Kraken - How crypto is becoming the plumbing of modern finance

In this episode, Justin speaks with Anna Falkiner and Andrew Hannon, the husband-and-wife founders of Adelaide agtech company Cropify, which is using artificial intelligence to transform the way grain is graded. For generations, trained grain graders have visually inspected samples for defects, contamination and quality. Those assessments help determine what grain is worth, but differences in human judgement can lead to costly disputes between buyers and sellers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, host Justin Kelly welcomes back Jonathon Miller, Kraken’s Managing Director for Australia and Rest of World, to explore how digital assets are moving beyond a standalone investment category and into the infrastructure underpinning modern finance. Jonathon discusses the growing convergence between crypto and traditional finance, including how tokenisation could make markets faster, more accessible and less constrained by conventional trading hours and settlement cycles. He also explains what investors should understand about the differences between tokenised assets and direct ownership. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Justin speaks with Nick Northcott, co-founder and CEO of Eudaemon Technologies, the Australian medtech company that has spent more than a decade trying to reinvent one of the world's most familiar products: the condom. The problem Eudaemon is trying to solve is remarkably simple. Condoms work, but a lot of people don't like using them. Eudaemon believes that if it can make a condom that feels materially better, more people will actually want to use one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Justin speaks with David Keane, founder and CEO of SCX.ai, as the Australian AI infrastructure company makes its debut on the ASX. Trading under the ticker SCX, the company is Australia’s first ASX-listed pure-play sovereign AI inference infrastructure company, providing the computing power that allows businesses and governments to run AI applications while keeping their data in Australia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Justin speaks with Jane Grant, Chief of B2Bpay, the Australian payments platform helping businesses get more value from the bills they already have to pay. The idea is simple. B2Bpay allows businesses to pay suppliers by credit card, even when those suppliers don't accept cards, while earning reward points through programs including Qantas Frequent Flyer, Velocity Frequent Flyer and Avios. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Justin speaks with John Crutchley, founder of MIST, the Australian fintech helping strengthen financial confidence across Australia's $50 billion international education sector. Before an international student receives a visa, they must demonstrate they have sufficient funds to study and live in Australia. But what happens after they arrive? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Justin talks with Managing Director of Geopacific Resources Hamish Bohannan. Geopacific Resources (ASX:GPR) has released an updated definitive feasibility study (DFS) for its wholly owned Woodlark gold project that’s attracted analyst attention for all the right reasons. Woodlark is one of Papua New Guinea's largest undeveloped gold deposits and the DFS outlines adefined development pathway to a high-margin operation with a long life and rapid post-taxpayback period. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Justin speaks with Adam Theobald, founder and CEO of Ordermentum, the technology platform helping transform Australia's $70 billion hospitality wholesale sector by connecting suppliers and venues through a single digital network. What began as a solution to simplify ordering has evolved into something much larger. Today, Ordermentum sits at the centre of billions of dollars in transactions, giving it a unique view of how Australia's hospitality industry operates and where artificial intelligence is beginning to reshape the sector. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Justin speaks with Resouro Strategic Metals (ASX:RAU) CEO Christopher Eager to unpack the company’s recently released Preliminary Economic Assessment, or PEA, on its flagship Tiros project in Brazil. Eager explains how the study demonstrates compelling economics that confirms Tiros as a globally significant rare earths and titanium project at a time of escalating demand for those critical minerals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Justin speaks with Dr Bronwyn Darlington, founder and CEO of Agscent, an Australian deep-tech company using AI, nano-sensors and NASA-derived technology to analyse breath, smell and biological signals in real time. What began as an effort to solve a practical livestock productivity challenge has evolved into a much bigger ambition: teaching machines how to smell. The conversation explores one of the next frontiers of artificial intelligence. While recent advances in AI have focused on understanding text, images and speech, researchers and technology companies around the world are now developing systems capable of detecting and interpreting the chemical signatures contained in breath, air and biology. Darlington explains how a chance discovery inside NASA's public patent library led to a partnership with the US space agency after she realised NASA scientists were working on many of the same molecules she was identifying in livestock breath. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices