Network website & socials

🎙 Canopy Network Links:

🔗 Website: https://www.canopynetwork.org/

🔗 X: https://x.com/CNPYNetwork

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamliposky/

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/canopy-network/

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Ep. 655 BSSC | Importance of Blockchain Standards for Node Security (feat. Annalea Sanders) Dec 16, 2025

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For episode 655 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Annalea Sanders, Co-President and Board Officer for the Blockchain Security Standards Council (BSSC).

The BSSC-Blockchain Security Standards Council-is the leading authority in blockchain security—setting the standards that power trust and confidence.When industry experts discuss blockchain security, not many consider nodes, but they should. If a node doesn’t operate correctly, then the risks permeate and impact the whole network, and its users. As a result, experts are placing more importance on node operation standards as a critical part of blockchain industry standards.

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⏳ Timestamps:

(0:00) Sumsub

(0:44) Introduction

(0:56) Who is Annalea Sanders?

(3:10) What is BSSC?

(6:57) Who uses the BSSC standards?

(8:04) Most common failure points for nodes

(11:00) Bridging cybersecurity gap

(14:49) BSSC standards

(19:35) Sumsub

(22:39) Future standards with complimentary technologies

(25:35) Node security education

(26:52) BSSC roadmap for 2026

(29:06) Events & conferences

(30:00) Process of BSSC certification

🎙 BSSC Links:

🔗 Website: https://www.blockchainssc.org/

🔗 X: https://x.com/blockchainssc

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/blockchain-security-standards-council

🔗 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BlockchainSecurityStandardsCou

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SEC & OCC Signal U.S. Crypto Clarity | AI Profit Debate Heats Up | Markets Reprice Risk Dec 15, 2025

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In today’s BlockHash Morning Brief, we break down fresh signals from the SEC and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) pointing toward a more coordinated U.S. framework for crypto, banking, and digital asset infrastructure. While not deregulation, this shift toward standardization could unlock institutional participation and reduce long-standing uncertainty.

We also dive into the AI profit debate now dominating Wall Street. After weeks of volatility, analysts and tech leaders are reframing AI as a long-term infrastructure investment rather than a short-term earnings driver. That recalibration is forcing markets to reprice risk across tech, crypto, and emerging innovation.

Plus, we explore how AI governance, safety standards, and chip strategy are becoming central policy priorities in Washington — signaling that AI is now being treated as critical infrastructure, not just software.

In this episode:
• What SEC & OCC alignment means for U.S. crypto markets
• Why regulatory clarity matters more than “friendly” rules
• The AI profit reality check hitting tech stocks
• How markets are repricing risk across equities and crypto
• Why crypto continues to trade like a high-beta tech asset
• What builders and investors should watch next

(0:00) Intro
(0:18) SEC & OCC coordinating on Crypto
(1:31) AI leaders push back on profit panic
(2:25) AI regulation is trending
(3:05) Macro & equities snapshot
(3:44) Crypto & emerging tech market
(5:24) What to watch for this week

Ep. 654 Black Opal | On-chain Asset Management (feat. Jason Dehni) Dec 15, 2025

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For episode 654 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Jason Dehni of BlackOpal.

BlackOpal is an on-chain asset management and payments platform bridging investment-grade yield with emerging market receivables. The problem they’re solving is twofold: High-quality merchants in emerging markets pay above-market premiums for working capital, not because they're risky, but because legacy banking is expensive, slow, and opaque.

Meanwhile, institutional capital in developed markets is starved for low-risk emerging market yield.BlackOpal specializes in credit card receivables, underwriting based on historical and real time transactions, and acquiring them via short-duration True Sale structures. Credit risk is further minimized through repayment by AA+ counterparties like Visa and Mastercard, resulting in near zero credit default. Currency risk is hedged via Non-Deliverable Forwards (NDFs).

⏳ Timestamps:

(0:00) Introduction

(0:51) Who is Jason Dehni?

(3:03) What is Black Opal?

(6:15) Gemstone vs. LiquidStone II

(8:27) User protection & transparency

(10:43) What makes Black Opal unique?

(13:15) Where are Black Opal’s products available?

(15:04) Future opportunities in the Digital Asset market

(19:35) Tokenization in the near future

(23:50) Black Opal roadmap 2026

(25:49) Events & conferences

(27:08) Black Opal website & socials

🎙 BlackOpal Links:

🔗 Website: https://www.blackopal.finance/

🔗 X: https://x.com/blackopal_fi

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/blackopalprivatecredit/

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasondehni/

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Ep. 653 Open Frontier | Reform for Responsible Finance (feat. Erik Balsbaugh & Austin Campbell) Dec 12, 2025

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For episode 653 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Erik Balsbaugh, Executive Director of Open Frontier and Board Member Austin Campbell.

Open Frontier is on a mission to promote responsible financial innovation while ensuring strong regulatory guardrails, countering Wall Street and big tech, and stopping bad actors. Finance is evolving, and progressive voices need a seat at the table.

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⏳ Timestamps:

(0:00) Sumsub

(0:44) Introduction

(1:02) Who are Erik Balsbaugh & Austin Campbell?

(12:53) Misinformation of Crypto

(19:58) Genius Act & impact on crypto

(26:44) Sumsub

(27:26) U.S. lags in Financial Technology

(32:38) Importance of State legislature around Crypto