Stateful

About Stateful

On Stateful, we go deep into blockchain venture capital: investing in DeFi, digital asset treasuries, Solana, and the frontier of Web3 infrastructure. Each episode unpacks Pantera’s new investments, explores the dynamics of asymmetric returns, and provides insights into the projects and protocols shaping the next generation of finance. Whether you’re a founder, investor, or simply blockchain-curious, Stateful brings you behind the curtain with the team that’s been first to nearly every milestone in the space. Pantera Capital was the first U.S. institutional asset manager exclusively focused on blockchain technology, launching the first U.S. crypto fund when bitcoin traded at $65. Since 2013, Pantera has pioneered venture equity, early-stage tokens, and liquid digital asset strategies—backing more than 100 blockchain companies and 110 token projects globally.

Publisher

Pantera Capital

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Dec 2025

Latest episode

9 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

26 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Nov 2026

   Why Encryption Hasn't Broken in the Age of AI with Kraken and Ledger

   Nothing was decrypted. A lot was exploited. That gap is the entire story of Black October, and it is the subject of this conversation. Host Stuti Pandey, partner at Pantera Capital, sits down with two leading figures in security and encryption. Michael Benich is Director of Security at Payward, the company behind Kraken, where his team defends over $40 billion and 6 million accounts, and he has assisted the US Secret Service in clawing back hundreds of millions from attackers. Cha...

2. 

   5 Nov 2026

   Proving You’re Human on an Internet Run by Agents with World

   Alex Blania, co-founder and CEO of Tools for Humanity, the company building for World, joins Cosmo Jiang with a prediction: within the next three months it will be completely impossible to spot that you are talking to a deepfake, and completely impossible for any software-only solution to catch it. Alex started building proof of human in 2019, before ChatGPT, when the idea sounded like science fiction. Seven years later, video models have hit 60 frames per second, more than half of Cloudflare...

3. 

   19 Oct 2026

   Why Tokenization Doesn't Guarantee Liquidity with Fission

   Franklin Bi sits down with Jon Shaffer, CEO of Fission, and Steve Bendit, Chief Revenue Officer, to discuss Pantera leading their Series A and why private markets, not public equities, are the real tokenization opportunity. Private markets represent roughly $18 trillion in assets, yet much of the industry still relies on manual processes, from subscription agreements to ownership transfers. Even the world’s largest asset managers operate within these traditional systems. Tokenization is a ste...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

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