Weekly Roundup 10/18/24 (Hagerty’s Stablecoin Bill, WLF Launches, GOAT Coin) (EP.568)
Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode: Nic’s Dutch misadventures Federal versus State regulation of Stablecoins TD Bank filed $3b for money laundering Are stake rewards property or income? Italy hikes capital gains taxes on Bitcoin Is Polymarket manipulated? Has the first AI bot millionaire been minted? […]
Weekly Roundup 10/11/24 (HBO Satoshi Unveil, SEC v Cumberland, World Liberty Fi tokensale) (EP.567)
Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode: Are shipping regulations making the oceans hotter? Is Satoshi Peter Todd? Is the identity of Satoshi the best mystery of all time? The SEC comes after Cumberland Crypto.com sues the SEC World Liberty Financial is doing a tokensale Uniswap announces […]
Weekly Roundup 10/04/24 (CZ Free, Visa’s stablecoin, Satoshi unveiled) (EP.566)
Matt and Nic return for another week of news and deals. In this episode: Monad Madness CZ is released from jail Roman Storm’s motion to dismiss is denied Mango settles with the SEC Swift is piloting digital asset transactions Bitwise submits and S-1 for a Ripple ETF Visa announces their Tokenized Assets Platform Franklin moves […]
Stephen Novenstern (Kintsu) on Building on Monad (EP.565)
Stephen Novenstern, the founder of Kintsu joins the show. In this episode we discuss: Stephen’s path to the cryptocurrency industry and the vision for Kintsu, a liquid staking project in the Monad ecosystem. The history of DeFi and the LST category. Why Monad and views on the net new primitives that are enabled by this […]
Weekly Roundup 09/26/24 (Chokepoint 2.0 updates, Gensler’s House hearing, Ellison sentenced) (EP.564)
Matt and Nic are back with another week of news and deals. In this episode: Gensler denies knowledge of Operation Choke Point 2.0 We recap the Silvergate collapse Why did the MSM ignore the new Silvergate revelations? Trump’s fair banking access rule Looking back at the Signature closure Gensler appears in front of the House […]
Weekly Roundup 09/20/24 (Trump at Pubkey, Token 2049 review, RIP Airdrops) (EP.563)
Matt and Nic are back for another week of news and deals. In this episode: Nic’s Singapore Zyn problem Nic’s Token 2049 keynote The Iggy Azalea Eric Wall debate Trump make an appearance at Pubkey in NYC World Liberty Financial continues to be insane SEC versus Flyfish club Are airdrops done for? Is JPM really […]
Alex Leishman (River Financial) on Launching Proof of Reserves (EP. 562)
Alex Leishman, founder and CEO of River, joins us to talk about River’s Proof of Reserve initiative. In this episode: River business update Building their own custodian Why Alex decided to do PoR now? River’s PoR mechanics Proof of Reserve versus traditional audit What kind of assurances PoR gives users How does River handle privacy […]
Weekly Roundup 09/13/24 (Trump-Harris debate, World Liberty Fi, Stablecoins in EM) (EP.560)
Matt and Nic return for another week of news and deals. In this episode: We review the Trump-Harris debate Matt’s new wildlife problems Nic’s birthday party Trump doubles down on World Liberty Financial The Castle Island stablecoins whitepaper is out! Our reactions to the emerging markets stablecoin report TZero gets approval to trade tokenized securities […]