Web3 with Sam Kamani

I sat down with Marco from MoveItOn at ConsenSys Miami to talk about something I hadn't seen before — a peer-to-peer delivery platform that turns everyday travelers into courier agents. Think Uber, but for shipping. Marco walks me through how they use smart contract escrow to build trust between strangers sending valuable items, how their M1 token powers cross-border payments, and why they just acquired a Web2 company called GlocalZone with 1.5 million app downloads to hit the ground running. We also get into the regulatory maze of operating across 100+ countries, the AI-powered security boxes they plan to place at airports and train stations, and why the last-mile delivery problem is one that AI agents simply cannot solve on their own. If you're interested in how blockchain and real-world logistics can come together to save people money and create new income streams while traveling, this one is for you. 
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Connect:
MoveItOn Website: https://www.moviton.com/ 
Key points with Timestamps 
• [00:00] Sam introduces Marco from MoveItOn, recorded live at ConsenSys Miami
• [02:00] Marco's background — how writing a blockchain book for beginners pulled him into the industry
• [04:00] He has three published books: Blockchain Millionaire, a crypto beginner lexicon, and a tokenization guide
• [05:30] What MoveItOn is — a peer-to-peer delivery platform turning travelers into courier agents
• [07:00] The founding story — a co-founder from Kazakhstan couldn't ship medical items via DHL but could carry them personally
• [09:00] How blockchain fits in — smart contract escrow requires couriers to deposit the value of items they carry
• [11:00] The M1 token powers payments and couriers earn staking rewards while funds are locked
• [13:00] The GlocalZone acquisition — a Web2 peer-to-peer delivery app with 1.5 million downloads and 70,000 active users
• [15:00] MoveItOn has been in development for about 18 months, Marco joined 8-9 months ago
• [17:00] Biggest challenge is regulation — launching in 10 compliant countries first, using AI to track changing import laws
• [20:00] Go-to-market strategy — partnerships with flight booking and car-sharing platforms, solving the last-mile problem with logistics companies
• [23:00] B2B infrastructure and future plans for AI agent integration
• [25:00] Blockchain and AI adoption across banking, medicine, and other industries
• [27:00] Solving the marketplace chicken-and-egg problem through partnerships and acquisitions
• [29:00] Current fundraising — private and pre-sale done, public sale in 4-6 months, seeking $4M in VC or angel funding
• [31:00] Move It Boxes — AI-powered smart lockers at airports and transport hubs for contactless drop-off and pickup
• [35:00] Vision for 2030 — 100+ countries, doubling the current 1.5 million user base
• [37:00] Open to partnerships, investors, and remote team members — headquartered in Dubai

I sat down with Patrick from Ampli live at ConsenSys in Miami for a wide-ranging conversation that ran nearly an hour, and for good reason. Patrick went from studying political science in Germany and France to becoming a crypto tokenomics advisor, and now co-founder of Ampli, a company building the security infrastructure for AI agents that manage money. We got into why blockchain was essentially built for AI before AI even existed, how Ampli's Agent Control Room lets fund managers discover, deploy, and control agents without ever handing over the keys, and why 90% of crypto exploits last year came down to human error rather than smart contract bugs. We also talked about the future of stablecoins as geopolitical tools, why DeFi is bottoming out like the post-dotcom era before a decade-long bull run, and what a world looks like where every phone has a personal banker inside it. This is one of those conversations packed with insight for founders, fund managers, and anyone paying attention to where finance is actually heading. 
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Connect: 
https://ampli.net/ 
Key points with time stamps: 
• [00:00] Patrick introduces himself, political science background in Germany and France, discovered Bitcoin and Ethereum in 2016, drawn in by smart contracts as a governance solution
• [04:00] What Ampli is building, agentic capital management infrastructure that lets AI agents autonomously transact money and digital assets securely
• [08:00] Why Ampli pivoted from consumer products to infrastructure, the agent capability grew faster than the security stack beneath it
• [12:00] How Ampli's separation of powers works, agents only send suggestions, policies are written on-chain, and the agent never holds the keys
• [16:00] The 90% statistic, security researchers found that over 90% of exploited crypto funds last year came from human error, social engineering, and front-end spoofing, not smart contract bugs
• [20:00] Why blockchain was built for AI before AI arrived, it is cumbersome for humans but perfect for machines transacting value at scale
• [25:00] What comes next in the agentic space, purpose-built agents, agent marketplaces, and agents subcontracting other agents
• [30:00] The Visa study showing 90% of stablecoin transactions on Ethereum in 2024 were done by bots, proof the rails are ready for machine-to-machine finance
• [35:00] DeFi trends, Patrick's thesis that DeFi is bottoming out like the post-dotcom era, with tokenization and institutional adoption set to drive a decade-long secular bull run
• [40:00] Companies Patrick admires, Midas for disciplined tokenization and Fortify for MPC-based self-custody
• [44:00] Ampli's Agent Control Room, their first product, letting fund managers discover, deploy, benchmark, and control agents
• [48:00] Crypto's real product-market fits, stablecoins, yield, gambling, capital gains, and front-loading liquidity through ICOs and TGEs
• [52:00] Stablecoins as geopolitical tools, how the US chose private stablecoins over CBDCs to spread dollarization globally, and what a future AI-native monetary primitive might look like
• [56:00] Advice for founders, listen to potential clients obsessively, build toward customer needs, and always push toward profitability so investors chase you

I sat down with Ian from the World Foundation to dig into one of the most pressing problems of our time, how do you prove you're a real human online without sacrificing your privacy? As AI floods the internet with bots and agents, the gap between human and machine interaction is closing fast. Ian walks me through how World ID and the Orb device let anyone verify their humanity using advanced cryptography, completely anonymously, no passport scans, no email addresses, no data sitting on some server you don't control. We also get into Ian's wild journey from GPU mining and Constitution DAO to building at World, and why the current KYC and AML model is a problem for both users and platforms. This is a conversation about identity, privacy, and what it means to be human in a world where most internet traffic won't be. 

Connect: 
World Foundation Website: https://world.org 
Twitter/X, World: https://x.com/worldnetwork 
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Key points:
• [00:00] Sam introduces Ian from the World Foundation and the episode's focus on digital identity in the AI age
• [02:30] Ian's background: crypto-adjacent upbringing, GPU mining with family, selling a Bitcoin at $600
• [05:00] Ian drops out of college during COVID, starts a startup, gets pulled into crypto through Constitution DAO
• [08:00] What World is: a way to prove you're a real human online, completely anonymously, using the Orb device
• [11:00] Why this matters now: bots and agents already make up 60–70% of crypto trading traffic, and it's growing
• [14:00] World ID vs KYC/AML: not a replacement for regulated compliance, but a privacy-first alternative for situations where KYC isn't legally required
• [17:00] Why both users and platforms suffer under current KYC models, GDPR compliance burden, data exposure, trust issues
• [20:00] How World ID solves the same human-verification problem more privately and with a better user experience
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I sat down with Mitch from Steelwave at BTC Vegas to explore how one of the West Coast's most established real estate developers is bringing institutional-grade assets onto the blockchain. Steelwave has done over $24 billion in acquisitions, building campus-style properties for tenants like Google and Anduril — and now Mitch is on a mission to give international family offices and eventually everyday investors access to deals they were previously locked out of. We talk about the tokenization roadmap, why power is the single most valuable commodity in real estate right now, how AI companies are driving 20 million square feet of lease demand in Silicon Valley, and why the next generation SPV could be a global syndicate of investors from China, Africa, and Australia all coming together on a single deal. This one gets into the real mechanics of how private real estate becomes liquid — and why the window to act is right now.
Connect with Steelwave
https://www.steelwavellc.com/token-lab
Key Points with Timestamps
• [00:00] Mitch teases the core thesis: 20 million sq ft of AI-driven lease demand and tokenization as a liquidity layer for family offices
• [00:41] Sam introduces himself — 5 years podcasting, 400+ founders interviewed, occasional angel investor
• [01:22] Mitch's origin story: found a crypto volatility hedge fund, spotted a gap for institutional-grade real estate on-chain, joined his father's firm Steelwave
• [02:24] What Steelwave does: campus-style premium real estate for tenants like Google and Anduril, formerly known as Legacy Partners
• [03:22] The Westfield San Francisco moment — why real estate values crashed post-COVID and why that's now the best buying opportunity in a generation
• [04:39] Sam's perspective on the global demand for US-based assets and why real estate remains far harder to access than equities for international investors
• [06:03] The Anduril deal: Steelwave bought the LA Times printing facility in Orange County and it became Palmer Luckey's Anduril headquarters
• [07:40] Plans to fractionalize: starting at $50M minimums with family offices, then introducing token liquidity in 12–18 months for secondary market access
• [08:54] The next-gen SPV model — syndicating global investors from China, Africa, and Australia into a single deal
• [12:26] Where tokenized assets will trade: likely international exchanges first before entering the US market
• [13:30] The hardest part of the business: connecting next-gen crypto capital to old-school real estate financial structures
• [14:43] Expanding beyond real estate — sports teams, esports, TV shows, athletes, and cricket teams in India as the next tokenization frontier
• [17:14] Why BTC Vegas matters: Bitcoin capital is maturing and looking for scalable institutional assets to deploy into
• [18:18] Mitch's asks: capital partners, team members who understand the space, and the right regulatory framework
• [19:23] How Mitch pitches family offices: lead with the real estate, sell the tokenization as a liquidity unlock that cuts lock-up from 8–10 years down to 2–4
• [20:04] How Steelwave builds trust: $24B in acquisitions, zero bad assets, deep broker relationships across West Coast markets
• [21:17] 2026 real estate outlook: 20 million sq ft of AI-driven demand in Silicon Valley, tech giants scaling infrastructure, 12–24 months to buy before institutions pile back in
• [23:17] Power is king: if a site has power capacity, it gets a tenant immediately regardless of what's built on it
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I sat down with Mehow, founder of American Fortress, right here in Miami during Consensus week, and this conversation genuinely blew my mind. Michal has been a hacker since age 15 and has spent four and a half years and 13 patents building something the crypto industry has never had before — a universal identity and privacy protocol that makes sending crypto as simple as typing a name. We go deep on why crypto addresses are still the root cause of most theft and fraud, how stealth addresses and zero-knowledge proofs work together to give you PayPal-style usability without sacrificing privacy, why institutions like Brinks are already on board, and what wrench attacks and kidnappings in France have to do with on-chain transparency. We also talk quantum computing, the confidentiality machine, and why perseverance is the only real entrepreneurial lesson that matters. This one is packed.

--- CONNECT ---
Website: https://americanfortress.io 
Twitter/X: https://x.com/Americanfort_io 
Web3 with Sam Kamani: https://www.web3pod.xyz 

--- KEY POINTS WITH TIMESTAMPS ---
• [00:01:32] Michal shares his background as a hacker since age 15 and what drove him to build American Fortress
• [00:03:14] The core problem: crypto addresses are confusing and exploitable, leading to rampant theft and fraud
• [00:06:09] User journey walkthrough — how Fortress Knok lets you send crypto by name, like PayPal, with no address interaction
• [00:08:00] How stealth addresses work and why only sender and recipient ever know where funds went
• [00:09:00] Zero-knowledge proofs running through encrypted chat to confirm sender identity and defeat address poisoning
• [00:10:00] How cryptographic KYC via Sumsub is tied directly to transactions, the first protocol to do this
• [00:14:00] Why on-chain transparency is a physical safety risk, kidnappings in France and the Ledger executive story
• [00:15:44] The confidentiality machine, one button to hide your balance while still proving your identity to the recipient
• [00:17:39] Quantum resistance built in automatically when you use the privacy shield, with no extra steps for the user
• [00:26:15] MetaMask integration as a Snap, you don't need the American Fortress wallet to use Fortress names
• [00:29:00] Four and a half years of grinding on $9 million raised, 15 engineers, launching on 12 chains simultaneously
• [00:34:10] What's next, Austin office, token launch in 4–6 weeks, Brinks as a customer, and a potential Series A

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