Crypto im Kontext: the institutional crypto podcast from German-speaking Europe
Crypto im Kontext is the podcast for professional investors who want to understand digital assets. From Vienna, hosts Anton Werner and Martin Bechter talk to leading crypto entrepreneurs, wealth managers, private bankers, family offices and regulators about the adoption of crypto, both as an asset class and as a technology, and about what allocators need to know to navigate this market.
Decision-makers and professionals from 69 wealth managers, private banks and family offices in the DACH region follow Crypto im Kontext on LinkedIn.
* Source: Crypto im Kontext LinkedIn followers (Institutions in the DACH region (wealth managers, family offices, private and regional banks) whose decision-makers or professionals follow Crypto im Kontext on LinkedIn, each counted once. AUM: sum of the institutions with published or known assets under management, all others count as 0. Large banks and custodian banks not included. As of October 2026.Follow us)
What investors and decision-makers say about Crypto im Kontext
Anton and Martin impress both professionally and personally, and they are absolutely credible and trustworthy. An unreserved recommendation for anything around blockchain and crypto.
Stefan LettmeierV-BankCo-Founder & Managing DirectorWealth Management“
I regularly bring points from Crypto im Kontext into client conversations.
Marco RumpfDRH VermögensverwaltungCo-Founder & Managing DirectorPrivate Banking“
Wealth managers, private banks, family offices and sophisticated private investors who want to understand digital assets without hype and at a professional level. Our focus is on Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and we welcome listeners from anywhere.
What we cover
We explain crypto from an investor's point of view, and we bring in the sharpest minds from both worlds to do it: the crypto industry and traditional finance. Together we work out the principles that matter for a professional investor: how the market works, who the participants are, and how these assets are valued. Legal, tax and security questions round it out.
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Please note: most episodes are in German. Most of our conversations are recorded in German with German-speaking guests. Episodes recorded in English are marked “Audio in English”. Selected German episodes also have an English page with summary, show notes and quotes, listed below.
Some of our guests include
18 guests so far, from banks, wealth managers, family offices, crypto companies and regulators.
Crypto has arrived in traditional finance and wealth management. Understanding it, and putting it into context, often has not. Between price predictions on social media and the cautious silence of many institutions, there is no place where decision-makers can learn, soundly and without hype, what is really changing.
Our motivation
The idea grew out of our frequent speaking engagements and conversations with investors. In these small-group exchanges we kept hearing the same feedback: they had never heard crypto put into context this way. That is how the idea came about to make our thinking and our approach available to a wider audience.
Who it is for, and why
Crypto is increasingly becoming a mainstream asset class, yet reservations remain high, mostly due to a lack of understanding. This is exactly where we want to be the first point of contact: no hype, no price predictions, no quasi-religious devotion to individual projects. Although the podcast is aimed primarily at allocators who manage other people's capital, it is just as suited to sophisticated private investors who want to engage seriously with this asset class. What we discuss here also feeds into our daily investment work at Fountainhead Digital.
Our standards
These principles are not lip service for the podcast. We live them every day in our work at Fountainhead Digital.
Substance over Hype
No hype, no price predictions, no maximalist fan behaviour. We explain why something matters, not just that it is happening.
Practice over Theory
Our guests put crypto into practice themselves, as crypto tech founders, at banks, as wealth managers or in family offices. We want to give their thinking and perspectives a stage.
Investor Relevance
We explain how technology and asset class are connected and what that means for investors, clearly and at a professional level.
Continuous Development
We don’t know everything, nobody in crypto does. What drives us is constantly questioning the status quo and continuously developing ourselves as investors.
Anton Werner did not start his career in digital assets, but every step led him there. Instead of a career in private equity, he moved to Berlin in 2011, where he helped build leading e-commerce companies and founded his own travel start-up, which he later sold successfully. Through classic (Web2) venture capital he found his way to crypto and saw in it not just an asset class but the foundation of a more open and fairer internet. His conviction: crypto is liquid venture capital, but without disciplined, data-driven portfolio management, volatility and emotions eat up every return. At Fountainhead Digital he integrates digital assets for wealth managers in a structured, compliant and risk-optimised way.
Martin Bechter has been working with crypto since 2017, sceptical at first and convinced today. With more than a decade in corporate finance and classic (Web2) venture capital, he looks at the young asset class as an investor, operator and strategist at the same time. Above all, he wants to make an often misunderstood technology understandable: factual, thought through from first principles and without hype. As co-founder of Fountainhead Digital he develops crypto investment strategies for professional investors.
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