{"podcast":{"title":"SmarterMarkets™","slug":"smartermarkets-1365693","podcast_index_feed_id":1365693,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/smartermarkets/feed.xml","website_url":"https://www.smartermarkets.media","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/10226384/square_thumbnail_kw2znp.jpg","author":"Abaxx Technologies Inc.","episode_count":295,"summary":"What are SmarterMarkets? They leverage technology to create markets that are more liquid, transparent, and secure, with lower transactions costs and fewer barriers to entry. Markets that empower individuals to improve their own lives and help us address the biggest challenges that we face as a society — including the energy transformation and the transition to an AI-augmented economy. How do we build SmarterMarkets? We’re starting with our weekly podcast exploring how both markets and technology can be redesigned to better serve market participants and society as a whole. The podcast, presented by Abaxx Technologies, brings together the entrepreneurs, icons, and executives of commodities, capital markets and technology to rant on the inadequacies of our systems and riff on ideas for how to improve them.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T10:18:35.455426+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/smartermarkets-1365693"},"episode":{"title":"Holiday Special 2025: The Year in Review | Part 2","slug":"holiday-special-2025-the-year-in-review-part-2","published_at":"2026-01-03T14:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/smartermarkets-1365693/holiday-special-2025-the-year-in-review-part-2","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/smartermarkets-1365693","url":"https://smartermarkets.podbean.com/e/holiday-special-2025-the-year-in-review-part-2/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/p5vudvn548p4g5kj/SM264_HolidaySpecial_pt2_Mix3.mp3","summary":"We begin the new year on SmarterMarkets™ with Part Two of our Holiday Special 2025: The Year in Review. This week, we’re continuing to revisit the conversations with our guests that helped us understand and articulate the themes that would come to define 2025. It was the year in which we discovered that this was not the energy transition that we were expecting; and the year in which a new geopolitical reality emerged and old geopolitical concerns resurfaced. It was the year featuring a tale of two carbon markets and the need for new weather markets to manage the risks posed by reliance on renewable power. And 2025 was the year in which there was both a new gold rush and a rush into tokenization. We hope you’ll sit back, relax, and enjoy Part Two of our Holiday Special 2025: The Year in Review. Our guests in order of appearance: Josh Crumb – Founder & CEO, Abaxx Technologies SM229 – 5.3.2025 – Gold for the 21st Century Steve Lowe – Strategic Advisor for Precious Metals, Abaxx and Former Managing Director, Co-Head of Global Base and Precious Metals, Scotiabank SM231 – 5.17.2025 – Gold for the 21st Century Sunil Kashyap – Managing Director at FinMet Pte Ltd., Singapore SM224 – 3.29.2025 – Gold for the 21st Century Wade Brennan – CEO & Co-Founder, Kilo Capital SM225 – 4.5.2025 – Gold for the 21st Century Thom McMahon – Co-Founder, Abaxx Technologies SM235 – 6.14.2025 – Gold for the 21st Century Albert Cheng – CEO, Singapore Bullion Market Association (SBMA) SM240 – 7.19.2025 – Summer Playlist 2025 Ian Forester – Head of Product, Abaxx Technologies SM254 – 10.25.2025 – Re-engineering Tokenization Riley Hughes – Co-Founder & CEO, Trinsic SM258 – 11.22.2025 – Re-engineering Tokenization Carrie Jaquith – Global Head of Digital Product, Abaxx Technologies SM257 – 11…","meta_description":"We begin the new year on SmarterMarkets™ with Part Two of our Holiday Special 2025: The Year in Review. This week, we’re continuing to revisit the convers…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4459,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/smartermarkets-1365693/episodes/holiday-special-2025-the-year-in-review-part-2/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/smartermarkets-1365693/holiday-special-2025-the-year-in-review-part-2.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}