Wirex
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Crypto talk measured by real-world usefulness.
Wirex News turns crypto and AI questions into plain-language interviews with builders and product people. The conversations favor usability, trust, payments, leadership, and what needs to change before emerging tech feels ordinary.
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Wirex News is a business-and-technology interview show centered on crypto, blockchain, Web3, and the edges where AI begins to change how people make decisions. Its core question is practical. Can this technology become useful enough, simple enough, and trusted enough to move beyond insiders? The show returns to that question from several directions, including blockchain product design, bank adoption, payments, creator tokens, crypto communications, and AI-assisted leadership. Conversations often begin with a guest’s professional path, then move into a plain-language version of the problem at hand. That structure gives the show a steady, explanatory rhythm. It is not a shouting-match crypto program, and it does not chase chaos for its own sake. Instead, it asks why products get overengineered, why users still struggle with wallets and payments, and what institutions need before they can rely on blockchain infrastructure. The strongest episodes treat jargon as a symptom to solve. Features, tokenomics, decentralization, interoperability, compliance, and product-market fit are all brought back to whether real people can understand and use the thing. AI episodes broaden the lens. They ask what happens when leaders consult models before trusting their own judgment, and why users may give AI authority it has not earned. The tone is warm, earnest, and lightly promotional, with guests usually carrying the deeper technical substance. Skepticism is present, but it is framed as constructive product pressure rather than confrontation. Listeners hear from people tied to Tron DAO, Unstoppable Domains, Morph, Rails, Algorand, Ikwe AI, and Web3 Growth Hub. The show suits founders, marketers, product teams, crypto-curious professionals, and finance listeners who want adoption talk without needing every conversation to be a market thesis. It is best when it slows a big promise down and asks what would make it work in everyday life.
Made for: For crypto-curious professionals, Web3 builders, fintech operators, and business listeners who want clear conversations about adoption, trust, payments, and AI. It also suits nontechnical listeners who can follow industry terms when they are tied back to everyday product problems.
What sets it apart: Wirex News stands apart by filtering crypto and AI through usability rather than hype. The recurring focus is not just what blockchain can do, but what has to be simpler, safer, and more understandable before people actually use it.
Welcome to Wirex News - Your Crypto Podcast, where we have engaging conversations with experts, thought leaders, and innovators exploring wide-ranging topics around cryptocurrency, financial management, security, and many more interesting subjects.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Liana Adams turns blockchain and AI debates into practical questions about trust, product design, leadership and everyday financial use.
Wirex News - Your Crypto Podcast keeps returning to the point where emerging technology meets an operating decision. In one-on-one interviews, Liana Adams asks guests to connect blockchain and AI with practical questions about product design, leadership, payments, ownership and…
AI gets a trust audit; blockchain explains itself before you buy either pitch.
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A plainspoken reminder that blockchain products work better when teams stay close to users, testing, and real problems.
The piece treats blockchain product design as an exercise in restraint. It keeps circling back to the same useful point: build for a specific audience, say it plainly, and check it against real people before the work gets too polished to question.
AI as a test of leadership judgment, not just a workflow upgrade.
AI Is Coming for Leadership - Are You Ready? treats AI less like a productivity hack and more like a stress test for judgment. Sandy Carter's point is straightforward: leaders who can balance data, instinct, and lived experience may use AI well, while leaders who hand over every…
Blockchain adoption starts to look practical when payments feel simple, familiar, and trustworthy.
Blockchain adoption still looks blocked less by philosophy than by the friction of paying with it. Liana Adams and Sarah Maria Kolnitzer keep returning to a practical idea: mass adoption will not land until blockchain payments feel simple, familiar, and trustworthy.
A steady reminder that confidence is not the same as trust.
This episode treats AI trust as a practical problem: why people hand over the next step when a system sounds sure of itself. Stephanie Stranko, speaking from Ikwe AI, keeps the focus on human systems, emotional stakes, and the gap between technical correctness and what actually…
A practical look at creator tokens, control, and the trust needed to make them work.
This episode weighs whether creator influence can mature into a real business through tokens, with ownership, community, tokenomics, and control all kept in view.
Calm thinking for a divided public life.
Local news, examined from the inside.
Twelve years of journalists explaining how the work gets done.
Blockchain builders can get carried away fast.
Liana Adams opens by asking what happens when AI starts shaping strategy, hiring, and decision-making for leaders.
Liana Adams interviews Colin Goltra, CEO of Morph, about finding real utility in crypto beyond hype, focusing on his background and early crypto experiences.
This episode explores what makes a blockchain 'bank-ready' through an interview with Peter Bytewell, head of product at Rails, discussing his background in finance and blockchain, and the criteria banks use for adoption.
This episode explores the barriers to mainstream crypto adoption, focusing on marketing, exposure, and trust issues through an interview with a PR and communications expert.
Liana Adams opens with Sarah Maria Kolnitzer.
Liana Adams frames the episode around a straightforward problem: people trust AI too quickly.
Leanne opens with a blunt question: can creators turn influence into a real business with tokens?
This episode explores why cryptocurrency remains complicated and features an interview with Simona Scherbern from ETH Cluj on making blockchain more accessible and user-friendly.
This episode explores the future of journalism by comparing Web3's decentralized approach with traditional media's influence, featuring insights from tech journalist Karina Schuster.
This episode features an interview with Arina Hever, a crypto lawyer in the UAE, discussing the competition between global crypto hubs like the UAE, Singapore, and Switzerland, and her background in supporting crypto entrepreneurs.
This episode celebrates Wirex's 10th anniversary by interviewing co-founders Pavel Mativ and Dmitry Lazarevich about their journey from the initial vision of connecting Bitcoin to real-world use through a debit card to becoming a leading fintech company.