Dan Gold is founder and CEO of Stratiphy, and as far as anyone knows, the only platform offering tax-efficient crypto exposure to UK retail investors right now.

The path got narrow fast. The FCA lifted the retail crypto ETN ban in October 2025. HMRC then closed the stocks-and-shares ISA route at the start of this tax year, leaving crypto ETNs eligible only for Innovative Finance ISAs, which no mainstream platform offered. Stratiphy re-opened the door, partnering with 21Shares to offer bitcoin, ether, and the new BOLD bitcoin/gold hybrid inside an ISA wrapper.

We get into the regulatory maze, whether Bitcoin is a lottery ticket or a real line item, and what launching into a 35% drawdown tells you about who your customers actually are. Plus: why the IFAs will come around whether they like it or not.

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Learn more about Stratiphy: https://www.stratiphy.io

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Tax-Efficient Crypto in the UK: The Short Story

00:25 The Regulatory Sequence

03:00 IFAs and the Education Gap

04:00 Portfolio Construction or a Punt?

05:30 Bitcoin: Lottery Ticket or Asset Allocation?

08:00 Launching Into a Down Market

09:30 Where Stratiphy Goes Nex

t11:30 Sign-Off

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Tokenization has a perception problem. The industry keeps selling it as an efficiency play — less friction, more transparency, better infrastructure. But if tokenization doesn't help you sell more of whatever you've tokenized, it's irrelevant.

Alejandro Gutierrez leads Solana Superteam Ireland and has been building in this space since before most people knew what tokenization meant. Co-founder of the Defactor DeFi protocol. Creator of a blockchain-based supply chain financing application with Consol Freight. And the only builder on a KPMG panel last week alongside the Central Bank of Ireland, Invesco, and Dillon Eustace — in a room of over a hundred people from the heart of Irish financial services.

The POC phase is long gone. Ireland has all the ingredients. Now it's time to move product — or get left behind.

Also: Castle DAO is coming to Slane Castle. The TradFi Band is yet to be confirmed.

Follow Alejandro on X and LinkedIn:

https://x.com/A_gutierro

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejandro-gutierrez-98979b43/

Follow Superteam Ireland on X and LinkedIn

https://x.com/superteamIE

linkedin.com/company/superteam-ireland/

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Sell More or Don't Bother

01:00 Is Crypto Getting Boring?

02:00 Guardrails, Governance and the Drift and Kelp Hacks

03:00 The KPMG Panel — The Builder in the Room

05:00 The Commercial Reality of Tokenization

06:00 What Defactor and Consol Freight Unlocked

08:00 The Colombian SME and Global Capital Formation

09:00 Does Ireland Have What It Takes?

11:00 The POC Phase Is Long Gone

12:00 Before We Go — Buildstation, Colosseum and Castle DAO

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Brian McNulty has been building toward this moment for a decade. When he co-founded the Post Trade Distributed Ledger Group with the London Stock Exchange back in 2015, he was helping the industry imagine what tokenized funds might one day look like. On April 21st 2026, he rings the bell at that same exchange to launch DVF — Lingfeng Capital's Digital Venture Fund — and the circle closes.In this episode, Brian and Pete trace the journey from FAC to the Apex exit to DVF, and dig into what VC 3.0 actually means: a venture fund first, a tokenized structure second, built to fix the distribution problems that have kept private markets broken for decades.They cover why the underlying investment case always has to come first, how Archax and LSEG's Digital Markets Infrastructure underpin the model, what structured transferability actually looks like in practice, who DVF is really for, and the real hurdles the industry still has to clear.DVF is Lingfeng Capital's $100 million regulated tokenized venture fund investing in Series B through pre-IPO fintech, AI, blockchain, and digital infrastructure companies across global markets.Find Brian on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianmcnulty/EP 116 — the original FAC episode from 2020: https://www.moneyneversleeps.ie/116-all-these-funds-brian-mcnulty-and-fac/CHAPTERS:00:00 Introduction00:45 From PTDL to Lingfeng — The Journey02:00 What FAC Got Right and Wrong03:15 Why Tokenization Alone Is Never Enough04:00 Private Markets Distribution Is Broken05:00 Venture Fund First, Token Second07:00 How DVF Works — LSEG, Archax and VC 3.009:00 Structured Transferability vs True Liquidity09:30 Who DVF Is For — Four Investor Buckets11:30 The Real Hurdles Left to Clear13:15 Ringing the Bell at the London Stock Exchange🌐 https://www.moneyneversleeps.ie/#MoneyNeverSleeps #VentureCapital #Tokenization #PrivateMarkets #DVF #VC30 #Fintech #Blockchain #DigitalAssets #LingfengCapital #Archax #LSEG