We present our two-part Holiday Special 2025: The Year in Review.

2025 has been a big year full of big months here at Abaxx and at SmarterMarkets™, and we’re closing out 2025 by revisiting the conversations with our guests that helped us understand and articulate the themes that would come to define the year.

2025 was the year in which we discovered that this was not the energy transition that we were expecting; and the year in which a new geopolitical reality emerged and old geopolitical concerns resurfaced. It was the year featuring a tale of two carbon markets and the need for new weather markets to manage the risks posed by reliance on renewable power. And 2025 was the year in which there was both a new gold rush and a rush into tokenization.

We hope you’ll sit back, relax, and enjoy our Holiday Special 2025: The Year in Review.

Our guests in order of appearance:

Part One:

• Andy Home – Senior Metals Columnist, Thomson Reuters
  SM213 – 1.18.2025 – The State of Play in Battery Metals
• Andrea Hotter – Special Correspondent, Fastmarkets
  SM214 – 1.25.2025 – The State of Play in Battery Metals
• Peter Zaman – Partner, HFW Singapore
  SM218 – 2.22.2025 – Carbon Frontiers 2025
• Nobuo Tanaka – Executive Director Emeritus, International Energy Agency (IEA)
  SM246 – 8.30.2025 – Summer Playlist 2025
• Helima Croft – Managing Director & Global Head of Commodity Strategy, RBC Capital Markets
  SM245 – 8.23.2025 – Summer Playlist 2025
• Dave Ernsberger & Mark Eramo – Co-Presidents, S&P Global Commodity Insights
  SM251 – 10.4.2025 – Catching Up On Climate
• Rene Velasquez – Managing Partner, Valitera
  SM219 – 3.1.2025 – Carbon Frontiers 2025
• Mark Lewis – Partner & Managing Director, Climate Finance Partners LLC and Former Head of Research, Andurand Capital
  SM216 – 2.8.2025 – Carbon Frontiers 2025
• Hannah Hauman – Global Head of Carbon Trading, Trafigura
  SM250 – 9.27.2025 – Catching Up On Climate
• Theresa Kammel & Pierre Buisson – Originator & Senior Structurer, Weather & Agro Zurich, Munich Re
  SM241 – 7.26.2025 – Summer Playlist 2025

Part Two:

• Josh Crumb – Founder & CEO, Abaxx Technologies
  SM229 – 5.3.2025 – Gold for the 21st Century
• Steve Lowe – Strategic Advisor for Precious Metals, Abaxx and Former Managing Director, Co-Head of Global Base and Precious Metals, Scotiabank
  SM231 – 5.17.2025 – Gold for the 21st Century
• Sunil Kashyap – Managing Director at FinMet Pte Ltd., Singapore
  SM224 – 3.29.2025 – Gold for the 21st Century
• Wade Brennan – CEO & Co-Founder, Kilo Capital
  SM225 – 4.5.2025 – Gold for the 21st Century
• Thom McMahon – Co-Founder, Abaxx Technologies
  SM235 – 6.14.2025 – Gold for the 21st Century
• Albert Cheng – CEO, Singapore Bullion Market Association (SBMA)
  SM240 – 7.19.2025 – Summer Playlist 2025
• Ian Forester – Head of Product, Abaxx Technologies
  SM254 – 10.25.2025 – Re-engineering Tokenization
• Riley Hughes – Co-Founder & CEO, Trinsic
  SM258 – 11.22.2025 – Re-engineering Tokenization
• Carrie Jaquith – Global Head of Digital Product, Abaxx Technologies
  SM257 – 11.15.2025 – Re-engineering Tokenization
• Leah Wald – Digital Title Lead, Abaxx Technologies
  SM261 – 12.13.2025 – Re-engineering Tokenization
• Walt Lukken – President & CEO, FIA
  SM262 – 12.20.2025 – Re-engineering Tokenization
• Josh Crumb – Founder & CEO, Abaxx Technologies
  SM253 – 10.18.2025 – Re-engineering Tokenization