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Dan Gold is founder and CEO of Stratiphy, and as far as anyone knows, the only platform offering tax-efficient crypto exposure to UK retail investors right now.
The path got narrow fast. The FCA lifted the retail crypto ETN ban in October 2025. HMRC then closed the stocks-and-shares ISA route at the start of this tax year, leaving crypto ETNs eligible only for Innovative Finance ISAs, which no mainstream platform offered. Stratiphy re-opened the door, partnering with 21Shares to offer bitcoin, ether, and the new BOLD bitcoin/gold hybrid inside an ISA wrapper.
We get into the regulatory maze, whether Bitcoin is a lottery ticket or a real line item, and what launching into a 35% drawdown tells you about who your customers actually are. Plus: why the IFAs will come around whether they like it or not.
Follow Dan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-gold-5186091b2/
Learn more about Stratiphy: https://www.stratiphy.io
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Tax-Efficient Crypto in the UK: The Short Story
00:25 The Regulatory Sequence
03:00 IFAs and the Education Gap
04:00 Portfolio Construction or a Punt?
05:30 Bitcoin: Lottery Ticket or Asset Allocation?
08:00 Launching Into a Down Market
09:30 Where Stratiphy Goes Nex
t11:30 Sign-Off
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Tokenization has a perception problem. The industry keeps selling it as an efficiency play — less friction, more transparency, better infrastructure. But if tokenization doesn't help you sell more of whatever you've tokenized, it's irrelevant.
Alejandro Gutierrez leads Solana Superteam Ireland and has been building in this space since before most people knew what tokenization meant. Co-founder of the Defactor DeFi protocol. Creator of a blockchain-based supply chain financing application with Consol Freight. And the only builder on a KPMG panel last week alongside the Central Bank of Ireland, Invesco, and Dillon Eustace — in a room of over a hundred people from the heart of Irish financial services.
The POC phase is long gone. Ireland has all the ingredients. Now it's time to move product — or get left behind.
Also: Castle DAO is coming to Slane Castle. The TradFi Band is yet to be confirmed.
Follow Alejandro on X and LinkedIn: 
https://x.com/A_gutierro
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejandro-gutierrez-98979b43/
Follow Superteam Ireland on X and LinkedIn
https://x.com/superteamIE
linkedin.com/company/superteam-ireland/

CHAPTERS: 
00:00 Sell More or Don't Bother 
01:00 Is Crypto Getting Boring? 
02:00 Guardrails, Governance and the Drift and Kelp Hacks 
03:00 The KPMG Panel — The Builder in the Room 
05:00 The Commercial Reality of Tokenization 
06:00 What Defactor and Consol Freight Unlocked 
08:00 The Colombian SME and Global Capital Formation 
09:00 Does Ireland Have What It Takes? 
11:00 The POC Phase Is Long Gone 
12:00 Before We Go — Buildstation, Colosseum and Castle DAO
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Brian McNulty has been building toward this moment for a decade. When he co-founded the Post Trade Distributed Ledger Group with the London Stock Exchange back in 2015, he was helping the industry imagine what tokenized funds might one day look like. On April 21st 2026, he rings the bell at that same exchange to launch DVF — Lingfeng Capital's Digital Venture Fund — and the circle closes.In this episode, Brian and Pete trace the journey from FAC to the Apex exit to DVF, and dig into what VC 3.0 actually means: a venture fund first, a tokenized structure second, built to fix the distribution problems that have kept private markets broken for decades.They cover why the underlying investment case always has to come first, how Archax and LSEG's Digital Markets Infrastructure underpin the model, what structured transferability actually looks like in practice, who DVF is really for, and the real hurdles the industry still has to clear.DVF is Lingfeng Capital's $100 million regulated tokenized venture fund investing in Series B through pre-IPO fintech, AI, blockchain, and digital infrastructure companies across global markets.Find Brian on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianmcnulty/EP 116 — the original FAC episode from 2020: https://www.moneyneversleeps.ie/116-all-these-funds-brian-mcnulty-and-fac/CHAPTERS:00:00 Introduction00:45 From PTDL to Lingfeng — The Journey02:00 What FAC Got Right and Wrong03:15 Why Tokenization Alone Is Never Enough04:00 Private Markets Distribution Is Broken05:00 Venture Fund First, Token Second07:00 How DVF Works — LSEG, Archax and VC 3.009:00 Structured Transferability vs True Liquidity09:30 Who DVF Is For — Four Investor Buckets11:30 The Real Hurdles Left to Clear13:15 Ringing the Bell at the London Stock Exchange🌐 https://www.moneyneversleeps.ie/#MoneyNeverSleeps #VentureCapital #Tokenization #PrivateMarkets #DVF #VC30 #Fintech #Blockchain #DigitalAssets #LingfengCapital #Archax #LSEG

Who's watching the agent? That's the question at the heart of this episode — and it's one that's going to define the next decade of finance.
Rob Viglione spent his career figuring out how machines make decisions in high-stakes environments. From the US Air Force to Afghanistan, and now as Co-founder and CEO of Horizen Labs, he's building the cryptographic trust infrastructure for the agentic economy.
Every asset class will be tokenized. Agents will be trading 24/7 across all of them. Your data will be completely public. All the time. The guardrails don't exist yet — and the answer is Zero Knowledge Cryptography. The technology that lets agents prove they did what they were supposed to, without revealing how they did it.
Find Rob at horizenlabs.io and follow him on X at @robviglione
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Who's Watching the Agent?01:30 The Stakes of Agentic Commerce03:00 What Breaks When Agents Hit Financial Rails05:00 Is TradFi Infiltrating or Integrating with DeFi?07:30 Zero Knowledge Cryptography and Privacy on Public Rails09:30 Baking Privacy into the Protocol11:00 Is This ZK's Moment?
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Talent is equally distributed. Opportunity is not. John Hill, VP of Story at Whop, has spent his career watching founders in Cape Town, Lagos, and Medellín build something real — and then hit a wall the moment they try to get paid. Whop is an AI-backed platform where anyone can build a digital business in minutes, and in February 2026 it closed a $200 million investment from Tether to embed stablecoin payments across 144 countries. The shift from finding a job to being the job is already happening. This is what the infrastructure behind it looks like.
We cover
What the wall actually looks like for a founder in Lagos, Cape Town, or Medellín
Why talent is equally distributed but opportunity is not
How Whop has removed the barriers that once kept entrepreneurship out of reach
What Tether's $200M investment means for creators and builders outside the western financial system
The shift from finding a job to being the job
Why the Boston Irish diaspora is the original first dollar entrepreneur story
How two students turned one skill into $140,000 a year — while still in school
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