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Inside Kadena’s $50M Leap: Grant Program, Next-Gen Scalability & Insights from CEO Stuart Popejoy – Crypto News

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Explore the unfolding landscape of crypto and blockchain innovation in our in-depth interview with Stuart Popejoy, CEO of Kadena and former head of JP Morgan’s Center for Blockchain Excellence. Guided by the following chapters, this conversation illuminates the journey from the earliest days of institutional blockchain to Kadena’s latest breakthroughs.

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Explore the unfolding landscape of crypto and blockchain innovation in our in-depth interview with Stuart Popejoy, CEO of Kadena and former head of JP Morgan’s Center for Blockchain Excellence. Guided by the following chapters, this conversation illuminates the journey from the earliest days of institutional blockchain to Kadena’s latest breakthroughs.

Chapters:

00:00 – Defiant Intro

00:07 – When cost savings alone couldn’t revive crypto’s promise

00:55 – Meet Stuart Popejoy: Kadena’s vision, shaped by lessons from JP Morgan

06:00 – JPM Coin’s evolving roadmap

07:35 – Early hurdles building enterprise blockchain at JP Morgan

10:38 – Why technology alone isn’t enough—it must disrupt

13:57 – Kadena’s own answer: scalability, chainweb, and the art of possibility

16:25 – The real challenges builders face in scaling dApps

16:56 – Bitcoin proposals lost to time

17:50 – Braiding chains: scaling without losing stability

23:27 – Kadena’s bold $50 million grant program—fueling a new era for developers

25:15 – The role of real-world assets (RWAs) in blockchain’s evolution

29:00 – Public blockchains as a frontier for finance and technology

30:00 – Closing infrastructure gaps on the road to mass adoption

33:00 – How do we inspire an active, not passive, crypto user base?

35:42 – Why self-custody is the change we need in consumer behavior

38:10 – Next-gen adoption: getting all ages onchain

40:13 – What traditional finance keeps getting wrong about blockchain

42:48 – Kadena’s next moves after making waves at EthCC

44:20 – Reflections and closing remarks

From the keys of disruption and the quest for scalability to transformative grant programs and the vision for a blockchain-powered future beyond EthCC, this is crypto at its most reflective and real.

🔗 Links & Details: Explore Kadena’s grant program: https://www.kadena.io/grants

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