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Trump just stacked his new science council with the biggest names in Silicon Valley and crypto has a seat at the table. Circle's worst day ever is looking more like an overreaction. And 21 million creators just became Defi users without knowing it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Circle just had its worst day ever. The CFTC is building a task force for crypto, AI, and prediction markets. And Bernstein says Bitcoin has bottomed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Strategy just unveiled a $44 billion war chest to keep buying Bitcoin. Congress is moving to ban sports bets on prediction markets. And Elizabeth Warren is coming for MrBeast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Crypto is soaring on a major development in the Iran war. A Senate deal could finally unlock the Clarity Act. And Gemini's shareholders are suing the Winklevoss twins. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Crypto bounced as traders bet the Iran war may end sooner than feared. JPMorgan is now talking about Hyperliquid. And prediction markets just had a blockbuster day. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Major Iran War escalations are sending crypto and all markets lower. Hyperliquid just brought the S&P 500 onchain. And Kraken has put its IPO on ice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The SEC and CFTC just published joint guidance that is one of the most important regulatory documents the U.S. crypto industry has received in years. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Strategy just made its biggest Bitcoin buy of 2026. Kalshi is running a $1 billion March Madness bracket contest. And OpenSea just delayed the SEA airdrop. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Bitcoin ETFs just posted their first five-day inflow streak of 2026. And Stanley Druckenmiller says stablecoins could eventually reshape the entire payments system. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The CFTC is finally moving to write real rules for prediction markets. A trader somehow turned $50 million into $36,000 on Aave. And is Steve Aoki about to top the global Pokemon market? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ripple is buying back shares at a $50 billion valuation. Across Protocol is testing one of crypto’s holy grail. And Binance is back under scrutiny over a new Wall Street Journal report. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Bitcoin is outperforming gold and stocks during the Iran war. Polymarket brought in one of the most powerful surveillance firms on earth to watch its markets. And Meta just bought the social network for AI agents. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Michael Saylor’s Strategy just bought another billion in Bitcoin. Nasdaq is teaming up with Kraken for tokenized stock trading. And the US Treasury may be giving in on crypto privacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Crypto markets are swinging as the Iran conflict pushes oil prices sharply higher. Prediction market giants Polymarket and Kalshi are raising at massive valuations. Two of the biggest fintech companies in the world are racing to build payment rails for AI agents. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The New York Stock Exchange just invested in one of crypto’s biggest exchanges. Michael Saylor’s new “Stretch” product is having a massive week. A lovable NFT brand is in some new legal trouble. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Kraken just made history at the Federal Reserve, Bitcoin is flashing bottom signals, and the smart money is raising billions into the dip. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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For a while there, Adidas Web3 lead Erika Wykes-Sneyd worried her push to get the 74-year-old brand working with Web3 partners might not work out. "Like signing a deal with the Bored Ape Yacht Club when Gargamel and Gordon were not doxxed individuals—that got me nervous," she told Stacy Elliott and Andrew Hayward. "Approving the first ever ETH purchase on a public company. Like DAX organizations are pretty risk averse. I was like, definitely could get fired for this." Spoiler: She wasn't fired. ...
Avenged Sevenfold lead singer Matt Sanders, a.k.a. M. Shadows, is rehearsing for the band's upcoming tour and also figuring out how to upend what it means to be a fan. The band launched a Deathbats Club NFT collection in 2021. That is to say, they were early. The lead singer said it was timed to give fans a chance to get comfortable with Web3 technology ahead of the group's 2023 tour, when the NFT holders can use their Deathbats for early access to tickets. M. Shadows also talks to hosts Andrew ...
When Web3 bug bounty platform Immunefi launched two years ago, CEO and founder Mitchell Amador says the bug bounties weren't great and adoption was slow. But the tides started to turn because even if exploiting a smart contract nets a bigger payday than a bounty, it comes with a huge drawback. "There's a ton of risk when you engage in this, you know, wantonly criminal behavior and steal $200 million from someone else," he said. "There's no way someone's not going to come looking." For more from ...
There's no doubt that the SEC dealt Kraken—and the outlook for crypto staking products in the U.S.—a big blow when it announced a $30 million settlement and ordered the company to stop offering the service to its customers in the states in February. Now Marco Santori, the company's chief legal officer, says the exchange is eager to move on from it. That means reckoning with a really challenging regulatory environment and growing its customer base overseas. And as Santori quips: "Kraken's master ...
Arthur Hayes says the speed at which projects like Terra grow and then implode is a feature of the crypto industry, not a bug. He founded crypto exchange Bitmex in 2014 and then became the original crypto bad boy. In 2021 the DOJ charged him in with violating the U.S. Bank Secrecy Act for not implementing an anti-money laundering program at Bitmex. He plead guilty and was sentenced to two years probation and six months of home detention. In fact, he was still sporting an ankle bracelet on a rece...
Anthony Scaramucci of hedge fund SkyBridge Capital got burned by Sam Bankman-Fried: he co-hosted SALT conferences with FTX and sold a 30% stake in SkyBridge to FTX Ventures. And yet, "The Mooch" tells Dan Roberts and Stacy Elliott "I'm more bullish now than I have ever been" on crypto as an investment case. He discusses his frustration with SBF, how wrong he thinks politicians like Elizabeth Warren and Gary Gensler are about crypto and how to regulate it, what he sees happening next with adoptio...
In our latest gm AMA, recent guest Friederike Ernst, Co-founer and COO of Gnosis, hopped into our listener Telegram room and answered questions via voice memo. Friederike talked about the Gnosis merge with xDai, how to decentralize a DAO, whether prediction markets should be considered a public good, why Gnosis chose not to have a single figurehead, and much more. Make sure you go back and listen to her full gm episode from March 22 before enjoying this bonus AMA. And make sure you join our Tele...
Grab your picks and shovels for a Bitcoin mining deep dive. Even as Texas aims to pass a bill limiting rewards for Bitcoin miners, Toronto-based Bitcoin mining company Hut 8 is bullish on growth across the U.S. That's why Hut 8 recently announced a merger of equals with U.S. Bitcoin Corp. Hut 8 CEO Jaime Leverton joined Dan Roberts and Stacy Elliott to talk expanding into the U.S., dealing with regulatory pushback post-FTX, why Texas is such a hotspot, and where she'd like to expand globally dow...
In our first gm AMA, recent guest Neal Stephenson hopped into our listener Telegram room and candidly answered questions via voice memo. Neal is the "Snow Crash" author who coined the term "metaverse" and is now working on open metaverse blockchain Lamina1. Make sure you go back and listen to his full gm episode from March 4 before enjoying this bonus AMA. And make sure you join our Telegram room, open to all listeners, at t.me/gmpodcast . Hosts and guests: Dan Roberts Twitter: @ readDanwrite Ne...
Move over, DeFi—ReFi is coming? Gitcoin founder Kevin Owocki has stepped away from DeFi grant-giving machine Gitcoin as it fully decentralizes and is now focused on regenerative finance (huh?) and ReFi incubator Supermodular. He aims to "regenerate the regenerators." He explains it all to Dan Roberts and Liam Kelly, and also talks DAO structure, crypto factions, NFT use cases, his book "Greenpilled," and much more. For more from Decrypt, visit decrypt.co and follow @ gmdecrypt on Twitter. Be sur...
Gnosis first launched in 2015 as a decentralized prediction market built on Ethereum. Now it's a DAO, a multi-sig wallet, a staking chain, and a vibrant community with its own GNO governance token. Co-founder and COO Friederike Ernst talked to Dan Roberts and Stacy Elliott about the careful evolution of Gnosis, decentralization impostors, account abstraction, DeFi UX failures, why Ethereum is the "Manhattan of crypto," and much more. For more from Decrypt, visit decrypt.co and follow @ gmdecrypt...
Paul Grewal is the Chief Legal Officer at Coinbase and a former U.S. magistrate judge in Northern California. He gave Dan Roberts and Stacy Elliott his candid takes on Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX, the SEC's crackdown on staking, the sanctioning of Tornado Cash, and more alpha on how Coinbase is approaching the current unfriendly US regulatory environment. For more from Decrypt, visit decrypt.co and follow @ gmdecrypt on Twitter. Be sure to join the gm Telegram room for direct access to our hosts a...
Dan Roberts and Stephen Graves returned from NFT Paris feeling super bullish after seeing tons of artists, builders, and luxury brands show up—and even Brigitte Macron. They recap the conference and play four interviews conducted there with Yat Siu (Animoca Brands Chairman), Sebastien Borget (The Sandbox COO), Pierre-Nicolas Hurstel (Arianee CEO), and Erika Wykes-Sneyd (Web3 lead at Adidas). For more from Decrypt, visit decrypt.co and follow @ gmdecrypt on Twitter. Be sure to join the gm Telegra...
