The Most Valuable Thing in a Trustless World: A Founder's Journey with Jason Carpenter

<p>What is the most valuable thing in a trustless world?</p><p>Jason Carpenter, founder of EtherBridge, joins Jamil Hasan on the Crypto Hipster Podcast for a conversation that begins with his family’s experience in Zimbabwe and ultimately reaches the future of open financial infrastructure.</p><p>Jason traces his journey from studying accounting in South Africa and initially dismissing Bitcoin to discovering a much deeper question: what is money, and how does it actually move through the financial system?</p><p>They explore property rights, institutional trust, crypto’s 2022 reckoning, why EtherBridge chose to educate investors before accepting their capital, and the strange paradox Jason discovered in crypto: in an industry built around trustlessness, trustworthy people became incredibly valuable.</p><p>The conversation moves into DeFi, why the word “cryptocurrency” may obscure more than it explains, the difficulty of valuing assets that combine characteristics of commodities, currencies and capital assets, token-holder rights, AI agents, and Jason’s vision for financial infrastructure increasingly built on-chain.</p><p>No price predictions. No hype. A conversation about money, trust, institutions—and what we may build next.</p><p></p>