Ranked #1

#Ep. 22: 4 Blockchain Trends and Observations for 2019
#Ep. 22: 4 Blockchain Trends and Observations for 2019
Happy New Year all! Ahmed and Faisal sit together to open the 2019 year with 4 predictions and trends the duo expect to ... Read more
8 Jan 2019
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21mins
Ranked #2

#Ep. 39: Tezos: Past, Present and Future. With Hubertus Thonhauser
#Ep. 39: Tezos: Past, Present and Future. With Hubertus Thonhauser
In this episode, Ahmed and Nic speak to Hubertus Thonhauser, Founding Partner of Enabling Future and a Board Member of t... Read more
27 May 2019
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49mins
Ranked #3

#Ep. 12: How is compliance shaping the blockchain and crypto industry?
#Ep. 12: How is compliance shaping the blockchain and crypto industry?
Ahmed and Faisal sit down with the Tarik Mohammed. Firstly, Ahmed brings up the Wall Street Journal’s article of identif... Read more
2 Oct 2018
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34mins
Ranked #4

#Ep. 37: How are lawyers creating, building and using smart contracts?
#Ep. 37: How are lawyers creating, building and using smart contracts?
In this episode, Ahmed and Nic speak with two amazing lawyers who are actively leveraging smart contracts for their curr... Read more
12 May 2019
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1hr 3mins
Ranked #5

#Ep. 25: The balance between ROI and Social Impact: A conversation with the Blockchain Founders Fund
#Ep. 25: The balance between ROI and Social Impact: A conversation with the Blockchain Founders Fund
Ahmed and Faisal are joined by Aly Madhavji, a Managing Partner at the Blockchain Founders Fund. The episode starts off... Read more
29 Jan 2019
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36mins
Ranked #6

#Ep. 32: Encrypted presents Decrypt Hour!
#Ep. 32: Encrypted presents Decrypt Hour!
So our stats shows that 42% of our listeners are from the UAE. Well we have never met nor interacted with the majority o... Read more
2 Apr 2019
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1hr 36mins
Ranked #7

#Ep. 10: Institutionalising Crypto and a Fintech Special!
#Ep. 10: Institutionalising Crypto and a Fintech Special!
Ahmed has an exciting line up on this episode of Encrypted. First up, Ahmed interviews the CEO of the ADGM Financial Ser... Read more
18 Sep 2018
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43mins
Ranked #8

#Ep. 57: How an early YouTube employee is competing against Uber and Airbnb!
#Ep. 57: How an early YouTube employee is competing against Uber and Airbnb!
Ahmed is in San Francisco for his first ever visit! As well as attending the San Francisco Blockchain Week, Ahmed set so... Read more
18 Nov 2019
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37mins
Ranked #9

#Ep. 09: Crypto Bloodbath and a DTEC Tour!
#Ep. 09: Crypto Bloodbath and a DTEC Tour!
Faisal sits down with Hans Christensen, VP of Dubai Technology Entrepreneur Centre, to talk all things blockchain and cr... Read more
11 Sep 2018
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31mins
Ranked #10

#Ep. 17: Non-Fungible Tokens...WTF?!
#Ep. 17: Non-Fungible Tokens...WTF?!
The world is at the at the forefront of the token revolution. With the invention of non-fungible tokens, we have seen a ... Read more
13 Nov 2018
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28mins
Ranked #11

#Ep. 55: THE (DIS)TRUST GENERATION: Genuine, Fake and Fraudulent
#Ep. 55: THE (DIS)TRUST GENERATION: Genuine, Fake and Fraudulent
Nic Watson and Ahmed Al Balaghi co-host todays episode, with guest Damu Winston, author of “I Don't Trust You, But Block... Read more
20 Oct 2019
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39mins
Ranked #12

#Ep. 03: Encrypted Interviews - The development of the Dubai Blockchain Center with Dr. Marwan Al-Zarouni
#Ep. 03: Encrypted Interviews - The development of the Dubai Blockchain Center with Dr. Marwan Al-Zarouni
Today Ahmed is joined by Dr. Marwan Al-Zarouni who gives a low down on the Dubai Blockchain Centre and generally what Du... Read more
10 Aug 2018
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17mins
Ranked #13

#Ep. 08: When VCs go eye to eye with Blockchain!
#Ep. 08: When VCs go eye to eye with Blockchain!
Ahmed and Faisal sit down with Fares Ghandour, Partner at Wamda Capital which is a VC based in Dubai, to discuss the lat... Read more
4 Sep 2018
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50mins
Ranked #14

#Ep. 04: ICE be Centralising, Binance be Decentralising
#Ep. 04: ICE be Centralising, Binance be Decentralising
In this episode, Ahmed and Faisal touch on the SEC’s delay on deciding the way forward with a bitcoin ETF and the effect... Read more
14 Aug 2018
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25mins
Ranked #15

#Ep. 31: How Matic Network is solving the biggest problems in Blockchain today?
#Ep. 31: How Matic Network is solving the biggest problems in Blockchain today?
In this episode Ahmed and Aniket speak to Sandeep Nailwal, COO of Matic Network. Matic Network is a Layer 2 scaling sol... Read more
30 Mar 2019
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37mins
Ranked #16

#Ep. 36: What the Stake? All you need to know about Staking and PoS networks!
#Ep. 36: What the Stake? All you need to know about Staking and PoS networks!
Staking. Generalised Mining. Proof of stake. What are all these??? In this episode, Ahmed speaks to Tim Ogilvie, CEO of ... Read more
2 May 2019
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27mins
Ranked #17

#Ep. 06: Encrypted Interviews: How are Dubai Economy using blockchain technology? A Discussion with Mohammed Shael
#Ep. 06: Encrypted Interviews: How are Dubai Economy using blockchain technology? A Discussion with Mohammed Shael
In this episode of Encrypted Interviews, Ahmed sits down with the CEO of Strategic Affairs of the Department of Economic... Read more
24 Aug 2018
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26mins
Ranked #18

#Ep. 35: Building enterprise blockchain adoption in the Middle East with Jibrel Network
#Ep. 35: Building enterprise blockchain adoption in the Middle East with Jibrel Network
In this episode, we speak to Talal Tabbaa, Co-founder and COO of Jibrel Network. Ahmed also welcomes a new guest host on... Read more
23 Apr 2019
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52mins
Ranked #19

#Ep. 58: WEEKLY ROUND UP: China, New York, FINCEN, TON
#Ep. 58: WEEKLY ROUND UP: China, New York, FINCEN, TON
After several requests by regular listeners, we get back to summarising interesting news that has happened in the last 7... Read more
26 Nov 2019
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43mins
Ranked #20

#Ep. 56: Cre8ting a future of music artists
#Ep. 56: Cre8ting a future of music artists
Nic Watson and Ahmed Al Balaghi co-host todays episode with a Millennial angle, with guest star Erik Mendelson, a music ... Read more
5 Nov 2019
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42mins