Token for Your Thoughts
🎙️ Token for Your Thoughts is the podcast where we sit down with the people behind the companies shaping Crypto & Web3. Hosted by Lindsey McConaghy, each episode dives into the stories of founders, builders, and innovators creating the future of crypto, blockchain, and decentralized tech. Expect candid conversations and deep dives into what it takes to launch and scale in crypto & Web3. 💡 Whether you’re a founder, investor, or just crypto-curious, Token for Your Thoughts gives you a front-row seat to the ideas and people driving the next wave of innovation. 🔗 Follow along for new episodes and updates: TokenForYourThoughts.com
Episodes
Melissa Muehlfeld spent years inside traditional finance and crypto, from securities law and Morgan Stanley to serving as General Counsel at OKX.
Today, she is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of ShredPay, where she is building onchain infrastructure for individuals and financial institutions.
In this episode of Token for Your Thoughts, Melissa shares why she believes trust remains one of the biggest barriers to U.S. crypto adoption, and why ba...
🎙️ Rashan Colbert, Director of U.S. Policy at the Crypto Council for Innovation
🕒 ~40 mins
Ever wondered how a crypto bill actually becomes law?
It's probably not what you think.
Before joining the Crypto Council for Innovation, Rashan Colbert worked in the U.S. Senate, on two presidential campaigns, and at dYdX. Today, he helps lawmakers understand crypto and helps the crypto industry navigate Washington.
In this episode, we pull...
When Zach Zukowski was 11 years old, his dad gave him $500 to invest in the stock market. That decision sparked an interest in markets that eventually led him to reading company earnings reports as a teenager, secretly mining cryptocurrency using university computers, becoming the first hire at Borderless Capital, and today founding Tokenization Systems.
In this episode of Token for Your Thoughts, Zach shares his unconventional jour...
🎙️ Kurt Hemecker, CEO of Gold Token S.A. (DGLD)
🕒 ~40 mins
Gold has been trusted for 5,000 years. It has also been completely impossible to use. You can't lend it, fractionalize it, or move it at 2 am. Kurt Hemecker, who helped build the internet's money layer at PayPal and survived the most ambitious monetary experiment in history at Facebook's Libra, thinks blockchain finally fixes that.
In this episode:
- How tokenizat...
🎙️ Simon Jones, CEO & Co-Founder of Reya Labs
🕒 ~45 mins
Only 3% of perp trading happens on Ethereum despite it holding the majority of DeFi's assets. Simon Jones built Reya to fix that: a trading-specific based rollup delivering sub-millisecond execution without sacrificing Ethereum's security.
In this episode:
- Why speed and decentralization have always been a tradeoff, and how Reya solved it
- The structural disconne...
🎙️ Guest: Seth Hallem, CEO of Certora
🕒 Duration: ~45 mins
Episode Overview
Crypto runs 24/7.
Capital moves instantly. Logic executes automatically. There’s no closing bell, and no overnight reset.
But most protocol teams don’t have 10,000 people monitoring security like a global bank.
In this episode of Token for Your Thoughts, Lindsey McConaghy sits down with Seth Hallem, CEO of Certora, to talk about what it ac...
🎙️ Guest: Stephanie Vaughan, Co-Founder & COO of Veda
🕒 Duration: ~35 mins
Episode Overview
DeFi moves quickly. Narratives change.
Infrastructure is what holds it all together.
In this episode of Token for Your Thoughts, Lindsey McConaghy sits down with Stephanie Vaughan, Co-Founder & COO of Veda, to talk about what it takes to build vault infrastructure that can adapt to crypto’s constant evolution.
Stephanie&r...
🎙️ Guest: Enzzo Cusihuaman, Co-Founder & Chief Business Officer of R2 Protocol (@r2yield)
🕒 Duration: ~45 minutes
Episode Overview
The best yields in finance have always been reserved for institutions. Everyone else gets scraps.
In this episode of Token for Your Thoughts, host Lindsey McConaghy sits down with Enzzo Cusihuaman, Co-Founder and CBO of R2 Protocol, to unpack how tokenized treasuries and private credit are...
🎙️ Guest: Adam Kazas, CEO of Gero Wallet (@AdamFromGero)
🕒 Duration: ~41 minutes
Crypto wallets have improved a lot, but plenty still feel built for power users. In this episode, Lindsey McConaghy chats with Adam Kazas, CEO of @GeroWallet, about building a wallet (and dashboard) that’s actually usable day to day, without giving up self-custody.
Adam shares his path from tech support → product → “building crypto at ni...
🎙️ Guest: Rolf Versluis, Co-founder of Horizen (@horizenglobal)
🕒 Duration: ~42 minutes
Episode Overview
Public blockchains unlock composability, liquidity, and open infrastructure, but they also put every transaction on display. For builders and businesses, that transparency can be a dealbreaker: competitors can trace customers, vendors can infer pricing, and payroll becomes a public ledger.
In this episode, Lindsey ...
🎙️ Guest: Eleni Steinman, Co-founder of Loop Crypto
🕒 Duration: ~42 minutes
Episode Overview
Crypto payments promise speed and global reach, but for most merchants, accepting stablecoins is still far too complex. Fragmented chains, manual billing, and a lack of autopay make crypto feel years behind traditional payment rails.
In this episode, Lindsey McConaghy sits down with Eleni Steinman, co-founder of Loop Crypto (@...
🎙️ Guest: Victor Vernissage, Co-founder of Humanode
🕒 Duration: ~42 minutes
Episode Overview
Blockchains promise decentralization, but when consensus is controlled by the biggest stakers, is that really true?
In this episode, Lindsey McConaghy dives in with Humanode co-founder Victor Vernissage to explore a new model: one human, one node, one vote. Instead of staking tokens, Humanode ties consensus to biometric uniqueness, so go...
Guest: Robin Obermeyer, Co-founder & CEO at Liquidium
Duration: ~49 minutes
🎧 Episode Overview
Most Bitcoin holders don’t want to move their BTC off-chain or rely on “wrapped” tokens just to use DeFi.
Robin Obermeyer, Co-founder and CEO of Liquidium, joins host Lindsey McConaghy to talk about how Liquidium is making Bitcoin work natively across DeFi—no bridges, no wrapped assets, no middlemen.
Robin shares h...
Everybody Wants Control: Seth For Privacy on Reclaiming Choice in Crypto
Guest: Seth For Privacy, VP at Cake Wallet
Duration: ~50 minutes
🎧 Episode Overview
In a world where every click and transaction leaves a trace, what does it really mean to stay private?
Seth For Privacy, VP at Cake Wallet, joins host Lindsey McConaghy to talk about why privacy isn’t about hiding—it’s about control. Seth shares his journey f...
Guest: Felipe Servin, Founder & CEO of Sati
Duration: ~48 minutes
🎧 Episode Overview
For billions of people, banking is a luxury, and stable money is out of reach.
In this episode, host Lindsey McConaghy speaks with Felipe Servin, founder of Sati, a WhatsApp-first crypto wallet that makes Bitcoin, stablecoins, and even mining rewards accessible through simple chat commands.
Felipe shares his journey from building online commun...
🎙️ Guest: Erin West, Founder & President of Operation Shamrock
🕒 Duration: ~52 minutes
Episode Overview
In this episode, Lindsey sits down with Erin West, a veteran prosecutor turned crypto crime fighter. Erin is the founder of Operation Shamrock, a coalition tackling one of the darkest corners of crypto: “pig butchering” scams where trafficked workers are forced to groom victims online and drain their savings.
E...
🎙️ Guest: Mimi Vong, Co-founder & CEO of Metafyed
🕒 Duration: ~46 minutes
Episode Overview
In this episode, host Lindsey McConaghy chats with Mimi Vong, co-founder and CEO of Metafyed, about how her team is making real-world asset (RWA) tokenization practical and trustworthy.
Mimi shares her path from brand and e-commerce leadership to Web3, why she and her co-founder chose to tackle private credit first, and how Metafyed bl...
🎙️ Guest: Louise Borreani, Co-founder of Eco Frontiers
🕒 Duration: ~55 minutes
Episode Overview
In this episode, host Lindsey McConaghy sits down with Louise Borreani, co-founder of Eco Frontiers and one of the leading voices in regenerative finance. Louise shares how her background in political science and environmental policy led her to explore Web3 as a tool for better governance and financing of nature.
They talk about ...
🎙️ Guest: Oleg Fomenko, Co-founder & CEO of Sweat Economy
🕒 Duration: ~50 minutes
Episode Overview
In this episode, host Lindsey McConaghy chats with Oleg Fomenko, co-founder and CEO of Sweat Economy, the company behind Sweatcoin and the broader “movement economy.” Oleg shares how a personal fitness setback inspired the idea, why they started centralized before moving on-chain, and how Sweat Economy i...
🎙️ Guest: Kelghe D’Cruz, Founder & CEO of PAIRS
🕒 Duration: ~48 minutes
Episode Overview
In this episode, host Lindsey McConaghy chats with Kelghe D’Cruz, founder and CEO of PAIRS, a platform bringing DeFi and CeFi tools into one interface. Kelghe shares how his early experiments with Dogecoin, a healthcare startup, and a near-ICO all shaped his approach to building something more practical for crypto users toda...
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