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Unchained
Crypto assets and blockchain technology are about to transform every trust-based interaction of our lives, from financial services to identity to the Internet of Things. In this podcast, host Laura Shin, an independent journalist covering all things crypto, talks with industry pioneers about how cry...
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DEX in the City: Will the CLARITY Act Pass? Three Crypto Lawyers Give Their Odds
As a new CLARITY Act draft dropped, KK, Vy, and guest Josh Riezman of GSR give their passage odds and explain the one developer protection provision t...
Bits + Bips: Why the AI Rally Keeps Growing — and Why Circle Launched Arc
Ram says the entire market is now one giant AI trade. Chris argues the boom is backed by real fundamentals. Austin asks: is AI creating value for the...
Why Arthur Hayes Thinks the AI Bubble Bursting Could Spark a Crypto Bull Market
Arthur Hayes sees one force driving markets right now: governments printing money to finance AI and war. He explains why that ends with Bitcoin much h...
Uneasy Money: Who Owns Stolen Crypto? The $71M Fight Testing DeFi Limits
A legal battle over frozen KelpDAO hack funds is forcing DeFi to answer questions it has long avoided.
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Coinbase's Chief Policy Officer on Why He Believes the Clarity Act Will Pass
Coinbase's chief policy officer explains why the bank lobby failed to kill stablecoin rewards — and what 'workable compromise' actually means for cryp...
DEX in the City: With the Stablecoin Yield Compromise, Can the Clarity Act Get Passed?
Seven lawsuits blame OpenAI for enabling a mass shooting. Could the same legal theory come for DeFi?
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A16z Crypto Raised $2.2 Billion for Fund 5. Here's How They Plan to Deploy It
From AI agents as economic actors to quantum threats and prediction market regulation, Ali Yahya of a16z lays out the investment thesis behind a16z cr...
Why Wrapped Energy or Compute Will Be the New Store of Value: Bits + Bips
Missiles in the Strait of Hormuz. Brent jumps 5%. Bitcoin breaks through $80. The Bits + Bips crew reads the geopolitical tape — and explains why cryp...
Ben Fielding: Gensyn, Decentralized AI, and the Prediction Market That Settles Itself: Bits + Bips
A prediction market trades on outcomes. An information market trades on knowledge. Fielding makes the case for the latter.
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After April's $606 Million in DeFi Hacks, What's the Fair Value Yield Rate?
$606 million in DeFi exploits in one month. Two of the space's sharpest risk thinkers debate whether lenders are being paid anywhere close to enough.<...
Pump.fun’s $370M Burn Was a Mistake, Says Luca Netz: Uneasy Money
Pump.fun set fire to $370 million in tokens. Luca lays out the airdrop math that says they should have done the opposite.
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The Chopping Block: Defi United’s “Bailout,” MegaETH’s KPI Vesting, and Prediction Market Chaos
Is the era of protocol bailouts upon us? The Chopping Block crew and MegaETH's Shuyao Kong debate Defi United’s community-funded rescue, the KPI vesti...
How Microsoft Won the OpenAI Fight as Markets Rally on Iran
One side wins the OpenAI-Microsoft divorce, Ram calls a 19% earnings growth year 'bananas,' and Chris wants the US to hack back against DeFi exploiter...
How Microsoft Won in Its Revised Deal With OpenAI
Microsoft restructured its agreement with OpenAI, and Ram Ahluwalia has a clear verdict: Microsoft won.
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3. Why Aave's Unified Pool Turned a Bridge Hack Into $193M in Bad Debt
Luke Leasure and Shaunda Devens of Blockworks Research explain how three compounding failures, Kelp's one-of-one bridge signer, Layer Zero's permissiv...
How Morpho Survived a $300M DeFi Hack With Only $1M Exposure
People think of Aave and Morpho as competitors. But Morpho only lost $1 million when North Korea drained $300M from a DeFi protocol. The architecture...
Arbitrum Froze $70M From North Korea? Griff Green on the Decision + Miguel Morel on the Hack
KelpDAO’s hackers left telltale signs pointing to one culprit, North Korea. Then, in a surprise move, the Arbitrum Security Council decided to fight b...
Did Arbitrum Violate DRPK's Property Rights? No, Because It Wasn't Their Property
The $300M KelpDAO exploit became a watershed moment for DeFi, and the Arbitrum Security Council voted froze $70M worth of stolen funds. Is this a slip...
DEX in the City: KelpDAO vs. LayerZero: Who Is Liable When a DeFi Protocol Is Hacked?
A $300M bridge exploit is forcing the question DeFi has been avoiding: when users lose money, who is actually responsible — the protocol, the infrastr...
The Chopping Block: Kelp DAO Hack Fallout, DeFi Socialized Losses & Arbitrum’s “Reverse Hack”
The Chopping Block crew and guest Monet Supply break down the $200M Kelp DAO bridge exploit, finger-pointing between LayerZero, Kelp DAO, and Aave, th...
Is Canton Permissionless? CEO Says Yes, but SuperValidators Need Approval
Digital Asset’s CEO faces pointed questions about Canton’s core claims and admits something surprising about the network’s architecture.
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Strategy's Preferred Stock Is Now a Stablecoin. And DeFi Has a Security Problem.
The $290 million Kelp DAO hack, attributed to North Korea's Lazarus Group, has DeFi TVL down $13 billion in 48 hours. Do DeFi's foundational assumptio...
Bits + Bips: Why Josh Lim Is Optimistic on the Dynamics He's Seeing in Bitcoin
Bitcoin's spot-led rally looks healthy on the surface. But derivatives say conviction is thin. Josh Lim from FalconX on what the market structure is a...
The Chopping Block: Quantum FUD, Circle vs. Tether & WLFI Drama
Quantum computing risk, USDC vs. Tether drama after the Drift hack, and World Liberty Financial’s governance circus take center stage as Haseeb, Tom,...
How the DOJ and SEC Cases Against BitClout's Nader Al-Naji Collapsed
Debanked 12 times. Walked through an airport in handcuffs. Every charge eventually gone. Nader Al-Naji on the defense strategy that convinced both age...
Uneasy Money: BIP-361 Wants to Freeze Satoshi's Coins. What Happens If It Passes?
A Bitcoin developer just proposed freezing wallets that don't upgrade for quantum resistance. Including Satoshi's.
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Anthropic's Mythos Is More Powerful Than the U.S. Government's AI. Does That Make Sense?
Can a private company be trusted to decide which 40 firms get access to the world’s most dangerous AI model? And separately — is the SEC’s new Reg Cry...
Bits + Bips: Why Apple Might Benefit More From AI Than AI Companies Will
The US Naval blockade is live, markets are holding, and Ram thinks the bottom is in. Austin and Chris are not so sure.
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How Onchain Options Could Replace the Basis Trade as Crypto's Yield Strategy
The basis trade paid 15–30% near risk-free for years. Options couldn't compete. Then 10/10 happened.
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Bits + Bips: Bitcoin's Geopolitical Upturn and the $100K Question
Why ETH outperformed Bitcoin this past week, what's really behind the prediction market activity during the Iran situation, and what comes next for in...
Why Morgan Stanley Launched the Cheapest Bitcoin ETF on the Market
James Seyffart didn't expect Morgan Stanley to do this. Now he's watching to see if BlackRock blinks.
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The Chopping Block: Who's Really Satoshi? Quantum Panic, and AI Eating Code
Bitcoin’s Satoshi drama heats up again as a major journalistic “reveal” drops, just as the crypto industry gets rocked by a quantum computing breakthr...
How Does Crypto Remain Secure in a World of Always On AI Hacks? - Uneasy Money
Anthropic's new model is too dangerous to release publicly. It's already found 20 zero-days. Kain, Taylor, and Austin want to know when it finds the f...
DEX in the City: How the SEC’s Crypto Task Force Is Rebuilding Trust with Builders
Will SEC guidance stick around if the administration changes? Commissioner Peirce and Sumeera Younis of the Crypto Task Force answer.
How ‘Booth Babes’ Can Result in Huge Hacks Like Drift’s
The Drift hack wasn't a one-off exploit. It was a patient operation spanning months, with nation-state actors working the conference circuit. Then Cir...
Bits + Bips: Why the Drift Hack Is an ‘Embarrassment for the Industry’
A nation state hacked a startup and won. The hosts debate who's liable, what's fixable, and what isn't.
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How Bitcoin Is Both a Risk Asset and a Hedge Against Debasement
Charles Schwab’s chief crypto strategist breaks down why traditional finance valuation frameworks, not narratives, are finally taking hold in digital...
How State-Sponsored Hackers Like DPRK Drain DeFi Protocols: Uneasy Money
The Drift Protocol is down $285 million and Circle has the power to freeze the funds — but won’t. Kain, Taylor, and Luca explain why.
The Chopping Block: Is Canton a Real Blockchain? Ethereum’s Cypherpunk Dilemma, AI Security Chaos
The Chopping Block crew and Wintermute’s Evgeny Gaevoy debate whether Canton is truly permissionless, if Ethereum Foundation should double down on cyp...
How Bitcoin Is Both a Risk Asset and a Hedge Against Debasement
Charles Schwab’s chief crypto strategist breaks down why traditional finance valuation frameworks, not narratives, are finally taking hold in digital...