About Ashton Addison
Founder and CEO of BlockWest Media and host of Crypto Coin Show, the longest-running interview series in blockchain.
Ashton started interviewing blockchain founders in 2014, when the industry was small enough that most of them would pick up the phone. That series became Crypto Coin Show, now the longest-running interview show in the space with more than 1,500 episodes, 150,000+ YouTube subscribers and syndication to institutional audiences through Refinitiv TV and the London Stock Exchange.
In 2026 he launched BlockWest Media as the parent company, widening the lens from crypto to the full picture of blockchain, digital assets and AI, and the way those three are converging in tokenized markets, stablecoin settlement and machine-to-machine economies. Crypto Coin Show continues as the flagship interview brand underneath it.
Along the way he has been a seed investor and strategic partner to early-stage protocols, delivered keynotes in ten countries, and was named Best Interview Show at the Web3 Influencer Awards in 2022 and 2025. He holds a BBA in Finance and Accounting, which is why his interviews tend to drift toward unit economics and how the thing actually makes money.
What Ashton does
Media
Runs BlockWest and Crypto Coin Show: the interview series, the newsletter Crypto Coin Show Insider, news coverage across both sites, and distribution to YouTube, podcast platforms, Odysee and Refinitiv TV.
Speaking
Keynotes, fireside chats and panels on digital assets, tokenization and institutional adoption. Opening keynote at Singapore TechLaw Fest; stages in Beijing, Las Vegas, Vietnam and Toronto. More on speaking.
Investing and advisory
Seed investor and strategic partner to blockchain projects since 2014, including XYO, 0G Labs, Axelar, Supra, peaq, YieldNest, Syscoin, among others.
On the interviews
Every Crypto Coin Show interview is a conversation with the person who built the thing. Guests get the hard question about adoption, tokenomics or regulation on camera, and the audience gets a primary source instead of a recap. That is why founders come back: several have appeared four or five times across a project’s life, from testnet to listing to the pivot nobody announced.
The aim is simple: get founders to explain their work clearly enough that viewers can make up their own minds, and keep that record somewhere permanent. Every episode lives on its own page on cryptocoinshow.com with show notes, chapters and a written version, alongside news coverage on BlockWest.
Timeline
- 2014Begins interviewing blockchain founders; first seed investments in the space
- 2017 to 2020Keynotes and panels in Singapore, Beijing, Las Vegas and Vietnam; broadcaster on the Reuters Insider financial network with the series Blockchain Interviews
- 2022Web3 Influencer Awards, Best Interview Show
- 2025Web3 Influencer Awards, Best Interview Show, second win
- 2026Launches BlockWest Media; Crypto Coin Show passes 1,500 interviews; main stage at Blockchain Futurist Conference with Brave
Get in touch
Speaking, media, partnerships and interview requests: [email protected]. Recent coverage, a full biography and photos are on the Press page.