{"podcast":{"title":"The Crypto Conversation","slug":"the-crypto-conversation-1035747","podcast_index_feed_id":1035747,"rss_url":"https://thecryptoconversation.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/podcasts","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/2/e/2/8/2e289ec556e51c0388c4a68c3ddbc4f2/crypto-conversation-pod-cover-20220331-sxhhnnq7bt.jpg","author":"Brave New Coin","episode_count":691,"summary":"Brave New Coin's Crypto Conversation talks to the key people creating the Bitcoin, blockchain, and cryptocurrency future. Hosted by Andy Pickering, learn how this rapidly evolving industry is reshaping the world as we move towards decentralized finance, NFTs and Web3.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-08T02:18:25.797085+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-crypto-conversation-1035747"},"episode":{"title":"MyEtherWallet – The Next Decade of On-Chain Finance","slug":"myetherwallet-the-next-decade-of-on-chain-finance","published_at":"2026-05-17T22:45:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-crypto-conversation-1035747/myetherwallet-the-next-decade-of-on-chain-finance","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-crypto-conversation-1035747","url":"https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/podcasts","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thecryptoconversation/MEW_poddy.mp3?dest-id=1363583","summary":"Kosala Hemachandra is the founder and CEO of MyEtherWallet (MEW), one of crypto's true OG products and a wallet that has been onboarding users to Ethereum since the network's mainnet launch. Eleven years, three million users, and a team of more than twenty later, MEW is positioning itself as a self-custodial home not just for crypto but for tokenized stocks, bonds, and the broader real-world asset economy now arriving on-chain. Why you should listen Kosala's origin story is a reminder of how far this industry has travelled. A computer engineering graduate who discovered Ethereum through Bitcoin, he built MEW because accessing the network at launch meant the command line and nothing else. The earliest MEW users were almost exclusively technical; today's users, by contrast, often have no idea which chain their assets are sitting on – and that is the point. Andy and Kosala dig into the decade-long tension at the heart of self-custody: balancing genuine user sovereignty with an onboarding experience that doesn't terrify newcomers. Mnemonic phrases have been \"bread and butter\" for ten years for a reason – any proprietary fix would lock users in and break the very portability that makes self-custody meaningful – but advances like account abstraction, social recovery, and smart contract wallets are finally pointing toward a more humane future. The conversation covers tokenized stocks and real-world assets, where Kosala sees the most profound shift of his career. TradFi went from hostile to crypto eight years ago to actively partnering with it today, and MEW is leaning into that convergence by offering tokenized equities alongside crypto assets in a single self-custodial wallet. Kosala uses his home country of Sri Lanka as an illustration: six months ago, a Sri Lankan investor…","meta_description":"Kosala Hemachandra is the founder and CEO of MyEtherWallet (MEW), one of crypto's true OG products and a wallet that has been onboarding users to Ethereum…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1787,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-crypto-conversation-1035747/episodes/myetherwallet-the-next-decade-of-on-chain-finance/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-crypto-conversation-1035747/myetherwallet-the-next-decade-of-on-chain-finance.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}