Unblock’d is your gateway into the dynamic world of investors and entrepreneurs, featuring insightful conversations at the intersection of entrepreneurship, tokenisation, and Web3. Hosted by Dr. Jemma Green, co-founder and Chairman of Powerledger, this podcast delves into the current market landscape and explores future trends. Each episode provides a unique perspective on investors and entrepreneurs journeys, offering valuable insights for how companies approach their business and those seeking to raise capital or already navigating the investment landscape along with how investors approach investing in the market. Join us as we uncover the stories behind investing and innovations doing good and doing well.
Annabelle Huang, co-founder of Altius Labs, explains why Robinhood, Stripe and Circle buy blockchain infrastructure instead of building it, and what AI pulling young talent out of crypto means for DeFi.
Annabelle spent a decade moving from Deutsche Bank's FX options desk to AirSwap on early Ethereum to co-founding Amber Group, and now builds full stack, high performance chains for crypto applications at scale through Altius Labs. Dr. Jemma Green asks her where blockchain infrastructure still trails traditional finance, and Annabelle says the gap is risk management and how chains connect to the players in financial markets.
Topics covered:
- Why large companies partner or acquire instead of building a chain in-house, and how that cuts time to market from years to weeks or months
- Tokenized AMC stock versus options: venues, margin rules and offshore wrappers
- Why perp DEX failures trace back to oracles and liquidation engines more than chain speed
- Privacy, transparency and decentralization after a decade of building
- Nasdaq's move toward near 24 hour trading, prediction markets and what stays on-chain
- Women in crypto, conviction and management style
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About the guest:
Annabelle Huang is co-founder of Altius Labs, which builds full-stack blockchain infrastructure for applications that want to own their chain.
Altius Labs: https://www.altiuslabs.xyz/
Annabelle on X: https://x.com/_annabellehuang
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Visit: https://www.powerledger.io/ (https://www.powerledger.io/)
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1 Oct 2026
The Future of Crypto Is Invisible.
Aya Kantorovich on Institutional DeFi, Tokenized Assets and Raising a Seed Round the Week FTX Collapsed | Unblock'd Aya Kantorovich co-founded August and Upshift, which give institutions access to DeFi with counterparty risk they can underwrite. Her seed round closed the same week FTX collapsed.
In this episode, Dr. Jemma Green talks with her about institutional DeFi, tokenized real world assets, stablecoins, DeFi security and what it takes to run two companies as a new mother. Aya explains why she left FalconX to build on-chain, why DeFi still has no true prime brokerage, and how Upshift vaults now sit inside Kraken's qualified custody so institutions can earn yield on idle Bitcoin and ETH without leaving the platform.
She also covers composability, tokenized treasuries as collateral, why market makers matter for tokenization, and why she thinks accredited investor rules are out of date. In this episode
How Hack VC doubled down after FTX, and why Aya calls FTX an opsec failure rather than a blockchain failure
Why DeFi still lacks true prime brokerage, and how Morpho, Aave and Kamino are closing the gap
Kraken's kBTC receipt token and how bankruptcy-remote qualified custody limits hack risk
Build or partner: why exchanges buy readiness instead of spending 12 months on vault infrastructure
Stablecoin vaults for remittances, payments and treasury management
Composability, explained with tokenized money market funds as collateral
Why accredited investor thresholds miss the point, and what AI agents mean for them
The Drift hack, human attack surfaces and delayed settlement as a security layer
Motherhood, AI agents and running two companies
Upshift as the first major vault provider on Solana
The bets Aya is making that the market thinks are too early: regulated crypto infrastructure and AI everything
About guest:
Aya Kantorovich is co-founder of August and Upshift. Know more here. https://www.upshift.finance/ (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUZZTVljRmN5a0dyNExGa0V2Mkt3WHIteFlLNHxBTl9pYzRlWFhTYlRTWVdrWWlOVDFIVnVhUzl1UmthOUNUa3g0QnQ5bGFQM1ZBdVN4TlE1bUpzMC1fbFpRcW0tc08xWGtjYnhZUFBqNEVjTXhiakFhRWJMRHhiV1FDc3hSWDN1&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.upshift.finance%2F&v=i_Zc5LrEqmE)
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For more information on Dr. Jemma Green
Visit: https://www.powerledger.io/ (https://www.powerledger.io/)
Or connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jemmagreen/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jemmagreen/)
27 Aug 2026
Self-Disrupt or Be Disrupted: AI bubble, one-person unicorns, and automating human workflow
Lisa Emme spent a decade in finance and private equity before co-founding Frontier AI lab Inversion. In this episode of Unblocked, she breaks down why the real AI conversation has already moved past chatbots into architecture, control, and autonomous agents.
Emme explains why bolting AI onto workflows built for humans produces no real ROI, and why the next shift, from multi-agent systems to fully autonomous AI, will restructure entire departments rather than individual tasks. She argues Europe's dependence on foreign frontier models is a strategic risk, points to the model access restrictions under the Trump administration as proof, and calls for the continent to build its own foundational AI infrastructure before the gap becomes unclosable.
Topics covered:
Why enterprise AI adoption is stuck at the surface level, and what AI-native restructuring actually requires
The shift from agentic to autonomous AI, and what it means for finance, procurement, and marketing functions
Why Emme believes the AI infrastructure buildout is a bubble, and which layer she expects to pop first
The case for Europe building sovereign AI models instead of depending on US and Chinese labs
World models, defensibility, and why frontier labs eating the application layer is a five-year risk for most AI startups
Career advice for professionals with only a few reskilling cycles left before AI reshapes their industry
Guest: Lisa Emme, co-founder, Inversion Lab
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For more information on Dr. Jemma Green
Visit: https://www.powerledger.io/ (https://www.powerledger.io/)
Or connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jemmagreen/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jemmagreen/)
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