E89: eToro CEO Yoni Assia on 2008 Survival, Ethereum’s Origins, and the AI Trading Future

E89: eToro CEO Yoni Assia on 2008 Survival, Ethereum’s Origins, and the AI Trading Future

From Beyond the Code by Yitzy Hammer

February 16, 2026 · 1h 15m · Episode 89

About this episode

Yoni Assia discusses his journey in tech, eToro's evolution, and the future of AI in trading.

I sat down with Yoni Assia , co-founder & CEO of eToro , for a wide-ranging conversation that spans Bitcoin’s earliest days , eToro’s journey through the 2008 crisis , and why Yoni thinks AI agents will soon trade more than humans . We talk about Yoni’s early path into tech, his first startup (and the tough realities of unit economics), and how eToro evolved from a trading product into a mass-market platform powered by social investing and CopyTrader . Yoni also shares the inside story of his early crypto conviction - board fights, Mt. Gox, Colored Coins, and his reaction to the Ethereum whitepaper - plus thoughts on NFTs, UBI via GoodDollar (and who's still using it - someone! shocking!) , prediction markets, geopolitics, and whether quantum computing is a real Bitcoin risk (it is, and it isn't - Yoni spells it out real clearly, probably yet another Yoni prophesy).

People in this episode

Host: Yitzy Hammer

Guest: Yoni Assia

Topics covered

  • cryptocurrency
  • AI trading
  • social investing
  • financial crisis
  • Ethereum origins
  • unit economics
  • geopolitics

Keywords

  • eToro
  • AI agents
  • Bitcoin
  • Ethereum whitepaper
  • NFTs
  • UBI
  • prediction markets
  • quantum computing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: eToro, Bitcoin, Ethereum, GoodDollar, Mt. Gox, Colored Coins, quantum computing

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