The Future of Trust with Mat Yarger

The Future of Trust with Mat Yarger explores work at the intersection of technology, data, and sustainability.Each episode features a conversation with a guest driving change, such as academics, entrepreneurs, project developers, farmers, and community leaders. Guests share how technology is creating scalable solutions to sustainability challenges.The podcast is hosted by Mat Yarger, Founder of DEMIA, US Army Combat Veteran, and former Head of Sustainability at the IOTA Foundation.🌐 Demia.net

The Future of Trust with Mat Yarger is a technology podcast hosted by Demia, with 26 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Demia hosts The Future of Trust with Mat Yarger, a technology show with 26 episodes published.

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  Episode #26

  S1 E26: One Key for Everything with Raido Saar

  Aug 18, 202650 minS1

  From investigating forged documents on Estonia's post-Soviet border to founding ComplyOnce, Raido Saar has spent his career chasing the same question: how do you know who's really on the other side? Along the way, he helped shape Estonia's X-Road digital government infrastructure and built one of the first biometric passport identity solutions in Europe. In this episode, Raido sits down with Mat Yarger to unpack why the world spends $500 billion a year on anti-money-laundering efforts yet recovers just 0.02% of illicit funds, how outdated identity checks let one scammer open five fraudulent accounts using the same stolen face, and how Raido himself nearly got scammed on a fake podcast call. He also shares how LinkedIn and its verification vendor lost his identity data twice, and makes the case for a single encrypted identity key that could replace the passwords, selfies, and stolen accounts fueling today's fraud epidemic. It's a candid, wide-ranging conversation about why our systems for verifying trust are still built on 1990s architecture, and what it will actually take to fix them. If you enjoy the episode, don't forget to subscribe and leave a review.

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  Episode #25

  S1 E25: First to Market or Built to Last? with Jeff Mahony

  Jul 14, 20261h 13mS1

  In this episode, we sit down with Jeff Mahony, Chief Architect at RYTchain, where he's building a Layer-1 blockchain designed to bring governments and citizens onto shared, gas-free infrastructure, with national pilots already underway in Pakistan and beyond. Jeff grew up poor in Southern California and was working manual labor jobs by age nine, an experience that shaped his belief that talent is everywhere but opportunity is not. That belief carried him from aerospace and defense, where he worked on high-stakes systems, into financial infrastructure, where he built SaveDaily, a no-minimum, no-fee investing platform for what he calls "the other 93 percent" of America. We talk about fatherhood at twenty-nine and the ego it forced him to confront, why he'd rather build for relevance than race to be first, and where he thinks the AI industry is heading without enough seasoning behind its talent. It's a conversation about opportunity, durability, and what it actually takes to build systems people can rely on. If you enjoy the episode, don't forget to subscribe and leave a review.

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  Episode #24

  S1 E24: Where Trust Breaks When the Law Gets Involved with Deanna Reitman

  Jun 30, 20261h 16mS1

  In this episode, we sit down with Deanna Reitman, Partner at Foley & Lardner LLP, where she works at the intersection of energy, commodities, and compliance. Her career has been built on a simple premise: trust has to survive scrutiny, not just sound good in a pitch deck. Deanna shares how an early grounding in rules and consequences shaped a career spent in the rooms where deals unwind, ownership gets disputed, and standards collide with the law that actually applies. As more markets lean on real-time data and digital platforms, she's blunt about where people get it wrong: "Data doesn't prove ownership. Leases do." We explore what it actually takes to protect a buyer from acquiring something they don't own, why self-reported compliance keeps creating the same failures, and what she needs to see before she'll stand behind any system, digital or otherwise. The conversation closes on what it would take for carbon markets and digital assets to hold up under real pressure, instead of unraveling the moment scrutiny arrives. If you enjoy the episode, don't forget to subscribe and leave a review.

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  Episode #23

  S1E23 - You Can't Trust What You Can't See, The Case for Federated AI with Tiffany Wang

  Mar 31, 20261h 27mS1

  <p>What happens when someone who spent years studying broken institutions decides to help build the next generation of them?</p><p>Tiffany Wang trained as a corporate lawyer, moved into risk assurance and fraud investigation at PwC, and then made the jump to FLock.io — a federated AI company building the infrastructure for private, decentralized model training. Her whole career has been defined by one question: why do institutions say one thing on paper and operate completely differently underneath?</p><p>In this episode, we get into her path from law firm to Big Four to AI startup, what fe...

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  The Future of Trust with Mat Yarger

  S1E22 - The Moment Founders Find Out Who’s Real with Matt Ober

  Mar 16, 202656 minS0

  <p>What happens when the data looks right, but you still can't trust it?</p><p>Matt Ober didn't walk through a polished front door into finance. He answered phones at Bloomberg, landed a hedge fund role through Craigslist, and built one of the world's most aggressive alternative data programs at WorldQuant, a quantitative hedge fund inside Millennium Partners that was testing thousands of new datasets a month and spending over $100 million to stay ahead of the signal.</p><p>In this episode of The Future of Trust, host Mat Yarger sits down with Matt Ober, Managing Partner at Social...

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