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The European lens on macro-finance and digital assets.
Recent Episodes
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Sept. 3, 2026
European Commission's Peter Kerstens | AI, Cyber Resilience, DORA Bank-Friendly Stablecoins and the MiCA Review
MetaMarkets hosted by Jan Philipp Fritsche, co-founder of Bermuda, a compliant privacy solution. Strategic Director at Oak Security, a Web3 cybersecurity firm pioneering research on economic and systemic risks in decentralized systems. https://www.linkedin.com/in/janf/ The Guest Peter Kerstens, Adviser for Technological Innovation, Digital Transformation and Cybersecurity at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union. He le
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Aug. 21, 2026
Maple Finance Co-Founder Sid Powell | The Future of Tokenization and Lending
MetaMarkets hosted by Jan Philipp Fritsche, co-founder of Bermuda, a compliant privacy solution. Strategic Director at Oak Security, a Web3 cybersecurity firm pioneering research on economic and systemic risks in decentralized systems. https://www.linkedin.com/in/janf/ The Guest Sid Powell — Co-founder and CEO of Maple Finance, one of the largest on-chain asset managers, with around $4.5B in AUM and roughly $22B in loans originated since launch. A former institutional banker from a securitizat
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Aug. 17, 2026
Kyle Jenke | Optimism brings Enterprises on Chain | SLAs, RWA and Tokenized Chicken
Jan Philipp Fritsche, co-founder of Bermuda, a compliant privacy solution. Strategic Director at Oak Security, a Web3 cybersecurity firm pioneering research on economic and systemic risks in decentralized systems. https://www.linkedin.com/in/janf/ The Guest Kyle Jenke — Newly appointed COO, and former Chief Business Officer at Optimism, where he leads the enterprise business behind the OP Stack, the infrastructure powering chains for Base, Kraken, Upbit, and others. Two years ago Optimism was
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Aug. 3, 2026
Interoperability, Gnosis and the Ethereum Economic Zone
The Host Jan Philipp Fritsche — Strategic Director at Oak Security, a Web3 cybersecurity firm pioneering research on economic and systemic risks in decentralized systems. Co-Founder of Bermuda. https://www.linkedin.com/in/janf/ The Guest Friederike Ernst — Co-founder of Gnosis, one of Ethereum's oldest companies, and an advocate of the Ethereum Economic Zone. Gnosis has built Safe, CowSwap, and Gnosis Pay, and continues to push the ecosystem's R&D frontier. https://x.com/tw_tter To solve scal
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July 19, 2026
Justin Gainsley | Coinbase - How AI and Blockchain are going to revolutionize payments.
The Host Jan Philipp Fritsche — Strategic Director at Oak Security, a Web3 cybersecurity firm pioneering research on economic and systemic risks in decentralized systems. Co-Founder of Bermuda. https://www.linkedin.com/in/janf/ The Guest Justin Gainsley — Lead of stablecoin payment products at Coinbase, where he has spent four years building the company's payments suite for consumers, SMBs, enterprises, and payment service providers. https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-gainsley/ If you offere
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June 11, 2026
Why the CLARITY Act Is a Breakthrough - Jacob Robinson | Law of Code: Decentralization vs. Permissionlessness
This Episodes Host: Jan Philipp Fritsche — Strategic Director at Oak Security, a Web3 cybersecurity firm pioneering research on economic and systemic risks in decentralized systems. Co-Founder of Bermuda. https://www.linkedin.com/in/janf/ The guest: Jacob Robinson is a lawyer, writer, and host of the Law of Code podcast, where he explores the legal and regulatory questions shaping crypto, blockchain, and digital assets. His work focuses on making complex crypto law topics accessible through i
About the Hosts
Dr. Jan Philipp Fritsche
Co-Founder Bermuda | Strategic Director Oak Security
Jan Fritsche is a co-founder of Bermuda, a compliant privacy solution for Ethereum, and the Strategic Director at Oak Security, a Web3 cybersecurity firm that pioneered economic attack vectors in decentralized systems. Jan worked at the European Central Bank, Bundesbank, Deutsche Bank, and served on the European Commission's Monetary Expert Panel. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics.
Jón Helgi Egilsson
Founder Monerium
Jón Egilsson served as Chairman of the Central Bank of Iceland following the 2008 financial crisis. He is also the co-founder and chairman of Monerium, the first company to issue fiat currency on-chain. Jón holds a Ph.D. in Economics and a master’s in Engineering. He teaches at King’s Business School and regularly contributes to Forbes, writing on stablecoins, digital currencies, and monetary sovereignty.
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